jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how it works in other countries, but for the US the numbers are generated by area code, and they're constantly allocating new ones because the old ones have been used up[1]. This is with number recycling. Therefore if you randomly generate a phone number for an "old" area code you probably are going to get a valid number.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_Numberi...
The only reason American prisons are so horrific is that criminal gangs run them. There should be cameras everywhere, and every infraction should be punished. Once prisons stop being a lord of the flies horror show, restorative justice could be possible.
Could you elaborate what you refer two with those two concepts? As you can see, I am not doing anything intentional as I don‘t know enough about the „3/5 compromise“ and the 14th admt
The rare ores under our feet are there because billions of years of heating/cooling cycles, water flow, and cracking events have managed to concentrate like materials. A given iron compound, say, all melts at the same temperature and pressure. So when the rock reaches that condition the iron all leaches away to a crack, where it concentrates. Then the same thing happens 20ky later, etc... Eventually you get an ore vein.

That does not happen on the moon. It's cold. The rocks are just rocks.

And I'll say it again, it sounds like you're engaging in this ridiculous fantasy not because you genuinely think the moon is a treasure chest but because you privately think war with China sounds kinda cool. You know how you get dumb wars? That's how you get dumb wars.
Wikipedia links to this (search for "Zig-Bee"): https://rotorcraft.arc.nasa.gov/Publications/files/Balaram_A...
It's good for a minimum of 3 years of updates and tech support, or 18 months after it is last sold by Google, whichever is longer. That's plenty for me, I usually flip my old phone on eBay and use that towards a new one ever 1-2 years.
I reverse engineered Paradox's binary format for their save files. Part of this process is extracting a table of 16 bit ids to text representations. I asked Paradox if I could open source this table, but they replied that I was already breaking the ToS. The solution I've come up with is to open source the logic but commit the table as a gpg encrypted payload (for which only I have the key).

So you could say that Paradox is sensitive when it comes to people poking around or pushing boundaries.
Ken Burns Jazz Series has essentially an entire episode on the concept of swing. Definitely worth watching.
Great recommendations!

Here's an HN-based book recommendation list for C++:

https://hackernewsbooks.com/topics/learning-c%2B%2B-programm...

"All links to Amazon, Safaribooks and O'Reilly get extracted once a week from Hacker News posts. We then rank the links based on how often they are mentioned and the karma of the user on Hacker News. So books mentioned several times by different people having high karma tend to rise to the top."

Reference:

https://hackernewsbooks.com/about
There isn’t a list of allowed vs banned countries?
I loved the idea of Julia but R and specifically the tiddyverse https://www.tidyverse.org/ Just makes everything else seem not as elegant to my humble eyes.
Its nothing disturbing and creepy, it is expected that employer to use all available 'tricks' they have.

The same way employee should use whatever 'tricks' at their disposal to get a higher pay.
It was a raise by absolute value also, not just per hour. Added bonus of no income tax in Washington.
The amount of bureaucracy a typical adult deals with is astonishing. I remember hearing once that it may be economical for some families to group together and appoint one person responsible for dealing with bureaucracy + 'professional' consumerism a la Costco deals and such.

How ironic that all that individualism will lead to a communal living arrangements again - at least for those wanting to create families.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot-assisted_surgery
OT, but I've been listening to TLA for a few years now, and I had created a completely different image of Ira Glass in my mind. Watching these videos is like seeing a stranger talking with Ira Glass's voice.
Maybe you could try to recognize different kinds of food, but I doubt that you could measure the volume of food by just one picture. Even humans would not be able to correctly guess the calories because there is not visual difference between low-fat cheese and regular cheese, for example.

You could also devise a "pregnancy test" app - simply take a picture of the woman's face - yes, of her face ;-) - and you get the result: pregnant or not, and whether it's a boy or a girl, and the due date. Honestly, people falling for the mealsnap app would also fall for this.
Hows it?
In my experience, their tech job listings list tech degrees as a must-have. That seems to be a common attribute of companies that care more about HR box ticking than technical excellence, alas.
Since the text in your parent post is more or less the same of your last comment from 10 hours ago, I agree you are in a sort of "keyword oriented" evangelization crusade against good'ol C. The question would be, why caring so much?

Hey, as long as people keeps writing C and C with classes, you'll have a day job.
> Invest in educational resources to teach communities how to deal with law enforcement.

You have this exactly backwards.

