jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think it says a lot about our society, that this comment is the most highly upvoted in a forum such as this.

It's clear that if we decided to let everyone's basic needs of food, shelter, healthcare, and transport be met unconditionally, the world would look very different. It would not cost us much, maybe even less than we pay in taxes now, but I feel certain it would make everyone's lives significantly better. The lack of unnecessary stress and "soul-destroying toil" that anyone would be forced to endure is surely worth it.

The only downside I see is that no one could get as extraordinarily rich as a very few people can today. I don't see how most of us can't be fine with that.
I was thinking teams or webex or the software large organizations use. (I'd love it if people talking to the group using the laptop microphone in their tiled kitchen could hear how they sound)
There's an IBM i hobbyist discord[1] full of friendly people who will be happy to help you out with learning or acquiring your own iron, or you can use any of a number of public-access systems. The main public access system is pub400[2], but there are at least three that are run by people in the discord. I run one of them, albeit with the worst uptime of the bunch; PM for details. And finally, you can find all of the docs for the system on IBM's site[3], though they can take some getting used to.

[1] https://discord.gg/MzYzSvzN, or #ibmi on freenode
[2] https://pub400.com/
[3] https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_73/rza...
I used to be a scientist, I have a PhD in physics. It did not help me much in life except now, when I realize how easy it is for me to teach my children science (I loved to teach in academia). I have no fear of not being able to answer their questions about math or physics, or about science in general.

I am very, very lucky with this - some friends called me during the school lockdown to help them because they were completely overwhelmed. As you said their last contact with some of the topics was 30 years ago and they left them behind with relief.

I also love history, so I had patrince to check what they learned in history. Geography was much harder :)

My older son (high school) told me once that he cannot imagine how pupils that do not have really well educated parents can manage in this situation here everyone is basically on their own to learn.
> coal: 25 [MJ/kg] * 1000 [kg] = 25000 MJ / 66.85$ = 374 [MJ per $] oil: 47 [MJ/kg] * 159 [kg] = 7473 [MJ] / $26.98 = 276 [MJ per $]

You divided your coal by energy by your oil price and vice versa
It's also worth pointing out under (the old) normal conditions Amazon warehouse workers already had to put their health and wellbeing at risk every shift. I'm not familiar with health benefits for the average Amazon distribution center worker but I hope they get something more than BezosBux to spend at whatever urgent care operator happens to be a sister company.

Amazon has always exploited its labor force; that's why they are in the position to dial things up as needed to meet demand surges.
Ditto in Norway. I'm shaking my head. Hope you guys over there will get through this okay.
I really don't think that the NYT should be concerned about doing brand management for a rapper. Who cares if he doesn't want people to know his real name or if a rapper didn't want the public to know he grew up wealthy or something?

The NYT doesn't need to go around looking for fight but if it thinks it is relevant they can and should publish these details.
Who said they were false? Click bait is rarely false just misleading.

My local news runs a promo every night that they have some super important message that you need to hear "what you could be doing wrong with kids". When they finally share it's something like 'yoga is good for your health'.

Journalism is a business. All news orgs are judged by selling papers to driving clicks.

Seeing a few people saying something means a few people said something. Assuming it applies to all and skepticism sets in.
There are adults in the room. I'm not sure why you can't see that.

Sure, they may be adults who are also bought and paid for by powerful and rich interests, but the adults are here and have been all along.
I imagine the knee-jerk outrage fizzled out after everyone realized they could just read/judge the source for themselves, and the quiet, thoughtful people who spent a couple days writing substantive articles are now finishing them. Also seeing the guy interview and realizing that he's just a socially awkward dude and not the Richard Spencer of misogyny.
Here's a reasonably well-cited article rebutting these claims.

http://www.jpurol.com/article/S1477-5131%2809%2900349-0/abst...

And a free version which seems similar
http://www.harryfisch.com/pdf/Declining%20Worldwide%20Sperm%...
Yeah well I actually think that would be a benefit as you would be able to think in social networks and other online services into the product.
A high school student probably has much less to unlearn than some Art History and English majors. Not to say that there aren't great people that have come from those backgrounds, but some highly intelligent folks come out of there with a bad attitude towards concepts like objective reality.
Because people do not criticize the alma-mater and mentor, especially as influential as, YC (and by extension PG) in public.
You are right. My wireless had a hick-up in the middle of the download and now I also have 404.
but then why did F-Secure bother with the write-up ?
Eliminated most of the FDA

Why the FDA? It's a minuscule part of the budget and provides a service crucial to public health & safety. I figured it was one of those things almost everyone could agree on. A post-FDA world would almost certainly include "As Seen on TV" cures for cancer. Do we really want that?
Why? If they don't it is going to mess up the destruction sequence if they are ever stored and then released polymorphically, such as from a collection of pointers to classes.

