jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sadly, I almost replied "just check out the website." I made a site for graphic design students to find freelance gigs that are posted by local small businesses who need cheap, small amounts of design work done. Thankfully this hasn't been very big, and mostly just a side project recently, so not too many users are being affected.
Doozer is a really interesting project. We run a Go based lockserver at Tinkercad but we haven't got around to adding redundant storage. Doozer on the other hand is tighly focused on just the storage part, which usually is much less application specific. So for us this seems like a good fit.

I've been talking with Keith and Blake since before christmas and their thinking is solid. If you are interested in running a consistent store this is probably one of your best bets, unless you happen to work at Google and have access to chubby (I'm an ex-Googler).
Hmmm... I'm not sure exactly how the voting ring stuff works, but I've heard that people can get tripped up by asking large numbers of, say, Twitter followers, to upvote them.

Yup, it happened to Yegg recently:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2203599

I think it would be wrong to rush to judgment and conclude that "HN is racist"

I agree, notwithstanding my previous point.
Interesting. Could you please post details on what your day to day meals are like when you were on this schedule? Foods you must eat and some you had to avoid. I'm sure others are curious about this as well.
It breaks my back button! And it's from Google, the best web company?
Since you mentioned it, me and at least 2 other people have written Tetris in 256 bytes. I used 80286 assembly and you probably can't get away with that these days - even when I did, it was already old. 64 bit code will probably be much bigger. But the main trick besides the right instruction set is to use XOR for drawing, erasing, and collision checks. Have fun!
"My hatred for the 9-5 job is what motivates me."
This.
Adduser vs useradd is older than I am and I still can't keep them straight. Just put this with the rest of the fire, I guess, heh!
I think that's in the ballpark, but Zed also seems to be intuitively aware of something else going on in the infosec community that most people outside of it aren't.

There's a huge emphasis on publishing and branding/networking and as a result there are a lot of talking heads. Thing is, most of them are punching _way_ above their weight and it's mostly people just cargo culting their way through the industry.

Literally for 20 years, people just looked at OpenSSL and said "well everyone else says it's okay." Knowing a little bit the way Zed is, I think his reaction is because he's sick of the talking heads versus the mediocre output from the "experts" in industry.

I thankfully don't work "in infosec", but millions of dollars of infrastructure and its security is my responsibility and I'm not clueless. In fact, I earned my Black Badge doing something legitimately difficult. I'd say that 3/4 of the supposed professionals that I encounter in industry are at least six ways full of shit.
Miele. They last forever and are much cleaner, lighter, and more powerful than equivalent Dysons.
The point is that logistics are hard. Even if you have an "extras" list, there will be odd circumstances where you're forced to pivot.

> we had a year for preparing for this...

I hear this argument a lot. Health officials have been overworked just trying to stay on top of the pandemic.

They aren't experts in logistics. The only way to have been more prepared is already have a plan pre-pandemic. Once you're in the middle, it's chaos.
I have tired this with an air quality sensor (measuring VOC, PM2.5, and PM10) and found doing this method I had a huge increase in PM2.5 compared to baseline levels (1-2 to 100-280), so I imagine this method would only work well if you have distilled water. I would also be worried about bacteria and mold.
A lot of those "net worth" numbers don't translate to cold, hard cash either.
Ah yes, the famous cabal of 1 percenters sitting around and committing grand larceny as they raid the bank accounts of poor people. At least that's what this headline would have you believe.

The reality is much more boring. Thanks to "math," they've determined that if the ratio of incomes from 1945-1974 held steady, the bottom 90% would have "more" than they do now. Of course the bottom 90% itself is a fantasy and you can find yourself in or out of it many times in the course of a career.

But is it possible that maybe, just maybe, wealth distribution isn't a 0 sum game? And maybe being in the bottom 90% is better now than it was 40 years ago, because of, I don't know, iPhones, next-day delivery for anything you want, telehealth, instant access to the world's information, electric cars, and many other things that 1 percenters have made for us?
I have a Shark also, sub £200 (£170 i think), pretty sure a similar Dyson was easily twice the price. It is quite, light (its one of the hand held models) and certainly powerful enough for general use around the house.
Yes, because it isn't just the UI (from your comment about Linux i guess you mean UI with "interface") but about how everything is designed with the rest in mind with no seams in-between.

The "unix way" is to have reusable independent pieces that focus only on one thing that you connect together to create your application (often while accepting any limitations due to those connections - e.g. communication being in text format only). This is in complete antithesis to the monolithic all-in-one design that tools like dBase, FoxPro, classic Visual Basic (to some extent), etc provided.

It is important to keep in mind that these tools aren't just the sum of their parts, you can't take each part in isolation - it is the entire thing as a whole.

