jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You are selecting facts that are convenient for you.

You are correct that small groups were often tightly knit. But you are ignoring the persistence of modern surveillance: Your neighbor or clan-mate never followed you everywhere. Since the invention of shelter you always had privacy in your home with your family. You could always have a confidential conversation with a friend.

All of those things are more difficult now than they were ten years ago, or hundreds of years ago, or thousands of years ago.

Furthermore, you never had a statistical profile built on your behavior, where members of your society could predict your movements and desires.
I'm gonna go ahead and guess that those things aren't really comparable.
I recall using Logo in 3th grade at a Purdue University CS summer camp program. The camp was 1 week long and we stayed in the dorms like real university students - very cool! However, I don't recall any Apple computers. I think it interfaced to a PC using a serial cable. The next year the camp upgraded to Mindstorm kits and we used pbForth instead of the GUI RoboLab. pbForth's author, Ralph Hempel, came down from Canada to teach the camp. It was a true treat! Imagine a bunch of elementary students successfully learning Forth in a week!
>>It just always makes me chuckle when criminals won't face the fact that they are criminals.

>"I know, right? Why don't all those damn sodomites just take their chemical castration and shut up and accept the fact they're criminals?"

"I took mine, and I'm thankful for it every day. No pity."
Turkey was the only country in the world that really held Saudi Arabia responsible. Others just sit and watched the horror story. Because money talks!
This is not really an abstraction.
To me, participating in these markets is akin to telling people you have a hot tip on a game of musical chairs where you know when the music is going to stop.

I've played those games successfully, a la GME and BTC. But I don't feel good about the proposition. I feel more and more that Charlie Munger is mostly right on this one.
I despair. In the UK land is so parcelled up, monopolised, and held for posterity that you need serious wealth to buy anything even low grade. And now that we've left the EU it's not like it's even possible to move elsewhere. I despair.
On top of HN... I get excited to use it with Blender then scroll through a plethora of "awesomeness" text to find this

> Warning: this is a very incomplete proof of concept. It's probably not going to work with your application. ZLUDA currently works only with applications which use CUDA Driver API or statically-linked CUDA Runtime API - dynamically-linked CUDA Runtime API is not supported at all.

Common man. You can't call it a drop in replacement if it's an incomplete proof of concept.
Tracking - yes. Ads themselves - no.
Upcoming website from Klabnik: www.arewedoneyet.rs
Suppose there is apparent demand for 100GW of power. Due to faults your region's generators are only able to supply 75GW of power maximum no matter what price you offer. So you deliberately drop some groups of customers (rolling blackouts to residential areas). Now your residual demand (ignoring those customers freezing in the dark) sum to only 65GW†, you can supply them all. Great!

If your system automatically adjusts price to hit demand it will begin reducing the price, after all demand is lower than supply, how about $6000? $3000? $1200? Ah, that seems to be the magic number. At $1200 we can get 65GW of power.

But wait, we don't want 65GW of power. We want 100GW of power, the fact we can't have that means rolling blackouts. It makes no sense to cause rolling blackouts and reduce prices, the prices need to stay high until we can actually supply everybody.

In a more sensibly architected system, low priority industrial users are blacked out first, and if you must have rolling blackouts for residential customers you pin prices at maximum until you don't need blackouts due to recovering supply (or you use some emergency legal authority to compel generation at some agreed price).

But that's not Texas.

†For a variety of reasons you won't be able to cleanly shed arbitrary amounts of demand, just slice off big chunks and hope, in the process you're probably going to kill people.
See relevant image of startup lifecycle: http://www.vccafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/startup-cur...
Some years ago (before I gave up gambling entirely) I noted that there was one UK online casino which not only offered a reasonable game of blackjack, but would also let you "auto play" as many hands as you wanted, using basic strategy. (i.e. to automatically play what is statistically the optimum response to any given hand.) I never saw that feature offered anywhere else, presumably because players playing imperfect games means more take for the house - but even so, a thousand perfect hands of basic stategy will almost always still leave the house having had the better side of the deal, purely due to the house edge that's built into the game.

(What caused me to give up was an extremely expensive blackjack hand that started with betting $HOUSE_MAX on a hand, and getting a pair of aces. The best move is to split aces, resulting in two hands, at double the bet. And in this case, both those hands were then facing a dealer hand where basic strategy demands that you double down - so an already significant bet ended up being doubled, then doubled again. It was absolutely the right move, statistically, but didn't go my way in the end, and although I still walked away in profit, that hand is what made me think that Blackjack was something that could one day cause me a real problem if I didn't find something better to do with my time.)
So here's what's been bothering me about electric cars. The battery life. I'm lucky to get 2 or 3 years of battery life out of a laptop or iPhone battery. So it scares the bejezess out of me to have similar technology as half the value of my car.

