jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The actual paper is, as always, less exciting than the breezy PR

TLDR: Three of Stonehenge's stones have long been believed to come from a particular area of Wales. One of them has a pentagonal cross section which was found to approximately matches a pentagonal hole in a partial stone circle in that area, a circle surrounded by a ditch which - coincidentally or otherwise - has the same dimensions as a ditch at Stonehenge. Dating is inconclusive, but evidence supports some of the people cremated at Stonehenge having lived in south Wales for some of their life. It's also established beyond doubt that nearly all the other stones in Stonehenge have no logical connection with this site.

So the builders of Stonehenge might have taken as many as three stones from another site for symbolic or "hey, I know where to find a massive stone the right size for our new project" reasons
In a world of accidental complexity explosion when you think all hope is lost, a gem like this appears to demonstrate what technological progress looks like.
Me too in a just society.
I've read before that it's pretty hard to kill a nickle-iron battery. You can't do it by overcharging or letting it sit discharged. Or so I've heard. This article also claims at least a 40-year lifespan. They're not without downsides though.
Heh, thanks for asking instead of downvoting :)

I would say it is true: "toxic" is only a word in reference to effects on other biologies. So on the whole, no, biology is NOT toxic to biology. It is non-toxic. (Though yes, toxins exist in biological niches that are toxic to some biologies and neutral to others.)
Yes, but specifically said next time to write snail-mail (as requests on his website), as it was an unusual hour and he usually sends all emails (other than book corrections) to /dev/null.
The word "most" migrates the focus of discussion away from the clear fact that reforestation is vital tool in our arsenal to capture carbon, to a fruitless argument over whether it's actually the "most effective".

Tackling man-made climate change requires many solutions working in tandem, forest restoration is just one of them.
They don't do it themselves
Captions itself is very new, I assume more languages are coming (as an aside Zoom's machine transcribing works surprisingly well).
Given that cities often are responsible for zoning, and the company is taking on the role of city governance, a company could do a lot to ensure its the only employer in town. Obviously this depends on the particulars of the bill, but it doesn't seem far fetched that companies could put some serious disincentives towards other companies forming.
Control, simplicity, preference.

Nobody is going to agree that X is the best temperature for every whiskey. Whiskies and drinkers are all different. Room temperature whiskey and ice give the most control with the least complication.
"I don't think the position is the right fit. Thank you for your time" has worked out well for me.
I was only reading this one on Bleacher Report today:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1930105-remembering-andre...
It isn’t hate if someone criticises a company and states clear reasons, which we may or not disagree with.
What they're doing is running a political campaign.
"I wish there was some way to opt out of this."

Agreed, but I would much rather it be opt-in. Privacy should be a default, not an added burden.
I sometimes put personal appointments into a work calendar to avoid getting people scheduling meetings for that time (as a manager, I get a lot of people scheduling meetings on my behalf).

Usually the personal details are pretty sparse -- just containing the minimum I'd normally share in person eg "dentist", "doctors", "kids school performance" / "parents evening". These would be days where I'm technically working but organising my work hours around a personal appointment (otherwise I'd just put "annual leave" if I'm taking a full or half day off).

This would be enough to fall in line with Google's statement even though I'm technically not using work's calendar for personal appointments.
I'd imagine the switch will be temporary at best. It won't take long for powerbrokers to put up shop yet again in another decade or two once they find a USP.
he was already tried in absentia. It was easy, there are many TV interviews where W does a full confession by saying torture produces good information.
How is that bullying? The US doesn’t submit to the jurisdiction of the ICC, which is voluntary. (India isn’t a member either.) Clinton never submitted it to the Senate for ratification. Prosecution of an American by the ICC would therefore be an act of aggression and military response would be warranted.

The US, in general, is defensive of its sovereignty. We have our own institutions and we are very protective of them. For example, we have a right to a jury trial by one’s peers n a criminal case. The ICC has no juries, and panelists are generally foreigners to the defendant. Criminal convictions in US federal courts (and nearly all states) require a unanimous verdict. The ICC requires a simple majority. The ICC allows trials in abstentia, regularly relies on hearsay evidence, etc.
Our highest court is the United States Supreme Court. But the Supreme Court cannot hear appeals from the ICC and cannot issue judgments binding on the ICC. Our practices in these areas, such as jury trials, are the part of an unbroken line of law and tradition dating back to the Magna Carta in 1215. Those practices can be refined and improved, but that’s completely orthogonal to submitting to the jurisdiction of supra-national organizations like the ICC. Our institutions can always be improved. But that doesn’t mean we have to submit to someone else’s institutions.

