jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is really excellent work! Very in-depth but clear to read.

I hope this will be taken into account into future products, as of course hardware is hard to fix.
What, I just got Azlo account a week ago.

Good thing I've applied for an account with Mercury. Waiting through the long verification process...

But this definitely get me to think twice about using fintech banks. It could get closed down due to an acquisition of their parent bank.
Bring the challenge to court. Say in court, under oath, the allegations that you claim in public. Accept the outcome of those cases. This has happened several times in recent presidential elections without triggering insurgency.

Trump's lawyers played a PR game. They made ostentatious allegations in public, but almost never presented the courts with a viable case -- and notably, didn't claim those allegations in court. The court is obliged to throw out cases without merit, and did so. And that makes it really easy to run out and claim that the court is tossing out your cases without them going to trial.
does gold qualify as a ponzi scheme? Tesla stock? Google stock? 2000s dotcom stocks?

There is a difference between overbought assets and scams, and it usually goes along the line of, the easier it is for a small group of people to walk away with all the winnings the more likely we are to call it a scam.

Cryptoassets are a suitable vehicle for scams just as bits of paper with holograms on it or devices with touch screens can be - all it takes is a suspension of disbelief and caution which we also see with overbought assets. And there's a fair share of altcoins and ICOs that look quite scammy to educated people, while BTC/ETH/LTC and some others have survived a decade of people trying to poke holes into them.
"The information we share with the other Facebook Companies. includes your account registration information (such as your phone number), transaction data, service-related information, information on how you interact with others (including businesses) when using our Services, mobile device information, your IP address, and may include other information identified in the Privacy Policy section entitled ‘Information We Collect’ or obtained upon notice to you or based on your consent."

All in all, nothing special. Nobody shares your messages/media.
https://github.com/apple
Ya well my stack is just HTML, who even needs CSS. It has everything yours has with the benefit is having a single file.

Why just HTML you ask? Well all the reasons that they provided plus the fact it's only HTML files.

This whole stack argument is silly, just let people use what ever they want to use. If someone wants to use a giant complex webpack setup, that's perfectly fine. Sure there is obvious downfalls and longer term maintenance can be a hassle, but it's what they enjoy.

If you want to use just HTML and CSS, go for it, but why are we bragging?
This is for all people who give to EFF.
I have no faith the judicial system, as a whole, is any less than self-serving. We have a serious problem with overzealous prosecutors enforcing a racist drug war, and judges pretend like their hands are tied every step of the way.

I suppose that's a little bit true. They might lose their jobs if they actually spoke for justice.
Thanks for your time on this. Really appreciate it. I am working on the remove/unfollow user functionality already. The retweet/reply buttons is a very good idea :-)
I had not seen the cropped 'y'. Will fix that too
If you're calling a specific person, you very likely know where they are. People don't move around that much. If he's not in his usual place, he's probably told you where he is if he's expecting a call from you. And even then, if it doesn't want to reveal or burden you with knowing where he is, we already have a universal time stanard he could use for this ("call me at 13:30 UTC").

Decoupling time-of-day for daily life from the position of the sun in the sky is the biggest over-reaction for the smallest barely-a-problem ever.
huh?

oooookay.
> I want to read a comic about a goat that's also a political prisoner.

Have you tried reading Sluggy Freelance? I don't think they had a goat who was a political prisoner, but many things of equivalent weirdness have definitely been in Sluggy, like a lop-eared rabbit who's also a mobster who's also a time-traveling space pirate.
Bullshit hasn't gone anywhere, sadly. Politicians, the media, companies and people in general spew out more bullshit than ever before, despite the fact that we have easier access to facts than ever before.

No one care to check: "it's in the news, so it must be true". Or the alternative, we assume it's all bullshit, even when it's not.

It often seems that we don't care if somethings is bullshit. If it appeals to us we don't want to run the risk of being proven wrong. If we don't like the bullshit that's coming our way there's no point in proving it wrong, because "everyone knows that it's bullshit".
You mean like public libraries?
I think people who like rare steaks just talk about it more because it's the "right" way to prepare the "best" cuts. A $200 steak is just going to be most flavorful when it's on the rarer side. But its just a signaling thing if you're talking about skirt or flank.

IMO, it does not have to be a $200 cut, a $9 ribeye from Walmart cooked rare is far better than a $9 pot roast sandwich from the local fast food joint.

With at $4/lb chuck roast it's more of a trade-off. A chuck roast steak cooked rare is a little too tough for my liking. But it is far more juicy and tasteful than the same cut slow cooked and served as a pot roast
I'm so tired of this kind of conjecture.

