jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You might also think about putting a statement about copyright infringement. Doing a file sharing site hosted in the US you'll need to handle DMCA take down requests from content providers. I think the method theTVDB.com has for DMCA requests is perfect. If you click on an image there is a link for 'Request DMCA takedown': http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=78957
Doesn't anyone else find the whole idea of putting a price tag on a request to your "friends" a little off-putting?
Slightly related: He mentions that when the containing structure of a sub structure goes away you can free all the resources. The guys behind Samba 4 developed talloc [1] which is build around that idea.

[1] http://talloc.samba.org/talloc/doc/html/index.html
It is definitely better to be a specialist than a generalist. In the field of high dollar per hour consulting, for example, you can't make the pitch "I'm a generalist!".
Combustion engines have over 100 years of wast R&D and real world usage behind them. We already have the infrastructure to move their fuel all over the world in wast quantities.

This means I would not be surprised if we start using solar, wind, and nuclear power to generate gasoline, and most future cars become very clean running gasoline/electric hybrids.

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_economy): Liquefied hydrogen has lower energy density by volume than gasoline by approximately a factor of four, because of the low density of liquid hydrogen — there is actually more hydrogen in a liter of gasoline (116 grams) than there is in a liter of pure liquid hydrogen (71 grams).
Reserved instances would be nice, too.
I absolutely love the design. I want one.
I totally admit the tweak here! Of course these giants don't rely on my service, and have better tools. But hey, I do point out an upcoming glitch here and there - https://twitter.com/haveibeenexpir1/status/14475025605212405... for example.
Gas explosions in RV's and mobile homes are unfortunately not rare at all.

No, they are not.

It does not help that, as my brother-in-law found out the hard way, one of the effects of being exposed to the gas is that you become groggy and lose judgement. He's luckily still alive, but with serious scarring on about 1/3 of his body.

Therefore develop good habits. Be religious about it. It is only the fact that it IS a habit which will cause you to do the right thing when you need to and have impaired judgement.
It works really well for some, and really doesn’t for others. I’m in the latter camp, and my colleagues have generally been pretty evenly split. That said, as sibling reply said, “Scrum Master” can carry a lot more meaning than practicing Scrum… and I’d add that it can carry a lot more meaning than the role as a term too.

I won’t go on the whole rant about Agile cargo-cult stuff. I’m sure there’s more of it already posted, there certainly is plenty to be had around the net. But yeah, a lot of people hate Scrum. If you want a sincere personal take on why it doesn’t work well for me, I’m happy to share my take.
Of all press releases in recent memory, this is the one that reads the most like hard science fiction.
This is not true!

Sorry for the passion but i was involved in the mobile payment scene at the time. It was not the banks halting the development of mobile payment.
It was:
1- Apple
2- MNOs (Mobile Network Operators)
3- Samsung

Apple closed off the iphone NFC api which dried up VC funding in the mobile payment scene. This is one of the reason we have QR Codes everywhere today, and not NFC tags.

To securely process mobile payment, you needed to have a secure enclave (SE) on the phone which would keep encryption keys safely. At the time, the MNOs wanted that secure enclave to be the SIM card, so they could control that space. Google retaliated by cutting some circuitry between the SIM Card and the phone: the SWI lines. Banks were charging north of a million $ to embed applications in the SIM Cards, and were charging you the same for any update. Apple at the time started charging 4 million $ as a deposit to acquire a special nfc permission (walmart and starbucks had one) to emulate a credit card.

Samsung was the worst. They were already embedding a Secure element in their phones without giving access to it. They started 2 or 3 years ago giving access to 3rd partys.
"Just the milky way"

You mean the collection of stars that's 100,000 light years across?

How long has life existed on Earth?

Of that time, how long has life on Earth been generating signals that could be detected elsewhere?

How much of the Milky Way has recieved those signals by now?

50,000 light year radius squared (let's favor your argument by calculating the milky way disc as 2D area) = 2.5 billion square light years

Area our signals could have reached in the milky way over the past century of broadcasting: ~10,000 square light years

So the intelligent life here and now, only a fraction of the life that's existed (much of which has had some degree of intelligence) has only reached about 0.0004% of the Milky Way by now, to say nothing for the drop of signal to CMB noise as it propagates.

There's extensive discussion about the fine tuning argument for Earth regarding our gravity/propulsion to even be able to enter outer space, a threshold other intelligent life on a different planet may never be able to cross.

