jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A few additional thoughts based on the comments here:

If you liked "In Conquest Born" - Friedman wrote These Alien Shores, which is a true hacker sci fi, absolutely incredible.

The Book of Skaith by Leigh Bracket is a truely awesome compilation of the three Skaith novels. Leigh helped write the initial Empire Strikes back!

Almost anything by Jack Vance will be good. If you've read The Dying Earth, George RR Martin just produced a tribute called Songs of the Dying Earth with some of the best Sci Fi writers contributing.
I suppose it's hard, but by the amount of books that use derivative themes from other books it's hard to imagine. 4 or 5 sure, but 10 seems a little ridiculous. He says he got 500 rejections, which seems a little low for 10 books. That's 50 rejections per book, which seems absurdly low given the number of publishers and the vast number of agents.

I mean as a last ditch when you've got 50 rejections you might as well spend a weekend and write an email or letter to every agent in the AAR(US) and AAA(UK) directories to begin with. That'll land you a 100+ rejections if you only do the AAR.

I know a lot of authors have problems doing other things than writing, but if you can't sell yourself then why do you expect others to? Obviously this guy didn't figure out how to sell himself until way late into the game.

Did he not try short stories or even getting a side job in a newspaper in that decade that could have at least lent him credibility as having publishable talent?

Honestly, FTA, it looks like he has a problem dealing with people. He rejected his publishers suggestions and got denied because of it - after he had his foot through the door. If the person paying my bills says "agree or you're fired and may never work again" I'll say sure, whatever, fuck it pay my god damn bills and I'll sell my next book elsewhere.

I'm wondering why he changed his name multiple times, did he breach multi-book contracts?

I'm sorry, but this sounds an awful lot like the music artists who said "fuck you man, that's not how we roll" to their label and got black listed for a decade because they forgot they had a 5 disc deal and broke contract.
What's the size of the OS X software market in total? Guesstimating* , it looks like it was somewhere like $5B-$8B in 2008. Strip out OS sales, large licensees, unsupported environments, unsupported regions and all non-SOHO business sales and what do you figure is left? $2B-$3B maybe? Hard for me to believe that Apple is going to be able to take a 50% chunk out of retail and direct sales in the first year, especially on the high end packages like office or photoshop.

* http://www.bsa.org/country/Public%20Policy/~/media/Files/Pol...
"It's an actual chemical imbalance"

It's actually a hypothesis that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance.
> No major language implementation that I'm aware of compiles to assembly.

I believe 'gcc -S' would demonstrate not. If my understanding is correct, it produces essentially asm internally regardless of that flag, but subsequently assembles and links it without presenting it externally, -S just makes it stop and dump the asm.

No idea about other C compilers, but it wouldn't surprise me if they have some similar feature.
+1 walking http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Détournement

[edit] Meant this link http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/2.derive.htm
This seems oversimplified. IBM is big internationally. They have as many perhaps even more employees in India than in the US. Using a "mean" salary of $100K seems oversimplification, not just India and US but most other countries have different payscales, though its interesting that you've made the numbers work
> Same, haven't gotten a cold since I started taking vit D supplements; or when I did get anything close to cold symptoms it was very mild and didn't last more than a day or two.

Funny, those "I never get ill" claimers always do get ill if you follow up, "just very little, it's nothing".
I love free wood!
PG wrote an interesting essay on this assumption (work = suck) a few years back: http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
wow how long has this worked? I learn something new here every day.
I love this comment under the post: Software engineers? You mean programming Python? Python is as easy as adding 1 + 1. Something else is going on, illegally, inside Silicon Valley.

oh no you didn't.
I liken this to when you try to get a group of friends to do anything. For the sake of argument, let's say go to the movies or to a bar. If you have go to friends, you can seed your group there, but what after that? Almost everyone says, "a bunch of people are doing..." and it's kind of a lie because they don't know if people will go, they're saying that so other people will want to go. And this technique works wonders.

I don't have a problem with people applying this technique to their business, pretty much everyone does. The problem is you need to be careful with it because at the end of the day, it's still a lie and you still need to make money.
A fascinating inside look but the guy is far too quick to excuse his leading role in what is unquestionably an unethical enterprise. Drug dealers, too, say they're just fulfilling a demand that someone is going to fulfill ... and they show equal contempt for their customers.
I don't give two left feet and a chicken for downvotes/upvotes. What matters is discussion. At least to me.

