jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> The use of CO2 that is sourced from the atmosphere is better from an environmental perspective than the use of CO2 sourced from offshoots of an ethanol plant.

I thought that most ethanol is made from fermentation of corn, sugar, or whatever, and the carbon in that process came from the atmosphere originally. So, environmentally whether you make CO2 as a byproduct of ethanol production from CO2-absorbing crops or you extract CO2 straight from the air, it seems essentially the same because in both cases the carbon came from the atmosphere originally. What am I missing?
Wait, founded by George Hotz? As in GeoHot? The PS3 jailbreak guy?
I really like this author's writing style. His RSS feed is unfortunately not working at the moment. Otherwise I would subscribe to his newsletter!
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Obviously I'm ignorant. Excuse me.
It appears he registered the domain http://receiving.it for his app. Italian domains don't come easy: I had to supply substantial evidence of my existence (a scan of my passport) before I could register my own .it domain.
Even if this did belong here, it is just a bunch of half-baked ideas with nothing to actually back them up.
Also with more RAM, more and more datasets are fitting in memory. You can have all of Wikipedia in memory on a machine that costs as much as a Venti Latte per day.
Another good alternative is Redcar
"Maybe the idea will interest someone, maybe someone here was thinking about the same thing but never got it started. It is what it is. What do you find "wrong" with his posting, maybe it will help clarify your criticism?"

If I'm going to toil away on a project for NO PAY (which is a huge risk), it better damn well be for a huge chunk of the profits.

I have been around many business types and have seen developers put their hard work into something with little or no payoff.

My hunch is that he offers 5% or less, which is a joke.
You might get better optimizations if you make it tail recursive (LLVM probably gets some of these). ie:

fn sum_tail(v : i64, l: &[i64]) -> i64 {
match l {
[] => v,
[x, xs..] => sum(v + x, xs)
}
}
Honestly If apple can't afford to stand up to FB who can ?

I dislike Apples closed ecosystem (anf google trying to do the same), but if it can weaken FB's grip on people, it might bring some benefit even to non apple customers.
That is some very important feedback on what is hopefully a very early UI redesign.

To all you UI design people, Never take away the file menu. And never turn it into some kind of icon while keeping the other menus as normal menus.
This is the literal definition of a strawman argument, isn’t it?
Purism is a good example, but System76 is not -- they're not actually designing or building hardware specifically for Linux, but tailoring existing hardware for Linux.

The distinction is they're not trying to develop a new computer that only runs or officially supports Linux. Instead they're leveraging the sales volumes of these OEM/ODMs which do offer Windows in order to keep prices in line with similarly specced laptops.

Compare this to Purism, whose offerings are much more expensive compared to similarly specced laptops, and because of this unlikely to gain mass market appeal. An initiative like Framework needs some amount of mass market appeal to make the repairability aspect really make sense, else it'll just be expensive and resource intensive to manufacture small quantities of these systems.
Blender is an exception to the rule, and a rolemodel. For example, FreeCAD and KiCad are OK, but not as nice (especially re FreeCad) as paid alternatives. GIMP isn't on the same level as Photoshop.
It is clear that an ad on a search page for a product works much better than something that is not relevant. What I’ve seen from my wife’s Facebook is that Facebook heavily promotes ads based on your search activity elsewhere. If they know that you are more likely to buy a product than a random person, it would definitely improve the ad effectiveness. In other words they’re skimming intent based on google searches.
I consider these targeting based on context or location. I'm fine with that, since it doesn't require invading the privacy of the user.
Anyone can invest in any public index. We do have private indexes too (this is a premium feature, where we charge a subscription), wherein only folks you share your index with can view and invest. You can also "nest" others' indexes in your indexes (e.g. https://enombic.com/aml/autopilot).

We don't surface a lot around how much you invest right now, as there are some privacy concerns. But, depending on how things evolve it may be something we enable.
HIPAA definitely has a huge influence on security of medical information.

Smaller practice tend to be less stringent in following it, but big institution tend to be scared or getting hot with a violation .
Fortunately the mpv player exists now, I've found it more stable than VLC lately.

I'm a long time VLC user though, I remember it came as a no-nonsense player that came with all the codecs you need by default!
Except on HN, where I can learn something and change my view. Or convince somebody else of something and nudge their view.

Well, 25% of the time.
Who knows how it came with up with that crazyness.

The original translates to something along the lines of "Dark elves live in the caves on the islands in the north east".

Maybe it took "north east" to mean Thailand and instead of separating しま and の it just took it as one block of text しまの (Shimano) like the bike company, and therefore fitness and どうくつ is cave which is in a way a type of room but that is one hell of a tortured translation.

