jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Oh I didn't think it would replace HTML. For me the appeal was because VRML was the closest thing we had to the 3D rendered remote mainframe logins that Hollywood hacker films loved to show off.

Running around a VR modelled web page made me feel like the Lawnmower Man or Joey hacking into the Ellingson Mineral Company supercomputer (well, maybe not Joey specifically because he was a n00b)
"nice trees" is relative too.
Even better, `go get ./...` installs all dependent packages.
I feel like I'm missing something..
He's just funnelling people into his preferred method of communicating. They can still leave him a voicemail if they prefer.
The link you attached lists a few different lead-free solder alloys with the lowest melting at 412F(211C) well above 340F(171C). Eutectic tin/lead solder has a melting point of 361F(183C), also above 340F.

I'm not sure whether or not cracks can heal at temperatures below the melting point, but I would be surprised if that were possible.
Came here to post this. I was actually upset about that change, it caused some weird compatibility issues in my application, and i had a hard time finding debian's rationale.
This one is actually the third submission: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22the-world-of-computer-go%22#!/s...
They haven't imposed DNS filtering - or at least, as implemented by almost all UK ISPs, the DNS lookup performs as normal.

The user looks up the IP address of the site they want to visit via a DNS lookup and is provided with the correct IP addres. However, if it's for kickass.so (on the blocklist), the ISP detects traffic to the IP of that site as it attempts to pass out of the ISP's network and blocks it.

Also, most of the work to get sites blocked via court order in the UK (not by some secret lobbying deal, but through the courts) has been done by the music industry, not the MPAA.
Yes, content is one of the most annoying problems, and there's no technical reason it has to be.

You can always torrent a film in just about any language and get high quality as soon as the film hits the stores in the country of origin, sometimes before (those preview audiences). And yes, I'm talking about across the board, films from the US, south america, european countries, - surely asia too though I wouldn't know (mainly just watch films in english/spanish/portuguese). And watching it in the original is something that makes the film better (unless Bafleck is acting in it).

I have a netflix (IMHO the best alternative out there) account and like the service, but when a new episode comes out they don't get it immediately you have to wait for films, this can actually be a really long time and you don't get "every" voice over just the ones for your country, so if the relatives are visiting who just speak spanish and you're living in germany well you know what forget it, if you want to watch the movie the only way to do it is to torrent. Also europe is really problematic for some reason, if I drive 2 hours to poland and access from a polish IP netflix denies all streaming?

Honestly, I think anyone would be willing to pay easily more than $8 mo. to be able to just stream any film/episode in any language/dubbing at any time. I think studios should concentrate on making that possible over this dns crap.
The Google+ push is annoying but expected. Somewhat off topic but I really wish Google would normalize the volume of ads/videos. These days I tend to get super loud ads then often a quiet video so I'm constantly adjusting my audio levels. Same problem with audio levels between videos but I can accept that's a bit harder to get right. The loud ads though IMO are unacceptable.
What kind of tools can be used for TikTok automation?

I know that we can use Selenium but in the mobile app there are few features more.
I think most process engineers at an ammonia plant would be interested to hear about it because it is an elegant solution. I'd focus any pitch on working with them to make sure your process will not interfere with their process. The people that run these plants are highly incentivized based on run time and they run them at 99.9% type uptimes. They'll think its cool and good for PR as long it they feel like there is no chance to have their plant disrupted or equipment damaged by more corrosive CW.
> Can you open 10,000 bank accounts right now?

If you need to do this, you can do it through the group at your bank called treasury services (or something like that). They have APIs for financial services customers and CFOs who need to do this sort of thing.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-15/winter-s-...

Millions Lose Power in Texas as Deep Freeze Sows Market Chaos

By Javier Blas, Brian K Sullivan, and Naureen S Malik

Bloomberg

February 14, 2021, 7:41 PM EST Updated on February 15, 2021, 12:41 PM EST
Yeah I stopped really caring so heavily about recycling when I realised just one dominos shop causes more rubbish in a day than I do in a year. You can't recycle greasy cardboard.

