jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Look up the relativistic rocket equations on the Usenet Physics FAQ. Calculate in a spreadsheet what a crew member of a thrusting rocket would observe after throwing a ball upward at close to the speed of light. Chart the path of the ball's free fall. Use general relativity's equivalence principle to realize the same initial behavior must be observable to a person standing on the ground. You've found "dark energy". A little logic from there shows that high-redshift supernovae must accelerate away from us (the 1998 discovery that lead to the idea of dark energy). Good luck finding anyone else who'll look at your numbers.
I'm not sure this is what we really need, considering that the HN hive mind is pretty smart and that anyway big name authors are already upvoted just because of their names often.
looks amazing! would love to drop by next time I'm in Beijing.

I was there last year for 2 months and had a great time.
Companies built mainly on getting to a market first or best, rather than on a technology edge, seem to often have fairly run-of-the-mill tech.

Craigslist is perhaps the most extreme example, a highly successful company with very average tech even by the standards of the time (and now almost comically obsolete, but still highly profitable).

eBay, unlike most web startups, has long had a really enterprisey stack and dev team, all J2EE and SOAP and whatnot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy
somebody needs to get the facebook mobile apps and reverse engineer them to figure out how their own apps are able to extract all friend contact info (email, phone #s)

mimicking an official client would be a lot better than this extension which relies on facebook leech detection not noticing the requests and banning you
At first, I was going to comment on the blatant linkbait approach of this article, but then I realized that there actually is a lesson, albeit a simple one, behind the gimmick - go out and find what you want. Don't wait for it to find you, cause there's a good chance that it never will. Want to marry a beautiful Brazilian women? Suck it up and move to Brazil; now half of it is already taken care of. Is your startup's location hurting its chances of getting traction? Take it to SV / Boston / DC / wherever is applicable for your situation. Your customer base doesn't know about your product? Then find them and let them know.

We often start to think that success is simply the result of hard work or building something awesome, but we overlook how important it is to maneuver ourselves into a situation where we can capitalize on all that work and preparation. There is no substitute for good old-fashioned legwork.
For most people Haskell is the first introduction to some concepts (lazy eval, functional purity, etc.) that makes Haskell compelling in the first place. So as Haskell looks so foreign and they do not see the benefits they will reap, they do not even start. When learning Haskell you get rewarded as you progress but you have to work a little at the beginning (same with Common Lisp, at least for me.)

At $WORK I used to show some cool stuff in another language and tell my coworkers it is built-in in Haskell (the concurrency stuff is what interested them.) I hope some of them will have a look at it in their spare time.
I loved those as a kid, there was also a magazine that would come every month with program listing that I would type up and then try to modify... It was a lot of fun and a great way to learn!

Sometimes I wonder how kids can learn programing by themselves now, there's no environment directly available and if their parents don't introduce it to them, I don't think they'll stumble that easily into it...

What was great at the time, is that any kid who had a computer or access to a computer would sooner or later play a bit with basic and try their hand at programming a bit
Yes. I should have added, I agree with the author. :)
Thanks for putting that together, it's really awesome. Reading it in Google Docs was really annoying because any time any one opened the document a new window popped up to tell me "anonymous is now viewing." I had to download it into Excel.
If you go with CPM, you'll get 50,000 guaranteed impressions of a button that is in a fairly good position (top right is above the fold).

If you go with print, you'll get a circulation base of 32,000 which is already less and $10 more expensive. What body has audited those circulation figures? Have you asked the sales team what sort of pass-along rate that magazine gets? You must also consider whether it's a weekly/bi-weekly/monthly etc magazine. Did they guarantee you a right-hand page? Where in the magazine will it be placed?

Personally, I believe you have to evaluate who you're trying to reach and who can be reached with each of the above platforms. Bear in mind that a quarter page ad isn't usually effective without amazing creative, and if they're placing the ad at the back-end with the classifieds etc, don't expect it to perform too well.
It could just forward to your email.
Sorry but that is not a futuristic interface.

That is a current interface in need of a futuristic application.
Facebook keeps growing because of network effects, not because of all the great things they do IMHO.
Mom has seen GPS nav on my phone, but she’s too frugal to let me get her one. She has a feature phone that’s only on when she leaves home.

