jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> will experience empty oceans and complete ecosystem collapse in our lifetime.

This made me feel very uneasy.

I believe this is the most important topic of our lifetime, as much as climate change is a major issue, retaining and preserving biodiversity and its 4 billion years of knowledge is surely just as important.
That is almost certainly banter.
Imagine using Windows Explorer...
Right Click -> New Folder
Choosing the files you want to move there -> CTRL+C -> Going into the directory -> CTRL+V
Yeah that’s just the best and most efficient way to move files into a new directory.
It's targeted phishing. In my country at least, it's hard to get a decent mass list of names/number pairs so the scammers rely on very dumb approaches which can be automated for lead generation, like robo dialling with recorded messages - "hello... <pause> I've been informed you have been in a car accident" and the speech recognition before putting a live agent on the call. Now with this super clean list they can do some automated profile building in advance and prepare the message - "Hello Mark... <pause> ...I've been informed you would like to have lunch with a senator".
Also a lot of data brokers that provide spam lists like Lusha, LeadIQ, RocketReach will use this to enhance their databases. The profile on you they scraped from LinkedIn will now include your private phone number etc. All highly illegal in the EU but enforcement is lax and they hide offshore in the USA etc.
Wow that shouldn't be the case!

Can you link to the pg benchmark you did? We need to fix this asap.
> people do not know what to associate amazon with (it's just a bookstore, right?)

I disagree. I think most people know. Amazon was once a bookstore, then it changed; it's now the website where you buy things. If you're in IT it is also the major host for cloud computing.

There it is in a sentence (two for IT specialists). Does this leave out major things like video? Sure, but you asked about the brand, and that seems pretty clear: that website where you buy stuff.
1 - Uhm, not safe.

https://www.google.com/search?q=quadcopter+injury&num=50&rlz...
I was going to go the other way here and point out that blueprints are actually code for buildings.. the builder is the compiler I guess?

But blueprints are done at various scales and they differ in complexity and format ie. sketches, models, schedules. They also often come with a book of specifications, and these are typically only referred to when ordering parts or if something goes wrong - and they are always open to interpretation..
I wouldn't know a bubble sort off the top of my head (I haven't had to implement anything like that since university). I would know to read up on different algorithms and choose an appropriate library based on what I was sorting. (It will probably be better tested than what I would come up with first time).
Note that this is just a port of the OpenSolaris code base -- not a reimplementation. CDDL copyrights, patents, etc., are still big considerations before this can be used.
What I found interesting about the article was that the government intervention it’s describing is fairly lightweight: e.g., instead of nationalizing farms, the government is making it easier for farmers to sell directly to urban residents.
I'm not sure how that context changes the sentence.

The context makes it obvious which sentences are part of the author's thesis, and which are snark. Quoting the snark in isolation tells you only that Gruber is capable of sarcasm.

Edit: what's most interesting to me here is that Hank doesn't seem at all interested in Gruber's thesis, let alone in attacking it. He just seems interested in attacking Gruber.
As Bastiat said, "That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen."
The idea that you can't really keep secrets on the internet shouldn't really be news to anyone. Especially not here.

That being said, I think most people's privacy is kept because there just aren't that many people interested in you in general. Unless you do something to make yourself a target.
I fail to see how a friend posting a comment exposing the relationship on facebook is any different than that same friend making the same kind of comment while out for drinks 'IRL'.

This has nothing to do with 'social media'.
It's only a design error when you don't have a GC.

Imagine you have an arbitrary long lived connected cyclic graph that can be incrementally updated from multiple short lived worker threads. With a GC, this is a no brainer: just put the objects in the graph. No workarounds, no extra tracking.

Without a GC, on removing a node, you have to walk to essentially do a mark/sweep of the graph to find dead nodes that were connected through the node you removed.
The UK was doing weird things with privacy back then too.

Special branch wanted an informer on every street. They infiltrated many political groups and meetings.

Some groups were outlawed - we even prevented news organisations from broadcasting the voices of some people leadingnto their video being dubbed by actors.
Math nitpick: It's a bit more complicated than that with exponential growth. You can't divide up 100% over 10 years and say it was 10% each year, instead you have to solve 2=1.1^x, and find that it doubles in 7.27 years.

If something grows 10% a year for 10 years, it actually ends up at 2.59x its original size.
No, I'm building it in Django. I have been looking for a well-defined project to build, and this ended up being a perfect project. It's inspired by HN, and to everyone here it's a clone of HN, but most educators who end up using the site will probably never know HN exists.

