jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Edit: I think it’s not worth anything positive for Yahoo to sell. I added the last two paragraphs.

I assume they sold Delicious and Tumblr because of outcries. I can’t recall if I am misremembering, but I believe Delicious was going to be shut down according to an early leaked slide show before being sold to the YouTube founders.

It’s probably not worth selling something for 7 figures. when your parent company is the hugely profitable Verizon, no less, if Yahoo was still an independent $2B company.

I assume the web app can’t be sold for too much when it has to get a new domain name and name.

Then either Yahoo has to untangle the code or only sell the database. The latter could easily become negative PR depending on what the new owner’s site is like. The former doesn’t seem worth it.
That would make sense. The whole ACT/categorical cybernetics community has been working out how massively general optics are :-).
that provision doesn't necessarily imply maliciousness though. for instance, allowing for prisoners to be required to do work for the jurisdiction, and usually for the prison itself, while incarcerated. it's not unreasonable to expect prisoners to work off their debt to society in some manner (better yet if it develops the useful skills and experience at the same time).

but where that goes wrong is when prisoners are working for private interests for slave wages (i.e., food and shelter) and the difference being pocketed by said private interest rather than going to pay for said incarceration.
one anecdote about Dirac. Dirac and Heisenberg discussed about religion. They involved Pauli in the discussion and Pauli summed up Dirac's point of view: "“Es gibt keinen Gott und Dirac ist sein Prophet. (There is no God and Dirac is his Prophet.)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_of_the_IBM_PC_on_the...
Nor are you
The standard problem with this view is that most prison sentences end, at which point society has to deal with the personalities that prison has forged.
Despite it's infamy, Yahoo Answers was the largest Q&A website for a long time and is a huge part of our digital heritage. Soon, it will be gone forever. The ArchiveTeam will be doing all they can back up as much as possible before it's too late, but IP address rate-limiting is a huge roadblock. If you want to help, download the ArchiveTeam Warrior and run it in the background. It doesn't use a ton of resources - they just need more IP addresses.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior
Scott Alexander has a known blind spot for convenient examples. When he's found something that seems to perfectly make the point he needs, he often doesn't stop to consider “hang on, does that actually fit the point, or am I blatantly distorting the evidence?”. It's something I do a lot, so I can't really blame him; fortunately, he isn't practised at deliberate deception so it's fairly obvious when he's doing it.
Note that both use cases (decentralized global currency and smart contracts) rely on altruism which cannot be guaranteed by human actors but is entirely deterministic within the chaos of humanity (with a sufficient number of honest actors) using a blockchain. That is the value prop: distributed consensus with "quick" convergence toward an agreed upon truth.
As a final note, it is worth it to know that Scott
Alexander only decided he disliked the article from the
NYT, not when he found out they were going to "out" him,
but when he realised it was going to have a critical
lens! Highly amusing!

I have seen absolutely no evidence to support this sentence. Nor do you present any yourself in this post. Pure unsubstantiated rumor is rarely productive or useful.
It can actually load most of the PS2 files, but generally no, you need PC files.
> For a long time the global warming skeptics argued that the only alternative was to shut down modern civilization and let billions starve.

Some did for sure, and I agree that they were wrong. But that instinct to imagine the worst was just working in the opposite direction to those that believe there is no chance to stop global warming and humanity is doomed.

But that's really a separate discussion. What we're really discussing is how we come to know truth, and how much we can trust our conclusions. And more importantly how we treat each other in the face of the unavoidable ambiguity and uncertainty.

If people argued with less conviction in the absolute truth of their positions, i believe they would actually be more convincing and get more people willing to start pulling together in one direction.
>It also has PGP support (with the help of OpenKeyChain to manage certificates) that works great! There are no other well known solutions for applications supporting PGP in Android; this is huge.

As a caveat here, at least in the non-beta version, support for PGP signatures is intentionally crippled because the original author dislikes them and apparently wants to push encryption (eg, https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/2375), ignoring everyone who points out that this feature may be important or required by policy for them. By default, PGP signatures on unencrypted emails are silently hidden and the emails are displayed as being unsigned. There is no way to sign emails by default, and trying to sign an email results with a popup telling you not to.
Replace “blockchain” with “mathy database”, then stop suggesting a database will fix non-database problems.
That's odd. I remember switching to the classical display on Lifehacker as soon as I saw the redesign.
It seems this is mostly about organizing your application consistently. It's easy (particularly with jQuery) to quickly amass large collections of event handlers which are later consolidated into the logic of an application. This library provides an abstraction to make it easier to switch that process around. Logic/API first; implementation second.

