jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You can unsafe to get around the borrow checker, just not directly; you have to go through raw pointers.
Estimates of when the next glacial period would naturally start range from about 2ky to 12ky, so too far away to worry about now.

The glacial transitions are somewhat predictable as they are triggered by favorable isolation conditions due to the eccentricity, obliquity and precession of the Earth. That's why we can have high confidence it won't happen in the next few hundred years.

https://judithcurry.com/2016/10/24/nature-unbound-i-the-glac...

http://clivebest.com/blog/?p=7344
Just a word of caution on soliciting product feedback on here, HN users are a notoriously unrepresentative bunch (with a lot of bad ideas). Better to try ways to get it into the hands of more normal people and see what makes it go 'viral'
Isn’t one of the points about “slow” social that you don’t need to read 50 posts a day? I would be happy checking in once a week, the same day I am going to post my update.
I am aware of their existence, but they are not (?) available in my region, so I make them for my self. I use them to stretch a watercolor papers.

I paint the Kraft paper with a PVA glue and, when dried, cut it into strips.
The article is factually correct, but I feel that the analysis is missing some of the historical context. Here's a quite probably strained analogy to cosmology:

Microprocessors and CMOS upended the computer industry, to the extent that a few years later, all the big companies in computing, up to that point, were in precipitous decline (even IBM, which embraced the new world order with the PC, only delayed this reckoning.)

In those days, microprocessors and DRAM alone were the cutting edge of technology, and they opened up all sorts of possibilities (though this also depended on some additional special-purpose equipment, notably for graphics and networking.)

One might draw an analogy here to the Big Bang. What happened next was like a period of cosmic inflation, in which Moore's law and Dennard scaling (plus fiber optics and the wiring of the world) created exponential growth. As in cosmology, we end up with a much bigger but quite uniform universe, in this case because the growth of the basic technology alone was enough fuel for all the innovation we could come up with.

It was only after inflation that the universe became really interesting. It is still overwhelmingly hydrogen, but it has differentiated: there are also galaxies, stars, planets and people.

So, the long-delayed conclusion to this analogy: innovation in computing is now more mature, but it is not shrinking, it has diversified - and there are still 10^n (for some large n) 8- and 16-bit microprocessors being made, and there are still hobbyists doing clever things with what is now basic, even primitive, hardware (that, not so long ago, was unattainable) - but we also have emerging technologies (machine translation and autonomous vehicles, for example) that quite a few people, not so long ago, assumed would be forever beyond the capabilities of mere machines.
>> It's just impractical, so cars reign supreme.

And a dedication to dense urban living would also seriously impact the development of those regions. Remote mining/lumber towns. Enormous farmsteads. The loan cowboy walking a fence for days. These are romantic concepts but they are also how resources are extracted efficiently. If people only ever stayed near mass transportation hubs North America would not be the powerhouse it is. To this day, huge areas of economic activity rely on that most common of tools: a person with a truck able to go where needed on a moment's notice. Beyond the suburbs, when your power goes out at 3am or your farm catches fire, the first and most likely only people on the scene will be driving their own vehicles.
> the evolution of the modern financial system is less and less friction for each transaction

Still, buying shares of a company is much more "friction" than buying coins.

> crypto: more friction

Can you elaborate?

> slower transactions

Huh, even bitcoin will settle with 6 confirmations in an hour. Settlement to buy a share or FX is 2/3 days.

> higher transaction costs

Hmm, no.

> And wicked exchange volatility.

Volatility is a property of the underlying currency, not to "crypto currencies" in general.
The volatility of USDTxUSD is zero.

> Plus no way to expand or contract the supply to prevent economic shocks.

