jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"That highly depends on what the 200lb is made of."

Well, he did say "jacked", so it's safe to assume it's not 200 lb of fat.

BTW, I went pretty close to that, while staying at a relatively low 12% BFP (body fat percentage). It's pretty awesome, but I can definitely see why some people would rather not go through the trouble - it's not something easy to accomplish, not if you're a cubicle slave like almost everybody these days.
Today's economic systems, in the west, make wage slavery practically impossible.

That's a little misguided. For the uneducated, the mentally or physically disabled, or the financially burdened "wage slavery" can easily become the reality.

It takes being at a certain level in society to realize that you can create value in a way that is both competitive and creates a stronger bargaining position. It takes a level of understanding and confidence to do this that many people lack.
The NBA draft works this way (most votes = lowest finish previous year). It has not done a good job and I think this would create riots in the streets.
Yes. Agree, but only if you also remove Section 230 that provides immunity from civil liabilities for such businesses making business decisions.
Google and Apple have a duopoly. In the wake of 2016 we collectively agreed that Big Tech has the ability to influence elections, now is the time to think about how to protect our democracy.

My take is simple: either treat social media conglomerates like we do telecom or break them up like we did AT&T.
Thanks the obvious answer. Parler is very slow for me on android, presumably the incredible scaling issues Twitter dealt with back in the fail whale days. Maybe just using website is better
Did the BLM riots promote sedition? That's probably why.

Also worth noting that there was no property damage or injuries in more than 97 to 98% of protests[1]

[1]: https://today.uconn.edu/2020/10/study-2020-protests-shows-di...
How was this an attempted coup? Some agitators attempted to enter congressional chambers with no real plans or demands with what to do. Seems like your standard societal unrest to me.
I wholly agree with your second two paragraph, but for perhaps different reasons: I find those calling for restrictions on free speech often don't sufficiently understand the nature of existing restrictions and what the implications are of either expanding or adding to said restrictions.
Were those actual people, or bots? Did the people say "yes, let's do a violent thing" or did Twitter interpret "yes, we will not give up" as a response to a dog whistle? There is no analysis showing how they came to that conclusion, and there is no trust in them from those who affected by these bans.
>admins and powerful mods have always been able to fuck with the boards in ways normal users can't, such as embedding auto-playing youtube links in posts

I remember the day /b/ had the Trollololol song on auto-loop.
"Not as socially, ethnically or culturally diverse as many other tech hubs." Chicago has world class museums, music venues, restaurants and ethnic enclaves like Ukrainian Village, Maxwell St., Devon, Pilsen.. and you mean to tell me there's more diversity up in the bay area? LOL
I suspect that telomeres are just one component in a system that maintains an organism's biological stability, and that simply lengthening them without reference to the rest of the system will just get you a young, cancer-ridden body.
Well, one way is to implement TCP over HTTP (or some of the lower-level protocols even) but you will need server-side code aswell
DMLS pieces can be pretty durable.
Krugman and Stross seem to be fellow travelers.
Sure it does. Any investment with an expected return of <1% immediately flips from positive value to negative value for an investor.
Camping and living are pretty different. Camping for a few days just requires the right gear and knowledge of using it. Living in a cabin, you'll probably want to have a wood stove that you keep fed and some warm blankets. Obviously (most parts of) Arizona in the winter are easier though water is a bigger problem there.
I am hopeful about the future, and I am training my children up to be assets in the fight against climate change and poverty.
I wanted a centrifugal fan but there was (and still is) simply no way for me to comparison shop for them, unlike with consumer computer fans.
It's strange how prose and poetry can change our lives, reconfigure our ideas about life and death. I remember this quote from a book I read two years ago like it was yesterday. Somehow beautiful writing has a life of its own.

“From the earliest age, we must learn to say good-bye to friends and family. We see our parents and siblings off at the station; we visit cousins, attend schools, join the regiment; we marry, or travel abroad. It is part of the human experience that we are constantly gripping a good fellow by the shoulders and wishing him well, taking comfort from the notion that we will hear word of him soon enough. But experience is less likely to teach us how to bid our dearest possessions adieu. And if it were to? We wouldn’t welcome the education. For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends. We carry them from place to place, often at considerable expense and inconvenience; we dust and polish their surfaces and reprimand children for playing too roughly in their vicinity—all the while, allowing memories to invest them with greater and greater importance. This armoire, we are prone to recall, is the very one in which we hid as a boy; and it was these silver candelabra that lined our table on Christmas Eve; and it was with this handkerchief that she once dried her tears, et cetera, et cetera. Until we imagine that these carefully preserved possessions might give us genuine solace in the face of a lost companion...” ― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
Yes but what information is important enough to move the stock price? I agree it’s foolish for individuals to try to compete with professionals, especially on a short-term window. For longer-term investing I believe the playing field is more level because once you go 5+ years out no one really has an information advantage and a huge proportion of traders aren’t even thinking on that horizon.
> I'm struggling to believe this.

