jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Dambudzo Marechera - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dambudzo_Marechera

The lives of small men are like spiders' webs;
they are studded with minute skeletons of greatness.
Excerpt from House of Hunger

THE BAR-STOOL EDIBLE WORM

I’m against everything
Against war and those against
War. Against whatever diminishes
Th’ individual’s blind impulse.

Shake the peaches down from
The summer poem, Rake in ripe
Luminosity; dust; taste. Lunchtime
News – pass the Castor Oil, Alice.

THERE’S A DISSIDENT IN THE ELECTION SOUP!

I have no ear for slogans
You may as well shut up your arse
I run when it’s I LOVE YOU time
Don’t say it I’ll stick around
I run when it’s A LUTA time
I run when it’s FORWARD time
Don’t say it we’ll fuck the whole night
The moon won’t come down
At first awkwardly, excruciatingly embarrassing
But with Venus ascending, a shout and leap of joy

When the sheets are at last silent
Don’t ask “What are you thinking?”
Don’t ask “Was it good?”
Don’t feel bad because I’m smoking
They ask and feel bad who are insecure
Who say after the act “Tell me a story”
And you may as well know
Don’t talk of “MARRIAGE” if this reconciliation
is to last.

SHOCK: FOR BETTINA

Like meteorites, through my long
Isolated heart-atmosphere, you
Burst incandescent over my platinum history.
My future in earthquake reeled; my present only on
Seismograph could point to the cataclysm – no
Evidence of you attached to my stone and flesh,
Only nightmarish passions which I can still hear
When you shake your head. Shake it vigorously.
Nuclear tests of underground love!
Baidu network is not used. The response is altered as the trafic goes out of China. The only thing they can do is hosting http://hm.baidu.com in another country.
Except when tons of emails come in that can't even coherently describe the part of the program that doesn't work or the approximate process they are attempting.
I find the font and font color hard to read.
The stock Wyze and Xiaomi firmware for their T20 based cameras both use WebRTC to stream the video to their apps.
I tried to listen to "Tractatus" and basically gave up after 30 mins or so. To be read definitely .. not heard.
The drugs in question are absolutely intended and trialed for human use. It's just that they don't pass the approval process, or they did back in the 60s-80s, saw virtually no legitimate clinical use, and were discontinued.
> So might the Western powers.

That would be unlikely - Czechoslovakia was in Soviet sphere of influence as decided in Yalta and the West was severely outgunned (at least in conventional weapons) by Soviets in Europe.
> If it's "we the people", it's totally fair and indicative of a very progressive and tolerant society. Or something.

This is a very dishonest framing.
Case in point being e621 (https://e621.net/posts, or https://e926.net/posts to auto-filter NSFW)

The thing that makes me double-take is the consistency, breadth and depth, and liveness of the tag system.

Like, I want this level of OCD, meets del.icio.us, meets HN.
GDPR was enforceable from 25th May 2018. Leak dates to 2019 from the news sources I've seen.
Generally agree and I loathe those (and many educational videos generally) so much that I far prefer that my kids watch Grizzy or Tom & Jerry, that is at least really funny sometimes and contrary to pretend-instructional so far out that it is obviously not real.

(Although what I like most is to sit and watch crazy repair videos together with them: welding of excavator arms, disassembly and restoration of everyday items etc.)

However, credit were credit is due: one of my kid spent some time on those channels around age 4 to 5 and actually surprised me by having learned English numbers, and not superficially: I was totally amazed when that kid could not only count to 20 in English but also instantly translate between the language his mother talks and English. Compared to other kids I know just being able to consistently count to 20 in one language might often be a challenge.

A little more criticism: in addition to pretend-educational videos which I find mightily annoying there were also a number of kids-unboxing-box-after-box-of-expensive-toys which seemed to me to be the worst.
With Go rules, they'd already be ours!
Twitter is really a broadcast medium, more geared towards posting in real time and reposting, and less towards a discussion. It also limits the size of a tweet, making them perfectly quotable, and discouraging nuance and detail, so a juicy bon mot is basically the only winning genre on Twitter.

