jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much due diligence Google puts into verifying DMCA notices beforehand. And if you wanted to do it "legit" you could create some works with search terms you wanna censor. So like, "Hotel Reservations in X", a photograph of a Ramada Inn. Then get these takedown firms to go spam notices like Wicked did here, and collateral damage ends up removing some of your competitors.

Just seems rather abusable.
Don't they have that already? I see it in the App but never seen it on my PC because of µBlock.

Oh yeah, I hate them. Always to loud. Always unwanted. I'll find a way to block it on my phone too.
If you define it that way then there's almost nothing in the world that would categorize as altruism. Helping kids in Africa? It's only to make yourself feel good. Helping that fallen granny get up? It's to make yourself look good in front of others. Etc. If you go that far, both egoism and altruism will have completely lost their meanings.
When title case confounds, and commas confuse. Took me a while to decypher:

Monster sues Beats Electronics founders for fraud.
Is this ethical? Sure, it is just taking data that is already publicly available (it looks like all of the mugshots are from Arizona's DoC) but it almost seems like mocking sideshow...

P.S. It would be spiffy if you used AJAX to preload the next set of images.
> Pulling code from random developers machines might sound pretty neat

Isn't that just a straw man argument?

To the extent that it applies to distributed version control, it seems like an invented problem (i.e. I don't know anyone who uses a dvcs that pulls from 'random' developers). To the extent that it is true (we are all probably guilty of using code from developers we don't know and have not properly vetted) i t seems like just as much---if not more of a problem---with github-esque projects.

> I often get the impression that what they really love is local commits

That's a really good point I have not considered before. So would you say that git's main contribution to the development community is showing the power of a VCS with local commits? And that's why github is dominating core git?
Ability to: Start small with a shitty demo which can get buy-in from other folks on a team and continue pounding out high-impact features in no time first, to sell the invention to anyone. Then get this demo cleaned up to the point it ships with docs, tests, telemetry in production, and there are no bugs and crashes. Just couple of improvement requests. And when this thing can be enabled/disabled dynamically, and enhanced/expanded for the future without major rewrites.
It's a bit overly clever. I am a huge fan of Peter Norvig (and he was once my skip-level boss), but I'd call this code out in a code review for being obtuse.

Notice that the input, `nums`, is a set. So he's taking the intersection of two sets. One set always has one item, so the result will be a collection with either 0 or 1 items.

It could have also been written as:

first(x * (2020 - x)
for x in nums
if (2020 - x) in nums and x != (2020 - x))

But that has a lot of duplication, so it'd probably be best to just use an imperative approach here and do something like:

def day1_1(nums):
"Find 2 distinct numbers that sum to 2020, and return their product."
for x in nums:
y = 2020 - x

if x == y:
continue

if y in nums:
return x * y
I imagine it's a sharp business strategy some people/orgs use, it's quite a cynical one in my view of course!
Assuming you itemize. For married couples, the standard exemption is $24k. Very few people well end up actually needing to itemize to deduct more than the standard exemption.
IP transit in data centers etc is often a combination of a base rate + extra fees based on the 95% percentile (if that value is over the base rate). E.g. you might buy a 500Mb/s base rate over a 1 Gb/s link, and then end up with a 95% percentile value of 600Mb/s at the end of the month, so you pay an extra fee for the 100Mbit difference. Whereas if you use the link fully for 2 % of the time, but then stay under the base rate the rest of month, you only pay the base price.
If you fail to find a business model and run out of money, will you choose to shut down the business over extracting money from that trust?
Sure, breaking rocks.
Yes. I've lived for several decades in densely populated parts of Tokyo and Yokohama. While many people do have cars in these areas, most walk, bike, or use public transportation for most purposes. I myself have never had a car and cannot even remember the last time I rode in a private automobile in Japan—probably more than ten years ago.

But a few years ago, I started traveling around Japan more than I had before, using only trains, buses, and occasionally taxis. Once one leaves the major urban areas, I discovered, life is nearly as car-centric as in the suburban United States: almost everyone drives, the main roads are lined with big-box commercial businesses surrounded by parking lots, and a lot of people live in places that are unaccessible except by car. Even if a place is served by trains or buses, they might run at only one- or two-hour intervals, making a trip to the grocery store a half-day errand.

An interesting business I learned about recently is individually owned parking spaces that are leased out in fifteen-minute increments to people who reserve them through a smartphone app [1]. My own house in Yokohama has a small parking space that we never use, and my daughter has suggested that we sign up to lease it out through that service. Some of our neighbors have done so already. The business is feasible because there is no free parking anywhere nearby.

I know someone who works for a company that runs a similar business for bicycle parking spots [2].

In Japanese only:

[1] https://www.akippa.com/

[2] https://www.min-chu.jp/
Having built the system I can probably answer some of those questions.

The cloudfront solution won't work because you need to push from s3 and as we found out during the previous sale that can take up to 20 minutes. That's no fun for anyone, believe me. I'd be pretty reluctant to ever use cloudfront again.

Gae cut you off at 500 rps - they downgrade you back off billing. You can apply to have the limit lifted, which we did but they didn't lift it for us.

