jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I knew the Mammoth existed when I made mine, but it's not what I wanted.

The Mammoth is designed to withstand water spray and dust and still cool the components satisfactorily, while mine is designed to clean as much air as possible for the synergy with computer cooling.

Additionally, I wanted to use HVAC filters due to their price/availability and large area, and I wanted a vertical motherboard like the Raven so I could access all the motherboard ports on the top.

If anybody would do it, I think Silverstone would. They think out of the box.

Modern design considerations would be allowing for top-mounted radiators on the exhaust side, and having the power supply attached to the motherboard tray so you could route power cables behind.
I started learning in November/December or so. It's a little tough to get over the initial curve, but the Blender Guru donut tutorial is really helpful, as well as the free beginner tutorial on cgboost.com.

Is it helpful as a software dev? Who knows, but it's been an enjoyable hobby for now. I particularly have enjoyed the motion tracking and adding some special effects to videos of my young daughter.
> If the XMPP/Matrix people wanted to they could set up a trusted third party server to link identities to phone numbers just like Signal does

Signal is even simpler: they use the phone number as the identifier. So you could have an XMPP server with a given domain, and your phone number as your login. The whole SMS dance for making sure you own the number.

That already exists: https://quicksy.im/. And yet it doesn't seem to have attracted that many people. I don't think it was an issue of usability though, it is not so far from Signal, but a publicity one.
This is what I see when I try to share a link:

https://imgz.org/i3EfPoDo.png

I'm using Firefox with uBlock Origin, it might be hiding your field based on its ID if it's called "share" or something. I was very confused.
I was quite surprised by the increase in build times:

> Overall, 5 rounds of outlining builds in 66 minutes — a 45-minutes addition to the baseline.
This article is a huge, speculative waste of time. It's based on the assumption that UberMedia could convince Tweetdeck's "power tweeters" to switch from Twitter to some other platform if Twitter doesn't relent and accept advertising terms more to UberMedia's liking.

Is there a tension between Twitter and the companies that are trying to create (and capture) value on Twitter's platform? Of course. But this article reads like little more than over-the-top stream-of-consciousness link-baiting.

In other words, it sounds like TechCrunch circa 2011.
I used the data at geonames.org some years ago for some odd-ball location queries. I don't know how the data sets compare, but it's always nice to have more freely-usable data out there.
Great stuff. How many are you willing to take on? 1 or 2?
Really hope that our societies can fund some research and development to bring elasticity to health care capacity. This won't be the last time we as humans will need it, and it will help if some smart people work on this instead of ad click optimization..
Air travel makes up for 2.5% of global carbon emissions. Not really worth micro optimizing a lot in those 2.5% if you asked me. At least not if you can focus efforts in energy production and cars instead.
You can't extrapolate the spread of viruses using an exponential function, you have to use a logistic function. Unfortunately, there isn't enough data to accurately fit a logistic function right now.
It was near unreadable.

I was hoping someone might have some insight as to why it was worth reading.

I couldn't tell if the lede was buried or non-existent.

It's not about a quick or easy payoff, it's that nothing in the text gave any motivation for why I should be reading it.
You missed the point entirely. If we could magically isolate everyone over 50 and let everybody else get infected it would still overwhelm hospitals with people that really need ICU care.
You're underselling your case. COVID-19 has already killed 20x as many people as the 2002-2004 SARS outbreak, infected 40x as many, and it's still going up. Responding to this with "lol we've had this problem before" is just foolish.
Our brand name is Next. You can find us on Amazon or at shop-next.com. I think you’d be pretty happy installing our wire in your home, office, bar, etc.
"The dog that didn't bark." --Sherlock Holmes
BC version 3 now comes with Linux support in nice little deb, rpm and tarred packages.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Don't worry, I'm clearly out of my depth here, so I'm not going to debate you on this particular point any further -- you win. :-) (I still stand by my original statement, but I'm unable to put my point to words as well as you can yours.)

