jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Standard HN car analogy time. "Look at the code" is like telling a car mechanic trying to replace a part to look real closely at a high res pix of the factory, instead of reading the Haynes manual.
From my perspective "living in germany" it would be very unattractive unless I were to earn substantially large sums. I would never be eligible for german retirement, would have to purchase the more expensive private ensurance, and would lose a lot of what I've paid in until now. So that is what I would stand to lose.

I definately see how looking at from within the US this could be completely different, and there you make many valid points.
I really enjoyed Bret Victor's "
The Humane Representation of Thought" http://vimeo.com/115154289

It made me consider all the human I/O that we currently ignore.
If we're being honest, the only reason to shoot the kid in that situation is because you've always hoped you'd get to shoot a home invader one day.
You're assuming there's nothing in the spray besides caffeine. Any number of other ingredients could affect the rate of absorption.
My personal system for Days is S M T W R F Y.

(S)unday for the start of the week.
Thu(R)sday since the R is pronounced with a strong "urr".
Saturda(Y) since it's the last day of the week.

It still a bit ambiguous, but it has helped me over the years.
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, available at (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/1232g)
This is definitely the most stretched interpretation of the term 'derivative work' that I've ever encountered.

Developing a negative does not create 'a derivative work', since developing film is not 'interpreting' it in an original way, it for the most part is chemistry. Do it the same way twice you get the same result.

You can prove that to yourself by cutting a roll of film horizontally in half and then developing the two halves independently using the same recipe. If you do it all by the book they'll come out in such a way that the two film halves can be reconnected to give you the whole images.
> a { text-decoration: none; }

You bastards.

(Should be fixable with:

a[href] { text-decoration: underline !important; }

in userContent.css.)
That's a straw man. At the macro level causes may be unjust sure.

But at the micro or individual level...sacrificing onesself for higher ideals/principles is the least psychopathic thing one can do
..one makes the ultimate sacrifice for what they believe is the betterment of OTHERS.

People may be misguided and some causes unjust, but they sacrificed themself for an ideal that they believe in.

It's the opposite of psychopathy.

Everything that you are and have is due to the sacrifices of many millions of people for principles they believed in. It's a shame modern society has become so ungrateful,materialistic, and distant from what so many people have sacrificed so much for.
This got me thinking. If 100 people all pony up $1000, then you've got $100,000 of funding and no equity (as the founder). But if we stretch this idea - say $1000 buys equity in the startup equal to 49% / (total number of backers). The founder still keeps control and now has no cap on funding.
I write this with almost zero knowledge of equity financing of startups, and vc's, etc... Just spit-ballin' here!
Yev from Backblaze here - it's been that kind of day.
Yes, this is the actual problem...
Most people end up trusting their family historical wisdom.
Pretty hard to get your gold back in case of fraud too, especially if they have guns. This is a feature, not a bug.
If you want chargebacks, use fiat credit cards. You can do special bitcoin tx's that allow escrow and return of funds, but that is beyond the scope of this point.

In general I do not want refund features at all, and think its Bitcoins strongest features and usefulness. It is this that gives it its value. No do overs. Permanence.

Gold also sucks because you cant transfer it globally in 10 minutes, move it trivially and takes up no space.
Millijoules are insufficient to globally protect the ledger, sorry.
If someone wanted to undo my transaction, they need Gigajoules to undo it.
I don't think you quite understand what is required to protect a ledger.
There is no waste. I'm sorry you don't feel the same way. Bitcoin doesn't care.

Re: hash speed? The physical attack price of infrastructure and energy allows a defender to calibrate their defense spend.
Maybe Numba with Enzyme will catch up to Julia’s features before Julia catches up to Python’s users.

I think the reason why people use python is because it’s the only universally-accepted language for coding interviews.
Last I checked India was in Asia.

Secondly, I'm in the Bay Area, if that was not evident.

Third, Manju Kulkarni quoted in the article as Manju Kulkarni, executive director of the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council is also of Indian decent.

So, yes, I'm an Asian.

BTW, if you go to UK, people from Indian sub-continent are referred to as Asians..
AWS is currently keeping Babelfish closed (Apache 2.0-licenced as it may be, no code has been published, making it little better than ordinary proprietary software), so I see no reason to not add the 'AWS' to its name as of this moment, as thats the only place you can get and use Babelfish. Whenever that situation changes, my standpoint will likely change as well.
Recurse is really publishing some fantastic stuff. This entire second issue has been just great.
John Von Neumann, Grace Hopper, Turing. Bernoulli, Euler, Riemann.
As stated elsewhere in the comments, you can make a number of people (e.g. anyone who asks[1]) commit to some number[2] (e.g. by giving out SHA1(their_number)). Then calculate a random number from that (conceptually, addition modulo number of voters; actual implementation left as an exercise to the reader).

