jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The third reich was a government.

The CCP is a government, as was the USSR, as is the USA.

I'll take Google antispam algorithms going haywire and suspending my electric power or fiber account and providing zero recourse to human support over a Great Leap Forward or a continent-wide Genocide any day of the fuckin' week.
You don't need to know someone else's username when paying your taxes, signing up for electricity or using a mobile phone.
No I/O eh?

I'm sure the FP zealots will love it :-)
Honest question: why is "global warming" or "climate change" (as a non-scientist, not sure what I'm supposed to call it) supported by such a vast majority of scientists? Can you elaborate on what political pressure is doing to scientists?
Despite the title, this appears to currently only involve a company called "Blockchains, LLC". I can't see anything involving actual "big tech" companies.
Haven't looked at the app myself, but was curious to know if providing vet feedback was available? Can specific vets be requested to build a repertoire with your pet?
I'm one of the founders. Happy to answer any questions (as well as I can).
Right now, the customers have zero power because Google and the manufacturer simply point fingers at each other as to who's to blame.

Releasing the update gives the customer power to press for pushing their manufacturers.

The whole model where carriers or manufacturers can send updates is ridiculous. Carriers update baseband. Manufacturers should defer to google for Core OS updates and Google Play. The fact that they're even involved is simply a recipe for disappointment.

It's bad for everyone because compromised machines simply reward and embolden the criminals which will eventually increase the harm to everyone who ins't a criminal.
To be clear, the speculative lottery that I was talking about is the BTC-USD daytrading on the exchanges. A significant fraction of that speculation is due to press hype that is due to rapid price spikes caused by earlier speculation.

Mining involves some speculation about future difficulty and future exchange rates (since you have to pay for electricity in real money), but at least there are some fundamentals that you can build a model around. With simple calculations (that ignored transaction fees BTW) I was able to correctly predict when mining would and would not be profitable and mine accordingly.
I miss the good old days when Google search used AND rather than OR. Now it uses some kind of heuristic that frequently overwhelms my own instincts about how to narrow my search. I just tried an arbitrary search for the first thing that came to mind and everything was going great until I added a word whose occurrence evidently dwarfed my original search space:

pistachio (18,400,000 results)

pistachio cookies (2,570,000 results)

pistachio cookies milk (1,220,000 results)

pistachio cookies milk chocolate (1,210,000 results)

pistachio cookies milk chocolate round (3,640,000 results)

Maybe this was detecting the semantics of my search, for example “pistachio cookies” and “chocolate milk” as two separate concepts and OR’ing the set. But I don’t understand why it didn’t detect “round pistachio cookies”, but instead treated “round” as a completely different result set.

This combined with the fact that quotes and plusses don’t always seem to make a keyword mandatory has really hindered usability for me. I sometimes find better results by typing keywords into domain-specific searches (sites like Stack Overflow). I wish there was a way to display Google’s interpretation of the keywords as something like SQL, the way that wolframalpha.com works, so that I could learn how to format my queries.
Computer Crime laws are already insanely disproportionate.

They were created during a moral panic when only a few individuals, large multinationals and, large governments had computers and the government were worried that "hackers" could break into the electricity grid or the communications system and shut it down.

So right now you could literally break into someone's home, knock them unconscious, and then steal their laptop, but yet still get more jail time for "hacking" into their laptop than any of the previous crimes.

It only gets more insane when someone "hacks" across state lines. The federal laws are absolutely insane, and the only thing more disproportionate are some of the drug laws (many of which were also created during times of moral panic).

In particular are comic cases of when companies fail to secure things at all (e.g. leave data exposed to the public via hidden URLs) and then someone gets prosecuted because they "hacked" that company and "stole" that data.
love to understand why slack is better - is it primarily because of integrations? or is it something more?
The sudden change of subject suggests that the patronizing comment was appropriate...

We are not dissing your tribe... You don't have to be defensive...
I almost don't believe he actually feels that way, but is simply so desperate at this point that he'll try anything. It'll be interesting to see if this news affects investor sentiment.
Thank you :)
- Not yet, but process scaling is coming very soon!
- Good catch! It's running in the Scaleway Amsterdam datacenter. Might expand to more regions/providers in the future
- Logs are pretty basic. In your dashboard, you can see the logs for the last build and the last ~ 50 lines of your application logs
Engineers don't typically design and configure their own systems. There's a hardware group that does that, and engineers are just presented with a menu of choices.

Off the top of my head, I'd say that clean Chromium builds take my linux machine about 10 minutes. Null builds take a bit less than 1, and typical builds with a few files changed take between 1 and 2.

Most of the time is split between make stat'ing bazillions of files before the "build" even starts, and the linker thinking very hard right before it is done.

