jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Coal is cheaper than solar in the same way that a house with no down payment is free.

Except that rich europeans got the "house with no down payment" for centuries, but now expect poor africans to put down a down payment? That's going to be a hard sell to poor africans desperate to get out of poverty.

> The environmental debt from coal's CO2 emissions will far exceed costs of solar.

Expecting poor africans to give a shit is going to be a real hard sell. Especially when the climate problem is almost exclusively a rich european creation and poor africans had nothing to do with it.

Caring about climate is an enterprise of the privileged few. Unless we are willing to subsidize billions of poor africans and others around the world to the tune of trillions of dollars, I think africans and everyone else are going to go with the lowest hanging fruit. It's 2021 and hundreds of millions of africans live with electricity today. Think about that. It's insane. Considering the centuries of suffering they endured, if they have to burn down the planet to get some semblance of good life, then so be it. Let europe live in mud huts for a few centuries.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/600-million-africans-go-with...
@mcenedella, great concept! However the TOS language seems quite permissive - you can basically do anything with my data. Can you elaborate on why such permissions are needed, for example the right to sell my data without compensation to me?

>You hereby grant to Leet Resumes a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid-up, worldwide license (including the right to sublicense through multiple tiers) to use, reproduce, process, adapt, publicly perform, publicly display, modify, prepare compilations and derivative works of, publish, transmit and distribute your User Content, or any portion thereof, and to publish, transmit, distribute and sell compilations and derivative works of your User Content, in any form, medium or distribution method now known or hereafter existing, known or developed, without compensation to you.
If you have the transcript of what Trump said in his address before the protesters marched to the Capital building, I’d appreciate you pointing out the part which you think violates strict scrutiny under the 1st Amendment for “fighting words”.

The word “coup” doesn’t mean what you think it does. Interrupting a political process is not a coup. Protesting an election result is not a coup. Trespassing in the Capital building is not a coup. Posing for selfies and stealing Peliso’s lecturn is not a coup. And doing all 4 of these things at once is not a coup.

What it is? Mostly? Just extremely embarrassing for the people in power and the people who were supposed to protect them.

Calling it a coup mostly just covers for the raging embarrassment of being owned by Half Naked Viking Man.
Absolutely untrue about obd dump.

They already have your location via phone if permission is granted. ...

There is a specific, fairly narrow protocol between the phone and vehicle that enables android auto.

Source: work in the industry in this area.
I don’t think it’s unethical
If most of your argument is that the US is actually a lot better at racial inclusiveness than much of the rest of the world, I feel like it's easy to agree with that without signing on to the claim that "anti-whiteness" is going to destroy the country.
Port a zmachine first ;).
And the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.
One could argue these companies are extensions of the government when they collude with the NSA to illegally spy on Americans.
So long as mass mail in ballots is a thing. No republican is going to trust the system.
> A tolerant society that doesn't "tolerate intolerance" (your words) is an intolerant society.

Absolutely wrong [0].

> We are heading toward authoritarianism.

With the failure of this insurrection and the (unfortunately very weak) backlash against Trump, the primary leader of this failed coup, we've actually moved away from authoritarianism. If anything, we need stronger action by the government to prevent this from happening again.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
What about the Hong Kong government's own public broadcaster? https://gbcode.rthk.hk/TuniS/www.rthk.hk/tv/dtt31/programme/...
Even for an imaginary pet brown makes perfect sense though?
We use these extensively for our higher security needs, yes it's Microsoft, but it's a great product and solves many problems in this space (Updating, security, etc.)

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-sphere/
A work colleague sent Slack some feedback about wanting the old editor back and they replied a few hours ago. Here's an excerpt with slightly more insight on a timeline.

"We don't have a specific release date to share right now - it's this team's top and only priority, however, and we expect to have it available on desktop within a couple of weeks, with Android following shortly thereafter."

Props to Slack for listening to the feedback :)
I was also really hoping they would slip this into the update too, but looks like not yet unfortunately :(

The whole login security ecosystem across the web is in a state of high entropy flux. Some websites still don't offer 2FA, some only do text, some demand text, some don't even offer text, some offer authenticator apps, some force specific authenticator apps, some offer hardware tokens, some allow only a single hardware token, ... The U2F hardware tokens themselves are only compatible with some of your devices due to the variety in ports, etc.

And a typical person will have to have an account with ~100 different places that they want to use with continuity across multiple devices.
Do you know if they run in a browser on Linux?
I've always thought about whether I really need any given thing every time I move.
You could try their forums.

http://webgeekph.com/
http://www.philweavers.net/forums/

Or here:

http://webdesigners.org.ph/

Most of the time, the best way to access the best people is thru referrals. Drop me an email, I might be able to help you out.
PostmarketOS still runs on it.
Immutable data are so much easier to operate on.

