jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Brilliant. The idea that loading a PDF won't cause a horrible browser freeze-up then require controls unrelated to the rest of the browsing experience is quite a lovely one.

I wonder what impact this will have on scribd, at least the 'avoid pdf pain' side of their business?
What if there was a converter back to usb at the end. Surely those exist?
Good!!

Maybe this dude would do something for Android where his time and effort would, hopefully, be more appreciated.
Every time I think about Google, I remember Deepness in the sky/Vernor Vinge 's Emergent culture and how they were able to invent a brain device that created what they called Focus , device that induces an obsession with a single idea... of course the engineers are coming to Google voluntary, it's not like it enslaves them...
"Lazy" might not be the right word...all of the tech journalists I have personally interacted with seemed to be pretty good at their craft overall and actually cared about what they wrote. However, this doesn't change the fact that almost all media companies and their journalists are woefully inept at fact-checking or writing stories concerning information security, including DDoS attacks.
This bit at the end...

> Among the acts deemed unlawful were the man’s urging of co-workers to avoid pornography, to pray and to avoid socializing with those who don’t pray, including “Han Chinese kafirs” (kafir is an Arabic word meaning infidel or nonbeliever). The witnesses to the alleged offenses were co-workers, with Uighur names, with whom he had spoken.

> The court document indicates the defendant’s lawyer asked the court for leniency, stating that this was the man’s first offense and that because of his “low legal awareness and education level, he was easily susceptible to being misguided and committing crimes.”

> He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Handshake (https://handshake.org/) is another attempt at a decentralized domain name system. It’s compatible with the old system so I’m more hopeful that it can gain some adoption. Let’s see.
Transition? It was 1000 years. Roman Empire colapsed. 1000 years later powerful states with new political structures emerged.
Financial independence comes down to simply earning as much money as you can while spending as little as possible.

As to how to earn the most money you can, I think that depends a lot on your personal circumstances. But if freelancing hasn't worked out for you then I guess the other options are to get a permanent job or to start your own business. Its impossible for me to say which one is the best option for you though.
If the academic stuff is interesting to you, then take look at functional reactive programming stuff from the scala ecosystem.

For example there is a paper by Martin Odersky himself on incremental computations on lists (which should be very familiar to you due to your work on Xi's ropes):
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-39038-8_...
Security Tokens: https://coinsutra.com/security-tokens/
Are you saying the author of a civil code git repository should have chosen a non-political example?

You might be forgetting that the civil code is an entirely political product.
I think that's great. And, it's ok to have the same idea if you're showing that you're "making something people want" (showing growth and that you're learning and adapting with the market).
My love affair with sqlite is hard to describe. I'm glad I'm not crazy.
That's really fun. Any chance of data for Ireland? As you probably know, "all good things lead to requests for more features".
Hmmm, I’d like to see this applied to many a teenager eager to have me listen to their choice of music for free from afar.
How is XML a garbage fire? In comparison to what? Also, representing paths succinctly as text is inherently complicated. You're trying to represent a very 2D thing in a linear 1D syntax. It's not a limitation of XML, it's a limitation of text being 1D.

XML/SGML are a very effective way of representing tree data (again, non-1D data) in 1D strings. And they're wonderfully extensible, while still keeping a well defined schema. Is there an alternative language that is better? How is it better?
Publicizing this probably does more harm than keeping it something unique to Beverly Hills PD (aka the Streisand effect). We'll now see officers across the United States employing this same tactic. Hopefully this will finally force some sort of sanity when it comes to automated copyright enforcement online.
As pointed out downthread, Colt lost military contracts to FN, decreasing stock value
I learned recently that the Food Pyramid was created by the Department of Agriculture in the US, i.e. not by the Department of Health.

So, not experts. (Not in the field they were claiming).
Slap the word A.I. or ML in there are you are golden.

New platform, new opportunities. I have thrown money into ad's on various content suggestion platforms, Reddit, Quora, BuySellAds, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and a hell of a lot more.

TikTok is apparently incredible right now with conversions and pricing. It's all over the forums and the guru's are pumping it too. Give me some solid targeting options and viable metrics and you could probably wrangle some money out of me and many other marketers out there. I would say it's easy money if you can spin the ad network in a new way.
You have friends that actually spend their free time modifying their profile to make advertising easier? The fuck? Is this a psyop post from FB lobbying group?
(Jobber author here.) It's...interesting that this is the aspect that has gotten the most discussion so far. But thank you, jacquesm et al., for your feedback. I certainly don't want this to turn people away from Jobber, so I'll change it. Computers are frustrating enough; we don't need to add more aggravation!

