jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's the only way that works for me... but I tend to do it in 6 month spurts. Then I go off. I think the biggest thing is I gave up reg. soda at the same time. So while I go off/on the plan, I haven't gained the weight back, though I do yo-yo 10 pounds or so depending on my sweet tooth. I also did crossfit, and need to get back into that to get to my next goal. I've got bad ADHD and am now on meds and feel I got things sort of in order, but I still feel there's not enough time in my life for everything I want to do... Fitness takes a back seat often over family events, and working on my 'mvps', and client work.
The thing I don't get about pass or gopass is that "each secret lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the secret." Why leak the information that there are passwords for those websites or resources?
What's special with Haproxy?
Labor rights have a very long history worth learning about. The short of it is that profit from labor is definitional exploitation; the question is how much exploitation we consider economically useful.
Huh, another git explanation.

Either the thing is so easy to understand that everyone can do it and is then compelled to write about it, or it's so difficult to understand that everyone feels the compulsion to explain it to everyone else.
I think you need to take that ecology class again. Humans are bit different than tadpoles; I'm being serious there is more complexity at work than "more food --> more offspring." Your basic ecology simpleton logic doesn't include any conception of sociological factors that are inherent in human populations. Does your basic ecology conceive of frogs deciding to either delay or even not engage in reproduction in favor of careers?
Ah, but ad blocking does not work on FireFox, only Safari :s
I am not taking a stance on the law itself, but it is what the current law is. And has been in place for at least a decade in its current form. If it is a serious issue, then people should definitely work to change the law.

But, unless they are the only one available or something, there is nothing in the law saying that specific employee has to keep providing service. The company should make a best effort to remove that employee from contact, without impacting the service of the customer.
I believe that the pandemic will make world politics lean to the left. It's inevitable. Such a gigantic crisis will force society into mutual help, and will make it harder for values like independence and individualism to really thrive and endure. No man is an island. It's true that trade and entrepreneurship are a form of mutual help, but competition bring the worse, and it becomes the economy of the survival of the fittest.

When governments inject money into private banks, it's impossible to deny that capitalism doesn't work without state intervention. Capitalism has been dying since 2008. In my view it started dying after the end of the cold war. An ideology without rival slowly becomes irrelevant because it's unchallenged.
I've never seen this proposal before. I'm curious what the consensus is that leads to it being downvoted so. I'm inclined to think this is a bad idea, but I'm not confident.

My guess is you'd see a small portion go to employees, a large chunk reinvested into the business, and a large chunk go directly to shareholders. If you managed to alter the structure of taxes so that shareholders paid more for capital gains and dividend income, I feel that's a better outcome than corporate taxes. But lingering doubts of the feasibility of doing so + companies just hoarding cash seem like large problems.
Can you state the purpose? It's really not clear to me in digital.

As a reader that actually likes to read, they are distracting, they are frustrating to accidentally read and reread, and pull me out of the story.

In digital formats, if these are much past the fold say maybe one to two screen lengths down, what purpose could they possibly be serving to the reader? I can't figure them out at all.

You should reward the reader, not distract and waste their time with duplicate content.
The west made some of these improvements 70 years ago but follow up maintenance, replacement, and expansion never came.

The built environment of the U.S. has changed remarkably little in the past 40 years, and we are paying for this stasis today with our housing crisis from not building enough housing supply, our congested and crumbling roadways, our lack of transit infrastructure investment (NYC subway has been frozen in time for almost a century practically, and all we can celebrate elsewhere are a handful of light rail lines that usually sit in traffic with the cars), we've voted to defund our schools, and have refused to expand our public healthcare system to those younger than 65 as originally planned in order to protect private insurance industries.

The only improvement the west has made in the last 40 years was figuring out how to move a greater proportion of its wealth into the hands of the few, and iPhones I guess.
Charging riders with service animals more is illegal under the ADA. The "correct" handling for this would be something like raising everyone's rates (probably a tiny amount; there aren't that many service dogs) to create a pool of funds which Uber dips into to pay for cleaning the driver's car after the ride and to compensate them for the time they can't be driving.

In many ways that would be quite favorable to drivers, I think. They get a free car cleaning, and guaranteed pay while the cleaning happens. Riders would suffer some, but I doubt it would be a substantial change in prices. It's a relatively expensive process, but it impacts such a low portion of rides that I don't think most people would even notice.

Amortizing the cost is how most aspects of the ADA are handled. It's not like people in wheelchairs have to pay more because a restaurant had to put in an accessible bathroom. We all pay a little more for that to happen.
No individual is being forced. Uber is being forced. Uber's the one that's gonna have to pay another $1 million in damages or whatever if they don't.
Here I thought I was alone in this opinion. I’ve often wished for a caffeine free version of Red Bull so I could drink more without jitters. It is fascinating how divisive that flavor is.
I have to admit, Red Bull really knows how to spend their sponsorship dollars.

