jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was with you up until this line:

> However, this universal force of consciousness causes quantum-waves to collapse, hence way there is something instead of nothing.

The phenomenon described as consciousness has nothing to do with wave-function collapse, it is the act of measurement that is responsible for the collapse, whether conscious or otherwise.
Have they considered that it is only in consciousness that the notion of solving the mystery of consciousness can arise?

It is consciousness asking itself how it came into existence, but existence itself means arising in the field of consciousness, as it is only in consciousness that the notion of existence can arise.

Dudes are going to chase their tails forever.
Sounds more like a year long trial period as you never seem to quite own the "free" copy.

Not exactly what loyal Windows 7 and 8 users would have wanted (a real free lifetime copy), but a genuine step in the right direction.
They've done a really poor job of communicating that.

The free upgrade for one year thing is fairly cut and dry. However what they meant by that "we'll support updates for the lifetime of the device" is completely meaningless and confusing. As opposed to what they've been doing until now..?

Also they keep on talking about "Windows as a service" with zero clarification on what that means. Is Windows becoming a paid subscription? Is that just meaningless marketing speak?

I'll say this, Microsoft has a bad track record of making these events 50% longer than they should be and filing in the gaps with marketing department nonsense that doesn't mean anything. There were some bits of that that were simply cringe and or a huge time waster.

Some fruit-named company do these presentations better. They're still better than Google however...
People on 4chan don't just complain, entire board subcultures have completely vanished along with the people in them. For example, /u/ used to be the unofficial lesbian advice and discussion board, and there was an entire community there co-existing happily with the porn posters and seekers. Got wiped out overnight by a new mod who decided the board should be solely for yuri porn, pissing off everyone in the process - and now the /u/ culture of that time is dead, with no record it ever even existed. (moot added a proper board for LGBT discussions a few years later for unrelated reasons.)
What I find interesting is Microsoft launching this technology just after Google dropped it. I think the focus on business is the right way to go in this case, not everything can start from the consumer, e.g. look at how PC started from a geeky thing for scientists and is now in our pockets and wrists.
A lot of negativity, but despite its limitations I already love it. (OK love's too much, but it's a big improvement for me at least.)

I don't use whatsapp with a huge number of people, but some of them I talk to daily on it. When we're both behind a computer (work hours, sometimes outside them) we'll often move to Skype to be able to type quicker. Skype's pretty horrible on phones (for me and most people I know), so usually prefer whatsapp when not using PCs/laptops.

Sure it's not a huge change, but just being able to type quickly when sat at my laptop, and not needing to keep grabbing my phone to see what's been said, is a great change for me. One that I was complaining about just the other day without realising this was around the corner.

In case anyone's interested, here's what it looks like for me in Chrome (nothing unexpected really): http://i.imgur.com/90C0v9V.png

(Added bonus in the required app upgrade for WP8: message delivery status icons now shown in list of conversation, rather than just once you are inside a conversation - I know this feature was on at least one platform months ago, maybe all others, and it's [very slightly] annoyed me since I moved to Windows)
This is why you put the LCD inside the windshield. This way, by the time the LCD takes damage the windshield is already shattered, and a shattered windshield is about as see-through as icebergs.
Some people worry too much.

This happens every time: new technology disrupts existing players, which in turn try to use their money / influence to do something about it. Then skilled people fight back with newer innovations.

News at 11.

For example, do you know how easy it is to bypass China's firewall?

(1) setup free usage tier AWS account
(2) start a new instance with one of the official Ubuntu images
(3) ssh -D 2000 ubuntu@<instance-ip>
(4) enjoy personal US-based SOCKS5 proxy ;)

The only problem with DRM is that you're prohibited by law to reverse engineer it, which means totally-legit software can be baned if not following certain guidelines (like security by obscurity) ... otherwise I'm all for DRM because it's fundamentally flawed and it's keeping them busy (like a dog chasing its tail).
" more popular a user gets (say Gaga with 7.3m followers), every tweet they make needs to be delivered 7.3m times"

- Do they really need to duplicate the same tweet 7.3 million times? The tweet cant be edited too!
The ability to create your own personal walled garden of content topics is key. Sometimes I forget how strange and meme-obsessed Reddit is until I find myself at the front page while logged out. "My" front page is a much less silly place. My wife's page is all crafts and Disney - she has no idea what lurks in other corners of the site.
"Morning exercise is about the last thing I want to do..."

It's almost the last thing I want to do. The last thing I want to do is exercise after I've started my day. I simply never do it.

