jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Why should dollars buy happiness the same way they buy gumballs? It doesn't make any sense.

Which is precisely the point of the old "money does not buy happiness" adage, isn't it ?

Science that says "This 1000ths gallon of water is gonna be as good as worthless" seems to favor the point rather than oppose it.

I don't know if "happinness == gumballs" would make "sense" to anyone (I personnaly doubt it), but that's the subtext of a lot of messages in a consumer society (and we're leaving the realm of maths from the realm of politics. Stats 101 vs PolSci 101, all over again, I know, sorry.)

As for your graphs, what I was saying is precisely that, unless you've been trained to read graphs (and most people are not), you're going to be "fooled" more easily by the second one, won't you ?
Yeah. I was only reading through the four pager.
I'd wager anything you want to post about physics will probably get an enthusiastic response on here.
Whenever you have huge fixed capital costs and high per-unit costs your upside is limited. A 10x increase in the whatsapp user base doesn't increase costs much, while SpaceX probably couldn't deliver on a 2x increase in volume for a few years. That's just the handicap of a business that makes real things.

What investors are looking at is potential. The upside for heavy-industry SpaceX is far more constrained than that of a social media company.
Our society would be unrecognisable without it. Most of the things we complain we could be doing instead of the space industry, we have good information on to complain about them due largely to the space industry.
Well, people have not continued to use the word 'black' in that way, while they have continued to use the word 'man' in that way.

I think that might make a substantial difference.
You got me on a semantics issue... I think my point is still valid though.

Even really nice and good people might act in their own self interest when faced with a conflict. The perception of the magnitude of that conflict is relative, and a nice and good guys self-interest mode might be different than a jerks, but...

I still believe it's naive to think that when someone truly FEELS like they are backed into a corner, they will rationalize acting in their own self-interest, even if from someone elses perspective they are screwing them over.

We all have priorities, where we draw the line might be based on how good or bad we are... but everyone has a breaking point.
Mozilla and Chrome's VR teams recently presented at the "Browser-Based Virtual Reality in HTML5" SFHTML5 meetup.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUj8-Hhrb-a0Z3f70ygX5...

Tony Parisi's slides: http://www.slideshare.net/auradeluxe/an-introduction-to-web-...

Brandon Jones's slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1e_Gto702fnYF1BhVllSW...
It just seems odd to me that a seemingly well respected engineer would fabricate allegations using his corporate e-mail (VMWare). We should remember it was not he who posted them publicly.

I'm not saying it's true but only that I don't see any more evidence that it isn't true than that it is - yet.
Perhaps not - but I generally don't open too many tabs (I keep a lot open - but I don't open new tabs constantly). Since I posted that link I have been using it and I have only reached 109 tabs so far in that time. It's helping me try to reach that quota a lot sooner in a day than I normally would do in my standard day to day browsing.

Other than that, it's pretty useless :)
I feel like an Apple (be it a Mac Pro or MBP) is sort of a given in terms of "spare no cost development machine" as it's the only option you have to ensure your "dream development machine" will support the platform you want to develop for during the rest of it's life.
Ok so i just tried this, and you're correct which brings me to the following conclusion:

Chrome's "new tab" behaviour" seems to be similar to Safari's new tab behaviour when set to "Favourites", with "Top Sites" then selected in the Favourites/Top Sites toggle.

Additionally, when your search engine is set to Google, the new tab screen shows you a Google search field.

So, based on all of that.. I have some questions:

a) why is Chrome's "new tab" behaviour so terrible that people feel the need to create extensions to provide basic functionality that has existed in other browsers since.. forever.

b) who even uses that search field, when the "omnibox" already has focus when you open a new tab?
Polling is an awful API for market data, especially when the poll rate is limited. People end up gaming the system with multiple accounts and getting additional "peeks" into the order book. Maybe it doesn't matter for Bitcoin but it's a bad design for a serious exchange.
Nice post!

