jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I worked on a project where this was the aim last summer. The other founder left to return to med school. He was previously a burned out game programmer and gamer. It ends up med school is lower stress and easier than founding a startup or being a game programmer...

There are a few really interesting things that came out of the project. First off, getting people to participate is hard. Without friends or others publicly participating it is less fun and becomes a list of achievements / resume / bragsheet / etc. No one wants to have the fewest achievements. Verifying or other similar proof is difficult. There are plenty of technical solutions but balancing them is key. I ran through a lot of combination and there is a fine line between the verifying processing being clumsy/difficult and being trivially hackable. There have been a lot of unsuccessful attempts in this seemingly obvious space[1,2].

I have continued thinking about this and would love to be involved in creating such an application. Currently I'm bootstrapping which doesn't match up well with this sort of project so it was shelved.

I think a successful real life achievement app is likely to start out with a small team including design and marketing. So it's unlikely to be bootstrapped, at least by me. But, never say never. Something simple may very well be better than the bloat that is out there. Anything that relies on facebook or iphone won't be the overall winner. It needs to be broader than that. There just aren't enough people comfortable with facebook or using their iphone. Since a successful implementation of the idea involves the network effect the winner will need to be ubiquitous. I guess that is just another way of saying it'll likely be a webapp first then a mobile app and facebook app second.

Some interesting related attempts:

[1] Life Points
http://apps.facebook.com/getlifepoints/

[2] Booyah
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/93475-Booyah-Bring...
who knows what happened to it ... but it is now "MyTown!"
http://www.booyah.com/

EDIT: syntax... owned by markup.
On the other hand, a 20-year-old probably didn't grow up with a record player but suddenly vinyl is in a huge renaissance.
...yeah, I suppose you're right.
That would have given away their game with respect to the new iPhone. Also, until iOS 4 is released we can't really say how it's implemented/what it will interoperate with.
Great idea. Is there a write up on this? A blog entry at least?

Some sort of 'about' so users can find out who wrote it, and what (if any) T&Cs and privacy there are, is probably in order, at least to keep the lawyers at bay.

Out of interest, where is the data stored? Cloud?
Brad was a super-cool person the one time I met him in person. Glad to see him succeed. WC is one of the best twists on the Digg/Reddit model I've seen. And I would totally run his real-time ads on my site.
You're welcome to suggest it, but it's really not the case. If someone did that to me I would be upset. I'm sorry that I have the common decency not to lie to people's faces, deceive them, string them on and then expect them to take it with a smile on their face.
I'm working for the man now anyway. Not much to be upset about really.
Ken, There is NO implicit criticism of people who don't work nights, and none was intended. Sorry if you came away with that impression.

Google is all about achievement...not which hours you choose to work. The fact is that most employees do not stay for dinner. Google people have different work schedules. Some come in early, some stay late, some work 9 to 5 at the office, and get back online at night after the kids go to bed. Some people work from home. There is no pressure to conform to some schedule.

Google is like a college campus. There are people everywhere, all working different schedules. There is always someone around so you never feel alone.

Don
NB, scam != spam.

E-mail spammers might need to send out millions of messages to get a conversion, but a more carefully crafted scam on a popular blog might be profitable with significantly less views.
I care about my reputation, therefore I would not use Posterous.

There's nothing stopping Posterous keeping it working exactly the same way, but providing an additional layer of protection for users who want to lock down their blog.

1.) Don't publish emails unless they passed DKIM

2.) Don't publish emails unless they passed SPF

3.) Don't publish emails unless they contain a secret password

4.) Don't publish emails unless they're signed with my PGP key.

Any of the above would be enough. It's all about choice.
This kinda relies on your objects being cheap to copy/move. Try doing your pass-by-value (not return-by-move) with a non-COW container, and see how it works.
Everything hinges on his belief: "I believe that it is impossible for human beings to create a human-equivalent artificial intelligence."

I agree that it's difficult to give formal specifications for a "human-equivalent artificial intelligence," but assuming the human brain is an entirely physical object, why shouldn't we be able to at least theoretically create or simulate a computer system with as much complexity and the same functionality?
So you have a preference for removing distracting cosmetic (non-functional) features. So do I. I probably will turn the background image off, but I could comfortably live with it.

Maybe I'm inferring too much, but your use of "crappy" and capitalising "NOT" suggests to me that this feature makes you angry. I think it's worth considering whether your reaction is a purely logical one, or partly an emotional one.
It's not bipolar, I understand those are the symptoms of ADD. Bored with everything, very high threshold for enjoyment or interest, but getting quickly bored with that same thing.
You're changing the subject.

When do we give up on a person? All the things that you mentioned are good, and should be prioritized.

