jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> That sounds pretty interesting.

Thank you - also mentioned here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1410175

> Care to share the link?

I was hoping someone would ask: http://www.williamsonfineart.co.uk

> Any plans to turn it into a way for others to run their own sealed bid auctions?

I've been thinking about that, and it shouldn't be too hard to generalise. No time now, but when the auction is over I can assess how it went, what I did wrong, and look at adapting it to do it "properly." This version was done in a few hours over a weekend.
Everything in this piece is pure fluff. The allegation that it could cause cancer is quite laughable, it's a blue-laser given that for the effect to actually happen it requires the light to be emitted in a very narrow band of the spectrum it should be impossible for it to be emitting ultra-violet light. They're not posting that it can cause UV-burn of the eyes, just that it's exceptionally bright.

So unless this company discovered a magical type of ionizing radiation in the visible spectrum, there's major misleading information here. Besides, the laser is powerful enough to cause conflagration of the skin, so there likely wouldn't be enough skin cells left to actually be concerned about getting skin cancer from where the beam touched you.
I am very thankful for this policy. The HN titles are essentially always better and more honest representations of the article contents.

Keep up the good work!
Sure, why not? Vancouver does this. It generates a very small revenue stream, but hasn't changed anything structurally.

The real problem is that we highly constrain building housing, seemingly treating housing as a negative worse than cars or roads or pollution. Every tiny addition of environmentally friendly multi-unit housing faces stiff opposition, prolonged approvals that last years and risk any financing used to build the housing. Meanwhile, environmentally destructive single family homes on green fields faces no opposition, even though it forces people into long commutes, and single units are far less energy efficient, and are far oversupplied compared to multiunit urban living which is hugely undersupplied. This under supply of urban housing has resulted in something like 9% decrease in GDP, in addition to causing far more environmental damage, and in addition to displacing all sorts of people from their homes and families and communities.
There are carbon neutral meats, I recognize that. While still an ethical calamity, at least if we could get everyone to cut over.
Not to delve, but the article does mention a number of relationships that are explicitly comparable (according to the article) to heterosexual marriage, or are otherwise described as unions. There are multiple references to homosexual marriage and union.

I'm not sure that the points you're making about shared finances are particularly important, or even true, based on this. But I'm not a historian.
Good example re: thermal reactivity is how teflon coated pans can kill birds if you let them overheat, eg by letting a pan boil dry: http://www.animalplanet.com/pets/other-pets/teflon-bird-guid...

Causes harm to humans too. But birds happen to be particularly susceptible.

Looks like the research agrees with you re: incineration: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004565351...

"Results indicate that, within procedural quantitation limits, no statistically significant evidence was found that the PFAS studied were created during the incineration of PTFE. Therefore, municipal incineration of PTFE using best available technologies (BAT) is not a significant source of the studied PFAS and should be considered an acceptable form of waste treatment."
I'm not going to write an (overly) long comment on it as I think Amazon is in a good position for continued growth but not because market cap is bigger (revenue is still smaller, employees is still smaller, footprint is still smaller, groceries have been a slow burner even post Whole Foods) and certainly not because numbers went up for the last 5 years so therefore they'll just keep going up until all competition is buried.

Also remember when looking at valuations/revenue/profits/growth that these mega companies can be extremely wide. What looks like massively higher profit margins turns out to be from Amazon Web Services driving 2/3 the operating profit not from store sales margins and even if it was that one company can sweep up a certain category of sales doesn't mean it'll be able to sweep all of them up.

There's also nothing to say Amazon can't be outdone by others or can't become the source of its own demise just because it's done well over the last 5 years.

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Anyways back to the XKCD question Amazon has experienced high triple digit growth in the last 5 years and still hasn't approached Walmart in sales/revenue. That doesn't mean it won't do so but that also doesn't mean the next 5 years will be as easy to have triple digit growth, especially if that growth was in enabling new sales rather than displacing traditional sales. Similarly the market isn't worried about Walmart fizzling out any time soon like Yahoo did, to go back to traded value despite Amazon's meteoric rise Walmart is still valued twice as much over the last 5 years compared to the 15 prior where it sat completely flat even though Amazon wasn't much of a competitor at all during that time.
Ah yes, I was just thinking that this could be useful for `aws s3 ls` and similar.

(Really I just want `tree` on `s3`. There's `s3-tree` but that uses the entire bucket rather than a prefix)
I wasn't using a rhetorical trick, I understood what umeshunni meant, and you understood what I meant. As you said, I was transparent. I wasn't assuming umeshunni meant the opposite and clearly stated my opposing opinion. Perhaps I was too brief and left too much up for interpretation amidst others' superb reading comprehension skills.