No wonder any public person, any politician, any celebrity may find out that Twitter is a must, if they want to keep and grow their fame / celebrity / notoriety.
The mental overhead of switching between - and keeping track of - messaging apps shouldn't be ignored.

Speaking from experience, I have a hard time remembering which specific platform is preferred by specific contacts. It's a minor annoyance, but it's always present.

How many messenger apps do you run, and how many is too many?

For me, the limit is 2. Note that currently I am forced to keep 5 different apps to keep in touch with my contacts.
I've found a nice middleground to be writing a custom static site generator for each site. They can be quite small (here's one[0] in ~50 lines). Usually it just loops through a directory and turns Markdown files into HTML (with header injected), and syntax highlighting.

Also, if you're really committed, you might be surprised how app-like you can make HTML+CSS, using things like checkbox and :target hacks[1]. The UI demoed in the video on this site[2] has no JS. These techniques pretty much require a generator, and there are obviously tradeoffs.

[0]: https://github.com/boringproxy/boringproxy.io/blob/master/ss...

[1]: https://www.mattzeunert.com/2017/10/30/javascript-free-todo-...

[2]: https://boringproxy.io/
Not really - they are obligated to provide it on request, and allowed to take a reasonable time to do so. If someone requested it, and they later uploaded it here, they'd be fine.
When we are choking the prefrontal cortex takes over what would normally be 2nd nature subconscious actions and tries to execute them 'manually'

This also reduces the brain's capacity to analyze the current game state and make abstract moment to moment decisions.
It's astonishing that you're walking away from yesterday with this point of view. It's not worth the time to continue arguing with you.
Simple was one of the few US-based checking accounts that required US citizenship in order to open a new account (a Visa or a Green Card was not sufficient): https://medium.com/@bartclaeys/simple-bank-discriminates-aga... (this has only been an issue since BBVA acquired them).
I believe in free speech, I spent 10 years in the military trying to defend it, but I also believe that the President caused this invasion of Congress with his constant disinformation and lies, so this is fine with me. Next time, I may think it's overreach.

I don't think we'll agree there, so I won't argue further.

Edit: It's going to be a big job to reconcile this country and get people working together again, I hope you don't take this as an assault, I just don't feel like arguing today, but I appreciate your thoughts.
Please be careful about the downsides of EO, which can be seen in the author's complicated legacy within the SEALS. The culture this produced when taken too far can be seen in the Ed Gallagher problem[0]. When things are decentralized, you have to make sure you can trust your people. When you can't, you end up with Gallagher, or LAPD Rampart scandal.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/us/navy-seals-edward-gall...
What are some situations where you need parallelism? I am not convinced there are many. I have never heard anyone say they are using .NET instead of JavaScript or Python in order to get parallelism.
Except it is up to Debian to keep that JRE running, as it is no longer part of default Java builds.

All the JRE after Java 9 have to be maintained by the community, if they care to still use them.

JRE don't work on the days of App Stores, even Google has finally grasped that ART cannot be part of the OS and has taken the steps to ship it out of band on Android 12.
> Down to brass tacks: is this thing usable in its current state?

Experimentation and quick and dirty prototypes? Yes. Production code? No.
Carnegie Mellon University is quite good at what you want, especially if you maximize the courses you take and the research you do in that direction, but it's still good for that even if you don't. There are a lot of really good hardcore coding classes, and also a lot of really good applications classes.

My impression is that most of the top-ranked CS programs also do this, although at some of them it's more optional than others (i.e. you can get a CS degree without necessarily having written very much code). CMU is arguably the biggest in terms of number of pure CS faculty, and one of the only ones with a CS "School" with subdepartments (including CS (aka "misc"), machine learning, robotics, language technologies, software engineering, and some others I forget).