It's a completely open project, and if things go well I'm going to write a Django tutorial based on building EN. I'm going to write the tutorial as part of another project I started this year, http://introtopython.org. It's been a busy year. :)
>I think game companies can optimize for high-end PCs for the same reason that car companies can make high-end models

Will be interesting to see how Battlefield 3 sells compared to Black Ops. CoD has looked good at times but has never blown me away graphically. However it mints money from the general market. Battlefield and the Frostbite engine look several years ahead of the CoD engine. What will the sales look like?

>High-end PC GPUs are ten times better than console GPUs, so why don't PC games look ten times better?

Curious, would love to hear Valves thoughts on this too. Several Source based are critically considered the best of the best, but again the graphics have only looked good at times yet Valve is printing money .
Really amazing demo. The moment that they just unplug the controller is impressive.
Yes that makes sense. Though, it would be hard to apply edits limits because the number of edits can vary greatly, independently from the purchasing power of a customer (for example a startup would change it's home page every other day while a large corporate would barely touch it once a quarter). The bandwidth or page views limits seem to be raising the same issue and the logic for us is simply to avoid server costs that would be too high for a single site that would pay a basic monthly subscription.
> But the retailer could have been more proactive to say "During terrible winter storms, paying the market rate is a bad idea. Switch companies now."

I thought they did exactly that? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-15/texas-pow...

> One power supplier, Griddy, told all 29,000 of its customers that they should switch to another provider as spot electricity prices soared to as high as $9,000 a megawatt-hour. Griddy’s customers are fully exposed to the real-time swings in wholesale power markets, so those who don’t leave soon will face extraordinarily high electricity bills.

> “We made the unprecedented decision to tell our customers -- whom we worked really hard to get -- that they are better off in the near term with another provider,” said Michael Fallquist, chief executive officer of Griddy. “We want what’s right by our consumers, so we are encouraging them to leave. We believe that transparency and that honesty will bring them back” once prices return to normal.
Kill companies caught corrupting politicians. A gas to electricity owner corrupting an official to disapprove a nuclear plant project? Force sell the company. A water company caught paying a city concil to reduce spending on water infrastructure/quality control? Kill the company. It is easier than running through corrupt politicians.
I’m talking about getting charged $10,000 to heat your home
Same for me as well. In school, we started with GW-BASIC and moved to Turbo Pascal. Pascal was a great learning language and the fundamental concepts I learned in Pascal translated very well to other languages. Looking back, I didn't even realize there's a difference between Turbo Pascal and official Pascal. The Turbo Pascal IDE is all we knew and it worked very well on those IBM PC's.
We do this but with makefiles to contain whatever CI logic which also makes it easy to switch.
You are doing a tasks that is very easy to evaluate from a success/fail standpoint.

Upwork tends to perform really well for these sorts of one off tasks. Hiring good technically talent is really hard.
Or is it a lawful use and shows just how badly written, widespread and unjust the act is?
Many thanks - really appreciate the kind words.

I agree with Paul. We're pretty ambitious on the spaces we want to go after, and we have a lot of room to grow inside Japan first. As Paul mentions, Japanese businesses have very high expectations for service quality, so we want to nail each new feature we put out.

After Japan, we're keen to go after Asia, and then the world. <strokes black cat>
Act by raising your awareness. Act by not standing silent. Act by being the change you want to see. There is nothing else but this.
I don't mind they taking this approach.

As a developer myself, I do understand that open source alone is very hard to live from, specially when comparing salaries between both worlds (closed vs open).

So I rather have all options available, and won't steer from a product just because it is closed source.
Well I suppose we could start by having a written constitution rather than a uncodified constitution, otherwise, it seems to me, once they bring in legal measures as acts and statutes and then the public gets used to an idea, it is not long before it gets baked into case law and then we're as good as fucked once it is accepted as common law.

Other than that, I suppose we could cross our fingers and hope for the best, like we did in the days before we had a constitutional monarchy, we would cross our fingers and hope we wouldn't get a shitty king. Well we don't need protection from our monarchs (as far as I can tell), we now are in dire need of protection from our government (and other "friendly" governments by extension).

Our customs and traditions have done well for us, its amazing to me we got this far, but maybe its time to get a bit more serious about our protections of rights and have them baked into common law.

I suppose there is a bit of irony that the protections we now seek from those who govern us are actually baked into the EU, but our country seems to be half in and half out (I'm a little angered I have to have cookie warnings on my web properties because of EU directives and yet my basic little right to privacy my grandparents generation helped put into the UN is not even taken seriously, never mind the EU equivalents).
Please do not take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar, regardless of how wrong others are or you feel they are, or how badly they are behaving.

