jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Not really. Aside from a few simple applications (e.g. photos like TwitPic, etc.), the normal user doesn't really use any other third-party app. Have you seen oneforty? It's dying.
Yes, it's certainly a downside. And one would think they'd release a Linux version too, in that case...

That's why I prefer to use Lotus Improv under WINE ;-)
I would really like to have this in a Swedish translation, so I can read it to my kid.
Oh yeah, Quicksilver's heyday was back then. I ditched QS for a day once Spotlight came out. Spotlight was pig slow, so I went back to Quicksilver until Leopard, years later.
What would you recommend for someone looking to get started with Qi-gong. The idea of moving meditation appeals to me more than sitting still all the time.
I wonder how much energy was used to manipulate the stuff around the bead, and how much energy would be used to just directly move it up.
That's a product of urban design, not a cause or a premise. Rich New York bankers don't drive cars.
Related, https://www.epsilontheory.com/taiwan-is-now-arrakis/
Bitcoin added 66GB to it’s permanent ledger in the last year. Saturated 16Mb blocks would add a Tb a year.
It’s hard to see how that won’t be centralizing after a few years and people need 3TB just to get started. Not to mention the task of syncing and transferring on a less than perfect connection. Yes, storage does get cheaper, but cryptocurrency is outpacing it dramatically.

And even with these big blocks, we’d have nowhere near a competitive solution, less than 7% of Visa volume. “Raise the block size again” would only get so far. We need something better. I’m not sure lightning is the answer, but at least it shows such a thing is possible. We don’t need big blocks.
I have not had that experience. None of my current hens, or the dozens I've had, will eat them unless they're cracked. I toss them eggs every day and of the egg bounces without breaking, they will tap it with their beak and then leave it be. I know it can happen but I've not had it happen in the four or five years I've been keeping chickens. Although we wouldn't mind. We have them as pets and don't eat many of the eggs.
They're certainly capitalists, but despite lots of references to stock markets, the Nagus's holdings, etc., we don't see them forming, discussing, or dealing with a lot of corporations. Quark and his more distant relatives are firmly petit bourgeoisie, Brunt is middle management at something like a brown-collar job, etc.

The fascism of Cardassia and cooperative structure of the Federation both ring more corporate than the Ferengi, most of the time.
Can't you just strap a boot sector onto a COM file? They're simple enough, right?
If you're downloading a playlist you could run it in parallel to achieve your max network bandwidth speed:

function ytp() { youtube-dl --get-id "$1" | xargs -I '{}' -P 200 youtube-dl -i --embed-thumbnail --add-metadata -f 'bestaudio[ext=m4a]' -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' 'https://youtube.com/watch?v={}'; }
Purely theoretically, prosecution should search truth. By law, they should follow exculpatory evidence too, give all evidence to defense and few other rules. Not saying they do, in practice they are rewarded for breaking those rules.

But, in theory it should be different.
You are not fooling yourself. That said, there is huge variance within the simple categories of red and white, and I could see some particularly acidic red being mistaken for a white.

One way of subverting expectations is to try orange wine: white wine fermented with skins. Orange wine has tannins and can show some aspects you'd associate with a red, e.g. pepper. Yet it is still more on the citrus rather than berry end of the flavour spectrum.
Which narrative will win? The hate for organized religion or the empathy for marginalized groups?
> Just because it’s not perfect at the first go, doesn’t mean it should go in the trash

The converse is also true; just because it’s an improvement over past failures doesn’t mean that it’ll actually work.

My issue with crypto has always been fundamental; I don’t think crypto fans really have a good grasp on what motivates the average person, because most crypto fans[0] are ideologues, and like many ideologues they struggle to recognize that not everyone shares their values. Decentralized and trust-less speaks to engineers, but your average person has no idea what that means and doesn’t really care either. Plus a lot of the consequences of crypto currency design are absolute anti-features from a consumer perspective; nobody wants to find out that losing their password means that they’re broke, or that they can’t reverse a fraudulent charge. Your average consumer wants those features, and is willing to give up decentralization, something they didn’t value, to get it.

0 - At least those fans of crypto that want to see it used as currency. As compared to those crypto fans that want to do whatever it takes to make the number go up.
Certainly that rewrite was huge, and it is currently "mostly complete", but Bevy launching when it did helped stifle a lot of the momentum. However, it was picked back up again in November and is now mostly complete: https://github.com/amethyst/amethyst/issues/2517

From outside at this point, the rewrite looks like a mistake , given the lost momentum and the current state of the project, but maybe when they finally get it out it'll turn out differently in 6 months.
They didn't.