A coworker is working on a replacement for make that can somehow get away with touching far fewer files by caching dependency information. That should halve the time for typical builds I suspect.

As for my workflow, I don't find iteration time to be a limiting factor on my productivity. Iterations aren't as fast as something like ruby or python, but on the other hand, the compiler gives you a lot more information before you even run the code. So by the time the compiler's happy, you're a lot closer to something that works correctly.
If you can add a 20% markup while providing the same service and with no impact on sales, that screams that you're undercharging everyone. Up your base price for everyone by $40 an hour (if they'll pay $30 more, they'll pay $40 more), and then adjust your suit-wearing premium accordingly.
What's a dopamine junkie?
* Smartphones do not have "data requirements." They still work on 2G networks, just slower. While many areas of the developing world still do not have significant cellular coverage (compared to Europe and North America), some providers are already rolling out WiMAX and LTE.

* Most of the population in developed countries, much less the world, do not work in jobs that require their phones to not have cameras.

* Do older people not have smartphones because they do not want/need them, or because of the perception that it cost too much?

I think the point of the article is that as smartphones begin to cost the same as regular phones, we will see a dramatic rise in adoption.
As pointed out in the comments, Virgin Mobile's (sprint mvno) Android offering is more or less doing this already. The Samsung Intercept is a mid range android 2.1 offering that's going for as low as $175 or so with no contract ($250 MSRP). More notable is their new rate plan - $25/mo for "unlimited" data/texts/300 minutes with no contract... compare that to $60-$70/mo for the same service from Sprint (on the same network).

It's not for everybody, but it's a very visible sign that there is a lot of air left to be let out of high end mobile.
I naturally expected a product line split. It would have made perfect sense to have a top-end 4" 960x640 phone and a low-end phone using the old screen, less RAM and other money-saving components.

Since the 2009 introduction of the iPhone 3GS, when the iPhone 3G went on sale for $99, they've done exactly that. A year later, the 3GS followed it at that price.

The downside is that when the 3GS was finally discontinued, it was two years old and had 1/4 the RAM of the then-current iPhone 4, leading to maintenance trouble for the OS and app developers.
It should be noted that Eric Jackson, the author of this article, is known for being ultra-conservative in his views.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_M._Jackson

I don't think everyone would agree that it's the government's fault that there's a valuation bubble, and I personally think that Sarbanes-Oxley has nothing to do with it.
In order for any solution to be 10% the cost of an existing solution, you have to get a rocket to escape velocity with less fuel, a more efficient engine using 10% of the fuel or, fuel that is 10% the cost of existing fuel, or some combination thereof. I don't believe rocket technology can become efficient enough to meet those claims.

I think it's clear that fuel costs are not the major part of the cost of a launch to orbit. Development, support, and manufacture of the vehicle itself are much more important, and those are areas that seem ripe for innovation, which is why SpaceX can hope to achieve major reductions in cost as they ramp up flight frequency.
I would seriously like to hear a sane defense of this meme...
For other population declines, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline#Japan
I don't normally comment on downvotes but your tone is not needed.

Hueving makes a reasonable point in counter to several things you said. Your snark is sub-optimal.
I realized I didn’t answer your specific q. Whatever impact you see in your business, assume it will continue for at least 3-4 months. If that is unsustainable then the sooner you deal with it the better.

Not sure how unemployment insurance works in your country but in the US I spoke to restaurants and they just terminated people so that they could collect unemployment at a higher level than the business could provide income (salary or tips). Do what you have to do fast, and do it empathetically and in a way that preserves your options for restarting / re-hiring when things eventually improve.
The last time I tried flameshot, it didn't have any cloud upload options other than imgur. I'd like for s3 compatible uploads (or at the very least dropbox), so I ended up switching to https://screencloud.net/ - no annotation and lighter features, but I can still upload to the cloud of my choice.
It is pretty rare for someone to have the killer combo of being able to generate incredible ideas and to explain them to the rest of us not on the bleeding edge. As you say, Charlie Stross is really good at communicating the thoughts of those with amazing ideas down to us mere mortals. I'm glad we have people like him to stimulate the thoughts of the rest of us.
This warms my heart!! <3
Be interesting to know how the searchable text was gathered?

OCR'd the paper and/or web versions of each comic??

Also be interesting to know how much revenue this generates (via amazon linked purchases).

