jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>1. Say "I'm so sorry for your loss. If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know."

I can tell you anecdotally that when I heard this from people after the death of my mother, the euphemism -- something i'm pretty sensitive against, anyway -- of 'loss' enraged me.

Softening the blow isn't something that a death deserves -- it's important and soft language makes it no easier to deal with the practical realities of a death other than in some psychological sense that it may reduce the cognitive burden of the idea of death.. but that wanders a bit too much into escapism and denial for me.

Not only that, but the (almost always) empty gesture of the promise of 'help' -- whatever that ill-defined help may be -- was also offensive.

The best sympathies I received were simply things like 'I'm sad that your mother died, she was a great person and I enjoyed my time with her.'. Direct language; she died, and they would rather she hadn't -- Perfect.

Here's George Carlin expressing a similar sentiment against euphemism in the face of death[0]. I don't know if he's a great role model or not -- but his ideas and sentiments regarding the topic reflect mine , so I suppose that people like us (irritated by euphemism) aren't as few as one would think.

'You know, people say things like "You know, I lost my father." , "Ahh! He'll turn up! Have you checked the dumpster out back? He likes to take naps back there." ' [0]

[0]: https://youtu.be/3PiZSFIVFiU?t=51
You’re right, and again I’m not saying America is perfect. This was specifically in the context of being a developer, of which very little of the parent comment is true. Risk/reward and all that, yes, that’s likely a cultural or personal issue where we might weigh the pros and cons differently, which is fine. I’m not saying my way is the only way.

But I do also feel on a personal level that for an American born in America, running off to Europe in search of a more perfect society is basically no different just running off to a gated community somewhere in a rich state where I don’t have to see the poor people anymore. They’re still there though, just out of sight. Since I do see problems and do have the resources to help, I’m obligated to do what I can. But again that’s a personal decision, and I would never truly knock on someone who was genuinely trying to improve their lot in life.
I mean, if you're close to the bereaved, this advice isn't for you. In that case you presumably already know what you can be doing and are doing it. This is for people who don't know what they should be doing, because they're not in a close enough relationship to have that kind of meaningful role.

Somebody like that can still help, for sure. If nothing else, there's always at least some unskilled setup and teardown work to do for a funeral and a wake. If someone is the kind of person who looks for ways to be of genuine help, they'll find them no matter what anyone else says. They don't need this advice. If someone isn't, at least this advice, if taken, might stop them doing harm.
"In no way do we think that Berkshire shares should be repurchased at simply any price. I emphasize that point because American CEOs have an embarrassing record of devoting more company funds to repurchases when prices have risen than when they have tanked. Our approach is exactly the reverse."

For many companies, the approach seems to be "we've paid our dividends, we have some cash left over, let's buy back our own stock" - with a complete disregard for the valuation. Buying your own shares at too high a price (see GE and US airlines) is equivalent to incinerating money, whereas buybacks at low prices (Teledyne, Apple) do wonders for returns. If you run a listed business you have to think long and hard about what your firm is worth without just looking at the market price. William Thorndike's book "The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success" [0] makes that point beautifully

Right now it is interesting to observe that many companies are doing the opposite of buybacks at a record clip, the share issuance of firms like Twillio is astounding.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13586932-the-outsiders
I'm actually writing an app that extracts company names or stock symbols from reddit posts. I'm using iexcloud.io to get a list of companies and their symbols. I haven't got the part of also adding financial information for those companies/stocks, but I'm sure it's not complicated.

I'm only fetching US and Canadian stocks from iexcloud and I've got around 24k of those. It's possible to fetch stocks from other countries but it seems most companies mentioned on Reddit are listed in a US exchange anyway.
Not quite. Appropriate bet sizing is related to volatility, but that doesn't make it the same. This is what I meant by imprecise definitions. Sure, two small bets are technically less volatile than one.

