jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> If I hide gold at home, that’s virtually zero energy and is fairly secure. It’s not perfectly secure but it’s good enough for a lot of people. It’s distributed and zero energy.

How did that gold get out of the ground? How did it get to your house? How will you get it to where you want to sell it? How will that buyer transport and secure the gold?

> Bitcoin will require banks at scale and an increasing amount of energy for the duration of its existence, or at least until mining is done. The network can’t handle transaction volume so people are forced to settle transactions off network. That’s the job of a bank.

The lightning network and pegging higher transaction coins to BTC are the answer to transaction volume. It's super early days in crypto, but there are already proposed solutions being developed.

> The US is secured by its foreign policy. The foreign policy exists to protect the world’s strongest economy. The dollar’s value is a product of the strong economy. It is not directly secured by the military. Without a military there would be no US, and no economy, only then could you say there would be no dollar. So unless you plan to eliminate the US economy, Bitcoin’s existence doesn’t affect the need for a military, even if it was the world’s standard currency.

The USD and its associated taxes are used to fund military actions that I have major ethical issues with. It's been that way since this country was created. I would be 100% fine with the US gov going away. In fact as an anarchist, it's the end goal of my philosophy.

> If you actually care about the environment, I can’t think of a worse idea than promoting an energy black hole powered by coal and tech garbage.

I promote clean energy and ethically clean stores of value. Not USD.
Science fiction is not prognostifiction, it's not an attempt to predict the future, and never has been.
It's going to depend on your tax rate and the expense ratio of whatever Nasdaq ETF you choose unless you're planning to self-manage 100+ company investments. Dividends get taxed (usually) as income, so you'd have to deduct that from the average dividend yield. QQQ, for example, has a 0.2% expense ratio and around 0.55% yield. If you assume 30% tax rate on the dividends, the after-tax, after-expense yield is under 0.2%, or basically negligible even with compounding.

If you want to compare dividend reinvestment, you should stick to non-tech indexes.
From the papers section: "A Language for Automatically Enforcing Privacy Policies" http://projects.csail.mit.edu/jeeves/papers/popl088-yang.pdf (I hope you like the lambda calculus!)
Thank you, I shall do some more (and better) reading.
> Not an affiliate link

If you're going to take the time to recommend something, go ahead and put an affiliate link. It's pretty obvious if someone is here solely to spam. We're capitalists here, and aren't opposed to people making money.
If Godzilla is angry, that is an ominous sign.
I was confused by that too, until I realised that the article is specifically about the Saturn V.

What the author wrote was: "After only two unmanned launches, the third Saturn V took Apollo 8 to the moon."

Apollo 7 used a Saturn IB booster and so, while it was the first manned Saturn launch, Apollo 8 was the first manned launch of a Saturn V. The two unmanned launches were Apollo 4 and Apollo 6, which both used the Saturn V [1].

Edit: Clarity

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_missions#Unmanne...
It is worth noting that the Slackware homepage hasn't changed much in almost 15 years. The only changed they seemed to have made is changing it from a white text on back background design to a black text on white background design very early on.

https://web.archive.org/web/19991117022152/http://slackware....
See also the BADA55 elliptic curves, which were generated by a variety of commonly-used "verifiably random" procedures, but which all contain the hexadecimal string "BADA55" (or, more impressively, "BADA55EC") in their parameters somewhere:

http://safecurves.cr.yp.to/bada55.html
Police abuse is not an outlier, it's a horrifying reality that many people face.
It reminds me of the robot dogs from the Black Mirror episode Metalhead.
I don't get it...

Isn't RCT what the medical world, psychologists and sociologists have been doing for decades?
A great, empirically based, comprehensive look at the devolution of criminal justice in the U.S. can be found in "The Collapse of American Criminal Justice" by the late criminal law scholar William Stuntz.

TL;DR: The trend started nearly 200 years ago, though for various reasons it accelerated in the mid 20th century.

Some reviews:

"The book is eminently readable and merits careful attention because it accurately describes the twin problems that pervade American criminal justice today―its overall severity and its disparate treatment of African-Americans. The book contains a wealth of overlooked or forgotten historical data, perceptive commentary on the changes in our administration of criminal justice over the years, and suggestions for improvement… Virtually everything that Professor Stuntz has written is thought-provoking and constructive... Well worth reading." -- Justice John Paul Stevens, New York Review of Books

"This volume is exceptionally rich, insightful, provocative, and well-written. It is bound to have great influence on academic thinking, and perhaps in time on the criminal justice system itself... Stuntz's book will repay much closer scrutiny than I can give it in a review… [An] important book." -- Richard A. Posner, New Republic
I'm definitely considering getting old. I have an older computer that uses way too much power running my NAS, and was considering using an ARM SOC, but SATA has been an issue. If I can find a decent motherboard, I'll consider running it with ECC RAM and call it a day.
The physics of pulling something with steel wheels on a steel track make the demo a lot less impressive than it sounds.

