jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Baseball cards are a better example. It's rare because a limited quantity were printed, not because the capacity to make more was lacking.

Maybe what NFTs lack is the ability for people to arbitrarily destroy them. Maybe some kind of dice roll that deletes some every blue moon. Or a "light mine on fire button." Some kind of rot that degrades it over time.

https://sorare.com/ was on https://techmeme.com today
> If a drunk driver does not want to give his car keys to the unarmed civilian, then what happens?

He writes the license plate down, calls 911, and notifies police. It's not rocket science.

I would say that your experience probably can't be extrapolated to everyone's experience. I can equally describe several situations I or people I know have experienced that qualify as highly aggressive, unwarranted policing for minor traffic stops. I know people who have been arrested for a broken taillight, sitting in a running car in a parking lot, driving aimlessly through a neighborhood while lost, and other scenarios.

Heck, I'm a standard white guy and I got screamed at by a police officer 20 years ago at a random speeding stop because I didn't know that there was a faster way to get back to the highway I was trying to get to in an area I was unfamiliar with (this was pre-GPS). Top of his lungs threatening me, hand on his nightstick - it was terrifying.
The counterargument to that I have heard is that if any civilization ever managed to unleash self-replicating probes in the past couple of million years, we should be able to see those, or their effects on our galaxy. And such probes seem to be not that hard to build, even at our current technology level.
Caspii, you should disclose that some of the links in your article are actually affiliate links.
Actually I think in Germany you are required to do so.
I understand and agree. I was merely making a silly joke :)

I failed to humor my audience it seems judging by the responses. The internet needs a sarcasm smiley badly.
Bitcoin is pretty nice for vendors: no need to integrate with third party services with complicated terms and regulations, no chargeback etc...

But from the client's perspective it's pretty crappy for basically the same reasons. In general if you want to impose a new payment system it's really the buying side that needs convincing. If tomorrow a significant portion of the population wants to buy good and services preferably with Bitcoins, that would drive adoption massively. Thing is, from a user experience standpoint cash and Visa and still vastly more convenient, so the vast amount of buyers won't want to bother with cryptocurrency at the moment.
I guess the argument is that dark energy is in fact a manifestation of the physical rules of our universe, but in the end doesn't that violate the laws of energy conservation?

Yes, but that's OK because energy is only conserved to the extent that the laws of physics are time-translation invariant.

Effectively if we observe acceleration of distant parts of the galaxy due to present time traveling slower relative to historic, where does the energy that causes the acceleration come from?

From the alteration of the laws of physics (in this case, the rate of time).
I’m not sure if people in the US realize that they make a big issue about forced labor in China while having one of the worlds largest prison populations that is also subject to forced labor.
I rarely see this discussed.
"Because of this schism, tablet support for Android was delayed"

reference please.
bcrypt or scrypt (http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html).
bcrypt lets you more or less arbitrarily set the computational complexity (in terms of instructions) of key generation. scrypt is newer (2009), but has the attractive property that it lets you arbitrarily set the memory complexity instead (how much memory it takes). This is attractive because key generation with a large memory requirement is more expensive to massively parallelize with an ASIC/FPGA farm.

If you have a seriously good reason for not using either of these, which you probably don't, "stretched" (iterated thousands of times) and salted SHA-2 or MD5, or PBKDF2 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2 ) can be acceptable alternatives.
Well, if you start a company and things will go way too easy for you, it's hard not to become overconfident which will eventually lead into ultimate failure.

so is it surprising all these great companies had difficult beginnings? not at all, it made founders humble, which is never a bad thing.
Give the population bikesheds to paint, and plunder while they bicker.
I'd argue that while they can't "do" their own testing, developers should be writing Unit tests that prevent their code from being broken in future. They should also be writing tests that exercise their code so they find corner cases that were not obvious when coding.

The problem is it's difficult to define what that is (and particularly to teach a junior Dev what to do).
“There is another reason bad ideas continue to live on, which is that people continue to talk about them.

Silence is death for any idea. An idea that is never spoken or written down dies with the person who conceived it. Ideas can only be remembered when they are repeated. They can only be believed when they are repeated.”

James Clear
I would really like to understand his opinion on accessory-after-the-fact and other crimes like dealing in stolen property.

It would illuminate whether he’s actually a CP apologist or merely a poor legal philosopher who has bad judgment on the subject matter of his thought experiments.
Just installed and testing Magento for a client, and I cant say I'm having a good experience. But what I miss in the rage registered domain, fuckmagento.com, are proper alternatives. I don't mind the rage posts about something being bad, but point out some proper alternatives too :)
> Pay the damn wages and dividends, I'd say.

If the goal is to increase wages, then government should lower the supply of labor and increase the demand for labor. Provide minimum x weeks of vacation, parental leave, maximum 8 hours per day until overtime rates kick in, free higher education, etc.

