jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is basically how HIBP's Pwned Password API works:

https://www.troyhunt.com/were-baking-have-i-been-pwned-into-...

https://haveibeenpwned.com/API/v2#PwnedPasswords

https://www.troyhunt.com/introducing-306-million-freely-down...

https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-v...
What on Earth were they thinking with these comparisons?

> The United States alone emits more than 5 billion metric tons of CO2 annually — the weight of 13.2 million fully loaded Boeing 747s, or roughly 68,000 Washington Monuments.

I can at least visualize the size of a football field, or the size of an Olympic swimming pool, or something like that. I've no idea how to reason about the weight of a loaded 747 (apparently 379 metric tons?) or the weight of a tall stone building...

In any case, I expect the doubling is a good bet. Very few people, including those who claim to care about climate change and have the money to do quite a bit, are actually taking useful actions about the problem, instead acting like voting for the correct person is the least and most one can be expected to do.
Here's a perspective I see little of in the news: In the globally warmed future the big differentiator will be low carbon cost to manufacture the car and low carbon cost to operate it. So tiny cheap EV's that cover 95% of most peoples use of a car will predominate. Low carbon impact will translate to low cost and basic functionality with "luxury" or "prestige" being negative selling points for cars, phones, everything. The future is not going to look like America does today. There will be no unboxing videos because the box will be simply functional or nonexistent to reduce trash. People will focus on product quality because they need it to last a long time. Disposable anything will disappear. It's predicted there will be 9 billion people on Earth in 2050, they can't possibly all have everything that some of the wealthier people have now. Infrastructure such as roads will shrink (smaller roads, fewer of them). Otherwise the future is endless war for everyone because there won't be enough of anything. Just imagine everyone in the world having a car and the simple math makes this conclusion inevitable. The role of marketing will shift from hyping features to creating convincing arguments about product durability and quality.
They've been around for over a decade and every time a service shuts down and pulls their content there's always a mention of ArchiveTeam trying to coordinate an archive (negotiating end dates, any limiting or throttling with backup, asking for help). I've used them a bunch of times over the years when I see a thread like this. Just search this forum and you'll see them pop up for things like: imdb forums, coursera courses, soundcloud, tumblr's nsfw content, friendster, google reader archives.
Their argument that 2/3rds the world is covered in water means it's a good place to build houses seems strained at best. Diversifying housing styles seems like a good idea in general but the number of problems you get probably outweigh the benefits, like your house could sink, get blown away in a storm, where would you "dock" it to begin with, and how do you manage all the utility connections. Good luck to them but leaving my home firmly attached to earth thanks.
> I think not since I've never heard of them and I've read tech news daily for the last two decades.

That's weird, because they seem to have quite a lot of coverage in major tech news sites:

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/In_The_Media
Without being curt; their products.

Maybe they have some nicer ones somewhere else but the ones I have used have been buggy, slow, painful messes- I get the strong feeling that SAP is a sales first organisation and engineering is a necessary byproduct.
Demography allows for very long term predictions.

We already know - with total certainty - the maximum number of 80-year-olds who will be alive in the year 2100. They’ve all already been born.
It's funny and hard to believe for many that it wouldn't matter if such tax on land is 2% or 50% or 90% and still effective.

- at 0% the price ceiling is infinite, so the price tends to climbs up to infinity, up to affordability, which due to close to zero interest rates is also almost unbounded

- at 2% many vacant houses start returning back to the market since it no longer pay off to wait indefinitely for a greater fool to buy it from you. Price starts to equalize, because suddenly the market starts to clear again

- at 50% of land tax, the only thing changes is that the land price is reduced, all else being equal. In such a market you pay 50% tax on the parcel to government and 50% to the land owner (current leassee).

- At 100% of land tax the price of land is further reduced to almost optimal market clearing price. It is now equivalent to renting the land directly from the government. There is no longer any "private tax" paid to the land owner. The land is now rented only if the acticity performed on it outweights the benefit of the tax. The price is now determined purely based on market terms and actually affordable to many.

It helps to understand that real estate prices today are mostly land value dominated. Construction material and labor is highly mobile so price of houses is virtually the same everywhere withing the same country. It's all land price in disguise.

The house crumbles down eventually and eg. in Japan the price of a house is 0 or negative (destruction cost) after only 30years. It's the same in the west, but people choose to pretends it's not, because all their net worth is stored in that crumbling ruin of theirs.
That's a strange reaction.. Are you always able to answer any quesion that comes up at work? I know I don't. And so seeing people's reaction to qestion that is too hard for them is a valuable signal.

