jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This talk, mentioned on HN a few times, is must watch tv for anyone in this space.

http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/multimedia/schell-dice.shtml

On a personal note, I can attest to the addictive nature of these games. My crack of choice was WoW and oh how I chased that dragon. But like all highly addictive substances, it is my firm beliefe that this area will come under the regulation of government... to protect the children. But in reality it should be regulated like any other addictive form of entertainment like gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or narcotics. Not outlawed, but regulated. Like S.Korea regulating play time, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/12/south-korea-imposes....
hate it.

use https://google.com if you don't want the background.
Gabriel:

What's your view of the Philly startup scene?

Why wouldn't you move to to Silicon Valley?

What's your experience been like so far with angel investing?
Or, buy a Linksys WRT54 router, load Tomato (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) and jack up the signal level. Be careful not to exceed the legal limit (or not).
> If you can make power usage unexpectedly go up by more than ~10% within a minute, most power grids will fail.

Wouldn't that behave identically to a sudden loss of generation? The power grids I know of have schemes to deal with that, by automatically shedding large blocks of load in several stages.
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Just wait until you see what they have planned for the airwaves next!
You used yours like a truck, yet would've been better served with a standard or longbed. I'd be surprised if you ever bought a short bed again, as most people who do use their truck as you did find the disadvantages.

In particular, I despise the fact I can't even put a dual sport bike in the back of shortbed without the tailgate down, which means everything else has to be tired down as well. My point was really based around the fact that most people who buy crew cab shortbed trucks are using them as a man's suburban SUV.
the concerns raised include a lot of speculation (in the form of "could do bad" or "has the power to do bad"), and that's also a red-flag.

I'm not really sure how to address the idea that we shouldn't attempt to understand and interpret what things happening now might mean for the future.
And people said the Cybertruck was ugly...
Some people have turned "ICE vehicles" into a disparaging remark. I prefer to call them 'koala crematoriums' (please consider donating to any of various koala rescue funds).
The only thing wrong with DNS is that we entrust it to a corrupt government. It's time another country step in and take control and replace ICANN.
Should refer to all cars, since they all pollute, electric just pollutes relatively less. Still need all the cement infrastructure and everything else. Ride a bike. Use public transport.
It's gonna be the latter. It's something we initially set up for ourselves because we really enjoyed the idea of receiving a daily newsletter of stuff to read rather than constant notifications.
The time I was mugged at gunpoint by two guys was a surreal experience. It was such a calm experience in the sense that neither of the two muggers were aggitated or excited. There was only one gun. During the entire interaction, there were many thoughts of movie like scenes on how to disarm the gun and extricate myself from the situation like a scene from a movie. Having absolutely 0 training in any kind of self defense, I chose to not do anything and walked away unharmed and just lighter in cash. The only thing that changed from that is it was the absolute last time I've carried cash.
It sounds too similar to certain sci-fi stories [1][2] that it warrants taking it with a grain of salt, I have to say.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_(Star_Trek:_Th...

[2] https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Roy:_A_Life_Well_Lived
We just started smelling/tasting some fishy flavor with eggs from one of our hens. We suspected flaxseed in the feed we were giving, and switching feeds seems to have fixed it.

Brown egg layers are apparently more prone to this issue
Blocking websites that are addictive time sinks. Removing recommended videos on YouTube (so it is just a search bar).
> But every trait or behaviour that survives on evolutionary timescales does serve (or did serve, in the case of vestigial features) a purpose.

This is in fact not true. There are "coincidences" of evolutionary biology and if there is not selective pressure to change them, they remain for millions of years.
Why do they call it Razzlekahn?

I was just watching her tiktok account, pure cringe.
#1 on pixels. No. Especially if Chrome finally roles out the restrictions they keep pushing back.

A workaround right now is FB allows you to upload 'offline conversions' but you can just upload your own digital conversion data...

And you can always just use unique links to track actual purchases/donations direct from ads.

But even the offline conversion doesn't work for a key part of my business, which was raising money for politics & non profits from FB ads. FB doesn't seem to optimize on the offline conversion data as well as it used to pixel data even though it says the match rate is high.

