jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Beautiful device. Too bad the OS is closed with live-sync to the cloud. Need a version with an SD card and wireless that can be securely disabled.
People will lose their jobs en masse regardless of unions. The concentration of wealth and capture of surplus that we will see in the coming decades will probably make feudalism look like child's play
I see a connection between this and the troubles Intel is facing, and the general decline of CISC processors.
how does a product like this get 27 upvotes and only confused people in the comments?
Sorry, I'm commenting pseudonymously, so helping that way would "out" me and potentially others. But if I come across your product on a forum like HN and it seems like constructive criticism might be welcome, maybe I or someone else will be able to give you some useful feedback then.
It's kinda hard to create a world-class transactions system when the philosophy is that the bottleneck should be a below-average computer and internet connection.
The constraints of the Twitter platform make it uniquely bad to challenge something like Substack or Patreon, which leaves... Onlyfans as the only paid content platform they can take users from?
Toxicity on twitter is huge but once you unfollow toxic users (or any user who tweets nonsense too often) things look much better. Tbh I don't use twitter to engage in conversations. I use it mostly to consume interesting content.
I do agree that a top-down approach is preferable, but in the meantime I still see self-organising and collective bargaining as a good thing.
From my perspective, twitter is toxic as hell, focused on out-group shaming, blaming and finally hating.

HN is open discourse, focusing on respect. At least to me.
Congratulations on launching!

I tried sending an email the the address given in your website, but my message bounced back with an error:

"<hi@casual.app>: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for
name=casual.app type=A: Host not found"
1) it’s not 30$ for all transactions
2) how much time does your international wire transfer take to clear? can you do this transaction anywhere in the world where you have an internet connection?
Finding ways to maximize profit, as is being done here, is exactly the ideal of capitalism. Anything else is a post-hoc, just-so rationalization.

More so, Elbakyan herself says that the work she is doing is motivated by anti-capitalist thought.
Anyone can own stock in NVDA no matter where they live.
Look into why the US hasn't electrified its long-haul freight. There's a hell of a chicken-egg and scale issue involved.
I have Intel MacBook Pro and the behavior of trackpad under Windows in BootCamp is just terrible while in a Windows VM or on a remote Windows desktop it is almost as good as on Mac. So I doubt it is in firmware.
Your link states you retain the right to do this, but that it may be subject to an embargo period. If it's referring to the allowed embargo period according to US law (which requires all federally funded papers be shared publicly) then it would be 12 months. They further allow you to share preprints which are not their professionally-formatted versions (i.e. you can put your pre-review version on arxiv), as does generally everyone else.

Also Taylor & Francis may have decent journals in some niches but generally aren't a great publisher.
Do you think the US can't retaliate by throwing sanctions on consumer goods back? Board assembly is automated. It can move back here.
The issue I have with analytics, additional to your (imho) valid points is that lots of practical users seem to always measure the wrong endpoints and don't include negative outcomes.

Leads are useless without measuring how many people bounced off your shitty online shop, because they couldn't understand your UI.

Staying time is useless without measuring closed tabs, because your website is unreadable with ads.

The irony behind it is that ad metrics are used to buy/sell a website's worth for ads. Sometimes I feel like it's like a bubble that's invented on purpose to not have a measurable outcome of anything.
You’re greatly misstating what happened at Tesla. They threw away book built over 100 years of how to build car factories with model 3, because Elon thought they’re smarter than everybody. He was big talking at that time that manufacturing is easy.

It failed spectacularly and nearly bankrupted them and they had to scramble to implement standard processes in manufacturing. Fremont factory is still clusterfuck as a result. Then when they were building Shanghai, they decided to follow more standard playbooks from a start.

And Elon now is taking how manufacturing is really hard.

The whole Tesla model 3 story is “nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated” moment.
The wine would have 2x to 3x the alcohol per unit though, so you would need that much less wine.
Yeah. I think simply making faculty apply for infrastructure and only funding students and no faculty time is the right way to go. Unfortunately this is the opposite of the way that the NSF is being propelled (since panels are dominated by 'eminent scientists' ~= well connected old lazy scientists)
This reminds me - a Java language architect was asked what his favorite non-Java JVM language is. He said Clojure because it's not trying to just be a "better Java".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyTH8uCziI4&t=2896
Hello! I made this site to help me get a project idea and then quickly create it.

In the past I worked inefficiently and in secrecy, and I never ended up launching anything. This project is about turning that around.

Anyone can post ideas anonymously and vote anonymously. The voting ends in less than a week, and then I have a week to build the most popular project.

I'm super nervous to be sharing this here, thank you for taking the time to check it out!
What surprised me the most is that most developers can't actually use Excel properly. Most developers struggle even with really basic Excel operations while a lot of non-programmers can do advanced and useful things with it.

