jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Covid pulled back the curtain on the mechanics of society. Everyone’s realized it’s all a facade and we’re playing with funny money, so may as well keep dancing until the music stops. It also helps that the US Fed printed a bunch of money and gave it to unsophisticated investors to speculate with.
Except it won't, because the government decided to skip due process.
From your responses, it doesn't seem like your company is putting forth even the bare minimum effort to make it work.

I say this is a failure of management more than anything else. Tough pill to swallow if you have company pride, but a lot of people have figured this out many months ago. Doesn't mean it's perfect or a replacement for in-person meetings, but many teams are far ahead of what you guys seem to be doing (which is essentially nothing?).
The 60h/week figure is what I observed ~8 years ago for my peers to be competitive for our state university that was not MIT or an Ivy. My point is that I think students are being overworked because the requirements are too subjective. A student has to be involved in everything on top of having great grades and scores because the SAT/ACT was the only thing that was even close to being an objective requirement.
Yup, there are aspects of Apple's offerings that are form over function (No, I do not need laptop parts in my desktop so you can make it thin just because). However, I'm a Mac user not because of the pro's/con's of just the hardware or just the software, but the overall experience - from using, maintaining, buying, servicing. It's frictionless. It feels better.

I prefer it. I have Windows and Linux boxes (gaming and tinkering respectively) but when I just want to do stuff I reflexively grab for my Macs.

If they don't have the same value to you - great. That's why it's awesome to have choice. But pretending there is no difference in value for everyone because there isn't any for you is silly (and more than a tad narcissistic).
Using a library like Oj[1] it is vastly faster to unpack JSON in Ruby than it is even to use the built in marshaling. It's extremely portable, performs well and is easy to debug. There really aren't many practical drawbacks to using it for transport on the same system.

[1]: https://github.com/ohler55/oj
> and Hollywood is one of the main ways in which it does that

Hollywood is the greatest marketing department ever built.
>The big real estate holding groups are probably getting way less than 3%.

But how much? The 30-year treasury rate is currently 2.35%. That's lower than the mortgage rate I quoted earlier, but there isn't much wiggle room either.

>How much is burkshire paying for 10 year bonds? Less than the us government?

Why on earth a corporate bond have less yield than a government bond? US government bonds are literally the safest investment instruments available.
“When I discovered Noether's theorem I was in awe.”

The same thing happened to me. Many years later, I thought that it should be more popularly known, so I wrote this:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/05/the-female-mathematic...

And now I am writing a book about it.
Hey Everyone!

I have been working on an idea for the past month now. I am a person who relies a lot on taking physical notes. I wanted to create a way to prevent people from snooping on my notes and basically encrypt the text, hence encryptext.

The project is only around 30/35% complete of what I have envisioned. But I believe that reached that holy state, it is an MVP.

I was able to get a few users on the mobile platforms. But I want to see what y'all think.

Here is the demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpn55TIuhto&t=1s

Web Url: https://encrypt3xt.me/

I feel that it has some potential. What do you folks think?

Any kind of feedback is welcome.
This. Amazon became a ripe unionization target because they get noticeable productivity per worker. Its rates are closer to manufacturing compared to typical retail and the other prevalent, low-income jobs.

With Amazon's massive investment in robotics and other opportunities for automation, they think they can become exponentially more efficient. At that point, a non-unionized workforce will lose that goodwill and be slashed into a fraction of its current size.
There are absolutely time when you need to deal with amounts smaller than the smallest division of a currency.

For example: 1 ea @ $0.00589
Normally this is when ordering in the thousands or millions of small things, but you need to record that fractional size.
This, the AI police of the future that automatically take down copyrighted information will just check against the chain.
Having worked on billing and accounting systems for decades now. I am constantly amazed by all of the edge cases and situations that have to be handled to ensure that every bill is correct and nothing is missed or misbilled. Especially since the oil firms out here will reject an invoice if it is off by as little as a penny.

At first it seems like it's so easy and straightforward but when you are looking at thousands if not millions of bills a year and the myriad methods you need to compensate for to ensure its accepted by large firms.... well. I can say nothing surprises me anymore. Including hardware level errors causing an issue no one expected with a final number.
I'm guessing the CEO is involved in technical development. Nowhere does any project management, roadmapping, customer interaction, new product development, customer outreach, etc appear in the tweet about her EA's responsibilities.

I did not read this as "I only work 40% of the week thanks to my EA", I read this as "A CEO can get inundated with the machinations of running a company, so much so that the vision and direction-making is lost". So, they outsourced the machinations to focus on vision and direction. That's _fine_. C-suite folks always have legions of assistants, just they are sometimes called Vice-somethings.