I wrote an answer on Quora for "How much do content producers who are apart of "The Deck" ad network make monthly?" which also gets into some additional details: http://www.quora.com/How-much-do-content-producers-who-are-a...

(disclosure: I'm the Founder of BuySellAds who owns Carbon Ads)

FWIW, when it comes to privacy, BuySellAds (and by extension Carbon Ads) is probably one of the few companies who don't actually do anything we don't tell you about with users' browsing data. We use it for forecasting what's available to be sold - that's it.

We also wrote a handy tutorial that will help folks determine what % of visitors are using AdBlock: http://support.buysellads.com/knowledge_base/topics/how-to-f...
>greater flexibility

This is actually a negative. Build a train, and it's really hard to move. This actually spurs investment. A bus line can be taken away with the stroke of a pen.
I implemented this yesterday mainly because my object models take a lot of repeated pattern for redis interaction. Since redis is not a relational-based database, it won't take care of any kind of relationship between models. In that perspective, it is really just a better way to write $redis->set("somekey", serialize(your model)) with limited indexing capacity.

Posted here in a hope that a better solution will show up. and happy holiday everyone.
„Frohe Feiertage“ is the German equivalent to “Happy Holidays” (usually only referring Christmas and New Years because minorities play a much smaller role in German society) and I’m not aware of anyone who was ever offended by it. (I’m also not aware of anyone who was ever offended by „Frohe Weihnachten“, the German equivalent to “Merry Christmas”.) The local catholic priest will get very angry at Santa Claus but he will say „Frohe Feiertage“ (“Happy Holidays”) without even flinching.

To me this looks like a thoroughly ridiculous and awfully US-centric “controversy”.
You don't get to the point of admitting leaking massive amounts of secret information via chat in a single step. Trust has to be built, and is built by slowly revealing more and more about ourselves: issues with significant others, problems with the neighbors, pains of serving with Don't Ask, Don't Tell, etc (I have no idea what the actual list might look like, I'm just giving examples.).

These are things that are highly personal and extremely private. These are the things Wired is saying they aren't releasing right now, and I, for one, appreciate it. Releasing them would just be pandering to the masses.

You can argue that Wired is withholding more than that, but I think it fails Occam's Razor. Unfortunately, the more complex the "complex" solution, the more likely it seems that people will gravitate to it:

"Wired has released all the relevant pieces and is trying to protect an individual's privacy" - simple.

"Wired is withholding relevant information because it is part of some conspiracy involving hackers prosecuted in the 80s" - complex (but, too be honest, who didn't love Angelina in leathers on the back of a motorcycle?).
As a counterpoint: I had a lot of book smarts and street stupid during my later years in high school. There was an $N,000 gap between my scholarships and my family's ability to pay and the cost of the expensive private university that changed my life.

I made a few hundred dollars in off-the-books employment for a borderline psychopath who nearly killed me with a pipe to the head. Following poorly planned unemployment brought on by the pipe incident, I got a job at a call center for an office supply company (the kind that sells things like, I don't know, staples). I remember those years pretty fondly: they paid me what I was owed in a timely fashion, no pipes were thrown at my head, I touched no toxic chemicals in a hot warehouse, and it was a value-creating job which I was good at for a wee bit of time prior to going to bigger and better things.
Thats fine. Their victims generally aren't tech savvy so the more hoops the scammers require them to jump through the more will get confused and give up. Even asking potential victims to reply to a different address than the originator of the email will affect the conversion rates.
There are two issues I see here.

The first is the quality of answers to "normal guy" questions (e.g. questions anyone could answer). The problem here is answer sites are only as good as how they scale. As has been pointed out several times in the comments of various Quora posts Yahoo Answers wasn't a overrun with Spam on day one. So Quora's future is heavily reliant on how it survives once it does go mainstream.

