jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm happy to answer some questions... can you be a bit more specific?
Is this in the US or UK?
This is really really good news. Shen has some really cool aspects, but the licensing is, to put it mildly, weird. Having a standard license will really help adoption and investigation.
Copied from the FAQ page:

Probably. Now that I've worked out the hard parts (sqlcompletion and special commands), I'd like to write a CLI for Sqlite and MySql. But I'm not sure if I'll have the time to do it in the immediate future. But if you're interested in doing it, I'd be happy to help you. Please get in touch.
Heh, like a lot of things in programming, there are always multiple camps on pronunciations. I always heard vee-eye from the senior dev I started with. Sounds like a lot of folk do say ‘via’ though. You should start the ‘vee’ camp and see if it sticks :)
I think one one interesting thing is that megacorps that seem to integrate big acquisitions (Amazon -> Whole Foods, Microsoft -> Github & LinkedIn, Facebook -> WhatsApp), all seem to be megacorps that don’t mind doing shit in a messy, scrappy way.

Whereas companies with a strong fixation on design & aesthetic seem to have a harder time. To fit into Apple, everything must look and feel like Apple. There could never be a new “Whole Foods” tab where things look and feel like Whole Foods. So Apple melts it down and recasts what it can into Apple - a lot like the Borg.
Unless it maintains the ability to produce systems for national defense.
How do you feel it feeds the stereotype
Everyone gets the wrong idea from the Betamax vs VHS thing. The correct lesson to learn is to actually solve the problems people have. VHS could record an entire football game on one tape. Betamax couldn't, because they prioritized video quality over recording length. They bet wrong; consumers prioritized recording length over video quality, because a mediocre picture of 100% of the thing they wanted to watch beat a better picture of 60% of the thing they wanted to watch.

And yet everyone turns Beta vs VHS into a sob story about how the best doesn't always win, instead of figuring out the real lesson: know what your customers want and give it to them.
I found the real answer: the low taxes were all lies, and Mr Lee actually took half of everyone's salary for his family to invest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Provident_Fund
Apple is providing one of the widest most open distribution markets ever available besides the internet/web, but here the expectations of gaining revenues is easier with one touch buying, no guarantee, but less hurdles.

For the price of that we are all sharecroppers in a feudal market where Apple is the King.
You can't really call it real world speeds when latency is less than a millisecond, then you've hardly even exited the internal backbone of your ISP. Generally when accessing things abroad or somewhat far away the throughput will drop to 150-500Mb/s. So, not bad at all, but don't expect those speeds everywhere.

On a side note, my current ISP just started rolling out 10Gb/s here. The geek in me really wants to get it, but I'm having a real hard time even making up excuses for the added cost, around $700, compared to $40 for gigabit.
https://waitbutwhy.com/2020/01/sick-giant.html
That would be a fantastic idea, actually.
I was curious too, so I looked it up.

Wikipedia also quotes the 78% number, citing Coca-Cola Co's 2005 SEC filing [1]. However, a cursory read of their SEC filing reveals this: "In 2005, concentrates and syrups for beverages bearing the trademark "Coca-Cola" or including the trademark "Coke" ("Coca-Cola Trademark Beverages") accounted for approximately 55 percent of the Company's total gallon sales." [2] It's possible the 78% number the Wikipedia article is drawing from is based on a newer SEC report which isn't cited correctly.

Edit: I Looked up their 10-k from Feb 2010 and found this:
"Trademark Coca-Cola Beverages accounted for approximately 51 percent, 51 percent and 53 percent of our worldwide unit case volume for 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively." [3] So it looks like Wikipedia may have incorrect information!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coca-Cola_Company#Revenue

[2] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21344/000104746906002...

[3] http://ir.thecoca-colacompany.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=94566&...
Not bad Rory. Glad to see you going out of your comfort zone and putting yourself out there.

Good stuff!
Do you know of a reliable way to get rich? If so, then what are you doing here? I read it not as saying startups were reliable, just that they were the least unreliable means of a particular end - getting rich.
I think it's important to note that huge ecosystems have already been built solely on advertising. Forget google and go back 50 years to look at radio and broadcast television. I think those are the huge ecosystems you are looking for, not a startup.
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This is still 2d. You can't interact in 3d if it is just projected in 2d. He is just pointing and flying. You don't have to fly between documents if you have a real 3d augmented reality.
Apps would be like real 3d objects, you can touch them, manipulate their shapes like you do it with your keyboard or a door-knob, the only difference is that they won't be from real material. So they won't have phisical boundaries, if not programmed that way. (It just depends on the needs.)
I want to make a demo on it, is there somebody who want to join?
It is a bit of a power user feature, but it's important to two groups of power users in particular: reviewers and developers. These are two groups that it pays to help.