Good times.
Stanford have demonstrated a small water droplet based circuit: https://youtu.be/m5WodTppevo
Hard to test the efficacy of a vaccine on an eradicated disease.
Sure. I mean we don't have it. It hasn't come up. If it did, we'd obviously deal with it.
If Trump wanted to stay in power why didn't he order the military to sieze the Congress and declare martial law? He thought a loosely organized band of civilian protestors were going to actually keep him in office?
This is quite wrong. The fediverse is a lot better, has less noise, and much less toxic than twitter.
Joe Biden has called for 230 to be revoked immediately. I would think that counts.
Agreed. I think its not about hate and envy, but the "my life is perfect" image shown to you when in actual fact everybody has their own insecurities or are going through tough family, friends and relationship (personal and professional) issues. We all know life has its ups and downs, but we pretend like the downs never exist.

The majority of the population never speak about the "bad" things happening in their lives, because it makes you vulnerable which is a feeling we refuse to show in todays world.
Firefox nightly has a limited addon system. Ublock for example works.
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...
In the same form factor, there is also the HP EliteDesk 800 micro.
This is called a hurdle and many funds use them. Buffet's bet was against funds of funds which are basically indices tracking certain hedge funds, not hedge funds themselves.
This is meant as inspiration, as an eye-opener, a PR move, and a gift to web developers & designers.

It does use emerging web standards. Just because some of them are not reliable everywhere does not discount that it’s all to be found in W3C and WHATWG draft specs. Note the HTML itself: They’re using <article>, <figure>, <header>. It’s really HTML5. (Remember, we consider things “standard” even before IE supports them.)

This is not meant as a compendium of current best practices. Progressive enhancement still applies in the real world. Apple knows that.

If you are criticizing this for being not cross-browser enough, you are completely missing the point.
If browsers stick to standards then great, but as this demo proves (since it only works in Safari) you'll still need to develop for various browsers, versions, brands, types.

As I see it - I'll stick with Flash. I like the idea of write once and deploy everywhere, which worked pretty well for me until the iTouch/iPhone/iPad came along.
A couple of interesting points you bring up, although probably not by intention:

A: An MBA is a credential, not necessarily a skill or set of skills. Earning an MBA is applying yourself to learn a set of skills, and then convincing the instructing organization you have learned the skills. Why get an MBA if you can circumvent it and just learn the skills? Why even bother with the superfluous skills and instead only learn the necessary skills on the job (and get paid for it)? With your MBA you can convince someone that you have some set of business skills, and that you are capable of applying yourself.

B: There is a different culture of employment relationships between America and say, Japan. In Japan, you are typically employed by the same company for life. Job hopping is rare, and there is a lot of loyalty in the employee-employer relationship. Why would you get an MBA in such a culture? You can surely learn the necessary skills on the job, and you most likely will not be leaving the company to find a better opportunity. Branching off from point A that an MBA is a credential, it follows that such a credential is not needed as much if you aren't planning on using it to unlock external opportunities. The flip side to this is that in America, an individual might find themselves working 2 or even 3 'careers' in their lifetime, and job hopping isn't considered disloyal, it's being aggressive. A credential is much more important to someone in this culture, as they will need it to convince new employers to hire them.

A counterpoint I want to bring up in support of an MBA is that an MBA readies you for the job you may have 5 years from now. You indicated that the necessary skills could be learned on the job. But training a new manager is expensive and risky. First, the manager must take the time to learn the tools, making him or her less effective. Second, there is the risk that this person is simply not management material, and that the investment will be wasted. Having an MBA shows (in theory) that the candidate is management material, and in fact has already learned many of the necessary skills. A company looking for a manager gets to know that this candidate is more likely to work out for them.

Finally, you said "If a person cannot learn that on those skills on the job, I seriously would question his/her ability to be an effective manager." The actual purpose of the MBA degree is to show that the candidate does have the capacity to be an effective manager. Again, it's a credential that is designed to remove the risk of a poor hiring decision.
So true. I played a lot of games through because of the story, but it was actually annoying and boring "work". Solving "real" game puzzles is unforgettable in contrast.
I also work at an ISP. I feel like building a big complex router configuration can classify as hacking. You're creating something that didn't exist before you took the router out of the box. Maybe you're limited to the device's capabilities and features but there's still plenty of room for creativity and skill in how you design and implement solutions.
these are experimental standards. they're being actively developed and discussed by many browser makers and the standards bodies, and will be the official standards soon.

don't hate on people trying to push the web forward. everybody is going it in a very fair, open, democratic method as trying to implement ideas as quickly as possible.
indeed - lets catch up... will contact you this weekend.
sheeva plug!
Google does help them (google's advertisers) to track you indirectly. Not throught the adwords networks but throught the RTB network (DoubleClick).

