jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I feel cryptocurrencies in a time of corona are interesting. In March, the US injected a 2.2 trillion dollar stimulus package. Just a bit ago, a new stimulus package of 900 billion dollar was dropped. The US debt is 27.7 trillion dollar [1]. I don’t know what that entails but that sounds like a big number that you might want to have smaller.

I wonder if this is accelerating some flight of capital into cryptocurrencies as the US dollar is also heavily devalued compared to the euro (1.23$ for €1 at the moment).

I am not a crypto fundamentalist, but currently I have a few percent of my net worth in it in order to hedge.

I am watching with curiosity how this story will unfold. I wonder if nation-backed currencies will be as pervasive as they were in the 20th century. It might be that we will have secondary or tertiary currencies (crypto or not).

Some musings from yet another armchair economist (nah, I am not even that, just a guy on the web).

[1] https://www.pgpf.org/national-debt-clock
This is a grouchy reply. The OP obviously isn't trying to get Tekken running on a Peloton.

You can imagine "games" in this sense being competitions played out via the bike, so time trials, race tournaments, etc. Compete with your friends (or others) to get through a race comparable to Tour de France stages -- something like that. Aside from survival, there is no greater motivator for pushing oneself physically than competition. Games facilitate that.
Get that data before they're forced to break up.
At one point I had unlimited data (2011-ish?) for 5 eur/month and a text was 20 euro cents per 160 chars or so... So I guess providers wanted SMS to disappear here.
I had problems with older (Intel) Mac Pro and usage of monitors on both HDMI and display port at once. That wasn't an Intel thing, and that sort of thing could happen with any hardware that isn't tested with every combination of other hardware.

I'm excited that the M1 is good, also- that it seems fast with everything, even the old Intel-specific code via Rosetta. I don't subscribe to Apple NIH[1] philosophy, but what they have made historically, barring the problem I mentioned above and a few macOS and iOS issues over the years, has been awesome. The M1 seems to follow Jobs' philosophy of making the best product.

[1]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
Amazing job! Though kinda funny nothing is all green
I agree. I also think Apple is treating the iOS ecosystem like a video game console rather than a computer. If people looked at the console wars between MS, Sony, and Nintendo and compared their developer agreements to Apple's, they probably wouldn't get so bent out of shape over things.

I know Microsoft has literally spent $millions on AAA titles just to get XBox360 exclusive releases. Somehow we don't get bent out of shape so much just because Halo is Xbox only. I don't see pundits wanting to burn Microsoft at the stake because they bought Bungie.

Yet for some reason, when Apple does something similar, they must be evil.
I assume this is in the context of a VC-backed startup where the person who "has to go" can't stop the action. Even still, how is he/she actually forced out of his position and shares? Is this a board move based on term sheet rules?

And, how would this work with a bootstrapped startup where there are simply 2-4 founders with equal shares?
Why not?

Or do you mean "please, not in a production system where you share a host"?

If that's the case, I think you have it backwards. In production, please, don't share a host.
Thats funny, I always found quitting cigarettes way worse than ecigs, but I never tried the high impact nicotine salt versions.

I just attributed it to Big Tobacco finding clever ways to make the hit so much more satisfying in cigarettes and the mom and pop ecig blenders hadn't figure them out yet.
Facebook is not private property, if they are doing public work. They have a public duty, therefore they must stayi neutral.

Facebook needs to make all posts non-public to become private property. Then they can moderate.
nytimes headline now reads:

> Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S. Hacking

> Russian hackers may have piggybacked on a tool developed by JetBrains, which is based in the Czech Republic, to gain access to federal government and private sector systems in the United States.

HN headline should perhaps be changed.
Does this mean we're not going to discuss the 'appeal to popularity' fallacy that is associated with "Many people say so..."? :P
> Also, if you think it is suspicious that people in one political party make statements that are deemed lies, your problem might not be with the checkers.

Come on, I could easily remove context and/or provide a misleading "authoritative" interpretation to basically anything a Democrat says in order to brand it a lie. How new are you to this game?
It’s amazing how much a government can manipulate and brainwash their own citizens. Even when they’re overseas, where they have access to the uncensored internet, they still rely on censored information.

The worst part is Chinese students don’t know, refuse to believe, or just don’t care that the information they’re reading is being censored.
What is the computer doing during that time?
Editors and reporters have to reflect their audience and given them something at least somewhat relatable.

