jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don’t know because I don’t think they’ve really been tried. The sanctuary in Nova Scotia, to my understanding, is huge and is supposed to help rehabilitate previously captive whales and house them forever. Captive whales are unlikely to survive out in the wild on their own (maybe, I don’t know), and so the project is to give them a natural home instead of being in concrete tanks.

https://whalesanctuaryproject.org
Well, they could just use common sense: a washing machine is something people look at when the old one broke down or moved house: they need it so they are likely to buy one asap. Show it a week and then stop. Laptops are similar: makes no sense showing it for months, and that is what happens now.

Even if they have the sales data, it is not connected to the ad data (bought a laptop from a big chain here this week: will get ads for that laptop from the same chain for months) so common sense should work fine for now. If the ads appear around the days I am looking for the article, I even might click on them. Now that my brain knows all ads are irrelevant because they are outdated things I already have, I just do not see them anymore.
Pretty severe bout of executive dysfunction.

It's February, it happens. As manifestations of seasonal depression go, it's really not bad, compared to spending a month wishing I wasn't alive.

Been keeping up with exercise, eating right for the most part, seeing friends a little. I'll get through it.
That site came out and was popular when D-Link and Cisco were brought to court for violating Welte's copyright, IIRC.
Amendment IX

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
I have a 2011 MBP, but the 17 inch model. Have had zero problems with it, even though I use my computer for heavy amounts of RAW photo editing in Aperture, photoshop, etc. This problem may be relatively common, but I doubt it is universal.

Of course, the people on this board are probably running generally more punishing tasks on their computers than the average, so if anyone was going to find this problem, it would be us.
As an employee in a small early-stage startup, the open-office arrangement suited me very well. Being able to at least eavesdrop on all of the verbal conversations from the tech challenges to product development to financial concerns kept the information flowing very well. Every member of the team could draw from the full context of our effort to strengthen their individual contribution. As a developer I felt I learned a lot more about the business and our customers than I would have if they had given me a quiet, productive office. I think it was a net win in the early years.
Does it really "brick" your phone, as in "makes it crash in a way that is completely irrecoverable and that can never ever be repaired, therefore turning your phone forever into a piece of hardware comparable in functionality to a brick" or does it just make the phone crash?
Definitively going to look for "The Design of Design"; Fred Brooks is a master.

Though I am relatively young - one of those clueless hacks who arrived at this industry when the dot com party was on its last legs - I can see the blight. Danced with the devil a couple of times, so to speak. It is really depressing to confirm that there's no greener pasture to be had anywhere.

"A million of replaceable moneys... building an ever collapsing tower... exploring implementation space..." [1] sounds an awful lot like my career so far.

[1] Not the author's words, but a comment in the original post.
In the late 1990s, the founding vision of PayPal centered on the creation of a new world currency, free from all government control and dilution — the end of monetary sovereignty, as it were.

...what resulted was ugly, oppressive and pretty much universally despised as far as I can tell. Much how I imagine a "libertarian state" would turn out.
In court, cops are always right. Juries/judges almost always take the law enforcment's words at face value.
You're joking, right? The fact that you weren't one of the thousands to receive a free laptop makes Google developer-unfriendly?
I'e written something called rbyte which byte compiles Ruby 1.9.2 code: http://github.com/maccman/rbyte

Eventually I'll integrate it into Bowline so your source code will get compiled automatically.
Fair, but I remember one of the major sticking points was how much the carriers were willing to subsidize the cost of the phone at launch. Verizon wasn't willing to give as much as att on their contracts. There was certainly give/take, but the generosity of the lock-in is starting to be stretched. At least there are other markets that are less restricted to allow growth outside the US market.
It's great for personal finance as well. It imports csv files from your online banking, it's all command line, and it has a very simple plaintext format:

2008/01/01 income
assets:bank:checking $1
income:salary $-1

Ledger is the double-entry accounting tool of choice for discriminating hackers.
I have to say that I'll be very disappointed if the iPhone 4 comes with only 256MB of RAM. You would think the iPad experience would have taught them that 256MB is not enough RAM to accommodate the significantly increased amount of RAM needed to back the higher resolution display. It's a world of difference between my 3GS and the iPad, where the iPad can't seem to keep more than one page in memory at a time. It's really annoying.

I think the author is quite wrong in thinking that Android will have hardware parity in 4 months. For one, Apple has probably consumed all available supply for the display hardware. Not to mention the disconnect the author himself pointed out between software and hardware. Vendors are finalizing now the hardware that will be shipping in 4 months. It will be months before comparable hardware is spec'ed out, and 8-12 before it starts shipping. the 900 pixel OLED screens most Android handsets have is nowhere near comparable to the 900 pixel IPS LCD display.
Downvote requires ~200 karma, or did when I got it a month or so ago.
How can you be proposing free work when you have worked for huge companies?
Everyone knows that BSD requires you give them credit. Right? Right? I hope people are fulfilling the full requirement of the copyright and not just #1

"2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement:
This product includes software developed by the <organization>."