For exampe: We used it once as a bug tracking tool and all business people could easily work with it while developers didn't understand that they should use the drop-downs in the cells to define the status and not type something in the cell. We had to continously fix the sheet and explain the developers. While they were complaining about Excel,it was obvious that the lack of basic knowledge of how to use it properly was just lacking.

The same is true even to a greater extent for Word processors. Only a small part of the users can properly format a document with a correct usage of headings and sections.
Watch the video ;)
Aren't there security issues with running so much on a single port?
Is that how you read Mike's response? Because I thought he took pains to clearly not tie those two together.
From their faq page:

>> Email can easily be spoofed, but Posterous has come up with some ways to figure out if the email we receive comes from you. If we think it might not be you, we ask you to confirm the email before we post it.

No matter what, you always get an email notification of every post we put online for your blog, with an easy link to remove the post if you didn't do it.
> We just don't have a good system for funding cures you can't sell to millions

(Full disclosure: close family member works at $bigPharma)

I don't think it's about finding treatments you can "sell to millions", it's that in pharma, like in pretty much every other business, it's about ROI.

You definitely don't need millions of patients, but you do need to cover the R&D costs _and_ have enough left over to keep the shareholders happy.
Well all the examples I gave were from America. It’s true that at some jobs higher pay comes with worse conditions (eg hazard pay or working a night shift) but generally for programming (and many other professional jobs) higher pay comes with better conditions.
Might not be that way when they go public a year from now
But C doesn't let programs fail. (or at least not loudly)
That's the problem, to me at least.

I've had this code yesterday on an embedded arm cortex m0:

bool tx_byte(char msg) {
for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
tx_bit((msg >> i) & 1);
}
}

This function wouldn't return.
What's even stranger, the variable i would increment past 7. The for-loop just continues.

I got a warning about the missing return statement in that function, but didn't think there could be a connection to my bug.
It turned out that adding that return after the for loop fixed it.

The warning was one among about 100 others, as I was refactoring quite some code at the time.
I only started working on the warnings after I had decided that me an two of my colleagues were just overlooking something and would fix the bug another day.

All that I wanted to say is that, no, C doesn't make you aware of what is happening. It has this giant pit of UB that does weird things when you fall into it.
I was lucky that in my instance, I got a warning. I know other UB just works most of the time and goes unwarned.
Yes. I think though the next solution is not obvious. (a & b)+ (a^b)/2
I thought these error were really funny until an older BIOS told me that "ERROR: No keyboard detected. Press F1 to continue"
> It seems like you believe American law should be changed...

Probably yes, especially since the rest of the world still often takes inspiration from what the US does.

But frankly, I don't live in the country in which I was born, and neither of those are the US. It would be enough for the law to be changed in my relevant jurisdictions

and then, if news.ycombinator.com but especially other sites with user generated content (e.g. Facebook) are not compliant, they could just be blocked (forcing me an others to use a VPN, if we'd still want to interact with these sites)

> Censors are humans, and censorship is subject to the same mistakes and corruption as any other human endeavor, especially those affecting the flow of political power. All of this requires human judgment; and once the wrong humans get the job, any apparatus designed to suppress falsehood works just as well to suppress truth.

Definitely true, but not censoring anything is not a neutral decision (just like deciding to censor is not a neutral decision). There are risks either way.

To tie back to your previous point:

> The performance of those politicians is ultimately judged by the voters. Without open discussion, I don't see how the voters could make an informed choice.

But do they make an informed choice, on aggregate?

Are people like Trump and Biden legitimately the best that the US could muster? Isn't this facet of democracy mostly a popularity contest, in which popularity is hugely affected by which claims are most often repeated in the media (and less on the actual compentences, policies espoused and reliability track record of those political figures)?

I think democracy can be achieved in a different way (but this is getting out of topic)

> https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-...

That's very informative, thank you. I knew about the BSL-{1,2,3,4} rating... But I didn't know that the Wuhan labs were only BSL2

I'll look up more info now, but this is definitely something that should be addressed (and I'd be surprised if something hasn't been done about it already)

Edit: the issue of the BSL level of the laboratories in question seems to have already been addressed:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201206204844/https://www.scien...
It means creating such an abundance of technology that we will be able to supplant the limitations that we are currently operating under so that we can fundamentally alter our opportunities as a species.

Rather than spending the next few hundred years going round and round in ever-decreasing circles, obsessing over reducing the human impact on the planet to negligible levels using limited technological advances, while remaining largely inward-looking and ensconced within our gravity well.

