jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Rightfully?
Want a reason why this country is run the way it is? This kind of tax policy is a huge reason. We have a huge swath of people who are shielded from the effects of poor spending and governance. In fact, they get the benefit without any of the cost.
It creates a horrible third payer situation. Two groups (in this case non-taxpayers and big government politicians/lobbyists) collude to take money from another group (taxpayers) to mutually benefit themselves. Non-taxpayers get all the government benefits they want and politicians/lobbyists get a reliable bloc of voters for their favored policies.
This nation will only survive if every last one of us has skin in the game, including and especially our personal wealth. Why do we like to see financial advisers disclose their personal investments before taking their advice? It's because people have a much easier time throwing other people's money away.
I raised my kids on GUIs and they love it.

(I don't disagree that exposing kids to the command line is probably a valuable thing, but the idea that kids who learned to type a magic command to launch games on C64 have more useful knowledge than kids brought up on Mac/Windows is frankly stupid.)

Last night my five-year-old daughter complained her iPad was out of battery so I gave her my Nexus 7 and she had no problems using it (except for the relatively poorer quality of the apps). Then I gave her my Kindle Fire and she had no problem using that. (No, she can't read beyond numbers and sounding out words slowly.)

It's sad how because my daughter has been brought up on GUIs she can't run a computer from the command-line. No, wait, it isn't.
Bees really are "magic" as per the article. I've been beekeeping for 3 years now and I love it. Working with such programmable insects is almost like watching automata at work. Via simple inputs, complex behavior. I recommend any one, but programmers especially, try keeping bees.
I think you're right about there being nothing fundamental that prevents women from being leaders, but I also think there are relevant differences between the genders. The stereotypical role of the male sex and gender is to protect. The stereotypical role of the female sex and gender is to nurture. A good leader will embody both characteristics as an example for the people he or she leads to look up to and follow.
So basically the big secret is putting it inside an airtight container?

Wow. That wouldn't work with any other kind of food!

To downvoters: please read the article. all of it
I'm torn. If I was running the company I would want to charge the NSA to try and discourage them from overusing the capabilities but I don't want it to become an appealing business for the companies.
So are they seizing Mt. Gox's money, or the money of account holders forfeit for being used in an unlicensed service?
Coronaviruses are strongly affected by climate -- that's why we have "cold season". Maybe the endemic coronaviruses aren't endemic in Brazil's warm and humid climate?
> I don't know. What's the right amount of tax?

Islam solved this problem a long time ago. Look up Zakat laws. For your cash in the bank that has been sitting for 1 year, it's an extremely reasonable 2.5%.
These are helpful, in my experience:

https://www.asus.com/us/Displays-Desktops/Monitors/ZenScreen...
>> or at least requiring more fully transparent "odds" statements about the likelihood of specific in-game items in those loot boxes

Published odds is definitely needed. When I bought physical packs of baseball cards as a kid, by the mid/late 90s they had odds listed on the back of getting the special cards, autographs, etc. That was absolutely vital to being an informed consumer.
this is like the norm outside of fang
>I have a hard time wrapping my head around why companies are mandating 100% return to office.

Because most managers have a reactionary style of management. They are like IRQ handlers. Their state doesn't change until they receive an email from their boss or a phone call from a customer. At that point they react to it by running down the hall to find someone. Now, because they do not understand cooperative multitasking they preemptively interrupt YOU and now your day is f*cked.
Well, the games are pretty big. I don't play any PC or Console games but I've somehow amassed about 30 games on my iPhone, very few on my Nexus One though.

Apart from that though, what I miss from the iPhone when I'm using my Android phone are OmniFocus, GoodReader/iBooks (I haven't found an Android PDF reader that comes close), GuitarToolkit, TabTookit, OmniTuner, MobileRSS (again, haven't found a close competitor on Android) and Hipstamatic.
I wonder if the government is targeting this hacker for his involvement in Whisper Systems, http://www.whispersys.com/. Their main products are easy to use encryption software for calls and texts on android smartphones. From what I can recall the gov really does not want ubiquitous encryption for voice communication in the US. It totally breaks down the whole wiretapping paradigm.
> Greater than 90% of the population had to be farmers, because if that wasn't the case the people would starve

That's quite a bold statement. Do you have a source to back it up?

If that was the case, there wouldn't be such a thing as a city or a civilization.

From what I understand, most people in Europe were peasants because the ruling class wouldn't let them be anything else, not because it was the only sustainable choice economically.
Show me the median.
The 2008 Foamish Launch video is here: http://www.youtube.com/user/OpusVideoProductions#p/u/0/SeH0z...
Honestly i don't believe that he will get to the point of having something playable. I watched too many projects like this fail and some succeed.