I'll go ahead and state things more clearly for you. First, look at the comment umeshunni was responding to: "I'd be willing to bet most of the worlds youth are less enthused about American culture after the last 4 years." Now, I wonder why that commenter said specifically 4 years.

Now I can't say with certainty that the prior commenter was implying Trump is to blame. However, suppose you are willing to spend five minutes reviewing opinion polling about the USA from other countries' perspectives. In that case, you would know that President Trump's polling worldwide is very low and that opinions about the USA have dropped during his term. One source: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/09/15/us-image-plumm....

Feel free to respond to this more sufficiently described opinion in a manner that meets the criteria of real conversation. Or, you can respond with more confused grievance outrage.
Why not have a history table and use SQL triggers to insert the new data as JSON everytime someone changes something?
Even crazier, they seem to have un-sent the email? I got a notification that I had an email from Simple, but didn't check it immediately, and now it's completely gone from my email account. I've never seen that happen before.
I feel like the “right to a personal webpage” comes sometime after the point where people agree basic shelter, food, and water are a basic human right.
Maybe it handles falls so your phone doesn't have to?
Misleading headline: most people don't install an app every month, but what about the apps they already have on their phone?

Edit: it's misleading because the article actually says 65% of smartphone users download zero apps in an average month. That doesn't mean most people never download apps. Just not every month.
Not really sure what good can come out of technology built for surveillance and manufacturing consent though.
Regular pitch for http://www.sbf5.com/~cduan/technical/git/

> you can only really use Git if you understand how Git works. Merely memorizing which commands you should run at what times will work in the short run, but it’s only a matter of time before you get stuck or, worse, break something.

It's concise (the linked article is gigantic) and allows for an understanding of this overhyped user hostile DVCS. I know that git won but don't expect me to be happy about it.
Wait, Google has a homepage?
The Google finance page now links a story saying that traders think there is "renewed talk of bid interest from Apple".

http://www.lse.co.uk/FinanceNews.asp?ArticleCode=hu9stjtv6kn...
Or announce they have a solution (and they do) but don't extrapolate. Think Fermat.
I wish google finance had a setting to 0 the y-axis, so you can appreciate the percentage increase by eye. (or is there a setting for that somewhere?)

But you're right: 17% up in 2.5 hours means there must be some news about... (why don't you put 17% in the headline? The current title is too vague to grab the attention it deserves - and someone here probably knows EDIT much better).

EDIT whoa. It spiked to 31% up, now settling around 25%

Seems to be rumour of apple buy: http://www.lse.co.uk/FinanceNews.asp?ArticleCode=hu9stjtv6kn...

Another report http://www.marketwatch.com/story/arm-holdings-imagination-te...
which notes a similar surge in Imagination Technologies http://www.google.com/finance?q=LON:IMG whose tech is also used in "tablet computers" hmmmm... might not be apple?

EDIT sigh. now only 10% up. oh well, that was exciting for a while. Might still happen of course.

> a spokeswoman for ARM said it had not received an approach and a takeover from Apple would not make sense. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE63M18320100610
Hangout with smarter people.
Imagine being able to audit the total supply of money printed by your central bank. Or to audit that your retail bank indeed has the reserves it claims.

And "audit" not as in "spend millions on an auditing firm to do it for you", but audit as in "independently verify it yourself on your own computer".
Oh, that's not a "might", it's pretty much a foregone conclusion. Not tomorrow, not in 5 years or even in the next decade. But not so long term, it's going to be hard to continue catering a modern day lifestyle to billions. [1]

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2020.6154...

Not so long term would be beyond 2050. 2100 sounds like far into the future... until you realize that kids born today have fair chance being alive at 79 or 80 to see the turn of the next century. [2]

We are not even talking about any children you might have of your own. This is literally everyone who gets born today. Nephews, nieces, cousins, kids of friends and acquaintances,... So, this isn't even an thought exercise in the abstract.

The insidious part of climate change are the delayed effects. Consider it like throwing a thick blanket over your body. It takes a bit of time before enough of your heat gets trapped to make you sweat. Most people will throw off that blanket once they get uncomfortable. When it comes to climate, throwing off the blanket on short notice isn't an option. So, while you - and many others - feel that humanity at large has the luxury of time to afford consider anything but climate change, generations to come will experience the very uncomfortable effects of a blanket they won't be able to shake off. That's just "present bias" in action.

Now, I don't worry constantly about the future. That's counter productive.

