jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't trust this for security reasons. You're relying on the "allow everything except for what I thought of to lock down that an attacker might do" principle, instead of the "deny everything except what I explicitly allow" security principle.

For example: in addition to allowing you to tunnel into your stolen laptop, you're also giving the thief permission (and the key) to use your server as a proxy.

ssh can be locked down further than in your instructions, but I wouldn't rely on it.
I don't mean to knock your project, I think it's cool. However, if you look at the improvements done to the existing search giants it's all about solutions to social problems. Stuff like checking the latest score of a game, finding movie times, the weather, etc. Which to me suggests that the goldmine for modern search development is in creating a glanceable results.

Just to be clear when I say 'social' I am referring to a general community, so social problems are really just annoyances that the majority of community members have to deal with. Sorry if that was a bit confusing; I'm not the most articulate person in the world.
I'm tempted to compile node.js to LLVM bitcode, then compile it to JavaScript and then run it with node.js. Self-hosting!
"The system" slows the process because there is systemic corruption. Just as cops don't want to be photographed, prosecutors don't want their convictions overturned. So they don't play fair, and do everything they can to avoid true justice.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1600812
if requirements are the definition of a features request
> I think Clippy might be due for a comeback.

I suspect so. Just a few days ago I found an ASCII ver sion of that troll in a frigging code editor (http://kakoune.org/img/screenshots/screenshot-i3.gif)
Assuming you had 40 years remaining in your life, and no one else was in the car with you, and the cost of fire/rescue services is ignored, and the chance of serious long-term injury instead of death is also ignored, then:

Option #1 takes 40 * 365.25 * 24 * 11.4/100000 = 40 hours off your life.

Option #2 takes 40 * 365.25 * 24 * 3 /100000 = 10.5 hours off your life.

Statistically speaking then, option #1 takes off about 30 hours of your life compared to option #2.

In fact, with those numbers you shouldn't take option #1 unless you only expected to live for another 1-2 months.

On the other hand, logging workers have a highest occupational rate of death, at 127.8 per 100,000 full-time workers per year. Assuming 2000 hours per year gives a much fatality rate per hour than what you've posited, so I don't understand your point.
You might be interested in reading this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabo...
There was only one store like that in my childhood city but it had everything you might want.

There would be a queue of people waiting on a Saturday to give their handwritten list of components to an employee to go find.
Now, I am not very up to date on statistics, but unionised workers have traditionally earned about 10% more than non-uniomized ones in the US since at least the 80s. The article mentions 11%, which seems in line with what I know since before.

I doubt any union would charge anywhere near that much.
The simper than AWS aspect was one of the main reasons I choose DO to do most of my cloud stuff. Also AWS had this odd habit of not auto charging me so it would go a couple months then I would get hit with multiple months worth of a bill.
> the only two logical outcomes are to either go bust, or to be acquired by a major cloud provider

Or acquired by a chip maker, like Intel.
What percentage of profits in the S&P 500 index do you think comes from outside the United States? The nice thing about S&P 500, EuroSTOXX 50, and Nikkei 225 indices: A huge portion of their profits come from outside their home regions: US, EU(rope), Japan. Think: FAANG, Microsoft, Intel, AMD, NVidia, HP, Ford, Boeing, Phillip Morris, Tesla, Siemens, EADS, Phillips, NXP Semi, Alstom, ABB, SAP, Santander, Volvo, Volkswagon, Hitachi, Panasonic, Toyota, Kyocera, Nintendo, Sony, etc. Upon closer inspection, they act like international indices. Don't bother with indices focused upon developing economies -- they are already covered by the Big Three indices!

My take: Of these Big Three indices, the S&P 500 will outperform others over the long term. That is not blind pro-US bias. The US economy (and, correspondingly, the S&P 500 index) is much more dynamic than EU and Japan. It can recover faster after downturns -- recessions & depressions.

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As a retail investor, put your money into a very low commission ETF that tracks the S&P 500 index. See: Fidelity, State Street, or Vanguard. Enable dividend reinvestment programme ("DRIP") to buy more shares with dividends. Go to sleep for 30 years. Wake up rich. Simples.
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that's only a 6% increase (accounting for us inflation). I am sure you can get more if you change jobs.
I have similar thoughts

This is not some crazy experimental new drug that was unknown until past week. It's an experimental treatment, it's not an experimental drug, with unknown side effects. For a condition where time is critical.

Of course, we should also be quick to discard unpromising drugs, and not only focus on one promising drug.

