jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Seems like it ought to be possible to have both, to some degree. I don't want the capitol to be a fortress, but they need to prevent stuff like this. I mean... the US spends massive amounts of money on the police and military.

I think it should be kind of like a non-Newtonian fluid. Walk in slowly and peacefully and it's ok. Try and punch it, it solidifies quickly.
Same here, Google has become `readline in a browser` somehow.

About * Mail, after everything Google did to be more social and whatnot, there's still no integration with Gmail, only Google Plus. A mail counter in Google's black bar would have been more useful.
How are you growing the accounts so fast? I started an account last week after reading Austen's awesome book (http://austenallred.com/user-acquisition/book/chapter/instag...),but only grow my following around 30 per day as opposed to 10k. Also I haven't tested out any bots yet.
IaaS: Intimacy as a Service.
Heh, no. While I am not going to point to my online history - I have held the same position for several decades. I have been aware of these programs since the early 90s.

You can see in my HN comment history where I talk about my first learning of USG backdoor requirements in Cisco gear in 1997.
I don't think it's an either/or situation - it's us (the social networks) creating the AI ("the algorithm") that, in the pursuit of greater "user engagement" (=making more money), exploits and amplifies our most basic primate instincts (fear, hatred etc.) and may lead to our doom if unchecked...
>>That kinda smells pump and dump like to me.

Yes agreed. Though I would add that this is a paradigm shifting technology, so there may be something substantive underlying all of this Bitcoin hype.

As for crypto as a whole, Ethereum has real world use cases, like stablecoins and NFTs, and an extensive multi-pronged development effort to expand its capabilities, in particular scalability, that cannot be dismissed as mere hype.

Just on the basis of fee revenue alone, and the assumption that this turns into income for ETH holders once the platform switches to Proof-of-Stake, Ethereum's current valuation can be justified with only the assumption that its price-earnings multiple will match that of relatively mature and low-growth industries like electronics.
You can just use google stun servers they are free to use
Can you provide an example that streams from a v4l device?
Even more so when combined with reducing the number of cars, which adding a bike lane can easily do.

If you replace 3 car lanes with n cars/lane/hour by 2 car lanes plus a bicycle lane, car traffic/lane/hour goes down as soon as you have over n cyclists/hour on that bike lane. At that density, that bike lane looks empty (https://www.boredpanda.com/space-required-to-transport-60-pe...)
"Don't use such a browser then!"

Never said that I did! :)

I use a text-only browser for reading HTML. Many times I do even use a browser for making HTTP requests.

Truly one can use all these strategies, application-based, router-based, gateway-based, if they are available. They are not mutually exclusive. Personally I just would not feel like I can rely on extensions or other solutions tied to some software I do not compile myself. (I do edit and compile the text-only browser.)

All due respect to Firefox, but I have found compiling it is way too time and resource-intensive. It is way beyond what I need for recreational web use. Firefox users seem to rely on Mozilla to do the right things on their behalf. That is not the sort of "control by the user" I am after.

What is behind Mozilla. Online advertising money. Cannot really count on them to do what I want.
Reminds me of the time Penn and Teller got people to sign a petition banning DiHydrogen Monoxide [1] [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVxypRWZODQ

[2] http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/ban-dihydrogen-oxide.htm...
So out of the five RIRs:

- APNIC ran out

- ARIN ran out

- RIPE NCC just ran out

- AfriNIC is expected to run out in 2020

- LACNIC is expected to run out in May 2020 https://www.lacnic.net/1039/1/lacnic/ipv4-depletion-phases
At which point it was the correctness that mattered, not the heresy.
Amazon can now let me hire a goat herder[0] to get my lawn eaten down. Is there anything they can't sell?