Can anyone re-assure me? Is there anything that lets car batteries last significantly longer than phone batteries?
The point the article is making is that if Google hadn't entered those markets, someone else would have and done it a lot better.

Who's going to seriously invest in an online word processor or spreadsheet with Google apps squatting on the territory? Just MS.

Google apps is still pretty basic and they're not operating under commercial conditions, which means potentially the customer is not getting what they actually want.

I think in some ways he's wrong, not operating under commercial pressures is not necessarily a bad thing, but Google and Microsoft have recently been extremely weak on following through on promising technology, abandoning projects instead of pivoting.

But in Google's case it can be especially toxic, it's then difficult for others to enter those markets as suddenly there's a free competitor. That's not healthy and on that I agree with the author.
(really? no money? Just how would that work?)

This doesn't make a whole lot of sense in the Star Trek universe, but there are other works of science fiction that explore this idea in a more plausible fashion. Iain M. Banks has written a number of novels about a post-scarcity civilisation called the Culture, which also lacks any sort of a financial system.
Reminds me of the "Do The Evolution" video by Pearl Jam
Another thing that bothers me is that many (expensive) phones feel like being made from cheap plastic.

That's because they are made from cheap plastic.

I'd really love to know why on earth they don't use better materials on all of their high-end phones.

I mean, sometimes they get it right and use a nice rubberized material. And then they blow it again, like on the Galaxy S where the plastic back-over is a harsh insult to the otherwise excellent hardware.

Is that rubberized plastic really so much more expensive?

You don't need to reach to the expensive glass or metal to make a phone feel less like a kids toy!
The Samsung Captivate (AT&T's Galaxy S) is very well made and still very thin.
Eh, in my opinion, unless you're doing server side javascript, the thing you need to learn most about when doing javascript is dhtml. The actual javascript language isn't the hard or strange part of the experince.

Most of his links seem to point to actual language esoterica. Only 1 seems to really point at DOM interactions.
Greg Egan should be on this list.
I think one potentially positive outcome is increased knowledge of side-loading apps. Granted, this really only exists as an option on Android but Fortnite demonstrated the feasibility of this approach. If side-loaded apps gain traction it might break the Google Play store monopoly.
It also use to be legal to deny people based on their skin color. Just because something is legal doesn't make it right.
"Yeah but what about" isn't a valid respond under any circumstances, especially not when you are trying to deny that you argue solely in bad faith.

Your state of denial and victimhood complex make any discussion impossible.
The parent comment is in every single thread in some form. It's almost like a narrative is being pushed. But yes, I distinctly remember a national tragedy like none other happening a few days ago.
Engineering drawing is character building though.
Corrections (b/c too late to edit):

(1) The flag isn't for bc, of course; it's for units. I'm always running the wrong one, so no surprise I mixed them up again.

(2) Should read "look at them to understand" near the end.
This doesn’t get picked up on Spotify for some reason so I always forget to check my other app for it - but great show
I was self-employed in Austin, TX for a long time. Had only a few clients at a time, didn't have to work that many hours, and was even able to rent a small office at 501 Studios on E. 6th St. Rent was cheap, no state income tax, lots of cool hangouts. I don't live there anymore and prices have went up since then, but still a relative bargain compared to many other states.
It's $699, for a complete device, not a part of one.
By that argument you could say the cigarette industry isn’t the cause of tobacco addiction.

Anyhoo, I agree with you on the politics of the matter, but I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree about whether my dad was a good person who fell into the sway of bad influences or was a bad person all along.
They established the choice of npm when they choose to be a JS shop, that's exactly their argument.
I didn't state that I had issues with his age. I merely observed that he was probably half my age; he talked and behaved rather immaturely.

I work with younger folks all the time and 90% of them are perfectly fine; actually I enjoy their energy and drive (and there are plenty of older jerks out there). This guy, I didn't enjoy. When I hung up the phone, I was not angry, as I recall. Just disappointed that a great company would have such petty people vetting applicants. You don't have to agree with me. I'm not even sure what we're arguing about at this point; if you're just trying to prove I'm a jerk... fine, I was a jerk that day. Happy now?
Have a nice day. I don't work at Amazon and I'm having a wonderful day :)
For those of us who have to live in a nation that used to be solidly small-d democratic and seems to be trending in a different direction, it can be hard to be dispassionate about these issues. If you want a forum in which to dryly discuss momentous events, you might be looking for one that contains no one affected by those events.
I agree, it's not fundamental. It is, in particular, not that other popular myth, that it's "because ARM". It's only that 1 core on an Intel chip can have N-many outstanding loads and 1 core of an M1 can have M>N outstanding loads.
The difference between the police/military presence when people are protesting the death of unarmed civilians and this nonsense is glaring and very telling.
Well, they halted the certification process, didn't they?
This is a great example of gaslighting. The speaker of the house calls for national guard deployment while rioters are literally in the House chamber. Yet we're the crazy ones for suggesting that they get involved? This is what the National Guard does, it's not begging for a military coup.
But facebook is a pile of... like I have a screenshot of FF’s task manager showing facebook using 800 MB of memory!

