jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Not quite 99F (which is like 37C) but Singapore is VERY humid compared year round (as opposed to 4 months) of ~90 F (32 C). On many days I've seen "feels like 39 C" on google weather. Despite all that, car ownership is 12 per 100 people. People rely heavily on public transit, which is air conditioned (AC seems to be their sin, but it's definitely more efficient than AC in every car on top of burning gas to get it to move around).

I think as you allow as a possibility in the end of your reply, it's not like it can't work, but non-ebikes and scooters might become a bit much for some people unless there's copious cover.
The other day, I just made my first, something a lot similar: postgres+nginx+python+php, but yours is much more proper than mine. Yours is the example I really needed, thank you
Doesn't have to be entirely slab sided, but going on the couple of people I know using pickups for work, they have added no end of toolboxes, winches, custom mounts, light bars and such so they can do their job miles from anywhere in the dead of night. The lovely clean stealth lines without a horizontal surface in sight of the Tesla seem entirely unfitted for being actually used for real work...

0-60 wouldn't care about drag much at all. Highway cruising would.
It will end once central banks figure out how to create 2% CPI inflation more efficiently. If you want to do the biggest short possible on Bitcoin your best bet would be to figure out how to convince governments and central banks to solve the problem once and for all. The easy money will be gone and the bubbles will drag the value of Bitcoin down instead of up.
> You are 100% incorrect. Not your keys, not your coins.

Yes, I know the theory but saying this 10000x times does not change the fact that for some use cases, it might be the wrong decision. I feel the crypto community is WAY too dogmatic about this.

The beauty of the way cripto is working is that it can be both ways. You can control your keys as much or as little as you want.

If things were the way you say, crypto would not be what it is today. Simply wishing that things were this way or say that they're "using it wrong" feels silly to me.
To give via PayPal with no fees for Signal: https://www.paypal.com/fundraiser/charity/3675786
> if a competitor takes interest in your space and has a large war chest, you'd be powerless to compete with them

If that were true, every single company that had more money to spend would always win. But that's not what's observable. There seem to be other factors at play that don't always center around money.

> no new company that starts with the environment you are describing is going to be successful.

That would mean no upstart could ever compete in the same space any established player. But again, that's not what's observable.

It appears to be much more multi-faceted than just "he who has the most money always wins."
That looks really cool! I hope they finish it.
> I suppose this is the 21st century equivalent of TPing houses or stealing the mascot.

Though, literally speaking, both of these require more cleanup than this "hack". TP-ing requires someone to clean up, and stealing the mascot requires investigation+recovery, or re-issuing.

This is e-graffiti prosecuted as cyber-war/terror/...
This a fun challenge! Check back this comment in 10 years if I built it. We are doing some work in AI that could have a shot.
Here's a link to the patent clause: https://github.com/facebook/fbcunn/blob/master/PATENTS

DannyBee, I'm having a hard time envisioning what sort of scenario might trigger this, and what the repercussions might be. Any chance you could explain?
Evolutionary psychology fits this paradigm.
A pyramid scheme means the main way to make money is by recruiting more people to join the scheme. And the only way to obtain the privilege to recruit people is to pay to join.

The main way to make money on udemy is by selling courses (your own, or other people's as an affiliate).

> Earlier members get bigger payouts

I don't see how this is true.

> Udemy is making $0 off the first recruiting member, which would otherwise be unsustainable, if it weren't recovering that money off future members

It is called a loss leader. Supermarkets do this, they are not pyramids.

P.S. I know someone will think it, but it is not a Ponzi either :-)
> Nobody is told about any of this. If they were, that would itself need to be factored in, and quite possibly lead me to prefer specks.

Exactly. My whole contention is that the reason this question is considered unintuitive by so many people is that they're really considering a different question to the one you think you're asking.
Oh yes, I see now. Actually, that was one of the few things I missed in Blender coming from Softimage. Not too much, though, but I do appreciate the power of a unified editable operation stack/pipeline for bigger projects.
I was also told by the HN crowd that Facebook is a fad that would never make any money :)

The best investments always take a long time. Fortunately we are very patient investors, happy to fund "crazy" things like nuclear fusion and cancer treatments.
Yep, can't believe I forgot to mention that feature! Mouse-less navigation is the best.
Hi guys, founder here. We'll be hanging out in this thread all day to chat with you guys about what we're doing. Ask us questions!
Couldn't get past eight, but what a fun idea!!

As an extra challenge I followed these rules:

1) Elevators cannot inspect the state of other elevators

2) No Hacking the games internal apis

3) No timeout callbacks
Google prefers users upload data to the cloud for Google's custom software to analyze
Is there a difference when it comes to Bitcoin that makes it unique? In your example the majority of gold exchanges are regulated, arent they (if not, lets use a stock exchange as an example instead)?

