jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Interesting. That used to be the case here but it changed 4-5 years ago. I think there was a law brought in in Europe to require it. It may be related to this[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area
The GP was referring to the UK, where even someone with 'an extremely bad credit history' can get a bank account: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/banking/basic-bank-accounts
engadget:

-field of view is extremely limited. There's a rectangular area in the center of your vision that acts as your "window"

-image was relatively transparent

-HoloLens is clearly very early, and kinda sucks right now.
Do we know why the addon stopped working? It doesn't seem to be linked to a browser update.

On Firefox, I can middle-click on articles I don't want to read and delete all the tabs in a row. They appear in gray next time I visit HN. It works but it is cumbersome...

It may be possible to write a script to save the current page source code, extract all the links it contains, send a "GET" to them and hope they will appear in grey in HN, as if we actually clicked on them. I would like to be able to do it and share it.

(edit) just saw iisbum dit it ;)
Interesting. As others have noted, it is similar to the old palace chat. I have been thinking about how to give web conferencing more affordances than just a video window and a text box.
Whatever, those 70M people can download Parler if they want. POTUS released a video telling people to go home wrapped in a pig blanket of lies.
I'm still not sure I understand the revenue stream. Stock generally is a bet on the future value of the company. That value is derived from the business itself (revenues, costs, new business markets, etc). If a company isn't actually taking in any revenue, what's it paying payroll with? The alt coin they created and trading amongst third parties? Are they taking a cut of this? Or just constantly selling more of their coin reserves once it appreciates?

Generally even loss-leading plays that try to create a huge community before monetization still have plans to monetize that community. I asked how this is different from a pyramid scheme/Ponzi scheme. I don't feel like you actually addressed this point. How will ShapeShift make money on connecting these users in a way that doesn't require following KYC rules?
The same as in 2020, 2019, 2018 ... and 2013. A self hosted analytics platform: https://www.usertrack.net

This is the year when I will find out if selling an analytics platform as a digital product (instead of a SaaS or open-source) can really work or not.
Twitter is not owned by the Government.
> You have two sets, one of them is criminal, another is not.

They are overlapping, but, sure, both criminal and civil wrongs exist.

> How do you establish whether they are criminal or not prior starting the formal process in the court?

You don’t. If you think you have suffered a civil wrong, you gather the evidence, and file a civil lawsuit.

If you think you have been criminally wronged, you contact criminal law enforcement authorities, who decide how to follow up, and may eventually file a criminal case.

You (as someone not acting as a public prosecutor) filing a court case has no bearing on the process for an criminal offense.

> That’s not the job of the litigant prior submitting their case.

To the extent its a criminal issue, its not the private litigants case at all.

To the extent its a civil issue, investigating and having evidence (of the actual wrong, not just evidence that someone else suspects that a wrong of some vague kind might have occurred) is, absolutely their job prior to submitting their case, without which they don’t have a case.
Actually, I believe the reason was simply that the founders were living in Prague at the time they founded the company.
> 15 October 2019
I suppose you are free to decide that 1.32 million people in the UK should die an avoidable death, so that others have an easier life for a few months. Yes it's a value judgement. But it's a particularly awful value to hold:

- Advocating for the death of a million people when it's avoidable is abhorrent

- It would be more than that, due to the collapse of health services, causing people who would currently survive to die instead

- It would be more again due to the increased likelihood of viral mutations when left to run rampant

- Also due to the collapse of health services, most deaths would be outside hospitals, i.e. at home, slowly suffocating to death

- Some would survive with brain damage due to lack of oxygen at home

- While dying, people at home would know if they could get a hospital place they'd probably survive, and avoid brain damage, but they can't get one

- It wouldn't even boost the economy, because a million deaths is actually quite a drag on the economy, especially when most of them are dying at home with their families staying at home to look after them due to collapse of the health services

- It would be horrendously traumatic; a lot of people would struggle to work afterwards after watching their family members, friends, neighbours and people they know die at home slowly from an avoidable cause

- It would cause tremendous social division, as many of the traumatised people having watched their family members (& friends, etc) die, avoidably, would know it was caused by the actions of their own neighbours & local community, along with national decision-making to "sacrifice" those million

- That's just deaths; survivors with long Covid would also be a large drag on the economy, struggling or unable to work, requiring support, and potentially expensive for the healthcare services and their familiies in later life if it's long-term organ damage as some fear. The numbers with long Covid would exceed the current number of official unemployed

- Advocating for serious life-long disability for another several million people when it's avoidable is abhorrent too
Is the income from that comparable to the income you can get from renting out a house?
You don't need a spec for the concepts of undefined vs defined behaviour. LLVM IR lacks a spec as well and is still built upon these concepts (LLVM IR does have documentation but so does Rust. There is no comprehensive document like the C specification for either).

