jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
100% agree. "emotional support" animals are basically a free pass for shitty people to take advantage of the system and take their non-trained, horribly mannered animals with them wherever they want, which sucks for people that have actual need for emotional support and service animals.
It absolutely does take years to achieve that. Most people that think they are superstar are really just mediocre mis with an ego.

I doubt there are many superstars under the age of 28 minimum
You can almost 100% solve the issue by taping the top edge of the mask to your face with surgical tape. Just a 6 inch strip of tape along your nose and under each eye and glasses fogging was 98% gone for me. It's probably not the most comfortable for some people, but not so different from wearing a band-aid. Very cheap and works with almost any mask.
Wow I was surprised it was so long ago! Assuming you were thinking of theyrule - seems it’s sort of still online but requires flash

http://www.theyrule.net/2001/
I know that misc is one of the big 7 hierarchies. I wonder if there's a misc.comp group :-)
If that is the end game, why not just skip the middle part and disband the police.

People can arm themselves and settle their own problems
When did web dev become the only dev?
> In a sufficiently connected and
unpredictable world, you can't seem good
without being good.

Sometimes might
be surprised on this point!

Some people in some relatively small,
conservative, apparently highly ethical,
responsible, competent, serious, and
hard working communities manage totally to
pull the wool over the eyes
of just about everyone else, including
the members of their own families.
They can look totally like a sweet, angelic
church lady while, actually, plotting
against others and slowly but effectively
sabotaging them.

How? One way is to be a very talented,
determined, bright, mentally energetic
actor/actress. The act can take a lot of mental
energy to negotiate all the daily
events and situations while
keeping the act totally believable
while actually it is totally false.

There's more on such things in the now
famous E. Goffman, The Presentation of
Self in Everyday Life.

Sorry, PG, there's a fundamental problem
here: As in some recent research
(wish I'd kept the reference),
already in the crib, the girls are
thinking about people and the boys,
things. While the boy is trying to hack
the latch on the crib and install
Linux in the toy firetruck on the floor,
the girl is trying to elicit
protection and care taking from
adults, especially her father.

"If a girl is smart, she doesn't have
to have brains." and can get others,
especially Daddy, to do things for her.
A boy might work and work and work,
say, to get his iPhone synchronized
with his MacBook while his sister
can get it done with just one
frown and one tear, and often don't need
the tear.

A girl can be really good at it,
by age four
have Daddy totally wrapped around her
little finger and manipulated so that
he can never tell her no. And,
in later years, she can get much
better, much, much better at it.

They can be highly talented and very
mentally energetic and seem to be
sweet, darling, adorable, precious
angels while they are actually determined, selfish,
even dangerous,
masterly manipulators.

Never ask a nerd male to
evaluate the real, inner
thoughts or intentions of
a masterly female --
he just doesn't have the
basic qualifications for the job!

You just learned this lesson here
for $0 tuition. I paid full tuition,
and you don't want to do that;
trust me this time! Uh, there are no
college loans nearly big enough
to cover the tuition I paid.

For Ron Conway, I can't forget his
short advice to entrepreneurs
in the Sam Altman course
at Stanford last fall -- "bootstrap".
Okay, message received loud and clear!

I do believe that PG can evaluate Ronco;
good to know I can take Ronco's advice
seriously!
That's almost what he did—he was one of the founders of Paypal. Not exactly a "social" app, but he definitely used his fortunes from something more mundane to fund his more daring ventures.
No one knows what the demand curve for space looks like. Those who feel SpaceX is crazily undervalued implicitly assume two things: A steep demand curve* and that SpaceX will continue to drive down prices by large amounts.

*This is equivalent to: There are tons of people who think space is cool or useful and do nothing because it's too expensive and that won't be true with SpaceX's costs in 10 years.
Google must think Spacex is worth more than $10bn or they probably wouldn't invest in it. Right now SpaceX stock is not publicly traded so we have no idea how much it would be worth if it were priced to market.