What I do worry about is how little action is taken even today to change that future. Sure, there are a tons of great ideas and technological advances. But electric cars or ships dregging micro-plastics out of the oceans aren't going to change this.

What really grinds my gears is that this was already known some 60 years ago. This was already an debated issue at the White House in the 1960's... and over the course of those 60 years the affirmative actions that needed to be taken to avert this, have been muddled in compromises, bureaucracy and lobbying. That's not even hyperbole. [2]

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/clim...

As time marches on, the window of opportunities to avert the worst case scenarios and projections shrink rapidly. If hard to accept policy choices keep being debated and pushed into the future, the future simply becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

That window of opportunities has already partly closed up. Climate change is unavoidable. And any future policy choices will shift towards mitigating the increasingly dire effects, rather then avoiding climate change wholesale.

As an individual, the single most powerful thing you could do is to vote for and support policy makers who do take this issue serious enough today.
Market going up when the economy is going down IS a problem because when it crashes it will amplify the problem ten fold.
Oh it's not DoS mitigation, he really just hates HNers. Completely understand him.
Definitely feels like it. Both on stocks and crypto.

The recent move of mainstream companies into bitcoin suggests to me that it might last a while though
According to Wikipedia the annual budget per employee at CSE calculates to be approximately USD$220,000/employee, which would be far less than the cost of hiring a typical NSA contractor[1]. This of course assumes that CSE doesn't have any other expenses (buying hardware, paying electricity bills)!

If CSE employees don't find the salary competitive now, you can almost be certain that 9/10 people working there in a few years time will be on much higher contractor rates.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-average-defense-depart... (these figures are extremely conservative as they're from 2015, not specific to high demand ICT jobs, and also without the scarcity in the job market that a TS/SCI clearance creates)
Essentially inflation is a political measurement that drives policy decisions and that is cause for a lot of concern.

The current inflationary model is mostly driven by salaries. Thus in the 70s unions drove up inflation due to oil shocks.

The concern for me is that models do not include asset inflation for goods (housing) that most people would like to own and where there is little productivity improvement. Using an equivalent rent model ignores this preference.
Without level 2 data trading is just trying your luck on a random number generator.
> The freak storm in your metaphor is actually the aggregated behavior of individuals.

No, the freak storm is supposed to represent the development of digital copying technology. (The aggregated behavior of individuals is instead represented by the crowd of onlookers.)

> ...and then adopting a hectoring moral tone

I was actually trying to discourage such a “hectoring moral tone” by discouraging such name-calling as “parasitic, adolescent, [and] greedy”, as displayed by the post I was replying to. Instead, I suggested trying more constructive approaches to recover some profit in the unfortunate situation.

> Then you conclude by suggesting that maybe the era of large statues is over, and they have no value.

I did not mean to suggest they have no value, I merely suggested the possibility that it may no longer be possible to get paid for making them. (At least, not in the same way as before.) There are a great many things which would be of great benefit and value to large masses of people, but for which it is nevertheless not possible to get paid. These things have value, but you can’t get paid for doing them.

> Why should the people who invested the substantial labor and capital required to create such an elaborate work not enjoy a property interest in it?

Because merely expending effort does not warrant payment. This is a classic “sweat of the brow” argument, and it doesn’t work. It doesn’t matter that you work hard – what matters is what you can get people to pay you for.

> And what of films that have not yet become profitable, notwithstanding their significant cultural quality?

What of them? You seem to presuppose that movies should continue to be made in the same manner as always, and therefore, their creators should be compensated in the same manner as have been done. I suppose no such thing. If a business model can no longer be made for them, then movies may be a thing of the past.

I am not ready to create a perfect surveillance state in order to preserve the old business models, now obsolete due to technological developments. Yes, a perfect surveillance state is, in fact, what would have to be developed to prevent people from “looking at the statue”, so to speak. Witness first the new role of copyright – initially only applicable to those who owned printing presses, in effect an industrial regulation – which now regulates almost everything a person in their home can do on a computer. Witness secondly the rise of DRM, and the creation of legislation which makes it illegal to circumvent it, and even to talk about how to circumvent it. Witness further the creation of closed platforms; computers which you supposedly own, but do not actually control and which you cannot actually control.

One cannot be said to be able to live in such a society, but one can live without movies. The choice is obvious.
The direct answer is most managers have no experience managing remote workers. Certainly that's not the entire story but it's a new way of working and many organizations reject it for its novelty without understanding it's advantages or what investments have to be made to get them.
As a person that learned to code (and had a paying job as a programmer since 10th grade) in high school - you are overdoing it.
if you don't need (exclusive) any benefit offered by C or node, sure.
That's what I mean; I don't necessarily think it is (which is scary).