I find that there's a weird mixture of pessimism (billions will die of starvation within 30 years) and hubris (we need to adopt measure X so that we can achieve Y degrees of warming by 2050, rather than Y+1 degrees) that has categorised the more prominent Malthusian technocrats over the last few decades (such as the Club of Rome, and then the IPCC).
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html
> Anyway, here it is. Feedback welcome.

I'm 10 pages in, it's engaging and taps into the whole 'GME is Occupy Wall Street 2.0' narrative that was widespread in late 2020-2021. It reads a lot like 'How to Sell Drugs Fast' to me.

I think we really should have a monthly screen-writer post on HN, throughout the years here I've read a few things that seemed like it had potential if it were fleshed out but usually fell on deaf ears. I have a few pilots and screen plays I go back to when I have down time.

Who knows maybe a FAANG worker has an in at Netflix?

Edit: Just finished it, the last act seems really rushed, like it was meant to meet a page threshold more than finding the protagonist's resolution.

The overall arch was solid, with typical banter and some inside jokes that could still be relatable to the uninitiated.
The sun is the largest object in our solar system.
VPS.NET servers hosted on Softlayer data centers.
Midphase,Anhosting & 100TB.com (all in UK2 group) also on Softlayer.

Hostgator,Linode,SiteGround,Site5 hosted on ThePlanet.
JustHost on Liquidweb dedicated servers.

Hostmonster on Bluehost servers.
What? No it isn't at all. Comcast is just getting upset that people are using the service they are paying for. The same goes for AT&T and their removal of their "unlimited" data plan after the iPhone became popular and they realized that people actually enjoy using what they pay for. Your analogy would make more sense if you said imagine if FedEx paid UPS enormous amounts of money every month to ship a fixed number of packages and FedEx actually used the service they paid for to ship packages via UPS.
DMCA notices are no joke, especially for the receiver.

Your 'automated' system should probably be either:

a) manual

b) have a big ass 'THIS F-ING SENDS A DMCA NOTICE' warning before you disable a file.
Wow, that's great. I couldn't find any info about it on their site for some reason, but another site[0] says it's $20/month for the 4 discs out at-a-time plan, meaning by sharing with friends and family you can defray the cost to $5/month.

0: http://www.timefordvd.com/netflix/NetflixPricePlans.shtml
Yes. However, doesn't it make sense that it's easier at least to focus on the hard things when you don't have to worry about the notational clumsiness that comes from a lack of first-class functions, etc.?
The Gamecube already had private screens with GBA adapters.

In Crystal Chronicles each player had their own menu, a secret competitive challenge (in an otherwise cooperative game), and a unique view of the area (one gets a map, one gets a dot for every monster, one gets a dot for every chest, one gets information on monster attributes).

Four Swords also used the GBA screen, but it was basically just so you could go in a dungeon and wander off without splitting the screen on the TV or making you stay together.

There were probably more games that used GBAs for private screens or other multiplayer gameplay, but I cannot recall them off the top of my head.
Wha? Does being aikon3390 make it hard to differentiate yourself from Clay Aiken?
The logic when we were in YC was that office space does not foster the same kind of scrappy culture that working out of your garage or apartment does.

Working out of an office takes away some of the urgency and gives you a more laissez-faire approach to building the company as well as clear work/life separation, which isn't really a good thing very early on in a company's life.
Can a company that owns one channel be sold to another company, without losing the rights to their channel? If so, how would this be different?
Yes, working in Chrome.
Its really frustrating that there's no good, opensource, Android media backup tool. I just want a simple app that will auto upload photos and videos to an https endpoint (or an S3 bucket).

There are a few tools out there but they all seem to have bit rotted to the point where they don't work reliably on modern Android.
The article is from 2011. Keep in mind the iphone is from 2007 and the ipad from 2010. At the time, it wasn't that odd to be skeptical about this (I know I was!).
20 million US doses planned on delivery in March, 100 million "by June".

Very curious to see how states will choose to treat this with regards to eligibility. Open it up to a slightly younger cohort at lower risk? Treat it exactly the same as the mRNA vaccines?
> I don't think it's fair to ding an early 80s platform for not caring about IBM compatibility.

The IBM was the dominant platform, and there were plenty of 3rd party keyboards, drives, and monitors available. The keyboards, for example, had the same keys but wouldn't work with the Amiga.

Running PC programs was not important, but being able to read/write the floppies in DOS format was very important.

Amiga was clearly trying to create a proprietary platform in order to charge premium prices for keyboards, etc. I thought this was a big mistake.

Whether that killed the Amiga or not, who knows, but as far as I was concerned it was a factor. It certainly drove me away from supporting it.
I’ve heard multiple times that apparently a lot of proprietary Bluetooth stacks are filled to the brim with bugs. I’m not sure how complex the Bluetooth spec is but I wouldn’t be surprised if it were true.

