jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Biggest problem I'm seeing (and understandably so) is that it doesn't handle in JS files that are inject after page load (such as all of ours are - http://frid.ge) even if they are local. We do this for our cache busting routines (we currently do a combine as part of our build process but need to add the minify). Tried it on a side project of mine and I'm seeing the divide by zero issue that other people are seeing. Really like the concept for projects where I don't want to setup build scripts to do all of the minification.
I'm sorry, this is completely irrelevant, but Einstein did design refrigerators and they were commercially unsuccessful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_refrigerator (edited for clarity)
So, it seems the author isn't making a case for engineers as teachers, in that case we'd all just say, "Pay them more".. but rather engineers involved in education by building educational tools and technology.

I don't think that question has the same answer as the first. As a libertarian I'll be the first to point out some serious issues in the way schools are using funding but maybe spending it on innovative tech would be a good idea. The primary problem I see with that is that, by and large, the 'bureaucracy cost' of selling / getting that technology into place is just too high and far more than they can afford.

One of the great things about the education startup incubator (Imagine K12) featured on HN recently is that these guys already have lots of connections to help you sell the technology to schools. I think trying to sell your tech to a school is a very daunting task for an entrepreneur and the private consumer is a much easier customer to sell to and deal with.

Of course, I think ultimately we'll see these tech innovations (Through such things as ImagineK12) make it into Charter / Private schools because they don't have the same bureaucratic problems of public state run schools... Eventually making state run schools obsolete (We can dream).
It doesn't seem to detect CDNs on the same base domain, like cdn1.exmaple.com or assets0.example.com on example.com.
I haven't seen anything announced on Basho's website either. The talk abstract describes the talk as being the "unveiling" of secondary indices so it does seem like July is the release date.
And, to be the devil's advocate, if I was EvilGenius, I would test security in a dry run in a fashion similar to this. Have someone get residue on their clothing, and see how the authorities responded. The sad thing is that EvilGenius would learn that the authorities are bumbling fools that make Barney Fife look like a model LE agent.
That one comment just undermined 100% of any credibility I had placed in the remainder of your comments in this thread.

I'm sorry you feel that way. We probably have some fundamental differences in our worldviews and fundamental principles. Nonetheless, I respect your opinion, even if it makes me sad.
@nanexllc on twitter is probably worth following for analysis of what happened today. So far I've only seen one chart from Nanex, but it appears to be showing a breakdown of the NBBO in AAPL:

http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/5094.html
There may be a line to walk here, but the balance of power really does matter. The Republican Party might send me a flyer saying "if you vote for Democrats, it'll be very bad for you" (or vice-versa), but they're not in an explicit contractual relationship with me that my income depends on. If my employer sends me a flyer saying "if you vote to unionize, it'll be very bad for you" that's clearly got some very different implications to it. They may both be raising the spectre of what happens if the vote doesn't go their way, but only one of them carries an implicit threat.

Should employers be able to make an anti-union case? I'd have to say yes on free speech grounds, but I'd also say that they really should be subject to more restrictions on what kind of anti-union organizing they can do than the union should be on what kind of pro-union organizing they can do. Yes, that's deliberately giving the union an advantage -- but, again, management has the advantage of being the side that literally writes the checks.

> unions once established have their own balance of power, and that's not in favor of the individual.

I mean, that's kind of the point, in a way, isn't it? The employee/employer power balance is almost always weighted toward the employer, because the employee alone is one individual and the employer is a corporation. Employees acting as a collective are theoretically on more equal footing. That doesn't guarantee every single individual employee will support every collective action the union makes.
You still have a choice between competing hospitals / doctors in a system where prices are not inflated for insurances' catalogues.
It doesn't get close because of the size of the problem. If 85% of real estate is single family housing then how is a 1% increase in density supposed to solve the problem?

> but it does make the existing real estate more valuable.

No it doesn't. Existing real estate is valuable because there is a mismatch between commercial and residential real estate. By building more residential real estate you are reducing the mismatch.
Agreed. I'm working on an IoT platform and there is a lot of interest from big industrial players (energy sector, manufacturing, fleet managers of all sorts). IoT can help companies save money either through analytics or reduced need for labour, but I don't see too much value added to regular people.
Maybe they should've called it Andrew Andrew Common Lisp?
I think either are fine TBH. Framework will definitely be a niche play to a segment of a pro market that is currently ignored. It will probably cost more than most equivalent laptops. They could in the future make a chassis that is just 4 USB-C ports and give you the space savings for other things.