This is why a database like SQLite has its miraculous read performance: "competing not with Postgres but with fopen()", as somebody said.

But any mutation locks the entire database. This, again, simplifies the implementation a lot, and guarantees serialized DML execution.

Rather few web apps need high write concurrency and low write latency. Great many web apps serve 99.9% of hits with SELECTs only, and when some new data needs to be persisted, the user can very well wait for a second or two, so rarely it happens. But this is often forgotten.

Same realization brought a wave of static site generators: updates are so rare that serving pages from a database makes no sense, and caching them makes little sense: just produce the "pre-cached" pages and serve them as is.

Maybe a similar wave can come to lighter-weight web apps: updates are so rare that you don't need Postgres to handle them. You can use SQLite, or Redis, or flat files as the source of your data, with massively less headache. Horizontal scaling becomes trivial. Updates are still possible, of course, you just pay a much lower complexity price for them, while paying a higher latency price.

It's easy to notice that horizontally scaled local databases are already known: it's called "sharding". Unless you need to run arbitrary analytical queries across shards, eventual replication of changes, where needed, is sufficient. (BTW this is how many very large distributed databases operate anyway.) Litestream already seems to support creation of read-only replicas. This can allow each shard have a copy of all the data of a cluster, while only being able to update its own partition. This is a very reasonable setup even for some rather high-load and data-packed sites.
A good medium of exchange should have:
- Little to no transaction fee
- Near instantaneous transaction time
- stable value

The characteristics of Bitcoin that make it such a good store of value make it really bad at these. Computation-heavy proof of work creates a secure and immutable network, but also makes it more expensive and slows down transaction times. It's scarcity makes it a speculative asset prone to booms and busts, but gives it the best chance of long term value growth.

But I guess what you're saying is that as a buyer, why would I not want my money to live as a strong store of value up until the point of transaction, which I think I agree with. It'd be nice if you could own Amazon stock and then pay at McDonalds with USD taken out of the value of those stocks (though tracking capital gains would be annoying). In that situation though, Amazon stock is the good store of value and United States Dollar is the good medium of exchange.
You can. However, there is a 1 week delay in cashing out for a miner, and award is randomized. First to mine does not guarantee the mining award. To guarantee a reward, you’d need to run at least 4096 nodes, for a 1 block payoff.
There are many uses of random() that do not require cryptographic security: simulation, simulated annealing, sound synthesis, digital signal processing and the like. It would be a nuisance if developers of those kinds of software have to fight warnings because developers of completely different applications can't get it right.
Three. Day. Rule.
I have always found the JSON functionality in SQLite fantastic. I'm using SQLite in production with Python for a project right now. It does not have much traffic yet, though.

I'm using multiples DBs and one of them is a simulation of key-value store. It's like a (Python) dictionary that is really an SQLite database, then I use keys like:

db["users:1000:email"] = "email@email.com"

The feature I think I miss is being able to connect to the production database from my laptop to do a quick check. With SQLite, I have to ssh into the server and run the SQLite CLI (or copy the whole file).

Many people also mention concurrency, but I think that if you make your INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements fast and short + use WAL mode + use PRAGMA synchronous = 1, and some other optimizations, you can get quite far.
I'm looking at the problem through the lens of changing the behaviour of an existing API.

If you want to create 'secure' APIs that 'do the right' thing, I'm not against it. But leave the old stuff around, or mark it deprecated, throwing warnings and errors on compilation even, for possible future removal—don't change it.
Sounds like it's https://cravecookie.com/ – so my guess is it's $200k/mo in revenue, not profit... but that's still seriously impressive, assuming at least decent margins!
Aware of and accounted for are different thing. I mean metal fatigue is hardly some deep secret, yet it’s constantly causing issues.
CountDown Started For 1st of FEB; TPB Will Be Back ;)
A little late to the show.
It's almost the definition of evil.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem
Eventually you believe your grocer is FBI and stop eating fresh food. Any dipshit can run LOIC but it must be an FBI plot. FFS.
"A young man without power or money is completely free. He has nothing, but he also has everything. He can travel, he can drift. He can make new acquaintances every day, and try to soak up the infinite variety of life. He can seduce and be seduced, start an enterprise and abandon it, join an army or flee a nation, fight to preserve an existing system or plot a revolution. He can reinvent himself daily, according to the discoveries he makes about the world and himself. But if he prospers through the choices he makes, if he acquires a wife, children, wealth, land, and power, his options gradually and inevitably diminish. Responsibility and commitment limit his moves. One might think that the most powerful man has the most choices, but in reality he has the fewest. Too much depends on his every move."

