jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Let's talk about real science. How come the SSC got cancelled in favour of the ISS?

The Higgs could have been found in Texas, around 2002. There would have been no need for the HEP community to build further hadron colliders, it would have run at 40 TeV and upgrading it would have been easy. Now we're stuck with the 27 km LEP->LHC tunnel and only this year the LHC will start running at 13 TeV... The Congress made its choice after spending $2 billion because it would cost $11 billion. The ISS has cost U.S. taxpayers $75 billion and the science there is more or less an excuse. It never was a scientific decision.

There's science and PR "science".
Yes. Some towers in Ireland have entrance on 3th floor. And Meteora monasteries are build on top of rocks, with only crane access.
But it won't show me old parts of the log and I usually want this.
Or the author heard that you need to 'sanitize inputs' and equated that with trying to completely validate all incoming input (i.e. trying to figure out if a name is valid/invalid rather than just escaping it properly).

Or the PHB saw that you could enter a character that 'no one' would have in their name, and demanded something like Amazon/eBay/<popular website that PHB uses> has on their forms.
Good thoughts/points. I study at Sydney University.
One number less and hackers would be all over them! Be thankful for that extra number! ;-)
Very shallow analysis. In a free-market system nothing stops you from competing with closed source software (for every meaningful definition of the word "competing"). The comparison with railways is just silly.
Having looked at the Latin dictionaries, I blush to see how wrong I was about internecine. Check out Lewis & Short's Latin dictionary at perseus.tufts.edu, under internecine, internecio, interneco.

But indeed if I wanted to know about Kristallnacht, I don't think that I really would need the etymology of "Nacht".
You seem to understand all my worries. :)
don't forget about ubquity!
But that's a different problem. Of course different problems may require different solutions.
At Starbucks they used the IR on my neck instead of my forehead. I was wondering if that was why.

I don't know if many people try to game the systems here the same way they do in my home country (the U.S.). So far as I can tell as an outsider, the spirit is "we're in it together" and "let's do our part to keep each other healthy". This one of the countries where in normal times people wear face masks when they're sick in order to prevent infecting other people.
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> So even if you have your own farms, property rights are basically over under a catastrophe of that scale

1. And for the same reason, just any kind of government will be forced to seize land from vapid hipsters, and grow something edible on it, along with enforcing at least minimal rationing.

2. 1/3 of food in the world is wasted

> consumers in rich countries waste almost as much food, 222 million tonnes, as the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa

A healthy young adult can live a heck a lot of time on one bag of staple foods.
Please for the love of kittens turn off Cloudflare and never put it on
again. For me and other Tor users that awful service is a guaranteed
way of ensuring we'll never see your site (which I am very interested
in BTW).
Or the album https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_in_the_U.S.A.
I hope you've disabled call-waiting on your phone line :)
because selling ads is higher margin business and more profitable.
they used to sell data (cambridge analytica etc) and that was also very profitable, not sure how it is now
Do you think that the Arab Spring protests were not in violation of curfew?
Interesting but what if you already started sales? Would be very hard to distinguish "Organic Signups" as when you get a sales team you'll find adoption goes up. Following up on leads, helping them get going, etc (if the price point supports it, usually $200/mo+)
The juxtaposition of this vs the indiscriminate violence police used in the summer against protestors on the streets is pretty jarring.

The fact that a large mob of people like this - many of them armed, and some of them planting explosives - breaking into the Capitol, taking things and causing a bunch of damage, results in only a small handful of arrests is pretty crazy, too.
There's still a lot of room in the space of WebRTC troubleshooting tooling, precisely due to the complexity inherent of "doing it right".

I know well about the mess of difficult to debug technologies that form WebRTC... and on top of that you'll want monitoring, recording, reconnection logic when things go wrong. Of course, add the ability to seamlessly scale when there are lots of users joining a call. The list goes on and on even for a seemingly simple service that "just works"!!

I've been maintaining and improving the oss Kurento server for several years now (https://www.kurento.org/), and the kind of issues that users find is crazy. A slight misconfig in an intermediate proxy can cause random issues very hard to track down.

Shameless plug: We're now building OpenVidu (https://openvidu.io/) on top of Kurento, to provide some of these features. This is a tool that in turn (pun intended) eases writing videoconference services. Most people looking into starting their own WebRTC app from scratch with Kurento, would be better served by OpenVidu!
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Obvious panic doesn't help much, but I was sort of advocating a "Do you want to execute grandma?"-style advert for people who think it's a bit of a laugh.
This is pretty much what I think of it as well.

Disappointed to see it’s for videos and not books. It’s not worth giving 30% of a book price to a company just for serving a 1 MB file.
I use Harmonic. I've tried both, Harmonic is more minimalist with less features but does the job well and was last updated in May.
There is heavily obfuscated invasive fingerprinting JS that runs on first execution.

