jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>>> it's a great time for retro gaming/app playing and development

It's amazing. The combination of consumer SoC boards, next gen emulation, 3D printing and AI techniques like super-resolution are generating not just archival efforts, but active development. I just love that there is a very active market for RetroPie kits ;)

https://www.experimentalpi.com/Retro-Arcade_c_12.html
We (humans) run on some 37 Trillion cells and don’t fail very often compared to computers; blue whales scaled for size could have ten quadrillion cells and they don’t get cancer.

Maybe its not a law of large numbers, but one of medium numbers (in the sense of Dawkin’s Middle World is human scale or Ron Graham speculating that maybe all the most interesting math is in the very large numbers we can’t work with)
The article actually agrees.

> In mathematics, the term linear function refers to two distinct but related notions (...) [proceeds to specify them using incomprehensible math words]

GNU Units documentation uses the second notion, common with linear algebra (and thus arguably more common in any computing) - the notion that calls y=ax a linear function, and y=ax+b an affine function.
I am surprised that such quality control would be required with Haskell developers. I would have thought that people with such a skillset would clearly be sufficiently motivated and capable such that filtering based on fairly rigorous criteria would seem to be unnecessary.
I agree with giardini, this seems to be the point. A lot of people are simply too shy to go after what they want, reframing these interactions where 'failure' is 'success' is enormously helpful for those people as it turns the interaction into win win. You've either got a date with someone or you're one step farther along in Rejection Therapy. I think for the people who benefit from Rejection Therapy it's a mistake to think they are celebrating narcissism.
And I might have not accepted you for over-generalization that is one of the worst things ever you can do as a designer ;)
Well you could try getting a DomainTools domain history report as well. If they've not dropped it since 2001 they're probably not going to drop it in 2012.

Go to domaintools and do a whois on the site there. They can tell you things like how many other domains this registrant holds. How many times the whois information has changed (if it's ever NOT been private this is where you can look)

Maybe try and get in touch with a domain broker. I know the people who work for domainadvisors.com are very well connected in the "domaining" industry and she might be able to help you out. (look up T.R.A.F.F.I.C for a window into the world of domaining)

Services are not cheap though - you'd better really want the domain if you're planning on going that route.

I might have some more tips if you want to get in touch with me privately - alex dot chesser at gmail. (I don't know exactly how much help I can be - but I can help you hash out the ideas a bit more).
IT's not against the law for these millionaires to write a check for any amount they want to any cause they want, including straight to the US Treasury - yet they receive press accolades because they want to force everyone else to do so also.
Excel for Mac does not support multiple cores and has a much more limited set of hotkeys, along with a more limited universe of addons.
what was yours?
It'd be nice if they did.
Thank you, in the meantime I found the answer[1] reading the HN guidelines.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cflag
This still doesn't explain our sense of time in memories. We always remember when other than what, even if some knowledge has no time positioning
Only Fools and Horses, Ship of Theseus edition, wait till you see Plato fall through the bar.
awesome. my fav: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/logo.png
I was inspired by this to create my own a few months ago. It uses a quadtree to optimize nearest neighbor lookup to ideally reduce complexity from n^2 to nlogn on each tick.
http://jrhdoty.github.io/SwarmJS/
No worries, and I do get that, and I'm not furious about it or anything like that. I will say though, it's frustrating when you suffer from this condition to have it characterized in this way, as an adjective, in the same way I imagine it's frustrating for people that actually have Asperger's to hear that thrown around as much as it is now.

That said, I can deal with my frustration, what actually worries me is that a lot of people that don't have bipolar disorder will call themselves bipolar, and make people that actually do have these problems think it's normal and that they don't need treatment or help. It's hard enough to reach out for treatment without someone telling you or implying that "oh yeah, most people have that who are smart, you just need to figure out how to be less angsty!" If that makes sense.

Tl;dr: Generalizing in this way hurts people that need help, I was once one of those people, so I just want to educate people to try to avoid doing this.
To be honest, I never knew that "gay" meant "happy" until I watched The Three Caballeros in English
Here comes the adult audio content creators who will push the boundary on what's acceptable. The audio OnlyFans.
Was there any historical culture in which same-sex marriage was common or accepted? I can’t think of one, Christian or otherwise (though I can think of a couple of examples of same-sex people got married by subterfuge).
This is shortsighted. There is place for prescriptive as well as descriptive components.

The huge issue with components that don't give you much choice is that they do not compose well. You find two components clash on some decision and neither has any mechanism to resolve the issue.

This is frequently the case with "frameworks", which tend to want to control all aspects of your application.

Does this make your life simpler? Sure, but only if your application is exactly or very closely to what the author of the framework envisioned.