The second issue is the celebrity questions and the "Democratization of Source Material". The problem with his theory is he forgets source information becomes more valuable the more relevant it is. So while Steve Case answering how much all those AOL CDs cost might be interesting it's not going to draw major traffic like Natalie Portman talking about her pregnancy for the first time. News that draws traffic is valuable and celebrities trade it for things of value (favorable coverage, money, etc...) This is true of almost all source material Quora could generate and that's why I don't see it taking on major news agencies anytime soon.

I'm not saying Quora isn't a nice web site or that it can't be successful. Just that it's being over hyped.
Yea! Chase is a character. Bo Ismono is another guy who does good reviews.
> They only give you 100 GB.

At 100k page view per month, you'll need to serve a 100MB page to reach that limit...
Sometimes I get angry when reading stuff like this: the reason is that whoever analyses the genius or success factor always misses among other points and features the importance of LUCK. Someone could say Luck does not exist for the prepared mind (paraphrasing Pasteur) but as the author of this post pointed out , had Darwin been born in 1709 instead of 1809 probably no one would have heard of him. This is the luck to be in the right place at the right time doing the right things with the right people.
What people are willing to pay for content is I think almost zero.

If we get rid of these privacy invading ads and micropayments/subscriptions don’t take off in a big way (I don’t think they will) then one or two things must happen

1) advertising money remains even though ads are dumber (less narrowly targeted, more fraud etc)

2) there is a lot less money to go around so there must simply be less content.

I think the answer is somewhere in between. I don’t think it’s a pessimistic view that maybe 75% of sites not only risks disappearing but perhaps should. The abundance of “free” content is what makes people unwilling to pay for quality.
Isn't Google making more and more money from non-search products? e.g. Google cloud products, YouTube.

It seems they are trying to differentiate, see also Google+, stadia etc, just not being very successful.
Well now I'm not sure. I'm certain I saw a few reported years ago as assuming you had the key if they could show that you had encrypted something. I looked just now and couldn't find record of such key disclosure laws though.
This is HN and on HN most have brains; that is less common outside HN. So let's say you have an <
This is a fundamental flaw of content blocking based on host name. It often happens to work, but there's no rule that says that it has to, and really no good reason why it should be guaranteed to.
Thanks for your work on Gaia! I’ve been a happy premium user for almost a year now. The US public land maps are invaluable, especially in times like these.

Edit:
Just saw your post about bringing Gaia to CarPlay. That’s something I’d always wanted but my car no longer supports it. Bummer. Nice work though!

Edit again:
Any chance of getting cellular coverage layers?
A couple of observations:

First, most of what’s out there in the media and popular discussion is nothing less than ignorant. Sometimes I feel people watch too many movies and think they are real.

Under normal conditions it can take over a year to go from nothing to making something as simple as a certified N95 mask at scale. Under normal conditions component lead times in electronics can easily be in the 8 to 16 week range. Not to mention such things as manufacturing tooling, molds, test systems, etc.

Making hardware is hard for a reason. It takes time, and money can’t always accelerate the timeline.

And so, reporters pounding away at test kit, mask or PPE is ignorant and counterproductive. Making 100 million masks in haste could result in ineffective masks that provide little protection.

This problem is exacerbated by a supply chain that has been the subject of major disruption.

The sad reality is, when you don’t control the entire supply chain you can only accomplish so much. This is surely a lesson that might change the world post COVID-19.

Aside from that. It seems to me converting cruise ships to temporary hospitals might be the quickest way to expand capacity. They are self-contained little cities with rooms for thousands.
I haven't used Jitsi, but different apps and approaches work better in different situations. Are you screen sharing? Audio chat? video chat? Large meeting with multiple people? Mac/Win/Linux? Is your connection bad? High latency? Low throughput? No solution was very robust and if you're working internationally and people have their own equipment it can be a mess. People are also get really familiar with one piece of software and hate installing yet another.

The churn between companies like Google and Microsoft (each offering, and deprecating multiple solutions) doesn't help.
I do mean the bad old days. Unless COVID turns out to be radically overblown I'm hopeful we don't have the stomach to do this again. Our fast and well connected airline system was a massive contributing factor to this spiraling out of control.

