jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> legal distortion field IP lobbyists have created.

Yeah, that's the part I hope there's a way to undermine. Pull the IP rug out from the music industry and they're done.
It's simple: Native HTML5 is powered by the cloud.
I grew up on the East Coast, but I love Silicon Valley. Not necessarily as much as I loved NYC, but they're very different.

Silicon Valley has really, really nice weather, almost to the point of monotony. It rained something like 3 times last summer, and the rest of the time it was 75-85 degrees without being too humid. There's a lot of asian cuisine available, and some of the best restaurants (of many varieties) in the world to the North in Napa. Nature is extremely accessible, and some of the best skiing in the US is a relatively short drive (the Rockies are much, much better than the Appalachians). It's a day-tripper's heaven.

As for downsides, Houses tend to be smaller, and even those are absurdly expensive. Rents in the better parts are just a cut below low-end NYC rents. The atmosphere could be described as "Irrational Exuberance" or more commonly as an echo chamber, which can be great encouragement if you're trying to do something crazy, but it can also severely weaken your BS filter if you're not careful. Silicon Valley itself is better-than-average suburban sprawl, but it's still suburban sprawl. The public transit system is lackluster compared to NYC, but it is an option, at least. Access to a car is generally necessary (ZipCar might work, though).

There are a bunch of other upsides and downsides, but those are the impressions off the top of my head from having lived there a bit less than a year. Overall, I really like it.
This is why you demand a percentage up front, before you write a line of code. If they aren't happy with this, walk away - they aren't sincere and you're walking away from a world of hurt.

Personally this is rule 1.
All the company's github repositories have been pulled:

https://github.com/FoundationDB/
They are still giving partial financial aid for people making more that $125k. This is helping a lot of the people who would never have a shot at affording Stanford. Is it perfect? No, but it is a step in the right direction.
This is really poor reasoning and is just making up magical conditions. What if we figure out it's a simulation and our creators get upset because it's no longer fun for them and torture us?
(Also because apparently I have to state this explicitly in every comment related to Trump: I do not support Trump, his supporters, the recent events that occurred at the capitol, etc etc)

It is a horrible state of affairs where you need this disclaimer in order for your ideas to be taken more seriously. Not directed at you personally, but as a descriptor of the situation.

Is it any surprise people are angry and furious and lashing out when they are dismissed solely on having differences of opinions from the establishment?
Apartment Guide gave me a mug at Clojure/West last year...I was a little surprised that they were so invested in Clojure that they were sending multiple devs with boxes of swag to a Clojure conference. The devs I talked to also said they weren't very experienced with Clojure yet.
How is this different from a convertible bond?
The problems you've outlined really are pretty normal teething problems for a system like this. The best argument in favor of cancellation is cost.

Personally I would never have produced a new strike aircraft. With the advent of cheap guided bombs what you really need is complete dominance of the air and big, big bomb trucks. I would have bought another thousand F-22s and spent money upgrading the heavy bomber fleet.

Nobody asked me, though :)
> "well known data base [sic] degradation"

Came in here to refute this as well. We've been running PostgreSQL on ZFS (ZoL) at MixRank, and it's been holding up very well. We switched from EXT primarily for compression which gives us ~2x savings on IO throughput.
Metasploit does the same thing, and we've managed to not have the internet implode yet.

Yours is the standard argument against any form of disclosure. I'm not discounting it, because no disclosure has its merits, but responsible disclosure satisfies both an ethical imperative (you can't let people believe they're secure if you know otherwise) and provides pressure on vendors to fix their software, when the vendor might otherwise deem it not worth the time or money to fix the issue, which leaves their customers vulnerable.

The basic idea behind disclosure is "we might not be the first people to find this, and we definitely won't be the last, so let's remove all doubt and rob the bad guys of the element of surprise". Responsible disclosure is intended to permit responsible vendors to fix the issue before wide publication, but an uncooperative vendor doesn't mitigate the reality that the bug exists and will eventually be found by someone less benevolent.
I speak enough Japanese to know this, but I still disagree. These organizations have an official and well known English name, and these English articles were written for English speakers, not Japanese speakers. It would be like calling China "Middle/Central Nation/Country", or just calling it Zhongguo.
No kids yet, right?
There is no evidence for unicorns, but I don't know why everyone assumes they don't exist. Isn't it equally likely that they are just really good at hiding?
But the "natural noon" you described is more simple than the timezones with DST that might or might not happen depending on who was elected locally and nationally.

A system where noon is regulated by a single, immutable equation describing the position of the Earth vis-à-vis the Sun would be much easier to implement.
Who "they"? As far as I'm aware, all mentioned companies have EU offices too.
I take it that you don't sleep?
Yes.

