jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
“As far as one knows or can see, arizona does not care to test the general public?”
I missed the question mark in my haste. It was a question.
I backed a project on Kickstarter back in July '04 called BloomSky. It's a connected smart weather station with a sky facing camera. They haven't shipped yet but it looks pretty good!

http://www.bloomsky.com/
It is really a shame this brilliant language never experienced popularity on par with other avantguarde languages like io or nim
They already do that for torrent websites. It's easy to imagine the jump to politically disliked opinions. It's McCarthyism and the red scare all over again except the party enforcing it has switched.
The author works at Google, so I suspect he's the same who created this challenge. Really enjoyable, although I didn't manage to solve it during contest.
Both are desirable. Walmart curates content for its customers, if it didn’t their sales experience would be far worse.

And as much as I dislike the Catholic Church, not allowing it to list books it finds heretical is outright restrictions of its freedom of speech. It’s only a problem when the church has the power to have governments also ban those lists, but that’s quite a different thing.
They could’ve easily organized on Signal. What would HN say if Google banned Signal?
In 1954 Puerto Rican nationalists shot five Representatives on the floor of the House. It did not change U.S. policy one iota, and neither would those pipe bombs had they gone off, which they did not.
And if installation of apks from unknown sources goes away because some nasty malware exploits it or other security excuse becomes available?

Hard not to be alarmed by the pattern here.
What? Who?
There is always a threshold. It isn’t one piece of illegal content that gets something banned outright. So we are just talking about where the line in the sand is drawn.
That works fine for measurements that are constant between in/outdoors (such as air pressure, I'm guessing), but how would that work for temperature? I don't care how warm it is in my pocket.
The readme as well as the homepage mention "100x the performance of Scala's Future"

What makes scala's Future perform poorly, and how does zio avoid that? I feel like they tried really hard to present the project in terms of what it can do for you, and I get that. But if there's some real conceptual insight underlying that 100x improvement, where could I read about that?
Deflationary relative to the USD and other fiat currencies. The world is never going to run primarily on BTC, so talking about inflation purely in terms of number of BTC is a bit pointless :)
Absolutely. Bitcoin as a store of value had to come before its use as a medium of exchange. Why would anyone exchange a currency for a product when you didn't expect its value to hold until you could use it? If its only value was driven by the demand as a medium of exchange, its value would fluctuate with this demand. In the early days this would be detrimental to its ability to serve the role as a medium of exchange. How long would you need to hold your coins before there was enough demand for exchange again?

It is the speculators buying and holding that create the expectation that its value will hold over time, thus making it viable as a medium of exchange.
> Dropdowns are only appropriate if the quantity of choices is large and the user already knows what the choices are, and then you should be able to type your selection in.

Large, but not too large. You might think this is a silly objection and no one can get that one wrong but I actually have an example: I once worked for a company with a six digit number of employees and they introduced a new ticket system for company wide support. This was some years ago and also the transition from a dedicated desktop software to a browser based web UI.

Someone had the idea to make the ticket number selection a drop down, which looked nice in testing and a few hours after production roll out, but the fun ended quickly - with thousands of tickets it was completely unusable within a day.
No, they don't. In the event of a bank run, a bank cannot cover their liabilities. This is the same thing that you point in tether as a fatal flaw and a "scam".
Yes, but singularity is a gigantic suid root binary where as podman uses user namespaces for unprivileged stuff.
I am looking to learn Rust, but am wondering, what resources are good for learning the latest language version? I don't want to pick up something that teaches me an old version so I then have to go and get used to the new one.
I actually said utility, you said value.

It is also telling that you didn't say what the value actually is. If you do explain that, make sure to mention it relative to other cryptocurrencies that have all the same properties (except for name recognition) but don't have throughput problems because they did what everyone saw coming 8 years ago and allowed larger blocks, faster blocks, or both.
He did attempt to find the people who should have received it. He just wasn't able to find enough on a tight timeline.

Honestly? As long as he made a good faith effort to distribute the doses he had available, then hell yeah I endorse him vaccinating any warm body available to him, whether it's his family or not.

Now if he took money in exchange? That should be a criminal offense and he should loose his medical license. But if he walked into a grocery store with an hour left and a rich person just happened to get the shot, so be it, as long as no favor was exchanged.

In my opinion this whole mess is, at least in part, a fault of those above him. There should be a standby list with a clear expectancy of urgency. If you get a call at 2am, you either show up or get passed by. Fill it with all the front-line workers in the county or something like that first, then start pulling in the public.

There should be _no_ shortage of people willing to take this, we're just spending so much time worrying about who gets it and not enough time worrying about ensuring that every last dose is effectively used and not wasted.

