jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I actually find renting a car offers me significantly less peace of mind, because while I don't care if my own car gets dinged, the rental agencies do. In my experience a weekend car rental costs about 3+ months of upkeep, so for me car ownership is an easy financial decision, even though I mostly walk and bike. I might have a different calculus If I had to pay for a parking spot, but this, along with other premiums for space, I feel is more accurately a cost of high-density living, not car ownership itself.

Some aspects of the pre-COVID world may make a comeback, but hopefully as a society we have realized the omnipresent threat of new diseases is very real. This will impact high-highdensity areas more than low-density areas. It is not just disease spread, but also the policies enacted to limit the spread. My friends in NYC tell me that exorbitant rents for tiny apartments they were forbidden to leave was not particularly enjoyable. Paris seems like an exceptionally bad place to be in 2020/21. Public services are nice when you have access to them and not-so-nice when you are dependent on them and they fail. Often access to services is limited based on economic factors in the best of times, much less in times of stress.
I'm in a similar situation. Unless it's something I can work through (with examples or problems) or something I care about (very ephemeral), it's hard to carve out the focus or time for it.

I tried starting "Emperor's New Mind" by Penrose a month or so back. I don't think I made it past chapter one. Currently I'm binging Stephenson's "Anathem" (I fucking love this book), and feel a little bit of excitement at digging into the sources, but I'm afraid it will end up like most bibliographies I scour - well-intentioned lists I hardly ever make any progress on.

Despite my avoidance of FB, IG, etc, I still find myself spending an inordinate amount of time on Reddit or even HN. But the occasional hit of something truly useful (the Cesium for UE4 post was intriguing to me, as a project at work a few years back was attempting something similar on a smaller scale), but the constant low-level dopamine from neophilia keeps me constantly scrolling, but ultimately listless and depressed at the end of the day.

Oftimes I wonder if it wouldn't be better to make my own pinprick math, but I'm just too addicted to the Reticulum.
So did Fermilab ;) https://youtu.be/ZjnK5exNhZ0

Definitely worth checking out the rest of the videos on both those channels.

While we’re at it, check out 60 Symbols’ channel for great physics discussions that hardly ever (thanks Brady!) include equations https://youtube.com/user/sixtysymbols
I read on NPR a while ago some guys found an arbitrage opportunity in book prices. So - he would track the most sought after books, buy them when price were low, usually around July/August, and then sell them back on Amazon when prices were high, around the time of September and January. Makes sense.
The landlord has to make the same repairs you would, and still turn a profit, at a margin likely higher than a mortgage’s interest rate. So that nice saved-up vacation money would still go away eventually.

For me the nag was about all the thing we wanted to do to the house but couldn’t because it was a rental.

To each their own I guess - there are fair points for both approaches. Do what makes sense financially and keeps you happy / less worried :)
Yep, gibberellins, the roids of the vegetable world.

I bet that the flavor will be deceiving
Right, though it uses narrower frequency bands, so you have about 10 times as many channels in the same ammount of spectrum.

And Bluetooth hops around these channels, dynamically selecting the one with less interference.
Let's go farther back. I did/do code editing, not WYSIWYG word processing, and a good DOS editor let you do everything you needed without taking your hands off the keyboard. You could zoom through your code.
Well. The gambling is usually fraudulent as well.
While I think it's wrong to add additional risks beyond the loss of value itself (i.e. raised fees for too many charge backs.) I would rather the merchant stay liable for the loss itself.

I think it is an equivalent example that if no business was responsible for the risk of accepting bad notes, convenience stores would have a policy of not investigating and actively hindering prosecution on obviously counterfeit notes.
Rich kid. The tools to get started software wise are 2-5k per tool
Good sound probably requires a sound bar. I'm not sure the physics of flat panel TVs allows for great sound quality. Getting a sound bar went from me mostly using my wall mounted TV as a digital picture frame (which was my primary thinking when I bought it) to actually being the TV I use for streaming most of the time.

5-10 years? I know I'm not on the latest technology step. But 4K isn't worth me upgrading perfectly functional TVs. Maybe if we get to reasonably priced OLED panels but I'm not in a big hurry to upgrade TVs that are working.
> This story seems like a SJW or alt right set up to get normal people to argue about "Pronouns"

Huh? "Miss" is not a pronoun.

This is terrible system design regardless, as "Miss" can refer to an adult woman. Per Wikipedia:

> Miss is an honorific for addressing a woman who is not married
A number of my friends and I use it for cross-platform group chats since we have a mix of android and iOS users. It’s a convenient messaging app, the privacy is a bonus for most of them...
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 has three distinct types of cores.

