jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> A solution is to just make everyone's tax reports public.

Hell no.

I don't want to be targeted be advertisers, penalised by insurers, and become a target for robbery because I have my personal information spread around for everyone to see.

There's a lot of personal shit on your tax return. Far more than is even apparent. It can also expose your side business to your employer which could cause issues.

I'm all for salary transparency, but tax returns are pretty private forms that contain an extremely high amount of PI, and can be data mined to expose even more implicit forms of PI.
Create a product and sell subscriptions. Even at a low price point, if you offer something people are willing to pay for on a recurring basis, you'll end up with a steady and growing income stream. Niche products work here - find an itch in a niche market you participate in, scratch it, and then charge other people to have you scratch the itch for them.

I've done side/hobby projects of both the ad-driven and subscription-driven flavors, and the subscription-driven stuff gets a lot more profitable a lot faster. It does incur additional stress, because you have direct paying customers to take care of, but depending on the nature of the product, it might not need that much support. On the flip side, it's friggin' amazing to watch payments come in on a daily basis, then look back in a week and realize that you've got your rent paid for.
Unless you (Gruber) care prominently about Apple/Google and other places with enough inbound link equity that your marginal SEO increase is minuscule and marginal UX*appreciation gain is large.
You didn't know about that Opensearch trick because it's not actually true... it doesn't really work. Google acquires page titles from a variety of sources, including Dmoz, domain name, and inbound links.

For example:
Search for [msnbc], and it shows up as “msnbc.com” … title tag: “Breaking News, Weather, Business, Health, Entertainment, Sports, Politics, Travel, Science, Technology, Local, US & World News – msnbc.com”

[new yorker] shows up as “The New Yorker” … title tag: “National and world news, Profiles, culture, reviews, fiction, poetry : The New Yorker”

[redfin] shows up as “Redfin” … title tag: “Search Homes for Sale & Find Real Estate Agents Who Put You First | Redfin”

None of those pages have opensearch documents.
My answer was to ask reputable coders for advice...have I just written my first IRL recursive loop?
Did he say anything about cloud providers/the SaaS loophole? I mean they do anything with GPL licensed software, as distribution does not happen. The AGPL addresses this issue, but it does not seem to be used much.

https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/resources/blog/the-saas-...
How about "The ICE is tasked with policing counterfeiting so this isn't overstepping the bounds of their jurisdiction?" Quibbling over the words "power grab" seems rather pointless.
Surely if they can reliably interbreed with us then they're not another species. Isn't that how "species" is defined? You'll note that the scientists in the article aren't quoted as calling these dudes a "species", they call them a "form".

The idea of a "species" isn't terribly well defined over time anyway. Your mother is the same species as you, her mother is the same species as her, and so on. But if you keep following your family tree for far enough you'll start to find things which are clearly a different species from yourself.
What ever happened to the idea that a company should avoid purchasing and managing real estate and instead focus on its core competency?
My mind immediately screamed "game over man, game over!" and reached for the flamethrower.
Poetry is better.
It doesn't have to be expensive. In Ghent they recently did it on a budget: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEOA_Tcq2XA

The principle is simple: In designated spots, prevent through traffic for cars while allowing bicycles to go through. This massively reduces car traffic on those streets. In Ghent they did that by simply placing obstructions on the road that only bicycles can maneuver around.
Once more people are cycling, you'll have increased political will to spend money on more ambitious infrastructure such as in Amsterdam.
Do you recall what specific test was out of normal range? (Was it creatinine, urea, etc.)
some programmers who just saw code differently - in an abstract, artistic

Yes, some people like this are absolute geniuses.... And also result in code that's incredibly difficult to maintain, especially when it wasn't well documented or documentation binders have been sitting in boxes at some off-site cold storage for 25 years.

For anything that isn't pushing the boundaries of computing, I'd much prefer a few experts to a single genius.

If you find yourself with a true genius, you need to realize that they are not replaceable and you cannot rely on them alone, doing their work as usual. To harness genius like that, you need to build a structured team around them, not try to fit them into an existing structure.
Have you considered open sourcing the work you did? Sounds interesting for hobbyists and retro technologists.
They did. (just up-thread someone posted an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26733935 )
If you're a dev working from home, surveillance software might be easy to get around ;)

Automate some real-looking work processes and just use your personal computer for everything else.
> And the fact is that humans can't reliably identify emotions from photographs, so there's zero chance for AI.

