jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Check out Islam's Zakat, which has been proven to work. It's not a wealth tax per se as proposed by some foolish and unrealistic policies, but cash sitting in the bank is taxed at 2.5% (if it is above a certain threshold), and its proceedings go to the needy and poor, among others.
Endo is internal, exo is external. Another example is endonym/exonym (nym is the particle for name): endonym - the name a group gives itself, exonym - the name outsiders give a group.

Genous, you can think of it as analogous with genesys, it's the root word for creation.
A more powerful version of this already exists:

http://dildo-generator.com/
This is total anecdata and all caveats apply, but there is a Trader Joe's in south Everett, Washington, near the Everett Mall. Between the high crime rate, 1960s car-focused urban planning, apartments run by slumlords, and bikini barista stands, I wouldn't call it a desirable neighborhood. I suspect it gets most of its customer base from surrounding wealthier neighborhoods.
I'm sympathetic to the view that China is a long term threat to Democracy. Their leadership is authoritarian and most people underestimate the monopoly that the CPC has over China's economy. China's leader is not quite, but very close to an absolute despot. He does not at this time have any credible opposition or balancing centers of power.

The only thing constraining Xi Xinping from going the route of Putin or Kim is his own self control. That's not a long term stable situation.

Having said all that, half-measures to contain China are pointless. We either should have free trade with China, or almost no trade with China. Our tech controls are highly porous. There is constant interchange in expertise and high tech goods. China is only about 5 to 10 years behind the West on any given technology that is commercially available. The only stuff they lag further behind on is stuff that is completely classified. And that stuff is a very small list of things.

Arguably, China is already exceeding America's capabilities in many next generation military technologies like drones and cyberwarfare.

The West has to make a decision ... either we go the free trade route and hope domestic competition takes down Xi Xinping ... or we withdraw completely from China and disengage as much as possible ... cold war style.
It's still not the full specification, it doesn't seem to support current animation formats. (Fingers crossed for AV1 ?)
...and SGX, which is very interesting and a choice worthy of scrutiny imo.
>I wonder how many women who have become men are anxious to be in a male prison?
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I'm guessing very near zero for obvious reasons. /s?
In a year or two (when enough vaccines have been produced), everyone who wants one should get it. If you feel unsafe, get it. Wouldn’t it then be unethical to force people to vaccinate to protect those who have already been vaccinated? and at any rate we’d have herd immunity by then

I plan to get it but am waiting for a single long-term (1 year or more) study to be published first
I can't speak to covid because I've never had it, but "take it more serious" can be applied to large swaths of valid medical issues in which doctors brush off as "it's just in your head". In my own case, they quickly jump to the conclusion of stress/anxiety/hysteria without ever asking about my history or my life and without doing any kind of lab work or imaging diagnostics to rule out the medical issues. That is dangerous and thousands of people actually do go untreated for chronic illnesses like MS, Parkinson's, SLE, etc. every year because their providers do not take complaints as serious medical concerns. IMO PCPs are not in a position to adequately diagnose mental issues (especially in a 15 min appointment); that's why we have psychologists. Yet they throw around diagnosis of mental illness like they throw around opiates.

It's an issue of perception and condescending attitudes by medical professionals that is the real problem. If I were a medical professional, I would at the very least acknowledge the problems as genuine physical symptoms and do my best to re-assure the patient that it's being researched by the scientific community so a treatment might be possible in the future.
Definitely.Queen can produce the whole colony. She is more resilient than workers and vital part of the colony. Depending on the species, they can live longer or shorter but like the article says the life won't be smooth.
EPUB3.0 spec includes Javascript. So probably much of existing readers support Javascript. IRRC, iBook on Mac also supports javascript, but it is activated after user clicking.

https://www.w3.org/publishing/epub3/epub-contentdocs.html#se...
One of the lists I'm using on the home pi-hole apparently isn't fond of MSN, either, because "Safari can't find the server 'www.msn.com'. Sure enough, the pi-hole query log says it's being blocked. Maybe I'll disable for a few minutes and see for myself...

Yeah, now I see why. The MSN home page is worthy of an article, hell, a series of articles. I wouldn't dare click a thing on that page.
You probably want mhtml = eml ?
not really for desktop apps. and ruby is pretty slow compared to compiled.
I've actually been working on something like that, with elements similar to the submission idea.

My thing is an irc/slack-like chat system, that allows you to leave both text and audio messages (which get auto-transcribed) in the same chat channel, so you can have asynchronous audio conversations blended with traditional async text chats.

As a play on async, it's called heysync[1]. It isn't ready for people to use yet, and it's also made more for 'work communication', as opposed to conferences, but it's very neat to see different takes on asynchronous communications coming up over time.