I think this is a tricky road to walk. Whether its a diy version of modern portfolio theory, or a day trader's take on martingale system... EV doesn't matter if you're not trying getting market returns. If you very investment is a speculation, a risk.

IDK what you mean specifically by "professional gambler," but most pro poker players are staked by others. That basically makes a martingale strategy viable... not unlike a "two and twenty" wall street trading firm.

"Professional" in both gambling and finance are positions, not skillsets. A professional investor invests other people's money. Same with pro gamblers, generally
The top 1% changes a lot. Most people don't stay in the top 1% for many years in a row. Many people below the 90th percentile benefit from the growth of the top levels when they have their brief time in the top 1%.
> but if you need 1 device to purify a large area

I realize there are other concerns here (noise, power usage, aesthetics), but at the price points this article is talking about, you can buy 3 box filters for the price of one BlueAir device. Or spend a bit of extra money (but still comparatively less than $400) on a more powerful box fan.

I am doubtful that a BlueAir would outperform a setup with multiple independent fans.
"Recently, CB insight posted research in which they mentioned that 90% of the startups get failed due to the spiraling cost of the cloud" and yet the linked research shows no such thing.

The article's also in serious need of an editing pass; good god.
>but there is no reasonable effort being made to avoid this problem for a product that BK advertises as "0% beef

Adding an extra grill to the restaurant isn't reasonable. Apparently they will microwave it if you ask.

However, the entire kitchen is covered in grease, it's a burger king. There's going to be some amount of cross contamination no matter what they do. They may be able to reduce it from 0.01% beef to 0.001% beef, but who cares? Who is ok with 1 part in 100,000, but not 1 part in 10,000?

There's no functional difference unless you have an allergy and that happens to be the threshold.

If you aren't OK with eating something to that touched meat and may contain trace amounts of beef, don't eat at a Burger restaurant.
What is the "shape" that's being referred to, and in what sense is it "equal"?
Perhaps it was a rather boring anecdote and seemed almost off-topic.
Yeah, people who tried and failed over and over again cannot succeed in the future. /sarcasm
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The copyright on the original vinyl performances is going to expire, hence the rash of remastering. New works = fresh copyright.
This one is strange. It was just released this month, but without even a table of contents. How are people supposed to decide whether to buy it?
Actually, I know of no other state that has such a law (although the Michigan legislature accidentally zapped their's for a fairly long period and research has been done on this).

I've never lived/worked in California/SV, but based on what I've read about it (e.g. Shockley -> Fairchild -> many companies is the golden example) etc. and how I've experienced on the East Coast (Boston and D.C. areas) a number of failures to even get started-up due to non-completes, I'm convinced that this one and only unique to California feature is the #1 secret behind Silicon Valley's long term success, its crushing of Route 128, etc.
The average consumer doesn't care about a cloud-based iTunes. The Beatles are something that they will never forget, but they don't care about the technical delivery method. They just want the content.
The article is trying to implicate old rich men in wheelchairs that get together once a quarter to complain as running the intelligence services.

Most of the direction comes from the deputy director level and below. Basically the long-termers and generals that aren't removed with every administration. They also have close ties to military contractors and are able to receive consulting fees while doing their jobs.

The people mentioned in the article aren't in the loop and don't really have the passion.
Here is a link with extensive material about colonizing Mars

http://journalofcosmology.com/Contents12.html

Last year the journal of cosmology had an issue devoted to problems related to Mars. There are many people who believe putting people on Mars is completely feasible. The most well known is maybe Robert Zubrin, advisor to NASA, who has a fairly well thought out plan ("Mars Direct") how to establish an outpost on Mars by a series of trips that are all within our current technological abilities, i.e. they don't require experimental propulsion systems. He has also written a very good book on the topic.
I do quantum mechanical simulations for a living, and I really don't see that kind of thing ever working. Luckily I don't think you'd need a full quantum mechanical simulation to get an artificial brain working anyway.

