jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Cofounder here again.

I just wanted to say that while we’re sad to shut down and definitely didn’t accomplish everything we wanted to we are deeply grateful for having had the chance to build something significant and get past a 1.0.

Our original crowdfunding round and supporters - almost all of whom found us on HN, Y Combinator, and our seed investors helped make that possible (plus of course all our open source contributors, alpha and beta users, early customers, and even the people who filed GitHub issues panicked because their sites had just gone down).

Most of our team worked together on Tent (protocol for decentralized social networking) before this which no VC would get behind. So we know how much it sucks to have a great idea that no one will pay for you to build.

We’re very grateful to HN for the opportunity to build something so cool.

Neither of those projects would have been possible without HN. I know for a fact that we only got meetings, term sheets, into YC, and more on the strength of the HN comments and later the GitHub stars.

Before we had a working product we could at least say, “hey, these people all say they want what we’re trying to build” and that got us in the door.

We had lots of different proof points to show investors and even customers, but the most important thing was the number of upvotes and enthusiasm of the comments.

Thank you all for being so open minded and supporting our work. We literally wouldn’t have been allowed to do it without you.

Hope to have something even better to share with you all one day.
Would have been nice to provide notice of your edits.
I would guess it's for performance reasons.
what kind of meditation needs (or is helped) by this?

i kind-of do mindful meditation (i'm no expert) and this would be just one more piece of sensory data to acknowledge and then largely ignore.

if you're doing "concentrative meditation" (i'm using terms from wikipedia) then i would have thought this would be distracting.

is this more like new age tv?
Producing domain dependent hashes is a bad idea -- if the hash is properly created (that is, not the way described in the post, proper key-strengthening algorithms should be used) it should already be functionally one-way, meaning that passwords would be completely non-portable.
The bike is 2K for the one without a motorized resistance knob and I bought one despite this feature because it takes me 1 second to turn the knob to the dynamically adjusted value on the display.
Just wait for the Starlink IPO (which will mark up all his SpaceX shares).....
I don't quite disagree with this, but I'm willing to defend those who do because a slightly different weighting in my priorities would make my disagree.

Inciting violence should be punished by the law, not by Facebook. For regular people it makes sense to outsource some of this to Facebook, to minimize the load on the legal system. POTUS however is one very high profile person. His statements are not being missed by those who have the authority to enforce the law. There is public debate ongoing over what should be done. Facebook should not need to help out here.

Of course, as a result of an ubstroctionist attorney general (the baseless memo protecting the president from prosecution) and Senate (refusing to convict for political reasons) Facebook might actually be the best practical route, but them having to take that roll is actively damaging to society.
Bitcoin is one of the rare instruments with inverted skew in its options i.e. volatility is higher when the price is going up. So we would expect outages to be more correlated with price increases than decreases.
I'm sold :)
Going to try it out for a couple of weeks and see how it feels.
>Companies that want to make money need to keep on the good side of people in power. But isn't that how democracy works?

No, that's how a republic might work. In democracy companies are not allowed to yield such power, and people elected can be revoked at any time....
It’s cool that Elon gets to play with all that money.

Hopefully he starts some other futuristic project...or two.

However, I do wonder if this isn’t a sign that the market is overvalued. How does it look historically?
This reasoning means nobody can ever be held responsible, because "What if it's me?" I like to assume the majority of people are good. So even when I support the right thing, I don't have to worry about turned tables.
I had one screenshot before it was taken down because I couldn't believe what I was reading: https://svkt.org/~simias/up/20210107-164543_trump.png
All it took was one failed coup
In the works according to rumors.

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20150327VL201.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2015/03/29/microso...
Or, they will react to the high demand from employees that wish to be able to liquidate their equity. This could cause companies to get more creative/competitive with their compensation. One of the great advantages to working for a company that's freely traded is that you can sell your equity as soon as it vests.
You should be able to. See my previous post with more details as to how I installed linux (arch) on my chromebox. It might be as straightforward for this version since it has an ARM processor instead of the x86 processor found in my setup. For instance, normal archlinux doesn't support non x86/x86-64 architectures.
> Personally, I think the idea that Google/Facebook are hurting people by paying talented engineers a lot to work on ads is just not true. I think that if you act ethically (which is admittedly a question mark sometimes for any big corporation) respecting the market can often do the most social good.

The problem is that advertising is inherently unethical, so that reasoning doesn't hold up.

> What's better for the world, besides your conscious, working for a soup kitchen for work that can be done for $10/hr, or freelancing for $50/hr and donating that to the soup kitchen to give someone with less skills a job and the soup kitchen $40 remaining to buy supplies they need?

