jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Risk tolerance, even outside of wars, has shrunk quite a bit. People used to do things that are considered practically suicidal now. In 1956, only 2% of Ford customers opted to have seat belts in their cars, and even for the 2% who did have them, those cars were complete death traps compared to modern ones.
> The original promise of cryptocurrency was to become independent from banks.

The original promise was being able to buy drugs and gamble.

How much this has changed since then is left as an exercise for the reader.
For anyone else utterly fascinated with the debates between technological development advocates and lifestyle alteration advocates in response to climate change, I absolutely cannot recommend The Wizard and the Prophet enough.

From the author of “1491” fame which is quite popular here on HN—it’s actually interesting I see that book on pre Colombian America recommended more often here on HN than the one on technology and climate change.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34959327-the-wizard-and-...
this is my gripe with cryptocurrencies in general now. they've strayed so far from their original ideal that they don't even hold up anymore for that. they're just a different form of stocks now, with no intrinsic value, imo, besides being an energy sink.
I don’t own a business just personal projects, but one reason why I prefer DO over AWS, GCP, and Azure is the billing aspect. With DO I just buy credits and if I go over the limit they cancel my services, I’m fine with that. With AWS I could rack up an insane bill, I’m not fine with that. Notifications about billing is not the same as suspending all services.

This is why I like DO. If other cloud providers do have this please lmk because nothing makes me more nervous than having my personal CC on file with very little retribution as a consumer (I don’t want to get banned from all Google services for doing a charge back).
I only remember the founders publicly promising that WhatsApp won’t be absorbed into Facebook or something like that. I don’t know if they also put it in the legal documents.
I'm surprised how far down I had to scroll before I found a comment like this. I was approached by a Facebook recruiter twice in the last year, both times I gave a polite "not interested", with a list of reasons why.
There is no option to enable "palm rejection" in the Settings dialog on Ubuntu under "Mouse and Trackpad", as far as I can tell.
A lot of people in this thread are asking questions about Jim Keller single-handed contributions.

Could it be possible he's "famous for being famous"?

E.g. Some might say Jeff Dean (Google) fits this mode a bit, whereas Sanjay Ghemawat (Google) has contributed arguably just as much if not more - but is mentioned radically less than Jeff.
TLDR: Failed web developer/front end developer, ISO of an internet marketer/RIA/co-founder to work with a profitable stock trading signal algorithm. I need some advice, please.

Greetings, I wrote about this a few months ago. I might be looking for a co-founder of Register Investment adviser? I'm open to any ideas. Thanks

https://www.strategic-options.com/insight/2020/10/09/im-in-n...
I am not sure if this is related but during the past year I noticed few articles describing about how quantum systems are immune to butterfly effect [0]. I can't tell more details as those articles are still on my backlog.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24167691
> straight forward project.

Assuming this is straightforward is as wrong as with calendars / time Systems.
that's a hell of a time investment if you're not planning to stay at FB for a long time.

I think that right there is a good enough reason for them to do it. They probably want to weed out anyone that is not planning on staying for a long time. In general, I imagine the more applicants you have, the more difficult you have to make it to get through.
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The project you would mostly be working on a sports club management platform, where various sport clubs can manage their website, members, schedule training sessions etc. Most of the design we've created to date has been done using Figma, so we expect you to at least be willing to work with Figma even if you currently lack Figma experience.

The role is flexible in terms of work hours, both how many hours you like to work per month and which time of the day you prefer to work. We can also offer relocation to Sweden and assist with housing, but we're also fine with you working remotely indefinitely. Mail us at jobs@doctype.se if this sounds interesting to you! Please include your portfolio.
To be honest I am not sure this is US only fail.

In Europe cancer is treated for free. But there is barrier which prevents doctors from puring money into terminal patients. Some special procedures available in US are not on the list (not accredited yet). Some others have priority queue and person over 50 would not have a chance to qualify.
Wikipedia has three more examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triphthong#Stress_on_the_first_...
Yes, Facebook restricting Pages’ organic reach only to require the Page owners to invest heavily in advertising to make up for the difference was a real death knell for the concept of the digital public square on there.
I'm working on a photos replacement (just the upload and share features) for me and my wife. It literally just uses s3 and some python to move photos around, nothing fancy.
> From my POV, squatters rights should apply and ICANN has no business delegating widely used TLDs, even if they are not formally registered (in which case they would be expected to pay $$$$-$$$$$$ / y).