The current distribution policy does not exist for the equity of society, it puts the most at-risk first. That makes sense, but it shouldn't be the point at which we draw the line. For herd immunity to take effect, 70%+ of the population must be resistant, so a few people getting the vaccine out of order shouldn't cause this much of an outrage when done without malice.
windows is getting a lot better but there's no decent tiling window manager.

on macos, yabai is quite ok.

on linux, it's a the best. just take your pick
I just left a comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2486586

In terms of the price; the $20,000 is just the minimum offer. It will take at least $500,000 in development effort to re-create the software we've built; so there's a lot of value in the technology.
Weather is not a solved problem. Your vision in the solution space is just limited.

We have some extremely talented people working on Stormpulse and the size of the underserved market is staggering.

And yes, we have an iPad app launching this summer. :)
You shouldn't compare it to reCAPTCHA just because it's made by the same guy...
Having 24k Twitter followers isn't much of an indicator when you're following 19k of them... that's the same strategy spammers use.
I see it as white, but the Skype plugin for Firefox changes phone numbers to highlight them.

I have it installed at home, will try it and then get back to you. Maybe some phones do that as well?.
The hard (and interesting) thing is taking action about it.
Excellent point. FWIW I'm just trying to divide the problem up into imperfect broad categories to frame the discussion/thought process. It's more of a test to make sure you aren't falling for the old "grass is greener" mindset.
First off, thank you for pointing this out. I occasionally teach introductory physics and I had never realized that people could interpret the graph in that manner. I'll try to make nip this in the bud when I present this material in the future.

Your alternate graph, however, shows another common misconception that is matched in your text. Specifically, the amplitude of the wave varies, but the intensity does NOT. The amplitude being graphed can be though of as the strength of the electric field pointing.... how about to the north? Then, when the amplitude is negative, all that's happening is that the field is point to the south, instead of the north. The intensity of the light is the energy contained within the electromagnetic field, which is independent of which direction the field is point. Thus, where you have dark spots in the graph where the amplitude goes negative, the intensity of the light is just as strong as it was at the peaks.

The obvious next question is what happens when the amplitude is zero? Well, the changing electric field produces a magnetic field. This magnetic field reaches its maximum value where the electric field goes to zero and goes to zero itself at the minima and maxima of the electric field's amplitude. Thus, the total energy electromagnetic energy, and, therefore, the intensity of the light, is constant across the whole graph.

That's why I'm cautious about using your proposed diagram. I've known many students with the misconception that light alternates between bright and dark as it travels and that lines up exactly with what you've drawn.
Does Pulse identify itself in its User-Agent when fetching the RSS feed? If so NYTimes could have had their tech staff, not their legal staff, handle this.
Do you work there? I'd be very curious to hear from someone on the inside, as it could be that my impression is way off.
Undoubtedly due to all the problems he had filling out forms on the Internet.
Any idea why the phone does that?

Edit: OK, after re-reading it, it seems that it's "bookmarking gadget", I guess its function is to show some preview of the bookmarked pages.
But that's a different problem.

No, it's exactly the problem. Quoting:

Quick, what is the fastest way
to search a sorted array?

See? He didn't say I can do arithmetic on the keys, he just said the array is sorted. He then goes and solves a different problem to the one he originally gave.

In short, the real answer is: It depends

Yes, if you can do arithmetic on the keys, and the keys are sorted in the obvious way according to your arithmetic, then interpolation search can be faster than binary search.

But not always, not in the worst case, and not if you have interesting issues about the cache, access speed, etc.

No, I didn't change the problem, I just raised issues with the overly simplistic analysis he gave.
Maybe you're right. But there are down-votes in Disqus. Maybe it's going to be more like StackOverflow where most useful comments pop-up?
That is amazing. So you have two (or more) people that hook into the same "scene", with the kick being that they see it from a different angle. Wow, very nice.
I feel like you're the kind of guy (or girl) who could explain really complex nerdy things to me on a regular basis and I'd be ok with that
Maybe not the most sophisticated of pages, but sometimes it is good to get a brief reminder of what might be asked, especially for those of us that are not considered senior yet.
Part of it is that he has his fingers in every pie, and a contact list that contains pretty much "everyone" that matters in tech in SV, and he's not shy about using it to help connect people to make things happen.

Part of it is that he is very good at coming across as likeable, and charming. I would hope that is representative of how he is, but I've only met him once, briefly (as he had a tiny amount invested in a company I was involved with) so for me I'm going by first impressions and reputation.