You can easily validate this by checking all the "pixels" (in the RTB sense) that are being deployed by Google. In their defense, they do mask a lot of things so stuff like the full IP address are not available (last time I worked on that they just give you the three first segments) but still quite a few information was available to target your demographic segment.

Edit:

For downvoters and people curious about tracking pixels:
- https://support.google.com/dfp_premium/answer/1347585?hl=en
- https://support.google.com/dfp_premium/answer/2508388?hl=en
Listen we are talking about two different things and that's my point. I don't care about moral judgements. This is about reality - if there is a law on the books, right or wrong, and you knowingly break that law, will you be surprised when law enforcement comes after you? This is about personal responsibility. You make a decision and you pay the consequences, right or wrong.
I'm afraid I don't understand your comment. What am I asking people to abstain from?
Edit: oops! I replied after reading the content in an 8 hours old tab, not noticing that the repo author had already explained it in a sibling post to this one.

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From their README, it's just someone that converted the XML version published by the "Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz" (Ministry of Justice and for Customer Protection) which as they note is available at http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/

For instance, a section I've used often for running my business is the VAT part: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ustg_1980/index.html
There is a notification service, including an RSS feed: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/aktuDienst.html

About the Markdown version in GitHub: after a quick inspection, most diffs seem to be plain additions of content, presumably as it was converted to Markdown.
However, some diffs might have tracked changes in the laws, as this one: https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze/commit/3c1bada22f08b4e0...

I suspect the author ran the converter a few times and then abandoned it. In principle, it should be possible to keep updating it.

The improvement over the official XML version seems to be that with Markdown it's easier to get understandable diffs.
Half of those steps would be eliminated if Amazon would simply add a "favorites" or "regular items" panel to their mobile app, where all the "buttons" for the items you regularly need would be displayed, and you could just tap on one to re-order it. Given the fact that people almost always have their smartphone with them now, having a separate external button for every product is ridiculously redundant.
I was surprised there was no mention of NoSQL in this at all. Surely NoSQL can be part of a time series database solution.
I really hope they didn't buy it and kill it.
Hopefully even if they did, one of the alternatives that appeared when it was clear people were interested in VR will do well. I like this technology, but it's movies rather than VR oriented: Avegant Glyph
Good work !! Would be nice to have a wish list & price updates on promotions
Does he think PHP is the best language out there?
I'm not sure why you got downvoted. A lock could easily solve that problem. Specifically, you could use a read-write lock where readers either keep it open for an entire request or check an epoch number each time they take the lock and abort/restart the request if it changes.
I am not sure that's true. In fact applying hydroalcoholic gels regularly is still recommended and often mandatory in many places (I was not allowed in at my dentist last week if I did not use it).
I deleted my (outdated) phone number from facebook years ago and it's still part of the leak, with my name and gender in it. I did not replace the phone number with another phone number. Really says something about what delete means for fb.
Yeah, the most helpful answer is a, but with a follow up explaining what you can do in two weeks, and you let the boss decide if that’s good enough, if there’s more resources available, or if you should work on something else with that time instead.
How can matter fall into a black hole? Time will stop upon getting closer to the horizon so matter will virtually just sit there. After some time black hole will look more like a bubble, won't it?

I remember asking on stack exchange and I've got an answer that no, it doesn't actually fall in.
Perspective? :)
I wonder if IP owners will be using this to find copyright violations...
I downloaded a book on Van Gogh's drawing, beautiful. http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/Vincent_va...
South Korea at least is a pretty special case. They were one of the poorest countries in the world as recently as the 70s, so there's no real sense of "older generations had it better" to get outraged about.
The regional grocery chain I regularly shop at has two generic grocery brands. One is the traditional cheap generic in bland packaging and a funny name, e.g. "Crisp 6" cereal instead of Crispix.

The other is an upscale brand. I actually prefer it over most brand-name products. Over time I've become accustom to always seek out the store brand because it's such good quality, even if it's not always cheaper.
I don't understand why the SSO would be broken. AFAICT, I'd just need to re-login to the SSO-provider (Okta in this case) in the context of the initiator (Microsoft Teams, in this case). They'd otherwise need to be doing something silly if it stops working.
Insanity. He's demanding a hard fork (the only way to move bitcoins out of that wallet) so he can recover bitcoins in an address that he has no proof that he owns.
Perhaps that indicates better approach than forced quotas, try to get women to be less concerned by the gender of role models?
Then there's Microsoft, with thousands of smart people working for decades with billions of dollars of resources to work with---the most powerful of them all until what feels like "recently" to me. And the evidence of their innovative power: we have one of several game platforms, a billion-dollar write-off tablet that they can't give away, and a kind of keyboard that accounts for less than 1% of keyboards in use today. Oh, and other stuff that "didn't become as popular as these".

