jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think it'd take a lot more than a trillion bucks to make China and the US get into any kind of bullets and bombs dispute. A war with China would cost a LOT more than a trillion bucks.

If China underbids us and we're unable to leverage state power or anything of that nature, I'm sure we'll just lick our wounds and give up. Anything else would be really, really stupid.
Only in an extremely naive world would you get downvoted for this. Is HN becoming a less enlightened place? Do we truly believe that we went to Afghanistan solely for the terrorists??
This reminds me of the guy who dated the somewhat gawky looking girl at high school who ended up blossoming into the most gorgeous young woman you could imagine. Either that, or the US has, behind the scenes, known about this all along.
Yes, I hope so too. The Afghans have been taken advantage of by so many different groups in recent decades. It would be nice if this find ended up helping them build a new more prosperous life...but it's probably wishful thinking.
Another stab between the shoulder blades for those of us who like to live in the command line.
Why? What’s wrong with it?
Omg that really is crazy and disturbing that a small development shop would hitch their wagon to the most popular desktop OS in the history of the world.
As far as I know, a (C-like) language must either have:

- A statement separator (semicolons)

- Significant whitespace

Otherwise parsing the language is very likely ambiguous, e.g JavaScript [1] [2].

[1] https://flaviocopes.com/javascript-automatic-semicolon-inser...

[2] https://medium.com/better-programming/you-might-need-those-s...
Thank you. Your appreciation is appreciated!
> I followed Zed Shaw on Twitter for a long time and, while he comes across as a colourful guy who rants a bit too much, his books have been boycotted for years and he has been personally attacked several times in an unprovoked fashion.

This wasn't unprovoked.

I'm not a very reactionary person. I don't know the dude's history or any drama he's been involved in. My conclusion to boycott follows from the evidence and arguments raised in the post.

I believe he's actively harmful to newcomers (which are the target audience for his books).
It's similarly unethical for companies to be able to borrow at 0%, then use the money to conduct stock buybacks, but I guess the S&P500 and DJIE don't have to be tethered to economic reality anymore.
I am using this app: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.droogers.smsmatrix/

You create a login for it, and put your identity into it. When messages come in, it creates a 2-person room with itself and you, and can type your sms responses. MMS's don't work, sadly, but a few people I regularly use it with send .SMIL image attachments that get forwarded.
Your cynicism is so dysfunctional that it prevents you from acknowledging basic scientific facts. Why should any person adopt a worldview which demonstrably allows its adherents to renounce something as basic as 1800s germ theory? Because they think they’re smarter and more independent than everyone else? No, your cynicism borders on mental illness.
> Learning living along with the radicals is a good alternative to having a war with them.

I think the original deal of public education was to establish a realistic way to do this. IMO the over focus on the shared benefit of raising income/GDP as the benefit has compromised the long term sustainability of the system.
Claiming that false things are true is not inciting violence.
Even if we do not believe in it and expect a bubble
I don't think the nuance is lost on anyone.

From an economic perspective, it's not zero sum game.

Canada and the US are colonies as well remember.
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I dunno, the USA has a massive class divide - think of the stigmas associated with subcultures (e.g. "hillbillies", "white trash"), race, where people live (suburbs or "the projects"), and of course relative financial status (the 1%, the 0.1% who might as well be living in an entirely different country compared to the working poor).
Thanks for that link.

> Well, to start with, it can't be three milliseconds, because that would only be for the outgoing packet to arrive at its destination. You have to get a response, too, before the timeout will be aborted. Shouldn't it be six milliseconds?

> Of course. This is one of the details I skipped in the story. It seemed irrelevant, and boring, so I left it out.

I don't understand, so it was in fact 6 ms?
No, sorry. Iceberg is very poor nutritionally.

http://nutrition.about.com/od/askyournutritionist/f/lettuce_...
I remember reading one of Scott adams' blog posts that wanted an app that worked exactly this. I'm afraid it'll be too impractical for any real use. I'm curious though. How woul it be able to tell the contents of, let's say, a sub just by looking at it?

Edit: typo fixes. Trying to catch up on feeds before I sleep with Reeder, works great except for the damn auto correct on the phone.
Assault and battery are not some vague ideas that you can argue the meanings of. They have clear legal definitions - if you threaten someone and make physical contact with them without their permission, you are guilty of assault and battery.

I don't know about you, but if any authority figure told me “Once you cross that line, I can do whatever I want,” I would absolutely interpret that as a threat. I agree with you that TSA agents have a difficult job, and I don't believe that they deserve disrespect just because they're TSA agents, but clearly some of them have decided that they're above the law, and that is absolutely not the case.
Apple: Hacker/tinkerers start turning netbooks into little OS X boxes. Eventually, Apple comes out with the 11" Macbook Air.