> study by Pfizer and scientists from the University of Texas Medical Branch, which has not yet been peer-reviewed

How about we let manufacturers of the vaccines tell us directly whether it's effective or not. Or the FDA, CDC, etc.
> Which is what the gp said.

They didn't say that at all, they said something completely different, thereby proving that they don't understand the point.

Not raising prices at all evidently leads to empty shelves. Nobody can buy any eggs, except for the first lucky person that can get all the eggs at a bargain and then waste them without significant financial loss. In the case of toilet paper, there isn't even a loss - you were going to buy it anyway.

As prices rise, demand goes down. The hoarders buy less, or at least pay handsomely for the privilege, which is more fair. Nobody will raise prices until there is no demand whatsoever ($100 eggs), just for the sake of stocked shelves.

This system works strictly better, it's just that people don't understand it. That's why supermarkets don't raise prices. They can blame empty shelves on "a few idiots" (who aren't really idiots) and avoid complaints for price gouging, which could cause severe regulatory fallout.
Shall we connect on twitter - https://twitter.com/navalsaini

I am working on halfchess.com

Would love to take your feedback.
I hope covid-19 wakes up America the same way because it's time for a change
In this video we will be talking about The 10 ways to manage time from the writings of Seneca. Seneca was a Roman statesman and a stoic philosopher, who in his moral essay, On the Shortness of Life, offers us time management tips.

So here are 10 time management tips from Seneca.
01. Treat time as a commodity
02. Don’t invest your time preparing for life
03. Live life for your own self
04. Practice Premeditatio Malorum
05. Make long term rewards immediate
06. Make the most of your free time
07. Spend time reflecting on your past
08. Stop wasting time in life’s trivialities
09. Invest your time creating new memories
10. Invest your time in philosophies
Hi. I have made halfchess.com . Any chance we can connect (https://twitter.com/navalsaini) and exchange notes.

I have your app on my phone.

Cheers
There are many factors going into such a decision - as a result nobody here can give you a qualified answer without much more detailed info about your life situation, priorities and dreams as well as more specifics about how layoffs likely would be handled by your employer (e.g. generous severance or not?), the larger market for your skills for your industry where you currently live (or would like to live), and many more factors.

On the other hand you could use this occasion to sharpen your situation analysis and decision making skills. For example, put together a decision matrix and fill in the factors you already know, and do some of your own research into the factors that matter in situations like this. - Learning how to do that for your own life decisions will become a valuable life-long skill.

[0] I'm obviously and admittedly presumptive that you're not very experienced in such a decision methodology yet, because I'm assuming that otherwise you'd probably do that rather than ask a bunch of strangers on the Interwebs. :-)

[1] I was in a high level comparable situation to yours some years ago (industry specific downturn), and ended up using that moment to do a formal analysis and decision making process for myself. Looking back at it, that was one of the best life skills pickups for me and has paid back often in personal and work situations since then.
I don't even bother using google maps for european alps, only for car navigation (online). Its vastly superior, so many hiking trails and other interesting things (like abandoned buildings/temporary sheds) are well documented, and usually pretty accurate. I've done tons of hikes to places I've never visited before, met nobody and just planned whole trip based in presence of those trails. Not a single disappointment.

Personally I use View Ranger on Android which is free and uses OSM maps. I 'preload' it offline by just looking at the whole area online (maybe there is some preload of a block/circle but I've never needed that, its default cache is enough for even 2 week hiking). I don't even bother with GPX trails, just follow the visible trails and decide on spot.
> Soldiers like Carton de Wiart are a real example for troops serving today. It's quite sad that having sacrificed so much his story isn't particularly well-known.

de Wiart was clearly a man of superhuman grit, but I'm a little confused by the characterization of his personal suffering as "sacrifice".

By his own admission, he was a warfighter who wanted to fight in war. At least as far as the Boer conflict goes, he didn't care much about which side he was on. He was thus neither patriotic nor apparently driven by any other similar notion of "service" to a higher cause.

If the article's characterization is correct, he was principally driven by war for war's sake. This was who he wanted to be and what he wanted to do. He was in fact self-actualizing in a way that most people never do. He followed his true passion and his dream.

Why then are his injuries characterized as "sacrifice"? Would it have been "sacrifice" if he had been injured in the process of pursuing a passion for big game hunting, or as a test pilot in some barely functional bi-plane?

Maybe I'm splitting hairs that don't need to be split or quibbling over minor semantics, but this touched on a lingering issue I've had with the verbiage surrounding war & conflict, and the double standards we collectively employ when talking & thinking about it.
I like the concept but it is still targeting the market that can't afford smart phones.

They need a similar phone that is targeting the market that can afford smart phones but realized it doesn't need most of the features at the expense of battery life.

