jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"But poor people have iphones now" when people can't afford food, healthcare, or any leisure time is the 2021 equivalent of "Let them eat cake".

The balance of wealth is insulting when we have so many basic needs not being met for those at the bottom

"Stealing" is a word that gets knee jerk reactions. But the more polite way to phrase it is that the rich benefit from societal structure 1000x more than the poor and are able to acquire wealth at an accelerated pace because of these structures. Asking the wealthy to pay a greater share to improve society is perfectly reasonable. The fallacy in complaining against taxes for the rich that are already higher than their proportional of wealth is ignoring the fact that so much of taxes goes towards systems that just increase the rate of wealth accumulation. The wealthy reap the benefits of power in compounding ways.
I present an alternate argument. First, Tether ToS says that their tokens are useless and nonredeemable, and their service is not available to US residents [0]. Second, the majority of BTC/XYZ trades on major exchanges are for Tether [1]. Third, as a stablecoin, the way it is supposed to work is that when USD is put into reserves, Tether creates USDT. When money is taken out of reserves, Tether will send the USDT to a bogus address to "burn" it. They have only burned a miniscule portion, much less than the $850m that we know has been seized [2]. My guess is that USDT is being pumped into high volume exchanges, and USD is coming out of low volume exchanges, and very little of USDT is backed by reserves.

[0] https://tether.to/legal/

> The right to have Tether Tokens redeemed or issued is a contractual right personal to you. Tether reserves the right to delay the redemption or withdrawal of Tether Tokens if such delay is necessitated by the illiquidity or unavailability or loss of any Reserves held by Tether to back the Tether Tokens, and Tether reserves the right to redeem Tether Tokens by in-kind redemptions of securities and other assets held in the Reserves. Tether makes no representations or warranties about whether Tether Tokens that may be traded on the Site may be traded on the Site at any point in the future, if at all.

> The following Persons are prohibited from depositing to, or withdrawing from, any Digital Tokens Wallet on the Site:
> any Person that resides, is located, has a place of business, or conducts business in the State of New York; and
> U.S. Persons.

[1] Volume charts and breakdowns are available in lots of places as the data is public, but the easiest chart is halfway down the right side of the page here. "Money flow from/to Bitcoin in the last 24 hours" https://coinlib.io/coin/BTC/Bitcoin

[2] there used to be a site called "omniexplorer" for navigating the Tether chain transactions, but it seems it went down. Now you have to piece it together using tools like blockchair, but it's far more difficult to read to find the coinbase transactions. https://blockchair.com/ethereum/erc-20/token/0xdac17f958d2ee...
And, by the way, the merchant incorporates that cost into their price.
For a "wired" vaccum, i'll go with Festool every time, but yeah, Dyson wireless vacuum are pretty good.
It's not very hard to be prescribed Adderall or Provigil in the US (as a civilian), though.
This looks very interesting. Before everybody starts making the obvious comparisons, note that this is from the same guy that made LZ4, and he is someone who clearly knows what he's doing. I've been following his work for some time.

It looks like this is the evolution of Zhuff, an experimental (closed-source) compressor [1]. It is basically LZ4 followed by a fast entropy coder, specifically FSE [2], that is a flavor of arithmetic coding that is particularly suited for lookup-table based implementations.

From a quick look at the source code it seems that the entropy stage uses 3 probability tables, one for literal bytes, one for match offsets, and one for match lengths. This is not dissimilar from gzip (which however uses Huffman).

EDIT: from a second look it seems that the LZ77 compression stage is basically LZ4: it uses a simple hash table with no collision resolution, which offers very high compression speed but poor match search. I'm surprised he didn't implement (yet?) an HC variant as for LZ4, it could even beat gzip compression rate with no overhead in decompression speed/memory requirements.