What bothered me about the article, and prompted my original, poorly worded, reply was the fact that dogs are treated with more empathy and respect than other kinds of animals (even to the extent of harming other animals to bring them joy). To me this humane attitude seems so intuitive that I feel like it is not so much consciously learned to be felt for dogs as suppressed for all other beings. I don't think there's anything special about dogs in particular since they are not given the same status in all cultures. It's not about their utility either (anymore): most people get dogs because they feel sympathy for them, and not the other way around.

As you seem to be knowledgeable about ethics, do you happen to know of any books that deal with this tendency of humans to strongly empathize with some animals while having no trouble harming others? I'd like to read more about the issue from any viewpoint, be it ethical, psychological, or cultural. I'd like to better understand my own, intuitive worldview, which departed from mainstream when I started thinking about these issues, as well as that of people who do not share it.
No worries, bro. One doesn't live by karma points (that would be pretty sad).

I'd say that it's pretty funny that so many people took it upon themselves to explain how their life is so perfect and that any possible explaination for their depression could not lie in that their life sucks.

The reality is that most people's lives suck (including mine and yours) and that most people spend their lives covering up how their lives suck by buying more crap, settling & self-medication. As you said, if it didn't suck, human civilization would not progress.

People make a simple problem into a much more complicated one. If your life sucks, then fix it or accept it. The caveat is that you have to either man up to fix it or swallow your pride to accept it.
The presumption is that people like to be happy, which I believe is a tautology.
"Many in the crowd attacking the Capitol have said their intent was to stop the vote confirmation and keep Trump in office despite the election results. That’s an insurrection." https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/15/ron-johnso...)

"Unarmed" is definitely false, per the other comments: the FBI confiscated "a baseball bat, a fire extinguisher, a wooden club, a spear, crutches, a flagpole, bear spray, mace, chemical irritants, stolen police shields, a wooden beam, a hockey stick, a stun gun, and knives."

But several people seem to be arguing that only firearms count. In that case: Christopher Alberts was arrested with a handgun and charged with unlawful possession of a firearm on Capitol grounds. Grant Moore was found an with unlicensed gun in his vehicle near the Capitol; Lonnie Leroy Coffman, the same, except it was multiple guns and 11 Molotov cocktails. (Source for all: https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/capitol-riot-mob-arres...)

We can all be thankful he didn't use them, but a person who goes to a protest with Molotovs does not have personal defense in mind.
We heard plenty of stories pre-revolution too. I get the feeling that the Iranians understand the long-term, almost like a lifetime or two is not really that significant. A few decades or centuries mean nothing to them. I suppose having ~8000 years of history counts for something!
Alle Ding sind Gift und nichts ohn' Gift; allein die Dosis macht, das ein Ding kein Gift ist.

Camphor occurs naturally in the tree from which it takes its name, and also basil and rosemary naturally contain it in large quantities. Its lethal dose is reasonably small, under a gram for children, but its pungent odor seems to prevent most poisonings, and it seems to have no cumulative toxicity despite widespread use as an inhalant (for example, to alleviate symptoms of colds). A typical case report reads:

> A 3-year-old girl ingested 700 mg camphor from 1 tablespoon of Vicks VapoRub (R). This product had also been placed in her nostrils twice daily for 5 months. Grand-mal seizures occurred 2 h after ingestion. Coma and respiratory depression lasted 21 h. Full recovery ensued (Phelan, 1976).

Benzyl acetate and benzyl alcohol are produced naturally by jasmine flowers (they're the major constituent of their scent) and the ylang-ylang tree. Benzyl alcohol is also a constituent of castoreum. It can also strip the paint off your walls and destroy your corneas.

Chloroform is produced by many kinds of seaweed, perhaps by soil fungus, and in abundance by chlorinated drinking water.

Most of the other toxic chemicals here have been covered by other posters.