That only holds up if those other $40 were to spontaneously appear from thin air - but it doesn't, and that difference is coming from somewhere. It means that somewhere, some group of people had to collectively pay $40 more for something, to pay for your salary.

> Even if making consumer ad-tech doesn't sound quiet as noble as researching novel energy, if it encourages people to start entering fields where they are building things rather than creating more regulation for things, it's probably a net-positive.

No, it's really not. "Going out and creating something" is not automatically something desirable, if the "something" being created is unethical.
We're going to do news syndication at one point and will be doing advertising based off of that. Finance Advertising tends to have pretty high CPM rates.
A lot of the maps team is in Japan, so the maps April Fools stuff tends to launch at midnight GMT+9
I can hardly put together an IKEA shelving unit in 4 hours...
A pragmatic one I like to say to non technical people like my mom and sister:

- Have a dedicated email password that is different from every other password you use.

Let's be honest: You should have different passwords for every site, and you should use strong passwords and a manager, but you don't because you're a normal person. At the very least, be pragmatic and have an email password that's separate from every other service password. The idea being, if your random-service-you-signed-up-for-once.com password gets hacked, and your username was your email address, the first thing an attacker will try to do is use that password on your email. So have a strong email password and trust that your gmail account is less likely to be hacked than your random-service account password.
>They're already having to bury/censor threads concerning this case at reddit, her new company.

They don't have to bury or censor them, they're just actively doing it and have been since the trial began. Anything related to Ellen or her husband generally got deleted fairly rapidly or hidden from being searchable.

In any case, the community at Reddit seem to absolutely despise her and with a Reddit staff member apparently offering to testify against her at the trial, I would be surprised if she were kept around much longer.
This interprets the situation as though everyone currently has a correct assessment of the probability of institutional bias, against which an outcome in Pao's favour would provide new evidence on which to condition to update the probability.

But that's not really the sense in which an outcome in Pao's favour would've been used dialectically.

Rather, people currently disagree in their assessment as to how probable it is that there is institutional bias. Those who are very confident that there is institutional bias feel that others, who are skeptical of the existence of institutional bias, are mis-assessing the existing evidence.

And so, yes, were an outcome in Pao's favour to come down, those who are currently confident that there is bias would use this to bolster their argument that the weight of evidence is on their side, such that others should revise their probabilities upwards to match. But even if an outcome in Pao's disfavour came down, they would still consider others to have mis-assessed the existing evidence, and would still feel the correct thing for bias-skeptics to do would be to revise their probabilities of institutional bias upwards, albeit perhaps not as much. And there would be nothing irrational or illogical in this.

[In the same way, if I were to argue with someone who claimed to have found an algorithm which could compress arbitrary data, and I challenged them to compress and restore a particular file, and they failed that challenge, I would say "See? You couldn't do it; that should convince you that your claim is erroneous". But if they happened to pass that one particular challenge? I wouldn't say "Ah, ok, you should feel even more confident in your claim to have found perfect compression". I would say "Ah, that challenge happened not to add to my evidence against your claim, but I still have good reason to disbelieve your claim, your claim is still false, and you should still sharply revise your credence in that claim downwards to match mine."]
Often you want the same code to expand differently depending on context, so I think it's still important to have explicit support for different syntax classes in a macro system.

Declarations are definitely a syntactically distinct class in, for example, Haskell or SML or C. Not so much in Lisp, Python, Javascript, and so forth.

I think the question of what an extensible extension mechanism would look like is a tough one, which is why I punted on it. I have worked on it a bit myself, as mentioned in another comment, but not in Lisp. I definitely might try my hand at a Lisp version in future, though, and I'm interested to see what other people might come up with!
This is such a good idea I just added it to my current toy language:

https://github.com/TazeTSchnitzel/Firth/commit/7b9bf0b4c090e...

Thanks for the idea! :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_American...
https://www.coursera.org/course/hciucsd

https://www.coursera.org/course/design

http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/032134...

And, finally, if you want to do some usability experiments and testing:

http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Usability-Testing-Conduct-Eff...

http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Statistics-Stripping-Dread-Data/...
[32mDoes this mean HN can support color text now?
You're correct, I should have been more precise. 4.5 years lost all at once is what is unacceptable. I recognize work and all of life's "chores" take time, and that every decision I make cuts off an infinitude of other choices. Though most chores have a positive reward for doing them, while prison has very little.

The larger point I intended was that for most people (especially handsomely-paid professionals like software devs) time is a more constrained resource than money.