Indeed the notion of what behaviour is considered undefined changes with compiler versions, and it is not fixed yet. E.g. mem::unused() for example is now basically always undefined and you are supposed to use MaybeUninit. But you get a warning if you try to use the old API.

This is for unsafe Rust however. With safe Rust, even though there is no spec, the guarantee is that, unless you hit one of the soundness holes in the language, or a piece of user code that uses unsafe internally, you are safe.
Time to apply for a YNews startup offering uncensored DNSes :)

If you're willing to do Evil to monetize it, you might even get to resell sex.com and a couple of expensive domains. Or just explain to investor that one day, when you'll be big enough, you'll be able to do it. Also, you'll be able to decide how fast you respond to requests according to whether the domain's owner subscribed to your "premium" service.

TL;DR: brace yourself for libertarian cyber-mayhem.
I'm impressed it took Wolfram until the third paragraph to mention A New Kind of Science.
This looks kind of fake. Can anyone confirm that throwing up this image is real and not a publicity stunt?

They've got piwitracker and google analytics running on a page that just serves up one image.
Two of the apps in the top 10 paid medical are mine and a further one in the top 20 is mine. I know what I'm talking about. Free apps have a much accelerated life-cycle.
Maybe we'll start seeing 'cherished' IPs?

http://123.123.123.123/ ? :/
Is it refurbished stuff?
cool. 1+1=3
The question about how long you are going to stay applies to every traveller in most countries. I emigrated to the UK and it didn't go away for 4-5 years. Then I moved back to my home country and they were wondering if I was going to go back to the UK for a few years.

Maybe you are looking for a green card? It's worth everybody knowing how long you're staying so they can build something worthwhile. I'd be more wary of those without the questioning attitude as they might just want to churn and burn foreigners.

People who stay in one place can see time pass, but those who travel just see changing places.
The core explosion AMD has started has quickly made current cpu monitor UIs cease to even make sense, its great!
I have this experience in North Georgia as well. WMAs and National Forests with roadside camping. Preferably roads without RV access. They call them dispersed campsites.

State parks are terrible from the fees, crowds, and rules. It’s more like camping in a grass parking lot than anything else.
I'm glad that you agree.
What do you mean when you say you find it unsettling?
Why no compilation benchmarks? Say, a Linux, chromium or GCC compile. All that cache must make it fantastic at compiling.
A UK city that isn't London.
As someone who has lived in India for most of his life, I can assure you we are very far from being meritocratic or egalitarian in any way. People are weighed down by the poverty, caste and religion of the families they are born into. Very few escape this fate. You can point to a few success stories but I can tell you of thousands more that will never escape the general circumstances of their birth.
Highly recommend this book. After reading it (and the compiler book by the same author), I started my own compiler for Knox, a Go-like language. It has been a fun project, but I made some bad decisions regarding the type checker and how I store the AST, so I'm currently procrastinating fixing those. You can check out the source here:

https://github.com/AZHenley/knox/
For our rather heavy Magento installation, we went from up to 6 sec loading times to about 600ms with HHVM without any fancy full page caching solutions. Thankfully Facebook decided to do something about it. It saved us.
Well, guns - especially handguns and military-style assault rifles as opposed to hunting rifles - are designed and built to kill. If you only have a gun for personal defence its only purpose is to kill a human.

Non-automatic rifles and shotguns do have a use for hunting, though I'm of the belief that you should only hunt if you intend to eat what you shoot.

Tor has purposes other than propagating harm. It can be used to share information which otherwise would cause punishment or harm to the persons supplying or reading, such as whistle-blowers or political dissidents.

Now you can argue that those people are committing crimes and should be responsible for their actions, but that gets in to much murkier territory than killing or pedophilia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manners_Street

An interesting read, but it does appear that no one died in the incident.
The installation failed.
The installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.
Who will maintain/engineer/program/design the robots? It's not robots all the way down is it?
but being able to drop down to Java for performance (when you need it) is a lot easier than writing native V8 modules.

There's a node-ffi package, although it has some overhead from the call itself.

https://github.com/rbranson/node-ffi
This seems to contradict the assertion that this would be true in "rational" markets in the original quote.
The girl made it home (despite being like the worst astronaut ever) so it still counts as a happy ending.
A common thread or line of argument that I find when reading about new editors is their out-of-the-box ease of use compared to Emacs and Vim. For example, a quote from the Atom blog:

>Sublime and TextMate offer convenience but only limited extensibility. On the other end of the spectrum, Emacs and Vim offer extreme flexibility, but they aren't very approachable and can only be customized with special-purpose scripting languages.