"Snapdragon 888 ... has three CPU core sizes: a single large ARM X1 core for big single-threaded workloads, three medium Cortex A78 cores for multicore work, and four Cortex A55 cores for background work."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/new-reports-say-the-...
As they should, telemetry is just an euphemism for spyware, despite what apologists will claim.
3g video calling apps have been out for a little while for the Android platform (a coupla months). Most of the new apps have flash origins and are just trying to figure out ways around the artificial restriction.

HD video is "neat", 5MP camera on a phone is so last year though.

I'm actually more interested in the display than in the rest of the phone. It seems like a nice piece of tech. It's definitely a better sounding display than I've seen elsewhere.
Has there been any change in btrfs development since the purchase of Sun? I was concerned that Oracle might abandon it now that they own ZFS.
Building this successfully destroyed all my productivity. http://bit.ly/g11Q6h
>For whatever reason, Americans are locked in to thinking that cities should be designed for cars and that every errand should involve driving somewhere (with the expectation that your destination should furnish your car with a free place to park).

A major reason is the massive amount of explosive growth directed through central planning by government. This has literally made most cities designed around travel by car.

>Of course, people won't change unless there's a reason to do so. What I am saying is that "market forces" will push us towards those kinds of solutions INSTEAD of towards an oil replacement. People will be better off if they can adapt to this reality rather than hang on until the bitter end to the idea that the future will involve "happy motoring" forever.

Getting rid of government subsidy to oil through lobby, tax breaks, and the military-industrial complex would go a long way toward this goal. We are bearing the full brunt of the "moral hazard" experiment.
No worries, you seem to be doing fine.

I would justs try, not to put too much pressure on him (or you) to make progress with your project, when he wants to do other things. And in fact, don't forget to motivate him to do other things, like play outside with friends in the actual dirt. Or with you. That is very important for his motoric, social and immune skills, too. In general, just being a kid. With not too much responsibilities and just being able to play freely. 1.5 h of serious work and learning every day do sound a bit much, if that means, it is cut from the outside time with you.

You can also combine being outside with the project, by having pen and paper around to discuss and write things that come to mind ...

Oh - and of course: have you considered Lego Mindstorms?
I had great success with it, teaching nephews the basic of robotics. With something they can touch. And the ability to work with their hands and minds, as this involves also designing of the chassis and the arragnement of sensors, etc.
In general, LEGO is very accessible. So I would start with that, before turning into a more serious base of actual robots.
I've wondered this a few times myself - I like learning languages (even if not directly applicable to paid work) and Prolog has been on the list, but I wonder if the concepts are better left on their own rather than packaged into a DSL.

If I understand constraint propagation and backtracking, why not just use those concepts when it fits the problem rather than an entirely new language meant specifically for that narrow range of problems?
My guess would be maintenance cost.
Sounds pretty evil to me.
Either the title is incorrect or the OP has linked the incorrect github page on this user's account. [0] seems to be written by the same person, and generally covers what the current title claims.

0. https://github.com/codr7/liblgpp
Give it time? Github was previously doing the "censorship" of Iranians... now that it's available I expect we'll see more of this kind of thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub
A lot of us isps straight up won’t allow byo routers so that they can collect $10/mo “equipment fee”. Looking at you att
> consumer behavior and expectation to stop Amazon at this point

why? if amazon is providing a service that people want (and pay for) at a very competitive price (either by making economies of scale that only they have, nor by leveraging existing business assets they own like AWS), then theres' nothing wrong.
Solution: don't buy locked down Apple hardware. Yes, the chips look nice but it's just really unfortunate that they're from Apple and so come with all the Apple baggage. Just wait a couple years for competing chips that won't have the baggage.
Nice to see the 28 billion dollar charity actually doing some.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3035734/infographic-of-the-day/i...
I wonder how long Atom has been usable. Chris stopped updating his Emacs packages in 2012.[1][2]

[1] https://github.com/defunkt/coffee-mode/commits/master?page=7

[2] https://github.com/defunkt/textmate.el/commits/master
I find I write less code nowadays that makes me go WTF later but it still happens ("The only valid measurement of code quality is WTFs/minute" [1])

Probably the best thing you can do is seek out code reviewers, as they find problems (and they will) try to become aware of patterns in your mistakes and then focus on eliminating those.

[1] http://www.osnews.com/story/19266/WTFs_m
Was it the actual algebra you learned that helped you code these things? Or just the mental discipline of sitting down until the problem is solved?
Not only does FB email me every message. It sends push notification to my iTouch, my Android and notified via AJAX, on all open Facebook windows.

You can't miss it, even if you want. Last thing I want is a super aggregator!