Lastly, time lost all at once is worse than time loss incrementally, i.e. if I could serve my 4.5 year sentence 40 hours a week, that doesn't sound so bad, or that unfamiliar... ;)
The grid-nerd term for rapid-response capacity delivery is "frequency control ancillary services." It's a real problem in times of heavy load. If a local grid's frequency drops below nominal (60Hz US, 50Hz elsewhere) the regional grid has to disconnect. So without rapid-release stored energy a power generating org has to fire up extra capacity and keep it running to cover transients.

Old missile silos might be interesting. But most of them are far from population centers.

Pumped storage is still great given the right geography. Northfield Mountain has been running flawlessly for almost half a century, storing about 9 GwH. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northfield_Mountain_(hydroelec... But it takes about ten minutes to spool up. And the fish and boaters in the nearby Connecticut River definitely notice it.
Thank you for everyone's hard work in bringing open source to everyone.
It is one of the great imbalances in the justice system where technically corporations are people, but criminally don't face anywhere near the same levels of punishment.
You've got to be unfashionable to attract unfashionable ;)

I've been working with large corporations and governmental bodies in transportation, and integrating with their own internal tooling.

Upgrade cycles are so slow for large governmental bodies that I wouldn't be surprised if there was appeal for a Windows CE 3.0 version...
Done properly, data science is hard.
I think another problem is that native binaries for multiple architectures would grow the binary, one per arch; aarch64 is not the only thing android runs on. Maybe some people would also forget that and not bother targeting others.
I hate to comment on these types of things, but I noticed the same.

It's on the 2nd page right now with almost 1k upvotes within 5 hours. Meanwhile there are articles on the front page that are 17 hours old with half the upvotes.

It definitely seems like it's being suppressed, which is understandable for most political discussion. But as evidenced in the comments, this clearly affects a large minority of the tech industry.
>>authorized by law to act as a single person,

This can be common law, recognizing the legal authority the shareholders grant the corporate entity to act on their behalf.

There is a common law justification to treat that entity as a legal person because it acts as a single entity, as willed by the shareholders.

I am not suggesting that the corporate legal structure has never come into existence by legislation. I am just saying that the corporate structure can also emerge entirely through the common law enforcement of contracts.
the connectors for storage and ram can be very low profile. There is no reason any sane layout with connectors would add to the thickness. Its especially egregious storage is a soldered device. Not just from an upgrade standpoint but data recovery point of view.

If some other part fails and basically makes the device a brick there is now no easy way to recover the data.
If a manager needs to do this it’s a smell of other team issues. A solid team is self organizing and delivers. You can mask the smell with someone policing... I guess it kind of works but will always be meh.

A self organizing team is a managers nightmare. They end up transitioning to a QC role which is 1000% better use of their time
Any asset can be collateralized. Every homeowner in US can do the same thing with a reverse mortgage. Leveraging assets isn't tax evasion. It doesn't even qualify as avoidance.
One of my favorite movies that I watch quite often and belongs in that category is "The Shawshank Redemption" from 1994. Persist in adverse environments, make lifetime friends, resist to cruel authorities, develop side projects ;), use your skills in a good and moral way.

"Small Time Crooks" 2000 by Woody Allen.
A movie about naive accidental lovable millionaires. Funny and sometimes bitter.
This is especially insightful. To the talented marketer, there is no such thing as bad press. Being thrust into the limelight to be mocked and laughed at is a really great opportunity to take one on the chin and own up to your mistakes, and then to turn that around into positive press about how you screwed up and how you're fixing it moving forward. Cook's Source has visibility easily several orders of magnitude greater than it did before this whole debacle, and all you need is to convert a small number of those to your product to make some mighty tasty lemonade out of those lemons.

Instead, the editor took the opportunity to further expose the traits that caused the uproar in the first place - self-importance, arrogance, and ignorance. The "apology" is no more than a half-hearted attempt at deflection and a misplaced plea for pity. It will both fail to deflect the bad press, and will not garner any pity.

This is an excellent lesson in how to not handle customer relationships, management of negative press, and fixing your mistakes. Entrepreneurs, take note - look at what Cook's Source did, and don't do that. Always assume you are at fault first. When you are at fault, go the extra mile to make it right. If you get caught with your pants down, join the chorus laughing at your embarrassment and use it as an opportunity to market your underwear.
Just been on it for a day. The best thing so far has been that it gives me a chance to connect with hackers in India and discuss specific issues with them. Mailing lists just don't cut it when it comes to interacting with like minded folks on a number of subjects.

It cannot be a replacement for HN, but I hope it does become a useful (add-on) forum in its own right.

P.S. Yes, the site's name should ideally be something else.
> Delivery reports are pretty reliable with SMS

It depends on the carrier and on the sender ... most people don't get delivery reports back.

