jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Another victory in the war on consenting adults choosing what to do, with whom to do it, and the terms upon which they do it with each other!

What surprises me when I read this stuff from my comfortable perch in Canada, is how schizophrenic America can appear to the outside world. On the one hand, there's a fierce independence from government, a belief in making your own choices and not allowing the government to meddle in your private affairs.

And on the other hand, there's stuff like this, stuff that looks to a Canadian like being deeply un-American, deeply opposed to American values.
Steve Eisman, who was featured in Michael Lewis's "The Big Short" as one of the few who foresaw the housing bubble, recently gave a presentation titled "For Profit Education: Subprime Goes to College." Worth flipping through: http://www.scribd.com/doc/32066986/Steve-Eisman-Ira-Sohn-Con...
Ooh. I've been waiting for something like this for damn near two decades. It was the original promise of the internet: free and open access to all information, regardless of whether that makes people uncomfortable. And this protocol even gives you control over monetization options.

Still, they have a big hurdle. It all comes down to whether it'll be adopted.

First impressions of the MacOS app: Loading time was long, but onboarding was effortless. Threw me right into the app.

Immense disappointment when I realized it was for video, not books.

Gave a video a try, "A better way to split firewood."

Since there's no URL bar, there doesn't seem to be any obvious way to link someone to a video.

But! There's a web version: https://odysee.com/@SicCooper:1/3d-all-stars-super-mario-64-...

Seems like... youtube. Hmmm.

First impressions are ... surprisingly positive. This is somehow an almost-complete, fully working clone of Youtube. There are missing features, but I can look past that.

The recommendation engine is obviously the biggest weakness, since there's probably not much content to recommend. But I found myself watching https://odysee.com/@atthespeedoflife:b/it-may-not-be-adhd-pa...

Pleasantly surprised to find a 2x speed setting. The production quality of the video is good too. No problems whatsoever.

This got me curious: How hard would it be to set up my own channel? So I clicked sign in, and was delighted to discover they have a "sync my youtube" checkbox.

... Unfortunately, after creating my account, there's no sign of where the "Sync my youtube" feature went to. I checked the box, but there wasn't any prompt or further info. Well, back to watching.

The production quality on these videos is actually incredible. This one has 6 views: https://odysee.com/@AlphaPhoenix:f/why-are-metals-so-stretch...

"Why are metals so stretchy?"

I got a bit suspicious, so I checked youtube. Yep, it's on there too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn1Y6zIS91g&ab_channel=Alpha...

They have 14k subscribers, which isn't huge, but is significantly greater than "nothing." Did LBRY somehow convince people to sign up and cross-post their videos, or are they simply hosting random videos? Now I'm curious where it's hosted.

This is interesting enough to give a fair shot. I'll be watching it closely.

Their FAQ is a solid resource: https://lbry.com/faq

I'm mostly curious how they pulled off a fully-working clone of YouTube. That's an incredible achievement, setting aside all the questions it raises.

I see that Google banned them, which honestly makes me want to support LBRY more. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24594663
There was an audit in GA of ~20,000 mail-in ballots for signature verification. 8 ballots were adjudicated to have mismatched signatures; another 2 were improperly signed. All 10 of them, when followed up with the purported voter, were found to be valid.

This gives you a rough estimate of voter fraud of having an impact of <0.01% of the election results. The tightest race this year was 0.25% margin--that's a full 20× a reasonable upper bound on the incidence of voter fraud. Fraud doesn't change election results.

On the flip side, some of what you claim about--particularly ID rules--has a real disenfranchising effect on people. Having valid ID isn't an issue if you're someone who drives, but if you're someone who is physically incapable of driving and can't get a driver's license, well, obtaining that ID can be quite difficult. (Even getting a driver's license in my state requires going to a particular building in the hours of 9-5 M-F--sucks if you have an hourly job you can't get time off to get an ID!)