Good to hear about eating after exercising, too, since I have to go running first thing when I get up. If I first have coffee or eat breakfast I lose all my "go running!" magic power due to the mysterious hypnotic beams emanating from my laptop.
Upvoted you for the cheap land observation. As late as the mid-1990's, you could still purchase 50 acres of ranchland in eastern Wyoming for about 28-29K.
Already posted FIVE TIMES.

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2010335 - anonops.blogspot.com - 5pts, 1 comment

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007494 - michaelmoore.com - 11pts, no comments

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004894 - dead - 1 comment

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004060 - dead - 6 comments

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003989 - huffingtonpost.com - 17pts, no comments
WhatsApp adoption clearly demonstrates they are providing value to people. My point is people are looking at what the app does rather than why people use it. Phone conferences for example have been a thing for decades, but they weren’t free.
Elections are not criminal proceedings.

Even civil suits only require a "preponderance of evidence."

But elections are not court actions.

The results (not the overturning) of elections must be believed to be fair with almost certainly, especially by the losing side.
If they are terrorists, would you support police opening live fire on them. Just curious. Seems like all the SJW are now advocating for a Tiananmen square massacre of unarmed protesters, just because the TV told them who to hate.
> But I don't think it was a coup as it wasn't even planned

What? It just so happened to magically line up when the Senators / Congressmen were tallying the electoral votes? It was a planned march. It happened on the day of the electoral tally for a REASON. This is beyond symbolic: they wanted to overturn the election.

And they still do. The next march is Inauguration day, but this time I think people will be more prepared and better defended against it.

With luck, maybe we can knock enough wind out of their sails and prove to them that this behavior is unacceptable. But this is not the time to feign ignorance or become apologists for their cause.

They are still proud of what they accomplished (!!!). They were harassing Senator Graham just a few hours ago (https://twitter.com/iheartmindy/status/1347616155394043904). (EDIT: Twitter has removed comments. Good move, but it means you aren't seeing the planning that's going on from those crazies anymore)

Now is the time to prepare and defend. They're throwing down the gauntlet for Inauguration day, so we need to defend ourselves and our democracy. (EDIT: DC National Guard is debating M4 rifles or 9mm Berettas. They're taking this threat seriously)

> Maybe some of them actually wanted to get in

They live-streamed themselves getting in and bragged about it on Twitch and Youtube. By their own words they're trying to keep Trump as President.
This is a neat find. How many people dig around for something in their yard, oblivious to the fact that this is where Alexander the Great tossed his empties?
12,000+ people were arrested at the 1971 May Day protests[0].

Mass arrests are less likely than they were in the past but they aren't impossible by any means.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_May_Day_protests
And over the bank of forest service roads.
Do you all say NOFORN the way I think you say NOFORN? (No forn)
Yeah, newegg's switch to a marketplace makes me much less likely to order there. Every search and category I need to filter down to only those sold _by_ Newegg. It's both tedious and just disconcerting.
> Many countries have far worse standards of care than the US.

I'll need a citation for that.

When a country has 29 million people without health insurance [1], and medical bills are the number one cause of bankruptcy, I think it's safe to say the average standard of care is way, way lower than Canada, Australia, Germany, etc. where literally every person gets care.

[1] https://www.kff.org/uninsured/issue-brief/key-facts-about-th...
~1.7 Trillion dollars so we can have a bleeding-edge Ferrari while our "enemies" in the PRC and Russia are still driving around in Yugo 45s

So many people seem to still buy into the Cold War mindset that we just need the latest bleeding edge platforms or the Soviets are going to invade and we'll all be reading Trotsky.

The US and NATO militaries are so far ahead of the Russians and China it's comical to claim another 1.7 trillion dollars for a "ferrari" is a prudent use of taxpayer dollars.

China can't even field a blue-water navy yet. I guess they're only about a century behind the US there lol
Very interesting! Good luck to you and your team :)
I think that's the benefit gained from the very rich, whether 18th century lords or modern billionaires - they can get us out of those local maxima. I'm thinking of people like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir humphrey davies, and Elon musk.
How has it failed to replace the F-16? It is objectively superior to the F-16 in just about every performance parameter. It costs less than 4.5 Gen peers like the Eurofighter and Rafale, while having more build at a total of 600 thus far with over 100 more built per year now.

As for losing them, yes it would be bad, but it's the most survivable jet being produced today. Recent conflicts have shown just how lopsided a conflict is if you have a technological edge over your adversaries.
> Stop Using Icon Fonts

Replaces it with a ton of Javascript, NPM packages, obscure languages, frameworks that will be out of popularity with 6months.

