jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Having been a STEMish kid that only got into spreadsheets later than programming because my families first computers all came with BASIC but it wasn't until the third that I also had Visicalc, I'm not sure that spreadsheets really have that much less appeal than programming, presented in the right context. Even moreso with modern spreadsheets, where the barrier between spreadsheets and accessible programming tools is low, so using programming with spreadsheets is doable.
I think putting tanks in the bottom of abandoned mineshafts, and filling them through positive displacement pump/motors is the way to go. You get energy as the water goes down, and use it to pump the water back up. The costs are the mine, and the maintenance required to keep the lift working, and the whole thing from collapsing... and two tanks / pools.. one at the bottom, one at the top, piping between the two, and a positive displacement pump, with a motor/generator.

All known technologies.
Hmm. I haven't ridden the NYC subway much but I'd not worry about those risks in either London or Paris.
Formerly known as Piwik, been around for a long time.
> Even with dedicated lanes (which is costly and unpopular) they still need to go around obstacles like buildings, follow the roads, yield to pedestrians, pull into stops, etc. Speed limits need to be obeyed as well.

In this case, Buses can drive in the underground tunnels that were built for this subway, can't they?
Seattle did it for many years until they replaced it with trains: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=etT_wVuKy_I

In that case, the only thing slowing down the bus is speed limits, which are probably a bit lower than a train, since train would be safe on rails, but still I wonder why they didn't use that given that the tunnels are here and in good condition
No, you would observe blobs of water and carbon jiggling and perhaps making some noises. You'd have to develop quite a sophisticated model of human behavior to infer that they are treating it as a contest and care about the results. Even then, if they've previously seen humans at a casino, they might reasonably deduce that chess is no more a game of skill than craps is.
> the truth is the US doesn't treat us any better

The parent stated "But the Islamic Republic has no limits. They would shoot and kill and many as it takes." Parent also stated "The government is also quite scared, and to make sure there wont be uprisings, is spreading fear. They execute people and hand cruel sentences to everyone. Last weeks they gave a 10 years sentence to an 18 years makeup artist who had a famous Instagram account. Journalists are executed, etc. People's morale are completely shattered."

You, and others, don't have it better in the US? Really?

I think you are trying to show empathy and I agree with most of your comment, but to me, you can't empathize unless you've experienced it.

And I don't wish to demean experiences of some oppressed people in the US and their experiences (certainly the wrongfully convicted come to mind as a huge injustice), but your comment is not objectively accurate.
The earlier you start with daily doses of whisky and steak, the better.
Sublime is written in Python.

I'd imagine, all of this is written in Javascript and compiled/rendered with v8.
Sharing information about someone out of context is still a great threat. Heck, it happens all the time: a politician digs up a school paper written by an opponent who was a fiery socialist 30 years ago, and tries to paint them with that brush. And it works. So, even with the sex thing, you might not be embarrassed, but the information can and will be presented in a way to maximize your pain. You might not care about people knowing you ate a bunch of dicks, but your opponent is going to cast it, for example, as non-consensual, or will dig up some dirt on the sex partners. Perhaps they are under-age, non-consenting, or willing (with a little inducement) to simply lie about what you did.

Bottom line: information is power, and even lack of shame cannot protect you from the damage it can do in malicious hands.

(BTW your point is well taken. There was an episode of Sherlock where a (presumably young and attractive) female member of the British royal family engaged a prostitute for some lesbian S&M play - and a the gov went to a great deal of expense to cover it up. My thought was, "why bother?" People's imaginations being what they are, the biggest impact would be a small uptick in UK births in 9-10 months.)
If you don't want this to happen to your startup, register for a trademark. Since both the twitter program and this analytics ones are apps in the same app stores, I imagine that trademark protection would be broad enough. Twitter's lawyers would have done a trademark search before going live with the app, so the problem would have likely been avoided entirely.

Here is Twitter's registration from two weeks ago: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4803:2i5...
I think Dyson is the best example that shows marketing really works. I've yet to find a single Dyson product of quality. Their vacuums are downright terrible.
You can be mostly correct about things and still be worthy of criticism (we all are, really). You're taking some mild criticism from Zed way out of context and making it out to be an act of villainy.

That's way too much drama for what's going on here. I know and don't particularly enjoy Zed very much, but honestly he's pretty neutral. He's done a lot of good in his community and has had some nuclear hot takes that have received outsized attention. If you really feel he's as toxic as you say, you shouldn't be giving him more of it.
It's quite a stretch to say that Disulfiram cures alcoholism. It inhibits metabolism and produces some nasty side effects if you drink alcohol. But it doesn't "cure" alcoholism. If you want to drink and don't have close monitoring to enforce taking the medication, you just stop taking.
Odd that: me too.