Ethanol, though, that's a huge social problem; aside from the cognitive impairments it's best known for, it may be the single chemical poison responsible for the largest number of yearly human deaths due to its addictive nature. Fortunately, the amount used in fabric softeners is typically about a thousandth of the dose needed to produce toxic effects.
> I find it easier to manage a bunch of markdown files

Org counterpart (single file), but similar story. Static html export is handy also.

> Also rewriting them lets me list ingredients as groups as far as what goes together in a bowl or whatever

Lol. Ingredient grouping. Nice to hear it’s not just me.

https://xenodium.com/cheese-cake-recipe-no-crust
https://xenodium.com/oatmeal-cookie-recipe
https://xenodium.com/dal-makhani-black-lentils-recipe
https://www.indiehackers.com/start
https://d.godbolt.org/z/ebv9W7G4E
GnuCOBOL is open source though:

https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/
To be fair, while this is a single article, if you only look at step 1, 2 and 3, you get a fully published package with only one tool used (flit) and not much extra.

It's the succeeding sections (A, B, C, D, E) that get more advanced, but they're all optional. You should definitely do A, but the rest I'd say it's a lot more opinionated and definitely not needed.
Are you an Asker or a Guesser?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/may/08/change-li...
Turn jealousy into motivation. I know it's easy to say than to do. But, if what you have been longing for is really what you want, there is no other way around but go get it.
Related: http://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Hacking:Porting_filters_to_GEGL
That's 20V over 5amps that won't kill anything...
Lenovo and some other companies already charge their laptops via USB (Normal A Type connector) on a dedicated port that connects to a 65W power adapter...
Um, it's happening to the left now (including infiltration, active attempts by government provocateurs to discredit, and even government agents collaborating with violent non-government actors engaging in violent retaliation, etc.; BLM has been a particular target), with government power involved much more than in anything targeting the Right.

That seems to be GPs point, actually. It's silly when those on the right are pretending that th comparatively minor private exclusion that the more extreme Right is subjected to might sometime be directed at the Left. The Left is used to much worse, at the hands of the State along with private exclusion, routinely.
Literally the biggest cable news channel in America represents their views 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. What in the world are you even going on about?
Hey, I was one of the developers of Teapot Ninja, thanks for posting this -- it was a lot of fun to make, and really awesome to play!
WOW that's so awesome!!!!!
If you are talking about jaiku or aardvark, then its fine. But TV, Mobile, Cloud, OS are all mainstream domains and their product ideas in these domains are beyond the incubation stage.
I hope you edited the corresponding wikipedia page.
Open source, Java based "Sakai" http://sakaiproject.org/ has replaced Blackboard at Wake Forest University, which is encouraging to see...although I have heard some complaints that it is difficult to learn to use for professors, even among those who consider themselves above the average technologically.

I think that the biggest problem preventing the innovation of this sector is definitely the bureaucracy as other comments have pointed out. The amount of time and effort that startups put into their products just isn't worth the number of headaches that come along with the target market.

Also, the education environment does not fit well with the "launch early, often" model that many startups employ. When evaluating options, they really want something that is 100% polished and deploy-able, which requires a level of airtight that most startups are not shooting for.

Building something for the university environment is sort of like enterprise but worse, because there aren't immediate effects to the "bottom line" when bad choices are made.
If they're running one of those, yes. In general, if a VPS provider doesn't tell you what they're running somewhere (it's usually Xen or OpenVZ, KVM's rarer, Docker's a new platform that doesn't really do the same things), you want to stay away from them.
/me mumbles something about DO's "VPS"s
> if you wouldn't get a job as an electrician or day laborer which paid $400 a month then you shouldn't take on any major construction project to save $400 a month

We're engineers. We enjoy building things. All sorts of things.

I wouldn't do it all the time, but why not try your hand at building yourself a house? Not as a means to save money, but as a hobby, an interesting project, something fun?
> I feel that optimizing sub-$500 expenses is not the best use of one's time versus figuring out how to make money

Second this. You can only save so much, but there's practically no upper limit on how much you can make.

