jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We inherited quite a few swimmers at a club sport in college, and most of them had had various kinds of shoulder issues. Not to mention the various ear, nose, and skin issues from the chlorinated water.

You can get hurt with any sport if you get unlucky on the genetic draw, or overtrain.
If you are referring to Apple, I have a question.

I see a lot of speculation that apple will produce a car.

But apple at the moment just designs hardware, doesn't really make it (as in they don't have their own factories), so presumably they would either need to build factory for their cars or hire some other factory(or factories) to build cars for them ?

As far as I understand most cars sold in USA are build in USA (I am not sure if that's only because of shipping costs or if there are any import taxes or something).

Even if most parts were from China finally assembly would probably have to be done in USA, and factory quite big and expensive, and have lots of trained people (to have apple standards).

Given that its apple that we are talking about car would almost certainly be an instant hit, so they would need to produce a lot of them, which again means big factory with lots of people.

How likely is it that everybody missed such factory ? Especially with press so obsessed with apple. Even if some other company like Toyota were building it for them, they would likely need a lot more additional capacity than they have now ?

And we have seen with Tesla, that scaling out is really the big problem here.

I genuinely interested how likely is it that apple cars will be on streets anytime soon.
In all the cases that have been historically tested, it agrees with observations, as the article claims. It doesn't mean that's all there is.
At least in the particular example of string theory, it is way more than that.

1. Firstly, it is more a framework, rather than a specific model. Eg: You cannot test statistical mechanics (framework) as such, you test the kinetic theory of gases (model). String theory is still quite nascent: there's been tremendous progress, but the goals are also very ambitious. It might take a few more decades for scientific research to culminate in a concrete model that provides ripe pickings for practical applications.

2. There are definite some limits where string theory has added new insights on things we simply had no clue about (One such poster child is the concept of "dualities" between field theories, and new ways to understand very practical aspects of quantum field theory.) I do not wish to go into too many details, for fear of digressing.

Consider this apocryphal story about Faraday: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/faraday.asp

Sometimes it takes a lot of imagination and a significant period of time before progress in basic science can be applied to human existence. But in the long run, it will invariably alter the situation drastically, in a way we can barely imagine.
1. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/material-questi...
2. Amara's law: "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run."

Given the possible payoff in the long run, imho, the investment being made today is a trivial amount. Eg: "It's been only half jokingly said that today a third of the GDP is attributable to quantum mechanics." http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/Augustine2.html
I see your point, but who is uploading videos to Google then deleting the source? These services are for sharing and streaming, not archiving.

I don't work for Google but I do work on large scale data hosting. When you shut a service down you have multiple phases. Step 1, stop capturing new data. Google Video did this years ago and anyone truly invested in the service knew what was up back then. Step 2, pick a date to stop serving existing data. Step 3, wait for a very long time for more requests to get data back. It is crazy how and why these trickle in years after the fact. Step 4, delete data. I bet Google wont actually delete data for a very long time if ever.

Maybe step 2 is aggressive, but in my experience 90 days notice doesn't make a difference. Nobody does anything until the last few days if ever. You just have to draw a line in the sand.

It is very hard to shut a service down with any sort of usage, let alone Google scale usage. But very important to do from time to time. This is what I respect.
We're at a point where it's pretty obvious that the principal will never be repaid. The debt will continue to get serviced, which is all anybody really cares about.
Looks like he was a pretty good guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Schwab
I was. Thanks for the great link!
What i found very nice is graphs of the population size through generations of metuselah's, with my favorite being the R-pentomino http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/index.php?title=R-pentomino
Hence my frustration with the relentlessy inept articles across the MSM about the 737MAX crisis. Aviation Week's coverage was the only one that was even remotely credible.

BTW, if you're interested in the facts, this report should help:

2018 - 035 - PK-LQP Final Report
http://knkt.dephub.go.id/knkt/ntsc_aviation/baru/2018%20-%20...

If you want to argue with me, I'll just cite that report :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nQ2oiVqKHw

It reminds me of my good ("old") days on the computer.
RON progressed over these three years. RON docs now sit in a RON-based revision control system coupled with a RON based wiki http://doc.replicated.cc/^Wiki/ron.sm
You would have to read through hours of long s to find out what "emoluments" really mean.
What about pointing out more factually based claims such as which groups commit more crimes, etc?
Social-media is to main-stream-media as printing-press was to crown-church preachings a few 100 years ago.
I have no advice, but what a cool thing to have passed down!
This seems to be contradictory. It's ok to be politically biased, but still factually accurate for things that fit their political bias? The NYT and others like it go out of their way to pretend they have no political bias, using the passive voice to give authority to slanted reporting which favours one "team" over another.

