jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think they don't want to "dilute" their value proposition. They are selling to various sponsors the idea is that their platform is the key, but if downloaded videos can suffice, it's a different story. Every platform these days want to control user "journey".
It seems like most of these problems are technical in nature, which can be solved with better silicon and design schemes.

I was very anti-blockchain for a while, but if you zoom out it makes a whole lot of sense.

The revolution that happened in finance was double entry bookkeeping. To me, the logical next step is to have everyone keep a immutable tamper proof, copy of the ledger synced, in agreement, all the time.
You are right, sometimes it is very difficult to concentrate with music, especially if it is soulful songs. Also, I don't really like to study with music, I can not concentrate. In this, of course, we can find its pros and cons, as shown here: https://ivypanda.com/essays/distractions-while-studying-adva... but still, not everyone can work or study with distracting sounds.
This is a great improvement to the color wheel! I'd love to see it implemented in Gimp and Inkscape as well.
Thanks for the support - I ove that people find my product useful and that I get emails daily about how helpful it's been to them - I wouldn't have it any other way
I might get down-voted for this, but I'm going to clarify my position a little.

I'm not advocating for shutting-down anyone's discussion. What I, and probably others, are advocating for, is only putting in trust in proven crypto.

The parent comment to all of this basically has the form: "Wow, you could totally solve your password hashing (that isn't broken) by using this scheme I came up with. No one else has looked at it, but boy, it looks difficult to crack to me."

There's a complete difference between that comment, and many of the others: "how about if we do X", and I believe the second is completely valid for discussion; As LONG as you include relevant experts in that discussion.

Joe and Bob talking about encryption isn't very useful unless Joe &| Bob are trained in cryptography and have experience in applying that crypto in the real world.

Down-vote all you want, but that's my view-point at least.
"If the conclusion of this is true, why aren't we seeing grand scale innovation and entrepreneurship from European countries that are most certainly very strong welfare states?"

Most studies show European countries having far higher rates of small business and family business ownership than in the US.

" The fact of the matter is that in many European countries someone who is not working can enjoy the same standard of life as someone who is, except they don't have to get up in the morning to earn it."

This is entirely false, and spoken from someone who has no idea what they're talking about.
Of course it isn't progress. But nor is a month a particularly long time for progress to occur in.
> telco monopoly

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

> office equipment manufacturer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)
I'm going to throw this out there: If I had a proper social safety net and I didn't have to worry about things like health insurance, I'd be much more likely to start a business and take some risks.
I've now got Kapten installed and will give them a try tomorrow. Hopefully there are Kapten drivers where I'd need it.
> BitCoin is Open Source Money

It sounds like Open Source Especulation to me.
Alternatively you could just use a token that has sane defaults, rather than having a tool that could bite you or could bite your organization after you depart.
Understood, thank you. Comment updated.
An advertisement that a lot of HNers want to see. Last time it was $99 many people on this site were pleased to know: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1288125
> If you have a piece of land with oil in the ground then what makes that oil scarce is the government artificially protecting your property rights

No. What makes it scarce is that it is some limited number of kilograms of oil. If two people want it, each can only have half. There is no limited number of copies for data. If two, or two million, people want a copy, they can all make one -- or they could if the law allowed them: which is the point: the scarcity is not imposed by physics but by legal choice.
Send you an email.
It would be great to see it hosted. I unfortunately never got the chance to use it.
That analogy doesn't apply because it's not the same thing. If I take some of your oil you lose some of your oil. Now if I went out and cloned it that's not stealing under the stated definition. This is the same nonsense the GPL tries to shove down peoples throats and I don't know why so many people are buying it. It's not about wrong right in this case so there's no need to bring pre-concevied biases into it.
Great shout! Didn't know about this feature but this solves the problem elegantly. Will give it a try.
Nicely done. Wish this was the starter kit for most websites.
The developers of Qt applications do not force how the UI will look like. Users can customize it with local style sheets (usually from the desktop environment).
Loved the video, and loved Prince of Persia growing up. It might have been my first PC game, back on our old 286. I'm saying might be, because we also had Monkey Island and Alley Cat!

Now that I'm older, I really appreciate the relentlessness of the vision. "I'm just gonna do rotoscoping! I'm gonna film my karate teacher and my brother!". I have to say it's really rare these days in the tech industry to see this kind of insane vision. It's even more rare to see someone pull off a cohesive product out of it.

