jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think the expected % of people paying for the entire output varies a lot.

It's pretty affordable to buy the entire output of a band or author if you're a working adult and they're only putting out a $20 release every 2 years - so probably quite a large fraction of their fans buy their entire output.

And subscriptions to magazines are of course commonplace (or were pre-internet, at least)

On the other hand, if you're creating youtube videos, it's normal to have a lot more subscribers than patrons. And if you're making a syndicated TV show, there might not be a single fan paying per piece of work that you produce.
You deserve a bigger audience. Write more! Great story for my friday afternoon work procrastination.

How is it going now? Are you still in this business?
To be fair, many posts are also about pumping stock in a mediocre mall-based video game retailer to get rich quickly.
How different would it be from opening a random site in your web browser?
I wonder if iOS will live to see version 32.
Should drop CSS support while they're at it.
Thinking about why duplicate submission let it through, I linked to the response page, while the parent linked to the contributors page.
Maybe they'll build an asm.js backend for Dart.
_not_ super sure, and many more typos, sorry, too late to edit
> Firms trying to normalize location based pay are trying to short-circuit the law of one price—or at least slow the development of equilibrium by introducing friction

Considering the firms lowering the prices are currently paying far above the median in global wages, they’re doing the exact opposite of short circuiting the “law of one price”.

The whole reason for paying higher than median wage was the friction of being geographically located in high demand areas.
This is great stuff. Accurate, succinct, well thought out. Nice job.
IMO you shouldn't really ever be using system provided versions of compilers or programming languages. Linux distros are significantly constrained in terms of which language versions they package because they need to use those versions to package packages which rely on those languages. That, along with the fact that most distros only release every 6 months to 2 years means that you generally have quite out of date versions.

It seems that rustup itself is not currently packaged by debian or other linux distros which seems to be a bigger issue. If you could `apt install rustup && rustup install stable` then that seems preferably in pretty much every way to `apt install rust` and getting an old version.
Here is a nice project :
https://github.com/godot-rust/godot-rust
I mean, on the one hand the readership is higher than that but probably not crazy high. On the other hand, his readers really are fairly influential, so I think he really is worthy of an article in the NYT. (I mean I'm a huge fan of his as well and think he's one of today's leading intellectuals, so I might be biased)

The NYT initially said they wanted to publish his name because of editorial policy. The reported said it was kind of being forced on him because "them's the rules" or something like that.
Credentials + persistence + convenient location to get the ball rolling.

Large number of views/listens thanks to Joe Rogan + extremely safe interviewing style to keep the momentum going.

It's really not all that impressive given the absence of alternatives (try searching Wolfram on youtube and see how many other podcasts show up) - it's more surprising how bad the podcast discovery scene is that almost anyone who self promotes through Joe Rogan and puts in the work becomes a top 100 podcast worldwide.
Hacker news is pretty bare bones - I don't even seen reply notifications. I've temporarily added some contact info to my "bio" if you'd like to discuss in more depth.
> How can Uncle Steve know he should say "call me at 2"?

Um, because that's when he gets off work? If you get up at 16 and go to bed at 8, you say "call me after 16 or before 8". Simples.

> And where I am, the workday would be 1-to-9, the east coast would be 4-to-13, Paris would be 10-to-6, and Bangalore would be 14-to-23. And this system made everything simpler... how?

If you want to schedule a conference call with two of them, you can immediately know what the overlap time is without having to google.
(I assume you meant 10-to-18 for Paris)
This brings back memories of installing DOOM into the printer spool folder because it was the one place on the hard drive that anybody could write to. Also stole an admin password or two back in high school because keyloggers, which weren't even installed with local admin privileges, were perfectly capable of logging keystrokes heading for the login prompt.

At least we've moved beyond this level of naivety these days.
A phenomenon known as "sticky wages" which means (in part[1]) that people are reluctant to quit and get a new job even if an "economically rational actor" would.

1: The definition also includes the fact that employers are more reluctant to lower wages than they are to increase them, all else equal.
Huh. I'm your inverse.

I'm not vegan, or vegetarian, and am probably pretty guilty of "marginalizing vegan choices" in general. I eat a lot of meat and don't intend to stop, and enjoy making fun of "rabbit food" and those who voluntarily subsist on it.

To me, it seems pretty terrible for BK to advertise something which we all know of as "vegan food", and then not have it be vegan. This may sound melodramatic, but to my mind, tricking someone with some dietary restriction (kosher/halal, say) into violating it (by sneaking pork into a dish) is a sort of physical assault. That's pretty much what BK, presumably unwittingly, did here. They should suffer financially for that.
> Why doesn't Google (first) fully open-source...

Because sustainable open source rarely works that way. Sustainable open source projects focus on three things: (1) identify the bits that are common across many applications, (2) establish an open source standard for those bits, (3) sustain the bits by making it easy for other people/orgs to use them & contribute to maintaining them.