I got her a cheap laptop and she does have cable internet (and knows the difference between being online and having an outage), so she’s pretty much where I was in 2005 when 3G was almost unusable. I can imagine her getting by without them, just like they did in 1990.
The Clean Coder is a good read for starting programmers. It goes beyond code to what it takes to be a software professional.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Clean-Coder-Professional-Programme...
in vancouver it costs about a million dollars for a house on a standard lot in the city. it's about a million two for a lot without a house
No need to be sexist. This would be useful for all engineers, not just female engineers.
>If Trump really wants to get his thoughts out to the world, he can host his own website and publish them there

And what's the recourse when the same forces collude to shut someone
or some group out of the hosting platform for wrongthink? Build your own server farm? Build your own cloudflare? Build your own DNS? How far do we go in allowing tyranny by a loud and powerful minority? If we can regulate corporations to prevent corporate monopolies, perhaps it's appropriate to implement loose regulations against social monopoly. Collusion to silence an entire set of viewpoints by unilaterally associating them with a minority of extremists is quite literally oppression.
Norway only has 680 dead from covid, so not much tolerance on collateral deaths due to the vaccine.
The vaccine has about half of the mortality rate of covid, by raw numbers alone in Norway.

Of course, younger women are more at risk and nurses were the the ones who received most doses. This could explain the outlier as well.
That's an impressive number of device activations. I wish they would have included iOS versions from their curated apps (I know all the new device's will have iOS 8, but for the non-new activation pool, it would be interesting to see what their versions look like)
Thank you. I submitted a request to review it again. Might help if you do the same.

Edit: They reclassified it, should be unblocked now.
The PLA wasn't an ASIC but you could call out the VIC 2 instead.
This is a beautiful analysis, no less so because it overlooks that, in World War II, the enemy was tangible and knowable in ways that a virus is not.
I don't think there is any way to know but I'd be interested to see some kind of study/data around people buying or passing on a car because of the presence or lack of touch screen.

It seems like a feature that no one would really care about either way that car manufacturers just seem to think people want. It may even be because its cheaper than to R&D a user friendly tactile system with enough features vs just throwing software at it.
Most Americans pay for Amtrak every year and never directly benefit from it.

Air travel has been extremely cheap for some time because of competition. Well the competition is about to die and you will be left with one or two choices for most routes. And those carriers will increase costs dramatically.

So the question is if you want to offer some small government assistance to keep our infrastructure running, or if you want to double your cost of air travel for the next decade.
Interesting. So you don't even have to know that you just had surgery. You could just go to sleep as you would normally, wake up, and everything is better. if anything you'll probably think you just had some weird kind of dream because of the anesthesia.
I'm trying to visualize Czech political Twitter, as cached under https://www.hlidacstatu.cz/data/Index/vyjadreni-politiku (10000 latest tweets from a selection of prominent politicians accounts, and no Twitter account needed to access them). As an example, http://www.mangrove.cz/vitrinet/sankey.html shows the premier retweeting/pestering the minister of health as the biggest flow, which looks correct, but hardly an insight...

A question I'd be interested in is discriminating organic, personal accounts from PR operations, but I didn't even formulate how to approach that yet...
https://twitter.com/MolochDAO. This is crypto based, but exactly your idea. A smart contract based way to join a group of funders who vote on funding proposals that are brought to them.
How many people do you think that quarantine and economic trouble will kill? Because if 20% of the population gets Covid19 and 1% dies that's 15 million people. More realistically if we don't quarantine 60% will get it and 4% will die. That's 180 million people. That's more than twice as many people as died in WW2.
Thanks! I got the database from: https://lite.ip2location.com/
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except apple has the tech to not be able to share it. they use this for some of your data. but intentionally not for icloud.

it’s probably nothing to do with USA law enforcement. my reasonable guess is they don’t care much and would go full private. i think the reason here is china. that way they don’t have to have a separate china policy which would draw undue attention to that point.
Should not be different than a human artist producing something after looking at other media. The purpose of copyright is supposed to be to allow people to profit from their works by prohibiting their distribution by others. It seems to me the question of whether one work is a copy of another would be made on the basis of the works themselves, and should be independent of who the artists were. There is also a right to parody, and no inherent reason parody can't be produced in an automated fashion.
Because the mechanism to transmit USDT to USD doesn't exist. Tether has never demonstrated a single USDT redemption. All of the trading on an exchange doesn't matter because on USDT exchanges, you never actually have USD. If you trade USDT/USD on Binance, your profits are still actually USDT denominated! There is no proven way to convert USDT to USD except via another crypto (i.e. Binance USDT -> BTC and then Coinbase BTC -> USD) hence this entire topic...