I wish the interviewer had asked for more elaboration on the techniques used. It went really quickly from:"I ran out every single byte of memory with this Prince guy, how do I create an antagonist? I know, palette shifting!" to "then I added sword fighting, and enemy guards". Still, really love to hear these tales of optimization.
Also just to point out, for 2009 Swine flu pandemic, we had vaccines (effective 43%) and antiviral treatments can significantly help. This time since COVID-19 is a novel virus, we have nothing.
I agree, the imagery that we use in metaphor (in speech, visually, or in conception) influences how we think about things - and a popular analogy like that about the mitochondria is certainly a meme, a "cultural information transfer".

As you pointed out, a fairly recent meme is "the brain is the computer of the body", and maybe "the Internet is the brain of humanity".
> Any enforcement can be pretty light handed.

From this statement I deduce you're not Italian. "Light handed enforcement" over there does not exist - people will not respect any rule unless they are somewhat certain that they'll be caught and punished for breaking it. Half-measures just don't work, they will be gamed out of existence in a few hours.
We've banned this account for repeatedly posting personal attacks and flamewar comments. That's not cool on HN at any time, and certainly not now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
1. When I grew up in Taiwan, I was an avid reader of a certain PC gaming magazine. In addition to the usual strategies and walk-throughs, every issue also contained hex editing guides for various popular games. I could follow the instructions well enough, but I didn't understand hexadecimal numbers, so it was just monkey-see-monkey-do. Then one day, while flipping through computer books at an underground store, I "got" hex numbers, and my mind was blown. A whole new game hacking vista opened up in my mind's eye.

2. While learning Clojure, I tried my hand at implementing the Lisp interpreter described in PG's "The Roots of Lisp" paper. There were many "aha!" moments along the way, but the biggest one came when I understood how I could define the "eval" function inside my interpreter, which allowed me to run a Lisp interpreter inside my Lisp interpreter (which was running in Clojure, which was running on the JVM, etc.).
Great to see more ideas in this space! A few years back my wife and I tried something kinda similar, Sundayy. We even launched on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25848793

Some people still use Sundayy but it didn’t really take off. I am really glad we did it, but I’ll admit it got less exciting to work on when most users would fizzle out after a few weeks. My gut feel on why is that we didn’t do enough to compete with the dopamine drip feeding of typical social networks. Social networks are (amongst other things) a way to kill time and we didn’t offer that. This made it hard for users to make Sundayy core to their lives unless they were really committed, and then even if they did that it wasn’t very rewarding if none of their friends were equally committed.

For me personally I stopped using the product when I had some big personal news I needed to keep secret for a few months. It was very hard to write about other stuff on Sundayy because it was all I thought about. So I ended up writing nothing and broke the habit. That sucked - maybe I’ll pick it up again now I think about it.

Good luck OP. I hope this gives insight into some challenges you might face. I don’t have solutions to these challenges but hopefully you find some :) If you want to chat more on the topic feel free to reach out by email.
And for ruining the US Economy you get bailout money. What an awesome system and country! How they call it? Fascism?
Looks like you've spotted the submarine (CoreOS is in YC): http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Haha, you're so right and that makes me happy as hell!
Thanks! It's nice comments like yours that keep me making new videos.
I tried to get Wine to run a dotnet framework console app last week. It was the first time I've tried to use Wine, but it was way more complicated than I thought it was going to be - many magical incantations are needed, which vary by OS, hardware platform, OS platform and binary platform. And it's very slow. I spent about 4 hours trying to get it working, and after all that time, all I'd achieved was bombing on a Crypto API error.

I gave up.
also see ngcore, a JavaScript gaming framework that uses OpenGL under the hood. It's maintained by ngmoco:)
The U.S. government has paperwork hoops to jump which takes time. I believe you need to get on the GSA schedule in order for departments to be able to purchase your products or services. Many things are competitively bid.

On the plus side, the government may be a source of funding. Look into the Office of Naval Research or grants.gov to see what they are looking to fund.
I'd be running a TOR node, personally.
Wow, I bet Dominic has seen some good sales figures from that article!
I bought the Impact library a couple of months ago and it's great :) ..yet to build anything worthwhile in it though :(
No. The home page very clearly shows the VISA logo (though it's inverted, it's trivial to read). They could have chosen a generic credit card depiction (a credit card without identifiable marks), they went with visa.

I don't think the guy is reaching much here.
One of the most spectular places I have visited is Santorini - which is basically an island formed from the caldera walls of a large volcano. There are entire villages perched on the edge:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorini
He specifically said they won't be stored. You shove the script to the Redis server every time you need it. That solves his visibility worry, and also neatly solves any problems with machines in a cluster being out of sync.
Japan Nuke Apology Two..same delayed response, same non-statement, same lack of transparency..

