jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We're way past the point of truly caring about a person's qualifications on the job or universal human rights everywhere in the case of Germany.
Paper wallets make the most sense to me. It's a low-tech solution to a high-tech problem. Just have a stack of paper, each of which contains the private key of a wallet with 0.1 BTC or whatever. You can make copies, and you can give them to people as payment with whom you have mutual trust. When you want to transfer some money, just scan the private key with your phone, beep boop, it's transferred.
The Lords should never abuse procedure. This is infamy and they just lost another fan.
I found the lead-in fascinating, the "search of fundamental laws". I have to admit that the first paragraph wasn't about that directly, but I also found it intriguing ("allergic to food", heh) - probably because I identify with the absent-minded professor portrayed (or would like to).

The "lead" of a story is partly a matter of perspective. Eg. did Einstein reveal a deeper view of reality, or facilitate nuclear weapons, or help end a war, or prove everyone wrong, or get away with crazy hair? The "lead" depends on the reader.
Although I share your anti-censorship sentiment, but I think you probably have an overly idealistic view on how book selection for public libraries works.

It's easy to make a long list of non-obscure books which you can be almost certain you won't find in your local public library.

FWIW, my own doesn't even have a subscription to a non-abridged version of a good online dictionary, but they have all of the books by Ibram X. Kendi (and multiple copies of some).
When I was young I hated those bands that uses synthesizers and preferred the guitars and drums. Now that I am older and got into electronics and programming I now am amazed on what they can do and even started collecting some of them.
Never worked at a DB business, but feel confident that

> "diving into an unfamiliar area of the code and quickly figuring it out" was very important for us.

Universally applies to all software jobs.

What's I find interesting (based on my own personal history) is not only the ability to solve a task in an unfamiliar code base, but also do so without creating side effects (like say quadrupling the size of a binary since you incremented a poorly named constant that is reused as a size of a memory allocation by multiplying itself with itself).
Data Compression. The P2P program compressed the file to a smaller size and recompressed it on your end. It did go faster but it is an illusion.
An Alberta politician foolishly gave an interview on-camera while a swastika was flying behind him. You can hardly deny it.

https://albertapolitics.ca/2022/01/we-are-judged-by-the-comp...

Trudeau was not making shit up. Dude was literally standing there with some of the worst symbols of hatred and oppression being waved all around him.

Likewise, the rally organizers are unabashedly white supremacists. Have you never watched Pat King spew his effluent opinion? And tell me again about “so many of them” being ethnic minorities while I peruse the photographs of the crowd… the overwhelmingly white crowd.

And I can not believe you when you say you don’t know why First Nations people don’t get vaccinated. You’d have to live in a hole to not hear the news stories about natives being treated as subhuman by doctors and nurses. Shit, right now there’s a scandal where a premature baby in the NICU has a broken femur and the hospital is stonewalling its indigenous mother about WTF happened. Only the willfully blind and deaf can claim to not know why Indians don’t trust the medical system in this country.

If you think your fellow Canadians supported the protests or if you think your province (sans Quebec) was ever under a real lockdown… well, man, you have to get yourself out of whatever disinformation hole you’ve dug yourself into because reality ain’t what you think it is.
OK, flagged.
This piece ignores the obvious. These people aren't afraid of their own criticisms of Apple. They are afraid that their criticisms will be magnified and distorted by the press and used as the basis of hit-pieces, and that this will reflect badly on them.

This isn't fear of Apple. It's legitimate fear of what the press will do with what they say.
Well, that's also largely due to all the source (transitive dependencies) being present in one monolithic repo.
The plan we discussed at SXSW was to establish some sort of hunger games style competition where the unemployed battle for a rich life in the capital far from their respective districts, but admittedly there is a lot of work to do between now and then.
The activity is recent. There was a 6-month gap with nothing being done at all. Pretty much during this gap Atom got born.
Oops! Should have mentioned it, as microarchitect said, it's per month.
This app is a blatant ripoff of ForeFlight (http://www.foreflight.com/ipad).

TechCrunch caught the ripoff:

http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/04/18/efb-for-ipad-will-your-...
A shopping list: 'Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels - bring home for Emma'

That should be just sufficient... ;-)
Oh, I see what you mean. I agree completely.
I wasn't complaining. I enjoy this place a ton, but it's pretty obvious when a 20 minute old submission has 80 votes for it and zero comments. [citation needed]
> It also of course, provides legitimate employment to a lot of people throughout Africa.

It's only 'legitimate' and productive because people like them so much; if people stopped liking them so much, then such employment ceases to be legitimate and becomes on par with being paid to dig a ditch and then fill it right back up.
I find lack of universal copy (as in copy and paste) more disturbing. I wish I was able to select and copy text in just any application, or at least in browser and mail!
i went to the github repo and dl'd the apk directly using the raw link. Using it now.. definitely different.
I'd say the problem there wasn't allowing MacOS compatible hardware--it was requiring that hardware to be too close to Apple hardware.