For example in safari click Help/Acknowledgments
Shouldn't it be "iFace" anyway?
My startup uses Lighttpd and Nginx, but I tossed in one Other vote for my use of Cherokee on some small personal things. For instance, I'm using Cherokee + uWSGI + poit to run my own OpenID provider.
> Stock price only starts to matter when a company needs access to more cash

I used to think that too, but it's not true. Stock price matters for the existing shareholders, including founders and employees, who may need to cash out for personal reasons. The stock price is an instrument to align the interests of many.
Dejanews (which later became Google Groups) archived tons of old messages.
NIF is a well designed/funded scam to do weapon research, it will never have a consumer benefit.
Sure, I'm open to that, let's talk offline.
How did this end up in Google Groups? It obviously didn't exist back then.
(I am soon entering my final year in a CS degree and thus may be entirely wrong)

I'd go with the CS, rather than SE degree. Although I did not enjoy or learn much from Programming Languages, Automata theory (and basic CS theory) is WILDLY interesting. I can't imagine graduating without knowing that type of theory.

The best part is that since not many schools have SE degrees, having a CS degree (rather than a SE degree) will disqualify you from exactly 0 jobs.
Web development complexity mentioned here is just a reflection of a complexity of the outer world. Activities you perform throughout the day require you to make choises which in it's turn requires knowledge gathered during one's life. Yes, you can't be an 'average Joe' to build a web application, but you can't be the same Joe to build a motorcycle or go rafting or found a glass factory without a (impressive amount of) domain specific knowledge.

World is complex. Technologies are. Deal with it.

Another thing that seriously bugs me is the approach to mask completely different goals and processes by imaginary simplicity of overlaying technology stack. Writing a web app and making it scale are totally different goals, choose what are you going to do first. Textual documents storage will differ from video hosting by a couple of orders of magnitude. The more generalization you achieve, the less freedom you'll have.
Thanks for the response. I was thinking certain technology might have been in the list of improvements. I'm glad to hear that you are free to work on them and improve them.
When I hear about Hawking or Musk etc. being feared of AI, I always think about how cats & dogs could have also been scared facing human evolution. But yet here they still are, obviously smarter than us since they don't do shit but sleep all day ;).
Mass murder isn't a real life option/goal of very many mayors so in that respect yes it would be dissimilar, whereas very nasty guns for hire occasionally do very nasty things?

There's an implied benevolence to being a sim mayor - keeping people happy and employed while keeping the city clean and profitable is "success" as defined by the game. I mean, feel free to play it however you want but that's the stated metric for the game.
I've been looking into spacemacs, but I've found it to be a bit bloated vs. my personal config. It takes longer to start up, and sometimes just typing text in Insert Mode was sluggish (I imagine due to one of the autocomplete/typeahead libraries). That said, it has a lot of nice things and nice ideas. I'm undecided if I want to port my personal config to spacemacs, or just pull things out of spacemacs into my personal config.
Looks like there is some sort of school of thought that differentiates 'programming' from Computer Science. This seems wrong, because you're not teaching 'how' you're teaching 'what'. The time students spend learning how to write HTML what CSV is, isn't spent on what bool, operators, statements, blocks, procedures are. They're learning 'Web Programming', which won't help them nearly as much when they have to do anything else.
As a person who played Quiz Bowl in high school, it was pretty apparent that it was domain that would be mastered by AI in time.

Answering questions correctly was often a function of how much material you had studied and were able to recall. I get the feeling that the computer might have a slight advantage at pure recall but a disadvantage at associative recall. Even so, the sheer speed of computation from the computer far outpaces a human's ability to slam down on a buzzer.

On an unrelated note, this is beginning to more closely resemble the prophetic computers characteristic of Asimov stories.
Napoleon army lived off land (as historical armies often did). It means that everything soldiers eat was stolen from people living there. In those times, it meant starvation for locals - marching army eats basically everything there is to eat. It obviously also involved a lot of violence against them.

Not that Russian generals would care about people that they diaplaced. But emptying those places of supplies was not just preventing capture in abstract. It was meaningfully weakening ennemy army, the same way shooting at them does. Logistics makes it breaks wars in general.

In a way, it is interesting that these realities are mostly lost from contemporary stories about wars. We like to paint heroic fights in past, but don't like to show where the food soldiers eat comes from. When we do talk about it, we use euphemisms like "living off the land" as if they were hunting and collecting berries.
Why sarcasm? Yahoo Answers represents an important slice of online culture from the early 2000s. Are our kids supposed to just believe us when we tell them how babby is formed[1]?

