jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Also, no way to select a country different from your nationality. Whatever country you select they always change it back to the country of the passport or ID card you provide, even if you live in a different country than your nationality...
Coinbase is a stain in cryptocurrency's history and will be remembered as that in the future. It still has a chance to change and help, but for now its against everything bitcoin stands for.
The tech sites are already going crazy over "M1 malware", which in reality is just malware authors updating their Xcode version and recompiling.
> while egotistically proclaiming that they alone can solve mankind’s problems

source? o_O

> As Peter Thiel, PayPal’s cerebral founder, put it in “Zero to One”: “All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.”

Interesting to contrast that with PG's essay about how startups die primarily of starvation. Is it inevitable for all companies to go from the "startups need to focus on their own customers" to "big companies need to worry about competition" stage? What does that shift look/feel like?

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Ultimately kind of a pleasant stating-the-obvious-in-an-artful-way read. Powerful people with power and influence seek to increase that power and influence, etc.

What I'm really curious about are the personal perspectives and opinions of those folks, and their early lives, minus all the mythbuilding. Also, the various changes of heart they might have had along the way, what they changed their mind about, etc.
> Windows is still worse overall

Ugh, no it isn't. That myth from Windows ME era must die. For as much as the Windows 8 / Metro thing is an annoyance, under the hood it is a solid OS - I am running it heavily loaded - 4/5 HyperV VMs, IDEs, SQL Server etc and it is thoroughly reliable even counting suspend / resume.

Edit: Elaborating a bit - I got a Win 8 Pro license for $39 when it initially went on sale. I run it on my HP Z series Workstation that I got refurbished for $1199+$(Disks+ 16G ECC RAM). It allows me to run with 5 disks, a 8 Core Xeon CPU, 32GB RAM. The OS came with a very good hypervisor that allows me to run older version of Windows in cheap memory footprint, RHEL 7 and Server 2012 - all decently supported.

If I tried doing that on Mac hardware, even ignoring the considerable cost increase, getting a reliable hypervisor on a Mac is itself a challenge. Last time I tried Fusion and Parallels they were complete toys compared to HyperV.

So no, for techies Windows is still a darn attractive ecosystem - if you are just browsing and emailing any OS from 2013 onwards works fine, including Linux if you find the right hardware.
I think part of it is a network effect; Apache has been successful with Java projects so Java projects tend to go there. There are other homes for other kinds of projects.

I think also there is a kind of pragmatism involved. For instance, even though OpenJDK is now Open source, people like Richard Stallman think Java is an oppressive island, so Java people are less likely to be part of the GNU world.
Take a look at https://www.lightcms.com/
This guide looks quite nice; there are certainly tools I've not used before.

One thing that's good about Debian packages (and I'm sure many other formats): it's really easy to get something that works; everything else is optional extras. For example (if I remember correctly; I've not used Debian for a while):

# Set up directory structure:
mkdir -p my_package/DEBIAN
mkdir -p my_package/usr/bin

# Copy in the files you want the package to contain
cp my_binary my_package/usr/bin/

# Add metadata
echo "2" > my_package/DEBIAN/version
# Write skeletal my_package/DEBIAN/control here

# Build, install and use
dpkg -b my_package
dpkg -i my_package*.deb
my_binary

Of course, such a package is never going to be accepted into Debian's repos, but that's not the point: it makes it less likely to say "screw it, I'll dump stuff into /opt manually".

There's also the excellent "checkinstall" program, which does a pretty good job of turning autoconf-style source repos into decent packages.

With any of these approaches, the package manager keeps track of the files so they can all be removed in the future (just don't write crazy destructive pre/post scripts!).
PathFinder from cocoatech.com

For me, it is everything Finder should have been
TAILs was just mentioned in a weird cold boot VRAM based attack : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9245980
> My gut is that a LOT of artists are getting screwed for exactly the reasons mentioned in the article.

The article makes the hypothesis that people who listen to "indie" music also listen to less music. I don't think that's true.

(I don't have hard evidence to back up the counter-factual, but neither does the author in proving the hypothesis. He just sets up a straw man example, then bashes yoga studios, Daft Punk, and the idea of a subscription model as a whole.)
What is their pretend projected launch date for this?

When all the experts (outside of Mars One) are saying we're 20 years away minimum (just like with sustainable fusion and personal jet packs), who would sign up today?
You are correct. A better way to say it might be that HN's commercial interests are better aligned with the interests of its readers. Both favor a high quality discussion. That's not necessarily true when you have ad revenue as a forcing function as with later slashdot.
Someone please create a mirroring service for HN submissions.

Even Reddit has one
I like your parallel between Microsoft and Google.

To me, it also implies Google probably won't ever lose the search crown directly, the same way Microsoft never lost it's OS crown, to Linux or MacOS.

