skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would kindly disagree here.

I myself been dedidacted Python lover in past for many years now came to a conclusion that what can be scripted with AWK, should be scripted in AWK (over Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.). I'm not saying that you should write big apps though, but for small scripts AWK is absolutely fine alternative to major scripting languages with lots of benefits. Been universally available (as part of POSIX) and very compliant (language standard is almost unchanged for over 30 years now).
As they say: "Good programmer chooses the most powerful tool for the job, best programmer chooses the least powerful tool for the job". Also see [1].

There is absolutely nothing wrong in learning AWK. It's very small language you can grasp fully in hours or days, and be sure you know it all, since it's very unlikely it chanages any time soon. Besides the classical book [2] by A., W., K. is absolute pleasure to read. Amazing, but it's still totally relevant, despite been published in 1988.

Shameless plug. I'm the author of a task/command runner [3] implemented almost 100% in AWK and I still think this was perfect choice of a language for this project.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power

[2] https://archive.org/download/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_P...

[3] https://github.com/xonixx/makesure
What if they make up new laws?
A language model approach will learn grammatical/syntactic and semantic patterns at the same time. So "dog walks man" will be less likely than "man walks dog", even though both are valid, grammatically. I think what op was asking for was a mechanism to purely learn grammar, which is more in the realm of GOFAI/old school NLP.
Some 36,000 Canadian donors — about 39 per cent — are listed in the partial leak, apparently taken from U.S.-based platform GiveSendGo and posted online by a website devoted to disseminating leaked data.

But that number is dwarfed by the number of American donors — some 51,000 or about 55 per cent.

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The 39% of the donors were local, and donated 51% of the money. 61% of donors were foreign, including the largest donor.
I don’t understand why none of these lists ever include my favourite font: PragmataPro.
> this would totally work with my mom, who after many years of visiting me in the USA is still afraid of giving her card to the waiter in a restaurant to pay for dinner

To be fair - her instincts aren't bad. It was always a shitty security model, it led to a lot of fraud, and it was one of the design principles of Chip and Pin to eliminate it.
Your coronavirus app misses a significant feature: to select the time frame when doing a logarithmic plot. Without being able to reduce the time to say a few weeks, you can't tell visually if the current situation is exponential or not.
Collections of SVG generators for gradients, patterns and, backgrounds
Subreddits are group think bubbles, i wouldn't consider that a good source of public opinion. That is like saying everyone wants Trump to be president, head over to r/thedonald.
>There was recently a member there who was banned from ... simply for being a member

this is false. you can't tell if another user is subscribed to another subreddit.
He was interviewed by Alex Jones in 2012 who dared to say "Linux", too :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwz_vMdxmDU&t=669s
Can you offer an example of a protest you would consider comparable?

Obviously shutting down streets for hours or a day is not "violence" but preventing people from enjoying public roadways for 17+ days in their own neighbourhood is a violation of their liberities. Just the same a single day horn-honking protest would not be the same as weeks unending.

But language-lawyering about the word "violence" isn't really the point anyway, this is more about the right to protest being in tension with the rights of nearby residents and workers to live peacefully.
Or society can just treat shitty ToS clauses as invalid because the good of the individual is far more important than being fair to powerful ultra corporations.
Gemini space? What is this?
I also like self contained pages, especially how they simplify long term maintenance.

For images I do a different hack, I encode images to base64 and embed them via CSS `background: url('data:image/jpeg;base64,/...')`, or img src. The base64 encoding is not very efficient though, so I wouldn't do this for larger images.

Example: https://merely.xyz (page background has a subtle "concrete" pattern).
Check the article sent by the guy refuting me, that shows that 39% of donators were Canadian. 61% were foreign.
For those of you playing along at home, the phrase:

“At this point, I am highly confident we will get to orbit this year,”

is a special thing that Musk says when development is taking longer than expected. Historically, everything that Musk is highly confident about either never happens or happens years later than promised.

