jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Is that a US think? I've worked for employers in several European countries and have never heard an employer telling me not to discuss pay. Once a manager told me not to tell everyone about a pay raise as it was out of schedule and he didn't want lengthy discussions with other employees. But that was his personal request, not a request by HR. If I had wanted to discuss it I could've done without consequences, he made that clear as well.

It's still unusual to discuss pay in many companies but not because the employer prohibits it.
Well, that's what I'm here for ;)
Those probably will be optional.
Yeah, same here, I've set it for 1h, just to trial it...
Holy schemoley, I really didn't expect so many events in Bp. Thanks!
In my case, would be :
ZX Spectrum +3 -> TurboBasic/QBasic -> Visual Basic & Delphi -> PHP -> C, C++, Java, Javascript, Python, D, Assembly

I really miss the simplicity that have old computers of 80's and early 90's.
> It might make sense to put some compute intensive tasks in Go, or any other compiled language thats more efficient, but exec'ing and returning JSON isnt really a great idea.

It's not a terrible one, though. You don't choose Ruby for its performance. If you find yourself creating and returning lots of JSON with this, that should be a clue that you should be pushing more functionality down to that lower level, and just returning the bulk results back up.
Sounds nice, but I would make a big difference between being a contractor and an employee. Where I live, hiring contractors is much less risky (because of employment laws etc), therefore for contractors it is quite natural to pay more. I'm an employer myself.
More like binding to C++ is difficult, lack of free non-copyleft implementations, and general lack of advantages over Flutter/Electron. After all, Embarcadero Delphi is also very powerful and easy to use but nobody uses them for good reasons.
We did: pork spending was mostly outlawed in 2011 (the F-35 dates from way before that). But as it turns out, the cure was almost as bad as the disease. Getting rid of pork has accelerated hyper-partisanship and dysfunctional gridlock, because without it there's no incentive to ever try to reach a deal with the other side instead of digging in on no-compromise radicalism to please your base.
Everything is trade-offs. Less consistent sleep (for both the baby and the parents) is also clearly problematic.
GhostWriter is amazing! I use it on Linux and write all my posts with it!

Simple, minimal, lightweight, has a dark theme. There's a distraction free mode which basically fades out everything except for the sentence you are writing. And a Hemingway mode which disables the delete key :)

I've gotten used to writing in Markdown since I started using GhostWriter as it makes that easy. For instance when I type "[" it automatically adds "]" as well. Worth a try!
Ironically old.reddit.com is working fine.
It must be. Wall Street bets grew to 8 million users after this whole GameStop thing, up from 1 million. They all probably hopped on to see what’s going on. Plus reddit is down more than any other website that popular that I know of.
> There was a political message in bombing Japan that communicated to Russia (and supported China). There was utility for the US.

Agreed, outside the US this is a common understanding. If you've visited the Hiroshima museum in Japan, you'll note that's also the stated position of the museum: the purpose of the bombings was not so much to defeat Japan, but to show Russia what the US was technically capable of and willing to pull off (I can't remember the exact words, but this is the gist of the museum's position). I'm not saying the museum is impartial on this topic, of course -- that's just an example, and there are many outside Japan too.

However, I've noticed that in online discussions with people from the US, they often don't acknowledge this. Perhaps because as a strategy it was long-term and cold-blooded. So they focus on how Japan was a genocidal empire, how the average citizen blindly followed the Emperor and would fight to the death, how the atomic bombs helped prevent more bloodshed, etc.
> all the bad guys in LOTR are basically dark and ugly.

Actually the worst of Sauron's evil was done when he was beautiful and charismatic (the forging of the rings). Sauron's current form is a corruption by the ring of power.

Most evil in Tolkien is brought on by corruption of self by selfish desire for power over others. So I really take exception to "all the bad guys in LOTR are basically dark and ugly." I'd even argue that some elves are portrayed as quite vain, selfish, power-hungry and downright evil (Feanor and the kinslaying?).
So, are you saying there are no tangible benefits?
So I disagree with this advice, because I think there is an effect that talking about something feels as good as if you've done it. I prefer to keep an accomplishment totally stealth - not write it down or mention it to anyone - until it's more than done. And then understate it, casually let it out of the bag.

This is how Apple did products in their heydey. Did Steve Jobs list all the things the nonexistent iPhone did, and then selectively publish a version that wasn't false?

No. He kept his fucking mouth shut and pushed ahead toward a vision.
Apparently the authors of Rust believe monads are useful, as they come in the standard library. Rust's Option and Result types are monads, for instance. Rust lacks a feature, called higher-kinded types, that allow you to abstract over type constructors such as Option and Result and give a name to the monad concept. Thus in Rust you can create monads by convention but cannot create a type that actually embodies that concept.
I would disagree with this.