You are mixing "crypto currency" and "bitcoin".
Cars are not replacement for horses. You have to have factories, they break, you need to rely on fuel supply, they also pollute and go too fast - they can kill you. I like my horses, thank you very much!
My cat that I adopted is a hermaphrodite. I am wondering myself how rare it is, or where I might learn more.
Pre-pandemic financial skyscrapers were full of people doing not much at all day in day out. Thousands of people would transport their bodies to these skyscrapers every day and proceed to do nothing useful. Seeing this first hand really changed my perception of the finance industry. There is a value in simply having people on the payroll and coming into the building every single day. It's their insurance policy. Banks have to be too big to fail and that means they have to be employing people.

But now all these people are just doing nothing from home and that's not good enough. They need to be doing nothing at work. The illusion that they are doing something useful is essential. It's the Emperor's New Clothes. The financial industry is nothing without trust. Nothing at all.
Buy a $25 Visa gift card, spend $20-ish of it elsewhere, and use that for the account. They may post a charge of $1 or so to initially confirm the card.

(I've had success with this in the past but apparently results can vary - some services may block a prepaid card)
I think there's a point to be made there, yeah. On the flip side, you could also argue that European martial arts weren't forgotten, they just were 'sportified' into competitive fencing, boxing, Greco-Roman wrestling, etc, where the original martial intent was greatly obscured with sporting-specific rules and techniques but not completely lost.
crypto is already mainstream
The transgender people I know/have known seem to be serious about it.
I think starting with a private blog is great advice, since it removes all apprehensions except for the "too little time" argument.
Serious question - what's the fear in terms of what Facebook can or will do with that? That is, what can they do that would qualify what they have as power over someone?
I think his point is that you could frame someone using this method. Juries tend to give lots of weight to forensic evidence, often more than is scientifically justified. If you hear 'his fingerprints were found on the murder weapon' then for most people that is more than enough.
An underground hideout was never going to save you if you were near enough to the blast -- I always thought it was more of a way to protect yourself from nuclear fallout -- wouldn't that still be a valid reason to build a shelter?
"Doesn't have all the features that I think are unimportant."
Maybe. But that only makes sense if you reduce the length of the salt to add the pepper, which nobody is suggesting.

If the salt remains the same length and you add the pepper on top, it won't make the final hash less secure/strong, due to the way hashing algorithms are folded.

At worst case scenario you've literally added no security at all with the pepper. There's no rational scenario where it reduces the security when all other things remain equal (i.e. you aren't replacing the salt with a pepper, or reducing the salt's length/complexity for the pepper, etc).
I agree. Discrimination and drama sells regardless of their probability.
Why is everyone worried about what hashing algorithm was used and not if their company's private chat logs are about to become public knowledge?
That's not THAT old in computing. There's a number of pioneers in programming languages who have already died in their 80s.
A lot of bad shit was stopped by shutting those places down too.
Isn't regenerative braking amazing?
That's not what "conspiracy" means.

But yes, it could absolutely be intentional marketing. How would we know what his intentions were? Or are we just crediting Musk with the eventual results?
> >50ug <400ug

That is a huge difference. 400ug is a big dose and 50ug barely noticable.

Anyone reading this without experience going for 400 is going to get knocked for six
The answers make sense. Could such an AI do consulting? Would one allocate money based on such interviews? Can you think of new types of applications of such a pretrained AI? It’s an exciting time to be alive.
This close to the money, there's no distinction between what you are proposing (fixing the monopoly laws) and force billionaires to do something. Currently, the companies write the laws. You want to force them to stop writing the laws.
So if you’re not making the world a better place you’re wasting your time?

Play is supremely important in almost any activity. Not only is there incredible work insight to be found in activity without goals, but play is fun and good for you.
I think the latter part of this is too pessimistic - network segmentation works as long as it's fine grained. Put that kind of apps on their own isolated vlan/vpc/equivalent and put an authenticating ssl proxy or something as the gateway.
> the people who have captured the gains from that growth have been the capital class in the developed nations (i.e not blue collar workers or the professional class)

Wrong. Middle-class Americans have captured gains through cheaper, higher-quality products than would have otherwise existed without trade and development. Are you using a phone made in China, or wearing clothes made in Bangladesh, or eat fresh fruit in the winter? Then by definition, you've captured gains from trade.
The only great languages are the ones used to say great things.
I'd say Google hasn't done it's part either, but people may be taking some schadenfreude at the fact that Calacanis sells himself as a hard-headed, tech-driven entrepreneur, when in fact he is an asshole and a spammer.
The article is from 2006; Scratch was released in 2007.

