jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Which is why I said "getting drunk regularly," which is the implied activity in a business built around a guy getting drunk.

Either way, amusing to see someone compare getting drunk to running a marathon.
> being alive has a 100% mortality rate.

Well we assume it does but so far only about 95%
The classic "How does your site perform if your cat is standing on the F11 key" test
That comes under the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act. In California, the Song-Beverly Warranty Act applies.[1] The retailer has to make good on the manufacturers' warranty unless the manufacturer has convenient in-state repair centers.

[1] http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=civ&gr...
It's fine to have a (string) + (string) operator, it's just generally a less than brilliant idea to have a (string) + (arbitrary) operator that does an implicit string conversion.

But all of that's fine compared to PHP's implicit number conversion that ignores trailing characters, presumably so that you can add "3 onions" to "1 kg of bacon" or some such...
Is that in the rules? I checked, and couldn't find any reference. Even "Show HN" appears to be a convention, rather than a rule.
> a web-based web browser

Reminds me of this: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
I watched about half of the video on editing and group membership. I didn't really read the page content.

Forgive my bluntness, but I would never, ever consider buying this. Like forget even talking to me about it. You lost me when you turned a list of user names in a group into a jiggly version of whatever you call that kind of graph. Maybe I am not your target customer; typically, when doing AD administration work, I am not thinking that all I need now is to have to scroll all over the place to keep this group in view.

Maybe the rest of the tool is awesome. Get rid of that video or people like me will never give it a chance.
Can anyone explain the flaw in Bickerton's reasoning? It's not obvious to me where the mistake is:

"For a projectile entirely to escape the gravitation of earth, it needs a velocity of 7 miles a second. The thermal energy of a gramme at this speed is 15,180 calories... The energy of our most violent explosive--nitroglycerine--is less than 1,500 calories per gramme. Consequently, even had the explosive nothing to carry, it has only one-tenth of the energy necessary to escape the earth... Hence the proposition appears to be basically impossible."
Explain why they are a monopoly when Tidal literally has exclusives that no other platform does.
"Saying you like “moats” is just a nice way of saying you like oligopolies" - Musk
That's a good question. Several days/hours worth of PT. Hospital visits/stays every few months. Lab work. That should add up to something for the insurance companies.
Hi, I'm the creator of FaChords Guitar (the one shown at the top of the list). Happy to see that there are lots of fellow guitarists&developer out there. My site runs on Django, that is a cool web-framework and a Gipsy Jazz guitar player, this is fun :-)
Mate, don't worry this is normal. I turned 39 last month, I have one failed marriage behind me (no kids), I don't have 500k USD in savings (so I think this is great for you), but I know what you are talking about.

Let me help you with one simple solution - testosterone. I was in mma most of my adult life, with some fights, sparings etc... I didn't use any susptances and supplements that are illegal. Now I am doing som mountain bike races (mostly XC marathones).

Speaking with lot of doctors that I know, the problem is that over 30, sometimes over 35, male is starting to lose testosterone. And testosterone is an essence for mail - physically and psychologically. Like women that over 45 starts to take estrogen, we should also start using testosterone.

So, try to see with your doctor, to start using just enough to keep your testosterone like you are in your 30-ties.

From my experience, it helps a lot, and soon when I will be over 40, it will really help.

Other than that, sport is always good for clearing your head, and hobbies.

And if you feel old, always look at Joe Biden, he is POTUS now. :)
> A low intake of selenium is associated with increased cardiovascular mortality. This could be reduced by supplementation with selenium and coenzyme Q10.
> So. Someone pushes the doorbell. That sends a signal to a machine that's bridged onto that network via an access point. That machine then sends a protobuf command to speakers on a separate network, asking them to stream a sample it's providing. Those speakers call back to that machine, grab the sample and play it. At this point, multiple speakers in the house say "Someone is at the door". I then say "Hey Google, activate the front gate" - the device I'm closest to picks this up and sends it to Google, where something turns my speech back into text. It then looks at my home structure data and realises that the "Front Gate" device is associated with my Home Assistant integration. It then calls out to the home automation machine that received the notification in the first place, asking it to trigger the front gate relay. That device calls out to the Doorbird and asks it to open the gate. And now I have functionality equivalent to a doorbell that completes a circuit and rings a bell inside my home, and a button inside my home that completes a circuit and opens the gate, except it involves two networks inside my building, callouts to the cloud, at least 7 devices inside my home that are running Linux and I really don't want to know how many computational cycles.

