jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've lived/worked between Amsterdam and London for years.

Eurostar is my clear preference if you can get a straight through train without changing in Brussels. Departs St Pancras at 5:11pm. Travel Standard Premier so you get dinner at your seat at 5:15pm. 4h trip, no changes. Arrive at Ams Central Station at 10:20pm. Arrive at home/hotel by 10:40pm. Slower, but extremely comfortable. And you can work productively all the way.

For travelling in the morning, the 7:25am flight from LCY is good. The smaller airport is much quicker to get through than LHR or LGW.

For the return trip from Amsterdam to London, you do lose a lot of time at Schiphol airport. Flying into LCY makes up for it though, especially if you work in Canary Wharf. I'd typically take 20 mins from plane landing to sitting at my desk.
We also fully unlinked the money from gold in 1971

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
HN, along with soylent news, kuro5hin, some mailing lists, reddit from time to time, all together are quite definitely physically hurting me.

It's not so much that I don't get enough sleep as that it is so irregular, and that I don't find sleep to be restful. Also I get persistent headaches; analgesics don't help, I just blew through a whole bottle.
I never noticed that. Thanks, I'll go turn it on.
> Astronomers use sun spots, travelling across the surface, and these only dim its brightness by much less than 1%.

How do they know they are sun spots and not a very small planets? I'd assume planets have a more regular schedule, but unless you watch a star for years (Julian), how can you tell?
Your doubts might need to be re-examined.

I have a Facebook account that I originally registered when I was in high school a little over a decade ago. The reason I've kept it is because I use Facebook Messenger to talk to some people, and because a lot of events use Facebook.

The main Facebook app I have not installed, because I don't need it.

The Facebook Messenger app I have installed because I use it. I trust iOS to limit this app from being able to do anything too nasty.

I never use "log in with Facebook". I clear my cookies regularly, and I often use a different browser for logging into Facebook from the browser I use for most stuff.

I try my hardest to be vigilant of my privacy, even though it is a losing battle.

The fact that someone has a Facebook account should not be taken as a sign that they think that any of the privacy violation stuff that businesses engage in is ok.

As for Zoom, I made a conscious decision to not install the Zoom software on my MacBook Air because of the previous shenanigans that Zoom had been engaging in. When a client expressed desire that we use Zoom for our meetings, I therefore chose to install the Zoom app on iOS rather than on my MacBook Air, because iOS limits apps from being able to do anything too bad, and after we were done with the job I uninstalled the Zoom app from iOS as well.
Guess when we knew we would have to get serious.
Are most/all common WiFi access points vulnerable to ARP poisoning?
OP here: If you get any nginx errors on my site can you let me know here? I think I'm about to jump ship with my WP setup and move to Jekyll.
I didn't really set out with the goal of being an open-source contractor. It just sort of happened, like sex with a much-older neighbor.

Can't really argue with that analogy.
My expertise lies more in what to do AFTER you've established this link.

Filemaker has a PHP API library, however the documentation is choppy, and the PHP itself is obfuscated. There's a lot of questions you'll run across that you have to figure out entirely for yourself. (Like how to differentiate between AND and OR in your queries, how to do IN-style queries, etc.) I've figured this all out the hard way.

FileMaker isn't designed to replace a standard SQL database - it's an entirely different beast. Think of FileMaker like Microsoft Access. You design your layouts and data in FileMaker and people in your organization connect to it USING the FileMaker Pro application.

However, eventually you want to be able to make some data in FileMaker available over the web. Perhaps you want to publish a schedule on your website and that schedule resides in FileMaker. Or maybe you want people to be able to submit contact requests from the web, and have that start a new project in your issue-tracking FileMaker database.

That's where I come in.
If disability access is not legally required, many businesses just won't bother. Economically, it often doesn't make sense to spend money to accommodate a small percentage of your potential customer base. Even if it does make sense, many people just don't bother, often through simple ignorance.

This means that, without legally required obligations, disabled people become second class citizens. The places they can go and the businesses they can patronize are determined entirely on the whims of other people. This means that they require more help from caregivers for basic day to day functioning, and can prevent them from making their own contributions to society.

Your argument is saying that the desires of businesses are more important then the ability of disabled people to participate in society. It is a zero sum game. And you're free to have your own opinion on the matter, but don't be surprised when people consider your stance to be heartless.
I also find it extremely annoying in the Economist. The New Yorker has the same problem.