Basically he's done favours for a massive amount of people in SV (by pulling strings and connecting people, and making a massive amount of small-ish investments) and been nice and charming enough that most of those people, and many more who know him by reputation, would drop whatever they're doing pretty much instantly if he called to ask for a favour partly because he comes across as a nice, likeable guy that you'd like to help out, and partly because they know by reputation that he's likely to return the favour if/when you need it, and the odds are it will be well worthwhile for you.
Is there an Easy Sci-Hub Donation for Dummies?

scihub.org/donate/ looks scam.

https://sci-hub.tech/donation/ at least has the same bitcoin address as sci-hub.do, but as for PayPal et al... ???
My story here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25686128

If it’s a coincidence it’s scary cos I have no idea how I posted something in chat to getting an advert for that within a minute.
He asked for specific evidence for your beliefs, that is absolutely a challenge. You couldn't rise to the occasion and give proof. You don't have to condescendingly tell me to not believe in your ideas, you already made it extremely easy to do so by providing no proof. There's nothing to dismantle if there isn't anything concrete in your hypothesis. You stand for and believe in nothing that matters, it is you who is playing pretend and lacks the courage or conviction.

You are right about one thing, this is a waste of time. Reply with whatever nonsense you want or don't, I'm done here.
You don't have to buy something once the bucket is full. The idea is just to have the money allocated so it's ready when you need it.

For some things those will be fixed monthly expenses (rent, insurance, mortgage. Others will be variable, like grocery shopping, maybe clothing. And others will be bigger purchases like a computer.

It's just another framework or set of tools for budgeting your money out into the future. YNAB (You Need a Budget) has some decent articles on their blog about the concept. Dave Ramsey might be helpful too if you really want to understand the motivation behind this kind of system.
The great thing about Wikipedia is that you can very easily see if something is sourced and where it is sourced from.

Trust, but verify.
In what meaningful way is Tether not a fiat currency?
But using them as hacks subverts the real use of the behavior. Now, when someone uses my name multiple times in conversation and touches me on the shoulder, I assume that the person is trying to trick me. That is a net-loss, as it undermines incidents where someone is genuinely trying to support me.
That's nice. It's fairly obvious CDBaby's mode of operation is what I have described. Looking into them after they obtained my attention resulted in finding many similar stories from others.

I have NEVER seen anything from CDBaby's presence with actual CD sales, be it in retail shops or online, on the other hand their mode of operation since starting to use Youtube indicates this is their main line of income.

"Represent" artists by claiming copyright on any under-protected samples that they may have used.

Including voice samples of men who have had their throats slit.

Force users dispute it on Youtube, disputed videos get resolved but every other copy of the media that was uploaded does not. Leaving each of the other users who uploaded to fight it one by one on their own. Blanket claims on swaths of video are made by CDBaby forcing individual defense from users for each of their uploaded copies. Not all users notice the copyright claims, not all care, even less have the motivation to try to set things right.

CDBaby over time gets claim to a larger and larger portfolio of media that doesn't belong to them.

It's all fairly obvious, regardless of how the original company started and operated.
> we've Never filed returns since our first re-organization to the LLC in 2005.

I'm sure plenty of HNers can attest, you aren't exempt from taxes because you're an LLC. Plenty of us file our own LLC taxes, yet a 'professional' accountant in charge of a full organization thought it would be an OK business thing to ignore altogether?

Hopefully they find better representation, this is egregious.
I can't say I have ever seen a classic car sitting on a dealership lot. My suspicion is they are considered too hard to sell so the dealership would take them to auction where specialty dealers or collectors pick them up. So yeah I guess most classic cars get around by private sell. For really cheap cars I think those typically go to unaffiliated dealerships, buy here pay here type of places or private sells.
I'd consider Nomad if I'd need to manage my own orchestration infrastructure somehow.

My first option would be to hire a managed Kubernetes service. If that proves to be unreliable or not cost-effective in the long run, I'd then consider making this in-house and use Nomad instead.
Nope, that is the typical conspiracy theory of hanging people on trees without proofs.
Personally, I prefer just blocking all Facebook assets on DNS level. Don't forget, they go to war against Apple because Apple wants to force user consent on their tracking activities. They should be ousted from everyone's network.
> By and large, talented reporters scrambled to match stories with what internally was often called “the narrative.” We were occasionally asked to map a narrative for our various beats a year in advance, square the plan with editors, then generate stories that fit the pre-designated line.
Reality usually had a way of intervening. But I knew one senior reporter who would play solitaire on his computer in the mornings, waiting for his editors to come through with marching orders. Once, in the Los Angeles bureau, I listened to a visiting National staff reporter tell a contact, more or less: “My editor needs someone to say such-and-such, could you say that?”

I'm shocked this is the case, though I've felt this has been the case. I don't know how one "speaks truth to power" when talking about narratives. It gives the NYT a very Game of Thrones feel, but more like the South Park version with reporting like this in mind.

Secondarily, as the author points out, people are looking for place to punch. This the author sets up a dichotomy of "up" for people more powerful and "down" for people less powerful.