I was hitting my now regular frustration with things which actually seem to get harder with time instead of simpler. It feels like we are no longer standing on the shoulders of giants, but attempting to stand on a billion ants and then struggling to see daylight as they swarm all over us.
Not the OP, but thats strange I'm on Firefox/Android and I'm seeing a valid letsencrypt issued cert.
I think it's more fair to say that he contradicted their "interpretation" of the bible at the time. Even Catholic church doesn't maintain those old beliefs any more.
Having tried both xflux for linux and redshift, I have to say xflux works much better. It has a more pleasant hue and fades much less noticeable. I'm actually writing a Gnome-applet for it (with permission of the xflux author) that should be done soon :)
Large numbers of silent attendees is normal in meetings with lots of people in person too - most people just don't have anything to say!
Paul Ekman's METT and SETT Microexpression Training Tool and Subtle Expression Training Tool, have been in use by many government agencies not just the TSA.
http://www.humintell.com/about-us/

From a washington post article:
"But the day I spent at Logan confirmed for me that SPOT violates no one's civil rights. Few people were identified. Nearly always, the answers to initial questions made further investigation unnecessary. No record was made, and the passenger lost no time.

Observational techniques are not a substitute for all the other techniques we now use to catch would-be terrorists. But they add another layer to transportation security. They are now being used at fewer than one in 10 major U.S. airports. We need to use them everywhere."
How to Spot a Terrorist on the Fly
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10...
Some good points.

Video through DSLRs is not there yet. But it does work in some situations. Since image quality is most associated with lenses, if they get all the bugs worked out video DSLR should be a dramatic improvement over the average flipcam (and you're not taking my flipcam away from me!)

Different tools for different things. Wait for version 3.
I'm on a 12 person call twice a week for about an hour. It works remarkably well, with the caveat that it only does so when the manager running the meeting is present. It helps to have someone run the meeting with an 'iron fist' - keeps everybody on the same page and organized, without letting it spiral off into details that are irrelevant to the other 10 people on the call.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1409140
After a while, your ears get all hot, and the in-ear headphones tend to hurt after a while -- also, you can't judge the true absolute volume level well so close to your eardrums, and in-ear phones are more dangerous to your hearing than regular ones.
Even Flash doesn't offer hard guarantees of smooth, artifact-free animation. It has a fairly sophisticated timing model, and you can improve your chances with the "direct" wmode (vs. the default "normal"), which makes Flash draw "on top of" the browser instead of "inside" it, but it eventually comes down to the specific platform and drivers, I think.
He says he now avoids peer-reviewed journals because they're read closely by scientists in countries that America considers to be threats.

Wow. Terror as an excuse for draconian policy, I have come to expect. This is the first time I am seeing terror as an excuse for flawed and unscientific 'research'.
Exactly what I thought. Also, someone's made a side-by-side video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da3iq9fnyWs
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Only about half of oil production goes to energy and transportation. The other half goes to production of synthetic materials like plastic. Look around you, oil production is not going away any time soon.
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That protocol (MATH+) has received wide marketing but it’s not obviously correct. Paul Marik, the creator, was previously known for some promising studies on vitamin C in hospital care that ultimately didn’t pan put. But he doubled down on it, including in this protocol.

Am not a doctor, just repeating what I read doctors saying.
Silicon Valley absolutely has to be a place and people will return to face-to-face social contact the minute that is possible. It is impossible to build long-term meaningful relationships on a 100% remote basis.
Indeed, and I retract my final sentence.
Is this the YouTube video you mention above? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDA3_5982h8
Serious question: What happened?

I was a FB member for a few years and quit mostly because I wasn't actually interested in what anyone was up to. As far I could tell, FB worked perfectly fine. My breaking point was realizing that my friends and family aren't that interesting.
Sign-up bonuses help. There are a number of cards offering bonuses in excess of $1k if you meet minimum spends.
Deleted Facebook in 2010 when I graduated college. Deleted Instagram in 2017 but had it for a year recently while I was nomadic. I only use Facetime, Messages and the Phone app now.

I’m only missing superficial connection as elegantly detailed in the Digital Minimalism book.
Thermaltake did make this cigarette lighter/cup holder combo in a drive bay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ErL39wqO-c
I'm not entirely sure I understand what you're asking - if you're offering is 'just a front-end to the open source content' then I'm not entirely sure what you would be licensing - but if you are looking for compensation for your time, take a look at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ ?
And I believe the older you are the more likely you are to come out of anestesia with problems. I personally know of more than one elderly person that came out of anestesia with full blown dimensia that never really went away.
Really bad analogy. Look at the post, these are basic computer science topics he is recommending for study, things like data structures and algorithms, not any specific technological subspecialty. A better analogy is that all doctors need to pass licensure exams in basic medical knowledge (e.g. anatomy, physiology, etc.)
A judge issued an injunction that stopped the Tiktok ban process. At this point, the court case will outlast the Trump presidency.
If you think a nasty swipe like "your bullshit" isn't an insult, you're mistaken about what counts as incivility on HN. Such flamebait is what we're trying to avoid.