The clone makers were required to use Apple-approved designs for their motherboards, expansion busses, and so on. All they really had some freedom with was the case design, and they got to pick how to build the thing.

This forced the clone makers into essentially the same market Apple was in, so there was almost no chance the clone makers could grow the Mac market.

That isn't what the clone makers wanted. They wanted to make MacOS compatible machines aimed at markets Macs were not in, rather than just end up competing with Apple in the existing market. One of the clone makers demoed some laptops, for instance, that covered nicely parts of the laptop market Apple wasn't in, and publicly begged Apple to let them sell them. Apple wouldn't allow it.

In some ways, this was a continuation of an Apple problem that started earlier, even before the PPC switch. That's the problem of too many models in a given space. I remember when I bought my Centris 650. It was a brand new model when I bought it. 14 months later it was discontinued. Apple had dozens of models like that--each a minor variation on something they already had, but with a different name.

Buy a Mac, and 18 months later go to buy RAM, and it was was a pain in the ass, because the vendors no longer listed your Mac model. Want to buy a hard disk? Again a pain in the ass--because each model had a slightly different way of mounting an internal drive, and the vendors were no longer advertising the kits with a mount for your Mac (this was before the internet was big, so you couldn't just pop online and check their catalog...if it wasn't in their ad in the magazines, you had to call or send away for their catalog). Want some really cool expansion hardware that used the fast "direct to processor" bus instead of the much slower NuBus? Oh look, each model Mac had a slightly different pin-out for that bus.

I think Jobs knows exactly what he's doing. He knows that what is best is to have a small number of devices that are clearly distinguished from each other, and have a large amount of non-overlap in the markets they are best for (although one might argue that MacBook and MacBook Pro have a lot of market overlap).
Why? I've only used an iPad a couple of times and I didn't find it very easy to type on, especially if you need numbers, brackets, a dash etc. Maybe it's something you have to get used to. Or maybe you have to get one of the keyboard docks (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC533LL/A), but that's not very portable.
Nitpick: I think you meant to write “whinging” rather than “winging”
You don’t know which speeds are actually reckless. Using speed limits to inform your opinion is circular. It depends on the design and condition of the road, the quality and features of the car, and traffic, weather and environmental conditions.
Podman doesn’t have a daemon, it has a socket that will replicate the docker API. That comes with some limitations, especially around the lifecycle of containers in ie starting containers on boot, restarting unhealthy containers etc which require you to use systemd. Podman’s integration with systemd is pretty easy now though.
True. But these days it's rare to see a scope other than what you'd expect from the short hand version. Old school JS with plain prototypes and flexible 'this' scope is very powerful, but is too hard to understand and thus rare these days.
> Why aren't there ASICs for hosting web sites

Isn't this what ESP32 variants are trying to achieve? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266
How judges get picked is a huge issue that most of the population have no education in. Having them selected by the populace leads simply to judges that enormously punitive. The population as a whole believes that criminals should be destroyed/deleted from society, and the judges that can deliver that are the ones that get elected.

This generally means very-police-friendly judges that will issue warrants without any cause, and will deny any attempts to later fight the illegality. These judges then move up to the appeals courts and support the same policies by the friends they left behind in the lower courts.
I would resist any rule system enforced in this way, even if I agreed with it. Not that it matters, but I do agree with most of the rules, as I understand them.

Also, I'm a liberal as stated, and I prefer the company of gay people. I'm happy to do what I can to make those around me comfortable. I am not happy to do that, or anything else, on pain of cancellation.
> it's the top few percentile that you need to restrain, not the masses

And how do you propose to "restrain" them, if not by enforcing a speed limit?
There are people looking at how to use them outside of rich text editing, it’s just that the technology was developed/initially applied to text editing.

I’m more excited about the use of CRDTs outside of text editing, there are so many use cases. However there are still some problems to solve with the existing general purpose toolkits such as Yjs and Automerge. Both give you simple data structures and some more complex structures specifically for rich text. For a true conflict free system you need the CRDTs to match your data model exactly so you can never have a invalid state after a merge. This is almost never the case with existing toolkits.

Take Yjs and it’s ProseMirror bindings, Yjs can represent any internal state of a ProseMirror document and merge them. However it does not have an understanding of the specific ProseMirror schema being used, this could limit the valid states possible (a max length on a heading for example). When Yjs merges multiple edits you could end up with an invalid document for your schema, Yjs loads this into ProseMirror which then throws away the invalid data (with the heading example it just deletes the excess text, it may be better to dump it into the next line but should be configurable).