You say that like human intelligence is some sort of upper bound on intelligence.
It makes more sense if you watch the video: https://vine.co/v/OjqeYWWpVWK

Basically, because they lost steering it came in too steep, and ended up falling onto the deck on its side because the engines couldn't compensate for that position.
> Why not simply file judgement against ideas and imagination next?

Holocaust denial is already illegal in many places.
To clarify, tlb's comment was in direct response to the Hyperloop Alpha whitepaper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6201728#up_6202327

He doesn't properly address thermal expansion of the entire system. A long straight steel tube from SF to LA will expand a total of 300 meters over a 40C temperature change. Where does it go?
How does each robot decide whether to stay put or not if it can't communicate with the other?
Getting way off-topic, but...

> And speaking of Pokhran, it was not a short sighted decision.

Pokhran very certainly was a short-sighted decision. It benefited absolutely nobody except the government by buying it some temporary popularity while actively retarding the country's economics for years afterwards.

> India has Pakistan, an irresponsible nuclear capable neighbor, with whom India has been in state of war since 1947.

Pointing to Pakistan is not an excuse: the whole world knew India had nuclear weapons capability. It had nothing to gain by proving the world what it already knew. Consider Israel: it's geopolitical situation is even worse, being a tiny country surrounded on all sides by many, much larger nations that would see it destroyed. Israel also is known to have nuclear weapons capability. Did they have to go perform a demonstration so the world?

And despite Pokhran, Pakistan has not wavered. Pokhran did nothing to slow Pakistan's regular shelling across the borders. Pokhran did not prevent 26/11. Pokhran did not reduce the number of subsequent terrorist attacks and infiltration attempts. It has done nothing at all to improve the Pakistan situation, and very likely made it worse.

> Effects of Pokhran economic sanctions were not severe, because foreign trade of India constituted to 4% of it's GDP, while USA participation was only 10%. After Pokhran, under then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India achieved record breaking 6-7 % growth rate in GDP.

I don't think anyone knows the true extent of the economic effects, but they are much worse than you suspect. It was not just the US that imposed sanctions. Many countries and companies imposed official and unofficial sanctions that directly impacted business relations and international collaborations. It was not only foreign trade. Companies that were going to set up local manufacturing plants and partner with Indian companies pulled out. That was a direct loss to the local economy. I personally know of business deals with private companies in Germany and Japan that abruptly fell through because of this. Nobody has measured the real impact. The 6 - 7% GDP growth may well have been much higher, but we will never know.

Funny you should mention ISRO because they were also directly impacted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6552947 It's a credit to ISRO that they delivered despite the governments actions. ISRO could have dedicated resources towards newer and more interesting projects rather than re-inventing technology that became unavailable purely due to political posturing. The opportunity cost is unmeasurable.

The only thing Pokhran bought was national pride that was short-lived and had ultimately no practical value, economic or otherwise. I have seen nothing positive come out of it, only a large amount of negative impact. I cannot see how it was anything but a terrible decision.
Sadly, this has facebook's new, horrible patent clause.

For those who aren't aware, it says

1. If facebook sues you, and you counterclaim over patents (whether about software or not), you will lose rights under all these patent grants.

So essentially you can't defend yourself.

This is different than the typical apache style patent grant, which instead would say "if you sue me over patents in apache licensed software x, you lose rights to software x" (IE it's limited to software, and limited to the thing you sued over)

2. It terminates if you challenge the validity of any facebook patent in any way.
So no shitty software patent busting!
We use daily in production for a health care app and it is amazing.
With no incoming revenue, it seems like you've just described a pyramid scheme, albeit with extra technical steps. Can you help me understand the difference?
It's not a coup attempt yet. It's a coup attempt if Trump tries to exploit it, as by declaring martial law.
I have no idea how this system works - how are you harmed if someone claims unemployment in your name?
Plenty of political discussion happens on HN, but dang does a good job of removing the toxic comments and letting the civil comments remain.
Wow. While I do not have experience with management courses, and seminars, one book I read about management (https://www.amazon.com/First-Break-All-Rules-Differently/dp/...) talks about exactly this scenario. I am surprised to hear about it in the wild.
There are other threat actors than the vendor looking to compromise the confidentiality of your message.
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15 years ago people could not believe I used Mac as a development machine. At work I wasn’t allowed to connect to the network and I was mocked endlessly by my colleagues.