If the vote with that number was actually cast, that is the vote that is actually used. If not, try the next one until one actually was cast. Pretty repeatable, and recounting is easier.

[1] Note that "all candidates" may not be sufficient, since it allows the candidates to collectively choose the outcome by picking their numbers such that one of their own/friends' ballots is chosen. This could be used to elect a popular Labour politician in a remote district where only the major two parties are running, in exchange for electing two unknown Tories.

[2] If you're not into crypto, put tickets containing every possible ballot number in a big barrel. Have a trusted/blindfolded guy pick tickets until he finds one that corresponds to a vote that was actually cast. There are lots of solutions, of varying degrees of cleverness.

[EDITs: added two footnotes]
How can you have a recount of a single vote?
Keys.

Note: This same question came up a few months ago. Said the same thing then. I really want to gain some traction here :)
This article discusses policy. All manner of principles are at play in policy. Fairness is an important principle. So is security. So is liberty. Many of these principles are in tension. It is unlikely that any formal policy will resolve those tensions in all cases.

Meanwhile, you have a system in which many tens of thousands of people are necessarily exposed to sensitive, confidential, or classified information. Some of it impacts national security. Some of it impacts the economy. Some of it jeopardizes the fairness of government proceedings. Some of it conceals government malpractice.

We can't manage that system that presumes to honor people's personal judgement about what is or isn't worth classifying.

And not for nothing, but "these programs are a waste of money" doesn't sound like a valid reason to break the faith on classified material involving intelligence operations.
"whose writings you should get to know if you haven't already" -- can you really write that with a straight face?
say it costs a dollar per person each year to keep their bodies in perfect condition. without aging there is no death, no death means that the population will always grow or stagnate. $1/person/year Time becomes infinite, population is always positive there for no matter how small the cost they will always become infinite because time is infinite and population is a positive number.
This is trying so hard to tailor a story to a particular audience it's actually somewhat painful to read

That's surprising because based on your comment, I would have suspected you didn't even read the article. Ars has published similar articles in recent days about all the winners of their new Design Award, which they started this year at WWDC to take the place of Apple's Design Award that is now only for iPhone/iPad apps unlike past years.
Sadly, I fear lots of people will have a fair chance to experience Orwell first-hand.
This would be so much more helpful if it detailed more common CDNs like Akamai.
1. In Boston, ITA Software pays a referral bonus of $4000.

2. Pittsburgh loses hackers because they prefer to live elsewhere. To fix this make the culture, neighborhoods, or climate more attractive to hackers. (Easy to say, but hard to attempt and perhaps impossible to achieve.)
There is another Ryan (Gahl) on the list whose near-name-collision has lead some people to behave oddly.
The website Ephemeral New York is terrific for all sorts of interesting New York history: https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com (the New Year's day post is where I found the reference to her diary)

And the Historical Atlas of New York City is both visually and textually superb for all sorts of fascinating details of New York's development: http://www.amazon.com/Historical-Atlas-New-York-City/dp/0805...

Finally, "Letters of Note" has great finds from historical letters throughout history: http://www.lettersofnote.com/
That might explain why you tolerate cold better. Same thing happens to me.
I'm really not sure why charliepark got all those downvotes either; I don't see anything wrong with his comment -- as far as I can see he's pointing out that the traditional formulation of the "Golden Rule" is a pretty good one.
News, asynchronous communication, and other media have a payoff structure not unlike a slot machine's. It can be genuinely hard to determine whether one's consumption of any of them is irrational.
It would suffice to show that it isn’t true that everyone at the same age dies at the same time, if that is what you meant?
We certainly didn't change the link. We did take "Show HN" out of the title, since it falls more under the category of curated list than something you can try out or play with. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
To be fair, at least a part of them problem "not enough masks for our health care professionals" is caused by some civilians hoarding them.
Can people help with building this?
I’m building a platform to connect volunteers with those in need during this global pandemic.