As long as one tells candidate in advance: "I am going to be asking a mix of questions, some easy some hard. I don't expect you to be able to answer every question", this sounds like a good question.
I completely get all of that; it's just frustrating when you know exactly what the bug is, and can almost see the code causing it as well as the fix in front of you (conceptually), but ... you can't actually fix it.

For example I once spent weeks working around a memory leak in a piece of very expensive commercial software; it was not a fun experience and extremely hacky, although it did work (I later heard there were problems after I left though, causing subtle financial issues and which took quite a long time to find/fix :-/). I don't expect anyone to fix our problems for us, I just want to fix my own problems.

I don't expect everything to be Open Source; I'm fine if it's not. I also don't expect them to drop everything to fix this bug for me. But it is critical for our business, and please, let me sign an NDA or something and let me fix this bug. Everyone wins with this.
I'd wager it's even less work not to block anything. Answer me this:

1) Can you point to scientific evidence, or even a carefully-reasoned argument, that blocking U.S.-hosted free software from "rogue" states like North Korea, Syria, or Iran either A) is a meaningful deterrent to the governments of such states or B) has a desirable effect on the citizens of those states?

2) Do you think it's likely that the people with power to make decisions about this actually thought rationally about any evidence or reasoning?

My provisional answers are 1) Not likely and 2) Fat chance.
Spot-on.

I have come to appreciate the easily-accessible airplane mode on most modern smartphones as much more than a setting to accommodate FAA requirements—it's an extremely valuable social tool.

With a few swipes, you can concentrate on what's around you, who you're talking with, and nothing else. When you're done, you can go back to the cloud.
> I don't think those are completely valid counter examples

Yes they are ... "really interacting with them" is not their purpose.

You can open an Excel spreadsheet even if you haven't done so in your life and only have experience using Word ... you can move around, search for text, change styles, print. That's because it uses common interface elements that have been used for years.

Yes, Office 2010 brings interface changes, but it's nothing to worry about ... once you clicked the round button once, you'll learn its position. It took me a whole week to not trip over C-x C-s in Emacs, or to remember C-x C-c, and I had to setup my own shortcuts for common stuff (like C-w which deletes the previous word ... as in Vim, because even if my life depended on it, I couldn't learn the Emacs shortcut). And I still don't know how to print from Emacs.

We are talking about technically-inclined people here. Textmate is a lot more intuitive to use ... I'm still using Emacs because it is much more powerful, but boy what a painful experience it was the first months.
I definitely agree, new minds bring new perspective and can actually spot issues you never thought of.
It would be nice if Apple put the app back because they decided the Times' complaint was baseless. If Apple is willing to stick up for developers that do abide by the terms of service and contribute to the iOS ecosystem, that would serve to mitigate the heavy-handedness we've seen from them so far.
evil is as evil does.
Does the USA have a national firewall that blocks access to dissenting opinions?
The important part is preempting state law requirements. That's the only reason this matters.
I agree with most of the comments made here. I've always been a C student and understand what it feels like to be the "least knowledgeable person" in the room.

You really shouldn't focus so much of your time and energy thinking about your co-workers. This company clearly has a bad culture and it shows.

It's a good thing that you realize your weaknesses. Take some time off to truly understand what is it that you want in your career. Focus on things you are actually good at, and then figure out how to intersect those things with your career interests. Good Luck :)
CNBC is a finance channel. Are you thinking of MSNBC instead?
The 500 mile range is 200kWh I believe. There’s a penalty because they are literally stacking a second pack. Probably not enough room to do that in an S, but I’m sure by then the S will see other upgrades.
Only she was heading to a very public event in Portugal - a bitcoin evangelist. A history of good education and fully understood bitcoin ( but like Jimmy Hoffa ) She is being defined as if she had 3 million bitcoin in her handbag at the time of her kidnapping and murder.
That's not entirely true. It's perfectly legal to specify contractual terms of payment, including what form it must take.

It's only when the form of payment isn't specified, that dollars must accepted, by default.

If our contract was specifically for 1 BTC, it's legal to demand 1 BTC, and to otherwise sue for breach of contract.

After all, how else would a contract for currency exchange be enforced?

If you owed me 1 btc because I paid you 1.02 btc in dollars (2% transaction fee), it would make no sense to allow you to simply repay me with the equivalent of 1 btc in dollars, and consider that to be a settled debt.
This is really vital information as I personally had no idea it was that easy... What a great idea ! Is this true for all articles on the NYT ?
crosses fingers in OpenCL
I can tolerate HN's political stance because it fits into a predictable larger story. American tech company is obviously going to be very pro certain topics and against others. That's predictable and reliable.

