jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Love this comment. I think you're right on pointing out the lack of mountable surfaces. I have seen that mentioned elsewhere. This thing needs to accommodate accessories.

I love how this thing has the dystopian look, yet it doesn't need gas. Mad Max was all about gas. Maybe gas would make a comeback in a Mad Max world since chargers might become hard to come by.

If ugly was a goal, this was an interesting way to accomplish it. This is ugly that I would be okay caught driving in. This is ugly which achieved a goal, rather than not attempting to be ugly but horribly failed. ;)

There's still some time before this thing actually ships. Maybe they'll make some changes so that truck people could properly attach things like gun racks and winches.
HN has an anti humanities/social science bias that often rears its ugly head in discussions such as these.
Even if someone was making $1m/day, they still would get it.

The reason behind giving it to everyone of working age is to prevent people from falling into cracks like what can happen with unemployment.
FWIW, a good built-in workflow is the Screenshot app (for image or video capture) + Preview (click the "Markup" button in Preview to see the annotation tools).
How is this going to diminish monopolies? Big tech is (a) going to have a voice in these regulations and (b) will easily afford the cost of compliance. Small competitors will have no voice and will struggle to comply. This is almost certainly going to entrench the big players and widen their moats.
Or you could simply add additional penalties for commiting actual violent crimes with weapons, which we already do. See, for example, strongarm robbery vs armed robbery. That way criminals are punished for misuse of firearms while law abiding owners don't have their rights infringed.
If your idea is not labour intence (e.g. bringing new drug to the market) then you can do mvp within weeks or several months depending on how much corners you can cut.

If you can't code then probably you can save couple of thousands and ask for help from someone else (e.g. hire overseas labour from low cost of living areas to build the mvp for you).
I have pig hunting friends who all said they can't wait to stand on the back and hunt pigs with a quiet electric truck
You might be interested in Nushell[1]. One of their inspiration is PowerShell.

[1]: https://book.nushell.sh/en/introduction
This doesn’t look militaristic, rough or unpolished. It looks like a high tech El Camino.
they execute people solely to harvest their organs systematically, just because situations where organ harvesting happening before a proper death investigation takes place in the USA have occurred (and are likely illegal and irregular), does not in any way make them comparable.
Gitlab renders equations in .md files automatically.
I think if my password is worth 17.5 trillion CPU seconds then I'm a very lucky person...
The engineer's perpetual irritation: Your most impressive achievement never has as much sex appeal as you'd hope.
You have two methods of putting hydraulic fluid into a system: closed and open. Closed systems require a pressure system to keep the pressure up, open ones use a pressurized hydraulic that is expended. The open system was used in this situation to reduce the weight necessary to run a closed system.

The hydraulic liquids were used to adjust the fins seen in the video on this page: http://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-problem-falcon9-crash-...

Elon Musk replied that the team had underestimated the amount necessary by 10%.
Previously: Rails. New job: Elixir.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210214122852/https://www.teleg...
From my experience working remote, there are two intertwining issues. Should geography factor into an employee's pay? And how much should pay differ in different geography?

My answer to the first is yes. The second however is a bit more nuanced.

The first case is when employers find the best and brightest talent from all around the world and expect these employees to work together and deliver similar value. In this case I think globally fixed base salary * a cost of living index multiplier capped at 10-15% difference makes the most sense. You don't want the pay discrepancy here to be too large as these people work together on the same level. For example, using local market rates, a Bay Area employee will likely earn double someone in the EU for the same role.

The second case is when employers want to outsource work to a cheaper labor market. In this case, expectation is that the workers will not be of equal skill and/or the work can be done with little training. Another way to look at this, the relationship is more hierarchal. The HQ is managing the remote worker for work for example. In this case I think a competitive pay relative to the location's market rate make sense.
> The reason why the US abandoned that course so long ago had nothing to do with morality - somebody in the DoD simply realized that they were furthering the state of the art in dirt cheap WMDs

Is there a reliable reference that the US is no longer researching biochemical weapons?