Don't hold your breath.
So is your sibling comment wrong in naming them predictions?

(edit: inserting disclaimer "serious question" lest i get downvoted)
What is in the Mac's recycle bin icon?
Because protest of any sort breaks laws of some sort.

You can't even explain your argument on the street corner without breaking the laws against public nuisance, in the eyes of some.
“Technology” is the operative word. Cash works just fine.

Once again: the bar for cryptocurrencies to clear isn’t to be “as good as” traditional finance. They have to do better, given the additional middlemen and costs they shoulder on all of us.

You’ve failed to demonstrate that they clear that bar: a single surviving backup of a distributed ledger isn’t distributed in either the trust or failure senses, and is thus no better (and possibly worse!) than us trying to piece the world’s financial system back together from everybody’s paper receipts. Oh, and the whole “cash” thing continues to work.
I love your platform and I will happily pay for my next course there!
> I assume the biggest draw is the lifestyle ideals.

A lot of people who have never physically worked a day in their life like the idea of hard labor. After a week of hard labor, they would decide to take up woodworking instead.
>prevent problems that are very far removed from a common person's daily wants and needs

Right this second on the daily timescale. Tick tock.
This is awesome and so cool.
How did you digitise the drawings?
Second years are my most active [drug] customers
Exactly. This is basically the modern replacement for earmark spending.
So, don't use the internet, a smartphone or a laptop.

Because there is a TOS or CLUE coming with Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS, Firefox, Chrome, Edge...

I'm assuming you didn't even read the TOS/CLUE required for you to post this comment.

Don't shop online, at all.

And I'm assuming you do, and didn't spend hours reading the TOS of all the sites you shop from.

Don't send messages.

Are you self hosting your email server ? Have you read your email provider TOS ? Each chat service TOS ? I doubt it.

Don't what videos on youtube. Don't search on google search. Don't use GPS.

You do that right ? Or have you actually read TOS for each service ?

If you said yes to all of this, either you are lying, living in a cave, or you are Richard Stallman. In which case, nice to meet you.
This is going to be one of those situations where we will have legislation passed, especially if our digital identities are tied to 3rd party providers.

Alternatively, the government will just take over basic id services (think first.last@yourcountry).
I am not that smart but I always thought that using one company's authentication system to log into another site can be a source of massive trouble.

I connect all my logins with my (custom-domain) E-mail and also do regular IMAP backups of my E-mails. I run Thunderbird once a week and sync all mails.
> not expecting software engineers to make the same sacrifices?

Are you talking about the same sacrifices? I haven't seen anyone here asking the CEO to not be paid at all, only those questioning the absurd amount. I don't think going from 1 000 000 to 100 000 (which would be a lot lower than what it was before, just to show the extreme) is even remotely the same "sacrifice" as going from 100 000 to 10 000 per year.

But to answer you original question, yes, Mozilla should also be looking for developers that believe in the mission instead of just trying to maximize their wealth. That should probably include moving the company somewhere cheaper.
That's true, Mozilla Corporation is a non profit, so there is no stock. Still, you could compensate based on company performance.
You can use one of the forks such as librewolf or any other fork which comes with a firefox already tuned with a more privacy oriented focus.
1. find the right business partners

2. launch before its ready

3. getting our value proposition down to one sentence for each user type

4. seo instead of vanity marketing

5. freemium model instead of free or paid

6. listening to customer feedback

7. deliver tangible results to paid customers before fundraising

8. "do things that don't scale" to compete with large competitors who are focused on IRR and monetization
I think they should be strong in upholding the law, but not in bossing their citizens around.
Don’t focus on the rat race, focus on the big picture.

What doesn’t exist yet that you desperately want to exist? Spend your time on that.

Here is a good example of taking a big picture view:

Modern Artificial Intelligence 1980s-2021 and Beyond

https://youtu.be/pGftUCTqaGg
I honestly find the prefixes to be unnecessarily noisy these days, and prefer it like this - the (lack of) domain name next to the title tells me enough about the post, and I much prefer to quickly get to the actual title of the post rather than a couple of low information words at the beginning.