If seems you didn't even did the most basic cursory search on the issue.

Here's literally the first hit on a google search for "dam sediment".

https://www.hydroreview.com/world-regions/dealing-with-sedim...

And think about it: what's a dam reservoir other than a big old sedimentation basin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sediment_basin

Also, think about it: hydro power is not the only use for a dam. They are also typically used for things such as flood control, water supply, and energy storage. All of those usecases rely on the sam's ability to hold water (and it's sediments) and lower discharge, if not totally block it.
There's no need to make the question binary; plenty of liberal states have strong social systems, and yes changing federal state management structures though would be one change that could make Saudi Arabia more attractive an investment partner.

Going into business with the royal family strengthens its power globally and domestically and decreases the chance that the Saudi population could effect a change, whether they wanted to or not. It also legitimizes the actions of the Saudi royal family. That's a consideration that a private individual is under no greater political obligation to make one way or the other, and a consideration that should be made with deliberation (as should any decision of this kind be made).

We're missing I think a good argument for forcing private founders to be critical of how they run their business but to avoid due diligence on whether funding sources come from the Saudi monarchy. How the government of the US and other countries negotiate relations and sovereign trade with Saudi Arabia is a separate though indeed important topic.
What I don't get is exaclty this. What's the difference of this to remote procedure calls?
yes, but it will more complex and take up more time, which I think is what he is talking about.
Can you clarify what you mean by a "silo"? Do you mean once you start using Signal you're stuck in Signal, and you can't export all your messages into another app?
I think it (P60 and Pension) was filled in last year for me as well. The service is being changed quite quickly but I can imagine the pain behind the scenes. Screens that used to look like the old green/yellow thing are becoming rarer and the front screen has more options.

My overall impression is that we have a rather sensible GOV.UK thingie (not sure of the real brand)

Make sure you settle up before Jan 31 otherwise you'll be fined. HMRC are merciless. Get it done mate.
Probably worth distinguishing between Algorithms targeting individuals and Algorithms running an entire site. Yes HN is algorithmic but you and I see the same things.
How is diversity of thought poison? I wouldn't want to be a part of an online forum or friend group where everyone thought the same way.
Advertising-sponsored news media that panders to what their audience wants to hear.
> Uh huh, and who decides what is a lie?

Well obviously that would be unelected “fact checkers” who aren’t held accountable for anything and suspiciously seem to find nearly everything said by people in one particular political party to be “pants on fire” lies.
It’s not as unreasonable as you make it sound. Some of the most devout Christians I know are scientists, and extremely logical people too. Precisely because they know how the sausage of Official Science is made, and are naturally inquisitive people, they are not shy to question our supposedly-scientific understanding of the universe (i.e. our best guesses at how it all started) and eventually resolve that doubt with (what they think is) an equally-unprovable act of faith. (Note: this is not about creationism, we’re talking Big Bang etc).

I don’t disagree that human communication is often an oxymoron, simply because of how bodies work. Until we get perfect brain-to-brain data transfer, we’ll always have to go through this messy mismatch between my perceptions and your perceptions.
Are there any particular spots you'd recommend? I think it'd be fun to just wander around alone but I haven't done enough research to tell if that'd be dumb from a safety perspective
Live CD's are a great option to test the waters. You wont be too out of place since the desktop GUI's are very similar to a Windows machine. What seperates the men from the boys is working on your system through the command line interface (terminal). This is the essence of any Linux machine. Read some beginner tutorials on the Linux filesystem and your basic terminal commands.

You will learn it just like any other system, taking it one step at a time. Make it a goal to learn how to complete all the tasks you would do through a GUI on the command line. Create, view, edit, delete files and directories. Unpack, compile and install programs. Run systems updates. Etc.. etc..