I would be careful though: we could also describe a meta-meta-perspective, where you recognize the dangerous seductiveness of thinking yourself one level of abstraction higher than others. But then that leads to an infinite recursion...
> One of the ways to help make computer science respectable is to show that is deeply rooted in history.

This is not a sure thing, by any means:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_profession_(phrase)

People do not automatically respect new professions.

Professions that very new are not respected due to lack of recognition; but some old professions are not highly respected either.
When I can follow exactly two organizations and nothing else and not be able to see them in my timeline, the site isn’t worth my time or attention.
I have zero sympathy for what Facebook is doing so I believe this is a step in the right direction.

A bigger step would be to just stop using anything Facebook. You attention is a precious resource and your time on Earth is limited.
45%? Not even in Ballmer's wet dreams.

Bing's market share is only up 4% since launch
http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn...

and most of those gains must have come at the expense of Yahoo!
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The part I quoted is clearly about photos, not drawings. I think arguing that possessing child pornography should be legal is “defending behavior a reasonable person would identify as Paedophilia.” Your reference to the formal definition of “child” made me think that you were unaware that Stallman had argued for this, and were attributing his cancellation solely to his remarks about statutory rape.
Do you think they (Oracle) crafted that situation or it was just organic ?
and then the penis clapped
FB is being blocked by the Irish DPA, since EU FB is HQ'd there. Sadly this one loophole made it into the GDPR, so the other DPA's can only forward to the Irish agency for FB issues.
I am aware of it. :)

Porting it to Rust wouldn't produce the same developer experience, unless one wants to see Rc<RefCell<>> and . clone () everywhere.
This is the most inspiring thing I’ve read this week. I wish more would do this kind of thing.
You make the author's point for her. When any model for valuation disregards the vast good arising from a fountain of youth, that (margin-based) model is corrupt.

(Obviously I'm disregarding all the derivative concerns that inevitably would arise from introducing immortality. After all, it's simply one possible example of a vastly undervalued innovation.)
1. ?? You do realize there are self-appointed geniuses who actually make this kind of arguments, right?

2. That snake-oil AI paper guy, right though he may be here, you know he's jealous of Bitcoin, right? Wrote a whole academic paper trying to justify how Bitcoin wouldn't exist w/o academia. If he was so smart, why didn't he write Bitcoin himself?

3. If this was so obvious and you're so smart, why didn't you write it yourself?
I'm curious how 5 screens improve ergonomics.
I don't understand why your post is so aggressive... The comment you're replying to was giving some friendly advice, which you apparently disagree with. I don't think the escalation in tone in your comment is helpful to the conversation.

What you're describing is pretty unique, in my experience. Looking at my current team, significantly more than half of the folks here worked with someone else on the team at a previous gig.
I agree, but then the price is too high. They charge $12/month because much of the money is supposed to go to the creators - but that goes against the idea that they're just a dumb platform.
Could also be that their version of wc is doing Unicode-aware counting by default; it could be a lot faster with LANG=C set in the environment.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/96580
That must have been a big paycheck!
Smalltalk perspective: I work a lot with graphics (Morphic) and it is quite a regular activity to add or remove behaviors to custom Morph objects while they're out being displayed on my screen. It would be a tremendous pain in the ass to have the tear the world down and build it up again each time just to see a small change in my graphic element
The page isn't loading.

EVERY TIME somebody attempts this yet again;
2 oldskool phones and a 9v battery!
thats it, thats the whole thing!

So I never even saw the page this post is about, but somehow I can just feel that it somehow involves an overkill of brand-new digital electronics.

Like; is there a raspberryPI involved? cause I bet theres a RaspberryPI involved.

2 oldskool phones and 1 9v battery. AKA "telecom".
I think it's moreso that you can't get blood out of a stone (people wouldn't buy it over there if it cost more) and the true cost of mobile data distributed over all customers is close to $0.
It's a game, some people are willing to play it.
It seems like someone or some DDoS detection blocked either everything or all foreign IPs.
So he didn't consider that Corona has quite a long incubation period, which is why you should normally quarantine for a fortnight.
Try running that analysis for iOS apps against the dyld shared cache or for Android apps against the Android system frameworks.
> Be wary of the white, straight men who call out lesbians and women of colour as bigots because they refuse to comply with the version of liberation they deem appropriate, and who pat themselves on the back for being an “ally” for doing so. Their naivety gives them the luxury of childishly dividing the world into goodies and baddies. The rest of us live with the consequences.