A lot of the rest of what you complain about... [citation needed]. The complaints I've seen about signature verification aren't about requiring a signature on the ballot, it's about requiring a second signature (IIRC, unrelated to you!) to "witness" you doing the ballot yourself. In all the states I'm aware of, the voter is still required to sign the ballot themselves.
Accident? Twitter needs to fix their infrastructure if so.
No company on earth is interested in making their users happy, they're just interested in making money. This is some silly moral purity test where a company has to have pure intentions in order to do good. Our society works because people have the space & incentive to do good regardless of their intentions, and many Facebook users seem happy to use the service and find value in it regardless of whatever sinister intentions you might speculate of Facebook.
I recommend that you write notes on which aspects of the code are poorly put together, for your own benefit now, and also so you can remember it in the future.

I did this at a previous job, where the application code base had some very unique (I hope) characteristics. I haven't read my notes recently but it's comforting to know that I have a record of it.
HN has difficulty with issues that approach questions of identity or livelihood, including matters of privacy, surveillance, technical tools, policies at or concerning specific tech companies or sectors, regulation of the tech industry, and policies of or concerning tech hubs, notably Silicon Valley / Northern California, NYC, Seattle, Austen, and other regions. As well as spillover from other regional disputes, notably in recent years China, India, and Russia and environs.
I feel the same way. It was the annoyances with Windows that I couldn't resign myself to just live with that pushed me to Linux on my desktop full time. For those unable to make the switch due to some critical application in their workflow, it's easy to see how they'd feel they have resigned themselves to dealing with Windows' annoyances.
Yes, patches aren't commutative in general. That is precisely the reason Pijul can help us in these situations, and guarantee the result will be the same: it will either work without issue, or it will abort due to non-commutative patches (it's similar to a type checker, which either guarantees that functions won't be called with the wrong type of argument, or aborts because the types don't match up)

From my understanding, the 'history/ordering mechanism' in Pijul is composition of patches. In general, the patch 'patch1 ∘ patch2' can be different from the patch 'patch2 ∘ patch1'; when they just-so-happen to be the same, we say that patch1 and patch2 commute.
Please add "(2000)" to the title.
It resonates strongly with me because I keep coming across clustered solutions where a single machine with appropriately designed software would work just as well or better.

Clusters have a habit of becoming their own reason for existence. Looking forward to your article. If you need a proofreader I'm game.

Scale up, scale out or scale in.
Maybe if the owner said it's intresting to his employee, the employee would try to go deep into the problem and figure out the flaws.Henry Ford did that too.
Try to let it be a source of motivation, rather than insomnia. And don't worry, after a few years, all that extra work trying to keep up with imaginary peers really adds up.
The problem with this? (and all other attempts to change "messaging")

Is that it requires users to do something different than they expect or do currently. The goal of having a "unified inbox" won't work unless you natively integrate with all the places where somebody currently sends messages. This requires the user to change their behavior for what? To have a "unified inbox?" I don't think that's compelling enough for user to change their messaging behavior.

Google has the same issue with Google Voice.
There were articles on drug policy in the early 00's indicating the U.S. had already learned how taking out one cartel/gang would leave a power vacuum that resulted in an even worse situation than before. So maybe this was related to that.
Isn't high value for Vitamin D not a problem? Human body can deal with too much Vitamin D by storing it efficiently.
I've created a couple of userscripts (anybody remember Greasemonkey?) to help augment sites that I use everyday

https://github.com/Trinovantes/userscript-github-repository-...

https://github.com/Trinovantes/userscript-youtube-playlist-o...

Sadly they break every couple of months when the sites' DOM changes. The YouTube one is currently broken and I haven't had the time to fix it yet

This is the next best thing to actually applying for a job at those companies and doing it myself like that April fools joke
Are those actual, real concerns or just post-rationalizations and coverups for depleted stockpiles which would lead to panic buying? There are many years of prior practice to mask-wearing in many asian countries. And is there any evidence that masks made the Spanish Flu worse in 1913?