They use F5's Proactive Bot Defense feature.
What did Gill do that was illegal?
This may be difficult to hear, but something is wrong if you have been working for 20 years and old colleagues aren't occasionally checking in to see if you'd like a different gig at their current company. The people who called you a miracle worker, they don't keep in touch? They don't want you to join their current project?

You may want to ask someone who you are on good terms with what's going on.
It’s almost unbelievable how far the NYT has fallen, how ideologically corrupt it has become. I can only hope that more and more people become aware of their corruption, and stop relying on them as a trustworthy source of reporting. Articles like this one are a step in the right direction, revealing the rot. I really admire the author’s bravery and honesty despite all that has happened to him.
It's interesting. With the laws of supply and demand it doesn't make sense. If equal numbers of men and women are looking shouldn't there be an equal number at least by age.

There are the same number of 40/50 year olds but males will target younger females. Where women will stay in there age range so they have less choices and the 20 year old female has more. So the 40 male who sticks to his age group would have more choices. The 20s male will have more competition but should come out on top. The 40 male who sticks to 20 year olds must strike out a lot.
Oracle is a bit of a reach, imo.

Oracle's definitely a standard in companies of a certain size and pedigree, but it's not even remotely as ubiquitous as Office, which is both a business and consumer product.
Wikipedia and archive.org are supported by donations. That is possible for an image hosting site/service.

"blogs, mailing lists, usenet, IRC" are all paid by someone and all tho their are free hosts for them (or similar services), a lot of people are perfectly fine paying for them and otherwise seem mostly content "to participate in or contribute to surveillance". I'm fine with that too.

But it's very much always been "the way the Internet used to be" to pay for things you value sufficiently. Someone has always paid for everything and gift economies are inherently limited. They're also much harder now than when the Internet was younger.

Academia also seems like a poor example of 'the gift economy spirit'. They're struggling to live up to that spirit badly enough that it's disingenuous to suggest it as something to emulate.
Not GP but I believe it was supposed to be "And I'd like to see some evidence from those sorts of people about how great minimalism is at what it does"
I just looked up the acquisition and it looks like it was around February of this year. I met my girlfriend on Hinge the previous October, and after a series of mostly fruitless and/or boring dates on both Tinder and Bumble she was my only in-person meeting from Hinge, but even in the few short weeks I used that app, the message rate seemed much higher as well as the quality of conversation. Sad to see that it's been degrading recently.
If I want a night off and my mate is banned from uber/doesn’t have a license/doesn’t have his own car I can give him my login and car keys and ask for 50% of his take home.
I think it's a good place to start, especially to avoid scaling issues.
Wow. Are you sure? How do you know this?
"Greensboro Man creates Lesbian* Dating App"
How can I contact support ? Don't see any info regarding this on the website ? Thanks.
Isn't it just priced into the interest rate?

What is interesting is the different types of 'lender'. Banks are lending money they create by fractional reserve, and will pay a lower interest on those deposits than the lent money, so they don't really care about inflation.

A wealthy individual investing in bonds would be a different prospect. But bond prices go up and down based on how the yield compares to interest rates. If I understand correctly lowering interest rates makes the bond worth more.

Any long term debt for 100's years ago is eroded by inflation but by the same token the lender probably profited from all the interest years ago, so the diminishing returns now are just some left over pocket money.

In reverse it is like a mortgage where you can go interest only and have a more modest mortgage in 10 years time, but I don't think that means the bank is the loser.

If you are going to lend money rather than putting excessive terms just factor the inflation risk into the interest rate, and diversify into other assets. Owning some shares, real estate or gold, or foreign currency bonds.
I can see more companies doing this to combat the environment that piracy has created. It's why Stallman is getting so ornery about it lately.

Just for clarity, I doubt very seriously that Mr. Stallman disagrees with SaaS because it combats piracy. It is my understanding that his disagreement comes from the lack of options that are available to the consumer of those services: the freedom to take your data elsewhere, the freedom to audit [and possibly modify] the source code and probably 50 others that I don't even know.

On a separate note, I cannot even fathom a user who would call customer support for a cracked version. The only plausible situation I can imagine is that their child installed the app, cracked it and the parent wasn't savvy or strict enough about knowing where the child got the program and just assumed it was legit and therefore subject to support.
$30 per paycheck: how often are you paid?
Right. Except the Federal Reserve has zero impact on tax or fiscal policy. These are not "tax dollars".

The means by which the Fed extracts wealth from US citizens is not by taxation, but by inflation, since they effectively control the monetary base on which the money supply rests.