Now, you can grab these individual components and throw a blanket over them that pretends to be one unified whole, but AFAIK that has never worked in practice and you always get "leaks" - which will certainly happen with something that people will try to program against.
I think MasterCard will use a different type of cryptocurrency than you are familiar with, called "stablecoins", like the USDC and/or DAI. These are pegged to the USD and never go up or down.

Most likely, they will use things like a "state channels" for the actual transactions. State channels are like pre-paid cards, where the channel gets settled after the entire card is spent.

But why? Well, cryptocurrency makes sense over traditional currency, because it's programmable, auditable & composable with many other dapps that exist on the blockchain.
> With Bitcoin you own property that can never be confiscated or debased by any government.

Private keys can be confiscated like anything else. They won't do you much good if you're thrown in prison for not turning them over if legally compelled. Sure you can try to hide your ownership, but my point is that actual cryptocurrencies are only one layer of very deep opsec you need to resist state actors. For the common illegal goods consumer it's unlikely to do much more than provide a false sense of security due to other opsec failures (use of phones, use of cookies, use of mailing addresses, use of non-e2e chat, using a hosted wallet, lack of anonymous vpn, etc etc etc).

> The biggest applications on Ethereum right now is decentralized finance, with billions of dollars locked in.

Interesting use of "dollars." How much is actually Tether? How much is manipulated market cap (through wash trading or more convoluted defi mechanisms)? How much is actually liquid USD?
I wouldn't call them pension funds. Ford's total investments as a % of assets is pretty small, basically a rounding error. Now, you could absolutely call those two companies, truck manufactures with a side-hustle making cars, and that would be pretty accurate.

The problem with Ford is they have a ton of debt and they are in a capital-intensive, highly competitive industry and they are one the first industries hit in the event of a recession.

All car manufactures are essentially in the same situation. There's a reason this industry is rife with bankruptcies, mergers, and government ownership. Car companies all need so much capital to survive that they tend to starve very quickly. If Microsoft revenue went to $0 tomorrow, they could float on reserves for several years while they correct course. If the same situation occurred to Ford, they'd be gone by in a few months.
I think Elon Musk would actually provide something other than "AMA: Elon Musk". Title is pretty lame.
As it happens ethnic minorities in China are allowed to have more children than the Han majority and benefit from preferential admission in universities.

I think sometimes there is a cultural disconnect between what is considered fine in China (and I mean culturally and by the general public, not the government) and not so fine in the West, and that can be used and spun for political purposes.
It would be helpful if this thorough of an example could live on the apache beam website, I think it would avoid a lot of confusion. I certainly found the way it handles windowing with triggers to be quite diffrent than say, Spark.
The boom in industrial manufacturing work is what drove a lot of the migration of southern blacks to the Northeast and Midwest. These early Ford plants were at the beginning of that movement.
It's definitely a real issue. I have been working at a desk since my 20s. Now in my 40s my legs go numb after sitting for a half an hour. The problem goes away when I am on vacation for a few weeks. I bet a lot of health issues would go away if people could spend less time sitting.
I presume you're referring to this book? http://www.amazon.com/Interconnections-Bridges-Switches-Inte...

(I'm posting the link here because it took some searching to find the right book and in its current edition).
Amazon forced to make an Android pad? Nope.

1. Now Nook is just another Android pad. Amazon has Android app for Kindle. Nook is a Kindle. Good luck to B&N on trying to compete with the rest of the market. They'll probably be buying whatever is cheap and just re-branding it, as I'm sure they're doing now. This will mean it's not a quality product.

2. People will continue to buy iPad no matter where the market goes. It will continue to be the trend-setter when it comes out soon with a hidef screen, 3d and battery life to match. The fact that B&N doesn't do any Hardware or Software work will mean their quality and finish will suffer. I imagine they're selling it at cost or slightly above to stay competitive with the Kindle.

My guess, in the long run, people will have a new Android pad and then another. Kindle users will still be using their device for reading and buying books because that's all it does. But when color e-Paper come out, Amazon will be the only manufacturer with a mature OS that is practical for the slow refresh rate of e-Paper. The battery life and display quality over typical LCDs will make it appeal to a niche that no other device has.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450170

Between this sitting-is-death and the sugar-is-death, there should be tens of millions of dead office workers who died before 60 in the past few decades.
Several remedies have been brought up already. Every day there's a blog post about what America must do to become "more innovative", and none of the recommendations are taken. While the details are important, I believe that the first thing is getting America as a nation to consider the issue to be incredibly urgent. Only then will the government (starting from the citizens) attempt any kind of overhaul.
There is a ton of money in online surveys. Advertisers spend a lot on surveys.
I'm guessing a significant portion of the $35m is in stock.
I think it's good practice to trim leading/trailing whitespace from all inbound data. Google docs for one usually appends a newline to data kept in cells. Not so good if you're keeping passwords in a spreadsheet.

