jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In college, I used to pull all nighters at the library and besides the usual "drink Jolt" or drink massive amounts of coffee/tea, I did very well by biting into a raw lemon. The sourness woke me up right away and chewing on the rind gave a lasting bitterness that kept me awake.
Ripple, Nxt, etc have been around since 2012-ish or earlier. Ancient technology, basically.
I think your “some people don’t... but most people do” angle is correct. There’s quite a few negative comments in this thread, but HN posters are not at all representative of “the masses”.
That is a great example, exactly the point I am suggesting. The economist and futurist Robin Hanson wrote really well about this in the article “Inequality Talk Is About Grabbing” [0].

The premise is: why do we care about some forms of inequality (financial inequality among households in one nation, or protected class inequality within employment law in one nation), but we don’t care about other things (inequality between socially lonely people and social butterflies, inequality across country boundaries, inequality of physical attractiveness).

Hanson suggests it just so happens that we develop “morality” around some forms of inequality because it offers easy ways to politically coordinate to grab money or power and punish your rivals.

Other forms of inequality that involve just as much harm, but where it’s not politically easy to drum up support for physically taking money or power, just happen to conveniently not turn out to be big moral concerns, or may even have other competing morals invented over time that make it “wrong” to even treat it as inequality (like the hallowed status of a “right” to control what happens to your body counting for more than inequality based harm of variation in genetic sexual attractiveness outcomes - which is a massive double standard compared with no such “right” to control what happens to the fruits of your labor or intelligence, which undergo forced redistribution via taxes because we just so happen to believe inequality of financial outcomes is not acceptable).

For example, most people don’t give a shit about animal suffering on the scale of agribusiness. Most people don’t give a shit if ugly people suffer loneliness or unhealthy lack of sex or job discrimination from their appearance. Most people don’t care much about structural inequality in countries besides their own.

These are just convenient moral omissions because in each situation it is not easy to see how you could “redistribute” attractiveness, social companionship, or power structures of some other country. Plus animals don’t have any money or status to give you in exchange for allyship, while big agribusiness has plenty of lobbying power to crush you with.

I wish more people appreciated this. We don’t, as a society, advocate for race, gender, or pay equality because it’s “right.” We just know that aging white patriarchy is full of convenient targets we can take money and status from. Conveniently for other domains of inequality, like animal welfare, where no such easy targets exist to take from, it just somehow doesn’t qualify as a moral issue worthy of advocacy.

[0]: https://www.overcomingbias.com/2013/08/inequality-is-about-g...
If what happened with GME does not prove all of my points I am not sure what will convince those who don't see it.

Surely you understand that my use of terms like "gravity" and "Ponzi scheme" is in the mode of imagery, illustrations. If I must clarify:

Gravity: What goes up comes down. What goes up very high without a basis in reality WILL come crashing down. It is an inescapable force.

Ponzi scheme: A large base of people (many layers of them) are defrauded into jumping into an investment that is doomed to fail (refer to "gravity"). Only a few at the top of the pyramid make money. Everyone else loses big.

Hubris: OK, stupidity, ignorance, innocence, misguidedness, etc. Pick one. Hubris happens to be the most benign. Perhaps people were too excited to engage their brains. It doesn't change the reality that they did not engage their brains. So, I am calling it "hubris" to be nice. The correct term would be far harsher than that.

Ignorance: Nobody who understood what was going on would have taken that side of the trade. I knew exactly what was going on. I watched it go into the 400's and bough a bunch of puts. Laughed all the way down. Even if it kept going and reached $1K, I would have made money (refer to "gravity").

Those who pumped it up that high were not displaying great intellectual capacity, and they paid for it.

Hurt: Lost money. Lost their savings. Committed suicide. Had heart attacks. Got divorced. Lost money they could not lose.

Mathematical and analytical thinking: Yeah. I stand by that 100%. When the second derivative of the stock price with respect to time is, well, ridiculous, without an equally impressive reason to support it there is one thing we know without a shadow of a doubt: It will come down just as fast and hard (refer to "gravity") and you better be waiting for the other side to buy put options and not a part of the front side of that spike.

Like it or not stocks have to mean-revert to a reasonable mathematical calculation related to actual valuation. Sure, there are corner cases here and there, but they are few when compared to the average market P/E ratio of about 25:1. A one billion to 1 change in the P/E ratio (whatever GME was, it was ridiculous) in a few days doesn't pass physics or math.

And, yes, anyone who doesn't agree with me based on these facts should refrain from throwing money at the stock market.

