jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I hate the fact that this study seems to be tainted with potential conflict of interest as outlined by @themodelplumber.

I wish science could get back to just-being-science and focus on provable, repeatable results sans corporate involvement, as I think if this is really true, it could be a real breakthrough.

I have some experience with fasting, and was always surprised how good I felt after a couple of days, and to be honest the times I was actively living a fasting lifestyle, I do not remember ever getting sick.

Yes yes I know...a big bag of confirmation bias and anecdotal evidence, which is why I hope deeper, hard-science studies will continue.
Same here. My dnsmasq server responds with the domain name when I try it with 'host', but curl and firefox fail on Debian and Ubuntu with only that 1 DNS server in resolv.conf. Curl says "curl: (6) Could not resolve host: mattias-.github.io".

However, curl and firefox seem to be RFC-compliant. RFC952 states: "The last character must not be a minus sign or period."
Yeah - been using the same id since Slashdot days (which I only seemed to have stopped using in 2010).

I guess I am quite the Neal Stephenson fan - my WoT and XBL ids are variations of Fraa Jad.
According to RFC 1034[1] hyphens can only be interior to a label; it appears many tools simply follow these recommendations strictly.

The exact wording is: "They must start with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior characters only letters, digits, and hyphen."

[1]: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1034.txt
The GPL, or copyleft, does not require you to release your changes. 10:31 in the video: "And they can also offer it to the rest of the public, if they wish."

It doesn't matter whether you're just using a program, or also hacking away at it, being a developer/programmer means you're also using it, i.e. means you're also a user of the program.

So compared to users, developers don't lose anything, except for the fact that they are not allowed to turn a program into an instrument of power over other users. I don't know why you say ideology > people above. If anything, copyleft really favours the people as the majority of people are not programmers.

Even for programmers, copyleft has incentive for them to contribute since it's a guarantee that their investment into the program will not be 'wasted', i.e. used in proprietary software (if the programmer believes in the morality of free software that is, obviously it can go both ways).

> "I'm also not sure why you'd need the GPL license to ensure the users' freedom."

If it's licensed under MIT, you can simply continue development under a proprietary license at anytime (and typically you would stop distributing the source, only distributing the binary). Eventually, the unmaintained MIT licensed version will likely become useless (assuming it remains unmaintained/no development), and because the latest version of the program is proprietary, the user loses the freedom they once had when using this program. The GPL essentially forbids this in order to prevent that from happening.
I was doing two day fasts ever other week or so for a while. The first time, it was really hard - I felt sick to my stomach, weak, and almost gave up. After that time though, once I realized that no it's not going to kill me, got much easier and I actually started to enjoy the relaxation it brought.
I'm referring more to the culture than anything else. It's a frequent remark at work so I didn't really think much of it.
The mad arms race for browser functionality smells a lot like an Embrace and Extend strategy by the big players. If browsers implementations are impossibly complex for anyone other than large companies to implement then the concept of "open standards" doesn't mean what it used to.

I'm looking forward to the inevitable renaissance of the Open Web which respects the fact that the internet is for end-users[0]. I'm sure there's a million cool things a web page _could_ do but that doesn't mean that's what users want. The web needs more end-user participation, not more functionality. An end-user focused web would focus on security and simplicity over novelty. I'm not sure where this all went so terribly wrong but I'm convinced that it won't always be like this. Disruptive change is something our industry is very good at.

[0] - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8890
Having an office clown is a great tension breaker.

Having an office full of clowns is a great way to get nothing done.
Does China's behavior set the standard you hold your own country to, or do you think we can do better?
Novel development in a complex problem space isn't something one can just throw manpower at and expect progress. I'm sure that a certain amount of his fame is due to being a famous architect, as name recognition always compounds. There's no way he's more influential than the rest of the industry combined (shoulders of giants and whatnot), but I would be hard pressed to find press recognition of other hardware engineers. Still, he is undoubtedly exceptional.

For example, one could round up as many scientists as they could find in 1900, but there is no number that would guarantee the progress made in theoretical physics by someone like Einstein alone.
My point wasn’t to emulate the DNA in a virtual machine. The point was that between humans and chimps (our closest DNA relatives) we’re 99% same to them. So high order intelligence that gives rise to written language and tool building is somewhere in that 700MB of DNA code. And 1% of that (just 7MB) is responsible for creating the smartest intelligence we know (humans).

In that sense intelligence artchitecture isn’t very complicated. The uniformity of isocortex which we have the most relative to our brain size compared to any animal says we ought to replicate its behavior in a machine.