Corps first or fail
Most of all of that comes out of the salary on your payslip in the US.
> If you're a trusted merchant with shady customers, once the transaction posts you don't have to worry about scammers fraudulently disputing the charge or your bank cutting you off because that happened too often.

If you're a scammer merchant, ripping off good-faith customers you also don't have to worry about chargebacks. Bitcoin moves power from the consumer to the merchant. I don't see that as a net positive.
I used to work in the Azure Resource Manager team and we had big GC issues there. API servers would pause for 200 ms and queues would explode. Workers would grind to a near halt in certain conditions due to GC overload. Granted this was a couple years ago and running dotnet framework, so perhaps things have improved.

I think it's likely most of the serious problems there could have been fixed by smarter in memory caching: a few big objects instead of millions of small ones. However the whole experience left a sour taste in my mouth for overly allocation-happy code styles.
A good line about Tarkovsky, from an essay about Metal Gear Solid of all places:

> But there’s a serenity to Myst that you can’t really find in any major videogame today. It’s videogame Tarkovsky, really: The whole point of the game is experiencing the quiet, looking at everything. So Myst is boring, but only in the way Tarkovsky and Russian novels are boring. (The problem isn’t that they’re slow. The problem is that the world has made you too fast.)

https://ew.com/article/2015/09/04/metal-gear-solid-strangest...
Sure, but for every $100k staffer in the west, there's an Indian IBMer making $10-15k.
Hoo boy...like what?
Your response not only avoids the question, it makes guessing based on trailers and posters into "basic reason". The movie industry is filled with deceptive trailers and marketing, and just guessing at it will fail eventually if you keep trying long enough.
Ssl certificate

Reverse Proxy for possible load balancing?
Nice. So this is effectively what is keeping skynet at bay.
> Outside of security patches, if there even are any

On the fundamentals, a service the whole point of which is to let untrusted computers from the internet connect to your home network and talk to your devices is pretty likely to need continuous security updates.
Yup! Which in some cases would get truncated, i.e. in the HN interface itself: "Show HN: PNGR – Docker-compose for a Postgres-Ngin...".
Improper representations are frowned upon in school, but they have their place. Once, a niece of mine in kindergarten told me she knew what 3 times 11 was: 33.

I asked "Well then, what's 7 times 11?"

"It's seventy-seven."

"Okay, I bet you don't know what 12 times 11 is."

"Twelvety-twelve", she gleefully replied.

We agreed that twelvety-twelve is a perfectly good number, we know what it is, but if we were talking to other people we would tell them one hundred and thirty two – for us, twelvety-twelve is just fine.

– Bill Thurston, Groups, Tilings and Finite State Automata
LOL reminds me of the time at work when I was helping a fellow SWE deploy his code to a new platform. It didn't work. He immediately blamed the it on the fact that we were using a new platform. I then noticed that we were also deploying a newer version of his code onto this new platform, instead of the old code that was known to work on the old platform. I asked him how he knew it was because of the platform (#5 or #6) and not the newer version of his code (#1).

Turned out I was right. And this was his code, not mine. The best part? He had been on the team longer than I had, and this was at Google of all places.

And people wonder why I have lost interest in the field...
> what else explains it?

The reasons in the article.
Bridging exists. use a popular but bad platform, but give the option to switch to a better platform.
Very good work and a excellent use a git sub-command. Although, I appreciate github1s and perhaps future is there. I am currently more likely to use git peek (with it's search feature).
We’re all divided with recent decision to focus on CentOS Stream, which essentially means that stable, professional distro will turn into rolling release now. Also CentOS board members don’t gave us more confidence for the future.