On the other hand there are "tools/utilities". These can fit same role/functionality as "frameworks", but they are not intrusive, don't tell you how to put your application together. Rather, they give you tools with assumption you will know how to use them.

Does this make your life simpler? SURE If you have non-standard application and you know what you are doing you want to compose your application from tools that do not demand too much from the structure of application, dependencies, etc.

If you are novice developer it might be temporarily useful to use more prescriptive tools. You don't know how to put stuff together so you might just as well learn how others do it.

If you are advanced you will know what to use. If I know I will be working on a very standard application I might just as well use something that takes care of it all for me.
>Allowing searches with wildcards is analogous to publishing the entire database.

What's the harm in publishing a list of phone numbers, without any other info attached? I can generate a list of all phone numbers in north america by iterating through all the digits.
Apparently more skills than I have
In cases where you see people in jail for years it's because the defendant has waived their right to a speedy trial until they are next in court.

Every time they go to court, they waive their right to a speedy trial until the next time they're in court. If they didn't, the judge would set a trial date for within a short period of time (less than 70 days).

In practice, defendants will waive dates to fit into the judge's calendar.
Right, but the parent's point is that this aspect skews representation quite a bit. (I'm not sure of the constitutionality) but one option would be to not count prisoners or non-voters when tallying up representatives. My understanding is that Canada allows people in prison to vote--this would solve it more simply. I also understand the jurisdiction for someone in prison is their address prior to being incarcerated--which sounds like an even better solution.

I know it's SOP to strip voting for felons. It's been enough of a challenge to restore voting rights in many areas, but there are other ways to address this problem and basically incentivize this.
It's not fuzzy - 3.1.3 says that may not use "purchase methods other than in-app purchase" (since it's not one-to-one person-to-person service but tipping for one-to-many content) and must use in-app purchase.
"The Cruelty is the Point — President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear" is a 2018 Adam Serwer essay from The Atlantic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelt...

I concur that "the cruelty is the point" captures the driving force behind "Why America's prisons are an unconstitutional moral horror".
> Not for everyone. There are no small number of people who will simply shut down when they see a very technical error message, even if it’s prefaced with the simplified version.

Honestly, I think those people can't be helped. They're technically helpless and catering to them makes everyone else as helpless as they are, which is a net loss.
I imagine the cost savings would be huge. The fuel and oxidizer for a typical satellite launch is only a few hundred thousand dollars, but the rocket is in the 10's of millions. Even if you add a million or 2 for refurbishing the used booster it's still huge.

IIRC SpaceX's next generation of rockets will be designed so a reusable second stage will be possible.
Hey everyone,

This is an MVP for a platform I'm creating. The goal is to select business ideas tailored to entrepreneurs' exact needs. Some of you can get ideas super easily, but some of us can't.

My platform allows those who can't to get a great idea in under 30 mins.

I plan on curating a huge database of high quality & original ideas(10,000's) and selecting the top 10 ideas that match customers' needs(after a questioning process to determine their needs).

Example: A programmer wants to create a simple app in under 2 weeks that can give him some decent side hustle income. I would select 10 ideas from the database that match these criteria, and give these ideas to him.
The fatal problem is literally: "who cares". Real "authenticity" doesn't comes from math and comes instead from culture. Using the "if a tree falls in a forest" philosophy meme: if the blockchain claims that you have the Nyan Cat image but nobody cares about it, then do you really "own" the image?

More about the history of authenticity: Religion supplied this culture of "authenticity" for some time, but after the Industrial revolution the widespread duplicate production of commodities, along with the invention of photos and videos, has been eroding away the value of the authentic "the one and only" irrelevant for some time. Walter Benjamin has a nice essay about this change of culture in his famous essay - "
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction". And the Internet seems to further accelerate the notion of communal art, where memes only have value if they are shared freely and not when someone hangs it in a museum. My gripe with NFTs has nothing to do with the technicalities of crypto and everything to do with everything else (primarily, politics and culture in relation to technology).
If you’re not subject to the EU (I.e. don’t have any offices, servers, etc. in the EU) I don’t see how the GDPR is relevant: non-EU citizens generally aren’t subject to the laws of the EU.
For a start, war crimes should be prosecuted much more comprehensively than today. I think most criminals do make some kind of risk/reward calculation. Even the nazis did that when they dug up mass graves and tried to hide the evidence.
i hope you can find those hugs soon, and plentifully, even from folks who aren't your closest confidantes. it really does help just to be touched in times of grief.
Who cares who owns the Mona Lisa, when I can see it online better than I can in real life (infrared imagery, x-ray scan)

As soon as "real" art collectors start buying them (already hapenening) then they will mutually invest in protecting their investment, no need for government when civil courts can preside.
Not to be unkind but I suppose most people are not really traumatised by merely seeing someone's name, even if they're not on speaking terms with that person. It probably falls on the side of convenience for the vast majority. For the Signal org, it's possibly even an existential issue, since it helps them counter network effects in the incumbents. It's hard to expect them not to do it, then.

