jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I read about coronavirus and bought puts when the market kept making new highs. I’m currently up $100k, with $80k already booked profits and riding the last $20k as a hedge against my new long positions. I also bought Gilead and Moderna and am up $15k and $5k, respectively.

I believe we are near a short term bottom and will bounce in 1-2 weeks. Most of the bad news is out and I expect better news in the coming weeks (quarantine is working, remdesivir/chloroquine is effective). Then I predict after the short bounce that the economy is so damaged that we make new lows

I’ve been timing the markets for 20+’years now. Just because some people can’t doesn’t mean that everyone can’t.
Alternative title ... Mozilla re-enables state-sponsored hacking groups
We're not using etherpad. The backend is written in Go and hosted on appengine, and on the front end we use React.
But if you smelt aluminium, you have valuable aluminium.

It's disingenuous to pretend (without any sourcing) that bitcoin is only mined using electricity that would otherwise have been wasted.

If this were really true, then bitcoin miners should all be getting paid to act as load banks[0] for their local electrical grid and soak up that excess power. Since they are instead paying for electricity, they are using valuable electricity, not spare/waste power.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_bank
Reserves are now negative 100MW.
What is lacking with Mypy? Some errors are not handled/catched by it?
You also use your incandescent bulbs when it’s warm out. Stop wasting power.
America has a huge economy & relatively few legislators. The return on investment for corruption in America is _huge_ compared with other democratic countries.

I do think the FPTP system in the US and UK concentrates power. And that makes them better able to exploit foreign countries (Arms deals, coups etc). But that seems less about lobbying it's more that the concentration of power makes lobbying more profitable.
I don't see the point. But Turing would have received the Bellard award, in a saner timeline.
Hahaha for real? My trick to get rid of junk subscriptions is to cancel my card from time to time and resubscribe to things I miss. Can’t remember seeing this before!
Good question, I assume there was some reason to talk about a TCB and the answer might have shed light on that as well.
MadMapper is definitely the best for entry level into this field. It's user friendly, cost effective and multi-platform. The MiniMad is quite a cool little thing too.

With projection mapping there are a couple of different techniques which you can use to achieve a good mapping.

The first is to simply take points on a mesh or grid and warp your video. You can corner pin first via a perspective corner pin tool and then warp the inner points linearly on a finer level. This works well for simple objects like walls or boxes etc.

The second is to use a 3D model of the physical object and then treat the projector as a camera. With this method you can calculate the projection by just dragging points in the projectors camera space onto the 3D world space and then calculate the perfect position of your "camera" from that. This second method is what people use when doing large scale building mappings or complex models.

Both methods are available in MadMapper. If you wanted go even more DIY and build your own tools and real-time visuals then I'd recommend Derivative's TouchDesigner as it has two tools (Kantan and Stoner) for the 2D approach and a tool called CamSchnappr for the 3D approach.
Back in the early 90's, when we used to have the national news on TV during dinner, there was a little blurb to the effect of "Scientists recommend selenium in your diet." My dad, wanting something sweet after dinner, was quick with "you know what's got seleium? Butterfingers." And then he got up and grabbed a mini Butterfingers candy bar that we had stashed in the pantry. So after that, the running joke was "I need some selenium" as justification for having that particular sugary treat.
Couldnt it be easily broken by masquerading a jpg as a txt file? Or actual people who pass such images use some kind of masking techniques.
I will tell you what, any thing can be broken if it’s on software. DRM is broken by design because it failed to stop shit its only a hurdle to actual users.
Fact (noun): a thing that is known or proved to be true.

So, 100% of facts on the internet are true.
Egypt, Chinese, Phoenicians, Greeks, Persians, Babylonians, Ancient Israelites, Sumerians, Mayan, Incan and a host of others predated the Romans and documented the process only to be overtaken by the next civilization. The Romans were aggregators of ideas and took the tools from their conquered peoples using what worked and abandoning what didn't. It is highly doubtful as to the claim.
I no longer have a truck large enough to haul the size of the grain of salt necessary when reading Techcrunch, so this disclosure (or is it boasting?) doesn't bother me nearly as much as it once might have...
> If your documentation is a directory full of files on GitHub, I close the tab.

I closed the tab after reading this.
I've seen no evidence that it's possible to get cheaper bandwidth from AWS (on the AWS side, at least. Perhaps some ISP will sell AWS transit cheaper than regular transit). Anything outside AWS apparently counts as "the Internet".

For Amazon's peering, see https://www.peeringdb.com/private/participant_view.php?id=14... http://bgp.he.net/AS16509#_peers
some interesting results: (sad about liberty)

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=liberty&year_...

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=l33t&year_sta...