I don’t want to be totally sceptic, I would like to test it on my own and only then, decide if it’s stable enough. But I work mostly with Docker containers and there are no official Docker images with Stream variant. I decided to create it on my own, based on official instruction.

https://hub.docker.com/r/tgagor/centos-stream

Now at least I can try it and decide on my own, if it’s stable enough for production workloads.
Damn. What are you working on that needs such a powerful machine?
The IRS site gives that impression, but I believe that's not the case. There is "IRS Free File" which is income limited as you mention, but there is also "Free File Fillable Forms" which appears to not be income limited. Intentionally misleading if you ask me.
Bitcoin is used as a speculative instrument because by definition it is deflationary. Which means it is more expensive to buy something with it today, then tomorrow. Just look at Chamath's tweet about how he bought a property for Bitcoin in 2014 for $1.4MM but today that same amount of bitcoin would be $100MM+

https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/chamath-...

This creates an environment there is never a reason to use the currency for a purchase, strictly because it's supply is completely limited and never increasing over time.

Since the world economy continues to grow as GDP, output, and the population grows, it stands to reason that if Bitcoin in any way parallels our real world economic scenario, it would continue to rise in price per unit, because the overall GDP continues to increase.

As a result, it in fact never stabilizes, unless overall GDP stops growing.

Since it never stops growing, it never makes sense to use it for a purchase, and so you have a flywheel effect of ever increasing upward price pressure.
Yeah, it was Docker for Windows and Razer Synapse 3 who couldn't work together because they both copied the same SO code: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1229641258370355200 :)
I found a comment [1] from the author on a reddit thread [2]. So yes, it seems like the data is already stale and getting staler :(

[–]WedgeTalon 7 points 5 months ago
Interesting, but won't this be a pretty short-lived site since the Netflix API will be shut down November 14? Or are you doing this without using their API?
[–]n1te1337[S] 2 points 5 months ago*
It should work pass that date as the site doesn't rely on the API. I can't promise it though as at the end of the day they own the content no matter how you get it.

1 - http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/2ckxhm/netflix_catal...
2 - http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/2ckxhm/netflix_catal...
There are some kinds of chips that can be reset by certain kinds of light (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPROM). Apart from that, packaged ICs aren't generally damaged by light that isn't at a laser-like intensity.
ISOs are rare these days. If you have stock options, they are probably NQSOs. ISOs had too many restrictions so most companies stopped using them.
> With so much functionality, where to find the things you are looking for can be a bit difficult.

I've yet to see a 3D program where it's easy (except, maybe Google Sketchup). They are complicated beasts, so new users should expect a learning curve. In my experience, though, Blender gets easier once you master the basics (while most other packages let you do a "hello world" type project easily, but mire you down with their "friendly" UI for more advanced stuff).

Another important thing that sets Blender apart WRT learning curve, is the abundance of good tutorials and help (it's even got its own stack exchange site[1] - incredibly helpful!).

[1] http://blender.stackexchange.com
So the blog post on connect says "Managed Accounts" are available to anywhere that stripe is supported. However, on the docs, it says that it can only be used in the US and Canada. Which one is it?
My experiences with the educational outlook on video game programming is very different.

I put together a video game programming club for the junior high school my nephew was in. The response was phenomenal. The teachers loved it, the principal talked about it every time he got a chance and the club was featured in several local news outlets as an example of the excellence and modernity of the local school system.

The language was C# using the (sadly now defunct) XNA game development framework, and it wasn't long before I had 7th and 8th graders making games/winform/console apps of all sorts. We made a 2D side-scrolling space shooter and a tower defence game and the parents are still begging me to put it on again, which I sadly cannot due to a moving out of the area.

One thing I will say, and I spoke of this to all the kids, is the game development can be a very harsh environment. Often with substandard pay, long hours and tons of stress. Which I found out first hand as I went into the game dev industry right out of college and quickly decided it was not a fit for me (being that I enjoy having a life outside of my career). But game development as a hobby is an excellent way to build up programming chops, have a ton of fun, and even work your way into the game industry if you find it fits your life/career goals.

