jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you haven't noticed by now, the world is a plutocracy/oligarchy.

It hasn't been about nations for a long time, but the rich and powerful people who influence them. Many of them aren't even elected officials.

See Trump and Russia, Saudi Arabia and Khashoggi, the American citizens beaten up by Erdogan's bodyguards on American soil, the UAE and Sheikha Latifa, American corporations kowtowing to China, the US ambassador's wife who got away with murdering a UK teen, Jeffrey Epstein and his private island of underage prostitution for the cream of society's crop, and the many other cases where the personal whims of the elite few override sovereign laws.

Those people literally have access to everything that human civilization has to offer, and they're not going to ruin their playground.
You don't have to carefully position anything. Just drag the files, hover them over the browser tab in the taskbar, wait for 2 seconds, and it will pop the browser into view. Then drop.

Also, I have Total Commander open at all times. Can't live without it (there are similar tools for Linux, Mac, etc).
I remember my dad encouraging me to save my dollars and not spend them on choc-99 double ice-creams ($2.13). These were soft whip ice-creams with 2 cadbury's flake chocolates stuck in the side and they seemed like the closest thing to heaven on earth to me. What my dad said seemed logical though and I saved. When I was 16 I had a holiday job that earned me many ice-cream-worths but I kept it - didn't buy a bicycle or anything. "Save your money."

These were Zimbabwe dollars, however, and in the late 1990s it all inflated away to nothing. So much for conscientious saving.
“For those of us who don't watch either of them, does anyone have a few examples of hate and conspiracy theories they have pushed?”

saddam was involved in 911, iraq has wmds, russiagate, syrian gas attacks, bengazi was caused by a youtube video, theres an epidemic law abiding black people being regularly executed by white cops for no reason, russias invasion of ukraine was unprovoked, jan6 event where there are videos of cops opening the doors and allowing people into the capital was worse than 911, etc
Good news, your time is still now.
Just ask yourself: does the encouragement of such non-holistic practices as removing healthy teeth sound more like science or quackery?

To shed some light on what's going on here, I feel that the Herbst appliance is the best up through the late teenage years, but notice how info on it is behind a kind of industry blacklist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbst_Appliance

As of this writing on Easter Sunday, April 17, 2022, the above Wikipedia entry is blank. That's what I mean about the programmer in me smelling so many code smells here that something doesn't add up.

IMHO what's going on is that the practice of orthodontics was created before things like dental implants went mainstream or were even thought feasible. So today, rather than headgear, it's better to just install the temporary anchorage devices (TAD) that I mentioned, then use a more consistently-applied force from bands or screws to move any tooth exactly where it needs to go. I feel that orthodontists who are reluctant to do this haven't kept up with the literature, or are afraid to do work outside of the niche they're comfortable in, indicating that their professional development work might have fallen behind.

In short, get a second opinion and/or find a better orthodontist.

But it sounds like you're on a good track. Just remember that you're moving roots (not teeth), so bigger teeth take longer because they have more. Also you're moving a lot of teeth, so each one has to move a millimeter, then the next, and so on. So molars may take an order of magnitude longer to move than smaller teeth.

I'll likely need one of these techniques to close my gaps, even though they're from new bone growth from the ALF instead of lost teeth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSjUiFeK6M0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsJG2v5oLb8
Interesting. Using Wave broadband in Seattle from this server I get

38.69 Mbps Download
154.43 Mbps Upload

While from speedtest.net (to a local server) I get

178.34 Mbps Download
192.23 Mbps Upload

I'd chalk it up to distance/noise except that the download speeds are way more similar than the upload speeds.
I was using BoxCryptor when they first launched for some of my customers. With their "Version 2.0" they flushed their software down the toilet: Horrible implementation. Horrible performance. Horrible bugs.

Switch to Cryptomator as this is more "future proof" from my pov. I saddens me to see that Secomba just didn't got it any right after the "update". Even after so many years.

