jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No, you will not have. This is terrible advice. No one should follow it, including you.

You can't be "knowing". Whether you have experience of grief has no bearing at all on whether you can understand someone else's immediate experience of it. You cannot. You would be a fool to imagine you could. There's a lot of foolishness around these days. That doesn't make this kind any less culpable.

"The moment" will not "be stronger" for any action you take. It is not your moment. You are no part of it. There's no way you can be. Stop trying to be.

You aren't the main character in this movie. You're not even an extra. There is no movie and, in this circumstance, you do not matter.

Except as follows: You can either be someone who intrudes on the grief of another with some kind of weird unhelpful behavior that needs to be managed, and whom everyone accordingly sees and remembers to be a jackass. Or you can not be that.

If you want to not be the jackass, do this:

1. Say "I'm sorry for your loss. If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know."

(And mean it. That offer of help is a promise. If you don't mean it, don't make it.)

2. Fade into the background.

This actually does help. It helps by not making it necessary for the person who is grieving to interrupt that in order to deal with you somehow. If they need anything from you, they'll ask - after all, you've just invited them to do so. Until then, for pity's sake, leave them be. They already have problems enough without you being another one.
Exactly. We don't really gave furnace filters in the UK. I'm sure they exist somewhere but they're not omnipresent like they are in the US.

Automotive and industrial air filtration is what's easiest for me to get my paws on.
What happens after the two revolutions?
It’s very reasonable.

And as for alternatives to Cloud Run, it’s worth looking at Lambda and Fargate.
It is an interesting idea. I am looking forward to how it plays out. I think the first challenge will be getting adoption from MTA's, smtp libraries and major email providers. This can't be done in a silo (server only) because smtp takes two to tango. Both the sender and the receiver have to implement this concept to utilize it. There will for sure be a handful of spammers that can't get their malware updated right away so you would at least have a window of less spam.
That's a bs argument. The FIRST problem is it ONLY running on one ecosystem. The SECOND problem is that it's still dependent on X (which is ALWAYS going to be a problem unless you are making a blockchain messaging service)

Stop ignoring the first one.
Am I naive in assuming that many grid stability issues could be fixed by mandating all electric heaters automatically cut off at, say below 49.9Hz?

It is my understanding that modern home EV chargers have the capability to do this to some extent, but I'm not sure if it's actually utilised?
It's such a particular kind of intelligence, too, in that they get such pleasure of things that honestly annoy most human beings. Ours will just go for hours rolling a ball back and forth to you, totally fascinated by the way the ball moves across the floor, and how she's getting you to do something for her. For a human, it's just tedium.

You can see how useful they'd be for moving sheep around for hours while responding to commands. They just like it. And don't care about weather, or distractions, or anything.

Last week I had mine out in the bush here and she was carrying her frisbee with her. A rabbit bolted out not 5 feet in front of her and she completely ignored it, because she was currently stopped in her tracks, busy, giving the frisbee "the eye"
No, instead of just stating it, explain to me.

Tether's reserves only matter when people try to redeem Tethers. This is currently not possible.

So it is purely a trust game right now, and everyone has an incentive to trust (or turn a blind eye) that Tether is playing by the rules.
My understanding is that the problem is not with Bitcoin, but with people buying Bitcoin with "money printed," (or unconfirmed-peg) Tether.

The same issue would arise if the USA started printing dollars and buying physical gold with it. Is that right?
https://files.catbox.moe/fopl6w.pdf

A copy I had downloaded on 29 July 2020
Assuming the part timers don't have double jobs (which is unlikely if they work about 30 h for you, at least then you're likely the more important one to them)
In much the same sense as they're allowed to contest an arrest... after they're arrested.
Yes, our finance system lacks sophistication, uhuh... which is why we banned credit default swaps BEFORE the financial crisis, and our banks were never in danger of collapse because of the currency reserves we make them hold. And our foreign debt is miniscule.

So call us primitive if you like, but look at what your sophistication has brought you.
Valerie Plame.
First question is, how valuable is the domain to you?

Any offer will have to be enough to allow him to make some profit from the domain registration, possibly hosting, and perhaps a small incentive during the holidays for profiting on an unused domain. If the name is an actual word, he's going to assign some inherent value which might make the domain more valuable to him. The fact that you have some back and forth dialog means he's at least considered it enough to respond.

In cases like this, I generally let them suggest a price and use the 73% rule. Generally, they won't accept less than 73% of their initial offer. Once you have a number to work from, you can start to negotiate the purchase. If the answer exceeds what it is worth to you, you could try a hail mary and say, well, we really only had $x budgeted, thanks for your time. If you ever reconsider, please let us know.

Money today sometimes exceeds the possibility that he could sell the domain in the next year and make more than that, especially if you're the first offer he's had in a while. Until you get some starting point, it'll be difficult.

