jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know what word we're supposed to use for "Web Development techniques that help ensure a consistency of experience across browsers for all users regardless of browser choice" now that "standards" means something else?
Yeah I didn't mean to imply we were the only option, just maybe the most affordable for a tech-savvy startup.
It’s pretty bizarre to (in the same sentence) imply Uber is “exploiting” gig workers, and also self-driving taxis eliminating that “exploitation” is a good thing for them.
I think there is an administration cost savings as well. If we used git in a truly decentralized way, we would have to all announce and resolve each others remotes. The simple solution is to have a centralized service that we all connect to, al la GitHub.
No, we don't show any ads whatsoever. We charge businesses $10/month for unlimited listings, matches, 1-1 support and more. There is no fee for individuals looking for a job, but will be adding a premium version for those who want extra tools and stuff (e.g resume rewrites, portfolio edits, mentorship etc), but this is much later on
Simple had some good ideas, but I eventually moved on to more "grown up" banking solutions. What caused me to leave was the inability to write paper checks, which I only needed once or twice a year but is a useful and reasonable-to-expect feature in a "checking" account. Going to a web form and requesting they mail a check on my behalf wasn't an adequate replacement for my needs... scenarios like money in a Christmas card, security deposit on a desirable apartment that a landlord isn't going to hold for me without that deposit, etc.
Most of the accounts are for things that have a mostly-fixed price per month (e.g. utilities/insurance/investing that might cost more/less month-to-month, but average out to $X, which gets automatically put in them each month), or things that build up each month and get spent whenever (e.g. gifts/travel budgets that I put $X into each month, then pull from as-needed whenever it's someone's birthday or the $ is high enough to go on a trip). Plus a couple annually-withdrawn accounts for subscriptions (staggered for things that renew on different months, so I don't withdraw too many times in a single month), e.g. spotify, xbox live, notebook.ai, etc.

For the more fluid day-to-day stuff that I might make "withdrawals" from multiple times a month (like groceries and random spending), I usually stick to using checking accounts (which you only get 3 of on CO, unfortunately), but yeah, I have $X put in each month and look at how much is left to get a gauge on how much to spend or not (which does make me spend more/less on food/whatever at some points).

I rebalance every few months and look at whether I'm averaging more/less than I expect on each account and adjust the automatic deposits into each account accordingly, so it's mostly just a way to visualize a budget day-to-day while also making it easy to go back and see actual spending numbers month-to-month (which I also track with spreadsheets, but that's another conversation!).
Fines like this typically punish shareholders and lower level employees (via restructuring in response to a need to find budget for the fine).
Tech reform begins with the NSA
> him trying to limit corruption in local government, which is a massive problem in China

Or is it simply putting his opponents to jail?
> Good luck securing coins

Securing Bitcoin is a solved problem. Trezor is bullet proof piece of open hardware already working with multiple software backends, including two android wallets. And it's easy to use, as simple or even simpler than online banking. And it's not the only one - there are other hardware wallets. For corporations today there is multi-sig and an improvement over multi-sig, called treshold signatures, currently in development.
Excerpt:
"A well-behaved web API: uses the protocol semantics of HTTP;
returns appropriate status codes and response headers;
defines cacheability of responses;
supports conditional requests;
participates in content negotiation;
drives the business process instead of exposing CRUD operations;
is tolerant towards clients;
is extensible;
is self-descriptive and discoverable."
If this is an act of war then most of the NSA revelations would mean that the rest of the world has eons of Casus Belli's against USA.
I find that hard to believe, as they grow naturally in loads of places, and you can get kits online as well. Maybe in specific climates.
I disagree, but I suppose this a matter of preference. For whatever it's worth, the React team did explore using a constraint-solver, but nixed the idea. They explain their reasoning here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rDsRXj9-cU&t=14m20s
You aren't limited to Javascript, any compile to JS language can surely be used.
No it wouldn't because your employer would counter the tipping culture by cutting your wages creating an equilibrium, only now you have to rely on other people providing the bulk of your salary instead of your employer.
You know actually this is bugging me. # of life/# stars is fucking awful math.