A lot of people are comparing this to Whatsapp. But Whatsapp wasn't publicly traded either. All we can say is that Mark Zuckerberg thought Whatsapp was worth at least $20bn to him and 10% of Spacex is worth at least $1bn to Google. How much they might be worth to other people is unknown.
I've seen clips of Tucker Carlson talking about this sort of thing before. Not saying he's a righteous source of unbiased truth, but he's better than he often gets credit for imho.
Maybe the math works out like that when you bill four weeks for a two day job. Startups can and do find programmers that write robust billing code with those features in a day or two. I've done it more than once. I run both ecommerce sites and subscription web apps -- the billing code handles upgrades, downgrades, pro-rating, one-off overage fees, refunds and credits. Once you've done it once, doing it again and testing for another site is a few hours work.
Brand servers won't get you reliability, only failover and replication will :)

In US servers are a bit more expensive, but you can get similar configuration for around $100/month (e.g. burstnet)
Same here, also Chrome on OS X. Had to manually hold down power button.

I appreciate this isn't the fault of the poster, but flagging this just so people know.
I'm not a French speaker, but those terms make perfect sense to me also, even though I've only just heard them here for the first time.
Yes, I think it could be your (our) tech context more than geographical; I came up through the unix and perl worlds and am in the US, and have ONLY ever seen that as 'backtick'.
My zone is best found between 7pm to 5am, usually on the couch with the laptop, and some easy to zone out tv series playing in the background. I think I've played through the Highlander and 4400 series several times just writing code. Its easier if you've already seen it, so its not really an interruption, but rather a way to keep from burning out on just staring at the computer screen.
Call me biased, but every programming language I'm aware of that isn't related to Piet[1] or Befunge[2] reads from left to right, and both of those are gag options. Programming languages in general take their cue from English, so it doesn't seem that unreasonable to me to assume that programmers know enough English to assume left to right.

[1] http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befunge
The closest I have come to this ideal is when playing sports. For me, mental preparation was absolutely key.

I imagine high performing athletes are able to achieve this feeling of being in the "zone" quite often.
In-house legal staff must be free and have to be used to be justified.
With all the talk about privacy issues recently, the user should be prompted after they connect via Facebook to set their profile as Open, Delayed, or Private.

I am still trying to figure out how to do stuff and maybe that is a sign to help the user through it. Like, what does unlock and level up mean in the settings?
"just pop it on your wrist"
innovation seems to be on an exponential curve, as well as consumption (and I believe population) the earth being what it is

In technologically advanced societies, the birth rate tends to decline, often below the replacement rate. Check out birth rates for most of western Europe for example. Having many many children is not actually pleasant for most people and when they have modern medicine that reduces child mortality, they typically choose to have a small number of children. Cultures don't change instantaneously, so sometimes these changes take a generation or two, but they do seem to happen.
Yo, I know I'm totally scumbag for just posting my own blog post.
I wasn't. I really do respect Zed and his contributions.
Great post. You bring a tear to this old Unix hand's eye.
While we're on this would HNers mind sharing some known start-up names? Personally I'm a regular FreshBooks user
Solving my own need is definitely the inspiration, though honestly I don't game much anymore (certainly not as much as I used to!)

The younger net-native generation is no doubt resistant to paying for a service of this kind. The obvious strategies for making (paid) membership attractive would be discount on games and gear and access to anything exclusive and/or pre-release (beta codes, demos, strategy guides). Making that happen has its own set of challenges, of course...
Oh, I definitely agree with that. And don't get me wrong, I actually want to learn and use Haskel somewhere.

I just get wary whenever I see the conversation leaning towards indications that it is a clear win. Seems like it is a qualified win.

Too many of the stories read more like your typical "developer learns new way of thinking, becomes better for it."

