jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I can see this evolving from "let others think I have a boyfriend" to "I'm going to feel like I have a boyfriend".

People already pay for sex. People already pay for non-sexual escorts (which i believe is mostly for show-off[0]). I can totally see people paying for the "boyfriend experience".

Some random texts, gifts in specific days. A compliment and a "how's your day". All in pure 21st century fashion - social-media centered.

It's depressing but I can imagine a lot of people that, while having lots of friends, are emotionally lonely.

Why not generate custom made, fully interactive, multi-media waifus[1]

[0] I think it affirms a man's power if he shows up with a pretty lady.

[1] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/waifu
You need either an e-product (e-book, course, membership site with private forums, etc.) or a real product (your consulting time $400/h, a quality product you buy wholesale (from distributer here or from factory via Alibaba) and sell via FBA (Fulfilled By Amazon) through a sales page on your site. (no inventory at your home). You can also generate affiliate sales revenue through product demos, videos, recommendations and a "resources" page on your site, which are affiliate links.
+1 Yes he did. At least he convinced me that a very small yearly tax on capital/resources over a (large) threshold is a good idea. His book changed my mind on this subject.
> In the US, it's generally a crime to destroy evidence if you believe there's an investigation

There are situations where obstruction charges/fines/jail-time are far less severe than the crime originally intended for prosecution. Without the evidence on your system, the prosecution may not be able to put together a solid case.

If Ulbricht had been able to destroy his data or shut off his laptop before the FBI (controversially) distracted and stole his laptop out from underneath his arms prior to arrest, the prosecution's case would not be nearly as strong. So far most of the evidence submitted in court has originated from his laptop and personal diary (kept on the laptop).
I thought most of those still ran Palm OS... at least the ones I´ve paid attention to while it stores sure look like it.
For me that really depends on what I am dealing with. Most of the time the library source code is good enough. Sometimes - I am a C# developer - I will have to have a look at the .NET runtime specification. Sometimes I will have to learn details of Windows. In some cases I will even look into Intel's reference manuals to understand what is happening. I would say I stop at the level where I don't expect the layer below to be relevant to what I am actually dealing with.
Pure hustle..lots of cold calls and meetings. We also took advantage of our personal network since we had worked with in our niche for years. Once we made them into cheerleaders for our product we convinced them to invite people from their network.
If you're serious about this, pick a paper you want to know what's wrong with, and email the cite to curi@curi.us, and I will reply by email with flaws in that particular paper (or a concession statement if I find none).

I do not want to pick the paper myself b/c then you can just say (quite correctly), "OK so one paper was flawed but that doesn't mean the others are." So it's important to start with you picking a paper that, if it's wrong, you'll have to rethink your views, and if it's right I'll have to rethink mine, and then we discuss that one.

I expect you to choose a paper you have read before, not just google one up now. (You did read some papers before posting claims about what the scientific consensus is, I hope.)
That's what I was wondering - I think I'm going to try this out.
> It's not about dilligence, but practicality - there is no other way to wipe an iPhone but "completely" or "not at all".

Not being able to do something properly is not an excuse for doing it badly and causing serious damage to someone as a result.

In this case, if an employer cannot (a) allow an employee iPhone to connect to their mail store and (b) secure their own data appropriately without also (c) compromising the employee's, then they should not permit that access in the first place. They should provide the employee with a dedicated device, at company expense, over which the company can have whatever control it requires.
The community is often snobbish and out of touch with how the other half lives. This is a community of white collar workers who quite frequently look down on blue collar workers. I’m sorry but it’s true.

Who cares if it's true, is it useful? Is it a useful trait for HN to have, and is it a useful complaint for you (him) to raise?
I just wanted to update the above:
I got my registration code and while the email and new invoice said basic plan, I have 510k events/m in my account now after using the code. I couldn't be happier about this, thank you guys so much!
Sorry to be pedantic, but I think it's implied that the universe of discourse is "all things that are attempting to kill you." The contrapositive under that assumption isn't absurd.
The bits of the internet I care about would stay largely the same, mostly because I'm lucky that the content I consume is stuff I pay a yearly subscription for.

(They also have some ads and so some of their ad revenue would disappear, I'm assuming that evens out by more people paying for a subscription when there are no free, ad-based alternatives :)
Is he really going to go all 'North Korea' on us? I really hoped we (civilization) were beyond this... Sigh.
I'm just going to go ahead and get just 1 the legit way. However I wish they made some sort of volume discount that wouldn't mean paying £300+ for a 10-15 book collection.