However, Windows is dwarfed by the Android install base.
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3D printing firm that can 3D print anything from PLA to PEEK.
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That doesn't make it a zero sum game. The transaction is zero sum but not the market. If the market were zero sum, the indices would never change.
and not just that, it is literally an information game.
You hear that the company's latest car model failed after seeing the quarterly figures.

Obviously, the stock price will go down?

Wrong, the market already knew that the car model failed, and the current price is already adjusted for that.

Stock market trading is only worth it if you have an information advantage. And obviously it is the one with the most capital that has the highest information advantage.

Anyone debating on the internet that "one could make money in the stock market by studying books" is such a joke. Who is going to have more information, the average joe with a book he read; or the guy with a billion dollars with information streaming into his AI.
Or he did know them, but choose to go his way till the end. Instead of crawling back to the society he tried to run away from.

So understandable a bit. (if thats the right version)
You could seed the prompt with relevant metadata to offer some basic state; I got this kind of working with a toy chatbot to extend it's memory. It's still a remarkably poor application of the technology though.
I just use superagent for requests, works fine on client and server.
This is unlikely to apply to the billions of people that read right to left however.
> The quote: "if everybody contributed just 3 extra cents on their 1040 tax
forms, we could find out if we have cosmic company." suggests that the
organization is focused on government funding, rather than individual donors

It also suggests that the problem of finding intelligent life is basically a financial one.

s/we could/there is a very slim chance that &/
It's the lack of education in the broader sense. I weed so many out in interview with simple comprehension questions.

The trouble is that their education system and culture does them such a disservice that it's hard to spot the good ones in amongst the dross.
Do you have a cached version? Main site is unavailable.
His diet must be horrific.
Although I'm fond of using some functional constructs where they make sense, I don't like functional languages and this article is an example of why: in search for a functional style, clear code becomes opaque and simple code becomes complex.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) charitable organization. You can still get some last donations in before the close of 2010.
I'm using Celery with the Redis backend for http://lanyrd.com/
I'm also fairly certain there's a recency effect in play as well.
It's a reaction to a post on Daring Fireball earlier this week:

http://daringfireball.net/2010/12/title_junk
Probably true. That blog post is #4 right now.
Cloud services look nice, but how many of the underlying companies will still exist 2-4 years from now? How many of the perhaps new owners would be interested in maintaining these free or semi-free services?
>> guide for creating a web?
What you mean by that?
Website. Then http://www.htmldog.com may be the best place to head first.
I also learned a lot from w3school but expert do not like it, you could give it a try too.
Slightly off topic, but I'm considering building an web app where startup founders can casually communicate. Founders would be placed into small groups, probably 3-5, and each member of a group would have a "stand up" meeting each day, talking about what they're working on that day, new problems arising, etc.

I believe this would be a healthy channel of motivation, collaboration, and networking.

Founder users of HN, what do you think? I certainly find it interesting as a founder myself, but I want to see if other founders woud be interested as well before I begin to invest time in building the web app.
Water doesn't ricochet like a high velocity metal disk would.
3. Rare scotches in the USA. Congrats--you're selective.
Excellent. Thanks for the tip!
Learning trig and calculus are very beneficial in that it teaches thinking skills that are applicable to a wide variety of useful life skills.
between me and my friends we can pool in whatever's a reasonable price for this. thank you for the link and replying techbio.
Have you seen Freenet[0]? It's been around for two decades, providing decentralized content.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet
> but no one is under any obligation to publish it for you.

Is the Post Office under an obligation to mail your book to your subscriber list?

No one is asking Twitter to put his messages on their front page, but anything who specifically subscribed should be able to see anything he writes.
Well but the NHS is the source of the data to begin with. And they communicate limitations along with the data. You can't just ignore those and use their data. You'd have to find another source that offers actually comparable numbers.
Sure, but that's besides the point I was replying to.
Those images have been intentionally suppressed in the US.

https://theintercept.com/2020/12/27/covid-photography-hospit...
Worst case it fails as a product but succeeds in increasing knowledge to help move us away from throwaway electronics culture.
link repost:
http://future.rouli.net/?query=cubs_win_the_world_series
We have expected productivity requirements on a bi-weekly basis. The expectation is that if you finish 2 weeks worth of work early, then the next iteration you will get slightly more work. Of course this isn't 100%, (obviously someone could just take longer on purpose), but as a manager its pretty easy to tell when your direct reports are slacking off.

