jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm assuming there is a market for 90 minute narratives.

CollegeHumour is only really competition for things like Archer, Family Guy and the like. So really only a competition for TV.

There is still a market for Movies, and its a large and thriving market (in the UK movie going is at an all time high.)

You're not going to kill hollywood by stringing together a few gags into a 90minute combo. movie42 is a good example of that.

People want content, and until you can provide content that is on a par, or better than movies, you are pissing in the wind
maybe it s better to evoke ideas rather than just emotions, through ideas.
I think that this is an obvious extension of what new businesses have been doing for decades. If you open a storefront, you would do a soft opening to test the idea and then a grand opening to generate traffic.

If I was having a grand opening, I would get every friend there, even if they would never shop at my business, to make the place seem full and busy during the "party".

Obviously this is not on the scale of a start up, but I think the idea of faking initial interest is actually common for any business.

The article hints at how sinister your faking is seems to affect how much backlash you get from it.
Calling the police pigs and showing outright disdain isn't going to help anyone, it only makes the Burning Man community look like a bunch of lawless idiots which is exactly what the police want. That said, this is likely retaliation for the lawsuit Pershing County sheriff lost against Black Rock, LLC (http://brcvpc.com/). The linked article said the BLM lost but I don't think they were even involved in the case, as far as I can tell the BLM has only been supportive of Burning Man.
Ah I meant P2P in the "from user to user with no transaction fees charged, doesn't go through Visa/Mastercard/Unionpay" sense (similar to Venmo, except that in China businesses accept it everywhere), not in the "fully decentralized and doesn't need a server" sense. For Zhifubao the servers are run by Ant Financial (it's a spin-off company of Alibaba), for WeChat the servers are run by Tencent. You can deposit/withdraw money to your bank account.

I'm assuming you're probably more interested in the new digital RMB wallet technology which supposedly works even if your phone doesn't have internet access, but I'm not familiar with how that is implemented (I'm guessing it uses blockchain and broadcasts the transactions later when you connect to the internet). There's some info about it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi#Digital_Renminbi
My take on it, for what it's worth, is that DIY can go the extreme from building your own tools to just use plug and play tech, doing only the "plug" part yourself. Same goes for NIH, but I'm no software engineer and only recently restarted DIY for certain things.
Bubbles are inductive. Arbitrage is anti-inductive.
Gotta thank @cjhandmer for that rant, but it really stuck with me.
Thank you for this article. Just the thing to get my brain going after the indulgences of the weekend.

It also knocks me flat to contemplate the ideas this intriguing article generates. It does good to be staggered by something new once in a while: it keeps complacency at bay.
The biggest cost I see in doing a startup from rural SEA is that there's no one doing the same thing to meet up with in person periodically. That's the main advantage of the bay area (and of course access to customers, investors, and partners).
Based on the content of the article, it would be more accurate to say that "honeybees are speculated to interact with quantum fields".
Context: TrueCrypt allows you to have an alternate password that decrypts a different "fake" volume. This way you can give up a password and no one would be able to tell whether or not they're looking at the right files. This has been around for years.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/la5/neoreactionaries_why_are_you_neo...

So Mr. Gerard, how's that hobby of attacking intelligent and fair minded people for engaging in civil discussion going?

[Above link gives context on David Gerard's standards of discourse.]
CoinX doesn't have a real product though do they? Does it count if you have the licenses but no exchange to use them with?
An equation is a description which is surely an artifact of the mind. At least I'm using forces. So you are saying lift isn't provided as I describe?
A CS degree means better HR screening pass rate.

Isn't this obvious...
Well, if I had to think of a relatively negative context, my suspicion would be that these missions were more about relieving population stress on an island rather than having a fair certainty that the mission would end in success. You send a party out, and if they make it - great. If they don't...well, at least your island has a little more living room now. Sort of like how medieval Europeans would have the firstborn inherit the kingdom, the second born maybe go into the church, and the rest maybe go crusading for glory in remote lands.
My experience is new problems which look a lot like old problems are fairly common. And, in most cases, the solution to the new problem often ends up looking a lot like the solution to the old problem.