Having said that, I think it would be nice for Apple to implement what you describe.
There is a stark contrast in the former SolarWinds CEO response versus Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet's attitude. I noticed an interesting statement in Buffet's 2020 earnings report:

"The final component in our GAAP figure – that ugly $11 billion write-down – is almost entirely the quantification of a mistake I made in 2016. That year, Berkshire purchased Precision Castparts (“PCC”), and I paid too much for the company. No one misled me in any way – I was simply too optimistic about PCC’s normalized profit potential. Last year, my miscalculation was laid bare by adverse developments throughout the aerospace industry, PCC’s most important source of customers." . . . "I was wrong, however, in judging the average amount of future earnings and, consequently, wrong in my calculation of the proper price to pay for the business. PCC is far from my first error of that sort. But it’s a big one."

WOW. I rarely see that level of accountability at senior organizational levels.
Definitely looks like it.
https://www.prometeus.net/site/terakvm.php

But it looks like I got it on a sale, TERAKVM-400 comes down to $6.94 at normal prices.
The recipe itself can't be, but you can't just copy and paste recipe text from one website to another.
I have two little kids. I also own an electric cargo bike. It has replaced over 2,000 car miles in the past year. I can bike to the grocery store, with two kids, and come back with a week's worth of groceries.
You are not alone. Senior engineers in general - all of the leads I’ve talked to - feel like the current situation is completely broken. I can imagine it works for relatively low-technology low-complexity teams or very very small teams, but it is disastrous for complex and medium/large teams and projects. It’s just very challenging to impossible to keep an appropriate level of awareness.
Lower than I'd like to see it. I think a lot of companies will justify forced commute because of this. 34% isn't even a majority.
Sounds like what you need is this https://www.podbike.com/
I would assume from the manufacture of the bicycle.
Of course Russians

That happens when it is legal to hack/steal/cause damage to people from other countries
The new(ish) CFF renderer in Freetype also comes from Adobe. I don't know whether it shares any code with what's in ATM, and if so, whether any vulnerability might be applicable to both, but it might be interesting for someone knowledgeable to investigate.
Wow, 30 to 50g - oral?
The plan is to lift the lockdown after a few weeks when the number of new cases is low enough for targeted interventions - thorough contact tracing and quarantining.
I think the people in the 250k range are having a philosophical argument about what it means to be wealthy. And the working class are arguing numbers.

I get it. They can have a decent income and not live a "rich" lifestyle, but they probably have a house, investments, kids in nice schools, they probably travel, eat at nice restaurants, etc. It's not wealthy, but they're not broke. I think that was the idea of a progressive tax. It increases as you move up the ladder. We're all debating the cutoff point.
They did manage to survive the english...
Which I can argue is pretty good for beta software, with very little heavy commercial use driving performance down. I also highly doubt the chrome/firefox team has enough resources allocated to truly make webgl a high performance thing yet. Regardless this is still faster then using canvas directly.
Oh I am not saying this isn't a huge scandal.

I'm just saying keep in mind this info is also available to others without an iphone.
I love it and I'll probably buy a few day passes here and there.

I also think Fortune 500 security teams are going to be blacklisting this domain soon just to keep their devs from opening holes in the firewall.
This is a fascinating case study. I got sucked into reading the entire thread. Steve Yegge is talking about cultural and marketing issues that seem obvious to me. The responses on the list may not be representative of the community, but assuming they are, one can hazard a guess about the long-term trend: there's a clear failure to connect with what Yegge is saying. (Edit: I deleted an unnecessarily personal example here.)

Yegge isn't arguing for the abandonment of taste and rigour in a race to incorporate every kitchen appliance into the language. He's arguing that languages and communities that take a prescriptive (someone said "paternalistic") stance end up marginalizing themselves by their own rigidity, and that the antidote for this -- as well as the passageway toward wider adoption -- is to actively listen to and court new users. I couldn't agree more.

(Side note, this is why I like Common Lisp. Its loosey-goosey flexibility that always assumes the programmer knows best leads to an awesome fluidity that finds its around any obstacle. CL is unpopular, but not because of its pluralism. Qua language it has a deep respect for the user.)

