jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> so I focus my attention on people who are otherwise sensible.

Participation in a discussion usually implies an interest and a willingness to spend your time considering various arguments. If you only limit your exposure to arguments made by people who agree with you in other domains then I have to conclude your interest in this space is not very high.
Okay, so let's say that we've proven beyond reasonable doubt that God exists. Let's also say we've managed to prove heaven and hell exist. The question still remains, what part of you goes to heaven or hell?
It's interesting reading your comment that purports to disagree with mine, while feeling that it instead agrees... I think perhaps the confusion is that I misread your comment that I replied to as suggesting that you can't have an executable spec, rather than (as I now think you meant) as merely claiming that an implementation can't be its own spec, which I definitely agree with.

I think something like RubySpec is fantastic, and that it's really too bad that, perhaps only because of personality conflicts with the maintainer, it hasn't been successful at standardizing behavior across ruby implementations.
Obamacare hasn't improved the access part unless you're subsidized. Maybe the plans are a little better, but you're still paying exorbitant premiums, especially in corrupted states like New York where you've got to subsidize the high incomes of medical malpractice lawyers.

Important to note that employees of large corps are still paying big premiums, they just think they're not because the employer is paying half or more. But if those costs weren't there they could be passed to the employee as wages. This is one of the strongest explanations for the stagnation and decline of wages in the US over the last couple decades. If we made everyone buy their own insurance, there'd be riots in the streets.
Sorry, I deleted my post because it came out more sarcastic than I meant it.

For transparency's sake, my post was (from memory):

> The data is publically available on torrents.

>

>You could easily prove Schneier wrong.
1099 is not necessarily "your own boss." Much of the time it's just an employer refusing to bring on permanent employees, opting for contractors and no benefits, and minimal relationship and responsibility. Some 1099s are good, others are near last resort.
How did you get invited to share a day with them? I'm interested in doing the same.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18493019
We evaluated Kubernetes and chose Nomad instead. It works really well (although not as feature rich as K8s) and it allows smaller teams to understand how the whole setup works. It lowers key man risks, IMO.
If all of the world's ice were to melt the oceans would rise by only 70 meters.

Warmist National Geographic offers that it would take 5000 years for all of the world's ice to melt.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2013/09/rising-s...
Ya think?

"Unless market constraints are put in place, growth in aviation emissions will result in the sector's emissions amounting to all or nearly all of the annual global CO
2 emissions budget by mid-century, if climate change is to be held to a temperature increase of 2 °C or less."

(from: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Environmental_impact_of_aviation)
It's about being virtually confined to a box that has simplish interactions with the environment. Simulations that fit into this category are race car, tank, air plane, ship (least popular category probably), submarine.
Thinking about this, COVID-19 both reduces CO2 emission in terms of transport, and increases energy demand on other ends (people working from home, using more electricity). It would be interesting to see a detailed breakdown of those effects.
tl;dr: 'I'm incapable of understanding that doubling every six days means a case rate of 50 per million becomes 1000 per million in ~25 days if nothing is done.'
People like to think we humans are intelligent and smart, but people like that really shows that we are mostly a pack of stupid apes.

That's why I am on team AI.
> Here they are again, years later, still playing with extremely hazardous coronaviruses that act on the ACE2 receptor in humans

"Playing with" as in "identifying and sequencing the virus in wild bats". The editorial notes say "The results provide the strongest evidence to date that horseshoe bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-CoV."

The location is... interesting, but it's also near a large wet market with a wild life section in a big city, pretty much exactly the circumstances you'd imagine to see natural transmission.

It kindles the imagination but it's not really a smoking gun.
I'm glad you feel that way, since I feel that way too.

It was all designed by one person (pg) who is an inveterate minimalist, has good taste, and likes text. He wanted to make a site that seemed bookish (his word) so it would attract people who wanted to read and discourage people who didn't—in the gentlest way, by seeming boring. He also wanted to make a news site that looked like top, the terminal app.

