jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Totally off-topic, but which phone had 5G in October 2019?
I was active in the Swift language community for a couple years, and I think it was not just a lack of encouragement, but rather a sense of neglect of use-cases outside the Apple ecosystem.

For instance, maybe it's fixed now, but for years running the Swift REPL on linux would spit out a few error messages every time you ran it. It still worked, but it gave the impression of being poorly supported.

What really killed it for me was the rollout of features like FunctionBuilders (now result builders) and property wrappers. These were just basically crammed into the language in a half-finished state with no community review, to support the requirements for SwiftUI, despite many other features languishing for years and not being implemented due to concerns about how they would affect swift's "design space".

Following that, I had the impression that Swift was and would always be prioritized towards Apple's goals, and any use-case outside of this would be a distant follower.
> A CEO asking police to do X or Y is literally meaningless. Why are local business people involving themselves in day-to-day policing?

Not sure if you're aware, but America has a serious issue with abuse by police, especially against black Americans. A few months ago, events in the news caused many people to take a serious look at what is going on. Many of my colleagues are black, and wanted to share their personal stories.

As a result, we all got together and brainstormed ideas for how we could tackle these issues and make our world just a little bit better for everyone. That was one of several suggestions and it worked. The idea comes from a list of proven ways to reduce police-related deaths (I don't recall the author, but I believe it was shared on HN).

> It sounds like you are in the wrong job.

I'm very happy to work for a company that dedicates time and money to improving our world. You might see business as only business. I don't. I think companies should use some of their profits to help those who are less fortunate, and charitable contributions and general social awareness are things I consider when job hunting.
Focusing on instances of discrimination makes perfect sense - there's a lot of those throughout history.

I can't say incarceration rates are applied unevenly because I don't know what the correct answer is, but I see people saying "x% discrepancy in outcome is evidence of discrimination", but I don't know what the correct %'s are, so I don't know how they arrived at that conclusion. How do you know that US rates are highly inflated compared to other countries? And, what is the correct breakdown of incarceration rates by race?
(This also seems to fix Bluetooth connectivity issues. I've got a Mac that likes to forget its connections, and doing this appears to force a "oh, I recognize that device".)
I'm considering a few hundred acres of mountainous clearcut land in the pacific northwest. Are there any resources you'd recommend to learn about replanting non-urban areas?
There's RCN as well which didn't suck when I lived there. I think DC is mostly the exception.
I think you're absolutely right: if you take it to mean anything, then it has no meaning.

However, as mechanical_fish touches on below, the definition of what a 'hacker' is (I think) is pretty misunderstood. Hacking is a creative process; are we trying to define creative people/roles/cultures merely by the tools that they use? That sort of limited scope feels extremely hubristic.

So maybe I didnt clearly express my point, and used bad examples: I'll accept that. The article seems to believe that Hacking = coding, and thus Hacking Culture = coding culture, which I think is a pretty limited way to look at things. Hacker culture is all about rejecting restrictive and unnecessary bureaucracy and procedures, and instead focussing on giving people the freedom and tools necessary to perform better and in a more creative way. Which I dont think really applies to your examples. A lot of places that claim innovation and free thinking still do so within a pretty rigid set of rules.
If I recall correctly, the status-quo-ante estate tax is 55% of everything over $1M. So a $3.5M estate would be $2.125M after taxes. (Note that the Obama Administration is willing to support a $3.5M exemption, but that’s not enough for the Republicans.)

I did a quick check at vanguard.com, and mutual funds that deal in intermediate-term bonds are yielding in the 6.5% to 7.5% range. So whoever gets guardianship of your kids would be able to feed, house, and educate them from an income stream of over $130K per year (presumably that income would be subject to capital gains tax).

I am sure that your untimely death would cause great suffering for your children, but I really don’t see them suffering in a financial sense.
That's quite a different hypothesis, involving tasteless calories taken well spaced in time from anything with a flavor or taste resetting your appetite. This is just about adding calorie-free bulk directly before meals to trigger "fullness".
Luckily for them, flight search is such a small [1] industry.

[1] orbitz, chapoair, hipmunk, expedia, travelocity, farecompare, cheaptickets, hotwire, priceline, kinkaa, zoombu, cheapflights, etc
Or instead of independently reinventing the wheel while living in communal apartments we could just choose to learn from people smarter than us who have already invented the wheel. I'd rather spend an hour of my time learning reductions from a really smart person than four hours independently stumbling through the problem. Indeed, the more complex the problems get, the less likely it is that the problems are even solvable independently. Seems like you are trivializing the process of learning. The time savings I get alone from having access to professors is worth the cost of tuition. Not to mention the research opportunities.
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:(

... does anyone have a mirror?
If you go to your ATM and get 5 bucks, and then go to the cafe to pay a coffee with it and it's registered in their system, this is the exact same scenario, you realize that?
BTC would be a bad choice in any unstable economy or high inflation. A much better choice in the case of high inflation, would be the currency of the nearest large country i.e. USD, Euros, Pound. Possibly RMB.