Apple certainly doesn't make third-party developers its first priority, but they are decent at helping developers when it doesn't get in the way of Apple's desired user experience. One way they do this is by providing good developer tools and workflows.
There is definitely something to be said for taking a bit of time to truly have a negligible effect on anything of importance.
Agreed, every time I see this my arms feel tired.
All technology feels lousy out of its time. He's giving the hackers/entrepreneurs the tech. It's up to us to create some valuable/entertaining/necessary functions out of it.
It's a scam to make you believe they care about standards.
The document wasn't "leaked". It was published.

How do you think the WT knew to look for this specific document? Do you think that WT staffers, when not performing mass cult marriages, read every single government document published in DC?

In practice, publishing a random document is insufficient for a trial balloon since the vast majority of published government documents get no attention from the public. That's why trial balloons often involve leaks, sometimes instead of, sometimes in addition to publishing a source document.

Do you have any idea how many regulations are added each year and how many bills are introduced?

I don't see your point here at all. There is a very small quantity of information that the media can reliably present to the public every year. The vast majority of bills and regulations can never be presented to the public for trial ballooning, for reasons of bandwidth if nothing else. Which suggests that it is extremely unlikely that this was a trial balloon.

Maybe they weren't interested in public reaction, but they certainly are thinking of these policies.

That's precisely my point: you have no evidence that they published this specifically to gauge public reaction. Thus you have no evidence of intent. Which means that your trial balloon accusation is evidence-free.
Now that was idiotic.
Keep in mind that, like most of the things designed at the Media Lab, this was built to look really good in demos. The movements are big and inefficient so they will show up well on stage and on camera.

In the real world the movements might be much more subtle. Certainly no broader than, say, American Sign Language, which is quite analogous to what we are reinventing here.
Yeah, not everyone is the same, but there are definitely people interested in multi-cursor modal editors, enough to build their own, eg. vis⁰ — a light, fast, and simple text editor with a pretty standard vim normal mode but sam’s structural regex command language¹ for creating and procedurally editing selections in command mode², and kakoune³ — known for switching vi’s word order from verb noun to noun verb, so typical normal mode commands work by first creating one or more selections with motions (no need to press v), and only then operating on them. And of course Emacs has multi-selection modes and AFAIK they’re compatible with evil.

⁰https://sr.ht/~martanne/vis/
¹http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/
²http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/sam_lang_tutorial/
³http://kakoune.org/
Thanks for your response. I'll take a look at tenting keyboards. I think that might be what I should pursue next.
GPD per capita is significantly stronger in the USA than the EU. Over the past forty years, growth in the USA has been not only been strong, but stable (practically linear.) The EU is a very different story.

My point is, I don’t think it’s fair to justify calling the US equity markets “gambling” by comparing them to the EU which is a totally different horse.
And, more importantly, who have no say in how their money will be invested.
Pepys is mentioned in this article, but not mentioned is the practice of wearing “patches”—stickers on your face that had seemingly been imported from France: https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/sexy-face-stickers...

For example from 1660 [0]:

> To my Lord’s by land, calling at several places about business, where I dined with my Lord and Lady; when he was very merry, and did talk very high how he would have a French cook, and a master of his horse, and his lady and child to wear black patches;

And [1]

> But my wife standing near her with two or three black patches on, and well dressed, did seem to me much handsomer than she.

I wonder why we don’t see more of this these days. Closest I can think of if Nelly with the band-aid.

[0] https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1660/10/20/

[1] https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1660/11/22/
Yeah, the article neglects the fact that one of the main reasons for the US dollar being a world reserve currency is because of the petrodollar system (basically the US made a deal with oil-rich Middle East countries to only sell their oil in dollars, and get extensive military protection in return). Since everyone needs to use oil in order to produce anything, the demand for dollars rises globalwide, and there is nothing you can do about it unless that relationship is terminated, or oil becomes fully replaced with other renewable energy sources (although keep in mind that oil isn’t just used for power). Saudi’s non-problem(?) after this lucrative deal is that they are now flooded in a surplus US dollars, and after realizing that they can’t outspend this with only luxury cars and hotels (!), they have invested that surplus heavily into US corporations, like which the article is describing.
https://archive.is/07PIU
To take up their seats, they would have had to swear an oath - "I swear by Almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God."