Who's the "they" in this sentence? ICANN delegating the TLD formally is the mechanism by which you pay money to delegate a TLD. Until said TLD is delegated, it's not a real TLD, and does not resolve on the Internet. You can't use it in a meaningful sense until it is a real TLD, and once it is a real TLD, global collision rules apply. The fake use cases and the real use cases are fundamentally incompatible.
I definitely know Turks who are vocal against their regime, but I understand that many cannot afford to be. This isn't like the old days, before social media. Now, anything you say on social media can get you or your relatives back home on trouble.

PS Not Turkish but from another country with a regime that retaliates against critics.
>It's not clear if they are simply a facilitator like paypal, or a business charging customers and paying suppliers (like youtube). It seems to me to be acting as the latter.

There's a third category you missed: amazon. They handle the transactions and even the fulfillment, but don't collect taxes on behalf of the seller in certain circumstances. A few years ago (before South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc), amazon wouldn't charge sales taxes for certain third party sellers, especially out of state/foreign ones.

>In my jurisdiction you get upto about $100k without having to register for VAT, but I wouldn't have a clue what tax implications I'd have if I took money and sold a service to someone from Peru.

Hetzner (german hosting company) has a country/VAT selector on their site. If you select a EU country, you get charged 20% (or whatever) in VAT, but if you select US you pay 0% VAT.
It's an absurdly unrealistic depiction of the concept.
I always feel bad seeing seniors working. It feels wrong in some way. I can't put my finger on it.
I'm not sure if you're serious, but I agree that random would be a better approach. For example, the page could generate 10 random logos, then you choose the one you prefer. Then, it generates 10 random logos based on that one, and repeat. This way, you literally just click three times, and you decided on the best logo for you out of 1,000 randomly generated ones.

Right now it's kind of clunky, and it takes a little while just to setup one concept. I think the target audience is looking for instant here, not a lot of customization.
>yes? or no?

No. Until I see some proof that these men were incompetent/useless until they had a caregiver, I think this is complete bogus to justify a role that wasn't really needed. If full-time caregiving was required, you would not encounter single people that could function in society and you would never meet a child with both parents employed.
At Tinfoil Security we wrote a service for generating disposable VPNs on the fly. It's open source, and I personally made use of it while in China a few weeks ago.

https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/vpn/new
the DNS poisoning is annoying. I'm on the receiving end of 200 requests per second from people who think I'm facebook, bittorrent trackers, various porn sites.

I finally blocked port 80 for lots of chinese IP blocks.
Re testing. If you follow this link - https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=3fc9a5a35c52 - you get $10 free credit (affiliate link I get $25 if you spend that much in future) on DigitalOcean.

You can spin up a droplet and use the online shell tool or ssh in (very easy when you've set up a cert as the droplet can have the cert setup automatically).

Then you can mess about with a droplet as much as you like, virtually speaking. Once you're done then use the control panel to destroy the droplet - it costs a few ¢ a day and if you don't have a droplet in use (which means active or paused; preserving images is cheaper but non-zero) then you don't pay anything.

Basically sign up and have a year of uptime to mess with a full install of various OS with no charge.

Make sure you don't write "rm -rf /*" in the wrong terminal!
There are still a lot of libraries which haven't moved yet.

I periodically check my requirements.txt's and there's still a few big holdouts left.
Postgres is quite different in one respect: it has a truly serializable snapshot isolation, at an acceptable performance cost (single digit percentage generally). Other DB systems are either not truly serializable, or have lock-based systems that are sometimes more difficult to work with for web apps.

> 'applications using this level must be prepared to retry transactions due to serialization failures'

True of any serializable system that supports concurrent access, AFAIK - not quite sure that's a fair criticism :-).

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> And, typically, transactions between tables or even rows are difficult/impossible for a distributed database

Depends what you mean by 'distributed', really - Oracle RAC is very much distributed, and supports normal transactional behaviour. On the other hand you won't get that working across a large geographical area.

I accept that understanding the impact of isolation levels can be complex - I'm just very much of the opinion that you'll take a lot more pain trying to maintain consistency in a typical NoSQL system.
I'm super excited for the new Seagate 8tb drives @$260/each.

Please order a carton of them and let us know ASAP how they work for you!
"The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought."

This is interesting to me. When I'm working on something difficult I often find my thought process to be very "verbal." Kind of like an internal monologue, talking myself through the problem. It's fascinating to think that my mental experience might be so profoundly different from someone else's.
The difference being that those copies are authorized by the copyright holder and this one is not.

You're right in that that's an obvious counterargument. I don't know how it would play out in court. I don't wish to argue that my "this is a copy" argument is undefeatable, but I think it's sufficiently plausible that this is what the copyright holders will argue when it comes to trial.
That's not the point -- it's symmetric. Replace "hardliners" with "conciliators", if you like.

