jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm curious what the melt value would be. I didn't see that in the article. I assume when they say $27,000 they mean the currency value, but if you were to melt it and sell it at the current price for the metal (~$1300/ounce), it would probably be a lot more than that....while less than the $10 million it is supposedly worth as collectibles.
Again, someone from HN hates Microsoft for removing this on top of hacker news after getting a hundred votes per hour
The main problem with the elevator, in my opinion, for many years already is not in the strength of the material. After all, nanotubes are known for many years, and their properties are sufficient for the tether, so in principle it can be done. No, the main problem is with satellites. In fact, asking many times - what to do with existing or future satellites - I never heard a workable answer, even in principle.

Just a reminder - every satellite crosses the equatorial plane twice for every rotation around the Earth. Majority of satellites are below the geostationary orbit. So, given enough time every satellite will hit the tether - and even if tether is near-zero width, the satellite isn't.

One of ideas was to dynamically move the tether - from the Earth, making propagating wave along the tether, which would avoid the satellites. This means we need the good means of watching the space and predicting satellites movements - even small satellites can bring trouble. But that's not enough, we might get a situation when we need to perform conflicting movements, considering the current state of the wave.

This problem is well known for decades. Attempts to launch satellites from the elevator - and the elevator makes it tantalizingly cheap, so we'll want to launch many - will exacerbate the problem. The whole world astronautics will have to adjust to accomodate the elevator - and nobody knows how it is going to look like.
- Or "national security" doesn't mean what normal English-speaking humans think it means. The hack was no threat to the reigning industrial/government structure or the dollar.
Thank you for sharing your pain and experiences. Hope it saves others from a similar plight.

As for yourself, if you change your priorities you can find love again. Second time around you will no doubt be more appreciative of those who choose to share their journey with you.
Thank you for articulating this. I was trying to, and failing miserably.
It is. I have literally never heard this argument from any vegetarians or vegans.
All 0 of them.
Agreed! I don’t even know stuff is wrong or insensitive sometimes. Someone recently told me not to say the word “Jew.” I wasn’t saying it in a bad way - we were discussing a friend who is Jewish, but I didn’t know just saying the word “Jew” could possibly be taken badly.

When I was younger, I said something about a “Jap.” I honestly was just trying to take a shortcut by saying Jap instead of the full “Japanese” like saying burger instead of hamburger. I got a shock when I was told that was bad.
The NLRB are appointed by the president and can behave with incredible political bias: https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-re...

The reach of the executive branch has extended far beyond what is healthy for the nation of the United States.
I never said anything about why the companies were failing.
My attempt: https://gist.github.com/nicowilliams/a6e5c9131767364ce2f4b39...
So how much does the Executive Assistant make?
Direct link to footage of test flight with audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhsZUZmJvaM&t=343s
we need to do way abstain mother
2 things:
1. Sometimes I'm in a hurry and I think I will plug it in later... and I don't. And that turns out to be a bummer. :)
2. If this thing parks itself, it has to plug itself in, or there is little point to the self parking.

I love my tesla. It's incredible. Best car I've ever owned. I've owned... 20 cars? But it has to be charged daily or it's a liability.
Firstly, I would love to hear what tokenadult has to say about this.

Moving on, I think the article mentions the problem of getting good textbooks. This has always been a huge problem, I think. In India, there is a trinity of syllabi: one recommended by the Federal (Central) Govt. (CBSE), one by a consortium of private schools (ISCE) and each individual state's syllabus. So, a school does not have the independence to create its own curriculum, it has the choice of adhering to these 3 systems. It does have the independence of choosing textbooks; however, there are also officially prescribed books, and many teachers teach from them only because they cover things that are often asked in the standardized tests.

So, I don't know if it does good to have just one system, and not give schools access to more options.
> You make the odd assumption it makes any difference to rates of copying. I actually would seriously doubt that it does.

Either way, including a copyright notice is an extremely-cheap hedge, with little or no appreciable downside risk; if it deters even one copier, it has justified its close-to-epsilon cost.
Ok, did you listen to the bill?

Paul is not just trying to revert airport security, he is trying to introduce legislation that removes immunity from the government for anything that a citizen would not have.

The problem with Paul is he is an idealist. We need a pragmatic libertarian.
But the question is what kind of infrastructure is needed to to contain 100 grams of positrons? There's no way you've contained 1/1000th of that amount otherwise you wouldn't be telling us about it on the internet (assuming you have Q/Top Secret clearance)

Also, assuming it is positrons, I'd imagine you might also have to worry slightly about relativistic background electrons and gamma rays/pair production, unless you're under 10ft+ of concrete. The extremely rare case that a 10^19 eV cosmic ray hits you head on sounds like an awesome way to possibly produce a spontaneous "detonation", or when some jokester thinks it's awesome to point a LINAC right at you.
> HN should put a little entrepreneur badge next to your name for having shipped a product. That would motivate some people.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1917605

To encourage HN users to ship code, allow them to display an icon next to their user name once they have shipped their project. This would work on the honor system. To make the implementation simple, users can self-manage the icon. Perhaps a "ship" icon could be displayed that linked to the product if applicable.