[1] http://fastcompression.blogspot.fr/p/zhuff.html

[2] https://github.com/Cyan4973/FiniteStateEntropy
Unfortunately, people who share your point of view don't appear to have thought it through very far. For instance, a consequence of what you're saying would be that Mozilla wouldn't have had the right to fire Eich over his unrelated political actions. To some of us, that's almost as objectionable as restrictions on speech.

Here's a hint, if you want to understand my point of view: it's easy to identify the Bad Guy in any conversation. It's whoever resorts to the threat of physical force first. Apart from that, it's all fair game: no one has the right to remain unoffended.
Darknet markets are one way of ensuring you get a pure product. Each vendor will often have hundreds of reviews.
This dynamic is part of why I feel like programmers should really just stop resisting the pull to move into management. You might think about programming as the most amazing thing ever, to be agonized over with a fine-toothed comb and the 'best tool for the job' elevated to a nigh-religious consideration, but to your employer, it's one line item on a budget.
> your ownership is likely meaningless

That's not true. The shares still represent a claim on the underlying company.

If someone wants to acquire the company, they have to compensate you for the shares that you hold.

Companies can't simply wave a magic wand and steal value from shareholders. There's more to stock ownership than voting rights.
This is what APIs and standards are for.
You're thinking of people who think they are irreplaceable due to general intelligence. People who are unique due to knowledge of specific systems are much less easy to swap out. Money can buy general intelligence but specific domain/application knowledge is sometimes unavailable at any price.
One of the things the internet allowing people to broadcast their messages free from editorial interference proves is that some people really are so "out there" as to render most attempts at parody redundant. See also godhatesfags.com and your average conspiracy theorist's home page.
Judaism. That which is hateful to you, do not do to others. That is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary; now go study. --Hillel
1 order from Amazon for "Hello, Android" placed Oct. 29th, expected arrival after Dec. 25th with the possibility of a Feb. 22nd delivery date!? But it's in stock over at Amazon... Oh wait, looks like I'll be getting it directly from the source. Go, go, gadget 'turkey.' Thanks for letting me know about this woan. Now I can get it for the same price and don't need to wait a month or more.
Not immediately clear:

Where and how could I deploy an app like this? What are its dependencies? Does it run in the browser or an OS? How do I set up the environment to compile it?
I'm not sure "infinity miles per gallon" makes sense on the electric side. The EIA publishes statistics about power generation in the United States:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epa_sum.html

Since 68.8% of power generation in the United States comes from non-renewable resources (coal, gas, and petroleum), it makes sense that the EPA would use some sort of system to describe the MPG for cars running on electric power.
I will have to google a bit but Carter phased out oil based plants after the first crisis. I think it was called the "fuel use act".

Huh. Well I stand corrected:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Oil-fired_power_statio...

But I also read elsewhere they only make up 8 percent of the total in the USA and are being phased out.
Interesting, I grew up in Georgia and was constantly in and out of gifted classes from elementary school through high school. The process was very similar except there were basically no tests involved. In high school I was bumped to a gifted class randomly in the middle of the year without any additional processes.

I suppose it’s possible that that could have changed since I was in school, but it wasn’t that long ago either.
Lots of big mistakes here. His name was Abu Hamid alGhazali. If you read his "almunqidh min aD-Dalaal" (Deliverance From Error) which was an autobiography and summary of his thought, he states that e.g.

"MATHEMATICS. This embraces arithmetic, plane geometry and solid geometry. None of its results are connected with religious matters, either to deny or to affirm them. They are matters of demonstration which it is impossible to deny once they have been understood and apprehended."

"LOGIC. Nothing in logic is relevant to religion by way of denial or affirmation.",

"Just as it is not a condition of religion to reject medical science, so likewise the rejection of natural science is not one of its conditions, except with regard to particular points".