There are other things too, like it can be a struggle to update content in a bucket when it's under significant load.

I'm sure everyone looks at the architecture and thinks it's overengineered but we got burned previously and just wanted as much stability and redundancy as possible. It's an interesting problem too, how to survive DDOSing yourself on a monumental scale.

Ultimately we ended up with a stable system at negligible cost and didn't get slated on twitter. That's good enough for me :)
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Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.
I love JavaScript!!

I have no idea how boring and where dynamic web-paging would be today without JS!
This will only get worse, and the US has no issue with doing this with International sites. Remember rojadirecta.org? It's a Spanish site, owned and operated in Spain, that fought for 3 years a legal battle, and won. Then the DOJ just came and in one day seized the domain. No appeal, no warning, their whole legal battle for nothing. They have been offline ever since. The Internet is at the complete mercy of the guys in ICE.
The article fails to mention this but there's probably more reasons why this might be a good idea besides the fact that using JS selectors on page content is a natural fit. Because everything is asynchronous, I suppose there's probably some concurrency benefits, not allowing a slow-responding server in your list to slow down the processing of the other sites you're scraping.
I suspect that if the use of Chuck E. Cheese tokens as a medium of exchange were to become widespread in a given locale (one with the profile of Las Vegas) the Secret Service would take a similar interest.

As it is, come on. Their budget is finite.
I don't want to get too pedantic, and this may be beginning to get off-topic, and for that I apologize. But your example still isn't one of a privilege. What your example shows is that it is easier to concentrate on one thing instead of two or three things. Is time really free if you're choosing to just concentrate on one thing? Joke all we want that being a student is a job, but in most ways it is a job. Maybe not as strict as one, but if you're doing it properly, it should be as consuming as one.
The gas station analogy is a bad analogy -- understand that demand and supply are being balanced real time on the grid. That is not same with a Gas station or a group of gas stations.

A bit more sophisticated thinking is required here -- if you want people to maintain over-capacity, you either pay them during the good times or pay them during the bad times.
There are increasing numbers of days where I think google has hit the "live long enough to become the villain" stage of the story.
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That sounds pretty nice. I would love to chat. You can reach out on "hn`3ld.pw" just replace the ` with the correct email symbol :) This is just a redirect email, the response will come from my gmail account then.
Thanks!
Yes, why not to sell data from dbs, backups, drives? :D
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Well, every service that gets ddosed was once a service that nobody cared about.

But if your service is in a category that attracts ddos (like a forum or game) and you ever get enough traction for someone to care (doesn’t take much), it might surprise you how cheap it is to take you down and how limited your options are against a simple volumetric attack.
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I don't see the death of the file, rather more of them than fewer of them. Underneath all that pretty eye candy it's still files.

What I would love to see is the death of the walled garden, but then again that's probably a pipe dream.

I don't care if I'll be the last guy on the planet to self host his stuff but I can't see moving my email, my files or anything else off into the cloud. Outsourcing responsibility over my digital storage seems like asking for trouble.
The ultimate "tool" for elevated focus for me is napping. A quick 20 min nap completely resets my mind so I don't have whatever random thoughts floating around.

If you are more disciplined than me, meditation in place of napping could work. But napping is easier and more enjoyable to me.

As for brain fog itself, I think proper nutrition is very important. Our body needs many different micronutrients to operate at optimal capacity and many peoples' diets don't meet these.

Lastly, I don't know how true this is, but a chiropractor told me that poor neck posture can result in reduced blood flow to the brain which can reduce your cognitive capacity (i.e. feeling of brain fog).
> Right, but the structure is a secondary concern,

If it was the primary concern we wouldn't be having this conversation, lots of foundations have this structure.

Right now, it is more likely that Facebook would get on the board before I can even donate.
As someone who recently started one of those "Can I walk every street in my city?" endeavors, I've become much more aware of how OSM works, and have gained a lot of respect for it.

This literally shows crowdsourcing of updates in action, and makes me want to contribute more where I can.
Mental fog, for me, is a physical symptom of stress and exhaustion. It has nothing to do with having a clean workspace. This article reads like self-help fluff.

The solutions I've found are get to enough sleep, try not to fill my day with mentally taxing work or meeting and, in a pinch, drink coffee or take paracetamol.
They should try rewriting their forum to be about rust.
Your post claims you are not anti-vax and all it states is how anti-vaccine you are.
There's almost nothing productive in this article so let's try not to amplify its reach by talking about it too much on public social media.

Best way to respond to this is to ignore it.
And to me one of the worst, also recently covered by NPR: the big lies we were told about plastic being recyclable[1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...
This principle applies to individuals, not to the governments. The latter are created by people to serve people and must be open and transparent. The alternative is being corrupt.
i'm curious what the current state of nootropics is compared to 2009. who has some insights on their throwaway?
If often pitch our product as "the online equivalent of a good 'offline' sales person".

An 'offline' sales person also makes a judgement and tailors it's story to that judgement. How does the customer look, what are his questions, what can I upsell, etc etc.
I'm right there with you. It feels like the beginning of skynet
Having recently left Google, GRPC (stubby) was my biggest concern; I spent about two weeks hacking together a good code generator for GoRPC before GRPC came out and obviated the time. Now, I'm glad I haven't bothered with a build system, which was going to be next.