WHO is starting a megratrial of several drugs now https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/who-launches-global-... (including CQ/HCQ)
Harm principle refers to a theory of crime that an action can only be banned if it causes harm to someone. The principle ... says that harmful actions are the only ones that can be banned. The harm principle simply sets a minimal standard for what sorts of actions a liberal can justifiably prohibit.

http://definitions.uslegal.com/h/harm-principle/
The definitive collection of Soviet SF was Macmillan's 'Best of Soviet Science Fiction', published in the early 1980s.

It comprised a mix of novels (by the Strugatskys, among others), and short story collections. I count a significant number of these as being among the finest SF I've yet come across. Many envelope the reader in an air of melancholy; very Bradburyesque.

Here's a description of one of the notable authors, from "World's Spring", edited by Vladimir Gakov:

"Genrikh Altov is one of the most interesting portraits in the gallery of Soviet science fiction writers. An engineer and inventor who holds several dozen patents; the creator of a new science on which special courses are now being given in educational institutions in the USSR, 'The Theory of Invention,' and the author of several monographs in this field; an SF fan and the author of the unparalleled (I vote for a special Hugo Award!) Altov's Register - a catalog of themes, plots, hypotheses, ideas, situations, etc., containing hundreds of thousands of processed bits of information. (The dream of the SF writer: an idea comes to you, so you check it out in the Register to see if it has been used before; if the idea has been 'copyrighted' by another writer, it's no great problem, because the Register contains open cells, the descriptions of still-unused sf ideas and situations.) A theoretician of the sf genre; the author of profound articles tracing the sf predictions of Wells, Verne, Alexander Beliaev... A teacher at a scientific research institute teaching young inventors to develop their imaginations, their ability not to be afraid of 'crazy' ideas..."

There's also a stunning novel in the series: "Self Discovery", by Vladimir Savchenko. It has a completely convincing description of a biological computer AI. And then, this: "I would like to study the question of the untapped resources of man's organism. For example, the obsolescent functions, like our common ancestor's ability to leap from tree to tree or to sleep in the branches. Now that is no longer necessary, but the cells are still there. Or take the 'goosebump' phenomenon - it happens on skin that has almost no hair now. It is created by a vast nervous network. Perhaps these old reflexes can be restructured, re-programmed to meet new needs?" (In Theodore Sturgeon's words: "What an astonishing, what an exciting concept!")

Best of all, that book is freely available online: http://www.lib.ru/RUFANT/SAWCHENKO/savchenko_selfdiscovery_o...
And some choose suicide over the plea bargain.
You certainly could be right. The way trials are run does not seem very efficient at all, and maybe a lot of the fat could be cut out without impacting outcomes.

On the other hand, if you can get the number of accused criminals down to a reasonable level, it wouldn't matter too much if there was waste in the smaller number of trials.

No doubt the problem can be attacked from many directions.
thank you for your reply!
If you don't mind I will repost this so that maybe other people will put some more insight. Feel free to answer again there if you feel you want your book to be seen more...
Yeah maybe I was trying a bit hard. Though there is also the Groupon brand and concept.
Depends on where you look at. There are entire industrial niche markets 'owned' by German Mittelstand companies. It is just not in your focus of attention.
1. An index is generally creared to the target mwarket.
Could I appeal to all those excited by this research to please grow the fuck up? We're all going to die. Get over it. You're having your time right now - go and make the most of it instead of wasting it moping that it's not going to last forever.
Didn't expect that there would be notes on VC's on Khan Academy :)
Apple has no problem when people write software for their platforms, as long as it's not portable to other, competing, platforms.

If this effort went through, GNUStep could eventually be used to port Mac software to other platforms (Windows included) or to run it against controlled environments that would render iTunes DRM useless, and that's something Apple won't let happen.
All these hacks to route around limitations of web-based computers seem like such a step backwards. We already have a nice python interpreter. Why are we reinventing it in javascript?
good point: moore's law has quadratic effects on the ability to use computers. We could take this a step further and say there's an email law which is thousands of times further from the increase in algorithms or clock speeds: more emails sent than in 1990 by a staggering amount :P
So why do top stars, like Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern earn such large fees now, when the market is so fragmented?

I did a double-take here, because it sounds fairly obvious to me: monopsonies can get away with paying you next-to-nothing because your best alternative to "next-to-nothing" is "nothing". If there are only a few radio networks (and/or they have a gentlemen's agreement with respect to hiring talent), then regardless of skill the commercial value of your ability is zero unless you sign with them. Rush Limbaugh would be making $20k a year if there was only one radio station in town. There are now 50 and the one that gets to sign him makes a substantial amount of money. (He tapped an unlikely niche market for news and opinion: half the country.) The market now favors him rather than favoring them.