Edit: Sometimes a tool like Blender is open source and feature complete. So it seems like “the whole thing” is open source. However, in those scenarios the tool usually replaces a very expensive proprietary tool (Maya, in the Blender example) that is a single step in a larger business process (like making a 3D animation).
> In fact, I'm pretty sure any competitive search engine these has to have a very complex crawler that is more than able to deal with javascript rendered pages.

Save the region-specific engines which likely lag behind, Google [0] and Bing [1] both support crawling javascript, and Bing is generally the search engine index of choice for all other search engines like Yahoo, DDG (at least for now, I occasionally get crawls from duckduckgobot), etc.

0: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/javascript-...

1: https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/october-2018/bingbot-Series...
In Australia I noticed it was in the promotional material that the patty is cooked with meat and that there is some other vegetable patty for people who find this a problem. I guess there are different audiences for the product. The meat is murder fanatics and the people who are looking for more sustainable meat alternatives.
Its comparing 1 dimensional space to 2 demential space. So, any comparison is gong to be a little hand wavy. But temporally, I believe the comparison is apt.
Nothing in my MBA curriculum has taught me that low margins are bad, just that low margins with high capital intensity is bad. At the same time, absolute numbers are critical and should be analyzed independently from margin.
How will it improve your life to work 80 hours a week for 3 cents an hour, living in the USA? What can you purchase with your two dollars and forty cents (before tax) of weekly pay? What job skills will you be learning?
I was looking at the how it works[1] article but it isn't clear to me how the domain is validated.

Couldn't an MITM between the LetsEcnrypt service and the example.com server request a certificate, then respond to the challenge, and then use that certificate later?

Getting a certificate from StartSSL was similar. The only difference was that there was a human involved in the loop (a mail is sent and the user has to copy paste the contents of the email), but in essence, both the services seem vulnerable.

This seems to be an unsolvable bootstrapping problem, unless some sort of physical verification is done.

What am I missing?

[1]: https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/technology/
Genuinely?

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2021/02/12/freebsd_... was thought to be a joke …
I don't see that at all. He's basically saying that the way our governments and banking systems interact with the economy is fundamentally flawed and causes issues.

Getting the timing right is not easy, sure. He was right about 2008.

You may choose to believe that 2008 was an isolated event or it was just another systematic failure.
I think we'll see another one soon, following the way governments treated covid.

I wish Bitcoin would succeed and bring us a step closer to anarchy - but Bitcoin doesn't have any backing and it's not a physical asset which can be used, worst case scenario, as jewellery. Its technology can be replicated entirely by a different coin (and it has, already). Its intrinsic value is null.

The reason the price is so high is because people hope to speculate on it and make money (which they have!) and because people expect the market and currencies to do badly, given the high point they reached. Also, governments' stimuli brought a lot of money in the hands of rich people; this money needs to go somewhere given the risk of inflation, so rich people are investing in growth stocks (eg. tech) and cryptocurrencies.

I'll be honest, I was expecting governments to destroy cryptocurrencies by now, but even without government intervention, I don't see Bitcoin ever holding any value or being stable, without backing. Maybe stable-coins will solve this.

I agree that going back to the gold standard would be an improvement, even better, I'd prefer if private companies could just print and back their own currencies.
Instead of backing currencies with gold, you could back them with different commodities (eg: wood, iron, oil, etc).
The machinery of freedom has an interesting chapter about how such a system may work.
I am extremely surprised at what the other poster is saying. I've had 400+ tabs running and my highest memory usage is 5GB. Some things like Slack will of course be horrible, but it's the same as Chrome.
This "most people don't keep it off" soundbite is usually based on studies of pathological cases in obesity clinics.

Not the general population.

I'm in the general population. I peaked at 139kg 4 years ago. I've been around 100kg for about 18 months now.
Multiple columns would be fine if the page scrolled horizontally, or if all the content fit nicely on one screen and didn't need to be scrolled vertically, but having columns with vertical scrolling just breaks how I typically read websites.

Typically when reading something on the web I scroll as I go which means that when I get to the end of column one it's in about the middle of the screen. Now I need to scroll back in the opposite direction because the top of column 2 is now off the screen and then read back down again.

It really breaks the flow of reading.
Better yet, which projects have abandoned any project derived from OpenSSL and switched to something else, like gnutls or NSS?

OpenSSL has a rather painfully error-prone programming interface (as in, it's easy to make mistakes that result in serious security holes), and an obnoxious license that's incompatible with one of the most popular FOSS licenses. LibreSSL can't fix the latter, and has a very limited ability to fix the former.
This is where I think the change in environment is important. Food is cheaper, more easily available and calorically denser. Physical activity is down. Sleep quality and quantity have diminished.