To illustrate, consider that the world record for a single person towing a train by a strap held by their teeth is 280 tons.
my assumption was that people who ride this kind of car want to stand out in the first place. Most pick up trucks and other kind of trucks all look pretty weird like the slideshow at the start. Square cars, weird dimensions, etc. I think they're appealing to the right demographic here
Looks like Tesla has no clue who the people are that buy trucks
I understood this article and it is relevant to my interests since 25G NICs are coming this year.
You can have more than one distribution channel, e.g. your own monthly subscription site, plus a bundle of transcripts (reformatted as an ebook) + a package of screencasts, sold via https://www.softcover.io/ which takes 10%. Use 80/20 rule to figure out which topics are in high purchase demand and could benefit from a deeper dive. Lower-cost channels can feed demand for deeper/premium products/channels.

Background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8224896 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7350265
Sorry, but on this topic, the Snowden disclosures decisively shift the burden of proof away from me. Read them, then moderate.
What is this fleet of Teslas doing on days with good weather? Either they'll have too much capacity when the weather is good or too little when the weather is bad.
I think I'd rather be neither.
I'm disinclined to patronize Hoefler & Co after the big lawsuit/breakup of H&FJ. Opinions may vary, but based on what I read I thought Hoefler was the sort of person I'd avoid giving my business to.
Am I the only one that thinks we need to start at re-evaluation of BSD sockets first? I know Apple tried and gave up, but it just seems like so many of the building block pieces we use everyday could really use a major polish or some good competition.
I'd say more of the best apps are written for Qt. Certainly the only high-profile case I know of an app switching from one to the other was Rosegarden, which switched to Qt and found it to be a much better toolkit.

Part of the reason is history (if we're talking about 15 years ago then Qt had a more restrictive license - and, sad to say, the gnome website still spreads FUD about this, or did the last time I looked). But mostly I think it's that big distros have Gnome as the default - probably because it's easier to support since it's much less configurable than KDE.

(And I don't think it's a clear case of one being "more mainstream"; rather, my impression is that Americans tend to use Gnome/GTK and Europeans tend to use KDE/Qt)
[EDIT: I originally defended the article on the grounds that the statements you pointed out were not necessarily contradictory. I then finished reading the article and decided it was not worth defending. What garbage...]
"The atmosphere I like and am used to is drowned out by the atmosphere you like and are used to."

Yes, it's an endless drone on TV and my wife doesn't love it, but it is unique to this World Cup and gives it its own flavour. Come visit me in Summer and our heat is dry and merciless all day. Visit the tropics and the night is filled with cicadas for hours on end. They're things which not everyone will love, but they help define these places.

The vuvuzelas are not forever, but they help define the 2010 WC.
That's probably better than the typical contestant who simply has categorical weak spots like sports or opera. Although not being able to grok audio or picture clues on top of that would be a real problem.

Every season has more clever, non-traditional categories to make Jeopardy! more playful. For example, it wouldn't be unusual to have a category like "Monopoly Colors," where responding to a Daily Double clue of "The $1 Bill" with "green" could be catastrophic.

This seems really fun, though. I'm very glad to see this kind of high-profile project that has the potential to rouse the curiosity of potential computer scientists.
I'm sure I'm not the only programmer who also loves music. Thought I would share a song I wrote, inspired by an XKCD strip.
And they have now just unblocked pornsites(I know you said childporn, but plain old regular porn is also illegal here, and is one of the main reasons for the GFW).

Sites such as redtube etc. were blocked until about a month ago. They've all been unblocked for some reason.
I imagine the combination of radiation plus the increasing amount of debris and garbage in orbit contribute to the degradation. Plus I'm sure part of it is just keeping up with the pace of technology innovation occuring on the ground. Everything computing/communication-related has been evolving fairly quickly the last 30 years or so.
The original post is obvious and not worthy of nearly so many words, but yours is damn interesting. I have a thing for infrastructure, I guess.
Hey thanks. The name is pronounced i-o-rad....like biorad minus the b:)

Once out of beta, we will do freemium. Maybe charge between $20-$40/month to download doc, ppt, web version and customize logo.

PDF instruction and hosted course (with iorad logo) will be free
> Wasn't this a big deal when Rust hit version 1.0 [1]?

No. The big deal of Rust 1.0 is that a 6 months old Bevy can compile on the latest version of the compiler. Since new features regularly get added, codebases which use the new features will naturally not work with compiler version predating those features.

It is a concern (as seen with the recent cryptography hubhub), but it's a project-specific concern: projects have to decide on their compiler compatibility range.

