jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What? Your position is that if it’s policy and you enforce policy then it’s not discriminatory?

So if a policy or a law says X is disallowed or is unlawful, ipso facto, X can only run afoul of those bodies of governance and can’t be discriminatory? That’s interesting!
Wages are also strangely way, way worse in the EU. When you combine that with cost of living (and taxes) being far higher there, it's not a great recipe for growth.
Thankfully, Apple loads most firmware for us in the bootloader, so we don't have the blob problem that Nouveau does. This includes parts related to power management.

Nouveau has an uphill battle because Nvidia is actively hostile, and because they have to support dozens of chips. We are starting with one. I do not expect for us to end up in a Nouveau situation with poor performance/PM over time. It will take time, of course, but I fully expect we will make it happen.
The other big thing the web provides a standard way to do distribution. Unlike JVM apps, I don’t need to install Gmail to use it on my computer.
Download the linked data from the article
https://healthdata.gov/dataset/covid-19-reported-patient-imp...
and the first column is already "critical_staffing_shortage_today_yes" showing 0 for non-COVID-wave period and high numbers around March and since September.

I my opinion the number of hospitalisations per 1 million people isn't reflective because there is only a fixed amount of hospital beds (less ICU, though they keep expanding as much as possible) available. Hospitals reschedule everything to keep beds free and have spare capacity. My take-away from the article is that luckily now as well as last year about 25% bed capacity is available. The total number of beds seems to be 49480 (https://bi.ahca.myflorida.com/t/ABICC/views/Public/HospitalB...)

"it has become clear that the entire pretext for shutting down our liberties is built upon misinformation and lack of context". Should we trust medical and epidemology experts or https://www.theblaze.com/u/danielhorowitz
I wonder if this means they'll be hiring their own pilots? Or are they buying the aircraft and then leasing them out to an air freight company to handle the operations? Basically the same situation but better for Amazon's taxes.
No. Octave claims to support Matlab syntax, and they largely do, but not completely. And they most certainly don't provide all the packages Matlab has, which is where a lot of the use is.

Octave is also unstable, and I doubt any company needing heavy use of a tool like this in production would trust Octave to not puke. It's just simply cheaper to use the polished and vastly more feature rich tool. Download Octave, go find some decently complex matlab code on github, and try to run it. Do that a bit and see how much works as it should.

Octave lists places they see themselves as different, some of which is core pieces that don't work the same. So if you want to replace some engineering tasks with Octave, it's going to be a mess, in the same way OpenOffice is close to MS Office, until the day you send a proposal with a deadline and it pukes because the other end used MS Word instead of an almost clone.

I've used Octave - it's decent. If you cannot afford Matlab, or your school doesn't have it, or you want to learn "matlab" to get marketable skills, then one can learn on Octave. Most serious engineering will not be done on Octave though.

[1] https://wiki.octave.org/Differences_between_Octave_and_Matla...
I haven't deleted my account, I've just stopped using it. I log in and check it out every month or two, but never stay for very long.

I don't use it because I don't find it very interesting. If I care what's going on with someone, I usually keep in touch via other means. And even for those people, I don't find their day-to-day posts very interesting.

Also, when there is something I need to know posted on Facebook that I haven't heard about via other means, my wife usually fills me in.
There's OneMedical.com, a kinda startup as far as I understand. $140/year doesn't sound too much, so I signed up for it, will see how it goes, don't have an opinion for now.
As far as I understand, they do only physicians stuff, have offices in major metropolias. Their main point I liked was that they finally do documentation/appointments/labs online, and treat online as first-class. Anyone had experience with it?
It's definitely interesting if lots of top 'content' is actually just lottery winner stories, in which case I might consider spending some of my HN time reading the local casino's profile on their recent slot winners.
Started with Hacking, the Art of Exploitation. Finished, but realized I was in over my head. Taking CS50x through edx for C programming + a Udemy Assembly class. Ultimate goal is to make progress on https://microcorruption.com

I have a 9 month learning plan worked out with books, online courses, and other Hacking tutorials/projects.
I think you've misunderstood the scenario at play. Netflix did not want to connect to Comcast for free. Netflix did not want to connect directly to Comcast at all. They wanted to connect to their own ISPs, and they were paying to do so. Comcast didn't want to upgrade the peering links to Netflix's ISPs, though, because they'd then lose their leverage over Netflix. Comcast's refusal to upgrade peering links effectively forced Netflix to connect directly to Comcast.