Where is Godzilla to stomp Sony's ass when we need him?
Exactly. Splash screens are so 1995 - we need to be getting users to something useful as fast as possible.
Nah, I felt the Amiga 3000 was the most beautiful, followed closely by the 1000. The 2000 and 4000 were just PC desktop looking derivatives. An Amiga 3000 with a Video Toaster (that I'd never have been able to use) was my dream machine back in the day...
My only problem with this is who determines what is election misinformation?

If Russian authorities call another dubious election in favor of Putin, do we just accept that now and ban any dissenting opinions?

I mean after all their authorities have set the official narrative, isn't anything else misinformation now?
> Please stop your unfounded ad hominem attacks

With an opening like this:

> Can we just designate Russia as a rogue state and sanction the fuck out of them already?

I found my comment and question (which was as honest as possible) rather relevant and in no way an ad hominem attack. Based on your comments I highlighted the fact that it's a biased opinion, thus on very shaky ground and open to be challenged. An opinion that follows people/countries rather than actions/facts is not worth the pixels it's displayed with.

> completely inpertinent to the question of holding Russia accountable for its actions on the world stage

You wave the "whataboutism" flag to get out of any pinch but refuse to accept it's not whataboutism if it hits at your premise. The pertinent reason we can't/shouldn't hold one country (as per your statement) accountable on the world stage is that we don't plan on applying the same treatment fairly to everyone . This degrades the claimed intention of justice, and simply makes this look a blunt tool to be used by some countries against others in order to increase their power, legitimizing any attacks as "defensive" ("They're right to do it after being unfairly punished").

So it's exactly what I said when you "took it personally": we punish the country not the deeds, and this looks less like justice and more like something that justifies any response as defensive. Sure, you can punish selectively with the gun to everyone else's head but it just further strengthens my point.

I stand by my challenge and if you feel that taking it personally or claiming whataboutism at every step helps your case feel free to do it.

And I'll be clear on my position: all superpowers act the same to keep their power. Which is why none of them has to be allowed to get the upper hand over the others. With no checks and balances there's no superpower that will act "decently". At this point the US is the one on top of the pile trying to increase the distance. This makes me feel uneasy not because of the country (of the 3 I feel most comfortable with them there) but because of that "too much power" issue.
Gold has an intrinsic use value. Maybe not as high as its current monetary value, but it isn’t zero.

Bitcoin has no floor. You can only exchange bitcoin for taxes if someone wants the bitcoin.
Via: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/cqeuy0/instructions_...
I'm on an SMS thread with some iOS users. It's just a constant barrage of "someone laughed at an image", "someone liked [200 words of text]". And the best part is that Apple has flipped out and somehow assigned half the iOS participants to SMS instead of iMessage (I think because I do own several Macs/iPads and have an iMessage account, just not on my phone), so they're in the same hell that I am... and it's all my fault.

Trust me, they're not eager to include me in the next conversation.
From what I have read, ammonia toxicity is believed to require a secondary issue rather than just be from an extreme protein diet. This area doesn’t have a lot of research, but the reported symptoms from rabbit toxicity are noticeably different.

You’re absolutely correct that the Palio community tries to have sufficient carbs and fat to balance things out. However, I am basing this on what I observed people eating on Palio which while not correct likely does help the perception of effectiveness.
PS1? Why would you care about PS1? Besides, when did Bink become the only codec supported even by old consoles?
When I lived in Boston, my iPhone 4 had amazing coverage and call quality was great. Never experienced a dropped call. Absolutely loved the phone.

Then I moved to Silicon Valley. I've been counting down the days for Verizon to pick up the iPhone, ever since.

There's nothing wrong with the iPhone. AT&T, though...
Weather? In case of power outage, a land-line will still work (assuming the phone lines aren't down). A cell-phone will work until your battery is gone.
Been following these guys for a while since they were in an adjacent space to us. Sad to see them go.

We're officially releasing this post-holiday madness: http://hobsonfiles.com/signup

It's a contact/task manager/collab tool which is useful in reminding you to follow-up with contacts but we solve the problem differently.
Sure.

My most profitable day so far brought in about $30; I've had a few such days. Average is somewhere around $14/day.

My goal is to earn $10/day or $300/month per site, which I think is both achievable and a nice goal. December, being my first month with a payout from Google, is on track with this goal (granted, with some residual from November): I have $344.77 in unpaid earnings that will be sent to me at the end of the month.

As I briefly noted in my earlier post, I'm trying to do one of these projects per month--if my goals can hold, 300 * 12 sites is equal to a residual income of 3600 per month or $43,200/year. Lofty goals, but that's not a bad salary for residual income!