Plus making money is more fun than saving it. Saving generally requires sacrifices that decrease your quality of life. And there are diminishing returns, so you'll need to make ever-bigger sacrifices as continue to decrease your spending.
Some previous discussion about NwAvGuy on hacker news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7451062
Very cool, do you have any suggestions as far as finding and purchasing cheap land?
So the trend here is... Ruby syntax, compiled to other languages' semantics?

This would excite me more if Ruby's syntax were better. I want metaprogramming on top of everything and its brother, not Ruby syntax. Even though I love Ruby.
The constitution simply wouldn't have been ratified: too many states demanded that a bill of rights be added as a condition for ratification of a constitution establishing a strong central government.
that's his job. it's not like he have to stop coding to write those. so i think it's very easy for him to be always on top of things
One awesome thing about this is a lot of the time when the web frontend to Gmail is down, POP3/IMAP remain accessible - so vmail would be a great drop in there. (As would a myriad of other MUAs). As a vim zealot myself, I salute you for this commendable idea.
you dont do the same routine every day; you do a 3-day split. I guarantee you if we did a study of 1,000 americans who did 4 hours per day and rotated their weights and cardio vs. Tim's method; 95% would be in much better shape my way. and the 5% who dont cant put on weight.

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A great many people (also known as "hard-gainers") will not gain any muscle whatsoever by exercising every day - let alone exercising for 4 hours every day.

If you're a hard-gainer (I am), you will need to:

* Do the right kinds of exercises (squats, deadlifts, bench press, pullups, inverted rows, etc)

* Rest enough in between sessions (2 days between sessions at least)

* Eat enough, including enough protein from a variety of sources

"If you do those things, you will put on muscle no matter what your body type. Exercise 4 hours a day, and you will only put on muscle if you have awesome genetics."

exactly; the same kind of "superhuman" genetics tim ferriss (and me) already have. thing is; if we don't do 4 hr/day, we get fat just like most of America!
if that means i can't customize it. than you are wrong.

for a sneaky peak into the future, just see how many people root their android phones just so they can have the damn status bar black!

and the main reason i resist going back to windows or mac, is the loss of control i will have over my mouse buttons. i like to move windows click anywhere with some modifier key pressed and my buttons [xmod]mapped "1 9 2 4 5 6 7 1 3" very much, thank you.
Someone on IronGarm (don't look it up if you're easily offended) put it best: "Tim isn't very strong and is a Jenga of fairly serious injuries that a smarter trainee would avoid."

"Gaining" (actually regaining) large quantities of muscle in a short period of time is an old Iron Game trick (the "Colorado Experiment" with the Nautilus guy and Casey Jones IIRC). You can't gain nearly as much muscle as someone else can regain.

As for the other strategies to 'gain' this much 'muscle' while 'clean', the high points are (a) dehydration, (b) steroids and/or exogenous testosterone and (c) a modicum of fat gain (which on a normal muscular physique won't be that notable and, most importantly, (d) a willingness to claim that you haven't done a/b/c whether it is true or not.

Tim is a master of 'hacking' these kind of demos but it would be more impressive if he tried doing something more sustained where there isn't a short-cut to success. For example, compete in a sport where there is a lot at stake and a high number of well-prepared competitors. Not, for example, by finding a rules loophole in some obscure Chinese kickboxing event and winning it through a combination of extreme weight cutting and pushing other people over (one of his claims to fame as a martial artist).
That's only likely to be the case if enough people get vaccinated, which is somewhat in question.
>In my experience, most people really do not understand how fundamentally unsuited cars are to solving urban (or dense suburban) transportation problems.

In my experience, most people who are against cars really do not understand how fucking awesome it is to drive a car and how well it works in terms of getting me from A to B in the minimum time with the minimum fuss with plenty of space for my shopping. Nothing else comes close unless you are only going around an uber dense area in rush hour.