The peg would break down if there was any real convergence mechanism. But there isn't. This isn't a problem until people actually try to exchange these supposedly fungible assets.
> to avoid leaving traces on the machine

Yes you may not leave traces or history on the machine, but cookies can be correlated to other activity. For example, when logged into a Google account, if the site uses Google Analytics and you are logged into Google, then Google can build a profile of you and target ads at you based on your activity.

Also: Browsing artifacts may be left on a machine anyway due to swap (on Linux) or Windows' memory paging file. This is why I advocate for using something like TailsOS[0] if you don't want to leave a trace and be as anonymous as possible.

Yes, TailsOS is a lot of overhead for most people, but worth it if you want your privacy real bad.

[0] https://tails.boum.org/
Rights holders have been trying to get rid of sites like the pirate bay for more than a decade, and if anything PB is easier to find and more reliable to use than ever before.

If they really want change, it's time for them to dispassionately consider their situation. The way to "beat" piracy is to consider it as a competitor, which it is. When I was a kid, everyone downloaded raw mp3s and now that number is a fraction of a fraction because there's 1) YouTube and 2) Spotify et al. You can listen to music all day with ads and not pay a cent, or you can pay a reasonable fee and get all the HQ music you can eat without ads. Publishers continue to screw content makers, but that's another conversation.

Just trying to ban pirate sources is a wonderful dream for publishers for sure, but there's no way it can work. Scientific papers are just too easy to share, the need for them high, and the current pricing too insane for it to be otherwise.
If you ask around people feel like they have more privacy when using apple products, yet the truth is they all use iCloud backups, iCloud photos and iCloud drive, none of which are E2EE. Meanwhile, Google does allow for E2EE in cloud Android backups!

iMessage can be MITM’d by Apple when requested by the government and you, the user, will have no way of verifying your correspondent’s public key (unlike whatsapp, signal, keybase etc).
Nice idea. It doesn’t render properly on mobile though.
> "Most of the world" has a hard time understanding hierarchical structure like files and directories.

That is an excellent point that I think deserves expanding.

I submit that files and directories ARE difficult concepts. Pretty much everything is difficult when you look into it enough.

I remember of the time they pointed the Hubble Telescope into a seemingly empty patch in the sky and with long exposure or something, we saw tens of thousands of galaxies from billions of years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra-Deep_Field

Back to the subject at hand, I tried installing gentoo one time and it prompted me for something. I only vaguely remember the word "inode". Here is the first paragraph from the wikipedia from the article on inode:

The inode (index node) is a data structure in a Unix-style file system that describes a file-system object such as a file or a directory. Each inode stores the attributes and disk block locations of the object's data.[1] File-system object attributes may include metadata (times of last change,[2] access, modification), as well as owner and permission data.[3] Directories are lists of names assigned to inodes. A directory contains an entry for itself, its parent, and each of its children.

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

Files and directories may be an easy concept to understand if you have been exposed to them long enough (not sure how long is long enough) BECAUSE we have a good abstraction. I never had to learn what inodes are or how a filesystem works to use a computer. Can we accomplish something similar with version control?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-content/twitter-r...

Twitter removes hundreds of accounts it says are linked to Iran, Russia, Armenia

"...Twitter said 100 accounts with Russian ties were removed for amplifying narratives that undermined faith in NATO and targeted the United States and the European Union...”

Some are trying to turn this into a “Twitter censorship” story rather than a “Twitter fighting nation-state manipulation” story such as by misrepresent the same Reuters article, e.g. this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26260438

You can see sites like rt.com and infowars.com pushing the same agenda: https://www.google.com/search?q=undermined+faith+in+NATO
I'm not following. Why can't that service be a web site? That doesn't imply it has to be specific to the business. Think PayPal or Square.
Actions taken based on the actions of other players in the market without (much) regard to the underlying companies has been a factor in the wider markets for decades, if not centuries. See the entire field of technical analysis for example. It's hard to argue that the wider stock market is "not designed" for such speculation. GME had a bit of a wobble, but the wider stock market is absolutely fine. (Actually, GME itself is also still fine. The stock trades just fine and the company is still around)
There are a few tools that work like this including sshuttle - transferring a local copy of the tool to the remote end.

