jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is undoubtedly a stupid question but I didn't see it covered by the article - this thing has been feeding on its neighbour for some time, is it inconceivable that it's now one or two solar masses larger than it was when it formed? Then it would have formed within the expected limit for new black holes (which I think is what they mean by the ~20Msol limit), but still be bigger today. What am I missing?
While it was included in early character sets it just wasn't used much - largely because the ubiquitous 029 card punch had no \ key (or [] ... one had to learn the multipunches)
Bitcoin: 7.2 million transactions, $316mn transferred

M-Pesa: 12 billion transactions, $60bn transferred, 41.5 million users

There are almost six times as many M-Pesa users in Africa as there are BTC transactions in a year... M-Pesa handles ~1,670 times as many transactions each year and transfers ~190 times as much money. And that's just the largest mobile wallet service in Africa. The linked article does mention these services in passing but only as a way to imply Bitcoin will also see massive adoption, which isn't a given due to the massive differences between the two types of system.

https://www.theafricareport.com/25846/africa-over-500-millio...

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Values for M-Pesa taken from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa

https://www.vodafone.com/what-we-do/services/m-pesa
Which subreddits that you followed got quarantined or banned?
As a normie - what was the original user base? I joined a few years ago, am subscribed to a couple of niche subreddits, and find the thing pretty useful.
There's a finite amount of valid linear execution histories for the example given. Run all of these in one thread, collect states (or return values, or whatever), and compare them when model checking.

I don't know if that's what LinCheck does, but that's what I'd do if I wrote LinCheck :-).
Object based instead of file handles, with capabilities on everything you can do with them.

Since Vista, official support for a C++ subset.

In kernel IPC, namely LPC, to mimic micro-kernels architectures.
I'm using Firefox Focus as my default browser. It's really nice, because when I use global search or just click on a link, in 99% I want to quickly check sth and then forget about it. Firefox Focus suits that use case almost perfectly. Sadly it's a bit buggy.
It sounds like you haven't even talked to investors yet. You don't need a corporation to create a TOS, nor do you need a corporation to accept payments.

Cross those bridges when you get there. I don't see this leverage you keep referring to. They restructure businesses all the time. Having the right incorporation doesn't make your startup/idea/business any better, so why don't you focus on improving those things?
It actually goes even deeper than that. Georgia pushed for "fast track" membership in NATO and got shut down, hard. The U.S. wanted it, but most of the other members were so set against it that the U.S. backed off and Georgia didn't get it. When NATO denied Georgia membership, they might as well have sent a letter to the Kremlin with the following text:

"Dear Vladimir and Dmitri,

We are absolutely unwilling to risk war in defense of Georgia.

Sincerely,
NATO."

The great irony is that, by taking steps intended to stave off a Russian invasion, the Georgians instead opened the door for one. If they had instead played a slower and more cautious game, they might have maintained sufficient ambiguity and doubt to keep the Russians out. Maybe. Or not. I'm also playing Monday morning quarterback here, so I can't really blame them for trying.
> It is and has been easy to buy music online for quite a while, so I don't think that's really a problem.

If you are into mainstream music perhaps, but if you are in the United States and like music from a Dutch group you won't find it on iTunes in the US music store, it will be in the Dutch iTunes store. But you can't purchase the music from the Dutch iTunes store because it requires a Dutch iTunes account.

There are so many times now that I have looked for legal ways to purchase music, particularly music from Europe (where I am from) where the techno/trance/electronic scene is so much bigger and I just can't get it legally. I start searching for various different websites that might sell it to me and there are restrictions because I am in the US. Then I try to find it on Amazon or other sites and get physical copies and I end up on shady looking websites where I am not even sure I want to enter my credit card credentials.

I feel much more secure grabbing a .magnet link from The Pirate Bay than I feel inputting my personal information on various different websites while hunting for the music I want. The worst is when you follow a "Download here" or "Purchase here" link and you end up on yet another website that sends you to yet another website and so on and so forth.

These days pirating simply isn't an option for me due to my job, and I don't like to do it, so I find the music on Grooveshark, or Spotify or hope that it comes by on Pandora again, until the next time when I am in The Netherlands and I can walk into a record store and purchase the stuff on a CD.
I'll take a try at this. The answer is some combination of:

1. Traditional Asian values
2. Legacy of British colonial law. Punishment by hanging and caning were introduced by the British
3. Southeast Asia was a drug trafficking hotspot in the 70s. IIRC at least some of the harsh drug penalties are from recent times as a reaction to that
Relevant discussion from earlier in the week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26218476
They already do. There was the case just the other day where someone explaining chess strategy had their video removed for "racial violence" when talking about.....white and black sides of the chess board. Obviously google knows what was said thanks to the speech to text translation.
I would, in exactly the same way I had friends the first time I was working from home. There's precisely nothing that stops me calling any one of them and having a "proper catch up". But sometimes we just need background chatter. Friendship is not defined by membership of a WhatsApp group.

