jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I appreciate my life choices for not having such a fellow on my radar (spelling is Ferriss - I discover by searching on Amz).

Yet I wonder how I could have become so cynical as to doubt the "socially redeeming value" of an ~author~ who gets a book published by including claims such as:

> YOU WILL LEARN (in less than 30 minutes each):

> How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails.

> * How to prevent fat gain while bingeing (X-mas, holidays, weekends)

> * How to increase fat-loss 300% with a few bags of ice

> * How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time

> * How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested

> * How to produce 15-minute female orgasms

> * How to triple testosterone and double sperm count

> * How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks

> * How to reverse “permanent” injuries

> * How to add 150+ pounds to your lifts in 6 months

> * How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visit
my biggest aha moment came when I realized that all of my aha moments come after rest or working on other things
Wow.. seriously, the site looks fantastic!
Wasn’t the plea a please for “volunteers” as well?
This seems to be a great example of 'manufactured rage'.

- arbitrarily valued art with a high price tag
- public display with no active guard
- provided paint and supplies
- the graffiti is indistinguishable from the art, to me.

Meh.
Cables are always better when stationary
I'd say there's two types of "variation" here that should be discussed separately. One is not working an average of 40 hours a week, and the other is being able to vary the times one works while still working full-time. The latter doesn't violate the concerns you list.

There are people who want or need the full pay but need flexibility. An example is parents, like wonder_er mentioned. At my work, there is a flexible work schedule option where you have to hit 80 hours biweekly and need to work the core hours of 10-2 at least eight days during that period, but other than that you are free to work whenever. This option is super popular with parents because random things come up with kids all the time where you need time in the morning or afternoon but can easily make it up on the other side or another day. It's also popular with younger folks because they can work a bunch at one side of the two-week period and take a three or four day weekend (or even longer if you plan back to back biweekly periods right) without burning any vacation time. They like lots of time off but want full-time pay and are fine with longer hours some days to make up for it. That's variation in schedule even though it's still 40 hours a week on average. All these examples are people still aligned with their connections. In fact, the variation produces more opportunity to shuttle kids to school, participate socially, etc.

To your point, the type of variation where you work less and aren't aligned with the schedules of others in your life is definitely not desirable for anyone with others in your life. I was in the military and worked these schedules for about five years on a 24/7-staffed watch floor. The schedule format changed every time someone new came in and took over, so we probably changed structures every year or so during that time. I can say with surety it wasn't a particular shift schedule but just the off-normal-schedule part of them that made it hard. One that stands out as particularly bad was 12 hours on, 12 hours off (midnight-noon or noon-midnight), three days on, three days off. That was brutal for everyone. Your first day off was a recovery day where you tried to back on normal schedule, and your first day back to work was about trying to not fall asleep as you adjusted back. It switched later to 12 on/12 off, three on four off, but having more time off a week still didn't help. Everyone spent their first day trying to recover so they could do stuff with people in their lives. Later we went to three shifts a day, and workers on the midnight to 8am shift kept that up, but the number of days off til the next shift were fewer, making it worse. The best I figure out to do working that for a few years was stay up when the shift was done and try to sleep at like 4-6pm, but that only was successful because she wasn't working.
I feel the opposite. My printer supports cloud print, OR an awful app, or just a normal print server thing (idk how printers work)

I've always had trouble using the printer except when using cloud print. Cloud print at least works every time, if i try to print another way it often fails silently.
Then you graduate, grow older, perhaps go on to university, grow older still, perhaps marry and have kids, continue to grow older, and if you're lucky...

...you realize that you still "know not that you know not, know that you know not, know not that you know, and know that you know" about most everything.

Thus becoming humble and wise...?
I don't disregard the 5 star ones but I take them with a grain of salt. I tend to look at the negative ones and see what they're complaining about--it's surprising how many are griping about things that aren't the fault of the product at all.
> People discarding otherwise serviceable phones because they have been misinformed about the ease of battery replacement is the real problem.

When you spend 100% of your time in a technical field, and deal with people who are technically savvy, you think everybody is capable of "easily" replacing a battery, or knowing that it can be done relatively easy.

