jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was part of some discussions some years ago about a GovCoin for handling budget allocations in the public sector, which is essentially a planned economy where the over-educated manage the under-educated. If you ever want to see polarized inequality, it's a kind of intellectual feudalism. My impression is a cryptocurrency failed because it would work a little too well.

It was only then I learned that all processes are mere pretext for the discretion of the people who control them. How naive I was. :)
99% of enterprise projects I deal with are brownfield projects, unless it there is a business value in a code rewrite, there is no compelling value to spend money rewriting code from scratch for newer stacks, specially if they require buying third party tools to replace existing workflows, like it happens with the broken EF 6 designer on core (and non existent one for EF Core).
I just upgraded to the M1 Air. I was on a 2011 MBP, but I started having so many issues with it being deprecated and out-of-support that I finally caved. I also thought about waiting for the M2, but honestly who knows when that will launch, and what those laptops will look like. The M1 outperforms far beyond my expectations, and has some serious benchmarks that made me realize that I didn’t make a bad decision in pulling the trigger on it.

I think I wanted to wait for the M2 because I had FOMO for the next generation, while also thinking that the M1 was gonna have a bunch of weird bugs. If anything there are known limitations (like with external displays and booting from external drives), but I don’t really fall in those categories so I was okay with it.

If I were you, as long as you’re not in a rush to upgrade, just wait and see what the M2 is like. If you can’t wait, know that you’ll be in excellent shape with the M1.
everybody is always implementing my ideas without me even telling anybody. :)

It would be nice to have the text edited as per aintahacker's post to make it more clear.
Java comes to mind. It's almost an OS, and easily could be with some additional parts bolted into the JVM. Very popular.
Correct me if I am wrong, but we created more powerful fuel than he had when he made that statement.
If this makes accepting death easier, the good news is the near-death experience. While I certainly don't intend to convince you that it's an afterlife experience (because no one knows quite what they are) it is typically positive and very powerful. Subjectively, it's an intense spiritual experience that seems to be unmatched by most things in life. As for whether it's entrance into an afterlife or the shutdown sequence of a dying brain... who knows? I don't think we'll have that answered within our natural lifespan. Both you and I are likely to die before we, as a species, know whether there's an afterlife. So we have to go into death without full knowledge but, to be honest, we go into every experience without full knowledge. Tomorrow we might wake up and find that the sky is purple. It's extremely unlikely, but it could happen.

Honestly, I'm as irreligious as you are but I tend to think the odds are better than even that there's some consciousness after death, although "after" might not be the right word because I'm not sure whether time is even well-defined outside of this physical universe. Presuming that I came from nothing, that means that "nothing" can produce qualia, which means that if I become "nothing" after death... it makes a plausible case for rebirth. As Voltaire said, "It is not more surprising to be born twice than once."

So, if the last moments of this life are a positive experience and the "next moment" is either nonexistent or a continuation that might be called an "afterlife", then I don't see much to worry about either way. Of course, others' deaths are still really hard to take, and I'm a hypochondriac who hates the thought of sickness (for the embarrassment and sense of failure, not the danger) but I don't fear my own impending death. I'm not likely to hurry it, but I have a lot of curiosity about it and I look forward to the experience.
I believe the flaw was the assumption that the only way to get something into space was via detonating explosives.
alternative?
From some discussion earlier today, you must have a collective score of 500 upvotes before you have the ability to downvote. I would guess that is to enforce a period where new accounts can get used to the generally accepted standards for discussion here.
It would be better though if the dashcam had GPS as well.
This is incorrect. Unmodified App Store .ipas are DRMed (app __TEXT is encrypted); the signature is of the encrypted binary, and the keys are tied to your iTunes Store credentials on the device. Piracy thus requires someone to decrypt the binary with a jailbroken phone, followed by either:

(1) installing the resulting unsigned app on a jailbroken phone, or

(2) re-signing it with a developer or enterprise distribution key, which Apple can revoke.

Both of these are done regularly, but it's not like Apple hasn't tried to stop it.

By the way, Apple no longer forbids Bitcoin apps, although this doesn't defeat the general point about forbidden categories.
I did. Wasn't an ideal real life case, though.
Strange I can see reader view works in Firefox.

I didn't notice strange fonts and was wondering what people were complaining about. Remembered I set my own fonts, and "not allow pages to choose their own fonts". And the DarkReader theme ensures I got the same colors on any webpage. It's almost as consistent as browsing gemini://

All the webfonts are truly a thing I can live without, right after ads.