Being a partisan mouthpiece isn't itself a problem, the issue is when it pretends (and many of its supporters repeatedly and falsely claim) that items described in the paper are more objective and carries greater weight than those in your average political party's weekly newsletter.
Seriously, WTF is going on with NYT. I think something has seriously gone off the deep end with their newsroom, but I feel like it must be so culturally ingrained in their newsroom now that even questioning some basic assumptions will get one vilified as a racist or sexist.

One of the most recent examples that really struck me was NYT's article about why they decided to capitalize Black, but not White, in their paper: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/insider/capitalized-black...

Now, I can certainly understand, and consider valid, the arguments both for and against capitalizing Black. However, the decision to capitalize Black, but not White, is completely non-sensical to me, as is NYT's bizarre 1 sentence explanation in that article: "white doesn’t represent a shared culture and history in the way Black does, and also has long been capitalized by hate groups." What? They don't even try to give any argument behind "white doesn’t represent a shared culture and history in the way Black does", which reads like a poorly researched high school English paper. And the fact that some bad people have decided to capitalize White is their rationale that it must be lower-cased?

If anything, the top comments in response to that article make a hell of a lot more sense than the NYT's decision itself. I'll also note that many other news organizations, like the Washington Post and CNN, have decided to capitalize both Black and White, e.g. https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2020/07/29/washington-post...
as a contrast, 100k is a toprange salary for a really good developer in Bangalore.

Isn't USD100k a ridiculously large salary in Bangalore for any job that has 'Developer' in the title. I'm actually completely blown that a person at a software company in Bangalore could be making that much.
I usually say that encryption is the easy part. Just use XOR and you are good. All the complicated bits are related to key management.
> For most billionaires the answer seems to be that you buy a moderately upgraded version of all the stuff you had when you were middle class,

I don’t think you know what billionaires live like. Either that or the middle class you refer to is something very different from the one in the states. A 150ft yacht that you fly to with your helicopter from an airport you landed at with your private plane isn’t really relatable to anything in the middle class... unless you count jumping out of a tree into a canoe.
Great question!

We focused on building out the contributor side of the marketplace first. However, we are now focusing on building out both sides of the marketplace in parallel.
News bias. News is drawn to controversy. Alas a lot of trans people have to live with that, because they are naturally edge cases for a lot of things.
The ads/content ratio of this site is about 1/30. Where is the problem?
Specifying the language with an /en/ in the URL isn't a major inconvenience, and allows for future expansion at the cost of 3 additional characters in an URL.

Including it says "I planned ahead and worked intentionally", which shows you care, which fundamentally is what this article is driving at.

And yes, documentation should generally be in English first - it's the current language of science and tech, just as it was when French, German, Latin, Arabic, and Greek proceeded it.
Congrats to DO.

Really like the direction DO is going. Which is something in between millions of small VPS firm and giant like AWS. It also forced Linode to React. And proved the space in Cloud Hosting exist, which company like Vultr and UpCloud are now joining. And I think their features are finally close to hitting the perfect spot. With all the essential like DBaS, Object Storage and K8s.

They have also ( finally ) introduced AMD EPYC CPU, ( no more explicit mention of Intel CPU on their homepage ). Which is good for their margin since price / core count are cheaper.

So DO today is something I would like as an AWS competitor in 2016. And they are finally here. I am not sure if there are any other low hanging fruit at all. Or what features I would want for a company competing at this space. It will be things that people dont see, like CPU performance, SSD Performance, Services Reliability, Interconnect, Better Network, More Locations, security improvement....

There are only two suggestions I could think on top of my head right now.

First is the pricing structure and list. It is getting very messy and AWS like. SSD Storage variant should be a simple calculable option, not an extra line on pricing table that tries to bombard me with extra information. And I know Basic Droplet are burst-able CPU resources, but not showing they are vCPU ( a Single Thread ) and calling them CPU doesn't really rhymes with me.

Second is Full BareMetal Monthly option. Something like vultr [1] is offering. I am not sure if below $100 is feasible. Basically it should be something that offer much better price / performance at a monthly payment that pushes people with low spending to metal for baseline load with headroom as insurance. Pushing up Average User Spending. It should also be attractive to small business. ( Although arguably Linode and Vultr has yet to expand or launch Metal seems to suggest otherwise )

[1] https://www.vultr.com/products/bare-metal/
Thanks for responding! It absolutely makes sense that Manara is targeting a specific talent pool in order to leverage the founders' personal skills, experiences and connections. If anything, targeting the entire MENA region seems like incredibly ambitious undertaking on it's own. I certainly didn't intend to imply that the burden to serve those other communities in similar ways should fall on Manara in particular!