Shoutout to the OpenLab and the rest of the Auxburg guys <3
> None of this is licensed such that they can use it directly

Not sure what you're referring to here?
I switched a few years ago from WhatsApp to Signal. I was kind of the one and only person in my Signal contacts then. Most people didn't understand why I left WhatsApp and convincing didn't really help. By the time more and more people started to use Signal too so today I miss no one. I think the topic behind it is way deeper than the technical stuff or which app to use. Use what you are confident of. Important people will use whatever is available to stay in touch with you, because communication is not about technology but about relationship. Thats why there is no point in convincing people to switch the app. That happens by time, or not.
You'd have to reimage all those computers for sure.
I was using that until we found Fantasy Grounds, which I am finding far superior.
This doesn't ring true to me; most people at the gyms I've been to don't talk to anyone. I think most people actually want the equipment, mainly the squat rack, bench press, and treadmills. I personally love bodyweight exercises but I still feel I'm missing something without heavyweight squats and deadlifts.
They all register and file disclosures though. A private fund of this size concealing its existence, its structure, and its objectives, is immoral and bad for the stock.
It's tough to create an Algo app without inserting Trail of Bits between you and your VPN server somehow. I want to eventually create an app, but my requirement is that the end result is trustless and I never see any of your keys. Maybe in 2020!
The sorts of bad actors or 'enemies' who'd deploy deep fakes for advantage aren't typically discouraged by 'regulations'.

On the other hand, there is a reasonable amount of active research on both detecting current faking-techniques, and methods of adding cryptographic attestation from point-of-recording.

I don't believe "detection" can win in the end, as widespread detection-technology can generally be used to tune better fabrications.

So ultimately we'll have to rely on: "do we trust the specific chain-of-people-and-sensors-and-relays that brought this evidence to our purview?" And various kinds of constantly-applied cryptographic signing & timestamping can help with that, though interpreting the challenging cases will require a lot of abstract expertise. (So again, for most people, it may reduce to: "who do you choose to trust?")
Que? Look at VLIW ISA's for five minutes and tell me how you've arrived at "agnostic".
In short, because i/o via eyeballs and thumbs (or eyeballs and speech) is pretty low bandwidth and slow.
You're now using a war from many decades ago to try and make a non-sensical point about being tourist in modern day Iran?

100%, you're Israeli, and not commenting with the good faith you previously claimed.

Incredibly predictable.
Crux timestamps sit outside of the data model and apply universally across the whole database (the data model is documents not tables), so you don't have to consciously think about managing bitemporality at all by default, but whenever you might need it, it's there. This means you don't have to adapt your queries to account for extra fields/columns, instead you just specify the timestamps of interest as simple parameters to the query datasource.

Also, Crux maintains a point-in-time (a.k.a timeslice) temporal index which is really a Z-Order Curve[0] that stores the two dimensions for fast lookups in a local KV store like RocksDB or LMDB. By contrast, a userland RDBMS implementation of bitemporality will be significantly slower to execute similar point-in-time "as-of" queries.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-order_curve

(I work on Crux)
This reminded me of a Thunderf00t video where he created tiny jets for ammonia. I expected it would be some expensive procedure, but he just heated up some glass, stretched it and cracked it. Not every one worked, but it was surprising how mundane some super precise tooling can be
I've never had an issue with hibernation. Both suspend to ram and suspend to disk just work.
>The reason Unix exists is because they couldn't afford a machine big enough to run Multics.