EDIT:

Anyone who lost money with GME was not being intelligent when making those decisions. They can't even claim they were victims. Pick any adjective that pleases you, "intelligent" isn't one of them. The folks who understood what was going on (see "gravity") and acted accordingly are the intelligent ones.

This might not be a nice thing to be told. And yet the best lessons are sometimes learned harshly. I hope everyone who got hurt in this event is able to eventually recover and then come back to the market as thinking investors and not as part of an unthinking mob.
Kind of a weird buy-in from Tesla on that basis isn’t it.
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I mentioned this incident in passing on my post of a few years ago. We studied it many years ago in the early 90s at university.
https://blog.eutopian.io/the-age-of-invisible-disasters/
So Windows has become more sane than OS X in terms of security updates?

EDIT: Windows 7 was released in 2009 and is still receiving security updates. 10.6 was released in 2011 and has been EOL'd. Seeing as both people still want to use these products, but one group is being forced not to, that's why I'm saying OS X is taking a less sane stance than Windows.

Is this false?
What is QoS?

I agree that it's not a security risk from an app store perspective but I'd still prefer not to be tracked.
Some updates to the text:

* tail +2 XXXX needs to be tail -n +2 XXXX.

* The $$'s in the shell script are problematic. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/78493/what-does-mean-in-t...)

* Do yourself a favour and alias a 'del' command instead of 'rm'. At least del should alias to rm -i. I use 'alias del gvfs-trash' which is like Windows' Recycle Bin.

It's interesting, this link has been posted to HN three other times and received only 1 point each time.
We could start by making a browser plugin that lets users report suspected censorship, and provide alternate domains or ip's for the site.
Lobbying is a symptom of the problem that the federal government has way too much money to hand out to various states, corporations, industries, government programs, etc. The federal government as described in the Constitution should be orders of magnitude smaller than it is now, and should have orders of magnitude fewer funds to disperse.

Lobbying itself shouldn't be illegal, it should just be de-incentivized by controlling the federal government's size and scope per the Constitution. This would also fix a lot of the corruption among federal representatives, who all too often are judged for the amount of booty they can bring back to their states.
> How do you outlaw that?

You don't. In short, you de-incentivize lobbying by drastically reducing the size, scope, and budget of the federal government as mandated in the Constitution.
i think you're right in the context of learning for the sake of learning, but to learn in order it enough for it to count as an employable skill... not sure. i'd love if two hours/day for six months would get me up to speed.
Happy holidays. May your code compile without errors.
I think many of the quines and polygots out there are beautiful. Plus some of the "code golf" examples, as long as they aren't obfuscated, are usually educational.
write simple or complex depending in your mood, sometimes you'll find wonderful things in those words and letter that you have created and will heal some of your wounds or worries take it as a magnificent rest who can take you anywhere in the world or beyond it
I recall reading somewhere that they tried to fix the inflated view counts and users revolted. Known issue I guess.
friction of calling a radio talk show is orders of magnitudes more than retweeting some political tweet.
Importing the discussion from previous posts on this topic [0]:

I hope all new UI systems aim for SwiftUI's syntax. Not to copy Apple, but because you can't really get more succinct that this:

ZStack() {

Rectangle()
.foregroundColor(.unicornPuke)

VStack() {
Text("Hello")
Text("World")
}
}

If you can make it nicer and cleaner than that, go for it. The specific constructs for specifying view modifiers and properties could of course be slightly different in each language; for example we could do away with the {}s in Python, or the ()s might be []s. And maybe we could reduce the impression of "magic" that SwiftUI's @State, @Binding etcetera seem to give.

It would just be a model for describing the UI, that a hypothetical engine backend would take to spit out OS-native widgets. For another OS, you'd plug in a different engine.

Having a universally agreed-upon syntax would provide the benefit of "learn once, write anywhere", greatly reducing the friction in building cross platform apps with native APIs.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21495338 - Rust 2020: GUI and Community
That would be just slightly larger than the largest (modern) naval gun ever fielded (on the Yamato in WW2).
Nobody likes poor people procreating, but...

Don't go by what they say or how they act: from the decisions they make, it's clear that TPTB derive a great deal of value from the existence of vast and increasing numbers of poor people. Sure, they'd probably prefer to just impoverish more of the middle class, but the procreation of the poor works as well.
Not a bus in the current sense, but a self driving vehicle that takes more passengers at once. ie not on set schedules or routes.

Everyone will have the ability to make decisions based on price for each journey. Want to spend more for privacy and luxury? No problem. Happy to spend way less and take a few minutes more? No problem.
My guess is - they have one TV for a bunch of inmates, so it's hard to watch what you want.
Are they unfriendly towards devout Christians, or are they unfriendly towards loud, proselytizing Christians who constantly try to tie their religion into everything they do?