Like a phone with this feature set plus 3G/4G connectivity with WiFi tethering capability to say your tablet and a beefier battery.

Basically a classic Nokia phone and 3G/4G router to connect all your smart devices to while you're on the move and in need of a internet connection.
That wasn't really what he thought in the beginning though.

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/14167

> Gene Roddenberry's first thought was that he "can't put a bald head man in the captain's chair". (TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "The Beginning")
https://archive.vn/ZoMik
That one surprised me too. Lukas is usually pretty insightful on UI/UX issues, but I couldn't disagree more with him here. Interface behaviors that temporarily take over the whole screen, or large parts of it, leave me disoriented and distracted.

The "File" menu in recent versions of Microsoft Office for Windows has the same problem. It takes over the whole window, and after I'm finished doing whatever I was doing from that menu, it sometimes takes 10-20 seconds for me to reorient myself... where was I? What was I working on?

The default behavior of "Aero Peek" on Windows has the same issue too. At least I'm glad they reversed the full-screen-by-default Start menu after Windows 8.
> Alpine, which you might know as probably the most-used server-side Linux distribution in the world right now

[citation needed]
I briefly worked for a company making a web-based product where the security was abysmal.

What was shocking was that I had to explain to the lead engineer the "never trust the client" security concept. A few hours later he found a major exploit.

I suspect that there are many small software companies with similar problems.
If laptops had superconductors would the battery life increase?

Also am I thinking too small for the potential of superconductors?
Software definitely lost something when we gained the ability to ship it as separate components over the internet. If you "just" configure components A, B, C, and D, you too can have the equivalent of what FoxPro had in 1993! It may not be The Unix Way(TM), but having an all-in-one solution is very appealing even today.
Travis K is a billionaire. Statistically, almost everyone agrees that most of his wealth should be distributed to Uber workers. There is much less consensus regarding how much of consumers' money should be likewise distributed.
If you are not operating within the React Framework, I can totally agree with this. I used Ag-Grid before I built React Table and it shines as a JS-only datagrid. Start using React however, and I don't believe that is the case.
> I think I remember someone saying that in 1929 when the shoeshine boys were giving stock advice that that's how someone knew the bubble was about to burst.

President JFK's father:

> While sitting in the shoeshine chair, Kennedy Sr. was alarmed to have the shoeshine boy gift him with several tips on which stocks he should own — yes, a shoeshine boy playing the stock market.

> This unsolicited advice resulted in a life-changing moment for Kennedy Sr. who promptly went back to his office and started unloading his stock portfolio.

> In fact, he didn’t just get out of the market, he aggressively shorted it — and got filthy rich because of it during the epic crash that soon followed.

* https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-spot-stock-market-bub...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy_Sr.#1929_Wal...
Just in case not everyone clicks it, the forecast from 2009 is actually bullish.
Another questionable thing from today: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1361084482640560129
It's tempting to confuse innovation with invention, but as you note they are not the same thing.

For example, Apple didn't invent the MP3 player, or the smartphone, or tablet PCs. But they certainly innovated with the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, which became category-defining products.
As mentioned this is configurable on Firefox but besides that it also makes it so much nicer for one handed usage. Reaching right up the top of the screen is really awkward one handed.
I think your underlying point is fair, but I'd like to see you post a more constructive explanation of where it would be useful for the analogy to capture a truth about cloud services that is not true for, say, flour - switching cloud providers is incredibly difficult due to vendor lock-in.
Fellow German here. I find it extremely annoying when people read out numbers for me to write down and announce pairs as numbers instead of digits.

If you mean 42 and read out "zwei und vierzig" I will pause and have to figure out if you meant 240 and you know it. This kind of thing just seems almost intentionally inconsiderate because of the unnecessary ambiguity.
Now as we have a free Chromium build on Mobile, can we also have extensions support? AFAIK original Chrome has extensions support built-in but disabled at build time. Yandex has built a fork with extensions enabled but it seems even less trustworthy than Google itself.
You could audio book it, there's only a couple of diagrams in it, none of which are strictly necessary, and the book itself is fairly engaging. It's more about imparting general principles than giving you a flowchart or checklist for studying.
There are some valid criticisms presented but also some assumptions that don't hold up. All in all the author presents himself as a bit of a pretentious twat.

The tech generalization does exist in tng although it's not an absolute by any stretch. Shows like Voyager took that tech generalization and ran with and the criticism is much more apt for that series. Nu-Trek took this formula and cranked it up to 11.

I'm not a fan of DS9 but they did manage to have some good episodes.