Psychologists have done a lot of work on motivations, but mostly focusing on pathological cases which -- by their nature -- are the most difficult and irregular.
Amazing story.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

I use crazy input devices on crazy ways too. Magic trackpad and a 3d connection 3d mouse on a TV arm screwed to the wall along the computer screen so I can work standing up or with a stool.

A a lap-along wearable stenotype device instead of keyboard. Speech recognition for other things.

I can work much better, more comfortable and faster than anybody else after years of training.
>If we'd live under muslim leadership like pretty much all Arabic country we'd have much slower progress with science, technology and human rights.

Algebra is named after the Muslim who invented it. Zero, and the Arabic numeral system, came to Europe by way of Fibonacci, by way of the Muslim world, and revolutionized trade once the Church stopped fearing the concept of zero because it thought it was witchcraft. Muslim scholars also preserved a great deal of the knowledge of the classical world during the Dark Ages, which might have been lost to Europe entirely after the fall of the Roman Empire.

Were it not for Islam, the Enlightenment may not have occurred, or would possibly have had to occur without the influence of Aristotle, Euclid or Plato.

And you can take your last paragraph and switch out Islam with the Church and the relationship between religion and science would be exactly the same. Both religions of the time allowed for the exploration and understanding of the natural world (science) with the caveat that the religion itself was a given. Look up what happened to Giordano Bruno for an example of how much freedom of intellect the Christian world was willing to permit. (TL;DR he believed the sun was merely one star out of many, and that other stars could harbor other planets, and possibly life, and wound up burned at the stake, because obviously that's heretical nonsense.)
Your equivalent title would be equally misleading. It's not because an experiment does not, in one particular attempt at replication, lead to identical conclusions, that a finding is therefore "impossible to reproduce" or bogus.
We are "blessed" with a two party system where the two major parties are both headed up by religious conservatives.
Chase offers SMS notifications for any cash withdrawals (and I believe spending) exceeding a certain amount you can configure, though it's just a "heads up" and not anything you can authorize over the text.

I can't recommend them in good faith, because there are other issues I have with the bank, though nothing involving security.
hey, OP here:

Can anybody confirm this? Even if it's not true, it's a brilliant idea for a business model to increase ad revenues of a service.

Also, Has anybody found the 10x figure for people clicking on pictures to be true?
Sorry, your logic is flawed.
Unfortunately that particular override comes up a lot when doing "smart pointers". Smart pointers are crazy difficult to write and fail in all kinds of subtle ways.
This is not an isolated case either. There are quite a few incidents in print where Feynman shows he had the traditional mindset about females (to put it mildly).

Quoting [1]:
'The charming side of Richard helped people forgive him for his uncharming characteristics. For example, in many ways Richard was a sexist. Whenever it came time for his daily bowl of soup he would look around for the nearest "girl" and ask if she would fetch it to him. It did not matter if she was the cook, an engineer, or the president of the company. I once asked a female engineer who had just been a victim of this if it bothered her. "Yes, it really annoys me," she said. "On the other hand, he is the only one who ever explained quantum mechanics to me as if I could understand it." That was the essence of Richard's charm.'

However, afaik that was mostly because of (b), the general attitudes of the time.

[1]http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A... (Google cache since the original page seems down)
Especially since it's such a poor excuse - these sorts of people do not use standard http to communicate or distribute this sort of content (the dumb ones do but they would just as easy to catch without filters or logs like this).

Good example, hop on TOR and try to access almost any image site such as 4chan as a test. 99% of endpoints are banned for uploading child-pornography or other material while these sorts of users simply look for another exit point.

The government is either ignorant about how these sorts of people actually operate, and how the internet facilitates them, or it really is a Big Brother style solution to put a full blanket audit-at-will on the general population.
I don't think it's necessary to fade out the header and sidebar. The layout is simple enough that having those components at full opacity shouldn't be overwhelming.

Also, while the fully-justified body text produces nice, straight left and right edges, notice that because it's not a very wide column you get some significant spacing between words. If you want to keep it this way, you might look into using a hyphenating javascript library, which will help with the rhythm of the text.
> Everyone who rear ended the car in front of them was an idiot.

This comment is against the HN guidelines.
So people have to authorize the purchase via their smartphones anyway, so why not just have a simple amazon app with the list of your frequent consumable purchases and have a 1 click shop button for what you need? That way you can order it even from work if you remember you are about to go out of laundry soap. Less e-waste waste.
What brudgers said is correct, but I'll add that we're probably going to get rid of comment averages. We've looked at the data extensively and it hasn't proven to have much value. We've phased out the code that used to rely on it, and what's left (which is only for display) is probably not worth the cost.
Firefox was stuck on 360p html5 video before, I'm going to try this asap
I would love to see this reposted non-anonymously, to cite to people.

Also, what does it mean to "design" an open office? There is no architecture.
Thanks for the feedback! It's very important to choose keywords that are strongly related to your app.