Also this seems like worrying about second-order negative effects to the extent that one neglects the first-order positive effect.
Be aware that this site doesn't seem to be the whole story, it doesn't match me for example, but this one does: https://jstsch.com/facebook/ (NL only)

So there's some ambiguity or incompleteness somewhere.
http://cache-scale.appspot.com/c/www.reddit.com/

That's a cache of it. I really wish that the admins at reddit would implement something like this themselves, then link to it when downtime like this happens.
I laughed, it's relevant and puts things in perspective if you had seen the ads. So it's not really content free even if it's just two words.
In Chechnya (currently part of Russia) - it's a very profitable business.

Old (2001), but relevant article: http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5B...
It's iOS 13.1.3 on an iPhone SE.

As of this posting, no longer crashing for me when I input the same domain and choose HTTPS.

Thanks!

Edit: Also working for HTTP.
Like most niche secondary markets, Lego resale has a lot of interesting dynamics from a variety of participants. For example, some unopened sets have historically done well as investment vehicles once out of production [1].

I hold the Lego Group in high esteem as a company (no affiliation, just a lifelong fan) and I hope that they will do well by this acquisition. However, it also raises questions about the economic and social effects on niche resale communities when the original producer also owns the aftermarket. What would it be like if Nike or Adidas purchased reselling platforms like StockX? What if, back in the bubble, the company behind Beanie Babies had owned the aftermarket platform? IDK how it changes incentives for the company or the market participants, but it's interesting to think about. I would appreciate any insights on the question.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-17/lego-coll...
Wow, that looks like a pretty exact clone of the Casio FX-350MS [1]. Apart from the colour scheme, the shape of the directional keys, and some of the lettering, they're identical.

[1] https://www.casio-intl.com/asia/en/calc/products/fx-350MS/
The concept that property is so religiously sacred that simply owning of a thing entitles one to cause external harm using that thing, even passively, is sickening.
If you think using a taser is a way to "deescalate situations", you have a very different interpretation of what a "deescalation strategy" is meant to accomplish than most.

TBH the problem seems to be that US police is often trained to "deescalate situations" by shutting them down quickly and forcefully rather than actually deescalating, i.e. carefully defusing the situation.

Tasers are violent, less-than-lethal (i.e. potentially fatal) weapons. If they're ineffective at reducing casualties and decreasing the overall use of violent force, they need to be removed.
> I'm curious why this hasn't already been done before.

Probably for exactly the reason you're asking about: legality. There's no way that the licenses of the TI calculator software allow for this.
One might argue that times were best when there were no emperors.
You could make castes based on measured behavior, not genetic predisposition which is obviously unreliable.

We do this in school by separating kids into different classes according to our guess of their ability. Not very reliable, but it can be better overall than treating everyone equally. We also do genetic "castes" with sports separating males and females. Again, some people end up on the wrong side of the fence but overall it seems to help more than it harms.

I kind of think we should do this in wider society too. As it is, naturally low intelligence or low impulse control people are just thrown in the deep end and expected to compete with people who are biologically superior. They can't win, so all kinds of negative social effects compound, like crime, poor health, poor mental health, and even lower economic success.
Yes, yet again, BSD is better, but none of the reasons given here are good enough to be "the guy who wanted to put BSD on the servers."
how about making a game and having the in game items be purchased with bitcoins?
Wolfram ends the essay on a tantalizing note ...another level of automation.... [I]nventing and developing [systems using other axiomatic systems] to respond to some particular purpose.