Fermi's Paradox is silly when you dive into the nuances.
That's exactly the fallacy I'm referring to. Mid-Summer's day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer) is a calendrical festival observed in many cultures around 24th June close to the summer solstice. How do you define a season? What single factor determines how a season is measured? It's the relative amount of daylight. The summer solstice is the longest day.
Windows and android allow you to install an application from anywhere. On IOS, a developer must pay Apple to get their software on the device. Similar to game consoles yes.
Out of all the apps I have used for meetings, I've had the best experience with Zoom. But the privacy aspect always concerns me. What's the best alternative today?
As much as I like the Tesla vehicles and Autopilot in general, I'm really baffled as to why the FSD beta is allowed in its current form. The beta testers have done well for the most part, but its just such a strange feature to have in the public.

It has to be watched really closely and each build seems to replace old problems with new problems.
Somehow, I don't think the only way to get self-driving cars is if we first crack a few skulls testing them out on the public without their consent.
Link to anchor: https://www.spacex.com/updates/index.html#sl-geostrom (sic)
> Or any law enforcement.

Please don't equate healthcare workers with law enforcement. Healthcare workers have an astronomically harder job and actually make society a better place.
They also aren't allowed to hold known incorrect charges against someone when that incorrect charge carries pretrial restrictions that the correct charge does not. In my experience, you are absolutely right that they do not follow these laws/rules. I highly doubt that they added the trooper's name to their Guiglio list even after I provided evidence that the trooper lied in court related to two separate facts.
This just links to another of your own comments, which is also unsourced.

No, it doesn't link to a comment by me at all. It links to an HN discussion of the article about that very topic. It just so happens my comment is the top comment there which I didn't remember when I went looking for it.
A $25-$50m asset that is expected to be worth $0 in 10-20 years?
I came to Japan a little over ten years ago with a non-CS degree, an English teaching job, and a desire to do web development here. It took me two years of learning the language and building my portfolio of pro-bono/super cheap sites, but after that I started scoring freelance gigs. I would do anything: servers, design, programming, translation, whatever would pay to get me out of teaching. As time went by I could focus more on what I'm good at, server admin and programming. I've worked for foreign firms, Japanese firms, Japanese firms founded by foreigners in Japan and I've set up two of my own companies here. It absolutely can be done.

That said, you will run into bureaucratic nightmares. I could go on for pages about firms that won't allow developers FTP access, ones that won't allow you to set up WordPress (they're not an official vendor), firms that want people to sign up for their email newsletter, but by phone because they think the Internet is scary and they don't want personal information put into their website, and other stuff that to this day I still sort of don't believe.

But you'll learn how to be patient, get through those situations, and build either a client base or find a job somewhere that makes sense. Because there are great clients and good companies to work for here. It takes time, but if you learn the language and have solutions to problems people have and can show some examples of those solutions in a portfolio, you'll start finding work. Webdevs are a dime a dozen, but good webdevs who can seamlessly work in English and Japanese will always have work here.
I've found Apple to be pretty responsive on refunds. If you message them and let them know it was an accidental purchase/renewal that just went through, there's a good chance they'll refund it no-questions-asked.

If it's been a long time, all bets are off.
Sure, they're open source for a reason!

The videoprocessing one is more mature. It's been converting various torrents movies to playable mp4s for a few years.

The 10x1s preview looks magical once you see it in production. It's also a great introduction to ffmpeg filter syntax, which really isn't that complex.
But how else would you know that the author went to college?!?!

Edit: Also the third paragraph: "I concluded that the idea was arrant bonkers, as are most things Alexa-enabled." Arrant should be arrantly (or not used at all because, c'mon, we get it, you went to college). If you want to write all hoighty-toighty-like, you ought to at least get the grammar right.
A design system will likely never solve the 'underspecified' problem. You need a visual design team that is holistically aware of all screens in the application, so they can make reasonable suggestions to engineers about how to group components in complex layouts.
x11 is considered deprecated and is in maintenance mode so it very much is not the standard anymore.
It’d be nice if you had a brief explanation of what all these flags are and why you’re using them. You can after all convey a video to gif with “ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -o video.gif”.
Finally, a free to file tax form. The IRS should do this by default.
> Yeah, incentivized reviews might not have been great, but they were easy to spot and ignore. Their ban has led to something much, much worse.

Maybe, but it's hard to get a clear picture of what an appropriate rating would be for an item that's 4.7 stars with 500 reviews, and only some of the 5-star reviews claim to be incentivized.
I used a similar extension a few years ago which just targeted facebook; and it made a big difference for me in how I experienced the site.

Before I used it I would find myself checking FB sometimes throughout the day after posting something, because some part of me wanted to know how popular it was. The metric being front and center made part of my brain want to optimize for it. After installing the extension I couldn't really know how many people saw what I wrote except vaguely by looking at who commented or something. And as a result I found myself being less self conscious when I posted things - since there was no negative "not many likes" signal I found myself writing more what was actually on my mind. (Rather than what I thought my friends wanted to read).