In regards to the article, the teacher seems likely to be acting under the mistaken assumption that anything that involves computer games was "bad, mmmkay". I feel it is a safe statement to make the video games can have a positive affect on youth as I go interested in computers in general and programming specifically when I got into the Diablo 1 hacking/trainer scene so many years back. I was light years ahead of the read of my peers entering freshmen CS already familiar with visual studio, C++, memory debugging, binary dis-assembly and the many other tools of the game hacking trade.
Gaining muscle is far different from gaining fat. Gaining "weight", regardless of composition, isn't what most people are looking for.
that does look really nice. thank you
2014 was the hottest year. But the summer in my city was complete crap. It was cold and rainy.
Hope its better summer this year :)
The claim that most people buy drugs with it is flat out WRONG.
From the article:

"(This, coincidentally, is the same dilemma that oil drillers who borrowed a lot during the boom face now during the bust)."
I believe it's a page from Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies, not an actual strip.
PostgreSQL has an "array" data type (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/arrays.html), as do other databases. You could use that for that purpose (I know of research prototypes that have attempted this). It is unlikely to work well in general, especially given that degree distributions are often skewed (i.e., there is very high spread in the number of relationships per node) -- if I had the time, I would do a proper empirical comparison.
Exactly. The irony here is intense.
This one's already in the running for the most hedged and meaningless article of the year.

> If Bitcoin were a currency, it'd be the worst-performing one in the world, worse even than the Russian ruble.

> But Bitcoin isn't a currency.

Okay, it starts off with an admitted paradox of entailment. If 2 + 2 = 5, then Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme for redistributing wealth. And besides all that, there are plenty of time periods over which Bitcoin would be the best-performing currency in the world.

> It's a Ponzi scheme for redistributing wealth from one libertarian to another. At least that's all it is right now. One day it could be more. Venture capitalists, for their part, are quick to point out that it's really a protocol, like the early internet, and its underlying technology could still be revolutionary. What are they supposed to say, though, when they've bet hundreds of millions of dollars on it?

This is a hedge that reveals the inane clickbait nature of the headline. The author isn't talking about Bitcoin, but rather about some group of people and firms involved with Bitcoin is some way. We could say "economics is a Ponzi scheme for redistributing wealth," because lots of people have utilized economics to implement Ponzi schemes.

> It has no inherent value, after all, because, despite companies trying to get free PR by saying they'll accept it, almost nobody uses it to buy anything other than drugs.

To make the claim falsifiable, the author would need to define "almost nobody." To make the claim accurate, that definition would need to be preposterous.

> Bitcoin miners, you see, borrowed money—and real money, as in dollars—that they could only pay back if Bitcoin prices kept rising, or at least didn't fall this much.

Bitcoin is not the first currency or technology around which foolish investments have been made.

> This means we don't need a bank to know that I've sent money to you and only you, but it comes at the cost of making it irreversible.

The irreversibility is likely a cost to some and a benefit to others. Since no one that I'm aware of has been forced to use Bitcoin, I don't see this as a problem. If you consider the irreversibility of a bitcoin transaction to be a significant cost, then do not make the bitcoin transaction.
The democrats could peal out their conservatives too.

Then you could have the progressives, the moderates, the ultra conservatives, and I guess a Texas separation party, and it'll be like Canada
Secrets is a very lose term here. I'm sure some wall street dudes would pay millions to get the emails of congress members. Also, just because the computers locked doesn't mean i can't copy a hard drive...
That VP is my hero. I've seen that story play out too often, but without the VP.
Please stick to the intended spirit of the site when commenting here: thoughtful, substantive conversation—not snark, and certainly not internet-battle-to-the-death, which is what this sort of exchange amounts to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Government has long had the power to commandeer broadcast media when it needs to get a message to the people (“We interrupt this broadcast…”)

No, it hasn’t (outside of, say, the Emergency Alert System.) Government addresses (“We interrupt this broadcast…”) are a subject of requests for air time, which broadcast networks usually (but not always) grant.