I used AdblockPlus which works well. I resent having to use an ad blocker to read the journalism I'm a paid subscriber for, but at least it works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqFYsvxHZOs&t=1205s

(start at 20:05 if timestamp fails).
I assume that they would have to be prepared to explain their case to the satisfaction of a human regulator. Crunchyroll being an anime streaming service is easy to understand. On the other hand, to my knowledge Netflix has never advertised itself as a platform for exclusively American content.
It's a very specialized venue as opposed to a regular court, and the NLRB is able to take quite a lot of action without a trial or court proceeding, as well as to take a very specific position on the matter. They also very regularly reject claims. It's not the same thing, it isn't an impartial judicial process. It's more similar to, say, the FTC.
Could be (though they have the capability to hire native speakers), or maybe they have a very cookie-cutter manual. (Not sure their German headlines have the same patterns but I think not, or at least it doesn't sound so unnatural)
Can I copy one line from the Beatles catalog “she loves you yeah yeah”. I represents such a small % of their overall lyrics.
Now the jewelry stores will have to become smaller so that there will be 1-2 jewels per store. When something gets stolen, it'll be 50-100%.
It is certainly something open to debate, and should not be stated so stridently, as a fact.
Note how you say "they give us". It's not true. They don't give you anything. They take money from you in the form of taxes (and, mind you, take them with the threat of force towards those who, for example, dislike the services and do not wish to pay) and then pay other people to provide you with products and services. So government is a middleman, but a special kind of: it decides what you want. If you don't like something a government does, you still have to pay.

Stop and ask yourself. If government is effectively gone tomorrow, would the demand for protection, fire safety, health insurance, education, infrastructure and safety net for the poor be gone too? Of course not! And if the demand is not gone, then wouldn't you simply have those things offered on the market?
Kloudbook - Android Developer / Web Developer - US Remote - Contract/Full time

Check out this video explaining the product: http://youtu.be/WmlKId7lxew

Is your address book full of outdated and incomplete information? KloudBook is looking to ensure friends, family and colleagues always have up-to-date contact information for each other, including phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses and social handles.

We are currently at the tail end of development on an in-house iOS client, written in Objective-C and with a Parse backend. We are looking for Android and web clients to be created as well.

- Seeking: First Android Developer. Experience using RESTFul APIs and/or a BaaS. UX/Design ability. Looking for strong Android candidate that can "own" the Android client.
- Seeking: First Web Developer. We are looking for either a Rails or Node developer with strong CSS skills and full web tech stack understanding. Will get to help decide the technologies used for the web client.

I am currently the sole developer on the team, focusing on the iOS client. Android and web client should mirror functionality of the iOS client, which we have in documentation.

Contact brandon @ kloudbook dot com with questions or to apply.
>>There is nothing in biology that prevents women from going back to work the day after delivery

>You are disgusting.

Whoa now. I won't say I agree with the entire comment, but I don't see the problem with that line. At least if "day" is changed to "week".

What is "disgusting" about, for example, having the father at home raising the newborn while the mother works?
Great to see that they've had quite a few female employees. Especially because, for the early stages that the company was in, I suppose most (if not all) were engineers.
This is precisely my view. I haven't knowingly given Sony any of my money since Lik-Sang.
There could be a second Snowden.
To make things even more complex, with ultra-violet for sure but possibly involving other forms of radiation as well, it is possible that small amounts of exposure actually produce a preventative effect in regards to cancer. With UV, that mechanism is the production of vitamin D in the body, a lack of which causes a wide variety of health issues and may have a link to the development of cancer.

This panel by the Mars Society actually had a very interesting discussion of this area of human health that deserves much more study. https://youtu.be/sFHQlobJbwY
People are building those things in Go and Rust because they're currently implemented in unsafe languages like C/C++ and are therefore riddled with undiscovered memory management bugs, overflow bugs, undefined behavior etc, which are often security vulnerabilities waiting to be exploited. I don't think it's reinvention for reinvention's sake, I think they're genuinely trying to fix some of the horrible historical mistakes of C.
Something I wrote recently on this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207290

"It used to be common to see "paid advertisement" inserts in major magazines. Sometimes going on for a dozen pages. It was clear they were PR pieces: typeset differently and with a different editorial style than the rest of the magazine. Sometime in the mid-2000s they simply seemed to go away and now the magazine just uses the PR pieces as content filler, completely indistinguishable from the rest of the periodical."
There's no one source which any Scotsman claims defines a Scotsman, though, whereas pretty much the core part of the definition of Christianity is following the teachings of Christ (it's in the name!), which the vast majority of bigots-who-call-themselves-Christians certainly don't.
> No signs of cardiovascular disease in a non-western population

Seems to conflict with:

> The working hypothesis is that a Paleolithic diet (the Paleolithic
> is the time period 2,000,000-10,000 years BP), basically meat,
> fish, vegetables, fruit and nuts, has benefits even compared with
> prudent diets based on whole-grain cereals and low-fat milk.

