jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I use Slack, Telegram, Trello and email. Essentially I need channels that run smoothly on all my devices (Linux, MacOS, SailfishOS).

I'm watching Slack closely since the sale to Salesforce, and will switch those groups to Telegram or Signal if I see cause for concern.
"""Five of the arrests were related to guns and two were for illegal possession of other weapons, including metal knuckles and a blackjack-like weapon."""

"""Police Chief Robert J. Contee says two pipe bombs and a cooler with Molotov cocktails were also found near Capitol grounds."""

- https://www.fox5dc.com/news/over-50-people-arrested-14-offic...

Normally I consider Fox to be right-wing.

> did you post vociferously about how misinformation started those?

My argument would apply to all riots caused by disinformation regardless of if I recognise the disinformation as false rather than true.

As it happens, I believe those riots were triggered by people who believe their lives do not matter to the police on the basis of personal experience. You believe I am wrong about that? Sure, ok, now tell me: why does being wrong about that change my argument that misinformation can cause real harm? You consider the BLM riots to be a bigger event, and that it was based on untruths, so tell me: on what basis does your claim mean that I should stop being concerned about mobs being goaded into action by lies?

You don’t need to convince me I’m wrong about the BLM movement to do that.
They're not explicit about this, but I suspect part of the reason they don't offer health insurance is that their remuneration is intended to be location independent.

Moving any fixed X of remuneration into health insurance will be wrong in many locations (in many places, standard health care doesn't require employer insurance, so the expected X for most jobs is 0, and any X > 0 is undesirable). Doing wildly varying custom health insurance setups for each employee according to their current needs seems complicated. If every 'employee' here is actually an independent contractor, can't they just pay for health insurance themselves from their remuneration however they please, and do so tax free as their own business expense?
I'm pretty sure no fees was one of the selling points.
A couple of years back, I helped move Fastmail’s blog from a home-grown thing from the mid-2000s that used Markdown.pl, to Ghost. It was nowhere near trivial. Line break behaviour changed, handling of indentation changed, treatment of raw HTML and Markdown characters within HTML tags changed… I fixed everything I noticed, but there was a lot of incompatibility, and old posts would have looked uniformly bad without some of the fixes we applied.
> so from a hedging perspective it makes sense for all high wealth individuals to have a small allocation. We're reaching the point where you're at a greater long term risk not holding any.

Couldn’t have expressed my thoughts any better. And to add to this, the more that one comes to understand the machinations of central banks (particularly the behavior of the US Fed), and the limited long-term viability of the dollar-centric monetary system, the more one sees it from this perspective.

Another comment below notes how Bitcoin and US equities are correlated. I could see many reasons for this, but one of them is very likely that both are an effect of quantitative easing policies, but for very different reasons...
Just evaluating health on the raw numbers is a quick way to get into a bubble and BTC seems extremely bubbly, it'll peak to all time highs every couple years then drop back down.
Holding a socket open on a mobile costs nothing. Sending data through that open socket will quickly jump the phone into DCH state (http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0286.html#sect-id115219).

Polling is worse.

Google keep the chat client open but have an option to hold back all but the most important packets on the server side and then batch send them after a set period of time. This is something along the lines of http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0273.html

The current nokia version of buddycloud (http://mobile.buddycloud.com) will run continuously for for about 18 hours. The android version with batch sending of packets even longer.

And if you worry about XMPP's verbosity, just add the DEFLATE option to your TLS socket. That drops the size down to about 10% of the original.
Levenshtein Distance ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance ) is a standard algorithm taught in algorithm courses as a standard example of Dynamic Programming.

Some discussion here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1564184/edit-distance-alg...
wow... teach me... (not sarcastic just newbie)
Merry Christmas everyone. This is the best community I have seen ever on the internet and hope we all have have a strong finish to 2010. The content shared here has made me a (subjectively) better person since I joined. What a great gift, thank you!
Has anyone considered generalizing these to voxels -- adding details to minecraft style spaces?
> Microsoft in the 90s

How long did the "monopoly" last? Were consumers injured by it?

> Standard Oil

Standard Oil was huge because they were cheaper than the competition. Kind of like how Wal-Mart did it. Is that a bad thing?
If your the NSA, what's the easiest way to get people to move away from a system that you can't easily break into?

Start rumors about secret backdoors. By the time the rumor is discredited, it has picked up enough speed that when faced with facts, people will still have their doubts.
I've tried[1] to use it to weasel-out from creating improved graphics for iPhone 4 display, but unfortunately it doesn't work well for graphics with anti-aliasing.