These sorts of problems are “ok” in a text editor but would be much harder to cope with in a database or a 3d cad tool.

Ultimately the general purpose CRDT toolkits need to have more internal types with a wider ability to capture intent. I also think they need to have the ability to understand the schema of the data structure they are tracking and how to handle more complex merges.

The alternative to doing that with a general purpose toolkit is to build your own CRDTs from scratch for your data model. I don’t think many people would go that route though.

Once those sorts of problems have been solved I think we will see their use explode into new areas.

It’s still early days with them but exciting time ahead.
There are now 3 YC companies making temperature-controlled cooking products, with 3 different engineering approaches: Cinder, Nomiku, and Pantelligent (note: co-founder). In each case, the basic tech works, and the result is really delicious, matching and sometimes exceeding what a "sight/intuition" skilled chef can produce. You'll believe it when you taste it!
Yes, and I fought for its repeal along with other members of civil society. There was no overwhelming public support. In the only show of overwhelming public support was when fundamentalist Christians (who are not affiliated with the government) took over a feminist organization and overwhelming public support for the feminists and homosexuals pushed them out.

I'm not comfortable with blanket statements about Singapore politics and society from armchair political scientists.
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I seem to remember reading something about how this was coming down the line for Chrome.
You could pay yourself a salary from the investor money. Happens all the time.
In banking this was attempted and achieved mixed results. UBS for example tried to get people to move to Stamford but they've migrated from that strategy because they couldn't recruit top talent out of schools. Young people don't prioritize saving money, they want to have fun.

Goldman Sachs' #2 campus is in Salt Lake City. They pay less and save on costs but I suspect the real ambitious employees don't take that assignment. You are going to have trouble climbing the ranks if you're posted out in Salt Lake City. It does attract the people who don't care so much for corporate climbing and prefer quality of life.
What you say seems intuitively correct to me, but I have to ask (because I am a hardcore pedant)... source?
> To my knowledge, I can not run a program that fails type checking.

GHC added support for that. (They jokingly called it Python-mode.) See https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/DeferErrorsToRuntime
Stop with the annoying music, faux chanting, and instructions. Bleh.

I had high hopes.
That's a very good point. Quality of meat isn't something that seems to be accounted for in studies linking meat consumption to various diseases/health issues.

Out of curiousity, do you eat a lot of vegetables?
It doesn't sound like this to me.

It seems you were begging for money for a brand-new project of yours. I actually remember it from last year. If you were dishonest about money then, why should we trust you now?
Atom is not only not open source but ...

Do you have a source for this? I'd be very disappointed to hear that if it were true.

EDIT: It appears that this isn't true. From a GitHub employee in freenode/##atom:

<jonrohan> EvanDotPro: it will be open source, and other platforms, when it's out of beta
<chance> jonrohan: where are you getting that information?
<jonrohan> chance: i work at github
> It's the golden unsolved, perhaps unsolvable problem in crypto.

Sorry, perhaps my question wasn't clear. I wasn't asking about MITM in the general case, I was asking about this particular case. The certificate chain for Hacker News seems to go AddTrust -> COMODO -> Another COMODO -> *.ycombinator.com. So in this case, if you're MITM'd by MCS Holdings, is MCS Holdings going to be part of the chain (after a CNNIC)?
> People will tell you to do you DD

No they do not tell you to DD. Just do boggleheads method.

And its your fault for "investing" in shitcoins (all coins are shitcoins).

And the time horizon is 20 years and not 2.

You can buy a house and it needs a repair in the 2nd year and you are again in the hole. You get a bad tenant and again bag holding.

Everybody has promising clinical trials all the time.
But collectibles have a finite length of value based on the generation to which they are of interest. Many old baseball cards from the 1950s and 1960s are actually going down in value as the people to whom they were nostalgic are dying off. It might be a while for Nintendo NES/Famicom nostalgia to do the same (and even later for subsequent consoles), but eventually the people who had those consoles as children will die and later generations just won't care.
This is interesting. I have wondered for quite some time now if the millennial generation will be subject to mass infertility in their 30's due to constant cell phone radiation near the genitals. Obviously this won't be the end of the world, but it may certainly cause a drop in planned pregnancy. Fertility drugs are typically seen as rolling the dice, so maybe adoption will become the way of the future - who knows?
My point is that the offset value needed to produce the described behavior depends on various implementation-specific things, so that constant may need to be altered when trying the code on other compilers, OSes, or CPU architectures.
How exactly do they block WiFi while simultaneously providing WiFi?
Their PyPI packages also seem to be pulled out[1], but thankfully, their Twitter account is still alive![2]

Also note that there seems to be a mirror for the PyPI packages.[3]

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/foundationdb

[2] https://twitter.com/FoundationDB

[3] http://download.gocept.com/pypi/foundationdb/
> P.S. I think your experience is a pretty good example of what drives many people to build startups.