> Email, by contrast, hasn't got any reports that any decent human being would use

Yes it has, you can embed tracking pixels in it. Not really reliable though.
This is addressed in the article, and arguably the article's main point. Quoth:

"I have to say that something I thought would be a big issue is the vagueness of natural language. That one particular natural language input might equally well refer to many different precise programs.

"And I had imagined it would be a routine thing to have to generate test examples for the user in order to be able to choose between different possible programs.

"But in reality this seems to be quite rare: there is usually an “obvious” interpretation, that in typical Wolfram|Alpha style, one can put first—with the less obvious interpretations a click away."
Even with the noblest of intentions, I don't know how proper it is to take the hackernews brandname for your own site. At the least I think you ought to consider putting a disclaimer on an 'about' page somewhere stating that you are not affiliated to HN and YC.

On a positive note, nice job! It looks like you're getting a bit of traction already.
IIRC there was this Microsoft website which listed a few HTML demos in which ie9 was way faster than even google chrome. I wonder whether they used the same 'technique' there too.
How so? You can use Dart today and yesterday and tomorrow.
When something calls itself a security tool it's usually assumed (if not explicitly stated) that it serves some purpose for assessing the security of something. Otherwise it is just a tool made for making attacks easier to perform, which is pretty frowned upon.
I had exactly the same reaction. Something about the blue background with centred white text and the little tiles of colour.
We had to fire someone doing this as well, he was caught because his "subcontractor" was calling into meetings and had a totally different accent!

Please don't do this... Not only is it unethical, there are security, intellectual property, and liability concerns as well. A company should be aware of who has access to it's internal resources.
> Most Europeans would be horrified by this concept

But they'd be really happy to earn the same level of income.
I think there is a proper level of conviviality/cordiality and fun that you can bring to work without getting too personally invested. A lot of first-time employees may have trouble with this balance, but after a tough break or two you learn the ropes.
My rule goes further: it's called the phone stack. I suggest you try, it's pretty awesome.

Rule: all phones head down in a stack. That's it, go enjoy people a little
It has indeed been entire minutes since I saw somebody rationalize their well-actuallying into social good. Well done.
Heck, even with these data 12.80s vs 8.60s is not "wreck".

Those are in the same order of magnitude even! Not even 2x the speed. Hardly makes a difference in picking one or the other, all other things being the same.

Now, compare V8 or LuaJit with Python or Ruby -- that would be "wrecking it".
We played a trick on my friend Jerry that I worked with in the military. The previous night we had a few drinks and then called it a night and walked home together.

Jerry, in the morning mentioned to someone that his shoulder really hurt, but he couldn't remember hurting it.

We came up with a plan that morning to convince Jerry that he had been sideswiped by a taxi, and got into a fight with a taxi driver. We emailed everyone we were with the night before, explained to them what we were doing, and started planting that idea in Jerry's mind.

At first he claimed that it never happened. He kept saying he knew we were just fucking with him.

More and more people corroborated the story. We even had a military police officer call him on the phone to inquire about the incident. We got his boss to sit him down and have a talk with him about his problem with alcohol (he doesn't drink that much).

Eventually as the story was repeated to him by everyone, especially people with authority, Jerry went from:

"this never happened.. I only had two beer last night"
to: "hmm... maybe I was really drunk after all... but I don't remember anything"
to: "Yeah... I remember everything now! How could I have forgotten before? Crazy!?!?"

He turned our story into real memories and even started adding his own details to the story. We thought that was hilarious.

That night we all got together and told Jerry that it was all just a joke. He couldn't believe it. He argued with us that he was sure it did happen. He remembered it. When he finally accepted it he felt really dumb, but it was a really fun day at work for us, so definitely worth it.
Lets be real when you are poor you're trying to make it through the month on your paycheck.
There were two standards (different prefix definitions) - the kibi/mibi/... line of prefixes was made as a solution.

So now there are three standards.
How did you do the autocomplete previews? Is that a feature of cobra?
> . Where would this chatbot ever be a good idea?

This chatbot is never a good idea, but techbros (and you can sometimes read them on HN) think medicine is simple and that we could have AI triage in front of human healthcare professionals.
The Internet, and tech in particular, has completely changed the business sphere by throwing out that whole "meeting of the minds" concept that was taken for necessary in any contractual relationship.

In the past, one could count on their hands and feet the number of contracts that one would enter into over one's life.

Now? There's so much churn that the act of accepting is more a ritual or formality. One that sadly has the capability to take advantage of a lot of people due to information asymmetry.
It already does though? :)
https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/h...
Owners can (and do) draw a salary in the same way as employees, and don’t lose any life saving they have not invested, same as employees. If the business die they end up without a source of income, same as employees. If the business succeeds they reap much bigger rewards than employees. I should know, I was one.