All this to replace dry contacts and getting up, walking to the door, being polite and greeting your guests.
That's pure bias, that important change is always found where there is resistance. Most important change is found where people are just too comfortable to change themselves, which is the harder version of change to implement. Six months playing revolution vs. a lifetime of sacrifice.
To see both the longer trend (graph), a comparison with the value at the same time the previous year, and the current value for CO2, CH4, N2O, and SF6 I occasionally check the Global Monitoring Laboratory (NOAA):

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends_ch4/

Link to methane, click on one of the four switched at the top for the others.

Warning: It always is pretty depressing to visit this site.

You can also check out a tab "Growth Rate", for CO2 for example it's https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/gr.html -- which is even more depressing. Even the rate(!) increases!

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So, I'm mid-life, and I do what many might say is actually interesting and useful software work, no standard stuff, lots of new things to design and plan and implement in a small software company I co-founded in a team that works well together. Currently we do most of our work for the health sector. Still, I can't take it too seriously. I look at that data and I think to myself, in a few decades we will have problems, many indirectly from more and more troubled nations who will bear the brunt of the climate change, that that silly little piece of software I write seems meaningless if I start thinking about the bigger picture. I'm not demotivated or depressed, it's more the opposite, I can't feel excited about any achievements because I think that most of what we do, what people do these days, is just keeping busy to avoid facing the bigger reality. The show must go on. I've developed the feeling that what we have, even in the rich countries, is much more fragile than people realize.

Unless there is a full stop of digging up any more carbon from below ground, in the form of oil, gas, and coal, and I mean full stop and not just a reduction, the amount of carbon in the above ground carbon cycle is going to keep increasing. No amount of trees planted or most of he other measures proposed will change that. How likely is that to happen?
Phew, I'm glad I'm not the only one. I initially blamed my short attention span.
That's helpful, but it would be more interesting as a demo if it had some other events on it.
It really depends on the scale you're working at; and whether you can assume that there will be someone available to supply credentials for an instance that had to restart.

I've used fabric and ansible to push configs out to small sets of hosts; and yes assumed that the sensitive bits were OK sitting on the filesystem of the production host. Since if an attacker had access to the filesystem there would be more issues and I'd have to invalidate those credentials anyhow.

At a larger scale you'll want something like etcd or consul or even just a centralized key server that new instances call and ask for their configuration.

The thing is that anything predicated on HMAC secrets is vulnerable to those secrets being exposed. The secret has to be in the clear at some point to perform authentication or signing and a sufficiently determined attacker will be able to get that string.

A system is only as secure as the humans running it can confirm it to be secure. This is why it's best to reduce your attack surface and ensure that you can log access and do process inventory and egress filtering and the whole checklist of prevention, detection and remediation. There is no magic pixie dust that will make your system fully secure; you will always be making tradeoffs and managing risk rather than eliminating it.
I suggest learning more about yourself and your motivations before moving any further.

Try reading The 7 habits of highly effective people.

I'd say that your attitude toward failure is what's going to prevent you from succeeding in the first place.

Also, don't be too hard on yourself!
Success = hard work + skill + Spinning the Wheel of Luck + some other stuff.

If you conflate self worth with Success, you leave your feelings up to chance. Rate yourself on stuff you can actually control. Also don't forget that personal relationships are an integral part of happiness and success throughout your entire life.
And secondary IR radiation.
>>Blanket bans like these are not only a form of internet censorship which flies in the face of the establishing principles of the largest democracy in the world, the lack of any details or explanation before issuing an outright ban on several important software hosting websites and content providers just evokes an image of a myopic government with incredibly poor understanding of technology.

Spot on!
1) Please, NEVER EVER assume you know how the fonts will look on the users device. The iPhone is not the only "mobile platform" out there, and it doesn't even have the majority. Different phones will have different fonts, different default font sizes, different screen sizes, etc. As such "user-scalable=no" will guarantee people all over the world will hate you, including iPhone users who have a different opinion than yourself on what the "right font size" is. Just saying: "I'm using bigger fonts than on the web" will probably push you in the other extreme, with fonts too large and users unable to scale them down.

In conclusion: ALWAYS use "user-scalable=yes". Like this you'll give the user the option of correcting your assumptions if they turn out to be wrong.

Thanks for the article otherwise.
This isn't 100% secure though - if you're a clumsy typist and some day type "sl -l" instead of "ls -l", you run the risk of running "./sl"

If you're a clumsy typist, even if you don't have '.' in your $PATH, you might still type ./sl (instead of your intended ./ls) and get the "rogue" program to run.

I've had . in my $PATH for the last couple of decades. It's fine.
It's drawn at things you can change about you.