The subreddit tyranny of anonymous moderators and punishingly overwrought hivemind is a less pleasant experience. Combine that with more extreme content in general than HN and it feels fundamentally less trustworthy and more manipulative.
ARM is doing OK with the current generation of HPC systems, and the post-K system, whose name I forget, should be rather impressive at floating point. SIMD width is not all that matters, after all. (Obviously this is v8 and up, which requires floating point.)
Unless the swift-for-tensorflow effort cross-fertilises something interesting, I suppose? If you were asked to guess the most likely path by which AMD cards become widely useful, perhaps this would be as good a bet as any.
Yep, but there the business model is (was) clear, there is no doubt that there is a (vast and lucrative) market for voyeurs and (streaming) porn, what is missing here is the lack (I presume) of a market for people wanting to see strangers sleep.

Maybe there is a subset of feticism about it, but are the numbers big enough?
SpaceX alone makes me not want to bet against Sam on point #1.
I'm not sure I understand the outrage of personal data that retailers have outside of actual credit card details. They know someone at address 123 Street or email address johndoe@email.com bought batteries or a phone or a tv? Okay and you're going to get more emails or snail mail advertising crap to you. Spam folder or garbage bin.

Also - how is this actually worth any real dollars to another company? In this day and age are there really companies with a valid business model that rely on getting lists of random consumers who bought electronic crap? Isn't that like everyone that has an address.

Really, please someone enlighten me about this.
Eh, I would be cautious, you might be getting played for publicity. If that's the case it wouldn't serve the purpose of the bet because the other side doesn't have any conviction about the outcome and only wants to raise their profile in the VC world.

$100k is probably cheap to get your name in many major news outlets.
Real property = that which is material, i.e. made out of stuff that you can carry around.

For instance, if you print a computer file, the sheet of paper with the data on it is real property because it's a material thing in the world. The file on the computer is not real property because it is not a material thing in the real world that you can carry around - you can put it on a flash drive and carry that around, but not the bytes or the letters that make up that data.

Even if you could carry the bytes around (let's say for the sake of the nitpickers) in your hand without a flash drive, just the bytes, then only those bytes would be property, but the information those bytes represent is never property because the information anything represents is purely conceptual; not inherently material, but something that comes from the interpretation of material things. So I'd be free to arrange my own bytes in the same way you arranged your bytes, if you happen to publish your arrangement in any way, and you could not sue me for some bogus "copyright" claim since you have your bytes and I have mine, and you'd impinge on my right if you told me I can't arrange my bytes in a certain way because you've arranged yours that way first.

Capitalism can only concern itself with real, material property because one can only possess material things. IT is not possible, really, to possess an interpretation of something material (unless you never tell anyone, like Coca-Cola does, but they do not rely on law for their trade secret to be enforced, they simply don't tell anyone).
I've heard the term "write once, test everywhere!" But, since testing is actually a good thing, I think the spirit of the quote is "write once, fix glitches everywhere"

I am extremely hopeful about React. Even though I know Objective C and have apps in the app store, I'd use a cross-platform toolkit if I could get Android and Windows for free (or minimal effort). In my past experience it didn't really play out that way, but I am ever hopeful that this time it will really work.
I certainly felt the Canadian social safety net made it easier to start my business.

First, my health care was covered. So I didn't have to worry about that downside risk. In fact I even had a major health problem two years in when money was tight. My medical care was a non issue financially.

I had some extended health insurance through my parents in the early years. Covered wisdom tooth extraction, and rehab to fix an arm injury. (I needed this to type). Not government safety net, but similar effect. Some countries would cover this sort of thing.

Tuition is lower in Canada. Low student debt. And repayment is very lenient for entrepreneurs and low income people. Never had to make payments or interest while starting up.

There are tax credits for low income earners. I received about $1000 a year in cash payments for sales tax credits. Tuition credits prevented my paying income tax starting out.

I would have gone bankrupt several times over without the above. Or maybe not even started. Instead, this year I'll be sending the government a large amount of income and sales
tax payments, and I'm glad to have the opportunity to do it.

On the other hand, there was almost no red tape for starting up. This was crucial. I didn't have to ask permission, I didn't need to pass a capital threshold, I could easily open accounts for my business and I didn't even need to register my company. And I didn't have to bother with sales tax until I passed a revenue threshold.