As for what you want the domain for, I would just say that you were considering a project and thought the domain would be a good fit. There are other domains you're looking at including another you have registered, but, you thought this domain had a slightly better fit.

Good luck with it.
The story is correct, the headline is misleading.

The article says it's on the ACMA blacklist, and if you link to a site on the blacklist from an Australian website then you are eligible to be fined. Whether anyone has since been fined for leaking to Wikileaks, I don't know.

If/when our abomination of an internet filter idea comes in, then it will become blocked by the filter. I think 2013 is the soonest anyone thinks that will happen.
Maybe it's me but I find those underscore methods very helpful while skimming code.. They clearly point out the "magic functionality - probably adding syntactic sugar" declarations, helping me focus to the actual interface of the class.
the asking for money bit is also in beta...
that's where the 'remove from friends' option comes in very handy...
The graph is misleading. The "Windows PC" peak corresponds exactly with the release of Win7 -- it is now simply back to normal pre-Win7 levels.

But even worse, the authors arbitrarily combined iPads with Macs. Putting the iPad by itself (beginning at zero units sold) would yield enormous growth rates not fit for comparison with Windows PCs.

The sudden launch of the iPad makes for a deceptively large growth rate increase. After all, if the iPad were instead considered a "Windows PC", the "Windows PC" line would hardly increase at all. So, pairing the iPad with a smaller category (macs) allows for a seemingly huge growth rate increase.

(The macs are in fact such a small category that the "All PCs" growth rate hardly increases even given the huge "Apple only" increase.)
Thanks for the replies, @pg and @patio11. In an interesting way, being told that I'm already doing the things I should be doing is reassuring. Lots of late nights and weekends ahead!
A point of feedback: I know it is illegal for you to inform users if you have received a warrant for their data, but you should devise a method where a flag such as 'third party access' is set in the user preference panel to let them know that somebody has accessed the data

architect this flag as part of any 'admin' access and describe it on your website - users would feel better about it

if the feds know your system is designed in a way that you can't help but to inform users that data has been accessed, it might dissuade them from approaching you with warrants in the first place
Who are these people who want proof beyond reasonable doubt?

We really did have much of that proof at the time. Millions marched. Sometimes however democracy does not work.
You asked a great question. I wish I had a better answer for you, but that's one big and obvious limitation of the internet- I can only give general advice to you because I hardly know anything about you.

My three short bits of general advice to anyone in your stage of life are:

1) Relax and enjoy life

2) Try to differentiate yourself in a positive light as much as possible (both on and off paper).

3) Keep on seeking the answers like you are doing right now. You can never get what you don't ask for. Don't limit yourself by not asking for things.
This is a great summary. Thanks for sharing it!
I recently bought a house and it came with a Ring doorbell. I dont care for it. I would of never bought one. I do have additional Wyze cams though for my blind spots and the back of the house. I definitely dont ever want to see activity back there.

The Wyze cams app is somewhat similar to the Ring app you can see videos people share with Wyze but thing is they have to email those videos in. Wyze says they End-to-End encrypt videos they upload to their cloud. If you dont trust them you can buy surveilance SD cards and use those instead. For $20 a pop though they are great. I only use them facing outside my house. I only put one facing the inside when out of town.

My alternative was going to be Raspberry Pi Zero W's and EyeMotionOS if anybody is interested in alternatives. Only reason I didnt get those is cause I couldnt decide on the camera to get and also I had a suspicious person (realize now they were likely just lost) stop partially on my driveway. So I bought a bunch of Wyze cams.

Another neat thing about thr Wyze cams is they shove an AI into a $20 camera to detect people. Their video on the matter can be seen on YouTube. It is impressive.
Google supports AV1 which is royalty-free (to the degree possible, given the plethora of patent trolls out there).

Apple joined the orgs but in the end made the dick move of not accepting a performant, free codec to become standard in HTML5 for purely selfish business reasons.

As far as support for open & free codecs goes, Apple have consistently been total assholes.
The first one is a delightful story.
What you are describing is a proxy server and not a VPN.
The definition of a species is the interbreeding barrier. Animals who cannot produce fertile offspring are different species.
Sometimes I wonder if I picked the wrong career from just viewing how analyzed this field happens to be. Every year a blog post I see about how to make things better or what's wrong and needing to change things up.
I've never seen these constant blog posts on management & burn out for other high paying professions. I'm starting to wonder if programmers are just being psychologically manipulated every year to decrease the value of the skill and so companies can get more out of their money.
I suspect anyone into cars, bikes, or aircraft is aware of titanium's status as a paragon material, but the general public is less informed than that. I regularly see people miss the implication of an Al -> Ti or Ti -> Al material substitution and I semi-regularly see Al and Ti confused outright. It seems almost sacrilegious to someone in-the-know, but most people just don't seem to know or care. As far as they are concerned, aluminum is titanium is aluminum is titanium. Shrug.
Email will never (in any reasonable time-frame) die, but the use cases are narrowing. A large percentage of people in their teens and early twenties use email for personal reasons rarely, if at all, preferring other tools like SMS, Facebook messenger, and other social networks. Of course they will still have an email address, and most will check it occasionally for emails from their parents or tuition reminders or whatever. To contact friends though, they'll use other means. This seems odd to many people in their 30s and 40s, given email's ubiquitous, straightforward, and open nature; but, if all your friends are in your facebook contacts and everything is happening on facebook, that will be the most convenient place to send messages. Or for close friends, you'll just text them. What's the point of sending an email that won't get read for hours or days? And what's the point of checking your email regularly if all you get there is spam and bill notices and stuff?

