jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I dislike the sharing economy term. I'm an occasional Airbnb host, and frequent guest. That, to me, is sharing, or frequently is, especially if you're only renting a room.

Almost all of the rest is now. "Spare capacity" economy, "arbitrage economy" or "serving economy" would be better terms.
Yeap.

In order to preserve information causality, spacetime cannot deform instantaneously.

i.e., an object X in a frame with relativistic speed near c compared to an observer O. O will be unable to detect X by any means until X is very close.

Also, my money is on frame-dragging and Einstein's figures being within half a standard deviation. http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.4718
Are we going to sit here and act like the stated goals of the Arab Spring and Trump supporters are remotely equivalent morally?
In spite of what their website says, I'm pretty sure they removed multi-device support a good while ago, which makes it less useful.

I just tried out version 1.4.4 for desktop, and device linking is nowhere to be found anymore.
Admittedly, I don't know what you're getting at precisely. The dark web is certainly an alternative, but it's not exactly a viable one. Tor is basically the manifestation that every right can be abused in some way, especially with low moderation.
"Suppose further that about 100 people actually passed the barricades (which were inexplicably opened by the police, by the way, video evidence shows) out of the estimated 40,000 at the rally. If that is the case, is it really fair to shut down major pro-Trump websites?"

That's assuming that all parties involved are concerned about fairness.
Completely agree with that.

This whole 'I don't care about history' discourse can change greatly for some people after a loved one dies, for example.
Of course Toyota could offer that. There are plenty of independent car shops that will do all kinds of stuff to your ride, from visual trim replacement, repainting, mechanical tuning, engine swaps, aftermarket parts etc etc. Toyota doesn't bother, because there isn't much money in it. An independent tuning shop can make $1M/year in revenue, and a thousand of such shops can make a total of a $1B. But $1B/year of extra revenue is paltry change for Toyota.

Anyone can offer 10k aftermarket upgrade, but the real question is how many will buy it.

> But I do think the previous bear cases of "they cant run a factory", "they cant scale production", etc are all mostly disproven.

Yes, I'm very bullish on Tesla, mostly because I have great trust in Musk's ability to run business. However, my bullishness doesn't extend to valuing Tesla today more than next five of biggest auto makers combined.
The video (letting them in) doesn't show what you think it does. Capital Police leadership planned poorly and their leadership is at fault. They had to fall back to more secure chokepoints because they were outnumbered and overwhelmed. The cops didn't let anyone in. They killed someone and one of them was killed in the fighting. Please don't stir up trouble with fake conjecture over a 30 second clip that doesn't show what really happened. It is what caused a lot of these problems. You are making it worse.
I found the confirmation hearing on Wednesday to be very informative on this. There were countless objectors attempting to invalidate the Pensylvannia vote, all echoing each other on a variety of reasons including voter fraud. Republican house members made very convincing arguments on the floor that caused me to wonder what information I was missing.

The democratic house members who argued against the objections easily tore down their arguments. Their largest point with respect to voter fraud was that there were was actually _no_ legal action mentioning voter fraud brought up in the many many court cases launched by Trump's team. The reasoning being because lawyers can have their licenses revoked for intentionally lying about serious accusations and no lawyer was willing to put their career on the line for something they had no evidence for.

I respect everyone's views and consider myself to be somewhat moderate, but damn overall republican house lost a ton of respect from me that night.
Doesn't appear to work using Chrome on Android...
Two thoughts:

1) If you've already read a comment you've already read it regardless of where you read it, and if the comments are exactly the same they are probably not terribly context sensitive.

2) I believe that if a submitted comment is exactly the same as one in memory than it is auto-killed so in general this is a moot point anyway.
They don't just magically adapt because they are being used. To adapt they would have to be attacked by bacteria, and only the stronger ones survive, but MRSA doesn't attack onions.
> In the USA's particular case, you have 2 parties which, despite the claimed differences, wind up representing the exact same interests.

They aren't exactly the same interests. Because real preferences are multidimensional and the US electoral system has strong structural features which promote a two-party system (with differences that lie on a single dimension), for people whose most important issues don't lie on the axis of variation between the parties, they can seem similar, but they don't represent the exact same interests.
No there aren't. The majority of the people can't tell the difference between a man made diamond and a natural one. Most people can tell when they are in a super car instead of a Honda civic.
> Amazon’s “Kiva” robots can carry 3,000 pounds, stock shelves and select and ship packages

As of now, the Kiva robots move shelves around very cleverly. Humans stock the shelves, pick, package and ship items. Just for the record.

edit: Amazon is encouraging research in robot picking:

http://amazonpickingchallenge.org
Any timeframe on when managed accounts are expanding beyond US/Canada?
>> Whole single-page-application crowd (eg. Sencha, React...) is busy reinventing things that already exists three layers of abstraction down from the level on which they code.