In any case, I didn't intend to make an assertion whether this is a one side problem, but highlight that not all participants are exposing themselves to all information. Borrowing the most neutrally or bi-partisan phrased positioning of the problem from the research I linked above:

"Republicans preferred to read news reports attributed to Fox News and to avoid news from CNN and NPR. Democrats and liberals exhibited exactly the opposite syndrome—dividing their attention equally between CNN and NPR, but avoiding Fox News. This pattern of selective exposure based on partisan affinity held not only for news coverage of controversial issues but also for relatively 'soft' subjects such as crime and travel."

I intended to relay a concerning metric illustrating this problem, to motivate a step back and ask what can be done to address that "‘Possessing understanding’ cannot be parenthetical."

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> If you think that, you're a partisan that has tuned out the opposing viewpoint :-)

FWIW, I watched exhaustively, and on Fox News.
A while ago, I embarked on the journey to find the most nutritious vegetable to eat. Web searches led to dead ends on shitty blogs, men's magazines and a whole bunch of anecdotal "nutritionists" claiming authoritatively this or that. Usually, something in fashion like Kale at the time. How do you cut through the BS and navigate through anti-Lettuce propagandists?

I found some interesting studies from CDC and one of them I happen to have bookmarked which ranks common veggies by their nutrition "score"* [1].

The results might surprise you!

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4049200/

* Of course this is not a definitive "scoring" strategy and depending on the scoring method, the results might vary wildly. The author delves into this.
Small example in one of my previous job:

Application was built using Java/SpringBoot, and the CI/CD was based on Jenkins.

We had no control over the version of maven/jdk installed within the Jenkins, and the network policies did not authorize outgoing traffic (so no curling rustup). Only one company repository (based on Nexus) was available.

Basically, we were users of a company provided/constrained platform to build our applications using a curated list of tools that has been audited by another team.

If we wanted to add a dependency not present in the provided repository, it would require time for the audit and integration. Time we did not necessarily had.

Now, with Rust/rustup/Cargo, the company would have provided a specific set of Rust versions and a private crate repository. I doubt that the auditing team would have time to add a new Rust version every week.

If a crate present on the private repository is updated upstream and requires a more recent Rust version, the crate update will be delayed until the Rust version is audited/validated/integrated.

IMHO, this is a very common use case, since companies like to split concerns in different specialized teams.
I had previously looked into Cloudflare's on-demand offering and was also disappointed that their service seems out of reach for bootstrapped or early stage startups.
>Hazardous waste disposal and storage.

Partner with a hazardous material testing lab, or another type of operation where they use lots of hazardous material similar to yours and end up turning a bit of it into waste themselves.

Not necessarily an environmental lab where they actually test waste, better an industrial lab that tests material.

Some better opportunities can even be with material or waste handlers who have no lab at all.

Hazardous material does not become hazardous waste if you can legitimately sell/ship it off the site as a worthwhile product instead. Otherwise if you need to truly discard excess (even prime chemical assets then become a liability) you need to not only usually pay, but bump your paperwork and liability up from merely dangerous goods to full waste documentation requirements.

Ideally, as a scientific consultant (giving free advice only) once you get on the toxic site where yours is a drop in the bucket by comparison, you will be able to identify recycling opportunities worth way more to them than the cost of properly disposing of your paltry amount by the established registered professionals, according to the specific arcane regulations in place which you value their expertise for. They will love you.

So you can get the best deal possible.

Don't just recycle the equipment, recycle the chemicals.
If you're small, cloud may be better, but if you're large it often isn't.
This goes for any sort of SaaSS:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...

I don't agree with "10m"; I've hosted my own IRC server for many years, and there is configuration involved, especially if you're focused on maintaining a solid, secure system. But I haven't had to touch it since.
sure. My statement is that his mechanism for generating this growth appears to me to be unrealistic. New research appears to generate some confirmation for my view.
The default cost for most libraries and languages is between 10 and 12, which is considered too low for 2015 but still pretty good. As long as they're at the default or above it, I wouldn't be too concerned about an attack against the whole DB.

Targeted cracking attempts against specific hashes are definitely still an issue though.
Your answer helped me realize that being gifted is just a part of the equation. A child's emotional, physical and other needs are important too. It's as if there is a distortion in the lens with which people view such kids, resigning them to one-dimensional caricatures, while losing out the essence of who they are.

Thank you for that.
Im getting a 404 error now. Server down or post deleted?
My pet theory is we rely too much on computers.
Yes, but not really.
> is it not the generally held belief that VC stands for Vulture Capital?

For what it's worth, I've been reading HN for over a decade, and am a co-founder of a now almost decade old startup and have never seen this phrase

But maybe I'm just one of today's lucky 10,000

https://xkcd.com/1053/
TU102 and GA102 are back up to double-rate FP16.
so when Louisiana passes subsidies and takes work from California, I don't think there's anything you can do about it.

Sorry for straying off topic, but doesn't this send up any flags?

I mean, on one hand, we can see that states can compete against each other (so long as they don't interfere with trade). And on the other hand, the economy of the USA is the most prosperous in the world, ever.