This will help create a culture of "shipping" through a shame/pride/credibility/game achievement effect, as well as help users keep the HN addiction in check.
The way the questions is asked makes the new procedures seem pretty similar to the x-rays people are used to.

If CBS wanted to poll effectively, they could show an image of the x-ray, or even better, show people an image of their own x-ray, and then ask them if they would be ok with that.

Then if they say no, they would show them a video of the pat down (their other choice) being performed on the gender. And ask them if they would be cool with that.

If they said no to that, then ask them if they are cool with paying a 10,000 fine as the third option.

See how people survey given more complete facts.
They already do this in their national firewalls.
In our recent emails we changed the wording to “See it.”

What wording? Buy Now? It's not clear.
We should start a list of things this site apparently DIDN'T learn about browsers and the web.

#1 - breaking the back button will cause people to never visit your site again
This is the saddest comment thread I've read on HN.

I had no idea geeks were so against marriage.
I took the liberty of submitting the feature request here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1918772
1. What did I get right?
2. What did I get wrong?
3. What did I miss?

Interested to hear yc folks thoughts on the incubator bubble that the massive success of YC and TechStars has caused.
I wish they offered some more detail on how important/life-threatening this is. Are we talking monitoring as in "detect signs of impending/occurring cardiac event and notify emergency services"? Or is this monitoring in a longitudinal sense, assisting physicians to look at trends in their patients? If it is the later case, is data stored on the device until it's uploaded, or is it simply lost if the connection fails?

Still, not really forgivable to be 100% AWS, but it's a very different story if this is primarily a recording device vs. a monitoring device.
An event monitor isn't a life-critical system. Perhaps it messes up a study, and ticks off some cardiologists, but it's not as if somebody's implantable defibrillator is depending on EC2 being online.
Not if you've been out in the sun, drinking for pretty much four days with... gasp... other people
Could you possibly add Montreal Canada? :)
This is exactly the problem that highly targeted advertising solves. I see ads for relatively niche products fairly often.
Also:

> Though unknown to the west for many centuries, Subutai's exploits were first featured by the British military theorist B. H. Liddell Hart in his book Great Captains Unveiled after World War I. Liddell Hart used the example of the Mongols under Genghis and Subutai to demonstrate how a new mechanized army could ideally fight using the principles of mobility, dispersion, surprise, and indirect means. Though he gained little support in Britain, Liddell Hart's books were read in Germany, whose armies during the initial 1940–41 invasions of France and Russia bore an astonishing similarity to the campaigns of Subutai, 700 years earlier. In particular, Erwin Rommel and George Patton were avid students of Mongol campaigns
There's already a 2 month freeze on foreclosures. If they give checks to Americans, it'll go to mortgages most likely.

This is absolutely bonkers territory. 10,000 years from now, I wouldn't be surprised if archeologists find money between the rock layers.
My personal experience, over 20 years, is that if something like credential rotation isn't automated, it simply doesn't happen. If it does happen, it's a major hassle, probably doesn't get done correctly (causes downtime, something gets missed, probably isn't documented, etc.). Also, there's a huge organizational inertia against doing it. So, for example, when an employee leaves, if you don't have this automated, it likely doesn't happen because "why would we do all this work, it's not like they were a bad person and they aren't stupid".

If you automate this and run it on an automated schedule < 30 days then it is pretty likely that it won't be causing downtime unexpectedly, that you'll have monitoring in place to make sure it actually gets done, that, even if you forget to trigger it for a specific reason (e.g., aforesaid person leaves the organization) it will happen within a reasonable period of time.

In terms of securing such a system... you need to make sure that you separate the system into appropriate pieces with limited access. So, for example, you want a job that is run with an account that only has access to rotate the credentials. It can't use them for anything, just rotate them. Services that consume those credentials should not be able to update them, just use them. You can then ensure that the process that rotates credentials executes in a highly locked-down part of your infrastructure.

Indeed, automating this process also encourages you to create processes with limited access, rather than relying on administrators who have so many responsibilities, you probably just throw them in the equivalent of wide-open sudoers file and call it a day.

It sounds complicated, but if you have decent abstractions, this kind of stuff is actually pretty easy to accomplish.
Where did you manage to find their donation numbers from last year? I thought they'd stopped disclosing their donation amounts a few years ago (even then they were in the 6 figures for revenue).
That rolling-shutter correction alone on FP is amazing.
Fair enough. Wasn't trying to argue that it there shouldn't be hatred against these things necessarily, especially as they exist right now, just that there is currently, so companies might decide to stay away for the time being.
He's smart enough to get one.