What he is saying is standard C++ knowledge.
Actually it's possible to say when it wouldn't be worth it: http://paulgraham.com/equity.html

I think the reason we don't often hear about borderline cases is that the market is truncated at the high end by later stage investors, who wouldn't allow the startups they'd funded to participate in YC even if they'd be net ahead as a result. I.e. I've seen more than one series A funded startup that we could have helped sufficiently to justify the dilution. But (as of this writing) no VC would let one of their series A funded companies do YC.

As for funding a large number of companies, that's net beneficial as long as we can devote sufficient attention to each one, because it means the alumni network they become part of is larger. And we know we're able to devote sufficient attention to each one because we can measure it in (a) office hour signups (I have office hours this afternoon and there are still open slots) and (b) how well each batch does after Demo Day (more startups in the summer 2010 batch have raised additional funding than any previous batch).
Yup and see

> Exposure to radiation has further increased with the invention of televisions, microwaves, x-rays, nuclear weapons and the construction of power stations.

a) Two different types of radiation are being grouped together.

b) Light radiation decreasing sperm motility seems quite weird AFAIK.
There's the Dell Sputnik series.[1] They are pricey but specifically designed to run Ubuntu.

1.http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd.aspx
warez, haven't heard that term in a while. i still pirate everything though lol
The getting started examples don't seem to work. The yarn frontend/backend commands dont exist.
Right, lowering the crf to 26 or 28 could be added, thanks :-)
Meanwhile, other products like Notion are getting traction exactly because they promise to be all that and more.
It is bad. How in the world would having both your parents living at home somehow limit connection and relationship with other familiy members and the community?
I've found over the last few years, as much as I hate to say this, that Windows has been a decent experience for me. It's not perfect, but the combination of the right programs (Directory Opus 12, X display server, SSH client) plus WSL makes it a usable experience.

VS Code is also now my IDE of choice.

I look forward to the day I can switch to Linux full-time (probably Arch), but for now I need good OneDrive integration.
You lost me at: “I prefer JS (modern) to Python”. Just... how?
Even going into maintenance-only mode will not stop companies from having to find creative ways to collect money from their customers long after the initial purchase.

Maintenance costs money. People don't want to pay a lot of money up front. They also don't want to pay for upgrades or subscriptions if they don't feel like they're getting something useful from time to time. Unfortunately, most people who buy consumer-grade proprietary software don't seem to feel that "being stable and well-maintained" is a useful feature on its own even without any new features. (Enterprise software is a different beast, of course. A very large part of RHEL's value proposition is that it doesn't get any new features, only security fixes, for a decade.)
A CA is a graph-based system.
>>hundreds of years after we are all dead

>>Radioactive contamination of [...] the oceans

Sigh... bad scare mongering.

How many percent has the background radiation in the Pacific ocean increased by Fukushima?

(Hint: radioactive water is very, very diluted after much less than one century. :-) )
A lot of recent stories in various papers have made reference to the NSA not knowing exactly what was taken. I don't necessarily read that as lack of audit - more that Snowden was touching so much stuff that they have not yet managed to figure out the 1% or whatever of his accesses that resulted in the data set he shouldn't have.

Or it may be that their audit system is no good (I've seen that claim), or that they actually do know what is taken. I imagine it's a combination: they know for sure some of the things that were taken, they don't know for sure what other stuff was taken, and the audit system is showing them some proportion of the take.

I agree about the data+keys point, that seems a dim move. Arguable legality perhaps - here in the UK, if you can't decrypt something then you can still go to jail, but I guess at least you don't disclose. Is there straightforward software to use with one-time pads that ensures you use them correctly, though?
Let's waste an enormous amount of resources to create Yet Another Messaging App. That's exactly what the industry and humanity in general needs to advance!
Well they only need to remove the offensive stuff from the Indian version of those websites. This is something I know google can not sure about pastebin and github.
Is the profit from exchanging from BTC to USD or a discount source of gift cards.
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I don’t think the problem is that people are stupid. I think that people, when given crappy tools, with almost no oversight, no incentive to behave, and no semblance of real identity, often behave stupidly.
If you're careful in what you buy and in getting a good price, guns tend to hold up their value.

However the election of Obama caused a spike in the purchase of "black rifles" and hanguns (also the latter have been doing very well as more and more states got shall issue concealed carry license regimes, plus many people are buying them as they get old(er)) and the last time I checked the value of hunting guns weren't holding up well due to the Great Recession, but that's perhaps bottomed out.

Be careful of historical price patterns, with CNC machining and other general advances it's gotten less expensive to make them and the barriers to entry to new firms has dropped.
I wonder how many people's PINs are the first few digits of pi, e, or the Fibonacci sequence.
"It is the work life equivalent of playing for the New England Patriots and winning Super Bowls."