So true, just imagine a world where multics and some unix spice would be the to-go system....like linux is today.
It seems a lot of people have the same idea of implementing Snake where it has no business being

https://twitter.com/neilsardesai/status/1379185826920300545?...
Yes, the brain is very adaptable though. Consider for example that humans can learn to use neurons in our fingertip to read, via braille. It would be pretty easy even with today's tech to stimulate neurons similarly to braille touch which we know works, provides 125-200 words per minute. With some research there should be ways to increase that bandwidth significantly.
Legacy and backwards-compatibility. find(1) is a really
funny example, too, because POSIX find doesn't have that
many flags, so they could probably fit all of them into
the short format.
http://www.GreenArrayChips.com/ by Chuck Moore, father of Forth.
Is it cheaper in other countries? It makes sense when considering they're paying for housing, food, infrastructure, maintenance, security, and overhead.
Absolutely. Are you serious? Do you not learn anything from literature?
It sounds like the thing that was posted on the forums was the binary patch itself, and this article's explanation of how to reverse engineer the game was written after the poster was banned.
I say this as someone who would support it, but the Cross Harbor Freight Tunnel is pretty much vaporware.

It isn’t the only issue; apparently double stack has issues with third rail electrification, which is the norm on New York City area commuter rail, so even if you built the tunnel, a double stack train may not be able to go much further.
As with the health care debate, the US is also an outlier when discussing prisons: "The United States has ... the highest incarceration rate in the world"[1]

Canada has less than 1/6th the US incarceration rate and Mexico just over 1/5th.

Interesting to keep this in mind while reading the rest of these comments.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_United_States_in...
I disagree with that. There's enough offerings on the market to cover everything. Companies should be able to differentiate their offerings and target certain categories of the population. If something doesn't fit you - don't use it.

I stopped using Uber when I got a child. I didn't have the app installed for 4 years now. Simply because they don't offer a service with child seat.
I'm not bringing my own child seat, no way.
Instead, I'm using bubs taxi in Sydney that will come with child seat and other stuff that may be necessary when you travel with a toddler. They target families with kids. If we to follow you "obligation" on the companies to serve anyone, there would be no bubs taxi for me to use.
Don't forget the average American who believes prison is synonymous for revenge. Born and raised here, and it's always been shocking how prison is entirely about punishment and very little time spent on rehabilitation. "Revenge system" is more accurate probably.
I suggest starting with the works by Howard Eichenbaum on memory and Edvard & May-Britt Moser (and John O'Keefe and Lynn Nadel) on place & grid cells.

For the latest and greatest see

https://twitter.com/doellerlab

https://twitter.com/KordingLab

https://twitter.com/preston_lab

https://twitter.com/memorylab

https://twitter.com/ptoncompmemlab

https://twitter.com/MillerLabMIT

https://twitter.com/hugospiers

Once you start pulling that thread you'd be surprised how much we do know.
The implication of your comment is that there is something inherent in black people that makes them more likely to end up in prison. Are sure you want go down that road?
Brilliant, I feel that would simplify much of my life
> Perhaps we misunderstand one another.

I understood you. My reply above was in relation to your:

> For a whole lot of cases, VBA is not even needed. People put data into cells, operate on it with formulas in other cells that drop output into still other cells which are then used to get output.

* > Input can be almost anything these days. *

Nobody is arguing VBA is always needed and inputs being almost anything has no bearing on VBA's shortcomings.

* > Formulas have a well defined, easy to understand syntax that work across a wide variety of operators. Simple copy / paste operations make sense, often with the intended data mapped right in. (given people are a little organized)

Formulas are great, no argument there. Still irrelevant to the "VBA has plenty of shortcomings" discussion.

> Output can be almost anything these days too.

> And it's live. Make a change, see it happen.

> That's real power! People don't have to know much to make it all work either.

You're describing spreadsheets. I love spreadsheets. I should, as I often spend 100 hours in a single week working with them.

> (...)

> For Clarity: Replacing VBA with something else costs more than the value add at present, and it's because Excel is the gateway drug into VBA. By the time people reach for VBA, they already are familiar with a lot of it.

You haven't really proved that point at all. You talked about spreadsheets and then concluded something about VBA, which doesn't follow.