Also consider that 45 is not the typical poor defendant, who cannot afford adequate representation in court. He is (theoretically) a billionaire, and can afford $1K/hour constitutional law experts.

The fact that 45 and his crack team of lawyers (more like, "on crack", right?) have failed so completely tells you there just is no actual evidence there.
Seattle is a place where people can throw each other off of overpasses into traffic just fine.

CHOP wasn't significantly different
If "cancer" was this new disease that appeared in 2020 and it was highly contagious I'm pretty sure similar measures would have been taken. Or in other words, lockdown doesn't help combat the spread of cancer but it helps against airborne diseases. On the other hand, we haven't ignored cancer, AFAIK is one of the family of diseases that has most of the research funding going into (at least pre-2020) and it shows, the treatment efficiency for many types of cancer in 2020 is much better than it was 50 years ago.

So then... what's your point?
> Members of Congress have very limited access to secrets, and none of it will be on the unlocked computer in their front office.

Members of the house intelligence committee have access to all levels of US secrets. There is nothing classified enough to where they can’t see it. Some members even fell for Chinese spy honeypot influence campaigns.
Absolutely love the Orbit model and app!
> Twitter has just made the most aggressive move they can against 70M americans who voted for this person 2 months ago.

I wouldn't say "against". Rehab will be hard, but the life and health of those 70M Americans will improve by this move. Those poor people were basically suffering from a chronic poisoning of chortisol for 4 whole years of non-stop artificial outrage
What if they are not qualified?
> Are there people here on HN that believe the election was stolen?

Not me, but plenty of friends and family have such views. Every argument voiced to me so far from those sources has been some variant of the following two arguments:

1) <ludicrous thing> happened, therefore the election was rigged

2) <ludicrous thing> happened, therefore <verifiably false thing> happened, therefore the election was rigged

Elaborating slightly, <ludicrous thing> is defined here to be something designed to appeal to your common sense -- something that without close inspection would be plainly incompatible with a non-rigged election to any reasonable person. That's probably ordinarily a fine enough chain of reasoning, but all the instances I bothered to examine had the property that reality directly contradicted one's gut reaction; they seemed cherry-picked to be easy to believe and repeat while also being false (not to assume malice, I think that's exactly the kind of reasoning you'd expect if you went fishing for evidence to support a theory you believe to be true).

As a specific example, one argument was that the exact vote tallies for Biden and Trump were the same across many voting locations, therefore a computer program must have generated the result. This sounds reasonable on the surface because it seems unlikely that if you drew vote counts out of a hat they would coincide, and most people aren't equipped to be able to analyze such a statement further -- it's "ludicrous" to imagine that in a fair election that kind of anomaly would happen by accident. In practice though, combining the facts that most combinations of votes are comparatively unlikely (few locales would have a 0/N split for example) with the large number of voting locations and a healthy dose of the birthday paradox, many repeated vote tallies are _exactly_ what one would expect from a fair election. Their absence would in fact be a suspicious property indicating some kind of large-scale fraud.

Anywho, I didn't investigate every theory (there were a lot), but I did check out the first 10 or so which came my way and a randomly selected 5 or so (till I grew tired or bored) from each subsequent batch. There might be a valid argument in there somewhere (and independently of their ability to come up with a valid argument there _might_ have been some kind of massive fraud), but the best evidence I've seen is pretty shoddy.
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Same thing for me! "That's a third of my salary!"[1] But after getting a master's degree for free from the government and looking forward to free health care, kindergarten and cheap public transport for the rest of my life, I can't really complain.

[1] Note that the Norwegian tax system is progressive, so median wage earners don't pay as much as that.
MS: 'Largest and most sophisticated attack'.

Reality: 'solarwinds123'
Seriously.. I'm going to drop this now, but this data is a mess.

The methodological assumption of inferring beta from the first few days implies, looking at the infection data, that people receiving the vaccine are significantly more careful/less susceptible to the virus than those not.

But looking at hospitalization, it implies that they are WAY WAY WAY more susceptible.

last edit, for real: I looked at the preliminary Cialit findings. This is much more sane: a case control study. They find benefit-- about 33% efficacy-- post day 14, unlike the data you've been showing.

It's not blinded, so it is potentially wholly consistent with the Pfizer data if those vaccinated are taking 2-2.5x the risk of the control cases. To me, this seems pretty likely.

And if not, it is a different subpopulation--- we don't know what the data would look like for a similar demographic in the Pfizer study.