> all the bad guys in LOTR are basically dark and ugly

That is false. Sauron for most of his life was a nice to look at and he was "the bringer of gifts". Simularly his master Morgoth had a period of time where he was a pretty elf like thing.

> and if there are any bad elves, they are mostly good elves who have been tempted to some sin

You have not really read most of tolkins work, right? There are tons of bad fucking elves, elves that kill there extended familly, elves that are arogant and lead there people into desaster, elves that force the most of their 'tribe'/'clan' to a deathmarch threw a ice desert.

Also, contrary to the movies, in the books it does not seam that the elves are better at everything. I just reread the silmarilion, and its not clear to me at least that elves are stronger and better fighers in general for example.

Edit: When orks talks, for example when frodo gets captured and sam listens to them with the ring, it seams the orks are pretty normal people in a dark situation.
I actually learned a great deal from just reading Sedra and Smith's book on microelectronics. You don't need much more than algebra and trig to comprehend what is going on in this book.

There is some sloppiness in the book, but the first 5-10 chapters, with enough struggling, get you to think in terms of the basic models that you learn about early on. Once you understand how things break down conceptually, mapping theory to reality becomes a more manageable fight as you cross reference theory while looking at existing designs.
Maybe it's me (I'm sure it is - I'm no ecomomist), but a basic income seems like a perfect counter to deflation:

1. It seems like it should increase consumption as everyone would simply have more money to spend. Even if things are cheaper (and seem to be getting cheaper), you now have a new stream of income that, for some people, will burn holes in pockets and beg to be spent.

2. It would allow some employees in the labor market to "opt-out" (as the basic income supplants the "need" for a minimal wage job) and decrease the surplus labor pool. This would seem to require wage growth as employers now need to make the job proposition more compelling. Maybe they would even treat their employees better. Bonus.

3. "printing money" to pay for (or maybe just a portion of) the basic income seems like it should be a nice inflationary counter to the natural deflationary pressures.

I'm sure there are other pros and some cons of this approach, but those seem like good starting points.
> Not defending academia at all

But you just spent 2 and a half paragraphs doing just that. Don’t try then to distance yourself from the opinion you’ve just given.
How is a domain-locked local SQL database a security shitstorm?
A NoSQL win
They arent taking any equity but the companies will use mailchimp which is a paid service. So either way, Mailchimp will probably get something out of it.
I found this generator in the repo:
https://github.com/Dobiasd/articles/blob/master/programming_...
I'm not sure you're responding to my post. I agree with regards to activity levels and caloric intake—but I'm saying it is worth investigating further.

It reminds me a lot of the lead hypothesis in regards to crime. The simple model would state that more people in prison and harsher law enforcement causes crime to decrease. However, if the lead hypothesis is true, then we can stop wasting resources on crowded prisons and draconian law enforcement, instead focusing on getting lead out of the environment. Or, more realistically, do something in between those extremes and at a policy level be far more successful.
After seeing this I started work on a simplification of libCello called Viola [0]. It has a slightly lighter syntax and takes away some (IMO) needless typing...

[0] https://github.com/eatonphil/Viola
That's bollocks - it's not in the slightest an ethical breach to do that. It's just advertising working with production to make the product. We're not talking about running advertorial or anything.

The papers I've worked on usually had a little flexibility in terms of extra copy or advertising to populate pages as required.
Did they ask you to write 2000 lines or what? Does it matter if you fumble when writing 20-50 lines of code?
It's a good idea, but it only really works locally. And I think meeting in-person can become "too much" at times. I definitely am for this idea, but I think it only works for certain people.
The problem with library authors in general is that they, on average, have a better perspective how client programs should be written. Writing a good library is generally far harder than it is to use a good library, and musl is pretty decent so this remains true: most users of musl have far less technical skill and a more myopic view than Rich Felker does.

But, as is true of libraries, and programming languages, and life in general, there is always someone smarter than you are, who genuinely needs to do the thing you say people should generally not want to do. This is why taking a moral stance of "not" allowing the thing is almost always the wrong approach: what you want to do is make the non-recommended path unattractive to a casual newcomer, or have sufficiently good education and guardrails in place that people don't stumble upon it, but there has to be a way to do the non-recommended thing. If you don't, the person who really needs it will find a way to do it anyways, and probably curse your name the entire time.

Anyways, bringing this back to musl, I think it takes an agreeable stance that it follows POSIX (plus some stuff that it couldn't really leave out, because it breaks too many programs). Cool, it does a good job at that. But sometimes people, who are aware of the user-agent problem that musl is trying to avoid, would just like to make a special codepath that lets them use some more optimized, nonstandard thing that musl doesn't support. If you need your static initializers to get argv, then there isn't really much you can do but provide a macro for detecting musl. So provide that macro, name it THIS_IS_MUSL_BUT_MAKE_SURE_YOU_KNOW_WHAT_YOU_ARE_DOING or whatever, but make it available for things like these. Sometimes practicality has to win out over idealism, and musl contains a bunch of those tradeoffs already: this should be another one of them.
At a certain point it's a game appliance (e.g. Nintendo Switch) rather than a computer. Stallman would probably say that's fine.