I hear what you're saying about being at an information disadvantage - but that only matters if "number of likes" is something you're trying to optimize for. I think thats a pretty shallow way to live your life. There's lots of other reasons to speak and listen than how "liked" those words are in the moment. If we rated food the same way we'd only eat junk food. If we raised children optimizing for likes they'd grow up stunted. If we rated academic papers that way we wouldn't even know about the replication crisis.

Ironically when I couldn't see the number of likes on FB, I think what I posted was more interesting as a result anyway. It was certainly more authentic, since while authoring I spent more brain cells thinking about what I wanted to say rather than obsessing about social perception. Every person who's opinion you're worried about when you write makes your writing about 1% worse - which isn't much, but it adds up.

The only real downside was that the extension didn't work on my phone, so I'd end up seeing the numbers of FB likes there anyway. I ended up deleting FB year or two later because it was still too addictive, but I think this extension is a great idea.

It doesn't cost anything to try it out. If you're not sure, run the experiment and see if you have the same experience I did.
In a hypothetical free market, you have to expect that opening a new restaurant is a very marginal thing to do, no?

I just checked Yelp and it said there are 2,642 restaurants in SF that are open right now. So maybe they just have enough restaurants?
From my experience most new bugs get found through exploratory testing. Automated testing is more for confirming that the system still works but not for finding tricky bugs.

It works especially well if the tester has a lot of experience as developer or tester. When I test a piece of software where I know the stack that’s used I usually can guess the difficult parts where the devs may have made mistakes. And of course you need real users. They do stuff nobody ever thought about during development.
They made a mistake of going into China. The abhorrent behavior of the Chinese government was highlighted in recent events, so YC decided to pull the plug. Perhaps change in leadership also played a role in this. There is definitely an up-tick in public outrange in the West vis-a-vis China.
If you're going to continue to burn fossil fuels, it seems better to burn it in a plant that inherently captures the carbon then trying to wrangle it back after it's release. The interesting part of the Allam cycle for power generation is that supercritical co2 is the working fluid for the turbine, and when you burn the fuel it increases the mass in the closed circuit. Both the size and the efficiency of the plant also purportedly improve with the Allam cycle too.

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

https://www.netpower.com/technology/
RFA is a US propaganda operation. Leave it up to them to make "sleeping with the wives of detained Uyghur men" sound like the job description of those government agents, rather than a consequence of poor people not having free guest beds on hand, so they have to share beds with someone, potentially with the whole household. Also clever use of "sleep with" to imply sex. (I don't doubt that some will abuse their power, but I'd expect Uyghur families to think far enough ahead to have another male relative in the same room, if not the same bed.)

EDIT: I posted this as a bit of an experiment. In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21601613 I link to a TV program criticising the Chinese government's treatment of Uyghurs. Here I criticize blatant propaganda published by an organization funded by the US government for precisely that purpose. Almost an hour later, this comment is at -4 while the other is at +6. Agreement-based voting at it's finest, but I'm not going to let propaganda slide just because it pushes a viewpoint I agree with.
Ugh, I shouldn't feed trolls...

1) AGM has hit the gold-standard of proof, it's not an open question at this point, and CO2 is the primary driver along with other GHG [1]

2) What exactly are the "potentially disastrous" consequences of going back to 300ppm, roughly where we were for 10k years?

[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-temperature...
California, sort of: They figure out what sort of place you own, pigeon hole it with other "similar" places and charge you more per kilowatt hour if you use more than they think you need. It's a procrustean bed approach.
I'll try to add some better ones over the weekend. This should be a start.
200 chars FTW
Yeah, I'm also getting confused. Collapsible threads are enabled by defaults, unless I'm missing something. Maybe it's now about collapsed by default, i.e. you have to expand any comment thread you want to read?
Do you have a estimate on people using cryptocurrencies on a monthly basis (even in orders of magnitude)
It is a tough call this one. If my calculations are correct, based on data from[1], male infant head CT scans cause one excess death per ~3k scans. There must have been something else than a remote possibility to warrant ordering it.

[1]: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/full/10.2214/AJR.12.10294
There was a PE exam for software engineering in the USA, so I think it is possible to formalize the field for practice. Whether or not that formalization appeals to practitioners is another discussion.

In 2019, the PE software exam was discontinued: https://ncees.org/ncees-discontinuing-pe-software-engineerin...
from from where

Tis but only a pointer to a pointer to a virtualized address.
I'm not sure your link backs up the assertion. For example:

"Citrus fruits are all derived from a common fruit, and so are apples and pears, and plums and apricots – but an apple and an orange, or a fig and a peach, do not share a fruit ancestor."

What he's saying is that trees evolved convergently, i.e. "Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time" (wikipedia). That's not the case (as far as I know) with humans, and human races.
Yes, it's using Notion as a CMS + react-notion-x (1) + some custom styling.