--Mark Bowden, from Tales of the Tyrant: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2002/05/tales-of-t...
Or Turks and Germans in Germany.
They released to the public 4 -DAYS- ago?!

That's... incredible.
I have root on my Android phone. How can I give certain apps fake UUID and phone number information?
> We need to get PEOPLE off of the farm land and into vertical buildings FIRST. There are millions of acres of arable land totally wasted by people's unused front lawns and abandoned parking lots. We have to protect this precious land and not just let developers sprawl all over it in the name of cheap, discardable pseudo-communities.

Why?

While suburbia may offend you, replacing suburbia with hive-living wouldn't significantly increase the amount of arable land in use.

The places that have food shortages have them because of bad governance, which hive-living won't fix.
Well, in the example terms of service that I've read, they discuss a legal agreement between two parties, the user and a corporate entity operating the site. Otherwise the agreement is between what... the user and me personally? Seems not smart legally or very professional. But maybe I'm wrong about this. It was just an assumption and I am inexperienced in these matters. Plus I want to setup payments, which means I need to setup an account. Shouldn't that be in the name of a corporate entity and not me personally?
Mobile devices these days are most definitely _not_ "instant on" devices. They are "always on" devices which fool you into thinking they are off.

Try it. Power down your phone, start the clock and measure how long it takes to boot....

....see?
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2013777 15 comments.

Including mine about using non-Rails frameworks on Heroku: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2013919
git is a tool that have to be introduced to as many as possible, even non-developers. In essence git is a fundamental part of the future global world collaboration. One can't overestimate the gits value.
Taken by themselves, it is hard to say which one is overvalued. But looking at the entire class, I think they are definitely overvalued. The trick will be to figure out which one of these companies is the Amazon among the Webvans....
I just won a 5+ year battle with the credit bureaus regarding a fraudulent debt and have finally opened my first credit account. So, yeah, if only.
That's noice†, good to know. (†sorry, can't resist these!)

That option and the hack solves 90% of the issue already. I'll install the app again and give it another go.
an accountant doesn't usually close up the various state and federal accounts. sales tax, workers compensation, unemployment, etc. make sure you do it. most of them are pretty easy to work with later if you can show you went out of business but it's alot easier to do it now.
> there's a reason why he's never been able been able to hold a job more than briefly as an intern...

Guess that's why he decided to start his own company :)
Yeah, basically there are 100k+ users in DB and 800k+ documents. Each document is filed under one or more geographies and one or more industries. Each user is entitled to access one or more geographies with one or more services. The SQL queries, besides that they have very complex where clauses, are very slow.

We use sphinx by indexing those documents, and attaching the geographies and industries as tags to each document. Whenever a user logs in, it takes only a few hundreds of miliseconds to get the latest documents he needs to see
An interesting comparison of rockets in the context of this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_heavy_lift_launch...
I would say that you should perhaps not shoot the messenger in this case. While I am not a massive fan of Kaptchuk's experimental rigour (and I suspect most of what those articles say is not news to me), the study also had Irving Kirsch, who whatever else he may be, is a fine experimentalist. Kaptchuk's pretty good at getting funding though, so hence his appearance.

Also, if you think that placebo is nonsense, I would humbly suggest that you read Benedetti http://www.amazon.com/Placebo-Effects-Understanding-mechanis.... Its a very good summary of the state of the art in 2008, from someone (Benedetti) who runs extremely tight, well-designed experiments in reasonably valid conditions (typically post-surgery patients). Some of the findings are extremely interesting, and it is all well-referenced and supported.
Great explanation. Probably wasn't a great idea to trust a company that started as a trading card exchange (Magic The Gathering Online eXchange - Mt. Gox) with such large amounts of money.
Cover songs are not fair use. Of course you can't get rich off of those without permission which normally involves a huge license fee. If you don't get permission and you get hit by YouTube's content id system yes you don't get anything. Create original content and use creative commons music or music you have a free/cheap license for and you will be able to get rich.

Source: actual data on tens of thousands of channels actual earnings. I'm the creator of http://SocialBlade.com the #1 YouTube stats site. Successful YouTubers also aren't getting a million hits total, they're getting that every day.. or at least every week.
Godspeed, I can understand your desire for the presence of others of like mind in order to be in the right frame of mind to work.