Keeping that sort of bureaucratic regulation low is also crucial for encouraging business creation.
I second this.
It's basically what I did, when I was the dumbest person in the room.

I was also the dumbest person in the room for 4 years.
I spent a ton of that time studying,asking questions,and playing catchup.

It eventually paid off though. Persistence!
Well, "record" buttons also tend to be red.
Followed by "We're sorry - Our sponsor no longer wishes BitTorrent results to appear in this listing." (Or insert latest large ISP whipping target here).
Your comment is spot on. I am really amazed at some of the comments here that are attempting to explain in one way or another that all companies except Apple need to have dozens of different models. It's great to offer the consumer choice, but that's not really what is happening here. These companies are offering confusion. Apple also offers choice, but it's a choice between only three models and a few different configuration options. I could see other companies having maybe six or seven models and still being able to have something for pretty much any type of customer.

I was recently looking through the laptop section of ASUS's web site. I would estimate that they must have somewhere around 100 different models. Then they further compound the problem by making it hard to navigate between the pages for the different models. I just totally gave up. It seems like they might make some nice stuff, but figuring out which one is right for me is way too much effort.
frankly, its worse than bing. the page readability is miserable. Still moving the mouse to see the page load is my biggest gripe yet. That combined with the fact that it loses the search keyboards sometimes when I hit the back button (on firefox).
The problem is really that you likely have not been anything else apart from a male WASP. See, there is no institution working against you. These things you are complaining about not getting are not the main product, they are shortcuts. A scholarship is not the normal way of studying, it's a shortcut way, for people who have something working against them.

A woman (and a black guy) have institutions against them. They go somewhere, and they are instantly assumed to be less competent. That's why these things are given to them - to help out the weak, not to push YOU down. Those things are legs-up to equalise the playing field - you, as a WASP already are at the starting line, asking to get those things is to get another 10 yards.

And no, it's not a socio-economic program. If you took a white bum and a black bum, and you cleaned them up and dressed them nice and sent them to interview, the white will likely get more jobs than the black guy. There is an inherent issue that non-WASPs have to deal with.

A poor black kid from a farm and a poor white kid from a farm don't have the same chances of succeeding in life. The white kid is neutral (everything is always open to him), but the black kid has things working against him right from the start.

It's going to be difficult for you to understand because you have never BEEN a woman in a managerial position. You have never BEEN a black guy applying for jobs.

Let's do this test: Imagine I say you'll get ALL the perks that black people get from the government, do you think you will have a better life being black?
For a fun exercise, try replacing "men" with "black people" and "women" with "white people" throughout this article, and speculate on whether The Atlantic would have published it.

"What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to white people?"

"White people live longer than black people. They do better in this economy. More of ’em graduate from college. They go into space and do everything black people do, and sometimes they do it a whole lot better. I mean, hell, get out of the way—these white people are going to leave us black people in the dust."

"Researchers have suggested any number of solutions. A movement is growing for more all-black schools and classes, and for respecting the individual learning styles of black people. Some people think that black people should be able to walk around in class, or take more time on tests, or have tests and books that cater to their interests."
Photoshop is what I'm trying to avoid.
>but it takes about an extra second to load the page now, so I removed it

You can search before the picture loads.
Oh, this is the problem when you do not have the vocabulary and use Google Translate to help.

"Cogitated" is very similar with the Portuguese translation "Cogitado", broadly used. And on Google Translate it appears as the first option.

I think that literature and travel are the keys to improve on this.
Although i'm still very unsure about rob pike's argument that go don't need generics since it has interface, a recent experience :

After having implemented a mini web services in go and being fed up with its limited type system, i decided to stop coding in go and start recoding my project in java using what is often advertized here as the most minimal framework : dropwizard.

Well, i downloaded the framework, configured maven, started the hello world tutorial, and quickly found myself dealing with 2 xml files, 1 yaml file, multiple classe files ecerywhere, and couldn't get the whole stuff work immediately.

Then i realized that my golang implementation was already working, and that i completely understood my code and its potential performance characteristic, without having to have deep knowledge about the jvm internals, things like sevlet containers, or how the whole stack would deal with my global variables in a multi-threaded context. All my code was just one simple program.

My temporary conclusion right now is that golang type system is indeed extremely shite, but that if what you need is to develop simple yet efficient web services, it doesn't matter that much.
The first has

12 COMPARE_OP 8 (is)

while the second has

12 COMPARE_OP 2 (==)