I practice and am a big fan of two sports they sponsor heavily: skateboarding and auto racing.

They sponsor some of the absolute best and "real" skaters, including Jamie Foy and Zion Wright, among others. They aren't corporate or try to mold fiercely independent skaters into an image. They just pay the best skaters in the world to wear their logo. They also pay to build some of the best skateparks/obstacle courses in the world by sponsoring some of the contest series.

In auto racing they sponsor the iconic Red Bull Racing team, headed by an absolute troll of a human being but also insanely successful. They have the best aerodynamicist in racing history (Adrian Newey) and some of the best drivers in the world. They won 4 straight championships with Seb Vettel, and now look poised to finally challenge Mercedes' dominance this year.

I personally don't drink any energy drink besides coffee, but two of the big things I'm passionate about are the better for Red Bull's involvement.
sure http://gerardpaapu.com/hncomments/
The Kinect works by projecting an infra-red grid on to the room so you can't use 2 of them in the same space (unless you modify the hardware somehow)
You can see what the short interest is on a stock to get a gauge of how shorted it is.

Plus if you have access to one of the online idea boards for hedge funds, you can see the write ups from analysts that believe OpenTable is a short -- sometimes they disclose whether or not their fund is short the company as well.

I am counting 4 of those write ups right now.
Also, it's a good way to develop loyal customer for the future. If your target customers are college educated white collars, then tapping into that market early is a great way to establish top of mind awareness of your brand for the future.
The Bank of America app is a webview of their mobile site. It has excellent ratings, and is currently the #1 free app in the Finance category.

All that said, it's clearly not a native app. Transitions from screen to screen are slow, do not animate smoothly, and sometimes exhibit drawing problems.

The punchline: their app description announces an upcoming native app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bank-america-mobile-banking/i...
Owning land. It adds no value; it is the only "thing" that is a fixed, limited quantity. (I'm not making a moral or value comment.)

There is a branch of economic theory that says all taxes should be on land ownership.
As someone about to get into this space, I didn't realize that personalized reading was heating up so good. I suppose that competition is a good thing, and of all the apps listed in the article (Flipboard, Zinio, Pulse), I think that using the web as a platform is a competitive advantage for us, but damn. How is this the first I've heard of this?

If this is seen as too self-serving, feel free to mod down, but I have to ask, does anybody else use Pulse, or the apps mentioned? What do you like/dislike about them?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16989534. I realize this one was posted earlier (sorry) and is arguably the original source, but the Reuters article contains marginally more info, and the corporate announcement posts about this things always feel like reverse press releases.
The US and NATO is so far ahead of China and Russia in the conventional fight it's comical.

No one outside of the US or its allies even has a blue-water Navy. China has ONE carrier and it's a pile of shit compared to what we have. We have 11 super carriers, add in the smaller ones and we have another 40 or so. That's not even counting the rest of NATO.

Let's not even get into to the backwater that is the PRC's air force.

Yeah they have 1.3 billion people. Big deal. How exactly do they get them over here?

Nuclear war, now that's a different story but having another cool bleeding-edge fighter jet isn't going to stop a full scale nuclear conflict. China and Russia have enough nukes they all might not make it to the continental US but it's enough to destroy us. We can certainly do the same. The basic game theory of MAD hasn't changed much in the past few decades.
the Doomsday Argument seems plausible, but assuming you are selected uniformly at random from all possible humans results in a hidden assumption that the future can have an effect on the past, which doesn't seem reasonable.

I realize this PDF from 2005 by a member of "The Futurists Guild" may not seem like a reliable academic source, but it lays out some good thought experiments on the topic.

http://cogprints.org/4045/1/Causality.pdf
Indeed, the response to the CCP must be multi-lateral to soften the blow for all involved nations.
Well, without knowing what your definition of a "pretty" frontend is, it's a bit tough to reply.

Go check out the screenshots for Goyo and Limelight and ask yourself if it's pretty enough for you. Personally, I think Vim can look as good as any modern editor with a couple plugins and a decent theme and font, but we might not have the same standards. :)
https://archive.is/4KS3b
They're not in contradiction to each other, and the second link doesn't kick off with that sentence. It kicks off with:

The "Spanish" influenza pandemic of 1918–1919, which caused ≈50 million deaths worldwide, remains an ominous warning to public health. Many questions about its origins, its unusual epidemiologic features, and the basis of its pathogenicity remain unanswered.

Which... matches pretty well with the first link. Sure, the outcome of the disease was severe, but we don't know why! And recent studies imply that it was because of sociological phenomena.
You put a pilot in there because we are nowhere near giving an autonomous drone command authority on a kill. The pilot is also smarter than any UAV and has situational awareness that even a drone ground control station lacks. Oh yeah, and that F-35 can be commanding portions of that swarm of armed drones.
I thought the Singularity is near because innovation is accelerating. I'm perpetually confused.
If you think that we have anything resembling a healthy market of affordable education, I'm afraid we're not going to agree on much of anything.