Granted, SVG IS the way to go, but the recommendation above is ridiculous.
Before investing money, make sure you have access to a dark-ish place to observe the night sky. If you live in a major city, light pollution might be an issue and you may have to drive ways out to get decent dark skies to view anything other than nearby planets.
Being heard can help with cars approaching from the side, for example a car moving into your lane while failing to see you.

It’s not a silver bullet but it’s one more layer of safety and I don’t understand why that statement is so controversial? I’m not even advocating for these after-market mods (I don’t use one) just pointing out that there is in fact a tradeoff.

Now, some riders just like being loud for the sake of it, and that is a whole different story.
> is easier to reason about correctness

> my favorite programming language is x64 assembly

So, author is _really_ used to reading asm and also smarter than an average developer (and yours truly) or doesn't really care about being able to reason that much.

(But let me be clear, I'm not being sarcastic and wouldn't be surprised if he's really 10x genius.)
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You differentiate both sides of the equation given above with respect to t. Differentiating 1/t yields -1/t^2. On the LHS you apply the differentiation inside the integral.
> There are literally 20 users on that list

It lists 20 per page. The navigation is at the bottom of the page.

There's 230 pages, so that's about 4600 banned users.
Try to become part of the evidence-based nutrition movement.

Things are improving (slowly) through online forums, and MDs and PhDs creating content (like youtube, blogs, etc).

Heck, just be part of the longevity movement that is trying to do something about aging itself.
Uber and Lyft drivers are technically external contractors. Not employees. As far ask I know, there's no law about sharing bad contractors names.
Good point, I am misremembering.
It does seem like a "Hetzner Storage Box" would provide a lot more storage for the money: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box
I was really looking forward to concepts.

But the actual implementation seems like a syntactic and ( partially) semantic mess to me.

Obscure syntax (`requires requires`), soooo many different ways to specify things, mangling together with `auto`, mixing of function signature and type property requirements (`&& sizeof(T) == 4`), etc etc.

This reeks of design by committee without a coherent vision, and blows way past the complexity budget I would have expected to be spent.

Rust (traits), Haskell (type classes) and even the Nim/D metaprogramming capabilities seem simple and elegant in comparison.
Given the prevalence of C++ it is very hard for me to imagine a situation where the use would decline to zero.

The notion of how to write a specific language such as C++ is immaterial compared to the capability to design and implement complex software systems and those skills are quite portable between languages. The best employers tend to recognize this.
Dysfunctional companies consume effort, but they waste it. People work themselves to the point of burnout with little to show for it.

What the original poster needs is a company that is already functioning without them, and does not require any of their effort to keep going.
ebikes, though a bit more expensive, make getting over the hills in even SF doable
Large parts of the population are too old and infirm to drive safely any distance.
You are going to have to explain that one...
Also the biggest tickets to middle class wealth in the last few decades have been pensions and home equity. Home equity being the ability for a young couple to borrow money at a low rate on a stable asset that appreciates at a higher rate (over a 30 year time horizon). Pensions have been removed. If housing price growth stops as well, that's a significant double blow.
It makes you wonder if the NSA/five eyes is actively working to keep topics/threads such as this one down played in the media, or even on HN.

I did my part and upvoted the story to get it more exposure here:)
> Remote workers are harder to watch, harder to verify they are working all the hours they are getting paid for

Remote doesn't mean unavailable, though. There are easy videoconferencing systems now like Google Hangouts, where if you need someone you can just immediately connect with them. I'd certainly expect to be available by means like that. If hours are the real concern, that at least should be easy to verify.
How do you feel about the saying that code itself should be as good as documentation?

I personally prefer to read the documentation while skimming the code as well but sometimes, when I am under the pressure of having to deliver something, I absolutely despise not having proper documentation so I tend to agree with you.
Reminds of me the recent, thread on "why open source hardware is hard", whose article was written from the point of a view of a (Western) company having a hard time finding value in making it's work open source. He's looking- as an individual entity- for return for his sharing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8770732

Bunnie crystallizes terms where we can begin to see a response- while the "why hard" author contemplated the traditional Western unidirection flow, Bunnie characterizes a loose network not of product co-development and impacts to bottom-line, but comprised largely of support and availability. The Gongkai model makes available means and platform, rather than providing the conventional expected of open source: development.