[1] https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080211063124A...
What a very targeted poll. Did they also ask, for example, how many non-Republicans believe Brian Sickinck was bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher by the mob? Or that all the other deaths at the riot were on the rioters side?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-york-times-quietly-upd...
> Just because something is not regulated by a central body it doesn't mean it's a gamble.

When there is a crackdown, who will exchange your token for money? If it is a company or a government, it is an investment. Otherwise it is a gamble.
> attempt to avoid all conditionals

I think that's a symptom of the lack of a return keyword (and therefore early returns).
> Is there a need for a sort of middleman like a one arm bandit kind of thing that makes a decision to spawn and despawn child nodes to explore the space more?

What's the one-armed bandit? (Besides a slot machine.)

My knowledge of this field is rusty, but I actually wrote my MSc thesis on novel ways to get Genetic Algorithms to more efficiently explore the space without getting stuck, so it sounds up my alley.
there are many things that PH can do. they could simply require verification of both participants. or they could just reject any such videos if there is even a doubt about consent. I think recently they just axed the whole "community videos" (only because VISA and Mastercard cut ties with them), so you must be a pro to upload. or did that change already?

I think the right approach is for gov to regulate this as prostitution (in Europe at least). you can't just let anyone make porn videos because women and children will get abused, same as with prostitution. you regulate it so whoever wants to do it can do it safely. if you're not a licensed porn actor then you can't upload.
needs a funny response to rm -rf /
A returns leaderboard on this would be so awesome.
What do you think its worth?
First of all, Iceland has seen a significant decline in its economy:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/the-icelandic-po...

Second of all, it is easy for a small country to bounce back by devaluing its currency, but it is harder for a big country to do that. To devalue is to gain via exports (or import substitution), but to grow Iceland by 1% requires less of the world than getting the USA to grow by 1%. This is a simple matter of ratios. The USA represents a greater total of the world economy than Iceland does, therefore its requires more of the world economy to get the USA to grow 1% via exports (or import substitution).

Thirdly, a lot of banks have been allowed to fail:

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/11/bank-failure-147-g...

Fourthly, no doubt some of the bigger banks should also have been allowed to fail. Nationalization and rehabilitation would have been more fair to the public than simply bailing out the existing management.

Fifthly, please think about what you are writing: "the short term pain of some bankruptcies for the long term pain of years of deflation". There is no trade off there. Bankrupt banks lead to decline in the monetary base which will lead to deflation unless offset by some other factor, such as massive devaluation, as in the case of Iceland.
They didn't mention the Encyclopedia of Life, seems like a pretty big omission:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Life
Sans magical technology (nanotech perhaps) planes will always be significantly more expensive than automobiles.

Consider two scenarios. In scenario 1 I buy a beater car and don't maintain it. What's the worst common scenario that can happen? I end up broken down on the side of the road. In scenario 2 I buy a beater hover car and don't maintain it. What's the worst common scenario that can happen? It falls out of the sky killing all the passengers and possibly people on the ground.

This is why used planes keep their value so well, because every single one of them must be kept up quite well in order to be flight worthy.
I can save you eighteen characters -

!google -> !g

!wikipedia -> !w

!amazon -> !a
That makes sense. I tend to roll out the "Sorry about that" in situations like that because apology can be used to signal more than just sorrow or guilt--it is also a widely accepted method of disconnecting from a conversation. Just because someone surrenders doesn't mean they agree with you.

Really, though; the apology isn't the gist of what I was trying to say. The gist is that the parent poster was in no way obligated to stand and take that lady's entire retarded rant.
If they can pull off merging mainnet into ETH2 it'll be a big improvement environmentally & scalability-wise, so yes. Supporting ETH/BTC now is pretty harmful to the world.

Not sure if the volatility thing will be solved, it's still people bidding at the value of intrinsically meaningless bits of data. But maybe more genuine utility, i.e. a payment solution better/cheaper than cash / credit / brokerages, would help justify the valuation. Ethereum's decentralized computation model might find more actually-beneficial-to-the-world applications if the tx costs weren't so painful.

Private keys are dangerously powerful for the average person, i.e. lose or have them stolen and you've lost your money forever. But that's a feature too, you can "open an account" in the few milliseconds it takes for your computer to generate a keypair.
That just means you need more projects :D
No, it's wrong: the employer is paying. The same goes for personal VS corporate taxes.

They apply financial pressures on different spots. Unsurprisingly, they have different effects on increasing o decreasing inequality.
Why don't we just ban advertising?
Do you have a source for the last part?
I have found literature on this, look for "Sterways Process". It seems that it starts to be safe virus-wise somewhere around 35kGy.
Similarly, I had an April 7-16 order from Friday and it got moved up to March 27 last night.
I think this is another example of wanting to ban a concrete outcome of problematic behavior. It's the tracking and targeting that should be illegal, in my opinion.