But this raises the next problem: even if I did build myself a copy of my brain (overlooking the ethical issues in doing so), it's still not any damn smarter than I am. And if I can't figure out how to build a smarter brain than mine then it can't figure it out either, so we're still stuck.

This is the big hole in the "singularity" scenario -- there's no reason to think that brains are capable of building ever-smarter brains.

We don't even know, really, what that would mean. What would a smarter version of my brain look like? Would it be like my brain except capable of juggling more symbols at once? Or would it be like my brain except less likely to jump to dumb conclusions?
Via @linkedin on Twitter- "Hey guys, this is part of the planned cutover we initiated oer the wknd. http://bit.ly/fYD800 Sorry for the inconvenience. Stay tuned."

"We continue to tune our site and optimize site performance following our recent cutover to the new Los Angeles data center. Thanks for your patience during the transition. Stay tuned. – Dec 13, 2010"

http://blog.linkedin.com/2010/12/11/linkedin-data-center-la/
My advice has always been if you're not willing to commit 3 years full time to coding don't do it. It just takes that long to be useful on a team. Instead, focus on whatever area you want to excel at and leave the engineering to the engineers.
Interactive, undo-able, graphical, sure, but what do you mean by "documented"?
There is only a little bit of crossover. The focus of HEMA groups is to approach medieval sword fighting like a modern sport or martial arts (e.g, much like Karate, Judo or Kempo). That's why you see modern sports equiptment.

The focus of the SCA is more on reliving medieval times. They wear medieval clothing and armour for example, they hold medieval banquets, practice dancing, etc. As for fighting style, I don't think medieval swordsmanship skills will get you very far on an SCA battlefield. Maybe in one-on-one tournaments though.
I could show you some of my ex-collegues work. There was plenty of code, but not a lot of modelling. It was a pain to decipher it.
But they will charge a 1% fee on the exchange, which in this case would be 2.78. Another difference (I think) is that they often cancel your order as brokers (many people have complained of buying, and then when the price goes up Coinbase rejects their buy order), but not as exchange.
Ha, I didn't even realize it was that David Gerard; it's been years since I paid any attention to that name.

It's sad to see people don't evolve.
We'll be releasing AirChat today, built on firebase :)
So, the risk from a backscatter radiation machine is roughly equal to the risk from terrorism.

The Federal Government, via the FDA, tells us that the risk of the backscatter machine is "minuscule".

Therefore, in the Federal government's own risk terminology, the risk from terrorism is "miniscule".

Why are we spending all this money on a "miniscule" threat? Why are sexually molesting the population over a "miniscule" threat? (Rhetorical.)

(I say "sexually molesting" on the grounds that if I personally performed those same actions on a stranger, that is what it would be called. It would continue to be called that if I tricked this person into giving "consent" for false reasons. A doctor has a compelling reason. I do not grant that excuse to the TSA. I also do not think I am being unduly inflammatory, I think it's just plain fair.)
The reason is even simpler than that. In the US, only one carrier has the iPhone. Not everyone is going to want AT&T, or can get AT&T. They have an Android phone because their cell phone vendor says "This is our version of the iPhone". Or, after looking at Nokia's OS, or Verizon's OS, and seeing Android, they're taking the obvious choice.

And just because a phone runs android doesn't mean its in the same class an iPhone. A lot of the $99-$150 Android phones that ran 1.6 (back in the days of the iPhone 3GS being top of the line) definitely did not compare.
The guys at www.entrustet.com have been talking about this for the last 6 months. Some of 1000 memories points are straight up lifted. Have some integrity guys. The interwebs know when you copy.

Stats are free, but you should at least credit them for inspiration.
Good books are great for making you feel disdain towards imagined (or real) unwashed gamers, but they've got nothing on games when it comes to 2nd-order meta-self-trolling.
I'm being a more than a bit tongue-in-cheek here. Of course I do enjoy learning new languages, and accumulating at least a basic understanding of the technologies discussed here.