It's hard to fault him because his time machine wasn't working.
To me, that seems less like a hosting company, and more like increasing utilization.

I'm another one of the "been there, done that" crowd, back in 2002-2005 - and it was much easier then. I eventually sold for a small loss.

Rather than target the general public, try to find a couple of higher-end clients, and take care of them like they were your mother. It was those clients that ended up bringing in the most value.

Just my .02, and good luck, no matter what you do.
Great article. I have a similar outlook on life, I would rather die than lose my mind, and I discussed this with my wife already.

I think the point is not the pacemaker. But the elongation of life and not seeing death as a good thing. If we always chose to prolong life, under any circumstance, then people profit (a dying person needs lots of medical care) and their caretakers only suffer. The person, I don't know, is it better to live with a half-working brain? Is it even living at that point?

I think while people want to live, people need to face death early, and tell their loved onces what their wishes are. And hopefully this sort of situation won't happen, or not for long.
Isn't this still how things work if you want to do anything easily with Microsoft's IIS?
This is very much a critique against Google, but more towards the pass that they keep giving Jason. Jason is most definitely not playing the game better than most, and in fact his violations of Google's quality guidelines are in many cases way more blatant than other spam sites, and are definitely more high profile... yet for some odd reason Google refuses to penalize them. Other sites belonging to honest webmasters get penalized on a daily basis, yet Jason appears to be immune.
I've noticed this before when I've posted a comment that is otherwise receiving upvotes. I just chalk it up to "fat fingers" accidentally clicking the down arrow. It happens.
Public companies always had pretty strict reporting requirements leading to substantial overhead. If you take the public's money they have a right to be informed and to a minimum standard of corporate structure and governance.

Sarbanes-Oxley was instituted in the wake of the Enron and Worldcom (and others beside) scandals (which led to the demise of accounting giant Arthur-Andersen, which - surprisingly - survived in some form because the verdict against them from the Enron debacle was eventually overturned by the supreme court) which severely undermined the public confidence in Wall Street.

As a result the already substantial reporting requirements for public companies were ratcheted up several notches further increasing the overhead. So yes, Sarbanes-Oxley made it more expensive to be listed on the stock market and therefore to be trade publicly but the difference was always there, also before SOX.
Agreed. Though it would only work if email providers also became OpenID providers (which admittedly would have been very possible), or else having two things that look just like email addresses could cause similar confusion.

An advantage of URLs is that you have the choice of whether to give your email address to the site. Myopenid.com will prompt you for whatever information the site requests, and you can even choose which email address (if any) to provide the site. Sites which use an email address for login currently require you to remember which spam email address you gave them.

The indirection offered by URLs is quite powerful too: See jerf's comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1916033
Honestly, if I needed a Windows notebook, I'd still be pretty tempted to go with Apple hardware. Conversely, I'd be loath to carry around a Dell or HP box, even with Mac OS X installed. Apple's hardware is a positive competitive advantage, not just a lock-in scheme for them to extort more money for their software.
Next step is for someone to hook this to the top of their car and teach it to autopilot.
And you have a single paragraph explaining anything at all as to why you think that will happen, and it's basically, "too much efficiency will ruin capitalism." I'm going to need more convincing than that.
I got this email recently. I do find it sad. I really enjoyed using simple for how easy most things were.

They did eventually depreciate their mail a check feature, and they had some weirdness about being able to download a cancelled check of checks they sent.