It should go live in a few days on https://pandemicvolunteers.org

It will start with “Hospital Support Staff” working under nurses formed from SARS-CoV-2 immune volunteers.
The sentence you cite seems unrelated to "Worse than Chrome?". Google's web services have lots of tracking, but Chrome itself (like Firefox and Safari), according to this article, doesn't send a persistent tracking UUID, while Edge and Yandex browser do.
Microsoft doesn't have eyeballs like Google and Facebook do. Even if they have the data, they aren't a central point of the internet (search) or the prevailing social network (Facebook). The monetization to serve ads isn't there.
> try my best but don't overdo it

It's like the dash readout in hybrid cars showing you when you're burning more gas-- there are times when certain maneuvers call for maxxing it out, but mostly you want to stay in the 'eco' zone. Otherwise you're not only wasting fuel, but prematurely aging your engine.
That doesn't sound like 5%, 5% is still firmly middle class.
I think the experience will vary quite significantly, the surface is quite large. For Stadia launch, I created a crowdsourcing reports site and am hoping that we can get a better understanding through others' experiences.

https://www.cloudgamingdb.com/
Oh don't worry the other car will crumple enough for both of them. And being a higher vehicle you in your Tesla truck won't hit the bumper but the trunk instead for extra crumple.
It cracked but did not fail. Is that not supposed to be how it works?
I read a bunch of articles last night about how horrible the change was and I dreaded getting on Slack this morning. But it was honestly fine — the code syntax worked as I expected with backticks and stars/underscore still work fine as well. They just trigger the WYSIWYG look inline. I didn’t have to modify my behavior, so I’m fine with the change.
That is the ugliest, most impractical thing. Guess I’m not the target audience (I’m rural, farm country). What a let down.... I was really excited for this too.

I don’t think I’ve ever in my life heard anyone with truck say: “Man, it’s amazing off road, but the glass shatters too easily!”

disclaimer I have a 3. Love it and Tesla in general. I don’t love this.
Though, honestly, I’d still buy one.
It was part of a distant galaxy. The relevant part, as it turns out. Anything else there that might previously have been potentially relevant probably isn't anymore.
But consider that in Instagram's case, it's most likely just an attempt at discrediting "influencers" - which are a big parallel marketplace of ads occurring on Facebook's property without any return for the main company.
> You will have to google that one.

It's from The Unix Hater's Handbook, which is worth reading if you like Unix.
More like a free alternative to Typeform's free tier, but it is not really comparable feature wise
It was the iOS 4 update that practically killed my 3G. Everything became too slow to bear. If it wasn't for the great work of the jailbreakers, i wouldn't have been able to get back to iOS 3.
Digging the abduco/dvtm split.
From the FAQ (http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html):

"How do I make a link in a question?

You can't. (This is to prevent people from using this method as a way of submitting a link, but with their comments in a privileged position at the top of the page. If you want to submit a link with comments, just submit it, then add a regular comment.)"

Emphasis mine.
wow , just today I was thinking about similar idea.
Crowd sourcing air pollution.
Adding some small device to your smartphone(andruino with android) that sniffs the air
and analyzes the pollutants ,etc. Then sends it back to the server and can visualize it.
About a thousand users in a big city would be enough .
Not only just to see it on the web, but for example
city traffic lights can divert cars depending on the polluted area,deciding where to buy/rent a house
I wish the article talked about the business model. Does the app have a cost? Is there a recurring cost? Is it Ad based?

If its not free I could see it being hard to get friends to join and thus not be useful.
I think this trend we are seeing of employers offering a referral bonus to any of their Engineers who refer a candidate is the /right way/ to solve the problem. Few recruiters are qualified to sort the good from the bad, and Engineers, in my experience, seem to be better at separating the 'I like this person personally' from 'I think this person is professionally skilled' than most, so I think it would be a win-win-win situation, if we could find a way to encourage that; companies would get better people, Engineers who bothered to read resumes and recommend people would get referral bonuses, and skilled people would get jobs.

Now, most larger companies have referral programs in place; the question remains, how do we encourage people to use those programs? how do we facilitate that?
The other thing I'd add is an expectation from sales/non-technicals that you produce an golden egg the first pass through.

People say they want to be agile, but they rarely realize that it also means you have to do less.

I often got hammered on not being fast enough, and yet, when cutting corners and throwing it together with boogers and duct tape to get it to a demonstrable state, I was told it wasn't presentable to customers because it didn't have the frills and throw pillows.

Next time, I'm just not working with someone that doesn't understand mvp.
SQLite requires schema definition (CREATE TABLE, ALTER, etc). Thats a bit overkill sometimes when you just want to store a JSON object. Mongo makes it much easier to just start pushing data into collections without having to worry about the tables and columns being defined.
I definitely agree that custom storage engines can be scary! In a way you could say the fact we’re used happily by so many applications on literally hundreds of millions of devices is a test of our reliability, although it’s far from being a formal test of course. We field the overwhelming majority of our issues in public on GitHub and StackOverflow, so you can see the kind of issues we have there. We have a bunch of internal testing on top of that of course, including our own device testing, test suites, and fuzz testing. We’re always up for recommendations on testbench for the kind of storage we do (Jepsen concerns itself only with distributed failure scenarios iirc, which doesn’t apply to us since we’re an embedded/centralized database engine by necessity). I don’t know if this helps or not, but I’m always happy to chat if there’s anything more you’d like to know about tim@realm.io
> A small town in Africa is hard and costly.