I see this almost happening daily on HN with the huge interest in new languages especially functional languages. By almost I mean these are mostly descendants of either Lisp or ML and they are based on the same logic. I'm not sure if you would gain anything by hard-wiring a language into one of the other multitude of axiomatic systems. It would be an intellectual challenge to first select an appropriate system, and then construct a useful language. And it would be hard to recruit people to use it enough to provide useful feedback.
I wonder if anybody still uses BSD.. AFAIK some companies (for example stackoverflow) use OpenBSD as firewall, but FreeBSD? Yahoo used it but then switched over to Linux.
Some people believe that lies to immigration officials are acceptable, others feel that one should answer honestly or not at all. To the extent that "naive stupid" means the same thing as "honest and principled", you are correct. Perhaps he should have sought legal advice before entering, but I would presume that the author made this choice consciously based on his personal values. I wouldn't insult him by calling him naive and stupid unless you are certain your personal values are better than his.
So did Mozilla when they came out with "Bespin" as in the "Cloud" city. Ah... so witty... immediately every Star Wars geek knew what they were doing.
Yes, wealth is tied to computing power... I spotted this flaw when bitcoins were mentioned in a thread on HN a few months ago. My comments are here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1655033
Try http://www.similarsitesearch.com/
Do you store any association of email addresses and what sites send them to you or is all of that just dropped immediately?

Also, thanks for replying! Great to see you don't just avoid the privacy issues like others do at times.
Thanks a lot, Troy. I'll dig into what happened with your work email. We're working on a JSON endpoint using webhooks, so you can plug into an internal dashboard or other application.
"I have volunteered regularly to run children's summer English camps in rural China."

Right, so in that case you do actually have a valuable skill that very few, if any locals possess: English fluency. That's quite a bit different from voluntourists that are just contributing unskilled construction labor that any able-bodied local would be able to provide.
All these organisations clearly spell out what they expect from you when you sign up. Community service is a major component for a lot of them.

> It's more like free forced labor that most of the time is not even needed by the non-profit

H4H: You sign up, you show up, you learn a few things. Labour is still the biggest part of construction so your contribution is noted and essential.
I agree with dinde: I don't see what the big deal is about. The comments about a 'cult' and the Illuminati were clearly jokes during the interview. (see http://d8.allthingsd.com/20100602/whats-under-mark-zuckbergs...)

It's like asking if all the birds pictured in the Twitter office are a proof that Twitter is in fact a bird-oriented cult and they're striving for world-domination done by birds. Or saying that Google thinks their users are kids because of the primary colors they put everywhere.

Mark Zuckerberg loves hoodies. He built a giant company. So, of course, they'll make some company hoodies and sometimes they'll add something more than the Facebook logo, something that represents what the company is about.
Just like XBox business, Bing is also another loss leader for Microsoft. Obviously Microsoft would do anything to get market share since they have a gigantor war-chest. A year later with all the cheers from its usual supporters, Bing managed to get "some" increase on traffic. Well, I wonder how much of those are directly coming from Facebook search which Microsoft has a lot of stake in.
I think you already learned your lesson, but I want to repeat for all the others: SEO and non-programmer doesn't really fit.

Think about what the job of a SEO is: Make Google like the site more. How does it work? Make a better site, that gets more links. Okay, the "get more links" part is possible without any technical knowledge. But if the site is crap, this won't help. So how could anybody make a html site better without being a web programmer? Yeah, right....
I feel the same way about saying physical gestures like "shrug". And also about "Wow. Just Wow." But I can master my distaste for those; they're not why I mentioned it. Who knows what the line is?

Maybe it's more because using gay terms as pejoratives is a nasty habit and we should stamp it out rather than try and equivocate just because they're familiar.
More likely from seeing my tweet: http://twitter.com/KuraFire/status/15401140612
Looks like a great way to burn through 50Million in 2 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish.com
That's a hell of an idea. One thing it took me a long time to learn was that being good at math is mostly about working really hard. It's hard to know that, because until you're a graduate student the only messy incomplete work you ever see is your own. Everything you find in textbooks is pristine, and worse, it all looks like it occurred quite naturally to the author.
I'm reminded of the old adage: Science. If you aren't pissing someone off, you aren't doing it right.
The people I know with diagnosed sleep apnea do feel like hell. I had always assumed the heart disease risk correlated with the disrupted sleep, not the momentary lack of breath.
Oh, yes. One of the things I learned as a writer is to write crap. Write drivel. Sitting there trying to get it Just Right, staring at the page or screen as you attempt to dig up that bon mot just kills it.