I've always found it weird that we don't explicitly recognize information about / profiles on people as property of the subject.
Wuhoo for Wufoo!
I don't think so.

Wufoo and SurveyMonkey are both profitable and they both charge for a product that solves a real problem.
It's admirable that you're aware of the risk you're placing on your users, and willing to assuage them. If you're audience is HN, you might want to simply list the 3rd party runtime components you're using (and to go one better, review their privacy notices, recursively -- I can imagine a malefactor doing a backroom deal with a component provider to get kickbacks on data being shared down the line.) I would also include any front end components in this notice, like Cloudflare or GA.

Last but not least, it would be nice to know who's behind this, because none of these assurances mean anything if you're really a malefactor. I would recommend putting a real name or two in your "About" page.
Anyone have an archive of the incident notice?
It looks like the IMPORT_CACHE can be used for vendoring.

A quick example:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

export IMPORT_CACHE="vendor/import"

source ./bin/import

import "tootallnate/hello"
import assert@2.1.3

hello
assert_equal foo bar

generates the following dir structure:

vendor/import/
├── data
│ ├── 0a1c5188c768b3b150f1a8a104bb71a3fa160aad
│ └── a4f0a20c03de97c490413f0c58f480f2ad17ba27
├── links
│ └── https
│ └── import.sh
│ ├── assert@2.1.3 -> ../../../data/0a1c5188c768b3b150f1a8a104bb71a3fa160aad
│ └── tootallnate
│ └── hello -> ../../../../data/a4f0a20c03de97c490413f0c58f480f2ad17ba27
└── locations
└── https
└── import.sh
├── assert@2.1.3
└── tootallnate
└── hello
that list is horribly outdated - so many of the grids in the list dont exist

Most people these days run their own grid through the dreamgrid installer. that actually increases fragmentation

and then the testing grid , osgrid, is down for multiple days every few weeks, which alienates and frustrates new users . overall activity is down, despite the pandemic. and my experience is that it's very very hard to keep users interested because it is lacking the critical mass of people. It also suffers from very high levels of drama

i find it very hard to believe that decentraland will keep such high numbers for long, it has received enormous coverage in the media eventhough it's bordeline a scam (imho). opensimulator has not received any of this

I dont think metaverses should be compared with mmo games - they are different things and attract nonoverlapping crowds.
Again, "full stack optimisations" cost money, if there's not the money to throw more machines against it (which is often, though not always, cheaper than dev time) then there's not likely to be the money for extensive dev time either.

Saving a draft is indeed good UI practice, but best practice is never "regardless" in the real world, particularly in cash/manpower strapped non-profits.
I don't enjoy solitary activities when I drink so no. That being said, I do comment on HN under the influence sometimes.
Very fast storage has also gotten cheap. If you have 16GB of RAM, a $70 Samsung 980 can write your hibernation data in 6 seconds or less.
While your conclusion is largely correct, it doesn't follow from your premises: UTF-16 is just a way to encode, but its brain-damaged surrogate pair mechanism very much did get baked into Unicode (namely, high and low surrogate code points D800-DFFF).
It means "crucial to automotive industry in these 3 countries, and it's important to politicians in those countries to look like they support their automotive industry". They need to do something, and it's not like they can do anything substantial that'll fix the problem now, so letter on highest level asking nicely it is.
As I've got older, and learnt more about the world, I genuinely think I've become less moral.

I used to care about the big issues. Now I rationalise leaving the lights on and the tap running, and make effort not to stand up for what's right when it feels like it would weaken my social status.
Why boomer? Are millennials or any other generation looking forward to paying more to avoid Chinese-made products?
The point of democracy isn’t to make the best choices, it’s to have the people in power try and appease as much of the population as possible. The fact 61 year olds vote while 16 year olds don’t shifts priorities away from a huge segment of the population. Worse, it likely biases short term thinking as many voters will be dead before the consequences of various choices show up.
You gave Benadryl to a two year old? That's insane. Dangerous and irresponsible.
Most keyboard-layouts predate programming-languages, because they were designed for typewrites decades before the first modern computers even existed. So there did gave much to usage of special chara back then. Additionally most languages were designed by americans, on US-layout, which had a great impact on usages of different char in our digital world. Like for example the usage of @, which AFAIK was only used for e-mail because there was no other free char on the developers keyboard available.
It could be that they simply obtained a hash and salt, from which it is still possible to obtain plaintext.
This is an excellent idea! I have been wishing for something like this for LA. Let people post cool spots in real-time (maybe you do), so I know whats going down! :-)
I like the idea. I was confused when I searched Toronto and the top result had a price but the rest didn't.

My question is how scalable is this? Is the idea to eventually integrate hotel listings?
"signals don't easily penetrate the tree branches and leaves which surrounded Aguirre's home"

The whole point is non line of sight.