One thing that I don't think is widely appreciated about HN's design is the balance it finds between information density (i.e. fitting a lot on the page) and minimalism. If you try to move that needle in either direction it makes things worse: more cramped or less informative. Most attempts to redesign HN add tons more whitespace, but this lets you take in fewer stories at a glance. Of course, tastes vary widely and many people disagree.

The link to Reddit is genetic, since pg gave the original idea for Reddit to Alexis and Steve, and only made HN when his feature requests were no longer at the top of their list. Presumably that is also how the idea of keeping HN small got started :) There was also an early version of Delicious that looked a bit like what HN and Reddit later became.
I read Siegler's post as basically an attempt by him to reconcile those two annoying sentiments, both of which I detected in the text. They both share the misconceptions that this is a two-horse race, and that "winning" is meaningful in a market which (due to the inertia caused by factors like carrier behaviour) takes years to evolve.

One interesting point Siegler didn't make is that Google is making some modest strides toward weakening the carriers' grip on the handset market (e.g. selling Nexus One unlocked themselves, and Nexus S unlocked through vendors). Sure, they're niche devices and the Nexus One direct sales model didn't work out that well, but they're testing the water. I'm pretty sure their goal there is to increase general consumer acceptance of buying unlocked, carrier-untouched phones. And that helps every smartphone maker, perhaps especially Apple (who probably stand the best chance of selling large numbers of $600 handsets without carrier subsidy).

Apple themselves could have made this play, by offering (and promoting) the iPhone unlocked at launch (or since), but they chose instead to work with the carriers (a reasonable decision to maximise short-term success).
That brings back memories. I did the ArsDigita "bootcamp" back in 2001. Fun times.
Voice bank algo challenge:

What is the shortest sentence (or set of sentences) you can construct that covers all the phonemes required for a voice bank?

(Corollary: Convincing someone into saying these sentences now lets you impersonate them using text-to-speech)
A) Agree, especially since we have syntax highlighting.

B) Agree. I have a better excuse: "not everyone uses Qwerty". In my keyboard, for instance "-" is very accessible, and "/" a tiny bit less so.
No, it just means there is nothing in Go that would cause a D or C++ programmer to switch to it. The feature set of D and C++ is a superset of Go feature set.

This "they laughed at Einstein, so I must be right too" mentality is pure fanboyism.
A similar article that articulated this well.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html
The Apple engineer made the mistake of casually talking about "acquiring" or "hiring". That would greatly raise anyone's expectations and subsequent anxiety. The other guy made the mistake of being pushy, especially when he cc'ed Steve - it likely pissed off the Apple engineer and certainly would not have made a good impression on Steve.
One might as well refuse to give answer instead.
What happens if I want to create another posterous blog with the same email, is that possible?
I wonder if I will be able to use the iPhone4 front-facing camera to do video over 3G here in Norway or if the iOS software will require a wifi connection. Anyone know? BTW, the US is really in a telecom-technical backwater. Cellphone users on the other side of the atlantic have enjoyed video conference calls on their handset for many years and over true 3G, not as a wifi hack. So the whole "'First to Do It' vs. 'First to Do It Right'" is kind of amusing as this is rather old outside of the US.
Oh it's funny because he thinks iOS multitasking is better.

Or real.
Except this bit: Please note that in accordance with the license agreement between VMS Software Inc. and HPE, VMS Software Inc. are not able to distribute VAX licenses.

Since I've got actual Vaxen it doesn't help.
Holy crap, for some reason I never thought to consider another package manager than Pip, which I loathe.
If they actually committed any of those crimes you don't need to cancel them because prison doesn't let you stream.
I have Created a Phone App for the Nightlife Industry the main function of the app will list it as a productivity app with social media integration.

I have created a prototype in the most novice sense but definitely gives an overall idea for the look and feel of the purpose of the app.