Personally I don't think having 2 salaried jobs is immoral. If you're not caught, I feel like it is indicative more of bad leadership than your skill. A good manager should know what someone of X skill level should be accomplishing. If you're only doing half of that, (assuming the other half was spent on another job), it should be fairly easy to notice.
Has O'Reilly really been solid for a while, though? I realized recently that the last O'Reilly book I cared about was "Programming Collective Intelligence" (and that one is flaky) - I haven't actually /liked/ an O'Reilly book since Perl was big. O'Reilly has a lot of reputation, but I've been much happier with No Starch (_Land of Lisp_, etc.), Morgan Kaufman, etc., and anything Brian Kernighan has ever touched. (Either he has the CS midas touch, or he's the world's best tech writer. I'm thinking BOTH.) My wife is currently using my Unix manuals to weigh down recently-glued carpet on our basement steps though.

(and I've wondered about it because I feel inclined to spell-check "O'Reilly" every single time)
How does that compare to Uniserver and XAMPP?
From 30 Rock:

HAPPY HOLIDAYS
is what terrorists say.
Merry Christmas,
Avery and Jack.
To this end: we can (WLOG) make the degenerate observation that a property of all doctors is that they are doctors. Then the original chart just shorthands away whatever conjugation of "to be" is proper in the outermost bubbles, and does indeed map properties of the various groups.
You're really quite quick at fixing these things -- as I'm creating a demo page to email you, I'm noticing every time I refresh, one of the old attacks doesn't work any more.
I'm 17 and this makes me wonder what my generation will write about in 20 years. Pretty crazy how many things change in such a short period of time.
Journalists are entitled and indeed obligated to be bound to ethics just as much as the next guy. The argument that everyone is obliged to deliver to the public everything they know about everything, then we will get into problems very quickly. If you don't like someone's journalism, you are free to perform your own counter-journalism; investigate and publish your findings.

There's no necessity that every journalist must publish everything they ever learn just because some guy says the journalist should. If that's how you feel journalists should behave, hire a bunch of journalists to behave that way, and perform your own journalism and do likewise.
Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I would totally look for sponge reviews before buying them.
> I don't think I understand how currency trading works.

You're right, you don't, and it's too big a topic to explain in a comment, but basically yes people trade the exchange rates because they can and because if you do it right it's very profitable. You don't ever own either, currency trading is pairs trading where you're long one and short the other to open a position and exiting a position exits both trades which looks like a single trade to you.

George Soros once made a billion dollars shorting the GBP and forced a country to remove a floor, similar to what just happened here.

The EUR/USD has been sinking like a rock for most of the year, so traders short it, wait for it to sink more, and cash in their profits. It's just like trading stocks except you have more liquidity, more leverage, and going long/short are basically the same because these aren't stocks and going short the EUR/USD is identical to going long USD/EUR.
is there a way to contact you? I'm attempting to assist a canadian expat, and am looking for resources.
There is definitely traction in the sense of increased network usage:

https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-excluding-chai...

Honestly, whenever I look at these long-term growth charts, I'm sort of surprised there isn't more speculative pressure.
Sorry, I linked to line 1140, but it doesn't highlight that and can't scroll to it as it is towards the end.

I did just check again and realize that the single 'a' at the strndupa means it's using alloca, which is of course similarly unportable and has a whole slew of other problems, all of them intractable (did you pass that pointer to something that will use it later on? stack overflows?).

So hey, not a memory leak! Rejoice! It's just similarly broken.
Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8456008
For completeness sake, I'd like to note that the OP doesn't seem to be cross-platform.
> You pretty much have to fall for the "this video requires a codec. Click here to download" bullshit.

The less knowledgeable ones fall for the "codec" bit. Those who have been bitten fall for the "your security software needs updating" bit. I've helped plenty of friends and acquaintances, but they're fighting an uphill battle because they don't stay up to date with their knowledge of the new scams.

I even taught a class on this stuff at the library for a while (I was volunteering for the group giving classes, but I created the internet security one on my own). Take it as optimistic or pessimistic if you want, but everything I did was but a drop in the ocean. Still, at least it's my drop.
If we're adding weight to Rich Sutton with that last sentence, can we also mention that Pearl is a highly decorated and distinguished researcher, author, and professor in the field? Because it seems odd to call him "OP" when his work has shaped the field of machine learning as much as it has to this very day.
Being somewhat proficent at both sides of CS - practical and theoretical requires a lot of effort and no school is going to teach it.

Doing constant progress (learning) both - modern and everyday useful things meanwhile not giving up at things like security, protocols, lower level stuff, hardware requires a lot of discipline.
That's only because they're not supposed to have them and announcing it would be an admission.

Everybody knows they do though.
In the long term it may be cheaper once ground transportation is fully electrified and air is running on carbon-neutral synthetic fuels. During the transition period I would expect transportation to be more expensive.
This. Meanwhile us westerners are so determined to hang onto what we already got, we won’t lift a finger to help them raise their own standards of living any less destructively.