It's telling that instead of mentioning doing away with warrior training, for instance, you list things we, the people, need to do to deal with poorly trained cops with licenses to kill, which, in the case of the police, is exactly what this immunity grants.

The police need better training to handle the people they serve and protect, period. The police need to perform better psychological evaluations of prospective cops. The police need to develop better community relations with the communities they serve.

I agree with reforming the unions and installing more independent civilian oversight. I also agree that the U.S. needs major reform of metal health and drug rehab, but that particular issue is more of a left outer join with the issue being discussed; they overlap unfortunately, but the all-too-often grim outcomes of that overlap are due to the state of policing.

The police and their unions acting in bad faith, and abusing their immunity, is why we're here. WE don't need to clean up our interactions with police. It's the other way around.

Edited: typo, wording, and removed unnecessary emphasis
The article focuses on Philip Roth's fictionalized adaptations of those interesting times, but there's also "Why write? : collected nonfiction 1960-2013" (ISBN 9781598535402, according to my public library catalog) which contains a lot of collected essays and interviews about Czech dissident writers and Roth's visits to Prague.
Maybe but there are many other methods to figure out user needs and how to implement those needs in the best way.
Anthony - if you're reading this, thank you!! To arrive at this architecture takes 100s if not 100s of hours, and to share it with the community is dang inspiring.

I was feeling a bit down on my projects, but this has me amped up seeing how the ultimate goal of working on features rather than deployment is possible, and very real!

Best of luck with Panelbear!
"f you had told a lay observer a decade ago that there would be a crisis over Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media platforms banning the president of the United States for inciting a violent riot against Congress that included a barechested, behorned man dressed as the “QAnon Shaman,” you would likely be accused of writing bad science fiction."

It wasn't popular but neither was it unheard of for people to recognize social media as antisocial a decade ago. Plenty of people would not be surprised a bit by that headline. People didn't just decide not to join Facebook and Twitter in a void by themselves; there was plenty of media (and lots of fiction being written for decades) warning about social media ten years ago.

And the fear of robots was always more about their human controllers.

AI is it's own issue, although the idea that we are being manipulated by a perverse AI has crossed my mind, as an entertaining but not realistic idea.
Can anyone on HN please explain why, why, WHY are we still using SMS/telephony which has exactly 0 encryption wh---I guess that's the reason?

It's insane. I've heard banks using SMS!!!! To send a code. We have TOTP for that! Or even perhaps a push notification or something better than bloody SMS.

I refuse to use the networking system altogether. No phones, no calls. Of course you do 'need' a number so I keep one handy, but I haven't read a text or made a phone call in a long while.

It needs to die. NOW. Outlaw SMS!
Folding@Home is runnign GPU stuff on Windows without any configuration on my AMD RX 580. Although it's not using much of it. Presuably because OpenCL only runs of the Compute units which are relatively small part of the GPU.
I hate string processing. Is there any widely used programming language that does not support strings? I mean, you can do all of math, scientific computing, and graphics without strings. Forcing your language to support strings will inevitably impose compromises that make the language worse when you do not need them. I want such a language, unencumbered by the intrinsic uglyness of strings.
It seems at this point the games will be held in 2021, this seems mostly like a symbolic decision.
Sorry that I present myself to be critical to the team, I am not and I am impressed with how much they achieved given the time frame. In fact, all of the team are in agreement on most of the issues, but I am not entirely sure what to prioritize and how to balance it with the regular feature work
Absolutely. For me it’s because of two reasons. When you’re young, you feel like you have unlimited time. When you’re old you know that's not so true anymore. Also, when you’re young you have much more time at your disposal. The older you get, the more your job and your family will take a toll on your time, until you realize one day that the only time you have for yourself is when you take a shower.
I got what i searching from a long time. Really good app.
Thanks for this, it's easier to digest, and interesting. The article itself overplays his importance as a thinker and is hard to read.
I'm still reading the doc, so nothing to say on the language but the website is great!
Correcte if I'm wrong but the post was about determining the number of groups and their size, not actually assigning people to them.
First, a good player can't be accurately predicted at all; the conclusion from game theory is direct and clear. This is a case where a strategy involving picking moves at random is superior to any deterministic strategy.

Second, your rebuttal is not especially good support for the idea that we should be trying to solve the problem with a technology specifically designed to imitate humans.
Silkroad.
I'm not sure what you're responding to, or what this has to do with anything I posted.
NFTs are artificially scarce. There are limited numbers of each token that can be bought.
> The NY times is less biased, but it's definitely slipped a lot.