It doesn't seem like they (and many others) are denying that Emacs and Vim are excellent editors. Why is ease of use such an important issue for text editors? Emacs isn't terribly difficult to use, but if my livelihood and the majority of my time is tied to what tools I use, then it's worth the investment of time. I don't think I've met an Emacs user who has put in the effort of learning Elisp and customizing Emacs to their liking ever deny the benefits of learning it in the first place. Yes, it's a pain in the ass initially. I quit Emacs twice before I became determined to stop whining and spend quality time learning about tooling.

There is no doubt that Emacs has a steep learning curve and perhaps that's because its developers have a higher expectation of its users. I would argue that these expectations are easily matched by the capabilities of a competent programmer.
yes - i'd love to see native Python & R support in excel as well. they are aware that better scripting support is needed - they just need to hear it from more ppl to make it a priority. i'll point them at this thread meanwhile.
I doubt that. A lot of "low-hanging fruit" probably wasn't low-hanging when initially harvested.
"Note that the graph you present is a myopic & reductionistic lens on the system's performance."

Measuring actual, you know, food output is "myopic"? Okay.

"Yes, look at the "fertile crecent", that is Iraq, Iran, etc. It was once a lush paradise that has been till farmed to desert"

That was done with "tradtional, natural farming methods", dude.

"Centralized food production results in unequal food distribution."

You couldn't be more wrong. Centralized food production and distribution is exactly why we don't have famines any more.

Where we do see famines, it's where the central distribution mechanism has been destroyed by war or by the government in the area being otherwise fucked up.

Your "must grow locally" idea is guaranteed to produce at least localized famine when the crop fails (as will from time to time).

Before mechanized agriculture China had a famine in one or more provinces almost every year, for over a thousand years.

"I am"

No, you aren't. Writing about it online and actually living the life of an agricultural stoop-labor peasant farmer are two different things. Entirely.
I wholeheartedly agree with the part about the frameworks. I've been writing JavaScript since it was in beta and I can assure you that you're doing yourself a disservice if that's all you know.

Don't start with a framework. It's a crutch. If you feel you've mastered JS then feel free to try out some of the frameworks but I suspect you'll quickly realize they're not really all they're sold as.
If you think formula 1 cars are identical, you're not really paying attention.

They look the same in the way a Lenovo and an Apple look the same.

There are rules on track and wheelbase, crash structure and aero wing size that tend to dictate the overall silhouette, but from there, everything else is very different.
Yes, that "drone strike" thing is actually a stupid saying. I'm sorry to have used it because it is somewhat distracting from the actual points.
Arnaud Wisman, a psychologist at the University of Kent, said people put up numerous defences to stave off thoughts of death. The young in particular may see it as a problem for other people, he said.

His own work had found that in modern societies people embraced what he called the “escape treadmill”, where hard work, pub sessions, checking mobile phones and buying more stuff meant people were simply too busy to worry about death.

“However, it is not a solution to the problem itself,” he said. “So we need to keep escaping.”
The article is right that Goodreads is used as "an organizational tool to keep track of what you've read" (or what you're planning to read). But that's actually a bad thing. Selecting books should have an element of randomness to it. You should buy the books in a bookstore, by browsing, and you should read them in a haphazard way. If you don't want to use bookstores, you can simulate this by buying lots of books online and reading them in a disorganized way.

Books are much better this way. Worrying about efficiency, must-reads, and creating lists are bad ideas. It takes the fun out of it and you won't enjoy reading as much.

Also the presentationalism of Goodreads is a huge negative. If you have to make lists, keep them private. By publishing your lists, you're going to end up worrying about what other people think or even censoring yourself. E.g. not listing A Sport and a Pastime because you don't want people judging you for reading "erotic fiction" or lying about having read Jordan Peterson because you don't want people to think you're a wingnut.
It compiles to C.
Agreed, I did the same thing.

Towards the end I could tell, from the sounds of his crying, whether he was hungry, tired, or hurt too. (Towards the end in the sense that he was able to answer questions, or use words to explain a little what was going on. Raising him bilingually, and it took a while for him to start speaking.)
> Just remember that less that 5% of your donation will go to hosting

I don't understand why you find this surprising. I think the people who work on the site deserve to be well paid for their work, just like anybody else. I think the outreach efforts are interesting as well.

> and even less will go the people who actually created the content

This argument makes little sense to me: nobody who contributes content to Wikipedia has any expectation of ever being paid for it.

> That said, you do not seem to have a good understanding of the word "clickbait"

Your definition of clickbait is far too narrow IMO. Your article takes some facts about Wikipedia's finances and presents them with very little context in a way that is intended to elicit an emotional response from people who aren't familiar with the scale on which they operate.

Most egregiously, you present $50MM as though it were some huge amount of money, when in reality that's pocket change compared to the financial resources of most entities that host and maintain websites like Wikipedia.