AOLers are cute, indeed.
Being crazy gets you leverage on the negotiation table. Seeming measured and rational and restrained oftentimes gets you into trouble. See Jimmy Carter and the Iran hostage crisis, for instance. There's no way that'd happen under a more aggressive President, like FDR or Nixon or GW.
[citation needed]
FYI you don't need to post essentially the same comment twice.
I don't have as much experience as others here (~2 years) but I can tell you that it definitely changes the way you think, not just about engineering problems but life situations too, and the change is not something you might predict from the sub-topic you're learning about. Math is really just the art of thinking precisely (lots of inventing beautiful abstractions and interesting examples).
I do understand this, but if it's Chinese government behind attack the reason why they doing this it's these anti-censorship projects hosted on GitHub. Considering GitHub already supported censorship in Russia I see no reason why don't they just block access from China to projects that Chinese gov don't like.
The most practical idea I've heard is to create a giant magnetic shield and put it at the L1 Lagrange point between Mars & the sun. [1]

[1] https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmo...
It was kind of a joke but come on, Arianespace's leaders have been pretty salty about SpaceX in public so clearly there is some jealousy. And as I understand it most of the oldspace launch providers aren't significantly cheaper than SpaceX even if latter operate their rockets in expendable mode.
I totally get that. And you know what, If black cabs were nicer, not THAT expensive, and, available(!) I'd be happy to use them. But they are, like all unionised services, stuck in the 70s. I don't mind paying more. I do mind paying a LOT more for less. I am totally aware Uber is subsidised. But what makes uber uber, is their availability and ease of use.
Would you please stop policing the way other people think, talk, and feel? You're not the arbiter of right and wrong, intellect and folly.
So these camp spots, is this just like a general area where RVs can hook up to power? I don’t quite understand why camping spots are so desired that people are writing web scrapers and even selling on a secondary market? Sounds like a whole new world I’ve never heard of.
Sure, but Amazon pricing is more amusing: the results are visibly and clearly absurd. HFT done right is much subtler.
Think of it from the perspective of the countries great engineers emigrate from. They lose the potential for their own economic growth and prosperity, and send their best to be shackled to a company in the US where they need to keep a job or be deported. It is possible, but very hard, to be entrepreneurial in that environment.

But that is an essay and a half of nonsense to get into, about why they need to immigrate in the first place in such large numbers. In the same way monopolies are not healthy in any industry, having all the "great programmers" in the bay area would, I feel, stunt the potential of the industry by creating an insular monoculture.
This article was meant to have seasonal relevance. It might have been published for maximum eye balls. It could also be fake or an article published earlier in 2002. Bribed to publish ?

Of course the reality of the matter is, journalists pretend to be surprised when scientists don't know anything, which is true. The all-knowing wise people of HN assert that both journalists and scientists don't know anything.

The actual reality is that neither HN nor journalists nor scientists nor anyone knows anything about reality.
OK, how does this avoid breaking causality?
As someone who has worked in various agile ways, I can assure you that agile certainly does not mean "do not provide your users with explicit specification of a public api".

In the Agile manifesto (1), the phrase "we value ... Working software over comprehensive documentation" refers to the big upfront waterfall design and architecture documents that precede implementation and are usually obsolete before the software is working.

If you are working in an agile way and you find that your system's behaviour is under-specified to people trying to use it, then you have a problem, and agile methods encourage you to change your ways of working to fix the problem. For instance, by providing sufficient specification with each piece of working software. See: Definition of Done (2)

You could however just be using "agile" to mean something else such as "lazy", "sloppy", "hasty" or "inexperienced".

1) http://agilemanifesto.org/

2) http://guide.agilealliance.org/guide/definition-of-done.html
The look like they are made out of that hard, splintery plastic.
This should be periodically reposted or sticky somehow:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/

John Walker was pretty prescient when he wrote that.

(and in case you don't know who he is: he founded Autodesk).
Yes. Then your most talented citizens will go into other work and the quality provided will go down.

This is really quite simple. If there's ways for the most talented to make more money, that's where they're going. The most talented aren't locked into any particular career.

Sure, there will be exceptions, but the overall trend will be undeniable.
40+ y/o programmers first started learning programming 20+ years ago when programming was more low level in general. Furthermore their skills were honed on broken processes and outdated technology

When you have been around technology for a little while you will see that the changes over time are superficial. There's actually not much you can do with a fancy Angular app now, that you couldn't do with an IBM 3270 terminal 40 years ago. You have a form to enter records into a database, or a report to extract that data in a nicely formatted way. Or Facebook, or Amazon, or whatever, to an experienced programmer these are just forms and reports. They differ from earlier apps only in the most trivial ways, the engineering under them hasn't changed. These old guys built things like banking systems, airline booking systems, that have been running for decades, and will be running for decades more. They know 100x more than any "scrum master" or whatever is in fashion now.