Thanks as ever Bunnie not just for the hard work and amazing worklogs, but also for helping pull together good framing to help answer "why oshw is hard" with.
Additionally, I've found that writing out the problem or solution in plain English sometimes helps me make the leap from conceptualizing to actually understanding.
Because I want an unbiased view of problems other people have which I would never think of myself (working on own problems for very long puts you in a "box"). In addition, I agree with this view: https://medium.com/the-1-blog-series/ideas-are-cheap-executi...
This is correct. While it's a minority, all the Chinese programmers (me included) hate the GFW!
There's no chess rule stating that a human cannot memorize large opening tables.
Happy to see someone makes this point. I think people assume I'm a little nuts when I try to explain that inflation is a tax.
This is exactly what I want, though.
I personally never had a failing build, and I'm following the master branch. I cannot relate to the author for that specific point. Julia seems to be reasonably unit-tested to me for being such a young project. The testing framework is very simple, but does the job. I would say that also the complaint that @test is just an assert is mostly moot: it's actually the only thing you need the vast majority of the time. Other frameworks are maturing.

But if you consider the entire ecosystem (see http://pkg.julialang.org), many packages that you might rely on, especially for simple operations, might break.

Most of the breaking changes are developed in branches and merged when completed. Again, overall the source management is also following the best practices in this sense.

I didn't really want to get into too much detail because for me most of the arguments made are ok, but it's an ongoing development effort. When new ideas are proposed, I want them to be considered, not dismissed as "breaking changes".
Most are aware of it, and for a lot of things there simply aren't good replacements. Baidu is pretty much a poor clone of Google and definitely doesn't work as well (even for Chinese language searches).

At the same time though, Chinese people are fairly used to censorship. It's pervasive at every level in China, so much so that it can sometimes be difficult to see.

I think there is a stymying effect here, but there is no way that the Communist Party will give up censorship of the internet over nothing.

There might be at least some possibility that using the WTO could help this. It did have an effect on the rare earth trade when China was restricting rare earth exports [1]. I suspect China would fight _far_ harder against this though.
Hey, yes I've been looking for an other name, but I did not find one. I'm open to suggestion ;-) Also I don't mind too much about the slang term because it is "the clap" and the plugin format is "CLAP". I believe that anything can be turned into a joke anyway :)

If your DAW get this, the burning sensation might spread into the cables, the speakers, the keyboard and even into your genital organ ;-)
I don't see how that follows. Your MX indicates your preference for inbound traffic. It has no relationship to outbound traffic.
In some ways, he's "spending" his million dollars to make a public statement about his view of the organization.

Had he just accepted the prize, there would probably be little mention of it in the main stream media.
Yeah, most people balk at the idea of paying monthly for something, even at something like $10-$20 a month. My background is heavily mixed with Internet Marketing kinds of guys, who are notoriously stingy with this stuff. But it's easy to counter: if you have a $30 per month app, and someone complains, just ask them "will this tool help you make $1 per day? if yes, then it's worth it"

Good luck with it

EDIT: misused day instead of month
pg/any moderator, possible to change the title on this? heck, even I panicked when I saw the title.

also, WTF? they're sending back email addresses, etc on simple GET requests? with no device verification? who the heck writes their software?
A lot of what I'm selling is not given for free. And the point wasn't my lack of success, but the fact that you said you'd give your money to someone who asked for it.

I'm just saying that even if this was true (which, based on what you just said, is not the case) that you would be the minority by a long, long way.
Apple could probably sell iPhone service through an MVNO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virtual_network_operator) but then, due to the Apple branding, they would get the blame for AT&T's poor infrastructure if they stayed with GSM.
>But if the RIAA is promoting mash-ups and stuff [...] ... That's got to be some kind of illegal, right?

Just immoral unfortunately.
Could you provide a link to mathematical sound introduction into neural networks?

I was always turned out because it was always explained in some magical manner...
I'd love to pick your brain about the existing prisons you've worked with. I'm working on a new project soon w/ Penmate that I'm currently doing a bit of R&D on. If you've got time to chat, can you shoot me an email at nick[at]penmateapp.com?
I feel sorry for the gravedigger who has to dig vertical graves.
For fun, try replacing "real good" with "drugs." It works about as well!
| I've purposefully suggested the crappiest, most minimalist implementation I could imagine as a thought experiment. Would this have been sufficient to combat Netflix? Presuming identical catalogs, why would I fiddle with snail mail, scratched-up DVDs, etc.? Such an offering certainly would have created an uphill battle for Netflix.

Exactly, it would have just been an additional fee on an ongoing bill, the technology would have also been an easier sell to most people because to operate their selection from their tv than a website, I think for most people especially if this had been offered in the 90s. Your comment perfectly illustrates how little the cable companies did at all to fend off competition. Your comment is one of the best comments I've read on HN in a while, just wanted to let you know and also thanks!