He's also smart enough to know he'll get a better one by giving his quest visibility.
> What incentive would Nvidia have to develop new ARM features that would assist competitors in competing with them?

> The Fujitsu's A64FX Processor for example somewhat competes with Nvidia datacenter GPUs. What incentive would Nvidia have to continue to develop the Arm Scalable Vector Extension?

"the enemy of my enemy is my friend".

the more R&D that goes into the ARM ecosystem, the tougher things get for x86. At the end of the day, all that R&D spending is making NVIDIA's position stronger, it's a force multiplier for their own efforts.

I fundamentally don't understand why anyone would think the ARM acquisition was about anything other than making Jensen kingmaker over one of the two most important processor IPs in the world - and he gains absolutely nothing by becoming king and then slaying all his subjects. That would be an amazingly shortsighted decision from one of the most far-sighted tech CEOs in the business.

Selling some more Tegras is peanuts in comparison and that bump would never last in the long term. The money is in Qualcomm and Fujitsu and IBM's R&D budgets working in synergy with your own, and in the ability to leverage the ARM licensing model to push CUDA into the last places it hasn't reached.

The fact that NVIDIA was even making this offer at all pretty much means they were looking at loosening up their IP licensing IMO. As a black box, sure, but I don't see a world in which NVIDIA would buy ARM and either not license GeForce as the graphics IP, or would choose not to license ARM at all ("selling a few more Tegras is not worth $40b"). If you accept those two givens, then NVIDIA would have had to provide GeForce IP as a black-box SIP license.
Move to China if you want inharmonious posts removed from the internet.
> It expands the definition of property by institutionally conferring the status of "owned" to a functional configuration of bits distributed over thousands of computers. Do we have this concept for other things?

Intellectual property has been a thing for a long, long time. You don't literally need to have a physical thing somewhere for laws to apply.
> is there a a way to close such that the previous file that was originally opened to return?

If I understand the question correctly then the answer is ":bd" after ":w"riting the file. If you just want to switch between buffers (switch between the two files) then use ":b#". You can also list open buffers with ":ls"

Someone recently told me of :tabedit, though, and that is lookin' way nicer to me. But I haven't gotten used to it yet or know how to make it work with gf or other handy things.

As for split screen, those are hotkeys I have yet to learn. If someone has an answer to that question, please reply here so the parent commenter and I both see it :)
“But the big 5 spell OCEAN, you can’t just make it be not a word,” they protest neurotically.
try the hacker news search (bottom of the page) and you'll find stories on the takedown where there are links to backups posted in the comments.
Flamegraphs ffs!
is that site supposed to be readable on desktop machines? 0.o
I remember as a kid I went to someone's birthday party in the 80s and we wanted to play a karate themed game on something that used a cassette tape. It took so long to load we went and played outside!

To be fair to GTA V, I don't think my installation was on a SSD because it was 50GB or something at the time (now it's 95GB?), but that said when it released SSDs were not as cheap or widespread as they are now so that's their problem. The linked article shows the initial load to be much shorter which did not match my experience.
First of all, congratulations to Aaron Levie and Box. This is a tremendous journey of perspicacity and grit. Here is a write-up about Aaron Levie's journey by his friend Om Malik: https://gigaom.com/2014/03/24/levietation-a-believers-rise-t...

Also, one thing people absolutely do not understand about Box (or they underestimate this aspect of Box's business): they are an 1) enterprise 2) SaaS company that 3) targets slow-moving, low-churn departments. Look, for example, this analysis by SaaStr: http://www.saastr.com/2014/12/18/saastr-on-techcrunch-box-wi...
Carl Zimmer published a piece on this in the NYTimes almost a year ago (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/science/young-blood-may-ho...).

Here's the HN thread on that topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7695621
> And yet buying a property in London probably would have been an even better investment

I believe you never really own a property in GB. I think you own it for 99 years and then it goes back to the crown.
I'll switch when Swift is ready. Right now there are lots of bugs and odd issues even when you're using it as a scripting language (how do you import a framework?) and when I try to make something using a C API it ends up being an unmanageable mess of CUnsafeMutablePointers. I realize Swift will never be as good as ObjC at C interop, but it certainly doesn't have to be this hard. On top of that, the syntax highlighting and code completion in a code could use some work (!) and crashes every fifteen seconds (!!). So there aare definitely a few things that could be improved. It was released, like most Apple things, a year too early.

