jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My tuppence: I was an average student, perhaps an underachiever - I was the youngest in my class... Anyway around about the closing years of high school I discovered the recreational joy of LSD, which I took despite superman comics warning me of the dangers. For a while I dropped out (3 years) and enjoyed a life that was devoid of computers (until that point I had spent all my time on 8bit then 16bit computers, leading up to an 8086 pc). I lived in a bedsit and had no outlook or any desire to "get a life". At some point during an acid trip, I found myself alone and spent a long time in introspection about where I was and where I would like to be. Long story short, fast forward 20 years, I'm married with a beautiful daughter, a great senior technical job with a very public FTSE 100 media company, a couple of irons in the fire with personal software projects I'm writing (in fact, I'm actually procrastinating here, I should be coding!) and a generally great life. If I had continued on my "wastrel" route those years ago, my life wouldn't have been as rosy (though perhaps less stressful). I attribute my conversion from waster to nerd entirely to my experiences with LSD. I thoroughly recommend it to others (though I will caution that I have seen downsides in some of my comrades, not deaths you understand, but longer lead-times to achieving their goals). This article (though lacking in specifics) does resonate very strongly with my life experience. Final question (to myself) would I use LSD again? Answer... not sure, I've done a whole lot of living in the last 20 years, not sure I want to reprogram the grey matter at this stage - maybe again in 10 years...
Nothing new. Some people get very excited about anything that might somehow be construed as negative about Apple.

After all, we need to nip it in the bud before even a seemingly innocent comment can set the precedent that Apple criticism is acceptable.
I'm actually somewhat loathe to submit this because of the political aspect of the story. But the image analysis is genuinely interesting on a technical level, which is why I submitted it.

The TL;DR for those who ask for such things is that PDFs are weird and chop up the image in weird ways to compress them, but there's no evidence of tampering here.
What makes you want to kill yourself?
Why oh why... If it helps JSON invade the enterprise then ok, but why make a good thing bad.
> To start with - the top 1% is a relatively accessible level of "rich." That's an L5/L6 software engineer at Google, or a mid career doctor. Are offshore tax shelters actually available and economically feasible to these people?

I wonder if "1%" is just a number that is repeated when talking about this subject. Another article debated on HN:

https://rantt.com/the-paradise-papers-how-ridiculously-easy-...

also refers to "the 1%".

There's a detailed article on the 1%:

https://dqydj.com/top-one-percent-united-states

EDIT: It seems to me that 1% is beyond accessibility. I think that 10% is a (very generic, rough) threshold that can be reached with effort, but not 1%.
Where does "restaurant" come from? Can conspiracies not be planned in a private residence etc.?

Even with a restaurant, you're relying on someone present giving evidence to law enforcement. That works just the same with encryption -- if you have an encrypted chat room with five people and one of the participants sends the logs to the FBI (or is an undercover agent), the FBI will have the logs. If no one does, the FBI will not, which is the same as it is when co-conspirators meet in a restaurant.

>That means robust protections against warrantless wiretaps, but also an effective way of getting access to information pursuant to court-authorized warrants.

The FBI has plenty of tools available. Even if data is encrypted, law enforcement agents with a warrant would still be able to obtain information from ISPs as to who is communicating and when. In the most serious cases trotted out to justify new powers, the FBI can install a listening device or put a trojan on the suspect's communications device .

The way to strike the right balance here is to make wiretapping extremely technologically difficult but not impossible. That makes it very hard for criminals or anyone without government-level resources, and makes it very difficult for governments to engage in unjustifiable dragnet surveillance of innocent people, while still allowing governments to capture the communications of suspects in the rare and most serious cases where the existing evidence justifies that extraordinary level of invasion into the private communications of citizens.
"The drive for profit often runs hand-in-hand with innovation"

Try telling that to Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallmann or even Steve Jobs who faomusly said: Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.
On average, all mental tests tend to correlate with job performance skills.

This seems obviously false. A mental test that requires you to list top performing baseball players will not correlate well with job performance for most jobs.

If that's the intent, the results have been the exact opposite.

Can you point to any papers published in reputable journals that make that point? Its not that I don't trust you, being some random guy on the internet, but there are people who study history and government structure for a living and I'd think they might have more experience with this sort of thing.

Lynching was unheard of in America before the American revolution.

Wow. I don't even know what to do with a historical argument this absurd.

Virulent anti-semitism was rare in Germany before 1870

This will come as a great surprise to Martin Luther.

Demagogue politicians exacerbate and fan the flames of ethnic tension.

But leaders in autocracies do the exact same thing as well. So it seems like how widespread the franchise was might not be the relevant variable.

Egypt under Evelyn Baring. Mexico under Porfirio Díaz.