At what point does Shannon's drag on society need to be deprioritized to give funding to other social efforts?

Do we, as a society, have a responsibility to spend 91k+ doctors' fees to anybody with disabilities?

Rather, when should public fund no longer be allocated to these situations? If her parents were able to support her, there would be no problems. Why are they crying out for more public assistance?
It's hard to have a guideline. Each employer has different level of coverage and deductibles. Make sure you understand how the plan works and what it covers.

Most of the big well known companies have substantial coverage for you and your family. I know some of them have plans that have a yearly maximum out of pocket cost in the low thousands.
Some kind yes, but I'd prefer the index be transitive and the data confirmed against what's actually on the disk. Not to mention, those proprietary formats usually fail to sync to player devices automagically.
I have a Big Board in my room with my goals listed. It helps when you visually reinforce yourself.

Also I have a physical calendar in my room. I want to go to the gym 70% of days in the year so cross a day off each time I do cardio/lift. I stole this technique from Jerry Seinfeld who used it for writing jokes :)
As a startup founder- done, sign me up!
Here's my obligatory dumb question of the day. What is the problem he is trying to solve with the macros? It seems super straightforward, so I suspect I'm missing something (being only conversational in Lisp and Haskell, although don't know macros even decently):

Here's the snippet of code that describes the problem (which I don't get):

do exists <- doesFileExist "lalala"
if exists
then ...
else ...
You'll need to self-study to a level a little higher than "a python script that lists prime numbers" before anyone will consider giving you a job.
It looks fake, but it is not (just read on the NYT as well).

I would imagine that they would just blackhole the ip addresses instead of that ugly image...
Someone should have shaken the shit out of me when I was 18, forced me to go to a school with a normal gender ratio, and gotten me to strike while the iron was still hot

Why is it someone else's responsibility to make you live your life the "right" way? I thought your bad advice post was fine up until you were blaming other people for how you lived your life.
Frankly, I think that dinging a person for wearing one is just as capricious as dinging a person for not wearing one.

But, by and large, I agree with your suggestion. If that cultural fit is a bad one, it's best to skip it.
Yes, the other "stereotype threat" researchers (studying race effects) also gave oral exams, and I agree that this is very fishy. Why in the world would you do an "interactive" physics exam in this situation if you had any interest in objectivity?

Generally this just strains credulity. Telling yourself "I can solve this problem" goes a long way in math and physics, but there's also a feedback loop (the article even alludes to it) - successfully solving problems makes you better at solving problems. So how is it that over a decade of damage due to this effect can be undone with a single inspirational chat?
I've replaced screen with tmux.
Yep, I`m using spreadsheets, and usually, I`m building them myself. Also, often I`m just using tips like this - https://ivypanda.com/blog/money-saving-tips-for-students/
Apple doesn't want to ship a computer with a crappy integrated GPU, because they want to ensure that users have OpenCL-capable GPUS. Intel is not offering i3s or i5s with good integrated GPUs, and Intel won't let NVidia make chipsets anymore, so in order to offer an i3/i5/i7 system with a good GPU, they need to use 3 big, power hungry chips (CPU+chipset+GPU). During the Core 2 era, Apple took advantage of the great combo of a Core 2 CPU + NVidia chipset with good integrated graphics to offer reasonable performance in smaller packages. They no longer have enough room for a 3 chip solution, so until Intel either improves their GPUs or starts playing nice with NVidia again, Apple faces the choice between using older CPUs or regressing to older enclosures and higher power consumption.
I think we all want the comment to be wrong ... no matter what the source
It's not a lie if they aren't logging anything.

(I'm not saying that's the case, by the way. It's just an observation. We can't really know if they're lying or not—and to that extent I agree with your point.)
I'd love to find ways to make my career focused on fighting climate breakdown and haven't figured out how to do so without defaulting on debts/obligations
> You want to do engineering in a trading role: designing prop trading strategies, managing portfolios and pnl.

From a income maximisation PoV, that's true. However, OP was looking to not increase his risk, so taking PnL risk might not be what he wants.
Just watching the video shows how they work just the same as a water wheel does, except "on their side". The wall(s) erected around them are shielding one half of the windmill, thus there is wind flowing onto one side of the windmill only.
That doesn't make sense. If you offset your GHG emissions you could be better than neutral. Perhaps you could even do it more effectively. It's the classic case of the doctor treating and then using a percentage of his income to buy soup rather than working at a soup kitchen himself. In the latter case, comparative advantage is being thrown away.
Yet Google, Apple, Microsoft are driving C's replacement for better alternatives, go figure.

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/16/a-proactive-appro...

https://security.googleblog.com/2019/08/adopting-arm-memory-...