This is not really fair, and I'm sure you realise that. As a random selection, and in roughly decreasing order of significance from "world defining" to "things you'd really miss if they weren't there":

We have a standardised desktop operating system that is familiar to nearly every computer user on the planet, with which an array of hardware more diverse than at any point in human history mostly just works, and on which software probably written before some people reading this were born still runs.

We have a history of programming languages that have advanced both the state of industrial practice and the state of the art in research, and both traditions continue to this day.

Until very recently, the majority of web pages were presented in one of a handful of carefully designed, screen-optimised fonts that brought digital typography far beyond its previous standard, which are available on almost all major platforms, not just Microsoft's.

We have a wealth of ideas regarding HCI, from more efficient user interface designs to accessibility techniques to support users with disabilities.

It's not difficult to think of more examples, and of course Microsoft have also participated in numerous collaborative endeavours over the years that have advanced the industry in other ways. No doubt an organisation with Microsoft's resources could have achieved much more in recent years with more visionary leadership, but the idea that their work has produced nothing more than a few hardware devices over the years is just silly.
A good question, which needs some good discussion. But far from a condemnation of the BI. More money for families is far from a problem for children; they would benefit first (unemployed parents; homeless families).
Absolutely. To be honest, we don't want Pyret to stay in the "education cellar" forever. But, we need a set of coherent design constraints, and education is a good one because it prevents premature cruft.

The current stack treatment is pretty elaborate for pedagogic reasons. There's absolutely no reason we can't just turn it off for programmers who are willing to write short-running computations, for instance (as production developers are willing to do)—that would be a "#lang"-style configuration. The tooling would, of course, be the bigger issue.

Overall, I'm happy for all good altjs projects. The core Pyret team burnt their fingers on a lot of aspects of JavaScript and see clearly its difficulties for education and even for development.

By the way, this is one of the reasons we're putting a lot of effort into JS interop. This isn't really important for education but it is for development—and in particular, development for education.
It's important to make a distinction between the chronically homeless (who frequently have addiction issues or mental health problems) and the short-term homeless when talking about these sorts of issues, IMHO.

Chronic homeless make up ~15% of the national population (stat from http://www.endhomelessness.org/pages/chronic_homelessness which cites 2014 version of the HUD report you do, but their link is broken, in full disclosure) For those folks, what's needed is guaranteed housing with wraparound services (healthcare/counseling/meals, etc), not more income as that's not the driving force for most.

The short-term homeless would also benefit from some of that but many would also be able to safely use basic income.

In any case, I think it's important to make the above distinction explicitly as different people have different notions of "homelessness" and we end up talking past each other if we don't make it explicit.
Also, people bitch about not being able to use their favourite editors. I've never understood this, either. In my 20+ years in IT, I've never been wedded to any particular editor. And the way source is organized and presented in the Smalltalk environment (via the class browser), I've never needed the power of emacs or Eclipse or Sublime Text. Super-editors are for file-based software development. In Smalltalk, they're rather unnecessary.
Yep. I'm actually contributing a bit to an exokernel written in it.
I actually really like this idea in theory. I currently find most articles through either RSS (Google Reader) or Twitter because I know I can trust these people.

If you can find a way to crowdsource who I follow on twitter so that it instantly reveals the "top topics" I'd sign on immediately.

Perhaps an additional page on your site (I'm not on Facebook either so I can't check you out), where I can upload my twitter name and it sorts links shared by who I follow in order by the # of retweets, time, etc...

Good luck!
If you put in a limit order for $20 you should expect to pay $20. By definition, a limit order protects you from paying more, it doesn't guarantee you will pay less or execute at all.
I have hired (and fired) a lot of software developers and cannot stress enough the importance of having candidates write code up-front. Having made poor hiring decisions myself by not doing this well and having "inherited" team members who whose coding skills left something to be desired, I would argue that few things are as crippling to an organization as bad programmers. Someone can be the nicest person ever, but if they don't write code well - they will cost you in time, money, and unnecessary technical debt.

I don't agree that FizzBuzz tests are the ways to screen developers though. These types of questions may give insight into IQ but I've seen really bright people be really sloppy coders. The way the problem is solved is just as important as getting the problem right and making it fast. If it isn't readable, you better hope that person does not get hit by a bus because if you need to modify it later, you're in trouble.
ok, but would you agree that the quality of the Digg clones has generally been poor?
I migrated from Digg to Reddit a couple of years ago. Then from Reddit to hackerNews. Reddit appears to be succumbing to the same fate as Digg, (too many lol-cats, and cheap comments).

This site would keep the focus on tech news and try to keep the community relatively small.