Comcast sells asymmetric connectivity that's skewed as far as 10:1 download vs upload. And then they claim that peering should be symmetric as if they aren't a huge contributor to the asymmetry.
That one's interesting in part because South Korea mostly doesn't get that hot. (Summer highs seem to be mid-80s Fahrenheit.)

Looking at climate data for the country, I was struck by how similar it is to upper Missouri. Saint Louis is about as humid, but a bit hotter on average. Which would make me suspect that if "fan death" was a thing, we'd be seeing it in a band of US States that're similarly hot and humid.

Speculative difference would be if air conditioning is really uncommon in South Korea, but presumably we could even that out by comparing to poorer people in the US.
I like Vacuum Wars as he provide fun reviews

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCvavJlMjlTd4wLwi9yKCtew
Seems impossible on the face of it.
Linux binaries have to start with 0x7F ELF
and Windows binaries have to start with MZ or ZM so
I don't get how it could work with both.
> In contrast, cross-compilers for dynamic languages like Clojure tend to have a long-list of caveats and incompatibilites

I don't think the author fully comprehended the linked resource (namely https://clojurescript.org/about/differences). Perhaps he just noted the its size.

A good chunk of the document lists things in common, not differences. The actual differences have nothing to do with dynamic typing and are deliberate design decisions:

- don't pretend the JVM and JS have identical runtimes when it comes to concurrency or numerics. Clojure is a language, not a platform abstraction.

- Emit efficient, optimally minifiable javascript code, at the cost of offering something less traditionally lisp-y when it comes to eval, macros, and other forms of code loading. Those are still possible, but some discipline is imposed.
I don't think you could ever find the "true price" of a pure store of value asset like Bitcoin. Gold has been around for thousands of years and is still volatile enough that no one would want to use it for daily transactions.

The characteristics of a great store of value are different than that of a great currency - it seems naive to me to think that Bitcoin would ever act like a fiat currency that way.
Some countries have explicitly put restrictions on dealing with privacy-preserving currencies like Monero and ZCash.

Japanese exchanges and service providers, for example, are not allowed to touch them.
> Spending cryptocurrency would result in selling that cryptocurrency, which would drive the price down. That’s not what cryptocurrency investors actually want

that’s really assuming a lot

a closed loop cryptocurrency transaction does not result in selling

mastercard may or may not be offering that capability

mastercard offering that capability makes the cryptocurrency proponents vision a reality
>It amazes me why most people do not grasp this. I think it is lack of education.

I dont think that is the case at all. The concept is simple and easy enough to understand. Most people just dont care and want a single target to blame. And someone decide that target will not be government or Feds.
That's not far from what the article says. Your comment sounds like you were being defensive of go from the article.
The footnote mentions this is a parody.
And quote "Donations made will actually go to the Git project under the Software Freedom Conservancy.".
Did you read the motion? They found a file on Ulbricht's computer in a folder labeled "aliaces" with all of the passwords to the "silkroadmarket.com" accounts. Did Karpeles put that there?
Isn't the idea that you can say one but not the other somewhat concerning?
Although Marie Curie probably wouldn't object to other female scientists being honoured:

https://xkcd.com/896/
Your repurposed analogy isn't quite right. Google is providing a service by running around and grabbing those samples. Value is provided not only to you, the searcher, by receiving an answer to a question you posed, but to the coffee shops as well by providing them with a potential customer. Is Google not allowed to profit off of providing this value for the work they're doing?