The problem is mixing purposes to the point where most people don't even have access to a free computing system.
> in europe there are many taxi companies that have started to do uber app features and prepayment and all the jazz that make uber so great

For me this is the real evolution, and what was needed all along. I've used the apps you're talking about in Europe and Asia, and they're great.

> just because taxis suck doesn't mean uber should replace them.

Hear, hear. I don't miss the old taxi model, and Uber/Lyft came in with simple, strong improvements in usability and payments, as users outlined above. But after 12 years, Uber has shown itself to be what it is: an expensive, shitty vampire.
You are fooling yourself. It is clear she doesn’t love you.

Life is sometimes unfair, cruel, and painful. Accept it. And do the best you can with the time you have left. If you don’t you will continue to suffer for no good reason.

This might help:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/therapy-types/acceptance-...
> There is an interesting false equivalence here between pension funds and banks.

The dissimilarity of pension funds & banks is present, and so there's no opposition to that objection.

> But it's a personal annecdote, so really it's up to you what made you lose faith in "the system".

I'll admit my pro-crypto stances upfront, but the anti-crypto stance of "Oh it's just your opinion that 'the system' messed up" is highly non-conducive when it comes to getting people out of crypto & trusting the current financial system once again.

To those people, their rightfully legitimate concerns of corruption, non-transparency, & failure to even partially repay the funds lost are dismissed as 'anecdotal', much like the concerns of every privacy-concerned individual before Snowden's leaks were made public.

To that end, verall, your dismissal of the parent's experiences as anecdotal will sour the opinions of the concerned & cause them to dig in their heels even further. It does not help alleviate their concerns, nor does it help in re-establishing trust.

With regards to the actual improvements that I would like to see implemented in the current financial system, the creation of a triple-ledger accounting system [1] where transactions are anonymized-but-traceable would help a long way in re-establishing trust in the current financial system. The 3rd party in this picture wouldn't even need to be a blockchain: It would just need to be a neutral 3rd party that would make transactions on the aforementioned ledger transparent to the general public.

[1] https://www.simpleaccounts.io/tag/tripleentrysystem/
This reminds me of a story about the first atomic bomb test. Not too long before the first detonation was to occur, some scientists voiced a concern that there was a slim chance that the blast would be strong enough to ignite the atmosphere and pretty much destroy the world. These voices were in the minority, and disproved through calculation and common sense -- but the official paper disproving it did not arrive until a year later. So the first atomic bomb was detonated with a few lingering doubts about whether it would instantly destroy the world.

This is what the SOPA debate feels like to me, except there are no reasoned arguments disproving its opponents' worst fears, just pat dismissals of the opposition.
I read this quickly as "What do you think of the other reptiles?"
> Teaching that math problems have a correct solution ("1+1=2") is considered racist by some, because… I can't tell you, because I didn't understand that when it was discussed some time ago.

This keeps coming up; I can't be bothered to find all the resources yet again on this, but a lot of reporting on this was bullshit. I should probably write an article about it so I can just link it.

What the text actually said was that a focus on "getting the right answer" was bad math education, and that you should focus more on the process, methods, and actual teaching understanding, rather than just "the right answer". You can teach a monkey to "get the right answer" by just applying a few tricks, but that doesn't mean the monkey understands math. Anyone with an interest in math will recognize this is just good math education.

Now, I do have gripes with that paper because it was also filled with really odd usages of "white supremacy" and the like that were completely misplaced; it seems like a really odd lens to view things through. I guess that's the "CRT" aspect and I don't understand at all where the authors are coming from with that. But if you ignore that then the actual advice with regards to math education was pretty solid.

It most certainly wasn't "have a correct solution ("1+1=2") is considered racist". Find the text. Read it. It's really not as bad as certain outrage sites would have you believe (again, there are aspects to criticise IMHO, but not this).
I don't think it's just cultural. Ultimately in physics you are often faced with a pile of observations from nature that you have to make sense of. Vs math, where you usually have a mass perfectly defined err.. well math that you're trying to build forward upon.

I think the best advances in both math and physics are made with people with an excellent grasp of when to move forward with existing constructs, and when to start shaping new ones...
Except BTTF doesn't mention gays or trans people. If it did, you'd see a lot more of the major cultural shifts, especially surrounding trans rights and trans acceptance.

It also doesn't focus as much on television, except to the extent that people in 1955 apparently didn't know what a "rerun" was. (Did they in reality? Honestly don't know.) The other side to that is, back in 1985, if you wanted to see an old episode of I Love Lucy or Gunsmoke (which had actually gone off the air by then, I believe) you either caught the rerun of the one episode some network was broadcasting or you were SOL. I'm not sure anyone was even selling video tapes of episodes back then, even assuming you were one of the comparatively few people to have a VHS or Beta player. Your cultural library for recent-ish pop culture was about a millimeter deep, compared to now.