Just take it a step at a time. Google everything and you will be fine.
Use an iPad as a touchable external monitor... http://avatron.com/apps/air-display
I believe that it is at 500 karma now, though it might be higher. It's occasionally adjusted to counteract inflation.
Last I checked, downvoting posts was 500 karma, and articles couldn't be downvoted, only flagged.
I prefer the implementation of Mongoid's #do_or_do_not, which checks for the method's existence rather than the object's

(http://rubydoc.info/github/mongoid/mongoid/master/Mongoid/Ex...)
Great timesaver and a good combination of links.
Thanks Bro!
-- I'll buy you a couple beers since you don't have the 'donate' button or ads yet.
Frank Chimero, illustrator and designer, wrote about his experience using a MBA as primary machine: http://blog.frankchimero.com/post/2799470127/the-setup
Flagged - the supposed screenshot has timed out on amazon.
The image in the article doesn't seem to work. There's no meat on that page other than what is presumably in the image.
Would you please stop posting acerbic swipes to HN? You've done this a ton, and it's against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

(Taking a bit of a leap from your username: there's no bigger fan of wicked British wit than I, but you can't routinely do it here. The container is too fragile to withstand acid, and all that happens if you breach it is tidal waves of internet shite in your wake. Following the rules is a bit of work and a bit boring, but not nearly as boring as it'll be if HN ends up in that state, i.e. dead.)
They make an arbitrary judgement call about what is acceptable to the majority of their user-base.
Then again, this is just moving the burden from the language implementation to the developer.
Could Linux explain spinlock.h then? Depending on which type you give to the PICK_OP macro, it performs a different operation. Its basically a C template. Seems a bit weird to complain about type context specific code and then use it in one of the most important parts of the kernel..

Here's the code:
#define TYPE_EQUAL(lock, type) \
__builtin_types_compatible_p(typeof(lock), type )

#define PICK_OP(op, lock) \
do { \
if (TYPE_EQUAL((lock), raw_spinlock_t)) \
__spin##op((raw_spinlock_t )(lock)); \
else if (TYPE_EQUAL(lock, spinlock_t)) \
_spin##op((spinlock_t *)(lock)); \
else __bad_spinlock_type(); \
} while (0)
It's really quite different from SoundCloud. Mixlr is about sharing live (streaming) music, while SoundCloud is about moving MP3 and WAV files about the internet. There is some crossover of course but a completely different focus.

I will be building a search/discovery mechanism when there is more music to search for and discover :-)
It's not just data entry. The actual search aspect is gonna be challenging (it's not harder than the web itself, but you need to know where to look, the keyword would be either "Lucence, "Solr" or "Elastic Search", for the record).

One thing I want to note is that you didn't mention which "kind" of webapp development you care about (ie frontend, backend or both). Roughly, the distinction is whether you care about making a website (the part where people look at) whether you care most about just the functionality part of the webapp.
I am dead serious when I say this: for ethical reasons, I avoid pretty much anything that's licensed under the GPL.
with the audience showing up on this thread. I was going to use ask:HN ,But I'm almost finished with an ebook/prnt for ' kid's with cancer' charities, only will have 2 books on the site / cart checkout / needed .. if any one has advise of a ..simple 1 page ..Woo..theme or similar..it would be helpful
> If it won't be written because people get shot down when they make outrageous claims about their security then I'm ok with that. Everyone should be.

Again, you strawman me. Where in my argument did I talk about making outrageous claims? I would very much appreciate it if you separated "make outrageous claims"
from "develop open source security software".
I live in NYC, but I grew up in the Florida panhandle, a mile down a road from the main highway, at the beginning of which had no houses in sight, and passed about 5 visible houses on the way home. There was one house visible from our ranch-style house. To the side and back was swamp. To the front was all woods. I walked in the woods, stepped on ant hills and got bitten, and found rattle snakes, cotton mouths, mocassins, and garter snakes. Mosquitos, yellow flies, biting gnats, and horse flies combined to ensure that I would always have a few red splotches and bumps on my body when I came in. We even found gators once in a while.

We made long-time friends with a family a mile away by road, but I could get there in a quarter of a mile or so by woods and swamp. The trick to walking through the swamp was to try to step on clumps of grass sticking out of the muck. I would come across rotting tree trunks and knock them over to watch the termites. Sometimes our outdoors cats would join me and follow from a distance.

My dad drove 30 minutes to work, about 25 miles away, where he struggled to run a discount auto-parts distributorship employing too many people to be profitable. My mom stayed at home with me and my little brother.

My friends loved coming over. If we walked far enough past the swamp, we would be on the bay, which smelled kind of funky for being fresh-water, too far from the sea water to be even brackish though. It was just us, and maybe our neighbors who mostly stayed indoors. We didn't worry about break-ins. We left our door open a lot.

I currently pay a lot of money for a doorman for that kind of sense of security in NYC. As for being able to walk in the woods by myself, that's just about impossible, and you can't put a price tag on it. Unless I'm home alone, there's almost always someone in my field of view. I'm kind-of used to it, but a lot of people have a visceral distaste for it. Seems like I can't even get to work without getting into a subway car that smells like something died in it.