It's the equivalent of shuffling a deck of cards dealing them all out and concluding, that because there are 100 billion decks of cards in the world, that the odds of getting that particular ordering is 1 in 10^11. It's not, its 1 in 8x10^67. All it takes is TWO decks of cards before the probability of a given ordering is less than 1/(# of atoms in the universe)... squared even.

Saying the chances of life forming in the galaxy is AT WORST 1 in a trillion just because, hey we exist right? is straight up fucking wrong.
What would you want to get out of that data? (I can see that it's useful, I just want to hear what you can imagine.)
Rapportive (YCS10) were part of the 'accidental incubatuor' that kinda got the ball rolling. (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:T3Vxyoj...)
Loops are just a special case of recursion, and only necessary for languages that don't support recursion very well. As an example, Scheme and Haskell have no use for loops.
IE6's hanging around isn't looked at as a good thing.
Immediately used 160MB upon starting the program. Firefox is lean compared to that.
Because a single large companies can fail, without destroying society.

Imagine if the company was all of society.

What I'm more interested in is this idea of democracy (inefficent, but least of a number of evils) vs. enlightened dictatorship (efficient, sucks if your priorities are different from leader's).

Small is beautiful in part because you don't need to convince a lot of people with disparate motivations to do something.

The same pattern arises in startup vs. bigco, and visionary CEO vs. design by committee.
This is by far the most relevant comment. I can't count how many times I've seen goats grazing in parks and other public/private property lately. In San Francisco, no less.
Is there any reason you believe this to be most efficient?

The downside to using the same hand is that it is slower for that hand to complete the depressions as it is more awkward.
The document estimates that between 3% and 11% of the Yahoo webcam imagery harvested by GCHQ contains "undesirable nudity". Discussing efforts to make the interface "safer to use", it noted that current "naïve" pornography detectors assessed the amount of flesh in any given shot, and so attracted lots of false positives by incorrectly tagging shots of people's faces as pornography.

So, if you have to hide something, show your private parts. Can we conclude this?
Freelancing is amazing because it forces you to budget wisely, to be smart with your time, and to learn to negotiate. But it sucks because you can get burned badly. I've been unpaid twice, once for a website and once for a blackberry app. But if you hit a hot streak and you can squirrel some money away, you can make a good living and mainly in your own terms.
Duly noted on both. This widget has actually been around for a long time (launched over two years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=391487).

It doesn't require much resources. I cache the responses and so most stuff is served via memcached directly from nginx.
Countries without conservative media? Where?
Email me if you're looking for a good PHP (symfony) gig.
Sure, but you're missing the whole point - it's not a web framework and it's never marketed itself as one to my knowledge.
You may be interested in this technique, or some of the others in the article: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2016/10/12/count-performance/...

EDIT: I'm also curious what version of Postgres you've experienced this on? Sounds like there may have been improvements to COUNT (DISTINCT in v11+
Let me put it this way: there’s no lack of diversity or inclusiveness now on Clubhouse.

The days of only wealthy westerners having iPhones has long past.
If you pay for a burger did the seller confiscate your money?
They also pay way more than John Q. Public and yet only get the same amount of access to what taxes fund (police, fire departments, public schools, roads, military protection, etc). I make about 36k USD a year, in 2020 Beos sold at least $4.1 billion worth of shares, if he paid 1/10th of 1% of that as taxes he paid more in taxes than I will gross in my entire life.

The whole situation stinks because many do have more money than they can realistically ever spend, so your gut reaction is "make 'em pay" but on the other hand, some of them pay more taxes in a year than I do in my lifetime so they're already contributing an order of magnitude or more than I am.