So if the Irish republicans had sworn an oath of allegiance to the queen, her heirs and their successors, they could have had the benefits of UK press freedom. Ok.
VM + Linux better solution but still a PITA.
The bulk collection by intelligence agencies of phone and Internet data is the biggest example of a general warrant. There are more specific examples like when police demand the ID of everyone who's cell phone providers place them at a protest (aka GeoFences) or the details of everyone who searched for certain terms.
I mean, it was particularly _incompetent_ as these things go, but I don't think it's ridiculous to call it a coup attempt. An extremely shoddy one, but a coup attempt nonetheless.
That's a pretty weak arg all around. I'd wager this is a rare situation, compared to the number of good employees recruited and retained by offered quality benefits.
"intasa" just means "has been forgotten" in some dialects of Arabic. I think you are reading too much into the "once been famous" bit.
"insa" is a word from the same root that means "forget it".
I actually think both words are still in usage. Probably the more accurate translation is, "it was once known (i.e. known to all within the community) but has now been forgotten". Famous is less accurate.

It is used for mundane things. For example, the location of an abandoned water well.
You're underestimating the number of users with a Chinese background or some China connection (work, marriage, family, travel, study) whose experiences have led them to hold different views than you do. The idea that that isn't legitimate, or automatically must be propaganda, is deeply inhumane. I don't want to work on a site where that sort of poison—including the poison in your comment here—is considered ok.

My GP comment includes links to cases where users were abused and even hounded off this site by ethnically/nationally driven mob behaviors. The evidence was overwhelming that that those users were innocent and the mobs were at fault. I think that's shameful. Like most HN users, I sympathize with underdogs, and seeing people get ganged up on gets my dander up. I'm confident that the vast majority of the community here would agree with me about that—at least when their own passions (and fears) aren't activated. None of us want to be that sort of community, but it can easily end up that way by default, so we need to take conscious care to avoid it.

I've asked FooBarWidget to stop posting exclusively in China-related arguments, because that's against the site guidelines in its own right, but that's hardly proof of, or even an iota of evidence for, the cloak-and-dagger fantasies that internet users love to sling at people in minority positions. Those accusations are against the HN guidelines for deep and good reasons. Therefore you can't post like this here, and I've banned the account.

One sign of how foolish these fantasies are is the certainty with which internet warriors declaim them. They never weigh evidence or consider other possibilities. It's always "demonstrably and with certainty"! What good fortune to be surrounded by enemies who are so evil, yet so dumb as to give themselves away at every turn. It's the best of all worlds: a chicken in every pot, a communist under every bed, and a spy (or three) in every internet thread.

What's poignant is that the users who get abused so dramatically in Western forums like this are often the very ones trying to defend and articulate the West to their communities back home—where they no doubt encounter similarly xenophobic feelings on the other side. They're in an impossible position. You don't have to agree with them, but you do have to drop the Boris and Natasha routine if you want to post to this forum. It is cartoonish and incurious, and would be silly if not for its malicious effects.
I would venture to say that what you focus on in your comment runs explicitly counter to what the GP was trying to emphasize in their post. For the people who teach kids of grades 3-5/ages 8-10, I doubt that they are in the business of dissuading children who are apparently "not intelligent" by whatever metric you imply. Kids at that age deserve every open door that can be given to them, and implicitly shutting them out of a computer science club because they can't immediately grok how to do the described task is doing the entire community a disservice. The lesson to be learned isn't that some kids can't (or won't ever) cut it, it's that the learned elders need to formulate better ways of passing along programming knowledge to the younger generation.
Thanks! Maybe I get used to scroll and didn't find it annoying. I'll definitely try a single column.
Entirely appropriate that you need to scare quote the word 'truth' when citing anything from that Milo kid.
Yes - in case its not clear, I want to explain what he did.

He decompiled the Starcraft binary from x86 .. to C, using his own self-built decompiler.

He then built the decompiled C sources for ARM. To make it work on Aengstrom Linux (the OpenPandora's OS) he also stubbed out all the Windows functions, and replaced them with Linux equivalents.