I'm 34 and email is my preferred method of communication. I certainly lament that some people eschew it for closed, proprietary alternatives, but I can understand their reasons for doing so.
I read through WhatsApp’s new terms and I don’t understand what the big deal is. Isn’t it mostly about messages with businesses?
Good choice on ST. I can only recommend their products. While some tools are still wonky and quite archaic (which is sadly pretty much the standard in the industry) their tools are the lesser bad ones.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25682448
"Suppress" is not the right word because that would imply that the price is wrong. There is nothing wrong with shorting a market. If the short is wrong, she loses money. The market remains balanced and often short squeezes are responsible for large bull runs.

Tether however isn't balanced. There is no risk. There is no offsetting liability in the market for the Tether they create (unlike with a short future, which has an offsetting long side).
If you're serious about this question.

The the answer is: a competitor could build their services on top of Facebook. They wouldn't have to start from scratch. Independent client's mean if the one user trusts you with their data, you can provide them a bigger value.

Today you cannot innovate on top of Facebook. Their network effects mean if your service is superior, you need to beat the network effects first.

And Facebook cannot reasonably offer independent access because: Cambridge Analytica.

Independent client's do what they want without Facebook taking a hit on their reputation. No one blames apple for the crimes committed using their phones/computers do they?
> We don't know why only one of the big providers started interoperating with XMPP. But we do know why that one stopped again: A terrible wave of spammy contact requests. They were able to fight intra-gtalk spam much more effectively than spam that originated via XMPP.

I think you're mistaken to believe this over the fact that Google was going through one of its turbulent internal transitions. The whole of Google Talk got replaced by Hangouts (which is now facing its own complex demise: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/the-great-google-han... ) and the whole Google+ shift undoubtedly played a part.

Spam is not the problem. I have a Gmail account, and I receive tonnes of spam daily. I've had spam in Hangouts, I've had spam in Google Docs. Meanwhile independent and voluntary public XMPP server operators have quite a good handle on spam on the network today. I refuse to believe that Google's resources were unable to solve this, rather than that they were unwilling to solve this and took it as an excuse to wind down their participation in an open network.

I'm all for more research into anti-spam solutions, any open network has to deal with it. But so far none of the well established open networks (phone, email, physical mail) have yet solved the problem.
Casey, in this case, is of course Casey Muratori of Handmade Hero fame.
Oops I accidentally submitted that, when trying out the keyboard features (i copied some random text and started soft kbd space sweeping to move the cursor. Didn't notice i apparently submitted the text too)
Facebook is persona non grata when it comes to trusting them to use information that they’d obviously need for a service only in the way they’d obviously need to use it while not adding it their advertising database.
I'm working on a game server hosting service: https://grryno.com

It's a pay-for-what-you-use service (no monthly fees) and I'd like to focus on open source and indie games. It features a live web-based server console, web-based ftp access, and real-time progress indicators as the server starts up.

It's been in development for the last 5+ years but I've used the last couple of weeks to finally get it to a point where people can start using it.

At this point I'm just looking for a few interested people to try out what I've built and get some feedback.

The infrastructure used to be entirely on Linode but I migrated everything over to AWS last year, and it's been a huge benefit. It greatly simplified everything and I got rid of huge swaths of code, which is immensely satisfying. :D

The game servers are run in Docker containers with a Node.js based api server for communication with the website.

I'm currently working on adding some more games to the library and learning about marketing.
Seems like it's officially being considered as an option:
https://youtu.be/l3h9Z4u4icM?t=2078
The best DSP intro I've found, especially for the non-math whiz is Steven W. Smith's DSP Guide:
http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm
PHP as a language is broken. I don't want to speak in broken language. It hurts my brain as human..

Unlike other popular language which has language designer around it, PHP 'copy' other language feature without even serious consideration around it. Even more, there are no language guru who want to research the Good parts of it, like Javascript who has Douglas Crockford who tels us the good parts...
I like that `var` still exists, it lets me know that I am looking at crap code within half a second.
This is quite incorrect.