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The article was great. I thought it was one of the few things about Kant, including all the things *from* Kant, my tiny brain is able to comprehend. Sometimes it feels like learning about each philosopher is like starting from scratch. Almost like starting a new programming language. To really understand everything I have not only read all their material but also read everything they have read. And by the time I get good at it I am almost ready to come up with my own model of how the world works. I still can't say I totally understand Kant. But the best introduction to Kant I had was by Schopenhauer's "Parerga and Paralipomena"[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parerga_and_Paralipomena
Rather than a studio, I think the "future" of startups is giant conglomerates with many products, and we've seen this trend already happening. Compared to studios, they have more capital and can take better advantage of economies of scale.

It's not really a motivational thought, though.
Today I still prefer my editors to let me edit the HTML directly. I'm not sure that we've changed away from liking this.
My anecdotal experience is that people liked it better than GA. I also really like how easily you can extend it. In one case (a webshop) we added the currently logged in user so we can track what they look for specifically so we can improve the search and categories.
> It's not insurable in the sense that at some point, the losses are so large and so frequent, that the insurer needs to collect premiums from almost everyone in order to cover the costs. I actually do consider the premiums a tax for the following reasons

Could it be that you limit your perspective onto only the US at the current point in time? Otherwise what you say just doesn't make any sense and your points can't be generalized.
And even in the US, health insurance is not mandatory (as you say yourself), hence I would still not call it a tax.

> No private insurer would touch this market since the losses are so high, so the government created the National Flood Insurance Program, which is the federal taxpayers taking on the liability for flood damage for those homes.

Yeah, so if you don't talk about flooding being insurable in general but that there just isn't any company that is doing it for Florida then I agree. And to be honest, I think it's not good that the taxpayers are paying here. The nice thing about insurance is that it gives incentives, such as "don't live somewhere if you can't afford the dangers at this place".
I wouldn't say everything, but I have encountered such people too. Extremely knowledgeable and always curious. It feels as if these guys somehow have more energy to expend than most of us. On the contra, I get burnt-out pretty quickly when I try to push myself beyond an arbitrary threshold which I have never been able to measure.
For most people it’s not reasonable to use WhatsApp without sharing your contact list.

How do you know who you can message with it if the app can’t check who has it?

Do you, every time you want to message someone, manually copy in their number? For every person you communicate with?

What if they previously didn’t have WhatsApp installed, but have since installed, so you also need to check again every time you want to message someone who formerly didn’t have WhatsApp.

That’s not going to work for people.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8821005
Right, there's a time limit before the "reply" button shows up. The time increases as the comment depth goes up, to prevent flamewars from taking over the thread.
>> The reason webkit implemented srcset is because of the performance it allows.

> Do you have a mailing list discussion you can link to on this, that might be illuminating?

A better explanation is that it is compatible with the preloader without doing anything complicated. See here: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/153733

The example you gave confuses rendering performance with the ability to download assets in parallel / pre-load assets. Browsers can request images long before the CSS has even arrived. How does a browser know which image to preload when given multiple options?

Specifying multiple images in a way that in compatible with preloading, is more akin to concatenating javascript/css, putting css at the top, etc. It makes a big difference because it let's you cut the time-to-glass by an entire network round trip.
"But honestly, if you want to live a life that involves kids, a car, and doesn't involving the community as heavily, SF isn't for you." See but that is sad.
Amtrak doesn't actually own the rails (except in the northeast, I think). That's where we're talking about here, but in Seattle BNSF owns the track so TSA would have to deal with them.
I don't think Microsoft's main goal is to indoctrinate the youth (though that's a desirable aim for them, I'm sure).

Their goal is to "cut off the air supply" to Google… just like Google's goal with ChromeOS (and the $249 Chromebooks) is to cut off Microsoft/Apple's profits.

As consumers, sometimes we get a nice deal out of the infighting.
so you're saying we should go on an orbital prospecting trip.
Medical drug patents are arguably the best use case for patents and there doing exactly what they are intended. Remember the advantage of patents is what happens when they expire and we have a huge number 'generic' drug options cheaply available.

However, if you look at most fields (ex: engine design) they benifit from the same thing. In the end the real issue is new fields spend their first ~50 years in patent hell where the most obvious things are easily patented and you can't default to a 20 year old 'safe' design without major compromize.
The thing is easy to fix. The problem is that (i) most packages are far from minimal (ii) you loose pre-built binaries.
Anything about trucks in HN (or the internet really) will devolve into complaint fests about American trucks and, their size, their faux masculinity, how they are sub-par vehicles, etc. In that environment any sort of perceived challenge to the big 4 (Toyota Tundra included because it's the most American truck you can imagine, horrifying gas mileage, huge as hell) and any kind complaining about trucks is encouraged.

I don't really mind, it doesn't affect me one way or another, but I do find the consistency in these threads curious. Sometimes I chalk it up to probably far more European commenters than I would have guessed, but also it's just the demo of HN or people that spend too much time arguing about things on the internet (see the comment section of Jalopnik). You could easily turn loose a markov chain based comment generator on one of these threads and rise to the top.
We know Elon is worried about AI. I think the plan is to blend in when Skynet takes over.
It? What is it? The Testaments? The Handmaid's Tale?