Mosh also kind of works like this but can’t recall if you technically need the software already installed at the other end. Sshuttle definitely doesn’t.
I think these might be based on two different sorties. The show on Apple TV is fictional/alt history
I'm wondering how many similar cases there are involving politicians where some sort of video (using a toilet, squeezing a pimple and eating it, having sex [or related activities like water sports ... the mysterious Trump tape], nudes, Epstein's peado island, ...) is being used for blackmailing and influencing political positions. I mean attempting this is almost risk-free and simple for a well organized group of hackers, criminals and spies. All you they need is access to a camera in the right place. It's so easy that I have difficulties not coming to the conclusion that such dynamics play an active role in decision making.

If you have a video of a politician having sex with an underage person or doing something disgusting - how far will s/he go to make sure this video is never going to be published.

... and I didn't even put on my tin foil hat.
there are birthday card that do the same, it's very little extra stuff compared to the computer itself, I imagine.
I'm not sure your second scenario is as quickly solvable as you think. The loss of the uk would have been the loss of an important strategic platform - essentially allowing a second front to squeeze Germany from when it came to attack. Also it would have given Germany pretty consolidated control of our side of the North Atlantic, supply routes would have been severely disrupted.

I think ultimatelythe war would have been won but redeploying to, say, North Afric would have taken a while.
I completely agree with the above. Idea and Feedback management solutions. Who gives who feedback and ideas? On what? Too vague for me. Give me a hook that explains everything.

Why not something like "Your business can collect customer ideas, suggestions and feedback."
Are you sure it's coming from there and not just leveraging it? Seems more likely to me that it's a power grab. The world took notice about what happened in Iran. I didn't hear any governments being thankful for internet anonymity when that broke out. In fact I've mostly been hearing about plans for "filtering" since then.
People seem to automatically respond to titles. c.f. my latest blog post: http://www.zacharyburt.com/2010/06/the-science-of-compliance...
Pleas give me at least a hint as to how to reconcile the concepts then?
What makes you think it obviously isn't? That such parties exist doesn't prove anything unless they get to power.
It doesn't matter what its number one use today is. If such a law exists at all, sooner or later it's going to be abused.
I'm not sure that's a job, I'm not sure he's getting paid...
I have to agree; if Perl didn't "win", then who did?

Python? Very popular. Solid language. Probably at some point more adopted than Perl, but not so much so that I can say it "won", partially because of how this list goes on.

Ruby? Same.

PHP? Maybe in the web space but not in general.

Javascript? Even in light of Node, this is still a marginal language out of the browser, especially considered over the past 15 years.

Lua? No.

Perl may not have "won" but it has hardly "lost", and now IMHO the sun is just beginning to set on this entire catagory of 1990s-style dynamic scripting language and there probably will be no further "winner" in this space.
I am baffled as to why you think a criminal or terrorist would follow the rules set forth by the US Congress and not use unbreakable encryption in their communications. The only people that would be successfully watched would be law-abiding engineers of products and law-abiding users of those products.
I have to admit I never use trackpad - I always carry a Bluetooth mouse (keyboard as well with my MBP because of how terrible it is) and for couch surfing touch screen is king for me. I also had a yoga and would go for that X1 next - the versatility is amazing (bed/couch/travel media use in the reverse V position is 10x better than tablet and laptop)

Battery life is about equal on this MBP - it's just a terrible CPU for a mobile device. But more importantly I use battery about 1-2% of the time - ergonomics are just not good enough for it IMO.

X1 Yoga with an AMD CPU would be my ideal laptop but unfortunately it seems like AMD gets pushed to gamers and budget laptops still
Not forever. Their economic growth will end due to demographic, technological, and geopolitical reasons. They are aging rapidly due to one child which makes their labor cost 8 times (inflation adjusted) what it cost in 2000 and most of the countries with any wealth who china would export to are post consumption because they are also rapidly aging. Automation has made it cheaper for many industries to produce goods closer to end markets rather than ship it half way around the world. Geopolitically countries like the us have lost interest in the doctrine of free trade and covid-19 in particular sped this up by exposing the vulnerabilities of long supply chains for critical supplies.
> This covid is an animal abuser's disease.

I swear there's a certain religious strain of thought that pervades coronavirus discussion.

As though someone must be responsible for the plague. Find the dirty people! Find the sinners! Burn them!

Scarlet letter, 1984, The Crucible, etc. seems like all these things are converging at once.
I don't think Europe needs to counter it as American opinions on this sort of action don't matter to most Europeans. I think the user above was more likely calling out the HN community for its double standards with regards to this.
Hopefully the next in-person DConf won't be too far in the future