And separating "work that can be done by anyone with a little training" from "Work that can only be done by me or an expert" is a great thing to focus on for management. It allows a business to get the right people for the right things. This even has a name: Business Abstraction Layer (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/04/11/the-development-ab... ).
What is this $4/month VPS that you speaketh of? The cheapest that I know is $5/month by prgmr.com.
We got him the Turing Tumble [0] last year, and he loved it. He'll take years to work through all the challenges. I found The Boy Who Loved Math [1] years ago, and now he reads that on his own.

[0] - https://www.turingtumble.com

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Loved-Math-Improbable/dp/1596...
How is the colour support better?
So, the question should be, can artificial mind be treated as human mind in regards to copyright? I don't think we are there yet. Such kind of artificial mind wasn't created yet.

Theoretically though, I don't see why it shouldn't, if it can be created.

In regards to creativity of the artificial mind, see also The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem.
I highly doubt Amazon cares about $28000
So if the AI is the author, then who gets paid? If a copyright term is set in terms of the author's life, when does the AI stop being alive?

I think until an AI expresses a wish for something else, we should assume all AI generated work is in the public domain.
Curious why you think consumers and producers of speech are not free to make their own decisions about what speech is acceptable.
On my phone running iOS, in addition to the brightness slider there is an option under Settings -> General -> Accessibility Display Accommodations to "Reduce White Point", which I can use to further dim the screen.
Only covers snartphones, computers, and smart televisions... but what will need to be installed?
If only Rolls Royce had posted this idea to Hacker News first, they could have abandoned it after reading all the insightful comments about piracy.
Not entirely sure, I've wondered a bit myself.

The main one I come back to is that if a comment is worth both -4 net points and nigh-invisibility with the text fading, it's probably worth more. And only people with > X points (200? I think?) are capable of down-voting on -4 comments. Collectively, they serve to be stronger punishment for truly bad comments, controlled by people who have been here longer / contributed more, who probably know this behavior and vote accordingly.
Important is the life cycle of a swarm. Unlike wasps, bumble-bees and lots of other insects a bee swarm survives the winter as a whole and can start the pollination cycle earlier than other insects. Furthermore honeybees have a structured way of flying "on: plants, meaning that they do commonly not change pollination rate.

Bees are actively used for guided pollination, which is not possible with most other insects (not withstanding some experiments with bumblebees in greenhouses). Interesting fact is that you will often find the phrase "crop xxx requires yyy hives" while describing the role of bees in pollination.

hth.
Congratulations on survival!! I assume any final analysis will take place on the blog, so I won't request it here (unless you feel like it).
You might consider SpiderOak (https://spideroak.com); their pricing appears (at a brief glance) to be about half of DropBox's.
I recently started using duckduckgo.com and i'm extremely impressed with the results - clean design, no seo spam from content farms, even useful for german queries. Overall i may get less results (just assuming, if true i didn't notice), but they are definitely the significant and important ones.
Agreed, I'm getting increasingly annoyed with the first half of science articles being overwhelmingly positive and the latter half laden with caveats.

It's a common tabloid technique.
Swedish are the best. Without tax breaks their ODA is 0.98%
I actually hate this line.

I've heard it a few times and it provides the impression that you weren't going to explore something important in your planned presentation which is a bit of a slap to the audience. I prefer "This gives us an opportunity to talk about..."

Your presentation shouldn't be an accident, you shouldn't be glad you would have failed to tell us something important had things gone right, you should be glad to react to changing circumstances and explain something off the cuff.
If we can make one, it seems pretty obvious from the studies I've seen that it will be the major enabling technology for getting into space in a large way. Unfortunately, I don't think we've hit the carbon nanotube lengths that we'd need (on the order of meters).

Here's a great book that came out of a NASA funded study that breaks the issues down well, including costs, necessary tech, and methods for dealing with potential issues like cable breakage: http://www.amazon.com/Space-Elevator-Earth-Space-Transportat...

Their conclusion was that it would be much more cost effective than most people think, and that it would enable an incredible reduction in cost to orbit due to not needing to use a pyramid of fuel to carry other fuel for later, or enormous one-time-use precision machinery, and instead using simple containers with electric motors and transmitted electricity.
I think advertisement should be banned outright. Wouldn’t miss it.
This was like 600 bucks a few years ago and they are using leco phone from about 4 years ago.
I recently developed 'IT band Syndrome' which made me say goodbye to boring/injury prone running and switch to swimming. Best decision ever. Fuck running.

I don't know of single runner who hasn't suffered some kind of injury. Again fuck running.
You can do this in Rust too: http://doc.rust-lang.org/std/dynamic_lib/struct.DynamicLibra...
and an implementation (I think unfinished) in Coq https://github.com/FormalTheology/GoedelGod
OP mentioned using biometrics as a username in combination with a password. [1] seems to imply you can add a password or pass code on xbox and I think you can do that too on a Galaxy S (?)