There are millions of people who are completely unaware that getting your battery replaced is an easy thing for someone who knows how to do it. What do most non-technical people do when their iphone battery starts dying a lot faster? They don't google, "iphone battery repair" or look for a local repair shop to do this, they take it right back to the Apple store. What do you think the Apple store employee is going to tell them? "Hey this battery is dead, you should probably just upgrade the phone."
Launch-programs-by-search becoming common is the only significant advance I can think of since the 90s. I've added some keyboard window management to my personal workflow since then but I don't know any non-geeks who do that—hell, most of them don't use launch-by-search either.
Author's note:

Everyone uses spreadsheets to manage small-scale tabular data because unlike a database they're usable by humans and let users immediately start entering data, but they’re not great at “staying out of your way”, in that you constantly have to resize columns to match the data width, style the header row separately and freeze it, maybe add a row count column, remember to sort columns in such a way that row integrity is preserved, etc. Doing that stuff drives me crazy. Also, launching a giant office application to manage a list of a couple dozen items feels silly. Or doing something in the cloud. It feels simultaneously like massive overkill yet still not having the right tool for the job, like using a Ferrari to haul lumber.

So out of pent-up frustration I built a simple free desktop app for editing tables that lets you just start typing like a spreadsheet, but actually knows what a table is and tries really hard to stay out of your way. So you can just edit your table rather than spending your time teaching an automatic infinite ledger how to be a tabular notepad. I’ve enjoyed having it in my toolbox so I thought I’d put it out there to see if anyone else finds it useful.

In the spirit of Show HN, this project is somewhere between a prototype and an MVP; there are obvious major missing features but it’s actively used by enough people that the quality isn’t terrible. If you have a use case for which you think TablePad is a good fit, I'd love to hear about it in the comments or you can email me at seth@tablepad.app.
Interesting side effect is it makes the planet warmer because trees are dark.
By not having a gigantic costco a car-distance away, but by having smaller stores a bicycle-distance away. Making trips to the store becomes easier and more frequent allowing your shopping to fit in the saddle bags.

Barring that a big cargo bike can easily fit a couple car loads worth of cargo for the last-mile transport.
It looks like it was designed by someone who saw an 80s movie set in the year 2019.
This is cute wishful thinking, but what exactly makes you think that whatever company is behind PHPNG will outlive friggin' Facebook ?
I certainly agree. There are almost always ways to avoid "loading a good bit of data on the user's first use". But for your traditional SPA, it's quite common that you need to make a few AJAX calls to your backend API in order to fetch some data to show to the user. This was built for mostly that case, not for the "let's block the user's screen for 5+ seconds while we do unnecessary data fetches" case.

Edit: I misspoke when I said "a good bit of data" in my original response. I simply meant any API calls to your backend.
He's talking about the concept of currying, not left-associativity.
Because a package manager for C++ is infinitely more complex than one for a bytecode language like Java or .NET, where theres either a well defined spec (.NET) or a reference implementation (Java, Python) that everyone measures compatibility for?

The first obvious problem is that there is no ABI for the C++ standard library. This makes sharing any kind of binaries plain impossible because exchange of C++ standard library objects between your project and a binary from the package manager will very likely just blow up. So the package manager, right from the bat, has to build every library and every (recursive) dependency of that library on demand on your computer using your C++ development environment. That alone is a herculean task if you consider the number of compilers (GCC (MinGW), Clang, VC, ICC), their respective versions and possible C++ standard library implementations used. And remember: you can't mix and match!

There is a reason even a C++ library such as ZMQ exposes only a C interface, and it's because things become extremely messy very quickly when you are juggling around native code.
The competitor claimed sabotage.

Spying on customers?

And I agree that the one informal comment made by one of the execs was stupid. But frankly there IS a war being waged against Uber by its competitor through the media.
>Exactly. "Oh no! Too many people are publishing their code! Developers have too many excellent options (along with many awful ones)!"

I fail to see the "many excellent options". Awful ones are, on the other hand, abundant.

And even those that are decent have the other issues the article mentions: they are short-lived, with developers soon moving to the next shiny thing etc.
GHC type errors are far from ideal.

But if you give too few or too many arguments, you usually do get an error like: "Perhaps `foo` is applied to too [many|few] arguments?"
To my mind, this is a sign we're organizing things poorly.

If we design our organizations such that one person can make or break each project and we know there are way too few people to fill those roles, then frequent failures like this are the expected outcome.

In particular, I think the role of "project manager" is mostly wrongheaded. The theory is that you can take a person who knows nothing about the details, give them total power and perverse incentives, and then expect things to turn out well. I think it's only popular because it's an artifact of our current managerialist business culture.