Ideological battle is against the mandate of this site, and ideological venom is a regulated pollutant on HN, so would you please stop injecting it into your posts? We all know what internet call-out and shaming culture has led to, and on HN the goal is not to go up in such flames. These rules apply regardless of which ideology you're battling for and how correct your underlying points are. In fact, being right makes it worse.
What an amazing corporate culture, dogs, toys, babies, moms, young and old.
Oh, I had forgotten about this. It is also getting published in Communications of the ACM in Mayish I think. (Yep, here we go: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/5/107701-weapons-of-mass-... . You want that one, the formatting is better.)

I was honestly surprised when I got asked to edit this for the ACM, but couldn't say no to Achievement Unlocked: Journal Publication. Content-wise it is virtually identical to the blog post I did after Diaspora patched the issues I reported to them. The tone got radically altered from my Internet voice to my academic voice, which is rather rusty, so I apologize if it reads poorly.
http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ This is probably what you want.
This shouldn't have been submitted as an 'ask HN' - instead you should have linked directly to the article.
The answer is "none of the above": instead, antitrust regulators in the US (after Jan. 20) and the EU force the breakup of Facebook, restoring WhatsApp's status as an independent company focused on privacy. The WhatsApp users get to keep their preferred platform and Facebook doesn't get the data.
If you lose contact with your immediate family because of a messaging platform it's not really a great relationship that needs to be maintained anyway. You can visit, call, text, or email too.
https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/
But it's (unintentionally?) clever, because the product they keep pushing on you is called YouTube Red, i.e. YouTube Rouge.

(How they came up with this name, given the existence of porn site Red Tube, I'll never know.)
> you force them to have a wage of zero

This is false, and it is misusing the language to make your point stronger. A wage is what you get in return for working. A wage of 0 is work with no payment. Minimum wage does not allow that.
Pipes was great!

Microsoft has Flow [0] now, but not sure how it compares.

[0] https://flow.microsoft.com/
I really don't think Python qualifies as an equivalent replacement for Pipes.
And since you mentioned you'd pay for Excel, please contribute a one-time life-time $50-$100 bounty to help fix that performance issue.
Using canvas also means you can't select text, copy/paste, open links, etc, which is a non-starter in most cases.
As someone who just briefly used Pipes for a couple of things and don't remember the service fully: What unique features of Pipes do you remember that nothing else been able to replicate?
From what I can tell this service will only check website certificates.

Can anyone recommend a similar service that doesn't have this limitation, ie one that can check certificates on SMTP, IMAP, and other protocols that aren't HTTPS?
IME 80 is terribly short in almost any language.
And, for me (non-native and barely-speaker), comments like yours raise the real point: it seems that the "problem" is kind of nitpicking the words of the sentence. People just listen-and-correct (or read-and-correct) considering that there was good faith from the author, not that it was created to be non-parseable.
I would say that if you're considering frameworkless I might suggest Laminas (the Zend successor) as an alternative since it allows you to pull in tools in a more piecemeal style. Integrating roll-your-own components into Laravel can be difficult due to have tightly knit and off the beaten path their internal style can be.

I think there are a few quite good choices of frameworks right now in PHP and I hope the space remains healthy and varied since the different options do cater well to different use cases.
The only way for there to not be suffering is for us to not have free will.
Yeah it seems very much like an elegant solution whose usage would be a bit of its own kind of beast to deal with.
One key to the success of index funds is that the indexes will remove underperforming companies and replace them with growing companies. The argument for this enforced survivorship bias is that it's meant to provide a dynamic view of the economy changing. In practice, this also helps keep the returns of the indexes up and is a case of survivorship bias working out in the individual passive investor's favor.

https://jpm.pm-research.com/content/29/1/51
In addition to announcing this new streaming series (hope it's helpful if you don't know Ansible yet!), I wanted to also remind anyone who hasn't taken me up on the offer yet: Ansible for DevOps[1] and Ansible for Kubernetes[2] are available free on LeanPub the rest of this month!