In my view, the real question is why others are so willing to give up their sovereignty and right to self determination? Why submit to the will of some foreign court that’s totally outside the framework of your own country’s laws, constitution, and institutions?
I don't think unionizing is "unprofessional". Also, until recently, Google encouraged people to "bring their whole selves to work", so Google kind of changed the rules.
Why would LivingSocial make such a crappy product? This isn't like them at all.
I'm glad my Ignite proposal didn't get accepted now, because the Google Ventures meetup (same time) sounds like fun. I'm in for that.
I think there is a problem with the “upvote doesn’t imply agreement” dictum. It doesn’t make all that much sense to me, at least not in all situations.

I can imagine an eloquent, well written movie review with which I don’t agree but which I think is so well written that it should be read by more people. That’s taste and you should certainly not downvote taste, but most discussions on HN are not about taste but rather about questions with right and wrong answers.

When I’m disagreeing with someone about those I must be thinking that what the person writes is based on wrong facts or is illogical. Should users be encouraged to upvote eloquent and well written comments even if they think those comments are spreading false information and are illogical? (Whether or not such comments should be downvoted is a different question. I tend not to.)

It’s never quite that clear cut in the real world. You might feel that the facts are wrong or that some illogical argument is hiding somewhere in the comment but you might not be sure about it. Upvoting may be the right thing to do, then – the comment can be seen by a wider audience and it can come under more scrutiny. The comment and its analysis can help all parties to get closer to the truth.

There is no doubt to me that there are situations in which upvoting despite disagreement can be a good idea. I also think that upvoting because of agreement and not upvoting because of disagreement can be a good idea.

On a certain level, agreement and “making your point in a good way” are one and the same. No matter how eloquent, how can a comment with factual errors that undermine its central thesis ever be an example of “making your point in a good way”?
Some eat lots of protein, some eat lots of fat, some eat low fat and high carbohydrates and everyone believes their method or means of eating is healthy.

Well, there's too much fixation on micronutrients such as carbs, fats etc. 100g carbs from HFCS is not the same as 100g carbs from vegetables. 100g fat from industially processed seed oils is not the same as 100g duck fat.
I personally prefer not to eat anything that comes packaged, in a box, can etc. and go for meat, fish, poultry, fruit, veggies, nuts etc. But I guess that qualifies me as someone who "thinks his way of eating is healthy".

Go with what makes you feel good. The best diet is the one you can follow. Listen to your body.

Well, there are a couple of issues with that. I personally feel good on a diet with copious amounts of beer and pizza, add ice cream to taste. Side effects may be years or even decades away for a healthy person, but some of them may be irreversible by the time they are evident.

Your body will never tell you "oh I feel my bone density is 1% lower today" or "oh I feel my arterie wall is 0.1mm thicker today". Some people find out they have osteoporosis only when they suffer a broken bone.

The other thing is that all of us (with the exception of those with genetic disorders) posess the same biochemistry. So I'm not sure how far can you go with "listen to your body". Maybe someone can genuinely feel bad on a diet that mostly consists of fruit, vegetables, some animal products, some nuts and lacks processed sugars, grains, vegetable oils, trans fats and fast food, but I think I'm yet to hear about such a person.
Curious if people actually formally ask people to be advisors, or just keep asking them more and more questions until its defacto.
You can add bots that go from 1 language to another. Tbot is interactive, and works for all languages that the service supports.You can also use the tbot to act as a translator in a group conversation.
No don't do that. Giving revenue for professional services is a really bad idea. It's a once off service which you can largely do without for a while, or do yourself. Read the book "do more faster" from techstars - it has a section on legal and stuff.

Foolishly giving away equity for once off services will make investment by angels/VC's further down the track very difficult/unlikely.

Get those professional services when you need them, which is only after you have revenue. Use your very first revenue $ on legal. You have no need to spend anything on accounting/tax when you have no revenue.
You don't seem to accept that other people may have different tastes than you. I often use the vote count to be more efficient in getting a grasp of the issues quickly, without reading everything. Great for you if you like to read everything from start to finish. Not everyone does, at least not all the time.
I would say the general persona is power user/tinkerer types who really like customizing their experience but until now really couldn't on mobile.
However there's people who come to the browser for a very specific extension (e.g. improving their search for recipes http://share.insightbrowser.com/12), and the world of extensions is very long tailed because you can spin up their own in under a minute.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply even if my original comment may have been a bit snarky.

Let me start by saying that I kind of admire the logical coherence and beauty of the framework built from the basic building blocks of utility maximizing (rational) agents, free trade and market equilibrium. It is actually very hard to argue against the framework within the framework itself, the logical purity of the model is quite beautiful indeed. And absolutely yes, free trade has been one of the huge welfare drivers of the last centuries. Another one, in my opinion, is democracy and worker's unions, but that is a side note to this particular discussion.