That doesn't address spaces IN passwords, but I know I've never written a script to block them. If I had to guess I would say it depends on individual frameworks or the behavior of individual languages. E.g. python has a decent strip() function, javascript doesn't. If you need to trim whitespace in javascript you need to write a regex. It would be easier to test/remove all whitespace instead of trailing/leading whitespace. Maybe that's a clue.
When is it going away? Will unlocked nexus ones still be sold?
> "Nope. We'll end up with a lot of old-tech solar that isn't as good as what we'll get by waiting."

> No, we'll still get the years of use from the "old tech" while new tech is being developed

(NB)-C < (N-k)B'-C in some cases. (Yes, I realize that NB ignores time value of money. For N>>k, that can be reasonable if C is not too large.)

The numbers matter.

> What if we decided not to build cars until we developed the Prius?

What if we didn't invent false choices? (Hint: I'm not saying always wait.)

You're the one insisting that all-in is always the right solution. That's simply false, as is always wait.

The numbers always matter and they're often context dependent. (Example - pretty crappy solar made sense in some situations while it didn't in other situations. Better solar makes sense in some of the latter, but not all. And so on.)
Not that I've ever submitted anything before, but based on experiences at other sites, getting throttled sucks. Having to sit and wait for the clock to reset for each subsequent submission is a pain and extremely unfriendly if the content isn't actually spam.

What if instead of rate-limiting the submissions, HN accepted all the submissions, but then controlled the rate at which they're released into the mix. That way, the user's experience is unencumbered, but there's also not a sudden flood of posts from a single user all at once?
First thought: having it fade in like that is rather distracting and annoying.

Second thought: so I'll be able to turn this off tomorrow right?
That doesn't work for me -- just reverts to the default piggybank (?) photo.

If I select a "white" background, it doesn't give the old Google page -- it has translucent text with shadows. Looks super ugly. Very annoying.

Come on Google! People love you for your simplicity. That's one reason you broke away from Yahoo's then-dominance of search/startpages years ago.
Anecdotal observation from my child's experience is nearly everyone who dropped out dropped out as a cub scout. That was a very large fraction. Those who crossed over are typically Eagle Scouts. But for one of those kids, they were all highly scheduled. But for a different one, they were each complying with parental wishes.

My child was over Cub Scouts by Bears.

But more than a decade later, my grown-ass child hangs out with several of the Eagles. They are close friends.
I feel about this company the same way as I feel about driving Uber. If you already have someone in your family who's making money and has benefits, driving it could be a fun way to make a few extra bucks and talk to a few people.

So if you're a housewife with a few free hours while the kids are at school, or a bored retiree, by all means drive Uber/work for this place.

If you're someone in their prime and have to be self-reliant then this is as bad a deal as "I'll drive Uber for now" as a life plan. You're going to be down the road with no benefits, no growth, no title, and nothing to build the rest of your career on.
All of them work like this, but some linux environments and on windows PowerToys Zones support splitting the screen in different, custom ways.
Interesting way to run a company. I'm wondering if you provide any health care benefits to Gumroad contractors?
It's the ramblings of an ill man, very evidently so. The description sounds exactly like that of a schizophrenic (compare the sparrowOS/templeOS guy). As I said on that thread, this is not a state we should romanticize or aspire to.
I'm glad I got the chance to read this article. As a relative newcomer to computing (and I'd like to assert that just about 90% of HN are relative newcomers), I value the input of an old fogey "telling it like it is" (how he thinks it is, more accurately).

I don't do much systems programming, but mean to do more, and I'm a little disappointed that what I thought was a good approach at a systems language (golang) is met with such derision by him (who seems to truly have systems experience), but I'm excited to read some of his more technical articles and find why that is the case.

While I take his opinions (as that's what they are) with salt, I think he's definitely got a point saying that the industry has become cozy/complacent. Many of the interesting things that everyone is re-discovering/clamouring about today has been around since the 50s/60s/70s -- I can never shake the feeling that I can never shake the feeling that I could be doing something more ambitious, more revolutionary on pretty much every project I work on, but maybe that's just me.
Like what Facebook's web app does? They load the page first leaving the comments and photos "spinning" (it's more of a gradient fluctuation, but indicated loading). This free's you up to interact with the rest of the site.
Have you tried apps like Duolingo? I personally have not tried them (past 1-2 days of playing around) but I have friends that speak highly of it.
I know you can't say anything, but I'm guessing that there's a nonzero chance that the guy who made the hardware decisions is a friend of the guy who sold the hardware.
Apparently a lot of the call centers are located in West Bengal AFAIK.
Regular Dropbox is where you move files into the Dropbox folder and it auto-syncs to all your computers and stores version history online (30/180 days depending on plan). Versions of the file in your version history don't count against your storage quota.