Except, you know, that part about running on the open web. The web is a deployment platform. Developers want to write the least amount of code to be able to support the most users possible. That was supposed to be Java, but it didn't work out that way. Deployment is still a platform-specific issue in Java, because users--for whatever reason--hate WebStart and its ilk. Add to that the fact that smartphones just plain don't support Java in that way and suddenly the browser makes for the only pragmatic cross-platform toolkit for building applications.

Yeah, JS sucks. Yeah, DOM sucks. Objectively, they are terrible. But for as bad as they are, there aren't any good alternatives. And no, building from source is not an alternative.
Watching ads with sound off can also help understand the hidden narrative
The Apple App Store has allowed scripts for some time for this exact scenario. I'm not sure which other walled gardens you mean though.
I'm far from an expert on the topic, but couldn't convertible debt be an option?
If politicians no longer feel comfortable stating opinions or plans which would be unacceptable to the electorate and/or their own voters, I for one don't feel that's entirely bad. I'm pretty much in favour of politicians being open about their plans and principles.
The issue most likely is not the weapons themselves, but who controls them. A stockpile of weapons are only dangerous in the "wrong" hands. If Iran is being bullied, as you put it, then it's not just by the U.S. Quite a few other countries apparently feel those weapons would essentially be in the "wrong" hands if Iran acquires them.
This is a long-standing debate and I don't thing that it makes sense to dive too deep into that in this thread. I'll just say that I don't agree with that and point you to Bruce Eckel's essay Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing[1]. Not to mention that there are numerous large (not huge) systems written in dynamic languages that prove otherwise.

https://docs.google.com/View?id=dcsvntt2_25wpjvbbhk
Index funds seem to me to work by reducing churn - the percentage of your stock that is sold and bought each year - because every time you sell then buy you lose a lot of money. I am not yet convinced you have to follow an index.

If you had a fund that did not sell anything and bought a random stock from an index as funds came in would this beat an index fund?
Ahem, Germany is net payer into the European Union bugdet with an estimated net payment per capita of 1045 Euro ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union#St...).
Europe is redistributing enormous amount of money from rich to poor countries within EU. Spain would still look like an underdeveloped country without the massive injection of money coming from the EU. EU (the organisation), even with problems here and there and the need to take a good diet, is working wonderfully at equalizing the rich/poor countries. This is why most of the countries do not want Turkey to be part of EU, under the EU rules, this would mean an insane amount of money going to Turkey every year for maybe 30 years or more.

With respect to the article itself, not everything is rosy in Germany, a large part of the population is living out of the social help system (7.5 millions people) and another large par is getting miserable wages, in the range of 4€/h or less. So yes, the German economy is robust, but the social state is struggling too.
Use the right tool for the job. Rails and PHP are pretty good options for web development, and JavaScript is a very good option for small client-side scripts.

On the other hand, if the job is to create artificial intelligence, then it is Lisp that is the right tool for the job.
I use htmlunit as a headless browser, I believe it's more mature than this for DOM, etc?
The domain, http://www.pokerstars.net/, is still up
I can pick up and read Cuckoo's Egg anytime and re-read it and every time it is just as exciting. If you haven't read it, you should.

Also, the NOVA documentary is available on YouTube, viz.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1swbLfrP6g

Worth watching (but read the book first!)
We don't know if they ever agreed to a break-up fee.

Shit happens. Move on. And it looks like Bnter did, with this post which will likely resolve their financing problem.

Nothing weird or classless about business as recommended.
I think the reason that S-expressions haven't gone away is mostly because of the way they mesh with macros, but anyway the sub-optimality of S-expressions as a syntax wasn't a part of my argument there (I don't like them, but I don't hate them). In that quote, I meant there that all code, even S-expressions, is a human readable expression that defines the thing you're interested in.

Note that it's considered poor form in Lisp to make a square macro that multiplies its parameter by itself. That should be a function. Why? Because numbers have the structure you want them to have. A function that takes a number and multiplies it by itself is just simpler than a function that takes an expression for a number, and pastes it together with an astericks and then returns that to be evaluated. And because the function has a better structure than a macro, it's more composable.

The thing is that this same situation exists with most other uses of macros. In a language with staged computation and maybe a little well tamed syntax extension, I think there would be no place for macros. You can do better.
Why do you say RTMP is an abomination? (I feel like the comparison chart you linked to didn't make so strong a case -- are you speaking from experience with the technologies?)
AFAIK there is ongoing research to make cryptocurrencies that are not power-hungry.
I don't understand why they're using the Somalian TLD when they also own .com

How reliable are these other TLDs like emerging country TLDs like .ly (Libya), .co (Colombia) or .so (Somalia)? Could you just get shut down overnight?
In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.
Demand grows, but the bitcoin supply is limited. Price increases. Also, after each halving the bitcoin miner payout gets cut in half, so price has to increase for the network to stay alive.

