jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Just to throw my own vegan diet anecdote onto the growing pile:

Last year I went on a pure vegan diet for about 6 months (after watching the Netflix documentary "Game Changers").

Everything was going well (or so I thought) right up until I woke up one day with abdominal pain.

Over the course of an hour, it went from feeling like it could be gas or constipation to being the worst pain I'd ever felt. I was literally writhing on the ground while dry retching from the pain. I've never experienced anything else like it before.

Turns out, I had kidney stones.

One of the primary causes of kidney stones is too much oxalates in your diet. Guess what oxalates are found in? Practically every vegetable I had been eating for months.
Which, I would argue, is out of step with how that language was understood at the time the legislation was drafted.
Shopify's subscription apps with their newly released subscription API is also woeful, not surprised of this outcome.

The subscription apps on the App Store are suited for physical goods (coffee beans, etc) rather than digital (membership, gift subscription, saas, etc.) which is what is driving the subscription economy.

So building a digital membership platform on Shopify makes no sense, unless you consider sending shoes as a subscription to someone on a regular basis a 'digital membership'.
action$.scan(reducer).subscribe(renderer)
It's not even clear they were actually batteries. It's possible and plausible, but at the moment we have no way to confirm they were used as such, and may never do.
Welp, can't micromanage people working from home...
Yes, but 200GB and those read/write rates of data can reside in a single server even entirely in-memory, it's not a big amount.
Yes but all those 76% where bought at what he believes were great / reasonable prices. So it's not like he spent 76% of the money at the peak and now has 34% waiting for the bottom.

I see it more like. "here I am with all this cash and there is nothing fairly priced to buy now but soon I might be getting great companies at discount prices".
I'm still missing a crucial piece of plumbing: billing (especially recurring) as I'm outside the US.
Seems like he was quite a champ. Far more precious if you can teach your kids to think for themselves and use their wings, than leave them a multi-million dollar company, me thinks.
I think that accurate location-based services will soon be as important for lap/desk-top computers as for mobile devices. There exists not yet a single app to take advantage of the fact that "The Location is You" and that being able to connect anonymously with real people who are geographically where you need any kind of data from (whether they are mobile, at work or at home) will change the way we search for and discover information.
Marry an American, get citizenship, then go found your startup. And never, ever think you're too old.

Your situation sounds a lot like my dad's. He came here after college, finished his Ph.D in the U.S, then got screwed over in every industrial position he took. The immigration situation sucks in this country. You need a company to sponsor you, but the company realizes that you have zero leverage as a foreigner, and treats you accordingly. He was paid less than native-born citizens, missed out on all the scientific conferences given abroad because he couldn't leave the country easily for visa reasons, and found that promotions and accolades went to his American colleagues that knew how to work the system, rather than the people who did the best technical work.

He ended up getting his citizenship when he married my mother, a few years past 30. But in a sense it was too late for him by then: he was so bitter about the way he was treated in industry that it poisoned all his future ventures. It did mean that my sister and I grew up as native-born U.S. citizens, though, with all the cultural capital that comes with that.

My advice for now: forget about the startup. Instead, concentrate on learning as much about American culture as possible. Go out with coworkers after work. Start cultivating your own social life - invite friends to go do stuff with you. Date some American girls. Listen to pop music. Someone said throw away the TV set - I'd actually disagree with that, I think you should watch more TV, but don't just veg out. Instead, listen carefully to what shows the people around you are into, and then watch them so you have something to talk about with them.

This'll all be useful if you ever found a startup in the future, but more to the point, it's essential if you really plan on staying here permanently. My dad never fully assimilated into American culture, which meant that my sister and I had to pick up a lot of it as kids, sometimes very painfully. And then it caused conflict with my father, who remained very Chinese (and distrustful of Americans) until he died. If you stay here, you'll need to interact with Americans wherever you go, you'll need to rely upon them to build a business, and your kids will become American. Better to join them than fight them.

It's very easy for non-foreigners to forget just how much of an advantage cultural capital gives them. There's this huge iceberg of cultural skills that white middle-class Americans take for-granted, that are just unknown to foreigners, poor people, minorities, or children of foreigners. You hear these stories about immigrant entrepreneurs who hit it big in America - but if you talk to any of them, you usually find that they mastered the culture first, and then founded their companies. It's not a matter of "the smartest engineer wins"; it's a matter of "the smartest engineer who acts and talks like me and that I can feel comfortable doing business with wins".
Definitely good for performance, but this is getting a little line-noisy:

(defn ^:static fib ^long [^long n]
It shouldn't actually be a noticeable difference. HW virtualization means that unless the guest is doing I/O or needs to be interrupted to yield to the host, the guest is kind of just doing its thing. Spawning a new user space process in a VM should, in theory, be basically the same speed as spawning a new user space process on the bare metal. How that compares to the WSL1 approach of pico processes I don't know, but Linux generally has a very optimized path for spawning a process that I would imagine is competitive.
What this program seems to do is create some screenshots from an mp4 and feed them through 2 .exe files, then display the results in a React app
All software is incorrect in a large enough time frame
If you're even remotely privacy concious in the UK you use a VPN 24/7 anyway.

