jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We techies like to believe that we can find technical solutions to these problems but I think this is misguided. Even for a very technical user completely untangling yourself from FAANG is a lot of work and a massive inconvenience. And if this kind of privacy is really only available to a small technical elite then how much good is it anyway? Privacy is only really valuable when it's accessible to everyone.

Respect for user privacy is going to have to come from regulation.
> I've got some ideas around this, too. But, I need to make sure they're genuinely useful.

Sounds cool, make sure to do one of those 'Show HN' posts and I'll likely grab it when it comes out! What platforms will it be on, I cannot bring myself to not type on anything but a thinkpad keyboard any more at my age.
You don't need iCloud to use macOS. And macOS itself is free, as is their awesome office apps, XCode and a lot of other useful apps and services.
It has been suggested that cold reduces flow in the nasal blood vessels and this hinders immune response, giving the virus a foothold for infecting the organism. I read a study about a bunch of people being left with their feet in a pool of cold water and it showed an increased infection rate vs the control group, but I don't remember how significant and I cannot find it anymore.
Yeah, Data is cheap and smartphones are plenty.

Indians are voracious consumers of content and healthy competition has reduced prices to absurdly low levels.

I'm in an urban area, with connection from one of the biggest providers. It costs me about 9 USD a month for unlimited data (I mean, about 2 GB a day, BUT, with carry forward, so I have about 250 GB of data to use in my account), unlimited calls and sms. I stopped worrying about data a long time ago.

And I don't even use JIO, the provider that brought in massive reductions in data prices.

Edit : I stopped using WiFi even at home, consume about 40 GB a month.
You should really see what happens when you click reject on their terms and conditions prompt.
I would agree. I've been a lurker on HN for a couple years and the recent PG post about creating wealth was new to me. It was a wonderful post, old as it may be, and much more useful to me (a developer) than multiple posts about another acquisition.
Very interested in seeing the WTF happens with the housing market this year. Maybe a good indicator of truly how people feel about this vs random surveys.

- Huge amount of people fleeing to suburbs last year.

- Huge amount of people continuing to flee this year.

- Lots of buyer regrets on hugely marked up homes as things normalize.

- Bunch of workers getting called back into offices and people regretting commute times.

- Bunch of people quitting jobs and regretting their expensive purchases as they can't find other competitive paying jobs that stay remote.

Etc..
This sounds like a once in a lifetime industrial swamp-draining opportunity.. what do you suppose the correspondence is between folk having a hard time turning up in one location in the morning, and folk with a variety of other square peg/round hole work ethic 'features'.

Don't get me wrong, in this scenario I'd most likely be a drainee, just pointing out the thought must have crossed the minds of a more than a few managers.
Congrats Streamlit!
The Sir John Soane's museum, my favourite museum in London, houses the Sarcophagus of King Seti I. The guy who took it from Egypt, Giovanni Belzoni, engraved his signature on it.
The study was done by Robert Half, a recruitment company that is extremely old school and works with mostly antiquated companies. This is simply confirmation that many of those companies are behind the curve in their culture and mindset.
A friend of mine has recently started a service for providing processed OSM data based on user's requirements for a small fee. Check it out - http://opencagedata.com/
I didn't downvote you, but having read your comment I imagine some of the motivations of those who did were:

- 'Horrid tools like Objective-C' is a value statement made without justification.

- 'Imperious App Store overlords' sounds rather like a straw man.

- 'several-thousands-of-dollars investment in Apple hardware and software' is inaccurate.

The problem in general with iOS vs Android is that is has indeed become like Mac vs PC, in that individuals who have decided on their allegiance feel the need to promote their chosen platform in comments, often through (probably unintentional) exaggeration. I'm not being patronising here, I'm quite sure I do the same.
+1. I use WinMerge on a daily basis on my Windows development machines. It's a very complete and polished program, typically written by people who use it themselves and want their tools to be the best.
We keep hearing that 5G isn't dangerous, but it looks like there is science showing 3G-5G is bad for our health:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31514029

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29332300

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29462174

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2713174/
The White House ignoring sound advice and doing its own thing... we've had a few good years of that. How is that news? (By White House I mean one person, and I'm saying this in a jokey way)
An idea I had was coasters for bars and restaurants. You could easily glue those to shelves.
Yes, the UK isn't self-sufficient in food and cannot be. Much of the animal pasture land is unsuitable for arable farming (e.g. the few remaining sheep herds on the Yorkshire Dales). That isn't a problem if we remain open to the world economy..
That is part of an IDE feature list.
The OP is not talking about people dying outside hospitals, it saying that people with dying with preexisting conditions are not tested
I wonder if they're giving an artificially long date in an attempt to discourage certain orders so as to relieve the current crush.
No matter how much income inequality people have, the production is meeting an aggregate market need where the very few rich people have no significant impact. If all the rich people would disappear, the food market would not change a bit, so why throw inequality in the analysis?