In a way I see it as a win, I really really hate opening it on desktop.
Forcing formula is not abuse but neglect, unless done due to medical conditions. Don't fight evolution, formula is harder to digest. Why are you peddling pseudo science over here.
I know what they're parents are like during meetings and campouts. I have to manage them as much as I manage the boys. Some of them try to helicopter during meetings. There was one Scout that I've only seen smile when his dad wasn't around.

They don't seem to like the idea that Scouts is supposed to be youth-run/led and that it's okay to fail as long as they learn from it and improve. The parents just don't want them to fail or be uncomfortable at all (it's not always dry and warm outside).
As far as I know, a lot of companies offer monthly contracts at a premium. Why not use that until you're comfortable with the Saas product?
Are you saying that there is no substantial difference between mcdonald's and curries?

Same kind of fat? Same kind of carbs? Same amount of fibers? Same amount of minerals and vitamins?

Sounds a bit like you are trying to provoke a discussion about this.
I was discussing the exact same idea with a friend a few days ago. We kind of started working on it, but got bored so didn't follow through. I'd definitely use something like this.
Well HTTPS wouldn't have prevented that. In the AOL case the company at the other end of the connection released the information.

I guess someone in a sensitive position (e.g. someone with access to the routers at a major ISP) could intercept a every bit of traffic and produce a similar result but it doesn't seem likely and there's a flip side to this argument which is it puts a financial strain on the companies themselves.

Wikipedia, for instance, surely wouldn't have the processing power to switch all its connections to https. So they'd have to significantly upgrade their infrastructure at an equally significant cost.
Just sent the President a letter and asked for a reply. Let's see what happens.
Congrats on the name. Clever without being confusingly obscure.
I loved the "Making Crash Bandicoot" series on your site. It's well worth the read:

http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ban...
The problem I have is I don't see it as "they" are collecting the information. It is information I am collecting on my phone (until proven otherwise). Concerns about Michegan abusing my data should engender outrage...at Michegan for violating the fourth amendment.

I'm not keen on the file and will take steps to nuke it, since I jailbreak. I just thing the the level of anger is premature, until we know why the file exists (eg does it give me a better experience) or we know Apple or Google are taking the data off my phone.
- Some of the best icon designers are publishing their free sets on Smashing Magazine: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/tag/icons By following the links under each posts you will stumble upon additional commercial sets.

- There is ThemeForest's sister website called GraphicRiver.net which focuses on stock graphics.

- Also don't forget about istockphoto.com and fotolia.com, besides stock photography they are also offering many icon sets.
> What GME demonstrated was the power of the meme in the stock market, and that an asset price could increase its value by over 20x for no fundamental reason.

He has never heard of bubbles before GME?

> People point to the rising price of bitcoin as evidence of the truth in their narratives, but the reality is that bitcoin could be rising for no reason at all.

Could be? It's blindingly obvious to everyone (except the author?) that it's all speculation.

Also he failed to mention the most plausible ways that Bitcoin loses value. Governments ban it, or some other cryptocurrency comes along that solves the technical issues with Bitcoin.
Modern governments usually provide liquidity by simply printing money out of thin air and giving it to those who need it. This causes inflation potentially but is thought to be a fair trade for stimulus.

What "entity" would give people bitcoins?
I have a bridge I'd like to sell you...

The Gripen is a fine aircraft, but introducing a foreign made aircraft into the USAF doesn't happen very often. I can only think of two examples, the Canberra bomber (B-57) and the Dauphin helicopter the Coast Guard bought in the 1980's.

Plus new-build F-16s would be better at most roles than the Gripen.
Not sure I understand hype complaint - isn't any value of goods in economy based on what people think they are worth and not their "objective" value ?
I want just to add that Peter Thiel is one of the reason why we cannot have / invent ‘cool stuff’. But he is also not wrong about what he saying: I’m just saying that it is not so simple.
I believe the purpose was two-fold. The primary purpose of the pattern was for tracking the parachute deployment, but they made the pattern a message as a bonus :)
We got hella (official size) AWS credits by using Carta to manage our captable/409a.
8" Chinese light bucket (Dobsonian).
GP is not literally asking if you know. They are asking you if your data was shared or not.
Wouldn't that imply that the size of objects influences the way they could possibly move?
After a short break, still on the HN/top. Seems like america is sleeping now and europe is not yet quite awake :)

another snapshot: http://i.imgur.com/LcgXdFy.png

still everything running stable.
I think Dart is sort of like CoffeeScript in that it was an experiment and influenced a lot of JavaScript standards people.