All the major ISPs here are already logging tonnes of metadata at the TCP and DNS level
Can you point to some longer explanations of this process?
>The amount of inflation is not especially high

From a historical point of view sure. The thing about WW1 boomers retiring in the 80s and causing major inflation. Sure it was a huge problem. This time it's the WW2 boomers retiring that will cause major inflation. But that effect hasnt quite kicked in. The inflation stems from benefits and low rates. Which low rates can be just called benefits as well.

> it would've been quite normal back in the 1980s (post Volcker, even). That's why the Fed is slow at addressing it. And of course, the global pandemic had much to do with it.

So here we sit post-benefits. You and I can both agree people who couldn't work because of the pandemic shouldn't be left to starve.

The consequence is extreme inflation, but worse. The USA has entered another recession. Nearby recessions means they are connected and therefore this is a depression. Which we can verify by the high correlation with psychological depression. What do you think, do you find more and more people around you are getting depressed?

>In the latter part of your comment, you're talking about two versions of the same thing. Calling budget constraints 'MMT' does not change how they work.

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

The countries like Germany and Switzerland that have implemented this are brilliant. Though to be fair countries which dont even need the amendment are that much smarter.
I'm pretty sure the majority of German and French citizens would see the demise of Facebook positively.
It's not a constructive comment. It's obvious that it has marketing benefits, and the poster's connotations were that there was something wrong with that, without giving a reason.
Marine squadrons routinely fly off CVNs with their F/A-18 Hornets. Institutionally, they have a long memory of not having carrier support in WW2, so they cling to this notion of operating their own air force.
Well to be more precise the script contains functions of course , each of which produces one of the figures and takes the path to the data / data as input. In any case the REPL has no place in such a workflow because I want to be able to check in the script at the end and have a reliable way of reproducing any of the figures I put into the paper later.
Relevant tweet thread: https://twitter.com/condensed_the/status/1361018841724256267
You've just described how employment feels for most people. Y'think people who work two jobs do it so they can maximize their hapiness and productivity?
What proportion of popular Electron apps do you think would have had first class Linux ports if Electron hadn't existed? I'm guessing not many.

I do sympathise, I fully realise Electron apps are sub-par in many ways compared to native apps, but to be brutally honest that's mainly a problem for platforms that would have had native apps otherwise. For linux that's generally not the case and it's either Electron or nothing.

Now ok, maybe nothing would be preferable in some ways because it might encourage native Linux competitors, but that's pretty unlikely to work out in practice. I think it's more likely that the availability of Electron versions of popular apps makes Linux a lot more viable as a user desktop, and that could promote better Linux support generally. For example once Outlook is an Electron app there might finally be an officially supported MS Outlook client for Linux. That's huge.
This looks great - I hadn't seen [4] before either, going to try it out
Yes, I can write a launcher that queries a URL and downloads the latest copy of my JAR if necessary. Fortunately for me, it already exists. It is called OpenWebStart. It is a shame that it is no longer in the JDK.

Yes, it would be nice to narrow down the runtime, but that is not a requirement for me and others in my situation. I deploy multiple Java applications to desktops. I have been doing so since the late 90s. Requiring my users to use a current JRE/JDK is not at all problem.

Ideally, I would have all of these apps share a common JVM so that they are not running multiple garbage collectors, but I realize this is a capability that most have simply discarded.
Whether they work for the general population is maybe a concern for Fauci, the government and the odd HN commenter. The message was that they don't work to protect individuals from the virus, hence they should not be bought by normal people.

That's obviously false. And an individual will be first and foremost concerned about their own safety, not if they can single-handedly stop the pandemic.
Thanks for the comment.

I had the post almost complete over the Christmas break but that C64 post today made me smile :)
Oracle wants $1.7B from SAP on copyright fringing. Good way to make money?
I have been shifting the other way. The better I understand how large company's operate the less I trust them to act without regulation. Also, I find people are far more mailable than I once thought, for a recent example look at how public opinion of wiki-leaks changed over a few weeks.
Sounds like this probably works in software too. I can imagine if someone pays for a software product online, that if the file is only 2MB big, he'd think he was ripped off.

Meanwhile, if the file is 100MB big, and takes a while to download, he'd feel satisfied that he got his money's worth.
Yes, in split testing you can test as many different versions as you like. Multivariate testing is different. You can read about the difference in the recent post I wrote: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/differe...
I can understand the bureaucratic / historical reasons you outline for DHS involvement in anti-counterfeiting.