Which is ultimately what makes it so frustrating. When someone learns lisp and becomes a better programmer. There isn't much for them to say, other than "learning to think the lisp way has helped me be a better coder."

There are those that get hung up on the metaprograming of lisp. Which is amazing. But, for the most part you can do that elsewhere now. The only thing left is it really is a frame of thinking.

Contrast this with Haskel. Few stories focus on how it helped them see a more comprehensive view of types. Instead, the talk turns to how Haskel is a saving grace that the unwashed masses just isn't used to.
I'm thinking less about "the deep dive into..." than "the things everyone using FooBar should know."
It's a fun story, but we should remember machine learning is not magic. It's not going to produce a Basilisk, and we are not helpless marionettes manipulated by advertizement agencies and social media. And if somebody was gaming your political system via Facebook and Twitter, then maybe your system is not resilient enough and has to change.

OTOH, I really wonder what would happen if you tried to train an adversarial neural network to produce pictures that make somebody angry, or horny, or to provoke some other very primitive reaction. I guess it doesn't work or people would be doing it already.
Doing something phenomenal is more important than doing something before 30.

I'm 32 though. I'm biased.
I don't use the nose, but I have taken to adding a space between the eyes and the mouth so that skype or facebook - or whatever other horrible chat service I'm using - don't transform it from text to their godawful cutesy images.

$0.02
Is it still invite only, or have they opened it up finally?
Following Python and Java is always informative because, between them, they manage to make almost every mistake imaginable, despite having very smart people putting careful thought into the design.

Looking at the amount of polish on the Python docs and the fact that people still don't know how to install Python, it gives you a sense of how hard explaining things is. Maybe the Python site could do with an official "managing Python for end-users."

> Noob me found all sorts of howtos and getting started guides. Seemingly contradictory, mutual exclusive.

Python's a victim of its own success as the signal to noise ratio in online tutorials is very low; worse, the good management tools are relatively new.

Even for smaller audiences, obsolescence is a big problem. The most painful aspect of working with LaTeX was I'd struggle with one buggy package recommended by a tutorial for ages, then search for "why am I getting this error" and find the answer was, "oh, yeah, that's horribly broken, use this one instead."

[1]: https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/
[2]: https://www.python.org/doc/versions/
A million in bank is like $35,000 a year in interest. Not an extravagant lifestyle, but certainly possible to live comfortably on that in a low cost of living area if you have low expenses.
Interest and live on <$50k/yr?
A little known fact is that Uber also does this, or at least used to. On iOS when you try to copy a link to follow your trip it first asks for contacts permissions with a bullshit reason - declining doesn't have any ill effects but obviously it's designed to try and catch users off-guard or make them think it's mandatory and I guess a lot of people do submit.
Shorts cost money in interest etc, wouldn't it be better to hedge your bets, and just invest in the competitors evenly adjusting for news stories and maybe some sentiment analysis?

If just one or two hit the electric bandwagon hard and start eating into TSLA's lead, then you hit pay dirt. Less payout, but less risk as well.
E.g. http://www.zendesk.com/api/remote-authentication
Answer ignores a very public and growing corpus of data: IRC channels.
Here's my algorithm: Return false
To me, Netflix streaming is like some alien technology from the future. I live in a rural area with terrible broadband (miniscule monthly cap). However, I have an unlimited data plan for my phone and with a composite video cable I can plug my phone into the television and stream movies from the Netflix app. We've never had cable TV, and with Netlix and iTunes there's no point. Even over 3G, we get surprisingly good video quality.
Once I was accused by close friend that I'm enjoyed something only because I was "high on drugs". I told him that from my underperforming dopamine brain it's he who is constantly high on drugs, and I finally were able to feel the same.
Is the furnace condensing? Ie. is the smoke cold enough it exits through a plastic pipe, and there is a seperate drain for water?