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/10/introducin...

https://developer.apple.com/swift/#fast

English only became the lingua Franca after the two big wars, and even then, good luck trying to make use of English in some world regions.

I recommend reading a bit about the history of lingua francas since the beginning of mankind.

"The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel"

https://www.amazon.com/Last-Lingua-Franca-English-Return/dp/...
Don't make me come over there, kid.
Fun! But if abiogenesis happened more than once, and we don't see any alternate-root lineages, then we've admitted the possibility that major advances towards complex life can have a resource lock out effect leading to the extinction of alternates; this could apply to any or all of the critical steps towards technological intelligence.

e.g. did the evolution of homo sapiens and its subsequent monopolization of earth resources decrease the chances of another intelligent species evolving? Probably.

maybe eukaryoticity and sexual reproduction are also advantages so great they confer world domination to their lineages, and therefore will exhibit this kind of founder effect.

Once a world-dominating feature evolves, the rest of the tree must produce a competitor before resources are exhausted, otherwise the feature will only appear once in present lineages. It'd be interesting to know what effects modelling this might have on the resolved probabilities. Seems like the time-to-takeover/time-to-evolve ratio would be the critical factor.

The thought experiment would be: if you took away all the life with feature X, how long would it take to re-evolve that feature?

It might seem like Earth's resources are so vast that they couldn't possibly be 'taken over' in a meaningful way, but consider that all life is competing for a very narrow window of mineral availability, pH, and temperature, and that straying from these consensus boundaries requires you to evolve a huge amount of technology to begin using energy. Also recall that life tends to reproduce conditions suitable for its own continuance. So the result would be, that if you evolve something cool like a mitochondria, you might be able to replace your ancestors in every currently exploitable niche with significant energy flow in fairly short order.
With a hardware wallet there is still a paper trail that you bought the device. So the feds will be looking for them.

Printing the paper wallets, putting them in a $1 glass jar with a silica packet and burying in your back yard would have been 100 times smarter.
Students have crappy incentives too. They know school is going to take four years. They can work twice as hard, impress their profs, and maybe get slightly better recommendation letters. Or not.

The lack of a clear relationship between effort and reward is the ultimate cause of the haplessness they exhibit. Take away the structure and they might just start taking responsibility for themselves.
EDIT: and post-1965 events, being a communist was an automatic death mark.

You can thank the CIA for that, I'm pretty sure.
These are good tips, but my number one tip for sleeping long haul is to wear something super comfortable on the flight.

I have a pair of baggy tracksuit bottoms and long-sleeve t-shirt, that roll down into nothing, which I change into in the departure lounge or on the plane. With a pair of thick warm socks it makes the world of difference.

I love seeing people on the SFO->LHR flight who dress like they're on the way to an evening in a cocktail bar. They invariably end up looking disheveled and grumpy by the time we arrive.
I have the E2C's and I was quite happy with them except that they get uncomfortable to me after a couple of hours. I have now bought the Bose QuietComfort 15's. I haven't yet used them on a flight but I can wear them during the day for a long time with only slightly warm ears so I think they might work better for me.
The main purpose of this "free website offer" is to provide custom designed websites to startups who would normally not be able to afford it.

I AM asking startups with a budget to pay me, but I worded it in such a way so that it does not discourage those seeking $0 designs.

I understand that some people might take advantage of this, but I expect that number to be very low (in fact, I expect it to be zero), simply because people are in general rather honest,
While unlikely, I don't find it completely implausible that there are some people that live on the extreme edges of mortality charts. Out of the billions of people on earth, wouldn't statistics say that one out of a few billion should probably live an improbably long lifetime? Am I just thinking about this the wrong way?
My HTC Incredible is every bit as fast as my 3GS (which is to say, no noticeable lag or slowdown what-so-ever).
Has anyone got spam via the site?
and bitbucket, sourceforge, googlecode, stackoverflow etc.,
Then you'll be happy to know that those who received (bogus) returns from the fund are subject to clawbacks, since the money they received wasn't really from a return on their investment but was stolen from other investors.

You ... scheme would be hard to justify given that the SEC received so many detailed reports that Madoff was doing something impossible and just blew them off.
Yes, I guessed that twenty years of salary for a specialized public worker is around a million dollars. No real variation in their salary would make my point incorrect.

Why are you trying to make my "guesses" into a big deal rather than admit you misspoke about what the insurance company paid? Do you think that whatever fine they were levied predicted this necessary evacuation 20 years later?
To cement this example, do a search for a product like this on Amazon, and then do the same search on Alibaba/AliExpress. Most sellers on Amazon don't even bother changing the stock images from the ones on AliExpress.

