jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Eccentric billionaires, got to love em.

I was looking for an electric truck to buy and was hoping this Cybertruck would be a replacement, but I think I’ll stick with my gas sipping sedan for awhile longer after seeing this announcement.

I’ll wait for the next iterations or a better alternative offered by the competition. I just can’t see myself driving this “box.” Reminds me of those early 90s SUVs, but like 10x uglier.

Specs are impressive but I just can’t get over the aesthetics.
You're right. I divide VPNs up into 3 choices:

- Rolling your own VPN (control your own infrastructure)

- Using an existing VPN service (crowd-based anonymity)

- Doing nothing (privacy nihilism)

Each decision has their own benefits and tradeoffs. If you're someone who torrents, you should probably be using crowd-based anonymity. If you really dislike the trust relationship you have with your VPN and you're technically inclined, you can roll your own VPN. If you don't want to spend the time worrying about this stuff, setting up a VPN on its own and doing nothing else won't make you private anyway.

I (very cautiously) lean towards advising people to use an existing VPN service, but that's not a strong opinion. I do think people who argue that rolling your own VPN is the only sensible choice are either full of crap, or haven't thought through the actual threat models real people face.

There's a big movement in some portions of the security industry to say that moving trust around isn't valuable, and that doing nothing is better than centralizing your trust. I'm not going to mince words, I think that's a really dumb perspective.
I played in a band for years in Los Angeles and I loved being able to fit all of our gear into my truck on the weekends. Everyone was bummed when I finally sold the truck and bought a Prius. The Prius is surprisingly spacious and I could still fit my small drum kit and an amp or two but not our whole setup. Admittedly _much_ better for the weekday commute though.
My wife and I both own businesses here and neither of us have heard of this.

That's absolutely nuts.

The only thing I heard of is that older cars can be registered under a company and the market value used for tax purposes. That's why you see a lot of these massive Mercedes on the road..
True, but Half-Life Alyx is not one such game.

I do see a niche for simulator-type games, like a driving/flying sims where you get put in a simulation-rig to make it feel like you’re driving/flying.

Like the four-player Daytona game that was everywhere, even far into the 90s, that’ll provide some serious added value over just playing at home.

But I don’t see the huge appeal for first-person games, since most players don’t actually want the real physical experience of running around on a battlefield, getting shot at. Just half an hour of that would be exhausting to most people.

Maybe some hybrid fitness-studio/VR experience would be viable, give people an entertaining experience while grinding away on the stairmaster.
Would be nice to add an option for both (for people who can design and code but may want to connect with others anyway).
How can the iPhone determine the location of a cell tower (or WiFi access point) just by receiving its signal?

While it seems obvious from that analysis that it is indeed logging the locations of the towers rather than the phone, I am more interested in how it derives the locations for those towers.

It could simply have a lookup table, but that would mean every iPhone has a lookup table of every cell tower (GSM and CDMA) as well as WiFi point in the world - with a globally unique identifier and location - as part of the OS. Which seems pretty implausible.

If it's doing a remote lookup, then it must be polling some service to determine the location of every CellID it seems. Something like OpenCellID (http://www.opencellid.org/) or Navizon http://www.navizon.com/) is what I mean. If so, it would effectively be broadcasting your location in real-time. This is equally implausible, as it just seems like the kind of thing we'd have heard about by now through OS investigation, or even just "why is my battery draining so quick".

It could conceivably triangulate the tower itself, but that's implausible as a) the phone's GPS would have to be active (see battery issue above) and b) it couldn't possibly be accurate unless you were effectively spiralling around the emitter.

It can't be getting it from the signal itself, as "emitter location" sure isn't part of the WiFi spec and I'd be amazed if it was in GSM or CDMA.

How else can the iPhone know (or estimate) the GPS coordinate of cell towers?
There's nothing unique about my viewpoint, I'm certain that somewhere else someone has come to a similar conclusion given a set of events and influences. It's just rare to see it expressed so here we are.

