jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I know this opinion is not popular but I'm so happy everytime I see bad news for Uber and all these companies that only exist thanks to basically exploiting THEIR workers.

Private transporting is not sustainable and it is not something that has to be affordable for everyone, even less by lowering workers wages or playing with the tariffs by demand. Taxi regulations gives us passengers safety and fair prices. There are taxi apps that work exactly like Uber's like 'Free-now' where you can see your trip, its aproximate cost, the driver's rating...

We have to promote governments that support affordable and good quality public transport, even though I love driving alone in my car.

I hope Deliveroo, Glovo and other companies are also punished for their labour rights abuses. Make sure your delivery guy is payed fairly or either go to the restaurant yourself.

So many years of labour rights fights being attacked by these startups that do not invent anything but base their business model on lower wages.
According to https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-government-no-longer-contro... from October 2, 2016

> As of Saturday, October 1, the federal National Telecommunications and Information Administration no longer exercises control over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

> Instead, as an autonomous not for profit organization, ICANN will now answer to international stakeholders across the internet community, including a governmental advisory committee, a technical committee, industry committee, internet users, and telecommunications experts.

According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN

> From its founding to the present, ICANN has been formally organized as a nonprofit corporation "for charitable and public purposes" under the California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law. It is managed by a 16-member board of directors composed of eight members selected by a nominating committee on which all the constituencies of ICANN are represented; six representatives of its Supporting Organizations, sub-groups that deal with specific sections of the policies under ICANN's purview; an at-large seat filled by an at-large organization; and the President / CEO, appointed by the board

> There are currently three supporting organizations: the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) deals with policy making on generic top-level domains (gTLDs); the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) deals with policy making on country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs); the Address Supporting Organization (ASO) deals with policy making on IP addresses.

So yes, the State Of California has jurisdiction but no control. AFAIK California has no power to intervene in the internal affairs of any corporation if they keep the law and while this whole thing stinks, I doubt it broke any laws.
"Native" is such a difficult word.

Back in the 1980s there was an ad campaign for Miami - "Miami, see it like a native." That didn't refer to the Tequesta or the Calusa, nor even the more recent Seminole, but to long-time residents, primarily European-derived.

Basically, the difference between definitions #1 and #2 in https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/native .

FWIW, what you wrote about going to higher altitudes in summer made me think more of (rich) people in NYC or Boston going to the Catskills and Berkshires for the summer. Related to that, my family spent several summer vacations in the Appalachians of North Carolina, or visiting family in Michigan. There's also the many snowbirds who winter in the Sun Belt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowbird_(person) ). There's also the farmers who bring their cattle to the summer pastures, though transhumance isn't common these days.
Also those that can be made vegetarian. So many look delicious and could be prepared with a protein substitute.
A decade can be any range of ten years. By common modern convention, we tend to refer to them as things like 80s, 90s, etc. No-one would argue that 1990 was in the "80s". Wikipedia has a bit more on this convention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade
> Nobody would have nearly so strong an interest in driving up prices with artificial scarcity.

Except for the people who own the houses and want to see them appreciate.
This encourages bad products.

If the product is created easy to use, there is no reason to buy a book, to require technical support, or require training.

Consider an open source photo sharing application. You distribute a system so easy that anyone can set it up. You hire people to do user studies to make the (AGPL) web application just work.

The more money you spend making it easy to set up and use, the less money you are able to collect for training, tech support, and books.
With the exception of pandoc, I don't recall seeing anything particularly impressive from the Haskell camp.

(Btw, this, actual stuff people use, is how I measure programming languages -- this metric takes into account communities, libraries, practical issues, etc all together, and ties them with practical results. It's my version of "let the market decide").
> Facebook choosing to improve upon PHP is still, arguably, a (weak) argument for PHP as a language which is, at least, worth improving upon.

Or you can look at it another way: Facebook regretted their decision and PHP potentially made the switch to a different platform so hard that they were forced to improve the language, rather than leave.

Don't forget that companies need to be able to justify the cost of moving from one platform to another. When you're employing people whose skillset is potentially limited, that's not always possible.
No dude. Its too agile to be evaluated ;)
Did your professor write the book used in the class? If so, we may have had class together.
Speculation is that they’ve passed away, and that satoshi’s coins will forever remain unmoved. If you were anonymous in their position, could you resist the urge yo move some of those coins?

If those assumptions break, BTC might become even more interesting (read: chaotic) than it already is. Imagine injecting 1M coins into the market.