(1) https://github.com/NotionX/react-notion-x
> Avoid [NIST elliptic curves] if you can; they suck for other reasons.

What are those reasons?
There is no LAND crisis. There is a crisis of failure to build adequate number of multi-family multi-story structures. Replace all the decrepit almost dead 2 story apartments in SF with 10 story apartments and there would be no crisis whatsoever.
Sure, Ritchie's awesome.

But I'm not sure why engineers slag other engineers so often.

Most of the startups in Silicon Valley started as prototypes written by one 10x guy.

(For you HN pedants, that's called an "existence proof.")

If you don't see 10x programmers after the startup phase, that's the fault of corporate mgmt. Tall poppy and all that.
"Behind The Overlay" :) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/behind-the-ov...
More likely they were actually stale, lots of people buy a big stash of candy and hand it out over several years until it runs out.
I worked in the Casino Technology industry and learned that Casino's generally prefer non-skill-based games in their game product line. This makes sense when predicting the financial outlook, based on customer behavior and spend profiles. In my opinion, in order to 'give out' less to their game participants, they most likely provided ways to randomize the win-ratio so that consumers win less, so it is less "skill-based"
Not to gainsay C's role, but there were a number of competing languages back then with pretty innovative ideas (check out the history of programming languages), and even if C didn't exist, something else would have taken its place.

Because a discovery is more foundational doesn't mean its discoverer is necessarily more of a genius (it can mean that, but it doesn't necessarily). For example, just because Newton and Leibniz discovered the calculus, it doesn't mean they were necessarily greater geniuses (though Newton was a genius) than mathematicians who came after.

Earlier discoveries are impressive because the discoverers had to see something that no one else saw; but on the other hand, it would have been much easier for them to make progress because you reach breakthroughs very quickly once there's an attack. Compare this to fields that are mature -- it's very very hard to make a dent even if you are 10x the genius of the founder of the field.

Comparing geniuses who were active in different periods of time is hard because it's kinda apples and oranges.

For inspiration, take a look at this list [1].

[1] History of Programming Languages: Prominent people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languag...
Your elected government is illegally recording my calls, unless you believe the post-Snowden claim that they stopped (and there isn't any reason to). Why should I expect ethical behavior from this entity? I'd rather choose which software I route my data through than have the government "regulate" all of my options to include Clipper chips. I don't want the government to have any say about what I do with my data.
I think "symmetry" is actually not a great way to think about F=ma. The reason is that Newton's laws still work even if your system is non-symmetric with non-conserved dynamical quantities.

Consider releasing a rock and calculating how long it takes to hit the ground. In this system, the rock's momentum increases in time, and is therefore not conserved.

Consider a charged particle in an oscillating electric field. In this system, the particle oscillates, and so energy is not conserved.

What about Noether's theorem? In the first example the Lagrangian has a height dependence, and in the second one there's a time dependence. So the theorem does not apply.

Yet F=ma still works. So F=ma does not come from symmetry.

You might object that these quantities are conserved globally. But the point is that F=ma allows us to use model systems as affected by external forces; this is a very powerful simplifying technique.
I agree there. Deciding on tooling for a long term project is a very tough balancing act.

Although I am a bit afraid that people overestimate the costs of rolling your own code, or "re-inventing the wheel". In most cases you aren't reinventing the wheel, because there are well documented bodies of reference for the design of almost any wheel you could need. Building (writing) a wheel (code) from scratch against a spec is much, much less complicated than inventing it.

Likewise: assembling your own set of design patterns and writing code from scratch is not "re-inventing", and is a lot easier than we give it credit for.
I only wish competitors (Drive in my case) would copy their sleek OS integration and the public folder functionality. Sadly since Condoleezza Dropbox is not an option for me.
Quick anecdote: A close friend of mine had recently graduated college and after a series of interviews got in Hacker School. When he went for the visa interview (in India), the officer got really wary of him on learning that he's going to US, right after graduating of college, with no job to a place called "Hacker School". He had open the website and spend a long time in explaining him in what HS is about. Quite expectedly, he was denied the visa.
The exclusivity deal was arranged when AT&T held most of the leverage. Steve Jobs shopped around the different carriers to get the iPhone off the ground and with the exception of AT&T, they all balked at the terms he was seeking. AT&T was the only one willing to play ball, and as such could insist on the lengthy exclusiveness.
No. More granularity in capitalism. A lot of dysfunction gets perpetuated because it's hidden in the bowels of big, bureaucratic institutions. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Ehm, I think most schools have agreements with ASCAP and BMI that cover this scenario... perhaps through something like this: http://www.ascap.com/licensing/pdfs/imla_rate_schedule.pdf
How is this fundamentally different from, e.g., the bodybuilders-seeking-bodybuilders site FitnessSingles?