But (of course there is a but...), what comes to monetary policy, I'd like to ask you to consider one of the basic premises I mentioned above, namely market equilibrium. I would argue that even if in the long term the macroeconomy may be somewhat equilibrium seeking, in the short term it is quite obvious that the unconstrained macroeconomy is a complex system with different feedback loops and time constants causing a pretty much chaotic behaviour[1]. And without any exogenous controls in place, even these short term fluctuations can become large enough to cause havoc in the society. These fluctuations can be observed in macro level in the business cycles (even if the central banks and governments do their best to smooth them!), and even in micro level in repeatable experiments[2]

So, if you allow economy in your model to be complex and not just perfectly equilibrium seeking, you pretty much must have some exogenous control to keep the economy even remotely stable. Unfortunately that exogenous control by definition means that somehow actions of some agents in the economy must be artificially either restricted or fostered, even if that flies on the face of the moral principle of individual freedom. And central banks are important tools in this exogenous control via money supply.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_distribution_game
The shortest answer is that GME's stock has value beyond speculation. The value of a stock is how much it pays you in dividends. Period. That's it. A stock that can't/won't pay dividends has a value of $0.

Of course, lots of stocks don't pay dividends and people still trade them. The stock market has become somewhat speculative in practice that way. But the core concept is that the stock is a source of revenue for the person who owns it. You're literally sharing in the profits of the company.

Bitcoins are a completely different instrument. They can't/won't pay you dividends, so if you believe they have intrinsic value, you have to look elsewhere. A lot of people would say their intrinsic value is that they're liquid -- you can spend them to buy things.

So if you want to argue that buying GME stock and buying Bitcoin are both speculative activities for most people and that it's all essentially gambling, I would agree with you in practice. But the underlying concepts are very different.
I think the issue is there two funding models at play.

Advertising vs. paid content.

Apple wants the tide to switch to paid content, and want to encourage people to do so through their own merchant gateways.

In my opinion, this feel reasonable _only_ if consumers have real choice. Telling users they can use a different platform if they're not happy, is not real choice.
What dang said about it was not smart.

> it's good for readers to have to work a little

Unless they're using assistive technologies. In that case it's a nightmare. Don't make your users work.

> it's not hard for any HN reader to do the bit of work to figure it out

Unless they're using assistive technologies. Or just want to read it without work.

Or, say searching for it. This post comes up. The one you linked to doesn't.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Respect to you for wanting to honor Greece. I think using the letters* correctly would honor them more. (thanks for the correction)
+1 for lowering the price alone. Even though I don't like Windows much, I think Surface is quite a nice device for a lot of people.
well amazon's free tier allows you to have a smallish machine up 24/7 (for a year), seems to me heroku is going to push away a lot of smallish side projects that might have evolved into actual usage.
The UK charges taxes at all different levels of industry. This causes imported products to be more expensive. Happens to the products in the USA too, but the overall tax rate is lower.
I've used the "Pre-Jay Z" version of this service, and it's disingenuous to call this "by Jay Z"

Tidal has issues with gapless playback, like seriously big ones, with up to 5 seconds between songs.

They also have an issue where if you pause a song (for say a bathroom break) and then come back later, the song will play for an additional 20 seconds past unpause, then stop and play the next song.

Then there's the issue where people can't discern 320 VBR from lossless due to our primitive hearing.

They do have some harder-to-find albums, and even some stuff missing from google's play catalog, so they're good for interesting variety, especially in the indie space.

But as is often the case of smaller providers, they don't support Chromecast so I didn't really use them at home. I've since canceled my account, as I didn't see the value in the service.

If I get word they finally fixed gapless and the pause=stop bug, I'd give them another shot.
They're there for me (I'm in the US-midwest.)
Link?

Also, I'm sure any crime that puts you in jail for longer periods of time have lower rates of reoffending, since you're in jail. Murderers also likely have low rates of reoffending.
Thanks! PHP on the server-side, jQuery on the client-side. I used Twitter Bootstrap for the interface.
There is about a 10x difference between the top 5% and top 1%. So, that's sorta far off.

And then again a 20x difference between the top 1% and top 0.1%
thanks for posting this. I agree fully. The place I frequent is very small, so one person taking up a lot of space can be really annoying. The worst is when two people push two tables together (tables meant for 3-4 people!) and sprawl out over them.
I've spent the bulk of the past 8 years telecommuting, even when I've had full time positions locally. It requires a strong commitment to communication and the experience to recognize when the communication is failing so you can get off your ass for a face to face meeting or phone call. I also ending up working a hell of a lot more hours than I would if I just had a desk job. But I wouldn't have it any other way.

