jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hello HN!

"Not another spatial audio company" - is probably what you're thinking and we're not! Haha we actually were one of the first ones to launch in this space mid last year with our mobile offering. I'm personally excited to share how we're building a very differentiated product in this new marketplace by telling you about the Cinema experience!

Here are some of the key features

Immersive spatial experience

People get louder as you get closer and quieter as you move away allowing you to replicate how we communicate in the real world. So you chat with the people next to you while watching the experience

Full integrated experience platform

Comes with a built in ticketing platform so you can organize and monetize your space as needed. Share your event page, get RSVPs and more including built in analytics.

Insane customization

You can create a 2D or 3D experiences for maximum immersion. You can even decide if you want the experience to be audio only or allow video! You can also select from a list of venues for your experience.

Watch anything together

Share your screen and watch Netflix, Twitch and any other experience you can think of while still being able to freely move around and communicate with others in the space.

We've used it to host virtual movie screenings, watch sports games and Netflix together.

Feedback and thoughts are welcomed!
Because the price of milk and your rent is still the same.
You could use a custodial solution untill you stack enough to get a channel of your own.
Really? Requiring you to "show your work" was rare in college for me, though typical in K-12. But not showing your work, if you're wrong, means no potential for partial credit in college (for instance, correct process but a lost sign might get you half credit versus no credit).

Unless of course, showing the work was the task (such as writing out a proof) versus a straight computation.
People gamble more on shit coins but hold on to BTC and ETH
I guess this is for people who have already locked themselves into CentOS.
I'm gonna start altbase, get ready for the alt coins! ;)
Is Swordholder a reference to Liu Cixin's Death's End?
And so does growing massive amounts of pot and mining bitcoin.

Will these things stop? Probably not.
Short-comings are intrinsingly related to its general purposeness. Tiny standard library is one of them. Not being able to put things into production is another.

I guess I see general purpose languages such as Python and Go as rock solid. They have warts but they're well understood and wrinkles have been ironed out.
I see what you're trying for but I don't think the magician analogy is accurate. Bare minimum you agreed to sit and watch the magic show, and every time I've seen a magician involve the audience they always start with "Can I get a volunteer?", at which point it's clear you're a willing participant (yes, you don't know what's about to happen, but the magician gives the wallet back after so it's clear about the entertaining show and not an example of the magician attempting to commit a crime)
I can't speak to any of that, but it strikes me as a separate issue.

The question is, if a college professor would like to throw up a recording of their course online for the public benefit, and the school would otherwise be on board, will they be able to do so? Or will the school be concerned about getting sued because the video doesn't have subtitles?

Adding subtitles to many hours of lectures which will be posted for free is not a reasonable request. So of course what will happen instead is the videos will never be posted.

If this scenario isn't actually plausible, feel free to correct me.
> My understanding is the mRNA based vaccines already aren’t as effective at long-term protection.

Source? I've never seen anything that suggests that, and can't even think of a rationale why it would ever be true?
IIRC air conditioning is generally less demanding because you’re ‘only’ trying to drop the temp by ~30F to get back into the 70s on a hot 100F day, whereas for heat you’re trying to increase by a much larger 50-70F on a cold 0-20F day. I’m sure wishing the house was better insulated today (Austin).
I didn't downvote, but maybe it was the tone. "These ppl are pure scum" qualifies for me for others than some devs with other motivations than what I have.

There are definitely good jobs which one can be passionate about out there. I didn't easily find that job myself when I was sick of my job and ended up creating it instead. This industry offers so much potential that I feel it is nearly only a matter of looking around to see what needs to be done. Not a given one will be successful, but doing ok so far. Done give up, look around yourself, the good stuff is out there.
I always thought that 18% is standard for 6+ parties because 6+ parties are much harder to deal with and so require a higher tip. It seems a little silly that they would require a "normal" tip
Etsy are running scholarship sponsorship program together with Hacker School, focused on bringing more women into engineering jobs. From what I heard they recruited few employees from there.
You have a "debugger;" call in addToFirebase that's making my Firebug angry. I can't seem to make the script panel ignore this line, even with a conditional 1==0 breakpoint.

Would you be able to take the "debugger" calls out of the production code?

edit:
After some more testing, in Chrome I can make it work by just closing the Dev Tools windows, but Firebug gets caught up on it as long as it is enabled, even if not open currently. This means I have to disable Firebug entirely in order to use this on my page. I don't really want to do that, as I am using it in my workflow for otherwise debugging the code I manage.
The power to cash dividend checks. No decision making authority.
If you want to register for the event you can go to http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=220285197987830
Something like Detexify seems like it would be more useful, as I often know the shape of what I'm looking for, but possibly not the name.
No worries. Perhaps my use of "misleading" was itself misleading!
I am very grateful for my experiences with LSD, and wouldn't trade them for anything in the world.