1 - https://heysync.chat
They released a new version that fits the form factor of traditional dryers where you only put your hands under it without having to dangle them between 2 pieces. They work pretty well although they do make the table/floor wet since they are blowing the water off your hands rather than evaporating it.

I always found the traditional hot air ones to be useless and I would walk away with wet hands after using one.
It's important to not just consider the "max" number but what it's like while doing that.

I have one of the BlueAirs (forget the exact model number, it's fairly large but not the largest). On any setting other than low (but espeically on high), it's quite noisy.

Like, not just "I can hear this", but "I wouldn't want to carry on a conversation within 10ft of it".
I have found dyson to simply be reliable. Yes it might not be the best value for money but when you buy a dyson product you will almost never be disappointed.
Honestly the entire article is crap. And not even close to hacker news. Good write up btw on your part.
Usually though if a tradeoff doesn't exist then it doesn't happen. In this case, most likely it's not a tradeoff that's going on it's just parallel lines of evolution.
> So it's very similar to WSL on Windows (not WSL2), where it translates Linux syscalls

I wonder whether they will end up with the result of falling back to a real Linux kernel running in a VM eventually if they go with this route, as WSL -> WSL2 ended up with.
What's up with this path? https://github.com/ianclarksmith/Bossman/tree/master/Bossman...
Not at all, and the iPhone kicked the blackberries ass, but that has shit to do with enterprise space. All business != enterprise space. Enterprise != mobile. Mobile created a new space, apples and oranges.
Somebody still has to stock the shelves
This feels good and insightful to read. But is there any data or strong historical evidence to support it? Or does it have predictive power?
Sigh, bullshit. I do this every day and it's just fine. You must be referring to some other concept of rename in some bizarrely complicated configuration you've worked yourself into.
We're very seriously considering moving from MySQL to a document database for our application but when people say "don't use MongoDB if you need transactions" does that not rule out the vast majority of CRUD applications? For example, if a user adds an item to their shopping basket, or tops up their online credit, does that not require a read-update-write process to be executed within a transaction? Is this kind of operation not recommended when using something like MongoDB?
John Gruber's arguments are painfully weak.

"It’s not that Google changed course and got into the phone business, period. It’s that they got into the iPhone’s segment of the phone business. This is what Android looked like in 2007. Here’s an actual hardware prototype from then. It didn’t look anything like an iPhone, nor like anything Apple would ever be interested in making. It looked like a BlackBerry or Windows Mobile phone — hardware keyboards and non-touch screens"

His highly flawed assumptions are

1. That the hardware was the competition.
2. Google bought a software company to compete in hardware
3. HTC was not making touch screen phones before.
4. If you see a successful trend you stick to something unsuccessful in order not to compete.

He goes on to say

"I don’t believe Apple would have unveiled iAds. Maybe I’m wrong, and Apple would have done it anyway, because it always comes down to money, and there’s soon going to be an awful lot of money in mobile advertising."

sigh!

He speaks about the absence of comments on his blog. I think he can do whatever he wants regarding that.

What surprises me is the amusing weakness of his arguments. This is the first time I have actually read a full blog post of his (I mainly see bits of his writing in rebuttals) and I go away wondering how he has been made into a thought leader of some sort.
"User management" in other systems involves either copying ssh keys or using a service like github. If it's Trac you're talking about then depending on the version either you're doing command line operations that make no sense, or maybe you got one of those fancy web admins.

The point was, fossil has a nice flexibly but easy to use integrated user management. I can go in and say that anonymous users can post tickets or not, commit or not, clone or not, all fine grain. I haven't ran into a single system that does this nor does it this easily.
very low, sorry.
Having Chrome on my phone or choice of any alternative web browser is big enough of a reason for me to pick Android. Besides, my experience with Android in the last couple of years has been more solid and consistent than iOS, even if the UI and animations are less polished.
Yeah, the politics around Facebook are tiring...turns out when they gave everybody the power to connect they also gave the tinfoil hats that power

We have two portals here at home and almost everyone I know who wants to stay in touch with their families has one too. Specially the kids love it!
A quick look at what the job market has to offer (for those who interested in Lisp) should quickly convince people that learning anything but Clojure would be not only energy-consuming but also impractical.
Yes. The gloom and doomers hurt “the cause”, some of us have been saying that this for years. There are many in this thread.

And YES, it’s crazy frustrating when “weather is not climate - unless I’m trying to prove climate change”. Many religious believers who argue they’re interested in “the science” are just as stubborn and bull headed as the deniers. But, anyone who questions whether a global tax designed to keep a specific group in power and really just call for global socialism is the only solution is automatically “a denier”, so there is that too.