The isocortex/neocortex is where the gold is. It’s very uniform when seen under microscopes. Brain cells from one region can be put in another region and they work just fine. All of ^ says intelligence is some recursive architecture of information processing. That’s why I’m optimistic we’ll crack it.
Vast majority of phones before 2007 supported J2ME apps, it simply wasn't much useful without 24/7 internet everywhere.
Agree with that. However none of the frameworks comes closer to visual programming environments (nowadays called low code).
You voted between two parties that are largely the same. Not much different from China, tbh.
Posts like this remind me immediately why I stopped bothering to apply for software jobs at other companies and stayed at my current place of employment to climb the ladder. The interview process is almost universally terrible and consistently tests you on a nearly useless subset of computer science that doesn't correlate well to actual implementation practices in the event you are hired. It really is a painful process, and probably needlessly so for most cases.
Goes to show how diverse a large company can be even with the same underlying processes.
The book has a nice discussion: http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Configurat...

> The default setting is auto, which colors output when it’s going straight to a terminal, but omits the color-control codes when the output is redirected to a pipe or a file.

> You can also set it to always to ignore the difference between terminals and pipes. You’ll rarely want this; in most scenarios, if you want color codes in your redirected output, you can instead pass a --color flag to the Git command to force it to use color codes. The default setting is almost always what you’ll want.
Yes, you're right - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database
More goodies:
http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/projects-using-fluxus/
isn't imdb owned by Amazon?
Oh, come on. First, nobody claimed they were new, just interesting. Second, since when must something be relevant to be interesting?

Fine, it might not me interesting to you. It might not be very important or relevant, either. It's easy enough to "vote with your feet" against it. No need to be hostile. Bring something to the table, instead.
Well done :P

I've pulled similar shenanigans, I made one website for my school: http://latestart.cf

Then later: http://slatetart.tk
Nginx is not “an established C project”, it’s the insane product of Igor’s twisted mind. It’s a brilliant totally asynchronous giant state machine – which is how it’s so blindingly fast – because everything is non-blocking, and everything is super efficient.

I'd like to see a diagram of that state machine!
In the furniture biz, lots of places have laws restricting how many days/year a given shop can do "going out of business"/"total clearance" sales. Otherwise, they tend to run them non-stop for decades because they are so effective at bringing in customers.

According to my friends that have worked furniture retail, it was common practice to mark everything up 300% for a week then have a "40-60% Off!!!" sale. Customers would be very excited about how much money they were "saving" even though the reality was that they were buying at a net markup compared to a few weeks ago. But, a few weeks ago the shop was much, much quieter even though the prices were lower. So, what's a shopkeeper to do?
Stopped after I didn't see a demo
> Me? I would definitely not live the same way.

so maybe start now?
That search alone is probably nothing to worry about. However, over time they will know almost everything about you and you, on the other hand, will know almost nothing about them. I am not sure how that makes you feel, but some people do not prefer to be in that situation.
On the iPhone side of things, you need to provide permission for an app to use GPS data.
Mic, camera, compass, gps, and gyro are all fair game. No implementable restrictions either.
Find things to do with other people: work,volunteer work, sports if you can do sports and don't dislike the level of conversation. If the conversation arises naturally out of what you're doing, it won't scare you; you'll be absorbed in the conversation rather than trying to figure out how to get it started.

But I agree with what seems to be the consensus here: talk to somebody like a therapist, who will have seen such concerns before.

[edit: spelling]
>I'm not convinced that even developers are.. and I'm picking my words with trepidation here.. sophisticated enough to put together queries, filters or even collections of topics in the main.

Absolutely. Human curation feels right, because that's what we've been doing for so many thousands of years. We are multi-faceted, and so are our decisions on what information is useful and when.
OpenIndiana is pretty moribund lately, yeah, and there are certainly other abandoned distros. The two really "alive" Illumos distributions are SmartOS and OmniOS. Each gets regular updates, and is backed by a company that uses the distribution in-house (SmartOS is from Joyent, and OmniOS is from OmniTI). SmartOS PXE or USB-boots and is designed as a "cloud" OS substrate for starting up Zones where real work is done, and optionally works together with SmartDataCenter (also by Joyent) to orchestrate multiple machines; OmniOS is a more traditional hdd-installable server OS.

