jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Some relevant context (from the other post, seemingly removed):

- Model 3 deposit was $1000, ~300k pre-orders in a few days

- Model Y deposit was $2500, but pre-order numbers are still unreleased

- Cybertruck pre-order deposit is $100

- Many people are placing 3-5 orders per household [1] due to buggy pre-order forms

- Tesla explicitly states (now, not previously) that "pre-orders" are not "orders" [2]

- Many aspects of the vehicle and presentation are otherwise nonsensical [3]

[1] https://twitter.com/btsparks/status/1198453324741111810

[2] https://twitter.com/lorakolodny/status/1198410917794312192

[3] https://twitter.com/tedstein/status/1197904256466112514
Personally, I think anyone younger than 18 is a child and I tend to use minor and child interchangeably.
I'm sorry, but are you saying the US sodomized local nationals or something?
I've measured this directly several times across several sites myself.

Google+'s low regular-engagement rates (0.16% of all profiles) actually starts to look more reasonable given:

1. Google created G+ profiles for EVERY Android, Gmail, and YouTube user from ~2012 - 2016 (may have been 2015), or about 3 billion accounts in all.

2. The 1% rule.

I'd made that measurement in 2015, Eric Enge of (then) Stone Temple Consulting followed up with a much larger sample but the same basic methodology, to confirm and expand on my findings:

https://blogs.perficientdigital.com/2015/04/14/real-numbers-...

When G+ was shutting down, I had the opportunity to look at data concerning its 8-million-plus Communities. The vast majority of those had at best one user. Even in the final months of the site communities were being created and removed (or deleted) at a furious rate -- thousands per day. From November 2018 - January 2019, several hundred net new communities were created.

The most hyperactive communities (and posters) were almost entirely spam. There were numerous of what I considered legitimate and healthy communities, most with anywhere from a handful of members to a few thousand. More than 10k tended to peter off into noise territory quickly, and based on overall engagement, the sweet spot seemed to be somewhere in the 2k - 3k range, if some of my analysis bears out.

Given the 90/9/1 rule, that would mean about 200-300 actual active users, and a dominent core group of 20-30, which seems to be where most online discussions find themselves most "real", for want of a better term.

Quantity-based measures of quality can be exceedingly misleading. And based on the headline of this article alone, the impression that it's Twitter itself that is somehow unusual or remarkable in this story is quite misleading. This is a general trait of any social discussion.
Your site's SSL cert has just expired at November 24, 2019 at 1:00:59 AM Eastern Standard Time

Safari, Chrome give errors now.
If you have to drop off your kids in the morning and go get them in the evening, and a ride with the car to work takes you 45 minutes, it's pretty simple to choose that over taking 90 minutes to work without taking the kids on the way over.

And yes I know the usual argument that everybody should be living in the city.
They're not proven to be criminals at that stage. They're suspects, maybe, but no court has convicted them.
Physical location is outdated.
A well cooked pot roast is not that much different from the sous vide trend that's becoming so popular.

You put the roast in a dutch oven coated in salt and pepper the same as you would with a steak and a bit of water, then you let it cook at ~200F for 4 - 8 hours.

Usually you also slow roast some onions, carrots, potatoes, etc. along with it the last little while.

Then make a gravy from the drippings.

The gravy is good on the meat, but it's more for the vegetables. The meat is delicious in its own right.
How would the company behind this app pay for all of that phone traffic?
It depends on the building. What you're saying is true during non-COVID times, but things have shifted since April.

City Tower, for example, has been listing several incentive-free rents in the $2000s. We were moving during this time and actually looked into it to confirm, because we didn't believe either. (I know, it's crazy!)
I totally understand what you mean and I also frequently look up older conversations to enjoy again the in-jokes, banter and actually useful information of my chats.

However to avoid 1) having to manually delete things and 2) accumulating hundreds of megabytes of messages and 3) to not be swamped by months and years of "can you call?", "alright, see you later" and other ultimately meaningless stuff, I have conversations in Signal with my frequent interlocutors set to expire after a month.