Honestly most of these books are on topics that would make them obsolete quite soon. The real practical use for these is as references across several topics. I understand it's hard to monetise that kind of thing though.
And what would be the point of that? No one would ever trust anything to Gox, unless it returns the money.
Fastmail provide email, address book, calendars, and file storage for $3 per user per month:

https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/
Got the email too. On the one hand it’s nice I guess they wanted to tell people ASAP. On the other hand it’s disconcerting there is no transition plan or information shared. Seems like waiting a few days for that would have been better.
The line seems blurry https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/jun/04/gay-cake-ruling-...

Also, this seems like a valid terms of service breech. Is the choice to uphold it an excuse to make a statement? I think probably.
> 1) It has a delay

> 2) Transfer fees

My understanding is that the entire goal of the LN project was to alleviate these by taking individual transactions off-chain by setting up collateral upfront. Was it not successful?
they do all the time for other open source projects, I assume this is just legacy that plugs in with their in-house system.
I think galactic civilization will either solve noise problem or install enough repeaters if that's cheaper. Repeater network will have enormous fixed cost, but I don't think its variable cost will be higher than spaceships.
I always wondered what the importance of maintaining such an accurate frequency is. Are there reasons other than keeping parts of the system in phase? (From what you're saying it sounds like they take additional measures to ensure that too.)
So you can compute roughly the same number of digits of pi on 2x512 machines as on one 1024 machine? i.e. you get the same number of execution threads/cycles?
Yes. Birgitta Jónsdóttir is properly referred to as Birgitta Jónsdóttir or just Birgitta, or by her first and middle name if disambiguation is required. Jónsdóttir alone is meaningless as far as name goes. Icelandic phone books are ordered by first name.

edit: although to be fair, in the context of an article written in English aimed at a general audience this is not an easy situation. Properly using just the first name might throw off people who don't know about the Icelandic conventions (that would be most of them) who might then consider this use as strangely personal. On the other hand, repeatedly using the full name might look weird too. Personally I'm not convinced these are worth the trade-off of being culturally incorrect, but I'm not the one making the calls.
I read the article. Read my comment. I never claimed that Obama is trying to get this power, so your accusation has no merit. I stand by my observation: the Obama administration can get away with more than the Bush administration did, as the people (rightly) think he's smart and wise, and (wrongly) assume that he can do no evil.

Trust, but verify. When people blindly trust in authority, things go wrong. It's the stick that disciplines the donkey, not the donkey's desire to be "good".
Amazing. Very optimized and smooth.
It looks like it's probably generated with Hugo
It will be a huge factor. If you want to know why, look into ESG mandates.
A friend of mine is a professional photographer, he is using his trackpad to process and edit his pictures. Hundreds of them per session. And it's not like he can't afford a mouse or even specialized hardware.

And having tried Apple touchpads, they are actually good, so much that they released a standalone version for desktop computers. On every PC I have tried, at best, they provide you with a pointing device in case using a mouse is impractical. I don't intend to buy a Mac for several reason but I have to admit that their trackpads are not in the same league.
To begin with: we’re a tech community. Building a better twitter is possible, so build it. Even if you don’t build a winning app, you could demonstrate ideas or designs for alternatives. It could even be mock ups or prototypes. Contribute ideas to making a better world.

One approach is to leave twitter to the addicts manipulated into rage and just waiting. Either people will “develop antibodies” to twitter (PG) or it will destroy itself.

As others have pointed out, the real world institutions can solve the problem by breaking the connection between ML-induced outrage and their policy decisions. You shouldn’t feel like you have to take that on yourself, but I guess if you liked that idea then you could campaign for it.

If you stay on twitter you might improve the average level of discourse, but don’t overestimate your ability to resist the feedback loop that will constantly be trying to find new ways to trick you into engagement (and most of the time, enragement). You’re only human and it’s relentless. It doesn’t seem very sophisticated but even a random search algorithm will work given enough tries. You’ll also be legitimising twitter, which is questionable because they are knowingly creating this problem (disclaimer: I’m on twitter).

Regulation of social networks is on the way, twitter probably peaked with Trump, and I think you also have to think about opportunity cost, eg arguing on twitter vs building something that improves the world.
That would depend on the person. Lots of people are very interested by people who disagree with them in certain ways.
Amazon's Kuiper constellation and Telesat's Lightspeed constellation are more than enough to ensure viability of New Glenn.
The Internet has some decentralization. But it’s not decentralized. At all.
Let's be honest -- the real reason a lot of people like Bitcoin is because they want to get rich quick. Nobody wants to say that here, but most people who own Bitcoin don't take a flying crap about a store of value or decentralization.
Or worse -- what if someone is wrong on the internet?
http://xkcd.com/386/

Ha ha. Though I've shamefully spent all-nighters "working" on that problem, even while knowing the futility of it all. The upside is that in the process I often end up updating, refining, and researching my own opinions on important topics. The downside is that the sometimes egregious lack of sleep probably shortens my life.

Here's what sucked up a chunk of my should-be-sleeping time recently:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_M...