Google: Hacker/tinkerers start using their Gmail storage space as a cloud storage utility. Google does nothing. Eventually a 3rd party comes out their own solution with a brilliant additional twist, which becomes massively successful.

If I were Apple, I'd come out with my own Dropbox-like service and call it something like "Warp Drive." (Ansible? Wormhole?) I'd have it sync accounts on different laptop/machines based on about a dozen different "plans" which are never presented as a list to the user, but only suggested, based on their disk use. (Along with one or two options to "downsize" the plan.)

A "plan" for me might go like: store everything on the Mac Mini, because it fits there, and sync everything to the 256GB Air except the Movies directory. (Which will be available anyways through streaming like AirVideo does it.)
Interfaces are explicitly defined in Go as they are in Java. The difference is that you do not declare the interfaces implemented by a type. If a type has methods that match an interface, then the type implicitly implements the interface.
Free startup idea: wordpress blog giving a $10 bounty per back scatter image submitted, post adwords, simultaneously profit and raise an uproar.
And it's not like nobody will take them up on it either. If I'm in my late 60's and I don't have a family and they said to me, 'want to go to Mars and maybe die and never come back?' my answer would absolutely be 'hell yes.'
Nice. Today I learnt about the file position designator :)
makes me a bit uneasy about Anic is that it only has 3 committers

Sadly its much worse than that.

Only one of those 3 committers, Adrian/Ultimus, is actually actively committing. I know this because I'm one of those three committers - I was given commit access because I helped answer questions and edit the wiki pages a little (because I knew enough about dataflow languages prior to encountering ANI that I was quickly able to understand the concepts and code). But I have yet to actually commit any code.

I was working on a simple x86 code generator (basically walk the AST, using maximal munch instruction tiling), but its not near working and I've been horribly busy with paying projects to finish it :(
I don't entirely understand why people are preferring to keep this kind of number under the desk. Would you share why?

In my mind, specific number/statistic is a layer of trust.
Is there any reason these beekeepers can't sue Bayer and the EPA for the side effects of the pesticides? Couldn't such a suit call for an injunction preventing its use pending the results of the lawsuit?
Pretty lame, link [edit: to download] is to slideshare with registration/form to fill out.

Here are the required fields:

Error! These details are incorrect.
* First Name
* Last Name
* State
* Country
* Zip/Postal code
* Email <span class="hint">*</span>
* Work Phone <span class="hint">*</span>
* Job Role &amp; Title <span class="hint">*</span>
* PC Count <span class="hint">*</span>
* Contact Preference: <span class="hint">*</span>

edit: to coderdude's correction
very, very cool
Oh, agreed. If I ever needed Photoshop at work, I'd buy it. Apologies if I didn't make that clear above.

Actually, I don't use Photoshop at all these days, and haven't installed it on my last couple machines. Paint.NET meets my meager needs.
It hadn't occurred to me that A/Bingo could do that. (Swap templates.) Spiffy.
Nope, the link is to ReadWriteWeb where you can view the report. You don't have to go to slideshare if you don't want to.
Yeah, a Ponzi scheme requires lying about past and current performance, not just making super-rosy predictions about the future.

The lie is "I did X very well, and that's where this money came from."
This looks interesting but I'm hesitant to switch from RabbitMQ & Celery to this.
Your comments on 'getting rich' seem to reflect a lack of knowledge on the subject. Nothing wrong with that offhand - we're all here to learn - but you might post with a bit less certainty.

Also, try writing correctly - not everyone here does, but it seems relatively common. I don't mean if you happen to make English mistakes, but proper capitalization and that kind of thing make for more pleasant reading.
Groupon is like Blackberry.

They're already dead but nobody has told them.
Same can be said for Ruby, Python, C#, etc. A lot of people have a lot of ideas, preferences and time to burn creating/learning new client side frameworks.
Will new solar panels last 25 years? Most of stuff on the outside on my house doesn't have a lifespan that long. You could end up paying off the loan after the panels have stopped working.
I feel obligated to say that "alternative medicine" means treatment attempts that are not based on science or evidence.
My interpretation of the post I responded to was that solar and nuclear are both carbon neutral energy sources, but that somehow nuclear was "better" because it provided 10x as much power globally. My post was to articulate that solar can be deployed anywhere, much more rapidly, and is therefore the better choice.

Thanks for calling me out on it!
> Types and functions (ignoring non-termination) form a category

Even including non-termination they form a category.
Most of the issues could be fixed by proper social education. Proper and mandatory.

Like mandatory schooling, starting at school level, going through to public/national mandatory TV time. Lets say 10 minutes a day in public/national TV in prime time. Where 5 could be spent on science and teaching and another 5 on social schooling. Quick facts and information.