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=hacker&year_s...
That's twisting my words a a bit isn't it? I don't like what Apple is doing. Other manufacturers imitate Apple. I want Apple to fail in the hopes that other manufacturers will stop imitating Apple.
Yeah, but if it's "individually salted md5 hashed passwords" then your password is quite possibly compromised.
Utterly awesome. http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=My+name+is+Inigo+...

Potentially even more awesome is that they have the entire dataset available for download o_O

edit: case sensitivity is more fun than insensitivity: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Star+Trek%2Cstar+... vs http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=star+trek%2CStar+...

edit2: there are a whole bunch of geek-term bumps around and just after 1900. Anyone know why? E.g.: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Star+Wars&yea...
Awesome, awesome, awesome advice, thank you! I'm going to get cracking on these ASAP :-D

Oh, and you're quite right about number 4, I'll check out your presentation. One again, thank you for your advice, it's things like these that really make a difference :)
Now there's an idea for an iPad app, along the lines of Flipboard and News.me but using delicious bookmarks.
This would be hilarious if I weren't hip-deep in dealing with such a product IRL right now. :(
high protein and low/no carb. You can be more keto (high fat), but the key is to keep your carb bucket low, so your body is oxidizing fatty acids for its fuel source. (rather than glucose from carbs)
>Citation? I haven't heard anything about this and I work closely with telecom.

It's what I've seen with some of my family that lives in smaller towns or rural areas. Some crappy company like CenturyLink buys up the infrastructure and then just lets it rot, but charges huge prices for phone service, higher than cellular service. Then service quality is poor and outages are common.

>You know, Slashdot was never quite this toxic back in the day.

How on earth is it "toxic" to state a fact? Older people are generally easier to manipulate, which is why there's laws against "elder abuse". Are you going to try to claim now that dementia doesn't exist, because that's "ageist"?
I honestly don't understand why more companies haven't dropped Zoom after their recent major lapses in security practices:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=zoom+ma...

It leaves me with very little confidence that the Zoom client for Windows doesn't have some gaping undiscovered vulnerability in it.
I'm not a vegan, but I'd have a huge problem with that as well!
This is excellent - a big fan of its scriptability via curl. I think you have the beginnings of a truly amazing developer experience here.

If you're interested in monetizing this:

I would pay a fee for this - say $4/month. The only features I would like at this price:

1. Authentication (-H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" would be good enough) - at the level of the routes. This sounds like what you have done for routes like '/' anyway.

2. A CLI to tell which routes I "own".

3. Persistence of messages on the patchbay server up to some reasonable time limit T so that consumers can replay messages since time T without the publishers being blocked on their side.

I would pay $8 per month if:

1. You hosted consumers (go binaries or docker containers which would accept the body and headers of the HTTP response on the consumer side and do something with it), ran them for me in a loop

2. Guaranteed me some level of isolation for things like API keys, etc. which would be passed to my consumers in some fashion.

Even if it were open source, at these prices, I would buy. Don't want the headache of hosting it myself.
Of course they are.

Their education determines how well they can support future community needs. Public education is a continuous reinvestment in a community.
Ok, so where is the actual product? There’s no way to try it as a demo and the demo shown in the video is a fake one - yes, even the one after the flat animations with the real desktop.

My impression is that the product hasn’t been built yet or is even ready for beta. Is this another one of those ‘MVP’ landing pages that fools the consumer into believing there is a product to gather reception?

Thanks.
Next to impossible, but maybe.
They're all over the internet already.
I'm putting some more time into PortableApps.com. I know it'll help people use their laptops for both work and personal stuff while keeping them separate. And I built a portable package of Folding@home which they're reviewing for release to hopefully get more folks helping attack COVID-19.
I'm working a tool to track and report git commits across multiple repositories in an organisation. I am also adding more features to validate commit messages and branch names to help maintain a standard across the repositories.

My goal is to provide qualitative analysis on Git usage throughout the team and identify users who may require additional Git training. It is such a powerful tool but I see so many dev's still writing commit messages like "changes", "updates", "fix" multiple times per pull request.

I'd love to get some feedback

https://sheriff.dev
BTW, what is the Amethyst's story regarding modern displays? Most of us have tossed our CRTs.
This is just word games.