I think the flush USB-C dongles are actually clever in another way, you could make storage expansion bricks that have pass through USB (or no passthrough) and get more storage on your laptop beyond the one M.2 slot. It would be especially nice for video editor types, who I've seen literally velcro expansion SSDs to their macbooks with USB angle adapters [0] because dealing with dangling drives is annoying.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ljFfuzStEQ
Pretend for a moment that HTTP used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto instead of English. You would need tooling to translate Esperanto to English.
"reddit" being the chatty ones on wsb. Certainly don't claim it from what they write

Of course it could be that nobody posting on reddit has a single share, and all the screenshots are just virtual profiles on various accounts, but if we're assuming what people on reddit are saying is broadly true then that's the case
If they release 3D CAD models, connector part numbers, and circuit schematics, I'm buying one as my next laptop (when my current one fails or goes obsolete; not as soon as it's released). I expect, if history is any indicator, that they'll be out-of-business by then, though. I'd want to know:

- How parts connect at a modular level (e.g. pinout and signalling between LCD and motherboard, how the battery communicates, etc.). I don't need to know e.g. motherboard schematic / layout

- Mechanicals (enough to 3d print things which fit)

- Ideally, as much firmware open as possible (esp. places like battery)

.. and so on. I'd pay a pretty good markup too.

I do agree with many posts. I'm not obsessive about laptop size and weight. I want something sturdy and which works well for work. Battery life, cooling, robustness, etc. all matter a lot more than weight.
From the perspective of who are you talking?

CEO or blue-collar worker?
And don’t walk by my house? For that matter, don’t bother visiting me?
No, absolutely not "obviously". It's not a criminal offence in the UK to film people without their knowledge. It breaks data protection law (civil); there are regulations (RIPA) for public authorities but these do not apply to members of the public ; and there is criminal law that covers covert recording if done for sexual gratification, but those may not apply if the cameras have not been placed in toilets or bedrooms.

Can you link any of these laws please? Especially for Ireland. I can't find anything for Ireland that would make this a criminal offence.

Again, I'm not defending it. I think it's an awful thing to do. But "why didn't they call the police?" is answered by "maybe they did and the police told them it's not a police matter".
> Circumstances in which people are compelled to throw-away their values and race-to-the-bottom.

I don’t think anyone is being compelled to do anything here.
Writing code collaboratively and convincing thousands of people to run nodes replicating your slow database is a social act -- I'd even call it a political act.

Not sure why you think technology is outside the context of our society. This stuff isn't built by elves.
Money and debt have a weird way of distancing people from morals often entirely.
That’s why society as a whole makes that decision about what they consider correct and what they consider incorrect through laws and ethical standards. Unless you are in a dictatorship, laws and ethical standards are representative of the majority.
It’s actually not how every communist state ends up, for a sufficiently broad definition of communism that includes more anarchic organisation. The problem in a lot of anarcho-communist states is that they were crushed by the Soviet Union and its allies.
I‘d rather put my trust in an open source community than in centralized banks.
Knowledge of the past is key. If we don't know anything, how can we appreciate it? But this isn't a racial thing about white europe. The classical nature is present in China, Egypt, India, Europe and in the new world.

HOWEVER. It isn't just an appreciation for being old and powerful. I assert that there are specific moral/ethical/philosophical ideas -- shared between some but not all cultural forms -- that are more better. Yes!

This isn't black and white, but there are better values and worse values. For instance, in China, Europe and India, the idea of harmony is expressed as diversity in unity -- and this serves as a kind of foundational value in classical civilization. Harmony was not MA'AT or perfect uniformity, as it was in Egypt. And I don't know what the new world believed, but I don't dig the human sacrifice. Does that mean I reject the civilization of Egypt and the new world? No. But I appreciate that we have certain classical ideals at the heart of our modern societies.
Now you are conflating the language itself with examples of it being used terribly.

I pointed out that your criticisms are a huge stretch in reality and instead of confronting that, you decided to ignore what I said and throw more out there that isn't even a part of C++.

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

Boost is mostly terrible and isn't hard to avoid. People don't need to use it and they don't need to debug it. This is far removed from talking about the language itself.
Wow, I didn't realise there are so many Sloanies here. I attended a class where Jay Forrester himself came in to teach for a day (in 1998), in his eighties. Impressive man, yet so humble.
These were home computers, not PC's. Basically glorified desk calculators, though the multimedia capabilities were impressive for the time and some office work could be done on them. The industrial control jobs you mention would be well within Arduino territory today.

And even those were not "cheap" at all in modern terms; the cheapest would cost around $500 or so in today's money.
This would be an interesting time if a company developed a very affordable VR headset and software to let teachers give virtual classes in 3D. Maybe even have a free-roam time for students to interact with each other. Bell rings, and they get a portal back to their desk.
I think the System76 crowd would pay extra to not have a TPM.
I could be wrong, but IIRC there is a limit on how much power can be delivered over USB-C that is arguably easy to hit for powerful laptops.

Perhaps that's one reason among others.

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Edit: Could the downvoter explain the downvote please?