A decent enough basic explanation with some historical examples is here: https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/major-networks-carry...
The 2017 referendum was boycotted by opponents of statehood (for various reasons to do with the wording of the referendum question and the way it tried to slant the options) and had something like 23% turnout, so citing it as an expression of popular will is a bit weird.

The 2012 referendum also had the statehood question effectively boycotted by many people who favored keeping the current status, because selecting "keep the current status" wasn't an option on that question (it was a separate question altogether, where it got 46% of the overall vote). So statehood got something like 61% of the votes of people who voted on the statehood-specific question at all, but only ~46% of the votes cast in the referendum; representing that as a "yes for statehood" is also pretty weird, since that's about the same number of votes that "keep the current status" got, with the remainder presumably favoring one of the other "more-independence" options.

2020 is different and new: it's the first Puerto Rico referendum I have seen where there was a sanely worded "state: yes or no?" question that actually got a majority voting for the "state" option (52.5% or so), with something resembling sane turnout (~55%).

So yes, respecting this is probably a good idea. "Respecting" the 2012 or 2017 results by making Puerto Rico a state would not have made any sense.

Edit: Now that I have read https://senado.pr.gov/Legislations/ps1467-20.pdf page 31 lines 6-15, which define the "no" answer to mean a specific course of action which is not just "don't become a state", I am less happy with this referendum. Now we have to guess at how many people knew what the "no" was defined to mean and voted for what they perceived as the lesser of two evils based on that....
Feeling victimized is addictive. Everyone loves it once they get a taste.
I've used Signal for years, and for most of that time only had about three people who also used it in my contacts.

My wife recently got her entire extended family to use Signal. She has always refused to use WhatsApp. They all love Signal now, and use it all the time. However, this was during a family crisis.

During the Covid lockdowns, many companies I know used Signal as their preferred non corporate communication platform over WhatsApp... But again, that was a crisis.

It seems to be difficult to dislodge people from their preferred platforms without some kind of external driver to adopt it.
It's also a matter of opportunity. People in the US consider opportunity a given. It's not so in most of the world, people may choose to educate themselves, even forcibly via repetition, because there may not even be other things to do, and it's better to have some kind of education than no education. The exceptional kids of course do not follow that rule, they'll make it no matter what.
>> An indication that Google no longer considers the phone functionality of a smartphone to be all that important?

I cringe whenever a product fails to perform perfectly at its primary function. Other stuff I'll let slide, but if it's any kind of "phone" it better make calls flawlessly.
There was a post in the past that google have their own custom timeservers for their servers, slowly adapting time over multiple days and months, so they are not affected by this.
Yep, being of the NT lineage. But it was not really sold to the consumer market (tough it had better gaming support via directx than any previous NT version). XP was the first consumer NT based Windows release.
It sounds like actively trying to do anything seems to have helped you, regardless of what it is. Perhaps making an effort to do something (anything) is what is helping you, and not the acts themselves.
Can you edit files while offline? Or do you need to be always-connected? (i.e. this is an actual web service)

I couldn't find mention anywhere about offline abilities.
What about hackthissite.org?
Not the first precedent. Remember blogetery?

http://www.zdnet.com/news/blog-site-shut-down-after-potentia...

No commercial and centralized system is safe from censorship/seizure.
Several other domains also appear to have been seized
including 2009jerseys.com, nfljerseysupply.com,
throwbackguy.com, cartoon77.com, lifetimereplicas.com,
handbag9.com, handbagcom.com and dvdprostore.com

i don't see why those domains would be seized
You should set some accounts to not be useable, like hostmaster@pepbot.com or admin, administrator, info, support, etc. that way people can't pretend to be you and scam/cheat/lie, or somehow tarnish the sites reputation.
edit: I like your site, simple UI, useful.