I don't give a shit about your corporate culture or your ping pong table or your office politics or your ego battles, I only care about solving problems and producing solid solutions. Telecommuting lets focus on doing just that while leaving all the other nonsense behind.
He said "The same thing is happening today with a Republican official who emailed some friends a humorous photo of President Obama's face on a chimp and a punch line about his birth certificate. If your only context is what the Internet says about this story, you assume it's a typical racist act by a Republican who is already guilty by association. But if I add the context that Googling "George Bush monkey" gives you over 3 million hits, and most of them are jokes where President Bush's face is transposed on a monkey, you see what's really going on. Democrats and advocates of civil rights are using the media to further an agenda at the expense of a woman who was probably so non-racist that the photo in question didn't set off her alarms as being a career-ending risk."

That sounds like weighing in to me.
I'm not sure if they still offer these, but at one point they were offering a free bump to the first elite tier on the frequent flier programs for American Airlines and Virgin Atlantic (and thus also their respective alliances), which normally each require 25k miles flown. For an expat like me that's extremely valuable.
It would be nice if there was some kind of hardware or OS-level indicator to let you know when certain components are active (mic, camera, GPS).
I have telecommuted for several gigs and positions. The most difficult situation to deal with is when most of the rest of the company doesn't telecommute, so everyone is not in the habit of cluing you in to what's going on. You may have all the tools required to establish and maintain decent communications, but they often don't bother to adopt any of it for their end. I even remote-developed for a large networking company with enormous communications facilities designed to solve problems like that -- but they had me fly over to headquarters all the time instead.
I'm also a lifelong sufferer who has found no trigger or treatment that works. I've seen more doctors than I can keep track of and none had indicated that it was uncommon, of course that could be because I'm primarily seeing specialists.
I worked from home for the past couple of years and now work in an office and have to communte everyday. But i have to say i like working in a space with other engineers to discuss ideas and concepts and energy more as sitting alone at home.
I have failed to understand why someone in India can do my job, but telecommuting is still frowned upon.
Though true, it's easier said than done. Personally, I make music - though it's what i really like to do it'll probably never pay my bills. On the other hand I'd love to learn ruby on rails - without any developer background...unless you count FileMaker. After work there are only some hours to cover those interests, which are certainly not the only options and it's tough to figure out what to prioritize. In my opinion that's the real problem: Options. It may sound very general und superficial but there are so many things of interest, it can be overwhelming.
I didn't intend to be snippy or snarky ...

Fair enough; some of your comments here appeared to me to be dismissive and my perception was wrong.
I should also say I want Niskin and Dipert's efforts here to be taken seriously and I don't want my comment to distract, and for that I apologize to them.
> I’m tired of seeing this talking point echoed when pretty much every case was dismissed on process (standing or “Laches”)

The “laches” dismissals were not of fraud claims (frankly, neither were the rest, as the campaign either did not include or voluntarily withdrew fraud claims fairly consistently: fraud is something they liked talking about in forums that couldn’t adjudicate claims, but avoided in ones that could; but this is more stark with the laches dismissals.) Every single laches dismissal was of a claim not of fraud, but of changes to election procedures by state executive or local officials that were alleged to be not properly authorized by the state legislature, and the laches dismissals were because the changes at issue were well-known with plenty of opportunity to file challenges before the election when the remedy, were the procedures improper, could have included reversion of procedures, but the claims were, without good cause, delayed until after the election, preventing any remedy which would not have unreasonably adversely impacted the rights of third parties, specifically, the voters who voted in the election held with the challenged procedures.
i want to add again, this wasn't a coup attempt. You dilute those words and they become meaningless. It hurts the people who have lived through and suffered from real coups.
It’s funny calling the prevailing opinions on (I’m assuming) online crypto investment communities as “conventional wisdom”. These sites are filled with garbage information from teenagers.

Many investors in the space will sell when it’s high, and buy when it’s low. This is a highly speculative investment, and shouldn’t be treated like stocks or other investments.

You hold a diversified portfolio of stocks because companies on average will eventually will grow or pay a dividend.

Crypto though? It could easily crash and never return at any time, and has crashed dramatically multiple times before.
Ehh I guess it depends on how long until you expect a hardware issue. The directional pads on gameboys and DSs tend to fail, as well as the sticks on n64 and gamecube controllers
I'm downvoting you because of the blatant snark. It's not cool here according to the site guidelines and my own opinion.
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