A coffee-shop owner could argue that Google is providing enough coffee that it's disincentivizing someone like you from making a purchase, but the issue here is that Google provides tools to the coffee-shop owners to opt-out of giving those samples to potential customers. Instead of using them, the owners want to force by law that Google pays them for the samples because they still want Google to do all that leg-work of finding new customers for them. This could make it cost-prohibitive to run the service, especially as the legislation can be interpreted broadly (e.g. Google says that as written it'd be difficult for an algorithm to distinguish between news and non-news content).

I think a better analogy would be around restaurant delivery drivers. Pretend for this analogy that restaurants have a captive supply of delivery drivers that can't go off and get another job, because all the drivers know is how to drive restaurant deliveries for a living. Restaurant owners are incentivized to use the delivery drivers because it allows them to get more customers. What if the owners started asking for a law to be passed that made delivery drivers have to pay them for providing delivery service. The drivers can still make money in the end after the tips they get anyway, right?
This is one of the reasons why I still keep using lastfm. Stats in Spotify are next to useless and even then it would not track my local listening.
The average salary in Australia is $55k, the average in the Philippines is $3.9k. Not taking in to account disposable income that's about a factor of 15. The entire philippines only has 4 times the population of Australia. The 2 markets aren't even comparable.

User value to companies that serve advertising is based on what companies are willing to pay to serve ads to them. Which is directly tied to the monetary value of that users business to the company buying the advertisement.
I was a but surprised that he pointed to cost as an advantage of vi over emacs - I never heard anyone claim emacs costs hundreds of dollars; it's free and open source, and to the best of my knowledge always has been.
He played in the Miles Davis masterpiece Bitches Brew, that is mystical, eternal and mind-bending trip. Might be hard to grasp first, but when you get it... you'll really get it.
wait, wasn't this one of the plots of the original Mary Stewart Merlin books, hmm no on reflection Merlin built a standing stones circle to bury his father Ambrosius Aurelianus, not sure if it was supposed to be at Stonehenge he built it.
Additionally some sites register click events on parents higher up in the DOM tree and then determine the child/spot under the cursor. That forces you to supply some coordinates yourself.
That's valid. But I would also argue that solar power has yet to deliver on promises made anywhere in this country. And countries like Germany that doubled down on subsidies for solar are seldom heard from these days (as are wind farms). In fact, most people in may tend to shy away from solar and wind in Maine these days in favor of tidal, which is much more reliable, though harder to keep equipment maintainable.
I just registered and can't get out of the "You are not following anyone yet!" page. clicking on the main logo, feed link, doesn't work. I have to log out to see the normal page.
I doubt it's retargeting that made the difference. Originally, his CPC was > $1(that's way too much) and he reduced that to ~$0.20. That obviously gave him more clicks for a fixed budget.

Secondly, the "forced sign up" landing page helps as well.

Reference:
http://andrewchen.co/2013/07/29/the-highest-roi-way-to-incre...
To the extent that is true, it is because congresscritters and politicians have no incentive to monitor laws until something visibly bad happens.

Also, we have absolutely shoddy education in the humanities. Economics, psychology, world history, etc, are 'useless' until you're reminded that we have to deal with human beings doing what they do.

Anyway, I don't see why ISPs would not break net neutrality laws especially if they can nickel and dime people even more.
Pretty cool to see a product I use on HN.

I've been using Milk to promote my podcast ( https://www.allschemesconsidered.com ) on LinkedIn. Here's some sample videos:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mraakashshah_cloud-aws-gcp-ug...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mraakashshah_heres-a-teaser-f...

All the social media companies are pushing video really hard in their algos (and stories ). Recording and editing a podcast is super fun for me, but the audience-building part was a drag. Milk lets me make professional quality highlights super easily. Ironically, the viewership on these highlight videos is 100x the listenership on the podcast.

Anyway, I like the software.