You get a free financial system, just without the monetary policy until the country can get moving again.

BTC doesn't provide any value whatsoever as it's by design a terrible medium for exchange, and not a very good store of value.

There is no situation where BTC is useful whereupon there are not already many better solutions.
I think the issue your ideal world of communication runs into, is that experts can't dedicate all of their time to public outreach. That's where journalists come in.
If you want to know why your chest hurts a bit on the regular, you talk to your doctor. If you want to learn a few interesting facts about a heart condition, you read an article written by a journalist.
The market doesn’t prove anything other than the price of something.
Love the idea, love the landing page. Looks excellent and has a lot of potential. I look forward to seeing this mature.

Long term, I'd love to be able to somehow get suggestions for a specific genre or language of music. I'm all for discovering music from other cultures, but I would _love_ a service that helped me discover unknown American or English-language hip-hop or hip-hop-adjacent artists, if that makes sense.
I find this extremely hard to believe.

EDIT: Just to clarify, AWS has a lot of IPs, over 100 million [1]. Let’s just speculate that 1/50th might be in an overall pool for customer allocation. Do you really think the majority of 2M IPs would come back blacklisted in some form? I haven’t dug in to this to actually see if this is the case, but it would seem laughable to even begin to think that this might be the case..

[1] https://toonk.io/aws-and-their-billions-in-ipv4-addresses/in...
> The only question here is how good can the "compiler" be in making optimal cpu instructions from "your" language.

> Stop this evangelist wars.

I think if there is any need for a war at all, then it should be between compilers not languages.
ECC is a huge thing in that case.

The thing about being a VPS provider is that if your hardware chokes, your customers notice, and they get pissed. Sure, if you are running some kind of web farm you set it up so that things keep running without interruption if you lose a server. But if you provide VPS hosting and you lose a server? People notice, and they will be pissed. If you are a VPS provider and you loose customer data? they will parade your severed head around town on the end of a pike.

Amazon has successfully tackled this problem by training their customers that they can shoot a server at any time. This is good for them, but it's not how VPSs have traditionally operated. customers expect the thing to stay up and for their data to stay safe.
I use it and love it for personal use. I would not trust it for business use yet. Text syncing goes out once every two weeks, sometimes for an entire weekend. It requires manual refreshing in the GV app. Froyo's new push notifications should reduce this problem.

I've been told that people have tried to call me and got busy signals multiple times.
Nudity isn't porn either, nor does all porn involve nudity, but this point seems lost on many.
Have you seen this guy? http://www.chrisguillebeau.com/
He shares your interest in travel; you might find it interesting.
More algorithms (for various coding situations) and info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_for_calculating_vari...
PO boxes provide stability should your physical address change, so there will always be a market for them.
Depressing but true.

My experience is that a company would rather assemble a team of low level business people to power through raw data or cobbled together observations for weeks rather than pull a developer off of doing CSS tweaks on the company's about page to actually solve the problem once in for all.

Using good tools can be a religious experience and make a company much leaner, meaner, and effective. However building good tools is high risk and rarely something company's want to work on (hence the problem with enterprise software in general).
Aw, c'mon--be bold.
443 is more likely than a random port to be allowed through a firewall, for example.
I think the mid-market quote is spot on. There really are no funds looking at the reliable sub 100M revenue market. (where a good percentage of start-ups end up at)
Sure. Layers, like the Internet is made up of protocol layers.

Bitcoin on-chain is layer one: slow, sure, and after 6 confirmations considered irreversible and immutable.

Layer 2 protocols would include the lightning network and the liquid bitcoin protocols - both systems designed for different use cases, with differing technological benefits and risks. There may be other layer 2 systems that I'm not aware of.

Some might consider the OpenBazaar marketplace protocol, the Open Timestamps (https://opentimestamps.org/) application, or the Bisq decentralized bitcoin/fiat exchange to be layer 2 applications, as they're built directly on top of bitcoin but includes protocols. But I think they're simple examples of the kinds of applications that can be built on top of the programmable trust-net that bitcoin represents.

Because bitcoin is a decentralized and permissionless technology protocol, anyone who thinks of a way to build on top of it can do so---without needing anyone else's permission.