To save things, I currently simply screenshot the relevant parts of the conversation or forward them to my "Notes to myself" thingy for later. It's a bit manual, but at least it's simple to remember: what I don't actively save disappears. Screenshots leave out audio messages and gifs (to a certain extend) but it is at least something. (And I just realised that with Signal it's actually possible to download individual audio messages and video so that a later reconstitution is possible if tedious.)

However, what would be great is to indeed have a way to backup messages including stickers, audio, videos etc. in a more high-fidelity way to relive important converations.
Democrats spent years calling the 2016 election illegitimate and fraudulent. I guess you considered that an incitement to violence too right? Oh wait, you didn’t? Weird, because that almost seems like blatant hypocrisy.
Also, international airports. 100 miles around Denver, Atlanta, or Dallas covers a lot of people.
I want more features but first I donated. Also they are struggling with the sudden spike so their costs must be climbing. I couldn't add an attachment last night but they managed to fix it later.

https://signal.org/donate/
This UK document specifically mentions phasing out "high carbon fossil fuel heating" installations in new construction, which seems like the sort of thing the GP referenced, though it also mentions heat pumps as a non-resistive-heating option: https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/heat-in-buildings
I use Nvidia Broadcast (formerly RTX Voice) for this. Only available for recent GPUs though.
Haha, thanks. I did. Do you mind if I incorporate your point? I was speaking a bit colloquially, but the correct number would be better.
If you don't unit test from day 1 then there's a strong probability that you wont be writing your code in a way that you can unit test later. e.g. mockable dependencies. I'm included to say go with TDD right from the start.
It sounds like you had a bad experience. Almost everyone I know uses Uber regularly and almost every experience is positive. If it's 3am sometimes it takes longer, if you just got out of a bar and there's 50 other people next to you trying to get an uber you might have to walk a bit, if you're in a remote place sometimes they cancel. It's annoying. But mostly I can have a taxi outside my house in 3 minutes. I know exactly when they'll get there and there's no cash needed.

It's a hugely better process than the old phone-a-number and hope minicabs and taxi services. That would take 15 minutes minimum, often much longer, and you had no idea when it would arrive.
Not sure what Grahams views are on economics, but I have certainly read/heard business people trumpet heretical ideas with praise before, having specifically in mind those heresies that conform to their particular world view. Graham uses two scientists as examples that have long been situated uncontroversially in the scientific world as canonical. Scientists are often used as examples of this kind of "revolutionary thinking" lauded by people in this world. I am curious how Graham would respond to the heresy of Marx's critique of capital to challenge the idea that capitalism is the best and historically final form of economics. Marx is just one example here of a thinker that is heretical without being "innovative" in the archetypical sense of Einstein or an inventor. I am generally curious if when someone promotes heresy, they already have in mind the kind of heresies that already fit into their dogmas. Graham may be more broad minded than this, but this kind of view does get thrown around enough to look like a trope.
As I said, I don't think it's a fair value for how I use it.

Do your preferred channels have Patreon? If so, then perhaps it would be a better use of your money to cancel YouTube premium and instead give the money directly to those creators.
What is the deception? Are the measurements correct on the packaging? Does the calculator app on phones work? It’s really not too much to ask people to divide price by quantity.

Choose to give business to shops that show unit prices.
My favorite cab experiences have been in London, but I'm not gonna lie: my favoritest favorite experience was a cabbie in Tijuana forty years ago who pulled out a bottle of tequila, took a long swig from it and offered the bottle to my mother, father, aunt, and uncle, while driving like he was in a Dukes of Hazard screen test.
If only uber would consider its drivers as its workers, it would already be a huge step forward.
I’ve always been amazed by how much of the self-development & improvement industry seems to be based off of Scientology!
Opinions are my own.

> How many problems would be fixed if we stopped feeling sorry for the rich corporations and started requiring them to assume responsibility for the messes they create?