Basically everywhere I've heard of that's an actual university does let undergrads touch research. But, if you're interested in jumping straight to industry, research may or may not be what you're after; you might be better off with internships each summer and then your own side projects.

Also, the Java/C++ thing is more about employers complaining that they see people coming out of random universities with CS degrees but no ability to code. There are probably a fair number of universities that will let you graduate with only a JavaSchool coding level, but most places also allow you to get a vastly deeper education if you don't dodge all the good coding courses.

TL;DR: Yeah, go to a good CS program, it'll be worth it, and you'll be a lot better at life, programming, and thinking afterward.
Why does someone need a reason not to answer a silly question.
The article made the mistake of analyzing only a tiny piece of the system and attempting to draw conclusions for the whole system.

One of the mistakes the article makes is in the statement that, if "conservative" girls went out twice as often, the chances of an HIV transfer are decreased because the guy has twice as many potential partners who are HIV-negative. What's missing is the recognition that, if the guy is already HIV positive, he now has twice as many potential partners who he can pass the infection on to.

The changed network could either slow down or speed up the spread of HIV, depending on various specific details (how many men have HIV, how many women have HIV, how many connections to non-carriers do the men have vs the women, and so on.)

As you correctly note, even if this particular change slows down the rate of infection in the present, it may ultimately increase the total number of infections. It may even slow the infection rate for a few years and then suddenly speed it up as some particular critical threshold is reached.
Pope Paul IV interpreted Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, painted on the wall of the Sistine Chapel 20 years after completing the ceiling, as defaming the church by suggesting that Jesus and those around him communicated with God directly without need of Church.

I don't understand what thought processes are required for a pope to condemn the idea of Jesus making do without the Christian Church. Apparently Pope Paul IV was highly educated and very harsh, and fought Protestants (who had emerged just a few decades earlier). While he understandably didn't want people considering the spiritualist approach to faith, surely he must accept that at least Jesus would have been a spiritualist of some sort? This sounds like cognitive dissonance, and Streisand Effect-y. Must have been a hard time for the church.

As for the artwork, I can't see the similarity even with the explanation. They mentioned a plurality of examples, and that might be convincing if shown, but as it stands the single examples are weak.
The key at a university is that it will provide you resources to do whatever you want to do ... you just need to ask and show passion, because 99% of the students won't. Most people think that it is a very formal structure, but they will often bend rules to accommodate you if you are genuinely interested in learning. It's just up to you to take the initiative.

Want a research position over the summer? Ask professors and show them your interest -- most freshmen will assume they can't, won't get to know professors, and won't show passion. This is how I got a paid position as a freshman.

Want to do applied stuff? Join a club such as DARPA Grand Challenge, RoboCup, etc. Or, start a club. Or, you will likely have free time to work on personal projects (moreso than at a full time job at least). I started a RoboCup group my freshman year, met a lot of like-minded people, met a lot of professors. What a great thing to do to meet people and learn what the university has to offer.

Want to take an interesting upper-level class but don't meet the formal prereqs? Just ask, they'll probably let you in.

Also, I must say -- it is completely inaccurate that universities just "teach Java and C++". Almost everywhere, this is likely only a first, test-outable introductory course. The topics you said you were interested in should be available at any decent CS program as electives.
No, check out philwelch's awesome simulation a few comments up testing the hypothesis (and finding it wanting). This is what happens to this kind of story on HN. Not only is it awesome, its the proof that HN is still different and not slipping any time soon.
I can fully understand why Apple promotes Safari. The demos are a showcase of bleeding edge CSS, namely 3D transitions, currently implemented only by Safari. No doubt other browsers will implement them too. See http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-3d-transforms/

Also, being hardware accelerated on OS X, Safari renders 2D/3D transitions at superior framerate compared to Chrome (don't even mention Firefox). The difference is huge. Apple's message is "Hey look, we made a great (open source) rendering engine and want show you what can be done in HTML/CSS when things are properly implemented. Check this out as a reference implementation and feel free to implement it in your browser."