Wikipedia claims: "Both the U.S. bio-weapons ban and the Biological Weapons Convention restricted any work in the area of biological warfare to defensive in nature. In reality, this gives BWC member-states wide latitude to conduct biological weapons research because the BWC contains no provisions for monitoring or enforcement.[74][75] The treaty, essentially, is a gentlemen's agreement amongst members backed by the long-prevailing thought that biological warfare should not be used in battle.[74]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_biological_weapo...
Schwab’s restrictions came down to:

1. Increased margin requirements for GME
2. Restrictions on naked strategies

Both of these are pretty much acceptable on a very volatile stock. They never prevented you from buying the stock or options. I think including Schwab or TD in this is near misinformation because 99% of users wouldn’t make use of the features that Schwab ended up restricting
Don’t you feel like a robot at this point by just calling someone a racist without any explanation...especially in response to an article that is writing against mindless cancel culture.
I have found that having a nap as soon as I arrive in a new hotel room actually helps a lot. Even if doesn't work for you at least you'll have had the benefit of the nap.
I've found it to be exponential. By the third night I'm sleeping fairly efficiently and effectively.
> Unless you're trying to create a gigantic following (presumably to make money), why would that matter?

Is that what you think this is about? Money? Censorship is almost always about power and the desire to destroy opposition. It is a means to instill fear and stifle the discussion of any 'unpopular' ideas. It separates people. Money comes later.

I have few issues in communicating with friends or family. But now I have to think twice about what I say in public. Conversations must be limited to topics approved by the tech giants and the people who hold power. And I can't easily hear what a lot of other people say. It's definitely limiting. McCarthyism again?

Your solutions are interesting but don't address the problem I'm interested in. Thanks for the thoughtful discussion.
If you haven't heard of it before I would encourage you to check out the DARPA Grand Challenge, IIRC teams create vehicles which must navigate a course without a 3d map provided ahead of time.

Granted I don't think it would work as well in driving conditions like those found in other parts of the world, but I still think they're rather advanced in their abilities. I was impressed at least.
Seems like a lame outcome. If there is no admission or finding of wrong doing it really feels like there was no accountability whatsoever. The $25k is a rounding error and looks more like a token payment than anything else. They don't even have to make that paragraph part of their permanent police training.

edit: How did they manage to drag this out for 5 years and still not have an actual judge or jury rule on this.
Right, but OrgMode is not addressing the same problem. Personally I really need the cloud access and HTML formatting for my note software, and OrgMode is designed to be text-based and will not (ever) accept such feature requests.
TextBlob is a wrapper around NLTK and Pattern. Those libraries don't use very sophisticated statistics, so in 2013 I wrote a small Python POS tagger for TextBlob, which performs much better: https://honnibal.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/a-good-part-of-spe...

spaCy's POS tagger works like the one in the blog post, but it's implemented in Cython, and has some extra features.

Pattern has some nice morphological processing features. I don't do morphological generation, for instance, and I haven't hooked up the morphological analysis to the Python API yet.

TextBlob also gives you a few extra bits and pieces, like a wrapper of the Google translate API.

I'm really targeting the situation where you want to build a product around some NLP. In this use-case, you need the NLP to be fast, you need it to be as accurate as anyone knows how to make such a system, and you need it to be entirely in your control.

As far as GenSim goes: it's good. It does different things from spaCy, though --- topic modelling, etc. It would be nice to interoperate between the two libraries. I have no plans to implement topic models.
I dunno... if there is one group of folks who I believe will have a reason for choosing what they link or don't link with some care, it's folks who make some money blogging. I'd assume there is a reason before assuming the guy is stupid, but I could be wrong.
I think that's kind of the point of the article - there's going to be a massive shift in the structure of the economy when 10 million jobs disappear.

That being said, I think pretty much all of silicon valley is built on the principle that the future will "reward people with access to capital and/or technology."
Well, wouldn't Apple or Google be responsible for serving illegal content, especially after being notified?
Over 99.7% of hosts hitting Google.com are IPv4 only. That's insane! Some estimates say that IPv4 addresses will run out in under a year. And still under 0.3% of all hosts have IPv6 capability. Long live ISP-side NAT.

However, I think the reason for this is obvious. Had IPv6 not been designed as forcefully backwards-incompatible...
Not really ingeniously written - but he definitely gets the point right. There are so many problems between a first mental draft and a finished product that you can never anticipate - in other words: fail faster.
Never mind IE11. http://motherfuckingwebsite.com still works on IE6, and why shouldn't it? It's plain HTML with no CSS or JS.

There is no reason why any web document should not still be readable in Lynx, Mosaic, or even WorldWideWeb.

Web applications are a bit more complicated, but that complication is self-inflicted. We developers choose to to hijack users' devices for work that should be done on the server in the name of providing a better user experience, and we make our work harder in the process.