They're both perfectly usable and non-dead, although the situation of distros so strongly dependent on a single vendor each does worry me a bit (I feel more comfortable in the long-term stability of e.g. FreeBSD).
Hi, Tim from Realm here. We’ve spoken about the topic in previous HN threads and have an official statement in our FAQ [1]. If you need more info or have more questions, we do our best to watch HN & Twitter, but the best way might be to email us. I’m VP Product at Realm and always happy to chat: tim@realm.io

[1]: https://realm.io/docs/objc/latest/#faq — applicable to Android as well: https://realm.io/docs/java/latest/#faq
do you have any links to these statements? I was one of the very-upset users and I missed this.
You are misunderstanding UDC. Faceted classification is precisely not hierarchical.
Some of them are stupid and mean, but some are just stupid and think they've found a secret code or way to 'hack the legal system'. I agree they're time-wasters and the people who sell them on the scam are legal fraudsters, but I also think it highlights a problem of excess complexity in our legal system to the point of seeming arbitrary and impenetrable. The sad thing about most sovereign citizens is that they're not usually trying to accumulate big fortunes or run elaborate criminal schemes, they're trying to get off the hook for petty criminal or administrative violations that have disproportionately impacted their lives.

I kind of agree with Plato that a society with too many laws ends up becoming tyrannical because it's impossible for the average person to keep up with them all. Also, in our modern society every wrong thing you do follows you around forever, and our bureaucracies tend to be Kafkaesque (also due to stupidity rather than malice). While I do not agree with the trope that 'most people commit three felonies a day', simplicity and clarity would be a good foundation for better civics education.
this has always bothered me.

if you have the right of way, and you do not take the right of way, in most cases you are effectively disobeying traffic rules and disrupting the flow of traffic.
This is precisely why I absolutely always get house and car insurance but never ever pay for an extended warranty.
At the same time this crime shows the weakness of crypto: with an ever appreciating linked asset with no ability to truly "gap" transfers, you can always trace where the money goes, even with a mixer (you just then need to track many more targets, but eventually the money re-concentrate somewhere you can see), transfering just once with someone who knows your name instantly gives you traceback ability to all the transaction (can't fund a wallet without tracing back to the first ever source of fund on chain), and the fact it appreciate is the greatest enemy of money laundering: where a Mexican kingpin would understand that there's value in losing 40% of their money rather than have it stashed in USD bills in a warehouse, crypto is tempting to keep, this guy couldn't realistically forfeit a large majority of the fund by for instance randomly giving it to 5000 honest wallets with 1 being his for instance.

It's great for us non criminals, but it's one more utility of crypto going down the drain. What is it good for, if not even crime.
I'm pretty sure a sizeable number of non-EU based sites added cookie popups as well.

Cookie popups were stupid - cookies aren't really an opt-in system. DNT should have been an opt-out system for off-site tracking. If Facebook tracks you through a like button or Google tracks you through an ad/analytics after you sent then a DNT header, they get into trouble.

Maybe the header size effect DNT could have been mitigated by not sending it to sites with the same origin as the current page (or another origin policy that the website specifies).
Google the term "liquidity preference". It's generally understood to be a function of real GDP and interest rates. GDP up = more demand for currency to be able to transact. Lower rates = holding cash has less opportunity cost (there are fewer opportunities to invest in other things with higher yield).
Just because it's BYOD doesn't mean you should be installing any non-work apps. Get a separate device for games.
Herbicide is how they're using GMO to give higher yields. Farmers aren't buying herbicides just to throw away money.

Higher yields means we can produce the same amount of food while converting less natural environments into farmland. So it's not all bad here.
Did you just describe the systemic dilemma of social media where:

- value is judged by how controversial something is, but;

- users who “crossed the line” are “not tolerated” and banned?
How does the ability to perform super fast multiplication in your head sound?
For reference of the many people who apparently have no clue, this is an example of a "hatchet job": https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/10/the-fanatic-frau...
There is a reason, the U.S. has traditionally had a U.S. WHO representative in China since the first SARS outbreak, well until TRUMP. Trump's removal of the U.S. presence "on-the-ground" made it easy for the Chinese gov't to delay the real-time reporting while they struggled to figure out on their own whether they had something really serious to worry about or not. Covid-19 is not ENTIRELY Trump's fault, but he sure did just about everything he could to make it worse.
> Transeau found that software tools to accomplish this weren't readily available.

he could have used google, but keep believing!
If he's in his twenties, he already done with his mandatory military service (apart from being in the reserves).

He would be doing this as a civilian just like an American citizen can get a job at the CIA out of college.
More commenters doesn't increase value.

I disagree. The more commenters that are available, the more likely it is that one commenter will be an expert that can supply a unique perspective. This is especially important at a place like HN where there are lots of smart people who think that being smart means that they're knowledgeable about everything.

I think my issue is more that "ugh" isn't anyone. He has no background, and therefore, what he says is purely within the context of the discussion. Anything he says is questionable, because their is no accountability.

The fact that I know your name makes you no less credible in my eyes than ugh. I don't recognize your name. I don't know you. I'm sure as hell not going to waste my time by tracking you down on google and reading your resume. Everything you say is questionable. Really now, what is it about knowing your name that makes your statements any less questionable?
A more specific recommendation: _An Introduction to Database Systems_ by C. J. Date.