Though you could say that it's an ecosystem problem, outside of specific projects I don't think there any sort of badge or way to assert compatibility with specific compiler versions. Since distros are starting to ship rustc (and are unlikely to track the standard mainline), I expect awareness of this issue will grow over time.
Thanks for the tip, the GitHub release makes a real difference compared to the outdated version on the Play Store. It's sad that there is not many reliable email client alternatives to GMail that works with custom server.
> If there's not a single, global rate for a nondifferentiated good, it means it's not a competitive market and a cartel or monopolist is imposing segmentation.

Much of the work of product development and marketing is creating differentiation (real and perceived). Is a Mercedes E-class different from Toyota Camry? Is 90% lean ground beef from Whole Foods different from 90% at Trader Joe’s?

Is economy class 21-day advance, Saturday night stay required travel different from a walk-up ticket out Tuesday back the same Thursday?
This is the typical argument on a very technical board such as HN where blockchain is synonymous with a specific implementation. But that's an outdated way to think about blockchains. Yes, Bitcoin's implementation is a huge resource hog and slow. But for most newer projects "blockchain" just means an auditable trail of state changes. Whether you implement this with the shiniest newest db paradigm or some simple SQL database is irrelevant for most people in the economy. However the fact that we now have a global consensus over the ownership of digital assets that's something new and valuable. And that consensus didn't exist in a meaningful way in the past; at least not in a way that was accessible to the public - there were always gate keepers involved. In that sense blockchain is not about some fundamental technological revolution, it's about the introduction of digital ownership that's accessible to anyone.
Who is against "big state" in Finland, are you referring to the National Coalition Party?

Specifically, I've never heard of anyone wanting to privatise the school system so I'd like to get something that substantiates these claims. Otherwise it's just a textbook example of FUD.
Sure, but they vary by a lot. For example, engineering salaries in Canadian cities are roughly 60% of US cities with comparable cost of living. I see people talking about “cost of living” being an unfair criteria to set salaries and I agree! But that’s a strawman: almost no employer uses that to set salaries, they use a much more sensible number: the estimated cost to hire a replacement in the same area.
This is a false equivalence. Socialists are not inherently the opposite of fascists, or equivalent in the degree of how extreme it is to hold some version of those views.

I think your argument is that the Overton window skews left with a blind spot for the extreme left?
"The traffic levels were incredibly low for a system this size (< 10K visitors daily) and still it wouldn’t perform."

This kind of thing irritates me. User numbers are important, financially, because "10,000 users daily" can tell an investor or manager how much money is involved. But technically? That number doesn't mean anything to me. Are the visitors making one request or a hundred? Are they clustered into the five minutes before and after a horserace or are they spread out?
If you just want to explore some of the content without following any users or tags you can use the links in the nav bar, in particular the badges[1], tags[2], and community[3] links. You can also use the different hubwheels to see all of the posts with the same number of shares (the dots on the hubwheel, ranging from 0 to 8).

[1] http://hubski.com/badgesubs

[2] http://hubski.com/tags_pop

[3] http://hubski.com/community
Such a thing could never exist, because the point of tokumx is to change the storage system, so at some point you have to change the storage over and that's just going to be a rewrite of all your data. It sucks but that's the way it is.
The cynic in me wonders if the inefficiency and inaccuracy that comes with using humans to crunch numbers gives them more room for error. It's pretty hard to pressure a computer to make the numbers work in your favor, but it's pretty easy to push a low level employee to do something unethical.
> Well, I am sorry to say that in fact society is that brittle and you are being lied to in one fashion or another most of the time.

And you don't believe bit more honesty might be in order?
* 1961. We've had a half-century to get used to it then so I suggest take responsibility for that instead of pretending it's something that fell out of the sky and landed on us.
If I was part of a company that bounced back and adapted over so many years, I'd be proud of it.

Also, I'm pretty sure you do hear companies boasting their age. IBM (though not a startup or anything) does this. A lot of <20 year old companies like to mention if they are more than 5 years old to show that they are stable and have experience.
I looked through that wikipedia article as well as citations and related articles, but I can't see any logical connection between freedom of speech and right to privacy. Even though the passage mentions both in adjacent sentences, there is no logical relation. The only possible connection is that speech could be made over the Internet, and privacy could be affected by the Internet, which is tenuous at best.

There is something to be said about anonymity (or lack thereof) and free speech, but I believe anonymous free speech was never a guaranteed right -- the courts always tried to balance the right to anonymous free expression with other rights, such as the rights of those who might be harmed by that expression (e.g. in cases of defamation, fraud, etc.)
They don't want to go to jail, maybe.
There might not be as many startups in Japan, but I can attest there are 100% Japanese startups that hustle hard as anyone in the valley, aren't afraid to fail in front of friends/family/cofounders and are generally all-'round badasses. They are there.

http://whill.jp/ <-- awesome
Investment bankers are masters of Excel, Powerpoint, and Word and they're messing around in one of those all day long. Mostly building financial models and writing or formatting presentations. The work to do is endless, and if it's not the senior members of a team will make something up for you to do.

