jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Every time I read articles like these, I get dissapointed about the state of the internet.

The only thing you know that is likely to be true is that someone got fired from Amazon, and thats it.

You don't know if they are telling the truth.

You don't know if they were in the right.

You don't know if Amazon was fixing the problem, and they decided to be an asshole and go over their bosses because they felt that not enough was being done.

You don't know if their actions were compromizing the buisness operations.

E.t.c and so on.

If you read this and feel like Amazon did something wrong, you are part of the problem. Don't believe anything that ist backed by clearly cited sources. Which that article clearly lacks. But alas, you clicked and scrolled, so as far as politico.eu is concerned, thats all that you needed to do.
They are terms relating to technical analysis, an attempt to determine future price action from past price action. Many traders look down on technicals as an attempt to read tea leaves while ignoring more important information. Myself included. Still, technical analysis can on occasion be a useful tool when making tactical decisions because people do watch certain levels, reversion and breakouts are real phenomena, and any widespread trading approach is at times a self-fulfilling prophecy.
If you make paper money in your basement you're a thief and criminal, but once it is electronic money - everything is ok?
> No, donations are not cutting it

It probably doesn't help that you can't choose to donate to/for Firefox. If you disagree with other things Mozilla is doing, perhaps moreso than the things you agree with, then you don't really have much options.

For many people, advertisements - especially ones enabled without announcement, sneakily - are simply an unacceptable red line, nomatter how important Mozilla thinks they are.
No

I’m sitting in the middle of it, outside a wine bar, right now.

The calculus of where to hire people is the same as it was ten, fifteen, twenty years ago.

When the restrictions end the investors are going to want to meet founders in person again.
diverse birds
if it doesn't come with an ISDA, I'm not interested.

"JP Morgan Employee : But, uh... you guys are under the capital requirements for an ISDA.

Charlie Geller : By how much?

JP Morgan Employee : [thinking] Uh... how much? One billion, four hundred seventy million. So... a lot.

Charlie Geller : This makes us look bad, doesn't it? That we didn't know what the capital requirements were?

JP Morgan Employee : Uh... it's not great. But keep up those returns and give us a call way down the line, you know. Okay?"
> trying to bootstrapping a less developed area

Nobody is talking about bootstrapping demand in less developed areas.

Elsewhere people were talking about how people were being forced to buy houses in places like Stockton because they couldn’t afford to buy them in Cupertino.

So the demand is already there.

One complaint was that those people have to travel a long way to get to work.

One dystopian solution to this is to use taxes to confiscate property from people who live near employees, so that workers can live there temporarily.

Another way is for companies to open offices in places where their workers can afford to live, contributing to the creation of more attractive communities as they do so.
Yeah...this speaks to endemic corruption within the company as well as just a completely rotten management.

It is unfortunate but true that with successes come a certain develish breed of human, as well as encouraging some of the worst behavior in otherwise decent folk. Whenever you get a certain level of money involved you can be sure you are dealing with criminals, two bit liars, and psycopaths.

Sounds like the mgmt psycos over at amazon have rediscovered the old red tape as a quick way to keep costs down. Just another reason these big biz need proper regulatory oversight, the psychos will still come but at least it should get easier to throw them in a cell when they are discovered.
I think this work is quite ridiculous. As far as I could see, they trained the net with a batch size equal to 1.
Dick?
Just a note: if you do watch this, watch it until the very last second.
Before the outbreak, N-95 masks used to cost 58 cents. So if it was spent on masks only, around 1.7 million masks at those prices. I don't know how many health workers SF has, but at a population of 800k and a US average of 2.6 physicians per 1000 people I'd guess it's hundreds of masks per worker.

I don't know about the costs or the currently available supply though, or what the real price increases should be due to a pinched supply chain, and I haven't been able to find any data - would appreciate pointers.
Works nicely, thanks.
N95 just means anything that can filter out 95% of nacl in a specific test, the implementation is not constrained to this type of fabric. There are other ways of doing it.
For me it is the opposite. I've dabbled in game dev as a hobby now and then and it's all code and bugs until the art arrives and transforms everything I've tried to do using ugly placeholders into something beautiful and amazing. That transformation is something truly special for me when it happens.
This is why patents are stupid.
I’m working on an emergency ventilator project with an anesthesiologist friend of mind, as I’m sure a lot of people are right now.

Being perfectly honest, if I was rich, I’d seek to buy an AED, a portable ventilator, an O2 concentrator, and other life-sustaining equipment for every place I stayed at. One difference is I’d be willing to wait until after the fat part of this pandemic passes.