Instead of "problems would be fixed", it would be "how many more problems would be created".

- USPS should assume responsibility for scam mails since they help deliver them. Laws would be created to require USPS to "screen" all mails and refuse to deliver if it deems the mails are spam. After all, it's USPS "greed" to allow those spammers/scammers to send mail.

- Telcos should assume responsibility for telephone frauds. Breaking News: Costco got hacked via telephone social engineering, T-Mobile is being sued. After all, it's the Telcos's "greed" to allow those scammers to make the phone call. They should have an army of operators listening to the phone call and stop the fraud before it happens.

The worst outcome? By "stopped feeling sorry for the rich corporations", we are actually pushing to give them even more power, over our live.

- By asking Facebook to police what is legal, we're handing them the right to decide what's right/wrong. At the same time, it creates even more regulatory captures, discouraging upstart alternatives to join the ring.

The emotionally charged call might appeal to the popular us-vs-them, rich-vs-poor climate, but if we're not careful, it might lead us to the wrong solution.
The author wanted to be nearby his children in Sydney, one of the most expensive cities in the world.
I love how in the videos they have ashtrays and are smoking cigarettes by their desks.

I am happy that smoking is not the norm anymore.
I fully agree about dumb TVs for personal use. Even having to wait for your TV's OS to boot up when you turn it on is a terrible UX.

However, when it comes to buying a TV for your conference room where you have a TV running 12hrs/day (when you're not a small startup with 10ppl), invest in a proper commercial TV like NEC or (my personal favorite brand) iiyama: 1) the're dumb TVs from the start, 2) you get proper warranties and support, 3) you can get larger TVs without 4K HDR (which your computer may not support anyway), 4) the color grading is more apt for your PowerPoint slides, etc and finally, 5) these panels are actually rated for that kind of use and won't break after a few weeks. From my experience building conference rooms, that investment is actually worth it
More likely they will eat the food from another restaurant that’s not stapling their bags.

You don’t need to be running faster than the bear, just faster than the other guy it’s also chasing.
And all the tin-foil wearing weirdos who had been hollering about it from their mum's basement will be vindicated.

That will be quite a day!
This is exactly what I think when I see projects like this. How does a project this dumb end up with 6.8K stars!
How can one figure out if they would not have come anyway due to lower wages/land prices?
It looks like its a build tool? Are you obligated to use that with scala or something?
If I were a founder, I would give the ability to all my employees to convert ISO (with 90 days window) to NQSO (with 10 year window) and completely avoid the problem.

As far as financials go, sounds like your company agreed to higher liquidation preferences, so probably nothing shady going on. Just poor business decisions that may have been necessary at some point.
I've been a satisfied customer of https://uptimerobot.com/ for years, they have a very generous free tier (50 monitors @ 5m) and they have been extremely reliable, friendly and non-spammy as a service.
I think it's more that free speech laws mean private companies can say/output what they like within reason. Even if that includes supporting Israel or dropping Donald or whatever.
I am working on an AI book using Swift. Yesterday in a meeting, my manager was asking why Swift. I compared it to Scala, but built on LLVM, and a rich CoreML and other library infrastructure. REPL + closures, very fast build times.

I haven’t had much opportunity to use Scala, but I did take Martin’s Functional Programming with Scala course years ago, and that was great.
It's one thing to lament the unfortunate aspects of the world... but are you willing to make even the most basic lifestyle concessions to improve the situation?
The US is unvisitable.

With 1% in jail & 1% out but with travel restrictions.
A visit of more that a few weeks is a hell of a risk.
Isn't this like the third blog post from daniellemorril.com within the last 2 weeks making it to HN front page ?

Also -- it seems obvious that while the author has tools to crawl web sites and pull data into a CSV, it seems dubious that the author spent anytime in running a manual sanity check before presenting her findings. For example, "O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures" and "O’Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures" are the same thing.
Does anyone have any advice on how you're supposed to tactfully get all the info required to do this computation?