As for forcing companies to pay dividends, I’d rather the government not be able to tell me what to do with my company’s funds. If the government wants control of the funds, they should raise the tax rates.
"if it hurt a trans person then it is transphobic" But this is... plain stupid. What's her position again?
Come on Taze, put some effort into it: "I don't know anything about the target, but this trial by public opinion is fundamentally unfair and shouldn't be used to decide anything".
> A competing letter in support of RMS exists and has accumulated considerably more signatures than the letter condemning RMS.

> In response someone created a Chrome extension that marks repositories owned by a signatory of this support letter with red text on GitHub.

This is incredible worrying. This is basically maintaining a repository of people with "incorrect" opinions. How long before such repositories are integrated in HR systems, tied to you identity for subscriptions/memberships. [1] You have to carry a tag of being not progressive enough across the internet?

[1] https://twitter.com/kmlefranc/status/1221869659139366912
Or use Adblock Edge https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ which is a Adblock Plus fork minus the "acceptable ads" feature.
A RCPT failed from an email address is a good indication.
Sounds like you should do your own startup. Then you can be whatever title you want.
>I know a lot of people encharmed by it, but no-one productive (i.e. delivering products quickly; it's not the same as solving pure, mathematical problems).

Is this actually true, or is it "true in your heart"? Very few people use haskell for solving "pure mathematical problems". People use it for things like developing the fastest microkernel in existence, doing high volume trading, making games, and writing boring old web apps. References to "pure mathematical problems" and implying nobody is actually doing anything with haskell come off as sounding like second (or third, or fourth) hand FUD. We taught our PHP team haskell. They had their first project in production in three months. There's nothing special about math and haskell.
... Says the guy with a website which only supports IE9+! I had to switch browsers.. even though he agrees my choice of IE4 is best, nonetheless!
"given enough time every satellite will hit the tether"

Let's do a back of the envelope calculation:
https://www.google.com/search?q=(pi%20*%20(radius%20of%20the...

If a satellite in low-earth orbit has a cross-section of 10 meters, then the timescale for hitting the space elevator is about 300 years.

Given that there are about 3600 satellites in orbit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite), a satellite would crash into the space elevator about once a month.
What's up with the "Hook Player" required to watch the video??
The last paragraph was fun:

"“UWM’s vision is to create a large-scale sport and entertainment experience where martial artists can compete against each other with real weapons, with an objective measure of who would have won in a real combat situation” UWM CEO David Pysden said."
This month. There's no date. Let's not relate it to recent events. Actually this kind of insinuates what's happening.
Something like XAML?
Everything in low earth orbit has 30MJ/kg worth of kinetic energy. TNT has 4.6MJ/kg worth of chemical energy. A rule of thumb: when the kinetic energy of things goes above the chemical energy of high explosives, you can assume that nothing survives.
Why? Because they made a clone?
I have yet to make my first dollar online from my saas side project. But one thing that I am trying out right now is SEO. It might take some time until you start seeing results. But if your saas is solving a problem for your target audience, you can try to create high quality content for that audience.
Location based pay makes some sense when hiring or applying for a job, I live in Denmark, it is pretty expensive here and I charge quite a lot even in my market. If you can't pay my price I can't afford to work for you, partially because of my location.

But let's suppose I am hired, and I decide to move to another location because I am in a position to do so. Basically, the company using location based pay takes out one of the benefits I can derive from moving. Because I work for a company with location based pay I might not be able to move somewhere else until I quit that company! Especially as the company with location based pay probably isn't calculating in the expenses of moving, finding new schools, babysitters etc. all the extra stuff you need to do when you move somewhere new, which if you're making a lot of money for that area can be better handled because, guess what, money makes lots of problems more manageable.

So yes if you want to hire me you have to pay me something I can afford and you can afford, but if you want to change my pay based on if I decide to move somewhere cheaper later I don't think I could afford to tie myself to you like that.
Probably the association with Brave was reason for the name change. Think they still need to switch their site domain.
Allow me to open the door so that the elephant may walk into the room. The swedish try something new to get kids educated, but problems quickly develop :

1) People don't like shareholders taking money from the public sector.
2) People don't like teachers being underpaid.

So, let's level up this argument. What if teachers were making the profits ? Would that still be repugnant to you ?

How about a system where anyone (and literally I mean anyone, not just someone with a Master's in education) can start a school out of their living room. Let's say a retired entrepreneur that used to run a factory in your town.

6 families agree to pay with a school voucher so this retiree will teach the kids full time, at her house.

Public schools will lose the students, as will the certified teachers. The profit will instead flow to the retiree. She's making ~72K /yr and is happy because that is substantially more than the median teacher salary.