[1] https://www.ansiblefordevops.com

[2] https://www.ansibleforkubernetes.com
To put this question into perspective:

The Iridium flare which you saw in video [0] so nicely next to what looked like a full-moon was produced by a flat, reflective surface of less than 2m² area at a distance of over 600km. Percentage does not matter here.
Do you have any details about this? As an amateur astronomer I am concerned about increased number of objects in orbit and their eventual fate. How the quality of deorbiting system measured? Have they deorbited any yet and their success rate is higher than others?
Also I had no idea FCC approves satellite guidance systems, I thought they mostly supervise radio spectrum.
Swift extensions are a perfect way to achieve this.
complaining about google is nothing like the whims of fashion. google is a legitimate threat to privacy and liberty, and that should be laid bare repeatedly so we don't get complacent and forget.

facebook as well, to a slightly lesser extent. microsoft is trying to compete on that front (poorly) and should also be called out.

it's not an either-or proposition, but an all-of-the-above one.
The Trolley Dilemma is not a dilemma. We solve it everyday.

I solved it yesterday in order to buy a GoPro Max and an Apple Watch. Sorry, African kid, malaria it is. I gotta record myself get my steps walking the Sausalito waterfront. Maybe I'll do that like two or three times and then let this gather dust on a shelf instead of saving that kid's life.
Funny to see how upvoted that story is considering a few weeks ago the whole subreddit thought CNBC was "fake news" and in bed with wall st.
they shouldn’t either. and I address that.

bitcoin’s use value is what it brings to the market that people like and dont have elsewhere. transparent supply and emission schedule, 24/7 trading, faster settlement times, borderless self-custody in unlimited amounts, upgradable asset class with some attributes of multiple asset classes (commodities, currencies).

let me guess, you were looking for industrial applications and drastically undervalue speculation as a use value?
Key travel isn't everything. The layout is important as well.

This is the best layout humanity ever invented: https://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/_processed_/c/0/csm_...

Classic arrow keys, separate volume buttons, separate back/forward/pageup/pagedown, F1-F12 as the primary functions, …
You can't use lightning network without opening a channel. Opening a channel requires making an on-chain transaction which most of the world can't afford. Lightning network is absolutely useless on BTC. Add lightning network to a chain that isn't crippled then let's talk.
I think there's definitely a good chance a majority of Californians wanted it: Because a lot of Californians are blatantly unaware or unconcerned about how Uber takes advantage of their workers.

All that most people, unfortunately, care about, is that they can open an app that solves a problem for them, and it's solved. They don't care about the people who are hurt in the process.

And then, yeah, incredible spending on Uber's part is going to slide the scale a bit too.

Look, if you put a vote out to say that Amazon workers are now indentured servants of Jeff Bezos and have to work for free and can never leave, but their Amazon purchases will all be 15% cheaper... the vote would pass, because the majority of people don't work at Amazon.
For every $50k some YOLO gambler on wsb makes from gambling their beer money, some hedge fund is making $500m (and another is losing $500m).
As soon as someone started talking about swinging their big Bloomberg D, and going all alpha corporate overlord, the thread went to shite.
Ok, then this is a matter of me using incorrect terminology: my assertion is that the undeveloped film, which has been exposed to light via the creative act of taking a photograph, is itself is "good enough" to be copyrightable.
If this is nearly as interesting or useful than the original post it concerns, I did something wrong.
Belgacom was also targeted because its networks are a hub for non-Europeans roaming on the continent – including US citizens. Since this is the British intelligence service, US citizens aren't protected.

Remember as well that one of the CIA's targets in 2014 was the US Senate. Anything that damages the national security complex is a benefit to the US public.
> Why wouldn't helicopter money solve the liquidity problem?

One, it is not targeted. The Fed can pump vast quantities of liquidity into the heart of the credit markets in a way private actors aren't set up to.

Two, it is not fast enough. Companies will go bust while waiting for politicians to authorize a cheque, the Treasury to cut it, investors to cash it and then to identify and decide upon an investment.

Three, it isn't reliable. Investors trust the Fed's discount window will be open in a crisis. That knowledge, itself, stops many runs before they start.

Four, it's riskier. Helicopter money cuts cheques. Once it's done, the money is out the door. The government is never getting it back. If they sent out too much, we'll have inflation. Monetary policy involves collateralized loans. The collateral limits downside. And unwinding a loan is easier than raising taxes to drag surplus cash out of the economy.
I'll jump into this anecdata thread too: used to by in the military, regular gym rat, but totally got my butt kicked by the swine flu a few years back (like ~2010-ish).

Never got sick, rarely a head cold, but this laid me out for a week.
That article was terribly written, and snarky lines about libertarians and "It's too bad Bitcoin doesn't have a central bank to help stabilize its value" don't add humor or insight. He brushed over the importance of the underlying technology so he could assault it for being a representative currency.

I get the sense the author doesn't know any more about economics than he does about bitcoin. He basically just stated the differences between bitcoin and fiat currencies with a smug undertone of blind faith in Keynesianism, then concluded only a government is fit to regulate transactions between private parties.
By that token most companies do not take anything but their own currency. Currency hedging is something corporations do to align costs and revenues - companies generally are not trying to make money wagering on currency positions.