So close, and yet so far to getting it. Using white, straight men as scapegoats only cheapens the message from the article which is that yes: making swiping generalizations is bad and that discrimination happens everywhere, even within marginalized groups towards other marginalized people.
Beside natural gas, heat pumps have become popular. Ballpack a heat pump at about 1/3rd as much electricity for a given amount of heat, compared to a resistive heater. Even (larger capacity) hot water heaters come with heat pumps now.
True journalism is very difficult because

"Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed" --Friedrich Nietzsche (b. 1844)
Ok how do you do state taxes in this? I don't see California option. Also no privacy policy on the hosted one, you really think people will trust giving their sensitive information like that?
Fun facts, Intel built-in integrated GPU or iGPU is now standard across Intel's CPU offering including the low power processors designed for embedded IoT systems namely Atom, Pentium and Celeron [1].

This new iGPU has similar performance with a discrete Nvidia's GPU two years back, GeForce GT 1030!

[1]https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-s-Elkhart-Lake-SoC-will-...
Fantasy Football begins. Seriously, that's all I use yahoo for but I use it a hell of a lot during football season.
In 1720 an ounce of gold in London cost about £4.31 [1] and today it costs £768. So the effective interest rate for gold over that period has been about 1.8% per year, while the gilts paid 2.5 - 4% according to the NY times article.

So despite the huge depreciation of the UK pound over almost 300 years, buying UK bonds in 1720 was a much better investment than gold.

And yet buying a property in London probably would have been an even better investment - a 'barrel store' in Picadilly cost about £2,500 [2]. Today it might be worth 10,000 times as much, giving a compound return of 3.2% per year plus a significant rental income.

[1] http://www.measuringworth.com/

[2] http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/review...
The fact that there is a separate service providing instant payments does nothing to disprove my point - being that payments within a chat app is useful, if not preferred, by millions in China and elsewhere.

What exactly is the rationale that makes payments within a chat app 'inferior' or 'unneeded' just because there are separate services available (e.g. Barclays' Pingit)?
But which COBOL? Microfocus now own RM/COBOL and AccuCOBOl, as well as their own MicrFocus Cobol. These are for the IBM PC and run on Windows, Unix, and Linux. Old code usually uses compiler dependent extensions, and without a good amount of work, I can not just recompile using a diffrent vendor's cobol. And if it does happrn to compile it may not work because the expected behaviour of implrmented language key words might be slightly diffrent. I ran inro this trying to port code to GNUCobol
After watching the edward snowden podcast, I would bet the NSA. Snowden's job in NSA would be ideal fit. In the office of "Information Sharing"

https://youtu.be/efs3QRr8LWw?t=3885
In scope for the context of this thread though; your GP claimed that 4 sigmas means “it’ll probably pan out as being real”, your parent provided a 6-sigma counter example.
The first commit that they omitted in April 2020 is related to the payment feature they just announced. So the two events coinciding (server code being published and payment feature being announced) might not have been a coincidence. They apparently didn't want to bother creating a private test server running a private fork of the server code and just pushed their experiments to production, just not releasing the source code to prevent people from seeing the feature before an official announcement. They neccessarily built test client apps because I couldn't find any old commit mentioning payments in the client app git log.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26718134
> a) many cultural shifts over time

MS lost a decade because of stack ranking under Ballmer. Dropping that has allowed them to get back to being more competitive with Google and Apple.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2012/08/microsoft-l...
Yes this is one of the most true things I have ever read based on my own experience..

In 2009 I was hired to do mostly helpdesk / IT support for a printer/copier sales company, making $36k

By 2012 I was making over $80k, being taken on the annual company trips with the high sales earners (cabo, hawaii), etc..

All basically because I set up a web based dashboard that aggregated numbers that their Sales CRM stored in a SQL database, which saved the Sales Managers tons of time every week..

I continued building this out / milking it for a few years, adding new reports and features.

It was the worst spaghetti code you have ever seen, SQL statements placed inside of HTML tables, wow it makes me kind of sick thinking about it now, I did not know what I was doing.

None of that mattered though.
Let's suppose: what you say is true and they're like sheep. A guy in a group panicking has the rest of them to, kind of, validate his emotion. He might be panicking but he knows where he stands.

