jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well that doesn't happen. High earners aren't "dumped" somewhere by some magical god that moves people around. There's often some reason a bunch of high earners are somewhere and when it happens the tap doesn't turn off. It just keeps going until there are no homes left. And at that point there's high pressure for low income people to sell because of the ability for them to get $1.5MM for their $200K house.
It does say _part_ of the severance is the membership, so there must be _something_ else.
Like anything new, people had a hard time with it at the beginning.

I remember that I got a home assignment in an interview for a PHP job. The person evaluating my code said I should not have used UTF8, which causes "compatibility problems". At the time, I didn't know better, and I answered that no, it was explicitly created to solve compatibility problems, and that they just didn't understand how to deal with encoding properly.

Needing-less to say, I didn't get the job :)

Same with Python 2 code. So many people, when migrating to Python 3, suddenly though python 3 encoding management was broken, since it was raising so many UnicodeDecodingError.

Only much later people realize the huge number of programs that couldn't deal with non ASCII characters in file paths, html attributes or user names, because they just implicitly assume ASCII. "My code used to work fine", they said. But it worked fine on their machine, set to an english locale, tested only using ascii plain text files on their ascii named directories with their ascii last name.
The # of tor exit nodes relative to IP addresses available to people doing the DDoS is miniscule. I'm so tired of company blocking tor users and always claiming this as the reason. Any IOT device, routers with admin/pass as login, smart cameras, grandma's old PC and a million other types of devices are fully susceptible to being hijacked as a proxy giving the attacker an unimaginable number of IP addresses.
What about Slack's Nebula? Tailscale is not fully open source. I believe there is also headscale which is attempting to replace the closed-source parts of Tailscale. But I am curious about Slack's Nebula. Has anyone used it for anything like this?
True but having raw parts would give it more flexibility when animating or changing sections of the image. Especially when the canvas size is large, it won't be as optimal
OneLife. What an ironic name for a company. It makes me think of the YOLO meme... which is quite fitting given what some of the scammed may have been thinking when they decided to "invest".
If anyone thinks the sound of one's voice has anything to do with how seriously one ought to be taken.... listen to these bad dude's speak:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO-E7zOHHp0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wudTamJwYAM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG-xC8Mu6SM
I'm reading they are members

https://www.globalspaceexploration.org/wordpress/?page_id=25...
"Currently, ISECG has 14 members: ASI (Italy), [...], CNSA (China), [...]"
I paid $60 for 3 years of PIA access. From a convenience standpoint alone, I’m happy to think about it and update config every three years.

If things sour over the course of that time, I’m probably only out a few bucks over the annual payment price.
My trip regarding this has been mostly Swedish content. Like this guy: (Grow, not obey) http://www.larshgustafsson.se/?p=1413 I don't see any of this book translated to English though.

He reflects upon his life as a doctor for mostly kids. How interactions with parents work out. How he hates methods and recipies to handle your kids, since that tends to distance yourself from the kid, use your instinct instead.

Another book I was really fascinated by was "Barn som bråkar" (Kids that fight) by Bo Heijskov: https://eng.hejlskov.se/books/
I think most books are a good read there. Mostly about how nothing can be solved by screaming/shouting/distancing. Accept that kids have their own mechanics that you need to appreciate and tend to. Angry kids are good, that means they love you enough to share their emotions. Now it is up to you as a guardian to control the structure around the kid to make it easier to exist and control itself.

Most likely I have missed tons of authors, but I strongly believe that if one follows the pattern of giving love to kids and not shout at them, things will be much easier, for both parent and kids. Reading about it and discussing it with ones partner is something that needs to be tended to all the time.

For me as a bonus dad/bonus grandad and dad I fill a lot of roles, I tend to do deep dives in all areas (tech, music, philosofy etc), reading more about the roles I fill was such a joy and time consuming.

