jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
EDIT: inaccuracies, see below.

Moxie is also using his position as the creator of Signal to promote and integrate his pet cryptocurrency project MobileCoin as a payment provider for Signal, of which he owns a majority stake in.

Technical merits of MobileCoin aside, it's not a good look.

Signal is really not inspiring confidence right now.

EDIT: Sorry, Moxie is only serving as a paid technical advisor to MobileCoin--it is not his project and presumably does not own stake in MobileCoin. So that's better, but remains to be seen what enfolds.

Found a summary of events here if anyone can confirm:

1. MobileCoin premines 250m coins

2. Moxie gets paid for being on their advisory board

3. Moxie directs his non-profit to integrate MobileCoin in secret

4. MobileCoin offers 1/5 of their premine for sale.

5. Signal announcement spikes price to $60

https://twitter.com/lrvick/status/1379536536459431937
You need a temporary space of 312GiB to "plot" which is RAM intensive(~4GB min, more if you parallelize) and disk I/O bottlenecked(serious Chia farmers put their temp on an SSD), but finished plots are 101.4GiB each and are just files accessed occasionally, so you can fit a dozen or so on a 2TB. If the drive goes, so do the plots, but the cost is just the time to replot so you probably don't need a backup strategy.

Plotting tends to be a bottleneck - hours to finish one in my experience, though that is with using the storage drive for the temp space. But even with 26 plots(2.5 TiB) I have already earned 4 Chia in a few weeks.
Einstein: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
The future of bureaucracy.
I'm pretty sure (unverified claim) that the "cold" description got linked with the illness in pre-germ-theory-of-disease days, where being outside in the cold for too long would imply one "caches a cold" when they feel ill the next day.
Actually, bitcoin proponents can agree with 99% of what this guy is saying. The only thing that is not accurate is when he mentions counterparty risk: Signal is planning to add a non-custodial wallet, therefore there's no counterparty risk (granted, no counterparty risk of magical shitcoins, but yeah, no counterparty risk).

Signal did a bad move here, but they will learn their mistake eventually: once they remove shitcoin support and add bitcoin support.
If what you're primarily building is a web page with light interactivity, there's nothing wrong with jQuery (or a more declarative modern alternative like Alpine.js). React et al are intended for applications with enough complexity that trying to manage it procedurally becomes miserable and unmaintainable.

There's a lot wrong with how npm is used (primarily the never-ending recursive dependencies making proper auditing of the code you use all but impossible), but including tons of script tags on every page and hoping you got the right plugin order without introducing any conflicts was hardly the pinnacle of development.

There are two problems with modern JS, imo. First is all the people insisting you need to use some grotesquely complex setup running on Kubernetes to host a blog that gets a hundred page views per month. The second is that most frontend frameworks want to take over your entire app, and in some cases really want your backend to be running node too. It's usually possible to start small and enhance as you go, but it's not easy.
It seems any platform/app/software moving forward has the "risk" of incorporating a cryptocurrency variant to their platform and I can't totally blame them for it since they want to get funded one way or another. But why not open avenues for donations as well? Wikipedia managed to do so, Khan Academy is doing it, WhatsApp used to do it.

Someone here mentioned Keybase, which I would have gladly donated to as a heavy user back before the Zoom buy out. They instead tried their own crypto integration, then Zoom bought them, leaving that platform in a questionable state.

I get the excitement of wanting to integrate or even create your own crypto but after the fiasco a few years ago where everyone and their parents spun a new variant it seems to have left a bad taste to most people while causing a major issue: how to get people to actually use it? Especially through a chat app where chat in itself is fragmented.
A gamma-ray burst killing Earth could also kill Mars. I don't know but perhaps the death ray could be as wide as several sun systems.
I tried krisp a year ago but aside from the price, if I'm remembering correctly the thing that scared me off of it was that it seemed to render japanese speech unintelligible, as if it had only been trained on english. The nvidia one is the best but the open source ones are probably also better than krisp.
This will be downvoted by HN overlords. Anyway, thanks for sharing.
If you pay from Walmart Pay app, with any card, receipts get added to your account automatically.
So Musk has gone from saying the "coronavirus panic is dumb" (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1236029449042198528) to now making ventilators.

Going from zero to manufacturing medical grade equipment is non-trivial. Even once you have the equipment there are going to be staffing shortages in hospitals. Patients on ventilators need to be constantly monitored. You don't just plug them in and leave them.

Musk's downplaying of the seriousness of COVID-19 hasn't helped anyone.
Currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22652141
You should actually test drive one. I've yet to meet an owner ask for more buttons or knobs. In fact, it's the opposite. With the new NLP voice commands, eyes and hands stand where they need to be.
> Free markets are a good thing.

And yet a free market has never existed.
Well, this analogy is not useful.