I still have my account, and has planned to still use it, but with a lot of things becoming harder over time.
(To use the check example, I had to email their support and wait several days to get copies of the checks)

I will switch back to using my local credit union more.

They really had such an easy and excellent service for so long!
I think the best approach to breaking the Gmail hegemony is to replace email with something better. Some features I think such a system should have are:

1. End to end encryption
2. search as a first-class feature
3. decentralized/federated
4. standard minimal rich text format (maybe something like markdown), instead of an inconsistent subset of html
5. Fix some of the legacy limitations of email, like having to be ascii safe, line limit of 70 characters etc.
6. Possibly make it easier to have an identity that isn't tied to your service provider

The big questions are how would you get the general population to switch from email, and what to do about spam.
Correct, see my comment above.
Incorrect, see my other comment.
Privacy excluded.
Refusing to serve someone because they are blind is also immoral.

I'll let you decide who has the better case.
> don't leave it locked up outside.
If I stopped locking my bike outside, I would likely never use it in the city.
Thank you for these great tips. As far as I've got it, positioning is an effort to influence consumer perception of a brand or product. I'm not a great expert in this area, so I use the help of this marketing community https://future.thecmoclub.com/ to position my products in the best light.
I was not trying to be sarcastic. If I manage to teach them how a word processor is supposed to be used, then and only then can we go over to the shell.
DTA fails on download for many of the courses actually. Something about "login" keep popping up.
How expensive would it be? Unless your wife's store is incredibly low volume or has a thin profit margin I don't see how Shopify would be too expensive to justify given the benefit it would bring over a home-grown solution.

And honestly, as I consumer I vastly prefer ordering direct from merchants who use Shopify or a similar platform. The entire experience is just extremely polished.

That being said, did you build the entire thing yourself or are you using one of the many open source options out there like WooCommerce/Prestashop/Nopcommerce/Magento?
> It's interesting watching /r/wallstreetbets oscillate between "We did nothing wrong!" to "Well okay, some people were doing some things that were wrong, but hopefully no one will notice."

I feel like it’s mischaracterization to say that “/r/wallstreetbets” is either a single entity, or that the current group is at all connected to the “pre-GME” group. They had 1.7M users in Dec 2020, and are now over 9M. As well, there are undoubtedly bots, shills, and actors with their own agendas that were drawn as a direct result of the publicity.
>but rather part of a whole discipline of preparing your body in order to sit down and meditate for long periods of time.

The implication being that this is the sole purpose of Yoga and there is no benefit in viewing it as yet another point of exercise? A hypothetical:

I have no interest in meditating for long hours, but practicing yoga and the "it helps you calm down" kool-aid that marketers promote actually helps me. It's not the "real thing", and I have an inkling that without the spiritual aspect I am missing out on a lot. However, I continue to practice it since I derive some benefits from doing so, and have no inclination to pursue the matter deeper.

^ I honestly see nothing wrong with the above scenario. I would accept someone who "dabbles" in Yoga without caring for its spiritual aspects the same way I accept someone who lifts weights 5 days a week but completely ignores nutrition. Sub-optimal? Yes. Should it be condemned? No.
The rest of the developed world doesn't have 100k covid cases a day.
Their sales team is somewhere between Oracle and a pro wrestling villain in terms of sleaziness.
The cost is in ramping up production, actually after it is ramped up, it's generally cheaper to produce an additional vaccine (Wright's law). With the current pace people in most countries need to wear masks for years to come.
Needs are wants with greater urgency. Demand is ensured by the ongoing widespread death associated with the virus. Government should stand ready to pay a large price to ensure supply and provide subsidy for those with less means. Regulation, in this case, introduces inefficiency. Inefficiency, in this case, costs lives.
The letters of the acronym "STEM" should be capitalized, as they are in the article title.
Hi Ryan. I want to talk to you about expanding further. My email is in my profile. Thanks.
Location: Odesa, Ukraine

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Generally, yes. Not at the moment.