BTC follows the stock-to-flow model pretty accurately https://www.lookintobitcoin.com/charts/stock-to-flow-model/
The definition of "genocide" isn't really that simple. Raphael Lemkin, who invented the term "genocide" in his 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, said that genocide is " a coordinated strategy to destroy a group of people, a process that could be accomplished through total annihilation as well as strategies that eliminate key elements of the group's basic existence, including language, culture, and economic infrastructure" (my emphasis).

China might not be literally committing mass-murder but my non-expert understanding is that they're making a deliberate effort to eliminate Uighyur culture and identity which is very much within the definition of genocide.
Sure but there’s an upper bound on how fast you can make javascript code run. The same amount of optimization work (if you know what you’re doing) will make a far greater difference to the performance of rust code than it will to the performance of javascript.

Carefully written javascript is still pretty slow because you can’t choose to put objects on the stack in JS, or allocate nested objects together in contiguous memory. And that makes a massive difference because you end up thrashing main memory when you could be spending those cycles getting work done.
This should be a good lesson to get a domain on a reliable registry.
It isn't society making it easier for two parents to raise a child vs one parent. It's having double the number of people raising that child.

I see no way to read that as BLM supports the nuclear family. So the largest social justice movement in the US doesn't support two parent families. That seems pretty significant
Basically what is happening right now, though not as extreme.
Per CNN, the Capitol has been breached.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/congress-electoral-co...

Since their liveblog software makes it difficult to link to individual posts, I'll quote the specific post here:

> The Capitol has been breached, and the House is in recess
> From Ted Barrett, Manu Raju and CNN's Capitol Hill team

> The US Capitol has been breached during a tense situation with demonstrators, according to Capitol police officers.

> The House doors have been locked and an emergency alert from the Capitol police just transmitted the same thing:

> "Due to an INTERNAL threat in the building, take shelter in the nearest office and stay quiet."
Capitol Hill police are also blocking anyone from moving from Senate office buildings into the US Capitol building. There are underground tunnels that link the office buildings with the Capitol building that senators, staff, and journalists use to travel back and forth.
What’s the right legal equity agreement for studio founders?

I had a bunch of hacker houses that I wanted to turn into a studio model, but I couldn’t figure out how to assert equity rights. The normal path for successful founders was for them to come to the house, experiment, meet co-founders, move out, ... funding. Any equity agreement made at the outset (SAFE) would be worthless. New project. New people. Or maybe they could be enforced, but not easily, not like Erlich. Those were the successes. Most would just get discouraged and start full time job hunting. So I couldn’t find a way to make it sustainable even when home runs graduated out of it.
Isn't the main issue not that we're lacking doses (for vulnerable pops), but that we're distributing the doses we do have very slowly? How does this address that (if it does at all)?
We've all seen Red Dawn. Patrick Swayze will save us from the big bad socialists.
This seems like to be just an aggregate site with (incorrect) tagging and links to originals works.

Full disclosure: I just know this site via HN
I'd like to read more, do you have any sources?
I was going for brevity. You might be missing my point here, which is: relying on credentials isn't working out as well as people might think for surgeons. They have a much stronger credential requirement, so if it isn't working for them, it probably won't work for hiring software engineers either.

But to answer your question, of the two links I included:

* the first is an artificial test that can be taken any time. Yes, it could be actually done during a job interview, and maybe it should. Alternatively, maybe it should be done yearly, whether that's enforced by the medical licensing board, the hospital, or insurance (either the patients' insurance forces it or the doctor's malpractice insurance).

* the second mentions criteria for ranking performance from a video of an actual surgery. No, I'm not suggesting applicants perform unnecessary surgery on a live patient during the job interview. They can bring a video of their most recent surgery instead.

The details of the best method for surgeons might not be that relevant to hiring software engineers, but I do think for both it's better to evaluate current skill rather than rely on exams from school years ago. Software engineering does this better than most fields, even if it sometimes leads to really bad results like not hiring Dan Luu. [1]

[1] https://danluu.com/algorithms-interviews/
Another issue is that hiring is expensive and FANG companies have a ton of applicants. Raising the bar on algorithmic interview performance is a straightforward way to filter applicants that is relevant to job performance. After the initial screen it's still hard to make the case to hire a smart engineer if one or two of the interviewers have concerns about their interview performance.
I'll have to refind the tweet, but a researcher found the read dataset could not be assembled into the bat coronavirus assembly.
> Shouldn't that be:

> bufsize += LSH_RL_BUFSIZE * sizeof(char);

sizeof(char) is always and everywhere 1.
This isn't poor UX, it's just preferences and assumptions on the part of the user. There's an app called "Photos". It's where Photos go. I'd say UXs don't get much simpler than that.