A lot of the features of CoffeeScript are being integrated into JS with ES6 and ES7. The same is actually happening to the unique features of Dart such as typing and SIMD and better modules.

Typing is so cool: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:typed_objects

SIMD is amazing: https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd

So, thank you Dart for showing us the way!

My only worry is that the innovators behind Dart are going to be stuck on the Dart project while JavaScript gains their features and even more momentum. I would suggest that they let Dart die and not be stuck with it for years after it has stopped being relevant -- that would be a waste of their talents as they did really see what the future would be.
It's not random shit, it's deliberately crafted shit. Just because something can be represented by bunch of ones and zeros doesn't make it any less meaningful. So of course it should be illegal. Just as illegal as "random characters" that happen to contain terrorist plans or worse.
That probably means an executable rather than an assembly, but the underlying execution platform is still the .NET virtual machine, and all that goes with the VM, including managed memory.

I could be mistaken, of course; I'm not an expert at .NET yet.
> falsely

Nothing about those answers are false. It's a truthful answer designed to promote good will, not a lie. It's called having social skills.

His inability to play this game got him a stinging insult in front of a bunch of the execs' peers. Way to go dude. I'm just offering advice on how to avoid getting socially "stung", not on how to live your life in general.

> ability to learn anything yourself

I agree, I majored in economics and I'm a search engineer making over 200k. My degree is nearly worthless to me.
Sometimes it's better, sometimes not.

Life is complex and subtle. That applies to business, personal relationships, friendships, personal hobbies, society, culture, everything. If you bind yourself to the naive "official" level of policies, rules, and regulations then you will miss out on the rich vein of interactions based on tacit and implicit knowledge, culture, and norms.

Flirting is a perfect example of this sort of thing. Full of subtlety and complexity and none of it 100% direct and straightforward. All of life has similar elements. If you treat your job, for example, as a mechanistic process then you'll probably have about as much success as if you treated romance the same way.

Developing the skills, experience, and judgment to know how, when, where, and in what way to "break the rules" and when not to is a an ongoing, lifelong adventure for everyone.
This is great feedback, and I agree it needs to be improved. Since Paul is a great writer, hopefully he will be able to help in this regard.
Those are the things he gave away. If you read a few of his posts, he mostly eats sandwiches, fruit, vegetables, and eggs.

The full list of what he bought is at the end of this post: http://www.grocerycouponguide.com/articles/eating-well-on-1-...
lol well, it was more of a quick visceral reaction than a detailed analysis, I probably would have forgotten about it if you didn't ask for my reasoning :]

I've actually got half a dozen computers more powerful than the one they're offering just laying about my apartment right now, I have a nasty habit of collecting hardware.
Thank you kindly Harry!
Google hired the firebase team, integrated their product into the platform and completely rebuilt the DB with Firestore, and made Firebase into their mBaaS powerhouse that supports hundreds of thousands of apps. Its not some free product that's drawing a lot of resources, it's their entire mobile app developer strategy, and under many contracts to maintain the service.
Not OP, but for me it would be about when crypto actually starts doing something. Smart contracts and NFTs show the hint of a possible future use case.

But Bitcoin seems to have no use case, and it takes more and more energy as the price goes up.

The higher price absent any use case or advantage seems like it only has speculative value. It could become a religious thing where it has value because people value it: a lot of gold’s value exists for this same reason.

But I’ll wait to see how things play out with Tether before thinking that is likely. They are under pretty severe reporting requirements for the next two years and if they can’t show reserves for the $30 billion they printed last year they are in trouble.
In theory Bitcoin could provide a reasonable amount of privacy by leaving identities unlinked, in practice it doesn't. (Etherum's 'accounts' are extremely privacy toxic way beyond Bitcoin)

Of course, if one wants to trust other entities one can already easily use chaumian cash w/ Bitcoin.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5302025.0

That works similar to Taler except no integrated spyware.

This approach can even be implemented with multiparty security relatively easily, so that the funds are protected by a majority threshold rather than just requiring a single point of failure.
From reading the name of the project I wouldn‘t have guessed it‘s a color scheme for a lot of apps.
I wouldn‘t even thought of that as a viable market. Congratulations to you. This is amazing.

I think the most valuable lesson here is, that there is a market for a lot more things than we would have thought a few years/decades back. Kind of how Spotify enable niche band to have successes outside the mainstream, just by allowing people to listen to every fringe corner of the musical ecosystem.