I find it worrying that you continue to use your measurement stick to say "you must be this hurt" to understand racism. I've outlined that we will continue to have stereotypes and that's it's not correct to use fiction as established fact. That a label can be true or false. That racism comes down to labelling an individual for perceived inadequacies. That racism will continue to be an ongoing issue given human nature. Been there and still there.

I don't doubt a persons integrity in any fashion, what I do find alarming is that those victimised start accepting a label as a fact and thereby continuing this negative themselves. Hence if a label no longer has the emotional attachment nor the emotional impact that is intended by those with ill will how can this not be a good thing ? Certainly it will not heal scars of the past but it will make for a better future.

If it was up to you it would for example mean I couldn't write childrens books such as "Fei-Long the fisherman from China", "Jenkins from England buys a top-hat", "Ela from India goes to the Temple". By that token I stand by my opinion that a stereotype is permissable in an entertainment context for good and bad. I can entertain the thought, and then discard it for what it is, a piece of fiction. Since not all Chinese are fishermen, not all English people wear top-hats, not all from India have the same belief and for good measure not all Black people are Gangsters. List goes on.

If I didn't want to listen or gain insight into another persons viewpoint we wouldn't be here in this instance. What disappoints me is that despite my best efforts to understand and communicate, it would appear I have failed in this.

I've stated how I've become who I am today and still you claim that I have no experience with the matter, well I'm sorry if your measurement stick doesn't work on me. By that token it would mean that only your personal experience is what defines racism and how only you can decree what it's definition is in it's experience, speech, thought and writing on the matter.

I've been honest the entire journey, yet you responded at each passage.

For this I love you and thank you friend, it's been informative.
I did when I say it on April 1st. I have a family member that hates them and we almost always have to go to 2D movies because of it. Now I can drag him to a 3D movie!
How about this headline: "Your iPhone is caching cell tower coordinates for faster location lookups".

Is that sensationalist? Or, does it represent the most logical explanation of this story from a technical and engineering background?
Does our about page (https://www.recurse.com/about) make it more clear? If so, which info do you wish we had on our home page (beyond that we're in NY)?

Thanks for the feedback!
Please don't do this here, regardless of the 'HN crowd'.
One thing I love about what this guy has done is the fact that he actually sees this stuff through. He didn't just talk about these ideas - he made them happen. It's one thing to do that for a Web site that two guys build in a room. It's quite another to literally put a rocket in orbit.
Agree with this wholeheartedly.. I was a hardcore c++ dev by day for 7 years straight and picking up rust was like the best thing I ever did. If anything it made me a much better c++ programmer by the end.
France needs something to initiate real change.
I have a friend and former boss who has a Wikipedia article. He has two careers in which he is about equally Notable, but the article is all about one of them, and contains not one sentence about the other. To someone who knows him, it's very weird. But to someone stumbling on the article, they don't know any better.

Of course I thought (for about 5 seconds) hey I'll edit the wiki. But I know better than to waste my time on it. It wouldn't work. There's nothing to cite. Just my personal knowledge, because I was there. His other accomplishments took place before the Web took off. Before stuff got written about everything. There's probably something in the way of sources I could track down if my life depended on it, but it doesn't.

So I left a comment on the talk page. That was probably 8 years ago, and nothing happened. I mean, even if maybe his other career wasn't quite Wikipedia-Notable, it would still make a really interesting couple of sentences given that his Wikipedia page did make the notable cut, and he was also super successful in this other field that you'd never ever guess he'd been involved in because it has zero to do with what Wikipedia thinks his main thing is.
It has been tried and doesn't work very well, even for low-density pinouts:

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2019/11/21/Z-tape.html
Is there a need for another social media app? Isn't the need covered with chat app?
py4cl2: https://digikar99.github.io/py4cl2/

burgled-batteries: https://github.com/pinterface/burgled-batteries
I don't think it is "over the hill" capabilities wise to some extent.
Feels to me like there's some pretty big leaps being made in the assertions. Just one example:

>Taxi demand is sociologically bipolar; 35 percent of users have incomes over $100,000 and 55 percent have incomes under $40,000. Thus, on Saturday night wealthier people out for a night on the town compete for service with night shift workers who do not have transit options.