Nice to see a bunch of projects that've been generalizable and heavily used internally finally see the light of the outside world. Now, to start evangelizing them.
In my case the only annoying thing is when male friends ask me in person if I have an Instagram account, it may have pooped as a recommendation because of this, and I categorically deny it... they obviously know that it's just for the thirst, but I deny it nonetheless.

I think Instagram has an option to not show your number and not to appear in recommendations, but I'm sure it doesn't work.
We're already there with WebAssembly SIMD & WebGPU. I don't know how to interpret it any other way than "exposing hardware" to the browser interface. And I have ANR'd my own machine required hard reboot. What I think could become standard is a modal pop up warning. In the same manner that WebRTC media streams requires explicit permission to access a users web camera. Herein lies dragons, abandon all hope and enter at your peril.
> The amount of painful ReCaptcha interactions

I've found that clicking the Headphone icon and transcribing the few words makes this a much less annoying experience (especially as a non-American [1]). It also seems more forgiving of errors, though the audio is pretty clear anyway.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25226805
You do need to take them every so often to stay certified. This cartel isn’t for slackers, come now.
(I jest - half my family is in the medical business. I studied economics for a while)
I missed the context of the parent comment. In that case you would be using stolen CCs or something like that to buy the gift card codes. Then you'd use the gift card balance to buy the "book" from Amazon with proceeds going to an account you control. The charge-back will go to the gift card seller if the $5-50 transaction is noticed at all.
> Everybody I know is on Whatsapp/Signal...

Same, and in addition, everyone I know has since moved to Instagram. I think what Google+ wanted to do with "circles", Twitter and Instagram did it more elegantly with "follows".

Reading between the lines of this presentation at f8 [0], I think, even Zuck's resigned to the fact that Facebook the company is now all about WhatsApp and Instagram.

The more I think about the WhatsApp deal, the less it makes sense for Jan and Brian to have cashed out. It could have been a different world had they not.

[0] https://youtu.be/U8SXVlfh5k0
It absolutely have to do with culture. "Manliness" is out of fashion (in the context of media communication). The current decade is all about being ironic, sassy and at the same time vacuous. Think of pop music at its peak.

At the core of the problem, We've probably lost a lot of good UI designers in position of decision from last generation. This reflects on what is considered the "correct" way to make software UI nowadays. Note that blink unicorns are not necessary for a interface to be childish. Oversized buttons, lack of power features and the constant need to "reinvent" is a frenzy that gets some folks mad too.

Particularly about the tool, I think this has some cool features that gets wanned by the backgrounds choice on the video pitch.
Fair enough. I think that the community aspect is a competing theory here - or even a complementary one. I've personally (face-to-face) dealt with conspiracy believers that tend to be isolated in their beliefs, but I totally buy that for many, it's the shared belief that matters, almost regardless of what the belief is even about. This also has support of some sociological research I remember reading.

About the Doctorow's idea, I don't know. Do we have increased amount of conspiracies? Or perhaps just a perception of it? Or maybe we're constantly exposed to micro-conspiracies - namely all the businesses, big and small, scheming how to one up each other and screw up their customers - that make people prone to see conspiracies everywhere?
You just proved the GP's point. Whether the hierarchy is flat or not is irrelevant, they still have the bureaucracy around leveling and authority/responsibility.
Or won't agree on the definition of white collar crime and if push comes to shove to implement a low they'll likely leave some loopholes, maybe not intentionally, maybe so and the big corporate criminals will find ways to come unscathed
Ideal scenario for free market capitalist.

Low regulations AND low government involvement.

So lots of people can build widgets. Companies that do a bad job find they have no customers.

New companies pop up, do a better job and things get cheaper and or better.

High regulations means that new companies need massive capital to enter the market. So much so that no one bothers.

When only 1 company builds a widget. Well odds are it’s going to be low quality and expensive.

Now this all has to balanced that you don’t massive unsafe planes flying around by companies that have no reputation to preserve.

Whoops, we took out the Golden Gate Bridge, again. We will go out of business and company mark 3 will try again
> most elected US officials are corporatists and not willing to bite (or even upset) the hand that feeds them

This seems like a clear fact, and yet many will call you a conspiracy theorist for pointing out the obvious. It's probably a symptom of the tribalist aspect of red vs blue. People need to be de-programmed of the team sports to finally realize that their "side" is beholden to corporations and not the people. Only then will we see real action to criminalize white collar behavior.
Hitchens isn't exactly covering himself with glory here. On multiple occasions he defended David Irving's historical work (and not merely his right to publish it).
Capitalism can only give us better products. It can't solve societal issues requiring political leadership to step up.

That said, in a perfect world Apple would build commuter and cargo e-bikes and heavily lobby for federal transportation policy changes which make it easier to claw back roadway for safe, protected bike/ped use.
If you put your phone far enough away to capture your movements, I don't think you'd be able to play a game like fruit ninja. It's a different form factor.