jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I can agree with you on worker treatment but I take issue with
"So many years of labour rights fights being attacked by these startups that do not invent anything but base their business model on lower wages."

The only reason ANY of the taxi companies have improved service with new apps and lower prices is because of the competition introduced by ride sharing companies.
From a linked source [1]:

> Vint Cerf, former Chairman of the Board of ICANN and founding President of the Internet Society, said in a statement: “When the Internet Society won the bid to operate the .ORG registry, it enabled a productive and sustainable future for the organisation. Public Interest Registry exercised its stewardship to the benefit of the registrants and the Internet Society’s mission. I am looking forward to supporting Ethos Capital and PIR in any way I can as they continue to expand the utility of the .ORG top-level domain in creative and socially responsible ways.”

And then an outline of what "expand" might mean in that context:

> Going forward, PIR and Ethos Capital are planning to launch several new initiatives aimed at promoting and supporting the .ORG Community, including: Establishing a Stewardship Council that will serve to uphold PIR’s core founding values and provide support through a variety of community programs; Launching a Community Enablement Fund to support the financing of current and additional initiatives undertaken by key Internet organisations; and Expanding a program to award .ORG prizes to promote the success and positive impact of non-profit organisations.

Which is surely the most transparent flimflam imaginable and which anybody in the business world would interpret as doing absolutely nothing at all. /s I can't wait to see the fabulous prizes /s...

[1] http://www.domainpulse.com/2019/11/14/pir-eyeing-growth-etho...
People had been trying to implement powerful, useful hypertext systems for decades and done a terrible job, they were all awful. They were built as monolithic centralised applications with built-in databases and a host of over-engineered features.

TBL threw all of that out of the window in favour of a simple, lightweight, extensible decentralised system. This was not at all an obvious thing to do. Previous high priests of Hypertext were incensed that this toy system lacking so many 'essential' features became more popular and useful in couple of years than their systems had in decades.

None of this was inevitable. If it had been obvious, someone would have already done it.
It's pretty amazing how consistently Uber fails to abide by even the most basic regulations. How many times does a billion dollar company get a second chance? Every time this happens people talk about how the Mayor will get in trouble for this, but let's face it, ride hailing apps are 10 a penny. Lyft, Taxify, MyTaxi? No one in London is going to miss Uber.
I haven't tested it but I believe there is a "gtk" package in vcpkg that can be used. Windows support should still work fine, but improving the experience there has never really been a priority simply because of lack of developer interest. Unlike Qt, there is no company behind it, it's open source managed by a non-profit and anyone can work on it. Right now there are only ~2 developers contributing full-time and they work for Red Hat. So unless someone else wants to hire developers to work on it, that's who is calling the shots and they are going to focus on their platform.

I also don't really appreciate being called a "fanboy" by the GP. I use Qt as well and I don't favor any framework over another. I'm sticking to the facts here: GTK supports building apps any way you want, not just in the GNOME style. Maybe the problem is that the apps you tried happen to all be GNOME-styled apps. That's a choice that the app developers have to make consciously and has nothing to do with GTK. If there is something else you mean by "locked into GNOME" then please elaborate, because I am having trouble understanding what you're referring to.
Reminds me that I need to rewatch 'Curse of the were rabbit' again:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312004/

(If you haven't seen it, treat yourself. Great for all ages.)
You know you are tracked, right? It's just all the tracking information goes to one big monopolist instead of multiple providers. This may make it feel as if there is less tracking going on but it really isn't.
In Soviet Russia, domain name never dies.
TVs used to much more expensive, and they only became cheap when TV manufacturers realized there’s a ton of money to be made by selling your personal information. A manufacturer that doesn’t do this would not be competitively priced I’m afraid.

“Why TVs Have Become So Inexpensive“ => https://youtu.be/NWwawTnT7LM
>NFTs are blockchain-based records that uniquely represent pieces of media

Or pieces of land, see Fabrica [0]

(disclosure: I am still affiliated with the company, and I used to be a co-founder there)

[0]: https://www.fabrica.land/
I have to say I was underwhelmed by the graphics quality. I tried Cyberpunk on Stadia, because my hardware was not good enough and it looked horrible. Of course the game is still not optimized on other consoles as well, but on my 1080p monitor the video stream was just having artifacts everywhere. When I switched to the chromecast 4k, this was way better, but still had some troubles from time to time. Also I remember they announced that graphics and game logic will be so much better, because on the cloud this could scale, which was exactly the opposite experience I had with cyberpunk...