You can find the text at https://ghazali.org/books/md/gz101.htm, for me this was a very influential book.
> That might seem obvious to you, but maybe you'd be surprised then :)

Fair. I've been surprised by the ignorance of people before, including myself!
Even for a journalist, Brower is incredibly ignorant. I read his book, The Starship and the Canoe back when it came out, when I was in my 20s - I learned absolutely nothing about Freeman Dyson's work that I didn't already know from other casual reading. Though it did have some interesting, if really shallow, information on George Dyson's treehouse and canoes.

If you want to learn what Freeman Dyson thinks, I suggest reading what he has written. Among other things, he is a better writer than Brower, too.

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dysonf07/dysonf07_index.html
But why is Android any worse than, say, Windows XP in this respect?
Imagine if all you need to do everything is turn PSDs into HTML and your job title is programmer.

And then someone shows you this book and tells you that every good programmer loves this book and it is confusing. The reaction is always negative.
Also see pg's review, referenced but not linked from Norvig's: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3G05B1TQ5XGZP/ref=cm_cr_pr_per...
I like how the freemium is the book and the premium stuff is stuff you would expect to find free on the internet as promotion material.

Very interesting reversal of expectations.
All marketing terms are bullshit? Wrong. All marketing terms are a way to provide a simplified way for consumers to conceptualize a product. In that respect, "NoSQL" is not bullshit at all, even though it may not be as technically accurate as some would prefer.
I agree with you, but considering how much you spend on developers in salary, benefits, and equipment, $55 is for all intents and purposes free.
NoSQL = "We don't have to solve every damn Database problem with Oracle 10G, despite what our (brought up in enterprise IT) tech-services group keeps insisting to our COO every time the engineering group rolls out a new product that uses something different. It does mean that we can't rely on the crutch of (1) optimizer/statistics gather, (2) RAC, (3) Dataguard, (4) MASSIVE spindle group SANs w/ vertically scaled Sun M9000/IBM P795 Database Server and our small group of DBAs to solve all of our query, HA, DR and scaling problems, but instead have to shift the responsibility for solving those problems onto the Engineering team, which may or may not make sense depending on whether we believe our core competence should be solving those problems with engineering instead of (1),(2),(3), (4).

NoSQL is a phrase that means "use the right tool for the job" instead of just throwing endless amounts of money at low-risk, but 100x (1000x?) more expensive solutions that will eventually fail at internet scale load anyways.

NoSQL means taking on more of the engineering risk, rather than shifting it to your vendor.
not to mention: you can host a chat server in your company network, somewhat protected from random people on the internet, and your ops people should already be securing that from external intrusions anyway.
I'd argue that the CA system is false authentication because it's fairly easy for the right players to tamper with. In that case, unauthenticated/encrypted transport is only a little less safe than "authenticated"/encrypted transport, but with the latter giving a higher illusion of safety than the former.

The only real trust that would work is distributed trust. The CA system is kind of a joke.

That said, yes, it does protect coffee shop HTTPS browsing better than a self-signed cert.
I hate to break it to you but SMS is some other company's product. Google Authenticator is not a cloud service; it's simply an implementation of the TOTP RFC and there are others available if you hate Google so much that you don't trust a purely local app written by them.
> Sublime Text 3, while still technically in beta, is the recommended version of Sublime Text to use

Then stop calling it a beta?
Honest, non-snarky answer... to be pedantic, for me it's not a question of affordability. I'm a software professional with a very good income, and I could do it on my own.

I have a friend a few months younger than me. She makes less than $15k/year, and has two children living at home. Under those financial circumstances, she has totally paid off her home, which should tell you how frugal and responsible she is. She has also experienced extensive hospitalization due to illness. If she had to pay for that (it was paid for by state-subsidized health care), she'd have lost her house.

edit: Medical costs are the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US.
> In the other direction, smoking weed in private harms nobody except the smoker.

This is precisely the point that is contention. The entire argument for prohibiting marijuana is that this is, in fact, not the case, and that, through a number of indirect channels, people "smoking weed in private" harms others throughout society in a variety of ways.