Layer 3 might be applications built on top of layer 2, such as the censorship resistant Juggernaut chat app, built on top of the lightning network: https://www.getjuggernaut.com/. As layer 2 matures, I imagine we'll begin to see a wave of creativity unleashed globally as people create layer 3 applications.
In related news, there was an experiment where Hillary and Trump's genders were swapped - it turned out a female Trump was more popular than the male version: https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/if-donald-trump-were-a-wom...
Wait, you can’t write the Lorentz force down?
A 51% attack, compounded with a massive short-sell, could drop the price to effectively nothing.
NASA participation in LISA was removed a couple years ago due to budget issues. The ESA portion went on (it's called NGO now), but I think NGO is pretty much an acronym without funds.

In general, in fact, space interferometers have been held up and moved to ground-based systems. (See also SIM and TPF.)
You claimed that the studies kazagistar listed rely on outdated assumptions. So, specifically which studies are invalidated by specifically which assumptions? It ought to be easy to name one, since there are quite a few studies and you say there are myriads of outdated assumptions to choose from.

Your answer is that "so much has changed", you're "not going to sit here and list everything", and my question is "really just being lazy"? That's a little hard to take seriously.
I love Bitcoin, especially after being shafted by Paypal+Ebay

Anyone know any good bitcoin auction/selling sites? (i already use bitmit)
I know a few people (no programmers) who "container" their food at night. Which means they steal still eatable stuff from the trash containers of stores, so they don't have to pay for food at all.

I also have a friend who lived in the basement of a guy with the alzheimers (no, the guy didn't forget that there was someone living in the basement for free). Some relatives told him, he can live there for free, if he looks after the alzheimers guy every day.

So if you find some sick people to look after, for free living and go out one or two nights a week and container for food, you cam live without a job or money at all.

Health insurance could be a problem in most countries, I guess. Where I live everyone get's it for free, so it's none of our concern...

If you're lucky, the sick person you're looking after has an Internet connection you can use. Otherwise you're have to search for open WiFi in the cities.
You go through all these hoops then want to add a Gmail account???
Including all IPs I blocked today, they're spread between 5 different ASNs. I may resort to blocking them eventually, but for now - individually blocking the IPs (even in the thousands as it is) - seems to be working well enough.

As for user agent - they're using a very common, real browser user agent that's impossible to distinct from legit users.
Because your music taste is essentially a unique fingerprint that could be used to track you in the future even across accounts or platforms, and the only way to escape would be to literally give up on all your favorite songs and listen to something totally unrelated.
Exactly this. Apple has been sugar coating their initiative as privacy moves while they are actually strategic moves with every step towards crushing Google.

The problem starts they focus on services revenue. The old days Steve Jobs would built Services to sell more products. Now Apple are building services only to extract more profits and revenue.

And as the web include Apple ID for login, more users will forever be lock into Apple ecosystem even on the web. You no longer have users or customers direct relationship. Everything goes through Apple. And in the name of good and privacy Apple is standing in between every business and their customers. All while acting badly in the case against Epic when things dont go their way.
That happens if you bust the unions, see also https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/how-economic...
Thanks for mentioning our DIY sensor building instructions. Can you please let me know what exactly is outdated so that I can update it.
Also I am more than happy to give people trial access to our dashboard. Just PM me via the support form on our website.
It's like we didn't learn from the '20s and '30s that appeasement doesn't work.
Because it's political.
The meetups, hackathons, networking, etc will come back. I think that there will be more of a reason for a young engineer to be a place like SF or Silicon Valley when things return to normal than for a mature engineer. I foresee lotsa cheap commercial real estate, which will enable young companies to start in SV. I'm less sure what will happen to the home and apartment markets, yet at least the prices will be stable or lower to start with. The more of a mature engineer you are, the more likely you are to be in a stable job where you can work remotely and may be inclined to either move away from the valley or never move in.

I could be wrong; the next few years will be interesting.
"well-thought out uses of force" was certainly a part of school life in the post-war years, yet it couldn't stop teenagers, rock'n'roll, mini-skirts and hippies.

We are not talking about "no discipline at all", we are talking about violence against your children. Humans you brought into the world and you shouldn't have done that if you hit them.
If there were no profit motive for medicine, we wouldn't have therapeutics.

Anyone who invents a cure for cancer deserves to be paid handsomely imo.
Just fix the spelling. Only comment what is worth the time talking about.
That’s not an option for many (most?) people
There have been stories throughout history of ghosts, supernatural powers, witchcraft, dragons, Bigfoot, a flat Earth, etc.

Eye witness testimony is notoriously poor evidence on it’s own.