If I had the choice; permanent 2 week quarantine for all air travelers on arrival. That'd kill a lot of travel-related industries.
Yes, there is a lot of FUD about the licensing for Qt when you search online, definitely not helped by how unclear the Qt site's explanation of it is (to me at least)
My CPU client occasionally gets new work units, but it's been idle for most of the week.

Currently, it looks like one of the main issues is not having enough server capacity. If anyone has extra resources or expertise to contribute, see https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=314382.
That's what happens when manufacturing is outsource to China. They were able to ramp up by 20x and produce 200 million mask per day. As a comparison, 3M makes 300 million per year and said they will increase by 30%.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/16/8149292...
what planet do you come from? :)
I suspect this device can't do TLS. Blame POODLE for killing SSLv3:

* https://blog.cloudflare.com/sslv3-support-disabled-by-defaul...

Also RC4 is about to die:

* https://blog.cloudflare.com/killing-rc4-the-long-goodbye/

* https://blog.cloudflare.com/killing-rc4/

* https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-web-is-world-wide-or-who-sti...
> Despite the fact that they had been fully socialized, the wolves treated each of the situations as physical problems rather than social ones.

Same problem arises in many humans.
It would need a bare surface. The actual paper, at http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jap/117/3/10.10... , says:

> Metals are intrinsically hydrophilic; immediately after femtosecond laser surface structuring, they first become more hydrophilic, but the exposure to air turns the metals superhydrophobic. This transition is explained by chemical interaction between the surface and the ambient CO 2, resulting in an accumulation of carbon and its compounds on the laser-treated surface. [14,28] We believe that the laser-induced surface nanostructures also play an important role in enhancing this chemical interaction due to nanochemical effects.

so it would seem that the water needs to be in contact with this specific surface.

Neither the paper nor the press release at http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/superhydrophobic-metals-... mentions how well it stands up to abrasion. However, the depth is only 75 μm, so I wouldn't take steel wool to it.

FWIW, "It currently takes an hour to pattern a 1 inch by 1 inch metal sample" so that airplane wing will take a while to pattern.

P.S. More discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8921655 .
Thank you, 6ren. The service will be extended and the first feature on my list is displaying erroneous submissions such as this.
Testing doesn't help if you decide to remove a feature on purpose.

Read my post again, would testing have helped Google in this case?
If you don't want to build your own there are also a couple SaaS solutions:

http://www.leftronic.com/ - A YC company that productizes the Panic concept. Very impressive list of investors.

http://www.geckoboard.com/ - Slick looking and comes with access to a bunch of core services.
You had to pick a language and then a framework as opposed to web development where we are born with the knowledge?

In fact it is not horrifying, it is nicer than writing web-apps. Pick either Qt with C++/Python, Java or C#/Mono and you're good to go.
those rooted firmly in the present are more or less likely to push progression?
So, this is from Usenet.I hadn't even heard of Dejanews before, but Wikipedia (as always) filled me in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups#Deja_News
HTML is not a GUI framework, it's a markup language.

Furthermore, HTML + CSS are a way to create documents that's been hacked together to create so-called apps.
End users do not get affected by commented code. A more direct and positive way of making sure that the users do not get affected, would be to be responsible and actually test the code before putting it in-front of the users.
Another useful aspect of intrusive linked lists in certain situations (mostly embedded nowadays) is that they work across non-contiguous memory. When you don't have virtual memory or even malloc that can be really important.
This can be seen as a variation of the general risk that goes like: Site proves balances, a moment later site takes backing funds to vegas. The proof shows funds, but it doesn't show what they'll do a moment later.