(found via HN, I think?)
The 2680 people who have pledged a total of over $200K to the project. I'm sure that more will follow in the coming weeks.
> "Given that our range of characters is limited."

i think what matters is that characters are enumerable, not finite?
I'm not sure what's so "shady" about jailbreaking: the processes is very streamlined, and while you can find malicious software, the Cydia Store is about as curated -- if not more -- than the App Store.
It's just one anecdote, but it also seems like the kind of thing that happens in companies that grow fast and have trouble maintaining quality in their hiring process. Instead of hiring true cleverness, they hire for someone who feigns the trappings of cleverness (smart enough to regurgitate a "clever" solution that turns out not to be practical in the real world.)
There is a limit to how open employee should be.
Google actually wants employees to keep things to themselves and not to talk about internal stuff to outside world.
100% honesty would make prospective candidate leak internal Google stuff to the outside world.
So it's unlikely that interviewers would set up "integrity traps".
I was assuming a 26 letter alphabet. At that point the shifting, anding and comparing would take place in registers.
> best ideas in recent years like Apple and Snowflake.

Are these really the best ideas. Bought apple only couple of years ago, snowflake was arguably the most hyped stock of all time. I don't see what the insight was here.
Physics researchers produce grants.

And journal articles.

And grad students by intellectual mitosis.

Nothing abstract about it.
I always forget what arrow is called when I need it, but back when it came out it was the only way I could do anything useful with time. I eventually got good enough with the standard library to do what I need to do, but it's so ugly. I have to remember arrow, i wonder if the name is a reference to the tng episode? I'm just going to try to associate Python time with Data's head, And the snake cane.

I really wish improvements to python focused on things like this. Maybe an official higher level standard library for wrappers that focus on being nice to use like arrow, requests, envelopes, etc. (I know envelopes is not maintained but it was so nice)
The wearing of wigs has been greatly reduced in most English court settings but it does seem to still have support in the areas it's still used: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/feb/16/it-is-helpful-to...

tl;dr it's argued that having a recognisable uniform, no matter how bizarre, levels the playing field and provides a sense of professionalism.
Exactly, blaming the intern raises even more questions about internal security practices.

When will IT companies learn not to use telnet, ftp, and easy to guess passwords on their intranet.
Thanks for the feedback, I have been thinking of whether making email optional or allowing the admin to not show it. Your feedback is a noted data point, thank you!
And you have to be able to correlate their success rate with some measure of skill or else you’re basically saying that not everyone loses the lottery.

The claim to prove is that having some level of knowledge or skill makes the expected gains of day trading positive.
That's a complex system of overlapping and competing subgroups hopefully functioning together as one large group. I would expect that to be more complicated.
Not the way you'd hope. Without some way to seal it off, you'd have wax dripping out of your phone every time you use it... or charge it. If you do have some way to seal it in, then you've probably solved the waterproofing problem anyway.

If you do want a waterproofed iPhone, there are cases out there that claim to be waterproof, e.g. LifeProof. I've not used or tested one yet, though...
i wonder if there is a way to find what are the most popular wiki articles in non english wikipedia that are missing a page in english?
That would be great!

I'm sick of articles needing follow ups or corrections instead get a separate, unlinked post.

Articles become stale but they get shared and referenced as if they're the final point on the subject.
What value does this provide at all?
This reminds me of Chinese online games will block teenagers at night. (防沉迷) Except that the government forced all online games to do so. Because if some does some does not, teenagers just play the one that does not block them.

Maybe we should build a system that have user's actual password to FB IG TWTR TIKTOK, and user only has password to that system and when they post go through that system as a proxy. Then the system can truly restrict the frequency of post.

But this violates the term of service of all the social network listed above
A small wad, after getting stuck to itself and an unsuccessful attempt at separating it, that is now stuck to one of your fingers no matter how hard you attempt to flick it off.
War can be extremely profitable.
I always think to priority-based scheduling in this way. Maybe it can help someone else.

The scheduler will always schedule the highest priority task among ones in the ready queue, but at different times.

- If preemptive, the scheduler will schedule the higher priority task (higher than the currently running one) as soon as it enters the ready queue.

- If non preemptive, the scheduler will schedule the higher priority task only when the running one terminated or explicitly call a yield() (call to yield --> cooperative)

In principle, you can mix both scheduling types, making some tasks "non-preemptable" and other tasks "preemptable".
Happy to mildly disagree!

"RAFT uses a protocol that looks awfully like Paxos for election of a single leader"

Agreed.

"so it has nothing to do with multi-Paxos (as I understand it)"

Except that Raft is not only a protocol for single leader election, it's also a replication protocol (see the "AppendEntries" message), and that's why it is Multi-Paxos. Multi-Paxos is just the category or classification for a family of consensus protocols that use the strategy of single leader election and replication with terms/views/epochs (the "interim regime" you refer to) for strict serializability. This is the passive replication leader/follower primary/backup strategy.