It’s also part of why I can’t stand the trend of remove the headphone jack from devices.
By putting it in a central database? We already do that. If wager you can probably buy gold online which just changes digital records while the gold doesn't move in the vault.

If you don't trust the bank our government you can put it on a blockchain. It sounds a little silly to us, but remember half the world lives in non free countries. So trust in government and institutions is a big concern. But then why bother with the gold? Proof of work ensures scarcity. So just drop the gold from the equation and now you have bitcoin.
It is unfortunate, makes it hard to read.[0] Although there's something to be said for a format like that shuts no-one out. Also, the OEIS has been around in different forms since the 1960s - "The database was at first stored on punched cards" – and it would be a huge effort to convert to LaTeX. "As of November 2020, it contains 338,526 sequences."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-Line_Encyclopedia_of_Intege...

[0] Say what you will about LaTeX, it's amazing when you come across a mathematics paper from the pre-LaTeX era presenting complicated mathematical typsetting done...with a typewriter! - it's so very hard to understand and so unpleasant to read in comparison, that usually I don't bother. TeX + LaTeX was such a huge teknulogical advance.
somewhere in the Twitter comments, there's a link to another hacker news post that shows it's likely trapped water extruding from small holes in the fence structure. drill some holes in a pipe and put it somewhere freezing
That does not reflect actual experience on the ground in schools and early start programs where I live. I don't know what else to say.
Thank you! Why do you think it gets worse with "success"? That seems counter-intuitive!
The author claims to have done that to account for the relative age differences between the women (generally younger models) and the men (generally older "successful" men) featured in the magazine. If that is the case (and not just an excuse) then you might expect a bearded man to be of the same generation as a wide-skirted woman that appeared 21 years earlier.

Even if you didn't shift the graphs, though, the data would still be striking. It'd likely remind me of a predator-prey graph (e.g. http://www2.estrellamountain.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/graph... ) which is "easily" modeled with differential equations.
The article isn't saying to write things in another language as canonical, it's just saying put the language in the URL so later you can add other languages without breaking the URL.

I think that is what you are advocating in part of your response.
>BCBS isn't a company. It's an association of a few dozen regional companies, some of which have their own word marks

"The association owns and manages the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Trademarks." http://www.bcbs.com/about-the-association/ Some of the "independent" companies comprising the Association are the "registered owner" of marks but obviously that is only through a license with the Association, and they are not actual owners they are licensees.

>serial number 72450146

As I acknowledged in my comment there may have been such a mark and admitted to another comment I have previously been unable to find a specific mark with TESS. That said the design of the mark you found: 1. is the cross with the "Silhouettes of men" design in the middle, and 2. they specifically avoided identifying the color of the cross(i.e. they could have specifically identified blue to receive very specific and greater protection as to blue crosses, instead they receive a more general protection for a cross with a man in any color). Additionally, the category of the mark you identified is category 36 or in other words "insurance", therefore, it is going to be difficult to enforce the mark against a non-insurance company even if they are involved with medical services in one way or another (again I concede there may be other and more appropriate marks registered).

> I'd say there's enough of a chance of confusion

Although the legal standard is "likelihood of confusion", there still needs to be a showing of actual confusion in the market place (i.e. did a reasonable person actually donate to Watsi thinking it was BCBS, or can BCBS produce surveys of consumers showing they are actually confused?). It is possible, but I do not think so. Again I feel Watsi saw their effort/money better spent on their mission not on needless litigation, and I think they made the right choice, but as their counsel I would have said they would likely prevail, that said it is possible their counsel would not agree with me just the same as you.
Three letters: IRS.

Based on their whim, your privacy can be completely invaded, and you can be thrown in jail. This happens ALL the time.

What is the NSA going to do? Bring you ("meddlesome kids") into court based non-admissable evidence from PRISM? Never heard of it happening once. Please cite a case if you disagree.

And bothersome people working way outside the law like Deepthroat, LulzSec, etc. already do take enormous steps to preserve their anonymity in communications. NSA changes nothing for me.
Indeed. If Joe Clueless downloads a program and double clicks it, it won't run.

If the user is so clueless as to download malware, he probably won't be able to chmod it into executableness.
This article doesn't have much substance.

"Can iOS remain the leading mobile platform without being the leading platform measured by device unit sales? "

Well give us another metric! If Android triples their sales in 2011 (as forecast by HTC) by what measurement will iOS still be the leader?
Once the program has sudo privileges, it can pretty much add a pirate repo (or replace an official one), changing crypto keys and so on...

OTOH, Linux users don't google program names and download executables they run as admins from the first hit they get.