To be fair I started out reading Bo Heilskov and then the site with soundbooks gave me the others.
I'd be happy to retire GDP when someone proposes something better.

Measuring societal progress is an important goal, which GDP measures part of. So great -- how do we measure economic growth but also take into account, as Stiglitz says, externalities like resource depletion?

It feels disingenuous to bash GDP but not even try to suggest something to replace it. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
> You have a darker view of human nature than most.

Nah I’ve just been hanging around the internet a lot longer than most people.

I can’t take credit for the concept of infinite penises though, that honor goes to my friend Pud:

https://askpud.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/pageviews-and-unique...
If possible, I would explore going part-time or even full time if you can make the schedule work with the current job. I am finishing a full-time masters program and working full time, and it is hard but perfectly doable.

Having at least a bachelors will open doors. My employer excludes many candidates without a degree.
CPU cycles are cheap compared to bandwidth on mobile.
Reading this, I just thought of another way to make passphrases that might be a bit more memorable. The idea is to come up with a sentence which will be grammatically correct, so it'll be easier to remember.

First, write down 36 words. Roll two dice, take six times the number on the first minus the number on the second plus one. That is the position in the list of the first word in the sentence.

Next, write a new list of 36 words, but only include words that make sense given what is already there. Roll again as before and pick as before. Reusing words between lists is fine, but don't include the same word in the same list multiple times.

Rinse and repeat until you have the desired amount of entropy. Each die thrown adds log_2 6 bits.

Edit, just tried this, 36 is a lot of words to come up with. Much easier to write down 6 at the cost of making it twice as long. Unless you have access to lists of nouns, verbs, etc.

Bored now, but came up with "Countries can slowly sit at my feet", 24 bits of entropy (some lists had 36 words others had 6. It's very low, but, if you did that 2 or 3 times, you'd be getting somewhere). Couldn't be easier to remember.
That depends. Using absurdly simple means to point out the absurdity of someone else can be effective. Remember how PGP was printed in book form to circumvent export controls? Or how about DeCSS on a T-shirt? How about those magic flags that encode an illegal number in the hex codes of the colors? No, I think it's worth asking if it is now illegal to put an image of a canary on a web page in Australia. If the answer is "no" that says a lot.
I'm saying pushing a verbose format like XML over mobile radio signals consumes more battery.
We don't know the guy. Maybe he would have enjoyed spending his money on cars, jewelry, and mansions. But not everyone likes those things. Maybe saving away for his children and preferred charities gave him more joy. Speaking for myself, if I had lots of money, I'd probably give most of it away. I'm already doing what makes me happy, and I'm poor as shit.
They renamed a post of a few days ago (perhaps with a few changes) and resubmitted it with the new URL. IIRC it's OK to resubmit here a post a few times if they don't get much attention.

When I see a repost, I like to include a link to the old submission, because sometimes the comments are interesting (or more interesting than the post itself). In this case it only got one comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9253624 (11 points, 3 days ago, 1 comment)

Also, I prefer the old title "The story of how Webflow got into YC", the new title I too linkbaity.
Interesting that the title says "March 2015 Security Incident" but it turns out it was in February. Also interesting they don't say which days in February.
Is this actually the sort of people that get attracted to HN?
Thinking of others as "mere mortals" and yourselves as gods?

Sad picture.
I'll be the odd one out and say that the presentation is actually gorgeous. It's really not a whole lot of extra resources that need to be pulled in to do it, either. You could do it in a few lines of HTML/CSS if you were so inclined.

That said, I will agree that the use case is very small (page opening) and for most these days even showing this for more than 2 or 3 seconds might lead to some wrong assumptions and showing it for only a split second would be odd/no good/etc.
I wonder what work/research would satisfy his need for "the next thing" / "the right way"?

Maybe working with Alan Kay and the Viewpoint Institute? Or would he perhaps consider what they are trying to accomplish navel-gazing?
But it's missing the point - just like other comments said - if you need this you're doing it wrong.