Our current best-worst solution to tribalism has been a small number of sovereign nations with large populations and democratically elected governments. Everyone admits the emergent qualities are suboptimal but they are still better than all the other options we've tried so far, as the saying goes. The solution to online tribalism is likely to look very similar.

Considering that the externalities of these internet-based tribes cross over into the physical world (such as the drinking water/oil pipeline examples above), I suspect this leads to a likely future where internet tribal communities end up overlapping with traditional national boundaries (eg, China's great firewall).

To be clear, this isn't the future I want but it's starting to seem like the most likely outcome. I admit my past optimism for a truly "open" internet is being tested these days. I don't want a closed internet anymore than I used to - but it might simply be the only practical option if society wants to continue functioning.
Know your budget and what you can and can't cut, I'm not the money manager in the house investment wise, but I do the purchasing around the house. I really think people will underestimate how much stuff you don't think about adds up, especially food wise if you're trying to be healthy or athletic. What are cheap enough proteins may just jump out of budget very quickly when you're eating what avg people consider 3-4x the amount of protein you should eat.
Because that's probably going to be the Apple purchase least likely to retain resale value in the history of their line-up?
> Of course innocent until proven guilty applies but the justice department knows that and still brought charges. At the very least, they believe they've proven beyond a reasonable doubt his guilt.

No, if following general DoJ policy, they believe that the evidence is sufficient that they will be able to prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt, but that's not the same as them already having proven that.

> High profile cases with public pressure change the equation a bit and can cause charges to be brought on people who normally would not.

Usually, I think the opposite is the case: generally, the DoJ is more careful in high-profile cases, not more cavalier.
Quite a low-key year for me, and perhaps of little interest to the wider HN community, but it's nice for me to take stock of these things.

Lows:

- Was made redundant

- messed up with a few incredible girls through apathy or equally stupid things

Highs\Successes:

- immediately found better paying job

- started playing football again

- paid off overdraft and CC debts

- resolved to move away from the UK

Next year:

- turn 25 (this is an achievable goal)

- act more\quicker\at all on any software ideas I have

- save money and

- decide where I want to go (Canada, Aus, NZ, elsewhere in the EU) then just pack up do it
Facebook doesn't do 60B a year in revenue
AA5066 is a codeshare operated by a different airline which is why it didn't come back in the search for AA5066 (it is instead CHQ5066).

I'm looking into a way to support this though as it's not exactly helpful :)
Where are you hosting it and how much do you pay for it? Do you have a lot of visitors?
I mean, the time derivative of housing prices has gotten higher during the pandemic, not lower.
Isn't Germany western?
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I tend to alternate between Sci-Fi/Thriller and How-to-write.

Donald Maass - The Emotional Craft of Fiction

William Gibson - Idoru

Dean Koontz - Strangers

Dean Koontz - Watchers

James Scott Bell - How to Write Best-Selling Fiction

Yudhanjaya Wijeratne - The Salvage Crew (fn FANTASTIC!)

Then a classic like:

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

While a bit over-produced, this one was fantastic. Shame they didn't do the whole series.

Neil Gaiman - The Sandman

Rob Grant - Red Dwarf

Steven Pressfield - Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t

An Audible membership, I think, is totally worth it. Sure, audio books are available at libraries. But one must wait and wait.
> "Don't need 100 wrenches, just a crescent."

Is that contradictory? Non-adjustable wrenches still exist, and are still used on a regular basis. If you do a lot of work on at a single size they're nice because they weigh less, fit in smaller spaces, and you don't have to worry about then getting jostled and changing size on you.
I generally find spelling to be a much better tell than grammar. Most programmers I've known had (mostly) fine grammar but horrendous spelling. I frequently end up being the proofreader.

Which is fine with me.
501(c)s, including 501(c)(4)s, are nonprofits, so “not a nonprofit” was wrong.

501(c)(3)s are charitable organizations, so “as a charitable organization” was also wrong. But 501(c)(3)s are a subset of 501(c) and thus are also nonprofits, so your implication that they could be a registered charitable organization but not a nonprofit was also wrong.