Of course you can still do that with plain jQuery...
So now the usefulness of my phone gets degraded because Apple has to pander to people that don't understand what the actual situation is.
Since you have to individually give each app permission you should go talk to the App developers. The apps use the location API that is available, and don't have direct access to the cache if that is what you are worried about.
>but this article isn't factually based

There's more than one article and there's lot's of facts in them.

>If Prop 13 is such a hindrance why is California in the top 5 highest taxing states across the board?

I don't understand your question or the point you are trying to make.

>So California's problems are not because of direct democracy.

I'm sure it can be argued that CAs problems are not the initiative process, but you haven't begun to do that.

>they are (by their own admission) a left-leaning publication

Source? "free trade, free markets" - doesn't sound left leaning. They claim to be centrist. Unless there is some other proof that they are in cahoots with CA democrats it seems pretty unlikely that they ran the articles to help them.
This seems like it could bother babies a lot, without their parents knowing what exactly is wrong...
This seems like an important question but I admit I'm not sure what you mean—are you asking how to measure a designer's performance?
I think this is just because most self help/self learn topics focus on beginners or people who like the idea of starting. It's easy for the writer to get a win. You don't need to be an expert to write something targeted at beginners. Like in programming, that's why we have endless "how to write your first todo app in ..." and not "how to maintain and organize a 10k loc application with 5 co workers all trying to fuck it up"

If you like to write, you're already writing, you're not a beginner anymore I would think. I think the same thing could be written as we need more intermediate and advanced advice.
VPS doesn't solve privacy and security, it solves getting locked out of your account

Does it really? It just seems like instead of trusting a big company that everyone knows, you trust a smaller company that not everyone knows that involves more work for you.

I'm pretty sure I've seen articles on HN where VPS companies (maybe DO?) have kicked people off their infrastructure with zero notice. So, not at all different from being locked out of Apple/Google/Amazon.
The problem is, as soon as good content ends you are presented with videos chosen by algorithm. In absolutely no time kids will optimize for this via the suggestion bar. The other content is from the bizarre dystopia of content farmed videos and weird stuff like opening a toybox full of the same kind of toy.

Its incredibly frustrating to filter, channels are whackamole. Also, youtube bypasses dns blocking, making it even more difficult to limit using more technical methods.
Hackers is just getting better with age.
The documentation is pretty straight forward. Just follow it and you can get it running in a few minutes.
It's undemocratic, because unless all lawyers are great and free for all, this path is a matter of money. Now, you may have bought into the libertarian marketing of freedom without democracy, after all so many Americans have, but there are extremely good reasons for why this is problematic, which are actually not that difficult to cobble together with some spare time.
If we are still in the 90's that definition of "true p2p" would be: two computers with both having public IPs and transferring packets via TCP. But nowadays we are always behind NATs so we became less strict with the definition of what is true p2p
For me it's been a struggle to read for the last couple of years. It's something that I used to do when I commuted by train to my old office, I read like a book per month. But after I changed to new place where I have to go by car, that's gone and now even more when I work from home.

I just cannot find the right time or the proper situation for reading, and there are much simpler distractions such as Netflix, social networks or the videogames...
Hi,Josh:
If MOb can be used by Signal user, there must be a stablecoins. You said your team has plans around stablecoins in short order, can you tell the relationship between mob and stablecoins ?
Yeah Serious Eats is great. Usually very high quality recipes.
What would be wrong with just hiring the best qualified person for the job?
Visual block diagram editors like the one in Vivado, Libero, etc are extremely useful and powerful in practice and an equivalent alternative for open source EDA design would be very welcome. And I'm a person who absolutely loathes Verilog, so it's not like I'm a purist or anything. If that's your representative example of your issues with proprietary FPGA software, I honestly don't think it's a very good one.
He said he don't read books. He did not said he don't read.
How is optimization not a form of search? It's a search through the solution space which tries to find a global minima or maxima.

Also, of the techniques you list, simulated annealing, hill climbing and gradient-based optimization are all local search methods (genetic algorithms may or may not be, depending on your emphasis on mutation vs recombination.)
Hey, this is really nice. The sort of quick-reference guide w/ examples I wanted a couple of months ago, nice!
Unison is a good bi-directional syncing utility: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
People answering questions does not imply that their favorite thing to talk about is themselves. It’s simply an easy venue to conversation when you don’t know the other person.
A dead response notes that IPv6 makes blocklists intractable as IPs can be rotated at will until doomsday with few consequences.

The response in this case will all but certainly be an increasing tendency to apply IP-level whitelists, and deny or at least limit traffic until it's demonstrated trustworthyness.