Supporting old browsers isn't that hard. Build a solid foundation of HTML, HTTP GET, and HTTP POST, even if it means doing full page refreshes. You can always layer your AJAX calls and such on top. It's called "progressive enhancement", remember?
Quora used to have a system which rewarded good answers. Now, they pay people to ask popular questions. In the private Top Writers group (I left shortly after this change) it was predicted that this is result in a dearth of garbage questions: template "what is X times Y?", nonsense "what if" questions, etc. And sure enough, it came to pass.

Quora made a conscious choice to trade quality answers for more questions (of any quality). They surely saw in advance what the site would become and did it anyway. It used to be a place where you could read thoughtful replies from intelligent people, and it's become a spiritual successor to Yahoo Answers.
Not sure exactly what series of aluminum car panels are made from, I highly doubt its 7000 series, probably a 2000 or 5000, maximum Yield strength for T6 temper is in 250-350MPa range. That’s still pretty soft.

Cold rolled full hard 301 stainless has yield strength of 1000 MPa. Tesla claims a 30x ultra hard, no one knows quite what that means yet, so maybe that’s 1500MPa yield strength. So call it 6-8x more dent resistant than aluminum at same thickness.

Tesla is using 3mm thick stainless. I can’t imagine standard car panels are more than 1.5mm thick.

Stiffness grows with square of cross sectional thickness.

So it is plausible Tesla’s panels are 20-30x stiffer than regular door panel.

Maybe that’s where they get their 30X from.

What’s your math say?
Compare this with the Windows/MacOS instructions: https://www.sublimemerge.com/download

Just in case it's not clear: there are none. You just download the file and run it. That's the problem that Microsoft code signing certs solve. Sure, it's not overwhelming, but without thinking about UX 2020 won't be the year of Linux Desktop. "5 different package managers" is part of the problem.

The text merge tool is just an example.
I feel a downvote must only be used for a comment that has vulgar, strong language or anything that isn’t in the good spirit of a good debate. Downvotes must be used only to flag comments violating guidelines, not as a way to silence those who share differing views. If you disagree, write a comment. I realised most people use downvotes powers to silence those who disagree with them.
I’ve worked with a lot of LEOs who handle these cases. I’m not sure I’d characterize them as wanting things to be as easy as possible even at the expense of civil liberty.

How do you prove possession of CP if all the data is on encrypted drives? What sort of additional effort do you think is necessary?
And of course Medium
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Still not sure what distinguishes "no code" from pretty much every other software. Isn't Excel or Blogger "no code" tools? Why are these newish GUI based applications in this "new" category?
Do you have to refrigerate the one for lunch?
Really like the design, especially the search/menu box.
It would be very nice to add proper support for tabs, especially when inserting larger blocks of code.
>Growing up, I certainly would have loved having near infinite amounts of programming help available for free, instead of trying to decipher something from a 50-times photocopied manual.

Would you be as good of a programmer today if that was true? I remember spending an entire week trying to figure out how strings worked in QBASIC, when I was in 5th grade. There was no internet and I only had the Apple IIGS Basic manual to work with. I tried and tried and tried and eventually figured out that it had something to do with those $ symbols. Eventually I got the hang of it. I guess the point is, that challenge and struggle with simple things helped me develop the attitude to overcome truly difficult things later. Maybe this is more just memories of childhood than anything..
One thing to remember while reading all that is that SQLite is not open contribution. You cannot submit PRs with Fossil. You can’t fork the code and share with others without standing up your own server.
India actually has one of the most protectionist labor laws.

I remember when Nokia wanted to shut down a factory, workers staged demonstrations. Why? Because Nokia had offered them 18 months severance pay. They wanted 72 months of severance.

They eventually settled for 36 months
What is it exactly that the U.S. government has done for Google?

The way things typically work here is that you hire a bunch of lobbyists and put money in the pockets of various government officials in exchange for favors. So the quid is generally just $$$.
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Please cover ICQ here :-)
Ok, so here was one. There was a point where the Microsoft Office XP (or was it 2003?) advertised different qualifying products than it actually required. I felt that if we advertised it on the box, we needed to honor that. Our managers said, no, offer a refund. So I went ahead and I generated bypass keys allowing people to install the software without a qualifying product. I did so openly. My bosses were not happy. They said they were trying to solve the problem and we needed to do things their way.

So finally after a few weeks of this frustration I broke the chain of command and talked with the general manager of my department instead. He agreed that this was totally unacceptable and got the manufacturing stopped, packaging re-done, and the like. My bosses were horrified that I would break the chain of command like this and I got reprimanded by them.