Aren't these autocrats? Do you have any model societies where a small fraction of the population votes instead?

Read Amy Chua World on Fire.

Actually, I have read that book and I think you're misrepresenting Chua's thesis. Her claim was not the idea that democracy lead to political demagogues which lead to mass violence. Rather it was the combination of demagogues and the presence of market dominant ethnic minorities combined that lead to mass violence. I mean, one of her main examples is Rwanda, which was a dictatorship at the time. Not exactly a haven for democracy, eh?

If you look at historical transitions from aristocracy/monarchy to democracy, you'll see that in the vast majority of cases introducing universal suffrage elections has inflamed ethnic tensions and lead to corruption, jingoism, and violence.

Um, I might believe that if you could point me to an academic citation. I will agree with you on this: rapid introduction of voting into previously autocratic societies often ends poorly. I think the takeaway there is that democracy involves a lot more than just voting: you need to build the rule of law and emplace a whole set of norms about how power is shared amongst dissenting groups. If you ignore all that and just impose elections immediately, then yeah, things can go very badly.
No. One is sensationalist link-bait, other is a fact.
Your advice reminded me of the Solidarity movement in Poland under communism, and the movement to act "as if" they were already free. "As soon as they started to act 'as if,' the 'as if' started to melt away." (http://tinyurl.com/2a9l7b8)

In that case, the argument is that acting as if the thing were present will encourage it. I think, although you may disagree, that the same argument applies here--act like the world is just, and act in a just manner yourself, and you may make the world a more just place. (Or is that naive?)
Interestingly, according to the Wikipedia page, the OpenMoko phones had some of the highest-res displays, and they are already many years old. (I got one to play with, and the display was pretty nice. But the radios were crap, which kind of made it useless as a phone.)
Technically, using the word "entrepreneurship" in the headline would have been less precise and convey less information. So I must agree with the editor's choice to say YCombinator.

And yes, it makes for a more catchy headline too ;-)
"What I find weird is the attitude"

Its a manifestation of binary thinking. Well, either we "must" have no nuclear attack, or it "must" be post apocalyptic. Not allowed to be just one shipping container in LA or one maintenance accident at a missile field.

A good analogy is often heard for bicycle helmets. I'll either be squashed underneath the wheels of a bus or I won't get into an accident, either way the helmet doesn't matter so I won't wear one. Even if slipping on gravel and hitting your head on the curb is about 100x more likely than either of the binary options.
That will be the the Tesla F-117 Truck, with radar absorbing vantablack paint
Readme Driven Development, a term I first saw used by Tom Preston-Werner (GitHub founder): https://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-deve...

I find it to be a great method of development. The core use case (what the project is and why it exists), and the public interface are so important, and often overlooked when people start a project by writing the code first. I tend to write the README in my head naturally, before I start a project, so writing it down makes sense.

I also like to write the developer guide part of the README at the beginning (how to setup a development environment), so I ensure the project is easy to contribute to.
How about we just use different domains?

.org is gone, use .com or .net or any of the other hundred of domains.
Graphene has done everything except exit the lab. /obligatory
It's already quite awkward getting in and out of trucks so this is something of a solved problem. For tools and gear there are already solutions for getting things deep in the bed of the truck.

https://www.extendobed.com/industrial-units/lumber-slip-rack...
If anyone wants to see what an implementation of one looks like, I have an old one I wrote as an extension to Chart.js

https://github.com/chartjs/chartjs-chart-smith
I wonder how they can copy Land Rover like that and get away with it.
roca also said TOTP is bad, but TOTP isn't vulnerable to that.
Where do they go? Is it that easy to hop from one FAANG to another?
It's "as fast as walking" but the walking route is often convoluted because you have to be funnelled through fare gates, so it does cost you time. And, more to the point, money.
Yeah the click area on everything is too small
Most startup CEOs could probably get hired as VC partners, which pay a lot more than FAANGs
Totally agree! Our mindset at ReadMe is that docs should be split into two parts... there's things automation can do better (reference guides, code samples, interactivity, etc) and things people can do better (marketing pages, tactical guides, etc).

(Feel free to shoot me an email if you have any product feedback!)
It's true. All of my programs go from line 665 to 667. I've never made a commit on Friday the 13th, ever--and the one time I did it caused irretrievable data loss. Once I walked under a ladder, and it broke the build.
I have been waiting for the completion of Learn C the Hard Way for a while, BTW.
Construct your own bubble of reality to legitimise any and all actions you might choose to take?
What about a headache and/or body aches? Been having mild symptoms of this for the last week+ and I'm in a corona hotspot (NYC). Smell seems to be ok, but I'm not sure of a good way to test other than smelling something strong.
My partner and I are working on SendEnvelope — a website where you can mail a letter online with just a few clicks :)

You can follow our progress @ https://www.sendenvelope.com/blog
~50% will be asymptomatic, of the remaining 50% you'll see a range of issues from "mild" illness, to feeling like a truck hit you, to hospitalization, to critical care.