The only thing that ever "makes sense" to me when trying to make it "fair" is a federal sales/service tax replacing the vast majority of taxes. This still isn't perfect but, at least to me, it makes way more sense than the way taxes currently work in the United States.
You know that the homicide rate in all the large cities in both Florida and Texas is double, triple, or quadruple what it is in NYC, right? Similar with property crime (except Tampa and El Paso).
Replying to myself: for those interestedin ZODB, there's also a simpler standalone remake called Durus (by well known Pytoneer Neil Schemenauer): https://github.com/nascheme/durus

It might not have the replication / distributed features though.
> For the moment at least, Clubhouse is chock full of cool and influential people.

There's a fundamental tension here. Cool and influential people want to hang out with other cool and influential people. Non-cool and non-influential people also want to hang out with cool and influential people. When you use your exclusivity to build popularity there's only one way it can play out. You can do it as slowly as possible or all in one big bang but it will happen.
Does this not accurately reflect the real distribution of wealth, or in fact reflect it regressively (i.e. that distressingly small number of people are paying proportionately less than other citizens, they are just that astronomically wealthy)?
Threat is a communicated intent to inflict harm or loss on another person. The author of the article seems to confuse a conspiracy with a threat.
medium-large is not the same as dominant, where users don't have a choice but to engage, e.g. to be competitive in their industry.
I'm okay with that. I think sports approaches this with the appropriate level of maturity. Has any sports exec said something to the effect of

> I can also ban you if I don’t like you. Or if I think it’s funny, or really any other reason.
Wow, those are some crazy laws. Child support is mandatory around here, and follows well defined rules, but spousal support ("alimony") is much less well defined and (in my limited understanding) less common and shorter lived.

Edit: "around here" being Australia and New Zealand
>Traditional bro wisdom holds short rest periods of 1-3 minutes are optimal for bodybuilding.

The papers cited don't contradict "traditional bro wisdom". If anything, the time window given by "bro wisdom" is too long.

But there are additional factors at play. If a workout takes too long and doesn't fit into someone's schedule, week after week, year after year, they won't work out.

A person resting for 1 minute won't see as much growth as someone resting for 2.5 minutes. But they will see more growth than the person who skips workouts or just quit because they have a life and things to do.

So giving people a broad range to work with may not be 'optimal' but may result in more people being more successful.

What is the difference in muscle gain between 1 minute an 3 anyway? Does it make up for missed workouts and time off?
I don't think there really are "nuances" about what the owners can and cannot legally do. There are nuances about the decisions about people that are willing to participate in the website however.

Say I own twitch, can't I just shut it down? Maybe I mismanaged it, maybe it isn't profitable, maybe it isn't profitable enough to make it worth the trouble, maybe I want to make a statement, maybe I am bored, maybe I am sick. The point is the effect on the users would be the same. If you can't make it illegal for me to shut it down (on the premises that it would risk my users' livelihood) then you can't make it illegal for me to kick users out (on the same premise). So yes, people depending on MY service to earn a living has a lot of thinking and diversifying to do, it is not as risk-free as it seems, and there are nuances around that. In the end though, the owner(s) do and should have the last word.
> violent overthrow of the democratic process

Trump did not advocate for a violent overthrow as far as I know.

> I consider a free society to be a competitive marketplace for ideas

That requires those ideas to be heard. If everyone segregates into their own political bubbles there will be no competition of ideas, just endless echo chambers.

> It's not and whatever the concept of "social monopoly" is can only make sense if there is one party controlling all social expression, which is obviously not the case

Eh?

The people controlling the big corporations that control most communication in the English speaking online world are of very particular political leanings. They might not control all expression but they certainly control most of it.

> But political views are not (and IMHO should not) be protected. This would be the equivalent of picking winners in the free market of ideas.

I don't see how preventing the silencing of some ideas is equivalent to picking winners.

I'm not necessarily saying political views should be protected, just disputing the validity of your logic here.