On the point of "notion of superiority" I will admit the phrasing is incorrect. Every group thinks they are better than those not in their group from your local book club to whole nation states.
From that very article: “However, since plug doors must open inward, the design is disadvantageous for cargo doors. Due to its large area, the cargo door on an airliner cannot be swung inside the fuselage without taking up a considerable amount of valuable cargo space. For this reason, these doors often open outward and use a locking mechanism with multiple pins or hatch dogs to prevent opening while in flight.”
There can be some morally justifiable scenarios. For example, someone who is a political or religious leader who has used that position to kill people. If they still have followers, their very existence can continue to cause issues. Think Saddam, Hitler, or Bin Laden.
What if the truth is somewhere in the middle?

The US has enormous problems, there are many downsides to American life, especially if you're poor, black, or both, and there are many ways in which the US lags behind comparable Western countries.

There are also many fantastic things about the US and things it does very well compared to most if not all other countries, and a very large number of Americans live happy, prosperous lives as a result of what America has to offer. There are lots of good reasons why someone would want to migrate to the US. I'd love to migrate to the US, or at least live there for a few years, even though I know I wouldn't like certain things about it compared to Europe.

America is neither uniquely virtuous, nor uniquely evil.
You don't think journalists should follow some sort of publicly stated code of conduct or held to a higher standard than an anonymous poster on 4chan when it comes to revealing an individual's personal info?
This is a common problem in many commodity markets. If creating new supply is inexpensive, and all market participants have functionally equivalent technology and operational expertise. New supply will always emerge to eat away any margin that a market participant may have. (Think Restaurants, farming, small-time delivery/construction, uber driving)

If you follow this through to the extreme you end up with a vicious cycle of boom/bust where any demand opportunity that emerges is crushed under 10x the supply increase. The market becomes unstable as new participants have clean balance sheets and older participants go into debt that cannot be paid. Supply is only maintained through the addition of new market participants willing to lose their capital or burn their balance sheet on debt in a private parallel to the tragedy of the commons.

One traditional solution that keeps these markets stable, and market participants from simply bankrupting every few years is to introduce an artificial supply cap. In construction, and small business markets this task is often performed by the zoning board, or a local licensing board. In the case of larger markets participants may form cartels such as in OPEC, Maple Syrup, or international shipping.

In the case of science, the task of supply control traditional fell on admissions committees and the availability of permanent tenure tracked professorships. This mechanism broke down with the introduction of non-tenure track positions, and the external funding of grad-students. Universities now have every incentive to flood the market with vastly more scientists than can reasonably be funded - which combined with the inherent riskiness of scientific research means we have a combination of science "bankruptcies" and low-risk, low-quality academic research to show for it.

I'd much rather see fewer tenured professors ridiculed for their oddball research than an army of post-docs and grad students performing meaningless research which is suitable for publishing.
arguably more easily, since a primary outcome of facebook seems to be to make white college educated american men angry at everyone else
Taiwan, the country that arguably handled the virus best of all, did so well because they ignored the WHO and quickly closed their border, at the time when the WHO was insisting that countries do not restrict travel to/from China.
Do you have a concrete example of public health cooperation amongst more than 2 nations before WWII? As far as I remember, every country just covered its metaphorical arse during the Spanish Flu pandemic, for example.

Of course, cooperation is always possible, but what would be the extent of cooperation between say China, Russia, and the US if a new treaty were signed today?
I use AWS for personal projects - simple CRUD apps and chrome extension backends. I'm not sure if it would be appropriate for something more complex. Which is not to say that it wouldn't be - just that I have no experience. I also love Rails. But in my experience serverless offers unbelievable ease of deployment for personal projects.
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Founding the Apple?
LSD is steroids for meditation. A cheat and a shortcut to the hard work. But it certainly seems to work ;-)
Here's my checklist.

1. Think of something useful you want to make and create it.
Exactly. An individual can live their entire life taking short showers, abstaining from meat, and generally living like it's the 15th century and all of their efforts are erased when the Keystone XL pipeline sprays 300,000 gallons of oil over North Dakota.

https://time.com/5731775/north-dakota-keystone-pipeline-spil...
"Apollo 13 style camera stand"

That name sounds amazing for being a box of pasta!
Haha, in my state the highway patrol is mostly a revenue stream, and if we're lucky they generate enough revenue to support themselves. They only patrol straight roads with broad shoulders, which safely support speeds in excess of the posted limits, and those mostly when people are in a hurry to reach work or church. They get annoyed when there's a wreck on "minor" roads (i.e. narrow, crooked, average speed 68mph) that they have to investigate.

Oh, they're also dropping handcuffed drunk guys into the lake to drown, and doing a great job in Ferguson. If one actually pays attention, their activities are vastly different from those of police and sheriffs.
What job were you doing/what was your job title?
Great point and wonderful way to show how copyrights harms everyone.