However, I notice that languages wash over HN like waves. A few weeks ago there were a glut of back-to-back Clojure posts. Last week it was all-Go-all-the-time, and over the past few days Rust has surged.

This wave pattern is a cultural quirk of HN, rather than serious indicators of what you should be pushing for within your company, or where you should be taking your career long-term.
What an interesting question. When I first got into computing back in the 80's and 90's, people wrote viruses just for the challenge and fun of it. Some people just want to watch the world burn. This was seen as obvious motivation, it was unquestioned. It was only after crypto mining and ransonware became big things in the 2010's, that people started assuming a financial motive behind attacks.

Up through the mid-2010's, people posted amateur porn largely for personal fun and ego boost. Occasionally, regular people would try to make a buck. But it was mostly people posting selfies to /r/gonewild because they enjoyed the attention. Then OnlyFans came out, and now virtually anyone posting amateur adult material can be assumed to be driving traffic to a monetization channel.

Sorry for the tangents. It just strikes me how normalized "side hustle" culture has become. It was not very long ago at all that it wouldn't even occur to most of us to question a DDOS attacker's "motive".
Dumb question: is this even legal? I thought drone commercial is not allowed in the US yet?
it's a long running series of numerous high quality articles
> It is not, however -- by any stretch of the imagination -- the goal of civil statutes to enable indiscriminate harassment.

Do you have any evidence to support this claim? There's plenty to support the idea that these non-crimes exist on the books specifically to enable police to target so-called "undesirables" who would otherwise be breaking no law:

https://lbpost.com/longbeachize/opinion/the-classist-racist-...
Edit: Could have sworn your comment said BTC and not crypto?
I'm in the same boat as you, I'm thinking about getting a ReMarkable 2 and am turned off by their cloud service. It seems possible to run Syncthing[0], however, so this is giving me hope.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26145584
Hey thanks so much! I have added "jQuery required" for now and will update to a cleaner solution later tonight.
I would write a view and then you can do select * or move 800 columns names into rows in another table and create another table with an id,field and data column or separate...
I've been tracking security holes that leak your identity for a while.

Via a bug in Firefox's Error object: http://33bits.org/2010/06/01/yet-another-identity-stealing-b...

Via a bug in Google spreadsheets: http://33bits.org/2010/02/22/google-docs-leaks-identity/ (I found this one :-)

Via history stealing: http://33bits.org/2010/02/18/cookies-supercookies-and-uberco...

More sophisticated, but hypothetical version of previous: http://33bits.org/2010/02/19/ubercookies-history-stealing-so...

XSS bugs and other problems with Instant personalization partner sites: http://33bits.org/2010/09/28/instant-personalization-privacy...

I've also been predicting that this will eventually become the new normal -- both because the bugs are coming too fast to fix (and exploits in the wild will become more common) and because Facebook is pushing to change people's expectations with Instant Personalization.

The other day I attended a talk about one-click frauds. I realized that that's the perfect black-hat use-case for this class of attacks (although current 1-click fraudsters are apparently rather low tech). Stay tuned.
"Your app has been randomly selected for additional security screening."

I guess next time you'll run your app through Instruments once before you submit it?

But I'm sure your users will find all sorts of bugs in the 1.0 release. That's just reality. I would wait until you get those bug reports before you do a 1.1 release.
Yea, I screwed up. What the hell was I thinking? Thanks for down voting: it's deserved.
Seed round. You and your puns, Kyle. :)
Ahh shit, totally lame brained that.
http://ridewithgps.com/ is paying my "full-time" salary, which is barely ramen level. But, it's doing that right now in the off-season, off donations and a small licensing deal. Releasing premium features within the month, and negotiating a larger licensing deal right now. Then, I'll be up to spaghetti profitable :)
That's a good point.