Because I’m not rich (and not that much of an AH), I’ve chosen to just buy a pulse-ox, a thermometer, some vitamins, and OTC meds and if I get a serious case, will turn up into the public healthcare system.
Unless you are in a fantastic shape buying a ventilator is fool's gold. Life is not "Chicago Med" or "Resident" - needing a ventilator means you are probably screwed.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8404197

The survival rate is 30% at a 1 year mark.
Which (if any) client side router library do you prefer then?
Pardon, an HTTP server. It talks HTTP and HTTPS, as well as raw TCP. If you define a web server as something that talks HTTP/HTTPS and also is able to serve static files off the filesystems then, not HAProxy is not that, but this is really splitting hairs.
This looks like it would be a great place to work!
Maybe we're speaking about different things but I remember in IE you could save the page + it would save a certain number of links deep from that page.
Weird. I would prefer the engine to be as quiet as possible. The proof of performance is in how the thing drives, not how it sounds. Tweaking the exhaust pipe on a car like the Mustang makes sense, but piping sound in through the speakers? As long as I can turn it off permanently.
Thanks for the comments but I'm good I've never had a problem with my height except on dating sites. It seems the women who use the sites also ignore anyone below 6 feet. I actually tested that and it was sad to see the results.

It's that magic "6 foot" number it seems women want. I'm not talking 5 feet or 5'6" even 5'11 3/4 seems to be too short. I guess dating sites are irrational it's like shopping for perfection not reality.
Respectfully, this sounds like a dystopia to me. In fact this exact structure has been described in multiple dystopian novels and movies [1]. Dividing people into castes that affect their options in life is a really really bad and dangerous idea for a litany of reasons. Regardless of whether it's based on an assessment or your bloodline, ...or anything.

Doesn't this sentence that you wrote ring any alarm bells for you? "Not very reliable, but it can be better overall than treating everyone equally."

[1] Here are a few I can think of off the top of my head:

* 3%, the tv show

* Brave New World (Huxley's book)

* Player Piano (Vonnegut's book)
I had used ET For a few weeks and it worked great except for when it didn't. I can't blame ET for sure, but I had some nasty problems with my ET crashing, having to SSH back in and fix ET, and realizing that it blew up my tmux with it. mosh has not caused this to happen :/
Heck yeah. Totally agree. For my app I'm working on dark true dark modes and then try to do true dark/true black on mobile.

Black looks much better on mobile IMO ...
> At least iTunes eventually removed DRM

Job's anti-DRM letter was published 8 months before the public beta of Amazon MP3 in September 2007. The first DRM free music from EMI was available on iTunes in May 2007. Google Play Music opened in 2011, two years after iTunes music was fully DRM free in the US.

"Eventually" is a bit harsh, it isn't a given that Amazon MP3 and Google Play Music would be DRM free if it wasn't for Apple pushing for it back at the start of 2007.
A few years ago I heard a story from an acquaintance working at an online spread betting company. One senior figure suggested that they should actively bet against their worst performing customers rather than hedging, they discovered pretty quickly that this wasn't a good idea!
I am good at raising money, training volunteers, collecting items, coordinating programs, and telling stories. I am flexible, creative, and able to think on my feet. On paper I am, by most people's standards, highly qualified to do international aid.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't think it immediately follows the author is "highly qualified to do international aid" at all from that description alone. Shouldn't one require a profession of some sorts to be "highly qualified" in anything, perhaps? I would assume she is college educated: shouldn't a university education have qualified her as a professional in some field already?
Well we do have airplanes and they’re pretty impressive, but also pretty different from a printing press. The ‘where’s my jet pack’ mentality is born out of a very quick pace of progress. The delta from the 600 years prior to Gutenberg is substantially lower than th 509 years after. He would probably be impressed.

The OP’s point about the generality of of modern printing technology is also interesting as it reflects market dynamics. Getting two different fonts on the same document used to be a stretch.
This. Using the app should be dead simple - with a default server, a default username, maybe even a pre set password (bound to the phone number or whatever, I'm not a fan of this but they all do it this way) and a feature adding contacts via link, qrcode, or phone-number. And then there should be a button for expert-mode giving you the complicated setup you want - choosing your own server, name, password and whatever.
A log counter on the backend will report the 1000 bots that visited your site as 1000 page views. But that won't give you any information on how well your posts did.

Bots are the reason I switched back from a free backend db based solution to google analytics.
Except C:/ is not a command option, and only Unix people would write "/"
> many people log into non-Google services using their Google account

Is that actually affected by this change? i.e. have they prevented you logging into Google at all from this browser?
Only 2 architectures? Hah! I remember when there was X86, Sparc, MIPS, PowerPC, M68K, and Alpha, all in relatively common use. There were a few Itanium, S390x, and other weird things floating around too. (MIPS, PowerPC, and S390x are still hanging around in niche applications today.)

Portability is not hard. If you write standard C/C++ that does not depend on undefined behavior (like wild-ass pointer casts, etc.) you will be fine 99% of the time. Use newer languages like Go and Rust or higher-level languages and you won't even notice.