The point is that what people can say publicly is often much less than what they might concede privately.

This causes deadlocks, and offers griefers the ability to scuttle publicly-made plans.

UPDATE>
> Without knowing what they talk about, how can you know that?

Essentially, they'll talk differently if they know everyone's listening, so that information is not as useful as you think.
About the only drawback is that it's now so popular that new questions only show up on the front page for a few minutes. So finding questions to answer - or getting your question answered is becoming harder - unless you are prepared to do a very narrow subject specific search.

One of the nice things about the early SO was it was so broad, you could see interesting questions that weren't directly in your language and read those as well.
The drawback to this explanation is that the diatonic scale is 10,000 years older than the "circle of fifths". So it presumably had some appeal to musicians as well as to music theorists.
Another prove that software patents should be abolished.
Same story from Nature, 11 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1904166
Why would you do that, if using wget and grep were easier?
Lets say I am not a Ruby dev, what would compel me to learn this over Unity, Unreal, React Native game engine, or one of the other (thousand) game engines out there? Are there enough Ruby devs to sustain this?

I remember Ruby Motion was a thing, then it wasn't... then it was again? I started learning web dev with RoR and quickly moved to Python as the ecosystem was so much bigger. I could transfer my Python knowledge into so many different domains. I remember at the time, I really wanted a "Ruby Motion" for Python... still do actually.

I have come full circle and now think JS is eating the world and I am playing in that garden... we'll see where that ends up I suppose. In any case, GOOD LUCK... I hope for the best!
Fair question, that’s not negative at all.

The product is built for businesses. Every product category has on an average 100s of products and each of those products have at least a few dozen features. There are about 139 apps/user in a mid-size organization. Even on a rolling basis, that’s a nightmare to evaluate. Companies usually evaluate 40 categories of product each year. Appsolite harmonizes those features across the whole category and you can creat requirements traceability matrix across the whole category.
I don't disagree that Telegram storing everything on their servers is very convenient, but:

> you don't even sync between active devices

I use Signal on a phone and a laptop, switching between the two frequently throughout the day and see the same conversations on both. (Edit: I realised you probably meant multiple phones, yes I see that's not yet supported.)

>and you can forget about having old conversations on a new device.

There's been a manual, secure transfer process between Android devices for years. More recently they've added an easy OTA transfer process for Android->Android, or iOS->iOS.

Here's the iOS announcement: https://signal.org/blog/ios-device-transfer/
Oh come on! That's the substantive part of my comment you're going to criticize?

That's 16 to 18 months, not far from 24. This is such a nitpick.

Why don't you address the rest of my comment?
Yes, these methods are wonderful for the home gardener, but you can't feed the world this way. You absolutely need to regularly amend the soil if you're growing crops intensively for sale.

Farming is mining in slow motion. Eventually you have to put those elements back into the system, and you can't get all of them in sufficient quantity from compost.
Interesting that the terms "keybase" "steller" "lumens" haven't showed up once on this page yet, considering how similar this seems to what Keybase did by integrating Stellar Lumens, and going downhill from there.

Hopefully Matrix/Element continues on their current path and doesn't ruin their chat protocol/client by pushing some altcoin onto their userbase.
Other than gaming, there are so many enterprise applications for AR glasses like the medical, construction and repair fields where it can be a game changer (pun not intended) and better and even save lives.

However the form factor would probably include some head accessory for extended battery life or have it integrated with hard hats. The last thing you need is the battery to die during surgery. But I can see how it can assist all forms of surgery even for non-doctors in say a war zone.
From a genetic standpoint, all humans are 99.9% identical beasts.

There is of course some genetic components in potential abilities.

But I strongly believe that most of the differences we are seeing are built on compounded interest of environmental factors, starting from a very young age.
> It is over 6Kbps Opus[1].

The overhead from packet headers to send data every 40ms is 9.6kbps, is the difference between 12.6Kbps and 17.6Kbps meaningful at that point? We are sending the same number of packets, likely with the same packet loss rate.

> A RaspberryPi Zero will provide more than sufficient power for Lyra

A Raspberry Pi Zero can't run Lyra, as the proprietary math kernel is only offered in compiled form for x86-64 and android-arm64: https://github.com/google/lyra#license
"The recharge of the aluminum-air [battery] is user-friendly and consists of refilling water and replacing aluminum when depleted," a spokesperson for Alcoa said in an email response to Computerworld. "The water refill is an easy task that can be performed by using tap water on average every one or two months according to mileage driven.