As a 501(c)(4) they are a nonprofit and not a charitable org; if they were a 501(c)(3) they would be both.
I don't think we need to worry about any new fancy technologies wiping us out. Nature is perfectly capable of doing that itself. My biggest question with the whole COVID issue is why hasn't this happened sooner? And why only one single pathogen? Why aren't there dozens of COVIDs happening all the time? What happens when we get 2, 3, 4, 5 of them at once with a 10% IFR each? I don't think our civilization would be able to cope. Things would get medieval really quickly.
I don't worry about easy nukes but I do worry about easy viruses, especially now that we've seen what a pandemic can do. Virus construction is only going to become easier over time, and at some point, you could imagine any run of the mill biochem lab capable of "printing" a new strain of some infectious disease.
I'd really hoped for de-escalation, but we're going in exactly the opposite direction.
>That's why you need the tanks and the guns for when they do, not just let them run roughshod over the basic concept of fact-based reality.

I wonder if you spent the summer complaining about police militarization?

Fact-based reality... IDK man. How would you ever know? The number of upvotes you get on your post?
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Once again, the US Government takes a page from the Stasi:

> By the 1970s, the Stasi had decided that methods of overt persecution which had been employed up to that time, such as arrest and torture, were too crude and obvious. It was realised that psychological harassment was far less likely to be recognised for what it was, so its victims, and their supporters, were less likely to be provoked into active resistance, given that they would often not be aware of the source of their problems, or even its exact nature. Zersetzung was designed to side-track and "switch off" perceived enemies so that they would lose the will to continue any "inappropriate" activities.

Don't get confused, it's an inevitability that these techniques for attacking subversive groups will instead be used on innocent people not suspected of any crime.
I'm a founder at Rentabilities and this is exactly what we're working on.

Would love your feedback:
http://www.rentabilities.com
http://www.rentabilities.com/26135/1-5-rotary-hammer-drill/

As a first step to solving the problem, we've aggregated much of the data on what's available for rent locally.

As a second step, we're currently experimenting with an online booking flow in event categories and it's going well.

For equipment, most people want immediacy and prefer to just book on the phone. So right now, we're just giving consumers that option. However, I would love to give you the ability to book the impact drill instantly.
To be fair to us modern humans, napalm is probably way better than greek fire was.
Not really- objects map better to graphs than relational databases, actually! I typically try to market the project as an OGM - Object Graph Mapper - but there's a bit of confusion there, since it uses the DSL established by the Django ORM.

In addition to providing the familiar data-access DSL established by Django for Neo4j, the project also enables auth and admin support atop the graph.
Bringing money to the table.Plus the fastest and most secured messenger.
==Positive==
He grew revenue and profits at incredible levels. He doesn't get credit because the stock price hasn't gone up, but that is just because he took over during the tech bubble and Microsoft was greatly overvalued at the time. I think profit has more than tripled since he started.
It's all about documentation. Documents destroyed in a "dark age" of some sort? Start from scratch, hope the branches of discovery lead to the same conclusion at some point.
One reason of probably many: a lot of Europe has been mapped by cyclists. Much of Europe has distances that are relatively small enough that people can often go on some pretty productive mapping expeditions from a city. In the US there is less leisure cycling culture (people who do get out on bikes are often aiming for speed and exercise, not quietly spending a whole day out doing something), and the distances are much vaster so one cannot get to some places from the city and return in the same day.

If you notice, even in Europe the completeness and up-to-dateness of OSM data starts to break down in areas (e.g. Lapland) where distances and remoteness approach that of North America.
You can use standalone rootless buildkit building locally/natively and in cluster/container. You can use buildkit through docker too but docker is packing a runtime so standalone buildkit in cluster/container.
> nobody's ever asked me to denounce my friends for believing bad things

Probably because you aren't in a position of social influence, and/or your friends aren't propagating dangerous ideas? That's all the more reason to skewer those that do and are, precisely because of the platforming effects they have.
Angkor Wat was and is a prime example of human civilization and its early prowess. However, the title is not entirely right. The Angkor Wat by itself was built by Suryavarman who was apparently a descendant of the Cholas of Tamilnadu, India. The Cholas and Pandyas are very under documented empires.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Suryavarman-II

There are tamil inscriptions in Angor Wat and the architecture is highly influenced by Chola/Pandya architecture.

https://www.quora.com/How-did-Tamil-Kingdoms-influence-Angko...

