jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Books yes, youtube no, except the occasional funny animal/baby video with my wife. Even books need to meet an expected quality threshold before I elect to dedicate tens of hours of my attention, and I am willing to grant it because the thousands of hours or years worth of thought put into a book are often worth the brain space consumption trade-off. I try to be very selective in the content I consume, with exceptions for pure entertainment when I need it.
I'm asserting that you can't have a currency independent of a country without crypto. It's a prerequisite to defunding warmongering countries.
> Bitcoin isn't a bank, it's a currency. You can't do that with the USD either, and you could build a banking platform on top of bitcoin to allow for chargebacks and credit lines.

The point is when we're looking at comparative energy use, you can't just point at the whole banking system and compare it to Bitcoin, as if it's an apples to apples comparison, because the banking system provides an embarassment of services that Bitcoin does not.

> The strawman is disingenuous and shows how little you understand the topic.

There's no strawman here and if anything this shows how little you understood the thread you're replying to.

(Edit: fixed a copy/paste screwup)
I have a friend that lives in an area that drains into the Chesapeake bay. He is doing some changes to his property and is not allowed to do anything that would increase water run-off. OK, I said, that seems quite reasonable. Then he tells me it is for 12in of rain in 24hr. Wow, ok, that is a lot but I guess it could happen. Yes, it is a once in a 100yr storm. Then he tells me the rule is you have to handle that, and be prepared for another one within 48hrs. What?? Any water retention has to be drained within 24hrs so that if another storm hits it can be handled. So two, once in a century storms in a total of 72hrs. Kind of changes the definition of once in a century?
healthcare providers in Israel have centralized systems/databases for at least 20 if not 30 years
the only "digitization" over past decade, it's shiny websites.
No - the only things that matter for electricity are cryptocurrency. All other frivolous uses of electricity cannot be criticized.
I used Rails + PostgreSQL + TailwindCSS / TailwindUI (design system) + AlpineJS (for reactivity, screw React). Deploy to Heroku for minimum hassle, but if you know some Ansible stuff, deploying it to VM is quite straightforward too.

Build and launched a web app in 5 weeks (using time after work and weekends), bonus is that I get my first paying customer three weeks after launch! And I have been iterating my app feature based on customers suggestion ever since
The EU thinks it should be treated equivalently, but what do the contracts actually say? If the contract is weaker than the UK one, then that could be called an EU screwup.
Apple actually makes a good way of differentiating the products on their site (http://store.apple.com/us/mac/compare). On top of that their sales people will generally ask you what your purpose for the laptop is as to not oversell you on something you don't need.
With the stylus, this would make a great sketching, note taking device. I think that is the killer app here.
I don't have the exact statistics as hand, but SF has actually had moderate growth in the housing stock— the real issue is that there was essentially 0 housing growth in Silicon Valley other than San Jose.
> but it's deemed to be an insignificant problem, since otherwise nothing else would be using the connection anyway.

Except for other applications trying to use the finite, and possibly expensive, bandwidth of the connection as a whole?
Yeah and I'm not saying it's a bad choice. I just think too many people put so much importance on whether or not a company raised money as a measurement of success. When the reality is many companies can do it on their own, control complete ownership, and still achieve a level of success that many companies that raise money see. It's really just based on where your company is headed and whether or not you're eyeing an exit for your company. If you are looking to sell, be acquired, or go IPO then raising funds makes complete sense.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/26b.html
> but a modern Turing today would be vilified instantly.

Depends, is a modern Turing a champion of reading all domestic communications?
> it's super easy when your page doesn't have even a header and/or a footer.

It's not that hard even with.

My stack consists of HTML/CSS, and a small program to stitch headers and footers onto documents generated with markdown.

If anyone would like to see it, it should be in the Sourcehut page linked in my profile. The program is a hacky (but functional) piece of garbage however.

E: Spelling
Yes absolutely we should let the powerful people set limits to how much we're allowed to express our thoughts and to whom.

I'm sure there will be no violence since nobody will fight to their death fighting against that, after all it's never happened before let alone for smaller restrictions on people's freedom. Wow, the past, what a good thing it was without the Internet acting as a megaphone, certainly no revolutions nor wars for independence.
Free VoIP, first and foremost.

I remember when my dad told me his cousin from Venezuela suggested an app to him that allowed him to make free calls to anyone who also has it. I told him that was probably not right and he might have downloaded malware on his Android... Turns out he was right and the app took Brazil by storm

On top of that, media, voice clips and cross-platform compatibility.
Robinhood and TD Ameritrade both do the same thing when the stock market tanks. Considering these companies are supposed to be making profit from their services rather than interest on appreciation the assets their customers trade on their platforms, I'd think the more likely culprit is external DoS attacks from entities with large stakes, rather than the companies themselves.
I think his point is that at some point it isn't right to call it spam. Double opt-in mailing lists for a product or service that you enjoy isn't spam.
NASA proved it was possible to spend money and gain practically nothing of scientific value (ISS & the entire Shuttle program). Of course, the main reasons it got those money was to spend it in favorable political endeavors.
Does rendering attributes using jQuery's text() method[1] properly sanitize the model attributes too?