Doing others (e.g. Peanuts and Mad Magazine) in a similar fashion would sure make it easy to find the perfect cartoon for any occasion!
Since I recently created a fictional cryptocurrency in another thread, I'll just repost it here:

I also have a cryptocurrency, it's called IdiotCoin. Only a single idiot exists and I own it. It can be divided into 2^64-1 dolts. If you want to buy a dolt from me, the cost is one US cent, however, for every dolt purchased I will double the price of the next dolt.
So you see, the value of dolts will always exponentially increase, provided the US dollar doesn't inflate even faster. This is great because it means that no matter when you purchase a dolt you are guaranteed to see the value double as soon as someone else buys a dolt from me. If you buy a dolt from someone else the price could of course be lower, and they'll be giving you one hell of a deal!

Banned because: The pyramid scheme was too obvious
You'd really think that some of the real coins out there are fake. I still can't believe FastCashMoneyPlus[1] is real

[1]http://fasrtcashmoneyplus.biz
I finished coding something ten seconds ago, and am taking a break on HN.
I'm wondering why this post has been flagged?
Apple seem to have always disliked free and open codecs. Instead of embracing FLAC, they made ALAC 00 same principle but uses MPEG compatible containers. Initially it was a proprietary (closed source) format, but they made it open source after a few years (presumably for support from the community).

They never supported Ogg Vorbis, and they don't support it's successor Opus now (except in Safari where is required as part of the WebRTC spec.)

Fortunately, being lossless it's safe and easy to convert between FLAC and ALAC (or vice versa). FFmpeg can do it, and also supports Apples "CAF" (Core Audio Format) as an intermediate format if required (e.g piping between different encoders) - that's handy for keeping metadata intact between formats.
>It is not exactly US-centric concern to think that any of above happen. The same happen everywhere. It is that complaining about it in US is not a taboo.

I think it's more that sexuality in the US is a taboo, and everything is seen in the prism of violation and litigation.
))) How about SynergySuperior? ;)
Why do you think python has that reputation? I don't associate it with python, I associate that with npm/js
Just answer this question:in a world with no poor countries, would outsourcing be possible? If the answer is no, then outsourcing is based on exploiting poverty and no, it's not ethical.
Other animals commit suicide too, in a state of despair. Scorpions sting themselves when you place them in a ring of embers. The prerequisite is not being able to see a way out of ones situation.

Depression tends to warp perception, not letting positive thoughs through or immediately shooting them down. Abraham Lincoln was depressed too, so much that the people surrounding him removed everything he could hurt himself with from his surroundings.

I think individuals with a sunny disposition or a well functioning, supportive social circle/family are unlikely to be dragged down by writings of depressed individuals.
Thanks for your comment. The synergy you're look at there appears to be "@onenexus/synergy" rather than "synergy". It's a shame that the comparison doesn't use the actual package name to avoid such ambiguity. If you look again at the moiva link, the results show "synergy" at position 4. Hope that helps to clarify.
But why do you think people in developing countries deserve to be compensated less than others for the same work?

I don't care if their alternative is a worse job, I'm asking why you, citizen of a first world country who lives daily on more than they live on average in a month, should feel ok paying them miserable wages for work that in your country would be paid 10x. Especially when the return you get is exactly the same, as you sell your product in a first world country by first world prices.
This is how tithings used to work. Ten men would be grouped into a tithing, and if any of those men were suspected of a crime, then the rest of the group either had to prove their innocence or had to condemn the guilty party. If they did neither, all were equally punished for the crime.

In principal, it strikes me as a good idea - it promotes collective good behaviour, and responsibility for ones peers.
>I don't think the fact that it sometimes works out well means that it's generally a good idea.

That it's not generally a good idea is inherent in the "sometime it doesn't work out well" (the complamentary to "it sometimes works out well"). But that's also true for most affairs/relationships, and according to statistics, marriages (if we consider a divorce as "the marriage not working out well"). And it can be awkward, like those.

But my point was, it's human, and not some moral issue to condemn a person or a writer's writing for.
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172016-U...

no it's not lmao
Okay, I watched a bit of the video now (thanks for linking to it). I still don't see what's so ambiguous about "stay short Treasury bonds", he says it quite directly, and as far as I can tell from the video he means it, but maybe I'm wrong. He also says in that video says you should buy deep out of money options on gold/other metals in case hyperinflation happens.

So first, as far as I can tell, he really did say and mean those things.

Second, the suggestions, the bet on rising interest rates, as well as the bet on hyperinflation, are, I think, ignoring basic macroeconomics, and they pretend that some really implausible outcomes can happen. Maybe you would hedge the bet, and have other trades that bound your losses, but they would still have lost money. I don't think it matters that much that with a cleverer execution they would have lost less money. The point is that they were wrong in the first place.
I find it interesting that these cameras and videos claim to capture photons as they travel through the air. Don't the photons still have to bounce off something (toward the camera) in order to be imaged by the camera? In other words, can we really "see" the photons/light in the various positions of its apparent journey, or are we still looking at a portion of the photons that have reflected off other particles (such as dust in the air) and made their way to the camera?
I do the same and also have a wonderful experience with Fedora running as a guest in VMware Fusion on a Macbook Pro Retina.
>Can photons actually be converted to electrons?