A huge part of what i-bankers do is pitch - either pitch to a company that you'd like to bring on as a client, or pitch to potential buyers of your client (and variations of that). Junior guys basically make the presentations for those pitches. There's generally horrible project management going on at the senior level as well, and senior team members have no qualms about making you make pointless updates to a presentation (for example, update the numbers in the presentation for the stock price today even though nobody will see the presentation for a week, and you'll have to update it then anyway). In fact, it's sort of part of the deal.
Yes and it's always been contentious, and as the Internet integrates itself more and more into our lives, the questions about which layers of the network stack ought to follow which principles are worth continually focusing on.
They disabled advertising displayed on those subreddits.
The safeguard is mostly a bunch of literal guards.
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/896/censorship

> In general, sedition is defined as trying to overthrow the government with intent and means to bring it about; the Supreme Court, however, has been divided over what constitutes intent and means.

> These acts made it a federal crime to speak, write, or print criticisms of the government that were false, scandalous, or malicious.

It is frightening to me that so many U.S. citizens get their perception of reality through social media channels; that is to say they get messages that are amplified by algorithm with insufficient regard to refutability (and a requirement of evidence to refute or confirm.)

As someone who cannot visit every single polling place in the country (I visited zero and voted by mail) I cannot with absolute certainty proclaim that there there was no widespread, coordinated and shockingly well-concealed election fraud. As a person of logic and reason and based on multiple sources of information that I consider reputable, I strongly believe this did not take place, and I would need multiple, reputable sources of information and likely trusted peer acceptance before I would change my mind to believe it did.

My way of trying to only accept what I believe to be accurate information will always be imperfect, and, at times, fail me. But I believe it is only shades different from what someone who believes in election fraud does. Their sources include the content of speeches made by the President of the United States, news anchors and journalists of conversatively-biased news, and perhaps most importantly, peers they trust liking and sharing those same speeches and articles with them as a stamp of acceptance.

That's a complex and very human problem that is not readily solved with gut reactions, broad strokes and absolutes.
Yeah, Nvidia Broadcast (formerly RTX Voice) or Krisp. As someone in 3 to 8hrs of video calls every day (interviewer), I wish more people would use solutions like that.
Do you mind telling us which one each was?
> I’m sure a lot of these employees are trying to do _something_ to try to remove whatever it is that is causing these people to lose all sense of reality.

I guess they were asleep for the past four years. Gotta impress the new boss and get those sweet government contract dollas!
Ok but, like, very few of those concerns make any kind of sense. If you cheat to get into the country you do not in fact go to college for free?

I'm also not sure what several of them have to do with anti-whiteness.
It's not about the minimalism. It's a design aesthetic and I don't really have any issues with that. But the quality of the materials, the fit and finish, the subtle design touches are all missing. It feels like the interior for an inexpensive car. The model S interior is also not great and very very dated.

The software for Tesla remains a highlight and a big reason why it would be hard to move to say an e-tron. But better competition is coming and I hope it pushes Tesla to do better.
>The CT spec allows only one SCT to accompany a certificate, making this attack feasible

No, it doesn't. It describes the format of multi-SCT on page 16, and it explains the rationale for this (basically all of the points you brought up) on page 32.
Great. Now please talk the IT people at the Enterprise company at which I work to either a) ditch their voicemail system and go with Google Voice or b) integrate Google Voice into their existing voicemail system.
The design of Swift was influenced by Rust. However, most of the resemblances are superficial or relate only to areas where Rust in turn was heavily influenced by other languages. For example, Rust's memory management model could not work in Swift (because this is an area where Swift remains compatible with Objective-C).
Awesome plugin and yes! please do
Actually, most ccTLDs are location restricted. Google keeps a list of what they call "Generic ccTLDs" which are ccTLDs that anyone can (and usually does) purchase for sites outside of the geographical area associated with that ccTLD. This includes most popular domain hack TLDs like .io .fm .ly etc

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en
Did you mean (N*(N+1))/2 ?
I usually do ask for many blog reviews and, competitions. This helped me a lot. Also i found usefull giving free redeem codes to smaller blogs, small blogs will more likely write an article about your app than some huge dedicated sites.

Other good advise might be:
Get people to tweet about your app.
Ask any kind of people(male,female,kid,old) to try your app.
Improve design.
I really hope this is someone's idea of a joke, but the nature of this person's other questions tends to make me believe no.

Sometime during the last couple of days, a lawyer was getting a lecture from IT on how the system works and is going to have a very, very bad year.
Agree. I'd avoid cloud for half as critical apps where I cannot CLEARLY picture where my servers are in a physical sense and how I can physically get a hold of them if shit hits the fan.