During my recent job search, I received offers with options from companies who refused to tell me what the count of fully diluted shares was. No one was particularly comfortable answering questions about expected exit. When I tried to ask various questions to estimate some kind of ballpark value for the equity being offered, one company took this as a signal that I wasn't sufficiently enthusiastic about the offer or optimistic about their chances for success. They then started saying things like "We want to hire someone who's really excited to join our team..."

Ultimately the I had to use the "assume the options are worthless" stance, but then, with cash compensation being the only consideration, I ended up accepting an offer with a significantly more mature company.

How are you supposed to get this information while not giving the prospective employer the impression that you're either (a) too skeptical of the company's prospects or (b) too motivated by the money?
Weird that this is US first when in the UK it’s extremely rare not to be able to use contactless. (I only say UK as I live there, but definitely there are other countries that are heavily focused on contactless)
>What if we have seen peak energy prices on our lifetime? What if we won’t see long term rates in the US of 10% again in our lifetime?

It's predictable that financial operators will, at some point during a cycle, begin to wonder if current conditions will persist forever. What's fascinating to me is that smart people have to relearn the lessons from not too far back, as if it's all new material. "The new normal" ended a long time ago for many asset classes.

As a credit to Wilson, he's not cheerleading for the ideas in his post. Nonetheless, the questions he raises mirror the idea that the dollar was dead (Protect your wealth with Bitcoin!) or the earlier idea that real estate prices will only go up. Or that the New Economy wasn't bound by the old rules. The peak oil idea was popular in 2006, and celebrities wanted to get paid in Euros during the crisis.

The global economy is dynamic. Times change. Stuff repeats. This time is not different.
At Hack Club, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps teenagers run high school hacker clubs, we accept cryptocurrency donations at https://hackclub.com/donate/.

We open source nearly everything we do at https://github.com/hackclub, even our finances. We have deeply appreciated the generosity of the cryptocurrency community.

We have a Coinbase account where we store received crypto. In our books, we log everything in USD and I believe we record our crypto holdings as an asset. This has worked at our current size since we are a small and cash-strapped organization focusing nearly all our efforts on those we serve.
> the largest...

Shouldn’t you at least divide these by population to get any meaningful metrics? Otherwise you’re just saying it’s the largest state in different ways
Be wary of the more expensive sites that sell - something seems fishy about selling a wordpress blog with no revenue, no page rank, and no site stats attached to the auction.

I recently asked a question about this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2000924

HN gave me a lot of great insight to Flippa
Not single, don't need to be presentable for work either. Gave up contacts. :) Five-yr old titanium, rimless glasses are doing great.

I loved my daily disposable Acuvue contacts when I wore them. Absolutely couldn't feel them after about 2 weeks of wearing them. They would dry out more in winter, but great otherwise. Still miss them when doing physical activity.
Scott Berkun (formerly of Microsoft and author of three bestsellers) did a talk at Ignite about this where he recorded himself writing an essay: http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2010/video-how-to-write-1000...

Really interesting to see how much work even a 1000 essay takes!
I wish he would write a proper blog entry and tweet a link to that.
I use contacts (same brand, Acuvue Oasys) + glasses.

I wear contacts much more than glasses, and have some trouble when I put on my glasses. In particular the loss of peripheral vision (I have extremely bad eyesight) when I put on glasses is tough to get used to.
Yeah, the scribd link is to an old and now invalid version of the form unfortunately.
If you don't mind my asking, what's your business model?
F-35 had the same fundamental problems as the Space Shuttle.

High level requirements: Dog fighting, close in air support, stealth, long range, automatic weapon systems, VTOL variant.

It was said many times over the decade but this plane has no specialization, so it sucks at everything. F-16's can beat it in a dogfight, A-10's are better close support, etc etc.

The Space Shuttle was rightfully cancelled (Still, I was sad) because it was a bucket of requirements that had huge reliability and cost problems.