If not, that's a pretty big efficiency win. By switching to a condensing boiler, you alone can probably save enough oil to heat multiple houses in sweden (where many houses are so well insulated they barely need any heat).
Every generation has these cultural blips. It’s always a small subgroup of a particular generation ( the rest are the “normies” I guess).

Maybe this one is extra lame but like any teenage drama, it’s a phase..

And other people always monetized this, from bar/club owners, baseball card printers, fidget spinners moguls and some hopeful Zuckerbergs now.
While I share some of his enthusiasm (albeit not particularly for markdown tools), I'd observe that considering the rich content produced by the editor, Wordpress.com content is pretty exportable as WXR, and once into a self-hosted WP install is _very_ exportable; there are all sorts of tools to get at WP content in different ways.
> What are you talking about? Where did I make an end of the world prediction? It is you who brought that up. Of course nothing is going to end. Nice strawman.

What do you think I refer to by "end of the world"? Don't you think I refer to this part of your comment?

> I look at that data and I think to myself, in a few decades we will have problems, many indirectly from more and more troubled nations who will bear the brunt of the climate change, that that silly little piece of software I write seems meaningless if I start thinking about the bigger picture.

Don't you think that I refer to the numerous comments seen on HN whenever this topic comes up, from people saying that they're expecting massive global upheaval in a few years, that they're not having children because they think society will collapse?

> You even try to bring COVID into the discussion?

Do you not see a parallel between the way the media has stirred panic about global warming^W^Wclimate change^Wcrisis for decades, and the way the media has stirred panic about COVID for the last two years?

> What are you doing, and why?

I would ask you the same.
I second your recommendation. I've been following the Folding Ideas channel for a while, and deeply enjoy his long form video format. Where most online videos like to do a brief touch on a topic, covering the surface level detail before moving on, the guy behind that channel goes deeeeep in a way I find very satisfying.
How do you heat a house when the power is out and you're not connected to natural gas?

Edit: to follow up, I already realize you need power for the furnace to pump and burn, but a generator can power it. This is a real issue in places where my grandparents live. No natural gas, well water, extremely cold winters that can see power outages. The grid has gotten better there but heating oil was a necessity when the power could be out for a week at a time and you had a generator.
I think there's a few in this space but they're all kinda meh. I actually had this idea a while back but I'm working on something else now.

Done well, its a decent idea, I'd pay for it in my current company.

I actually got the idea because I was impressed that AWS internally has a really mature model first docs and SDK generation tech. They've actually opensourced parts of it (https://awslabs.github.io/smithy/) but it's not ready for use yet.
Very cool! I think most of us would admit we spend more time than we'd like on regex.
God is the "primary" source of everything. If God were created by something else, then we aren't talking about "God" anymore, but a part of God.
I think the better option would be APIs for desktop app(s), maybe with a stock basic functionality desktop app. Definitely not an "offline" app based on a particular web browser.

As a Firefox user I already dislike Gmail Inbox and WhatsApp (web) being Chrome only. The former has said "Chrome only for now" for quite long already.
> This approach to money has not worked out well for people in many countries across the world like Argentina, Zimbabwe, and Cyprus.

But the reasons behind this doesn't have anything to do with money.
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Hey, at least that way all those empty apartments and houses being held as investments will get filled up with proof of space mining nodes
The impression I got was that Steve operated in a way that 'seemed' autonomous, but in terms of the results he was still letting folks around him do their thing, even if it went through him. Maybe it was the case of a strong personality / operational style that seemed more autonomous than it was?

I find that people often seem to read strong personalities as sort of autocratic by default, even if they're not. Often when in those situations I've had to explain to coworkers that "No, he wasn't shooting you down, that was your chance to explain further / show him more."
He also created QuickJS, that's javascript server side, like NodeJS but much faster to start programs. Just type "qjs your-script.js". I use it in my server because of its low overhead to start and run my microservices. https://bellard.org/quickjs/
What I mean with "adapts the code through static analysis" is:

1. Finds dead code and removes it
2. It converts nodejs code that isn't compatible with the browser into browser code
2. It converts JS code that isn't compatible with nodejs to nodejs code

It tries to always make things work both in nodejs and browser js.