> That many independent organizations came to the same conclusion is evidence that the system is working and that the idea itself has failed in the marketplace of ideas.

You say "independant", but there are strongly dominant cultures in those organizations and the people admitted to them are from a specific subset of the population. They might be somewhat independant in that Facebook doesn't decide what Twitter does (though I expect there's cross-polination of people moving back and forth between them), but they're both drawing from mostly the same pool of people and ideas.

I expect that Trump supporters, for example, have little influence in Facebook the company.
>I personally have no idea where to find Trump's latest babble.

We'll ignore for a second that just because he can't post on twitter doesn't mean that you can't find things he's saying on twitter - so that would be the first place. 30 seconds of searching and they've got 4 posts about trump in the last 48 hours.

https://twitter.com/oann

Fox News? OANN? Newsmax? He's on almost daily and not exactly difficult to track down if you want to.

Sure you don't get his diarrhea of the mouth for 18 hours a day, but that's a far cry from being silenced.
Millions numbers of people live in urbanized flat valleys in California (Oakland, San Jose, Redding, Sacramento, Fresno, Bakersfield, parts of LA/SGV/Inland Empire/OC).
Where is the integrity?

My company is constantly scratching and clawing for invoices to be paid. We're a small company that works with several much larger companies. While we offer a great product that our accounts need, we have little leverage when it comes to 'extracting' payment.
Interesting product, but the fellow really needs to work on his elevator pitch. What can it do? Why is it better? What will make me want it and remember it?
It's not 1% fees (or 0% as someone else suggested), they make different amounts depending on the card.
This Quora thread has a fantastic analysis of how much they make:
http://www.quora.com/Can-Square-make-money-with-its-new-pric...
Cybertruck you say? and that font? Let me guess, release date somewhere around April 16 2020? Is this a Cyberpunk 2077 cross promotion gimmick?
If you live in Swaziland you’re not likely to drive a Tesla.
Whether you want a language to do this or not is a fundamental matter of design philosophy. I would be quite unhappy if a language changed multiplication by the inverse of a matrix into backslash without my permission: that is not the computation I told you to do. In a language that did that automatically, how would you check the difference in the result between using the inverse and using backslash? You would try to compare them and conclude that they produce identical results, because the system had surreptitiously changed both computations to do the same thing behind your back. Then you’d get user reports about this and have to add a way to opt out of the optimization when it wasn’t wanted. And of course that’s not the only time you want to suppress an optimization like this—sometimes it will give incorrect results. Optimizations should either be truly indistinguishable from the correct answer or be opt-in.

In Julia we take a very different approach: make it as easy and convenient as possible to ask for the efficient version, but not automatic. For example, you can wrap a matrix that you know to be symmetric in the `Symmetric` wrapper type and leave the rest of the code the same and dispatch will call specialized BLAS and LAPACK routines for symmetric matrices. This approach had been designed by people who live and breathe numerical linear algebra and it allows them to write the naive version of an algorithm, and then tweak it to use the most efficient available kernels with minimal effort and without fundamentally changing the shape of their code.

What that means for the evaluation in this paper is that while the naive code may not do the fastest, cleverest thing, a very small variation on the naive code will do the fastest thing, using optimized kernels. You ask for this explicitly, but it’s easy and convenient to ask for. We’ve found this to be a very pragmatic and effective approach. It keeps optimization explicit but easy.