I much prefer cross-functional teams where the team as a whole is accountable for results. I also think we technical people need to stop thinking of ourselves as minions and instead act as professionals. If a "project manager" told a professional (like a doctor or a structural engineer) to do something unsafe or wrongheaded, they'd say no. But software developers routinely go on building something terrible after token protest. I'd love to see that change.
I slag on being a salaryman, frequently, but we never have these sorts of problems. Visa issues? The CEO will write the Minister of Justice a letter. Problem solved. (I am not joking in the slightest degree.)
I'm not sure your analysis holds either, though. All signs point to Apple being pretty aggressive in securing its supply-chain both for current production and future potential (see: Brazil).
Did they really loose their fortune and did TF have something to do with it?
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2426459
A cursory glance at his articles shows that he's a completely biased Apple fanboy. Not really going to expect any objectivity from him. All he does is praise Apple and poke fun at Android and other competitors. Like Gruber, he has cultivated an audience and tells them what they want to hear to drive page hits and revenue. It seems to be a highly successful business model, atleast for Gruber. That's the real reason they write what they write, regardless of what they actually think.
How do you move away from EBS and still deal with large data?
but another company in the same space can get to your code and run with it, isn't that how mandrake and suse came into being?
Love this: "All author proceeds will go to the Stop Girl Trafficking Project"
If you just need someone to be the "face" of the company, you could consider finding a business or legal person to come on board just for incorporating and managing. Offer them some small-ish equity in return.
Yes. I think it will be worth the time to rethink it for Swift, because Swift is much better suited for this style of programming than Objective-C++.
> 3 eggs for breakfast everyday

Ugh! I would start to crow if I would eat that much.
I'm surprised that I'm having to explain this to multiple people but yes, it's just a joke.
There’s a missed target here, I think, which is capitalism trying to turn observations into reproducible goods—-commoditising progress, in other words.

And like all things capitalism tries to commoditise, to the extent it succeeds it will degrade the thing it’s trying to reproduce and destroy whatever is unique and special and wonder-worthy about the original. A genius had a super productive year for discoveries? It should be self-evident that such a thing can’t be made routine or predictable, but the real story here is the paucity of vision of our entrepeneurs. They can’t even appreciate miracles without thinking about turning them out on a production line.
Buyout. They're listed on the site, as a cofounder, you absolutely need a contract in hand stating they accepted to sell their shares.
Then you graduate again in december of 2019 and you lose another 2 years to whims of fate.
indeed, hence

> helps with the default settings of including that in the cache key

I didn't know about response streaming being configurable, it seems to be enabled by default and configurable for enterprise customers: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/206049798-S...

I assume due to the (relatively) small response size of this page it buffers regardless.
> Europe has banned the Azo food colourings

Europe has indeed banned some Azo food colorings, however canthaxanthin is not one of them, as far as I am aware. The EU has evaluated the safety of it on multiple occasions and found it safe to consume at the levels used in the food supply.

> Known to cause eye diseases in humans

Extremely excessive intake of tanning pills containing canthaxanthin was shown to cause accumulation of deposits in the retinas of a small number of individuals. Once the intake of pills was stopped, the condition completely cleared up in all individuals effected.
Yeah youtube-dl is missing workarounds for throttling implemented by google. youtube-dl is pretty much unmaintained compared to yt-dlp:

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/graphs/commit-activit...

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/graphs/commit-activity
We'd have an absolutely massive uptick in non-COVID pneumonia if that were the case.

(It'd also be a known phenomenon for surgeons, dentists, nurses, painters, drywall installers, nail technicians, etc. who've been using masks for decades.)
> but that still doesn't change the fact that this would be impossible to do if it were a blockchain based system with these parameters built in

Why? Shorting above 100% doesn't "create more of something". Why would a blockchain based trading system prevent me from short selling a stock based on what other people are doing? I've got the stock in my wallet. It was loaned to me by Bob. I can sell it to you right now. Why can't I sell it?
Thank you. I will definitely try again!
VR is very immersive but multiple telephoto camera angles provide much better views of concerts and sporting events.
Criticism should be levied if they deserve criticism, which can only be evaluated based on objective facts. "We should be critical of everything they do regardless because they are an authoritarian country" is unscientific and devoid of critical thinking.