Those who succeeded all did NOT focus on their technology when talking about their project and seemed to focus more on getting it to a point where you could actually play something.

Of course you'd think that for a mmo a good technology base is key, but it isn't because if you're honest: Your mmo won't attract a that large crowd in such a speed that you won't have time to merge to something better and spend the money you've earned from your customers of the first hour on improving scalabililty.

Find something fun, get it done and then make it work would be my advice to any aspring independent gamedeveloper.
I had a similar problem when I got a new number a few years ago. I would get calls, usually very early in the morning asking for someone else. Even though I would say they had the wrong number they would just continue to call back day after day. The number was from a debt collection agency.
Unfortunately for MAFIAA lobbyists, representative democracy occasionally works as intended.
So, why doesn't Google fund those same players? There must be a value judgement there because I gotta assume Google thought of that as an option.
so interesting, as a mostly C++ dev, UE's C++ style feels absolutely awful aha. Of course it mostly has to be like this because c++ used to not have reflection at all but I think that nowadays one could use similar principles as the ones I've tried to develop for audio / media objects in https://github.com/celtera/avendish to implement game objects / UObject in a much cleaner way and with better compile times.

Add a couple custom attributes implemented as a clang plug-in like e.g.

[[ue::name("Player HP")]]
int hp{};

which can be done in a couple afternoons by an intern and things would look sooo muuuch better.
You do know most of the current best games were free mods at some point?
Actually since Burst and DOTS, Unity has been incrementally replacing C++ with C# Burst subset.
Look for the add code, copy it, replace + by *.
I don't agree with this article at all.

If we cannot judge a work without knowing anything about the author, then how are we supposed to judge works like the Iliad and the Odyssey?

Sometimes knowing the bias of an author can impact how our present biases color our own views. For example, most people these days who read Thucydides' Melian Dialogue would assume the correct conclusion is to side with Melos, and it's often a shock that Thucydides himself sided with the Athenians. However, this does not change the quality of the work itself, but merely how we perceive it.

I would agree to the extent that knowing the authors bias might color the text, and that we could infer a more nuanced and realistic picture from that knowledge. But I see no way that Gibbon's sex life (or lack thereof) should influence how we approach his history. To me, that is trying to dismiss a work by attacking the character of the person who wrote it.
At a minimum, those gamers need to look at the past, and their own future.

See, when hardware was more open, I was able to preserve and continue to play the games I enjoy. In fact, I can disassemble them, learn from them, make my own.

The gamers of today won't be playing the games of their formative years on their terms, if they are playing them at all.

This is just one of the many things Stallman is right about. Laughing at him is generally unwise. Ask a bunch of us how we know. Seriously.
No. A game does not cost hundreds of millions of dollars to create. Some games choose to burn hundreds of millions of dollars, for very little return. Some of the best games were a lot cheaper to produce. License costs are elective: Noone forces you to plaster Football players names and team logos on your Football game (and some of the best (and creative) Football games choose not to)

The main problem is that RMS lives in a world in which people care about freedom, when they only care about brand recognition - and that is in fact related to marketing and thus "millions of dollars".
Do you mean "associative" instead of "transitive"?
The (original) Palm had well-executed cut and paste from the beginning. Of course it uses a stylus, but that also means much greater precision when selecting. Too bad that Palm stopped developing its original OS - I still enjoy my Treo, but will probably switch to the iPhone when it dies.
A language where a spoken word has completely different meanings depending on how hoarse you are that day can be a lot of things, but "simple" is not one of them, imho.

The author doesn't understand that most european words aren't just made up on the spot for new things, they are built with the same process as he describes for chinese: pick an existing term and adapt it for a new use, or pick several terms and join them up. Of course, you probably have to go back a few hundreds or thousands of years to get at the root of the thing.

otoh, I could say that the advantage of having a small non-meaningful alphabet is that you're not stuck with the symbolism of existing characters, so you're free to actually make words up if you want to.

The advantage of having a (for the most part) neutral tonal system in european languages combined with a small neutral system of characters, combined with the rich heritage of the small number of base languages that created all these languages (latin, greek, etc) and the freedom to synthesize words whenever appropriate is what is making english the lingua franca that it is, and what keeps all other (let's not say euro, but western) languages up there on the importance chart.