I'm still very new at this, with a lot to learn, but I'd love to write up my experience in a HN post. I know a lot of people are interested in making money this way, and although I'm certainly not an expert, I'd love to lend any insight.
Even then, the estimated remaining mileage in your gas tank is also fudged. A few seasons ago Top Gear had Clarkson drive some sort of Audi - he drove it until the indicator showed he had 0 miles left, and he kept going for a surprising while longer (he never did run out of gas). Given that evidence, I'm reasonably sure that car makers also factor in a safety margin so customers' cars don't immediately halt when the mileage-remaining indicator hits 0.
> (...) and is unlikely to remain royalty-free (...)

The argument that there may be lurking patent issues in WebM doesn't carry a lot of weight, I think, unless they are actually demonstrated. After all, couldn't you say that about absolutely any software?
Most manufacturers have quit playing those games. They generally (if you look) tell you what kind of weapon they were tested with, or barrel length failing that.

Doing a bit of googling, the .22LR doesn't gain much velocity beyond 14" barrel length, and loses less than 200fps from a 4" barrel vs the 14".
The first one, but I'm trying not to divulge too many details on the architecture of Amazon - as you can imagine.
Occasionally, you download a list of hash prefixes. This local database is used to do a probabilistic match as to whether it might be a malicious website.

If it might be, you send that hash prefix to Google, who respond with a list of full hashes with that prefix, and then you can go through that list (locally) and determine whether the computed hash is in the malicious set or not (without false positives).

The important point is that the full hash is never sent over the wire from the end user: only a prefix (typically four ASCII-encoded hex bytes) is ever transmitted.
This really doesn't tell you much at all, because:

- Only one program is tested, exercising a very small portion of each language (and its built-in APIs).

- The runtime is too small; less than a second in both cases. I'd really need to see examples where the benchmark has been run in a loop multiple times, preferably with a warmup run beforehand, and an execution time measured in tens of seconds.

At least the author made the effort to figure out the reasons behind the differences (based on the hypothesis that Rust would be faster), so credit is due there.
Apple could just have bought the music industry when they launched iTunes. The value, and in some cases the profit, of tech companies are weird outliers in the business world.
I hat very good experience with using buffer variables to copy-"prefetch" unpredictable costly fetches. E.g. from cache lines that get touched by several cores for communication.

And I only actual use them after one iteration of whatever I do. So the core could fetch the memory content without actually having to stall because I do not use it until later.

I'm not sure how realistic that is inside a kernel thread scheduler, but it sure is useful in user space for task based libraries.
Definitely communication (I know, a broad category)! Teamplay is key and good communication is the foundation of that. I've written a bit about this: https://ochronus.online/communication-for-software-engineers...
Implementing algorithms.

I know, I know, but someone's gotta do it.
I think Betteridge’s law of headlines is relevant here; If these videos were being removed by social media, we’d be hearing about the removals. Instead, we have journalists asking “Are cops playing music to use copyright law to have the videos removed?” We then watch the non-removed videos.

I’m not thrilled about this, but I’m not entirely convinced that police officers are trying to get videos taken down by playing tinny, low-volume songs in the background of someone else’s videos.

Does anyone have an example of a video that was taken down because police were playing music in the background?

I’ve been seeing these videos over and over in the past 24 hours on various streaming platforms. It seems that if they were being taken down, we’d be hearing stories about the takedowns, not stories about them listening to music.
No one wants to hear your shitty music, get headphones.
I'm extremely annoyed to see this 1970s anti-nuclear rhetoric being used as an excuse to shut down modern projects. Doubly so because it's being used by unelected councils that do not represent the interests of most Canadians.
I'm actually still running a MUD (Genesis, the first LPmud) and one of our main issues is that we don't get many new developers who want to help out and code.
Nowdays players just want to play, getting them to go through the extra effort to learn to code and help out developing the world is very hard.

It's also hard to get new players but a web client has really helped with that. Very few new players stick around though. But enough to keep it going.
The lack of developers is probably what will kill the game eventually.
You could always add min spec requirements for machines to join, increase redundancy of instances ec2-wide, add quality tiers that control what machines your instances go on, etc.

Amazon could even simply benchmark your server and network connection, and compensate you as a function of that, which would drastically reduce the incentive to hook up old crappy hardware to the cloud.

It's really the idea of being able to run copies of your OWN instances locally that intrigues me though.
Not really a great example, really a straw man argument because the code is so shallow. It's really about having relevant code in the relevant place. So yes the student object could have that code placed in it's class. That would be truly effective if you had, say, two kinds of students. Like one in a wheelchair and one that can walk. They'd both implement the function to move to the classroom, but internally one would walk() and the other would roll(). That's polymorphism. In the procedural case you'd have to check if(student.inWheelChair == YES) and it would get complex.
Seems to me this is about adding onto reality rather than replacing it entirely.
How is this different than the Meta AR glasses? I have a pair, and I think they did a great job with the display and interaction.