[Yes, the 2D/3D HW accelerated rendering uses Apple's proprietary frameworks and is not open sourced, AFAIK.]
Don't worry about it and it's all good. HN is self-balancing. I've been here for 884 days according to my profile, and I've always been hearing these worries since day 1. Somehow, thankfully, HN works. It has not turned into Reddit, Digg, or MySpace regardless of what people say. Yes, it has changed over time, no it's not a worse place.
It's Latin-1 encoded and then URL-encoded:

>>> import urllib

>>> print urllib.unquote('%1B%E7%F4%9D').decode('latin-1')

çô
I have been working on a product in this space, and I'm aware of the situation. I'd love to help, and also learn from your job search process, can you drop me an email? (I couldn't find email in your profile)
Certainly the student has wronged the university, but to my mind it's the same kind of wrong as if they'd smuggled a calculator in to an arithmetic test. That also lets the student gain a reputation they didn't deserve.

I would prefer to reserve "plagiarism" for the case where the true originator of the ideas is potentially being eclipsed.

(Incidentally, according to my local university's academic misconduct policy, if the vice-chancellor uses a speechwriter without crediting them they are indeed a plagiarist. That doesn't seem entirely unreasonable to me, though I suspect it may not be enforced, but I would prefer to use a different term.)
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I have tried running but like everything else, I give up after a few days. And also when running my mind is still racing with me...
Although you're abosolutely correct, there were philosophers who thought that we must go beyond philosophy, seeing philosophy as limited - the big three here are Marx, Nietzche and Freud (considered as a philosopher, anyway) - best put by Marx: "Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." - unfortunately, from at least of what I've seen, this kind of thinking has run out of steam in contemporary (especially "analytic") philosophy, and it's a shame.
I feel exactly the same. Exercise helps. Psychologist helps a bit. Medication helps too. Talk to people. You might find that more people than you think feel similar.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (or other treatment modalities) and, maybe, medication! This sounds like the desperation of anxiety and depression. But there is hope! Untreated, it can be a killer, so remember 1-800-273-TALK for moments of crisis.
Did you just call Hacker News apolitical? I feel even Reddit is better when coming to political debates because on Reddit you can find a subreddit that aligns to your political ideology.

On HN, if you are from China, India, Russia, African country, the best thing you can do is to avoid articles about those geographical locations because comments will be mostly negative and any dissenting view will be downvoted until it becomes unreadable. It doesn’t matter if the view was free from strong language, it will be treated like it contains strong language.

At least on Reddit you can find a subreddit that aligns with your political and ideological views. Unlike here where you have to understand that your political views will be suppressed if it doesn’t align to the majority.

Every social network has a political agenda. If you don’t notice that agenda, know that it is because it aligns with your own political agenda.
1) Religiously exercise every single day ideally in the morning as it will set the tone for the rest of the day.

2) Make your diet clean and light. No soft drinks. No heavy carbs. Plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables etc.

3) Stop worrying about accomplishing anything. The point of life is to be happy and enjoy the journey not be in some race with others.

4) If you give up after a few days then just pick smaller things you can compete faster. And iterate between lots of different things to help reduce the chance of boredom.

5) If after all of that you still feel anxious then see a professional. Not just about medication but also how to program yourself to fall into less anxious patterns.
> it works well

it ... works

That's as much as I think can be said for it. Dub is garbage. It's too complicated, too rigid, and it does too little. It's also slow for larger projects because it doesn't do incremental builds.
What do you mean by this? That’ll take a long time to play out?
It is a moral imperative to destroy the banking system, and replace it with direct monetization value-stable cryptocurrencies.

In my opinion ;)
Compare this to wealth of Elon Musk. This month he's the richest person on planet, two months ago he wasn't even in top 10 (I think). Did anything changed for him? No. Can he not be the richest man on the planet in two months? Sure. Will it change anything for him? Still no.