It's the epitome of selfishness to create something and not allow others to look at it and copy it when there is no loss to the creator. The expectation of profit from just having others listen to a song or use a decide whose blueprint you created is a problem of entitlement in our current culture.
Where did we see failing of the current process? Not the financial system, which obviously failed, but the bankruptcy process. I'm not aware of any company suddenly closing up shop during the crisis. We didn't use follow the normal rules with the automakers but that was because it would have been bad politically for the UAW to lose their pensions, rather than out of any inability of bankruptcy to keep the automakers going in some form. If you have specific examples of things suddenly shutting down during the crisis apart from debt repayments or people being less willing to spend money, I'd be really interested in hearing it.
The article shows that a dispatched taxi is still much slower than Uber/Lyft. Whether that taxi is dispatched by phone or app doesn't seem like it would affect things much. I think the heart of the problem is that if a taxi ignores a dispatch and gets a street hail instead, there's very little consequence except for inconveniencing the customer who called in.
This reminds me -- spoiler alert -- of the wormhole in Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns.
Is using regular glass for partition walls safe? I hope someone doesn't walk into one hard.
Add the trivial step, then. Markdown to HTML, HTML to data URL.

Or just, you know, email people the content if you can give them the same data anyway.
Unless you're Donald Trump!
I think that the value lies in reaching the consumers in the most straightforward way possible. Allowing users to try the service and learn the features and advantages it will provide them, is more valuable than making money from the start and turning down possible consumers. If the free service can live up to its expectations and truly provide innovative invoicing methods, it will be much easier to get the consumer to return, eventually willing to pay for specific features or products because they are familiar with the platform and now trust it.
Not to mention staying out of public spaces, obviating the need for masks.
> anyone with the chops to make $200k/yr from Facebook could start their own SaaS and make $400k/yr without too much effort.

I'm sure some can.

But "coding well enough to get a job at Facebook" and "being able to sell something to someone willing to pay for it" are two completely different set of skills.

Some people have both. Most do not.
I'm not sure that's a fair characterization. Core team members have expressed serious interest in getting more static verification, interfaces and other type goodness into the language, but if you try to force the issue it turns into a Python 2->3 problem. Not to mention that there are few if any examples of how to fit type checking alongside multiple dispatch (e.g. C# punts with dynamic).

I personally find static types indispensable when working with a large codebase, but to say people don't care about this in the Julia community is just not correct.
Of course there's "Fast Inverse Square Root — A Quake III Algorithm"

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8u_k2LIZyo
This seems like a conversation from 2010. I'm not saying that to insult, but it's literally the kind of conversation I was having in a corporate environment 10+ years ago.
Now, why can't you just share the link to the Excel spreadsheet and work collaboratively on the same document? If it's stored in SharePoint or OneDrive, this is trivial. There's a "Share" button in the top right corner, and you can do it from Windows Explorer as well. There's little value in emailing versions around anymore, particularly internally.
This post makes me wish that I had enough karma to downvote.
it's interesting to note that open source works in reverse of entreprise where any manager can say no, but only the boss can say yes...
A fun read containing quite some insight, though I think that, sadly, it would be seen as a crazy scrawl if it were not written by someone so respected.
Ah yes, in the European context, where flights are cheaper and hotels more expensive (and extremely variable between richer and poorer parts of Europe), you could very well be right.
You really find out what the culture is, when times are tough. When the freebies disappear, there's no chance of a raise this year, and deadlines loom - what happens? Probably too late to find out your "culture" was hedonism etc. as everyone flies out the door, resume in hand.
The parent article makes clear that they will be on the analytics team because of Trendly, sir. I promise it's a quick and easy read.
People think profit is a dirty word, especially if it is made "helping people." But why is it bad to make money helping people and not bad to make money not helping others, like people who make millions from selling fast food or selling iPhone apps?
The probability of a neutral gene becoming fixed is extremely low. It requires a mutation to take a random walk from zero to gene pool saturation. Most neutral traits disappear due to genetic drift, not due to selection pressure. That said, there is no evidence that this is fixed/durable.
I am under the impression that the distinction of a pimp is due to using violence, drugs, or other coercion on vulnerable subjects such as runaways, underage, or trafficked/kidnapped persons.
It's kind of the same situation with Tesla vs. the big car companies. They were always going to catch up, and they made huge progress in the last few years. AMD and Intel have spent decades trading places, sometimes with unethical practices that would make 2000s Microsoft blush. I'm not sure Apple is prepared for what happens when AMD and Intel both come for them.
That's not pimping. For starters those girls aren't forced to do what they do. (Yeah, there probably is an overwhelming minority of cases where they are forced to show their tits. But let's not grasp at straws...)
Drachinifel has an interesting video about the barbary states for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSBmGaLt5OU
"freedom" has long been associated with the right in the US. Concern about large companies asserting their outsize influence being associated with the right is a new development, as is the right's focus on privacy and security.
Where’s the antimatter?
The problem isn't that "nobody" ever hears from the server again. The problem is that "not everybody" ever hears from the server again. If you aren't sure that the server received your write, but another system (that does have access to the server) depends on the result of that write.
Sure, that's true. But the problem is, there are dozens of things telling me that, if I invest that kind of time in them, they'll pay me back. Which one(s) should I pursue? In order to decide, I have to have some explanation of the benefits that I can grasp (at least in the abstract) before investing 100 hours. "Invest 100 hours and then you'll see why you should have done so" is not a sales pitch that will win with very many people.
Users don't choose the driver, though. In these services the only way to do that would be to cancel the ride and ask for a new one immediately. Users who want to discriminate against their drivers have enough information already — name and photo — to do that. Not to mention that Lyft can detect the behavior easily and take corrective measures if necessary, such as making it clear that they know users are doing that. But I doubt that'll happen.
Same, click signin. Write email address. It will ask you to signup first.
I'd say not only Italy, but Europe in general (I'm from the Netherlands and it has the same poisonous culture).
Pretty sure you're not his target customer then. I'm giving this a whirl with the free trial and will probably end up paying for it, it absolutely replaces imgur for me.
If not, why can a brain with a bunch of neurons and chemicals?