On the other hand, IMO, the biggest profanity you can put in an error message is an error code and nothing more. Now THAT is how to mistreat your users!

I wonder if there were similar discussions about the insults sudo gives you on OpenBSD (http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2012/08/01/sudo-insults-w...)...
Still waiting on UPnP/DLNA support before I can upgrade from my PS3.
Suppose you got $40-100k from one of the dozens of accelerators and the cost of running an online business shrinks every year. Is your next raise still counted as seed or series A? Are successful kickstarter campaigns counted as seed deals? Should they?
Maybe it's not that seed bubble is popping, but there so many new ways to run a startup that old metrics are no longer relevant.
"housing prices are all time high."

This is not a good thing and I'm not sure why you seem to think it is. You talk about happiness - one way to help the "happiness quotient" is affordable housing.
That's pretty cool. I can't wait to see it for sale on inventables.com or some similar site.
I came in here to start a sentence like " I dont want to be a dick, but..." and you've answered. Thanks.

Showoff is a great idea though, best of luck!!
Brings me back to my original comment:

> Erlang, Haskell, Mozart/Oz all do it superior to something like Node, people just haven't realized it yet so a language that people want to use can be built.

Someday....someday...
What you view as a device passively logging data, others may view as a company actively designing a device that logs data.
Examples:

I'll be honest: the direction 1.3 went was not a direction I saw as valuable.

Similarly, I felt like the 1.2 work on protocols and datatypes was about 3/5 of what a person would need to use them in general programming. I've talked with some people I consider experts in Clojure and they suggested to me they have some similar feelings.

The community dislike of macros, and a curious insistance on using the most difficult and bug-prone version (not to mention least debuggable) of a macro implementation is another example of a troubling bias in the direction of clojure.

I am not a genius, nor do I claim to have superior information on which direction Clojure should go. All I have is my biases and intuitions, but I don't think I'm alone in their current values.
What's news to me is that this is persisted forever on the device in an unencrypted format.
Do Javascript programmers program in terms of function applications, or do they program in terms of sequences of state-changing operations?

If they do the first, then Javascript is a functional language. But without even a function composition or application operator (or function), it's obvious tht Javascript is not intended to be functional. It's an imperative/OO language with lambdas, like Common Lisp.
Certainly you must be right that noise is increasing faster than signal, but signal is still growing massively if you look at research being done, etc.

Also, not to be ignored, as stated, is our ability to find knowledge is making the filtering process far better than before.

Sure, an ancient library didn't contain a lot of celebrity gossip, but good luck finding what you need amongst the available works - sans anything but the librarian's best remembrance of what a book contains and its value.
I love Common Lisp's LOOP, it's very handy. For those who prefer something lispier, there's always ITERATE

http://common-lisp.net/project/iterate/

(common-lisp.net seems to be down)
No, you can reverse tunnel through a VPS and get the same effect, but you're paying 2-5x as much for virtually the same thing (unless you already have a VPS).
> not what I expected based on my experience in the US and my perception of Europe

I'm always fascinated to see comparisons between the US and Europe (as a European myself), as if the comparison were between two countries, rather than a country and a continent consisting of many, very different countries. You'll find some commonality between neighbouring European countries, but not in the same way you would between US states.

Speaking from experience, the UK & Ireland have an extensive system of public libraries, usually each local area will have one, where books and materials can be checked out for free.

Similarly my experience in France was the same, materials can be checked out for free.

Can't speak for any other European countries.
A shame, because as test cases go that wouldn’t have been a terrible one.
This book got me started. I'm six months in and doing great on it:

https://www.amazon.com/Carnivore-Code-Unlocking-Returning-An...
> ... other than the people at the capital getting kick-backs from industries profiting off of the prison industrial complex, and the owners of the prisons themselves.

And the mostly white communities that get to boost their representative power by counting prisoners in their census, while stripping them of their right to vote.

1. https://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/

2. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/racialgeography/report.html
I am just saying that rehabilitation should be the focus not the monetary cost-benefit. The latter seems to cause politicians to prioritize private prisons to "save money" while causing tons of damage in second order effects that aren't always $$$.
Oatly is a successful brand and their marketing is clever, but that doesn't mean they are "The New Coke".

Oatly has never pretended sugar is good for you, it's listed on the box, we all see it. And I don't think they should be put on blast for their use of canola oil of all things..and by the way nobody is drinking it because of the health benefits of that.

The most effective thing they did from a marketing standpoint was an anti-dairy campaign. Their biggest achievement is making people go "Yea... cow's milk is kinda weird, why wouldn't I drink an alternative that tastes just like it".

Coke, cigarettes, sugar campaigns -- They sold you on this idea that life can be more amazing if you just use this product.