[1] https://github.com/pornel/rgba-hq2x
There's a huge amount of variation in the type of work that people who are called Software Engineers do. Based on your interests one option is to look for a job that involves more algorithm development and less large scale software systems engineering. another is to pursue an advanced degree.
thank you. On one hand I would have loved to have worked / launched http://droprocks.com this weekend, but I think I got much more (personal growth/learning) out of joining the team I did.
I installed one in my Macbook Pro a few weeks ago for ~$300, but bought the 120 GB SSD vs. 80 GB. Considering I'm only using 60GB of it, I certainly could have bought the 80 GB and had everything shipped for right around $200.

It's easily the most noticeable upgrade I've ever done.
Since when it's a "serious" performance increase when "it boots faster"? Or if the first grep after the boot is faster (others must be fast since the file cache kicks in for every next one, unless you have, say, 128 MB RAM). Really not worth to mention.
My friend used the "I'm doing this for a living, so pay me" model, which has worked out very well for him. He was a radio talk show broadcaster and after one more format change (after CBS sold off stations to Alpha Broadcasting) and decided to found a subscription version of his same show. Two to three hours of show every week day for $7/mo. He had 500 paying subscriptions in the first day and has been making enough to pay himself, his co-host, production costs, leasing an office and building a studio in it, an assistant/booker, and pay all of the royalties (BMI, ASCAP, etc).

I'm undecided which model is truly the best, however. Purely ad or donation based content will surely acquire a much larger audience, but is that worth anything other than ego-stroking, if you can make the same living off of a couple thousand people willing to pay you to do what you do? Of course, it's likely a different proposition to take someone and ask them to do what they do for a profession for free (or donations, etc) versus taking someone who is doing it as a hobby or a starter project and looking to build up from there.

Adam Curry and Dvorak do the "donate" thing with the caveat that "as long as you keep making it worth our while, we'll keep making content". Of course, something like one percent of their listeners actually contribute (but boy, they contribute a lot). I tend to adhere more to the idea that you only ned a small number of true fans to support you and you can just cater to them. If you get the same income either way, then it seems the only benefit of a massive audience that mostly doesn't pay is that you can hopefully springboard that into a paying gig somewhere on a big time site or in some form of traditional media.
Complete with non working backspace, just like in Linux early days.
Agree with people here. Absolutely yes.

True Story: I was in the same boat. Usually people have never used it, but google for it to verify it's real - and are suitably impressed.

However, one day I interviewed at a company who had not only heard of it, but actually used it in production! I couldn't help but blurt out "Really? The code is horrible isn't it." - This turned the tide of the interview, as it showed the interviewers I had the ability to objectively review code and learn from my mistakes.

I was hired, but had to suffer being the butt of all jokes for a long time.
13 years == long in the tooth?
Welcome to Hacker News!

Based on your comment and that you have a tenth the karma of the person you're accusing of being reactionary, I would recommend that you make an actual argument or mount a defense, and stay away from these kinds of insults.
Of course, coal probably isn't cheaper, but no one cares about it's massive externalized costs.
A book about the related, long-term trend of decrease violence explained with different angels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...

(Religious extremists, totalitarian regimes notwithstanding.)
I'm going to be using Paypal and Spreedly. I have received e.g. consulting paychecks through Paypal before, without incident. They were rather bigger than any of the subscription plans I am currently contemplating.

Kalzumeus is formally organized as a yago -- basically, it is the Japanese version of a DBA. People paying me money for things are really paying me money for things at the moment. I will probably formally incorporate some time next year.
I keep seeing at best a 2:1 Apple:Android sales ratio for people who have name recognition, and usually much higher slants for people who don't. I'd love independent metrics,etc especially.
Anyone care to do the math on what it would cost in excess fuel to add enough metal shielding to the fuselage to offer passengers "new and improved: no x-rays!" flights? (Only mostly not serious).

With more widespread awareness of x-ray exposure during a normal flight, I wonder if we will see any people so agitated that they wear stuff like this:
http://www.medvena.com/protection_clothing_maco_en.html
Have you used OCaml or Haskell, beyond Fibonacci trivialities? How about J?
I've written USB drivers before (linux, but USB is the same for everything) and this is exactly how you do it even if you know all the command you're writing into the device. Spot on.
I'm not so sure about giving credit. Consider:

package main
import "fmt"
func blah() bool {
return false
}
func main() {
x := 5
if(blah()) {
x++;
}
fmt.Printf("%d\n", x)
}

(which prints 5) and then this:

package main
import "fmt"
func blah() bool {
return false
}
func main() {
x := 5
if(blah())
{
x++;
}
fmt.Printf("%d\n", x)
}

(which prints 6). Looks like a major problem to me, and at any rate it's a far cry from having made real (or any) progress. Python _did_ get whitespace right.
This "danger" actually forces the programmer to read through the code he is pasting by indenting.

Read through, or partly rewrite? More of the latter than the former, IMO. If you're only reading then 4 spaces is often indistinguishable from a tab.