I sure was guilty of big sites just as much as the next guy. It just saddens me that insted of promoting what we've learned it the past years and applying to current projects we're doomed to repeat bad UX from before.
It's very common for certain features in enterprise apps to take 5-30seconds to load. Most enterprise report generation features require a few seconds for a lot of the queries, for example.
Valuable collection Dave! Brilliant as always. Thx for putting this together.
I generally think that the way in Iraq was a mistake; however, even then:

The motivation appears to have been different, fighting terrorism and finding WMDs versus societal control and religious intolerance.

The majority, though certainly not all, of the people killed were combatants rather than civilians.
Yes, I think some people falsely learn early on that stumbling upon something they don't quite understand is a sign that they are failing.

I sometimes even think (though I'm not so sure) that having too good textbooks can be an impediment for above-average students as they have less to wrestle with and things are laid out and pre-disgested too much. I may be wrong though, because you can then just get to the next levels until you hit the wall.

But I feel like anecdotally I got good value from deriving some basic things and reorganizing the somewhat badly presented materials in some of my classes. Later on I found very good American textbooks (although widely out of the reach of my wallet at the time), from MIT etc. which were crystal clear in some of the intuition that I had to sweat out for myself. Maybe I could have spent that energy at higher levels, though.
White people love boots and pickup trucks. That’s like asking my uncle why he has a $1k sound system in his $2k car (black folks love bass). I think it’s a cultural thing.
As a bit of a WW2 historian/wargamer, that is the most hilarious thing I've heard in a long time... thank you from my particular context :)
Yeah I doubt RIM would agree with you. That is just one example.
It's a support "issue." Large IT departments will say that it requires extra support to install a second browser. Is it worth the "extra" cost in time and support?

As a developer, in some organizations, you can't install anything on your own machine. So, you can't get your software to work on Firefox, for example. All your software simply has to work on the company standard browser. The idea is that you'll deal with it later...and 8 years later...
I always hit "Report Spam", works for everything except me@s
i have no problems with my personal domain, but if e-mails are addressed to my gmail account in me@ list that fails.
His end users deserve better. He's wilfully confronting them with interop failures they aren't in a position to understand, much less do anything about. Testing is a burden which should be borne by developers.
I was going to post something similar but decided against it at first but seeing as it looks like I'm not the only one that thinks so...

The article comes off as extremely biased and seems (to me) to pass off a number of opinions as fact in order to slam Zuckerberg some more (the "trend du jour" of bloggers these days).

I thought I was going to read an article with some comments from Facebook regarding a new PR campaign or something based on the article's "And What It Means" line. Not some blogger's artistic interpretation.
"This is essentially the same mechanism used by sailboats tacking against the wind, and despite being counterintuitive at first is well-established."

Tacking is different from this. This is using ground-speed to generate thrust, as even the shills acknowledge.

"The speed is limited only by gearing and mechanical efficiency--an idealized device could accelerate arbitrarily."

Arbitrary magic acceleration inside an atmosphere should be your first clue that something's extremely wrong here.

And yes, I looked at the various forum links that turned up, which made very clear the very typical full-court astroturf press going on (like the argument above with someone who registered only to argue with unbelievers in this thread). You might take a look.

"Sticking with a knee-jerk reaction against something while ignoring further information that supports it gives "skeptics" a bad name."

Skeptics get a bad name because they don't join in the squee.

All I ask is that you look at the further information. Check back on this story in months and years and see whether it pans out.
Who was threatening to shoot who?
That depends on whether you see Google's role in the Android ecosystem as primarily an OS vendor or as a hardware vendor. In the latter view, your position certainly seems plausible.