The vision I have for my company is to play on the main stream social media culture while reintroducing the importance of "in real life' socializing.

The app will also act as a niche marketing tool for Nightlife entrepreneurs.

I am looking to finally build my team, all the work that has been independently I have accomplished. Moving into the next steps I am looking for 3-4 team mates that understand and are willing to join the team on equity based terms.

Friends and Family options have been visited and co-workers are not an option as I work from home.

Any Ideas? Any interest?
A pretty large percentage of homeless people have severe mental illness [1]. Most people in that boat are not going to benefit much from being handed 50K without active support/guidance. But yeah it goes beyond "education", they need serious medical help.

[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/The_homele...
Hope you get better buddy.
The blog is itself an advertisment for a longer (32 page) report released in August 2020, downloadable PDF available, largely an emerging trends report.

"Financial Intermediation and Technology: What’s Old, What’s New?"

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2020/08/07/Fin...

The prospect of Fintech credit scoring from digital footprints is from "Onthe Rise of FinTechs – Credit Scoring using Digital Footprints", by Tobias Berg, Valentin Burg, Ana Gombović, Manju Puri, July 2018. 51pp.

https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/cfr/2018/wp2018/cfr-wp2018-04....

That was discussed at the time on HN (46 comments, June 22, 2018):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17377967
Mineral rights might be sold independently from land rights, meaning someone could come mine the land you are fostering.

You can get cheap seedlings from the state, and depending on the land you might be able to get financial assistance with preparing the land.

Everything is slow. Timber companies are slow, forest service is slow, etc.
> Half of Google's income is derived from businesses pissing their marketing budget up a wall with incorrectly targeted ads.

Ah yes I was waiting for a response like this. Adsense campaign or do you mean Adwords campaign? There's a pretty big difference between the two.

Also, what's the difference between pissing away money on "poor targeting" and "testing" targeting which helps you to determine what the best options are?

Alot of bro-vado in your comment - what's your avg CTR? Churn rate? Spend? Out of curiosity.
There are, but I think they typically serve as clearinghouses that acquire land and then hand it to the federal government. I think it's less common to find individuals buying up plots to conserve them.
A professional short seller writes an article in the financial times saying that "society can't be run by markets, because even markets can't be run by markets because markets are unstable and irrational" and "capitalism isn't fair." checks calendar yes, must be 2021 :)
Is that a regular issue? I heard they have a fairly limited lifespan, but I haven't ran mine out yet.
Thanks, ill try it
I see the next wave of copyright suits coming already:

> 30-odd geek sued for Billions for infringing on the "Brad Pitt" brand.

Interesting times...
Absolutely.

Companies with stock are making bank--there aren't many of them and they're draining. Companies with their own fabs are making bank because they can prioritize their production runs by profitability.

The problem is that inventory has both risk and weird tax consequences so nobody wants to hold it. The risk is simply that nobody ever wants the part so you lose the money you spent. The weird tax consequences are how you "write down" inventory--the problem is that the IRS lumps a lot of inventory into the same boat: bolts are sort of treated the same as semiconductors even though they have very different life cycles.

The real lesson in all this is that there is no longer a surplus in worldwide fab capacity. The "fabless" semiconductor business plans relied on this surplus to beat up the "fab owning" companies for years.

The fabs all just figured out that "Fabs are the walled garden" and the fabless guys just got a reminder that "Your profits are dependent on some else's platform and they can take it away."