I wonder if it would be easy for chinese speakers to understand how western languages work if we say that each character in the latin alphabet is the equivalent of a single stroke in chinese...
thanks, i have tried it, basically the conversion just sort of hangs, i've never encoded successfully, tried different dvds, too.
Interesting. I think even if you posted it as a code post and just included a couple snippets, with the tips as the description, that'd work just fine.
Then they should let me put that in somewhere while I'm still shopping (even if only as an option), or assume the one that's already listed in my account details, rather than waiting until I press "check out" to ask for it.
If there are that many people working late how can there not be a silent peer pressure to do so?
One of the issues I've seen with Basecamp is that it's bought quite a lot - I've done contracting work for a number of companies large and small in my area, and most of them had used basecamp in the past or were still paying for it when I got there. Problem was, no one was using it 'right'. Based on the comments here, and other critiques I've read, it seems to be a good fit to a far smaller group of orgs than people think (especially the people who buy it). They end up beating their heads against the wall, or abandoning web-based PM tools altogether - "well, we tried the leader and it doesn't work for us - we're too unique and special, so we'll just keep doing everything on paper" (not actual words, but the gist I've heard before).

So 37S ends up being phenomenal marketers that have a service many people want to buy, but more people buy it than can get real value out of it because it wasn't built for their needs in the first place.

Certainly 37S is not ultimately responsible for people continuing to pay for something that doesn't work, but they do a pretty good sales job via word-of-mouth evangelism, even when it's a poor fit for an org's needs. Maybe too good?
Even though I do use a bunch of different cloud services I still have a mail client and a bunch of spreadsheets open at any given time. It's still the most practical way for me to get work done. I'm not even an Office power-user but I find Google Docs to be lacking some features that were available to me with MS Office running on Windows 3.1. I can't justify that type of downgrade just to save myself a few minutes of work saving, sharing or retrieving a file in a less convenient way.
I did! https://github.com/steveklabnik/rust_example

A Ruby extension written in Rust is also one of the first production uses: skylight.io
I have no problem with it, except in this variant the empty braces everywhere are a bit annoying (and seem very likely unnecessary).
I take it back, I was too hyperbolic.

The export is substantial though:

https://www.acea.be/publications/article/eu-us-automobile-tr...
Well, you should not promise them to return wit tanks and they will be pretty welcoming
Not a C compiler. This is the original C compiler from ~1972.
It's just an experiment to bring a bit of computing history to life.
Agree on pay, especially after taxes. But immigrant hate isn't quite true. At least it depends where you go, e.g. Berlin is extremely multicultural and tolerant. But your experience in a small farmer village may be different.
Always strive to be the best at what you do.
My first brush with RSI was drawing with my tablet too far to the right hand side, and pressing too hard. Nowadays it's just improper placement and having to crane over the tablet (with my left hand) to the keyboard shortcuts.

Out of interest, and assuming you use a tablet with extra buttons, how do you use them? Or do you disable them like virtually every other tablet user I've ever met :)
The expenses (rent, day to day, etc.) are considerably lower in most German cities versus Paris, London or some other hubs.
While racism exists in some places, it’s an exaggeration to put it like this.
I say this based on my own experience as an immigrant backend developer who came to Germany with a work visa.
It does introduce ambiguity in certain sentences, but pronouns already do that and we don't have much issue using them. The solution is to just not use the pronoun if it's ambiguous, pronouns are just a convenience.
Intel's been offering that for some of their processors for quite some time (vPro)... also third party provider, I believe they inject a rootkit into Windows upon bootup.
But you can (supposedly) irreversibly disable it fortunately.
Pretty sure you can buy Mein Kampf at most US bookstores. I know I bought a copy in high school, though I never did get around to reading it.
Precisely. And that's what people already do when mainstream social media sites won't host their content. Meaning you can't stop misinformation from spreading, not this way. If anything, you're achieving the OPPOSITE effect by turning people who get cancelled into "martyrs".

And by "forcefully", I meant between the walls of the specific media site. (Though good luck explaining the difference to an angry mob.)
Also most platforms make sure arguments can only even reach people who are already receptive to them. If you disagree with someone you have almost no chance of getting a message to them unless you privately message them.
Sure there will be ISP or registrars that wouldn't support them but there could be other ISP or other registrars to support them. There's plenty of ways to re-platform.
And that grey area is admittedly harder to give context to when the medium for it is text....but since he's the president and he's been physically SAYING falsehoods that lead to this situation, he should have been banned sooner.
Yeah, except for the fact that there’s no one bbs “to rule them all”. The power these platforms have mean they’re up there in terms of influence of govt.

As I saw concisely said on Twitter: If you can silence a king, you are the king
Parler, Trump’s logical next step after Twitter, has just been removed from the Play Store.

There’s a level of co-ordination at play here that should be worrying to people who care about freedom of speech.

And before some idiot tells me that the 1st Amendment doesn’t apply to private companies, I’m not making a legal point here, I’m making a moral one.
2003 is a long time ago.