Sounds like the "block indenting" style in Smalltalk. Kent Beck favored it because it made bad Smalltalk code look bad. (Hard to read.) I like the idea, but in reality, it's too idealistic and not nearly practical enough.
The problem with "they subjectively report feeling better" is that sometimes the people "lie" voluntary or involuntary. Perhaps they don't feel better but want to make the experimenter happy. Perhaps they don't feel better but wish to feel better. Too much possible sources of confusion.

Just using an exaggeration for comparison, if you pay $1000000 to the experiment subject in one arm to say that they fell better, then you will get a very big improvement, but it doesn't mean that they really feel better. This is an exaggeration, but the problem is that there are a lot of more subtle things that can change the self reported feeling.

I don't know how to measure the well feeling in a non subjective way. If I may just made up an inexistent medical device, perhaps I can put a 24hs endorphin measurer to the test subject and look for a difference in the mean concentration.
> So they were going to lose money no matter what, and did it in the least-impact way possible (let the fruit rot).

and at least that option might help fertilize their fields for next season.
Indeed - essentially, a container is a glorified chroot with a few (important) bells and whistles attached to it.
With all due respect to Jon Blow (and I respect him a whole lot!)-- I don't think he'd be able to do what he does if he didn't make a boatload of money off of Braid.
This article was written before FB acquired whatsapp back when it was still its own company.

That being said, it was "only" 20 months later that FB acquired it, so it's hard to believe that the ideals discussed in this article were no longer in the founders' minds when they accepted the deal.
Flash: well.. I could have done this too if you didn't ghost me
Because the security shown on all the videos don't appear to have those ready. That sort of gear isn't typically equipped.

So its sort of irrelevant to what police who were suddenly asked to hold a door from a violent mob.

With hindsight they should have had teargas ready. But they probably didn't expect the President to direct a mob to capture the Capitol.
If the average mass of the earth moves from high to low elevation then the rotation of the earth will increase in order to preserve angular momentum. It's the same physics as an ice skater who spins faster when they move their arms close to their body.
Say "Yes, but it's worth $xyz to me. Otherwise I'm not doing it."
No... if those officers had fallen back, sure, all good. I don't see an issue there. But literally you have an officer (and yes, I get it, individual versus collective) who moves gates, and starts waving protestors through.

If you're falling back because you're overwhelmed by a surge, the last thing you do is _remove obstacles between you and the surge_!
Yep, I totally agree. I've always said that you can prove anything if you ignore enough facts. Law of Propaganda Design.

Just throw out anything that doesn't fit your narrative and keep your message on repeat and your audience will fall captive eventually since most are not open to doing their own fact-checking.
Will this require both parties to be running the same compositor?
Lol at the copyright notice at the bottom.

I notice the app is made by Booz Allen Hamilton. It's a shame we have to farm this stuff out to contractors and not use the USDS or 18F.
Thanks for the podcast and book suggestion. Diving in now.
You name dropping one of the largest and most urbanized cities in the world proves what?
The purpose of UBI is to make elections about promising people money directly. Then its a fast race into socialism. You will never be able to take it away or reduce it. Its the end of whichever country does it, even if it takes some time for things to completely fall apart.
> In another meeting, Neumann said three people were going to save the world: bin Salman, Jared Kushner, and Neumann. Shortly after the news broke in October 2018 that Saudi agents tortured dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and carved his body with a bone saw, likely on order from the crown prince himself, Neumann told George W. Bush’s former national security adviser Stephen Hadley that everything could be worked out if bin Salman had the right mentor. Confused, Hadley asked who that person might be, according to a source familiar with the meeting. Neumann paused for a moment and said: “Me.”
Why you might need one (to partially quote jws's comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21599545):

"Synopsis: Secret keys are embedded in the device's e-fuses and are not readable by normal means because of a protection e-fuse. By measuring current draw during power up an interval is determined to be the time when the CPU is reading the e-fuses. At that time the power supplies are "glitched" from 3.3v to 6v using unspecified patterns from a signal generator. This causes errors in the e-fuse reading, one of which is to make a bank of read protected fuses readable."

CPU's (and other Integrated Circuits) might have specific functionality which can only be accessed by glitching the CPU during initialization, as we have apparently seen with the ESP32: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21599545)

ChipWhisperer -- basically assists in that process.

That is, it's a tool for learning/understanding more about CPU hardware...
>This website and the information it contains are provided as a public service by Booz Allen Hamilton under contract to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, and Recreation One Stop participating agencies.

https://www.recreation.gov/disclaimers
> 4. Buzzword soup

Maybe I'm in too deep but peer-to-peer is a buzzword? I mean person-to-person, without intermediaries. This seems useful and powerful to me (and my politics I suppose).

> 5. no transparency/security using crypto as bulk transport

I don't mean building a social layer on top, I mean building digital infrastructure on top, 'smart contracts' etc.