Huge non-sequitur. It seems to be a reasonable assumption that high-income people will use rideshare for nights out, but how do we know night shift workers do not have other transit options? Or that night shift workers use rideshare/taxis at all? I think even for wealthy people it would be pretty crazy to rely on a taxi as their default commute option on a consistent basis, it is just way too expensive.
That‘s actually pretty hilarious. I submitted this, made my comment, and then immediately went to make a sandwich. I never noticed the truncated title; I didn’t even look. Thank you!
It's really not. Most scrambled eggs are overcooked, and what you use for oil (or butter) and anything you add (eg milk) has a large effect. Not to mention seasoning correctly.
Your comments add nothing to the discussion and only serve to spam up the comments section. Just why?
As a software developer I've worked with Unity and Unreal in a professional capacity for many years, and shipped quite a few games on both engines. Unreal is powerful, but really shows its game development studio and FPS game roots. Unity has limitations, I won't deny that. And both engines have their own issues and different frustrations in using and deploying them. I have also shipped games on internal, custom built engines too. From a business perspective, hiring Unity developers, i.e. people who can code in C#, is a lot easier. Unreal developers are plentiful, but their knowledge of the guts of Unreal usually stops at the surface level, barely dipping below Blueprints, at least from my experience.

Personally, I prefer Unity over Unreal, but am not averse to using either, in the right context.
Handmade Network[1] is probably where you want to be. They have a semi-active forum, and a very active Discord.

[1] http://handmade.network
Doesn't ON UPDATE only work for foreign keys? As far as I know, it's used to update the foreign key itself, and not values based on relationships.
> Avoid the link unless you like giant images of thinly sliced meat.

Found the vegan :)
Thanks for this gem of a comment. It's encouraging to hear that this sort of culture actually can exist in a large organization. Especially related to/enjoyed this at the end:

It seems to take a lot of mental effort to suspend that judgment and say "Well, this sure looks stupid, but I'll stick with it a little longer and see where it ends up."
Yes I did and it looks great! Are you seeing good adoption? Who are your early users? Any plans of coming to the UK?

(Sorry I realise my earlier comment sounds silly.)
It encourages innovation, you know.
I transitioned in a few ways. One, I intentionally changed my stride for distance training while wearing Nike Air Free Everyday trainers. Two, I did short runs on the sidewalks barefoot to toughen up my feet. (It's gross.) Three, I started wearing the VFFs everywhere else where possible.

I trained for years (12 yo+) as a middle-distance (10k) runner, so the biggest adjustment was to eliminate my "make this stride as long as possible," technique, which lends itself well to heel-striking.

Now that I run on the road in VFFs, I definitely know for days afterward if I tired enough on a run to fall back into old habits. I can barely walk and have to roll my calves and shins. Mind you, I'm too close to 40, and I think I could have pulled it off pretty easily when I was 15-20.
In my experience, this strategy works remarkably well.
They have been acquired by salesforce apparently
Kinect is a game changer, but most of its credit should be given to the company MS obtained the technology from.
People are downvoting but I appreciate this request because the transcript is very disorienting to read.

Planet Money used to be a great source for learning about the economy but has recently become unlistenable. For example, I tried listening to their Halloween episode about recessions but gave up after ten minutes of bad jokes and audio "fluff".
Did you see PG's footnote?

[2] I worried a little about using the word "disinterested," since some people mistakenly believe it means not interested. But anyone who expects to be a genius will have to know the meaning of such a basic word, so I figure they may as well start now.