The best way I could describe its practical long-term effects, (once you've come down and realized you haven't broken your brain) is that your previous knowledge has been helpfully flagged as invalid, allowing you to acquire new knowledge in a less stupid, more nuanced manner. Everything you knew about groups of people, genders, categories of objects, in short all the knowledge that allows you to assess a situation and make sense of the world is marked as fallacious, and your mind is now freed to learn how the world works in a more sophisticated manner.

I think everyone should take the opportunity to try it out, if given the chance to do so in a comfortable setting (comfortable socially - roughing it in the wild is fine, maybe even encouraged).
That's not really fair. W3Schools definitely has it's uses. It's certainly not exhaustive but it gives a good overview of a lot of different topics.
The Apple II usually had 5¼" drives. They were available for 8-bit Atari systems and the Commodore 64 too.
Thanks for clarifying that. I might have been wrong about their intention then, but mockery seemed plausible given they were also painting a very stereotypical picture of a business meeting.
I like Telegram FOSS because it doesn't rely on google's infrastructure to run. That's good enough for me given I already made the questionable decision to run a chat client with a home-baked security protocol ;)
The "red mirage" predictions were for over the course of the week as postmarked-pre-election ballots arrived late and got counted over the course of the week, not a mass-dump all at once. So no, there was no warning for this.

And even with encouraging in-person voting, the dump was 99-100% Biden, that's the suspicious part. No way all Trump supporters voted in-person, even with the urging.
> upon as accurate source by 70-80% to avoid total collapse of democratic order in US.

The current news stations are reporting from the same, truthful, reality. It's the spin, slant, and selective omission when they're presented that is different. Having some true source, that dryly presents this reality, will be devoid of these biases, but they'll still picked up and presented in an almost certainly more entertaining, vastly more popular, biased way as they are now.

I think the problem is, and always has been, that people fundamentally prefer similar viewpoint rather than raw presentation of facts. I also assume this is why there are exactly 0, for profit, widely watched, media outlets that present information in this relatively boring way.
3) You have to pay capital gains tax on every transaction.

The pain of calculating and reporting that is worse than the 15% + state tax.
While I agree that any president of the USA is basically a baddie Trump really blows the scale. Yes we should be talking about the draconian immigration policies under Obama, and we should be talking about Biden’s support for the war on drugs, and we should be talking about drone killings under the Democrats. But that doesn’t mean Trump is not all that and worse.

Yes it is bad that children were arrested under Obama. Obama should absolutely have to answer to those crimes. But so should Trump. In addition Trump also needs to answer for the child separation (not done under Obama). Yes, Obama needs to answer for war crimes and extrajudicial killings, but so should Trump, and in addition Trump needs to answer to toxic rhetoric, inciting racism, inciting racism, inciting people not to follow public health protocols, etc.
In this case taxes are paying for the protection of a democratic society, which you can fairly reasonably call protection money.

I mean was it legal when the local Baron came and levied a tax on your wheat? Under the King’s laws, or maybe it was just tradition, but if the alternative is you’re killed and your land is taken and given to someone more loyal, then you just had a tax levied upon you and the payment was your life.

Similarly, merchants which snuck into cities rather than paying the tax at the gates were not entitled to protections from whoever was the guarantor of laws, a city guard or the like.

So what’s going to happen if you don’t pay your taxes? Turns out the IRS, the States and the equivalents in other countries have legal means of taking what you own for what you owe. We can discuss the tradeoffs on this, but in practice it’s not overly different from a Duke or a King or a mobster. What’s different is the process, the expectancy of it, and the legality.

At the end of the day, what we’re paying for is the protection of our police, fire departments, Armies and Navies.
I just started researching alternatives last night. Nerdwallet is a good resource. Ally bank seems like the closest online bank in terms of customer support/services. They lack the advanced budgeting tools though, it seems.
for nutrition research I think http://examine.com is a pretty good resource
It's not despicable.

As a woman, I'll repeat: paying women less for being women is not despicable.

That doesn't mean it's good. It's bad. But it's normal and there are a lot of social forces at work. Good, well-meaning people have all sorts of logical reasons to pay women or minorities or handicapped people less. You don't have to be evil to participate in a sucky system. We all do, even the virtuous ones. So, open your eyes and work to change things.

As long as we frame bias as something only despicable people have, we will not be able to change anything. After all, we're not despicable, so we can't be biased! Yay. False. Bias is something good people are still steeped in. It's how humans operate.