Maybe I'm wrong, but I strongly doubt that regular churchgoers who don't shove it in other people's faces have any trouble. Some Christians love to whine about oppression but it's almost always a case of "I want to shove this in everybody's face, and I demand that they sit there and take it."
As I stated in a previous post, there is no "death of the file". There is the obfuscation of the file, merely putting a splash screen on it and pretending it doesn't exist.

Once we actually replace hierarchical file systems with a different paradigm (like persistent object stores), then we can talk. Right now we live in a world dominated by the hierarchical file system, and this likely won't change soon. Nor am I necessarily advocating one, as none of the alternatives have ever reached usages anywhere near as widespread.

Trying to pretend that fundamental principles of your environment aren't real is an anti-pattern and a recipe for disaster.
Glimmerblocker is another easy-to-use OS X proxy. Its interface is a Preference pane.

I have always thought ad blocking in the browser is crazy since so many programs these days have browsers built in (mail, RSS readers etc) not to mention trying to sync the configs for multiple browsers.

http://glimmerblocker.org/
I tend to sit closer to the front to help myself concentrate. This helps me not get distracted on my own computer, but also it puts less distractions in front of me. Nothing is really out of your control as a student. Sure maybe the guy playing Flappy Bird in front of you might distract you for a single class, but if you sit behind him every class then its your own fault.
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Right. Which is why SAQ A-EP was invented -- to prevent merchants from gaining compliance based on the loophole that they are using a js library or offsite link to collect payment.
I was nodding my head until I read the second section on advice on how not to lose people. It seemed like the most unactionable crap I've ever heard outside of the self-help industry.

Something that is actionable that can help retain employees is encouraging candor and honest communication about office politics on the part of direct supervisors. It kept me from jumping ship and I consider myself underpaid. Knowing that at least one person at the company had my best interests at heart kept me from making a decision that would have hurt everybody but me.
Since you bring up the Manhattan Project... Feynman described during the Manhattan Project they were testing different metals to find one with the right neutron properties. At one point they wanted to test gold, so they ordered a 6 inch gold sphere. The powers-that-be pointed out that the sphere would be 80 pounds of gold and would cost a fortune, but they ended up delivering it from Fort Knox. Gold didn't have the required properties, so the scientists ended up using the sphere as a doorstop for a while. The other interesting part of the story is the librarian who received the gold amused herself by asking people to move the small package for her - they failed, not expecting a small package to weigh 80 pounds; gold is much heavier than you'd expect.

http://articles.latimes.com/1985-08-05/news/mn-3468_1_manhat...
Weird, I didn't get that box. Have you tried closing it and scrolling?
We surf and encounter things serendipitously. This does not replace search when we want something specific.

I also pose the reverse: if Google could gain traction in the social space, that could spell trouble Facebook.
You will be paying more for the second breach and paying once will get you put on the sucker list so others will see you as a easy mark to hack.
"Derivation" is just Nix slang for "package". I mean that I contributed some packages to the Nixpkgs collection.
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/04/teensy-liberates-the-thinkpa...
Mexican cartels are much closer to terrorists, rebel groups, or rival states than they are to businesses operating in a functioning country.

The difference in what's basically a warlord who already has loyal troops to command, controls territory, and assets that can't be easily seized and Jeff Bezos is too much to make a comparison remotely useful.
I realise people don't care. I don't understand how they can so freely ignore that this has consequences and not always even long term ones.

Given that I do recognise people won't change, would it help if I did learn to understand their builtin magic curtain / SEP field[0]?

I ask with no hope any more, what do you advise?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEP_field
I feel like posting this on HN is preaching to the choir. Anyone with an ounce of critical thinking skills is not going to take claims that "the world is ending" at face value, nor dismiss evidence of climate change.

On the other hand, there will always be incentives for politicians and journalists to sensationalize issues. It's just that HN isn't their target audience.
It is counted as a valid means of subsidy by both the EU and WTO. The UK was singled out for increasing fossil fuel subsidy by the EU, when UK gov reduced the VAT rate on domestic fuel bills. As the grid moves to renewables the level of subsidy declines.

The UK kept that reduced rate on domestic fuel when they brought in a low carbon price floor (another bonus of EU membership). That managed to take almost all coal out of UK power generation - there's only three plants left, all marked to close in the next couple of years. It's already starting to have impact on gas's viability.