Much as port-based firewalling progressively closed off virtually all service access other than HTTP/HTTPS, and a few other exceptions, bad actors will likely limit the effectively-reachable scope of IP address space itself.
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You reacted to something the commenter didn't say, and have since been perpetuating a flamewar. We don't need that. Please don't.
Erm, no, check my links.

Remember: Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
Doesn't phase 0 exclude the ability to transfer money? The whole point of a "currency"???
What happens if the police ask you to turn over the key to a safe and you’ve lost it?
That's an odd argument.

But in any case, women also get anally raped.
I'm not an economics nor employment expert so can someone who knows more about this explain to me what the projections are for the next 6 months?

Are the majority of these people expected to find work again at the same (or better) pay?

Are these lost jobs primarily "low skill" jobs? Or are there a lot of white collar jobs being lost as well?

Obviously I see the stories about some tech companies letting people go but the numbers are tiny compared to the numbers discussed in articles like this.

Just for clarification I am not American so I am asking as an outsider who is quite shocked when I see statements like "a quarter of the US working age population".

Where I am, France, there have been some job losses however nothing close to the numbers I see in America. My gut reaction to such numbers is worrying, perhaps even terrifying, but I know very little about how things work in America so is this a case of the media playing with the numbers when in reality that number will drop back to normal levels soon or is this a true unemployment disaster for the long term?
Why is grace hopper on here? She was brilliant, but the gap between her and euler is immense. There were a ton of brilliant minds, but it doesn't make a ton of sense to throw her in.
Even "nice" homes in the US seem built out of the cheapest building materials. Just a minimal framing, a couple of girders, and then everything else is medium-density fibreboard prefab junk. It is like living in a very sturdy tent.

They try to make up for how poorly the walls are constructed by shoving tons of insulation (mostly hazardous-during-deconstruction fiberglass) but really it is just nothingness. I'm sure with a wood axe I could literally chop my way into someone's bedroom from outside.

In much of Europe both new and old homes are built using brick(!). These homes have already lasted over one hundred years and will likely last at least another fifty or more with normal maintenance (e.g. roof repair, replacing some plumbing, etc).

Most US homes seem to have a lifetime of around 50 years before they get demolished and replaced by identically terrible homes. Except there are a few places in the Eastern US where older homes were built well (e.g. Maine) but newer ones are built like junk.

I'm not surprised they're bringing in building materials from Ireland. I doubt anyone in the US produces real homes anymore.
Look. It takes science a long time to settle all these questions with rigorous research. In the meantime we all have to make decisions in our lives with imperfect, incomplete information. Dismissing all reports of potential risks until there is incontrovertible proof of danger is foolish; doing so out of some misguided fealty to Science and Progress is arrogant.

Downvote all you want, but you're not going to get me to stop posting anecdotes when I think they're relevant. Yes, their probative value is limited; I even acknowledged this in the post! But it isn't zero, and in a world of limited and often conflicting information, sometimes it's the best we can get.
Yes, that description certainly -sounds- like they're doing something more than just suspending two stereographic LCD displays in front of your face. Talk of angles suggests they may be doing something to stimulate the correct lightfield passing through the pupil of your eye... but really, need more technical reviews to know more.
I would say that the thriving of the (mechanical) keyboard community is exactly a counterexample of the problem you pose. There's clearly a sizeable and well funded market segment for all kinds of keyboards, both traditional and unorthodox.
Ridiculous that a patent for such a thing should ever have been granted.

"Driver" is merely the word we use for "protocol", when the protocol is ad-hoc, non-standard, or badly documented.
Disgusting and hypocritical. Given that the ADL already has outsized censorship abilities on Google and Twitter amongst other platforms, everyone should read the transcript to see how self-righteous and presumptuous Cohen is and their aligned vision of controlling what information you are allowed to access: https://www.adl.org/news/article/sacha-baron-cohens-keynote-...

This coming from the guy who played Borat and Bruno- it was ok when he did it, because he is on the right side of history you see.
Most vulnerability scanners with functional scanning capabilities are run without them. Enterprises are concerned about the effect of functional scanning upon their production systems, is it going to bring something down, and functional scanning often requires a level of system access which enterprises are usually not comfortable giving. Since they are rarely used vendors don't invest heavily in developing them.
I find this as interesting as I do worrying. Given our tenuous grasp of shared facts and basis for (political) relality these days, making videos like this just seems irresponsible.