The article describes the NYT's explicit decision to reject objectivity and engage in active advocacy. That's not a "slip"

If you believe they're "less biased", it's likely because you agree with a) their approach or b) their goals.

Either way, it translates to "bias is fine as long as I agree with it" which IS the major thesis of the entire post-journalism analysis.
The thing about biology is that even the "known unknowns" form a huge list. There are over 200 different known types of cells, but there are probably lots more waiting to be discovered. Lots of genes in the body have unknown or hand-waving functions. If you look at a cell biology book, there are lots of questions marks in the diagrams.

It seems to me that scientists should be putting a lot more effort into answering these questions. I consider these questions much more important than the questions that particle physics is expensively investigating for instance. It's as if an advanced alien nanotechnology machine appeared and people didn't put all their effort into understanding it.
Violating TOS gets you removed from a platform. Is that controversial? I assume HN can do the same.
I'm presenting your answers Sunday morning at the Texas Bitcoin Conference. I've been very careful to make sure that I leave the positives of free market capitalism in place while fixing some of the problems like economic rent and r > g.

https://vimeo.com/user17783424/review/122784294/439ab072b5
Everything is relative. When someone is defensive and self-conscious, it's incredibly hard to give feedback of any sort without them feeling "like an idiot".
Zoe Keating is one of my favorite musicians. If you haven't listened, Imagine if someone was playing the Game of Thrones theme on a Cello, solo. She incorporates tech into her act in wildly impressive ways.

This is a refreshingly level-headed blog post. There are pros and cons, but it's all presented as realistic tension between two creative organizations, each of which provides value (One having more leverage, of course).

It's just such a nice break from the over-the-top demonization of the tech/corporate partner and ignoring the value they provide.
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It’s faster for typing my question into stackoverflow!
The United States was some sort of imperialist throughout much of its history (even at the time when that imperialism was confined to the American continent) and yet solidly democratic throughout that period.

By contrast, there are countless instances of autocrats that don't invade other countries, e.g. Lukashenka.
I use an old version of the Swype keyboard, that came pre-installed on my Galaxy S6. Unfortunately, I've become so used to swipe and gesture support (particularly "Ctrl"-{a,x,c,v}) that I'm waiting on a FLO keyboard that can do those things to switch.
Here's 1000 examples of police violence as caught on video in 2020: https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/police-brutali...

In Austin, 16-year-old Edwin Ayala attended a protest. He stood alone on a grassy hill, about a dozen yards away from police and other protestors. As Ayala stood still, an officer on the street raised his gun and shot a bean-bag bullet at the boy's head. Ayala collapsed instantly.
I've been a Threema user for over 7 years now and I have my most important contacts there.

Telegram is no E2E-Messenger. I know you can enable it per chat, but that's so solution. And groups are always not encrypted. Also they use some non-standard encryption. Why?

Signal needs my phone number. I dislike that idea.

I use Discord for anything unimportant. I prefer to not use it though. For voice I still prefer TeamSpeak, because of the end to end encryption and self hosting.

I don't know or don't use the others.
It's hard for most of to world remember that there isn't just US, UK and Europe in this globe...
This article gives some background color on her public social media. [1] It's pretty depressing honestly to think that she was so caught up in conspiracies and it got her killed.

[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/ashli-babbitt-tweeted-qanon-...
Trouble is you are privileged enough to be able to afford two phones. For many families, even a $300 device is a significant expense. So if your approach was the only approach, only the rich would have privacy.
In the meantime I have like 6 messaging clients, 5 car park apps and 7 covid-restaurant-tracking apps on my phone.

Remembering which contact is in which app is a pain. Now explain that to your non-tech friends.
I use a 7-monitor setup — four landscape in a 2x2, a portrait on either side, and a very small one at the end (just for monitoring my front door camera). It works great — I can dedicate an entire portrait monitor to Slack, for example, and I can just make a tiny head movement or chair swivel much faster than surfacing windows or switching virtual desktops. I tried a single large flat monitor, but when the center was the right distance the corners were too far away to read comfortably, and this way they are all angled directly to me.
Existentialism, Agnosticism, Stoicism.