I used to tell them “one day, one day you’ll see!” We have well and truly arrived.
If we can't make machines reach a consensus, what hope is there for human beings?
i was tempted to switch back to windows but i am worried i won't find the same build quality/durability from non-apple machines. anyone can recommend good/durable windows machines?
One of the most popular video games in history is Grand Theft Auto.
Did he acknowledge and fix his mistakes? Or it was just you who noticed and fixed them in your mind?
If you choose to live in an over crowded area like a Coastal City, this is true. Texas is huge with a lot of space; so while yes, gas powered vehicles might not great, consider for a second there a much larger world than the small bubble you live in.
I use the archive tool in KDE ("ark") fairly often, although only for reading. I regularly need to look at one or two metadata files within an archive, but not the gigabytes of data.

On the command line, I'll "unzip -p archive.zip metadata.xml" (with tab-completion for the archive entries), but if I've retrieved the file with a web browser I'll let it open in ark and open the entry files from there.
Honestly? China doesn’t have a history of getting anyone extradited for whatever reason, neither does it murder foreign citizens with drones.
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> What I wouldn't say is fair, though, is characterizing something as incomplete and especially improper simply for being different from what you're used to.

I didn't tell them to offense Emacs fans, so sorry if you're offended. And the point is not being different from what I am used to, it's being different from what the rest of the world used to, only the Emacs users are accustomed to the Emacs convention of graphical ui's, and the way Emacs does it is not a proper gui in the sense that they invented their own conventions and they're different from every other GUI convention in the world. I'm not implying anything insulting here.

Incomplete GUI is another thing, yes, Emacs gui is incomplete because it does not use all existing GUI facilities and conventions to the full extent, and prefer existing Emacs ui facilities instead of gui toolkit's. Again, being incomplete is their choice, that doesn't mean it's a bad thing as I said in my previous comment (and a lot of people actually love it), but if you find that offensive I can't help with that.
What you are describing are habits. Most people require habitual processes. Your friend needed to have new habits to survive in a world where you need to tidy up around you, go to work every days and pay the household bills.

It is hard to switch into new habits, which is often the core challenge for people stuck in a rut with alcohol and drug abuse.

People forget that habits are easy to change, but it takes persistence and determination. When you speak to people who are reformed alcoholics, drug free or have quit smoking for good after a few years they often cannot fathom why they couldn't have quit sooner. At the time the challenge seems impossible.

I personally find habitual rituals fascinating. As someone who has twice been stuck in unhealthy habits, I now realise the power of habits, when turned around for good practices.

One book that helped me was "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People". I recommend it: http://www.amazon.com/The-Habits-Highly-Effective-People/dp/...
Oh, from the comments here I got the impression that it was open source. If it was not open source to start with why are people saying that amazing tech is lost? It was never available(in the knowledge sense not as a product) in the first place was it?
I've got an old 3G kindle (bought second hand). It's a feature I don't really think about until I'm out at the cabin and feel like reading a book I bought a while ago. Tada! Super cool feature, although I'm not sure I would have paid extra for it when I was considering a kindle initially.
I don't agree with that at all. Philosophy should and can be held to the same rigor as science, i.e., objectivity.
I have read a lot about Docker now. Here and elsewhere. I even have been to Docker talks in my town. Still I do not get what the usecase is.

Everytime I ask that, I get the answer "When you want to run applications seperated from each other in their own environment". Yeah, I get that. But what is the real world use case for that? Who wants to do that? Now I will get answers like "Everybody who wants to run applications in containers" :) Yeah ok. But who? Do bloggers need Docker? People who run onlineshops? Would Ycombinator benefit from running Hacker News inside a Docker container?
One thing I saw recently is that a place did 18, 20, 22%. I'm pretty sure I tipped lower just for that.
I'm all for getting out of the cloud, but moving from one company, to multiple other companies seems to have achieved nothing but diversify and multiply the amount of terms you've had to agree to (they will all tell you the same thing in the end: if they block your account, or lose your data, it's your problem).

The only real solution is self-hosting[1], which is becoming a bit difficult with email these days.

[1] No, a rented server in some datacenter is not self-hosting, self-hosting is when you can walk into a room and point to the box that stores your mail.
> But there's also no reason to care if they did or not.

I would liken it to Chernobyl if they did accidentally release it. If it wasn't natural then it could have been prevented, including the 2 million dead.
There are already two threads on DOSBox-X posted on HN month and two month ago.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=dosbox-x.com
Earlier discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25647652
tldr It’s a hosted control plane for Wireguard VPN nodes.
That's insanely cool! I have never had a 3dfx card and only kept begging Santa with no luck when I was a kid. Finally, I can play the games which required it!
Hi David, wonder if you'd be open to remote within the UK? I'd be interested in the ML Engineer role primarily, but would also happily be considered for other roles.
Hypothetically, if the entire world population physically distanced for an entire month (or some appropriate time period) would cold viruses die out altogether?
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If you put it on GitHub, wouldn't it create the impression that you had recently written it, due to the timestamps?