What I don't understand is why / how someone has re-classified good old fashioned copyright infringement as "counterfeiting."

This sort of stuff used to be an FBI matter. What is the justification for changing that, I wonder?
"Intensity is the price of excellence." - Warren Buffett, page 293 of "The Snowball"
I'd like to throw in my experience with Linux here. My backround is that I used Windows 2000 and XP from 2001 to 2003 after that Linux for three years and then OS X until 2013, now back on Linux.

I bought a used ThinkPad because I heard that that is the hardware which would work best with Linux now and I installed Ubuntu on it. Everything worked ok but just the OS filled up half of my small 128 GB SSD and running only Firefox for browsing got up the load to over 0.5, which made everything not so snappy.

A couple of months ago I moved to archlinux with Gnome 3.x, it was a bit more complicated to install, that I admit, but it was so worth it! After installation the system used less then 3 GB of my SSD, and now running just firefox the load is on about 0.01 which makes this ThinkPad from 2010 one of the snappiest computers I ever used. All animations are smooth, not a single application ever crashed or hanged itself and so on. But yeah admitedly I mostly only do development, email and websurfing on it.
In this case, I believe it's 1TF of FP16, or 500GFlops FP32. You're likely looking at 16GF FP64.

I've also heard, though unconfirmed, that on the CPU side it's quad A57 + quad A53 rather than Denver derivatives.
This is probably relevant to the topic:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1375082

If they can get a 22,000% return on lobbying for tax breaks, how much of a return can they get for lobbying on labor access?
Hi.. I don't really have any feedback on the site, but didn't you ask this yesterday?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2463286
Yes, I have. And been on my way in less than 15 minutes.

There are several reasons that one might turn over one's phone, all well documented in the media. The primary two are:

1) Voluntary cooperation with a request
2) Search incident to arrest

(Obligatory WTF on downvoting: I point out reasonable information and a technical challenge with doing this in the field based on personal experience as a forensic examiner, and I get downvoted?)
The native use of reddit is to be able to do an IAmA. Why would you even want anything else for that?
wrong, people are willing to pay for a good information filter. that filter can take the form of a writer they consider to produce consistent high quality pieces on areas they are interested in.
Clickable: http://www.spottiness.com

No HTTPS? That's kind of a show-stopper. If I were to be a whistleblower, you'd be damn sure I'd go to Wikileaks or other operations offering secured channels.

Oh, and just for the sake of arguing :) Galileo wanted to challenge the religious establishment, and used his academic credibility to do so. The idea that the Earth is not the center of the universe had already been brought up before him, but his tenure (and research) gave a lot more weight to his voice than a mere anonymous opinion.

That said, kudos for starting up. How do you plan to monetize? Advertisement?
Do you have WinXP? I think WebGL is disabled by default in XP because of instability (at least in Chrome).
You lost most municipals with this. Yes, even this is too complicated.
I ordered a replacement toothbrush and a dutch oven to bake my own bread. Not really essentials but I feel like they are serving the purpose of health and isolation.
Can someone explain why I would need a static site generator instead of just writing what I want in html in the first place?
Beating this thing requires sacrifice and it seems very few people are willing to voluntarily do it. There is no reason to despair or panic or be anxious if you are following the proper precautions to prevent its spread.

I think there is just cause for spreading fear until people get it into their heads that this is serious and behave accordingly, at which point the focus needs to switch towards keeping people optimistic and healthy in isolation without social interaction.

The alternative is millions of deaths and a collapse of our medical system.
cough There's a fair few of us - yes, even in R&D, that feel equally strongly supportive of Terminal.app, vi, and command-line tools.

And as someone on the inside, who knows the answer to this story (nope, not telling) it's interesting to read the conjecture :)
Assembly in a Pentium environment even more so. I normally buy these but this one did not look too useful.
So, I'm not to trust a government - which is fair; I don't - but a totally unsourced and unverifiable Reddit post is 100% okay? When its claim is that the CCP is competent enough to enforce the murder by starvation of two innocent people, while the existence of the post that makes the claim implies that the CCP is too incompetent to prevent word of such a crime getting out, even to the point of issuing an official document to prove they're doing it?

Do you see what I mean about seeming like a conspiracy theory? Heinlein's Red-baiting about Soviet cosmonauts unpersoned when their early space capsules failed and stranded them, despite being nonsense, had at least the virtue of originality. But that was over half a century ago. I'd like to hope our standards have risen in the interim.
I got a vacuum and chapstick in two days. Maybe all things health and cleaning are prioritized? I have no idea.
"And America is, of course, an intensely religious place - something that is not difficult to trace to its foundation by a band of hardy religious zealots."