Hopefully someone will decompile the firmware of the stadia controller. Then I would have at least a cool hackable hardware piece
Why are you being mean? You suggested that content being hosted on a copyright holder's website was enough protection. They cited an example where it wasn't. It just means the specifics of the case law are relevant here and a blanket pronouncement isn't sufficient.
>That said, I'd gladly take a booming industry with incredibly annoying interviews over a dead or dying industry.

Absolutely. Other than the interviews and the occasional death march, it's a great profession (I mean that seriously).
I drunk code often enough. One thing I've learned is to make a backup of whatever I'm working on and put it somewhere out of easy reach (be it on a remote server, or a flash drive that is removed from the machine.) You will inevitably break something, but I typically come up with more gold than overall damage.
As did Gary Webb. Remember what was done to him..
Yes. Or, again, I don't know. That's the terrifying part. But given that we know the surveillance machine is much deeper than we anticipated, I can't come up with a worst case scenario anymore, which is what scares me the most.
And DBA services, disaster recovery, redundancy, tools, etc. Sometimes it makes more sense to let developers run their own databases, or hire dedicated DB operations staff, but usually it doesn't. :D
It seems that it won't be news for anybody here, but it was for me as I never heard of this article and didn't know who this Gibson guy is as well (I don't like science fiction), but the article appears to be so influential that there even is wikipedia article about that with quite interesting details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_with_the_Death_Penal...

I wonder how relevant all that stuff is today.
I don't know why this was downvoted. I find it relevant for submissions like this, that there are people voicing that they'd appreciate ELI5-like summary which I don't think is hard to reason for, nor can I see how it could be a problem if someone provided one.
I think putting Big Data & ML in one Bucket is a Big Mistake, pun intended.
From where I am (DS at a sv startup), I see a few discrete Big Buckets -

1. Offline Big Data - This is mostly the ETL crowd - Scalding, Cascading, Spark & associated novel startups, who provide technology to run Map Reduce jobs on TBs & PBs of data. This isn't going away anytime soon. Investment Banks & enterprise, financial institutions are the big customers with risk analysis( Var, CVar) & large scale monte-carlo scenarios on diverse financial instruments being commonplace.

2. Online Big Data - Storm, Summingbird & friends - continually ingesting high volume realtime data streams to provide realtime insights, which can be substantiated by #1 later, as and when those jobs run. For eg. say you ingest tweets realtime via a Storm pipeline & give me a running time series of how many tweets were from which city. Meanwhile, you squirrel away these tweets in hdfs so the offline MR job runs later & gives you exact counts.

3. Small-data ML - The result of #1 is typically a dataset of modest size ( few MB - few GB ) that can be ingested into your favorite ML solution ( too numerous to mention) for predictive analysis & BI purposes.

4. Soft "AI" - Using #2 + #3 in intelligent ad serving, traffic routing, realtime pricing to match inventory ( eg. there are several hotels in Las Vegas who reprice rooms based on number of passengers from commercial flights arriving into Vegas, local weather (sunny,rainy etc.), industry convention dates & such - all the ML + AI done out of a tiny office in SF), electricity regulation (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8280315) etc.

5. AI without the quotes - tiny startups using rnn's to predict time series, using cnn's for image captioning & other really nifty AI applications not currently commercially exploitable at scale but definitely primed for acqui-hire.
On the top of my resume I include only languages that I'm current on. Then in the job descriptions I may go into more detail. Usually you'll be asked to code in your favorite language anyhow.
Actually, I was just trying to point out that the word "quality" means different things to people. I was only giving a rather flip example. As you point out, my definition has a trivial degenerate case. But if I want to make a point about vendors peddling "enterprise" software relying on Vice President's defining "quality" differently than a developer would, I need that snappy counterexample.
What does any of this have to do with YCombinator? It sounds like you just needed to hire a customer support rep and scale your organization.
What I was trying to (and failing to do), was highlight that the basic carrying capacity of each landmass is not in sync with the existing population. For them to be at parity, Canada would increase it's population, and Japan would reduce it.
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We are predominately in the JavaScript/Node.js ecosystem, but have developed a microservice architecture that gives us immense flexibility in our choice of languages and tools. (We've authored code in JavaScript, Java, and even Haskell!) The engineers on the team make technical decisions and have full authority and responsibility for their work. It's collaborative and challenging, and it's been very rewarding.

In addition to competitive salary, comprehensive health benefits, and equity in an early-stage startup, you will have the opportunity to make an impactful contribution to both the product and the team. You will also get to work with some multi-talented and friendly folks who come from diverse backgrounds and experiences. We're learning a lot from each other.