We can sensibly speak of tech that "would be" an ITAR violation to deliver "if it were not" open source. This is exactly the scenario under discussion. It seems very clear from the linked page that, e.g., GPS code that is released as free/open is, in fact, not restricted by ITAR.
Looks really cool.
Ranking depends on the variable of comparison. There can be more than one.
Welcome to Africa - one step forward two steps back.
Society still has a long way to go when it comes to blaming people for psychology but not physiology. In truth there is no difference; everything the brain does is physical at its roots. Even if you suppose a particular psychological phenomenon is purely emergent from self-reinforcing electrical patterns (a "feedback loop") in an otherwise unmodified brain, those patterns still exist in a physical form. Whether a psychological problem is caused by bad signals or bad substrate should be irrelevant to the notions of blame or stigma.
OmniGraffle: http://seriot.ch/visualization.php
More powerful type systems are great (I'm a happy Haskell programmer much of the time), but there is a surprising amount of safety you can get out of fairly minimal type systems if you figure out how to use them well. For instance, on a recent C project I was able to enforce invariants about what threads could touch what data. C++ has significantly more machinery to leverage.
The thing is, people who purchase McDonalds aren't just going to switch to Soylent because they're looking for a cheap energy dense meal. They want a burger. From McDonalds.
Traders don't want to hire job hoppers because it's a negative signal about their abilities and ethics. First, if this guy is really so great, why has he flamed out of 3 firms in 5 years? Either he's lying or has some serious personality defect. Second, do I really want a guy who's bounced from firm-to-firm glomming up ideas and IP? Won't he do the same thing to me?

Going away to do a startup doesn't send the same signal. I'd gladly hire someone who did that.
Scary. Even more scary is the fact that the bug has been open for a week, one person has confirmed 100% reproducibility, and no one seems to care at Red Hat. Isn't deleting peoples hard drives a big no no ?
Reading these dozens of one sentence summaries gives me an inkling of what it must feel like to be an investor who is pitched to all the time -- a concept really has to stand out to be noticed.
I am not sure about immortality, but I think the final victory against hostis humani generis, the enemy of mankind, Plasmodium falciparum aka malaria, is within our grasp. This would be a trenemdnous boon to the humanity worthy of the Nobel Prize and more.
I love how deadpan the bug report is:

Actual results:
All files are deleted on the machine.

Expected results:
Squid is restarted.

Not many details yet but it sounds similar to the Steam bug [0] from last year.

[0] https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
It's a counter-intuitive argument, but an extremely astute one. Consider: Many people would rather not wear an ill-fitting 'nice' outfit, or may not have the sartorial education to do so, but feel obliged to do so as a condition of their employment. You won't be able to get a job as a bank clerk if you show up dressed in a hoodie and jeans, for example; you need to show up in a shirt and tie (if you're a guy) even it's the cheapest item that you could find at Men's Wearhouse and you don't look very good in it.

'Well-fitting slob clothing' not only signals that you're not subject to some sort of onerous dress code imposed by your employer (within reason), but also that you can afford to spend money on what most people could consider leisurewear. Further, while you may genuinely not be interested in clothes, picking them out in the morning, looking at other peoples', or shopping for them - and while I can sympathize with your disinterest - that very indifference is itself a mark of affluence. Most people work hard at that stuff because they feel obliged to create a certain image to get employed, get laid, and maintain their self-respect. If they don't care about clothes and they choose not to spend money on them, and they don't happen to put out certain other socioeconomic signals, then they will just be dismissed as scruffy bums.
While you're right. People don't get uncomfortable with 'regular people' going to MacD's, or drinking coke. They may express horror with MacD the corp or Coke the corp, but not the consumer.

They have an issue with people who show off their wealth --like buying apple products in the face of cheaper (better?) alternatives. Here the opposite happens, they at times praise the companies but bash the consumers for showing off.
Agree, I really like this one http://semantic.gs/
And just a couple of hours ago I was thinking "How come I haven't seen any articles on Groovy on the front page in a while?".

Seems its hype has been eclipsed by Clojure and Scala.
I'm not sure what the word is for the emotion I want to convey after reading this. The article makes a good point that at first it seems silly, but so was Twitter and perhaps Facebook.

How about instead of sharing our emotions with a cold plastic or metal device, we share them with warm-bodied friends who we can hear laugh with us or hug us if we need it.

I'm all for sharing and staying in communications with friends and family (especially since I'm at sea for months on end without seeing any of them), but if you live in the same city as your friends, or especially family, go see them and share your stories then. It's more fulfilling than taping a button on a screen.
Why is sending a file relevant in an audio protocol discussion?
> It was surprisingly difficult to find a decent way to render nice-looking web pages with reasonably modern CSS to PDF without having things get cut off or reflowed. I had to use a specific prerelease build of a webkit-based tool to get my template to render correctly. I wonder if there are any better tools in this space these days.

Try Chrome's built-in print-to-PDF. I currently use Ungoogled Chrome to produce PDF documents from HTML+CSS.

(I don't use Chrome for browsing, just for making PDFs. I prefer Firefox for browsing, but found its PDF output inferior.)

It still doesn't support proper CSS printing and layout. You still have to write HTML+CSS that will happen to be processed a certain way by the browser, and it still won't be publishing-quality text justification or line breaking. But I've found it reliable and consistent enough for some kinds of document generation.