It will be interesting to see what the reckoning is after this all shakes out.
I love Blender and use it at least once a week for animation purposes. I also use Houdini but less often. Something Houdini still is the king at is performance for large scenes and usage of the GPU for simulations. Blender is moving closer and closer to a node model like Houdini, which is exciting to see because it makes me think that performance will be much easier to fix as well. The inspection, logging and debug tooling in Houdini is also better than in Blender, although Blender beats Houdini in extensibility and hackability.
Regarding power consumption, the calculation seems to assume you run the thing constantly. Is it a mistake to run these things constantly? Presumably if it does that good a job pulling out incense, and if you're not constantly smoking or burning stuff, and you're in a reasonably sealed building (and if those assumptions don't hold, why would a filter help?), you should be able to get most of the benefit from only turning it on when something has added a bunch of particulate matter (like, you're cooking or cleaning, or you opened the window and there's pollen out)?
The need for shorts largely goes away if you make stock buyers hold for at least a year before selling.

Remember, the purpose of the market is as a funding mechanism for companies to pursue growth and innovation, not to allow a bunch of "banksters" to game the system. That means that investment should always be longish-term. So let's make their stupid games not worth playing.

FWIW, If you do allow intra-day trading, applying a random delay of up to, say, four hours would eliminate most of the problems...
While part of this is Cassandra's architecture, it may also be a limitation of the designer's way of thinking. Recently we had a hackathon project where we decided to implement the s3 API on top of Scylla (a Cassandra-compatible database) and were able to chunkify binary large objects (BLOBs) of up to 5 TB, and even turn Scylla into a FUSE filesystem.

https://www.scylladb.com/2020/12/15/scylladb-blog-scylladb-d...
> is it a series of messages? Or is it something more advanced; with built in conflict resolution or other P2P-y features?

From the client's perspective, matrix is just a basic stream of events (like XMPP). The magic happens on the server side where a room is replicated across servers and conflict-resolution voodoo is applied. That's also why synapse server is really really resource-intensive (gigabytes of RAM) compared to equivalent-in-features (apart from decentralized rooms) XMPP/ActivityPub servers ; dendrite is fairing better but i haven't benchmarked it yet.
Do you have an explanation for why there has never been a famine so far in the 231-year history of the US?
Now take a recorded voice snippet of the same subject and have them say hello to you or happy birthday, etc.
The utilities a power pole and a well, were already on the property when I bought it. But the original costs were $6,500 to dig the well and approximately $5,000 to install and green tag the power pole. If you can get your total wattage usage down, you could easily go off the grid with the newer 430 watt solar panels and LiFePO4 batteries. Its almost an impulse buy for me and definitely something I want to do this summer. I got lucky but spent 5 years searching for my property. But, you can find properties with burned down mobile homes that have utilities already setup.
I am actually just 2 years older than this thing, but Wikipedia said so, yes.
But even then you know your tweets can be read by anybody. If a platform is fundamentally public, I don't understand how can anyone use it as a form of private communication.
Context:

The universities of Nottingham and Oxford have been awarded the largest mathematics research grant ever awarded (£2.3m) to bring together a 'maths dreamteam' to work on the generalized Riemann Hypothesis and the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer.

I'm not a mathematician, but I understand the BSD conjecture is implicitly involved in EC crypto [0], although I'm not sure what practical effect it would have if proofs were found.

Any math-ers out there able to give us a layman's briefing?

--

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_and_Swinnerton-Dyer_conj...
Thank you! This guide is very well-structured and easy to read.
We didn’t have any (they sold as much as people bought) for a few days and now we do.

There’s no shortage of toilet paper, but there’s plenty of idiots.