One example is the optional chain syntax which doesn't work in nodejs but works in the browser.
FJB converts it to something that works everywhere.
Funny that Boeing are capable of considering that, but not a single sensor failing and how that might impact a system designed to hide the actual aerodynamics of the plane.

Boeing really aren't a good example for anything besides negligence and how to game regulators.
Also the right who view tax simplification as a tax increase. The idea being that people are less involved with the process if they just click OK, and are therefore more accommodating of tax increases.
>Democracy literally predates the printing press.

Not in any form we'd recognize as modern democracy.
“After tax” in the US means after the employee pays their own share of various income taxes. The portion of those taxes paid by the employer are not discussed (in salary discussions).

Either way, the point stands - for cross-border salary discussions, you need to consider the “fully loaded” cost of an employee, not just net salary. You also have to consider non-cash benefits and costs (high US salaries offset by high health care costs, etc).
Employer payroll taxes exists in a number (all?) of US states too.
Well I did not say anything about the cost of UBI, I was not even necessarily advocating for UBI, I simply was giving an example were I had heard a similar "trust the evidence" argument.

That said, answering with "napkin math" to a complex costing problem like UBI is exactly the problem and why we should listen more to scientists.

Unfortunately, many of us engineering types are way too quick to make very strong statements based on essentially no expertise except for some math and engineering education. Interestingly in my observation this behaviour is less prevalent in scientists (i.e. people coming from a science opposed to an engineering background). Obviously, this is only anecdotal, but I would be interested if others have observed this.
Sounds like there's a market for a derived work that uses contemporary rhetoric.
This is an issue that is easy to solve when you control the hardware and the software. Also, if a bug crops up the prevents sleep/hibernate from working seamlessly, I'm sure it goes to the top of the priority list.

It's one of those things that has worked well for a long time. I remember on an old Powerbook G4, putting OSX to sleep while it was in the middle of the shutdown process only to wake it later to be welcomed by the shutdown process finishing and powering off.

[Not that OSX didn't have huge warts in those days. SambaFS/CIFS filesystem driver didn't deal well with the server going away for whatever reason. Reads/writes would block forever (because the driver didn't decide to time-out) and anything that attempted to touch it (even Finder) would immediately get sucked in to endlessly waiting.]
Really? I'm waiting for a new Razer Blade 14" to show up with 970m graphics. Even the old one with 870m stomps a mudhole in a macbook these days man.
> financial gain

> sharing of information

... These features aren't really extricable from each other in any society where money exists
Mouse Guard was excellent. Sometimes a little dark, but honestly, there are a lot of childhood classics that are more than a little dark.
toto444 perhaps you have the link to the video your interested in?
for me project ideas come from either problems I've experienced myself that I want to solve, or some app that I know I want.

In the case of http://tweetsaver.com, there was no other solution at the time it launched (over a year ago) that offered a decent way to back up my tweets, as well as search all my old tweets. I knew that, had there been another service at the time that offered this, I would have paid to use it.

Most of the ideas that I have that have come from speculating on what might be theoretically useful or super successful/popular are still just domain names :-)
I recently built a site for finding vineyards, and used GeoDjango with Postgres+PostGIS.

Setting up was a small PITA, but a bounding box query looks like this:

footprint = Polygon(((ullon, ullat), (lrlon, ullat), (lrlon, lrlat), (ullon, lrlat), (ullon, ullat)))
vineyards = Winery.objects.filter(loc__within=footprint)

If you're interested, check it out: http://finelocalwine.com/
Here's the thing; this seems amazing. The big question is, what is the killer app?
Interesting, thanks.

It's a good thing they developed a non-delete model.
Becoming conscious, sentient.