But, with institutional players getting into BTC now, I guess such concerns no longer make sense.
> early plug and play

Also known as plug and pray. Yes, I remember that time.
If I remember correctly, Stoppard was an artist in residence at Caltech while he was writing Arcadia.
A few years ago I read a book called Maximum City. The premise is "let's look at the lives of several people [including a powerful police officer, a dancer, low-level criminals, high-level criminals, very poor people just getting by and, remarkably, a young Hrithik Roshan] in circa-2000 Mumbai". I also happened at the same time to be within hearing distance of a few discussions that touched on crypto-anarchism.

The thought I remember having is that crypto-anarchism seemed to require being embedded in a well-functioning state, but that this assumption was kind of just waved away. I had this thought because so many of the people in Maximum City are just at the mercy of the slightly more powerful people around them -- paying protection money, not getting paid for work, paying bribes -- and there's not a well-functioning government that can help them. It seemed like said people would love a lot less anonymity ("hey! look! this guy is threatening to beat me up if I don't pay him every month! that's illegal!"), and would be well-served by tech infrastructure that makes them more visible.
> With this setup I can now add 5 to each object's X position really efficiently. But what's the use case for that? Particle systems, and what else?

Physics, AI, animation, etc.

A player controller is not a good candidate for that type of optimization because they tend to have very complicated logic that needs to interact with many different game systems. Also, you don't usually need to have more than one or a few.

That class you linked to is a mess because it seems like all state is mashed together into a single class. One way to clean this up is to implement an object-oriented state machine, so that state variables and logic are organized into classes instead of being a conditional soup in a giant update function. Here's a good article on that: https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/state.html

But that game shipped and it worked, and that's really all that matters.
Not sure about the first point, after all with digital art what matters is the NFT since anyone can copy the artifact 1:1 at virtually no cost and no risk. I agree with many that NFTs are best suited for digital worlds but that begs the question: what happens if the game is centralized? They can still prevent you from actually having or using that item, regardless of any proof of ownership.

Re: wash trading, that also happens in the art world with shell companies.
You've missed the wonders of socialism.

https://polishforums.com/history/food-stamps-communist-era-6...

Edit (for the down voters): I observed these "wonders" first-hand, since I grew up in the Eastern Bloc.
Along similar lines, albeit with a more international slant - I worked in California tech companies, and even was involved in building a few of the big ones, for 20 years before leaving the US in 2001 and moving to Europe.

The scene is a lot different.

I've watched European tech startups come and go - not as high frequency as those I observed in California, due to government subsidies/welfare being a much more influential aspect in Europe than in America. American startups are hungrier, and tend to fail faster - or indeed, succeed through hard work, whereas there is a decadence to the European tech sector that is truly difficult to avoid. European tech businesses prefer to have a safe and tidy lifestyle - American tech companies don't put as much emphasis on it. This has both good and bad repercussions on both sides.

I do miss the go-get'em/gung-ho nature of American tech businesses. You don't get much gung-ho in Europe, or if you do its very unusual. Conservative attitudes abound in the Euro tech scene; Americans still very much have a degree of frontier spirit you won't find elsewhere. I think this is why most big tech companies are American.

Anecdotally its my observation that Americans work much, much harder than Europeans, and tolerance for ineffective activity is very definitely different between the two spheres. American tech businesses will solve problems that will make profit - European tech companies will work harder to avoid problems, in order to save a bit more from the subsidies they apparently 'work to deserve'.

Still, European tech companies don't seem to have the identity confidence that Americans do. Americans are much, much better at creating a brand out of the ether and then adding value to it, whereas this seems to be distasteful to the Euro mindset.

I've had the opportunity to be involved in a few 'big' European startups, and those who have been successful seem to model themselves after American companies. Too often I've seen a European tech founder gain just enough success to move their asses to California - this definitely is a thing.

The American tech market seems to be a lot more resilient to the life/growth/death of smaller tech industries than in Europe, where things are homogenised by regulation and bureaucracy. Its not that American doesn't have bureaucratic impairment in the tech industry - just that Americans are far more willing to route around it as a source of damage.

I miss the California 'cottage tech' industry, but on the other hand I much, much prefer European hackerspaces.
https://github.com/mozilla/rr/issues/1373 is tracking that, but the short story is that ARM seems to not provide enough performance counters to make the current rr approach work at the moment. So it would take either CPU-side changes or a somewhat different approach.
Could it be that there aren't that many exciting new products coming out? Or is that blasphemy?
I can't provide proof, but I _know_ that I tweeted @adom_dev around the time of it's kickstarter and one of the Baldurs Gate EE devs about gemrb around the time they announced that project.