The point is that it is okay for some devices to not run arbitrary code. There is no reason the iPad really needs to do that, other alternatives are available and most people do not need or want them.

Building things requires tradeoffs, and the iPads make a reasonable tradeoff here.
@josegonzalez, thanks so much for all of your work on Dokku and for being so responsive in the community for the last couple years. We tried Flynn at one point and had enough issues we moved back to dokku within 2 months and have been happily living on it for years now. You helped me directly with an issue with DB naming at one point, much appreciated!
Readme from before the change: https://github.com/flynn/flynn/blob/2c20757de8b32a40ba06f7e5...
Oh, excellent timing! I've got a question for Ben Lynn, who will hopefully show up here to answer questions.

I'm in the early stages of porting my decade old Flash Wireworld player ( http://rezmason.net/wireworld ) to HTML5 ( http://rezmason.github.io/wireworld-player ), and I was planning on finally tackling a HashLife based implementation down the road.

May I use or adapt your Wireworld HashLife implementation for my project? Also, can I brainstorm with you the likely characteristics of other types of optimizations?
I am not saying it is the case, nor understand details of solution in depth to comment on it, but in analogy, this reads to me, like an yelling at person who figure out how to solve rubix cube puzzle steps, because once steps are known solution is simple.
- If something benefits Amazon, it's legitimate.

- If somethings doesn't benefit Amazon, it's abuse.

Their double standards are disgusting.
Is your work publicly available somewhere?
That's fair, but I guess the people who will feel sad about this are the ones who know what it is/was. I remember back when it was being developed, along with Deis and later, Rancher. But the shadow of Kubernetes has caused them all to wither. :(
> if the cpu is pegged, the computer drops keystrokes

not only that, but ive seen bluetooth stack blow up and loose all connections to my keyboard/mouse under those circumstances as well

> Xcode manages to make eclipse feel lightweight and snappy.

its been slow since xcode 4... never really recovered from glomming interface builder into the ide
Disclaimer: I work for Apiary.

API Blueprint [1] is an open source API description format which can be used to intuitively describe an API.

MSON [2] is a recent addition to the above format which makes it easy to describe all kinds of complex requests and responses in the spec.

You can email me at pavan [at] apiary [dot] io if you have any more questions.

[1]: http://apiblueprint.org

[2]: http://github.com/apiaryio/mson
Let's cut to the chase here... what's the Weissman score?
> A problem with social isolation of groups leads to tension between groups.

I don't know. It seems like having mutually exclusive social norms together leads to tension between groups. Obviously both happen, and history is filled with examples of both.
This looks like fun!
It seems that the copied champions are simulated in every run. As long there is no random influence you can probably skip this simulation, as the simulation of the champions is also most likely the most CPU intensive.

EDIT: Grammar.
Some Monday motivation if you haven't started something you've been wanting to for fear of failure or wanting it to be perfect the first time. ;)
> The biggest part of any "elite" university is being surrounded by similarly high achieving people, to learn from and be motivated by.

While this is a common belief (and many people, before I went to MIT, were very effusive in telling me how much it would benefit me), my experience is that it is a myth (or at least it was at MIT when I was there). Of course there were high achieving people at MIT when I was there, but there were also plenty who were not; overall I don't think the distribution of motivation was much different from high school. (Motivation is not the same thing as grades: most of my fellow students at MIT got straight A's in high school for the same reason I did, that for us, high school was simply not that challenging academically, so we could be lazy and still make the grades.) As for what I learned from my fellow students, I can't say I learned nothing (since, for example, learning what pot smells like counts as learning something), but I don't think I learned anything significant academically that I wouldn't have learned from my peers at a less selective school.
"the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him;"

- the 6th amendment

When did this stop applying?
"Sprite Fiber+, a no-sugar drink with dietary fiber and the flavor and refreshment consumers expect from Sprite, was launched in China.

Coca-Cola Batch Blends Coffee and Chocolate, a no-sugar beverage combining refreshing Coca-Cola taste with chocolate and real coffee from Brazil, was launched in Vietna (sic)

smartwater alkaline, which is ionized to ensure the pH level is 9+, was launched in select U.S. markets. [...]"
Who are those people at SoftBank that invested billions in WeWork?! It's not like that WeWork was ever to become Google or something close to it.
So what organization are you the CEO of? Is it a for-profit entity? What is that entities relation to the protocol?
Can we fix this headline? The implication that Yoshua Bengio has resigned from Google is extremely misleading. (If you don't follow the field, the equivalent in politics would be something like "Biden calls for probe into Google" and it turns out it's not Joe Biden, the US president, but Ashley Biden, his daughter.)
Well, it was supposed to be a joke, but I now realize that it was in bad taste, so I apologize.
Monero is clearly the most practical secure coin as evidenced by it's popularity on the darknet. But I think what MobileCoin offers is speed.
You're totally right. But you can choose also to use xz or bz2 for smaller files if you have spare cpu/memory.
When bond rates go negative, 0% keeps people neutral.
I've seen a few projects that have used the JupyterLab UI for other projects as a simple interface - it looks really neat and slick.