Edit2: Quick googling tells me USB Type C supports upto 100W power delivery [1], while an example laptop, such as X1 Extreme Gen 2 can go up to 129W of power draw under load [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#Power

[2] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Extreme-201...
You are incorrect.

nau·seous adj \ˈnȯ-shəs, ˈnȯ-zē-əs\
Definition of NAUSEOUS

1
: causing nausea or disgust : nauseating
2
: affected with nausea or disgust
— nau·seous·ly adverb
— nau·seous·ness noun
See nauseous defined for English-language learners »
Usage Discussion of NAUSEOUS

Those who insist that nauseous can properly be used only in sense 1 and that in sense 2 it is an error for nauseated are mistaken. Current evidence shows these facts: nauseous is most frequently used to mean physically affected with nausea, usually after a linking verb such as feel or become; figurative use is quite a bit less frequent. Use of nauseous in sense 1 is much more often figurative than literal, and this use appears to be losing ground to nauseating. Nauseated is used more widely than nauseous in sense 2.

-- Merriam-Webster
Well, you quoted an exact phrasing and said it was routine.

All of the things you mention on the Trump page are appear to be links to expanded parts of the article that go into greater detail (including, crucially, references). It's not a violation of WP:WEASEL which I wouldn't expect any how on such a high profile article.

You're of course right that weaselly language exists on Wikipedia, otherwise there wouldn't be a need for an editorial policy. It's a process.
I have a very decently paid job here in Germany. After taxes, health care and all the other deductibles I take home somewhat around 30 - 35 Euros per hour. As overtime is included in my job (I work hard not to do too much, but still) having fun building something like that on a weekend would also be an economical bargain.

I still am totally in line with my sister comments in valuing the fun building something and understanding a few things a bit better in the process quite higher than the economic aspect. This would only be the icing on the cake.
>Why are you trying to make this complicated? Just get rid of density caps so that developers build more apartments. Problem solved with zero cost to taxpayers.

Because "better a thousand rental units go un-built than let one slum lord construct a substandard basement apartment" or some other garbage like that.

Basically people keep trying to set a quality floor that society mostly isn't rich enough to afford and most land can't be developed enough to justify then acts surprised when the actual densification that happens is only a slow trickle.
Brazil had its own share of problems with hyperinflation during the 80's and early 90's. I remember the behavior it conditioned people.

Once people got their paychecks, they would rush to the supermarket to buy as much as they could, by the end of the month they wouldn't be able to buy that much with the same amount of money.

People ran ahead supermarket staff which updated prices so they could buy the same product at a previous price.

Gas stations had long queues during the night when there were news about about gas prices rising.

My father developed and interesting habit: whatever he bought, he would write in the box how much it cost in gasoline liters. That way we could have a good idea of how much each thing really cost. It was somewhat funny many years later finding old boxes written "Custou dez litros de gasolina".
Type inference is hinted at in a 1934 paper by Haskell Curry on "functionality" (i.e. types) for combinatory logic. Max Newman (Turning mentor and leader of the Colossus project at Bletchley Park) published a paper in 1943 giving the first algorithm for type inference for the lambda calculus that I know of.
Both are great, I suspect I'm going to sink countless hours into them.
I have used IntelliJ as my code editor in the past. Too slow to run for a decent pc. I switched to Visual Studio Code and never looked back. Well, I hope they will add more optimization fixes in their next update.
This lacks so many important details to make it seem credible. It reminds me of that old website, "Did [some famous right winger whose name I can't remember] rape and kill a woman in 1998?" which was intentionally designed to be substance-less. This just seems like it's trying to appear substantial without managing to do so.

Or maybe it really reminds me of WWE. If you want to "catch people in lies", catch people in lies; don't just say that you're going to do it.
I guess I shouldn’t reply to flippant drive-by comments, but how the heck can that be considered verbose, and what’s your non-janky suggestion that doesn’t introduce some kind of extra tooling or parsing?
I actually have come to a similar realization. Most of the software we build is pointless-- does not bring value, and is the vanity project of some manager somewhere or just a way to look busy. Also creating something of value for someone is always seems secondary to some other stupid goal that would only exist within the corporate context, i.e. -- using a library when its really not necessary, having a complicated tangled mess of code when some straightforward logic would do.

I don't have an answer for OP's question except that earlier in my career the above really bothered me and I would fight against it; now it doesn't and I basically just try to do what people tell me to with minimum stress, which leaves me more time for my own hobbies.
Almost any salaried position in a big enterprise involves very little real work. It's mostly email, meetings and power point.
I see Keybase mentioned a lot in this discussions (both in the linked article, and in HN comments). Does anyone have a good summary to read up on what happened with Keybase?
This person should probably find a reputable news source to tell their story to. Not to diminish the value of what they're writing and their mission, but some editorial guidance could be really useful.