As different rules apply to vehicle fuel, and domestic fuel, individual behaviour hasn't been much affected, and cities are still full of dirty air from internal combustion. UK has been particularly weak at improving air quality in the last decade or so.
Nix derivations refers to https://nixos.org/nix/about.html
You can add a constraint of Output. With a bit of abuse you can create a type that's impossible to implement outside your crate and implement it only for arrays in your crate (but if you make the output generic, there is no reason to keep the generic OUTPUT_SIZE parameter).
John Quincy Adams came out a bit off:

https://i.imgur.com/Bn0AgkJ.mp4

Straight-on photos seem to work a lot better, for obvious reasons. It's not very good at compensating proportions for turned heads.

A friend of mine, her mother from eastern europe in the 1970s:

https://i.imgur.com/iLc4iIt.mp4

That one came out decently.
I read somewhere that athletic shoes don't last. 20-30 years, and they crumble away, even if left untouched in the box.

I suppose it's like the foam insulation on my '72 Dodge - touch it and it turns to dust. Some of the plastic parts crack and disintegrate. Rubber falls apart. It was never designed to last this long.
The unintended consequence of this change is people looking at which browsers are hitting their website, finding that it’s mostly Chrome and therefore testing only with Chrome.

Bad developers already only test in Chrome regardless of what GA is telling them. This won't have much impact there.
In some sense, the existence of irrational numbers with no pattern in their digits is an illusory artifact of the number system. We can talk about them collectively because decimals are not required to have an end, and we have to postulate them to fill in the gaps in the number line, but such numbers lack any description or means of being separated as individuals.

But then, is any mathematical abstraction real? I guess it's all beside the point.
It's difficult to answer how many seconds are between two times because whether there was a leap second or not is not the result of an algorithm. Leap seconds are added to keep time synchronized to the rotation of the earth (i.e. so noon is when the sun is at its apex).

You're better with something like epoch time because the duration between two times is always the absolute value of their subtraction. You don't have to store a chart to figure out whether the difference in wall time between 3:03:03 and 03:03:05 is 2 seconds or if there was a leap second and it should be 3 seconds.

You can do it, but you have to check the behavior of all your libraries. Which isn't fun. And make sure that somebody doesn't do an optimization that switches the behavior at some point.
The biggest limitation, IMHO, is limiting telemetry to 60hz which makes things like FFB and motion rigs less high fidelity.
I never thought a fanfic would become my favorite book (or even that I'd have a book I could reasonably call "favorite"), but the unique blend of logic, nerd-isms, and pedagogy has turned this into one of my top books of all time. You don't need to agree with everything in it to enjoy it immensely.

Audio version recorded at: http://www.hpmorpodcast.com
Capitalists don't like nuclear, it only works if it's subsidized by governments. But due to your ideological position about the damage that governments cause, which is also the most powerful ruling ideology in the world, nuclear plants are not going to be built.
And then reno is over and the payments continue. Truck rentals are a thing.
Up until 2015 I had a wonderfully curated comedy Twitter created in this manner. It was selected from the set of my favorite comedians, actors, writers, and internet people with particular focus towards those who posted humorous or insightful things on a regular basis.

Then 2016 happened and the greater half decided they were really closet political pundits all along. Now I don't read Twitter at all.
Drumph promised he would eliminate the nation's debt in eight years
Musk is all about Mass Marketing - larger the acquired audience larger the sales, and he clearly does that better than most.
This experiment is awesome. Dropbox is lucky to have you. (So is Luka. :-)
> homescreens? does that even make sense?

It's generally called Springboard.
mint.com is/was another one
Correction: veganism implies a moral consideration for animals from the point of view of humans. That is, most vegans believe it to be immoral to kill an animal because we as humans are (for the most part) capable of surviving without doing so, and we have the capacity to recognize this fact. True carnivores have neither of these traits and therefore are not morally obligated not to eat meat. Apologies if my analogy was not clear.
Excellent post on your blog regarding higher education.
HTML5 in the mobile is definitely great. One of the best advantages of native apps is that you can get them into app store - of course, that's by design. Even with the large number of apps, app store provides a great distribution channel.
i guess stuff like EJB, JMS. Spring is kinda lightweight compared to those frameworks/platforms.
I'm not convinced an XML sitemap is crucial for seo—except perhaps for the new extensions (video, etc.)
videoegg
It is incredibly dangerous to write things like this. It encourages rebellious activity during one of the busiest traveling seasons.

I understand these are potentially too invasive, but as long as the TSA agent is not being a pervert, I am ok with it for one major reason:
It comforts me knowing that it (in some way) helps to ensure the safety of flights, our friends, and family. It's no guarantee but it helps a bit and I'd like it to be a safe traveling season.

I blogged more about it here:
http://blog.darshanshankar.com/post/1656961705/tsa-backscatt...