Don't worry, this will repeat itself. A bunch of specialized tools exist and then someone says "I can build you a swiss army knife" and someone high up gets sold the dream of the multi-function tool. "It's gonna solve all our problems, you'll see..."

The multi-function tool looks f'ing fantastic on paper. It does everything! Until you put it up against actual specialized hardware and then decision makers say "ohhhhh yeah that's why we did it like that..."
Right, the death spiral. But I’m actually talking about the infuriatingly counter-intuitive headlines about buying tanks that the army says we don’t need, or ships that we know will never work as planned. There are only so many places that can build such things, and if we let them go to mothballs then we lose all the manufacturing experience to do it at all—which is a risk for national defense. So the Navy says “I need $40m for planes!” but Congress takes $100M from the plane budget line to keep open the shipyard in Sen. So-and-so’s district. Seems terrible, but that might be the only place on earth that employs the folks who can build such a ship and that keeps it alive. I’m not saying it’s worth it…just that it’s worth considering.
Not quite. Pandora creates playlists based on related music. This would allow music(the same song) to change over time...assuming someone could build it.
my brother does some cool mathematical art: https://gods.art
Try asking for their advice.
madhadron, I'm a Common Lisper, so I'm good with `first` and `rest`.
So like several months of looting and burning in various cities like Portland?
They are sea-lioning. They are going to constantly ask for "evidence", and then when provided for it, act as if it's biased/false/non-existant and then restate the question. The goal is to put all the labor of the conversation and gathering of sources onto you while they just get to reply: "I don't believe that, the MSM is biased, show me another source".
It could be but it absolutely doesn't have to be.

Heavier material in the mantle subsiding towards the core could do it just as easily, and there is a lot more mass beneath the crust than above it.
"Off site" just means in physically different locations, so that some kind of local calamity wouldn't take out both, right? It seems like having it backed up on the PC satisfies that requirement to some extent, since the iPad and the PC are likely to be in different locations a lot of the time. It's not as good as a proper off-site backup, but it's better than nothing.
I remember logging into IRC once and going to the #C channel and asking some tough questions from my take home exam. Felt dirty. I'm so glad I got out of school before the Internet really took off. Old enough to have had a 'Introduction to the Card Catalog' as an orientation session at college.
The choice of the word "Invent" bothers me here for some reason. In writing a computer program, you might end up inventing a technique or data structure, but the program itself doesn't seem to be an invention. I suppose the game rules themselves might count as an invention, but that also feels somewhat odd.
5400 rpm disk

Even with a perfect scheduler you're going to have to wait on I/O. Disk speeds are the limiting factor on most machines, and this goes double for laptops. I highly recommend getting an SSD.
Right. For one thing, SATA (serialized ATA) was originally developed because the disk drive was located away from the motherboard, so I could see this interface looking more like a DDR.

How about other factors, like seek time?
Perfect timing. I was looking through books for my younger brother, who wants to be a game developer, and this will serve well as a Christmas gift.

Seeing as this book's dimension isn't ISO 216-standard and I want to support the local printers, what dimension would be the best to print it in?
I'm amazed the banking industry puts its interns to work right away - it looks like they have no difficulty coming up to speed very quickly if they're working this hard. What exactly is it that banking interns are doing?

It always struck me from my personal interactions with them that lots of what tech industry interns do is have a good time...
Yea, I'm a big fan of pinch and zoom and the new format on WP8 is worse.
Source code for Solaris zones is indeed available; but I wouldn't consider it widely deployed.

Why would you not consider it widely deployed? If it needs to be said: just because you don't use something doesn't mean that others aren't. Speaking only for us (I work for Joyent), we have deployed hundreds of thousands of zones into production over the years -- and Joyent was running with FreeBSD jails before that. And that's just us; there are many others in the illumos/SmartOS/OmniOS, Solaris and FreeBSD communities who have been running this technology in production -- broadly -- for years. Perhaps OS virtualization is a new technology for you, but understand that it's not new for everyone; some of us have been doing this for a while -- widely deployed and in production.