The point isn't about whether colleges are there for education or not, the point is that if you have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of your life you should get a return on that investment.

The idea that people should go enormously into debt to become educated for the sake of it is crazy. If you want to educate people for the sake of society, then get society to pay for their education. Until then, people need to make rational choices about what for many of them is the biggest financial commitment they'll make.
Their uptime stats seem pretty reasonable to me, exceeding their target uptime in almost all cases.

https://www.frbservices.org/resources/financial-services/ach...
The example in the article with cat, grep and awk:

cat *.pgn | \
grep "Result" | \
awk '
{
split($0, a, "-");
res = substr(a[1], length(a[1]), 1);
if (res == 1) white++;
if (res == 0) black++;
if (res == 2) draw++;
}
END { print white+black+draw, white, black, draw }
'

Can be written much more succinctly with just awk, and you don't even need to split the string or use substr:

awk '
/Result/ {
if (/1\/2/) draw++;
else if (/1-0/) white++;
else if (/0-1/) black++;
}
END { print white+black+draw, white, black, draw }
' *.pgn
I saw the video many years ago, and a search just now seems to only find links to a video that has disappeared from YouTube.
That was a powerful story, and it's well written too. I think it would make a great article for Vice or something like that, but obviously it's nice to read posts like this on HN.
Part of the problem is vimscript itself. There is not too much external documentation about it.

btw i disagree with you a bit. The best resource to learn vimscript is the sources of popular vimscript plugins.

The next best thing is steve's book, which is brilliant.
Yeah, this is not FUD. I have a thinkpad edge running Ubuntu (and I tried a few other distros). Both the Broadcom wifi and the AMD graphics are very wonky. Broadcom worked, but a kernel upgrade broke it. AMD driver works, kind of, but not when I plug in an external screen.

I had it fail on me during a presentation I was giving. Next time I'll use my macbook, just to be safe. Obviously I don't blame Ubuntu. I blame myself for not buying a laptop with Ubuntu support.

Next time I'll buy System 76.
Did you try to find for online spaces (reddit, fb groups or other) where you can get an audience that might have the problem you are trying to solve.

Your problem might be a niche problem, but unless the niche is extremely small, there must be places online where you can get a relevant audience and throw the idea at them to start collecting some feedback.

It is also possible that the problem you see is not perceived by other people, so always take a critical stance towards your own idea. Try to evaluate based on facts and not your own passion.

My 2 cents
Interesting comment near the end, "2. The 4, 5, and 6 byte sequences are only there for political reasons. I would prefer to delete these."

If that had happened, I guess emojis as we know them today might never have happened, since it would have limited us to 16 bits of code points. Or we would have had to start doing surrogate pairs even in UTF-8. Close call.
What if youre the prosecutor and you’re given false evidence by a cop who was given it by an informant?

The prosecutor and the cop didn’t know it was fake but also didn’t ask too many questions either.

Life in prison for both of them?
with a proper drum card, you could just press skip. ;)
The bad thing with UTF-16 is that so much software assumes that one code point always is 16 bits.
Irony is that The Facebook started exactly like that.
I'd still add Keybase to the mix even though they were bought by Zoom.
Why not stick an angel-mode Varnish in between? Serving stale blog is usually better than no blog!
You couldn't even put the http:// in your spam post for your link? Fail.
This is the model behind Ignighter. Apparently they've had a lot more success in India than the United States. The New York Times ran an article about them back in February: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/business/20ignite.html?_r=...
Verizon/Sprint should use statements from this filing in their advertisements!
I agree with your comment but the parent might have something valid to say within that joke. Perhaps the posting only needs someone who has good design skills - not someone with experience with a particular technology.
For entities that have the CapEx money to build out their own hardware to handle expected growth, and do it a little cheaper due to volume, does it still make sense to engage in the cloud game?

Or is it a better option when you are starting up, and want to be able to quickly throw hardware at a problem, should the need arise?

Apologies if this sounds like a pretty ignorant question, but I haven't implemented cloud-based services before. It seems like there is a hardware cost vs. people cost due to the newer nature of AWS and the like, and that needs to be factored into development / maintenance time.

Saving people time by relying on a known quality like arrays of Linux servers with failure tolerance seems preferable.
A printable cheatsheet (black-n-white) would be good. Graphical cheatsheets are for fancy.

I found this one http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/QRC/VIM%20Quick%20Ref... but it doesn't have anything about tabs, buffers and splits. A full quick reference in the same style as the one above would be good to stick next to a computer.