[0] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UBYDXXQ/ref=vas_sf_GoatGrazing
I would augment A to "the rate at which you read while learning is highly variable throughout the material and differs from person to person". Sometimes I can plow through a chapter in an 20 minutes and sometimes it takes me a week to get one paragraph. And the paragraph that takes me a week you might get in 5 minutes. With text we can each go at our own pace and trivially change pace with the nature of the material. With video we all get the same pace and it's the pace the instructor thinks is best.
"The fact is, git is better than the other SCM's. And good taste (and C) is one of the reasons for that."

If he likes simplicity and good taste then why did he pick Git over Mercurial? Because he did not implement the latter?
I think this is good for Nacin. He's helped lead on of the most popular open source projects on the Internet for years and a well-paid (am I being too optimistic?) job which comes with a bit of autonomy, opportunity for mastery, and a sense of purpose is definitely well deserved.

However, I do empathize a lot of the sentiments in the hidden-by-downvote comments on this thread.

Although Nacin will probably never directly support any of the government agencies responsible for torture, drone-murdering innocent civilians in other countries, or the unprecedented surveillance state that has emerged in the wake of the terrorist attacks 14 years ago, he has still willingly become a cog in the machine of the US government.

Whether he manipulates his environment or gets manipulated by it remains to be seen. Hopefully, he is able to do more than make sure the US government's human-rights-violating machines remain well-greased.

For those who are concerned: From my limited interaction with him, I got more of a Jedi vibe than Sith side, if you catch my drift.
Let me jump into my time machine and join the discussion back then!
The mentioned technical paper about assertions states:

"The assertions are primarily of two
types of specification: specification of function interfaces (e.g. consistency between arguments,
dependency of return value on arguments, effect of global state etc.) and specification of
function bodies (e.g. consistency of default branch in switch statement, consistency between
related data etc.)."

from http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/70290/tr-2006-54.pdf

Is there somebody here, who could elaborate on this, ideally with some small examples?
Remember Amazon Menus? (Scanned menus of local restaurants)
Remember Amazon Movie Listings?
Remember the "drone delivery"? (It makes no sense on the face of it, and will never happen. But it was a big press release.)
Remember Amazon scanned catalogs (eg: Mail order catalogs selling things in competition with Amazon, that you could search)
Remember A9? (Amazon's answer to google, biggest mainstream mention was being used as a verb once on The OC in 2006ish.)

Amazon makes dozens of "products" every year, to do press releases, to sell more Amazon stock/keep the stock price high. Most of these products never become real.

Even AWS was a fake product-- they claimed it was "the infrastructure that ran Amazon.com", which was a straight up lie. (I worked for the company at the time.) All they had was S3. This product stuck to the wall and grew and became a real product over time, and so they backfilled.

This strategy works for them because when something disappears (remember google glass? Yeah, it really is gone, it made no sense to begin with, but they won't admit it) .... nobody remembers it.

Amazon wasted so much time on nonsense. We had 4 reorgs a year and a lot of chaos because they were constantly spinning up random teams for BS initiatives -- many of whome were nothing more than a press release.

I'm not saying this is wrong (except the dishonesty about AWS)...just that Amazon announcing a product doesn't mean Amazon will be providing that product.
Likely depends on who signed what, to what extent a manufacturer can deny responsibility, etc. Many people will hire cars rather than own them so it's likely that the taxi service will bear responsibility unless the passenger has meddled.
Please put four spaces in front of that very long unbroken line.
> This buy-up argument is impossible in a free market.

On the contrary it is an inevitable risk to any commodity that can be monopolized.

The monopolist can make more from the resource because he will be able to charge more than the current owner. Thus he can offer the current owner more in cash than the owner could ever make renting it. If the owner is a rational actor he will always sell out to the monopolist.

In your analogy, the holdout charges $2.50 rent, the monopolist plans to charge $1000. The monopolists borrows 100 years rent and offers it to the holdout who, being rational, sells. The holdout makes more money, the monopolist makes more money. Only the tenant looses.

It is that way with every commodity that can be cornered. That is why we need to enforce anti-trust laws.