I ask because I'm making a backbone app and I'm following the same process found in Ben Nolan's mobile app [2] where he does something like

this.el.find('h1').text("Editing " + (this.model.getName()));

[1] http://api.jquery.com/text/
[2] https://github.com/bnolan/Backbone-Mobile/blob/master/application.js
This is an interesting prospect. Newspapers have been struggling with their websites trying to see profitability. The circulation model is there in small numbers, same conclusion with upselling advertising to the website. If newspapers can gain the "Community Bill Board" status once again then you have something. However, the redesign of websites needs to be an easy process or the newspapers have to offer redesign as a service. The search for the local businesses has to have a return on the top of the search page. If Seeing Interactive can offer these two key components, this will make a huge impact in how newspapers do business in the future. They could be on to something here!
Typo on the home page: "Easily share YOU writings with everyone."
This issue is way bigger than Trump.

While many are likely rejoicing that Trump has been silenced, I think this decision is short-sighted and bad for everyone all around. Love him, hate him, Trump is the President of the United States and nobody on either side of the political aisle is going to forget that an unaccountable group of people silenced and censored the President of the United States.

While this may seem like a victory in the short-term, I do not think the power structure in Washington is going to just going to move on after Trump is out.
I've always wanted to go get some training in boxing, but I admit I'm always worried about losing teeth or getting cauliflower ear or something like that. Dumb, but there it is. :D
The capitol police definitely don’t seem to have been acting as one unit in this. At least some were trying to protect the capitol.
"in any given Western nation"
While they may be pedants, I am anally right. On a personal level I think those who chime in to cry that it's not censorship are myopic fools.

It is absolutely censorship. It's textbook, dictionary, censorship. Take wikipedia's great opening paragraph:

>Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient." Censorship can be conducted by governments, private institutions, and other controlling bodies.

In my opinion it's especially egreoious, requiring remedy, if the censorious actor has a large amount of control over a medium of communication. In this case google dwarfs perhaps governments.
Ok, I read the data and... I don't see anywhere where someone is broadcasting messages that some people have been conditioned to believe are orders to terminate pregnancies.

Where is that happening?

And "not an easy choice" is exactly my point. Are you under the impression doctors council in favor of terminating pregnancies outside of cases where there is a health risk to the woman? I've seen a few claims of that from anti-abortion activists, but I've never seen anything resembling proof of those claims. Given how strong such proof would be in support of their argument, I would be surprised if there is any pattern of such behavior. (Yes, I'm aware they have some videos they claim are exactly this, but given that the only videos they release are highly edited, I'm rather suspicious that those edits removed a lot of important information. An unambiguous problem wouldn't need a lot of editing.)

Doctors will provide abortions to the people who choose to get them. I don't see any evidence that there are people who believe they are being instructed to have or perform abortions.

I see quite a lot of very strong evidence people are being told the election results are invalid, insurrection is necessary to right an injustice, and that there are people who believe they are being called upon to carry out that insurrection. My source? The claims the president has made repeatedly and the insurrection attempt on Wednesday.

These things are different. One is very obvious to everyone with their eyes open. The other one still lacks evidence. When the important part of the situation is the link between an action and its effect on others, the ease in observing that connection is the context.

So no. The same argument doesn't work. The pattern of facts is quite different.
The projections I've seen estimate that the drift would reach about 1 hour in a millenia (i.e. around year 3000), ± few centuries. And I don't even know if 1 hour difference really would be that significant, these days already some regions have their local time differ from solar time by over an hour (e.g. Argentina, Spain, large parts of China) because of timezone shenanigans.
Nonsense. Go work a polling place or for the Secretary of State for any State and come back here if you still believe that.
If you’re going to call it censorship if Walmart refuses to sell a product I make, then you are really watering down what that word means.
> pearl-clutching

Pearl clutching? Odd. I've heard people say that all summer long about those afraid of the "peaceful protests" turned violent riots that burned down cities and devastated business. This violence was encouraged by all types of politicians on the left and all the big media networks as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eQzLcO5qhY

A small number of people at an almost entirely non-violent rally, a rally where the president encouraged people to "walk down to the capitol house" .. walk, not riot or loot or burn, a small number of people did something horrifically stupid. Most just walked around, a smaller percentage destroyed stuff. Everyone one of them should be charged if they did.