I’m with you, I find the die hards on the topic to be highly ineffective in convincing me of their point let alone actual skeptics.
Can I get an explainer on how this would help in a disaster recovery situation?
And smartphones are immune to misrecognizing "Hey, Siri" ?
> "With the debut of AI in Go games, I've realized that I'm not at the top even if I become the number one through frantic efforts,”

There is something sad about this comment. It’s as if, even while standing at the peak, he doesn’t grasp what being “at top” actually is.

Would Eliud Kipchoge say the same thing about a motorcycle?
How is that better than if humanity left earth?

If we left, it would take 50,000 years for a 100 ppm drop in CO2 (which is roughly what we need).

How is farmers doing as you suggest going to accelerate this to a meaningful human scale rather than 50,000 years.

It can't. It won't. Because the things you propose will not do a thing about reducing atmospheric CO2 concentration. They won't even stop it.

We already understand that if we convert the entire planet to the most optimal (efficient, clean, cheap, etc.) forms of renewable energy sources not only will atmospheric CO2 accumulation not stop, it will continue to rise exponentially.

Again, not my opinions. This is super simple science. Not hard to understand at all.

Any claim made must explain how it will improve the rate of change a thousand fold. In other words, just making a claim that sounds good does not make it true.
"Halting climate change"? Please -- the climate changes. It has ALWAYS changed. To think that we can "halt climate change" is hubristic.
It would be a bit sad if the fact that there's good AI players discourages future generations from Go, Chess and other games. Weirdly the AI will have destroyed the basis for its own existence, at least in this niche.
That's a questionable point, whether it is ethically right to be an "asshole" through your career and then donate it all once it ends.

I would say it (up to a point) is right. Donating/helping early in your life has a low impact, so the main reason I think it's reasonable to argue that way is that not everyone will donate at the end of their lives. So by gaining leverage early on (not contributing to philanthropy, not helping, etc) you will compensate for those who wouldn't donate and help make the world a better place once they got rich.

If you look a the billionaires out there quite a few will sit on their growing pile of cash until they die.
Hmm, ok, in your case it would have been an integer percentage.
We'd definitely invite this group to interviews today, if they were working on whatever was the equivalent idea for 2010. The answers are very thoughtful and concise.

If there's one thing applicants don't get, it's the value of being concise in the answers. Not brief, concise. Notice how concise Drew Houston's answers are too:

http://files.dropbox.com/u/2/app.html
I would think there would be some misdirection involved with the interview process anyhow.

... Apple interviewed a baseband engineer, nuclear physicist and a satellite communications engineer last month... This month they are asking for quotes for satellite launch... WTF is Apple up to?
Lack of an operating system with mass-market appeal in the netbook space, as far as I can tell.
You're overestimating technology innovation being able solve the ills of government/corruption/war/debt.
> Security firm BitDefender said it had detected infections contained in the news feeds of around 20% of Facebook users

I've seen a lot of malware posts, but 1 in 5 users? I'm skeptical based on my biased sample.

> BitDefender arrived at its figures by analysing data from 14,000 Facebook users that had installed a security app, called safego, it makes for the social network site.

Well there you have it, their sample is clearly more biased. A large number of people don't install apps at all. Some people install apps indiscriminately... including both malware and "safego".
I bought the book, but I don't think that it being a placebo is the only danger. What if it has negative effects on your way of thinking? What if it has no effect for most people? What if it has a negative effect (e.g. on people with low self-esteem as another comment points out)? What if there's a better way of achieving the same result? What if we don't even know what the right 'what if' questions to ask are?
It's nice that it already "just works" -- here's a direct link to the bit of code in question:

http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/docs/underscore.h...
Linus Torvalds worked on a MacBook Air for years.
Almost all of these logos show up at the beginnings of my games. Cyberpunk most recently comes to mind.
RAD had an amazing software renderer on par on the Unreal one.
Hell screw the death count, just a graph of average commuting time becoming unbounded would be enough to get people on board.
And what would that solve? White collar crime won't be affected at all
Regardless - giving every single person, no matter what their accomplishments or talents, the same ability to vote, without anything out there filtering the garbage, was a really, REALLY bad move.
Unfiltered universal suffrage is an amplifier for bullshit. Truth, reason, a good analysis - they're all hard. Spewing out nonsensical mythology is easy.
Something needs to change.
I met Patrick last year when he came back to Chicago for Christmas. It turns out he used to live in the parish directly adjacent to mine on the south side. I'm a fan of his work and so jumped at the chance to work with him. At this point I'd call him a friend. He brought us cranberry bread!

I like Colin and all, but have never met him. We tend to talk to each other a lot because we have very similar interests. You're as likely to see us bickering with each other as not.

I don't really know Jacques at all.