> I was promised by SuSE they would do better but ended up losing key clients that were important for my survival.

How did this happen exactly? If SuSE was not polished enough for these clients, did you not have the possibility to switch to Red Hat or Debian instead?
There's a chilling effect at the moment where you can't say "huh, today I learned" about anything that might be a right-wing talking point without risk of being treated as some kind of White supremacist yourself.
Probably just in case the thing that would have made us die doesn't actually make us die so we don't fully process the horrifically traumatic thing that caused us to almost die
Kongregate was my main site. Every game had a chatbox so there was a lot of community building. And it was really built around creators as well, allowing any user to submit a game. As a result there was a ton of exclusive content there

It's probably second only to Newgrounds in terms of driving a creator-centric vision of flash gaming/art

Armor Games caught on to a little bit later
I'm flattered that the OP took an interest in my comment, and when I said "less" click-thirsty I hope I didn't come off too judgemental: whether we admit it or not we're all pretty well wired-up for the engagement dopamine hit at this point, including me and my comment.

Given that you've clarified the point you were making was the one I hoped: I am interested in hearing more from you and I would gently discourage that particular writing style. Your post could have been called, just for the sake of argument, "Work Technical, Speak in Plain Language" or something to that effect.

There is this, I'll say it, dysfunction, where certain folks in the software business are trying to create a (high-paying) career track that is adjacent to deeply technical stuff but not really touching it. That needs to be drowned in a bathtub.

Anyone smart enough to write an optimizing compiler is smart enough to explain how one works, at least in outline, to a layperson. There is no need for a middle-man layer of blubber between the people who need to know why to buy or not buy one, and the person who knows how to write one.
It gets flagged because it's fairly shallow ("programming language advertising blurb is an advertising blurb, news at 11", without any useful in-depth argument that hasn't been rehashed to death) and pulling individual mailing-list or bug tracker quotes up seldom does any good, especially if comments like yours will try to turn it into a flamewar.
> This is simply tu quoque

Not the original poster, but I don't think it is.

The problem is that, since all countries acknowledge that there should be limits on speech, it's inappropriate for one country (or company, for that matter) to decide what should be the limit in another country.

If it were black and white, there'd be a much stronger case. But this is a company saying "our shade of grey is preferable to yours".

I obviously don't agree with what the Turkish government demanded, but I'm unconvinced that this in particular is a strong argument for a foreign company to decide to overrule local law. And I really think that should be a very high bar.
> Like many people I’ve written a bit about fintech and the influences the new right-wing populism is having on financial markets

I'd flag this as inflammatory, but I'm too much of a right-wing populist who cares about free speech.

Natter on with the folly. Most right-wingers I know IRL would touch BitCoin with anything they don't care to lose.

Let the tulip mania roll on, say I.
Yes, but the data travels at approximately the speed of light, so you can just drop the "light" unit in front of the time units
TV news is already a joke, I think it's probably healthy to make that more obvious. Removing any views that's aren't approved by the establishment will hopefully go a ways in that direction.

It's still a little tough to run your own news program without a network, but as time goes by the technical part just gets cheaper and easier. I expect we'll see something like substack for video news before long. And hopefully something decentralized before it gets too late.
Considering YPG is considered a terrorist organization and is an extension of another terrorist organization recognized by many countries, including US, I'm not sure this is about the ruler of the country.

YPG/PKK terrorism is something Turkey is trying to deal with for ~30 years now.

Calling people killing Turkish citizens as Kurdish minorities is also overly romantic if it's unintentional.
what should we use instead of k8bes.
1. I'm not going to tell my parents to get a Pihole.

2. Wait until your smart TV starts using DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) to by-pass it. (Paul Vixie will be proved right eventually IMHO.)
So how did Rust acquire this reputation to begin with? I've read about it and have written some. It's a nice language but not above criticism. Seems to have the usual modern language problems such as its own package ecosystem that's incompatible with everything else.

The creator of Zig got this right. If your language's binary interface is too complex, nothing else will even attempt to interface with it. Even some C features are too annoying to interface with. Newer languages either have insanely complex ABIs or are fully virtualized within a virtual machine written in C.
That's a great suggestion, I'll forward it on to the author. :)
It's not about being dull, or exciting, and it's not about click-bait or otherwise. It's about accuracy, reporting, and expectations. The heading was "How My Mom Got Hacked" so I expected to see something about how her mom got hacked.

But I didn't. It was a great story about what happened after her mom got hacked, and it was interesting, and mildly engaging, but it simply wasn't what it said.

Calling it something like "Paying the hackers" or something like that would have been accurate and just as intriguing.

Is it too much to ask reporters to title the article with something that actually refers to what is in it?