In that situation the bad actor is unregulated, and the others are all regulated. With Bitcoin the opposite is true - only one exchange is regulated. Does this matter?
There's a significant chunk of folk who will not hit on anyone at all because they have no confidence or social skills. We get along just fine without them.
Sorry if this is a silly question but I've always thought of C as generating machine code and it had compilers available in any imaginable platform besides perhaps really niche stuff.

Were my assumptions accurate?
Nit: you don't need to specify kotlin stdlib since Kotlin 1.4
I deeply regret clicking this. I've never worked with FAANG however I've been through 5-6 interviews. The way I see it, it's material that can be studied/recalled but you can make much more difference in your life with that amount of energy, unless you're a new graduate OR your job is interviewing other people. I understand the side effects that study can bring on to help ease the pain, though it won't work if you only rely on knowledge alone. That's where experience/context helps. Just be aware that fangs are not a measure of what a best software engineering can be, they're the ones make use of their branding well as a high entry wall. So please do yourself a favor and don't take the harsh to your heart, keep enjoying what you do.
Big lockdowns last year definitely made an impact in England and Italy. I expect it will be the same now. What failed here in UK was the regional approach, the continuous attempts at unfounded optimism, and the attitude that covid-related rules were just another game to play and cheat at (like a minster saying that a scotch egg is “a substantial meal” which can justify going to the pub...).

The population doesn’t take the message seriously unless the gravity of the situation is stressed and the necessary plans are clear, simple, consistent throughout, and ruthlessly enforced. When most of that happened, lockdowns worked.
I would say the more relevant consideration is whether the existing American states want Puerto Rico to formally join the Union.

Puerto Rico may want statehood, but Turkey also wants to join the EU. In both cases the decision lies in DC or Brussels, not San Juan or Ankara. Puerto Rico may be a protectorate, but I don't think that formally entitles them to Union membership. That being said, if the US refuses to grant them statehood, they should be free to seek sovereignty as an independent nation.

All that aside, my rough estimate is that 90% of the Continental US interest in PR statehood is motivated by political calculus in the Senate and Electoral College. If PR was a red state instead of solid blue, I'd sincerely doubt you'd see statehood regularly discussed at the top of /r/politics.
We do ask them to put a "mask" on their penis if they are having sex though, and most do. Yet still there are people that can't put a mask on their face.

Incredible.
I'm shocked that many of the comments here are dismissive of the seriousness of the situation. I thought the HN crowd would be more rational.
Well, it's a good thing the moratorium on federal executions is gone if they can charge and convict Trump of treason.
If there were poor doctors who had to drive for Uber eats after hours we would be hearing about it
Even the unreasonable and the crazy are likely to have better outcomes if treated with some dignity rather than open rudeness. I'm not saying I'm great at it, but "I think you're wrong, here's why, maybe we can find the root of our disagreement in either differing values or differing/incomplete data" probably works better than "you are an idiot" or "your views are idiotic".
It could very reasonably be seen as a violation of the principle of free speech as well. But it's not a violation of the first amendment. We need both of these concepts so we should be careful.
Police have already killed one of the protestors and liberally sprayed many with pepperspray. What else do you want them to do to the protestors?
Is this one of those tests where you hire the first person to call out your BS interviewing technique?
The best we can hope for is people attempting to take their personal bias out of reporting and investigate the full story, especially when what happened contradicts their worldview. Real journalists do this. News Corporation (Fox News/WSJ/etc) specifically does the opposite.
"UPDATE 3: CNBC reports the Securities and Exchange Comission is monitoring the situation."

Wow, CNBC, what would we do without your valuable insight?
I'm pretty sure they don't need any excuse at all. They can just do a "random" screening - which is designed exactly for that.

The only reason to keep screening him over and over is if the detector really did find something, otherwise they are just wasting their own time because of a nebulous feeling.
>You might not be able to move as quickly as with say Node these days

Move quickly, as in? Care to elaborate? What productivity?
Celebrities and big brands already have the audience and distribution network to spread the word about their campaign, so it would seem that advantages of discovery through the Kickstarter community would be comparatively minimal compared to the fees, branding disadvantages, and loss of ability to re-engage those fans and backers post-campaign.

I've backed quite a few projects on Kickstarter, and most of the time I've heard about them through press or because people I know backed them (not by browsing through the listings on KS). I'd imagine that the vast majority of people who ended up backing Kristen Bell or Zach Braff discovered them similarly. Projects like Pebble, Ouya, and Double Fine experience the same effect.

