jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So processed white flour [1] isn't the culprit? Good to know.

Maybe the real culprit in the obesity epidemic is fats, oils, and sugar. It certainly fits the data.

[1] At the beginning of the century, whole wheat flour was uncommon except in rural areas. It spoiled too quickly.
That is wonderfully clear. I haven't touched much Java post nio but could the app just use something like java.nio.ByteBuffer to model the raw memory at the bottom of the graph, then have EarlyStageFrames muck with those using static native methods that take the ByteBuffers where needed and then LaterStageFrames playing with the EarlyStageFrames and reaching inside them to get at their ByteBuffers when absolutely needed for performance?

> It's probably best modeled as an acyclic directed graph

My pet theory is that a good representation for most systems should maybe always be an acyclic directed graph?
Given the specific 'Turing Test' procedure described in the bet, I think there's an excellent chance Kurzweil will win. (If the IM sessions were 5 minutes with each judge rather than 2 hours, he might win today.)
> NB: This bridge doesn't exist any more

That's weird. It definitely looks like it is the same bridge but that page says it has been removed.

The construction clearly shows a concrete bridge in the making (lots of concrete forms visible) whereas the heading of the page is 'Swiss timber bridges'.
There are so many terrifying stories about stuff like this. I don’t remember the site, but there’s a website where you can research superfund allocations and it’s really frightening to learn that the parking lot two hundred meters from where you work in NJ was the site of a massive insecticide dump that used to spontaneously ignite.
For a long time AT&T would allow phone to phone IPv4 traffic.

When T-Mobile rolled out IPv6 you could get to your phone from anywhere else with IPv6.
That early 2010s tumblr-esque UI is wonderful. Reminds me of MLKSHK. Good times.
If you care about privacy, using a text based browser from an editor is a terrible idea for many reasons, lol.
No. We would use the baseband PMIC and DMA to move the info out of the AP if they were not integrated.
"Just format it"? Really?
Most high schools in the US don't have graduation exams. Even for ones that do, there's no standardized high school graduation exam nationwide.
This is a change that's very recent, perhaps even in response to this article in particular.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210311053716/https://github.co...

As of earlier this month, the repository was a year out of date.
> But here’s the key part: “cross-react” does not mean “neutralize” and it does not mean “provide protection from”. These antibodies may or may not have been neutralizing against the other coronaviruses, but they don’t seem to have any such effect on the current one. And in keeping with that, having such cross-reactive antibodies seems to provide no protection against catching SARS-Cov2 or against being hospitalized with it if you do. There’s no difference in the infection/hospitalization rates of the people who had cross-reactive coronavirus serum antibodies ready to go versus those who didn’t. They’re basically useless.

> Now, you can still make an argument that the T cell component of immunity might provide some protection after a previous coronavirus infection. The current study didn’t address this directly, but after these results, it’s at least less likely that that’s happening. The authors make a note of this, and also note that pre-existing mucosal antibodies might exert a protective effect (which this study didn’t examine, either). But prior circulating human coronavirus antibodies, even ones that can bind to the current one – those it looks like we can rule out. Which is too bad.

From: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/10/do...

The title study here is nothing new, we know there's cross reactive antibodies to other coronaviruses, they're not neutralizing, the hospitalization/death rates are the same so they don't confer any protection.

Nobody had any pre-existing immunity to this virus before it erupted last year (and no, the virus or variants of it were not traveling the globe months or years earlier).
In addition to primary care stuff, there's a lot of CYA doctors do that HSA + high-deductible is meant to cut down on. I'm thinking of things like "let's do that MRI, just to be safe".
Ah, right. My thinking was that in the scenario proposed in the article, it doesn't matter what player 2 does (apart from the dice rolls, which is beyond their control anyway) they'll still lose. You only have to control the actions of player 1. While in the auction scenario you need to control both players to make it work. So if you were actually playing as player 1 and all the dice rolls lined up, you would only be guaranteed to pull off the scenario in the article. But I guess it doesn't matter since both scenarios are theoretically possible.
Says the CEO of a Prague-based remote contracting firm.*

Personally, having a crap ton of experience working with overseas teams, the timezone difference is absolute hell. Moreso than the "not physically in the same room" thing. You can't even get on a phone or be in a chatroom together for most of the regular working day. That blows.

*(He mentions that he has experience hiring European developers, but it's not obvious from this post alone that he has a direct financial interest in the offshoring model.)
I use my hands and wrists a whole lot, and regularly type upward of 140 WPM, but I've never experienced any RSI. I imagine genetics plays a fairly big role.
I'm still only guessing at the objection, but if it helps, the encryptions are randomized, so two different encryptions of the same value do not have the same ciphertext.
I've been using Borg for a couple of years now (and before that, Attic[0]) and I have been very happy with it. It's seen me through three laptops and it has been reliable and easy-to-use.