Of course the word came down from the top not to generate bypass keys anymore but to offer the customers a free full version we would send to them at our cost. I looked at this, and offered it to the customers, but offered as an alternative a bypass key so they could just install the software they purchased, saving our company time and money.

Honestly, I was surprised we weren't sued over the problem, but I was going to be darned sure it was not over someone calling in to my line.

There were plenty of other things I did:

For example, I actually delivered Linux tech support a few times (always very careful to set expectations that this could not be expected in the future).

Needless to say, since my loyalties were to the company and the customers over my bosses, these never came out as positives in review.
Other info I can find on this suggests a different reading of the Stratfor docs:

http://mondoweiss.net/2012/03/wikileaks-mossad-and-google-ca...
This was written in the late 80s.
When I saw this I immediately thought of [Drakon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON).
I live in Ontario, Canada, and I'm about 30min outside of what most people would consider "civilization." As a result, and also a result in living in a heavy minnonite area, the only heating we have is propane, and that is super expensive. To heat my home at 16 degrees celsius , it costs about $400 for the month. It doesn't help that it's an old house that I'm slowly renovating to improve the insulation and structure, but for the time being, my wife and I keep it at 10, using a wood stove in the living room, and wear a sweater.
I am for diversity, I think it makes a better, stronger, more agile company.

However Quotas I don't think are the answer.

1) because they reinforce negative stereotypes (you are only here because you are x, rather than being qualified)

2) They make the candidate feel like they don't belong/less valued

3) they don't fix the underlying issues

Now, this is from a UK perspective, so the next points are less universal.

In the UK we have a training issue. It is hard as a startup to source mid/senior "diversity" candidates because they are rare.

Therefore we as an industry need to get into schools and provide mentorship to allow children of all types to come into IT. UK society has decided that girls are not destined for IT and that needs to fucking stop.

since 2019, there are apprenticeships that provide 2 days a week tutoring. before you had be of a certain company size to qualify for funding. However the battle is to get enough people to apply for the apprenticeships. From a business perspective its a brilliant way to source cheap, loyal and effective workers. For companies like the financial times, its worked out pretty well. They have something like 70 apprentice/apprentice grade employees in a tech team of 400.
Great feedback. Thank you! Will look into these comments!
There is one other reason I don't often see addressed for the push to microservices. This mostly pertains to government acquisitions, but any software contracted to enterprise customers faces the same issue. It's vendor diversification. It's very difficult to split contracts for a monolithic system between multiple contractors, which means you end up getting tied to one vendor. If you can decompose a large system into pieces that can be individually developed, tested, and deployed independent of another, you can split the contracts for developing each of those pieces between different contractors and there are many good reasons to want to do that, from the perspective of security, financial risk mitigation, encouraging competition, and just the basic principle that many minds tend to be better than one.
You should never... and I mean never... TELL your boss (much less a founder or CEO) what they can and can't do.

That's a great way to torpedo your career.

"You can't invest $10 million in ergonomic chairs." should be "While ergonomic chairs are a good investment, we might be better served investing $10 million in our core competencies for now, and perhaps focus later on the chairs when our revenue stream is a bit more stable."

"You can't add cool-sounding feature because it's an inherent security risk." should be, "While cool-sounding feature does, indeed, sound cool, I'm concerned about the potential liability this might expose the company to, given that implementing cool-sounding feature causes <security issue> by its very nature. I could look at implementing something that mimics the functionality of cool-sounding feature, but keeps our products secure."

And lastly, Humble Jr. QA Engineer should say, "Mr./Mrs./Miss So-And-So, if I claim that bug <Z> is fixed when its not, this might come back to reflect negatively on our company when Customer Y reports that bug."

And lastly, almost every company's founder / CEO / leader has dictatorial powers. Companies aren't governments. You live and die by the good graces of those above you, and if you can get noticed by the people at the very top, and you consistently deliver for them, you'll have a far more pleasant work life.

Or just telling people what they can and can't do and see how that one works out for you...
Fully agree. It's part of the problem we are thinking about. How do we make remote work fun for extroverts while not sidelining others? This was one take at the problem and I really appreciate the feedback you gave :)
There's a lot of tooling being built. uniform.dev and outsmartly.com for personalization, GraphCMS for content federation across data stores, etc. It's still pretty early days for the ecosystem.