Yea, this place drives me more and more mad. I have dabbled in my own side projects, but I am thinking more and more that the time to leave the mega-corporation will have to come soon, for my own sanity at least!
> That's $50 a month for the average customer. That's way too low.

I vaguely remember a talk I had with an employee there was a time when I think the average user was paying only $20/mo, which at the time, I had a $250-500/mo bill depending on load.

This was before they even had a load balancer product (so 2012-2013-ish?), and I was running a fairly unsuccessful managed WordPress offering that had dynamic scaling based on the reported metrics.

The infrastructure was just a big server for MySql, and a tiny server for the orchestrator. Then it would use the DO API to spin up new servers off a snapshot, ssh into them, and run the setup script to point to the right Wordpress instance in the database, then add it to the nginx reverse proxy list for the domain.

The whole thing could scale up or down in 30 seconds. Sure it isn't as fast as AWS or Azure could scale, but we were in control, in code, before containerizing was even really a thing.
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This is where Julia and PyCall come in.
There’s the possibility of creating a new wallet with your money and handing over the keys.
Unlike stocks where price is usually influenced by future dividend you can extract from the stock (profit), Bitcoin is more like gold.

Imagine if suddenly someone found 100 000 metric tons of gold and wanted to sell fast. It would saturate the market and the price would plummet.

Same would happen if Satoshi wanted to quickly sell 50 billion of coins.
They could, if they wanted to be sued.
> It took a generation for people to learn to chat on a phone

What does this even mean?

If it means that only children born by parents who had a phone can chat using them, it is a false claim, seeing that even the Queen has a phone and uses it to chat. https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/queen-elizabeth-ii-...
Those regions would still have trucks to work with. In some ways they would be better trucks because they wouldn't have to sort though the trucks aimed at people who don't need a truck. When inspecting a fence line you want a slow truck with a lot of suspension travel. When you fill the bed of the truck you want a suspension that doesn't point the headlights at the sky, and don't care that the suspension system that can do this results in a rough unloaded ride.
More likely Lost down his own private-Idaho-rabbit-hole.
I do not know why some down-voted this, but all these points are correct, and not only for Poland but also for many other countries from Eastern Europe, which had or even still have political problems due to the descendants of the former communists, who never really lost their mafia-like power.
> Now the sound of music comes in silver pills
> Engineered to suit you, building cheaper thrills
> The music of rebellion makes you wanna rage
> But it's made by millionaires who are nearly twice your age

from The Sound Of Muzak by Porcupine Tree.
Yup, exactly what I am doing. I posted that I am deleting my account in 30 days, and linked my SpaceHey profile for people to sign up there and friend request me if they want to stay connected on social media.

Got a backup being generated right now by Facebook of all my data, and will be permanently deleting it after that.
I suspect most people <30 use FB for family stuff only and don't actually "hang out" there. But they do spend time on IG, so FB has their bases covered.

If you want to get out of the FB world, you need to delete FB and IG.
They're all just on other facebook platforms like IG / WhatsApp anyway.
> a single person faces an enormous social cost for boycotting FB properties

I'm not clear on how to quantify "enormous". Many people don't use facebook and still manage to make appointments and lead fulfilling social lives.

That said, it is clear that for many people the "social cost" is larger than the "facebook evil cost", even for people demanding government intervention. I guess for those people, the cost for demanding politicians Do Something is even less.
> It is really absurd that instant messaging is not federated like email.

The joke is that it used to be. FB Messanger and Google Chat had XMPP hooks so you could talk to whatever other platform, Slack used to have an IRC integration, MSN/AIM/ICQ never tried too hard to get stop reverse-engineers from putting their protocols into all-in-one messengers... Then businesses realized the value of locking in users and becoming walled gardens.
There's something about that picture that makes me really not want to donate. I understand it's working on others and its probably silly of me but something just puts me off.
When were users notified, though? Publishing on a blog doesn't count as notifying users of a change like this, I don't think.
The transaction fee argument is an old one, as the answers to your comments say, it isn't what will make bitcoin fail.
Isn't the realpolitik behind US tolerance of Pakistan simply that the US is not powerful enough to make war with Pakistan?

Such a war would draw in lots of other powers and would be a massive drain on the US. All we're left able to do is make nice with the military strongman in charge in exchange for Pakistan looking the other way while we invade its border country.
I agree, I do hate when things crash. But, I have to say, it has been a long time since something has crashed on me. I use Chrome on my macbook and it has never crashed, that I can recall.

At the same time, though, my boss at work is somehow capable of making everything he touches crash. He has destroyed windows and apple operating systems like they're nothing.