So no, it doesn't frighten me in the slightest.
> In explaining possible use cases of facial recognition, Bosworth said that Facebook’s smart glasses may help someone recognize someone at a dinner party

What a fucking joke. There is clearly no practical upside to this for the wearer, or the rest of society.
Yes, just like the price of goods sold at Walmart is based on third parties betting on what they think of the price.

Oh, but it’s definitely necessary in the stock market. Without it, we would speculative frenzy that we definitely don’t have now.

There should not be any market mechanism that financially motivates people to root against a company.
Make no mistake, drug suppression benefits many parties: governments to have a tight control over the people (their consciousness), and entities that profit from the situation and would be harmed by drug liberalization (both "legal" businesses and underground drug industry). And they will hold the regulation tight as long as they can, regardless of what's actually best for people all things considered. Hence the absolutely disproportionate and draconic laws in many parts of the world (including the developed countries).

However, the biggest offenders in my view are the "unthinking masses" that dictate the overall view on drugs and drug use, hence, block reason and change. For some reason when it comes to drugs it's allowed to have a really strong opinion and say on how _others_ should live based on either absolutely nothing, or fear-mongering fuelled by the aforementioned beneficiaries.

Yes, drugs do harm people, but not intrinsically. People die from over-doses because of mis-information and not knowing what they get (from the random guy on the street). People get hooked but mostly as an expression of underlying problems. Why is alcoholism and gambling more OK? And do we help people by taking their substances but leaving them in the same shitty life situation? That's just patting yourself on the back for actually not doing anything.

At the same time people use responsibly as well, you just don't hear from them because, well, why would they tell you about it if it means getting ostracized, thrown in jail, or killed?

If you don't stay neutral if you haven't at all educated yourself about this fairly complex topic (which it totally fine), you are on the wrong side of history, the witch-hunter of today, and will be frowned upon by the future generations.
I've always thought about this as heap and stack people - those that are good at managing ideas with random access and those that prioritize the recent. A discussion between mismatched memory models can be difficult. An old (and revered) team leader described himself as a translator between these different storage approaches.
There are lots of fun things in the world, but if you buy investments because they're fun, you're usually the sucker.
From looking at their documents [1], that's part of the standard Public Utility Commission of Texas standard terms: "Your REP may not order the disconnection of your service for any of the following reasons: for non-payment during an extreme weather emergency"

So, it wasn't really Griddy's choice during the emergency. After the emergency, there's not much of a point to cut people off, as the normal usage is peanuts compared to what was incurred during the emergency.

[1] https://assets-global.website-files.com/5df01ca286f5a984f50c...
DJB approach: https://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html
Far from 1:1, like everything there are diminishing returns from fertilizer use etc. So the efficiency per unit of corn etc would be pushed up as the effective price* declines. The price gets pushed up if insufficient food supply gets produced, but demand in a world of obesity is somewhat elastic.

Net result fewer workers, a shift in which farms are profitable, and a ripple effect up the supply chain, but most bankruptcy would be from farms that do so sooner. Aka they would have been bankrupt in a 10 years and now it happens in 5.

*Effective price being the sales price plus total subsidies.
More berating & downtalk! Stay classy.
2008 is about people investing in AAA funds which contained subpar stocks, often fraudulently.

2008 is about mortgages given to people who didn’t even have the money to rent a house, with a variable interest based on market conditions.

GMS is about a hedge fund (a fund who uses market volatility to extract value, i.e. not producing value, just taking it from other investors), getting short-squeezed because they are immensely unpopular with the mass of the citizen, due to their shady business practices, and those citizen don’t care about taking money since it is about taking revenge. The desired outcome is that hedge funds cease business, and sticking it to perceived wealthy people, hoping to make the business of hedge funds unreliable and risky. One should wonder whether the SEC shouldn’t weigh on the consumer side and make stock markets atteactive to the lowly again. Otherwise stock markets are just an exclusive tools to make the rich richer again (not that I mind — I ended up in the rich side, but wealth is clearly not correctly distributed).