Before using Ungoogled Chrome, I spent years struggling with various WebKit-based and Gecko-based scripted setups, and I saw glitchy results, fonts not working right, scaling wrong (sometimes by large ratios), wrapping in odd places, table/rule lines too thick for print or invisible, uneven spacing due to CSS "pixel" rounding making no sense at print scale, much else besides. Trying to work around all the issues took months and probably derailed a project that was depending on this approach to render PDF invoices. When I found a version and configuration that just about worked, I carefuly preserved the exact binary version along with its supporting environment, because new versions tended to break the output in significant ways. With that, I was still never able to get multi-page output and good rendering from the same software, so I chose the latter and made sure I never needed multiple pages.

One day I found producing them from current Ungoogled Chrome without any crazy scripting produced good results and have stuck with that since.

Note that - at least on Mac - Chrome has two separate print-to-PDF paths, which produce different PDF output. One appears to be part of Chrome and I'm guessing it is common to all target OSes. The other goes via the OS, and I found this one produced inferior rendering and different page size and layout. One of the preview options doesn't view the same PDF as the default output operation.
why does 100:1 leverage contributes to upside, but isn't cancelled out by 100:1 to downside?
Maybe knowing when a particular OS went off the rails or did something deeply stupid will come in handy one day when you're writing an app to scratch an itch.
Way better to avoid a mistake someone else already made.
ProPublica had an article [1] a while ago which might be what you're looking for. The really interesting projected data is at the bottom.

[1] https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/
https://sidehustleschool.com/episode/592/
Well defined focus, crystal clear. nice design.

I guess this can be duplicated for any well defined community.
> We send some of our worst thinkers to educate children.

I wonder if this is the sort of thing that could be fixed by paying teachers more. Why would a smart person become a teacher if a professional industry job will pay $300-500k and a teaching job will pay $100k? Is paying teachers so much even palatable to the general public?
I posted some technical details here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1943928
No advice messed up my life, I did.
Maybe that's just what you needed to hear! you probably have a greater understanding of what music means in your life than someone who went to a conservatory straight out of highschool or made it big in a band without trying.
Try http://learnpythonthehardway.org/
When it comes to software, I don't think starting age matters that much, except perhaps on the margins. The field changes too quickly for amateur technical experience from 10+ years ago to have much of an impact on quality. The kind of experience that ages well is the kind that you can't easily get as a teenager with a Linux install.

Also, every time I interview someone, I ask them how they got into programming. So far, there's been no strong correlation between quality and years of experience. The people who started programming in elementary school are just as likely to be crappy as those who didn't start until college.

The strongest predictor I've seen for engineer quality is college GPA. People who work hard and get things done also tend to get good grades.
>If the results aren't statistically significant I'm not sure why they were even published.

I'm going to go with "because there's a lot of money available for people that show that women are better at science then men"; doh, I mean "more equal" of course, not better ....
"Social inequality in the city meant the Spanish flu hit all the harder."
That is another statement without any support, like the entire article. It is not clickbait, it's propaganda.
I am not a kubernetes expert so I have no idea. Sounds like a fun challenge. I remember seeing something about network mounts for linux in general. Maybe go around kubernetes? If you solve it I'd be interested in how you did it, so an update would be greatly appreciated.
>That group of thought has not yet managed to prove to anyone that if you catch it now, you'll be immune to a mutated strain.

Isn't our current approach of social distancing also vulnerable to mutated strains? Except, of course, we keep social distancing forever. Possible mutations affect all strategies in the same way and can't be used as an argument against a strategy.
I made a game for Android. Unfortunately the tooling needed is too hard to explain. But it might help pass the time.

http://daly.axiom-developer.org/apps/MahLetters-release.apk
Yeah I get that bread is good in a quarantine - I’m making my own every few days right now - but is this any better than just making any other bread recipe. That’s all I’m saying.
I think that depends on whether you want your stuff to look like some definition of traditional.

The equations in AMS Euler look good to me. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMS_Euler#/media/File:AMS_Eule...
To be honest, not so great.

I live alone, in a tiny apartment. Usually that's not a huge issue since I live not too far from a beautiful beach and mountains.

But being stuck inside (i live in France) I'm starting to relapse into depression. I have a lot of anxiety about being alone, about the possibility that I will be potentially let-go. About suicidal thoughts etc..

I was doing better, but last week set me back by a lot. I'm scared I will not survive this situation if it lasts for months.
Google hired that developer.

"As for Google, I still don't believe that they are that committed as well, "

They have any approximately 10+ person team, many of whom are new hires from apple etc. Even for Google that's a decent chunk of change.
How do you suggest that AI research should incorporate that? Most modern AI research isn't even brain-inspired anymore; the origins of ANNs are brain-inspired, but most SOTA approaches don't really seem to be.
Pijul gives me hope semantic diffs may become common - see the "Dependencies" paragraph of https://pijul.org/posts/2020-11-07-towards-1.0/. The HN comments on that - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25032956 - are a nice read as well.
Concise? The superfluous inclusion of "facebook" and the slash negates your claim here.