Either:
- It can, and so can rocks.
- It can, but there's something else unknown that's necessary to generate consciousness.
- It can't, consciousness doesn't exist.
Why are you, as a consumer, interested in switching to IPv6?
Just keep an eye out for bad actors trying to use stolen credit cards
Probably makes them more money I gues.

I wouldn't personally – I'm about as anti-Facebook as it gets, but a lot of people (especially people not coming from a "tech" background) don't really appreciate the kind of shit Facebook pulls.
Rather than seeking contrived numbers to reinforce your preconceive notions, you could actually spend a few seconds on google to figure it out. The article talks about ownership so:

Net world wealth $263,242bil [1]

World population 7bil [2]

Thus you need roughly $2million in assets to be in the world 1%

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_wealth

[2]https://www.google.com/search?q=world+population&ie=utf-8&oe...
Sounds like Gish! http://www.chroniclogic.com/gish.htm
Sorry, me using the word "real" was unwarranted and vague. I meant in terms of fiscal policy. I should have been clearer.
> female graduates ... earn 82% of their salary

That's wrong. By the AAUW's own numbers, the women in their study earned 93% of the men's salaries. Get the PDF. Scroll nearly to the end, look for the infographic and text with the 93% number. Personally, then, I split it in the middle, and I'd guess that an unbiased researcher might discover that women earn 96.5% of what men do.

The 82% number which the report pushes much more strongly is the difference _before_ womens' choices are taken into account.

The sad and disturbing part is that the AAUW (and most of modern feminism?) is pushing bad data for political gains and unfair preferences.
It depends on your business model.

If your business model does not include strong growth, you have the option to organically growing your dev team from smart and less experienced people over the course of many years.

If your business model includes VERY strong growth, paying top dollar to hire experienced people may be a necessity. Large numbers of experienced people can (more or less) only be found in SF/SV. It might cost 4X as much, but it can offer a potential payoff 10X or 20X or 40X as great. (At least that is what the VCs are looking for.)

And many businesses live in between these extremes, where the optimal choice is unclear. Choose wisely.
You want to send a command to some server (maybe the AWS API gateway fronting a lambda function), authenticate that you own a particular NFT, and then have the server command the lock open.

Is that right?
I wonder what's the best-in-class iOS app using OpenStreetMap in terms of privacy.

Functioning offline without sharing your location (or data derived from it) with some big-tech company selling it for $.
> Americans talk like conservatives but want to be governed like liberals.

It feels like the opposite.
I for one think changing human nature is harder than creating an appetite suppressing drug, and indeed it seems we arrived on the latter earlier. So if it works it works, right?
If you cannot have fully encrypted setup, then you can consider encrypting at least most of data.

At work due to remote work I cannot have fully encrypted disc with Windows as I have to reboot remotely. So I left a small enough partition for Windows, then created another partition for my data that I encrypted with strong password in Bitlocker. Then I symlinked my user directory from C:\Users\UserName to a directory on D: and created an extra account that I use after reboot to unlock the encrypted disc with my data.

This is not ideal, as Windows still may store my data on C:\, but if one disables virtual memory, it is a reasonably secure setup.
Exaggeration are pretty weak counter argument points.