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As for your reply above

> VBA and VBE being replaced with Python would require so much work... and there is a crazy amount of code out there doing an equally crazy amount of work too.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

The same was true about Excel 4.0 macros and yet we did it. Python or [insert your favorite language] doesn't need to replace VBA overnight. It can be available alongside it, just like VBA was available alongside Excel 4.0 macros for decades when introduced. Unsurprisingly, XLM felt out of fashion and VBA took over as the superior choice.

> All the points I put here are why doing that replacement work doesn't really add much value.

Sorry, but you really haven't made those points.

> Which is why VBA is still a thing.

VBA is still a thing because Excel has no real competition as an Enterprise spreadsheet app. But its popularity and prevalence don't speak to its quality.
That sounds like a lot of strawmen at once, and hard to directly address.

How about: if they're tone deaf about issues of race, then there's probably a reason. Could be just avoids the issue. Could be any number of other things, some of them pretty awful.
The end of the article says:

>> "The fact that there are no specific terms to describe odors supports the idea of a defective association between odor and language. Odors take the name of the objects that have these odors."

This idea is wrong. Odors take the name of the objects that have these odors ... IN ENGLISH. Other languages have rich vocabularies for odor categories. Actually, even English has a few specific terms that describe odors, such as 'musty', so the quoted "fact" is also wrong.

Here is one of the first academic studies to document this https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00100... and the author has other papers which shows the same facts in other languages.
There are large questions of trade offs, how are we measuring value? Run-of-the-mill works best when things are well understood and stable. Superstar is needed when things get unpredictable and stop working unexpectedly. Think of the large number of JS frameworks which have come and gone over the past decade. Microsoft's .net4 -> core -> .net5

How can we tie compensation to ownership?

We've seen software die as the abstraction falls into disrepair. There's a huge numbers of frameworks to try and solve this, WINE, Dosbox, SCUMMVM, Dolphin.

Flying with a Jetpack is great until it runs out of fuel
So he shouldn't have written a highly publicized psuedo anonymous blog.
He chose this avenue, as a rationalist he must have estimated the risk, and took it.
NYT didnt doxx him, because he is the one who chose to publicized himself. You can't eat the cake and have it too.

They protect sources exposing things that won't be exposed without anonimity, how does Scott Siskind fit this description?
I suspect that you have no idea about surgery at all. Based on what do you claim that heart transplants are valid experiments and head transplants aren't? Only because of the shock effect?

Try reading about the history of medicine: after Galen (second century common era), mostly thanks to different church/ideological dogmas, "doctors" (quotes because they were quite unsurprisingly unaware of the scientific approach) spent hundreds of years theorizing instead experimenting. Experiments of head transplantations are absolutely valid experiments.

More recently and related, USSR had its own ideology-based suppression of valid scientific approach in biology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
I'm going to be very honest here: this whole obsession with artificially limited commodity items like sneakers is utterly insane.

Perhaps my outlook is just old-fashioned and practical, but to me, shoes and clothes and similar practical items are meant to be used and worn, not locked away as some sort of store of value, with absolutely no practical purpose, to slowly deteriorate and turn to dust, just because an artificially limited supply was created, and because hype on social media told you to desire them.

Use what you buy. If you buy things that you end up not using, give them away to someone who will actually use them. A nicely worn pair of shoes is admirable and completely worn out shoes are a badge of honor. A pair of shoes that just sit unused in the box is a waste.
Probably like this: myprog - > file.txt
We bought an RV a few years back, scratches this itch for us while still being able to come back to society.
Yeah, but if they did this, they would be raising cash to deploy. Presumably in an attempt to grow their business and create actual value.
I prefer to remember only one long passphrase and enter it in only one place – my password manager. And then I trust my password manager to generate, store and submit the right password to the right portal and only upon my consent. This is vastly better than I remembering and entering the passwords myself. But it is still not perfect. I would rather all websites and apps universally moved to a standardized machine friendly authentication API and then I have a authentication user-agent (my password manager) do the actual authentication.
> It's about survival.