What makes this reasonable?
Still, presumably he had a choice not to support the war effort with his full technical abilities.
> I'm utterly fascinated, is it really possible to produce that much text on an unknown subject?

If it's anything like the reports I wrote for my own humanities classes, you can skim a bunch of relevant materials and churn something out in a rather short time. That said, you're much better off if you can wrangle things around to write about something you already know.

I seem to recall that for one class, I managed to get out of some weekly writing assignment by turning it into one huge paper about a topic I had already read about. I then wrote it for about 10 hours straight (naturally, the last 12 hours before the assignment was due...) and had an ~80 page paper freshly printed out and in my hand just in time for class.

My teacher loved it and asked to be able to use it as a class reading assignment in the future. It was a first draft, hastily written brain dump of everything I had ever known about the subject. But there was no need to pad out my writing to fill pages and I think that's why my teacher liked it.
I think you are all being very unfair. I find the same proportions of insightful comments on reddit and HN but I find HN has a form of snobism that I profoundly dislike. Not in all users, but it's obviously there and sucks.

If you avoid the stupidest subreddits (/pics, /funny, etc) it's actually amazing what high level of discussion you can meet. (while having a good laugh too, btw).
And that says nothing about non-GUI operations...
So she is sister of Mark.
I agree. The quality of data is always going to be an issue and even the paid data has several problems. Be prepared to write a lot of code to catch these data errors.
You might not believe me, but I've seen essays in place of equations on math tests before.

I think one was even relevant enough to get partial credit...
Yes. A $1B advertising campaign!

One might imagine there are more effective ways to run an advertising campaign. At any rate, it sure makes those superbowl advert campaigns look cheap.
Luckily, complex numbers and polynomials are not snake oil.
The code is more than just gratis; it's libre. This is Ubuntu, based on Debian GNU/Linux. (Yeah, okay, some of the code is merely gratis, but most of it is libre.)

I don't expect an OS based on an OS based on an OS based on a half-finished OS based on free software principles to have shady data-dealing attached, yet hidden from the people whose data is being dealt.
Should probably be read as government-regulated instead. For some value of "regulated", anyway.
> GUI development has apparently gone backwards a decade or so

I find this the exact opposite. Okay, maybe I could break out Delphi or Visual Basic and make a crap UI that only ran on Windows and required users to install the software.

Today, in a few minutes, I can make an app in HTML/JS that runs in a webpage and several billion people can access and use immediately on either their PC, Tablet, or phone. That it me is way better than it was 30 years ago.

And, if I want it to be an app I can use some HTML/JS wrapper and be done in a similar amount of time. I can have a new electron app up and running and on 3 platforms in under an hour. If I had more mobile experience I'm sure I could do the same there.
The smart ppl
Federation v2 is nice, but not many places use it.

Unfortunately, all my clusters are either confined locally anyway, or are deliberately supposed to be separated in all ways :(
Apple is kind of a poor example here because they're borrowing money at extremely low interest rates and the collateral is all the money they have overseas. They took advantage of that one time 15.5 percent rate after the TCJA passed but they didn't stop earning gobs of money overseas. They're not taking on actual debt to finance buybacks, they're just creatively getting around tax laws.
I was thinking the same thing but I chalked it up to lag.
window.top.location = "http://gov.cn";
It depends on the problem you're working on and the number of variables you need to optimize. If you only have <20 variables on a nice smooth surface then yeah a shotgun approach is probably going to work, then again pretty much anything is going to work on a problem of that size.

On the other hand if you're working with >100 variables on a highly diverging surface you're going to want an iterative approach. In particular you need something that is history dependent and avoids regions that have been previously searched. SA is great because its simple, iterative, insanely stable, has great breadth and depth searching properties and its easily modifiable.

In comparison approaches like GA might be faster to converge in some cases but because they're more complex and system dependent its going to take longer to fine tune them to your particular problem.
I can enjoy life just fine without a jacuzzi hanging on a bridge.
You're absolutely right that it's an open-ended commitment. And whether it's worth it--probably not to the degree we've spent money and lives on it, and distorted our internal politics in response to it. But I think the trends out there are deeply troubling. In 100 years, I want countries like the one my family is from to be like California, not Saudi Arabia. I think that would be good for them, but also good for us. But thanks to radical Islamists, the world is moving in the wrong direction. And if operations like ISIS can acquire and hold territory in countries that are theoretically friendly to the West, I think those are the kind of brush-fires that Western countries should undertake an open-ended commitment to putting out.
http://workawaycamp.com
No, but you do need OS X.
The last ebook reader from Amazon (Kindle Voyage) features 300 dpi, so it's on par with inkjet standard resolution... But the other problems remain...
Also I have no idea who this person is or what they believe, but lol at using "a conspiracy theorist who has argued the U.S. military can control the weather" to discredit someone.