Right now I'm keeping http://vim.runpaint.org/toc/ open in a browser tab and referring when needed. It's simple to refer and read.
This statement at least seems like he stopped trying to bullshit people. He openly said that staff was instructed to not give out any info, which probably means they can't talk. I do not think this is the choice they or their lawyers made, but rather it is more likely to be an external factor, like a gag order or an acquisition deal.

Having said that, chances of getting our money back are still extremely slim, but the update strikes me as containing less bullshit and as an attempt to reach out. My hope is that the truth will be revealed sooner than later and we can all move on. I'm saying it basically having lost all of my money with Gox. I think the time we've lost following this drama is probably more valuable.
For the placebo effects of coffee - Kirsch & Wiexel 1988 (can't find it online, annoyingly enough).

There probably are some fMRI studies, but I really don't trust most of those due to the difficulties in avoiding multiple comparisions (see Vul et al 2009, Voodoo Neuroscience).
now it says "SOON"
Backblaze blog folk here -> change is hard :-(
Sure, but they gotta start somewhere.
Even the xkcd https://xkcd.com/1179/ does not mention or gets wrong that

yyyymmdd

is also right and allowed in ISO 8601. Especially useful when you add time. You don't e.g. want character ":" in your file name 20210226T205418 (local time here)
> How Prepared Are We for the Next Giant Solar Flare?
As well prepared as we were for the Next Big pandemic. We even have a whole ideological system to shirk responsibility and run unchecked into disaster.

Every nation on this planet should by now have a 3 year basic food reserve, to buffer against failing harvests due to global warming weather events/changes.

Its currently difficult to setup, costs too much, we already did it during the cold-war and yet, soon as the wall fell, it was all slashed and cut. I blame the retirement of politicians who remembered how starvation feels.

First real long-term drought with aquifer failings or a cold-burst pre-harvest, will hit us like a hammer.
Nothing like mass-starvation, to re-calibrate political priorities.

There is no awareness that the strategic reserve exists only in name now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_grain_reserve

Basically is a price control tool, where over-production is shipped of as aid. What it not is - is a reserve.

Interesting paper:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237409034_Strategic...
That's Facebook's claim, yes. And when it comes to Apple News and even the App Store, Apple also serves advertising on behalf of its partners. It's also true that Apple themselves runs a lot of ads, and benefit from ad networks through the services they've integrated in the past. In fact, Apple justifies their 15-30% cut by suggesting that the App Store is itself a platform that promotes apps, and has featured apps in its own advertising on billboards and television.

So it's hard to come to a conclusion that Apple hates ads. It's easier to say that Apple dislikes advertiser networks, since their own attempt at a generic network (iAds) failed miserably. It's not even clear to me that blocking tracking is going to kill ads as a revenue stream, all it will do is make ads more expensive because they're slightly less targeted on iOS?

Also, Apple runs their own seemingly successful ad market within the App Store app — something I'm reminded of each time I search for an app and see a competitor's app I don't want at the top of my search results, filling my screen with the new design. So it's hard to say that Apple does this for the best user experience. Showing extra popups isn't great UX. And Apple likes free apps, it makes their phone and platform more valuable, so they can charge more for the hardware knowing folks can get great apps inexpensively or free.

While I'm in favour of Apple losing its complete monopoly over App Stores and apps that compete with its own, I actually am in favour of Apple enforcing these policies on apps from its own App Store and platform. And while I would say that third-party stores could have different stances on permissions, the idea that a third-party app store could prevent a popup asking to share a phone's identifier, for example, is frankly a security bypass. The same is true if apps want to communicate with other apps without the operating system knowing.

Personally, I'd love it if Apple went a step farther and used the network layer and code signing to identify which apps actively use which trackers and tracking networks the same way they currently identify apps that use the microphone and camera. It'd be fascinating to see an operating system feature that says 50% of my network traffic in Application X was telemetry being sent to Facebook, for example.
Not yet, it would be a new thing. The DAC name itself is something I made up.
Perhaps employee count is be a more useful cap than money? It should at least be a factor. Not sure we really need many (any?)companies with more than 5,000-10,000 employees. Perhaps allowing more if the company manufactures physical products in the US, and more again if the product is otherwise only available from foreign manufacturers. There is strong precedent for breaking up too-large companies (Standard Oil comes to mind, everyone won on that deal), but it hasn't been done much in the last century, barring AT&T, which asked for it.
Does Apple's ad business track users though? It seems to me that an ad business shouldn't need to in order to be effective.
Yeah the Berkeley's.

>What part of the community do you mean?

The btrfs, epool, lvm, kernel panic disabler, lxc and systemd especially.
It's much more complicated than just countries. If you read the linked comment then you'll learn that it's includes many regional customizations, even down to specific cities and airports.

An app for travel should absolutely prioritize UX and ease of use as you travel, however far away your destination is.
One of their whales died, and they didn't disclose it to the SEC.