Some examples of what the Cholas and Pandyas accomplished which stands to today are

Tanjore Temple (Cholas)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX9-__GWHnA
(Edit: Unfortunately, this video also has a lot of old western cliched ideas of Hinduism, hope I had a better documentary to share...)
(for scale, this can fit 200 Taj Mahals)

Madurai Meenakshi (Pandyas)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQjI3DPt9Tk

You can see that the architectural pattern of 4 directional gateways with a central temple complex is basically the same as Angor Wat.
I see you took out the car keys. Drive to your closest Shell now for a 2% fuel discount.
I don't prefer using laptop keyboards but that doesn't mean I want shitty laptop keyboards. You may not always be around your connected keyboard (travelling, away from the workstation etc) and you really don't want to feel pissed when typing.
The WSJ editorial is correct time and time again. The board is steadfast in principles and it comes to pass how correct they are on a consistent basis.

1. Venezuela going down hill because of bad decisions, WSJ editorial pointed it out.
2. Minimum Wages’s effects and should be eliminated, the NYT’s editorial board agreed up until its radical conversion and fearful state.

Go through the archives and see how much of their editorial articles line up with what actually happens, then go through the NYT editorials and see how far wrong they are on policy proscriptions and misunderstandings or more often blindsiding of second order effects.
Software development could be extremely simplified.

But why ?

Complexity lets developers extract more money from the system. That's why it exists and it's a good thing.
I may be able to provide some old computers for the space.

Great to see this addition to Beijing!
Great insight into the relationship between C++ MP and Haskell!
It's actually easy to find engineers. You just have to have something worth their time. (An "innovative idea" isn't enough. We have ideas.)

What are you bringing to the table? Why should someone else join you?
citation is here "Cassini Finds an Oxygen—Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere at Saturn's Icy Moon Rhea" ~ http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2010/11/24/science.1...
I found this interesting post while reading some historical documents, so I submitted it to HN. It seems that most people have missed the point. I think the point is: while The Cathedral and the Bazaar was a good campaign pamphlet and a general overview of FOSS development, but ESR's attempt of using his fetchmail as an example was arguably the greatest flaw of the book ("to such an extent that it could damage the Open Source movement"). From a technical perspective, fetchmail had numerous problems and security vulnerabilities. ESR was also criticized for mismanaging the project by putting it in "maintenance mode" early and refusing to accept patches that could address those issues. After a group of new maintainers had taken over the project, one of the first things they did was to systematically eliminate countless buffer and integer overflows from the program.
Google tried using real names on youtube briefly and it had no affect in reducing white supremacy or conspiracy theories in its comments.
I didn't understand that post when it was written and I don't understand your comment now.

How is this different from saying "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" is not a quote you should use if you are opposed to the government granting special benefits and privileges to blacks in preference to whites, because that was an idea that Martin Luther King supported?

Can an idea have any value independently of the cause someone once used it to support?
The need to be 10-20x faster than CPython is a niche. The General User in General Case just does not care.

I've had projects fail cause of not getting done, being buggy, but never for not being fast enough.

Finally, slowness, until you get really low-down is relatively easy problem with many solutions.
It isn't so much that P/E is rubbish but that its utility as a proxy metric assumes approximately flat revenue growth. This assumption is no longer true for a significant percentage of the largest companies, many of which are demonstrating large non-zero revenue growth rates, both positive and negative. If you are looking at companies with high revenue growth, there are other metrics used to determine if they are "cheap" or "expensive". Amazon is a great example of a company that is "expensive" by value metrics like P/E but actually pretty cheap by metrics with more applicability to revenue growth companies.

The problem is that many investors apply metrics, like P/E or book value, blindly without understanding the assumptions that must be true for the metric to be a meaningful measure of value. It is even more complicated inasmuch as some companies fall into an ambiguous gray area when it comes to appropriate valuation metrics (I'd argue Apple is one such company).

Like with any analysis, there is some work to make sure the statistical model actually captures what you intend to measure.
If you don't have any complaints, I don't think it's a bad idea to wait a bit longer for the second gen.
But the app in the original article doesn't even work on Android. It is an ios app. The link you provide is about android, right? (Still concerning , however)