Could it be that protectionism isn't really helping anything in the big picture, and in fact introduces inefficiencies into the system?
I never argued against compensation (or expectations thereof) in general, just in the context of making information publicly accessible, because it simply cannot work in the general case.

I recommend not spending time exclusively on projects driven by expectations of compensation.
It's a good argument, but I'm still not entirely convinced. Using "actual" gravity instead of video game gravity and having questionable collision detection sounds to me like it could have been done on purpose or it could be the result of poor planning or programming.

Maybe the "random" distance between starting the game and the first pipe coming up is also just a function of how far along a loop you are when you start playing. Did you check the timing or when you started compared to the background, for example? If it's completely random, that's actually very interesting. At the same time, however, it doesn't seem like there's any purpose for that, either.

I'm guessing that this is the only game Dong has released and there's no way for us to look at his previous work to help confirm/deny his genius status. It also doesn't look like he's going to keep releasing games. I think I read somewhere that he's not really open to interviews either. Oh well. It's looking like it might be one of those internet mysteries that will remain unresolved forever.
True, and I'm finding myself trying to account for every site I've used the same email address. Impossible, thanks Gawker (and me).
I think that comparing "I _actually_ read the rules to this boxing context" to "poisoning untold numbers of children" is just slightly hyperbolic, don't you?
1st slide: what makes you the right person to execute this idea.
I need to renew my Flickr Pro account in a couple weeks, but it looks like the writing is on the wall for the service. Who are the primary competitors to Flickr out there?

edit: to clarify, I'm an amateur photographer with a DSLR and some big glass (you can check out my stuff on Flickr via the link on my profile page if you're curious). I need to be able to store full-sized images, organize my stuff into sets, geotag, and, ideally, store RAW images on the server, too.

Some social stuff like what Flickr does would be great, too.
http://aws.amazon.com/fps/pricing/

I know nothing about it other than that it exists and having briefly scanned 2 pages, here's a copy of one:

"Amazon FPS Pricing

There is no minimum fee and no start-up charges to use Amazon FPS. In addition, you can use the Amazon FPS Sandbox for free. Fees are assessed on a per-transaction basis and vary depending on the payment method used and the transaction amount:

1.5% + $0.01 for Amazon Payments balance transfers.
2.0% + $0.05 for bank account debits.
2.9% + $0.30 for credit card for transactions above $10 and 5%+$0.05 for credit card for transactions below $10.

Different fees apply for transaction amounts less than $0.05. Learn more about micro-transaction pricing and how you can qualify for volume discounts.

Note: This fee schedule is for payments by US customers only. For an additional charge of 1% of the transaction amount, non-US customers can make payments using credit cards (but not using Amazon Payments balance transfers or bank accounts at this time)."
Why do people feel the need to 'defend' products that aren't their own? Either those products will stand by themselves, or they aren't worth it.
Also, after ~two semesters of college, I realized I typically focused a lot on homework, etc. during the first three weeks of the semester and started to burn out. However, it is the last three weeks of the semester that usually impact your grades the most. I changed my focus to the last three weeks, and got better grades with less effort/burn out/stress.
I think people would be a lot less confused if you said this first. Say "Don't salt bcrypt, bcrypt salts for you" and you'll have to explain yourself less.
It will need a paired device to operate decently. FB doesn’t have anything like a smart phone they control and sell. So they will need to depend on Android or iOS.

Google buying Snap might work out for Google - they released a crappy Google glass way too early and might be more successful buying Snap.
Corporate taxes are weird. All that money just goes into investing into the business. You should just tax the money as it goes out to investors and employees
Declaring a patent null and void seems like a positive outcome.

Patents are legally enforced monopolies after all.
Haha, it felt like it. I read those biographies obsessively. :)
Outside of stupid format nits and other localized formatting rules, you can have a structure of the code that isn't conducive to being read. Just like a book can follow all of the right guidelines but be a slog to get through, a program or patch can be structurally difficult to consume by reading. That's the main part I'm addressing. Stupid formatting bikeshedding should be staved off with an automatic checker and not make it's way into a review, but that doesn't address readability as a whole.
The gravity of the situation was known long ago. Dark Waters is a great film about it.
Start with your phone and computer.
On the front page a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8851902
Macro: Kubernetes took all the air out of the room.
Micro: Lack of funding.

i.e pretty much the same as everything else that has went the way of the dodo in this space.
"Uber-Elite Professions"
Most students have cell phones that can access Facebook via dedicated apps, touch.facebook.com, or m.facebook.com.

Why would anybody need a work/school computer behind a content filter anymore?
So we should keep security the same until something terrible happens? Or should we continue to improe security based on new information and technology?