From dictionary.com, the second definition of disinterested is "having no interest in something," but the first is, "not influenced by considerations of personal advantage."
Apple doesn’t need servers? They outsource iCloud to AWS/Microsoft.

So producing TV content is important enough that it should be done in-house but servers… not so much?
And what if intelligence is actually just curve fitting? Maybe we (or AI) just need to find the right number of the right curves.
Funny, somehow my brain transparently read it as "optimizer" and kept going without missing a beat. I like your word better though.
I got tricked into a very dark-patterned coffee subscription company called Amora Coffee.

I got one of their coupon with a Hello Fresh box. Which, by association, at the time increased my trust in this Amora Coffee company. And now, after being scammed, only ruined my trust in the Hello Fresh company. Never bought it again, never will, and will tell everyone who asks not to buy.

I will try to list all the dark patterns that I remember but you can google "Amora Coffee scam".

First, they present themselves as a regular e-commerce selling coffee. They offer a coupon for a free first purchase.

The site seems legit enough and they only ask you to pay $1 for delivery fee. It seems a great deal, even if the coffee is not that good, worth trying it. You even think that they must have a really good product to offer a free full-sized sample. Their conversion rate must be phenomenal at this step.

But in that step alone there are two parts of the scam already.

You realize them only after you paid. In the receipt, if you took the time to read it and pay attention (how often do people really read the receipt of what they just purchased?), you learn that you just signed up to a subscription!! You are not just buying one bag, you are paying a subscription and, unless you cancel, you will be charged full price soon enough.

The $1 dollar fee is that they need your credit card to be able to charge you the recurrent fee before you know it is a scam (you will know soon enough). They probably charge $1 just to avoid trouble with the credit card companies (they will have a first legitime, undisputed payment after all).

The subscription itself is another step of the scam. You pay every two weeks, not every month as it's the common practice. Also, they claim that to not be charged, you have to cancel the next delivery before it has shipped. In practice, it all means that you have to cancel the subscription (that you never knew you had signed up to) in a week, which is even before the first "free" delivery has arrived.

So, I was savvy enough to get the scam in time by reading the receipt and googling "Amora Coffee scam". So, I just would cancel immediately.

How do you cancel? You have to go to their site, log in into your account and cancel there.

Ok, the scammers have not given up stealing my money just yet. To my surprise, the email I used to make the first purchase is not my username to log into their site. I have yet to create an account. To do that I have to input my email and a numerical code that is hidden in the receipt that I got. It is there, but you have to find it with no help at all.

Did I just jumped all the obstacles that the thieves were putting in front of me? No! The "create your account" form just didn't work!! Looking on online reviews you notice that that form is not working for over an year!!

It is impossible to cancel your subscription.

So I find a email, send a very straightforward message telling them to cancel. So I have not being charged. Apparently I avoided the scam.
Still, they got that first $1 of mine from the initial purchase. Probably what they bribed Hello Fresh with to steal from their customers.
There is a lot of research on how to estimate causal effects from data.

And text books. "Causality" by Pearl about causal models in general. "Causation, Prediction, and Search" by Spirtes about how to learn the models from data.

For example assume the world consists of three random variables A, B, and C. If A causes B and B causes C (as DAG A -> B -> C), then A and C are correlated. But if the model is A -> B <- C, then A and C are not correlated. But conditioned on B, A and C are correlated in A->B<-C and not correlated in A->B->C. So you can falsify such causal models without an rct
Recently I had the pleasure of working with people in a project who I (CS background) hired myself, and I now couldn’t care less about how much they know about memory paging. The most important traits to me are:

1. Intrinsic motivation to be productive and solve problems

2. Ability to communicate well, especially via specifications and Slack.

Anything else can be learned in a few months max.
Yes, it is not included. It is a publicly available part that you plugged in.

There are a limited number of people who actually have a use case where they want to manage their own kube cluster. Most people would be happy if they tried a managed kube cluster like GKE [0] and DO [1] for example.