The only hard areas where labor intensive porting is needed are hand rolled ASM or the use of CPU-specific extensions like vector code (e.g. __m128i and friends). That's a tiny fraction of code written and is generally confined to things like codecs, graphics engines, crypto, and math kernels.
You're thinking of Monero. It is extremely difficult, risk-prone and expensive to be private with bitcoin.
Ah, don't get sad -- you seem aware enough to recognize the problem. Just a few thoughts:

* These connections are easier when you're in your 20s, single, have time to kill. The company culture may encourage/discourage this too.

* If you're a developer, you may be among a less-extroverted cohort, and have to make efforts to reach out vs. being reached-out-to.

* These are the hard-to-teach-explicitly items, but is every interaction with coworkers purely about the project? Hobbies, shared interests, movies they've seen, games they play, trips they've done/are going to do, etc.? With a (non-work) shared interest it's hard not to have casual conversations that build a work repoire over time.

* There are intangible social signals about willingness to connect (person is overly polite/formal/rigid, facial expressions/body language, warmth of tone and language, etc.). Basically when you sit down next to someone on an airplane, you can tell if they want to chat without having to ask them. Being actively disliked is rarely the issue. You don't dislike the cashier at the grocery store, but the relationship is purely transactional, we can be friendly but let's just get this over with. For some reason, your coworkers may see things this way.
The "lack of intuitive private key management" is worth expanding on.

Would it not be nice if you could, maybe for a small fee, have some trusted entity store your private key for you? One could perhaps imagine storing a printout of the private key in some kind of physical "safe deposit" box, to be maintained by such an entity? But maybe that is to cumbersome and we can do so entirely digitally? In that case I guess that said entity would need to demonstrate a proven track record of safely keeping a record of your net worth, as well as the various in- and out-going transactions between its different customers.

With the obvious possibilities for abuse, it is clear that such an industry would see a fair amount of regulations, and one can foresee never-ending tension between government, the established corporations, and potentially disruptive newcomers....
To the scalability issues section I'd add the environmental aspect. It has already been reported that by some estimates Bitcoin today consumes more energy than Argentina, and that's with an estimated 1 million active wallets per day. Argentina is home to about 50 million people.

This means that in order to have Bitcoin serve as the daily currency for all of Argentina's 50 million people would at least 50-tuple its energy consumption. This is comically absurd. It's thankfully not achievable or economical with the energy resources we currently have available, because pursuing a 4,900% increase in energy consumption would be disastrous.

If crypto sees any widespread usage I think it'll be as the backbone of financial systems, for big transactions between institutions. In that space I don't see much incentive for people to adopt it— there's already a good level of trust amongst the parties, various levels of transaction verification, and it's mostly all digital already.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56012952

[2]: https://www.bitcoinmarketjournal.com/how-many-people-use-bit...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina
Much of this behavior becomes a lot easier to understand when you realise that "wokeism" is a religion. I don't mean that ironically. John McWhorter is currently serialising a book on this topic on his own Substack, and he's far from the only person to make the observation.
This is not a short squeeze. This is over leveraged short speculative positions getting liquidated.
IANAL, but my understanding is that it's extremely difficult to successfully sue someone for libel in the US, mainly due to all the First Amendment issues that come with letting the courts adjudicate what can and can't be said.

Professionally-trained journalists are very aware of libel concerns and are taught to stay within the law. The NYT's journalistic standards may have taken a nosedive in recent years but I'm sure they can still afford good enough lawyers to avoid getting sued over a hit piece, even one as sloppy as this.
Well I expect Android since 2018 to force use of https when you create an app. So from my knowledge to make it not tls takes more effort than otherwise. They actively have to 'hack' around this requirement.
Personal attacks are not cool on HN. We ban accounts that post like that. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do it again.
>Today, there are many Jews living in Europe.
I'm talking about in 1948 my friend. >The governments that persecuted
Jews during World War II were
defeated and ceased to exist. Today,
antisemitism, hate speech and any
hate related imagery is illegal and
frowned upon pretty much everywhere.
You are either naive or you have an agenda.
Governments are purely a device to manifest the will of the people. Would you feel comfortable living in europe when the entire continent tried their best to kill you?
>A sovereign country has sovereignty
over their domestic policies, including
immigration.
Your ignorance is shocking. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jews_in_Syria. But it proves my point. If a 2500 year old community are still considered immigrants then they must be citizens somewhere:)
truth is there can't be a real argument based on precedent since there is none. My point, however, is given the tiny size of israel and the relative benignity of their crimes the obsessive focus on them to the point that UNRWA and UNHRC are distinct points to anti semitism.
I think it would be very useful to stop sharing FUD articles ("rumors"...) at this point...
Those quotes excellently work with the theory of health care & placebos in http://hanson.gmu.edu/showcare.pdf
Uh, isn't quoting the wiki page on "ad hominem" ONCE in a thread enough? Why do it twice? And do you just run around posting "ad hominem" 100 times a day and downvoting opinions you disagree with?