Sadly attitudes like you demonstrate, are common. Hence, rampant ageism and the drive to hire cheap 20-somethings.
Nope, .gov belongs to the US, so they get to hog it.

It's a historical vestige, the Internet started out as a U.S. government-sponsored research network, so they built it for their own needs. There's absolutely no reason to them to give that up.
Democrats _want_ people to vote, most voter registration drives and voter services (offering transportation to a polling place, etc) are run by Democrats or aligned organizations.
Well yeah, the motorcycle helmet was introduced nearly 30 years after the Reitwagen, of course ツ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_helmet
A lack of data is also data.

Fake data pollutes the stream.
It’s a BSD license, so they don’t need to release the source.
Only certain republicans though
Pretty cool stuff, i know ive asked for some of these features as my team uses asana for as much as we can and jira was super slow and clunky back in the day - though i checked it out recently and it seems like a much better experience.

In the tool the modals could really use a X button to close the modal, the 2 or 3 seconds i second guessed where to click each time was annoying. It would be cool to discover if asana had some of these features all of a sudden but i think putting so many features front and center is going to hurt your adoption. Slack for instances can be easily underused as simply a chat application, later on the tech guy shows up and starts dropping in chat bots and cool helpers and what not. The relationship stuff is pretty cool i hope i dig more into this stuff later.

Also are you guys planning on expanding the signup options beyond google/microsoft? it was easy for me to signup just curious how much of a roadblock that is to the rest of the internet.
>and they see this quote. Immediately, it feels bullshit and dumb to them

it literally sounds like a religious cult at this point. When I was growing up I had a friend from an actual cult and the family literally had their own invented board games (which were terrible) purged of all kinds of "immoral" references because they weren't allowed to touch anything out of mainstream culture.

Whenver I see this depluralizing behavior as if non-free software causes some sort of metaphysical corruption I have to think back to this.
> I'm very weary indeed of re-implementations of SSH servers.

The security properties of this are a little scary, too: the recommended configuration here has all hosts trusting the bastion, which kind of undoes the point. Pwn the bastion host, and pwn everything.

It's trickier, but a decent ssh jumphost requires the user to authenticate to the bastion and the host behind.
I can't reply to the sibling commenters but providing a contrarian opinion. I'm an interviewer and there's no way for me to tell who is just really good vs who has seen the exact question before. Telling the interviewer just gives them information that goes against you so I wouldn't recommend doing this.
Maybe the result of lobbying, and undeniably the result of the politicians putting forth the bill.
Framing this as emergent rather than strategic makes a lot of sense.
Something we need to do a better job of in the open-source community is educating people on what to expect from open-source software. GIMP isn't "a Photoshop clone". It's a unique thing. It's not trying to replace Photoshop. Unfortunately, 99% of the open-source community seems to believe that it is. How did we get to this point? When you see this BS, please call it out. Do your part.
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For what it’s worth you have a yard, most of the people wanting to go back to the office live in a more cramped conditions. Not having something like a yard to fall back to has also make it way harder for those people in terms of mental well-being, seeing people around them instead of the same four walls would be like going back to normal for them.
Is it something special or is it just another OpenJDK-build with support?
I live 10 minutes from my office but even just not having to wake up an hour before work and being home on my lunch break has given me so much of my life back.

I am never going back on any sort of regular basis.
Only ~32m of ~190m US FB accounts were in this breach, so it's not surprising if you live in that country and are not in the breach.
There's pretty much no such thing as optional if there's a team off-site unless it's "I can't" for some reason rather than "I don't want to." Multi-day off-sites are sometimes necessary but weekend is a no go.
Plenty of people have productivity issues in the office and "steal" time there (slacking off), so it probably more than balances out.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Just came off as an agry rather pointless rant to me.
But also, it has obviously become a risky business.
It was never "TOR", it's; Tor: https://matt.traudt.xyz/posts/2021-02-22-tor-spelling.

The new blocking completely blocks access to the site, not just posting. See for yourself; https://www.torproject.org/

Tor is next to useless for DDoS attacks, as it doesn't offer any amplification. For every byte you send in via TCP, you get one byte out. For attackers with large botnets, it doesn't make sense to DDOS over Tor, as the number of exiting IP addresses are limited and it's easy to block them all. It makes more sense to use your thousands of available botnet IP's that aren't on any lists.
> this would require little more than changing a flag and a recompilation.

Almost never is this true, even on small projects, which Signal is definitely not.
I would kill to not have deadlines... I also work here heh
This is a bit of a take on the current dynamics - https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/01/29/britains-newly-...
Marcus Aurelius is very accessible, and feels very modern.