I just wondered if anyone has any ideas how you go about this as I've been drawing a blank.
how do you install python libraries using this?
I released WDR (Web Data Render) a few days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25352385 and now I'm working on a blog platform around this concept.

I also created an open-source project called Evaluatly (https://evaluatly.com) to create dynamic multipage stories.

Co-founder or not, I'd love to chat with anyone interested in these projects. gpiresnt at gmail, or DM on twitter on my profile.
The Democrats have placed economic sanctions against Iran every day the party has been in power for the last forty years.

(so have the Republicans)
If curious see also

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8105643

also 2014, but just one comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8105431
What's the news on that collaboration with CyanogenMod? Will they use TextSecure as the default texting app, or will they create something new?
unfortunately i do not qualify for an H1B visa yet. together with my 7 years experience, i need at least 2 years of studying...
I think that's a very good analogy.

However once we accept that delicious is going to close, the question remains, what happens to the data?

The publically available (non-private) bookmarks, tags and notes should continue to live. Perhaps a dataset could be made available in some way, eg via torrent?

This is would be a brilliant wikileak!
I see it as an easier way to carry around and access an object I already have to charge a couple of times a week (and it just looks cool).
See http://www.youtube.com/user/QuestVisual for QuestVisual YouTube channel and explanatory video.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/word-lens/id383463868 for direct iTunes link.
There are some that dabble in a limited fashion. e.g. D-Wave, which has attracted the business of companies like google.

However, private companies typically do not engage in long-term research that isn't likely to lead to directly commercializable results. I know this flies in the face of red-blooded 'merican "all socialism is evil" doctrine, but public sector research, funded by tax-payer money, is needed to build the foundations for tomorrow's industries. Quantum computing, like many other bleeding edge fields, is too immature, too high-risk, and with pay-offs that are far too distant for the private sector.

Research and education are both investments that can yield fantastic returns, but they are long-term investments and require steady commitment rather than periodic outbursts of zeal punctuating long periods of apathy. A minor cut now might help balance the books today, but the lost opportunities down the road will more than negate that.

Top researchers don't hang around after you cut the funding they run their labs and pay their students and post-docs with. They go where the money they need to work is, and if they can't find that in the U.S., they'll likely find it in Canada, China, Australia, etc.. The U.S. is far from the only country doing quality research in QC these days.
Today I put together a WordPress plugin/theme to import delicious bookmarks and make them browsable at http://b.cuppster.com/ and a little write up at http://goo.gl/7lus7

Anyone interested in me posting this code? turning it into a collab. project?
He has already sent out an update saying they're considering making a bluetooth adapter that suits the style of the watch. I hope they do, i'm one of the people eagerly awaiting my LunaTik and bluetooth would top it off perfectly.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1104350651/tiktok-lunati...
Check out dyson's website. They don't even list fans on their product page. It's just variations of air purifiers. They are all advertised first and foremost as purifiers.

https://i.imgur.com/GaYU6ZD.png

https://www.dyson.com/air-treatment
It's similar to Applescript in that it's a "read-only" language.
I wonder. Even with the (loud) minority of extreme fanboys, I'd argue that most fans probably know more about Tesla's strategy and the current tech than most others.
Yeah “restroom attendants” are definitely a thing in the US as well. I used to think it was stupid but from the club owner’s point of view it probably helps a lot to avoid vandalism, drug use, etc. that might otherwise occur in the bathrooms. I do end up seeing a lot of people just not wash their hands because they don’t like feeling obligated to tip the guy for handing them a paper towel.
Solana, Algorand, and Cardano are examples of smart contract blockchains whose fees are extremely low relative to the Ethereum gas model.
The bug was found by fuzzing, so not really the case that anyone reads the code. I'm pretty sure code reviewers are a lot slacker now than in 1995. There's just so much code, and so often the costly things are in bad thinking that leads to unmaintainable messes not bad security.
That's not a really bright line

https://www.homedepot.com/p/YARDMAX-Powered-Wheelbarrow-YD41...

Having a crew isn't a bright line either since two people will often manhandle a single heavy wheelbarrow.

The brightest line is probably that a bulk freighter floats. Still it's a series of small incremental changes all the way from wheelbarrow to mining dump truck (then there's some lines you cross before you get to a bulk freighter) though which IMO still illustrates my point.