The battery's aluminum replacement is also a "quick operation" that will be performed at periodic maintenance checks at a local service station on average once a year according to mileage driven, the spokesperson added"[1]

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248966/Electric_car_...
The latest US stats are at http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2010/tables/10s0299.p...
which is derived from
http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/offenses/expanded_informati...

You do have to convert the raw numbers into per-capita rates.
Which might just mean that Google will land on the moon, then beat Facebook.
>And no, it is not similar to using a salad fork to eat steak.

And yes, it is. Fonts can evoke emotional responses, but so can steaks. In the example I used (reminding a coworker not to steal your yogurt from the fridge), however, the point isn't to cause an emotion, it is just to convey a very simple, very 1-dimensional message.

In the example of eating a steak with a salad fork, the point of the action is to get the steak into your mouth, not to convey to message to those around you know you are a member of the class of people that know which forks to use on which portions of their food.
The template output lacks any eye-candy.

This is what I use for my website ( http://autolicio.us ):

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/ctd/2114911822.html

I did a bunch of testing and this page had the highest conversion rate by a far stretch.

There are a lot of other services that do this. Postlets is the big one. Most of them go beyond the copy/paste model. They will actually post for you, track your ads, repost when expired, track conversion, etc.
Cool, so what's your password then? Seeing as it doesn't matter if anyone finds it out...
My understanding of the latest (WPA2) WiFi security is that each client creates a private channel with the access point – so it's totally up to the access point whether to trust, or route, anything any client says. That would suggest resistance to ARP poisoning is possible, at least. But I could be wrong, hence the question.
There is no reason to disable new registrations (and that was the only tangible AND immediate effect of the shutdown) several hours before you could do it in a much better way. That sounded like a pure fail to me before the acquisition announcement.
Document conversion is a tricky space for a startup. All the rules are defined by companies who would very much like to see you fail, and code wise it's almost the most boring task I can think of.
You can, you can directly upload the contents of the .build folder to any host.
Are there any legal implications associated with this site, as in is it legal to download videos from those sites?
How effective are graduates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7599475
No specifics, but we hired someone from one of General Assembly's programs at my last job. He had significant industry experience in a closely-related field before the program.
When you click on things on the website, they pop open online betting and other affiliate links
Mind sharing your provider's name (email is in my profile)? I have a hosted service, in a different space, with a similar demographic. Adsense banned my account (mistakenly may I add) over a year ago and now I'm out of monetisation ideas.
>Our experience was good. We wouldn't do it again.

If the experience was good, why not?
>Our experience was good. We wouldnt do it again.

I assume you mean 'would do it again'?
Related:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2001882

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1990612

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1975517

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1968958
My favourite quote from that article is the following one:

Update: more from Buchheit in the FriendFeed thread:

ChromeOS has no purpose that isn’t better served by Android (perhaps with a few
mods to support a non-touch display).

I was thinking, “is this too obvious to even state?”, but then I see people
taking ChromeOS seriously, and Google is even shipping devices for some
reason.

I fully agree with this one, and honestly don't understand the rage around Chrome OS. OK, so it's from Google, but it's still merely a crippled Linux-distro where you don't get to touch the local filesystem.

I doubt it will stay around for long.
Good article based on extensive knowledge of both applications! I have used Photoshop for some time as a prepress professional and also Fireworks for about 7 years.

Agree totally that Fireworks is superior in terms of producing pixel perfect layouts for web or web applications.
Ur/Web is another similar project: http://www.impredicative.com/ur/
QuickMix of Ratatat and Sound Dimension - All instrumental.
I guess while I'm at it I'll throw my project into the mix. Its still very much under development though and more focused on Mono and running on OSX/Linux.

http://manosdemono.org (nothing really there right now)
https://github.com/jacksonh/manos/blob/master/docs/tutorial/...
1. This is the one where if you "less" a giant log file, your web server will get killed. Awesome.

2. This could be handled by returning NULL.

3. If your server only needs to run a single process, making that one process terminate would be much faster than rebooting the entire machine (commercial-grade servers can take ten minutes to POST).
To me this is more about Apple attacking back at Google. Jobs made a comment about how it wasn't them (Apple) that entered their (Googles) market referring to Googles entering the smartphone market.

Apple is attacking Google on two fronts - the Web, a move to hit Google in the money belt via Reader and it's ad-blocking features; secondly, copying Google's advertising monetization methods to reap potentially Google like (aka huge) profits via iAd, and again limit/control Google/other advertising platforms's on their iOS's.

I got to hand it to Apple, it's a pretty good strategy. I suspect they won't suffer much backlash from this hypocrisy beyond the tech crowd though.