Edited to add: By the way, it appears that Google et al have a gentleman's agreement with respect to hiring talent.
Primarily scraping of comet/ajax updating sites of course, but also some interesting uses for testing - crawling a site taking screenshots and then comparing screenshots across releases looking for layout bugs was quite a fun thing. The same principle as https://github.com/BBC-News/wraith
Neat. Were you able to get his code to run? What did you change / what compiler flags did you use?
I live in Alaska and have visited Whittier multiple times. Every time we go, my wife and I comment about how great of a setting it would be for a zombie apocalypse movie.

"Oh it's only accessible by water or the main tunnel, it's easy to secure"
"oops we forgot about securing the old train tunnel"
"oh no they're in the apartment building, let's go hide out in the creepy old abandoned building down the street"

... clearly I'm not going to be writing the screenplay, but the location has a lot of potential!
Yeah, I touched a sensitive nerve. It seems "the future" is interpreted by some as "Moore's law applied to everything", with gross disregard to physics, no thermal or optical or energy limits etc.

Year 2000 has passed, and we're all still waiting for our flying cars.
Of course you want things money can buy - that's implicit when someone says they want money. Because we all know that money has no intrinsic value, and saying we want money is a little easier than saying we want a magic genie that will give us things for free.
Hah, excellent. I never even applied for membership as I didn't have any examples of what I have done online but always assumed this would be a somewhat stricter than "I made this in Photoshop". Not as excited about applying now.
While I don't subscribe to your outlook, I at least applaud you for being honest. When this topic comes up, most people veil their desire for material things or a more luxurious lifestyle as "freedom".
You're right, that was very dismissive.

Can you really be sure that you can do something until you have demonstrated that you can?

I agree that there need not be a reason to read, but some people need there to be...
I live very simply, avoiding all unnecessary luxuries. I prefer to make my bicycle my main means of transportation and I prefer to cook my own food (being one of the best cook I know helps...).

Yet I entirely agree with your statement.

A million dollars is "not enough to secure a dignified existence in the US" because...

... Human beings require a community for a dignified existence.

Yes, a million won't guard against a health emergency... human beings indeed sometimes suddenly need the full-time attention of a dozen other people for a long time and if that attention comes from only money, it has to be a lot of it.

If you're counting on only money to secure your dignified existence, you're going to need a awful lot of it, enough to secure the mere existence of maybe a dozen people...
I don't understand how the situation above is a 'quirk' and not a straightforward example of deflation. The price of a typical TV - now represented in the basket of goods as a 32in TV - has fallen.

The fact that lower prices might lead people to buy larger TVs is no more surprising than a fall in the price of meat leading people to buy more steak.
I am with you on this comment.

I feel like mentioning famous scientist does not help the case at all. I mean PG is talking about coming up with ideas to sell to VC or private equity firms... There is nothing as grand as scientific progress here... just randos trying to get rich.
Economic downturn and lots of desperate people who are ready to believe in anything to restore their hope.

Just look at Russia in the 90s. Many people gave their last money to shamans, psychic healers, palm readers, astrologists. Some of these charlatans became national stars and household names with own TV shows in prime time.
They are not underfunded. This is a $200M Booz Allen contract.
Eric Weinstein, physicist, economist, and podcaster has referred to a pretty nasty fight he and his wife had about this very thing - I believe he calls it the problem of hedonic substitution, and he and his wife had come up with a theory that could model it rigorously (gauge theory) but as far as I know he's never discussed gauge theory for laypeople.

here's a clip from an interview where he discusses the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xiEEtoa-_4

Edit: I realize I worded that misleadingly - he and his wife were on the same side, against government economists who wanted to be able to estimate the value of hedonic substitution on an ad-hoc basis.
The thing that makes public schooling so frustrating is how they lump everyone together and then teach to the lowest common level. If you're in a school system that can afford to offer AP courses, some students have a chance of not being bored. The rest of the students have to deal with that fact that some of the students are only there because they haven't dropped out yet and the state requires their presence.
Do you use shampoo?
The boat you are wishing for seems to have already sailed. Social apps are growing / have grown a generation that ejoys vertical video as a medium of its own. So whether vertical video is unnatural seems debatable either way at this point.
I miss the time when writers didn't follow these rules, it was so much more fun to read, and ideas expressed were more complex and interesting too.
Reminds me of the studies which show that wine connoisseurs are describing the colour, not the taste, of the wine. I've always found this highly suspect because I guarantee anyone who drinks wine regularly could fairly accurately judge what price bracket a wine came from, at least within a factor of 2-3. You could mistake a $10 wine for a $15 wine or vice versa but a $50 wine is noticeably different.
Speaking only to weight, my wife and I did lose a planned number of pounds. Soylent was a means of controlling caloric intake, while providing complete nutrition while exercising.
It need not become one to be a problem (just as it is a boon). The benefit of frictionless contributions is real, the problem of loss of federation is real just as much, and leads to the loss of community.