By himself he doesn't even have that reassurance. He doesn't have anything to measure his emotions against. Does that make sense?
After 9/11 the company I worked for (Silicon Valley, 10.000+ employees) had a truck with desks for engineers in case of emergency. Own power supply of course. Like a full evacuation or fire or earthquake at the main campus. I've never personally seen it on the campus.
They're probably hoping things will go back to normal fast enough that the cost of removing and reinstalling seats would outweigh the benefits.
I may not be most people, but for various reasons, it does seem than web apps are taking over and native apps are dying, so this is only good for me. Maybe there's more of us than you think.
We just put our nanny on furlough. I'm going to keep sending her partial payment because we really value her. We not-quite-jokingly offered to have her move in for a while but she has kids and that's not really possible. If she didn't have kids, we'd actually be a lot less hesitant about having her come. Since hers are 13 and 16 and are both in the "I don't care about things" phase of life, we don't trust that they won't be an avenue for possible infection. My wife has immune issues and my daughter is 2.5, which means it's not worth any additional risk. I let my coworkers know that we'll be load sharing on parenting duties (my wife has chronic pain issues or it probably wouldn't be necessary) and that I'll do my best to not let it impact productivity too much. Fortunately _everything_ is being delayed so my launch is pushed out too.
Won't work with elementary school kids (son in first grade), I'll have to sit with him on his zoom sessions to keep the peace, and it's not pleasant when you have 24 kids + parents simultaneously on a session.
I rather have him do Khan, SD Math and Reading eggs on his own time.
If you only need 30W for 10 years then Lithium thionyl chloride batteries are a viable option down to -55C. In continuous operation waste heat will give you significant temperature leeway. That’s going to be expensive and very heavy, but there really isn’t a good option for truly remote applications.

30W is kind of the no mans land of remote power. Batteries are becoming seriously impractical, but nothing is the clear winner.
No it isn't, you should read The Selfish Gene by Dawkins. There's a chapter explaining that this is a myth with little grounds in reality.

There's a lot of backstabbing and competition that goes on within individual hives of the social insects.
3 roommates in a basement is only miserable living conditions when compared to the McMansions that people are moving into now. My dad grew up in a 3rd world country. His family would be considered upper-class within their city, and yet they had 10 children crammed into a couple rooms, geckos in their living spaces, and mosquito nets to keep away the malaria. And they got bombed out of their home by the Americans, and had to move up into the mountains, shit in the river, and use stones to wipe their ass.

I included waterbill and trashbill in my utilities estimates; I was basing it off what I paid for utilities when I lived with roommates in California.

Person 1, at least, didn't have a landline - he used his cell (still on his parents plan) or IM from work. Person 1 also did not have zero savings: he managed to save up $20K over 2 years. Remember, a typical grad student salary is about $20k/year, and he was living off $10K/year.

People who make $10-20k/year don't pay much in taxes. Many don't pay anything. That's reverse-income-tax land.

You have a point with clothes, but over the short term, it can be ignored. I'm still wearing some of my clothes from high school, 10 years later. And you certainly have a point about health care, which is the elephant in the room, though that will hopefully get better as Obama's plan phases in.

I suspect that Daniel Kanemann's research could be rephrased as "For a good life, you have to be making more than average." It's not coincidence that $60K/year is just slightly more than median household income in the U.S. I suspect that if he were to run the same experiment in Vanuatu - supposedly the happiest place on earth - he'd find that you need roughly $5K/year for the good life. That's just slightly over their per-capita GDP.
The efforts to compile good numbers are a difficult task indeed. This is, after all, the first pandemic that hits the country for a long time. Not sure what happens at the interface RKI/Bunderland, but it seems the problem does not start with electronic submission, but from the intelligence generating and patient tracking in the field. While doctors in the 'Gesundheitsaemter' (federal and local public health organisation of the goverment) are on the phone the whole day, tracking and advising people (testing, quarantine protocols) that had contact with Corona patients, the foreign office (Auswaertiges Amt) allows 30000+ people come in from vacation destinations like Egypt without any testing or quarantine, mixing people in planes, and just letting them spread in Germany - effectively sabotaging the the entire process.
Moreover, it seems that it is difficult to track infection cascades in high contact places such as hospitals (especially with staff): It is not clear how and when infections are taking place.

As far as I know, they were on the limit of tracking existing cascades in southern Germany last week, and word was that they realized that it was out of hand. Carneval, public gatherings, and failing personal hygiene and isolation, plus our tourists from Tirol and Egypt made tracking measures obsolete. Before that, so my source said, they had a very good overview of the number of infected (minus those without symptoms).
And the "X" in XML is, appropriately enough, for "extensible". Not "extended" though, which would've been even more appropriate.
I agree that its difficult to discover most features beyond the basics, though Apple does provide a digital user guide and the on-board Tips app to help you acquaint.

Those two resources are themselves not that easy to discover, however.

https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/welcome/ipados

(hit table of contents -> basics)