#2 could possibly exist in a wechat type of way. I like the idea!

FB actually used to have a ton of use of those in fb browser games. Like that farm click game. They are trying to do something like this with messenger, payments, instagram store, marketplace. But they still own all that.

I would love to see if they could further open up messenger to more immersive 3p apps.

Or like steam have a platform to built apps within messenger.

But isn't that the vision of Meta too?

I wish we could take donations for political campaigns via FB's processing but it's not allowed
Surely the important distinction here is that the state has the power to imprison or execute people. In our day to day lives, we frequently make decisions based on things not proved to that standard, such as in job interviews or on dates. Presumption of innocence is very much an abstract legal contrivance, though it's insightful to see in what cases people suddenly decide it needs to be applied outside that realm.
Was that the minor version that introduced phantom braking? Or the minor version tossed over the fence a few days later that "fixed" phantom braking? Or the minor version after that re-introduced a different phantom braking issue? Or the minor version after that...
The football people quickly burn out when nerds are just getting started.
As much as I like rms, I find it very difficult to move past his comments on child pornography[1].

[1] https://stallman.org/notes/2011-mar-jun.html#4_June_2011_(Bo...
And what percentage of system administrators apply all patches within 72 hours of release? I'd be very surprised if it was higher than single digits.
What about UX though? Why on earth I cannot view all songs from one artist on mobile or web app (only desktop). I can only view all albums, so I should google which album the given song belongs to? I can search of course, but what if I don't remember the name exactly and will remember when I see it? What kind of PM or designer would think it's a great idea is beyond me.
This is just one example, the app as a whole is almost as unintuitive as it can get compared to e.g. google music that was killed. It took me a while to discover how to view other songs for an artist, for example, and I doubt I'm alone here.
Corruption is good for society, especially to keep the fire burning under the ass of the "great and the good".

Gandhi had to get kicked of a train to wake up. Otherwise he was perfectly satisfied wandering about being a mediocre lawyer.
Why penguins? Because they were there, in large numbers.

And were fatty, as are many sub-Antarctic warm blooded animals.

That's... about it.
Prolog can also be pretty mind-bending at first, for people used to imperative programming.
Historic Tale Construction Kit: https://htck.github.io/bayeux
> Is "no data caps" sustainable for Starlink?

Maybe not. This was the first hit for "starlink downlink bandwidth"

https://www.lightreading.com/4g3gwifi/starlinks-network-face...:

> Starlink, the satellite Internet provider from Elon Musk's SpaceX, will be able to support just 485,000 simultaneous users at 100Mbit/s across the entire US, according to one firm's new estimates. And that kind of performance won't even be available until the end of 2026, when Starlink floods Earth's skies with up to 12,000 satellites.

I don't really understand the fascination with wireless for fixed services. If you can run a wire, you should, because wireless is basically just using the air as a single shared wire, and the longer the range the more people have to share that one wire.
Probably something along the lines of "Hello, I like money."
Rest in peace Maestro
Also from Dysons site:

"The POLAR test chamber is much bigger than a CADR chambler, and more representative of real-world environments than existing standards dictate with a 81m3 footprint and no external fan to support air circulation – the purifier itself must do this."[1]

ie: dyson has written POLAR to exclude external fans into their new "standard". Honestly they also don't clarify what they mean by external fans. Since they compare to a box fan/filter in the CADR example above... one is left to either guess or assume that they are either talking about traditional fanned purifiers or are assuming that no hvac exists in "real-world" environments.

[1]https://www.dyson.com/newsroom/overview/update/december-2020...
There's a story here:

Many extensions, including some major ones are still broken on Firefox desktop and I think people are afraid this will happen on mobile as well :-/
Then time to move off Ubuntu? I’ve been a big fan of it for a long time but it seems my servers will be moving to a BSD sooner rather than later.
We paid around 10k out of pocket for our first child, I think we were both making about 30k at the time -- something like fifteen bucks an hour in the early 2000s.