My point is the author over generalizes and lets their bias run ramshod over reason.
42k is just above minimum wage in Australia and 15 an hour is over double the minimum wage in 20 states in the US.
Nah. Note they mentioned Google Drive as an alternative. If you compare Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, and iCloud Drive, you’ll quickly find out that Dropbox is the most expensive of the bunch, is the least flexible (their only paid plan is 2000 GB, which is more than most people need) and doesn’t give you any other fetures that aren’t file storage. The free plan of Dropbox also enforces a 3-device limit, and the space is a whopping 2 GB.

Dropbox used to be the only game in town, and they had a great no-frills experience. But now, the giants are doing it better, cheaper, while Dropbox is stuck in its old ways and is adding new “features” nobody needs (such as this selling-files thing, and their new resource-hog client). There is no point in using Dropbox these days, other than being too lazy to switch or shop around.
One issue that I never heard them overcome was resistance to turning along one axis. Industrial flywheels are fine, because they're usually fixed in place. Cars tend to want freedom along every axis.

My distant memory recalls some discussion of buses fitted with flywheels for regenerative braking, but they had issues with hills.
Any potential community nexus that encourages sub-group-solidarity and class-unity is a threat to TPTB who maintain their power by encouraging us to view each other as potential threats to our various cultural/ethnic/gender/sexual/etc identities. It's Playstation-vs-Xbox playground mindset on a global scale. Ordo ab Chao.
Web3 is definitely the new wild west of the internet. I agree there will be wild price swings, but it will stabilize as more people are onboarded.
>I think you have it backwards. It's nothing like a mathematical theorem, since you can't really prove anything about the subjective human experience of listening to music.

That's exactly what makes it like a mathematical theorem.

Mathematical theorems are not about proving anything about "subjective human experience".

The axioms of western music theory just prove that X chord is the dominant under these conditions, or Y plays this role in that context, or Z scale/mode/whatever should be constructed as such, or M and Y form a K together, and so on.

Similar to how a (quite simple) algebra would work.
I appreciate that this post focuses on the key element that I hadn't understood about ECC: how it replaces factoring as a 'easy to do, difficult to undo' algorithm. This is a great example of a post that has enough information to be able to explain it in plain language without giving the impression that you know enough to implement it.
General purposes programming languages that enable to easily and expressivelly build readable DSLs are useful.
But what does Racket bring over say Kotlin DSLs?
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/type-safe-builders.html

For building DSLs the following features are useful:
Infix/postfix functions,
Operator overloading,
Varargs/spread operator,
Scope controling what is allowed.
Other features??
This still doesn't make any sense. Every single government service provided services to people besides you. You're essentially saying there should be no government.

The government plows the streets. Provides police and fire service. Makes sure street lights and sidewalks exist. Handles deeds for property. Handles court cases. If you had to "consent" to all these services providing benefits to other people the entire government would cease to exist.

"I have to consent to anything that doesn't directly benefit me" means a ton of things aren't even going to exist when you actually need them.
Just imagine the zoom conversations the NYT had to have had with each other to publish this article, and it was approved.
"Global HN" isn't really global. It heavily emphasizes news from Silicon Valley.
Thanks for the historical perspective. Might you or anyone else be able to recommend any resources that discuss the efforts to tune the two level scheduler for long-running workloads?

You mentioned:
>"The solution to the problem is actually optimistic offer, which is essentially the k8s model."

Isn't the K8s model more "choose your QoS model" - BestError, Burstable or Guaranteed? Or am I misunderstanding your comment completely?

I was curious about the this:

>"Another reason k8s was successful is probably because the golang ecosystem. In mesos, we spent a lot of the energy building basic HTTP layer in C++ due to Mesos's unique threading model."

Could you say what was unique about the Mesos threading model?
With all due respect, marketing does matter. Do you personally know a single person under 35 years who leased a Regus office? Lawyers excluded. It's like Buick.
If you look at how the scores for the walkers increase as they walk, you will see that it jumps in increments of 100. I guess it is some kind of "milestone bonus".
Did we really “lose” the Lisp Machine, or did we just realize that compiling Lisp to a general-purpose instruction set like x86 and then having someone else in charge of creating hardware to efficiently execute that is much more clever?
AFS, Zephyr, Kerberos, BatMail in emacs--all mind-expanding stuff to me way back when!
If x is true, you have no right to prevent anyone else concluding it about you. Truth is the ultimate defense against all this anti-science FUD.
Well it doesn't 'just work' on all platforms or contexts. That's why it's a bit annoying for them to spend dev time on stuff like this, especially when they could have used whatever pre-existing/established coin.
Signal doesn't sell paid features, Signal is adding a payment platform. So future apps and/or users can exchange money/crypto.