You need to get it straight. If you say something nasty about Cato and I attack YOU personally, that's ad hominem. If you say something about Cato and I attack Cato or some of its supporters and explain why, that's not ad hominem, and no matter how many times you post a wikipedia page, that doesn't change.
Have a merry christmas and a happy new year all!

...Though knowing myself, I'll also be here tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after anyway ;)
Not really, no.

Steve Jobs sits at the core of what Apple represents by his attention to detail down to the aesthetic micrometer. There is an almost sinister genius in what he does at Apple, and at the end of the day you end up with a consistent, applicable and fluid user experience at every level including sales. People want to be involved in that because they know what they're getting. Apple constantly proves itself as a company that does more than talk about thinking outside the box. They think outside the shipping container, and down the street some.

Steve Jobs is an entrepreneur who knew attention to detail, and consistently pushing the envelope beyond a "good product" will bring in dollars.

Zuck sits at the core of a social networking behemoth that has no clear sense of direction, constant changes to using the site, frequent controversy about privacy, fragmented user networks, and no consistency in approach.

Mark Zuckerberg, as much as some people will suffer from bleeding ears after hearing (reading) this: got lucky.
Merry Christmas everyone. Hacker News is kind of like the gift that keeps on giving all year. Hope everyone has the ability to take some time off :). Oh and it seems pg just did a little bit of "Christmas decorating".
A CS program is not a business school, it's supposed to be teaching a science: that is, a set of tools for exploring and explaining the laws of the universe. There's no more reason to promote startups in CS than any other scientific field.

CS departments have relationships with large corporations because they have money and sponsor research. Startups don't. This influx of money has warped the field. It's better to ask why there isn't more science in computer science than to ask why there isn't more business.
At UT there are a few great upper-division software engineering classes, both in EE and CS. In particular one software engineering class I took has small teams act as a startup. You find a need, go through the process of figuring out what to do to meet the need, implementing the solution and then shipping the solution. For ours we created lesson-planning software for a elementary school teachers.
There are much better examples of subjective cultural norms than greggman provided. The notion of personal space, for example, varies significantly between cultures, and there is no significant objective reasons one norm is better than other.
There's a difference between not following the food pyramid and not getting vaccinated. It comes down to health of the public vs health of the individual. Someone's decision to intermittent fast doesn't affect anyone other than the individual. The decision not to vaccinate can affect many, many other people.
I used a Superbrain way back when and it was wonderful for its time.

Laptops didn't exist. Most other computers had separate boxes (screen, CPU, keyboard, floppies) that needed to be connected together. This thing was a practical, relatively nice looking all-in-one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertec_Superbrain

Then the IBM PC and its clones came, and the world changed.
For comparison: When a car comes within a mile of our house, the dogs bark about it. If they turn into our driveway, they shift cadence and tone to let us know that. If someone comes all the way down the driveway to the point they can be seen, it gets very loud.

Then we go deal with whoever it is before the hounds climb the fence and eat them.

This alert system works in all weather conditions, without electricity; and no computers are involved anywhere. The neighbors can hear the howl (they're a mile off but senior hound is a bluetick), but otherwise no one else is notified. I seriously doubt any clouds take cognizance of these events.

The debugging process is similarly endless, tho.
Not a NY fan but, that was 1985, AIDS was far from being well understood, and he backtracked from such statements. Looks like a moment of fear and anger rather than a real political orientation.
Please do this for b+trees. :)
by definition work/material world does not bring fullfilment !!!
Could you elaborate on the setup a bit - for cluster fail over do you mean that since cloudflare is your frontend ingress you can easily point it to another cluster or is there more to it?
Profit doesn’t exist if you’re not fulfilling customer needs.* Find a need that people pay for that to find fulfilling and go support it.

*In theory. In practice, there are all types of companies that exist due to regulatory quirks / that customers are forced to interact with. If you flip it, technically people are forced to work with the government whether they like it or not and regardless of the quality of service. In the private sector they have a choice of using your company. At the extreme, if it is bad enough, they can start their own.
Have some respect for ww2 veterans.
I've always felt that Vim would be an incredible tab editor with the right config. I'm not enough into vim enough to actually make it happen, but if somebody is, I'm interested!
this topic is worth shedding some light on for sure. ping: sten a.t teleport.org
Inequality seems to be mostly inversely proportional to growth.

Low interest rates are fertile soil for inequality. If I can just buy Certificates of Deposit and live off the interest, instead of having to invest directly, that seems to me to be more egalitarian than less. Low interest rates brighten the line between us ordinary people and professional investors.