Margaret Atwood has written much more than those two books - she is a prolific author. According to Wikipedia she's she has published 17 books of poetry, 16 novels, 10 books of non-fiction, eight collections of short fiction, eight children's books, and one graphic novel, as well as a number of small press editions in poetry and fiction. Her works are popular, both with the general public and with critics.
Maybe checkout LNAV: http://lnav.org/

There's also angle-grinder, which has less features, but also pretty useful: https://github.com/rcoh/angle-grinder
> to get a SIM card

getting a new card is not the same as swapping
A thing like VW Touran or Renault Scenic will do that for you with much smaller fuel consumption, better ride, and also easier parking in tight places. (I'm 6'2" = 188 cm and >100 kg and VW Golf Sportsvan is very convenient, no need to step much up or down).

(And they will tow the things that most people tow, like a trailer that weighs a ton).
Paid ads are not free speech.

For one, these are presented to you (as facts) with no direct channel to argue for and against.

Consider that normal (not political) TV ads cannot make any wild claims about their product. Is that also limiting free speech to you??
I think this piece risks being interpreted as saying that simplicity is not important.

The fact that simplicity is hard to achieve will be obvious to anyone who has ever truly tried to achieve it.

Personally I would worry far more about people thinking simplicity is a fools errand and so not trying hard enough to achieve it, rather than people thinking it might be easier than it is.
Peter Thiel and Mark Cuban are against government regulation of the internet. Even Eric Schmidt says he aligns himself and Google with Verizon on net neutrality. OH NO. They're paid shills!

Please get over yourself.
I have quite a bit of experience in the video and image hosting space (one really really big company, one very successful start-up) and I can say safely you have two options, neither will be cheap. There are probably other options. This is a large and complex requirement, keep that in mind.

First off, you can get a pro vimeo account and with access to the api you can upload and maintain the videos in the ways you want, but you will probably need to create a custom application to access that api and handle things appropriately for your business. All in all this may be a good solution, it depends on how you want to display these videos to your users.

Alternatively, it's gotten to a point where you can actually host and maintain these yourself without a video storage service. Storage has become exceptional inexpensive. There are fantastic tools for displaying the videos. Then it's just up to your organization to make the interface for management how you'd like.
The answer will be that your device shows you at a glance whether your uncle likely wants a call.

It does this mostly through automatic indicators…

• whether uncle has his device in 'do-not-disturb' mode

• how many hours it's been since uncle has woken or arrived-at-work or seen the local sunrise

• whether he's in a loud or quiet place, stationary or moving

• a live video feed of his public-facing workspace, or perhaps the view from his window

But it might also have indicators from subtle learned cues: the device senses if he's in a meeting, or currently in a spirited f2f conversation with others, or in the time/place when he usually engages in phone calls. So if it thinks "now is not good", it can also predict and show the likely next workable time.

In fact, you might even just press a button (or vocalize a command) telling your device, "let me know when it's a good time to chat with uncle". It'll negotiate a time with uncle's device, only bothering uncle for decisions if/when it's locally appropriate. Then it will offer to connect the call only when it's almost certain to be welcomed by both ends.

All these technologies are likely to arrive, even without a single global time. But once they arrive it'll be easy for more people to prefer UTC. And it'll seem silly that anyone ever needed to write 2,200 words about how hard single-timezone coordination would be, because for people living with such assistive technology, that coordination will be effortless.

Sun-locked time-zones were a useful transitional coordination technology, but cheap computing and telecommunication will offer much better options.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/553963793056030721
JS is considerably faster than both Ruby and Python, at least from benchmarks I've seen.
Agree, and it's an opportunity for the candidate to demonstration their knowledge on whatever level they think is appropriate.

Interviewing is not about just showing you know x, y, z, it's largely a demonstration of your ability to communicate.

And the weaker candidates tend to get hung up on this question as being 'too simple' or confused about what level of detail they need to be supplying. Umm, look at the job description, tailor your answer, inform the panel you can elaborate further on something you're strong with, but avoid waffling on about irrelevant (to the position) technical detail. That's a bad thing in my book.