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Remember the people who send polite emails to their competitors never get to build empires like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Oracle or Amazon.
And rare events always seem like they could obviously happen in retrospect.
Right now Go uses the naive heuristic you describe, there's no concurrent or incremental collection so no matter how long it takes to get to the GC it'll be a stop-the-world collection and potentially take a long time. I forgot to mention that besides reducing the amount of on-heap data you can also speed up collections in the current GC by lowering the GC threshold (SetGCPercent). This does come at the cost of collecting more often though so it's only really helpful if you're generating a lot of garbage on a relatively small heap. The impression I get is that for Angry Birds you would be fine with the 1.4 GC but Sim City might have some issues.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Y4IsnNRCN43Mx0NZc5YXZLo...

Go might eventually get a generational GC but my understanding is that that pretty much requires a copying GC and there are concerns with C interop (right now you can point to Go memory from C).
HAHA. I should add that...
Somewhat off topic: you know, in the comments section of almost every science article I read there is a disclaimer similar to yours. For example, I was reading about scientists lengthening telomeres and several people had to step in to say "no this has been done several times but this is slightly cheaper." I guess that's the nature of research, but it's a bizarre feeling when it seems you never hear about the origination of some technology and yet every time you read about it it's still years away from practical application.
And now this post makes Gruber excellent cash, so maybe Gruber thanks Desk again. Definitely excellent strategy. (Not that the post is insincere of course.)
Presumably http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoSCoW_method
Computers have already passed a domain specific Turing Test by composing music that is as good as human composed music [1]. The phrase "robots can't [do X]" should always be suffixed with a "yet". There was a paper a few years back demonstrating a system that could compose an image based on text by finding images of the desired objects and composing them together. It's just a step away from creating a system that can generate paintings in the same style as great artists based purely on a text description.

[1] http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/triumph-of-the-cyborg...
Speed.

Going 100 mph plus in the left lane on the German autobahn you'll be the recipient of flashing signals of grandmothers passing you at 120 if you don't get out of the way fast enough.
Yeah, none of that reads to me as "parents have the right to raise their own children". It can certainly be construed that way when convenient for people who want to keep a leash on their kids, but if you actually read all of those qualifiers, it's actually saying the exact opposite.

Who determines the "appropriate direction and guidance"? What is a "family environment"? When is "interference" arbitrary? As an example, if local custom dictates beating a child mercilessly every other month for absolutely no reason but tradition, that's a good reason for intervention, to me. I don't care about local custom in such a case.

(Also, holy shit, you think honor and reputation are sacrosanct according to the UDHR? I just lost a ton of respect for that document if your reading is correct. Goodbye, journalism.)
I'm one of the maintainers of Hammerspoon.

For some context, this is a fork of an app that's been posted to HN before - Mjolnir. We wanted to take things in a slightly more integrated direction than sdegutis, so we are building on his excellent work and branching out on our own. Massive kudos to him for giving us a solid starting point!

Happy to answer questions, here or on #hammerspoon (Freenode), or deal with any github issues you care to file :)
I am loving it. It's dryer due to its focus on economics but "The Rise and Fall of American Growth" covers a similar era and is worthwhile too.
emissions are being produced by people wealthy enough to invest in renewables / offset / etc.
I am glad you enjoyed it. I think Tim Ferris is a thoughtful person, but I think people have put too much attention on the hacking part of this particular book, and not enough attention on building mastery.
This is great!

But, what would you say to those that say, “Great- another year, another JS framework”?

Specifically, why would I want to use this instead of Vue? What does it buy the average developer?
... and even startups who don't yet have the budget but are trying to raise money and create an fake aura of momentum with investors.
Edit 2 : Another video showing a police officer encouraging rioters to enter.

https://v.redd.it/tl6j5jo2lz961

Couple this with upcoming news that DC police guard were severely restricted from acting or keeping a presence around the capitol, its really concerning.

https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/some-among...

What caught me off-guard was how few officers were present, considering months of rhetoric and weeks of rioters gathering into DC.

It makes sense that key positions in the Pentagon were shuffled just a few weeks prior.

All this could be avoided if the president is made powerless to make such drastic decisions and the period of "lame duck" presidency is reduced.
And yet the people that work there every day do far worse on a regular basis.
Like what? I'm not a lawyer, but I can only think that if they have any intelligence assets that were about to get slapped with charges, they can whisk them out before the alphabet soup boys come and round them up.
After the losses they must have taken with the price decline this is probably a desperate attempt to boost the price.
I don't see this being a viable product.

1) For a machine shop owner, you can already build such a "multi-shot gun" yourself quite trivially. I have a setup in my barn where I can spot-weld seven rifles together along the length of the barrel. I then use a bunch of loops of baling wire that run from the triggers to the end of the stock so that I can fire the correct rifle without any awkwardness.

I haven't tried this with pistols but the general approach should be the same.