If you are managing your own cluster from scratch you're likely:

- At a company with huge sets of bare metal machines

- A massive organization that can afford to hire infrastructure experts to optimize every penny out of their cluster ops by vertically integrating their cluster management (rather than outsourcing to something like DO).

- Hobbyist who wants to learn how kube fits together.

If you're not one of those three then all you need is to setup Rook, setup some autoscaling component, pick out a few DB operators, setup monitoring, and setup a logging infrastructure. Compared to older solutions for similar things the "kube way" is a pre-planned roadmaps with minor choices along the way that are mostly personal preferences that weigh: "how much to I care about security", "does this need to be more or less debuggable", and more.

If you need a cluster, want a "managed-like" experience, then just go with Kops. If you just need a cluster to run your applications on just go with GKE, AKS, DO, or another offering.

0 - https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/clu...

1 - https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/kubernetes/how-to/autoscal...
You're absolutely correct. The "mechanism", as I understand it, is that the mods just manually bump up threads they think are interesting and deserve a second shot at the front page. HN has quite a lot of manual curation!
I've had a similar experience in southern California. Probably the most dangerous thing I've encountered when biking to work is when a well-intentioned driver who has the right of way will stop anyways to make it easier for me to turn (which in general is much appreciated but when there's 2 lanes and a larger vehicle stops in the right lane to help me make a left turn it can be hard to see if the other lane is clear). I know it only takes one jerk/drunk/texter to ruin your day but I haven't run into that yet.
Interesting thoughts. Personally, I think that we need to look more at the nature of ourselves, and less at the nature of the information. We are social creatures that have evolved to interact in a certain way.

Part of the information overload IMO, stems from the fact that it is satisfying only one aspect of our need to socialize. I think what is lacking, is the ability to go socially deeper with the information presented. If we find like minded folk, we should be able to form transient groups about this commonality, and then dissolve it or ignore it when we are concerned about something else.

The problem I have with much of the information I am fed, is that it treats me like a flat list of interests. It doesn't react to my mood, and it generally doesn't allow me to make meaningful connections.

One thing I appreciate about HN, is that the people here work to inject an intellectual social human element to the interaction. The platform might not be optimized for it, but it is more or less successful.
Help will be coming soon
Why just Flash though? I thought Flash was on its way out. Other than that, interesting move. Looks like there is increased interest these days toward live streaming.(Youtube live was announced recently as well)
Thanks, Integrating width shell is a good idea. We will look into that
Have your contact information on HN if you want to leverage this community.

Meetup has many groups around startups where you might find one.

https://www.cofounderslab.com/

If you were involved with any accelerators in your previous startups maybe reach out to them.
Fun!

I've been working on Python-like systems language with a compiler in Python targeting LLVM IR, and it's been cool (though so much work to get a halfway usable language!).

https://github.com/djc/runa if anyone's interested.
The comment you're replying to is word-for-word copied from a highly upvoted comment on reddit yesterday (but is now deleted) by a user with a handle I won't repeat here. [1]

So what you're seeing is cross-pollination. I'm honestly surprised to not see this comment down-voted, as it's pretty impertinent to the conversation and is textbook ad hominem. ("Crazy lady says prisons are terrible: who cares she's crazy").

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/2r7y8h/when.... You can see it with something like http://uneddit.com/

edit: oh, I see my second paragraph basically did happen already in some flagkilled posts.
Fasting for three days is not a safe, low barrier to entry, way. A healthy person with no critical commitments or delicate work can do it safely, but lots of people would not. Note that one side effect observed during the protocol was fainting.
I think "the sum seems unimportant" is something a wealthy sociopath might think. I'm around lots of things I could steal that feel relatively cheap, but I don't, nor do I litter, etc., not because I couldn't get away with it, but because it feels wrong and icky, and I would be ashamed of myself.