I do not think however that COVID is sensationalized. If nothing is done, we would see 100ks - >1M deaths. That is traumatic for a society. Those numbers of course, would result from 100M+ people infected.
I'm working on a data-centric site that tracks COVID-19 cases across the world. You won't find any ads, loading screens or slow maps and it's easy to navigate on mobile: https://coronanumbers.com

Next step is adding more data (testing rate, state/county specific numbers, etc.)
We were careful not to assume that all public health departments would engage in testing. We manually verified the information, and for those public health agencies that explicitly indicated on their websites or through direct channels that they offered testing we marked them as "offers COVID-19 testing".

That being said, there are many areas of the country where the local, county, and state health departments effectively function as gatekeepers. In those communities, people have no choice but to call their health department and hope for the best. If they meet testing criteria, then they are referred to a testing location or fast-tracked through an existing healthcare provider’s queue.

If nothing else, this site crystallizes the fuzzy image that we all had in mind with respect to testing capacity. The situation is changing all the time, and we expect things to get better. You can help by raising awareness, and asking people you know in the Midwest and Southern states to visit our site and share their on-the-ground knowledge of the situation.
Can you allow the import of images as well in addition to video?
>Do you know these are the real reasons?

I don't pretend to know, that's my personal thoughts, I think they are.
I am rather often in Japan for family reasons.

> Can't imagine the rest of first world countries are completely shut down and here Japan is just doing fine with 1000s of ppl picnicking etc.

I personally think one of the main reason is currently the exposition (or non-exposition) of the elders.

They account for over 95% of the victims. If for a reason the elders are more isolated / protected / healthy. It ends up impacting a lot how deadly the pandemia is.
In terms of base tech, Tesla is more like Apple + BEV than like GM + BEV. Said another way, a Tesla is a supercomputer you can drive around. A GM is a car with an electric motor.

Also, Tesla sales growth is 40% annually over the last 3 years and will likely continue for 5-10 years. GM's might be 1%. Keep in mind, GM is fighting to retain market share. Tesla is taking it away from the incumbents. They really cannot be compared in this analysis. Apple is the closest as a proxy for future P/E.

If the legacy autos spun out their BEV business, that would be the closest comparable.
FYI, Ozonetel bid successfully for the top line ad in my google search [ozonetel], dialpad taking second. You don't get there if you don't bid.
Where would you suggest getting a "good" steak?

In my experience direct from farmer beef is so superior to store bought beef that I avoid eating beef bought from a store.
The value of content creation has dramatically declined because the barrier to entry has fallen so low. I find great new artists every week and would never have to listen to the same song twice (if I chose).

I can write a song, make a movie, and take photographs all from a pocket computer and publish globally instantly.
I don't know how others do it, but at companies I've started or where I otherwise have a say in things, (1) we don't have any titles and (b) during interviewing we weigh personality almost more than tech ability. If someone is generous, has a good sense of humor, open to feedback, is laid back but still driven, and seems to love building cool stuff for the joy it brings, odds are pretty good that they will have little interest in the contention & disruption of office politics.

It doesn't completely eliminate politics but it comes pretty close. When it hasn't worked out, in most cases some coaching of people one-on-one has helped them improve, and in the other cases - where they seemed uninterested or unwilling to change, we just fired them.
That page claims it can compress a single transaction down to 12-16 bits. Unless the vast majority of btc transactions are between the same few wallet addresses, this seems impossible? Even if you assume that the transaction is an instance of a common known script, you still need from-address, to-address, and amount, all of which are >16 bit quantities and in general are cryptographically random.

The only explanation I can think of is that they are relying on a sidechannel to communicate the actual transactions, which makes sense in the miner case (the utxo pool) but not in the general node case.

Beyond that, I run a BTC node occasionally and the bottleneck is validating blocks, not downloading them. Transactions are complicated enough right now that I'm only able to catch up at about 350x real-time (that is, it takes around a full cpu-day to validate a year of blocks/transactions).
What internal temp do you cook until? Do you cook the whole roast as one big 6 pound chunk, or cut it up into pieces before cooking it? When I've cooked brisket or pot roast, I cook it until it is fork tender, which I think is usually around 190 degrees.
It would be nice if we were repairing it. :/

However, I think my first reaction to the depth that they were drilling was "That's fucking awesome!" rather than "that's fucking stupid." The stupid was finding out that they were taking this for granted now and skimping on the safety.