Yesterday I say a person who bought like a cubic meter of TP. What for? If we are indeed short of groceries for that long, you are going to die from starvation rather than inability to poo because you don’t have any toilet paper.
From the article: "By the time Esperanto got out of the gate, another language was already emerging as an international medium: English." Yep. Esperanto is toast as a world interlanguage compared to English. The number of new speakers added to English each year just by natural increase of households in which English is spoken as a home language is, matched for levels of proficiency, comfortably greater than the total worldwide number of speakers of Esperanto. (The same is true, of course, of Modern Standard Chinese (Mandarin), Spanish, and Hindustani.) English is by far the language of choice in "interlanguage" contexts, as for example when a native speaker of Korean travels to Taiwan (I have seen this many times) or when a native speaker of Japanese travels to China (I have seen this too) or even when educated native speakers of various Sinitic languages meet up and some are not proficient in standard Mandarin (I have seen this plenty of times too). The use of English as an interlanguage in India alone (where mandating Hindi as the sole interregional language would be very politically contentious) ensures that English will continue to grow and thrive, even if the United States and Britain somehow disappeared from the world. (I have been watching a lot of films from India recently, as my town is blessed with more than one cinema that show current films from India, and even in a movie set in India with entirely Indian characters, you will hear little snatches of English embedded in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, or Malayalam dialog, and you will always see signs in English in street scenes even of very rural places.)

So, yes, what will the world speak only a century from now, as the article asks? Plenty of other languages, for sure, and I for one am glad I devoted years to learning Chinese and German and other languages, but there will be more and more people speaking English in more and more places as the years go by.
The space isn't required with Bash :)
From brief code inspection, it looks like this project uses ThreeD library:

http://code.google.com/p/threedlibrary/

Here are other examples from Google using ThreeD which are not minified:

http://code.google.com/p/webglsamples/
Why are they calling overvaluation by private investors a stock market bubble? I know -- they didn't say "stock market", but that's what "bubble" refers to. It's a word that conjures up images of the the dot-bomb era with a crashing stock market and thousands out of work. Having a few startups overvalued by some private investors is not going to create the same effect.

Why is it that the media can't go for more than two years without making a big fuss about tech bubbles? There is no bubble. We're in a financial downturn -- a bad one.
I'd say 1 week a year of partying doesn't immediately ruin your roundedness. But yes, some faffing may make kids more excited about making TV shows than they are about latin grammar.
So being horribly pedantic, but: That's a PC, not an XT.
I think a large part of making better coffee is a matter of iteration, or trial and error. If you do something and it tastes better, you keep doing it. But you're never sure if there's some patch of the search space that you missed, that's even better.

If anyone wants to make splendid coffee, and doesn't fear learning a significant new art I'd suggest roasting your own beans. You can do it with a heat gun or an air corn popper, modified. It's not simple and it's a bit of a fire hazard, but you can get satisfying results blasting some hot air at beans in a pot. Roasting can be more fun and aromatic than making coffee. It is amazing.

For a brewer you could get a sock pot aka woodneck (or just the sock without the pot -- or just muslin cloth if you want to make your own); or, a ceramic cilio-freiling cone, or an inexpensive melitta plastic cone. Both sock & cone are considered pour over methods but they taste different.

For a grinder there are too many choices to pick just one, and the good ones are expensive. For the grinder it may be safer to avoid mass-market products, just because it's too easy to make a mistake and buy an inadequate product.

[Edit: there is another effective trick to get better at brewing. Coffee brewing competitions. It is surprising how effective these are at improving the art. Watching videos of what the contestants are doing is one important tool for improvement.]
Agreed. Kaz is very free, compared to, say, Kyrgyz, or Uzbek, or Turkmen. It's also very free compared to the US. You can see the "secret" police. They stand out like sore thumbs, as they're mostly Russians, and dress different, and harass people.

I think that she may have mistaken overt police corruption for a police state. The two are not synonymous.
I suppose it has to be mass consensus among the persecuted class and the friends of the persecuted class.
What semantically crazy stuff do you have to rely on? I don't advocate mindlessly buying into the cult of Crockford, but he outlines a pretty reasonable subset of the language in "JavaScript: The Good Parts"

The only thing I can think of that you might mean is function scoping, which I would agree with.
There is a lot of pain within me from the last few years, so many people I no longer have contact with, for most likely bad reasons. It felt good writing this out, thank you for reading.
I don't want them, even though I also consult for web development.

At home the only web applications I use, are the ones I am forced to, like hotel booking systems and forums, because USENET is moribund.