It was fine when it was one post in a hundred that was a "Verb HN", but these days these are much more common, and the prefixes make the front page more noisy and less signal-y than I prefer. If you aren't in the habit of taking a quick glance at the domain name before opening a link, I'd encourage you to start doing that, for more reasons than this.
Quick plug for my open source project nfsping for measuring NFS latency:

https://github.com/mprovost/NFStash/blob/master/md/nfsping.m...
Neat story about Bill Hicks and marketing. When he was sick but still working, he appeared on the David Letterman show. At that point, he was something of a regular on David Letterman.

He did a routine with a joke that worried Letterman, so Letterman made sure the segment didn’t air. In response, Bill Hicks went on public access television - there’s a really good show from Austin on YouTube - and used that as part of his own pitch.

A number of years later, after Bill Hicks died, David Letterman had Bill Hicks’ mom on his show. They talked about Bill Hicks and aired the routine. Bill Hicks’ impression of his parents was remarkably good.

I’ll share links then make my overwhelming point:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KHbHYqfYnhg

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B1NTmnG0hmA

When I watch Bill Hicks on marketing, I take it as being about ethics. We don’t have to monetize every little thing. And we don’t have to do awful things for pay.
I feel like this is where inflation can be pretty helpful. Just like it's near impossible to retire legacy production code, it seems pretty politically difficult to roll back these subsidies. But simply waiting for the inflation to make them irrelevant might be a lot easier.
Is there an updated version of latency.txt? Would be interesting to compare against.
>Tesla's current Model 3 cells (the best comparison to date) hold around 260 Wh/kg and 730 Wh/l, whereas Amprius' new cells hold 450 Wh/kg and 1,150 Wh/l — a significant jump up.

I am by no means an EV fan but this is exciting. A 74% increase in energy density. But we dont have recharge cycle count and cost though.

I wonder when we could see this on Laptop and Smartphone or Tablet? I am willing to pay $100+ RSP for revolutionary battery. Not a lot since it is only 3x increase in battery BOM.

The actual product website here https://amprius.com
Ethanol is not a terribly good fuel and causes lots of problems in engines which have seals that weren't designed for it. Engines are also prone to knocking as the energy profile of (enhanced) fuels is different.
It's open now: https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-routing-open-beta/
This was basically my original take on the tweet. But after reading the whole thread, there is quite a bit more to the story that makes it interesting (to me at least).

Dunking on RMS in one 5min conversation is only slightly amusing. But getting publicly harangued by RMS for something petty, then spending the next year assembling a working Linux system with no GNU software (which required personally writing some of the parts), all for the purposes of catching RMS in his pettiness the next year, that is a pretty cool story. Still mostly about 1-upping someone in their pettiness, but at least real effort was put into it! :)

As an aside, the "I am going to build this just because I can" attitude is one of my favorite parts of software development. The barriers to entry are so low and the field of possibilities is so wide that it is really fun to see what folks come up with (and hack on stuff myself). Even if 90% of everything is crap...
Unless "the right" are posting snippets from or inspired socialist manifestos, I doubt this is the case. Many of the more disruptive BLM activists/activities wanted to change society generally - this convoy is more targeted than that.
> I'm curious what your answer is

Politicization and tribalism, obviously.

> people don't trust these vaccines

There are traditional anti-vaxxers of the "my body is my temple" ilk: Organic food, often vegan or vegetarian, against all vaccines and with an often bizarre notion of what is a "chemical" or not. Usually super fit. No one is surprised when these people are against COVID vaccines as it's consistent with everything else they stand for.