Is this scenario still "Shameful" ? What if more teachers did it, they banded together and formed a collective ? Once the profit gets larger.. does it then become repugnant ?

Lets take another step further. Lets say the collective teachers choose to retire. They worked hard, they taught many students, but now they are now done. They get to keep the stock in the collective they founded. We now have stockholders.

What is then, the effective difference between the stockholders in sweden and the stockholders of my example ?
Can you stop spamming the forum with useless or repetitive posts ?
If you start from the assumption that a successful Covid vaccination rollout protects the most people from serious illness and death, it follows pretty quickly. My parents are significantly more likely than I am to be hospitalized and/or die from Covid than I am. My grandparents as well, but their risk is even an order of magnitude higher than my parents face.[1]

A successful vaccination program, then, would aggressively work through the most vulnerable populations first.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...
Evil things have always been the primary driver of technology. A good thing is that many of these evil things aren't meant to kill people anymore.
Mostly I wonder how much I would continue to program. Something I struggle with now is thinking of interesting projects to work on with the free time I have already. Probably I would choose Clojure(Script) because that seems to be where I feel the most productive. Maybe Janet, but I've struggled to be productive with Janet for things like webapps. I might spend more time tinkering with embedded using Forth. Over the last year I've slowly built out small pieces of Forth code on the ATMega328 for controlling a small robot (writing snippets code to control an ultrasonic distance sensor, motor controller, etc). One day I'd like to tie all of that together but it is a very time consuming process.

What I would really want to focus on if money were not an issue is photography. Before the pandemic I had planned to build a darkroom in my basement. It seemed non-essential so I've put it on hold. When things start to go back to normal I won't feel guilty about hiring contractors to come to my house to help me indulge my hobby. Darkroom work is very time consuming but also very satisfying. Meditative even. You need a proper space for it and most importantly you need lots and lots of time.

I would also spend more time exercising, or at least as much time as I do now. Working from home has allowed me to replaced the time I would have spent commuting with getting more sleep and exercising 3-5 days (usually 5) a week. At the moment I think I am the strongest I've ever been. Not as fit as I was in my teens and early 20s, but definitely stronger and more disciplined. Anyway, what's the point in having free time to indulge yourself if you are too frail? I'd like to keep my momentum going and hopefully remain physically capable when I'm old.

I think I would want to get out of the house more. Go talk to people. Take pictures of people. Write about it. This was something I was passionate about long before coding became part of my life. Coding pays the bills and gives me money to spare so I can at least do some of this. I think it would be hard to eek out a living on something like this alone, but who knows?
Makes me wonder if people going for some 24 hour observation research (epilepsy patients, etc) shouldn't at least go for 2 nights, 48 hours monitoring.
A large portion of their business already is. I wouldn't be surprised if this layoff was in part shedding the non-consultancy parts of their business.
I guess Go isn't killing Python, hunh.
Bit hacky but you could keep a long-running Bash process and use PROMPT_COMMAND to notify you to start a new block?

I love this kind of thing, by the way. I'm sure terminal emulators are not the best we can do, CLI-wise.
Meetings, most of them without bullet points or a specific topic.

I'm coordinating another devs too and that costs less time then meetings to projects. We don't have the best product owner culture, so I need to fill that role too. But we are working on that topic atm and we are reaching the first goals.

It's funny and I like it, but sometimes I just block time in my calendar to do tasks two weeks ahead. So nobody is able to schedule me on a meeting without asking before.

That makes most people think about if I'm really necessary.
>The dangers of this approach soon became apparent. Facebook now has some three billion users—more than a third of humanity—many of whom get their news from the site. In 2016, Russian agents used the platform in an attempt to sway the U.S. Presidential election. Three years later, a white supremacist in New Zealand live-streamed a mass shooting. Millions of people joined groups and followed pages related to QAnon, a conspiracy theory holding that the world is controlled by a cabal of Satan-worshipping, pedophilic Democrats. The First Amendment has made it difficult for the U.S. government to stop toxic ideas from spreading online.

The idea that these things can be stopped by censoring "toxic ideas" is the false premise that both the New Yorker and Facebook state as their primary justification for expanding their power. They miss the point of the 1st amendment entirely, and hint at it being an inconvenience to progress instead of a cherished human right. They act like the demands of censors to remove speech deserve equal consideration to those who want their speech rights preserved. But the idea that free speech is a human right doesn't mean we stop at first ammendment protections from government censorship, it should be extended in sentiment to any position of power. The idea that either the author or the company is treating the censorship of a world leader supported by over 70 million people as something that should be debated by "high-minded" people suggests that they have already abandoned the concept of free speech as a human right.

Free speech is important in part because, to the contrary, it cools extremism. When elites stamp out speech, they don't eliminate the ideas, they make those individuals more desperate and disillusioned with society. They hamper the abilities of like-minded communities to deescalate radicalism. They remove the ability of radicals to vent, where they can feel like they're making a difference with words instead of violence.