Technologies: C, C++, Rust, Assembly, Qt, MySQL, IDA Pro, Windows, Linux, macOS, ChromeOS

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Email: dmitri@shkur.ski

Software engineer with 9+ years of experience. Looking for a remote job, both startup- and enterprise-level companies. Backend development with compiled languages is preferable, but I'm open to consider anything new and interesting. Located in UTC+2 timezone, however, the shift can be discussed to have more working hours with the team (currently working that way).
I got two emails today claiming to be from gawker, telling me to change my password.

Both were phishing emails that pointed to a domain in China and another in India. These guys move fast
> And why, oh why, is “monkey” in the top 10?

I think 'monkey' has always been a top ten password, not just for Gawker users, but I have no idea why.

http://modernl.com/article/top-10-most-common-passwords (2006)
I've got the same combination on my luggage
Not at all true. QQ is more akin to MSN than to Facebook (even though it tried to do social networking features, it did them late and poorly).

Facebook would be on this list if it weren't blocked in China:
http://venturebeat.com/2010/04/07/china%E2%80%99s-top-4-soci...
Look, if it's the BLS with their 70 year history vs yummyfajita's basket of goods he'll throw together to try and prove the point, I'll stick with the BLS. Nothing against Mr. fajitas, he's a smart guy. But I could throw together an index that was heavy on healthcare and gasoline costs, maybe factor in average debt level and show the opposite.
Is the mono lisa only worth $2.50 for the price of canvas, paint and wood frame? Old paint at that!

The price of a collectable is because someone else (not necessarily you) values it. And the odds are that many other wealthy collectors would value it at the same price, allowing the buyer to hold it and then trade it later for similar value.
> How is it remotely possible that Gox didn't have a real-time, if not at worst case daily, comparison between their wallet holdings, as reflected in the blockchain, and their outstanding "deposits"? How could that possibly be?

Not to defend Mt. Gox, but they weren't the only company to be cyber-robbed recently:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/silk-road-2-0-pledges-repay-1-7-mil...

Apparently, in virtual currency dealings it's possible to be robbed blind and not see it. Pun intended. :)
Negative 2nd / 3rd order effects were inevitable when they made the "newsworthiness" carve-out in the first place.

One rule for the king and one for the commoners isn't a very sustainable policy.
There are a lot of people on Twitter calling for violence, Apple and Twitter don’t care as long as it’s directed at the right people.
How many days until trump.tv (or some equivalent) launches, I wonder (in anticipation)?
Ok. What is your idea of terrorism?
They are already plotting their next terrorist event for the inauguration
>This is prime "Free Speech for Me - But Not for Thee".

That was a pretty bold assumption on your part, and couldn't be any further from the truth. I don't participate on Twitter or Facebook, and I'm getting by just fine. Somehow I don't feel my freedom of speech has been in any way limited. So I can tell you with 100% certainty that you can in fact get by just fine without having a "public channel to express yourself".

>You're making a very easy generalization. Not any significant portion of people expressing themselves contributed to any of the events you are mentioning. It's funny because you can read the exact same thought process from the opposite side, against say the BLM protests.

It doesn't actually matter if it was "a significant portion" - they allowed the organization of what became a violent protest and will likely be de-platformed as a result. Freedom of speech doesn't apply to private companies. I have literally no idea what BLM has to do with any of this other than you're making another poor assumption that I'm OK with violent protests if it's by a certain group. You'd be wrong.
Meanwhile:

"CNN, citing an Arab diplomatic source, reported that Iran notified Iraq in advance and that Iraqi officials then tipped U.S. troops before the attack began. A U.S. defense official also told CNN that Iraqis were told by Iran to stay away from certain bases."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/01/08/us-offi...
It would be amazing if today we had the modern equivalent of an aircraft carrier that could also submerse itself

Submarine aircraft carriers really were a thing once https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_aircraft_carrier