We're animals. The feeling of community arises when we're not alone yet feel being in private. Community is us (versus the rest). Github is a faceless "everybody" (vs. nobody left), which on the animal level translates to "me" (vs. everybody else).

It was easier to maintain a tiny community in the times of janky sites with mailing lists and diffs emailed around. Github gives you access to a larger pool of potential drive-by contributors, but you can't create a loose ring of a handful of people in /issues and /pulls. The community arises through people joining, and then failing to leave, a mailing list, and then contributing to the project through occasional replies to questions asked by beginners.

There may be seven long-term subscribers to your niche project's mailing list. When a newcomer shows up with a question, one of them might answer it before you get up. And even if they don't, their continuing passive presence on the list is still a currency that helps you push the niche project further.

Stars on a github.com repository just don't carry that much weight. Seven people might star your niche project repo. If they use their "dashboards", the entry for the new issue (the newcomer asked a support question by filing a ticket since you have no janky old school mailing list) got lost among the other tens and hundreds (even thousands) entries for individual commits and comments in repos those people have starred beside yours. They won't answer that support call for you. And, even if they did, they won't feel being part of any niche project's community either: it was just a drive-by comment on a random issue they spotted on their feed...

tldr: github.com is the largest open-plan office in the world.
> There are people around the world starving because they don't have access to enough calories and we're trying to figure out how to reduce the caloric values of foods.

We're also trying to figure out how to increase the nutritional values of foods that tend to be available to areas where inadequate food supplies are problematic (e.g., cassava.) Different groups of people have different, and often opposite, problems, and research can be directed at more than one of them at a time.

> At the same time we're coming up with stuff like Soylent because we're worried that we're using too much of our resources to produce foods.

I've yet to see any coherent explanation of how a heavily processed food like Soylent can be anything but an increase in the resources to produce food. Might, optimistically, reduce the resource cost to deliver and store food compared to some other alternatives. Mostly, though, its seems to be an attempt to make money by selling convenience to people with who aren't particularly concerned for other features of food (other than perhaps a certain very broad nutritional profile.)

> Perhaps a less revolutionary idea to reduce the calories in the rice you eat by 50%: eat 50% less rice.

A number of people find it much easier to reduce calories first (by eating less calorie-dense foods, but with similar volumes) and then reduce volumes (potentially adding back more calorie-dense foods in the process, or perhaps further reducing calories in the process.)

You can address real people's problems more effectively when you deal with them being how they are rather than how you would wish them to be.
My entire ocular system cried while trying to digest what the website was trying to convey to me.
What does a vegan burrito look like?
I think this are better cases: prosecution in US for possession of a manga drawing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_cartoon_pornog...

It's awful how often i think, that something can't happen in a developed world, and after googling for a precedent I find it.
Shouldn't be too hard. I think the shadow behind the titles look great, tho.
> They could go to sleep earlier Friday evening and have more sun.

Not if they want a social life. It's not like sun trumps everything.

But shifting to DST all the time lets people go out Friday night, get to bed an hour earlier, sleep as much as they need, and still have that extra hour of daylight on Saturday! :)
> no proprietary programming language has a large user base. The closest is probably Microsoft Excel, I'd guess.

MATLAB still has a large user base, although GNU Octave is basically an open source version.

The Wolfram (Mathematica) language also has a large user base. I am not aware of an open source implementation.

Swift is open source but developed by Apple and mainly used on their systems.
I think this is important. A lot of programming classes or teaching focuses just on the tools, but not really on the goals of what you want to use those tools to do.

My daughter is really into Minecraft and has learned that there are mods out there. So, now there is something she actually wants to be able to DO. That's a big part of what drives programming motivation for kids.
The problem is, it's much easier to be socially engineered into installing something from the Play Store, or far worse, the Chrome Web Store, and both have extremely unchecked amounts of malware.

The real difference is between "apps that have to give Google 30%, and apps that don't".
I love that series. It's fantastic.
And hå sounds like /ho/.

But they are fascinating. Living from 200 to 500 years, it’s speculated.
It's amazing what information mailing lists hold about people.