Speaking of, BP does a lot of R&D in the energy field themselves. Even the energy companies want to be in on alternative energy when it comes.
The ones I've come across on Twitter:

* Netflix: https://twitter.com/adrianco/status/61076362680745984

* SimpleGeo: https://twitter.com/joestump/status/61108576139218944

* LearnBoost: https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/61134205182152704

Please add to the list, I'm interested too.
Why isn't this part of Microsoft Word and Google Docs? This is very useful.
The trouble with any of these sorts of sites is there's no way of only showing the "big" sites, filtering out the sites where the only user is the owner's mother.
It is a good idea and there are some web entrepreneurs I know in the Dallas area that are building something similar. Everyone is right who have commented that you might run into problems with the SEC, then again Kickstarter often is used as a solicitation platform of investors. There is a website in Europe that allows people to fund startup ideas. I could not find it, but I know it exists.

Recently, the SEC considered changing the rules for small investment amounts (less than 1K). Maybe in the coming years, your idea will be possible.

There are creative ways around the SEC rules but it does get messy when people want to cash out. Just get a good lawyer!
No, unfortunately there's still quite a few of those lurking around.
I agree. What Finland is doing is a good idea, but it's not particularly radical or unique. My kids are doing a scaled down version of this right now, in that their history and English class is combined, so they read and write about things on a particular historical subject, instead of random stuff.
A sample of the newsletter? Maybe the most recent one?
You now know the payload and the endpoint, so feel feel to fork
Why hasn't anyone looked at the source code for SMARTMonTools yet?
So, if you end single family zoning, you'll likely be displacing lower-economic-status minorities once again. Perpetuating the cycle. Areas with cheaper land and higher rates of renter-occupied homes will be easier for developers to target and buy up the land.

I don't think you can make an argument that you're going to repair any past harms by doing this. I think the argument that you're going to continue them if you do this is much stronger.
Big if true but I'm super skeptical.

First of all how many years have we been hearing about how we'll have fully autonomous vehicles just around the corner? At least a decade.

How many years have we been hearing that human-like AI is just around the corner? At least since the 60's.

I'm skeptical (although optimistic) about massive tech breakthroughs in general. Even more so when it comes to military tech since so many in the mil. industrial complex stand to benefit from the trillions that the DoD sloughs off every few years for the next big thing.

Not an aviator but spent almost a decade in the military. You used to hear all the time about the latest and greatest tech that was going to change the way we fight.

At least in my nearly 10 years nothing really changed in any substantial way. incremental improvements, sure but no massive breakthroughs like are continually trumpeted in popular press.

I hope you're right though!
The labeling is not arbitrary but based in the UN definition:

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

- Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
...
-Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
...

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
Given a compelling need for innovation we could potentially do that. But today’s innovation is about social equities. Billions will be pumped into that for the next decade until - heaven forbid- there’s a new need for tools to perform catastrophic things.
If you have someone you live in close enough contact with that you are already going to be sharing any respiratory illnesses, you can do a simple experiment.

Have them stand across the room from you, without wearing a mask, and have them cough at you. Then have them move a step closer and do it again. Note where you can first feel the cough.

Then repeat but with them wearing a mask. You should find that they have to get much closer.

Second experiment. Having them at the place they ended up after the first experiment, have them cough at you without their mask on. Not subjectively how much cough seems to have reached you. Now have them put on their mask, and repeatedly cough at you until you feel the same total amount of cough has reached you. You should find that it takes many more coughs on their part.

For a virus that is expelled when you expel air and then sinks rather than lingering indefinitely anything that reduces the horizontal range of someone's expulsions, such as the above experiments demonstrate masks do, must decrease the number of viruses you will get from someone who is spreading it when you pass by them.
Smothering is a much bigger problem if the parents in question drink alcohol before cosleeping.
So is videoconferencing. And somehow, all offerings are some version of garbage. :(
Common Lisp is just tastefully designed. Part of it is the language itself, but also the libraries, and the culture around it. Even tiny things like underscores-in-variable-names versus camelCaseVariableNames has knock on effects like encouraging descriptive names. It’s hard to distill it into just one feature.
Every IT behemoth that grows by acquisition is an idea graveyard. Just look at CA.
This is par for the course for large companies with many engineers working on writing code without spending enough time on keeping app sizes low.
Run anywhere x86 ;-)
It was to talk to a computer named CU-CU, to control dragons in outer space. Also, it helped keep astronaut ice cream cold for folk in Alabama. I'm not crazy, just ask Elon Musk!
Hi David, thanks for reporting the link issue! We fix it. It should be https://app.konfuzio.com

The page segmentation API is already live. The PDF summarization API is work in progress. We just wanted to share our approach already now to incorporate any feedback! We are also working on the retraining loop to fine-tune our model on a small sample of other documents. We support this for custom NER models and document classification so far.

Best Chris
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