Except its been 5 years since the Pats won a Super Bowl. Feels kind of the same.
This ain't the MikeRoweSoft kid?! I wasted my time reading a letter from the guy from Dirty Jobs? I was kinda wondering why people were writing that kid letters.
The unit of volatility is conceptually [time^{-1/2}], most commonly 1/sqrt(year), but that is rarely written. (People speak of a stock with 30% annual vol, not with a sigma = 0.3 a^-0.5 :-)
The '84 model Kaypros are surprisingly fun to write games for: http://www.chrisfenton.com/dd9-kaypro-edition/
The Root Planner is designed to optimize your delivery management by automatically calculating the most efficient routes for your drivers. Whether you deliver food, flowers, dry cleaning, HVAC services, or literally anything, this software was built for you.
I always thought that the movie, Capote, had the most visceral depiction of execution I've seen in film. The idea of being led to your death, the hood, the waiting for the platform to drop. Oof, makes my heart race a bit. The hanging or shooting may be quick, but the moments leading up to it certainly are not. And imagine if you were innocent!
Thanks! We're excited to help folks work together to level up their diversification strategy for exactly the reasons you shared.

Re: popular indexes and creator incentives, we have lots of ideas in the works. Glad you're interested in it!
No. It's a public suffix. Subdomains of public suffixes (example.co.uk) are registrable domains.

The list of public suffixes is: https://publicsuffix.org/
NDB Cluster 8.0.23 contains a new thread model that makes it possible to grow and shrink size of data nodes. This is default in RonDB, optional in NDB. Also RonDB has fully automated the memory configuration such that the user needs only specify which VM instance type he wants and the number of VMs. Plus a number of bug fixes, improvement to monitoring and some more.
I don't know a ton about FastAPI, but it seems like it's based on OpenAPI. I posted below about Dropshot, which the company I work for wrote, is using and open sourced.

https://crates.io/crates/dropshot

It may or may not interest you!
A lot of issues like this are to solve problems for less tech-savvy people or are more about poorly thought and untested ideas about how to make browsing easier. Or at least, that's the intention/reasons given by the project managers and clients for why they want things done a certain way.

For example opening external links in a new tab is one such common practice. It is done so that people don't lose the page they were on (which is what the Back button is for) because clients are afraid once the user navigates away from their website they won't know how to return to it. But the back button is one of the most used browser features in the browser [1]. If users wanted to open the link in a new tab the browser has the functionality to let them control that behavior but "some people may not know to M3 click, shift+click, or right click->open in a new tab". So instead it is forced for everyone with no way to opt-out without running a userscript that strips out target="_blank" from all <a> elements.

And <a> elements are just one of the many cases where "We know how the user wants to interact with our site/the internet as a whole" is often and annoyingly wrong.

[1] https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/36017/is-the-browser-...
I don't understand. You're saying that because we've made a lot of stuff, if our civilisation collapses it'll destroy everything? How does one follow from the other?
Ah, dang it. I need something that's cross platform. This app is nice, but seems too Linux-centric.

I use Joplin currently, it's kinda ugly, but works on all platforms including Android, and syncing it via Dropbox is trivial.
You ever fly over a mountain? It saves a lot of time.
Yeah. AWS is probably "losing" tens of dollars per month hosting my personal account. They've made a few million dollars in sales as a result. I've personally started several projects on top of AWS which spend that much now. That started with the free tier back when AWS was young.

Google has treated me so badly so many times now on my personal account (as well as on business accounts, for that matter) in so many different ways that they've, conversely, lost MANY million dollars in business sales. It's hard to even count; a lot of people ask me for advise on decisions, and whenever someone even thinks about using Google Cloud in a business setting....

This is not a hole I see Google getting out of, except by eventually shutting down the Google cloud. Too many people have had too many bad experiences, and reputations take a long time to recover.

And the failures just keep on piling up.

Google is great for personal use, but I think they're diversifying in all the wrong directions. They're not structured for success there.
The problem is not that we need global collaboration and perfect adherence. The problem is that right now we have global collaboration and adherence to the profit motive. However, this is primarily only due to the efforts of a minority and a complicity of the majority. It is true that the collective action problem is difficult, but we are much likelier to succeed in it if more people decided it was attainable rather than literally just hoping in aliens.
Pierre Trudeau, Justin Trudeau (18), and Alexandre Trudeau (16) had a vacation in China 1 year after the Tiananmen Square Massacre

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/09/16/trudeaus-in-ti...
Good analogy, when I'm walking up to a heavy bar I still get nervous and think "Do I really have to do this?". But when I'm not squatting I miss it. The endorphins probably explain this a bit.
Could you be more of a sock puppet in this discussion?
Not having a cofounder is a sign that you are not making something people want.