Some would argue that inflation is worse than taxation, since it disproportionately affects the lower class who pay the leading inflation "tax" in higher food and energy prices.

But that's an argument for another day. The fact is that journalists habitually get it wrong when they refer to the Federal Reserve as using "tax dollars", which is a blatant lie.

Also, as ars pointed out, these are currency swaps and loans, not handouts.
http://750words.com

I just found this last week... it's really helped me get some writing done, which is usually something I dread doing. You sign in and write. It saves your text and keeps record of how much you've written each day.
I guess my main complaints boil down to:

* The mouse is terrible. And no Bluetooth for me to hook up my wireless mouse.
* The terminal sucks (not complaining about the local shell. I remote out via ssh. Rather, I hate that I cant click links in a shell and other things)
* Being locked into a browser + terminal just FEELS limiting, even though thats what I interact with 100% on most days (and just 90% on rare occasions).
It is called a loan, but the loan is only as good as the ability to pay it back, which comes down to collateral. The fed took literally the worst possible garbage in exchange for these loans. They amount to a gift, in reality.

The 12.3 trillion number sounds absurd, but it is real. What the article neglects to mention is that about 9 trillion was very short term and double counting along with various other exceptions. Only about 3 trillion was actually a handout.

Still, the point of the article seems valid, in a way that your foux-amazement fails to challange. Bankers were given more money then we can imagine, because they held the Fed hostage.
We almost did our web framework in Scheme back in late 90s, but for some weird reasons settled on PHP instead. Our project, and maybe the state of Open Source CMSs could look different if we had chosen otherwise (Midgard, our framework, was the second free software CMS out there, and the first for PHP).

Anyway, this article made me buy the Wizard Book and Land of Lisp just to get back to the language... Last time I read (parts of) the Wizard book was in the student commune some time around 97.
Well, it means the cables should be verified like any other source and not just taken at face value.

But the likelihood that governments may be lying to themselves in secret may be the most disruptive and shocking truth of all. Though a moment's thought would lead you to be shocked if it were otherwise.
What's 'incorrect'? It's just following an older standard.

Will all existing C++ code be 'incorrect' once C++0x is finally released?
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If you don't trust google, then that's another matter.

What do you mean "another" matter? This is "the" matter. In an open computing platform I don't have to "just trust" anybody.
In the first couple weeks of my first job I was helping a client build a custom integration with our product. I thought through the general way I wanted to do it, although I could imagine a couple alternatives. I started presenting my ideas to my boss, and before I got to the end he told me to go for it. I asked if he wanted to hear about the other options, and he said, "No, I trust you." That was a pretty amazing way to get started.
A lot of users make very valuable comments which are often overlooked for various reasons. I was hoping this would give them some deserved attention. Also, having spent a bit of time looking at various users' comment streams, I've found myself having a better understanding of them — makes for a stronger HN community. And, finally, being able to make decent predictions is a valuable skill for any entrepreneur...

Hope that helps explain why I believe this is beneficial and not just fun.
hopefully they will not punish me that way too :)
I agree. Maybe we need a hierarchical system that is dynamic. We need to organize information and in the real world we are constrained, but with computers we are not.

E.g if I need to organize my books, I could move it only to a given position, not another one, I could add labels to my books like "history", or "Initials of the author", but I could only group one way, like all my science papers on one place, if I want to group all the books that talk about sex, or crime, I will have to destroy the other group.

With computers you could create multiple directories trees with links instead of data, so I don't need to multiply the data each new tree. The tech is there(inodes).

Imagine if you study countries according to their population, so you create a hierarchy "most populated", "less populated", "no populated at all", then inside most populated you have "the most populated", "the less populated", and so on.

Then you could have another directory according to the extension in squared kilometers. Another according to their capital coordinates, and so on.
Why do we even have this on Hacker news?
Funny how you should post this a day after google decided to change the homepage to 'igoogle' for me when I'm logged in.
Also, the top two before the help line draw attention and are also discouraging.
Google seems to be trying to do this with Google Shopping. Search is excellent but it's really not that easy to browse, still haven't bought anything because I can't seem to figure out how to checkout with store pickup on it, and it doesn't have all stores nearby, only select chains like walmart, target, advance auto parts etc.

So yeah, sloppy execution, in typical google fashion.
I guess Charleroi (Belgium) might have a longer one.

https://www.urbex.nl/metro-leger-charleroi-ligne-chatalet/

However, it's only 1 line that's unused, some other lines are in use.
The article mentions potentially lifting an 8 million metric ton piston.