We don't need any more fuel for the fire: "They faked this Nixon Video, so they could have faked <X> too!"
I haven’t had any issue with them. I certainly like them better than Java annotations, which encourage way too much black box magic and induce too much code coupling. The fact that they’re a little awkward to use is good, nobody should have to figure out what sort of magic happens with a pile of metadata on a field.
> Shodan is a search engine that lets the user find specific types of computers connected to the internet using a variety of filters. Some have also described it as a search engine of service banners, which are metadata that the server sends back to the client.

Interesting.
Because it was created by people who understand technology :)
I'm not very much into Mu. I prefer Notmuch as I find the TUI more elegant and it's completely oriented towards tags and searches. Mu also supports folders, and that made it a bit more complicated to me.
This is my personal opinion, so don't take it too hard. But your post triggers my BS alert.

First of all, how many CTO's do you know? And how many of them are good?

Second, is this "mentor-mentee" thing real, or just something business coaches and get-rich-quick gurus claim? Never seen it in the real world.

I'm an old timer. Most of my experience comes from experience. Most of my intellect comes from books an articles written by people who know what they are talking about. Claiming that the latter is a waste of time seems very wrong advice to me.

But maybe your mentor told you differently.
I hope one day we will acknowledge nature for everything it has given us and treat it as a free utility that everyone must be able to have. Nature's effect is so subtle - and yet undeniable - that most of us forget how important it is to maintain it, but we only appreciate it when it's taken away from us, just like music and every other art.
This is too real. Except at this point, after 25 years I have probably ten of these.
>> I disagree, the menus take up a lot of visual space, often for stuff that isn't used all that frequently

Even if I agree with that for a moment, file open, save, and save-as are very frequently used. They are the last things that should be moved, not the first.
Love the work you're doing on Tezos!
> While I'm not of these meme investors who thinks Buffett is "washed up", I confess that I've increasingly wondered if it's just sorta over. In some sense, it's not his fault.

I also think that value investing has been 'automated away' to a certain extent such that him doing it (with staff help) no longer can compete with other market players.

> Berkshire has grown so large that it has significant scale problems.

This topic has actually been studied: (mutual) fund performance of top performing funds can be based on a manager's skill, but after a certain point that skill reaches the end of the runway. The more skilled the manager, the larger the AUM they can still get returns for, but at some point it's just too much.

> For an average fund in the cross-section, we estimate a drop in alpha of 20 basis points if the fund doubles its size over one year. We also find a non-negligible impact of the size of the fund industry, although its magnitude is significantly smaller than the impact of individual fund scale. We reconcile our findings with existing empirical studies. Taken as a whole, our results lend considerable support to theoretical models that build on the premise of decreasing return to scale for active portfolio management.

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2872385

Discussed in the Rational Reminder podcast:

* https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/136 (~15m30)

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhluPwDaNAQ&t=18m30s

Something to consider for anyone piling into (e.g.) ARK:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2020/12/a-short-history-of-...
"Me, I’m good with mass-market"

So you want mass-market off the grid?

You realize thats kind of an oxymoron?

The mass market is by definition only on the grid. Because the grid is predictable and there you can mass produce.

But off the grid allmost always has to be customized. Just alone the getting things there and installing them part.

And like others mentioned, what do you do off grid if your mass produced solar/thermal heating system breaks in the winter?

Order a new one? To be delivered by helicopter?
It's a great resource, though that varies with the course as discussed below. As far as pure knowledge goes I think it's wonderful; from a purely economic point of view it may be frustrating to put in the effort in time only to be almost-certainly outcompeted by anyone who has been able to pay/finance the cost of attendance and has the actual degree - not just from MIT, but from any decent college. Many employers and investors simply don't have the time to adequately assess a person's actual skills when a proxy qualification is so much easier to sign off on.
Do any of these have anything close to the table Grid support you can get with a .net control. It seems like there isn't a good way to load a ton of data in a table (100 K +) and work with within an app built with HTML and JS yet. Am I wrong? I hope I am ;)
Tell him to build a website. This was the catalyst that finally got me going. If you can afford it, buy him his own VPS and let him go crazy.

It's cool because new things can happen really quickly, and he is going to need to learn a lot of other things along the way (databasing, some sys admin, etc.)
I guess I just don't feel the need for such an actual act. Take my current situation: I've been seeing this girl for about three years now, it's my third 2+ year relationship, and it's going exceptionally well. We live together, we have a joint bank account... why bother getting married? It doesn't change the way that either of us feel about each other. Not only that, but marriage implies a few things about our relationship that are simply not true.

The only value it actually holds is getting certain benefits from organizations that are still structured around the idea that a man and a woman end up loving each other very much, and decided to be together forever. That's the concept I'm talking about when I mean it's 'outdated,' I think that the vast majority of relationships won't actually last forever, nor should they.