Outside of Multi-Paxos, there are also consensus protocols that achieve strict serializability with Paxos but without electing a single stable leader, e.g. FastPaxos. These exploit low latency between the client and all replicas, but this is not always available, or may suffer from tail latency issues, hence implementations such as Raft use the MultiPaxos strategy of a stable leader, which may be better connected to the rest of the cluster than the client.

As an implementation, depending on how you zoom, Raft is very different to VR and ZAB, but it's still in the same Multi-Paxos class since it reuses a single stable leader derived from one instance of Paxos for "multiple" rounds or instances of replication, hence "Multi-" "Paxos".

At least this is how I understand it from Heidi Howard and others who seem to share this "view".
I don't see why it ought to be. That's why I was specifying a non-medical-records-transferring site.

Already when you book an appointment, I believe, you simply state why you're eligible for the current group and when you get to the injection site they double-check that (to the best of their ability). I don't believe that any states are requiring verification that you are, e.g., a smoker.

So you should be able to just input your data, your age, if you are a frontline worker, whatever, and check the box that you have 2+ of the listed medical conditions. When you get to the site, the triage person can check that.

This is no more or less security than currently exists, it just centralizes it.
i.reddit.com still works on mobile. It's how I use it.
Wealth is obviously not a zero sum game. And of course the comforts of even the poorest have increased over the past half century.

But don't discount out of hand the concern that the relative distribution is a problem. Money, and especially money that is capital, almost algorithmically and naturally captures more money.

The trend line then becomes one where more and more wealth is concentrated at the top, even if the total amount of wealth increases.

Wealth, at some level, is the ability to direct labor. As wealth becomes more concentrated, you have fewer people organizing the world's labor power. It becomes harder for the poorest to engage in self determination.
I'm a cryptocurrency holder and I would love it if it were easier to spend.
I bought N95 NIOSH masks. Like most US consumers I searched Amazon occasionally to see if the market was again offering them to consumers but it took a post here on HN, for me to Google and find a US-based supplier. I'm happy to have them, and have given some to my elderly parents.
Lol. Been a while since I’ve seen that.
I interviewed a few months ago for a HW position and they mentioned remote was fine, even post-COVID. I'd imagine SW would be more flexible but don't specifically know.
I am hugely amused that you just could not resist making a statement that proves it is you who suffers from the obsession you accuse me of (not that there was any real doubt.) You remind me of the child who just cannot resist the marshmallow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mWc1Y2dpmY
Ebay didn't stop buying targeted ads, afaik they stopped buying a specific type of ad in google search that had the keyword 'ebay' in it. Most companies bid up their own searches with the theory that they have to or else their competitor would, but ebay showed that people who search 'ebay magic cards' would most likely skip the search ads and go straight to ebay.
> If a musician opens a new composition and they are given a 4/4 beat and equal tempered tuning by default, it is implied that other musical systems do not exist, or at least that they are of less value.

This level of thought is getting so tedious.
Animation is not a difficult task, yes it's difficult in the sense to be amazing you need skill (same with programming) but the rest is actually just copying and pasting with slight tweaks based on someone elses art/direction.

But it's also art. Painting, cobbler, pottery, blacksmith, etc have always been sought after jobs and yet are and have been the least paid throughout our history.
I've always bought android phones but this genuinely makes me consider buying an iPhone.
Following the $ thing for amount of values, a thing I like in Common Lisp is the way the reader can be customized, and maybe this is a bad idea but I would like to have user-provided data-types formats and bind them to prefix characters, or pairs of delimiters, ... to avoid having to tag your values like this, as done in JSON:

(published
(type std.iso.8601
value 2020-02-26))

Or like this, where "date:" is something only your application knows:

(published date:2020-02-26)

Instead, you could rely on an externally specified format

(prefix @ is std.iso.8601)

And use it in your file to parse text so that your application can build values of the proper datatype:

(published @2020-02-26)

The application language would register lexers for those formats or fail the parsing step.

You could have fake parsers that just skip over the defined syntax if you don't need to process it in your code.
Or, the way the syntax is defined could be such that it tells the lexer how to skip over a token even if the type is not useful for a tool's purpose (skip until a space, or parse exactly N characters, or "read until this delimiter with backslash being an escape character").

(probably reinventing the wheel)
Sure! brian at bractlet dot com
Just make it a $1/min like it was in the old days and people will limit their communication to folks they don't see regularly for only important things.
Yes, this is a common anti-pattern

return await foo();
Google decided to, and successfully, killed a whole software system. In hindsight, what was the reason, and was it justified?
I'd love to see the studies supporting this evidence, however I imagine if it exists its locked up behind proprietary doors.
Boom boom volleyball was the best