In the event the current owner did not sell, the monopolist could use part if his holdings to eliminate his competitor by selling at a loss. So stretching your analogy, he could use rent from distant apartments to offer discounts on those near his competitors until his competitor goes broke.
"on top of the already enormous pile of scientific research showing it to be a miracle chemical (and I definitely don't say that lightly)"

http://www.badscience.net/category/fish-oil/

The research hasn't held up, but the marketing and supplement industry pretends as if it has.
I don’t understand why the author insists on being willing to speak with future journalists. He’s a smart person who seems to have come down with a serious case of the dumbs.
> Yeah, whatever % of Chinese who blame the West are the mirror image of westerners blaming China, and they're all absolute morons.

But you're a westerner blaming the west, so that's cool?

Anyway doesn't one of the sides have the majority of facts on their side? I can't imagine the virus would have been eliminated by anything the west did, as it surely spread to the developing world at the same time anyway. I really don't think there's much the US could have done to lock down either. Trump floated the idea of restricting travel to the NYC region and Cuomo threatened to sue. You want Trump seizing emergency powers and suspending the constitution?
From the site:

"BBYIDX is a free and open source idea-gathering application written in Ruby and distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License. It's the basis of the Best Buy IdeaX website and was created by and supported by Best Buy Enterprise Services Inc and Bust Out Solutions, Inc. The standard release is known as BBYIDX and features the ability for users to simply post, tag, comment and vote on ideas. It also features the ability for administrators to moderate incoming ideas and comments as well as assign work-flow to certain ideas for further exploration. It also offers the ability to group ideas by "current" or category to create new "currents" which serve as problems or issues to be solved by comments and moderation. It also features read and write APIs that can be used to make access to an instance of BBYIDX via another website or mobile application."
Just getting and keeping a ride-sharing account is a first-cut filters of passenger. It means you have a verified name and ready electronic money. And you'll lose your accoutn the first time you do something really stupid. Ratings are just frosting.
Unless you lose your device. The device that is literally covered with your fingerprints. In this case, you don't know your data is safe or not. "Probably". Hopefully you'll have remote wipe enabled.
László Polgár believed this and turned his daughters into chess prodigies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r
Hey, it's a small world! I hope to see you sometime at Tkalčićeva :-)

Oh yeah, I agree with you on the "me-too" complex. It's toxic and harmful and it feeds into populism too.
Strangely written article. Everything you need to know is in the first sentence, which just gets repeated half a dozen times using different words.
My Dad knew and worked with von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. My Dad says nice things about him and mentioned eccentricities like working through the night and playing music loudly.
For what it's worth, WA doesn't allow these sorts of clubs or pokies -- and we seem to be doing quite well, thank you. :P

I would prefer to see these sorts of clubs outlawed, and gambling only allowed to take place in licensed casinos, with very strict regulations around checking that the people gambling are doing so with full knowledge and are actually in a position do so...
That's less of a solution when you aren't able to blackhole route them in BGP
So you are not skeptical if someone who doesn't share your goals gives you advice on how to achieve those goals? I think that's healthy skepticism.
In my state in the US traffic cameras can not be used to issue traffic fines and license plate readers can only be used by an officer in an equipped car. Corruption is real and it’s good to have laws reflect this.
I would like to look at the code after preprocessing, it is too hard to analyze the code with all those #define statements.
Ah right, yes I remember. Perhaps .vmap from pytorch?
How do you explain lack of exponential growth in numerous place without Covid restrictions?

Do you think Covid is following an exponential growth model in the under 55 age group if in a YEAR there's still less deaths than car accidents?

Covid is way more complex than "SHUT IT ALL DOWN, EXPOENTIAL GROWTH, FLATTEN THE CURVE".

These have just become buzzwords for simple minds to cling to a simple narrative and don't model the world accurately at all.

Honk honk! Welcome to Clown world!
Found this article that seems to talk more about him than his own website.

https://smartbear.com/blog/fabrice-bellard-portrait-of-a-sup...