I still maintain hope for something like this but after watching the gradual but massive increase in the complexity of 'DeFi' (decentrialized finance) in the Ethereum community I don't know where to look and what to work on these days...
Google are scared.

I don't think they will go as far as withdrawing search (note: it's just search not their 3 million other products) from Australia.

But it does set a scary precedent for them.

To repurpose their analogy in the scare campaigns they are running in Australia:

Currently when you ask about the best coffee shop in the area. Google runs down the road, taking a sample of the coffee from the local shops and fills you up with coffee then tries to sell you a bunch of related stuff.

With this legislation Google will have to pay the coffee shops for the samples.

It's a small step but Google have been profiting from "borrowed" content for the best part of a decade.

They need to pay.
This is probably tracked at the national level generally, though "database of dams" at DDG produces some results.

There's the National Inventory of Dams in the US:

Congress first authorized the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to inventory dams in the United States with the National Dam Inspection Act (Public Law 92-367) of 1972. The NID was first published in 1975, with a few updates as resources permitted over the next ten years. The Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (P.L. 99-662) authorized USACE to maintain and periodically publish an updated NID, with re-authorization and a dedicated funding source provided under the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-3). USACE also began close collaboration with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and state regulatory offices to obtain more accurate and complete information. The National Dam Safety and Security Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-310) and the Dam Safety Act of 2006 reauthorized the National Dam Safety Program and included the maintenance and update of the NID by USACE. More recently, the NID was reauthorized as part of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 and the Water Resources Development Act of 2018.

https://nid.sec.usace.army.mil/ords/f?p=105:22:6387799923169...:::

Global Dam Watch: "GDW curates and hosts three leading global dam databases, and provides summary information and links to many additional global, regional and national datasets"

Globale Georeferenced Database of Dams (contrived acronym GOODD) (38,667 records)

Global Reservoir and Dam Database (GRanD) (6,862 records)

Future Hydropower Reservoirs and Dams (FHReD) (3,700 records)

Also lists external datasets, ICOLD (59,071 records), FAO AQUASTAT (14,500), and OpenStreetMap (54,308).

And regional sets: AMBER Atlas/Europe (630,000 records), US National Inventory of Dams (see above) (90,580 records), and more.

http://globaldamwatch.org/data/
Andorra is definitely a EU colony, or more precisely, a France/Spain colony used for fiscal evasion.
I've been making something kind of similar as well, although it's neither that pretty nor as minimal as I may have aimed for. And unlike the library in the post title, I only did container-style data structures, not other common stuff.

https://github.com/mwahlroos/libcoll-c
Hundreds of service worker wages are good for the economy. You could argue that they would be better employed elsewhere and I wouldn't disagree, but bitcoin doesn't even meet that standard.
Rust's async model takes very little time to grasp. It's very explicit. Nothing runs in the background (contrast that with NodeJS). You have strong static types to help you to know when you got a Future, you can decide where/when to await it.

It's programming with threads, where you have a thread pool and pipes to put tasks onto that and a helper function/macro. Await does this under the hood of course.
I'm not Dutch so I used Google translate and searched for "vierkante ventilator" (no ideas if it is correct but it worked). Look at image results for a quick overview. I also got interested and found this one:

https://www.biltema.dk/en-dk/construction/fans/floor-fans/fl...
If you are generating electricity in places where it cannot be used then you are causing needless damage to the environment and you should certainly stop doing that.

The idea that the majority of the energy used for bitcoin is generated in such places has no real basis in fact.
I'm not sure, but when measuring web server benchmarks I see most people referring to [0] and many Rust frameworks rank at the very top there. Proper benchmarking is hard.

[0] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
Miniflux sounds like a better, more complete version of my side-project[1], I had rolled my own at the time because I wanted offline caching but it's obviously not that useful anymore in our current work-from-home world...

[1] https://github.com/TimDeve/rasasa
Addressing and alignment of computer memory on binary architectures is happening on binary boundaries due to arithmetic properties. You can not buy a 1,000,000,000 bytes RAM chip for that reason.

Magnetic and paper tape, drums, delay lines and hard disks are (imperfect) hacks to have more memory due to cost of RAM.
Working out EV is easy for casino table games, relatively easy for poker and extremely difficult for stocks trading.
More like Wittgenstein's beetle-in-a-box: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_language_argument#The_...
Maybe it has changed since I built it, but I wasn't able to get this working with Swarm services. I had to convert them to docker-compose to make it work. The docs suggest it should work with Swarm mode though, so maybe I need to try again.

Ideally I'd like to give each service its own IP on the network, which was possible with how I had k8s setup.
I think this is an interesting concept for gambling: https://pooltogether.com
I don't understand why you're buying shoes never to even look at them?