And not something like in Europe right now, where everyone is possible predator. Just proper education created by top specialists, not direct blaming and scaring, but using psychological tricks to make people understand what is wrong and where to look for help.
There are countries that figured this out, where violence is not tolerated, like Sweden, Norway...
I think Fred has enough to eat

http://www.fmwconcepts.com/fmw/fmw.html
I don't think it's possible for something to be the 'most unique'.
So "good person" just means "one of us" and has nothing to do with ethics.
You might want to try https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
Guide dogs aren't pets. They are medical equipment.
> E.g. non-artsy Italian and French cinema from Alain Delon to Bud Spenser was big all-over Europe until the 80s when Hollywood dominated with emphasis on impossible to meet big productions and vfx.

It's not impossible to meet Hollywood's financial power, also its artistic power... Germany alone for example has producers (Constantin Film), studios (Bavaria, Babelsberg), VFX shops (Scanline, Stargate, Pixomondo) or tech rental (ARRI), and not to mention all the locations which many US blockbusters regularly use.

The core difference America has and what makes Hollywood so dominant is that everything except locations is pretty much concentrated in Hollywood (with Vancouver and Toronto offshoots in Canada), whereas in Europe everything is splintered - Germany alone has Cologne, Berlin and Munich. That makes it harder for all parties involved in a production (please don't get me started on the disgrace that is high-speed internet connectivity here) and, crucially, we don't have the informal "network effects" resulting from having everyone drink at the same bars in one town.

If anyone, be it a billionaire or a government, in Europe were to fund a "cinema town" modeled after Hollywood, inter-European infighting would kill the project before it even had a chance at getting started. We can't even get our heavy industry companies merged so that they're sizable enough to fight against Chinese and US companies - how are we supposed to successfully do that for a industry that doesn't have much economic relevance?
The London Review of Books doesn't, and it has the best letters I've read.
A thought of theirs could be drawing a correlation to industries which unionized and became less nimble (eg: auto industry). Now was it unionization or a 'fat and happy industry' disregarding competition. Probably a little of both.

I know little of unions - but my impression is that the unions often overreach human conditions with business decisions. In that case, having people without business experience making business decisions.
Same story here. But in my case, Zoloft gave me really bad tinnitus that persisted even after stopping. I switched to Intuniv that got rid of the panic attacks but not the depression or the new tinnitus. Added Lexapro and that reversed the tinnitus and kept all the positive benefits of Zoloft. Brain chemistry is different for everyone, so it's worth trying more than one if the first doesn't work for you. It's truly life-changing when it works. No one should have to live with daily panic attacks.
Under the law, they do not receive protection.

See Baker v. Selden, which despite it's age is still good law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_v._Selden
Modern Art is a lot of fun, and it helps kids learn about value being a product of the situation around it in some ways.
We do "Saturday morning cartoons" (as in, Saturday mornings is the designated time for watching cartoons), and one trick I've found is that switching TV shows every episode or 2 really helps with attitude and the eventual "well, that's enough TV for now". If we binge-watch one cartoon, after three or four episodes we have a cranky toddler who just wants to keep watching that same show all day, but by cycling through different programs we can do cartoons in the morning and then switch to crafts, playing in the yard, etc, without (much of) a fuss afterwards.
If sharing your location is optional, then there will be people who opt out. Depending on how many people opt out, the data may be useless.
They are easy to find. Just check out the sites selling SaaS businesses and request prospectuses. FEInternational.com is one of the better ones. These will give you inspiration.
You can absolutely still use React/Polymer/other JS frameworks in that same manner, but you have to learn a little bit of coding boilerplate.

I think one difference between lit-html and React/other JS frameworks is that lit-html knows which portions of its template are static, and can avoid reconciling static portions. This is the same optimization as what Svelte can do, but without the need to change your toolchain.

Disclaimer: I work at Google, but on a completely unrelated team.
Mandatory or optional? Will the government force me to upload if I am positive? Or can I choose not to?
Now I'm confused. Administrative privilages have nothing to do with using the GPU. A service process cannot use the GPU, regardless of who owns it, that has nothing to do with F@H, that's just how Windows is designed.

According to the organisation behind F@H , the application requires administrative priviladges to make sure you have the permissions to use the application on the machine. I guess they had enough complaints about people running it when they don't(students, employees etc), so requiring administrative priviladges is the easiest way.
> any other restriction on the freedom of movement and freedom of assembly.

> clubs and other private properties is off limits.

To give you the benefit of the doubt, you don’t mean that you refuse to have temporarily restricted movement during a pandemic?
IMO, this new site could be helpful for the 'Startup Ecosystem' in India.

HN community has been absolutely wonderful all these years, but for startups every geographical region brings in its own set of challenges. If we need to spur on the innovation and startup culture in India, we would have to connect and help each other out whenever required.

For example, check out this link -
http://hackernews.in/item?id=182

I never knew about some of these startups and especially who are the folks behind it. This thread would obviously have got lost had it been posted here.