[1] http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/kinect/auto-sign-in
Not really an account of his discovery, just a story about how he claimed to have found one; no one knows what flaw he thinks he found (but one can guess).
This is something that might sound tangential, but using nose as an input medium is not the worst idea, even with perfectly capable hands.

I've been using my nose awkwardly a lot on Android Wear, and honestly, this article makes me much better about it. We have so many screens, so many interfaces, yet only two hands. Anytime I'm typing, driving, running, my nose does the job on the smartwatch. I'm sure a lot of people have been doing it.

I wish there was more studies regarding these, most that I find keep talking about gestures, which I think is overdoing things, which humans tend to do at first with every problem we try to solve.
I too wonder why, as a linux user, I should care how many other people use the system. It seems to me that we have a really good community going and if more people join in, good for them, but Linux isn't in any danger of fading into obscurity at this time.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "the nature of the practice" and "practical focus" and how these ideas are separate from each other.

That nature of engineering is practical application.

What engineers are focusing on is what they will build. If they're at work building iOS apps for commercial purposes they aren't going to be building and publishing as many open-source libraries or tools. This affects the entire ecosystem of engineering. It affects what kinds of tools and libraries get built. Tools and libraries are "the nature of the practice". You don't program in an object-oriented manner without having an object-oriented programming environment.

As for art, if you're not getting anyone to pay you for what you're making, you're gonna have to get another job. This is gonna have a big affect on what and how you make things. You might respond by working as little as possible and using cheaper materials. You might work a bit more but have a less time consuming process. You might be able to find commercial work that utilizes and promotes your artistic skills. No matter what, your process and therefor the kind of art that you make is gonna change.
> How do you expect businesses to get insights into what features users like or dislike in their product?

Collect the data you need yourself. If you don't want to do that (it's really easy) then the data can't be that useful/important to you. Another way would be to, you know, ask your users.

What bugs me is that people seem to think it's okay to send my data to another company (usually many, in all kinds of different jurisdictions) without even considering to ask for my consent. That's not nice, is it?

You could ask me, on first visit, if I'm okay with you sending my (anonymous) data set to Google. It's really not that hard, is it? Just ask. But you don't. Not only does nobody do that, I'm pretty sure most people don't even consider doing it. That's the most offensive part.

So what am I left with? I could stop using the WWW all together, I suppose, or, I could block Google Analytics and the likes before hand, and then, if I feel comfortable doing it, opt in to sharing my data because I like your service and I want it to improve.

You and Google don't ask for my consent, but Ghostery does. That's why I (have to) use it.

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bhouston said: "This type of stuff should be opt-in." (blocking GA, that is)

I hope the people reading my comment can appreciate the irony.

[By the way, the hypothetical guy I'm yelling at — not you]

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One hour later. Can't make this up.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/healthcare.gov-sends-p...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8920294
Our entire economy is predicated on the notion that people get money by doing good things for society and the money is their reward. In that sense more money should correlate with more service to society. (Whether it does....)

We're also selfish, "good" is subjective. A homeless person can be as kind as they want but how much can they do for you? A rich person can benefit you in many ways and it may not cost them very much.
Maybe with this capital infusion, Coinbase will get an actual business address. Right now, their mailing address is a PO box in San Francisco's homeless district, their SSL cert is a cheap "domain control only" SSL cert, and their SEC filing gives the address of an apartment on Bluxome St.

That's a violation of California B&P code section 17538. (http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&gr...)

(d) A vendor conducting business through the Internet or any other electronic means of communication shall do all of the following when the transaction involves a buyer located in this state:

(1) Before accepting any payment or processing any debit or credit charge or funds transfer, the vendor shall disclose to the buyer in writing or by electronic means of communication, such as e-mail or an on-screen notice, the vendor's return and refund policy, the legal name under which the business is conducted and, except as provided in paragraph (3), the complete street address from which the business is actually conducted.
I find it fascinating that through the business lens, Google is competing with Facebook to sell more ads by going into low earth orbit. We didn't get flying cars like they promised in the Jetsons, but that sounds pretty futuristic.
>> Whatever data you measure on the 90% of your visitors that don't block GA can, most likely, be extrapolated to the remaining 10% as well.

Agreed.

I think we as tech people tend to assume everybody is as tech savy as we are - when in fact, it's not even close. Also, when you talk about an aging baby boomer population who didn't grow up with Facebook and Instagram, they could care less about being tracked.
Yes, especially since cowsay was marked in a different color!