Be warned that he's got an axe to grind - He's often critical of SQL because it doesn't live up to the mathematical elegance of the relational model. (I happen to agree with him.) He knows his stuff, though.
How do you guard against the situation in which both applications require the maximum number of workers?
Maybe http://github.com/preston/ruby-prolog then?

Edit: or http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?tiny+prolog+in+ruby (not sure if they're the same..)
Don't think it's Israel, he would have already spent time in the military if he was Israeli.
> I think hidden biological mechanisms related to overpopulation have kicked in.

I think that is assigning way too much determinism to the process. A far simpler explanation is that people are fundamentally much less "adult" than they have been forced to be in the past.
I liked this part of the article "... it’s fair to say that the Taliban employ the world’s worst suicide bombers: one in two manages to kill only himself. And this success rate hasn’t improved at all in the five years they’ve been using suicide bombers, despite the experience of hundreds of attacks—or attempted attacks. "

It's hard to find suicide bombers with a good resume of successful attacks.
If this is Israel, I believe the OP means right-wing pro-settlement ex-military. And by ex-military, I mean they served in combat units and likely went on to become officers and stayed on after their 3-year mandatory service term was up.
I really like my Miele canister vacuum. It's light, quiet, and powerful. I find bagless vacuums, including Dyson's, to be a pain in the butt to clean by comparison. However Miele is certainly not a good value brand either. I've never used a cordless vacuum, but I find the concept suspect for basic physics reasons. You're either giving up weight, power, or both compared to something you can plug into a wall.
The thing is, a vaccine isn't exactly a good that people want, try to get, then they have it and someone else doesn't. It's not a Furby. Every single person in the population who gets it is benefitting the others who haven't gotten it. Why would you waste it when you know giving it to literally anyone will benefit everyone?
The system you describe is exactly what is happening in the UK.

There is a country-wide registry of everyone (already existing, because the NHS covers everyone's healthcare) and everyone is assigned a place in line to get vaccinated based on their estimated clinical risk, from highest to lowest.

Everyone gets a letter in the mail when their turn comes up allowing them to register for any of the currently open vaccine appointments at one central website. There's little to no fight to book slots because the appointment system is paced by the letters.

When a whole risk group is nearly completely vaccinated (so far, that includes age 80+, 75+, 70+, and social care workers), then that group switches over to open registration to encourage any stragglers to get vaccinated.

Anyone who has an invitation letter or is in one of the nearly-finished groups can get an appointment scheduled on a simple central website or by calling their local doctor: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavir...

The priority queue of people left to vaccinate (and the logic behind it) is widely publicized and progress through the steps widely tracked in the media:

1. residents in a care home for older adults and their carers

2. all those 80 years of age and over and frontline health and social care workers

3. all those 75 years of age and over

4. all those 70 years of age and over and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals

5. all those 65 years of age and over

6. all individuals aged 16 years to 64 years with underlying health conditions which put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality

7. all those 60 years of age and over

8. all those 55 years of age and over

9. all those 50 years of age and over

It is estimated that taken together, these groups represent around 99% of preventable mortality from COVID-19.

The UK is currently working on group #5 and catching any remaining people left in #1 - #4.

My point is not that the UK is doing everything perfectly (obviously not). It's just that a mass vaccination system like this is doable and easily could have been done in the US if the government was more together over the last year. And organization works - the UK is not only significantly ahead of the US in number of shots administered per capita, but it also has a much higher percentage of age 70+ citizens reached (well over 90%) while the US vaccinations so far are more spread across age ranges.
According to Tether's own transparency page [0], there's $30 billion of USD sitting in some random bank, somewhere. No, they haven't told anybody where it is, and they have never released an audit. Yes, they are still delaying the NY Attorney General's investigation [1]. We know that at least $850 million has been seized and lost for good [2]. No, they don't report that on the transparency page.

[0] https://wallet.tether.to/transparency
[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/bitcoinlawyer/status/135164200602...
[2] https://modernconsensus.com/cryptocurrencies/tether/feds-jus...
Indeed, wink-wink :D
That fact says nothing about the efficiency. What it says is that market forces will decide what level of energy they want to dedicate to the security of the network. Whatever the market is willing to pay, it will be 100% efficiently spent on outcompeting attackers on the network.

> that sounds like a bad solution and I think you know that lol

I don't think it's a good or bad solution. It is basically just the same as how market forces control the values of fiat currencies which in turn affects how much energy is required to secure them.
This explains these days everyone and anyone is trying to find vulns even if their technical skills are limited to PHP.
"Snabbt" is Swedish, and means "fast".

(I've translated a couple of these Swedish named things on HN over the past time, I hope it's not off topic)