I think crucially, good candidates know what they don't know and have no problem communicating that. Weaker candidates feel pressure to "know everything" (impossible) and the moment they open their mouth with vague or incorrect responses, they become a risk if employed because when confronted professionally with something they don't know much about, they are more likely to try and wing it rather that stop and fill their knowledge gap or seek assistance from colleagues.
It may be a boring dystopia, but, you can't be fined for the same crime over and over again, can you?
https://www.dw.com/en/facebook-data-on-millions-of-user-acco...
This finally answers my bafflement over why my requests for a transfer cap feature have been ignored by all thin-second-layer providers of the Vercel etc. type...
Mics don't use power. Pedantic, I know.
I drove for Lyft and Uber before the pandemic as a retirement job and had lots of fun. I quit during the pandemic and since I've been vaccinated I've been taking Lyft and Uber. It's no longer fun. Masks inhibit conversation. Drivers don't talk anymore and neither do I. Lyft and Uber are just taxi companies at this point. I'm not surprised Uber took away the ability to see destination before accepting rides. Lyft never offered it. Drivers are going to do what they can to maximize earnings, which doesn't always serve the customer. At least they didn't have to become employees and be told when and where to drive. If Lyft and Uber continue to be short drivers they'll have to figure out some other way to incentivizes drivers without affecting customer service.
I sanitize the items in the garage, as i fill a sanitized crate, then my hands, then lift them into the house. Its quick and easy, it also allows me to reduce contact with the driver.

To be honest i massively underestimated how often i touch some of these items in the first few days, coffee jars alone get touched 40+ times, jam and butter 12+, bread 18+, diluting squash 14+. even if i wash my hands after stowing away and subtract that number I'd probably be left with an average number of touches well over 6 after stowing.
I don't know why many people fail to grasp that prices are signals, they are information. If prices are high, there isn't enough housing for everyone. By messing with the price signal and reducing it artificially through things like rent control you are telling everyone that there is enough housing but there simply isn't.

From the perspective of a politician this is very good for their career. It's the "fake it", mentality except you never intend to do the "until you make it" part.
Minor correction: https://webirc.hackint.org/#irc://irc.hackint.org/noanswers

Without the %23 prefix.
If you had actually read my comment, you would have seen that I wrote every previous government in the past few decades, and also that I'm also critical of our current government.
Check out Zolair Energy -- it aims to get cheap energy into Africa and the rest of the developing world, based on zinc air batteries. Founded by some of my MBA classmates http://zolair-energy.com/
Worth noting that the shirt was made for him by a female friend of his.
A lot of companies do that already

However, it's not as simple as it seems, you think "let's send everybody to Canada and then grow our offices there with all the foreigners we want" but that doesn't happen and you wonder why.

Maybe they don't want to outgrow their main offices, or maybe it's got to do with Canadian work culture

I've seen people being "parked" in Ireland before applying for their H1B
Unfortunately, most mobile device browsers do not support plugins. (That is why I started to write a proxy server for myself two weeks ago.)
and you know better than PG.
I had it wrong too, but mostly because I had an issue with the 8 card: IMHO it has to be turned over as it might have e.g. a 'V' on the other side, and that side also belongs to the card, but the answer explicitly states 8 isn't needed because apparently the other side isn't part of the card so the rule only applies to the sides you initially see. A bit of a trick question IMHO.
Never said they were useless! I also use them all the time. There is, however, only space for two extra keys in the holes of the four-arrow layout.
WSB did it to squeeze Melvin Capital. A hedge fund did lose a huge amount of cash. It turned into a greed driven pump and dump afterwards via conspiracy theories that Melvin Capital is still in the market. The conspiracy theory was reinforced by the strong media push back, Robinhood's CEO blatantly lying on television and the still high short interest.

If you put money into GME for shits and giggles you got your money's worth.
It's a leap to assume that crime and incarceration rate stats are a fabrication by virtue that the solve-rate of crimes is abnormally high. They have nothing to do with one another.
Once again Blender is killing it! I find Blender to be one of the best examples of how FLOSS software can be substantially better than their proprietary alternatives.
I don't see Bill Gates attributing reading to his success at all. This is just a blog post saying he likes to read when he's bored around the house?
How does that affect the executive making that decision, who is already wealthy? It's not like executives are ever punished for poorly running a company.
The problem is that it works very well in certain areas.
"If you have large profits you should share more with your employees [1]" could also be a reality encoded into law woth harsh penalties for doing otherwise...

([1] "And don't try to bypass it by building in another country and then come to sell your wares here")
You'd think some people would want to opt out of the fake/amplified engine noise, so they can drive in peace, listen to their stereo without interference, etc. but i guess making the amplified/fake engine noise an option would defeat the purpose.
You're right it does feel like a hack, but one that works fine for me at least. I guess my comments were those of a user thinking about how it works for me, not a technical critique at all.
but how does one exit the train?!
I think my original comment was pretty clear, so I'm not going to spend a lot of time responding...

Good. Especially from someone who remembered an event from 26 months ago to launch a personal attack today. I hope you find something a little more constructive to do with your time.
Is this using ScriptCS?
Wouldn't it just be javascript:void(open('//web.archive.org/web/*/encodeURI(document.location))) ?