We're kind of nit picking here though.
At this point I'd say disable notifications and check messages every 45 minutes once you're out of flow.
"an AI" is probably too broad for meaningful discussion here.
I don't understand that and the last paragraph.
Again: cryptocurrencies have built in anti-inflation mechanism: you can have just these many bitcoins. You can't inflate out your debt using printing press. Very good feature for a creditor nation, like China. Very bad for debtor nation like the US. Ie The USD monetary base at least doubled since 2008. To deal with the debt. Impossible to do with bitcoins. Or gold for that matter.
Not to kneejerk defend Taleb, but I believe his stated position is that he loses money on his trades almost all the time, and then makes it all back and more when a black swan event occurs. I don't believe a black swan has occurred in the treasury market in the last 5 years, so it would be interesting to hear if he's still waiting for one there.
We just got a foosball table in our office. It is 1 meter from my desk. It's horrible.
This is more of a rootkit than a backdoor, since you have to replace the OpenSSH binary with a trojaned version. A backdoor usually implies that it was there from the start, which is exactly the opposite of what the guy says (he reports having to fight OpenSSH hard to let him have the backdoor).

Title should be "NSA Employee Reports Developing OpenSSH Rootkit".
Reality isn't 1984. Reality also isn't Brave New World (and we're amusing ourselves to death). It's bits and pieces of both of these and much more.

So yes, reading 1984 is beneficial. Only reading 1984 is not.
Just because it didn't come to pass, doesn't mean the risk wasn't real.
I'm wondering if your implication that these interceptions are in fact one of our most valuable tools is true.
I hoping for this just last night, when I was happily debugging in Chrome but had to switch to Safari for it's richer debugging tools.

The most interesting thing to me about Google at the moment is their pace, hopefully they can maintain it.
Audio feed of what's going on: http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?feedId=705
Submitted just a few days ago already… the guy's just trolling.
Should the last line be:

doTree(numTree, addNodeToSum)
I dig Posterous... but I cannot see the difference between Posterous and WordPress. Can someone help point that out?
I'm being downvoted, but it's an honest question.

Weed's good friend alcohol gets a brief mention in the article, but it doesn't say how much the drug itself affects your fitness. It only says that many alcoholic drinks are bad for you because they have high calories from the sugar and alcohol.

For some people, especially college students like me, weed and alcohol are part of their lifestyle. Yes, they're bad for you, but my question is how bad?
When you've got the site live drop me an email zl @ myusername dot com and I'd be happy to share some experience once I have a better feel for the service. Have optimized and participated in several SAAS projects of varying scale.

But a few tips:

a) Attrition, again, is the name of the game. Use that as your metric, look at trailing trends. Typically we've observed the highest drops in between the first 3 billing cycles, after that attrition rate seems to stabilize. If you're lucky attrition stabilizes after the second rebill cyle and you can better manage front end testing and customer aquisition strategy.

b) You're at something of a disadvantage w/price elasticity testing w/SAAS because you're going to get press, people are going to hear about you / hear about your pricing and write reviews early. If you change pricing UP, the internets will scream loudly :). Plus you have to worry about current customers getting upset, always implement price changes DOWN accross the board, always grandfather price changes UP to current users (and tell them about it so they feel warm and fuzzy).

A strategy we've used before is to put together a meaningful ad budget for PPC, and test the heck out of the front end pricing. Treat it like traditional elasticity testing, expecting that rebill #s will hold relatively steady on the back even though you can't predict that. The point is to get the highest front-end you can and then work it down, it's obviously much, much easier to lower pricing than raise.
What will set us apart from the pack will be a much better user experience and an easier to use/smarter toolset for gaining insights on the data a customer is working with. We are also planning on competing on price as we think we can provide more value for a lower price (and a more clear pricing plan) than the other outfits currently out there. I feel like if we are trying to compete on price than we shouldn't be changing them up with something like price elasticity testing, but on the other hand, I wanted to know if anyone had done this with a subscription based model and how it worked out. Perhaps after establishing oneself and getting a decent customer set it would be alright to try out price elasticity testing, rather than trying something like that when we are a newcomer.
Absolutely! Programming in Haskell is a much different experience than programming in, say, Go or Javascript. However, when I'm switching between languages in the same paradigm (or close), my mindset tends to be the same.
Isn't a SEPA transfer exactly that? Enter an address, confirm via 2FA, and it arrives at the destination in 2 minutes?
To put this in context, every post office in the U.S. is outfitted with a dozen or more cameras that record the faces and movements of everyone who enters. Those images are routinely shared with FBI and NSA, which use them for law enforcement investigations and security purposes.

Taking that kind of surveillance onto the streets should be controversial. Or are post office vehicles already outfitted with cameras and I just don't know about it?
You would think most liberals would, too, yet AJ+ is a thing
I'm stunned how much I can see even with a bit of cloud cover in my front yard (and we have streetlights close by). But of course, you should probably get a case and go camping with one of these (in a secluded area) for best results)
I believe you refer to a specific method of appropriations called "earmarks" which are often synonymous with pork barrel spending.

https://www.politico.com/story/2011/02/senate-dems-give-in-o...