Obviously, as I said, there is considerable disagreement about whether this is, in fact, the case, (and, also, as to whether, even if it is, prohibition mitigates or exacerbates these harms, and as to whether, in any case, prohibition is an ethically-acceptable response even if the harms exist and prohibition mitigates them.)

But it certainly is not the case that those who support prohibition generally agree that the crimes are "victimless" that those opposed to prohibition describe that way.
It will when you write one and focus on your priorities.

For this httpd, it seems like the problem they were solving is that they needed an httpd, and the result is about what I'd expect from the OpenBSD folks.
I loved the tooltips implementation. I'd like to grab just that.
>How is this true? If it were true that having a powerful group work for you (powerful in the sense of collective negotiations) why would nearly all industry move to India and China?

What is your problem? Seriously. Labor WOULDN'T move overseas if unionized workers had any power. The labor moves over seas because those with the power decide where to move the labor, and it is decidedly NOT unions.

>Second, you are again just assuming that the fact that a person walks into a company and is willing to work that they are worth maximum money available from that company.

I made no such assumption. I only assumed that the worker should be able to negotiate their worth by using other employees as a resource for evaluating what that is. If all the other workers agree you are worth X, the company should pay X. The company should not be in charge of both determining what you are worth AND paying you, because they are likely to minimize both, no matter what reality has to say.

The only reason you have competitive wages anywhere without unions is because companies compete against each other. And if they collude, you lose that. It doesn't matter what you are worth, only how much collusion is legal or accepted.

>Do you imagine that, since we have laws against it, that we might snap back into national slavery?

Do you know that the laws can be repealed? And that the people who would repeal them are the same people you're asking everyone to forfeit their political and economic power to?

How do you expect a law to stay on the books if the only ones championing for it have their hands tied?
Sorry ... I didn't mean to imply that right = authoritarian. Leftist authoritarianism clearly also exists.
Is Nola Pro good? http://www.nolapro.com
The same but not as fast. Usually 3 days to go through the ACH process. I routinely transfer money between my two bank accounts.
whew! I'm glad I passed, though it should be obvious from my submission that my C is far from fluent! I am looking forward to the analysis - thank you for doing this RoG!
Atlas was also 50 years ago.
The likelihood that you're accurately judging the origins of your driving behavior from your keyboard while a cat is on your lap after reading an article like this is 0.0%. I have a dog in the room with me. Let me help you out. You are not a toxo zombie, 'ComputerGuru.
I know of some people who were buying gold ounces at under spot once BCB was factored in.
This kind of interop error should be seen and fixed in the earliest development and should never reach users; that's the point of deliberately triggering it.
Why, the Twitter service itself. Its called lock-in.

Rewrite the licensing to say for non-commercial use only, except under special license. Allow businesses to opt into a licensing agreement for a few hundred bucks a year. Release the hounds on any unlicensed companies.
Sounds like you'd pay for the tires (which then last forever, since you aren't driving on them) in just one year. Maybe two if you drive a truck. Lots of people have wrenches and spare garage space. And plenty more are already dumb enough to drive on bald tires. Let's not make this worse.

Incentivizing the failure to replace wear items is bad policy.
And those filings say that Apple is rapidly changing itself into online service firm where most services heavily rely on users data.
I need to get one of those things again for Blender work. Had one at my last job, grows on you :D.
I think this Godot Dedicated Multiplayer series might be interesting to you: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ-54sd-DMAKU8Neo5KsV...

Godot also makes it very easy to export games to be run in the browser.
I hope this is not a dumb question: but what is Axiom? (Suggestion: maybe add a link to Aximn itself in the README.md)
This was a great read... "choose your MUST". Thanks for sharing!
Teaching your daughter the flavor of the month Javascript framework, pulling her out of high school due to a moment of fame and referencing "nice new monitors and as many couches as chairs." as "The classroom even looks pretty silicon valley-ish".