Isn't Southeast Asia considered 'non-Western'? Hasn't rice been a staple food there for a long time?
This is actually the first time I've heard about rss cloud, though apparently rss cloud has been around for ages. Is there any particular reason you went with this over PubSubHubbub?
Raise the rates on bulk mail. There's so much of it that it's clearly priced too low.
Only because it was clear enough people were voting for it that he could pretend to stick to his principles. You think if it came down to him, he'd actually vote for total financial collapse?
There's a growing protest against the TSA's unconstitutional new searches:

Check out http://www.wewontfly.com
Greasemonkey with this script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/33325 .

It adds buttons that allow you to put the entire page on one story. Hope that helps.
If you think about the USPS as an independent corporation, it would be crazy to think about these results: a government approved monopoly, massive tax-shields (no business income tax, no property tax on post offices). Then, you contrast that with their one big weakness - they can't set their own prices. Congress sets the postage rates. Talk about an incredibly inefficient way to run a business - seems a great counterpoint to anyone who thinks government should be more involved with business.

Here's a quick and drastic solution to the USPS problem.
1) Give them the ability to set their own prices. They have competition in the form of UPS and FedEx for large packages delivered to your door. Chances are those prices wouldn't change. The rate for a stamp would potentially double. Is that a bad thing? Seriously, what percentage of the stuff you get in the mail is actually useful? 10%? 5%? Yes, there are some businesses who depend on cheap mail, but in effect the US taxpayer is subsidizing their business then. It's no different than the US bailing out the car companies in that regard. This price increase would probably decrease mail volume considerably.
2) Reduce delivery to 3 days a week. Would anyone complain about this? How many people even check their mail every single day without fail? Again, this may hurt mail-based businesses, but they are already existing in an artificial business environment skewed by government subsidies. Going from 6 days to 3 wouldn't cut costs 50%, but I think 20-25% cut in costs is reasonable to expect, considering the volume decrease.

These two things would quickly make the USPS profitable. As everyone here has pointed out, it's not 1980 any more. There's better way to transmit information from one person to another.
Not sure how far you've read, but it is not at all certain that Voldemort wants to challenge Harry. Whatever his plans are for Harry, they don't involve killing him -- at least not in the near term.
What is the offensiveness in the post?

I read it a few times trying to find it, but couldn't. Is is something related to the specific presidents listed?

This has me thinking - what about starting a news agency online. A disruptive news agency where every reporter cannot be from the region they are reporting on. It will be 'unbiased high level news' where only the big issues are reported on from an unbiased standpoint. I think I could be a good reporter on American news because I keep relatively up to date but have no skin in the game.
>Health care workers are required to use masks to protect immunocompromised patients

Protect them from what? Their potentially disease carrying bodily fluids.

I don't have the slightest clue what misinformation you think I'm spreading. You have responded to four of my posts, and none of the replies give any reason to think healthy people should wear masks.
I’ve never built any tooling for Vim, but I’m really inspired by the challenge :) Thanks for the suggestion, and stay tuned!

Note: If anyone’s reading this, and has experience in Vim “extensibility”, I’d like to collaborate: https://github.com/vsls-contrib/codetour
It's worth nothing that this machine is very low throughput - the larger one only takes 4 samples and you have to use their proprietary disposable cartridges.

edit: as pointed out below - the largest of the machines has 80 slots and could probably do 2000/day taking around 45min-1hr/test all in

Contrast that with a modern real-time PCR machine which typically has capacity for 96 samples, with some machines able to test 384 or even 1536 at a time. The tradeoff is that those machines take 2-3 hours and the lab needs to do nucleic acid extraction separately.

The main advantage of this machine is that it does the nucleic acid extraction and PCR in one cartridge and in ~20 minutes. It's great for clinics and field hospitals but for an established laboratory running hundreds or thousands of tests per day, I'd wager that the standard methods are much cheaper and a bit faster overall.
I am unsure what to think about your free market comment. I think you should be able to do what you want in your own home as long as it is within the bylaws and zoning laws of your area. My property was bought as agricultural zoning. It means I can have pigs, chickens, cows, all sorts of things residential properties can not do. My neighbor is residential. I bought my property agricultural so I could potentially do all those things. When my neighbor bought his property if he was informed he would look at the zoning in the neighborhood and factor that into his purchase just like anyone else would. If he doesn't want a pig farm in his neighborhood he should not move next to an agricultural property because that is always a possibility. If you are zoned for a tannery why shouldn't you be able to do it they have to go somewhere?
I think .co is a smart get for any .com's where someone impersonating you could hurt you. Otherwise it's not a concern. Definitely wouldn't worry about the ones you listed.
People can spend time at the coast without owning a second home that sits empty most of the time.

Historically, we used hotels to visit places we spent limited time in.