However, that a very difficult task to solve with an app, so were sticking to give you an overview over how they are performing. It's up to each user to jugde wether or no his/hers keywords are relevant for the app :)
Thanks! Fixed the typo now :)
At this point in my life, I definitely wouldn't, but that might obviously change in the future.
But what if you could have an Arm & Hammer button, then?
Edit: I missed the subtle joke, I think.
I'm sure they did a little more than that.
Isn't silly nonsense like that supposed to be reserved for reddit? You are of course fully aware that I, and everyone else in this discussion, is over the age of 1.

How is 13% of one micronutrient and 65% of another balanced? In order to get complete micronutrient coverage from ensure, you have to drink 5 a day, putting you at risk of overexposure to manganese assuming you drink water still.
I recently bought a small dual solar/dynamo powered flashlight. 30 minutes of solar power can power the light for 10 minutes, but 1 minute of turning the crank can power the light for 30 minutes.

If the sun is out for say, 12 hours a day, that means it can power my light for 240 minutes. But turning my crank for 10 minutes would power the light for 300 minutes.

Is solar really efficient at all, because wouldn't getting a hand-turned generator get more electricity than waiting for the sun?
This is actually surprisingly hard to do with Macbooks. TrueCrypt currently only supports whole disk encryption for OSX and PGP Whole Disk Encryption's partition encryption is still somewhat experimental. Even if one does get this working, one needs to chain load PGP's BootGuard decrypter after one selects the alternate partition using the default EFI Boot screen when holding the option key - which the relevant bits for EFI configuration are for the most part undocumented and chainloading is not "supported" by the official PGP tools.

The next best option seems to replace EFI Boot with rEFIt and clone the behavior...

I can go on, but maybe you're beginning to see why this quickly turns into a bit of a rabbit hole.
1) http://digest.io - diet manager

2) http://spotted.at - social search
Shouldn't sanitization tools of the kind he is talking about, be in the Python standard library? The os package is supposed to let you deal with OS-specific things in an OS-independent way. Isn't filename sanitization one of those things?

More generally, I think we should have a reasonable expectation that any library/API that gives one access to resources that are dealt with using text (file paths, HTTP requests, SQL stuff, interfaces to a command line, etc.) should include sanitization functionality.

Wouldn't that make a nice general design guideline?
http://github.com/unspace/faux

and:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasb/
Good job guys. I've just started using this in my side projects. Excited!
If the people who told you that were the police, they have a conflict of interest if they don't feel like hunting down stolen cars, which I imagine is policework equivalent of being the guy who gets to tell people to reboot in the IT world. Yeah, it fixed the problem, but it's just going to happen again, in the exact same way, possibly to the same people.

However, and given the more-or-less subject of this thread, it might be a good punishment for bad cops to have to work these cases (no gun or handcuffs) for $2/day.
> Do the plotters use illegal and unconstitutional methods to seize executive power?

I have no clue why the author checks this. The rioters entered a building (which is by the way the seat of the legislative power) and that's it. Even if they had killed everyone inside, that wouldn't have put them an inch closer to seizing the power, as the power is simply not there. Power is alliances and a chain of command, not being in a room with shiny big buttons.

I do agree that Trump's position is ambiguous: one cannot deny that he was probably hoping for more. In that case he would be the only one to have imagined a coup, as the rioters were just a few... impressionables.
Twitter definitely has a moderation strategy and actively is following it. It doesn’t mean it’s 100% but that it’s a good faith attempt to do so. Trying to argue Twitter systematically allows death threats to some people while banning others is an extraordinary claim that you should back up with proof (or remove).
Guess fighting racism gets a pass in a way that overthrowing democracy doesn't.
The second link I mention has some JavaScript implementations, although I have not used them myself.

https://github.com/InteractionDesignFoundation/add-event-to-...
"Defund the police" is such a bad catchphrase, it does all sorts of disservices to the actual proposed measures. It sounds vengeful and petty, not thoughtful. It's also misleading - the purpose is not (or should not) be primarily to make sure police has less funds; it's to make sure social services and other programs have funds. Why not call it "fund social services" instead of "defund the police", instead? ("fund social services" is a bad name, but the spirit is right - focus on the positive outcome, not on how you'll "hurt" the police. If you want to focus on police, focus on how you'll improve their mission and help them do a better job at reducing violence in communities)
Decentralized solutions are hard, harder to monetize, complicated for users to deploy.

Historically users who don't care about their privacy much, are incapable of hosting themselves because their isp sucks and they are technically illiterate, and have little chance of being banned.
I've loved Rush for decades and have seen them several times. I'm heartbroken by the loss of Neil but happy that I was able to enjoy so much of what he did. This article had me tearing up by the end and I'm so very glad I read it.

RIP Neil.