Anyone else has any finishing ingredient of this recipe for disaster? Ah right, forcing feminism in tech by pushing your daughter into speaking at public events.
I have some pretty complex spreadsheets from Excel that I now run under LibreOffice without any problems.

That said, while they do use some complex formulas, they don’t use any VBScript or other such madness.

Complaining that your custom MSFT/VBScript stuff doesn’t work, so you can’t migrate — it sounds to me a bit like “We’re stuck on Oracle and can’t move to PostgreSQL because we decided to use a lot of Oracle magic stuff that doesn’t work anywhere else”.

This is classic vendor lock-in, which I tend to view as a business risk best avoided. There really is no option except to recognize it as technical debt and find time to dig yourself out from it.

When your only option for “Business Function X” limits you to a single vendor, fix that first.
Unless you are actually running HPC workloads.
For the payment aspect, charge $5 then refund it once both people say they’ve met?
Minor exception: Language. Memorization is extremely important in developing language- you're sure as hell not going to derive Chinese from academic linguistics first principles!
I would call it reductio ad absurdum. But that's not the point as I wasn't refuting any arguments you made (you didn't any), but making fun of what I see as a knee-jerk reaction of calling for a new law on every minor occasion.

Btw, your final para: do you mean that only privileged people can apply "beatification" effects on their phitos? FWIW make-up is much more expensive.
Just don't visit between November and March.

The "Windy City" thing has little to do with our weather; winds are empirically worse in New York and San Francisco. If you have almost no experience with the city, it's easy to project and extrapolate from its nickname.
Those statements are not in the form of facts that matter. It is very easy to make an example when you are allowed to make abstract statements without context. Please try to make a statement that matters in any debate, that would change something in a policy or the practical world, and you'll see that it is much easier to reliably and objectively distinguish between which one is a fact and which is opinion/false/etc.
SoftMaker Office (or the free version FreeOffice) is, in my opinion, better than LibreOffice.

Never liked LibreOffice/OpenOffice/StarOffice. I respect the work behind it, but as a product I don't like it.

And using MS Office just contributes to the de-facto monopoly problem. Corel used to have a nice Office suite for Linux but after MS bought them Linux support was dropped.
You used to be able to buy Office for a one-time purchase and not have to pay yearly. So how is this their best deal ever? Tbf, if this includes OneDrive you are getting more than just an office suite.

Also would be interested in more details on why you like Microsoft Office better than the other two.
Tell "it's confidential according to the contract I've signed with my previous employer".

As a compromise - tell: "it's in the ballpark between A and B", where A was your actual salary and your desired salary is in between A and B.
Worked perfectly at 60FPS on my 13" rMBP (Intel 5000, I think?) in the latest Safari, of all browsers! I was super impressed.
What makes you think that?

It hasn't worked for gun control, and plenty of people (most certainly including a lot of gun owners) feel just as strongly on this issue.

This was a big thing in the '90s (along with Federal level gun control), it all failed (like the worst of that Federal level gun control), and eventually the government stopped controlling encryption as a munition. What's different this time, besides the currently not very hot in the US GWoT?
1.5 Tesla doesn't seem like a lot - MRI's have more.

What makes this one special? The size?
It is more advanced than Box2D [0]? What makes you say that?

http://blog.sethladd.com/2011/09/box2d-javascript-example-wa...
Out of curiosity what do you find to be worth time doing?
It is black for me -- thus I think it is sort of broke.
We're using Webpack, which is similar to Browserify (in the context of this article) but also provides lazy-loading and automatically generated bundles depending on how your code is structured.

At the moment, our "app.js" bundle includes the core. As components are requested (in the form of define(['newsfeed'], function(newsfeed) { newsfeed.render(); });), the requested bundle is downloaded and includes all of its dependencies, including pre-compiled SCSS styles in-line and excluding components/libraries used commonly across the application.

This happens using static analysis of your code and is fairly transparent to the developer.
Actually, I don't think so. If they were sloppy with that, they were probably sloppy also in other matters that might matter for web development.