Yes, there are issues with cars. I will still rather be stuck in traffic, sitting in my own comfortable indoor seat than riding a bike to work or taking the bus with no guarantee of a seat, nor enough space to sit even if I get it. A little planning and I am at work before rush hour and it isn't even an issue.

If I was to take public transportation it would need to not take twice the time (I measured it from the time I was outside my building to the time I was inside at work), it would need to be far more comfortable and I would need to be certain that there wouldn't be trouble in the bus.

But most of all? I would need to be certain that the people who made the changes were previously happy drivers and are now happy public commuters.

I did just buy a nice bike for the exercise and the ease of parking, but it only makes sense for short journeys to dense places where parking is the major issue.
This man is arguably the greatest hacker of all time. He's hacking the culture, he's been incredibly successful.

It's shocking and irresponsible that people are commenting on "what rms says" based only on hearsay, speculation and mis-quotes. At least take the time to Google before condemning the man for things he never said.
tmalloc() is memory management. As are other, alternative memory allocation strategies, chosen for better performance for certain applications. The notion that there is only one right way to do things is quaint, even if you're talking about Python.
I know people like that, too. However, if I had to bet money on the primary motivation of the majority of the world's vegetarians, I would bet they hold ethical arguments against eating meat.
I'd like to see some suggestions here, too. Amazon has shattered the idea that availability zones are truly independent. Both ELB and RDS only work within a single zone, and this latest incident occurred in "multiple availability zones", according to Amazon.

I think relying on Route 53 by itself for DNS is equally dangerous, you should have a co-hosted or at least a backup DNS provider available to you.

Perhaps the best solution involves adding a service external to AWS? Or if you have to stick with AWS, perhaps a master-slave database sync with us-west-1?
I don't think an honorary doctorate entitles one to be referred to as Dr. In fact, most people with doctorates that I know would rather not be referred to as Dr. In the case of this article, it seems like the author is trying to be overly-formal in the manner of a Keith Olbermann rant.
When you talk about the risk of software as a service, you can mention that the US gov't is attempting to collect identifying user data from the Wikileaks Twitter account, or the recent domain name seizures of PokerStars and other online gambling websites.

These are practical consequences of a lack of Free Software

Huh Wut!?

How is free or open software going to prevent any company from receiving a court order to disclose data about its users?

This has nothing to do with technical implementation of a service.
It's not as good as the split infinitive, but it works okay despite the distance, because it's modifying the entire sentence.
Please don't use hamburger menus on iOS.
http://blog.manbolo.com/2014/06/30/apple-on-hamburger-menus
Please stop the silly argument that encryption is just math. Shooting a gun is just physics, and killing someone is just biology. That is no defense.
Obama has run the NSA for 6 years, shielding them from prosecution or even censure for their crimes.
Yup, that was pretty bad. The resulting filtering ended up causing a lot of trouble for folks not using Windows-1252 or something in the ISO-8859 family, as it'd replace pipes in post bodies with the HTML numeric entity for the pipe in that charset. A similar incident is one of the things that got me hired - I was the only one to actually pick up a phone and call their office and talk to tech support about the sheer size of the possible bug.

The most fun security bug the previous major version had was a side effect of file naming. In order to prevent users from just downloading data files, every data file was given the .cgi extension and was always saved as 0777 because shared hosting sucks and nobody ever used suexec like they should.

The file format for user records is the login name on the first line, and the plaintext password on the second, email on the third. Someone figured out that #, ! and / weren't filtered in usernames. See where this is going yet? If the directory containing member records was available inside the document root, someone could perform trivial remote command execution.

The second most fun was people discovering XSS before it was called XSS. With some creative quoting, you could inject javascript into the markup.

I'm just thankful nobody figured out CSRF, I'd have hated to figure out how to deal with that way back then...
> Working on a team where each engineer has their own personal syntax is not fun.

Why did your team not implement a style guide? Not following style is not working as a team and this needs to be addressed.
We normalize our children behavior with pills while celebrating diversity in adults. Interesting times...