Without any help from anyone. :) And now we have a native Starcraft executable to run on the Open Pandora device.

Really an amazing individual. I'd give him all my monies if I had any. (Hi notaz!)
That was probably abandoned because it was not performant.
There's absolutely nothing interesting about a position which is game-theoretically a draw and actually needs a fairly big blunder to be winnable which is why no-one even bothers in practice.

More interesting is that the position is actually winnable if the losing side has an extra piece (a pawn that isn't too advanced up to board).
Especially since it seems to have been abandoned for a while now according to their website. The last beta build was 5 months ago, and the one before that over a year. (Obviously your editor doesn't need to be updated regularly, but it seems to be history repeating itself a la Textmate.)
1. Vim

2. Emacs/Nano

3. Notepad++
If so many people misunderstand REST it's worthless.
I think the word 'resource' is not well spelled ('ressource').
It's a certification of particular licenses. It's not a legal standard. That's why public domain is a grey area for OSI: http://opensource.org/faq#public-domain and the failure to certify Creative Commons Zero.

Carving public domain source code out of the definition of "Open Source" is the sort of thing trade bodies do. But it's something that one can argue before a judge. The copyright status and license are all that matters.
>Likewise, although i've settled on a slightly different perspective: that most systems have simple rules (if you go low enough), and that the complexity is in the emergent behavior

I concur with this. The emergent behaviour is usually the only thing we can observe, so we model our systems according to it.
The most beautiful (and usually the truest) models lie in the simplicity that causes the behaviour to emerge.

I wouldn't say our computers are too tiny, just that our brains aren't used to thinking in those terms, but we discover it by deep thinking and "deep iteration" in the topic and have to approach it from multiple sides.

Imagine yourself as a kid sitting at a chess-game, playing against Magnus Carlsen. You don't know who the guy is, you were just sitting at the sundae bar when the dude at the next table said "hey", pulled out a chess et and asked "Wanna play?". So you naively say ok, you got some time to kill while waiting for mom to pick you up.

And you start playing. You kinda know the basic rules and what the figures do. So you make a move, he makes a move, you make a move...a minute later, you eat his pawn. Ha! He did not see that coming. Soon, another one. You're killing this guy. 2 moves later, you're left with nothing but the king, running around the board. What the heck even happened?

Our minds are used to the "Eat figures = Win games" outlook, where simple steps lead to simple outcomes. While for Magnus, the figure you ate was a sacrifice that opened up a spot he will move his queen through in 3 moves. He knows the common patterns, permutations, defenses and can see moves ahead.

Our minds aren't used to thinking ahead and seeing what the sideffect of a sideffect does to the result of the sideeffect of the sideffect. Maybe once we were better at it, but we have
more interruptions so less time and depth to it (in general).

That is why we can't figure out the simple rules at first - we can't see the trees from the forest.
Though it seems overblown I won't discount that some American casualties may have been suffered. Nonetheless, Manning revealed that many other innocent lives were destroyed.

There is no action without both positive and negative consequence. In hindsight, Manning's actions seem far more positive than negative.
Your definition of trade-off seems broken. If I can make a car much bigger, or make it much more fuel efficient because I've got a new lightweight alloy body then that's still a trade-off even if I decide to make it a little bit bigger and a little bit more fuel efficient.

I personally think they've been forced to overshoot on screen density in return for platform homogeneity, the much lesser discussed cousin of the ever popular "fragmentation" and this will cost them money, performance and battery life. They are of course making lemonade from this particular lemon via marketing in an attempt to counteract the benefit that rivals will receive by choosing the screen with the best balance of quality/price/battery at any particular point in time for their devices.

Follow the pattern: processor speed: no comment (i.e. the same as everyone else, soon to be lower as new models are released), memory: no comment (i.e. half the flagship rivals, same as the rest), screen density: let's shout this metric from the rooftops because as any longtime Apple follower (like myself) knows, it's only "about the total experience" when you can't actually beat them on the raw figures. If you happen to be forced to use a spec that by your own marketing is higher than actually necessary or visible most of the time, then that figure becomes vitally important since no-one even wants to match it because they want to focus on the "total experience" rather than chase your metric.
This has me pondering whether there should there be some kind of robots.txt check involved. There are implications of arbitrarily requesting data on someone else's server, mainly not breaking EULAs and TOSs. Any thoughts on this?