I find these three fit very nicely together.
The post you cite was sent on behalf of the three W3C HTML Working Group Chairs. While I, the person who happened to send it through my email client, happen to work for Apple, that does not make it the official opinion of Apple in any way.
To counter this, places like Portland and Seattle get their electricity almost exclusively from Hydroelectric. For those who are really willing to subsidize the advancement of our independence on foreign oil, I suppose it could make some sense if they live in areas like that. I still think the Bicycle is a more elegant (and cheaper, more accessible and more disruptive) solution to the problem.
But the fed isn't the only one who can increase the supply, is my point. Any bank can do this.
In absolute terms, no, learning is never a waste of time. In a world with limited time, though, everything has its opportunity cost. The time spent learning A could have been spent learning any of B through Z.

So: "Is Haskell worth learning?" Yes, certainly. "Is learning Haskell the best use of my limited time for such activities?" That's a much harder question.

(And it doesn't have to be the best use of your time. It could be close enough that it's not worth the time looking for something better.)
I think I might have to specify what I mean by average. I read average as competent. Sure there are software processes that a competent programmer can work with but to say all processes should be designed for just competent programmers,as the commentator suggested, is unreasonable in my opinion. I do see your point though about designing processes around just superstars. That's not viable either.
You can order people to do all manner of things, but i think you'd be much harder pressed to enforce such a stricture.

You're not going to shut down someone's corneal reflex obviously: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneal_reflex but that requires poking a guard in the eye or shining a bright light at them.
I started out 6-8 months ago by reading through HN and being introduced to the entire idea of bootstrapping. We had an idea that was partly technical, but mostly good marketing (e.g. closer to the idea of the parrot book: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516215)

In fact, there are sites that sell wholesale kits for the technical part of the company.

We didn't buy a kit though and took the high road of building all our software in house using hired talent. Most of the work was done through freelancers at under a $3000 budget. (We would not do this again, the code quality on first run was incredibly low and hiring better is definitely worth it).

Getting the marketing working took another few thousands, but all said and done, we got it running with under $10k investment.

What was especially hard for bootstrapping for me was that I'm not a very technical guy. Most bootstrapping ideas here require you to be the engineer, but I didn't have the privilege of that position. I had to pull off a Derek Siver (http://sivers.org/how2hire) to get the idea to work.

Now that it is running though, it's doing great. We're pulling in over $100k of profits on an annualized basis, enough to cover living costs and more for sure.

As an aside, the roadblock we're running into now is that user demands are outstripping my current system of hiring freelancers. I've posted another thread asking for hiring help if anyone has experience: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1932131

Anyway, it's been a really fun ride, and I want to tell everyone that it really can be done. Your idea needs to be creative, and you need to be in a space where bootstrapping is possible (e.g. NOT biotech). The biggest lesson is to have good judgment. While investors are often a burden, they add a lot of experience for real, and with bootstrapping, sometimes you're left completely on your own.
Yes, but no. Google's systems are tuned to google's apps, twitter is similar but also different in some fundamental ways. The complexity of rendering every individual twitter feed is pretty significant compared to, say, gmail, and the same optimizations do not always make sense. Moreover, the complexity of the SMS back-end should not be dismissed. While google certainly has the chops to handle all of these problems, including SMS, it's still a bit much to say that google engineers could reinvent twitter better and faster with little effort.

The biggest piece of evidence that this is the case is the simple fact that they haven't yet. Despite trying (see: buzz).
Regarless of what happens in the shortterm, the US will be the dominant power in the 21st century.
Wait till they discover Plant and Fungus Suffering. That should make things plenty more interesting :)
Your accusation of strawman doesn't hold. It is a valid point that if you claim your movement is about health, but you ignore the biggest health problem there is (because it does not fit the ideology), the claims to health should be, if not entirely ignored, certainly not taken at face value. It's perfectly logical.
Prepares them for a life time of being good little DRM'd content consumers?
Is downtime associated with how complex the GAE app is? I'm planning to host primarily static files and I'm wondering if downtime is an issue at all in this case.
OkHttp by square seems quite fluent and is widely used. What does jcabi offer that's not available there?

http://square.github.io/okhttp/
> "Black swan" is just a tautological term for new thing we've never seen before, but pretending to be a term for known thing that suddenly behaved differently.

Right. "Black swan" means "a new thing we've never seen before," but of course few people go around thinking "I will never encounter a new thing that I've never seen before."
For the pragmatics, a simpler and not so cluttered example of the constructor, illustrating what 'this' does and how you can pass 'this' by argument:

function value()
{
this.v = 32;
}

function twice( n )
{
n.v += n.v;
}

number = new value();
document.write( number.v + ' ' );

twice( number );
document.write( number.v );