This is such a wildly common bit of historical illiteracy, often reduced to "a nation founded by Puritans".

The Puritans founded settlements in one region. Many other groups, often not religious in structure at all, started all the other settlements that together grew into the 13 original colonies.

And whatever happened to the Puritans? Well, their descendants for the most part are the residents of Massachusetts, not exactly the most right-wing or "intensely-religious" bunch.
What is Google's position on phones being rooted for the sole purpose of acquiring pirated apps? From where I'm sitting it seems Google is not doing anything to discourage this and is implicitly saying that the ad-driven revenue model is the way to go, natch.
Before I read the article, I was thinking talent acquisition... now... I don't know what to make of it.

Sensationalism perhaps?
I was speaking in more general terms, (and that was an excellent quote to use). My post was about the singularity in general not this article specifically.

BTW: The idea of a Spamularity is hilarious! Especially since I don't believe in the singularity.
neat! i imagine that the network effect issue will be the most important. is there a vertical where this type of economy makes particular sense?
ok. what do you have, openid? or just an email?
thanks, veb! unfortunately, we've only had a couple of paid customers. but perhaps the social proof issue is the most glaring so i'll work on that. if you submit your startup, and i do a good job, you could write great things about me and i'll put it on the site.
That plus Dokku could make for a nice Heroku clone/replacement. Was a bit buggy when I tried it a year ago, but the main dev has been sponsored by Deis to support the project for about a day a week now, so I'm guessing it's still going strong.
The issue that OP is concerned with is that those who are displaced don't necessarily have the means to relocate to an area and remain in the same living situation they were previously in. When you uproot lower-income residents from their existing social structure, which may have served as their safety net, where are they supposed to go? They may relocate physically but the economic and mental/psychological strain from being forcibly moved may have detrimental consequences that we haven't properly taken the time to understand.

'Progress' and residential gentrification are not necessarily evil things, but they become destructive when the people moving in have no interest in maintaining social services for people other than themselves. If the tech sector wishes to maintain the image that it is an industry with a 'heart', it would behoove those of us working in it to inform ourselves as to the consequences of our economic decisions.
At the moment fine art is perhaps the most bubbly asset on the planet. The wealthy are clamoring for exotic plays to invest their cash in.

A acquaintance of mine who is an art-handler tells me much of the art they move is stored in warehouses in New Jersey solely in the hope that it can be resold at a vastly inflated price in the future.
If LabVIEW was perfect we might not have to build all this. Execution matters :-)

I've written about this in http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/noflo-kickstarter-launch/
It doesn't solve "the whole problem". It won't help with any sort of batch processing, nor with the latest game trying to squeeze every bit of performance out of the hardware.

Worse, it may actually encourage bad behavior by applications. We already have problems with applications draining batteries unreasonably fast on mobile devices because they implement features in ways that look "fast enough" interactively, but under the hood are an unnecessary power drain. Now such inefficiencies can be even less obvious!

There's a lot more to practical application of this than tossing some wax on a chip.
"I am all for getting more non-programmers programming..."

May I ask why? I completely disagree with that statement and all the initiatives pushing that agenda.
My guess is that the car companies haven't figured this out. It takes two steps of reasoning: 1. Figuring out that self-driving cars are practical in the medium term and 2. Figuring out that widespread availability of self-driving cars means that people might not want to own their own.
This is admirable and pretty cool that they have the staff who came together to relish the challenge and developed the expertise to refurbish the mishmash of parts.

>All told, an aircraft like Caroline takes roughly 5,000 mechanic hours to become flight-worthy.

For a site like HN, the above quote sounds so improbable when applied to software.
Those attacks have the elegance of a sledgehammer and the content of a plastic bottle washed off on a beach. I am utterly uninterested.
After seeing the post I linked, I searched the Googles in vain to find a wisp of what he was referring to. It's perfectly fine to not break confidences, but you can't call someone "bat-shit insane" and then demurely say you won't cast aspersions on him; that horse has left the barn.
I really like that idea. That way it would be completely up to the application creator to make the experience of organizing data make sense in context.
You may be rare, or haven't done much yet. I've been in software dev in some capacity for about 17 years, and have been stiffed myself a couple of times, and I've had companies I've worked for been stiffed too. In some cases it was for a lot of money, in some cases very little. If it hasn't happened yet, it probably will at some point. It's not guaranteed, but I don't think I know anyone that's been at this for more than 5 years that hasn't had client payment issues at some stage.
FYI: Deceptive title. I thought this was going to be about reproductive stuff, not jet lag and sleep disorders.
I don't understand what you mean. Do you mean cool F# things? All the work of Tomas Petricek is way cool. Outside of .NET there is of course tons of cool stuff, like Clojure, Rails, Haskell stuff, the recent fuss about Yacc is Dead etc.