There's another point here. Whether you're a fan of Steve Yegge or not (I didn't use to be, but after nodding with everything he said here I am now), he has a proven ability to mobilize a significant body of programmer opinion. To ignore what this guy says about the marketing of programming languages itself already displays a foolish disregard for the market.
I was looking for exactly this service a few weeks ago and would be a paying customer, but I develop on Windows.

A future market, if you're interested.
The full lecture with transcript is here:

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/royal-society-a...
Another HN copy cat. Wonder if they'll be able to build as much engagement as the HN community.
Victor Segalen:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Segalen

In particular, the book of Steles:

http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/?s...
The media’s ad-supported business model and the effects of branding on consumer behaviors naturally results in an extraordinarily pro-left media environment. The cost of advertising is bid up by brands that benefit from presenting a liberal image, and it drowns out all alternative views.

Just to illustrate, take greenwashing as an example. Companies market their products as being good for the environment because that drives sales, and you can find that message on every shelf in the grocery store. There are many alternative views, very convincing ones in my opinion, that choosing the bottle of water that uses a thinner plastic is still harmful to the environment, and supporting greenwashing by purchasing it actually results in net harm to the environment because it reduces adoption of better options (reusable bottles, tap water) and distracts consumers from issues that could actually have a meaningful impact on climate change (innovation in direct air capture, greener steel production or air travel, a carbon tax, etc).

But how would that message ever reach consumers? It doesn’t make them spend more, so people never hear any of this.

The result is a populace that believes they are saving the world by not asking for a straw at Starbucks.

This is happening at an ideological level. Major brands either declare no political stance, or they declare a pro-left stance. Every celebrity either declares no political opinion, or declares a pro-left political opinion. (Or declares any pro-right opinion, even vaguely or accidentally, and has their brand harmed or destroyed for it.)

I’m something like a Clinton-era liberal, I guess, but the media environment is concerning to me. I would choose Biden over Trump, but the fact that the election was this close even with every major media source being so aggressively and overtly anti-Trump and pro-Biden does concern me. I can’t ignore the fact that if the media environment was more balanced and less ad-driven, it probably would have been an easy victory for Trump. And I do think all of the above is material to the subject of election integrity and the health of our democracy.
The Declaration sets principles behind a just and fair government, the Constitution outlines how this just government would function (it would function lawfully). When the government doesn't follow the principles and doesn't apply the required due process when it needs to be applied, it gets outisde the notion of a just government. The right to the current actions lies in the Constitution itself, as it doesn't allow for the current government to exist in its current form (doesn't function lawfully), and it doesn't fit the notion of a just government.
"because most people are not equipped to understand what is reasonable"

I hear this all the time now. But let's be clear -- this is the talk of fascism.

Democracy is built on trusting the populace to self govern. Saying that the populace is too dumb or uninformed to be trusted to self govern is inherently anti-democratic.
I'll just leave this here

https://epic.org/privacy/internet/ftc/whatsapp/
> I was just thinking that one of those loonies is probably planting a bomb somewhere hidden.

This is not impossible, CNN are reporting at least two bombs have been rendered safe by EODs
That's odd. I did not receive any notification yet?
Is the privacy policy country specific?
Who are the two fringe groups? By citing Weimar Germany, and then going into "two fringe groups", you are putting Anti-Nazi organizations on the same moral level as Nazis. You do see the problem with that right?
Official Response from JB: https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/01/06/statement-on-the-...
I wonder why so many commenters seem to think that abolishing time zones requires a totalitarian government. The United States or Canada could do exactly the same thing, if they had the political will to do it.... afaik there is nothing in either constitutions enshrining time zones.
Another interesting use-case for TCP in DNS is for anti-DDoS. If a botnet is abusing your DNS server to flood traffic to their target, flipping the 'TC' bit which will force the request to come back over TCP, exposing the spoof.

My long-winded write-up here: http://opine.me/cert-advisory-on-dns-amplification-offers-li...
Whenever I read a piece that is bullish on contraception and the sexual revolution of the 1960s, I become a little disheartened to think how many people today have such a dim view of sex and their own human nature. Sex is about but pleasure, but also so much more. See John Paul II's Theology of the Body:

http://www.ewtn.com/library/papaldoc/jp2tbind.htm

This information should be lovingly and shared with young persons, even (and especially) when it challenges us as adults and requires us to grow in maturity and understanding.

Also, there are wonderful modern, "open source" and free alternatives to pharmaceutical contraception, barrier methods and surgical sterilization, not to mention chemical and surgical abortion. I would invite readers here to learn about modern NFP and to help spread the word:

http://www.thebillingsovulationmethod.org/

http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/marriage-and-family/n...
Is it really so that inline fonts avoids the flash? I have not read this anywhere until now. Source?