What's irrational is to assume because nothing has happened in the last 8 years (successfully anyway) that our current measures are adequate for the next eight.
Did you read "In search of stupidity"? It's a very interesting and amusing book, and it makes a point that Microsoft monopoly owes more to competitors' ineptitude (Borkand, Lotus, Novell, Digital Research, etc) than to Microsoft genius per se. Therefore Microsoft monopoly may be "rightfully earned" in some sense, as bad as it is - though it carried some positive effects too.
I'm in Sitka, AK. Nice to know there are some other HNers not too far away!
NYT is not a friend of anyone who does not speak exclusively through them. Their tech columns are showcases of irrelevance and will probably get dumped sooner or later
>However the fact that we now have a global consensus over the ownership of digital assets that's something new and valuable.

It's also completely contrived. Being digital means infinitely replicable, or thereabouts. Do we really need this game of artificial scarcity?

People used to talk about things like property records, but if this realm of artificial scarcity is going to interface with the realm of actual scarcity in the real world, it's still going to need the systems of adjudication that already exist in the real world.

Code is law. But law is not code, otherwise legal disputes would have long since been settled and we wouldn't need systems of courts and various legal avenues to surface new areas of contention and revisit old areas in new light.

If the above wasn't an issue.
How do you get past the resource hogginess? These things are currently handling a minuscule portion, if that, of what their proponents propose they take on, and they are already comically massive resource hogs. How can they scale?
Fyi, A big mac alone costs 48kr in Sweden.
> you concede that your employer has the right to treat you like a child receiving an allowance

(off-topic) this reminds me of a job interview I had early in my career. The person interviewing me was one of the directors of the company and he asked me why I'd requested such a salary.

Initially I was thinking he'd want me to answer some bullshit about Bringing Value To The Company etc but he started probing about my personal life - do I have a wife/kids, what do I spent money on, how much is your rent, how much disposable income do you have and why do you want more.

Needless to say I wasn't impressed by this and decided to cut the interview short.
Start small and grow carefully. Not every developer is a good fit for this type of approach and the amount of discipline we require.

We actually started looking at an approach where new hires would come in on a 6-12 month contract basis. The whole idea would be that there would be no hard feelings either way at the end if it didn't work out. If both sides felt like this was a good fit, we explore longer-term options with more benefits.

The way we do software is unconventional. We are in a very constrained environment from a security perspective. No containers, nothing can be in the cloud, all data must live on the same physical host, software delivery is tricky, etc. These constraints make the work we do somewhat unappealing to a certain crowd of developer who seeks to maximize their exposure to shiny new things.

Put differently, we use boring old technologies (with a few exceptions) and set expectations that we are going to continue to use those indefinitely. Any hopes of "mixing things up" should be reserved for future endeavors on our roadmap and personal side projects (which we encourage). I don't think any of this is unreasonable or unrealistic. We are in the business of selling software to other businesses in a sensitive market. We are not making DLC for AAA videogames.
That is likely to be the case. However the performance metrics that the authors are being evaluated on (like clicks, retweets, word-count) are unlikely to include hard-to-measure long-term effects like Streisand.

I think we are seeing a wounded animal's fight for survival ....
This number is meaningless, without the proper counterpart: Indian drivers account for X% of global traffic.

My back-of-the-napkin math is the following:

7.6B human beings on the planet

1.4B vehicles in total [0]

India: 57M vehicles, 1.36B people [1]

India should represent 57M / 1.4B = 4% of road accidents. Instead, it represents 11%, so almost 3 times as high as the world average.

[0]: https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-advice/how-many-cars-are-th...

[01]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_...
Just don't sit it on your lap.
It's really unfortunate that is the case. I don't mind fingerprints, but they have to be used in combination with something else to be valid. You should be able to challenge another thing to build a valid profile. I don't trust ALL authorities in ALL countries I happen to visit or live in to be both competent with security and malevolent for ALL time. To put all your eggs in the fingerprint basket seems shortsighted.

I trust that if I had enemies that needed my fingerprint for something, that could get it easily. I touch enough objects on a daily basis that the likelihood is extremely high. I mean, someone could simply lift them from my front door, or follow me waiting for me to drop a coffee cup in the trash.
>demoscene

Honestly, who has time these days?
I strongly disagree on not needing to know the fundamentals. Can you get a job without them? Sure. Can you even create a successful product without them? No doubt. Will your product take up 50GB of RAM, have un-debuggable hitches, erratic performance, and weird bugs when the 5000 dependencies you have change subtly on an update? YUP. Will you have a bunch of new developers that replace your old developers because of high turnover that want to rewrite it two years down the line, but don't realize they don't have the skills to do it better than the original people did? Probably!
They're quite different, because improvements to the land (buildings, etc) are not taxed under a land value tax but are taxed under a property tax.

The argument is that the value of the land itself is collectively created, so it is morally justifiable to capture this value for public benefit. On the other hand, improvements on a particular piece of land represent an individual's investment.