And what does BTC solve in this case exactly? You think places that lack the infrastructure to receive a SWIFT transfer will use BTC for anything practical?
I agree with you. However, after spending years and years trying to compile software that came with cryptic install instructions.
Or have the author insist that since it works on their machine I 'm just doing something stupid. Docker was largely able to fix that.

It's a somewhat odd solution for a too common problem, but any solution is still better than dealing with such an annoying problem. (source: made docker the de facto cross-teams communication standard in my company. "I 'll just give you a docker container, no need to fight trying to get the correct version of nvidia-smi to work on your machine" type of thing)

It probably depends on the space and types of software you 're working on. If it's frontend applications for example then its overkill. But if somebody wants you to let's say install multiple elasticsearch versions + some global binaries for some reason + a bunch of different gpu drivers on your machine (you get the idea), then docker is a big net positive. Both for getting something to compile without drama and for not polluting your host OS (or VM) with conflicting software packages.
Maybe you can break all the eggs you want, but your still gonna have a problem of that golden goose flies away someday
What 'null' mistake?
I suppose GP is referring to something like Leechblock[0] but baked directly into Firefox (and, if I may add a wish, with full Firefox Sync support).

[0]: https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/
Using traitlets for jupyter configuration completely changed the game. It enhanced jupyter versatility and extendability so much. The only downside is that it is kinda unparsable but that's because providing parsers for most used IDEs requires a lot of time...
Unfortunately this doesn’t include the coolest part of this kind of press, the Linotype steam powered automatic typesetter.
I can second this, Goatcounter works really well, and is very easy to set up on e.g. Jekyll pages.
IIRC Varasano describes how to remedy that. ;)
Shall we then ban stories on HN about the latest vim plugin, or that cool Emacs macro someone wrote? Those are fiery political topics, you know--maybe even "religious" topics for some users. I agree that all this is hugely political, but to me that only strengthens the point I was making. You can't avoid politics on forums like HN (in the broad, generalised sense in which we are discussing it here).
This idea is dead on arrival.
Even if that's the case, I can't help but wonder what contributions they could have made to the state of the art if they were interested to begin with.

From my (poor) understanding of neurophysiology, it seems to me that women should actually generally be better than men at jobs like software development and engineering. So the fact that women are generally less interested in these things is alarming to me.

If that's so, then we have a major social stigma around technical interests that is preventing all but white and Asian men from gaining even a basic interest in these fields. And this is a travesty of the highest order.
Show me an example of me disrespectfully disparaging other people's work. I'll wait.
You're arguing against trusting authority while insisting we all should do exactly what Steven Levy tells us to do.

Also, a drivers' license doesn't deny one access to a car, nor does it deny one the ability to drive (except perhaps legally.) So I fail to see how requiring a license to drive limits a hackers' access to the computer in a car in any meaningful way.

You could just as well argue we should all steal anything with a chip in it because stores are limiting access to electronic goods by requiring people to pay for them. Or that every network in existence which employs any privileged access (passwords, sudo, etc) violates that ethic because by definition, they're denying someone access to some part of the code.

The hacker ethic is fine and all, but like anything, once you take it too far it just becomes another form of fascism.
Marx's works were not appropriated, they were taken seriously, and to their full conclusion.
Yeah that is the implicit grant. But maybe it is clearer in practice than I though. The Open Source case book regarding patents puts it in "Express but Non-Specific Licenses" https://google.github.io/opencasebook/patents/,
and Scott K Peterson at Red Hat says its explicitness does not depend on the mention of "patent" https://opensource.com/article/18/3/patent-grant-mit-license
You just need to push the R value below 1.0 in order for it to die out of the populace.
Please don't follow Joel's advice. He's taking the wrong lesson. You can be conversational, you can lade your document with copious real world examples and justifications for rules, and illustrations, and explaining how different parts of the spec interact, and warn about common mistakes and included FAQs, but don't fill it with distracting unfunny garbage like Miss Piggy poking at a keyboard with eyeliner because her fingers are too fat.
Thank you for your reply. Is there a roadmap of what you work on?
> We have a finite amount of labor and a finite amount of resources available to us.

There is an infinite amount of labor available - because of improvements in efficiency. The manpower required to make a shirt has declined by something like 99% in the last 200 years. For growing food has dropped a similar amount. And on and on.

Resources are infinite because they can always be re-used and re-purposed for other things. For example, despite everyone eating chicken and ham, there is no looming shortage of chickens or pigs, because people figured out how to raise them efficiently.