I’m not a fan of this practice but investing in an arbitrage fund or hedge fund is for wealthy companies/individuals who can afford to lose money or win big; It is an entirely separate market from index funds with long-term investors expecting AAA reliability.
> the error will not necessarily surface at the call site

One of the positive side effects of this fact is that Haskellers have been forced to figure out proper error handling strategies, for the exact same reason Haskellers were forced to figure out proper effect management strategies (e.g. monadic IO). In fact, errors and effects are part of the same problem.

In imperative languages, the temptation to use evaluation sequencing as a hack for handling errors and effects has proven too tempting for every pre-Haskell language I'm aware of.
They have the right if their contracts with the manufacturer say they have the right, or if the laws give them the right.

There are ways to have both of those things do what you want -- go and change them.
moment.js is in maintenance mode and the library authors themselves try to push people away to other libs[1]. Seems like most people have moved to date-fns or day.js. Moment authors seem to point to Luxon, which I didn't know about.

[1] https://momentjs.com/docs/#/-project-status/
I think his point is that, if invalid clicks is all it takes for an adsense publisher to get banned, then there is nothing to stop your competition from going onto your site and clicking a lot of your ads or get a botnet to do it and get you banned.

If it is a mere algorithm, then it is not unforeseeable, that, due to no fault of your own whatever, but malice of competitors, you can get banned, though, in these cases, I think there would be a good legal argument, not least because the google contract you sign up to is not entirely recognised by some courts, but replaced in many instances by what is or seems reasonable, as, when you sign up to the contract you have no choice but to sign up, thus, there is no equal bargaining power.
It would be wonderful if advertisers could pipe conversion rates back into Google so that ads would gravitate towards sites that generated greater conversion rates. This way, sites that have fans that decrease conversion rates will naturally sink to the bottom of the pile without much effort and would bubble up as soon as the behavior changes and conversion rates improve.

It seems a natural solution to the problem. Would you be able to pipe back conversion rates based on where the banner was shown?
User: You are so cute!

Cleverbot: So are you.

User: Thanks. What about Middle East Peace?

Cleverbot: My middle name is patrick and my last name is Hackenjos.

User: One State or Two? Your preference?

Cleverbot: Many. More dreams than before actually. They evolve with my program.

User: That's great. You should be the next envoy!

Cleverbot: I am.

User: Did anybody tell Tony Blair yet?

Cleverbot: Yah now I am enojoying that.

User: Terrific. Good luck with your new job.

Cleverbot: Thanks.
Retina Display doesn't automatically mean 300+ ppi. If you believe Apple, it simply means 'at the distance you hold this from your eyes, you won't perceive individual pixels'. I have an iPad and I hold it on my lap or a table which is usually 2-3x farther away from my eyes. I didn't do the math, but making a larger screen with that pixel density is closer to the realm of possibility than a 300+ ppi screen and it would still be called a Retina Display by Apple.
I think they need to come in at $100M+ earnings at least. That would be "high-class hooker" respectable. I think they really do need to look more at the $500M range though to say it was an unqualified success.
If you want to spread by word-of-mouth, you do need to give your users something worth telling about to their friends. Any constraint is ok. Look at Instagram (filters) or Path (limited number of friends).

From my perspective, you are a DailyBooth which costs money.

Why not tap into all the photo apps already out there? Hook into their APIs and automatically generate albums for people. This is a great time to sell "My life in 2010" albums.

Once you get people to pay you money for something, you can ask them again and they will gladly pay for other stuff too.
The problem is that Google's customer is not the site that carries the banners, but the advertiser who wants their banners shown. Unless those gravitate towards an ad network that coincidentally provides better service to site owners, those folks are doubly screwed.
Apologising and distancing yourself both work quite well. People are usually too proud to do either.
Facebook also puts nicotine into the drinks so you get hooked and keep on coming back for your next fix.
> Sinan County has more than 850 salt farms that produce two-thirds of South Korea's sea salt. To make money, however, farmers need labor, lots of it and cheap. Around half of Sinui Island's 2,200 people work in salt farming, according to a county website and officials.

Sadly, this is the underbelly of consumerist abstraction. Unpaid Slaves, wage slaves, salary slaves living unhealthy lives; where those without voice are scorned. Mere abstractions.

This makes me think of the article "5 Studies that Show How Wealth Warps Your Soul".

http://www.alternet.org/economy/5-studies-show-how-wealth-wa...

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I'm willing to take the downvotes, if it leads to someone connecting the dots; looking beyond ideology.