I understand very well that there is extra pressure on a minority view that feels embattled, but it doesn't make it ok to break the rules. When you break them it dissuades people from giving you a hearing anyhow, so individual interest and community interest are the same.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Also not sure if related but Slashdot is also down as of 16:59
You'd have to be out of your fucking mind to touch the rivers in Portland, much less wash your clothing in them.

I swear, mutants under the overpasses...
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GDPR still holds. The data can only be used in an aggregated from for advertising purposes within platform (facebook, insta, whatsapp) and not be sold to others. You have the right to have your data deleted upon request.
>This is an (attempted) insurrection, and there are no two ways around it.

Yes, I called it insurrection earlier. You've replied to my comment out of context of the reply which preceded it, so your strawman of me doesn't make any sense.

>they are interested in "toppling" the police and in stopping the white nationalist fascists that police are openly supporting

I wrote a longer reply to your comment, but then I deleted it. DC metro police are more than 50% black, it's a joke that they would "openly support white supremacists."
That's very reasonable then. It's not a deal breaking issue especially so moving from or compared to less trustworthy entities already having your phone number (e.g. WhatsApp), but it had left me wondering, I thought it was used in the most part for authentication.
https://zom.im/zomenglish.html

As ColinWright notes elsewhere, a search for ["zom" messaging] finds it.
Yeah this is my point too! Modern operating systems are made out of code, and I know it sounds weird but we can change them!

Ideally I'd like applications to work the same way websites do. I want to be able to open an application directly from its URL, and it should download and run a contained wasm pack file in a sandbox. The app should then be cached locally - maybe with some ability to pin it to my start menu (and pin the cache entry).

The app should be given some access to a rendering context (with fonts, sound, etc) and some limited storage. And not much else by default - though the user should be able to bless the application to access other files on the filesystem. There's a huge laundry list of APIs the apps will need eventually - and thats going to be a lot of work and I have no idea who'd fund something like that. But it'd be fantastic if we could pull it off.
Did I say it was downvotes past 48 hours? Just ones that people had stopped paying attention to because the posts fell off the front page got additional downvotes moments after a new post in this thread.
I think a cryptographic key is worth nothing, I can pull thousands out of my ass at pretty much no cost.

So I don’t have any regret because I would have never made any money with it. I would have sold it all when it reached $10. And if not I would have thought there is no way this thing is worth $100 and would have sold. So there is no way I would have reached $1000, let alone $30,000.

The only decisions you should regret are the decisions you could have got right with the information you had at the time. Otherwise it’s like regretting not having picked the right lottery number
I would love to hear what are some of your experiences making the transition as well my fellow developers! (:
> http://junit.sourceforge.net/javadoc/ (ughhhh)

Despite me not really liking Java all that much, the javadocs can be very useful; although in that example they chose a bad non-default colour - black on (dark) green is difficult to read.

Here's a better example, they normally look more like this:
http://www.jdom.org/docs/apidocs/
Although really software should be idiot friendly and default to not letting you delete stuff by accident. As an aside I've managed to delete my code more than once in a similar manner in PyScripter which makes me feel rather silly but is quite easily done.
Yes. Consultant is the term for that :)
(No experience doing this, take with grain of salt)

I'd imagine you would use your oDesk/elance gigs as a portfolio and get involved in whatever niche community you'd like to work with.
Ask a lower price, at least you get feedback from people who care instead of people who want to add features all the time, you could give them a free trial for a month though.

(PS. Freemium users are more difficult then premium users in most cases, they want a lot for nothing :))
This is exactly what I was thinking about, and I'm really surprised nobody else talks about it. Are we missing something?
Perhaps PG will change his mind about allowing political articles (TSA)?
I think he's just upset about the TSA articles. That point keeps coming up over and over again in his post. It weakens what he has to say.

It's clear he supports the TSA to "stop planes from getting blown up." Since the majority of HN doesn't agree with that sentiment (at least that's how he paints it), he's sort of being a baby about it and quitting because he can't handle disagreement. He masks this fact very thinly in a what is definitely a stereotypical flameout post.