Meanwhile the free western country I live in had a million Covid death.
That's a shame. Ever since the removal of Flash from Chrome I think it's been a downhill ride for web-based games. I used to love going through the catalog of quirky "minigames" if you will every now and then to pass time. On top of the decline of Flash Player, I think mobile games definitely hit the nail in the coffin for them.
Yes, I do remember when Yeshua Ha-Nozri transformed water into wine at the wedding ceremony in Cana of Galilee, he followed the miracle up by saying "please enjoy responsibly".
I agree retraction or correction is appropriate here. However, I would argue that correcting mistakes is a routine element of science -- whether due to a copy error or a miscalibrated instrument -- whereas malevolence is not.

Sure, the end result on the consumer's trust in the science is the same regardless of why the deficiency occurred, but the problem is far more tractable if it results from sloppy QA (or equivalently calibration error and calculation issues) rather than malevolence. In the first case the researchers can eat some crow and do better science next time; in the second you have people who flat out don't belong in science.
People moving to Florida doesn't contradict anything. Florida has plenty of water, the whole state is designed around shade and air conditioning, and it's really rainy in the summer anyway. It's also not actually hotter than the other lowlands south of the Potomac/Ohio. (I grew up in Florida.) It's the places that suddenly need A/C to keep people alive that will have problems with buildings that aren't designed for it and tenants who can't afford it.

And yeah, there are hurricanes but at least the buildings are designed for it. The Northeast has sustained worse hurricane damage than Florida over the last decade, due partially to unprepared infrastructure and a migrating storm zone. (Three cheers for the Bahamas!)
California has been exporting poor people for years. Texas is one of the states they move to. Florida is a destination for retirees due to the temperate weather and tax policies, so could correlate to an aging population.
Love the irony that the "American Conservative" Freedom phone is just a generic phone from a Chinese tech company...
I wonder if it's similar to how some phising emails will contain intentional grammar and spelling errors. I've been told that this works as a filter, since savvy people will be put off by such things leaving only the easy targets.
One time in a interview I got asked "If two robots are lost on mars and can't communicate with one another, how do they find each other? - please write a program outlining your thoughts"

I just want to be clear it took an actual space agency 11 years to pull this off and the company I interviewed at just backed up data for people.
I agree. Claiming that a 0.01 degree Fahrenheit increase in global temperature averages compared to 5 years ago somehow indicates that the warming "pause" is over is merely political grandstanding. Climate Depot has more:

http://www.climatedepot.com/2015/01/16/scientists-balk-at-ho...
How? Describe a detailed solution.
You have been down voted (not by me), which is reasonable given that you say the report is lying, but offer no counter-evidence.

If you look at the press release (http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/january/nasa-determines-2014-...), you can notice a pointer to the data and the methods. If you want to be taken seriously, you'd have to engage that, rather than making empty claims and diverting the conversation to a referendum on the limitations of the NYT.

I also want to mention that the word "anomaly" in this context is a term of art for any difference between a value and a mean value -- this is not an editorial injection by the NYT. It is necessary to use these differences because seasonal and regional temperature variations make plots of raw temperature (or precipitation, etc.) fields not very useful. If you were aware of the literature in this area, you would know this.
Keanu Reeves.

Hum, I guess you can be hapa but still need an American last name!
From the Wikipedia page on the "Golden Age" of comics.

"Although the creation of the superhero was the Golden Age's most significant contribution to pop culture, many genres appeared on the newsstands, including humor, Western, romance, and jungle stories. The Steranko History of Comics 2 notes that it was the non-superhero characters of Dell Comics — most notably the licensed Walt Disney animated character comics — that outsold all the supermen of the day. Dell Comics, featuring such licensed movie and literary properties as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Roy Rogers, and Tarzan, boasted circulations of over two million copies a month, and Donald Duck writer-artist Carl Barks is considered one of the era's major talents."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Comic_Books

There are also Wikipedia pages for Western and Romance comics.

So there used to be other kinds of comics in the U.S. As mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, the Comics Code Authority seems to have marked the end of non-superhero comics.
I like Treehouse's YouTube podcast called The Treehouse Show: https://youtube.com/user/gotreehouse
Thank you for explaining that. I am on Tmobz and their customer service has been exceptional to date (which is why i left Verizon) but i miss the connectivity as i travel in rural areas a fair amount.

Seeing as the hardware is there, is it theoretically possible to jigger the channels (technical term) and use an N5 on Verizon?
Not in less than 46 bits, which is all history has given you.
Looks like this is going to be released today
http://minus.com/i/8HXqEh53LTsB
Collectible guns? Or just guns who's value you expect to hold up?

Something a lot more liquid would be common types of ammunition.