Rather, I think everyone who cares about those communities I mentioned should be paying very close attention the work you're doing, and the exceptional results you're seeing. The fact that you are already sharing those lessons with other regions - well, that just gives me another reason to keep cheering you on. Wishing you all the best!
That's true. Doing one thing well does not mean a single characteristic - it means being fit to operate in a given role.
This depends on where you live, what your experience is, and if you have taken equity. This could range from totally fair to well under-market.
Can you link to your portfolio?
My suggestion to you tonight is to build a single about me page that links to all your work, and why it is good and someone should hire you.

I have this - and mine is utter crap. I cannot believe I have so little good stuff to show, despite years of doing this. (http://www.mikadosoftware.com/paul_brian). I realised that I also do not finish projects - but I have to finish something so I at least put it on github and link to it.

You can do better.

This surely must become a trend - looking on ODesk for a fool to do crap work must give way to CVs that demonstrate actual ability.
How do you feel about metaphors with obvious flaws?
How does solving a random task make the software good? As I said it’s easy to use but it’s bad software. It’s non conformant to nearly all standards the encoders are decades old… it’s bad AND not maintained. Even Microsoft knows it that’s why it’s EOL.
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The analysis is interesting and makes sense that populations wouldn’t largely be targeted, but it seems that’s assuming some kind of logical strategy to the war where the objective is to disable the forces of your opponent. That’s nice and tidy to then say populated areas won’t largely be targeted, but what if the objective in using them just becomes to create as much human suffering as possible?
>Jul 22, 2020
Republicans will take back both houses of Congress in two years. So, the overblown rhetoric that Democrats have to stage in order to hide the fact that they are basically Republican by most policy measures ("why don't we have affordable healthcare like other nations have, especially in a pandemic?" "Because fasciststs!1!") only has to last until then.
Title should say Parler, not Parlor.
Is ISPF some kind of technology? I googled it, and the first few pages were all non-technical things. I searched for it on GitHub, and the first few pages had nothing to do with social media, P2P, distributed services, federation, nor anything else that could be relevant. Please provide a link if you can.
This is exactly my problem. The United States is structurally terrible at responding to a pandemic. We have a slow moving, federal republic with (ostensibly) a weak executive. We have open borders between states that is (arguably) constitutionally protected. We have a patchwork of local authorities with differing skills and abilities.

The federal republic is an incredible system of government for many things. The balance that it has (in theory) restricts it from doing anything quickly, including responding to a pandemic.

Yes, the pandemic caught us with our pants down, so to speak. But I would not trade for authoritarian control for protection against a once-in-a-century pandemic.

(I know Aus is not an authoritarian country and is quite like the US culturally. But it is an island. The only non-island nations that have curtailed this are strong authoritarian states)
I use Google calendar, it doesn't have this feature.

Only closest possible workflow is this
1. Create a public calendar link in Google Calendar that shows your availability
2. Create an event with your preferred time and a description : "Feel free to change the time of the meeting. Here's my availability: {public calendar link}"
3. Invite the person you want, make sure they have permission to edit the event
Wished a lot more outlets did this because Twitter embeds rarely load for me on mobile. For ex in Apple News or Safari any Twitter embeds are just a spinning loading wheel of death
Not an American, so perhaps I'm missing some nuance, but as an outsider looking in I find this comment perplexing.

Am I correct in assuming the rioting looters and mostly peaceful protests comment refers to the BLM protests earlier this year?

If so, am I understanding correctly that you feel these two protests were similar in their nature? It feels to me that protesting decades of racial injustice is vastly different than protesting because you didn't agree with the outcome of an election?

Again, I am Canadian so I am likely missing some local understanding, but I just don't understand this comparison.

Now that I've thought about this further, another thing to add. If memory serves from the BLM protests, while there was rioting and looting, that was denounced by the majority of the protestors and not the core intent. From what I saw on Wednesday, the rioting and destruction seemed more central to the protest, and I haven't seen anything about the majority of the protestors denouncing the violence and destruction of the capital. It's possible I did miss this, and if it has been denounced by the majority I do apologize.
Current desktop is an HP Xeon box (xw6200) from 2004/5 with a new graphics card, running Debian Wheezy. Just keeps going. No capacitor problems. I'm thinking of 'going laptop' when it stops working.