Oatly did something different. They said "Hey your life can be about the same as it is now, enjoying dope milk, but without drinking cow's milk like a weirdo". And it worked.
It always amazes me when people make things like this.

It's even been done with Conway's Life.

https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Turing_machine

It's too bad Notch never finished that space-themed game he was once planning. I remember when HN went crazy with implementations of his spec for a simple, memory-mapped 8-bit computer that was going to be central to that game.

I'm planning to introduce scripting into my procedurally generated space game with over 2^100 locations. All entity AIs will be s-expressions, which implement a blackboard architecture. This can readily be mapped to both finite state machines and behavior trees. What's more, a variety of scripting language subsets could compile to the same s-expressions. I want to let players license their scripts to other players for in-game money. Players can also perhaps use "hacking" powers, where they can modify scripts of other entities or ships using regexes. (With the caveat that if they cause a syntax error, they get "feedback damage.") Also, these s-expressions can be subject to genetic algorithms, and will also "breed" in the wild. (As described by Koza in his book Genetic Programming)
I guess it was actually a 16-bit computer in that game, I had to go look it up again because I had forgotten the name 0x10c a long time ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c

https://archive.org/details/0x10c

https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/introducing-notchs-new-...

Too bad it got cancelled, it would've been interesting.
how we deal with mental health issues still seems less-than-ideal.

To be perfectly honest, I have a hard time taking anyone serious that still uses a euphemism for this.
```
Facebook account ID
First name: P**
Last name: N***
Gender
Relationship status
Location
```

:: squints ::

I'll grant you, this is much more problematic for some than me. But for me, this is, roughly, analogous to my actual LinkedIn, Github, or Hacker News profile, which link to my resume (which has my phone number), combined with a squint at my age and a guess.

There's a lot worse that could be leaked.
How to contact you ?

You can discord me --> Notriv #7401
Don't consume illegal truth citizen
Living off the grid doesn't mean never interfacing with it. If you have a home with a well and solar panels and satellite internet (or you go to town to use wifi at the library), you can still write your blog.
I thought the price was what someone was a rough idea of what people are willing to pay for it. So if it’s $0.00, why would you ever pay more than that? And if no one buys it for a penny or more, it’s “price” won’t go up.

In case it’s not clear: I only know the price is what I pay for it. I don’t fully understand where it comes from.
Great read to start 2015, it's been a while since I read something of that quality.
As far as I see it, hikr.org is more about hiking reports, and hikify.com is more about a peaks and routes database. There are also many interesting ideas that I have not had time to implement yet :)

Thanks for the copy advise. As English is not my native language, copywriting is not my greatest virtue.
Hypothesis: the Bar Association is a cartel; limits supply, keeps prices high. The supply of lawyers is artificially constrained, while the volume of civil litigation only grows larger every year. One used to be able to self-study, pass an exam, and practice law. Now it virtually always requires 3 years of law school, at a cost of thousands.
"Tenants' rights laws" that make it difficult for landlords to evict non-paying or destructive tenants are one cause of vacant homes, as are rent control laws that prevent landlords from raising rents to market levels.
That is a terrifying thought with terrible chilling effect should somebody official would even voice this thought in any way.
Did you ever read the third book, 2063? They land on Europa and we get to learn why that was a bad idea.
For some reason it strongly reminds me of the drop ship tank from Aliens.

https://www.imcdb.org/v040477.html
I signed up for a disposable Gmail account using my real name at one point, and accepted the randomly suggested address it offered. Gmail loaded with someone else's obviously in use mailbox

IIRC I logged out again and back in, same thing, my credentials worked. Went back to it a few days later and the password no longer worked
It's no secret who is behind that website [1].

Good luck to the EU on enforcing their law against an American company, though.

[1] https://angel.co/company/peopledatalabs/people
> Also, this makes me wonder: does every project have at least one security engineer until it gets shut down?

Usually a specific project doesn't have dedicated security engineers but instead the engineers have to get approval from security engineers for their relevant designs.

This is probably different for teams dedicated to security like those that write fuzzers and the such.
I'm encouraged by the GraphQL support with docs, except there appears to be no way to provide headers (such as Authorization), which means I can't even fetch my schema.
https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/1347609631527489537

> Many of Us will return ... carrying Our weapons. ... We will come in numbers that no standing army or police agency can match. However, the police are NOT our enemy, unless they choose to be!

> I hope the cop gets doxxed and murdered. That would be the only real justice.

> Federal swine most definitely. Dozens of them need to be eliminated.