Of course anything is possible, but stories alone are not sufficient evidence since we do have a history of misinterpreting things or making things up without physical evidence and buying into it en mass.
I think this is one of weird shitty things about modern society which is that even if you're "well off" as an individual (say top 10% of household income) you hit an absolute wall when it comes to affording something like this. At $dayjob we get buried lines run without much fuss but the cost is more than any one employee's salary (more like 5 but still). As an individual you're basically dependent on gov't to get something like this done with no real way around it.
Trader Joe's also sometimes does the spray-your-hands--there's one in the same parking lot as the Microcenter.
A green username means that the account is new.

I typically ignore FAQs in websites, but the one for HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) actually has quite some good info.
Why is this a Show HN? It's a blog post/article.

See the Show HN rules here: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

"Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

On topic: things people can run on their computers or hold in their hands. For hardware, you can post a video or detailed article. For books, a sample chapter is ok.

Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead. "
Human how?
Could you give a simple example of proof that real world since real world intelligence is much more than symbol shuffling? I'm a bit unfamiliar with the idea.
It's been like eight years. I don't recall exactly, but what I recall is that Waze showed me other Waze users on the road, including their positions, and these were updated in something close to real-time, which means one could estimate their speed. I imagine a police officer waiting to "ambush" a speeder they know is coming.
You managed to shit on both westerners and people who use mindfulness… for no real reason.

Or maybe it was your alter ego?

Anyway, I used to have an alter ego. But I stopped using it for years, then one day a guy I never met got really mad at me because he didn’t want to use my nickname. It was an odd moment because I had never met him and don’t even use that nickname. He just heard it from someone else and the existence of a nickname apparently made him angry.

I quit shortly after because the manager who was also on the call didn’t even react as this guy I never met yelled at me for reasons that made no sense.
That was my first thought when I got unlimited mobile data back in ~2006. I could be always on IRC, seed torrents infinitely... and that's when the teenage lucb1e realized that there is no port forwarding on mobile networks and why that is a problem.

To this day I wonder why nobody seems to care at all about that. It's like being on the real internet except you can't reach each other, you have to always go through some third party that is on the internet proper.

At least we got "net neutrality" now, which doesn't apply to SYN packets for some reason but at least it applies in the other direction, so no more 'blocked site' page on buienradar.mobi because KPN wanted to sell its expensive SMS weather service instead of this newly popular weather radar site.

For what it's worth, I did compile and run a bitcoin miner on my phone ten years ago. Running services on it isn't exactly a new idea, but now that they're so powerful, it also means we can't supply enough power from the battery or dissipate enough heat while in a pocket.
That's a good question. There are plenty of people who have proved the GPS is wrong.

For instance, I am on 24/7 GPS/cell tower surveillance because I am poor. The police regularly (3 times this week) come to my home, pull me out onto the street, cuff me up and arrest me because they believe (from the GPS data) that I am not in my home. Then they will have me stand on the street corner in handcuffs until the GPS matches what they see with their eyes.

Those of us who are under constant surveillance for our poverty have taken to installing cameras that record onto the cloud so that we can later prove in court we were where we said we were (not where the GPS thinks we are):

https://news.wttw.com/2022/03/16/designed-reduce-cook-county...
A Donald Duck fan here: It is funny to mention that Donald Duck is way more popular in Europe then in his place of origin in North America. Several European publishers had (have?) authors on staff and share stories with other European publishers. Se we got (get?) stories that the Americans don’t get. Also in the nineties the translation in my home country was exceptionally good.

When I talk about Donald Duck with Americans they don’t get it, but when I talk with other Europeans there is a long and fun conversation ahead.

I always think it is cute when a work of art travels from the place of origin and shines in a different part of the world in this way.
> If you want to completely avoid dogs, then don't take a job that involves having to interact with dogs.

Following the above, wouldn't this be any job that requires interacting with other people? So basically any job?
I doubt it has anything to do with SEO. Some crawlers might try to extract section headings from content based on font size, but in this case the pull quote may even confuse this.

Vanity Fair didn’t want to optimize search rankings based on “The crime boss was ‘A CRIMINAL STAR in Romania,’ going by a variety of nicknames, among them ‘PIG HEAD’ and ‘GODFATHER.’” My bet is that they long ago told the web design team to make a theme that captures the feeling of their print magazine. The designers thoughtlessly included pull quotes in this theme. The CMS was adapted to allow insertion of said quotes. The person who prepared this article for publication added them hastily, scrolled 30% of the way down, picked two sentences that are near each other and are both about the same thing (Romanian criminals, not rare books), and moved on to the next assignment.