But there is a whole new army of anti-vaxxers who don't care what they eat, vape, smoke, or whether they or their children are standing in a plume of diesel exhaust 24/7. Often very unhealthy. They've never had the slightest concern or attention for any vaccine or medication, including novel, experimental medications (including those which they'll eagerly accept when they get COVID). New vaccines like the HPV vaccine, or yearly flu vaccine changes that have whatever random assortment of other ingredients, have never been of any concern or earned even a moment of their concern.

But suddenly they have very specific thoughts about this vaccine? Come on. And if it's the scary "changes your DNA" (but actually doesn't) bit, there are alternative, less effective more traditional vaccines which they also refuse.

It's tribalism. Early on their group ("conservatives") took some positions about responding to COVID -- anti-masking, anti-lockdowns, etc -- and that cemented into positions that somehow morphed into being anti-vaccine (basically anti anything seen as controlling or responding to COVID), despite there being literally nothing from a values or political perspective that would explain it (indeed, there are loads of classic conservative tenets that would directly oppose this anti-vax position). Then loads of people realized they could grift off of exploiting this divide, politicians -- most of whom are vaccinated -- saw an opening to pander, etc.

It is baffling and needs to be studied in depth. Tens to hundreds of millions of people could self-destructively be turned against something simply because they saw it as outside their tribe and messaging.
Sounds like something someone who's going to sell their account would do.
Disagree. Space exploration requires a minimum base of technology to be available before it even has a glimmer of commercial viability. The state was able to solve that by pouring an incredible amount of resources into a field that no company could have conceived of touching at the time.

No commercial effort would have expended those billions knowing it would take decades to maybe see any payoff. The interests of companies are overwhelmingly simply to increase next quarter's profits and return value to shareholders.
The precedents have been set. It is okay if my guys do it, it is not okay if your guys do it. That's all there is to it. Everything else is pure rhetoric that only exists as a symbol of normality and tradition just like powerless monarchs in European countries.
I don’t read tos (as in contracts of online services)
but I don’t cry when something unexpected happens because I didn’t read them.

It’s my right to sign contracts without reading them. It’s not my right to pretend I didn’t sign them because I didn’t read them.
But isn't that the exact point? That strong consumer protection enables business to earn money in a way that at least prohibits the worst behavior towards the consumers?

So essentially what OP stated?
Even working for small/medium org it's nice to outsource compliance.

Plus they have robot detection, mfa, captcha, etc out if the box.
> The UK people think it is moderately difficult; its actually pretty easy

It's not too difficult, but it's not quick (and that's ok). Outside of gross misconduct, you have to go through multiple stages of explaining the issue, coming up with a performance improvement plan and then evidence that they haven't met it.
Is it controversial to state that defensive programming boils down to "more validation is better"?

This is a style of programming I've seen in the field, and it's seemed to emerge within code bases with major data quality problems, but done little to actually fix the problem. You're less likely to get disastrous train wrecks, but the number of errors largely remains the same unless the cause is addressed.
The foreign money isn't great, but it's not really an inditement.

The money coming in from all over, going to unknown persons, not being distributed to protestors who requested funding for gas/food/legal fees associated with the protest, the $1m withdrawal earlier with no (publically, at least) known trail... all that together is kind of a problem for anyone involved.
Ask HN: Are the days of the “front end engineer” numbered?
I've started noticing over the last few years that pure front end roles have started drying up. It seems everyone only wants to hire "full stack" developers now, which as we know really doesn't mean "full stack" but "mediocre at both" and doing the job of two people. Am I alone in noticing this?
They probably commented in the other sub

I’ve seen multiple subreddits that block people who were active in a specific other subreddit
But could you claim that the contract is arbitrarily long and complex to knowingly discourage a reasonable person from reading it?
It seems silly trying to compare yourself to Musk or any other top dog. A lot of people are content just mastering their own little corner, providing for a family, contributing to their communities. That's success, a startup just gives you more control on what corner and what communities you want to be involved in.
"In practice this means maintaining a 38-hour working week, with an additional day off compensating for longer work days."