2) My system also has the benefit of me not being tied to one company's proprietary standard of "interchangeable" parts. If you buy a Colt, you're stuck buying Colt parts forever. With my system, I can weld together any guns I want.

3) It does not seem very "viral".
Initially, it does. But once you get repeat business and referrals at a higher rate, your net rate goes up again.
The Windows and Mac rules are much more personal opinions than the rest. There's no great insight there, especially for someone who prefers Windows, but it adds a dimension of partisanship.
Exactly. In fact I'm not sure why going a step further isn't more popular. Some of the Das Keyboards do so and completely remove all symbols from the keycaps. Looks pretty cool and I haven't had issues using it, apart from the non-ergo layout. (Please, someone, make a MS Ergo layout with mechanical switches and take my money.)
I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't just include a WebKit or even Chromium fork right in the OS.

They could have > 90% browser market share again.
The "academic internet" wasn't nearly as impressive as today's internet.

I am (un?)fortunate to have my first memories around the time of the first private networks being connected to the internet (late 80s).

Back then, the internet was run by academics.

It wasn't until the 2nd or 3rd round of commercialization efforts that it really became compelling.

So the structure of the internet is because of the academic beginnings, but the actual content (data, apps, etc.) are IMO b/c of desire to acquire wealth.
Let me know if you figure something out.

I've got $4000 in the bank. Rent is by far my largest expense. Solve that problem and your runway length approaches infinity.
my wife laughed. This one passes.
I assume you've disabled Safari then?
I'm saying that if you've read Ayn Rand at all, or for that matter run into Randroids on the internet at any other point in your life, you can pretty much predict what they're going to say within a given context. As a result, Randroids don't really add much to a conversation once they join in; rather than presenting original ideas, they just harp on the same Randian talking points everyone who's argued with a Randroid or read an Ayn Rand book is already well familiar with.
>I probably still have a moleskine with notes on the matter.

Why do people insist on telling us the brand of their notebook? It's just a book with some blank paper dude...
A woman I work with's daughter just started school this year. She decided to send her to a private school because if she went to the public school she would be one of only a handful of white children. She didn't want her daughter to "grow up feeling like a minority".

We live in Boston, there are plenty of white people here. She lives in the same neighborhood as the mayor of Boston. There are plenty of white people there. Why are there so few white people in that public school? She had no opinion about the actual education provided by either school. Just that all the white kids go to the private school, and all the not-white kids go to the public school.

I wonder if that public school would rank as one of the "suckiest" schools. It seems like (white) people are voting that way with their pocketbooks.
This may be relevant to your interests: the next SHDH[1] is being hosted at Hacker Dojo.

[1]: http://superhappydevhouse.org/
Server software and programming languages have succeeded, but general desktop software has mostly failed.

I feel it's because the time and effort isn't put into actually making it user-friendly. Look at any apple product, for instance. It's so easy and intuitive and I don't need to play around with the command line to get something to work.

I use Linux and tons of open source software every day for running my business. I've tried to use pretty much every desktop version of Linux..but I always switch back to windows or mac. Why? It never feels finished to me. Random crashing, error messages that don't make sense, a horrible UI (that looks like a programming just threw it together with no thought).

There needs to be a movement of Open source UI and graphic designers.
Doesn't the magnetic data on the disks fade over that time scale?
anyone know if you are hacking this website or what problem you are having. It is a very popular live chat service for websites. But the page does not load and the plugin does not work for wp or your script
Irrational numbers, by definition, include decimal numbers that have infinitely many digits after the decimal point, and there are no rules about what those digits have to be. This is powerful enough to represent any irrational number regardless of the number base. However, if you're talking about number systems, not all number systems have equal ability to represent irrational numbers. Whatever the system, to represent all the irrationals, it would have to be capable of going on forever. I think the part of my point that you're asking about is my statement that they're a side effect of decimal numbers. Irrational numbers like sqrt(2) and e have concise representations as the limits of Taylor series. Only when converted into decimals do they appear to have infinite amounts of information. So if we used Taylor series as the number system instead of decimals, simple irrationals would look simple, and we might be less inclined to treat them the same as numbers that have no finite descriptions at all.
> They are using a % of attendee's to come up with that,

no, reporting that says "1% of rallies had X reported" is not using a percentage of attendees.

And if seen myself at protests (not in the US/at BLM, to be clear) how much damage a dozen shitheads out of a few thousand attendees sadly can cause, and I would still qualify those as mostly peaceful (as did the authorities). This is in no way an excuse for those rioting, but it is for, you know, the vast majority of peaceful attendants (who in an escalating situation quite often are forced to stay, even if they don't want to)