The US has absolutely used "weather modification" for military purposes in the past [1], and although officially banned, it's hardly a stretch to assume it's an area of some sort of ongoing interest/research. Believing this doesn't automatically mean you're all into chemtrails and HAARP.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Popeye
Totally agree. I meant it as a compliment.
A simpler version may just be a helmet that drowns your face in HEPA-filtered air (so just positive pressure around your face / head)
haha really? That's awesome. Well, they got enough traction :) I love my Dropbox.
I knew I forgot something... :)
You're not comparing it to the state-of-the-art, which, ahem, was developed over 20 years ago: Vesta.

Your ideas on how to make it better seem produced by having your head down typing away at the monitor, rather than seeing the big picture.

Read a visionary system like Vesta. Then re-write this article, and forget about Make.
I think you are completely off base. In my opinion, it seems the guy was planning to opt out anyway and wanted to do his small part in spreading awareness of the problems associated with the scanners. I would even go so far as to say the radiation literature is a strawman for the bigger problem (people have shown that they are willing to give up their personal liberties, but EVERYONE responds to physical danger).
If I move from California to Romania will I get a lower salary? I call this BS.
Don’t know about the US but in Sweden teachers are plagued by mandatory administrative task, as well as a myriad of small tasks all unrelated to teaching.
> If you're paying users to scrape, how do you ensure that they are indeed scraping and not just making up spam?

Ironically the fact that they are paying 10x for original "tweets" posted through their interface makes it so that nobody who can think would try fake scraping. You are 10x better of just blasting your crap directly at their interface as "original" "content". :)
Indeed efficiency of a modern ICE engine in a car is 25% max in ideal conditions, while a modern industrial turbine powered by natural gas can get 60%.

In fact even with coal the amount of CO2 will be smaller per distance driven. The efficiency of the latest coal power stations is about 48%. With this and accounting for significant energy losses to refine gasoline from oil the electrical cars are already greener than gasoline or Diesel engines unless one use the energy from very old coal plants with low efficiency.
Vista was 5 years late, overhyped, full of bugs and incompatibilities, slow and IMHO ugly.

For me it was the biggest failure I've seen since Netscape Navigator.

And while Windows 7 is not that bad, IMHO that's the next worst thing customers can say about your product.
> Private companies are valued as of their last round that sold stock with at most a 1x liquidation preference or last secondary transaction of at least $100MM of stock.

Sorry for the ignorance but can someone help me get through the jargon here? What happens if a company stagnates, never managing to raise again and never IPOs? Am I right in thinking they'd remain valued at their current valuation by this metric?

I guess my question is, assuming a company never raises below its current valuation (and if that happens I don't think we'll need any bets to decide they were overvalued) is there anything here that allows the valuation of a private company to actually decrease?
Fun article.

KFC is also really popular in Vietnam, which I was surprised to discover when I visited about 10 years ago. I think the uncanny resemblance of Colonel Sanders to Ho Chi Minh might have something to do with it.
Note: I also cringe when people called me doctor. Titles are also poor replacements for respect and confidence.
I really wonder what a society would look like if people didn't have to work to ensure a decent lifestyle (shelter, health, food). I'm thinking that in adult minds there's a psychological need to relate to others that is filled partway by working together and also a need not to have complete freedom about how you spend your existence (paradox of choice). And that when people say they'd love not to work, they mean they'd prefer to balance work ROI differently.
> almost two first weeks of a sprint almost whole organization is working on a demo for the previous sprint - that was beyond insane.

Wow. You're right, that's beyond crazy.

What frustrates me is that demos can be very useful, if done right, but if you're doing them because "We do Scrum, here look at this certificate I got from Scrum Alliance saying that I'm a 'Certified ScrumMaster®', see?!" like the artefacts of Scrum are magical ceremonies that will cleanse you of your software sin...

For example, we create a small video demo of a feature story as part of the story development, and we make it available for our business team (who are on the opposite side of the world) immediately. This gives them a chance to flag the occasional oversight on our part sooner, and we can fix it sooner. It works really well for us in terms of ensuring quality, but also for keeping the business team aware of what we're doing.

But if it didn't, then we should iterate on our process (like bloody Scrum says to do) and stop doing them.
"powerful hand of math".

What? I did a pretty simple proof of the safety of Write-ahead Logging as an undergraduate project -- given reasonable assumptions about disks (or implementation safeguards such as pervasive checksumming).

Most developers have superpowers: It's called "existing research". I just wish they'd use them more.