However, if one sees Google as an OS vendor, then, considering that 60% of Android phones are running 4.2 or older (according to https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html), supporting somewhat older phones would seem to be desirable.
Or maybe not do any of this and just focus on building a high growth business so that one day VC's share notes on how to charm an entrepreneur for taking your money.
It's a pity they didn't clarify some of the contradictions of Lamo's statements. It would be nice to know for example whether Manning did claim to use a dedicated server or not. And Poulsen actually confirmed he was talking to Lamo even before Manning arrest.

On the other hand it is quite surprising indeed that Greenwald didn't check the basic facts about Rausch and Poulsen
It really depends on what kind of dentist's ones are. If you are just a run off the mill dentist that takes care of mouth hygiene, then there is little incentive to make better website since you can probably better off doing local neighborhood direct marketing.

However if you are offering Cosmetic Dentistry, each new client can worth thousands of dollars and people will travel from their immediate surrounding to go reach your dentist practice.
A few odd couple short of 20 years ago, but nevertheless, Linux was a new wonder to me. Red Hat CDs came packaged with issues of a computer magazine. This was in India. 7 KB/sec was fast, and it lasted a burst or two per day. Was absolutely new to programing. Wrote a p2p service for sharing rpm packages, because downloading them from upstream was so slow. Wrote it in TCL, it went nowhere. But a few snippets of that code found its way into the tcl library.

Laser printers were a frightfully expensive piece of equipment and wasting toner bothered me. So went through ghostscript code to realize for the first time how beautiful code can truly be. Patched a part of the driver to handle economy mode.

Had it not been for FSF and open-source, I would perhaps have never learned programming. I did not major in CS, but for those who did, without FSF it would have been unaffordable.
Experience, in my experience :) is measured by how many serious mistakes you made, and then went on to fix.

As far as the authors posts are concerned, though, it seems weirdly appropriate to quote Erik Naggum: "If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations."
I accidentally up-voted the GP, but I agree - it's well written, and makes a fair point which I think isn't too pedantic.
Although he mislabels http://eblong.com/zarf/pic/thod/venn-wtf.png 'Strumpet MDs' and 'Medical Security Guards', should be reversed.
And, BTW, I wouldn't recommend that if I hadn't done it myself. Therapy is a very enlightening tool.
Awesome! Especially the part about connecting with locals at barcamp. On the banking side, I've heard that paypal is a pain to deal with on the road, as they lock your account whenever you travel. And there are no really alternatives to paypal, so that sounds like a deal breaker if you charge for your product... Or have you not experienced that?

I'm also going to go this route (traveling + building a software product on the road, for 5 months) in 2 months. Have you considered blogging about your experience? It seems more and more people are going this route but there is still very little information available.
I've always wondered that if these programs were cut people would begin to really demand fairer wages and everything else. As it stands now unfair wage + assistance gets them to the point where they are comfortable enough to not riot.

Almost like you can blame the assistance for the unfair wage in a sense.
> was for the most part a failed experiment in architecture.

More like a failed experiment in social organization. The same model works fine in Singapore because the government aggressively routes around social problems: for example, they assign ethnic and income quotas in each building in order to maintain a mostly even distribution of population groups, impeding the rise of ghettos and basically forcing different people to get along[1].

The failure of '70s/'80s "projects" in most countries was due to an excess of faith in the ability of mankind to live together given communal spaces, and incomplete information in terms of social dynamics likely to develop in such settings (and around them, e.g. "white flight" was in full swing but it was not completely understood at political level [2]).

[1] Singaporean housing policies are not entirely benign: they are also used to break out political organizations and silence critics of the government. Central planning, as usual, is a double-edged sword.

[2] ... to be kind. A more unkind reading is that upper echelons knew perfectly well what was happening, saw the future coming, and just let it be.
What else did the professional tell you that helped? I'd rather just read a blogpost about it than pay per hour :)
You could suppose so but lacking common words, common perceptions, common anything it becomes pretty hard to communicate.

At best you'll just end up arguing about the meaning of things—and usually the situation further implies a different style and way of arguing.