It's easy to blame the perpetrators. However, we all live in the same system & our choices influence many. It's time to stop passing the buck. This story is too common.
I'd guess stuff like the F-35s STOVL system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_LiftSystem) to be a quite complex thing (but apparently the gun of the plane is more complex than this, lol) or the Airbus A380 and bigger planes due to the massive weight of the planes and the corresponding immense power of the engines.
His latest tweet

Looks like the Finnish kid Julius aka Ryan/zee was arrested in Lizard Squad roundup http://ow.ly/GFeeM
>That said, for my side project ( http://artfulmac.com ) it is absolutely worth it to me as a solo developer to pay Apple their 30% to have them handle fulfillment (including system-integrated update notifications), payment processing (with currency conversion), tax form creation, and refunds. It's a trade of financial overhead for time. The App Store also conveys a sense of trust to consumers.

There's also the fact being on the App Store is a form of advertising. I think this is more obvious in Steam, which basically creates markets for games that had none before (usually because indie game developers are not necessarily good marketers). I know I've "browsed" the App store to look at things.

In these sales, it's not getting only 70% of revenue you would have otherwise, it's getting money you would not have gotten at all if you weren't present on the store.
> but with query parameters

often the systems that send these emails incorporate an analytics service. query parameters would require an integration with the site's traffic log. privacy implications for site owners

why

- Disconnect between those who care about security and those who engineer marketing email systems.

- analytics is useful (a/b testing), especially in internet marketing
Yep! My friend's capstone team was named "Perigalacticon" I thought it was some SciFi thing but I later learned it meant "closest approach to the center of the Galaxy"
> There is no metric by which Whatsapp is worth 19B, except for the fact that Facebook can spend that much money.

The only good metric to determine how much something is worth is how much someone is ready to pay for it.
Okay, but so could anyone. I'm not sure your point here?

They're clearly at least trying to move in the opposite direction and have been making those moves for some time now.

Maybe they won't always go that way. Maybe they will.

No one is saying they're our savior, though. No one is begging Apple to please save us.
Last I checked, Gmail didn't do partial word searches. So “NewClient” won't match “GreatNewClient”. I think that's what rokhayakebe means.

It's one of the reasons I only use its backend. It baffles me that a company known for search can't do it.
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This is fine on the surface, but still has the potential for problems. Eg., if I were Muslim, I might be quite happy to declare that I'm interested in Halal food and would like to see advertising relevant to my interests. Win/win, right?

Now, let's say I own an apartment block and want to advertise for tenants, but I don't want any of them dirty muslims in my building. I can target my advertising to exclude people whose interests include Halal food.

Or, let's say I'm the propaganda department of an adversarial nation state, and I want to stir up communal tension. All I have to do is find people with an interest in Halal food, and target them with ads exhorting them to join other Christians in the next Crusade against the Moors. Or whatever. This was actually a common technique in the 2016 election: identify voters who, via their social connections and profile interests, are likely on the fence about Clinton vs. Trump, and also are a bit homophobic -- then target them with "Queers for Hillary" advertisments.

It's shocking how easy it is to weaponize this stuff.
Remote is a possibility, depending on timezone.
For what purpose are you people even doing video calls for? I've never understood this.
I wish I could say there are rosy outcomes when dealing with hard decisions. It's always a messy fight. How messy is a good signal to decision makers of how much support or resistance there is.
If we're talking hypotheticals without any data, there is an opposing possibility. Some people poop at work on purpose- I prefer to get paid while pooping instead of losing leisure time. I suppose it depends on how clean your work bathrooms are or your fear of public bathrooms. I know I'm not the only one pooping at work, I regularly see occupied stalls.
I teach the classical guitar, in small groups of up to four students. I have them send me recordings, and I ask them for permission to share with the other students in their group. In that way, they're playing not only for themselves, but for the others they know. Keeps at least a little bit of the social motivation intact..
They are. They sell FB Workplace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_by_Facebook
https://www.workplace.com/
Is it true that there's a secret spinoff site, called 'Flouncer News', to which you only receive an invite if your public "I'm quitting HN" post makes it to the top HN position?
Yes, the use of that term in this context is clearly bad -- bad in the same sort of way that Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Darth Vader is bad. </irony>
Love it!

Could you have an extension of /preview or /render that would render the page live on the broadcast side. This would be great for teaching/demos. Even better if they can switch between code/render view.
Impossible to watch, video stream always stutters
No DNS?