Let's see: A weight of 8 x 10^9 kg raised 100 meters
= a potential energy of 8 x 10^11 kg-m

PE x 2.724 x 10^-6 kWh / kg-m = 2.18 x 10^6 kWh (2 GWh)

Allowing a little loss that's enough to supply 2000 houses with 1000 kWh each in one month ... or 20,000 houses with 40kWh in 2.5 days.
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While the subway would have been a nice addition to Cincinnati, it shouldn’t be forgotten that at the time, Cincinnati already had a working (and popular) above-ground streetcar. Some of these lines were originally cable car! So, it isn’t that the city completely neglected public transportation, but just didn’t complete the subway portion (in 1925).

Sadly, the streetcar was eventually dismantled (1952), so you can still lament the lack of public transportation.

I live near one of the old streetcar stops, and it would be great to still have that kind of access to downtown.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Street_Railway

https://www.wcpo.com/longform/a-city-built-by-streetcars-a-l...
Imagine you have a bus coming every day at 7am. Now you move school's start time back 2 hours. You change the schedule so now the bus comes at 9am. What's the bus doing at 7am? Now that bus is sitting around not doing anything at 7am. Adding the second loop means you need to pay the bus driver for 2 extra hours and you need gas for another loop, but these costs are very small compared to what you are already paying to own and operate the bus and employ the bus driver. Assuming a 30 mile route with 80 students at 6 mpg, you're looking at less than 25 cents per student per day, about a 4.5% increase over the current average expenditure per student transported. This can be further reduced if you know which students will be riding in each time slot so you can take two shorter routes.
jupyterhub addresses some of these concerns.
Damn, that was a rollercoaster!

Ethics aside, I respect their self awareness the most.
Maybe, if they decide to use GitHub as a versioning system for their policy & geopolitical strategy. Perhaps a bunch of pull requests for "don't build nuclear weapons" would get approved, and #73 could be closed as "not a bug"
I think they intentionally avoid it, see FAQ:

> Beware the "public shaming" bomb. It's easy to let off, but very hard to defuse if you made a mistake or the issue turned out to be minor and is rapidly resolved.

[1]: http://gpl-violations.org/faq/violation-faq/
The medieval period was a fairly long ordeal with large differences over both time and place.

Life post-black death in Europe, for example, included a heightened QoL for many as population density was lowered.

Many peasants in Europe had their own plot of land but also had to spend some time working his lords' fields. Often the lords had to supplement this with paid work - peasants did not particularly like giving away their labour for free and as such did not work very hard.

My source is Patrick Wyman's podcast "Tides of History". He has a PhD in history. He has a Substack also: https://patrickwyman.substack.com/ and another great podcast, "The Fall of Rome".

I cannot ensure that my assertions hold for all of Europe :-).
This view totally ignores the domestic policies US took in the 60s which was bloated deficits from the new deal and Vietnam war which has been attributed to collapsing the Bretton Woods dollar system.
I also count myself between those who implemented such a script when reading about github1s on HN :)

My latest iteration involves not using the terminal at all - I open the project from emacs instead. So I `M-x peek-repo`, paste the url, and the project will be cloned and open right in my emacs (I use a GUI variant).

Also, personally I don't find the need to use a tmpdir - my tradition is cloning to ~ and just let it remain there indefinitely. I always end up with a mere 100 repos before next time I wipe my computer for whatever reason.
A bit more literature on the N+1 situation in SQLite: https://www.sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html
Is this a reference to the Iliad/Aeneid/Odyssey and how humans were gamed by gods into fighting each other pointlessly for ten years? Or is there something else called Troy?
Well, they are definitely trying to capitalize on the momentum. But I would really describe it as trickery delaying the inevitable.

It is hard for me to believe that people will continue to be fooled into thinking that the way to do cryptocurrency transactions is to not do cryptocurrency transactions and instead give their cryptocurrency to a middleman who will continue charging middleman fees.

Especially when Ethereum 2.0 is fully implemented and deployed.. I think that people will finally understand that cryptocurrency is for cryptocurrency payments and that is an alternative to MasterCard and other middlemen.
I learned Basic when I was in third grade (1988) on Pravetz 8M in DOSAAF.

The was Russian analog called Agat without screen and worse hardware.

It's funny that during Soviet Union times even Bulgaria was technologically more advanced, than Soviet Union itself.
> but he's still stuck in a 1980s mentality where everyone on a computer had to have some level of expertise with actually running software

I don't think he is: The challenge for excellent free software today is to build software which can be used maintenance free (and, of course, be compatible with maintenance if the user wants to provide some).

Of course, it's _easer_ to build software that runs remotely and can be fixed silently for the user at any time, than software which has to be complete and correct when it goes out the door...

Freedom that costs to much can't deliver on its promise. The response shouldn't be to abandon improved freedom as a goal, but to apply our intellect to lowering the cost.
I can't tell if "Of-by-one errors" is a clever joke or a typo.
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