And, of course, I don't mean that we positively know that 1 dose is super effective in the real world for a longer stretch. But, it's something that's extremely likely to be shown in a blinded RCT based on the data we have so far.
We have colder weather where I live, but I see I used 550 kwh per month (at most). Even if my house is half your size, 70 kwh seems like a lot for a daily baseline. I have a similar situation (kids at home studying, me working at home).

Does the the car that drives up your electricity usage that much?
At the beginning (early March 2020) we were told that the lockdowns would last for at most a month or two, in order to "flatten the curve", at least that's what "science" was telling us. I know I believed in that, even though I'm no scientist.

One year on and that "prophecy" (because that's what that was, just a prophecy) turned out to be pretty damn false. Nevertheless, we still let the people/scientists who deceived us back in March 2020 to take "science"-based decisions that will affect the lives of hundreds of millions going forward. Nobody will be held responsible, apart from a few politicians.
i like anekdot.ru - they have a pretty solid community, and the jokes are really funny (sometimes).
That looks a bit ropey... it needs incoming connections through a firewall? It does peer discovery by connecting to an IRC channel? It's rate limited by adjusting the complexity of the calculation? (Who does that and why can't anyone else manipulate it?) I need to backup a bitcoin wallet after every transaction so the money isn't "lost" (where does it go? is it just leaked and lost forever?).

It's written in C++ with hardly any comments / comments like this:

// Get cursor
Dbc* pcursor = GetCursor();

It has hard coded IP addresses to connect to by HTTP, sending headers claiming to be Mozilla 4, to find the external IP address?
I agree with the tenuousity of just tacking shallow game elements on top of existing applications. Using game mechanics and dynamics for optimal user engagement and loyalty is a deep and complex topic that is currently being explored and researched by many.

If you are interested to learn more, we are setting up a new Wiki for gamification discussions and the open/crowd sourcing of various game mechanics @
http://gamification.org
Sure. But high cost of living means higher salaries for your developers too. I've turned down numerous jobs because they're London based (and won't do remote). It's just not worth the drop in income.

And frankly, London isn't California. It's a grim place to live on low pay.
So how would you propose that software companies operate? Make all their applications server based and as a result much more closed than ever?
Yes, in a variety of currencies.
I haven't heard about PyCharm until now. It looks like a great IDE. I think I'm going to download the trial version and see if I want to throw down the $50 for a single user license. Quite cheap and if it's as good as it looks it will be well worth the money.

Check out their getting started video: http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/demos/quick_overview/pychar...
There are many devices cheaper than a Wii that will stream video over a network, allowing you to watch your downloaded movies without connecting the computer directly to a TV.
I find that I am much better at thinking of tasks or new ideas/projects but am much worse at finishing them while staying up late.
4.5 million is a lot for icloud.com. It isn't even that great if a name.
Cloud is a buzzword, but there's very little brand equity in MobileMe. I bet less than 1% of iPhone owners have heard of it. And those who have heard of it probably haven't heard very good things.
Of course not, but then, I’m not anywhere near a social circle that would permit those kinds of people. I’m sure they exist.

But my question still stands, if not the microchip thing, what is a conspiracy theory about the vaccines that has merit worth considering given 5 minutes of critical thinking and research? None, as far as I’m aware.
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In 2011 I attempted to reverse email MD5s published by stackoverflow. I recovered ~28% of 95k unique email hashes using a slow CPU based hasher, by trying simple patterns based on common names and providers. I did not use any already known email addresses for this.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/84734/152255

I think a bit later somebody else did a similar attack on a different dataset, and recovered about 50% using a GPU based hasher (a GPU can burn through billions of MD5 hashes per second).

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/crypt...
Yes, that was my intention… but the comment got downvoted so I learned today also that probably commenting here now is not what it used to be a while ago.
This is a Li-Ion battery because Lithium isn’t one single technology it’s a family of batteries that use Lithium.

So lithium titanate, lithium cobalt, lithium manganese oxide, nickel cobalt manganese(NCM), nickel cobalt manganese Aluminum(NCMA), lithium iron phosphate(LFP), and now lithium sulfer are all related but they have very different trade offs. 15 years ago Li-Ion battery tech meant worse trade offs so fewer charge cycles, slower charging, less energy per charge, more costly etc etc.

And yes, NCM and NCMA both use lithium.
> No reparations were made for 350 years of de jure oppression.

Most history books are filled with stories of gross injustices, exploitations or just plain horrors. Hardly any of those are ever later compensated by any reparations - that’s just how the world goes.
Will there ever be Windows support?
To clarify: I bought the car after I moved out of SF. I didn't need one while I was there. But I still think being trapped in the city was unhealthy for me.
"Compression" is probably just poorly chosen wording. This has more to do with reducing the number of required samples in applications like eye-tracking VR, where you can choose to render a dense image for the part that the user is looking at, while reducing detail in peripheral vision. Current implementations use some fractional resolution(s) for the periphery and blend pixels using more traditional methods, which results in blurryness and/or aliasing artifacts.
This almost calls from a microcode patch or kernel driver from AMD to mitigate this, if at all possible.
They like the independence it gives? Only 52% are satisfied with it according to the same report.