The "hosted on wordpress.com" approach would take care of the tech stability/overhead while still giving those interested in more control a way to self-host. Look at guys like Louis CK, who've been able to do millions of dollars in sales through their site - a Crowdhoster type option seems much more attractive.
the Pakistani basmati I have instructs to boil the water and then drop the washed rice in. I think it makes it fluffier. really good basmati is light like a feather.
The Linux Kernel is GPLv2 without the "or later" clause.
If I steal an apple from you and grow more apples from it and give them away, there is no difference to the act of stealing your apple and eating it.

As a side note: RMS seams to be totally against "stealing" digital GPLed code.
You can read my other post[1] where I provide some examples.

My examples were porn-related since that's the topic of RMS' post. But they don't need to be.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26722248
Great point ...

I remember reading that, were it not for the carbonation, which - somehow - deactivates that mechanism, we would gag at the amount of sugar in the drink.

Carbonation, in effect, makes the undrinkable drinkable.-
How can this be legal? GDPR compliant?
Intentionally so, because taxing B2B revenue is effectively a financial penalty for not being a huge vertically-integrated megacorp. It means that any goods which have more than one company involved in their production are taxed at a higher rate than ones where every step is done in-house. This is not generally a desirable tax incentive.
And the fastest growing language in China is English.
My bass teacher used to say: "Music theory is not music. It's just a way we have of talking about music."
"IE - Not Available Outside Windows!"

That's all the "native" label means, unless they can show that by making it "native," they get better performance than cross-platform browsers.
A public utility is really just a private company which has been granted the special privilege of legal monopoly, by some combination of state intervention and regulatory capture.

Censorship may be a bad thing on a moral level, but when it comes to the law of the United States - the country in which Facebook operates - it is pretty clear that free speech protections are an imposition upon what the government may legislate upon - NOT a citizen's "right" to avoid censorship. This leaves open the possibility that private firms can legally "censor" people, while also restricting Congress's ability to write legislation that restricts speech.

I am not sure how relevant it is that a service is "paid," or "unpaid." What really matters is whether all parties are dealing with each other voluntarily and not under any form of coercion. As far as I know, by making your Facebook account, you agree to have your speech moderated under their discretion. You do not have to make a Facebook account, after all, and since Facebook is not the only game in town, I do not really see how it can be called a utility. This also disqualifies it from being an example of a public square.
I will not be taking action based on this. I use Facebook and Instagram regularly as do literally everyone I interact with. I have zero concern about integration between Facebook and Whatsapp.
But the ATH increases often. Yes it crashes from these peaks, but never to below the starting point. Bitcoin bought anytime and held for a sufficient length of time would have always made money. If you can hold it for 5+ years you will make money.
Only if you're smart enough to know when to sell and never buy back in.
And that's fine, because the fed can and will simply slow down printing to compensate in the future. The supply of money is very well controlled in the US and in most other centrally banked economies.
>You can't complain about a stupid government, if you have stupid electorate.

The American electorate would like to have a few monosyllabic, badly spelled and probably racist words with you.
Linux. Still Fedora for now, but I'm sort of over Red Hat after ~20 years of using their stuff. May look to switch to a different distro in the near'ish future.
Video encoding uses different hardware and different APIs than GPGPU. FFMPEG can use Intel, AMD, and Nvidia hardware encoding; see https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro
I've heard this so often, and I still don't quite get it. Let's say most of my game objects have a "Position" component, and all the X/Y coordinates are now in one big integer pool. With this setup I can now add 5 to each object's X position really efficiently. But what's the use case for that? Particle systems, and what else?

My game objects always look more like Celeste's Twitter-infamous Player class: https://github.com/NoelFB/Celeste/blob/c32f134d210fcf710d750...

Say about the length of the file what you want, but isn't it actually better for caching that all of the Player's instance variables are in one object, and not stored in components somewhere else?

(Now, maintainability is another issue. But I've always found Ruby-style mixins much easier to reason about than the toy ECS systems I've seen.)
spamgourmet.com

I have been using this since 2002. You don't even have to set anything up - just make up addresses on the fly. It's pretty awesome.
Lol SolarWinds is never going to be able to find an intern again.

Who would want to work for a company that throws them under the bus for the largest hack in recent history
Everything that I have digitally is stored in a Synology NAS and accessed via Plex. Best setup I ever had and works already for years
> allocates lots of typed arrays

Out of curiosity, can you show an example and how it should be done properly?
Had the same process on PayPal 2 years ago, so at least that recently it's still the case.
It's now deployed to fly.io because edge nodes are important. /s
Hi, I'm the author of the blog post being promoted here.

I love that list! I also use Tailscale for a lot of my personal private services as well as Cloudflare Tunnel, I think they're both really great :)

The concern about Cloudflare decrypting the traffic is valid, I just personally feel for a lot of public websites that's often fine especially if the hoster might have been using Cloudflare already anyway. If an individual doesn't want to use Cloudflare for their setup then that's fine and there are lots of cool pieces of tech they can consider!
I do the same on a production app at work, but for a different reason.