[0]: https://attic-backup.org/
In the future, there are 450 nuclear power plants that will need to replaced as they are retired.

There are about 100 nuclear plants in the United States generating 20% of the power.
> If you break ground today on a nuclear generator, you will not see your first kwh generated for at least a decade.

If Climate Change is so important, declare a total war against it like during WW2 against the Axis. With most production geared toward nuclear energy, you should have generator up and running a lot faster.
“They should have known” - I suspect the argument will be similar to patent law in that “if anyone at the company knew, the company itself knew knew”, coupled with the news of the insolvency, etc being posted on facebook.

The argument that they shouldn’t have to vet ads is clearly nonsense: if you are selling ad space you are required to adhere to advertising standards. In this state at least it sounds like those standards include not selling ads to companies in extreme financial distress. The fact that FB is trying to lower costs for ads by not following the law is kind of irrelevant.
Yes! If they got payment from "hot new drone company Skydio" then it is in violation of FTC disclosure rules.
> 1mm robo taxis

What is that, a robotaxi for ants?
I know. I'm just awful aren't I?
I find it more compelling, actually. Its not how much code there is, it's what it does. Haskell is way more compact than C.
it's a play on rhythm....
So is SMTP... How about LMTP?

IMO "email" is a combination of the various transport technologies and the message format.
Sorry, you lost me. What is this exactly?
You may not be profitable yet, not to mention most of your costs will be non-asset related. Those are the companies they are going after.
Isn't flying apart a pretty good way to dissipate some of the kinetic energy that might otherwise go into components breaking?
The problem with that analogy is that the world wide web wasn't some sort of tradeable commodity with thin exchange markets that people were being widely encouraged to use to trade US dollars for - in ways that would most likely be considered illegal if we were talking about an OTC stock. That is to say, it's entirely different.

Mark my words. Come back to this post 10 years from now :-)

It's a rather cheap prediction - because of course if the bitcoin market collapses in the next few years it's pretty remote possibility that you'll ever have to revisit it.
Do think startups pay TC to get a write up?
If you live in the bay area, you can probably just drive to sweet maria's. The coffee capital of western hemisphere is supposedly in east bay where all the coffee comes in.
I was one of the early upvotes on this story. I don't vote up most bitcoin stories, though I read most of them. It's an interesting topic, an extra-governmental currency.

I've been undecided about the prospects of bitcoin as anything more than a fringe activity. I have the software installed, but I never run it. I have like 0.05 bitcoin I got from some free source when I first came across it. In other words, I have no vested interest.

But this story seemed to be the first early indication that people with actual influence on the world were giving bitcoin some interest. So I voted up for two reasons - 1. To see if anyone in this community of tech savvy people would have any commentary of value on it. 2. To flag it as an early warning sign of a disruptive tech to follow up on later.

So. No bloc here, and I was in the first five.
Just trying to show some internet civility: Didn't realize what you had posted before I posted and I don't want my post to be confused. Wasn't a personal attack, just arguing against ideas, not people. I apologize for that
But I like HN stories about bitcoin! Very genuinely interested in it, not just a speculator. (Actually, I don't trade bitcoins on the exchanges anymore)
I was there. The Google stuff played well to the crowd, I think. It doesn't come across in the video.
use a $9 popcorn machine. it's easier and much much faster (takes me 5 minutes).

it does generate lots of smoke, so be sure to do it outside.
So you're saying the yolks are good for me AND taste delicious?
I think that I'd just work on other (potentially/hopefully) revenue generating things in the remaining 36-96 working hours, so it's hard to see how it applies...
Is monopoly even possible in easy to enter markets? Could you please present an example?
Nope, didn't read it. I didn't realize the book touched on this, though it wasn't meant as a criticism of the book (or HN) anyway.
That's either Elon Musk or Peter Thiel for bond-villainy.
Item 1: "Obama DOJ Asks Court to Grant Immunity to George W. Bush For Iraq War"

Item 2: "'The DOJ claims that in planning and waging the Iraq War, ex-President Bush and key members of his Administration were acting within the legitimate scope of their employment and are thus immune from suit,' chief counsel Inder Comar of Comar Law said.

So which is it -- (1) or (2)? If (2) (legitimate scope) is true, there's no need for (1) (grant of immunity). If (1) is deemed necessary, then (2) is false.
One highly desirable outcome of kids having it too easy is instead of saying "this sucks", they might say "I could improve this", and then you end up with things that we already consider to be 'too easy' even more accessible.
Personally, I decline the scans because it's my one way of protesting the security theater and its enormous waste. It's the one thing I'm allowed to decline, so I decline it.
Of course he needs your money — it will be used to help children in Uganda — http://www.vim.org/sponsor/index.php
I loved JavaScript during what this calls the "rotary phone" era, and I'll have to say that JavaScript "frameworks" haven't come very far. They just grow as fast as the browsers do.