But you know what I also saw? "Pearl Clutching." Every senator and congressman afraid out of their mind because the villages had come into the castle. The peasants were in the kings court, and the village idiot with a racoon on his head was sitting at the seat of The King's Hand playing with her royal gavel.

You cannot possibly talk about the violence on the 6th, without addressing the fact that the media went on and on and on about praising all the violent "peaceful protestors" all summer long.

It did not matter at all when it was the business owners, the minimum wages workers who lost the jobs at stores now condemned, or those losing everything in lockdowns while Pelosi showed America her ice cream collection in her $14k kitchen setup.

But now that they were causing some minor damage, 1/1000 of the damage the democratic left supporters did on inauguration day 2014:

https://youtu.be/BXR3d22BhHs

It's suddenly the worst thing on the planet! Unprecedented even!

America has a long history of its citizens taking federal buildings. The Black Panthers, with an armed militia, took the California Capitol in the 1970s and no one died.
Exemplary Practitioner

Technically Fearless

Lead with Empathy

Illuminate and Clarify

Flexible in Approach

Respect What Came Before

Learn, Educate, and Advocate

Have Resounding Impact

Each one has a one paragraph explanation but this gives you a taste.
Or weaponize the coins.

Take 10 BTC and give them to 100 groups/people you don't like. Investigators make their lives miserable for a while.

For normal people, that'd be ridiculously expensive but since they didn't pay for the coins and have 100k+ more they can't use, it's "free."
Go with the "Laravel from Scratch" on v8 to learn the basics. Then follow up with the "What's new in Laravel 9". I'll be updating to v9 this spring. Laravel has been pretty stable since they changed to semver for versioning (ie v6). The framework is fairly stable. They held off the v9 release so it could have the new Symphony components. A lot of features that would have been released with v9 were added to the v8 framework. v9 may have some breaking changes, but I'd have to really dig through the release notes to find what would affect my app.

I'm more concerned with updating PHP from 7.4.x to 8.x then the framework update. Our test env had issue with one of our blade templates when running under 8.x.
> That's a no-go for many setups. It doesn't integrate well
> with how Linux distros usually start services (systemd,
> upstart, sysv init, ...)

Change the daemon config file to use a small wrapper script, which initializes the SSH environment and then execs the target binary. Assuming a reasonable setup, this should be trivial.

> At this point you could have used ssh right away, no?
> Any reason you used TLS + checking SSH agent instead?

It sounds like they take an SSH identity certificate from the agent, send it via TLS, and then the remote process verifies it. This would have fewer potential security issues than trying to lock down a user's SSH login shell.
> "Simply put, you can't put the genie back in the bottle."

I dislike quoting films to make a point, but "the future is not set".

Instead of thinking about reversing change, think about creating an alternate path, a 'fork' in version control terms. Think about what we'd want to inherit in this fork, and what we'd like to replace.

The easier you make the choice to switch to something better, the more people will do it. There are certain parts of our current society that we do not want to live without, any compelling alternative will need to provide them.

I see the greatest hope for a viable alternative in the world of self-sufficiency, but it has to be a more complete form of self-sufficiency than we currently have access to. Healthcare is a great example, what tools would we need to have in our homes to ensure we could treat illnesses without relying on the current healthcare industry? These are the sorts of questions to ask.

For what it's worth, I've already started making steps towards the foundations of a new society. I know it can be done. So that you can understand these ideas better, can you describe to me what holds humans back from making better choices?
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I'm pretty much at the same point of refusing to do any actual coding on an interview and for pretty much the same reasons. Really like the option of an offline code test followed by discussion of the solutions or a small contract. But it's pretty rare for companies to actually do this, since nearly everyone now follows Google's model.
I agree that your first example should have been covered - at high levels - by the code of conduct. However, the other two are civilian authorities who acted illegally, not military personnel who violated the code of conduct. Wrong jurisdiction.

Those would be covered by international war crimes cases, something to which the United States of America will never submit. Alternatively, they could also be addressed by a moral President - unfortunately, Obama decided we should just all move on and ignore the war crimes committed in our name.
No surprise. My opinion on the US gov is even lower than it was on Bushs period with his whole patriot act and Afghanistan/Iraq war crap. I expect nothing positive.
i agree..i remember when i was a graduate assistant we would interview students and discuss their submitted homework. It was such a clear indicator of who worked and who didn't. The rule of thumb though when interviewing teams was to meet them all at the same time and never individually.
I don't mean to sound Pollyanna-ish, but even it shuts down in a few years, where's the real downside? You will have (possibly) had an income stream during that time (and for those big names that might give the money to charity,the charity will have benefitted). You may have developed a following/community that might follow you elsewhere. You may have picked up some intangible skill(s) that you might not recognize at the time. And you get none of that, what will you have really lost?
Point taken, but it's also people who are otherwise well-educated but repeat nonsense and anecdotal evidence who cause my friends and relatives to worry about my health and to doubt my lifestyle choices.
Please don't do this here. Your comment was factually wrong, but even if it weren't, provocative snark is something to avoid in HN threads. When commenting here, please make your point substantively.
> About the only actual benefit I can think of using a smartphone for is the ability to look up maps/directions.