So, yes, 1985 is closer to 2015 than 1955 was to 1985 in some key ways. Some of that is because you can only repeal Jim Crow laws once. Some of that is because Netflix has Punky Brewster on demand. Some of that is because most people are neither gay nor trans.
He said "really had only one person answer it reasonably in all these years ". Are we going to quibble about this wording?

Let's see. I've done flight software. I've done cancer statistic software for the NIH. I've done autonomous robots and UAV. I've done drones. I've done weapons systems for the military. I've done mapping applications back on 486 machines with 16 bit software (hard to be responsive in that environment). I've design/built/debugged circuit boards. I've disassembled compilers and sent bug reports back to the manufacturer. I've done machine vision and computer vision. I've done simulation, solved partial differential equations, built bayesian filters.

But, you know, I haven't had to do anything significant with resolving google.com. I mean, I know that it resolves to something like 145.234.34.45, I know there is a difference between TCP and UDP, and a few other things, but I pretty much just need to open sockets once in a while. I'm pretty much the goto person for hard problems whereever I've worked. I've written articles, and am writing a book.

How does not knowing some specific fact make me unhirable?

"there are no good engineers". Well, I guess there is one, since one person was able to answer the question.
There are several more examples of "Happy Days"s, including That 70s Show, That 80s Show, The Andy Griffith Show, and Wonder Years. They all seem to happen about 20-30 years after the fact too, or roughly the length of a generation.

Extra notable to the discussion is that both "That 80s Show" and "Freaks and Geeks" failed to catch on. I never saw any of either, so they might have just been bad (though at the very least Freaks and Geeks seems to have been looked upon positively), but I wonder if it wasn't representative of the fact that we still feel that the 80s are more or less the modern era, in a way that wasn't the case prior to that, and so there's less to have nostalgia about.

Of course it could also just be that there were crappy examples of that kind of show throughout TV history that we just don't remember.
What is the weight on the rocket? It seems like towers with something like cable lasso's would help with the final descent stabilizing by securing the top of the rocket, or weighted arms/blocks that box in the rocket during final. So it never has to 'land', just hover.
Thanks, I remember watching this along time ago. I was under the impression they had landing the rocket all figured out after this :)
What's more, it's a Friday preceding a major U.S. holiday weekend (MLK, Jr. Day on Monday)
I still don't buy the doom scenario. There is so much more to world domination than just intelligence... like having the proper weapons. See https://what-if.xkcd.com/5/

Pigs are also intelligent, but they never dominated humans because they don't have / cannot use guns.
The charging infrastructure is the key for growth and changing behaviour? What is the associate cost for deploying the network.
This drive to remove errors is likely flawed from the start since we, as humans, are error prone.

What? The drive to remove errors is with machines, not humans. Machines can be built which detect and fix human errors. Why is this a flawed premise? One need only look at the history of programming language innovations to see all the successful examples of errors being eliminated.
> Gruber spends an awful lot of time trying to justify and enshrine every action Apple takes. My guess is, if Apple got an Advanced Tech Group again, we'd have a blog article talking about how it's a masterful bit of Apple strategy.

"This is such bullshit it hurts my head." [...] "The point isn’t about what Apple can do but what they should do. And they shouldn’t be doing this." http://daringfireball.net/2008/09/podcasters_rejection

From an imaginary app-store reviewer diary: "Rejecting all of them, consistently, would in fact be no good at all. The feeling of being part of the monolith — of being the monolith — really only surges when I use my position to act capriciously. To act fairly would be to follow the rules. To act capriciously is to be the rules." http://daringfireball.net/2009/05/diary_of_an_app_store_revi...

"Translation" of Apple PR into English: "We decided from the outset to set the formula for our bars-of-signal strength indicator to make the iPhone look good — to make it look as if it 'gets more bars'. That decision has now bitten us on our ass." http://daringfireball.net/2010/07/translation_iphone_4
Reminds me of http://xkcd.com/606/ ... Clearly, there are no downsides!
Doesn't really apply to HDDs or any other electronics manufactured in large numbers. They can't screen every item and they will try to use the best components in all of them. So you get the same DOA percentage from Apple branded HDDs and OEMs...

And LG, for example, assembles worse monitors than their competitors, who are using the same panels LG sells them as an OEM...
My thoughts exactly.

Apparently it was a Q&A site that asked questions to friends and friends-of-friends.

This chart is the sweetest of schadenfreude — so many terrible acquisitions for huge sums of money.
Quite agreed. It's still way harder and way less frequent for read activity to force much write activity, although not hard to imagine.