The majority of users don't think in terms of files, and I'd say a significant fraction don't even know what a "file" is.
I would admit it was actually not a proper form of argument and a constructive way to form a discussion. However, there is a real dilemma right here. If a company is going to use a technology from an adversarial country that could potentially harming oppressed people, it could potentially be a PR disaster.

The bigger question right here is why startup culture works so successfully. The purpose of a VC Startup assumes to create a product to expand the marketshare to the world eventually. And it was based on the assumption of globalization. In a world where it was less polarized to politics opinion and enjoy the economical growth and appreciation of new tech. A entrepreneur who neglect geo-politics could do pretty fine in this environment.

With the rise of sharp power of China, the question is not so straightforward. Hollywood company faced China's influence by banning content that is not favorable to China, in order to get access to China's market. Airline companies were threatened by China to not referring Taiwan as country otherwise a boycott to those airline. If a company just comply to China's request or threat, then they could potentially piss off Taiwan and Hong Kong customers, and potentially losing other countries in the free world if the PR was too bad. However, they don't comply, then they could potentially lose access to China's market. It is difficult to be neutral and not taking side, because of the polarization of both parties. Not taking side was potentially the worst option which would piss off both side because both thinks the company does not stand for their value.

It is just a extension of this underwater war. The take right here is if a startup is intended to be used by the world, the owner may need to be prepared for unintentionally pissing off a potential group of customers because of not understanding sensitive geo-polictics issue.
SpaceX won't ever have sufficient money to do a viable trip to Mars. Maybe a one-way 'suicide' attempt, but nothing better than that.

I don't see anybody, countries included, who would have sufficient spare cash lying about to throw away on a real voyage to Mars and back within this century.
I think you're getting downvoted because you are stating highly disputed things as if they were facts. When people question you, you refuse to engage with their arguments. You're also slandering a person (calling Charles Murray a white supremacist) on the basis that he supports welfare reform and you disagree with him on some edge cases of UBI. Downvotes are well deserved in my opinion.
another example is high yeild gmos which reduce nutritional content and increase water content to increase profits while delivering a lower quality crop
The connection was trivial to find both ways. People in the rationalist community used his real name when talking about his pseudonymous writing.
"The gold standard was the primary transmission mechanism of the Great Depression..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression#The_gold_stan...

I mean, it wasn't strictly gold hoarding it was gold tied currencies hoarding.
Wow, this matches my 1st startup experience to a tee.
Onion services don't have human readable namespaces. Independently of using onion services, whatever services we run should probably be registered on Namecoin and/or Ethereum Name Service. That's how we get out of the DNS cabal's grasp.
Considering that value is an abstract concept - ie, ultimately (in usual business dealings), its determined by how I "vote" with my dollars and not some empirical physical rule, I think the concept of "fair market value" in the case of eminent domain is a complete sham, much like property taxes based on fair market value. If I haven't made any monetary choices and someone else has decided those choices for me, there is no value whatsoever.

Not that it really matters in the scope of the legal world, it's more of a philosophical argument, but its something thats constantly pissed me off about eminent domain, easements and property taxes.
> eminent domain, however, requires paying fair market value for any land taken (it's basically just an offer to buy your land that you can't refuse)

If it's "fair market value," then why do they need to exercise eminent domain in order to force the sale? I don't see how this can ever be considered OK. If you want to buy someone's land and they won't sell it, you offer them more. You get creative and offer to help them relocate their business.

How do you determine "fair market value," anyways? The land and the building on it might be worth like $800,000 according to a property appraiser, but that completely ignores the value of the business. They're going to have to get new property elsewhere and build similar facilities; this will almost certainly cost more than their existing property is worth. So you're forcing a business to eat the cost of relocating, and they're losing revenue during the relocation, and this is fair how?

You can't make people do anything, you can only give them incentive to do what you'd like them to do. In a fair system, that incentive is a compensation package that works for both parties. It's not getting the government on your side to use force as the incentive.

And if the person is irrational and refuses to sell their land at any price, you freaking change your plans. I don't understand why we should accept the idea that certain people have more rights to property ownership than others, for no other reason but money and clout. Although the article wasn't the most well-written, I think it did a good job of conveying that idea.
Re paywalls: that's why I use also http://academic.research.microsoft.com/. For some papers it has a PDF link on the bottom of the page. As a personal preference, I like it more than Scholar (scholar is more full-text search driven, while academic is more filtered).