The post seems to be more about the author and how good they are than the core problem they're talking about. When he starts to discuss the core issue, it's vague and I honestly don't know what's going on.
This perspective makes me hopeful for things like basic income. Highly arguable, I know, but to me this is evidence of what people (in aggregate) do when they don't have to work so much to provide for basic survival: they create culture.
She can still do takedowns. What she can't do is put ads on the videos and leave them up.
> Are you really going to argue that "roads, bridges, water, and sewer systems" are 10x as expensive in one place as in the other?

I would. Working around a couple centuries of existing infrastructure, dealing with the issues regarding vastly limited space, and of course having to stay compliant with California's ever-changing and ever-more-expensive environmental regulations -- pfft, 10x easily.

Systems get more expensive as they get more complex. Car repair is a salient example.
The sad thing is that you're right--he's focused on winning the nomination.

The bad thing is that the fact that he's this useless does not bode well for any of us.
There definitely are. There are video transcode SaaS platforms which wrap something (maybe FFMPEG) in a nice REST API.
I can't speak for all jobs, but working as a software developer I have never been forced to interact with a dog
I was doing ArcGis about 10 years ago and it was amazing the quality of the free maps MN data deli provided. Your comment makes me excited to try out these new tools even tho I mainly do front end work now. It’s a great time to be a programmer!
You clearly got lucky on that dice roll.
> I also wonder, since I feel so good, if I should try weaning off the Zoloft.

The problems with ADs, is that people feel better, they think they're cured, but no, it's because the meds are working, and treatment should not be stopped.
Most Europeans will say they are French, German, Italian, etc. "European" means very little to us except not-american
What if I'm afraid of homosexuals or black people?
> Hopefully irreversable damage isn't occuring. But I suppose that damage is better than the alternative.

On the contrary, untreated depression is far more likely to produce long-term damage than a well-studied medication that has been in use for several decades. Untreated depression really does a number on the brain and body, not to mention the downstream effects of reduced exercise, socialization, sleep, and other problems that come from depression.

> I also wonder, since I feel so good, if I should try weaning off the Zoloft.

Be careful and only proceed with the help of a psychiatrist.

Depressive relapse is very common in patients who decide to discontinue their medication. The scary part is that the depression often returns very slowly over a long period of time, which the patient may not fully notice until they are deep within another depressive episode.
It is trickery with timescales. It is like saying for instance "Malaria killed more Jews than Adolf Hitler did!" ignoring that one has existed for millenia and the other didn't make it to 57.
On articles more than a year old, I find the year helps me know at a glance if a familiar sounding title is something I've read before or fresh content with the coincidentally familiar headline.
I'm in Europe, and every single ISP in my area advertises like this. Every single price on their website is the new-customer 3-month promo rate.
> Unless an iPad can compile code at speeds equivalent of C / C++ I cannot see it happening.

Have you used Swift Playgrounds?
Presumably nothing.

IV Ig is a very common plasma product. The therapeutic entity is the antibodies and they survive the sterilization process.
> the institutions are artifacts of their incentives

Perhaps there's value in sidestepping the institutions entirely. The bitcoin playbook if you will. Cutting out layers of management seems to be a popular idea.

Nevada recently passed a law that would allow companies to incorporate towns that have the authority of a county.

Would love to see a kick-started GovCoin like the DAO where investors and future residents can collaborate on a brand new government tailored with the customers -- I mean "citizens" interests in mind. Start with a clean slate and build a new model society that can be forked and cloned globally.
Its not your job to convince me, but you've been unsuccessful at it. I care what the truth is, not for any particular side, so I should be easier to convince than many.

Why would increasing monetary supply not cause inflation? I'm aware there is a group in macroeconomics that believes that, but I think they're crazy. Do you have anything to support your position?
> However, we must also remember that dollars are effectively debt

They are debt in the most literal sense possible. They are listed as liabilities in the fed's balance sheet. The "note" in "Federal Reserve Note" written on every dollar bill is referring to the legal definition. It's a promise to pay.
I agree.

I'm less worried about abstractions than I am about dependencies.

Which is why I use the foundational core knowledge to build my own solutions/modules. If I can.
How hard is it to get the Canadian citizenship?

Also, is it possible to get job without ms in Canada? Do companies hire Freshers?

If yes, any tips on how/where to apply for that?
Great summary. DARPA is very forward thinking. E.g. recently they funded PPAML, which helped probabilistic programming to take off.

I'm curious as I have a similar profile but I'm in Oxbridge, what top US universities have good CS departments interested in biomedicine?
Because HN wants to believe that the same "throw away what's been done before and reason from first principles" approach that serves them well in engineering can be applied to social problems. (Spoiler: it can't.)
Ok, well. What do you propose?