The problem with power is that it's very perspective based. The author lays out some criteria but even that doesn't seem enough. If you have a Silicon Valley SWE who has saved up $5M and done nothing political, but has a popular blog talking about software and investing, are you entitled to fix them and frame them as you wish?

Personally, I have gravitated away from the idea of "punching" because as the author later alludes, punching implies a use of perspective which can change. Your punch cannot though, once send is hit, that is it.

> the hunter, logger, and geologist will walk through the same patch of wilderness and see an entirely different forest, for each eye is trained to notice something different. The more abstract the things observed the greater individual variance there will be. For intangible social processes like market exchange, mass movements, and elections, our understanding is all model, no matter.

I really liked this perspective, it was very thought provoking. It's always perplexed me why people can witness the same things and derive such different perspectives. It doesn't put those perspectives at less competition with each other, but it does make them more understandable.
Totally. I love his DIY attitude and dispelling the idea that it’s super hard to make ‘good enough” vfx shots. The way I see it, the missing component is acting, and sound design, music too, but you can really start to actually do it yourself. Like we are nearing the reality of a like DAW UI which plays stories instead of music. Exciting times.
I would recommend low-end intel. You get things like a clock with a battery, a power switch, transcoding, and many distributions.

Zotac makes some nice fanless machines that take an ssd, and they run linux fine. They come with a vesa/wall mount

They can be very low cost, for example the zotac zbox ci325 or ci329 ~ $160-170 (add memory + ssd). You can pay more all the way up to fanless i7 machines.
I think the rover is at least going to film the flight, but agree a camera in it would have been dope.
It seems like the easiest answer is to fork the cryptography library:

- current maintainers and those who are on supported architectures can use the Rust implementation. The current maintainers no longer want to maintain the C implementation and that is their prerogative as this article describes.

- new maintainers and those on unsupported architectures can continue to use the C implementation. Not everyone in the current user base (to include some distribution maintainers) is able to use the new Rust implementation at this time, but they still need the library.

It's not ideal, but it seems like the only practical way ahead that meets everyone's needs.
No. OpenSSL RAND_bytes and Java SecureRandom aren't simply libraries that "call /dev/urandom"; they are full-fledged CSPRNG designs, and must themselves avoid all the possible bugs a CSPRNG can have, in addition to their usual reliance on urandom not itself being vulnerable.
> I forgive them, because they are born with hearts of fear and that will never change

I think it's not 'hearts of fear' but 'laserlike focus on maximizing shareholder value, greater good be damned.'
What's useful innovation? How do you know it is useful innovation? How long does it take until you discover it's not, if it isn't? What about if it is?

Was the pitch line of Twitter good enough for you to consider it 'useful' before it became what it is?
I also disagree. Google Wave had its flaws, but it is a great idea. It just needs to be finished and developed
No offense but it sounds like you just got lucky and quit while you were ahead
Re: the battery drain
Is the EVO that much of a power hog? How much of that do you think battery usage is just the screen vs. the scrolling effect?

On my HTC Incredible, I can scroll through webpages / browse the web for many hours, provided I'm connected to wifi. On 3G, definitely a little less.
Not enough info here to give much concrete advice, but if it's helpful to talk to a fellow Canadian who's been through all of this, feel free to ping me privately with more details (avi@twitter.com).
This provides such an improvement while browsing repos on Github. Now I won't have to clone a repository just look around!
Frankly, if verbosity is not a limiting factor for you, then you weren't trying to solve hard problems in an elegant way.
5 pools control the network ...witch is scary
I've had it installed on my main machine since late December. There were some rough patches as things were landing during the beta period, but right now this is easily the best desktop I've ever used.

My workflow adapted to some of the additions in Unity so quickly that it was absurd. At this point I could never go back to something without Super+#, Super+w, Super+s and the other keybindings found here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/unity-keyboard-mouse-sh...

Just be sure to install compizconfigSettingsManager from the software center and you can tweak Unity to some degree.

Just an FYI, what I tend to dev on is Ruby/Rails, Python, Javascript (Node/etc), some Erlang (not as much anymore) and Android dev. This system is so freakin' fantastic for all of those...really quite happy.
I find it amusing that the guy who has two double-shot lattes a day just likes coffee, but the guy who takes the same amount of caffeine in pill form has 'quite an addiction' when they are both consuming the same amount of the drug in question.
Ubuntu's website shows of its Dash "Spotlight", Launcher "Dock", Status Icons "Menu bar with status", Workspace "Spaces", Ubuntu Store "Mac App Store".

It's almost like they're trying to directly compete with Mac OS X, with "killer features" that match exactly with what apple regularly shows off with Mac OS X.
When oh when will I finally be able to become a Netflix customer in Germany without having to deal with proxys, VPNs, etc?
And while we are at it:

anything else is a _transliteration_