Communities disagree, and they're not all perfect. Nothing new there. If there was no disagreement on HN, it'd be boring.
I love their About page. It's really funny. I 'm glad they put Tupac.
Ah ok. Is it not true, however, that it is very easy to 'fail' the combat readiness tests if one was so inclined? I've heard (from friends/cousins in Israel) that most Israeli youth are aware of various tactics to get out of combat service.
Your statement made me think. Looking at my friends, family, and colleagues, I can think of 2 small groups where your statement fits. The rest, I feel, do seek to understand and empathize. In my case, it is the minority.
I think people use Disqus' reaction feature to do it.
I have noticed a decline in the "interestingness" of the stories, so it seems inevitable that the comments will be less interesting. Though I attribute this to random fluctuations in the news and meta-news cycle, rather than to some failing of the HN community (which I think is awesome).

That Matt's blog post made the front page is a case in point.
How about unlocking?
Yes. But keep in mind: You can break an awful lot of eggs, without making an omelet.
Very true, and what has happened to the Gulf and those people around it is absolutely tragic. The environmental damage is astronomical in addition to the economic damage. Further, I agree that BP should pay for it fully, and that doing so will (and should) affect those who invested in it.

With that said, paying dividends is simply not greedy. It is rewarding and supporting those who invested in them, including retirement funds and individuals, many of whom rely on those dividends that have been quite stable for some time now. Treating your shareholders well is simply not greedy.
Ever since discovering that SpaceX was going to charge around 1/3rd what the Russians charge per kg to GTO I've been waiting to see an increase in launches.
If you've had your iPhone more than 12 months then 02 will unlock it for you if you fill in the form on their website, then you'll be able to use local sims while abroad and shift to month-to-month sim-only deals on any network once your fixed term contract runs out.

You keep mentioning "free" upgrades. Do you just mean that you don't need to pay for the phone up front and instead (re)-sign an 18 or 24 month contract with minimum monthly payments? It's not really free, it's just like paying off your phone in installments. I saved money by paying more than the minimum necessary for my iPhone and paying a lower price each month than the minimum I'd pay to get the phone for "free". Even if it worked out cheaper in theory, you're locked into that price for 18 months. Now I'm out my contract my monthly cost is halved but the number of free minutes I got for that money quadrupled. I could get an even better deal if I switched carriers, but I can't be bothered.
The analogy is: Body = Ecosystem.

We're doing significant things to ecosystems. The magnitude of what we do gets larger as our technological capabilities in crease. We're still not close to understanding ecosystems well enough to ensure we won't do anything bad.
Have you launched yet? If not, I'd suggest just launching with a single paid plan. Something low cost. Then you can add more plans as you grow. Without analytics you won't know the best way to segment multiple paid plans.
Office chair was the first thing I thought of when I saw them sliding sideways. I wonder how hard it would be to stay still enough to type accurately.
This is the most frustrating post because the majority of the text is telling you something is possible without telling you how to do it.

It reads like a timeshare brochure or coupon book sales pitch.

It's easy enough to live off $2 a meal though.

Breakfast: Oatmeal with Bananas/Raisins/Cinnamon (no sugar though
- it will make you hungry sooner) and tea or coffee from whole beans
bought at IKEA. Eggs.

Lunch: Beans and Franks or Sandwiches with coldcuts from Costco or Pasta.

Dinner: Pasta; Rice and Costco Dumplings; PG's Rice & Beans; or
homemade Pizza (cut large loaf of bread in half, add oil, sauce, cheese,
misc. meat toppings, bake appropriately.) Homemade fries or mashed potatoes
make for a decent side. Frozen stir-fry veggies. IKEA sells woks for $9.

Snacks: Ramen, Costco Granola Bars, Chips.

This should give you a bit of leeway in case you want to go out once a week or buy a case of beer.

PG's Rice and Beans recipe here: http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html#f1n
President Obama in his speech specifically said this was not a cap.

Also, even if the administration did hypothetically agree this was a cap it would likely not be binding on the courts without further Congressional action when people brought the lawsuits.
There certainly are relationships between sign languages; A(merican)SL and French SL are arguably two dialects of the same language, or at least they were in relatively recent memory. Others are distantly related or unrelated; B(ritish)SL is absolutely unintelligible to signers of ASL and arose separately, for instance. Many of the modern global sign languages are related to one or the other of those families (and might be "dialects" as you want to call them, or might be further apart and thus merely "related languages"), but there are a few others that are not, including one—Nicaraguan Sign Language—that arose from scratch less than 40 years ago.
I’m really conflicted on this issue. On one end you have a provider that has an end to end solution and has spent a lot of resources providing a quality product, but on the other hand there are solutions that the end user can solve without intervention of the copyright holder. This article provides a great argument but it’s still a hard one.
Ah, if you're specifically interested in "hard surface sculpting" then this might be a more useful query for you: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blender+hard+su...