Both tweets are gone.
I assume they're talking about the fact that software can be replicated at no cost but is constrained by pricepoints, encrypted code, licensing agreements, versioning flags, and so on. It's been artificially constrained in code.
http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume3/bengio03a/bengio03a.pdf

Bengio has a paper in 2003 that describes almost the same idea as word2vec (CBOW model to be exact).
Also from the paper:

Our findings on the estimated revenue from transaction fees are in line with the widespread opinion that participation is economically irrational for the majority of the large routing nodes who currently hold the network together.
I don't think the only two options are big tech and chaotic startup. There are non-tech places that just want someone to add some tech to their business, for example.
The very worst problem with these drugs is that they’re misunderstood, for two primary reasons:

- The treatment of “behavior” precedes the treatment itself, diagnosis is external to patients, and the benefits are consequently poorly understood

- they’re abused by people who don’t benefit from them, so their impact is distorted

That said, I wish my parents had wanted to treat my “normal” behavior when I was young. It would have saved me decades of turmoil, almost certainly would have helped me avoid self medicating with alcohol, and probably would have helped me avoid several emergent mental health situations.

My parents thought this way too. And as a consequence I had to go without care for my entire childhood, and was unaware care could help for two decades after.
Some careful googling somehow turned up the following pieces of "never believe what you read on the internet" 'insight':

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https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/80982465#p80984158

> Anonymous 04/04/21(Sun)19:14:02 No.80984158▶>>80985592

> >>80984122

> That's because it's the austrian dump file. There's an update with the australian dump in the original raidforums thread, it's just missing from the pastebin index

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https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/80973470#p80985270

> Anonymous 04/04/21(Sun)21:15:35 No.80985270▶

> >>80985097

> they were mixed as one file. leaker was australian

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I obviously have no citations of my own for this anecdata.

Regarding the first post, I went through approximately ~80 pages of "thanks", and one pair of mildly sore eyes later, was unable to find any "update". A torrent *was* posted somewhere around page 80 but this had the wrongly-named file in it. I have also seen a few TG groups that have renamed the file, but it's still the wrong one (like the GP described).

I can confirm that Austraiaia has an eclectic mix of Australia and Austria though - and also that grepping for 'Australia.*Austria\|Austria.*Australia' returns 170 results, grepping for 'Austria' returns 446375 results, and grepping for 'Australia' returns 408 results.
I absolutely think that there’s currently an untapped market for paid software where as part of the deal you get the source code (obv preferable libre but could do shared source)

I can’t be the only one who got to the point where I simply won’t trust closed source binaries on my devices if I can avoid it, and would happily pay just to be able to verify that there’s no shenanigans going on.

Realized this as I tried finding an email client for iOS - save from the stock one there’s just nothing out there where I have any idea what’s actually happening to my data.

There is no norm or culture for business model, payment structure or payment mechanisms for this right now - am I alone or are we a larger untapped market waiting to be captured?
This still isn't a complete solution, or at the very least holds non-obvious implications. Specifically, date math is not commutative[0]. And, yes, Postgres or java.time might force any arbitrarily ordered expression to always evaluate the same, but this would be based on some special logic for canonicalizing arithmetic on date expressions.

Do they do this? I don't know.

Even if they could do this in a single expression, there are absolutely scenarios where two date-arithmetic operations may be performed in two separate places in code. If those operate on the same logical date value, then we will see the same commutativity issues.

[0]: My sibling comment on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26707864
Without any clear understanding of the China daily deal market at the time—many of the players experienced similar issues—having spoken to no one at 24Quan who was close to the situation about what really happened, comments like this will do nothing other than perpetuating fake news.

Media are incentivized by maximizing eyeballs, not always standing for what really happened. Most news readers want to read what’s entertaining and confirms their cognitive biases, and care less about the dry facts behind which truth stands.

Beam was not able to speak openly before the Settlement about what really happened—FTC holding Beam at “gun point”, vendors requiring Beam to stay silent or else they will not release the customer funds. Beam now can finally speak openly, but does not have the PR budget to go against these fake news that has been in public domain in the last few months. That’s the price to pay for doing the right thing — making sure all customers are made whole and putting the preposterous “Ponzi scheme” stupidity to rest.

If you care about the truth more than the sensationalism and entertainment-at-the-expense-of-others, you’re probably the minority. Please stay well.

I can always be reached at aaron at meetbeam dot com.
Yes, it is good form to link to the claims you are debunking, but these claims are not strawmen. If you want an example of people making untrue claims about "Email #2", here's one very popular Medium post doing just that:

> ... and then says that an enslaved child could, somehow, be "entirely willing".

https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...