An economist might not have a direct way to measure the value we created for ourselves, but you might say we created a lot of value for ourselves by living where we did.
"Web development" can cover a lot. JavaScript makes sense if you want to be more font end focused. PHP or Rails (or Django or Flask) make more sense for back end focused stuff.
Though when that happens on an in-use fixture, you’ll hear the gurgling.
My understanding of CPU-physics is as follows:

https://www.ti.com/lit/an/scaa035b/scaa035b.pdf

Page 4 (page8 in PDF):

> P = C * V^2 * f * N

Power-used = Capacitance * Voltage^2 * Frequency * Number of Bits flipped

This equation roughly holds for all CMOS circuits, from the 1970s through today's CPUs. Smaller transistors result in smaller capacitance, which is what led to Dennard scaling for the past 40 years. Otherwise, the physics are the same.

Static-power consumption in CMOS is theoretically zero, and measured to be femto-amps. Static power consumption can therefore be ignored, only dynamic power matters in the real world.

Assuming the same transistor size (aka: capacitance), you can see that power use is most strongly determined by voltage. Another note: higher frequencies (say 3GHz or 4GHz) requires more-and-more voltage to sustain.

A mobile chip drawing 1/2 voltage at 1/2-frequency will have 1/8th the power consumption but take 2x longer to complete a task. Overall, you have 1/4th the power consumption used.

----------

This is why servers reduce frequency and voltage and save on power in practice.
That's interesting - my girlfriend seems to very much fit the description. Would you say you have difficulty formulating full arguments in your head? Do you talk when you think by yourself? When "thinking" aloud by talking to someone you're bound to sometimes stray and perhaps need to take a different line of reasoning to make a coherent argument. Does it pose a challenge to not get attached (maybe defensive) to what you said for this process to be efficient? - especially before someone whose opinion matters to you; or in an argument.
Yes I use this one, not as compact but it remains readable/editable, more notably Kibana uses it as well.
In conjunction with anything else?
Turing Tumble is really neat. We have a copy at work. Not a lot of replay value, but there are hours of play in it.
If the answer is ugly, always try squaring it or dividing by pi to see if you get something that looks rational.
The maintainers who reply dodge the issue in a way that must be frustrating to the reporter; and makes it seems like they'd probably not accept a PR that modified this behavior. Calling privacy advocates "paranoid" in today's climate is a bit suspect. There's a definite issue here that the Atom team should address - a reasonable user would expect that, after opting out, the app would never phone home, and it does.

Blaming tone is too easy - at this point the Atom team is representing Microsoft, so I'd say the burden is on them to soak up a little snark; especially coming from a user who maybe expects them to behave a bit more like the GitHub of old. Even if they were a small open-source team I would still expect them to directly confront the issue instead of beating around the bush. It's about privacy, and splitting hairs to deny the reporter's reality is a bad look.
There are other studies, though, as the article says. A December 2021 study from the University of Michigan surveyed 803 software developers about their use of cannabis and found that 35% had tried programming while using cannabis, and 18% currently do so at least once a month.
"But they did it first" stops being an excuse once you move on from third grade. Even if the costs of bitcoin generation and transactions are better than mining gold, it's still a poor excuse to prefer "getting rich quick" to being considerate to the future generations.
>But make no mistake: As is often the case in technology, only one platform will prevail.

I don't buy this - sure there are only one OS for pcs, but there are many different browser.

The end game is fun to speculate about but before we can do that we need to know if the phone is a platform (like the OS) where the main feature is if it can run the app you want or if its a browser where you can access the information with either.

A decade ago this would have been easy but today the pull of the internet is so strong that I don't think it is a given that one platform is able to cut the other of.

If it takes 5 years before the two platforms face each other of the pull is only going to be that much stronger.
you don't seem to have understood my objections.

First, HN frowns on link shorteners. We want to see where we are going before we click. I notice you submitted that same link, a few days earlier. If you try that very many times, that link shortening service will make it onto PG's radar, and it will be banned.

Second, we also don't like deceptive, linkbait titles. You are implying that Apple recently answered this most recent round of allegations. They in fact did not. Their earlier response was indeed relevant to this case, for sure. So just say that! Implying that you've got a scoop that nobody else has, in an effort to get clicks, is not cool.
Wow. Either Dropbox have some copyright issues with Dropship's code, or this is just a blatant misuse of DMCA to take down the content. Won't speculate, but I personally suspect the latter.

Wladimir did release the software under FOSS Expat ("MIT") license so he can't really take it back. It's now up to good will of others.

While I understand that this may put Dropbox in unfortunate situation, such methods to take down the problematic piece of software somehow feel wrong.
So is the book open source?

edit: Got it after reading: "the book is true to its title in that it open sources the founders’ personal lives and their startups".
Thanks for that, I hadn't realised. Fixed now.