It really drives the point home that you're paying premiums to unnecessary middlemen by buying on Amazon.
And why does the US almost 3x the rate of nations like China which we like to point out as human rights repressive. (and yes that includes third party estimates of political prisoners).
i think that has to do with 3 factors:
-- who i follow + their recommendations
-- time spent discovering
-- serendipity (very high)
What’s privileged about suggesting you shouldn’t upload videos of people without their consent. It’s often illegal for very good reason.
If you have resources and time to let your ADHD brain go free it can be fun, but it becomes a struggle when you try to be a working adult with normal job.

I'm not even talking about 'not being able to concentrate' because that's easily fixed with medicine. nowadays But ADHD is so much more involved on the emotional and psychological level.

My childhood was mostly 'driven by impulsivity', so having medicine available to me back then doesn't sound bad.
That's a pretty big misreading of my point.

> That violent people should be removed from society to prevent them from injuring other people?

No, I made it clear that I believe the efficacy of a prison system should be measured by total population crime rate and recidivism rates. The US prison system fails to achieve the goal you're implying it does. It has a very high recidivism and reconviction rate. In a sense, my point is more that "we've tried it your way and it's not working."

The goal should be to, as you say, "stop people from injuring other people" in the future. You can't un-injure someone in the past, and the constitution provides for proportional punishments in the 8th amendment if I'm not mistaken, so people will end up out of prison at some point. The question on my mind is how to make sure that when they do, they don't injure more people.

Recidivism rates are available for your review: [1]. My point is rather that the plan you're advocating for isn't achieving the result that you're telling me it is.

> Being in a constant state of understanding is not how you govern a country if you want it to be peaceful and cleaned up.

Being data-driven is how you achieve goals, and the data says this is the wrong approach.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6743246/
I personally "online"-know people where I have no doubt they share their porn with consent of everybody involved (e.g. they often hold signs up with messages for their fans), but who at the same time would never share their identity because of the social repercussions if certain neighbors or coworkers or their families learned about their "hobby".

Same as reddit's r/gonewild really, where posters would verify themselves with handwritten signs, but most would never even dream of handing over a copy of their driver's license to moderators or reddit.

I'd argue such a "sign-holding" verification method in regards to consent is far more conclusive and secure than any checkbox + copy-of-some-id method ever could be, and yet every campaigner/activist out there seems to rave on about real names and government id, which is a worse method that also comes with a huge chilling effect.

(I also happen to know that a lot of horny husbands share the ids of their wives with other people. I am not condoning that in any way. But of course is another way other than hacks where verification by government id can go horribly wrong)
German has a (few?) instances where going from lowercase -> uppercase -> lowercase or view versa is ambiguous because there are multiple upper/lower variants for each letter. I also think one even changes the text length because it turns into two.
The ski rental problem [1] is also relevant here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_rental_problem
I don't actually see much institutional abuse. Some hedge funds got squeezed, but that happens. Robinhood faced capital requirement issues, but considering the circumstances, it seems fair. Market makers kept trades happening.

The only abuse I see is Robinhood encouraging retail investors to make risky trades and possibly some people on WSB organizing a pump and dump. Institutions acted pretty responsibly.
I work for a much smaller company now than I did a few years ago, so I'm interviewing at a much lower rate. That said, if you have a single project on Github and can discusss it intelligently, you are already head and shoulders above the vast majority of people I've interviewed over the last 20 years.
This is the least useful way to explain music theory IMO: listing a set of rules and conventions that are used in music theory. If you know nothing about music, you won't be able to make music after learning all of this.

It does not actually EXPLAIN anything. Where do these rules come from, and how to use them? Why are there white and black keys? Why does some notes have several names? What are modes for and how to use them?

When I started learning music a few years ago, stumbling upon this kind of content made me so frustrated it inspired me to start https://www.mamie-note.fr, a website to actually explain music theory.

It's in french but I'm considering releasing an english translation. Shoot me a message if you'r curious or interested.
I found that too, especially when I had some bronchial / throat irritation that would normally encourage me to cough.
That page links to their GitHub:

https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail
I've not donated through Liberapay before but this prompted me to donate to k9-mail and in turn after poking around on Liberapay for a bit, I've set up small recurring donations to other OSS that I use (like GIMP).
That’s interesting, who says that?
For anyone interested in this issue in the US, there's an excellent new book out called A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, by Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire. It traces the push and pull between the promise of quality education for the masses through public education, and the attempt to extract as much profit as possible from schools that's been going on for a very long time.

They dispel many myths that persist about public education, and connect current privatization pushes to decades-long attempts to undermine public education.

https://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Schoolhouse-Door-Dismantling-Edu...
It may be a loss for Microsoft but it is a win for the scientific method. And it is also one more score for the push to include all data with scientific papers and not just the pretty version.