(Or you can camp, visit friends, etc.)
Audi had this scrollwheel too. It was great. The newer Audis have touchscreens and I find them distracting as well.
That and masks!
That probably is because he rewrote it:

https://github.com/jeffknupp/sandman2
I think pfctl is the suggested replacement for ipfw, which was deprecated in Mavericks. I wrote the Comcast tool someone linked in this thread. Haven't had a chance to dive through the pfctl man pages to add support for Yosemite yet unfortunately.
Even though most people have convex utility WRT money this is not true for everyone. Some people need large amounts of money for big ambitious projects, others might have linear utility WRT money. For example, say you were donating a significant fraction of your wealth to effective charities. It is not clear you should have diminishing marginal utility towards these donations the way you would with personal consumption.
Unless I misunderstand the underlying argument, more skilled immigration is argued to be good because it is good for business. That's an economic argument, and I was making an economic argument in turn, that more skilled immigration may not straightforwardly result in a bigger talent pool in the US.

On the moral side, I do wonder if the West will be criticized in 50 years for its intellectual draining of the third world, not unlike the West's draining of colonies' natural resources 50 or 100 or more years ago. But this is a favorite thought experiment of mine, the question of "What currently fashionable thing will our grandchildren denounce us for doing?"

Anyway, you're disputing my assertion that "People choose careers for social reasons as well as for money. Adding a significant fraction of third world immigrants to a career lowers that career's prestige, meaning that talented natives who might have joined the field are less likely to, since they have options." First of all, I wish I had written that better in that I don't mean "a career", but rather "our career", ie, technology / programming. My mistake.

Still, doctors are a poor example since their supply is constrained by an outside force (medical education and licensing), and so their salaries are higher than they'd otherwise be, and their power is based on our awe for people who can save human life. In other words, they are nothing like programmers.

Also, I have heard that many governments like importing foreign doctors since in some cases this offloads parts of their education to their native land, and training doctors is expensive. Probably not the point you're looking for.

As for founders, I am not certain individual founders matter much in the cultural image of tech as a career. Most non-Californians can't name many founders, and certainly not many foreign born founders. I suspect that the only founders who get many people to consider tech to be a possible career are Jobs and Zuckerberg.

But as for programmers, people have various ideas floating around in their heads. They remember outsourcing, where American programmers ended up with no power and no money. This didn't do much for the prestige of the career. They think of nerds, obviously, who aren't too great on social norms. Does it seem reasonable that adding people to that labor market who are accustomed to lower living standards (wages), locked in by restrictive visas (power), and unfamiliar with American social norms (nerds) is actually going to make the field more attractive to natives?
Those are all great pieces of feedback; thank you :)

I think you're right about the crossing-off list. I'll try two columns that work side by side. I'll also consider removing the banner ads; I sort of include those as a default, mostly to see how they'd end up looking. This is a side-project in its infancy, so I'm clearly not expecting to make much (or any) money from it at this point.

I'll see what I can do with the registry API... it's definitely something I've thought about, but haven't yet had time to implement.

Thanks for using it and for leaving some feedback! It's very much appreciated :)
I remember that study. It was the basis of the intermittent fasting/restricted calories movement. Unfortunately they were unable to replicate it when they changed animals (I don't remember if the subsequent study was on primates or humans).
Not OP but I crossed 100+ books last year (thanks to the Pandemic). I've highlighted some interesting books that I have suggested on Hackernews earlier.

The article is long-ish but you can skim real fast https://brajeshwar.com/2020/books-of-2020/
And you very conveniently don't address anything I actually said, because after "yourself" you also wrote "and the world."

This isn't some "gotcha." I addressed the parts of your comment that I disagreed with, and didn't address the other parts...
I absolutely love reading Justine's code. It comes up from time to time here and it just makes me happy. It reminds me of the passage from "Programming Sucks" by Still Drinking [1]

Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. It’s a different file for every programmer. Sometimes they wrote it, sometimes they found it and knew they had to save it. They read over the lines, and weep at their beauty, then the tears turn bitter as they remember the rest of the files and the inevitable collapse of all that is good and true in the world.

This file is Good Code. It has sensible and consistent names for functions and variables. It’s concise. It doesn’t do anything obviously stupid. It has never had to live in the wild, or answer to a sales team. It does exactly one, mundane, specific thing, and it does it well. It was written by a single person, and never touched by another. It reads like poetry written by someone over thirty.

Her work is always just a little bit trippy in a good way haha.

[1] http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
You need programmable physical paint
If you receive something of value you usually owe taxes on it short of some gifts and inheritances. If you were compensated with 1000 shares (a more conventional situation) at a value of $150k instead of a cash salary (unusual but not impossible), you’d owe income tax on the value at the time it was received. You’d also owe taxes (capital gains) when you realize any gains (or not if you instead realize a loss).

This is also true for crypto currency wages.

NB: This is in the US, but there will be comparable rules in nearly every country.