I am a credentialed actuary responsible for the pricing of insurance risk. It is absolutely true that the consumer cannot price his or her own insurance policy (and I can). However, the end result of this is not some nefarious scenario where insurance companies are charging consumers ten times the fair price to insure their car or home. There is a functioning market for insurance, and consumers are going to tend to select the lowest-price option from amongst their choices in that market. This means that if you overcharge your customers, you will lose them to a competitor. Systematic mispricing of policies relative to the competition will lead to adverse selection, which is even worse - the insureds that you were making money on leave, and the insureds that you were losing money on stay.

Because of these factors, the insurer's goal is to price your policy as accurately as possible. Profit margins in the personal lines are so thin that many insurers engage in what's called cash-flow underwriting. The only money they make on the policy is the investment income they earn on your prepaid premium.

On top of all this, insurance (especially insurance marketed to consumers) is heavily regulated. Rate changes and new rating plans are scrutinized by each state's department of insurance. These regulators function like you wish the banking regulators did. They have enormous authority and their relationship with insurers is adversarial.

I could go on at some length but I will cut it off here. Suffice it to say that insurance, particularly property/casualty insurance in the United States, is about as far from a scam as you can get.
I did google the guy who put the fake app. He seems to be from the same country I am, Moldova. I doubt there is any company behind this app, maybe he is just a lonely hacker with lots of free time...

I found also a list of 23 apps he has done http://www.appdata.com/ios_apps/devs/3706221-petru-plesca

and his linkedin www.linkedin.com/pub/petru-plesca/55/13a/380
No, but I was expecting that. I believe Ublock Origin was hiding it.
And yet even most of them are probably better off than the average middle-age peasant.
For example, if a furctions get a file, they should make it clear whether it's the name of a file or a File-like object. Or whether both are acceptable.

I don't know enough about Java documentation.
Yip. I couldn't move myself to type the obvious: a person replying to my comment doesn't determine whether I am "on topic".
iirc joel wrote another post specifically about this. the problem here is that some people applying for a job aren't able to write a loop for summing numbers from 1 to 100 in pseudocode. this is not about syntax errors, this is about weeding out impostors who can't program at all.

if your argument is: "but i know a genius programmer who's so socially inept and anxiety ridden that they can't write a loop if someones watching!" i.e. "sum = 0; for (i=1..100) sum += i" then sorry, but good luck elsewhere.
Here are two facts about the dollar that a lot of people don't know:

1. The Federal Reserve holds assets (mainly stocks and bonds) whose value exceeds the value of all the dollars that have been issued.

2. If they anticipate that inflation will be greater than their 2% target then they sell these assets in order to push the value of the dollar back up.

So even though the dollar isn't backed 1-to-1, it's value also isn't an arbitrary social decision like some people seem to think. It's being supported by assets with real value.

Of course many of the bonds owned by the Fed are US government bonds, and so the dollars value is partially dependent on the ability of the US's government to tax wealth from its citizens.
Can't they just sell the car? It will be a bit if a loss but certainly better than ongoing loss and suffering?
Key is “if they chose to” do so. But to overcome one’s own ethnocentrism and cognitive biases is proving to be difficult.
Did you read what you quoted?

The point Stallman made, in the most deliberately urticant and confrontational possible way, is:

Are you willing to incarcerate people for drawings? However disturbing the subject?

> 26 October 2014 (Prison for cartoon)
A man in the UK has been sentenced for prison for having a cartoon depicting a fictional child in some sort of sexual situation.

The advocates of this kind of censorship started by saying they were trying to protect real children from being abused in order to take their photos. Making such photos should be a crime, and is a crime, but that is no reason to prohibit possessing copies of the photos.

However, they have already gone far beyond that. No child was harmed in drawing the cartoon.

To criminalize possession of copies of anything published — no matter what it is — is oppressive, and leads to many other forms of tyranny.
>Creator coins are a new type of asset class that is tied to the reputation of an individual, rather than to a company or commodity. They are truly the first tool we have as a society to trade “social clout” as an asset. If people understand this, then the value of someone’s coin should be correlated to that person’s standing in society. For example, if Elon Musk succeeds in landing the first person on Mars, his coin price should theoretically go up. And if, in contrast, he makes a racial slur during a press conference, his coin price should theoretically go down.[0]

Author is kind of right if you go by what their site says.

[0]https://bitclout.com/one_pager.pdf
In India, recruiters will not even accept / process your job application unless you fill in the fields for "existing salary" and "expected salary". And if you enter 0 or some random value, you may receive a call to verify those numbers.

As part of your joining procedure, the new company's HR will necessarily ask for past 3 months payslips from the previous employer. And if the numbers don't match what was disclosed, they quickly rescind the offer.