I see the new site's value in setting up a platform for collaboration amongst hackers/entrepreneurs of India. It cannot replace HN for me, but can be a useful add-on forum.
Just for the brave ou there: to build a custom kernel for Ubuntu, based on the actual Ubuntu kernel image, you have to follow these instructions:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile

Apply the patch before compiling and there you go.
Dijkstra died in 2002, so this is probably older than the 2004 date listed as the transcription date below the article. Looking at the date of other EWD notes in the same number range it was probably written in 1978.
You CAN also run NetSurf inside a X terminal like xterm or xfce

Really, you can render the framebuffer into an X terminal session? That is not possible, is it? Or is there some other port besides the GTK port, that you're referring to?

Everybody knows this is for Framebuffer...

Well, I for one didn't. I clicked through thinking it might be a console web browser like lynx, and wondering how it would be graphical. "Command line" is not a good descriptive term.

Looks like a neat lightweight browser, though. I've been stuck with lynx on a linux virtual console enough times to want this. :)
I wasn't expecting much from this article but it links to recent research in high impact journals. The ones that caught my eye were:

Science: Vast East Siberian Arctic Shelf methane stores destabilizing and venting

Nature Geoscience study: Oceans are acidifying 10 times faster today than 55 million years ago when a mass extinction of marine species occurred

Royal Society: “There are very strong indications that the current rate of species extinctions far exceeds anything in the fossil record.”
The fact that PG released HN code as open source means that he wants more people to use it. The issue about the name is correct, we shld think of a different name for HN India - so that there is no false impression of any affiliation with HN.

But I think a local flavor is surely a good idea and more counties / geographies should create their versions. Just in 3-4 days the Indian HN has gotten a lot of traction.
I suspect they are not sorted by popularity. The user setting is "topcolor" and this page is "topcolors", so don't assume that the "top" is implying most used.
I'm sorry I have deleted it now.
Im really tired of the local community here, found very few interesting and admiring ex dev_camp.I have found many smart people outside this community who code alot.I honestly feel those are real. The one who code alot and then speak. YMMV.
This is incorrect. (Author of that article.)
The quantum mechanics approach is to get a good idea about what happens for everything under a certain energy level.

They keep building bigger machines to fill out the parts that don't have a definition yet.

Anything that specifies what happens at the next band of energy levels is a success, whether it yields new particles, or rules them out at that energy level.

There's some destination of approaching the most energy dense states like describing the mechanics that were active during the big bang period
like an explanation of what 'this' is in JS:)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Dont-Know-JS-Prototypes
>"everything appeared to be better at every company than pretty much any other industry that I know of."

Maybe if you held different position your point of view on a subject could be different.
Since when has BLM or antifa been held accountable for anything? BLM alone murdered over 30 policemen and several civilians. They pulled a dead body out of one of the burned out buildings in Minneapolis after the violent left-wing riots there. Antifa murdered 9 in Dayton and injured over 20 others, they stormed multiple government buildings and attacked government officials and police. Who is held accountable for promoting violence against ICE, disclosing the home addresses of the police and shooting at their facilities?
I think money is a reason, but I don't think that's the only reason. If I was in a position of power there, I would endorse the same policy purely on ethical grounds, even if it for some reason harmed our relationship with advertisers. I suspect some of the employees there feel the same way.
There is a candidate mRNA malaria vaccine in the pipeline.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/03/01/a-...
I suppose that eventually a species could figure out:

“Humans wont kill us if one of us can debate them [and also look visually appealing to them]”

Could be lower energy than whatever they currently do
What is the difference between a high-wage worker and a robot?
This is actually another regulated area: in many places, to legally be a guide for a group you need to have some kind of education or certification.
I really hope this article is a joke, but author forgot to add /sarcasm.
It looks like you think... and I'm sorry that you feel that way.

Err, where did you get that idea? I couldn't be less concerned about the fate of my docker 'contribution' of inline comments (which was simply given out of shock that nobody seemed to be considering these vectors, and was merely copied from lxc-gentoo).

My motivation in commenting here is to prevent people from getting the wrong idea about security and LXC, something the article, IMHO, failed to do. In fact, it came across as fairly misleading to my mind.
I'd like to know what it takes to get an advertorial like that in Forbes? What PR company did Vayable use, how much did they charge? What other forms of PR did they get out of the deal? How effective was it (may not be answerable in this case, at least not yet)?
The particles do annihilate, but they don't have to annihilate with each other. If an electron/positron pair appear, the positron can annihilate a different electron, in which case the electron appears to jump.

So if the pairs appeared light years apart, the antiparticles would annihilate something nearby, leaving their partners in the sun, as if particles were spontaneously jumping from all over the universe into the sun.

Preposterous, yes, but as far as I understand, not actually impossible.