The dead comment next to mine has more examples. That said, the line

> I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.

is incredibly disgusting, no matter how you look at it.
You just repeated the thing.
Why must one swing between such extremes? From a language built to further the state-of-the-art of programming itself, to a language designed to prevent anything ever surpassing the lowest common denominator in massive monolithic corporate environments? (okay that doesn't describe PHP, but let's not go there).

Seems like there's ample middle ground with Ruby, Python, Scala, maybe even Perl. It doesn't do anything for the underlying fact that most work that's easy to find is pretty boring, but I suspect a little fun could be had along the way. It's not likely to be a huge time sink either... the author's functional thinking will ensure quality is high even if he feels dirty cutting corners to get the job done quickly so he can get back to his mistress. No one will ever be the wiser.
I think his real question maybe "How can I make money writing Haskell?". I sympathize, but I don't have a generic answer yet. In India the skillset in demand is j2ee/dotNet.

Thankfully, my clients don't care about what languages their solutions are written in. (The web is the "gui" in any case) so I've built systems in Haskell and got paid for them.
'If we just acknowledge that "login" is a noun referring to your credentials, where as "log in" (or "log on") means to supply one's login/credentials, then it's all hunky-dory.'

If only. According to the James Study of Casual TV Activity, "log on" means "visit this Web site". Any use of user name or password is coincidental.

E.g "Log on to CNN.com for all the latest headlines."

It's a lost cause. I'm saving my energy to preserve the distinction among "few", "fewer", "less", and "lesser".
Ok, so Apple haters blast Apple for keeping such a tight control and cheer when savior Google comes out with something "open", but when that openness is used by the vendors to do what they want instead of what Google wants it's not Google's fault? Did you ever stop to think that perhaps the reason Apple behaves as it does is to avoid exactly this problem?

You're pointing at something you think should theoretically be better and pointing fingers when it doesn't pan out, meanwhile the "evil" alternative is giving users a great experience.
Seconding Turtle Rules - I've just read it, and it's a good, quick, informative read. It's more a meta-strategy book in that it tells you how to approach building and running a system, rather than focusing on the system itself.
My solution to this problem is make sure that whatever phone I buy has a strong hacker community around it so that I can unofficially upgrade whenever I wish.

This is awesome. Not because of any of the parent's points, but simply because we're living in a world where telephones have their own communities of hackers. How fast did that happen?

I still have a phone that does little more than make phone calls, and the best hackers in the world when it came out were barely able to get it playing "snake". And it's not a very old phone.

The future rules!
I like this so far. On a few experiments it rendered pdfs well, very fast, and didn't feel nearly as clunky as reading a pdf in the browser usually does.
>Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right

Strangely I was under impression it was other way around.
`2` is truthy, but `==` forces a coercion, which ends up converting Boolean `true` to a number, which is 1 (`ToNumber(true) := 1` [1]), which is ostensibly not equal to 2.

1. http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-9.3
Probably explains why Basecamp didn't click for us.
I started my own oil company. I'm 27. See: http://www.eser.org

Stats:

* There are thousands of independent oil and gas producers in the United States.

* Independent producers develop 90 percent of domestic oil and gas wells, produce 68 percent of domestic oil and produce 82 percent of domestic natural gas.

* Most independents have fewer than 20 employees.

See the "Independent Petroleum Association of America": http://www.ipaa.org
Nice! I've been looking for a good tooltip library to use in my project. I wouldn't have known about this otherwise. Thanks Nick!
Actually I was thinking about a text input box with a spin button below it. The input text would give a clue to the innermost wheel as to what universe of random words to choose from. For instance inputing Blue might produce berries, bird, feelings, ect., vs stop sign or school bus on the inner wheel. It seems like it would be more interesting to "play with" when someone is bored too, which could translate into more sales.
Not really sure what to say; I was looking forward to this and it didn't live up to the expectations in my head.

I would have liked to hear more about the Philly startup scene, Gabriel's angel investments, etc.

Even after Gabriel mentioned that the click through rate on email was going down, Andrew asked a ton of follow up questions on it. Same with asking about receiving the cheque for the acquisition of namesdatabase.
They aren't trying to hide it, but it does seem they want the name to sort of stand on it's own. For starters, they probably realize that vernacular allows for you to 'google it' or 'bing it' or 'yahoo that', but not to 'microsoft that'. If anything, 'microsofting' something probably involves putting it out of business with predatory business tactics.

Alternatively, it could be a judgement call on MS's part based on their knowledge of the Colbert audience.
I thought the "interactive panorama" link in the article was neat. Had mouseover tooltips for each of the apps he had open, too.

His "dashboard" is cool in a way, but also sad. Makes me think of some rumors (perhaps well-founded or even true) that Sesame Street reduced the attention span of children because of the constant switching of scenes and characters and etc.