Not that you couldn't do meaningless smalltalk with just about anyone but that doesn't give much to either one, much less make them friends easily.
This is one case where seeing the number of upvotes would be valuable. There is a lot of (very well-intentioned) advice on this thread that it gets better with time, etc and while that is probably true, parent's comment is right on the money. Therapy can feel like a weird step to take but it really does work. Cognitive behavioural therapy and exposure therapy helped me deal with my anxiety much more effectively than I ever would have been able to on my own.
Yes everyone says Saigon. (I've lived in Saigon for 7+ years.)

In official stuff they'll say Ho Chi Minh City but in casual conversation, I'd guesstimate 80%+ of the time people say Saigon. But if someone drops in a Ho Chi Minh City instead it isn't especially noteworthy.

Saigon also gets used on things like, say, book titles: https://www.fahasa.com/sai-gon-ky-an-cuoc-phieu-luu-cua-nhun...

or movie titles: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12937684/

Saying "Saigon" doesn't have any particular connotation. Like, it doesn't mean "we refuse to accept the North won" or "we refuse to accept the renaming". (Some Viet Kieu in America are crazy about that kind of thing, though.) It is mostly just that Saigon is two syllables and Ho City Minh City is five syllables.

That said: "Saigon" tends to refer to the inner metro area. "Ho Chi Minh City" actually covers a massive area -- it is the size of a province. It is divided into 24 districts and I don't think anyone from the outer 5 rural districts would say they live in "Saigon".

Also note that the airport in Saigon still has the code SGN.
One of the strange things I've encountered is bare \r (i.e. no accompanying \n) in the middle of a line from a windows-sourced file. Don't know how they got there, just that redshift didn't like it one bit.
Did you fill out the census? See question 8. Lots and lots of US government forms that collect demographic data have a separate question asking if you're Latino/Hispanic.

https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2020/tech...
The good thing about JavaScript, however, is that it has become a compile target for many languages. You could theoretically write an Atom plugin in any language that compiles to JavaScript, even a Lisp-based one like ClojureScript.
Cloth diapers are worse for the environment compared to disposable, no matter how you get it.

(Disposable uses landfill space of which we have unlimited quantities, but cloth uses water which is in short supply. Also cloth uses more energy.)

But it's easy to tell if this method is better or worse for the environment: You have to pay for jet fuel, or truck fuel, or whatever. All forms of energy cost about the same. If it's cheaper to get it delivered via next day air, then it must have used less energy.
> 3 roommates in a basement is only miserable living conditions when compared to the McMansions that people are moving into now.

Unless you are applying the term 'McMansions' to include a single person living in a studio apartment or a 1-bedroom apartment (or even a couple living in a 2-bedroom apartment), then I suggest you revisit that statement. It's obviously not abject poverty, but to say that the only people that would consider your living conditions to be something that couldn't deal with must therefore be living in 'McMansions' is a bit of an overstatement.
It's not clear from summary if you get used to it after prolonged exposure.

It does, however, tempt me to get earplugs...
I don't subscribe to your theory that the wide adoption of Excel as a database system is due to corporate politics. My experience (mostly in smaller companies of <1000 people) has shown that people use Excel because of low barriers (easy to learn), quick results, empowerment, and ownership. Corporate politics certainly plays a role in some environments, but if you eliminated politics, Excel would still dominate.
Nothing about an "arms race" says "not real"! If they were something you could opt out of they would be a great deal less dangerous.
I can see what you mean.

I've been thinking along these lines when a college friend of mine warned that the NYC legal system didn't necessarily respect habeas corpus
The docker machine or whatever it’s called these days is pretty impressive but when we’ve tried to use it in developer workflows on mac it would eat all of the CPU allotted to it in order to marshal filesystem events over the host/guest VM boundary. We tried a number of workarounds but none solved the problem. I’m sure it’s possible, but we ultimately gave up and moved back to developing against native processes on MacOS.

For other use cases I imagine it’s just fine.