They can, but that's not what they actually mean here.

In this case, it would be more accurate to say that the energy of the photon is being used to excite an already existing electron.

As for creating electrons from photons: if you collide two photons at the correct energy level, you can get an electron-positron pair. This is a very high-energy process, and not how cameras work.
This mentality is pretty much precisely my gripe. There are plenty of things where "two students in a lab" can show considerable progress. I would wager there are more where this progress will not scale beyond where they got than there are where this is indicative of clearly superior methods.

Especially just comparing to the state of the art. In computing. Consider, people today can solve problems in minutes that the likes of Knuth were probably unable to solve years ago. I do not accept that the likes of Knuth were less capable compared to today's students.
More about the impending crackdown in Seattle: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/12/11/city-to...

For what it's worth, I don't doubt that the medical marijuana (MMJ) businesses do some good, but it's also been an open secret for years that just about any ailment, ranging from a sore back to chronic migraines, no pun intended, can get you a pot purchasing card.
The LBJ series by Robert Caro stands head and shoulders above everything else.

Some other good ones, including a great series about Winston Churchill:

Mornings on Horseback - about Teddy Roosevelt by David McCullough

Truman - David McCullough

The Last Lion - series of books about Churchill. I forget the author.

All of Doris Kearns Goodwin books are excellent, as well. She's covered a lot of presidents.
I know, but that doesn't mean it's right.
The problem is that so much of the work-sponsored open socialization feels fake.

Fake smiles and say fake things. Everyone has to type the same "kudos" message for every accomplishment or they're not showing teamwork. The team I was on where everyone had to snap audibly in applause for anyone else "sharing." The pressure to drink together because that's what shows friendship in a frat. Etc. So much garbage!
Wow, that does look pretty feature-rich. Also seems like there might be some M8 or LSDJ influence. Cool project!
When you phrase it like this, you are implying that somehow the teachers directly are at fault for misdirecting their labor. So even if you are "technically correct" in some sense, you are phrasing it in an inflammatory way. Don't be a troll.
Summary: A number of Lisp constructs and functions implemented in C. Most of the text is C header files. Parser, interpreter, garbage collection, etc. are left as exercise for the reader.
But this leads to double (and n-) counting. And that way we don't measure the death rate, but rather the spread of infection in the general population. If that is the case I would expect the death rate nowhere at no point to be much higher than normal or during a heavy flu season. The next weeks will show if the numbers are actually increased.
The professionals had zero preparation. The professionals were supposed to have warehouses of masks and hand sanitizers ready. We have a surgeon General and the centers (plural) for disease control, who have been doing nothing for decades. We have leaders who we pay a ton of money to, including the president, who did nothing to prepare and nothing to react. The professionals suck, they botched this. Musk may be a wing nut but he figured out how to launch space ships as a private company. At best he can do no worse than the professionals.
I had a similar issue with Kelty. My old one from the late 90s lasted 20 years and had amazing craftsmanship. I use my backpack every day for commuting on bike in all sorts of weather. The old one was amazing, with thick nylon and robust zippers and straps.

The same model from 2016 only lasted me a few years before it failed. It was super thin with these weenie zippers, and obnoxious doodads.

https://imgur.com/a/wmIggaz

I bought a new Vertx backpack a few months ago, and the craftsmanship looks great and is working well so far.

https://vertx.com/gamut-2-0-backpack
This is the most important case for extensive testing.
I live in China (Shanghai). In public places everyone here is masked.

I was pretty sure that it is sufficient, then I noticed that at home and in restaurants the habit of sharing plates while eating persists.

It seems to me that it enables people to 'share saliva'. Many, but not all, rather skillfully use their chopsticks to only take whatever they want, avoiding contact with anything else. However a chopstick is often in contact with food remaining in the plate, especially whenever there is sauce or liquid, or with the plate itself.

How comes this practice doesn't seem to enforce virus propagation?
Funny to see this on HN - I recently stumbled across the book mentioned in the article trying to find a good English translation of Wilhelm Meister. The Essential Goethe is the only good English translation of Wilhelm Meister, Egmont, and Iphigenia that I have found, and they are all worth reading. That it includes Faust and Werther is almost a shame as both of those are widely available in English. The Essential Goethe is basically a selection from a much larger (12 volume) Princeton translation, and I wish they had included more of the lesser known fiction works (and less of his science essays). In any case, I highly recommend it - Goethe is definitely underappreciated in the US.