The 'character' of a PC is just your files (is it not?)
Careful design of regulation can lower the barriers to entry, and thus make colluding harder.

You are right about the scale of the big players making it hard for upstarts to compete. One of the most straightforward ways to still get competition, is to make it possible (or even easy!) for foreign companies to bid.
https://github.com/ga2arch/HNews :D

that's the source code, it's ugly i know, but it's the best i can do for now :S
This is a good time to purchase a password-vault app - AND USE IT!
I don't know much about online credit card transactions, but how are you supposed to do it? Don't you need the number to transfer to Visa or whoever in order to get money out of someone's account?
Microsoft had millions of pieces of defective hardware out there which they were warranting free replacement on for several years. Unless Sony's going to replace all the PS3's in the wild, the direct costs for dealing with this PR nightmare shouldn't come close to what Microsoft set aside.
Because Sony would need to send your unencrypted CC# to your CC company when you make a purchase is it even possible to not store it in plain text?
Looks OK in my Firefox, says it's signed by Comodo UTN-USERFirst-Hardware.

I am not making this up.
Yes! I've seen the worst team in the company get praised, wined and dined because they pulled the customers bacon out of the fire - the fire they created by bad programming.
Good for him. Alexis is a genuinely nice guy. When I launched The Startup Foundry, Alexis emailed me two days after I launched (when I still didnt have much traction) and offered his support. I've had the privilege to interview him in a couple different occasions since then and he's always been incredibly kind.

He's a real standup guy.
https://twitter.com/kuschku/status/1156488420413362177
How about they find alternate revenue channels? Like every other business in the world?
That's why I prefer to use .com/.net TLDs who are not associated with any country.
I would hone in on pages 27 & 28 in that document. In particular, this quote:

> Cookies can also be a legitimate and useful tool, for example, in assessing the effectiveness of a delivered information society service, for example of website
design and advertising or by helping to measure the numbers of end-users visiting a website, certain pages of a website or the number of end-users of an application. This is not the case, however, regarding cookies and similar identifiers used to determine the nature of who is using the site, which always require the consent of the end-user.

It is, of course, legalese. But they seem to be drawing a distinction between analytics and tracking. Counting distinct users seems to be acceptable without consent; profiling users does not.
You were also not the literal and legal property of your lord. It wasn't slavery.
Well, they may not be using the .so domain for long. This outage seems to be because they're not eligble for .so and it's getting taken back.
So this was an application used by extremely non-technical customers (i.e. marketers) spending money on behalf of many, many brands.

Relying on their IT to do this just wouldn't have worked and was definitely not scalable.

For context, if Power Editor disappeared along with its revenue, Facebook would have needed to report this to the market.
Wouldn't this be more likely to indicate that Bloomberg is lying/mistaken?
PG over mysql is obvious IMO. PG over mssql, not so obvious. People often forget the 'management system' part of RDBMS. MSSQL provides an enormous amount of tooling in the typical enterprise install. Analysis services, data tools, etc... provide a lot of value beyond a data store.

Of course if you don't need any of these additional tools or can't afford them, then yeah pg is a great choice.
Agreed. There are too many various electrodes, machines and protocols for the same applications. It would be interesting to see a study that incorporates readings of neurotransmitters, MRI & EEG prior to and post tDCS application over a longer period.

I also think the chief science officer of Thync was avoiding making any medical claims as tDCS is yet to be FDA approved.
Sleep is a given. The brain is learning continuously, not just during sleep. Go back to a section of a piece after 15 minutes doing something else and notice it has become easier.
The banks don't process any of my payments on the weekends, so bills and invoices don't matter if they arrive on the weekends.

Saturday and Sunday thus are not required.

As for legal documents, those are all based on the standard work week as well, so that argument falls as well.

As such there is no reason for mail to be delivered on Saturday or Sunday. At the company I work at we get mail on Saturday, we don't get to read it until Monday anyway.
One guy posting angry on Hacker News does not constitute bullying or intimidation, and "fuck you" is a fair and balanced response to the suggestion that military personnel are inherently morally superior to civilians.

While I'm at it, we need to drop this tired tactic of insinuating that strong disagreement is censorship. I have never suggested that anyone shouldn't be allowed to disagree with me, so, no, it's not ironic in the slightest.
You mean the intolerance of Apple and Google... or?

That’s such a dumb meme because obviously tons of people disagree on what intolerance is.