Backups would let you back up other folders on your PC, plus it won't auto sync to other PCs meaning you save bandwidth and disk space and the version history will be oriented towards backups, i.e. it doesn't expire, deleting the local copy doesn't delete the backup, and it isn't super frequent.
I agree. A lot of comments here are in past tense: “Miniclip was…”, “the games were…”, “I loved…”, “they used to…”

You can reminisce the good times but you can’t be sad they’re transitioning when their core audience (including me) haven’t visited the website in almost 10 years.
really hate to do this but does all this inspiration come naturally to you or you augment your efforts by external stimuli?
All points that Jobs made against Flash were correct, as Adobe had really dropped the ball on Flash.

After that it was too late, and Adobe killed flash only two years after Jobs' letter.
I began WFH in October, 2018. At first it was a bit disorienting, and I found myself struggling with anxiety about my performance. Instead of "enjoying" and 8-hour day (minus a commute), I began working 10-12 hour days so I would feel productive. Even that wasn't enough - I kept slogging through, working on weekends, etc.

Eventually, I began to understand "remote culture" and that just because I was seeing others doing stuff, asking questions, committing to repos, etc. at all hours didn't mean I was expected to be "up and working at all times".

Once I made my peace with things, I began to see what advantages WFH brought. Once I understood what I really needed to be working on, I found that the quiet of my home office made me much more productive. I bought a standing desk (and, yes, YMMV) and it's been a great way for me to focus, especially early in the day.

There are still some advantages to going into an office. Two that stand out to me are:
• Early planning meetings where it's much more productive to brainstorm/whiteboard together.
• Water cooler conversations. Yes, you can still connect with your co-workers remotely, but it's a lot less organic.

TL;DR - Yes, there are times I find myself justifying running personal errands or other stuff that ends up deferring (procrastination of) the things I need to accomplish for my team/employer. However, I've learned that I'll feel much better about myself and work product if I'm "diligent enough" to do just that.
I don't know why the scare quotes on risk. It is absolutely there in this industry. Chargeback rates are crazy from the kid who swesrs he didn't steal his mom's credit card or the husband who promises he wasn't the one buying this stuff, it must have been a hacker. This is also not entirely unfounded because some areas of this indistry are very easy to juice revenue from stolen credit cards.

There is a reason that even with those high fees to be made, most processors will not touch the industry.
Scammer Payback is another such channel - they also share their findings with the police from time to time. It appears they do their best to head off the scammers victims by attempting to retrieve the scammers victim lists (through what appears to be mild social engineering). [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/ScammerPayback
I would very much like an expandable section below the search text where I could turn very specific portions of the google magic on and off.

I also wish you would remove the multitude of sites that scrape content from the original sites and SEO the hell out of it to get to the top of search results. I assume the advertising revenue is too lucrative to do so.
> E.g. the ohm symbol "Ω" lowercases to a standard omega "ω", but that uppercases to a standard uppercase omega "Ω", because there's a distinct codepoint for "ohm symbol" (even though it's "just" omega, perhaps because some legacy codepages included it as a symbol without including a full greek alphabet) but no corresponding lowercase codepoint.

Except that the NFKD form (which I was specifically asking) for 'OHM SIGN' is 'GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA'.
Thought it was squarely aimed at adults. We age and sometimes our dreams get jaded or our friends and family shatter and ridicule them.
Most people are not that worried about me eavesdropping on half of their cellphone conversation (I wish they were, then they might STFU) or watching them walk from their car to the mall. They probably wouldn't even care if I spied on their banking details as long as I didn't buy stuff with their CC.

On the other hand, most people would be bothered if I touched their balls or viewed nude pictures of them on my computer.

Apparently some people feel similarly about homeland security doing these things.
What if you move and never come back :)
I think people need to start to take more responsibility for what they say online.

It's philosophies like this that cause people to get into trouble over inappropriate comments on facebook/twitter.

Online is far more public that just vocalising something out loud. Online is stored indefinitely. Online is searchable. Online is global.

I'm not saying this case deserved any punishment (I favour freedom of speech), but people need to be aware that what they say online is public. If you wouldn't happily say it in public, don't type it online.
Here we reserve that for when the president, secretary of state or someone relevant in foreign affairs says or does something, not a prosecutor.
I'm not sure the legal structure in China or the U.S. has caught up with your position on this. You can be certain the U.S. Secret Service chases down perceived threats from online and offline comments fairly regularly.

This is the problem: Too much change, too fast. Much of what we say online today was prohibited to do so on the only available broadcast mechanisms in the U.S. as recently as mid-1970s. Even once the laws and regulators started to relax it took some time as the contents providers pushed boundaries. Its only been in the last 20 years that people could "broadcast themselves".

China wrote its first laws to cover internet content less than 10 years ago. This is very new territory.