>> All
Twitter, Facebook, etc, are more powerful than “air time.” They are the most dangerous propaganda tools ever created. As we continue to discover.
Only in the US. That’s why the UK has the BBC.
It looks like a thug on the floor of the senate with zip ties in hand, and we’ve seen it.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zip-cuffs-capitol-riots/
Agreed that it's too little too late but calling Twitter "complicit" is pretty ridiculous.
He's anticipating (planning?) further attacks on the Capitol and wants to be a safe distance away?
Fascism? Hardly.
Thanks for an interesting rabbit hole.
Are they? Which ones?
I am not in NY and it costs a lot more than that as a rule. But that's not even the issue. getting a flight is not a block. It's how to survive long term financially when there. How to legalize without some immigration means which is mostly predicated on money. How to do all that with poor health and people actively fighting you and trying to take away more agency. It's a lot more than just "moving". "Moving" has been my plan since the day I came back from there. I'd have done it then if it was realistic. If money were no object I would have never left, or once here packed up myself and my cat and moved back. Back then my health wasn't good but wasn't as bad and I might have had even some good days. Now it's worse all I want is mostly not miserable days, mostly survivable days. I would accept that. But I cannot even get that.
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, please don't cross into personal attack.
Yeah, serving static files is unbelievably cheap these days. Some of my clients have nginx serving 1B+ requests per month on a single box, and the CPU doesn't even break a sweat. nginx can easily saturate a gigabit link with very little effort.
This is totally insane! If children like to watch your youtube channel (perhaps it is Algebra tips or information about dinosaurs or black holes) you're required to obtain parental consent? The problem with designating the channel host as the person responsible is they are not the one collecting the information nor do they even have access to most of it. YouTube is the one collecting and using the info.

No where on my YouTube channels am I allowed to see the ip address of anyone who views it. Nor can I track individuals. But YouTube themselves can and do do this.

Also collecting legally binding consent from parents for their kids to watch channels is going to be way more of a breech of personally identifying information than not having that rule. For legally binding consent I'm going to have to verify their actual identity and that they are the legal guardian of the minor watching the channel. And from a practical standpoint I don't even see there is any way at all that doing so is even technically possible given the current YouTube design.

The only way to comply with this is to kill all videos and channels that have any content that might be of interest to children. Die all you homework help and approachable science channels!
If at all possible fit two hours of cardio a day into your schedule. For general fitness, weight training is a higher priority, but cardio is the most powerful weapon against depression.

Go to your primary care physician, discuss your symptoms, get any tests they recommend (e.g. thyroid) -- ask about a prescription for an SNRI (Effexor) or a SSRI (sertraline).

They will start you off on a low dose, you should follow up about effectiveness and side effects in two weeks or so. You might try a few different dosages of a few different meds before you get the best response.

Also get a referral for a talk therapist, while you are waiting for the meds to hit.

If the talk therapy and meds and exercise are not working for you, then get a referral to a psychiatrist who prescribes meds and handles more difficult cases.

Do the above in the order I said.

There are many other lifestyle things that could work for you such as: going to church, getting a pet, learning a new skill, doing volunteer work, etc.
I think it's rather premature to say that the scientific Python stack is adopting Numba. None of the core projects like SciPy, pandas, and scikit-learn have been willing to swap out Cython for Numba. Cython is still dominant and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
Thank you for the feedback. I usually do not prefer commenting on an issue when I know I cannot add something new about the issue. At the same time, I understand your point about the need to interact. I will keep it in mind for future. I will also begin responding to the old issues in the next few days. :-)
What % of global battery capacity does Tesla have? How long would it take the Fords to catch up?
I love it. Especially since the dsl is so readable. It’s like like markdown or orgmode or latex. The ease of authoring is paramount for me; being able to produce beautiful rendering is a huge bonus in terms of delivery and being able to get a different perspective on the content I’m reviewing. Well done!
It's missing one now though.
Sorry but this does not follow from the article. It's really easy to mistype a phone number.
Ok ya, I understand it's a secretive culture.
But plenty of people talk about going to, and getting rejected, at other places also...
Not all of these early adopters used Wave in the same way that you or I would have as end users of Google's offering. See: http://tinyurl.com/yboudhx for an example of an experimental business modelling tool built on top of Wave by SAP.

I always thought that this was the most interesting part of Wave, and the part with the most potential - at its core, it's a system for collaboratively editing documents. I hope we'll see more interesting things built on top of this core now it's open source. I always hated what Google tried to do with it, which is a shame - the tech is really cool.
The first rule of working at Apple - No one talks about Apple.
Isn't the point of asking you to provide some credentials for a new site usually so they can use that contact info to push products at you in the future? An internet driver's license (and OpenID) defeat those purposes.