Disclaimer: Ross found and pitched me on Milk, but I've been a happy user ever since.
So does all this const work not break any existing usage but promotes the functions to "we can know more about and do more with at compile time"?
This is most likely why GP was downvoted:

> - Me: [Doesn't click and] thinks "Would ya look at that? An article/author which is contrarian probably just to be contratian. I'm gonna find something else to read..."

Low-value post that seems to be deliberately avoiding real contribution and participation in the conversation while simultaneously admitting that they didn't read and (almost certainly) won't read the article. There's no point to these kinds of comments, and they should be downvoted.
> 240 mile range for 1/2 of the cheapest Model 3 (used, paid in cash).

Do you get near the 240-mile rated range? I ask because...

https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/electric-car-range-and-cons...

2018 Tesla Model 3 Performance: 256 miles under test. 310 miles EPA-estimated.

It seems like some EPA EV ranges are not very realistic.

--------

Edmunds tested 277 miles on the 2020 Chevy Bolt. But I'm interested in hearing your personal experience.
> no one seems to care

Shareholders only care about increasing the volume of cars rolling off the assembly line.

Tesla was on my short list of next car purchases... but now that the old guard are getting fully into the game it's very unlikely (unless Tesla is able to pull a Jaguar like quality rebound or they actually deliver on "full" self driving).
i think it depends if you need it, rust for example is quite complex, but it solves a class of issue that other language have trouble solving while maintaining speed
I love this type of article, and the effort put into it - but the main thing I can't help but do is wonder what kind of person is driven to exhaustively research Apple Maps over a 5+ year period.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/inflation.asp

> Inflation is the decline of purchasing power of a given currency over time.

https://www.economicshelp.org/macroeconomics/inflation/defin...

> A more exact definition of inflation is a sustained increase in the general price level in an economy. Inflation means an increase in the cost of living as the price of goods and services rise.

https://www.economicsonline.co.uk/Definitions/Inflation.html

> Inflation refers to a rise in the average level of prices sustained over time, which also corresponds to a fall in the internal (domestic) purchasing power of money.
Needs the date 1987
A lot of the bullet points in the list reduce, in my mind, to one question: what's the business case for a customer to choose Shopyist over Shopify? You need a good answer to this question, and so far, I don't see the Unique Value Proposition.

Some people are suggesting you do Market Research to find this, others are suggesting that you find a narrow niche to begin with and customize to fit their needs, others are suggesting you outline the features. But at the end of the day, they all reduce to the same thing: find a differentiator you can use as a UVP.
If you're using Vimperator and Firefox, pressing Ctrl-i will allow you to edit any text box in vim.
This guy could easily cut 50% of his words and lose no meaning. He needs an editor.
First of all, congratulations-- looks like you've got a nice site and product.

Second, even more congratulations-- the fact that you are measuring the CR the way you are from the beginning shows some understanding of the process.

I think that trying to make judgments based on 500 page views is premature-- right now, it is good to figure out your baseline numbers, so that you can start doing A/B testing to improve the various ratios. If I were in your shoes, I'd try to spend a couple weeks trying to increase the traffic, and then go to work on the CRO.

But: getting one serious user out of every 100 pageviews sounds like an excellent start to me.

The lack of paying customers isn't a big surprise, based upon your pricing scheme: there's no incentive for people to start paying until they reach the limits you've imposed (1000 notes or 500MB), and it's going to take your early users some time to get there.

The product looks slick-- personally, I have a bunch of OneNote notebooks in my Dropbox, which gives me the same effect in a satisfactory way, so I'm not motivated to switch to Folderboy-- but it looks like a service I could easily pitch to others.

One small thing: when your resources permit, you might want to hire a voice actor to re-do the YouTube video. I think it would add a "professional touch".
Ideas and work ethic matter more than previous skills.

You might get a leg up by choosing a technical co-founder that is willing to be your mentor on your programming education.
A bit like this? (seen in Paris)
http://liedra.net/photos/d/2306-2/2306
Apple is a hardware company.