"Bellard doesn’t appear to promote himself—he politely declined to be interviewed for this profile"
There is this short weekly broadcast on french and german cultures compared, with a light tone, that we never miss:
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/RC-014034/karambolage/
Available in french and german languages.
Variety and volume of the 'data' concerns me. Are we talking 100 rows or a billion rows?

Does the system store the data the user is working on permanently or just the metadata?
(I know this is going to date me.) I used APL before and during college on a terminal with a type ball. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741) APL is a great language.
We're not going back to pre covid lives period. Even if everyone was vaxxed there would still be more moderate cases that our hospitals can handle. And then that allows the virus millions of chances to mutate and then, just like we're seeing with the UK and South Africa strains. Which as we're seeing all but nullifies the vaccine. The vaccines we're seeing are only 10% effective against the SA strain. Statistically >5% is great, but that's not a risk the vast majority of people want to run with.
The same thing we do to try to limit fraud in the banking system, use that.

We aren’t going for perfect fraud protection, because that’s impossible. But just raising the bar would be useful.
“Like one of Darwin's long-beaked finches, Red Bull bears the marks of a business with one specific attribute selected for over and over again: garnering attention.”
Make the tax penalty for the renouncing much more severe than it is now?
It was a relief to read this post, thanks for writing it. Are there other aggregators or communities that have less of this attitude that you visit online? I heard about lobster.rs recently, not sure if things are better there.
So your armchair critique of the entire news industry overly simplifies a complicated problem.

>> DAUs === money.

DAUs may equal money but usually not enough.

It's not smart for any business to have only a single source of revenue (ads). The dependency on ad revenue as the primary source of income has been highly damaging for news orgs in the past. Even with steady traffic your ad revenue can fluctuate based on so many factors (health of external ad budgets in a given year or with big clients, recessions, changes in CPMs in programatic advertising, and host of others).

Subscriptions was the way to build a steady and reliable revenue stream while weathering the unpredictable ad side.

Users complain of crappy ads covering the content, and auto-playing video, and crap Taboola/Outbrain modules everywhere. Thats what usually happens when a media org depends on wholly ads.

It is not a simple as you think it is.
Kanye[0] and Drake[1] have done the same:

> The changes feature a few new alternate vocal takes and lyrics, but mainly comprise mix and production tweaks.

[0] https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-mak...

> These weren’t overhauls that significantly altered the length or content of songs—just tweaks to the mixes of select songs

[1] https://kotaku.com/albums-are-getting-patches-now-1827376874
I think this also happened years ago in a whole different context when some marketing genius invented the "shampoo without balm".
Why specifically is it absurd, in the context of what LVT tries to achieve?

LVT isn't about whether the land is developed or undeveloped. The idea is to tax it based on its maximally productive usage. So for example if a plot of land has a single house but it could fit an apartment building, it should have an apartment building.

Of course Central Park is a treasure! But based on LVT, open fields in the middle of Manhattan is not the maximally productive economic use for that land. Filling it with high rise apartments would yield far more economic value.

Clearly I'm not promoting that it would be a good idea. It would be a disaster. But it's a great example of why blindly applying LVT to everything is not a good idea.
Debuggex worked best for me, dabbling with PCRE. I just wish the fonts was somehow bettter on a mac.
I have always wondered whether new ideas are seeded by cosmic rays disturbing neurons in the brain..
I'd go so far as to argue that it really wasn't the same market - the one that Windows Mobile was in was not anything like the smartphone market created by Apple and Google.

Tablets, you can make a case for, as above, I guess, but again, the leap with the iPad was so great that it wasn't just an iteration but a leap, leaving it open for a fast follower to come on (as Google did there too).
I've told my family that I want to be mummified in honey when I die, similar to mellified man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_man
Good for Lightning UK! Growing up he was one of my heroes with DVD Decrypter. I hope he can make a few bucks on advertising with its spiritual successor.