Please note that I am in no way biased or prejudiced against Swift—against my better judgement I was an early adopter and I saw it as something Cocoa really needed. I'm also disappointed it isn't and may never be open source.
Hey there, I know this isn’t exactly what you asked but I felt compelled to send this along when I saw your example numbers. I’ve actually had a (somewhat) successful crowdfunding campaign and lI’d like to give two pieces of advice about what to expect (1), how to consider what you want to raise (2), and just a general piece of friendly advice (3):

1) 70-80% of your funding, unless you’re a rare breakout viral sensation, will be raised in the opening and closing 48-72hrs. The middle will be a slog. Be ready for that and just keep communication/promoting going.

2) It’s relatively easy to clear $2500-$5000. Not EASY, but relatively easy. It takes a lot to justify people to push you to $10,000+. You HAVE to get beyond your friends/family/immediate network and that is very, very difficult. You need to do a lot of prep, host events, and get people blasting this thing everywhere. You need to shamelessly shake EVERY tree you available no matter how distant they are.

3) People invest in you as much as, if not more than, your product. The video needs to feature not just the product/idea (having a functioning version helps a lot btw) but YOU. People need to like and trust you. This is no different from investors. Good luck!
Honestly that sounds like a bug to be fixed. You don't teach to drive exactly one type of car.
It's all about how fast people can listen, not how fast you talk...
Internet Archive. Account metrics. Cached search results. There are probably a number of potential ways.
Very nice write up! I haven’t found a blog about SQLite at that scale anywhere.
C/C++ are never better options because of the number and sheer variety of undefined behaviors, manual memory management and ways to shoot onself on the foot. It's something to use when there's no other choice (legacy code base, embedded systems - though this is also moving to higher level languages).
We should really get about replacing it. How's Mastodon holding up? I could never get over the ridiculous name or "toots", but if it scales we should really be using it instead.

Another thing that shocks me is that ads actually pay for Twitter. How did they build such a massive company (expensive employees and outsized market cap) on ad revenue? It seems like the wrong demographics for ads to actually work and persuade people into buying. I wouldn't be surprised if Twitter becomes ground zero for the advertising bubble to burst.

The advertising bubble will burst.
maintaining accounts for deceased people for the remainder of the lifespan of Twitter is probably sustainable, though.
Oh please. A "language" is way more than a way to define functions and add numbers. All modern languages like to rewrite the world: standard library, help system, build system, distribution system, FFI and so on and so on. It'd be great if these were standardized, but language authors love to NIH apparently. Moving to another "language" is a HUGE endeavor, unless of course you like to half-ass it.
"In some sense, we're all parasites on plants, that in turn feed on the energy delivered by the giant fusion reactor in the middle of our solar system."

I think that's wrong. By definition, a parasite interacts with a living organism. For example worms that eat the remnants of fallen leafs are not parasites, they are saprophytes. Humans as well can live consuming bits of fallen fruits that do not take part in plants' further reproduction (i.e. fruit's seeds) and would otherwise just rot (and can thus be considered dead tissue).
That and it's apparently making fun of Japanese accent ("sarariman"). It's a pity that this is the top comment on HN right now.
> In other words, if the underlying network is useless -- so is the currency...

Many of us agree with that, hence it would be preferable that cryptocurrencies were the standard, not country-currencies. In the grand scheme of things, Bitcoin ends up being more resistant and durable than the many ledgers each country runs themselves.

Or in other words, if you trust in Bitcoin, use it directly, not via Coinbase. As peter_d_sherman said: "currency is only as good as the underlying network"

For example, what would happen to the Turkish lira if the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey burned down and somehow couldn't restore data from backups? With Bitcoin and others, the risk is much lower from central failure. Although individual failure risk is much higher. Tradeoffs.
Isn't that in line with the first part of what I said? He was saying what they did was good and legitimate.
The best time to quit was six years ago. The second best time is now.
I think it was murder by acquisition. BBVA USA was recently bought out by PNC bank and there probably wasn’t room for Simple in the new company. For the most part simple provided a superb ui on top of BBVA bank accounts. I’m sad to see them go.
Everything lagged far behind PS1&2. Many even predicted the death of PC gaming during the PS2 era, so great was its dominance. PS2 still outsold PS3 for a long time after the latter console was released. Nintendo survived that era, Sega did not (as a console manufacturer).
Zuckerberg while waiting to see if FTC would clear the deal: “We are absolutely not going to change plans around WhatsApp and the way it uses user data. WhatsApp is going to operate completely autonomously,”

>https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2014-feb-24-la-fi-tn...

>The WhatsApp acquisition has raised concerns among some users that WhatsApp would become, well, more like Facebook. Zuckerberg took the opportunity to quiet those concerns, saying WhatsApp would continue to operate independently from Facebook.

>“We are absolutely not going to change plans around WhatsApp and the way it uses user data. WhatsApp is going to operate completely autonomously,” Zuckerberg said. “They might use people and infrastructure to grow, but the vision is to keep the service exactly the same. They do not keep the content you send, and we’re not going to change that.”