It's deeply disturbing to see that the people living in New York and California, especially those in power, seem to have less of an appreciation for the principle of free speech than those abroad. I think the time where America was a world bastion for free speech is over. Only thing in their way is that pesky 1st amendment.
Yep, I did. That's why I don't any "Zsh framework" anymore, like oh-my-zsh or prezto. In the book I don't advise to install any framework either.
I kept reporting Fauci's original statement that masks don't work. The reports were flagged.

Why bother about obvious nonsense like 5G conspiracies? It is the mainstream lies from both media and politicians that are report-worthy.
Interesting compilation. I haven't heard of most of them. Honestly, I think a Python interpreter on mobile is orders of magnitude less bloat then Electron on the desktop ;-)
Yes, it is legal to do many immoral things.

Edit: According to you, shouldn't Twitter be at fault for letting Pax say such hurtful things? They're providing him a platform.
Tried this after seeing that url:

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://www.downforeveryon...

Well played.
I've yet to find any good, modern, sources of learning HTML and CSS. No one should follow this to the word, so that learning would happen in phase 2.

Also, if you're learning Ruby, Python, and eventually JS you're going to have to pick up HTML and CSS on the side.
I think at last count I had taken classes from about 9 different colleges. I have an associate's, 2 completely unrelated certificates, and am a few classes short of a bachelor's (and have been "a few classes short" for a few years).

The reason: "Classic Military Wife Syndrome". :-D
Why are iPhone 3G users left out?

Besides the background updating thing I don't see any features or reasons why it can't run on a 3G.
Where do HTML/CSS fall? Are they unimportant or so important that they are considered obvious?
Thank you for consistently adding a voice of reason to all these reactionary blog posts. I would go insane were I in your shoes.
In my opinion, this is what will eventually spur a braindrain in SF in 5-10 years.

My theory, if it holds, says that a bunch of 20-somethings flooded into SF in the past 2-3 years. When they reach their early/mid-30s, they will begin their nesting phase.

They'll want to find/will have found their mate and will want a house with some space.... The chance to finally to get out of their dumpy studio/3-bedroom-with-roommates... Some well-deserved adult digs, after years of hard work in this industry.

However, they'll look around at house prices, look back at their bank accounts, and realize such dreams could never be fulfilled here.

At that point, they'll pick one of four paths:

-Buy property in a remote, suburban sprawl-y part of the Bay Area (an unattractive option to anyone who's lived in SF for many years)

-Buy some depressingly expensive one bedroom condo and stay here

-Become a lifetime renter

-Move away from the Bay Area ('back home', or elsewhere)

In my opinion, a 30-something, on the verge of midlife crisis anyways, will take one more shot at the great unknown and set out for a new region, outside the Bay Area.

Unless, of course, they sold their startup for 8-figures and escaped with a big chunk of compensation.

Thoughts?
But they test only 20000 per week(!).
> I can only speculate they are using deep learning type tools now to do their blocking

It needs careful justification before making such a statement - the censorship system has a serious constraint on computational costs - it needs to operate on the stream of the entire outgoing international traffic, and to make a decision in real-time (or for back-analysis). We are talking about many terabytes per seconds of traffic, any censorship tools that have a high computational costs cannot be deployed for such a purpose, even if it runs okay on a single PC. Also, a high false-positive rate is not acceptable, as it will create massive service disruption and practically useless.

Unlike the case for SOCKS5-over-SSH, HTTPS-over-HTTPS, or VPN handshakes, which can be detected by relatively simpler rules, most deep learning tools required excessive CPU time, so it's unlikely that complex deep learning algorithms are being used, at least not the category that costs the highest CPU time (anything with "AI").

Given these constraints, the algorithms available to the censorship system is rather limited, it seems. What types of algorithms are being used, then? Unfortunately, nobody can answer this question. This is the fundamental question people are facing today. 10 years ago, every sysadmin in China knew the censorship system works, but today, the system has became completely opaque.
Yes, although there's an old joke about how a modern tank that can't shoot is just a very heavy and incredibly expensive mobile phone.

Also, it needs to keep an engine running to power its sensor and comms suite.
This is so true for almost everyone I’ve talked with. It’s almost like each release is its own language too. I’ve been programming in Rust recently, and didn’t realize how much I love it till I tried doing something in C++ again.

I will say I still really enjoy the simplicity of C, but the guarantees of Rust are really hard to beat.
"Better than Lotus Notes" is not a high bar.
An HP or Dell USFF PC would be a great alternative. Something like an OptiPlex 7010 or 800 G2. You can pick them up for $50 used, if you need more power you can add as large of an SSD as you want plus 16GB of RAM, they're small and quiet and can run Linux.