I wrote that when I was working on the "every topic is a wiki page" feature. I was in the mindset of how wikipedia operates, but I see your point that it would exclude a lot of interesting posts. Removing it for now :)
Or more generally non-us? (UK)
A lot of windows are small and temporary.

In this case the attacker could have served anything out of the S3 bucket and conducted full blown phishing (google.ar, coinbase.ca), and generated valid certificates.

It's a big deal the order of operations here and the risk Mark Monitor introduced to all their clients.
This is one feature I like from my Wifi router. It does regular speed tests and tracks the results over time. I like to think it reminds my ISP that I want the speed I'm paying for.
If you were going to work in a machine shop, and you found out that they buy all their tools from the bargain bin at Low Cost Tools, it would be totally reasonable to back out for that reason.

As software engineers, our productivity tools are key to our success, and it's totally reasonable to demand good tools.
> An immediate solution for users who find themselves blocked is to access our site from other IP addresses, via home internet, work internet, or other VPN services.

Anyone for whom this is a solution has already tried it.
I've enjoyed the convenience of the Go stores since they opened, but one thing that's popped into my head is how 'classist' this type of store is, especially in a city like Seattle where they started.

To be allowed into the store requires a few prerequisites which unfortunately not everyone has the benefit of possessing; smart phone with data service, credit card, amazon account.

For most people this is no problem. But what about all the people who rely on cash based systems to exist? What about people who don't have smart phones with internet plans (though this is becoming an increasingly small population, it's still very prevalent)?

Now what happens to those people when this becomes a standard and the alternative options diminish? Food deserts in underserved (poor) neighborhoods are already wide spread in the US, this credit based system which relies on an app will only make it harder for people who already suffer.
Definitely, I agree that they may have been invalid claims and that screwups do happen. What concerns me is that may have been Tripp was truly sincere if not misguided. Tesla's 100 million dollar lawsuit, however, sends a chilling message that if you harm Tesla, they may go after you with incredible force.
I can certainly see why you'd not take the time to/need to do it if the purpose of the language is to explore concepts in language design.

But it seems to be missing from a lot of languages that launch with the intention of being used for large non-trivial multi-user codebases.

My question I guess was intended less as a criticism of language designers for not including these features and more to find out what I'm missing, that I'm not able to remember the entire (for example) Python standard library, or even the name of methods and classes I previously implemented.
> You can't legally get a psychedelic trip guide in the US right now.

Not entirely true, although only a few, there have been and continue to be legal studies involving psilocybin (also MDMA) in addition to the one in the OP.

Here is a smoking cessation study in Baltimore, involving a psilocybin psychedelic trip. https://www.quitsmokingbaltimore.org/

Here's an article about the findings of the 2014 pilot study on the same thing which describes the methodology to some extent. https://hub.jhu.edu/2014/09/11/magic-mushrooms-smoking/
I'd love gasoline to go away too but most particulate would still be there in the switch because of brakes and tires:

http://www.soliftec.com/NonExhaust%20PMs.pdf (2016)
Study highlights:

* A positive relationship exists between vehicle weight and non-exhaust emissions.

* Electric vehicles are 24% heavier than their conventional counterparts.

* Electric vehicle PM emissions are comparable to those of conventional vehicles.

* Non-exhaust sources account for 90% of PM10 and 85% of PM2.5 from traffic.

* Future policy should focus on reducing vehicle weight

Part of this is that we already spent a lot of deliberate effort on reducing emissions from engines. As the study notes:

> Before the introduction of air quality standards, exhaust emissions used to be a major source of PM, especially for diesel cars (Miguel et al., 1998). Since then, PM emission standards for vehicle exhausts have become increasingly strict and now all new diesel passenger cars are fitted with a diesel particulate filter (DPF). Bergmann et al. (2009) found that DPFs are very effective at reducing PM emissions, lowering the emitted mass of PM by 99.3%
> I'm not going to make the world a better place by configuring my editor

I think this covers work of most programmers. Doesn't matter if time is spent writing editor config or production code...