Yes, if everyone would be rich the situation would be different, but a world of all rich people is a matter of purchase power and inflation, it will never exist, the million dollar will be the new thousand dollar.
Most Americans I know use the latter, in which the r and l do not have a vowel between the two.
But the point is to actually do something about it, not just get rich off the prediction. Trading climate change on futures markets does not mitigate it, unless those futures are somehow tied to something else that would cause them to be priced in (like a carbon tax, or tradable emissions caps). To remove it as an externality, you have to somehow price it into the products that are causing the problem, either via decentralized consumer action, or via centralized governmental action.

I'm skeptical decentralized consumer action will succeed, and I agree that much of it is poorly targeted, but it's at least the right idea of how to tackle things: if something is not priced in, you have to take action that will force it to be priced in somehow, like preferring one product to another, boycotting some products, banning products, or internalizing the externality via a tax/fee. Just trading bets on it in a futures market doesn't do anything.
I actually was really excited when I saw this originally. I made a point of going through all the bots posts to see what you were doing with it. I got the impression that you were trying to tweak the bot to the point that people would find it interesting. So for me it is sad to hear that things aren't working out. I was hoping that DupDetector would eventually be pointing to year old discussion pages; a discoverer instead of a detector. It was only links to the articles that didn't gain any traction that bothered me. They seemed like noise.
Yeah, no they're not.
Thanks for the feedback. Appreciated. We'll look into this ASAP
Are you saying that the example function is truly a one-way function?
Depending on how much emphasis you put on the word, it can range from one to two syllables. If you use it in a sentence ("The owl ate the mouse") spoken at a conversational speed, the sounds that come from your mouth are likely to be indistinguishable from saying the name Al. If you say the word slowly, you'll have an [æ] (the vowel in cat) or an [a] (the first vowel in father), followed by [wl̩] (sounds like a sheep's hair).
Additionally: a rotational inerter can be made by connecting the ring gear of a differential to a flywheel. The two nodes are then the two side gears of the differential.
Can you explain what representation you use to get multiplication by a constant in O(log n)? Wouldn't it be at least O(n) for the standard bignum representations, making the algorithm O(n^2).

Multiplying n primes together creates an O(n) digit number. Multiplying an O(n) digit number by a constant is an O(n) operation. So essentially we're doing an O(n) operation n times, hence O(n^2).

The smartest representation that I can think of for the numbers would be to store the prime factor exponents in an array, which would essentially transform the algorithm into the array based version. For example 120 = 2^3x3x5 would be represented as {3,1,1,0,0,...}.
Maybe they suck because the airlines run the screens. Why aren't there media or advertising companies running the screens, like the screens in the back of some taxis? In exchange for installing/upgrading/maintaining the screens, the company gets to put occasional commercials in the movies the passenger watches, takes a cut of the proceeds when the passenger browses and buys from Skymall on the screen, etc.
The best graphic designers listen to the nerds, the sales team, the CEOs, the VPs, and every stake-holder in between. They design a "look" that pleases the CEO, who sells it to the board, who tells the VPs to implement it, who tell the sales team to accept it, who tell the nerds to build it.

The best designers are not prima donnas who force their ideas on the company. They build the design the big guy wants, takes the check, and waits for the VPs to call him back to make changes.
I'd rather ask a different question.

Who the hell cares? Seriously. Why is all this attention being paid to Android by various Apple-centric/Apple-leaning outlets?

I'm not trying to be combative. If iOS is the superior platform then why keep drawing attention to something that, in your opinion, is inferior?

Technically speaking Android and iOS are fairly even in features. Android has some things that iOS doesn't and iOS has some things that Android doesn't. It's pretty much a wash. What it boils down to is what people want to use.

I use android because I honestly prefer the interface and interactions over iOS, it ties better into my Google-centric workflow and I'm a geek. Apple isn't losing a sale to me because I don't like what they have to offer.

All the arguments over which is better are entirely over subjective aspects. iPhone/iOS looks prettier. Android has better notification handling. These are all fairly end-user perspectives.
The concept of sueing is great. It's the modern culture of it that's horrible. Adverts on TV screaming "DID YOU SLIP OVER AT WORK BECAUSE YOU'RE A MORON? SUE YOUR COMPANY!!", it's lovely.
"Unless your JS parser is absurdly broken, ignoring whitespace should not be such a computationally intensive task."

It is because every character the parser reads is a loop iteration at best, a state machine transition at worst. Minification does more than just deleting whitespace - identifiers are shortened too.

"The improvements you see must derive mostly from the size reduction and download time improvement."