Maybe we only got to know how horribly flawed the software situation is at Toyota because they had finally had enough people killed that they just couldn't keep it hidden any longer, and Audi and Honda are just as bad and just haven't yet had this kind of exposure event.

I would prefer to doubt that, but it does all kind of make me want to buy a restored 1978 Datsun with carburetors and mechanical everything.
In many cases, this is why the trailer is still somewhat better if you're thinking totally mobile living area. Since it has no engines to speak of, the only worry about leaks is if you connect 1 or 2 LPG tanks. Need to keep an eye on the gas lines for vibration induced abrasion/breaks if you move about a lot to make sure they're still intact.

As an alternative, a heat exchanger ventilation system may work. This way, you can maintain a comfortable temperature indoors for a bit longer while still ventilating.
They don't collect email because that's behind a password protected access if it is web driven and presumably imap or pop if it isn't. So your emails are not stored by the IA.

I don't speak on behalf of the archive nor am I in any way associated with it but from a technical point of view the archive crawlers simply do not have access to your emails.

See the faq for lots more information:

http://archive.org/about/faqs.php
Seeing as I can't edit my own post anymore, this is the first remix of the remix mentioned by Lessig in the talk (the one showcasing Brooklyn):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1ywFh2AZLg

I'd suggest clicking "Show More" underneath the description to see the numerous remixes for other localities that have been made.

Also, I found this quote in the description:

>Update 1: We met with Glassnote Records and they loved it! They said Phoenix dug it too!

Digging around, it seems Glassnote records is an American label, and Liberation Music is an Australian label. From what I can tell, it seems that Glassnote records hold the rights to the song, and Phoenix is under the Glassnote label:

http://glassnotemusic.com/profile/Phoenix

Does Liberation Music have a distribution deal with Glassnote? Is one a subsidiary of the other? Now I don't even know if Liberation Music actually had standing to file a DMCA claim at all. I should go to law school.

Edit: Even my hometown of Austin has one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAM0rb8vswU .
Anyone having links to the video of the talk?
Until their culture changes drastically I'm going to say No, for the following reasons:

- It is too risk averse. Making big mistakes, especially with your career, is looked down upon and it makes you a social pariah.

- Japan is too brand name obsessed and it's not limited to products either. It extends to your career, as to what company you work for and what schools you graduated from. i.e. You need to work for already successful companies. It also doesn't look too kindly on drop outs or anyone different either, who are probably the very people building successful start ups.

- While the younger generation is better, Japan still has a xenophobic society. Most foreigners unless they are of Japanese descent still can't get citizenship. Foreigners bring a lot of innovation and different ideas to the start up sector that Japan misses out on it. The US isn't perfect on this matter either, but compared to Japan it's way better.

In Japan's defense, most of the EU suffer similar problems.
To give Maxwell a little more credit (not that you aren’t), the wave equations and PDEs of today are much nicer thanks to modern knowledge and computational techniques. Maxwell didn’t have div, grad or curl and so he had dozens of equations to look at instead of just a few, and I think the terms and patterns weren’t as well known as they are today.
Amazingly he was working a few months ago, supervising the title sequence reveal for the Amazon Lord of the Rings series: https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2022/02/08/112064-vfx-pione... :(
They actually did claw back a bunch of the disbursements from Madoff towards the end.

https://www.wilsonelser.com/files/repository/PHLY_Article_Cl...
To be fair, developers seems to be very good at doing this themselves as well.
> I spared the details regarding nausea but the contents of my stomach were definitely emptied once or twice.

Zofran works for my friend, zofran. Whether it’s specific serotonin blocking effects that fixes the nausea has +/- psych experience is unknown.

(Supposedly it can contribute to serotonin syndrome, but I don’t understand the mechanism. Seems theoretical, but don’t say I didn’t warn you).
Experienced the exact same thing. I simply hadn't time to fulfill the course, so I asked to cancel it. The agent offered me another month, but make it sound like "for free". I recognized I had to pay for the extra month and complained about it. Which means: Chat, here I come again. I finally got out of the contract and needles to say: I won't come back. The overall learning experience wasn't that good at all. Not for that price.
I've met RMS in real life and talked to him on multiple occasions. He can absolutely take care of himself and it's a little insulting to RMS to say that he can't. (Who took care of him between when he left his job at MIT and when the FSF got enough funding to hire him an assistant, if he wasn't taking care of himself?)