Write whatever, get it down. Out of order, out of the blue? Stick it in the Do Something With This section. Just get it out of your head and saved someplace.

Then you can go back, read it over, rewrite stuff, fix it up and, ideally, cut the shit out of it to make it tight on a serious murder-your-darlings rampage.
Build little things at a time. I'm actually just learning programming as well, at 23, a bit older than you.

The other day I built my first login/registration system in PHP/MySQL. I was up for about 6 hours doing it until the morning, but it was very fun and satisfying. Now that I know how to make a login and register system, I can start parlaying that into my next projects; maybe a site that has user profiles, or that lets people post text, upload files, etc.

I tried learning Java a bit ago but didn't continue with it. It was difficult to grasp OOP as a beginner, but I also had no idea what I wanted to make with it, and where to start. I think you have to keep your expectations low, fuck all the hottest libraries, languages, frameworks, etc. You can't expect yourself to be using those off the start, it will only burden your morale when you fail (and you will fail, because you have no foundation on which to use those technologies).

Anyway, my suggestion is start building shit that's simple and neat and fun for you. You can learn the science of programming along the way, but whats more important is showing yourself that you can do it. Learning is easier when the task is fun, so don't think that you have to catch up and put out professional cutting edge scripts. Good luck!
I only care about your session. You can keep your password, unless I brute-force it from a 37signals webapp.
I found this quite interesting for the insight on how much natural phenomena can confound the best-laid plans; having a third of all taxable land (ie private property) wiped out by rainfall was enough to bankrupt California, and makes a mockery of conventional budget arguments. Arguably, the relative dryness of recent decades may be the exception rather than the rule, with long-term statistics suggesting reversion to a historical mean: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/10/07/california-climate-pdo...

I registered a few domains like californiaflood.org and similar last year - I can't even remember exactly which ones now, because I didn't really anticipate using them. That was around February, and it's rather surprising to see evacuations already taking place this early in the winter. Who knows, they might serve some purpose after all.
The entire thing (from Reddit):

http://i.imgur.com/hA2Fd.jpg
He is talking about Google-size companies.
This is worth an own domain? really?
> And the kids can do crazy things.

Exactly why we should involve law enforcement.

Kids especially teenagers can be dangerous.

Teachers who have almost no training on how to handle violent situation should not be required to handle this.

Not to mention, teachers also have absolutely no authority to do anything.
>> Ink-redible stuff!
i think i found the problem with the algorithm. sometimes it returns an empty row. the javascript version throws while the python version doesn't. i fixed it in my fork by just reducing the number of rows until it doesn't throw: https://github.com/jonathanong/linear-partition
Libreoffice supports plenty of scripting options but documentation is abysmal, and there's barely a thought given to web service integration.
Sometimes i copy and paste from LibreOffice into some other app, and it locks up for tens of seconds. Google doesn't have a monpoly on slowness.
I like LibreOffice a lot and it's my office suite of choice. The only thing I'm missing is an alternative to OneNote.
Maybe a difference here is that I live on the 28th floor of a building in one of most densely populated city on earth (Shenzhen). There's always people walking outside so "smart" lights would always be on anyways. I do enjoy darkness when I am in more remote areas.
Tinder already does stuff like this https://www.help.tinder.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029087891-S...
Okay mate, let's put nice straight roads and wide junctions through middle of London just to make it easier for cars?

Cars are an extremely modern invention for London - the city is almost 2000 years old, and has some really fancy, really old, really precious stuff in the way.
Why was it miserable?