Expected behaviour from *nix would be that you'd either

sh somescript.sh

Or

./someexecutable

Of course the extension is not technically required, but it would help in the UX for the user to try running it on the sh command.
I have several friends who personally knew Feynman. He was a problematic individual in many ways. One of them remembers being in an elevator with his girlfriend, and Feynman getting on the elevator and immediately hitting on her. Another recalls being dragged along to crash parties at Caltech for free food. That same one commented that, yes, he was super careful about his legacy and all the stories published about him.

But they spent time around him in a working context, and they are all absolutely clear in their minds that, beyond the showmanship, he was a genius.
With that kind of logic, why not just a rob a bank if you really need cash. They're both illegal. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Isn't that more or less what Grammarly Premium can do? I'm not a subscriber, but their site says it offers suggestions on tone and clarity.
Likewise you would expect Italy and France to do better.

Eurovision is not about high quality song's otherwise Amy RIP would have one for "Love is a losing game" (it did win a novello) and the Beatles should have won several times
That’s a good thing. The ability to copy an API allows more competition, helps improve services as others provide similar functionality, and forces improvement because it becomes easier to migrate from one service to another.

One thing I do see happening is that sensitive and expensive to develop algorithm internals may be prevented from leaking into APIs. I, again, don’t see this as anything other than a win for devs. An API is fundamentally used to get stuff done, if a developer doesn’t need to know the implementation details I overall think this is a win for the developer using the API.
In general, to have a government at all, it should act by the processes by which it is validated by it's citizens - democratically ideally. But to have a government and pretend you don't want one to actually act seems silly. If you're worried about it acting in the wrong way, then focus on strengthening the democracy, transparency, and collaboration aspect of it.

An ineffective government is a long term path to instability often leading to a risk of non-democratic rule.
The worst language feature. Always used at the detriment of readability.
The US saw a similar drop in the murder rate around the same time period, despite no action in terms of firearm policy. Declaring the policy to be effective based on a secular decline in murders seen broadly across the Western world seems rather disingenuous.
Been in tech a long time. Been on HN a long time.

Over the past few years reading comments here it seems that the people are already communist and the government is just now catching up. Trump helped avoid it for a short while.

Tech used to be creative, respectful, and open. I simply cannot believe the commenters here are my peers. The double speak, double standards, and vitriol toward anything Trump/conservative related is unbelievable.

Now that the real fascists have power, there is big trouble ahead. Conform or lose everything. Just like the CCP.

Thanks for the good times.
It’s actually a bit cheaper this year: https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1312177408879939584?s=2...

It was one of the cheapest plan on the ACA marketplace in WA. It’s a very high deductible plan though: $13.6K.
You want change but without making any effort?
Well yes: the point was to delay or prevent certification oof Biden as president, with the aim of keeping Trump in power.

What other reason for the attack do you imagine there was?
She also wrote panfrost while still in high school.
It's raining money, the fed printer is going Brrrrrrrr!! If Bitcoin didn't exist, Gold might be at 40 k$ right now.
You're being sarcastic, but I actually agree with the notion that changes to an OS that cause previously-working code to break are in fact bad.
You know Netflix isn't available in all countries?
Er. Those aren't "real" websites. I'm afraid you misconstrued a lame ad for something much more.
I'll try to post the original article in science once I get to work.
Re: multiple personalities, you should try reading http://www.amazon.co.uk/Multiplicity-Science-Personality-Rit...

Worth bearing in mind, however, that "multiple personalities" can be an explanation for how you behave the way you do, but they are by no means an excuse. The danger in this book is that some people will take it as an excuse to do whatever they want and blame it on their "other personalities".. that would be bad.

Still, the book is very interesting and even useful, as it includes tips for mapping your personalities and getting them talking to each other so that "they" are in agreement about which personality should come out in what situation (for example, you don't want your aggressive zone personality to come out when meeting a client for the first time).
Thanks.

BTW, server4you have a lot of horrible stories.
Hetzner reviews are better, but it's important to understand that this deal hardware is of "desktop quality" and not as reliable as "standard server" one. And it is in Germany.
Throughout much of history many top scientists have devoted their lives to finding better ways to kill people. Advertising is merely a more humane alternative.
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You don’t want to maintain your own database server, even managed by GCP, but with SQLite you have to maintain state on GCP Persistent Disks and backups to S3 using Litestream. Why do you think this is easier?
I'd recommend you Google "Dunning-Kruger curve".
100% agreed Nick, easy to focus on these types of vanity metrics to give yourself encouragement during a hard fundraising round. Looking forward to using DocSend later this year for our seed round at www.opinionx.co, I've had you guys bookmarked since December after coming across a great article of yours.