I'd suspect this is why you're being downvoted. Smartphones have many more uses than 'looking up directions.'
We track where users voting come from so you can segment by particular referrers. For example, you could segment votes by Facebook users or Twitter users.

Mostly, we aim to work with larger websites/companies with large amounts of website visitors, Twitter followers or Facebook fans to easily aggregate what their users think.

I'm not positive we'll be able to eliminate bias though. Its on the to-do list =)
Awesome; a web-based chat interface would be a killer feature however.
wxPython is something I personally miss.
Even genius doesn't contribute greatly to society without a good deal of economic advantages. How many Einsteins were there throughout history who didn't have time to sit around pondering physics, but were instead mediocre hunters because of the need to eat?

Yeah, we might have more geniuses with more population, but if we can't support the population they're not going to do the wold any good.
The idea behind stepping outside of your comfort zone is that you keep doing it until it becomes your new comfort zone. If you're not ready to invest the effort needed to see it through, you shouldn't do it.

Every time I've tried stepping out of my comfort zone "just for the hell of it", it usually ends up being pointless at best and embarrassing at worst. I'm not changed at all, I don't really accomplish anything besides making myself feel uncomfortable, and nothing much comes of it.

But the really big, life-changing events in my life have all come from stepping outside my comfort zone, and staying outside my comfort zone until I became comfortable. Switching school districts for high school. Going away for college. Posting things on the Internet. Rocking the job interview process. Founding a company, and sticking with it until everyone except me had given up. Moving to Silicon Valley.

I feel like this is often misunderstood, that a lot of people step outside their comfort zone simply because that's what they're told to do, and don't follow through with it enough to reap the rewards.
Investment in for instance music is not to bring new great music to light but to make money, pure and simple.

Check out the latest top 100 and tell me that more money leads to higher quality with a straight face.

It's all about safe bets and marketing, not at all about quality.

True, lower quantity does not imply higher quality but it will put the focus on those that are driven to create, which tends to have a bias towards quality as compared to simply those that want to make lots of money.
It would be awesome to work on something like this since the community desperately needs more open training -- the standard 4-year model really isn't cutting it anymore. Now if only I hadn't let college get in the way of pursuing web development -_-
It is not only the fiber, but many fruits either have anthocyanins or citrus bioflavanoids that reduce the rate at which the sugars hit the blood stream by inhibiting digestive enzymes or other mechanisms.

If you add in supplements, such as the liquid berry stuff at brownwoodacres or something like green tea, it can add to the health of the diet at a very cheap cost.
That's 50 separate codes, not 1 long code. Try one at random.
A sharp eye may optimize the code a bit:

boolean isTopGun = isAuthorTopGun(author);

if (isTopGun) {
author.setAttitude(Attitudes.DICK);
} else {
author.setAttitude(Attitudes.DICK);
}
Wrong, but in an interesting way.

The number one myth about business people is they know how to build a business. No MBA will prepare you for the actual experience of turning nothing into a profitable machine.

Programmers don't know how to build businesses either, but they do know how to build something that might turn into a business.

That doesn't mean business people are worthless; all successful startups combine business knowledge and software knowledge. But in 2011, software ability cannot be outsourced in a startup. Increasingly, software can't be outsourced from any business.

The issue is, non-technical founders don't know what is easy and what is hard. They don't have all of the information necessary to make decisions about what does or does not go into a software business.
Yes, but if you're randomly connecting to un-trusted networks, you're... randomly connecting to un-trusted networks. Protect yourself with an SSH tunnel, or some other kind of VPN, and / or only run on https sites / fully-encrypted protocols.

Seriously, you're asking to be MITM'd if you're connecting to un-trusted networks. Literally. If you don't understand that, then you deserve what's coming to you. As long as you're not protecting yourself by somehow tunneling to only trusted end-points, there's no way to secure yourself.
canned beans are also... calm.
Anyone recommend a site that can build a week's menu/grocery list based on approx budget etc.? I'd definitely use that product.
Just the first Google results:

New York (City): http://www.fiberexperts.com/new-york-fios.html

Iowa: http://www.fiberexperts.com/iowa-fios.html