It would be an easy layer on top of that to add a code analyzer to look for patterns that might be possible to optimize further, but that seems like a problem that is better suited for tooling like a linter than being baked into the language itself.
You should be concerned about debris from the truck in front of you flying through your windshield. Unfortunately, I don't think anything short of an armoured hull will stop that. The stronger glass is useless.
Why is =* MulAssign etc overridable but = (assignment) not overridable?
When he puts a stat on there, it’s a hard friggin stat, not the flowery puffiness of Apple.
An interesting point: the oneupmanship game of aftermarket car customization will be the worst deficiency this thing has in terms of appealing to what I presume must be the target audience. Perhaps a radically modular interior could partially make up for the lack of exhaust systems etc to replace with custom counterparts? (the "back to the future air intakes" joke will get old very fast)
An example dept balance -$2000 then it decreases on $500. In that case -$2000 + $500 = -$1500 (+$500 should be green)

I'm I get you right?
If the tech specs are to be believed, Haier is significantly underclocking the same SoC, presumably to extend battery life.
While I absolutely agree computers, UIs, and systems in general can stand between a patient and an error, can we just stop and acknowledge how incompetent the doctor was for prescribing 38 instead of 1 double strong dose?

The UI screenshot in the article makes that mistake VERY clear, and their "are you 100% sure" question is obviously intended to illicit a particular response (who is ever really 100% sure of anything?).

I know this article is about how systems can be altered to protect patients, but much like with the NTSB's findings, sometimes it legitimately is pilot error (or doctor error in this case).

Can things be better? Yes. Absolutely. But so can doctors. These types of systems are stop-gaps, without them this doctor could have calculated the wrong dose by hand and made just of large of a mistake.
The fine is about late report, not about lacking security practices/mechanism. It's the first fine - more like a warning - hire couple of people to deal with this as the next fine would be order(s) of magnitude larger.
There are several good style guides around. It might not matter which of the good ones you use. If you use one consistently, though, your writing will improve over time.

Whether this will help you in your concrete work/life for a value >17USD is another matter. Good written communication is helpful in most knowledge work, though.
If Elon test drove a BMW i3, we'd be hearing about it direct from him via a snarky tweet.
1. FYI, on Hacker News it's impossible to downvote a direct reply to one's comment. 2. I hope you realize that Catch-22 was published 55 years before Trump was elected. 3. I think the "paying people not to grow food" policies Catch-22 mentions came from Roosevelt's New Deal, and seem like the kind of thing Trump would likely oppose.
I disagree. The hardest part about teaching macros in Lisp is teaching the hoops we much jump through using gensym to avoid accidents. It’s better that the compiler do that for us. And it’s not as if it is impossible to make a deliberate capture in Scheme; you just have to opt in to it, rather than carefully avoiding it in 99% of the macros that you write.
Your are right, in the context lawyers/regulators/etc. are operating within.

OTOH, in a wider context, you have to concede OP's "lol" perspective is true too. The money itself has little/no possible deterrent effect.

"Just for their Dutch operations" is a lawyerly frame... it isn't a business frame. booking.com's Dutch business operations aren't really separate. Any security/transparency practices beyond "compliance" almost certainly exist across borders.

I agree though that a fine (any amount) can be enough to adjust resources/practices on a small scale. On a bigger scale, the threat of a fine (any amount) probably is not enough to deter much. IE, if changes are strategic, costly or impact revenue... a fine will always be cheaper.
i think you need to provide more details for a good reply. what changed between the time index was used and when it wasn’t?
I also had to “convince” postgresql to use my index but that lead to a much better design
How boring :-) I'd love to look forward to a language with optical types. I'm sure it's at least as interesting as operand overloading in Intercal.
Seems to be down for now.

Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3403936
You might want to give a try to Prismic.io (for backend UI) + backed.js (for static generation, consumes Prismic API):

https://prismic.io/
https://github.com/prismicio/baked.js

disclaimer: I work at the company backing the project, although not on this product.
I think that they positively spread awareness of both problems and solutions. If a patient doesn't know about a drug, then they might not bring the problem up with their doctor. Viagra might be a good example. Many, or even most, men wouldn't be comfortable bringing up ED with their doctors were they not aware of a possible solution. Perhaps the Internet does a better job at surfacing this information than was the case before, but I am not sure. Personally, I have benefitted from learning, via ads, about a cure that I never would have known existed otherwise, for a problem that I had assumed I would just have to live with.