Browsers have gone far. Browsers are amazing. Frameworks are still boring.
Maybe this explains why Bill Gates was at Facebook a few weeks ago. He was there to setup the Microsoft Exchange servers.

http://valleywag.gawker.com/5675345/why-was-bill-gates-at-fa...
I like it. Good design too. One thing you might want to look into is your Kudos points. It looks as if someone's already gamed the system.
As an aside, don't use minified links.
To some extent that's what some of the more independent-music-oriented record labels are: front the capital and sometimes the recording expertise to put out and promote records, along with providing mentorship and connections, for musicians the label's owners think look promising, in genres those owners care about and have strong connections in.

For example, you might call this a list of the "startups" that Kill Rock Stars has invested in: http://killrockstars.com/artists/moreartists.php. As with tech startups, the big wins are where a lot of the money comes from; e.g. Elliott Smith's records pay for a large proportion of KRS's operations.
According to every eating school of thought, at least half of these are very bad. Yet I am perfectly healthy.

What I personally would be worried about is the long-term effects. Unfortunately, these would be very hard to pinpoint as it would be virtually impossible to get enough people to volunteer eating a certain diet, without much fluctuation, for some 30 years or so. And even if such a study would happen, the endless argument would start: "But the diet A contained X, and diet B lacked Y, so obviously we can conclude ..." etc.

Not overeating (and undereating) is like 10 times more important than what you eat, as long as you get enough of all the nutrients you need.

This may or may not be true, and also we could argue about the factor forever. I would say it's way less than 10, especially in the long-term, but I have no way to prove it of course.

Don't obsess over what you eat until there is clear evidence. Eat things you like to eat.

Well, there is the "classic" - "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" by Weston Price. (Available online at http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/price/pricetoc.html) He traveled around the world and watched what happened to primitive societies when they introduced western foods in their diets. I read it briefly, and he made an emphasis on dental health, but literally introduction of white flour, sugar, polished rice and canned food produced a huge drop in dental health.
Agreed and by that token Google seems like they could lose their position.

It's a shame since alternatives still look more evil.
This is amazing, I wish it were interactive, learning history was (and still is) difficult for me as a visual learner.
I had the same results as you in all of those browsers a week ago when I tried this. I'm not that sure that Facebook just disabled this now.
I find this line of criticism more palatable than that of the other front page link[0].

Criticizing the trash(?)coin - and then criticing signal by association - muddies the discussion just like implementing payments in a (seemingly?) private communication tool muddies the mission of signal.

Personally I think of transfer of value as important as transfer of speech/information so, it makes sense for signal (or other messengers) to want to include it. But associating themselves with a new project that has had little scrutiny seems to be a mistake because:
- people question if this new product won't negatively degrade the privacy assurances that signal has had so far
- people will associate plenty of previous cryptoscams to this new effort

[0] https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/signal.html
Does that have a UI now or just open up the launch flags in a text buffer still?
> Every space in the physical and digital world limits speech

Just because some spaces limit speech, doesn't necessarily mean that "every" space limits speech. As you go further down the stack, the fewer limits there are. In the US, in the public commons, there are effectively 0 limits to speech (calls to imminent lawless action are an extremely narrow exception).

The pub vs public park analogy is a good one. A pub is typically allowed to exercise stronger control and moderation over its patrons. The same is untrue for public parks (see: the Westboro Baptist Church). You're correct that HN limits speech, but that's because HN is more analogous to a club/pub; it doesn't purport to be an open platform.

Substack's stance appears to be that they simply follow the law, as they seek not to be a pub, but a public commons by acting as an open platform. And no, investing in certain writers does not automatically turn an entity from a proverbial "public park" to a proverbial "pub".
I'm a musician and developer/architecture consultant. My goal since day one of tech work 15 years ago was "fund music life better", so I hear what you are saying. I currently average half-time and make a comfortable middle class salary.

The big thing to realize is that there is a huge difference between "I want a job where I can do minimal work and mostly do my own thing while still getting paid" and "I want a job where I can earn my living in 2-3 hours a day". I have done both, the first when young in non-tech fields, the second for the last 15 years in tech. I work very hard on those 3 hours a day, in a role where deadlines can never be missed and we are part of $100M+ transactions. I take that work very, very seriously. But I get paid enough to do my 18-20h a week and spend the rest of my time pursuing the arts, with no pressure to have to figure out how to monetize my music (a very nice thing).