Oh well, let’s hope the next species to come along once we’ve driven our own dumb selves to extinction is much better at learning from others’ mistakes.
Well, I have a hard time seeing how to ethically influence any of those things.

I assume we're not talking about killing 90% of the population if it happens to be 10N...

So I'll happily just defer to accepting any people who happen to exist.
Perfect, and she will be 20+ years younger than you and you can groom her behavior...
Or "The Prisoner" TV series.
I'm currently an intern for them and I must say it's an awesome place to work.
The problem with weddings is: a.) mother-in-laws b.) women have been dreaming about "their day" their entire life c.) vendors change what the market bears (price gouging). d.) it's hard to say no to your future spouse

All four have caused my wedding cost to spiral out of control. I've spent 3x what I expected already, and the equivalent of what I live off of for two years.
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Don't try to teach the machine things you don't know yourself. Study the rules and actors in the systems you're studying, and come up with theories to test against the data. You'll need to do this work anyway, so it's at least a good way to start before you complicate things further with AI/machine-learning.

Understand this first though: The vast majority of money made in trading is made without anything more than a trivial prediction of the future. Investing is different, but very very few have enough money to make active investing worthwhile.

Start out with "Algorithmic Trading & DMA" by Johnson: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0956399207 If you choose not to, you're better off not reading anything about the actual trading than trying to pick another.. The vast majority of published material is so bad that it'll set you back.
I read it as something like 'one of the nastier long-term catastrophes of the natural world' - rather than being natural in origin.
Not going to happen. Whatever happens in North Korea it's China's problem.
"... This is kind of old... ..."

it is the latest blog post by Dmitry & highlights some interesting points browsing the source code does not. Code doesn't always reveal intention or hints.
Columns is nothing original to TweetDeck - hootsuite, seesmic (desktop + web), cotweet, peoplebrowsr all have 'em.
I think this could be really good as a way to explain Git to folks who maybe haven't had the exposure to DVCS or Git itself. Version control is surprisingly hard for some people to wrap their heads around. Nice work.
1.You can disable automatic updates.
2.You can remove the notification applets in the gnome-panel.
3.Probably it was a case of bad network. And hourglass belonged to Windows, you shouldn't expect it here.
4.That's what you do. Be patient.
5.You shouldn't have clicked it again because the first instance is still loading.
6.Be patient.
7.I told you, point 5.

If you think that these are valid enough reasons to believe the usability of Linux is poor, I really sympathize with you. And all of this is about updating the system. When I can update Windows or OSX by just issuing a command like "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade" I will change my operating system.
I think the point is that anyone's software would stink on some level when set against the toughness of some of the challenges a super-behemoth like Facebook faces. Some problems are much too difficult for even the best programmers in the world to solve and solve elegantly without multiple attempts. There's usually barely time for one attempt. But people still need to take on these problems, even if it makes them look bad, because eventually they will be ironed out, making way for new problems, bigger problems, and the circle goes on and on.
Can you provide more details on this? By "little cottage", I assume this was meant for one (you), and $130K might be a bit steep for a single-person, experimental venture. 10 AC is hardly a small area, though, and suggests potential to expand it to, say, a 3-10 person number. If the marginal costs required to increase water, electricity, etc, to support such levels don't add to the final price tag dramatically, it could be quite interesting.
If this was such common knowledge amongst his students at UCF, then why was this the first time that the professor saw the bimodal distribution in the test scores? Why didn't his Summer class's test scores have the same distribution?

I think a lot of the comments in this thread are making assumptions about what the students did or didn't do, and might possibly be excusing some unethical behavior because of faulty assumptions.
No, what I mean is https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-wiki-backup/blob/master/Si... and that's just pointers, you have #[] #![] and then three ways to invoke a macro !() !{} ![] and of course a lot more.

Maybe all this is necessary for a system level programming language, fine, but don't tell me this is easy to read.
But at our current rate, the global CO₂ budget will be fully exhausted in about eight years.

We don't actually know that. It's a model projection. Academic models have a long history of being wrong and seemingly always in the direction of being too pessimistic, across a variety of fields.

Do we need to transition away from fossil fuels? Sure. Are the models so robust and so beyond question that nuclear should be ruled out on the basis of a handful of years of construction time? No way. The science is nowhere near solid enough for that.
Whatsapp is not paid for by ads.

Maybe in the future it will be, but right now there are no ads.
How can both Google and Apple cannot have a single rival platform against Facebook? We do have competitors like Twitter, Telegram, Signal but none of them are from Google or Apple. If we had we could have kept Facebook in check.

Have they given up on network effect of Facebook's platforms? If they can't solve network effect problem then I wonder how much hope there is for apps like Matrix or Signal.

P.s. We do have YouTube from Google but that's an entirely different story.