Uber, DoorDash, and WeWork will either be shells of their current selves or nonexistent in a decade or two, let alone a century from now.
offering vague help doesn't help at all, as others have noted. offering specific help, like "let me take that work project off your hands for the next couple weeks" or even something small like "i can drive your cousin home for you", can alleviate the helpfulness anxiety and provide real help.

if you don't know how to help, just say "i'm sorry" and offer a reassuring hug. touch is powerful, especially around strong emotions. if you feel the need to speak further, give them fond memories of their loved one, like "i remember when your mom taught us how to make lamb vindaloo. it was amazing. she was so determined and funny..." try to forget yourself and your own concerns completely for that moment.
not my downvote, but

It doesn't look like they are trying to attract young investors.

And when a young investor does become attracted to Berkshire, they would be likely to review more than just one single letter.

Which is actually pretty short for what it has to say.
Me buying a share from you has no impact on the company. They only benefit if they can sell primary shares. A company’s ability to monetize a rising stock price is time consuming, you can’t decide tomorrow to issue $100m worth of shares and be able to sell them
Gold or other physical scarce assets come pretty close to allowing you to escape this.
This is pretty spot-on. I didn't get a lot of face time with stakeholders as an individual on a scrum team until our project manager was fired, and I said "f** it, I'll be the product owner AND scrum master".

I basically dumped our Atlassian suite, set up our Azure DevOps, including our project's processes, boards, and rules. I automated most of our meetings to run asynchronously because we're a remote team.

Takeaways:
- The team loves me more than anyone on the team because I don't force arbitrary bullshit on them like holding them to extremely rigid scrum standards meant to create and highlight artificial scarcities of work.
- Stakeholders (the ones that will recommend me for promotions) know my name and I get to shoot the shit with them in our weekly touchpoints while I show them the metrics that only matter for my team.

The easiest jobs are typically the mid-tier levels inside a company undergoing a "digital transformation" (unless your new boss would be from Amazon). These companies are rife with dysfunction and boomers that barely understand how to effectively leverage the Microsoft 365 platform. Cue automating everything, blowing the pants off of older folks like your mom when you fixed her iPad, and basically skating by while making good money (not FAANG great) money.
Jewish people are significantly overrepresented in positions of power relative to their population size. Should companies treat this is a cultural homogeneity problem and try to make it so that Jewish people are represented more closely in line to their actual numbers?

Or how about Asian-Americans in tech? Asian-Americans are only a tiny fraction of Americans but make up a substantial part of the tech industry. Is that a cultural homogeneity problem that companies should try to solve by working to increase the representation of people who are not Asian-American?
This might be a valid perspective today, but the first X-Box came out in 2001. How many middle-aged people in 2001 were playing console video games? Some, I'm sure, but it's probably a much more significant demographic in 2021 than it was in 2001. Back then it was much more lucrative to market to teenagers and young adults who's parents had disposable incomes.
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Wow- very humbling and inspiring, especially at such a young age. Congrats on your success. I didn't mean the family money as a dig, just to feel better about achieving less ;)

I've also hit the low six-figures from crypto, now looking to diversify into real estate (a friend is rapidly becoming wealthy and retiring early with low fixed rate mortgages in Germany and is luckily educating me) and building an affiliate site (just dipping my toes in outsourcing and YouTube soon, no way I can grind out content forever). If you'd ever like to shoot the breeze let me know. Email in my profile. I'd love to get in touch.
I still feel sending a message for 'if we can have a quick call' is still similar to being out the blue. I feel like I'm putting pressure on someone at this time.

Maybe it's just me/my personality.
I wish i could show you what lawyers in germany did with their lawyer-specfic mail service. I don't have any non-german sources but they are a security nightmare and e2e encryption was deemed "unnecessary". Even vulnerable groups don't care anymore.