Transparency in pay is a way in which good people can be confronted by their bias. In any one situation, you can argue that a woman deserves less (rationally and justly -- just change the rules for evaluation so she loses [1]). If via transparency and use of data you notice that women are consistently paid less, and that your evaluation criteria keep changing, you can realize your implicit bias and change your actions.

[1] http://advance.cornell.edu/documents/ImpactofGender.pdf , http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9120783 .
I've given up on the social nicety of not discussing pay, especially at my previous employer, but generally as well. I usually lead in with something like "I tend to ask the rude question, and don't answer if you don't want to, but what does that position pay?" So far, I've never had anyone not answer and most of the time it's led to further interesting discussion.
I think it's always good to distinguish between an article and the publication that's hosting it.
To be fair, I think that you are more likely to get a bad batch of a "party drug" like ecstacy than LSD. Though I can't really talk from experience here, it would seem (to me) that party drugs are more popular and would attract more people to cut corners to turn a quick buck.
Maybe add the swordsmen to that, 2-3 of those just annihilated like 15 of my arrow guys.
I think it is possible to buy too many books, but how many that is really depends on the books, and the upper limit is perhaps higher than one might think.

I don't feel books piling up exerts any pressure to read them all. I have a lot of books I don't feel compelled to read, but find it beneficial to have ready for me to use whenever: reference books.

I also have a lot of books I already have read, and have no plans to reread, but will keep regardless, in case I ever need to refer to them to refresh my memory. As an example, I still occasionally will find reason to refer back to a book I read twenty years ago, to confirm something so that I can confidently cite it in a discussion I am having.
"Brain scans appeared normal, suggesting the cause was psychological rather than neurological."

The proper functioning of the brain is contingent on far more than its macroscopic structure.

Calling this disorder "psychological" will just lead to its sufferers dismissed as crazy. Anxiety causes deja-vu? Obviously if that was the case it would be much more prevalent. Anxiety is normal, deja-vu isn't.
Only because the government has provided poor alternatives. Is Uber a better allocation of capital than infrastructure projects?
There's a difference between pointing out government waste, wanting to lower taxes, wanting a smaller government, etc. and claiming that taxes are inherently violence, as the original post did.
> That's the usual defensive line. Its not about color as long as the work gets done. Never mind imbalance or systematic exclusion, that can't be real.

You're either trolling or completely delusional.

> And not helpful to get trolled and mocked for bringing it up.

It's not helpful to bring agenda when it is not there.

> Is this picture really disproportion in makeup? Lets see, 40 people, black faces make up 14% of America. What's the probability that's by chance? Its about 1 in 1000.

Because population of America consists only of Software Engineers and there's for sure no immigrants in this picture.
Well, I've been working in financial and data services for many, many years now and I can tell you as much: many of the code bases I've been dealing with (and am dealing with) written in less strictly typed languages (much Python, lots and lots a lot Java) are riddled with hidden runtime errors that you'll just never see in Scala.

If there's a bug, it's usually some modelling problem or some conceptual issues, not the implementation of the code. I've much more confidence in the code I've written in Scala than the code I've written in Python or Java and I never ever had to get up and pick up the phone in the middle of the night because some production issues with code written Scala.
> Be wary of any references about this that are from before 2013.

And now that it is 2021, ignore the pre-2018 numbers.

Somewhere in that old thread, I referenced the indirect jump performance hit from the whole Spectre/Meltdown mitigations for any Xeons you might have bought before mid-2020.

There's a nice paper from VMWare on "JumpSwitches" from USENIX '19 that is worth reading in this context.

That suggests that of the five different types of indirect jumps, some are back to being fast again - the one we are dealing with is the search jumpswitch.

I would say direct threaded execution (computed goto) is still worth it over the single dispatch jumps, particularly if you can JIT basic blocks & replace something an "add, mul, add, store" into a single basic block without unloading from registers for the whole operation, jump into that directly with CGOTO like you would do with a compiled chunk of code & build your micro-JIT one opcode at a time.
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle
It's important for people to read the actual press release: https://mstr.cd/3tLaPZM There's good info here which will be new info to many.

Why did they do this? It turns out that about a third of Nigerians report using or holding cryptocurrency (!). https://www.statista.com/chart/18345/crypto-currency-adoptio... Second place are Vietnam and the Phillipines. For all, the #1 reason was for remittances.

Haven't we all had it drilled into our heads by CNBC and the likes that crypto was nothing but a big speculative bubble? Woops, I guess that was a big lie.

> Users will also benefit from Wirex’s Cryptoback™ rewards program, which automatically gives customers up to 1.5% back in Bitcoin for every purchase made in-store.

It does appear that they will support transfers to external wallets (!), contrary to what has been claimed elsewhere in this thread -> https://wirexapp.com/help/article/how-do-i-transfer-cryptocu...