The former yes because more code fits in cache and you need less time to
parse it, the latter no because gzip compression does a better job than minification.

"And no. Minification of JS would not count as code optimization in any self-respecting compsi course."

This is why you learn about compilers by writing them instead of taking courses.
I see. It seems this is what school, nursery, postnatal care is - communities where adults help to raise all children.
>Just blindly reducing taxes on one side can be just as harmful as it can be good.

Name any right-wing politician who has ever said something like this. Your explanation is nice in theory, but it's never been part of the national discussion about taxation.
This whole discussion seems to leave out a point that I've been thinking about...

"New features" isn't the ONLY reason to keep making incremental improvements to software. We also need to make adjustments as hardware paradigms shift over time. Hardware improvements are meaningful, and we often SHOULD upgrade software to take advantage of that.

My question is, will hardware ever stop improving? Will we reach a point where an M1-like full-desktop SOC includes enough processing, storage and graphics power that it satisfies any user's desktop/laptop needs? If/when that happens, can software stop evolving in parallel?

And a related thought, when we finally start getting significant amounts of people off the planet (space travel), will all networking software need to undergo a major paradigm shift to manage the extremely-high-latency-low-bitrate situation as a normal case?
The precedent was set long ago, and if Austin does not take it I can assure you some other city will..

Why, it is easy... a new factory (or a factory expansion) means more jobs, more jobs means more people, more people means more Home and more secondary businesses all of which the local government will get taxes from.

In principle I agree, but in reality Austin will make more tax revenue from these other properties and business than the amount of the abatement
Because someone at marketing figured they could make a quick buck selling people new versions of software they already owned.
And now io_uring too.
This is crazy that employers were allowed to claim your time and work outside of contracted hours without any reimbursement. This should end in every country.
I hate when people call engineering staff "IT". It's a derogatory term to use that minimizes their contributions, and I wish I had some equally derogatory term to refer to the jobs of people who say that.
By upstreaming its code changes to parent projects such as Linux, wlroots, GTK and GNOME applications, Purism believes that it can reduce its long-term maintenance costs and be able to offer lifetime software updates for the Librem 5 phone and fight planned obsolescence.

More details: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...
Discharging heat into nature is considered pollution by many countries by now, and in particular discharging it into bodies of water. You might simply not be allowed to do that, or you might have to pay hefty pollution taxes.
Fully agree. You make an assumption about that statement....
If this was an ad for the book then it worked, just bought it and am reading it now - fantastic so far
Videos on GV are stored in some Google-proprietary database, so just shipping the physical disks probably isn't useful.
> They are the original neutral nation.

Read up on Swiss history, please.

Belgium, Norway, Sweden and Austria were also neutral at some points. (Or are still.) And those are just the nations that I can name at the top of my head.

Wikipedia says "Sweden (now EU): has not fought a war since ending its involvement in the Napoleonic Wars in 1814 with a short war with Norway, making it the oldest neutral country in the world."
Could the down voters please explain themselves?
Generally datacenters are weary of photos due to housing hundreds or thousands of different customers, many of which who do not want photographs taken of their equipment or even to have the geographic location of their equipment exposed (governments, financial institutes, etc). At Facebooks datacenter the only occupant is Facebook, so it's nice that they aren't as paranoid and will show these photos.

Well, except the "no photos of the older equipment" rule that Scoble apparently ran into :-)
There are 38 companies in total. Have a look at the tabs under Companies 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Well, whichever worker accidentally mislabeled it could have a really bad day, depending on how much money the store ended up losing.
not just a problem, it is THE problem. It can be done, perhaps by having a browser wallet with a limit $/person/month, and the transactions can be verifiable, but anonymous. Tax systems from 2 centuries ago do not serve us well anymore
Just add some lo-fi rain samples and vinyl distortion on to and you can pass off your mistakes as "retro vibes"!
Perhaps Moore's law is a consequence of people's ability to design algorithms. Hardware design needs similar resources and concepts: circuit routing, simulations, benchmarking, design re-use, code bases ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language )...
This one was a new for me:

> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.
I have an old Macintosh in my basement, and it boots faster than most computers I use nowadays. It does not prove anything excepted that every operating system existing added bloat over the past decades.

On another note, I still can't find a Linux distribution that will run my netbook faster than Windows XP. (Heck, I even tried ArchLinux, installing only what I needed with a tiling window manager.) The problem seems to be the graphics (i.e. the X server) is just painfully slow. I now understands why Ubuntu wants to invest in Wayland. But imho there are other parts of the kernel which are just as crappy.

It always makes me laugh when I see a Linux distro branded "for old computers", Windows XP being always faster on those computers (and the distros relatively slow) because the distros use recent kernels.
Exactly, a fancy house and an expensive SUV may mean they're deeper down in debt.
Do you scrape the job listings or ...?
The problem, as The Spirit Level by Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson states, is that the larger the inequality in a society, the worse off everyone is, even the rich.