And if you think "Stop donating to Wikipedia" isn't an inflammatory headline, you're deluding yourself. You wrote this article to piss a bunch of people off and get publicity for your new site: that's textbook clickbait.
Yeah LiveJournal was doing that with memcached like 10 years ago.
Basic income was included to show that removing jobs is not necessarily bad, but it can have immediate negative effects. This is just an instance of consolidating wealth. It is moving a system which distributes wealth to many taxi drivers into a system which distributes wealth to a few people who run Uber. When there's no system in place to correct this imbalance, it contributes to the wealth gap between rich and poor which is accelerating in many other ways. When we see a massive shift of resources to just a few people, it leaves everyone worse off, even the wealthy ones, because we all have to live in a world in which more people are more disempowered and desperate. He just didn't go into detail because he likes short statements.
Re. orientation: the phone shouldn't be trying to determine landscape/portrait when flat; it should gracefully keep the previous state for at least a dozen degrees.

On my 11 Pro it doesn't change until ~40 degrees of attitude.
You're right that it's hard. However, I think you're missing one significant point that, at least to some extent, justifies the hardness: computability.

Systems like Prolog are based on the idea of "proof search": given a logical statement, find a proof of that statement. Humans do this all the time with classical logic, you might say -- but then, there are very famous statements expressible purely in first-order logic that nobody has found a proof of. This is anathema to computing! We want an "effective method", a "decision procedure", that allows us to compute for finite time and terminate with a positive (or negative!) proof. And we know, thanks to Gödel, that no such procedure exists for first-order logic: any decision procedure will miss proofs for some first-order statements.

In order to give ourselves more options for proof search, we need to enrich our logics somehow. This enrichment usually comes in the form of restrictions relative to classical logic. For example, Horn clauses are a fragment of classical logic that we _can_ assign a reasonable decision procedure to -- of which the most basic is probably SLD resolution. But these restrictions traditionally sacrifice more power than we'd like, so we add various things back in, trading computational difficulty (but not decidability!) for expressivity. This is a significant source of complexity, no doubt!

Computational logic is hard because we're asking more of it. Classical logic has been around since at least Aristotle, so it's perhaps no surprise that it's been refined into such a simple, well-understood form. Even then, I think if you traveled into various classical modal logics, you'd find those just as inscrutable at first as the logics we use in logic programming.

> Hoare logic

Mmh... For the most part, Hoare logic is back on the "for humans" side of things, as it's about verifying software rather than implementing software. It brings to bear the full power of classical logic(1), but since you're applying it to programs, most of which have incredibly non-monotonic semantics, you have to consider truth at each point in the program. Most of the machinery in Hoare logic over classical logic is about relating all of those points -- all of those worlds, in a model-theoretic sense.

I personally find Hoare logic easier from a mathematical reasoning perspective than any of the logic systems designed for implementation. I think that makes sense, though, because Hoare logic is not about automation.

(1) You can instantiate Hoare logic over any particular logical system, so you could apply it for automated verification, but I don't think that's the case the parent was considering.
It would help, I think, if such claims were supported in ways that didn't make them sound like conspiracy theories and fearmongering.

Perhaps you'd like to do so. If not, consider that this is a singularly bad time to be spreading misinformation, no matter how plausible you may find it. People are already frightened enough.
Exactly: I've actually been somewhat alarmist early on about this virus, but I actually agree with the article. We've had to make some crazy sacrifices in the last 2 weeks, but now that we've done those, things are actually looking moderately optimistic:

Most of the US hopefully isn't going to become a "big Italy", besides a few unfortunate hotspots. Other areas will still see heavy infections, but likely without overwhelming the hospital systems, if we maintain at least some far more moderate social distancing measures for another year.

...I do worry about the Deep South, due to poverty and lack of leadership by governors in that area.
Incredible, I had no idea a website could screen capture all my monitors or other Chrome tabs... seems like a security vulnerability, but this is amazing still!
Just cut a slit the shape of the cardboard profile in the top of the pasta box and shove the cardboard in?
If what you want is to use the C library, shoehorning the library APIs into your language is guaranteed to be nastier than just writing in C.
"(I also hate it when people make up terms)"

The term is from 1991, and is really only a weak specialization of what the words "cognitive" and "miser" mean when you combine them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_miser
The funny part is that the iPad brought back the 4:3 ratio. I wonder if the unconverted will be available in iTunes?
Thanks for the question. Actually it's not a dice game. It's a slot game with a variable house edge that combines both luck and knowledge of Game of Thrones. Satoshi dice has a house edge of 1.9% in favor of the house. House of Chance has a variable house edge of up to 1% in the player's favor depending on how much they know about the books and TV show.

Here's an explanation of how knowledge factors into the odds:

https://houseofchance.net/faq#a4
I'm guessing you're young.