If you're after the second, (hard, short work, for high money), you want to find specialized expert work where you are (as you astutely pointed out) out of the production loop. Consulting is the best thing I've found. When I'm on a gig with a client, they get me 100%, totally focused. When I'm off the gig, no one expects me to get back to them sooner than a day, allowing me to do grad school in music. The key to finding this work is to become an expert in some subfield of tech, and get really good at the human side. Writing, pubic speaking, negotiation, client relationship management, project and timeline management, etc. Not many techies want to get really good at those "soft skills", but if you do, and you are an expert in something, consulting firms will value you highly.

Another good option is contract tools development or freelance contracting for folks who need code only occasionally. Lots of companies will hire part time contractors to improve internal systems, and you're still out of the product deadline loop. I've done that too and still do it sometimes for scientists. Python and SQL are good for that area.

HTH
Search up the "Dead Internet Theory" - you're not the only one who thinks that...
No self hosting, so not federated/decentralized.
This story was also getting pumped up on my Youtube page a couple of days ago.

A funny coincidence?
Correct, but I saw that they are working on it in their JDK fork.
Wow, major hate on the metaprogramming in this post today. Note to self: I'm not working for any of you. K? k.

Anyway. The need for metaprogramming is like a lesser version of the need object-oriented programming. You never strictly need OOP. And you can totally go overboard with the Abstract Factory Factory, and make your code insanely obnoxious to follow.

But it can help, and it can specifically help in the situations when it simplifies more than it complicates -- in the situations where it's so simple you barely notice it. (Describing object attributes for your favorite ORM is a case that comes to mind.) If you're set in your ways and you've already made up your mind to eschew it always, then sooner or later you're going to end up with something more complicated than it should be instead of simpler, and it's just an empty piety. :P
"I feel sorry for you but your mom should have worked harder to get a better job that had better insurance. If we just give people free healthcare, it will breed laziness"

-typical HN libertarian. They'll show up, just wait.
http://minnesotahelp.info/Public/default.aspx?se=healthcare
It’s a metaphor, not a play on words.
You can store & pass JWTs in cookies, provided they're not huge.
Perhaps this isn't quite the right question. patio11 says http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1774112
I don't know about ridiculed but once quantum gravity gets sorted out there is a good chance that either relativity or quantum mechanics is going to be "wrong" in the sense the Newtonian sense of "inaccurate at X scale."
Yeah sure, even though nowadays more and more services where API IS the product are coming out...simplegeo, twilio, cloudant, mongohq, S3amazon...
The latest one I discovered is Slidedown: a simple tool to generate HTML slides (with syntax highlighting) from a markdown document.

Came in handy when I had to whip up a presentation for a recent meetup.
The explore page offers a great snapshot. The search page is totally awesome too (seriously, it works really well) but only when you are looking for something in particular. It feels like there is a mind-boggling amount of potentially useful things sitting there that no one ever knows to play with because the people behind the projects aren't very good at PR or aren't looking for high usage of their product. I guess the main barrier to testing out projects/apps is the difficulty of installation. You have to know you want the product a lot to go through with the effort to get it up and going. I guess that's why recommendations can be a good guide to making sure it's worth the effort.
This is the most useful short summary of Android's pieces I've read--it's part summary and part correction.

The "How It’s Generated" section is interesting because Bray points out that it's not important to Android how the native or Dalvik code is generated so long as it uses the APIs. Currently it's most convenient to program in Java but I wonder how long that will remain so.
Have you seen the Postal Hacking talk from The Last Hope conference? It's just an hour of people abusing the postal system (legally). For science!

I don't think there's an official server for the video, just a torrent file http://hopetracker.donthax.me/torrents/2600%20-%20The%20Last... but you can find it on YouTube as well.
Someething like a github repo for every arXiv submission - shouldn't be that hard to do.
I care about the magnitude of my net worth, not the ratio of Mr Bill's net worth to mine.
You might like Kirby CMS: http://getkirby.com
Satellites are pretty much bound to their orbit once they are launched. They fire their engines only to restore speed (and thus height), and to control rotation. Their speed is such that centrifugal force is in equilibrium with gravity, and most of the kinetic energy is from launching the satellite (with a large rocket). They don't carry enough fuel for arbitrary maneuvers a la Star Trek.
When using a static site generator, you still change and edit content. It's just that the output is generated statically and users access the static content. Anyway, I'm guessing your interpretation of the OP's intent is correct.

However, you can't do all the same with WordPress + Varnish. One of the nice things about statically generated sites is that you can deploy anywhere (such as S3) without minimal operational complexity.
I don't think Ghost is static, though. TMK everything is stored in a sqlite db.
Totally. I'm sure there's a healthy percentage of visitors who will not scroll below the fold and see the description.