The future is more global, which means it's more and more of Taleb's Extremistan. I don't think we should be working to try to change such effects; it's natural and comes with technological progress. What I would like to see is compassion and epathy for those increasing numbers who are left behind by it. We have to figure out this or it will be detrimental to us all.
You don't have to say your name, for obvious reasons, but would you mind giving an example of an Indian name, and how all of that information is encoded in it? That's REALLY fascinating to me.
> "You can argue about the techniques; religious questions, not giving him water, but it's all a well-documented psychological game that they're trying to play. If they make the suspect mad, the suspect is more likely to start yelling hysterically without thinking, saving the taxpayer the cost of a long trial. It's worth a try, right? (I think the correct answer to any question is, "my lawyer will answer that. get me my lawyer.")"

This is about the techniques. As another commenter pointed out, details matter. "Securing our airports" is all well and good until you start "securing" them via forced detentions absent any charges, denying basic physical needs, "patdowns" that would qualify as sexual assault if someone not wearing a uniform did it, and so on. The whole point is that if you don't consider the details and only focus on the goals, then you only consider the benefits and not the costs. Judging from the public statements by officers of the TSA and DHS, this is exactly how they seem to think about these practices.

> "Let me ask you this: say you want to check for guns and explosives before people get on an airplane. How do you do it?"

They already had checked for guns and explosives. Both his bags were scanned and his body was repeatedly "inspected" as well. The statements made by the officers indicated they were well aware that false alarms due to various common chemicals are routine. Yet they decided to assume he was a terrorist carrying explosives because he was a brown person who hadn't eaten traveling during Ramadan, not because of any concrete evidence on his person or possessions.
Hey, that's a horrible story. What this article highlights is that due to the dysfunctional nature of the current healthcare system a procedure that all parties agreed to do the surgery at $3000 vs the original quote of $30,000. If the system was fixed your current wife might have faced a bill of $4000 vs $30,000 based on an extrapolation. Still not great but a lot better.

You could get there two ways. You could have clear transparent pricing for hospitals and you could look at that pricing ahead of time and determine your preferred hospital in case of an emergency. Or the government could set hard prices (as we're starting to see now in MA which is leading the way in the US in terms of this direction)
Couple of reasons:

1. Early evangelists/Network. You can effectively "buy" 10-15% of your long tail by living/networking there. (assuming you have a compelling product)

2. Capital. Capital is recycled in tech companies in SV just like finance capital is recycled in NYC.

These are two areas that many companies find very difficult to do in early-stage.
Really? Are you serious? Even if he set off those detectors, which are evidently broken, doesn't he have to be treated with minimal courtesy as a human? They could've even just started off with listing some household items that could set it off. Does a broken machine warrant psychological warfare techniques? And if you're even able to justify that, where do these techniques stop? Should he have also been waterboarded and forced to drink crude oil, you know just to see if he'll break? All this despite being 'American'. The pain and mental anguish one goes through when this happens will only be apparent once it happens to you.
The valuation of Baidu is currently around $50 billion. Compare this to Amazon which is valued at $125 billion, and Google at $375 billion. Apple is at $600 billion. So you're basically wrong.
Ah. So your position is that there is a distinction, but it's not lexically recognized. My position is it is lexically recognized, but not by enough people.

It seems to me that a lot of people do draw a line between pixels and dots, and that a lot of people don't (but usually mean pixels). I don't know if there are proper authorities for this, but I consider the distinction important enough to warrant specific language. My dictionary here says that pixels are onscreen dots - I used to think the same, but now I consider pixels to be the samples in memory. I think you are with the dictionary, since you used the term "physical pixel". My adopted distinction meshes well with my ability to change the resolution of my desktop, measured in pixels, but not the resolution of my display, measured in dots.

I agree that Bray can call it a 300dpi display - I didn't criticize him for it - and I explicitly translate that to a 300ppi natural resolution display. As noted above (according to Wikipedia), some manufacturers are now exploiting this by reporting such displays as 900 dpi, counting the subpixels as dots. Therefore I consider it important to state natural resolution ppi numbers for devices with natural resolutions, such as LCDs, and dpi resolutions for devices that don't have a natural representation of a pixel, such as CRTs. Representation numbers, ppi and dpp, I have yet to see anyone provide (maybe because there are too many resolutions already).

tl;dr: It's confusing people, so make the distinction if you can.
Those other economic activities generally have a regulator standing by, a gambling commission, the FDA, SEC, and FTC. Most of them aren’t anywhere near funded or have necessary powers or maybe susceptible to regulatory capture. But at least there is someone. In the world of private angel investing, there is truly no one but you and your legal team to go after crooks.