It's still a massive step forward from the current conditions, but doesn't mean that people shouldn't avoid putting their funds in third party hands.
When some of my readers began checking their Kindle archives for books of mine they’d purchased on Amazon, they found them missing from their archives

I think Amazon (and any bookseller) should be allowed to sell or not sell any sort of book they want. However deleting already paid for books that your customers have bought from their devices is totally unethical IMO.
I would agree that with Zuckerberg, that is probably the case. Andrew Mason however, had only been doing ThePoint for a year before he decided to pivot to groupon.
Pray tell which tactical combat game determines the line of sight using a discrete grid.
But can a school be the right place for that? In my mental model of schools they are mainly for filling the gaps: make sure that the artsy types have at least some understanding of numbers, give numbers persons some command of language, make those with an aptitude for business understand the elementary principles of chemistry, give the sedentary the without they would otherwise never have. Some fostering of interests is fine, but even that is more important for managing morale in support of the gap-filling than the primary goal. I'd consider it hubris to assume that true excellence could ever be reached intracurricularly. That gap-filling is unglamorous, but incredibly important.
According to this report, that Russian law was targeted at Apple [1]. It also says that Apple has told them they'll leave the market, which is pretty credible because Russia is a small market.

This is a Google translation:

>According to a profile official, in summer in informal conversations it was said that the main goal of the bill is Apple, which they are trying to oblige the law to install Russian applications on iPhones and iPads. But the iOS operating system that Apple uses does not at all imply the ability to preinstall third-party applications.

>At one of the meetings, Apple representatives warned that the introduction of such standards would force the company to "revise its business model in Russia, " Vedomosti wrote in the summer. As of September, the company's position has not changed, the official said. “The company then took this position: we will show you the middle finger, your market is a very small segment of our business, its loss is insignificant,” he says. Perhaps the authors of the project were inspired by the example of China, from where, after the adoption of similar rules, no one left, admits The Bell's interlocutor. But Russia is not China, there are no levers of pressure on Apple, he states.

[1] https://thebell.io/zakon-protiv-apple-novye-ogranicheniya-mo...
If you work 8 hours a day and sleep 8 hours a day play a video games 14 hours a day, well the math doesn't work to being rational for an adult
hah, I knew someone would point that out (which is why I talked about it in the article).

I actually prefer useless cat because when you're prototyping a pipeline it's very awkward to use non-useless cat. You'll probably start off with something like this to observe the content of the file:

cat something.txt

Using this doesn't work in bash:

<something.txt

Then, continuing with useless cat to build on it you do

cat something.txt | grep stuff

Which you can type easily from using 'up' in your terminal. But if you use non-useless cat you have to re-type the entire thing or move the cursor around:

grep stuff < something.txt

With useless cat, you can keep adding things and check the result:

cat something.txt | grep stuff | sed 's/"//g'

Or if you need to insert another filter before the last stage like this, you can just press "up" and insert it:

cat something.txt | grep -v negmatch | grep stuff

I don't think there is any easily-typed equivalent workflow with non-useless cat.
Great article. Why does AI hype persist? Simply because we're seeing moderate gains?

Newsflash- We're likely to continue seeing gains from ML tech for decades. Basic techniques may become part of core CS. With all the private siloed data out there, ML will need to be applied uniquely over and over.

In decades to come, if marketing continues as-is, are salesmen going to keep laying claim to the moon (AGI) the whole time? It's hard to believe we can remain on this tilt for so long.
Short pithy answer: Exact real arithmetic is still an open research problem.

Slightly longer answer: To the extent that they are formal languages, they both have the same ability to express things.

More philosophical answer: Mathematics has a tradition of extension. Have a new idea you want to express as concisely as possible because you are going to be using it a lot? Grab a handful of Greek letters, symbols, funny fonts, and random other typography, and go to town. Outside of Lisp,[1] this flexibility is hard to do in most programming languages.

[1] But inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
Is there a documented guarantee of that somewhere? Because I am half tempted to make a browser based UI for a few tools, but would rather use Java if there is even a tiny risk that I get the rug pulled from under my feet again.