Unfortunately it's a compressed 4 day week, instead of a "proper" 4 day work week (i.e. 4 x 8 hour days, e.g. https://4dayweek.io)

A step in the right direction however
That works but to cover your bases you need some sort of regular IMAP backup as well.
The “misinformation problem” seems like misinformation
Sadly, although the Internet Archive has several of that year's Wired issues scanned, they do not appear to have December.

You can read it in a collection of his writings (https://archive.org/details/someremarksessay00step/page/120/...) but that's not much different (and less accessible) than the link on this post.
I got banned from around 15 popular subreddits (which I didn't read or participate anyway) for posting a comment in r/conspiracy which wasn't even related to the vax. There are thousands of cases like yours and mine and worst of all: it was fully automated. You literally posted anything into certain subreddits and you get autobanned in communities that aren't even related by any metric.

I didn't bother appealing since I don't care about those but it felt really dumb and perhaps a clear sign of Reddit's end times.
I would say this is obvious because even if you're at your desk and have everything setup just perfect to not get distracted there's always someone else making small talk which is okay in my view but it's distracting. Plus, being in a room full of people for me just makes me nervous even with my anti-anxiety medication. I just prefer to be left alone and not roped into two hour long meetings because one executive wanted to go on a tangent for what should've been a separate meeting/discussion.
When similar arguments were made against suppression of legal speech by these platforms, the prevailing opinion here was: "it's a private company, they can do what they want. If you don't like it, build your own platform".

For these people to be intellectually honest, the corresponding opinion here should be: "it's a private company, they can charge what they want. If you don't like it, build your own phone".
Primary source seems to be this:

https://www.pnas.org/content/119/9/e2101084119
For the non-paywalled:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220215101935/https://www.nytim...
> Brave is the spiritual successor to Firefox.

Well if Brave is the spiritual successor to firefox I'm done with the web.

This is not a jab on you or Brave. I'm simply completely disenfranchised by the whole browser / web thing. Firefox keeps alienating me, Brave is not the answer as it never passed the smell test with all their crypto bullshit. The web itself is run by corporations trying to mine and sell our attention.

More and more I feel like gemini is the only answer to these issues. I will keep the general web as a gateaway to email and bank accounts and forget that it exist.
I was implying that you still need a human to make the final decision. AI can be a valuable aid in both fields. Doctors can't just let the AI do all the work in the same way synthetic chemists can't blindly trust the AI to spit out correct and feasible results. Research time is expensive and thus the effort needs to be evaluated, and usually the intuition of said chemists trump that of the AI.
Don't wake the gods.
You son of a gun. I'm in.
My answer is marketing, it is vital, and it would have been much better if we started marketing earlier.
Also if I remember correctly every email sent from an Hotmail address had something like "this email was sent with Hotmail" at the bottom.
> It was never intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

It didn't work but it was advertised as part of an effort reduce oil usage and especially to reduce dependency on OPEC following the fuel shock in the 1970s. Growing up in the 1980s, the “brighter future” vision was that someday you'd drive a synthetic-fuel vehicle which used no oil at all.
That's just Musk time. The rest of us not currently shorting TSLA can be highly confident they will get to orbit in 2-3 years.
While I don't disagree, "that's the point" is not a great argument. It's simply an explanation.

If someone is caught in the act of cheating, it doesn't help if they say "he just wanted some action on the side!"

The problem is the cheating, the reason for cheating doesn't make it acceptable.

You have effectively just stated that "oh don't worry he meant to cheat."
Disclaimer, I'm based in the US so your experience may differ.

But here's my advice:

- Apply to internships/co-ops early and often.

- Develop your social network with the other students in your classes.

- Don't focus on grades beyond what's required to pass your classes.

- DO focus on learning how to be a good programmer by doing side projects and programming constantly.

- If there are programming competitions at your school take part in them. (hackathons, etc.)

- Have a social life, go out to parties, have fun with friends, try to get a significant other.
The robot hasn't gotten any better, but it's learned how to fake smile.