The card is not yet available to US customers, although, apparently it is in the works -> https://news.bitcoin.com/wirex-launching-us-after-receiving-...
Not very terrifying. Odds are someone with access to ancient validation links would also be able to perform new validations.
What I don't like in twitter is how non-obvious and inconvenient it is.

E.g. the only way to communicate with someone without polluting your timeline (because who really cares what you @replied to someone) is DMing them, and even that is less convenient than even facebook messages. But no one uses DMs for most conversations so I have to go without following some awesome people just because they @reply massively and I have scroll fatigue already.

Another example – twitter's website has no new @mention notifications, and my SO accidentally discovered this feature when she downloaded Tweetie months after she started tweeting.

No wonder twitter's user retention rate sucks.
This is why you don't post on HN before the third cup of coffee.
True, a lot of porn on it too.
Ok, now I’m really intrigued. My browser sniffing theory doesn’t seem to be the (complete) truth, either.
I'd agree. But he wrote at least 3 paragraphs. So I'm absolved of guilt.
> Claims like the one that "we" want what we cannot possibly have at the price "we" are willing to pay are tiresome. Who is this "we"?

This "we" encompasses nearly everyone living in modern society as a consumer. Recall a past motto of McDonald's: "Have it your way." Whether we're aware of it our not, this sort of message seeps into one's psyche. We become accustomed to convenience and adept at ignoring uncomfortable truths.

As a result we don't often undertake the dramatic life changes required for us to live in a way that agrees with our root moral beliefs. For example, it is difficult to morally defend factory farms if one is against needless suffering and would rail against someone kicking a puppy.

Imagine that whenever you wanted to eat an egg you first walked through where that egg came from, observing whether it was a relatively content free-range chicken, or one so crowded by other chickens that it is caked in filth. The suffering would be in your face, and so difficult to ignore that you might actually change your purchasing behavior to alleviate your own discomfort.

However, just because such suffering is out of sight -- hidden by the neat packaging we encounter at the supermarket -- does not mean (of course) that it goes away. In truth, most of us are aware of the contradictions in how we live (myself included) but do not change our behavior. At our core we want convenience and comfort, and also to minimize our own suffering and that of others. But too often we focus only on what is easier (convenience and comfort) and ignore suffering that would require us to surrender even a bit of that comfort.
The "enterprise" I work at uses a dozen little RoR apps to put a quick and dirty UI on some DB tables so analysts/sales/support folks can interact with the data.

The main problem with Ruby in this kind of setting is that these internal tools are extremely hard to maintain because of backwards compatibility issues--which there are plenty due to lack of spec, organic language development etc. The effort to upgrade the Ruby version is much greater than doing incremental hacks to support some half-day feature, so the codebase stays pinned to the 2007 Ruby release, we can't use new gems, have to live with old bugs or missing features, etc. And with every new incremental change the project gets harder to upgrade.

The Java ecosystem has done a lot better in this regard. Scala is not very good either, we have had a couple Scala projects with version lock-in effect as well.
My rule of thumb for awhile has been that if you can get one hundred million users (100,000,000) you can sell your company for one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000). It doesn't matter if you have any revenue or not, 100m users = 1b dollars.

Snapchat is at 200m users, but has doubled since August. If you think it's headed for 500m users then 10b is only a 2x premium for an unusually large pool of users in one place.

WhatsApp sold for 18b with 500m users. It was headed for 1b users so 18b is a similar 2x premium.

At first I thought the math didn't work but I guess it does. Users are king. Engaged users are directly convertible to money.
I can't think of one, but this idea has been in my head for a while now, with a few other features. Would this interest you?
With Homomorphic Encryption, the data owner encrypt data X, and give C(X) it to the owner of the function f applies it to C(X), which gives f(C(X)), which equals to C(f(X)) and return it to the data owner, which can decipher it to f(X). The owner of the function know neither the initial data nor the result, and the owner of the data doesn't know f.

There is also Functional Encryption, a different technique solving a similar (but different) goal. With F.E., the owner of the data must know the function f, but the party performing the calculation get directly the result f(X).
Fascinating, it seems to have been over a year since the last IP infringement sweep that removes these from the market.
I agree nuclear is more of a long-term solution. Solar is the way to go right now, with nuclear coming online as solar gets to such high market penetration that storage is a serious issue. Until then, we can back solar with the remaining fossil on the grid.

The deployment time is a solvable problem though. We've built nuclear faster in the past, and some places still do today. France converted to 80% nuclear in 20 years, South Korea has recently built modern reactors in about five years [1], and some new designs can be mass-produced in factories. Thorcon is working on building molten salt reactors in shipyards, at massive scale [2].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/06/21...

[2] http://thorconpower.com/production/