By the way, the report shows in appendix table 7 that only 23% of the sample reported more than 50% income from the gig economy. Don't you find it weird?

> The laws are created by a minority of people who don't always vote in favour of the public.

And Uber has the interest of the public in mind, right?

> You regulate it like a normal job, and the thing they like about it most will be removed.

Hiring someone as a freelancer to do a regular job (that is, a job where Uber decides fares, conditions and tools for the job and the worker mainly does what it's told) is fraud. And I'm not the one saying this, the courts are saying it in the UK [1] and other countries are following suit.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/19/uber-lose...
Are you talking about the target of this link from TFA?

> a new app called Singularity (only built to open on phones not computers).
Author here - thanks so much for sharing!

Sounds of Gratitude started as a hackathon project at Bonus.ly. Each animation and sound represents a real message of appreciation as it occurs, a reminder of the positive interactions that happen all around us each day.

Through the years, my collaborator Ben and I noticed some fascinating uses of data as digital art (like Listen to Wikipedia), an experience that's even more magical when it happens in real time! Especially around Thanksgiving, it's really cool to see and hear how often appreciation is offered at work around the world. That's why we were so excited to work on doing something similar with appreciation data from Bonusly.
For accessibility compliance, you _need_ text and a DOM. Screen readers rely on HTML element semantics, ARIA attributes, and text content. The only way to make a canvas element (which is what you'd typically need to render custom UI) accessible is to have a textual fallback.

Outside accessibility there's also the issue of responsive design, huge SEO impacts, rendering performance... I'm probably missing a bunch.

Lifting a sedan with my bare hands is obviously easier than lifting a 10 wheeler, but it's still a massive problem. Rendering stuff is not the biggest issue.
McKinsey...
Imagine if google said tomorrow that email is dead and that they are closing down Gmail... This is basically what google did to RSS. They promoted it, adopted it.

Google made it impossible for existing solutions or upstarts to compete with their free tools, then slowly killed off marketing it and supporting it. The final straw was when they killed their reader.

Google killed RSS and they are actively killing other vital parts of the Internet in favor of their tech (forcing the use of their AMP tech for the best spots on their search engine results is anti competitive, Their web browser Chrome has saturated the market and is also making decisions which will undermine the Internets open protocols, but literally hiding the protocol in URLs, hiding the path in URLs, thus forcing people to search more).

Google is not alone in using it's capital as a destructive force on open protocols and standards. Facebook, Amazon, and Twitter are the same way.
Banning cars has already happened:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/sep/18/paradise-life...
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Relative to something like Microsoft Office they’re tiny and we have open competitive solutions there (a product notorious for a billion corner cases).

And let’s not forget “EDA software” was single handedly pioneered by one woman and some lisp. Before then, it was hundreds of men taping out circuits on 4x8’ ply with...physical tape who all complained the labor and complexity costs were enormous and nothing could be done.

If we really want to point fingers, we could say it’s a monopoly on the supply chain side of manufacturing - costing millions in NRE’s to make a chip - but if you are willing to scrimp on process size you can get it done for $3 per layer per reticle at 500nm scale and $50 per mask.
YouTube Premium is literally the service HN wants: honest payment to support a Google service costs and creators publishing on it. It's a sustainable service which actually earns more for creators than ads and data mining (at least according to last CPC values I've seen for video ads).

And yet, it seems like the author of this piece still feels entitled to complain about being asked to pay the price of service and these comments are full of people advertising products that still use the service without paying the asking price. It's like demanding that music authors just send you MP3s for free without paying for it at all.

I personally hope that more companies allow me to pay for their services instead of being plagued by behavioural ad tracking.
What about DuckDuckGo or archive.org? Wikipedia?
Also switched to DDG, while great for English, its localization is horrible.

My native language’s alphabet is Cyrillic and whenever I search for anything, I always get results in Russian, even though I’m not from Russia.
> USA unilaterally committed itself to ending the entire planet

Would they have taken the nukes off the bombers if Swaziland had objected?
This looks like a very interesting project. Does anyone know if it supports saved queries?
Hi Steve,
That does make sense. I understand that I'm not the target audience, as well :-)
I think that's technically considered part of GMail/Google Talk. Google Voice just provides a facility to route the call to GMail/Google Talk.
See:

http://illadore.livejournal.com/30674.html

and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1868736