I pretty much think about people who got into bitcoin early and they have more than 1000% gain and just hodl because they don't have much use for that kind of money.

Their daily purchases would be minuscule percentage of their bitcoin wealth.
The Fed doesn't the power to enact a wealth tax. It's powers were delegated to it by Congress. Congress does have the power to enact a wealth tax. But it chooses not to. The way to change that is by voting.
> If the start-up does not have cash reserves / cash generation to pay salaries, then the promised-equity has a very low value, so I'd expect the fee to be huge.

I agree.

In some situations where you are stuck working for the startup and need cash now out of illiquid startup equity / if you want to smooth out large risk that startup does not produce a profitable exit for you, then maybe this makes sense.

But, if you have the option to work somewhere else (a mature profitable company with enough scale so that your role is valuable) and getting paid 100% cash, it is quite likely that would be more profitable than working for the startup.
Thanks for the reply and that makes sense.
Blaming the fed is a common libertarian tactic to avoid blaming the capitalists. Oh yes, in a pure anarchocapitalist Austrian utopia, you'd never have capitalists paying workers shit wages, employing child labor, forcing workers into unsafe firetrap buildings, etc

It's a way of averting ye eyes from the real problems with the negative externalities and market failures, and the hard work to come up with policy solutions that patch the holes in capitalism.

The analysis of the OP also ignores the decreasing returns to labor investment and increasing returns to capex because of automation which almost guarantee that the bulk of ROI will accrue to capitalists in the future.

Hire some (temporary) middle class workers to build your robot factory or automated logistics warehouse, fire most of the workers in your old factories/warehouses, and watch as more net income is transferred.
> Your language, that was made in c/c++, can hardly be faster than the language it was written in

What if the language you wrote includes a run-time that does JIT?
> Since cells need to be 32-bit for counting more than 255 words, you’ll also need to replace the few occurrences of char to int.

Well, part of the fun of Brainfuck is working around the limit of 8-bit cell size. How about creating a version which implements 32-bit numbers by storing them in four cells?
I won't be buying new hardware just to use a currently worse functioning alternative whose increased security is wholly hypothetical.
I am also searching now, so here are my statistics after four months searching Silicon Valley for a combo hardware/software job, with masters degree, and lots of experience (old :-)
75 applications
48 companies employ someone I know
27 companies I applied without knowing anyone
13 phone interviews
6 face-to-face interviews
zero face-to-face interviews at companies
where I don't know anyone
zero offers so far
one company is at the offer stage (perfect fit, I have worked with the hiring manager for years-- he ought to offer)
four companies are currently between the first interview and the offer stage.

Other interesting observations:
one company called back for a second interview after six weeks. I thought they had ghosted me.

Another company (highly qualified) called for a second interview after three months.

There was a company that listed reasonable requirements on their ad, and then in the phone interview they wanted someone with extreme talent. Why waste my time? Why waste their time? Don't put hard requirements in the "nice to have" section please!
I just play native games. This involves clicking the launcher icon on steam.
Do you have any sources for reading up on this? I find it interesting but can't find much after googling. Is it related to CETA?
It actually already exists. It's called Jadesktop. It runs the whole UI in a webkit process I belive.

https://github.com/codesardine/Jadesktop
You're mixing up 'premature optimisation' and 'unnecessary optimisation'. The first is making code faster that isn't the bottleneck, or dominating performance factor. The second is making something faster than it needs to be. Profiling helps avoid the first, benchmarking helps avoid the second. Both require working (toy) systems, which is hard when you are evaluating which language to begin work in.

Writing a library in C (for reasons of performance) where performance would have been 'good enough' in Python is unnecessary optimisation. Writing your own GC implementation layer in Python because you think that's the bottleneck would be premature optimisation.

EDIT: typo
"just do it"

At the moment it seems like everyone will be bummed, but in a week nobody will care. In a month they will have a replacement. In a year they won't remember who you are.