If I were you, I'd milk that app's notoriety for all it's worth, though I might not make it too easy for people to find the code. Oh, and don't be ashamed of your baby. Even ugly babies are worthy of bragging if they're popular.
On the contrary, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a de-escalation tactic for dealing with stalkers.

If you watch the video (which is available in the previous article and all over social media, contrary to the narrative) it’s clear that the person is trying to get a rise out of the police officers by following them around and badgering them for content on his social media channels. He even went so far as to watermark the video with his social media handles. It’s clear that the officers are tired of dealing with him and being followed around while trying to do their jobs.
Why does this keep happening? Because the howling mob demands it. Baquet was afraid of the 150 employees who signed the protest letter.

Now, those employees are (presumably) intelligent, well-educated adults. What's going on with them that they can't see any nuance in this situation? I suspect that they're afraid. They're committed to the progressive agenda, and they're seeing progress, and they're afraid that if they make any compromise, if they don't keep taking a hard stance, then their agenda will stall and society won't reach the wonderful future they think their agenda is taking us to.

The observant will note strong parallels to religious zealots. In fact, if you view this as a religious hysteria, it makes more sense. It happens to be a secular religion, but it's got all the elements - doctrine, a millennial future, good and evil, sin, repentance, conversion, and evangelists.
For people who use docker at work, avoiding it is simply not possible. Our stack revolves around images (not necessarily docker), so *bsds are dead in the water for me.

Additionally, orchestrating is simplified with docker-compose vs managing many jails. I used to manage freebsd jails via cli in FreeNAS, but orchestration with docker-compose is much easier and trackable in git. Transferring between machines is as easy as setting up docker, git cloning, and setting secrets. [0] Podman solves some issue docker has, but using stuff like S6 [1] in containers helps a ton. Perhaps most importantly, docker images are reproducible (for the most part) while jails only have templates, so it's up to you to manage reproducibility.

Don't get me wrong- OpenBSD and FreeBSD are amazing distros. OpenBSD has the best user experience in my opinion, which is why I use it for my router. But they suck for modern gaming and stuff like docker.

"custom-compiled nginx version downloaded off some guy's FTP"

This is a strawman argument. But, sometimes one might want custom compilation without installing a host of build tools on the host system. Or one might want to have a reproducible build not tied to the host system. Compilation may be expensive (like with ffmpeg) or the host may be underpowered like a Raspberry Pi. Etc.

[0]: https://github.com/andrewzah/lilac-docker/tree/main/services

[1]: https://skarnet.org/software/s6/
I take your point. However I do think the 'automation' process you described sounds like automated feature selection or the general idea of regression.

'A fatal issue is then that the datasets we are asking to be automatically aproximated are radically incomplete,' I couldn't agree more with that. For example, in my field of research a hypothesis is formed and can only be evaluated through a set of genomic profilings and clinical assessments. However no ML methods in the world could tell us whether these evidence are adequate to figure out the causal factors or there is any relevance of the dataset at all. Comparing with your self-driving car example, the error in the system and the cause are at least human-interpretable. That being said, it is a common theme in research and publications most people are aware of these caveats and limitations.
I am completely accurate.

The Council of Ministers does not run the EU. The EU is run by the Commission. Where does EU law come from - it comes from the Commission. Not the Council nor the Parliament (which means, it's not a Parliament).

If the Council ran the EU then EU law would come from there, but it never does. The power to make law is the ultimate power, the source of all government power. The Council is in contrast a sideshow. Nobody even knows what they talk about.

And the Commission is entirely undemocratic. How was von der Leyen selected again? Nobody can say. Oh, there was a vote. It was a vote in the EU Parliament in which vDL was the only candidate on the ballot sheet. That's not a democracy, is it?

Again, this isn't what happened. One interpretation of a proposed order would have necessitated some kind of border. The Republic of Ireland vociferously objected, and the proposal was withdrawn.

Are you aware that the Commission was condemned by everyone across the board including its own diplomats? The order wasn't proposed, it was made and the only possible interpretation was for a hard border, hence the immediate and strong objections. That, after 4 years of the EU constantly claiming a border in NI would create terrorism and must never happen at any cost.
This is the first time I've heard about subscribing being a privacy violation, so no, this is not "obvious."