Any time you're in Chicago, look me up; I'm happy to buy coffee (we're on top of an excellent coffee shop downtown). I met a different HN person every other month or so just doing that.
Having read the whole thing, I... honestly don't know. Is this fiction, or a true story told in a fictionalized style? What computer business are they in that they go from profitable to unprofitable in three or four days and this is a call to fire the entire company in two days? World's shortest runway or what?
They set up shop in China. As sales drop, a girl comes along. Founder likes girl, co-founder likes girl, drama ensues, co-founder quits.
Yep, that's true. Though I was not talking in context of link juice but just catching the occasional long tail query visit (irrespective of if it ever gets a back link).

I would be very interested to learn once your client project launches. Good luck with that.
Actually I have been toying with this idea as a new way to produce art. Books. Movies, etc.

Because if take as an axiom that "once it's out there, it will be copied" then what if all the reliable money to be made was already made before the movie was released, and at the theaters, concerts, and physical books?

You could follow the progress of movies and fund them if you liked what you saw.

But there needs to be more incentive.
i feel like requuireJS hit hacker news last week, and the week before that.

I'm would genuinely like more information on the authors of this library. I a little confused why their examples have the script tags in the HEAD of the document, when it is well known that script tags block all other resources from loading and should be placed at the bottom of the page.

http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/04/27/loading-scripts-...

If the authors or developers have some magic to bypass this, besides just drawing the script tags via JS as Steve Souders suggests, I would be excited to see that presented more front and center.
I'm the user that invested the $500k. Ask me anything.
I completely agree, but you can have an auditable voting record in an election without relying on software integrity. That's not really the case, from the defendant's point of view, in a trial that relies on probabilities implemented in the software. In the case of voting, it is software-assisted. In a case like this article, it is software driven.
In regular Bash just press up and opt-up. If that doesn’t work your key bindings are bad and you should fix them. I never understood why anyone would ever use !! instead of something that is fewer key presses and more universal.
Just some days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25633483
So... which food additive's trade group is quietly paying scientists to point blame elsewhere right now? I'd prefer not to find out fifty years after the fact.
Those ice-cream containers are used in every NZ garage. As someone that used to work at Tip-top, I approve of this container-based approach.
I have been thinking recently how to reform the science system here in germany, which is somewhat similar to the system in the US. What I think is impossible is to completely eliminate the grant chasing for the early career scientist. It's just that there's more supply than demand in a lot of sciences and not everyone can make it, if we try to give everyone a grant we end up with grants that are not really paying for anything.

What I think would be an improvement would be a different system where there's a clear path from grant-based funding to a continuous stream of funding, with different funding levels, where one gets periodically reviewed and demoted/continued/raised, so your funding does not completely dry up after a few year (I imagined it like the sports leagues, where you play in different levels and depending on your performance you get relegated from the league) and you can really plan long-term. So one can continue the competitiveness and the role of funding bodies/institutions where the scientist work at while giving them the ability to plan long-term and maybe pursue more risky ideas.

There will always be the ones that fall through the cracks. We somehow need to figure out who to give the money to and we will end up with someone who deserved but did not get the money. I don't know who reviews the grant in the US, but here at least with some funding bodies the scientist manage it themselves (dfg) and I don't think one can easily improve on it.
You're getting downvoted, for good reason. You're wrong on at least one point. "Any notion of superiority".

One thing I witnessed first hand in Laos is that China is building a very long road south. As they come in and build dams and the roads, the construction workers also move their families into the region. They buy up land from locals and then they bring a whole new set of expectations, including driving prices up.

The notion of superiority is what is driving all of this. "We are better than you, we will build you a dam, buy up all your land, give you some of the electricity and take the rest for ourselves."
5% is a good number I've seen a few times in the same circumstances. If this were pre-funding you should be asking for a solid third of all equity since you are a cofounder.
How common is it to upgrade a notebook? What is usually upgraded? I've looked into upgrading my last one, but by the time I felt the need, everything else was so obsolete that it just didn't make sense to put the money into it. This has actually always been the true for me, since my first desktop computer 20 years ago. I stopped buying for the future with my first computer, when I paid a little extra for a second GPU slot for SLI.
The text in full:

> Dozens of startups spent years building over-engineered micropayments products to monetise blogging.

> Turns out all you needed to do was ask people nicely to pay a monthly sub and email them the blog post.

> Lesson in there.

OK, that's fine, it's pointing out that people are willing to pay. The question is still how will they pay?

If my blog/website/whatever has a visitor, and that visitor is willing to pay $1 (for example) ... how will that money get from them to me? There are people who visit my blog, or use some of the facilities I've set up, and they have asked: How can I pay you?

What do people propose?

The quoted text, the submitted tweet, seems to be dissing people's attempts to solve the problem, and seems to imply that it's a solved problem. If so, what's the solution?
ah! I thought the exact same thing.
The story is original, the characters interesting but it was just a pretty hard series of books to get through for me.