Storing confidential data in the hash assures my users that I (the developer) don’t have access to this data, since anything after the hash never gets sent to the server by the browser.

It wouldn’t stop me from sending that information with a post request afterwards but the code is open source and it could be noticed in developer tools.
I can't read about commodity hardware stargazing without my mind drifting to 2bit Astrophotography¹ which used the Gameboy Camera².

If you compare a paper star chart from the Gameboy era to Stellarium³ and a Pixel, then it can only lead you to wonder where we will be in another 20 years.

1. http://pietrow.net/astrogb.html

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Camera

3. http://www.stellarium.org
Does anybody know why the USA hogs the toplevel domain? It's not the only government in the world. It would seem more just to make it more like .com than .edu.
The most frustrating case for me is Readability, whcih swapped out the original links to articles with its own link shortener, then went titsup.com

Even migrating those to Pocket (which I hope doesn't do similarly, though it remains all but useless), I've got hundreds of link-shortened articles I need to track down, one by one.
I’m not sure what you’re saying - that we shouldn’t assess people whose job it is to pick investments with how well they pick investments? Isn’t it supposed to be their skill to be able to pick things without hindsight? Otherwise what are they doing and why don’t they just gamble the money in a casino instead?
OK, I'll just be honest: I had no idea that's how people used rr. I saw demos some years ago and assumed one used it similarly to gdb but with rewind.

I think this is an awesome use case for rewind debugging, that I had never thought of, and look forward to hopefully seeing it run on AMD Ryzen processors in the future, since I've bought into that ecosystem too much to go back already.
Does European privacy law have the same provision? They are removing non-US accounts first, after all.
And to prevent accidentally closing the app you tell the kids to activate “Kiosk mode” for the app, then they have to excuse if the close it. Works on both Android and iPhone.
Don't forget Eric as well. He is one of the trio, who turns Google into what it is today.
Funny! You made me remember some friends who did that. And I still recall some of the replies from people like drama teachers, wondering exactly how much advanced hardware, and at what kind of prices, contributed to the design of a homework report on a short film we had watched in class. Incorporating images from the early WWW, or was it Encarta.

As I recall it was take-home hardware used by a Boeing employee (and his family...).
Look at how Islam Zakat laws, and disallows people from exploiting others. At the same time, it is not communistic nor capitalistic. It's a third pole basically.
From the abstract: "...this article evaluates the following methods to quantify the value of FOSH design including: 1) downloaded substitution valuation; 2) avoided reproduction valuation and 3) market savings valuation along with additional benefits related to market expansion, scientific innovation acceleration, educational enhancement and medical care improvement... The inescapable conclusion of this study is that FOSH development should be funded by organizations interested in maximizing return on public investments particularly in technologies associated with science, medicine and education."
Yeah, this is one of the reasons why I'd be pro splitting up Whatsapp and Facebook/Insta. I don't really follow the monopoly rules, so don't really know when it might be crossing that line. I guess the EU review of these firms will tell us.
I think the question was on the lines of "why do people think it's ok when their country does it but not ok when others do it". The answer if simple: ignorance and cognitive dissonance (hypocrisy?). Ignorance because most aren't even aware their own country engages in the exact same tactics and even far worse. And cognitive dissonance because "I must be good so my opponent must be bad" [0].

[0] https://pics.onsizzle.com/our-blessed-homeland-their-barbaro...
How to be a Hollywood Hacker ;)
Perhaps the rest of the world is less blasé - rightly or wrongly. I do get reminded of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTcAWN5R5-I when I read some comments. I mean... we are telling the computer "draw me a picture of XXX" and it's actually doing it. To me that's utterly incredible.
If I may hijack the Clojure reference, how does Clojure’s core/logic compare to Prolog? Do they broadly fit in the same problem space?
>one insane instruction set extension after another

You're probably going to see a whole lot more of this sort of thing given the limits to process scaling. Keeping things simple and backwardly compatible made sense when you could just throw more transistors at the problem. Now you're seeing more and more specialized circuitry that software people are just going to have to deal with.
I never thought of taxes as property violation. I guess I had perceived these through their original concepts - from the roman right. There a property was rightly yours in the society that considers you a part of it. At your turn, it was your duty to make sure the society that recognizes your rights stays in one piece, which meant protecting it with your life if necessary. That was your contribution to society. Later the citizen's contribution become solely financial and it's somewhat understandable now why it's perceived as a racket. You've suggested that after you die the property should go to society, which is totally outside the roman right tradition and hard to swallow in west. However in east (or at least in China) you may find your suggestion already implemented. I'm not aware of all details, but I remember that a "property" there (like a house to live in) is yours only for a limited time and your children have to buy it all over again!