Just be aware that you could do the same thing in the US (or anywhere else, really) and make exponentially more money.
The case for infringement would be very weak to non-existent if they recreated the look and feel writing the CSS themselves from scratch. The issue is they took the original product and modified some spacing and other minor details and redistributed it. Any written work like this is copyrightable.
" I have some beliefs that sorely challenge many HNers world views."

Many people come to HN precisely for that.
Yes, lots of people use YouTube. But bsder claimed that everyone in that demographic that they know goes "straight" to YouTube, and I was presenting the countering anecdote that I know loads of people in that demographic who use YouTube as the backstop, not the first stop.

On the house party subject, my roommates and I in college through roughly weekly parties, ranging from a few people to several hundred people, and we defaulted to Spotify (but used lots of other things as well). We could have definitely been an outlier, though, as I agree lots of people default to YouTube there.
I already have one that I pay for out of my own pocket, it's called DistroKid, and it's wonderful.

So, no, I'll stick to the business of creating things, sharpening my National Forensics League trained debate skills in forums such as this, and reminding myself that I do these from my soul. I gain absolutely nothing by engaging with you, other than heartache at the state of affairs in this world, but it comes from within and I choose to embrace who I am. I hope Zoe succeeds in whatever she does, and applaud her for trying, especially in the face of hostility such as yours.
On the other hand, if someone doesn't follow such an obvious practice, isn't there a good probability that they've fucked up in many other less visible ways? What's more likely - that the business owner will have a flash of realization and order a full security analysis of his software, or simply patch this problem (by hiding the CC) and leave the others unfixed (e.g. keep the numbers unencrypted)?

And in any case, would a report really be likely to put him out of businesses for just this mistake? That doesn't seem in the interest of the people doing the analysis.
I'm familiar with the 'boreout' you mention, and have experienced it in a previous job myself. However, I think it's a lot more manageable to get around that in a remote environment. Obviously it depends on the job and the amount of (micro)management, but there are definitely plenty of hobbies that I can think of that would still have me available and close to my desk so that I could appear online when necessary.
What's more sad I suppose is that what a few people have decided to be worth reading is probably just a subset of what's actually great out there to discover. I read a lot of classic literature and philosophy not working through any list but rather trying to be less ignorant than I was yesterday.

I routinely go back to re-read things I've read before though. That's really what defines what books I got something out of reading. I'm probably never going to read Plato again if I have a choice in the matter but I'm currently returning to Cicero and then reading Augustine of Hippo whose major works I read years ago. I've also read the Bible more times than I could count.

Thankfully there aren't too many new computer books worth reading or I'd never get around to reading these old books.
might also want to check out the best papers in KDD (the top data mining conference)

http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html#kdd
the same day netscape "takes over"
> This is far from how I learned it

I'm also not from the US, and I was similarly surprised when I found their position on this piece of history differs with how it's learned in pretty much the rest of the world.

Speak to someone outside the US about the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: most, if not all, will say it was a terrible thing, almost a war crime. In some (Western!) countries the consensus is that it was a crime, but because it was perpetrated by the victor, it went unpunished. We outside of the US are also aware of the dissenters who spoke against the bombing, how it wasn't necessary, etc.

Speak about the same with someone from the US: more likely than not, they'll admit it was a terrible thing, but emphasize it was necessary to win the war, how the Japanese were fanatical and weren't going to surrender without heavy bloodshed, etc.

If anything, it's an interesting exploration of national perceptions...
That’s not true. You can have people who are in multiple communities refer in someone from outside.

I’ve had it happen to me and done it for others.
Most of the money isn't even going to teachers, it goes to an increasingly bloated administrative staff. Really what we need to do is fire 50%+ of the non-teaching staff at schools. Use that money to give the teachers a raise and lower property taxes at the same time.

https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=10527
I started writing a response, but then it got too big. Basically the 5 second timeout is a bad idea because its implementation is not worth the effort. http://oim.ae/gx8qMD for the reasoning.

But the other thing, use UTF8 high value characters. Or simply learn Russian and use a password from russian words.
I doubt that it's a major issue because humans have been drinking coffee for a long time, but not all humans, and we've discovered a lot of the things that are problematic for health, things like tobacco, asbestos, and leaded gas. Humans have been eating charred things for a long time, and while they seem to be somewhat carcinogenic, it also doesn't seem to be a big deal.
Would you actually like to engage with the content of the comment? Rated: informative
All are good. Sometimes brain fog is a medical condition.

I had it bad for years before finding out I had an autoimmune condition.
I'm really excited about this new direction.

I also hope some great Mozillians will take a second look at Dart now that the main objection (adding another VM to Chrome) is out of the way.