The solution is to make something people want and get better at communicating that this is true.
There are multiple application protocols. The OBD2 spec includes PHYs and an application protocol. One of the PHYs is CAN-bus, and since the CARB application does not do everything (or much of anything) useful to a manufacturer, they implement additional applications. Some of these manufacturer specific applications require authentication to perform some operations such as flash write or certain eeprom writes.
How about you let go of the hate and embrace some love instead for the work this man has put forth?

I've seen enough of these threads on Hacker News to know the answer is clearly "it's different because I don't like him."

Zed wounded a lot of egos back in the day, so calls for positivity that may otherwise work on HN are going to fail. By framing him as a "controversial figure" they attempt to create a route to hate on him that doesn't count as shit talking.
Is there any way to get taken off these sites?
That's crappy defaults from those browsers. I hate the point-size inflation that we've gone through because browser makers refused to do anything sensible until it was pushed by Apple and designers would always use a font size that looked right on their expensive mac, so now the only way to view a site right is to guess how old it is and then adjust your zoom to compensate. It didn't have to be like this!
I don't know, in just the previous blog linked on top "am I a genius?" he says "I am reluctant; I hate having to depend upon anybody else for anything. I don’t want my success or failure to be determined by the idiots who populate this planet." I don't think it does him any good to encourage the bitterness that leads people to post things like that.
Yes, but until remote work is the norm it's a quality of life trade-off. Living in low COL area around London for instance is complicated by the fact that the entire commuter zone, for certain classes of housing, is basically priced at central prices less cost of commuting.

If you want a comfortable family life, with a bunch of kids, then you're looking at a long commute.

Housing in the UK is severely messed up though. It's actually better in most of the US.
https://github.com/davidesantangelo/dato.rss/wiki/Feed
> For road racing there is no point in scandium anymore, carbon frames are made lighter, stiffer and more comfortable.

Comfort is actually a flexible seat post, which can be most easily made out of carbon. The frame material has basically no impact on comfort. (And that comes from someone riding only steel frames)
It’s not as bad but the second reason is similar to why GST is added at the till. Certain politicians want to make sure the citizenry is angry about taxes.
> Usually if you're working on something and you want to reference your notes the next day it's a nicer experience to have that in the same notes file as today instead of yesterday. Over the decades I've settled on a YYYY-MM.txt file, or 1 file per month.

As someone who's been practicing plain text notes only few years less than you, I'm contemplating going in the reverse direction now. My default for quite a while was a YYYY-MM.org file. But now that I use org-roam[0] to organize my personal wiki, and link to the entries from my daily notes, I've found the month-files are becoming "super nodes" in the resulting graph. In any given month, I can be thinking about dozens of unrelated things - and now they suddenly become connected by virtue of being considered in the same month.

It's a spurious connection that I currently exclude when visualizing/exploring the graph of my notes, but completely rejecting the connection between "transient" daily notes and permanent documents doesn't feel right either. The options I have are to either a) patch org-roam to work with headline-level granularity, instead of file-level, or b) just start using daily (YYYY-MM-DD.org) files. The latter is simpler.

So in general, my experience agrees with yours here wrt. granularity, but the extra constraint of using graph building and exploration tools on top of the notes makes daily notes much more appealing.

--

[0] - Roam Research clone for Org Mode.
> People who aren't trusted to spend more than $500 also likely do not have a large budget, so your $500 a month would kill their yearly budget, and you would lose the sale anyway, or at best become a target for cost reductions in the future.

This depends on the organization. At my university, my boss can spend $1,000 at a time on his company credit card on an whim. If I make a convincing case for something that's $900, he tosses me his card and it's here in two days with Amazon Prime. He controls a budget closer to $10,000 but large purchases require the approval of his own supervisor and the invocation of the University purchasing/accounts payable system.

If I ask for something that's $1,100 then he needs to schedule a meeting with his bosses to start a long and arduous process involving a sales guy, quote, purchase order, etc. My last purchase was held up for a week because the designated sales guy was on medical leave. It was also $200 more expensive from the preferred vendor, which did not offer free shipping over the phone (despite having it on its own website). Delivery is going to happen approx. 10 weeks after I asked my boss for it. Contrast with two days. The University purchasing department may not care about price, but most of my boss's budget already needs to go somewhere and $200 is not insubstantial in terms of the extras/upgrades I can propose.

This is what I think the article is referring to. Sneak in just underneath the (completely arbitrary) limits that make the difference between an impulse buy and something involving fax machines.
I found the title very hard to parse. It would be better as: "Why Oakland Is a Tech Start-up Game Changer"
So basically this interpreter checks if a loop contains only linear transformations of the variables in the lexical scope, and if so it builds the corresponding matrix and computes the appropriate power of it.

If so that's fine but it's probably a rare use case, since loops usually have conditional branches, don't they? If they don't the algorithm is poorly written in the first place as it should have been noticed that there was a linear transformation involved.