So, why would they ever abandon their actual cash cow? Case-in-point: iPhone 4, 720p video, and iMovie (on the iPhone). If you made iMovie like Apple has, the man-hours invested in that would demand a higher price than a mere $5, right? However, that version of iMovie is a selling point for the phone--which, coincidentally, is where they make their money. The same is true for their Macs and Laptops: they make the biggest margins in their hardware.

And I have to say, as someone who's chided the "our-size-fits-you" model, it sure hasn't hurt Apple's business. They've money in the bank (>$50bn) and a dedicated following.
>"Every single case got struck down by judges" is not a new argument to my ears. Do you think most of those judges heard actual evidence, or were throwing cases out on procedural grounds? Have you considered that question?

Yes. And I even read complaints filed, responses to those complaints, arguments and rulings. And you can too (here's a summary of many of the cases, with links and citations to the actual court documents)[0].

I could tell you what conclusions I drew, but I won't. Don't believe me or anyone else. Read the court documents yourself. They are matters of public record.

[0] https://electioncases.osu.edu/2021/01/summary-of-post-electi...
I’ve been wondering if Tether is really a scam for a long time.

In all these analyses, one key point is missing: arbitrage traders have to make up for the sell pressure on USDT when Tethers are being printed and sold for BTC. Can anyone show me how there is a plausible mechanism/scheme/conspiracy that keeps the USD/USDT exchange rate stable while a crazy amount of illegitimate Tethers are being printed?

Edit: typo and removed link.
"Coinbase is under the microscope as the Bitcoin price surged past $41,000 following a minor retrace after topping $40,000 on Thursday.

The United States-based crypto exchange is known for experiencing serious connectivity issues during periods of peak trading activity. Indeed, these disruptions have reportedly prevented traders from taking advantage of price gains and dips, robbing them of profit-taking and reentry opportunities.

As Cointelegraph recently reported, Coinbase has acquired Routefire, a platform for enhanced trade execution as part of an effort to better handle periods of peak crypto trading activity.

As of press time, Coinbase is yet to report any connectivity issues across its exchange platforms. According to its status page, the company identified and fixed the root cause of the service disruption experienced on Thursday."
It definitely has a killer app. Probably not a big enough app to justify these prices, but one nonetheless.

As Stripe, PayPal, Visa, Gofundme, Patreon, et. al. shut down avenues of payments for legal, but unpopular purchases, BTC is the obvious workaround.

Vendors of firearms, pornography, legal funds for unpopular causes, dissident content creators, etc have become increasingly estranged from the "normal" payments market in the last few years. BTC is the killer app for this.
Bingo. Saying that the employees are paid well enough to buy their own health insurance is a red herring because it's not an apples-to-apples comparison, companies get far better rates on insurance products. Gumroad could probably save a significant amount of money by providing health insurance to their employees and just not paying as high of a salary.
Do you need to ban third party cookies? I would have thought that limiting the scope of third party cookies to the primary site visited would be sufficient to prevent tracking across websites (save for browser fingerprinting).
It runs on a google colab tab that you can spin up pressing "ctrl-T" in any available computer.
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, SQL, PostGres, Linux, AWS.

Experience with data science & ML frameworks, as well as building AR/VR applications.

Email: shree [@] shree.io

I’m a Technical Product Manager with over a decade of technology experience. I’ve built and scaled products for companies in all sorts of industries (currently in the healthcare/telemedicine space), and thrive in fast-paced startup environments where I can work closely with engineering.

At my current role I’ve led the development of a mobile telemedicine platform from the ground-up, built out the best engineering teams I’ve worked with, and played a critical role in defining product strategy & vision and communicating with stakeholders.
I’m predominantly interested in product management opportunities at well-funded (Series B+) companies ideally in the healthcare & AI space due to my experience & domain expertise, but am open to other opportunities as well!
In terms of my current use, the new scripting feature with "r# nuget:.." is game changing because now we can freely share .fsx files and they...just work. Compared to praying to the pip/virtualenv gods in the python space.

Really excited to see what ya'll have planned for 2021
Hair saloon, must be a Texas thing.