This article is sensationalist BS. After a little research it's clear that DevShare is adware not malware.
I think it's because Linux has a larger fraction of highly paid techies than the other platforms.
The one thing that seems pretty blatantly overlooked in this whole discussion is that genetics have __alot__ to do with body building. I guarantee you that if everyone reading this thread mimicked Tim's 28 day plan exactly, that no where near 100% of us would produce the same results (assuming the plan actually did as he claims).

Some people are just predisposed to bulking up. It's interesting to peruse body-building forums and see tons of people very dedicated to their sport all following the same recommended training regimens yet getting vastly varying results. It's not that the effort isn't there.

I know, I should be providing links to back-up my claim, but I should also be working to meet my company's big milestone due tomorrow. :-)
That's true, but that statement was in the context of the desire that some people (including, it would seem, the author of the article) have to get rid of the cosmological constant. The only reasons I am aware of that anyone dislikes the cosmological constant are aesthetic. It's an extra parameter that makes things a little more complicated, but there's no a priori reason it should be zero. Thus, I assert, if one wants to get rid of it, you shouldn't be replacing it with a _more_ complicated model that's no more predictive.
I am indeed referring to classic ASP, when the poster said taking a step back I assumed he meant classic ASP over ASP.NET.
I trust that RH has their reasons for such a large shift. So far they're doing amazing work contributing back to Kubernetes especially all the shepherding that Clayton Coleman is doing for the broader community. As the CEO of Kismatic I'm excited that more companies are jumping on the Kubernetes bandwagon.
Is this at all related to the recent news of Uber storing private keys in the github repo?
Seems like this might be the use case for OPs project. A overly sensitive filter that allows you to send only positive alerts to an external API for further validation.

Surprised there is no free tier here but I’m not experienced in this space.
What control do we have to do so? You're served what you're served.
However, there are linguists working in institutions that do prescribe the proper use of language – e.g. [0] in France and [1] in Austria, Switzerland and Germany. The idea to pass laws to change spelling may appear somewhat strange to others, though…

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Académie_française

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwischenstaatliche_Kommission_... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_for_German_Orthography
I'm a professional Java developer, and thought I was fairly trendy because I've introduced Scala in my company's services tier.

About a month ago I started reading HN, and discovered that I'm irrelevant because I'm still using Scala rather than Clojure.

I ordered a Manning book, but before it even arrived I discovered that I'm irrelevant because I'm learning Clojure rather than Node.js.

So I started a couple of personal projects based on Express. However, before I was completely comfortable with callbacks vs. promises, I discovered last week that I'm irrelevant because I'm working with Node.js rather than Go.

Go has been my favorite of the bunch so far. However, I was just started to learn about goroutines and channels, when I discovered three days ago that I'm irrelevant because I'm using Golang rather than Rust.

I like this board, but it should come with a warning label! I haven't been approaching it with the grain of salt that it requires.
you really overestimate how much FAANG companies understand about the world, or how to hire productive employees. It's all dances and bullshit, and puffery on behalf of the employees to make you believe we're the pinnacle of human intellect. I should know, I'm one of them :)
R* was a lot more open at the time and I guess they wanted to help them implement a multiplayer mode. that was before the whole hot coffee story.
You seem to be falling into the same trap you lament in your comment:

- The other side is "these people" that "won't stop"

- They're striving for "hyper-efficiency" at the cost of "hundreds and thousands of hours"

- People who complain about this issue don't (or do significantly less of) reading documentation/code/etc

People talk about TTFP because it is a real issue that is off-putting for many programmers that would otherwise love to use Julia. Julia is roughly an order of magnitude slower than python in this instance on my computer, and that's not a good first impression.

That doesn't mean that everyone is going to be impacted by this issue (obvious ex: you aren't), but this isn't akin to a flamewar because unlike editor choice (which is opinion), Julia would be better for everyone if TTFP was improved. Whether or not it should be prioritized as a development goal is up to the Julia team, but it's not just some difference of opinion like interpreted vs compiled or functional vs OO.