A good friend, an illegal immigrant and co worker at the time, paid zero. At the the time I saw the good in it. Im not so sure where I land now.
So we agree that there is more to weight gain than lack of willpower then. It wouldn't be a stretch to then imagine that not all people feel hunger the same (as hormones usually vary from people to people), and thus that for some people, it takes less willpower to maintain a healthy weight.
"It would certainly be an unprecedented intervention by the core Bitcoin community. But if it would restore public confidence in the protocol and economy, then it would be in enough people's interest that I think there's a slim chance it could be made to happen."

This would do even more harm than good. The entire thesis of Bitcoin is that the rules have been set, they will never change, and they can never be circumvented. We can't just say "Just kidding, let's make this one exception" without destroying confidence in the sanctity of the blockchain.

However, it would be really interesting to see what would happen if Gox created an actual GoxCoin fork of Bitcoin and distributed it to their customers who lost bitcoins, one GoxCoin for every bitcoin lost.

GoxCoin would certainly be worth far less than Bitcoin, but consider Litecoin’s market cap is 5% of Bitcoin's, compared to GoxCoins representing the 6% of all bitcoins lost by Gox.
Can you link to this deal for an instance with similar specs as the D2.xlarge for 40 a month? that sounds like a great deal and I don't need to host in the US, but this instance type is what I've been looking for.
TA works because other people believe it works.
It's been shown in studies that athletes who think they are the best (deceiving themselves) perform better than athletes who are more realistic. The phrase "ignorance is bliss" does indeed ring true.
Rust seems like an odd choice for game development: Given adequate runtime performance and expressiveness, perhaps the most valued quality in a language used for the purpose is minimal turnaround time in the edit-build-test cycle.

Here, Rust is, AFAIK, far behind other languages. C lacks expressiveness, but C++ and C# seem popular for the purpose, and their build time is good. Incremental compilation is sometimes available, potentially avoiding a slow, non-parallelizable link step.

Rust is promoted for security, but I have not heard of that as a criterion for game work, and it seems like the first criterion to be jettisoned vs. any other.

What makes Rust's slow build times tolerable for this use? Has it had more progress in incremental building than I know about?
If one were to wear the same pair of underwear every day without washing them, you'd probably smell bad and end up with nasty rashes. But unless you are homeless where it is difficult, everybody changes their underwear daily and washes it after every use.

If you don't wash your plates, bowls, and utensils, you can get sick due to crud which has grown on the residual cruft. That is why people wash them between uses.

If you are using your mask long enough that it is developing bacterial growths, that is your fault and isn't flaw of the mask. Wash your mask after every use, giving it ample dwell time in the soap before rinsing it. Wring it out, hang it to dry, no problems.
Why are we trying to maximize human lives saved as opposed to human life-years saved?
I’m always amused to see these “I’m sure caching wouldn’t even be a hard fix, the community must be resisting it” takes.

Feel free to show me the PR’s that have have been rejected that would have solved the problem. Or if you think it’s easy, feel free to make that PR yourself.

As the quote goes, “There are two hard problems in programming: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors”. This is cache invalidation.
I think HN would benefit if more people would hop on board from different walks of life (doctors, lawyers, artists, moviemakers, photographers, manual laborers, philosophers, historians, economists ...).

So it is good to have you here.

All you need here is basically curiosity and friendliness.
The author doesn't actually say it out loud, but

> OP should have reached the conclusion that there are alternative worker arrangements which would benefits workers globally.

This is specifically what he DOESN'T want. What he's saying is that someone from Boise, ID shouldn't complain too loud about location-based pay, because taking the logic to its extreme would mean redistributing all this worker and consumer welfare with the rest of the billions of workers worldwide and, surprise surprise, that would actually suck to essentially every American, doesn't matter how poor.

So, basically: "Hey guys, don't rock the boat. We might be crew but you don't want the rowers competing for our place"
I've had ISP DNS servers that redirect NXDOMAIN responses to spammy "search" pages full of sponsored crap and banner ads.

There's always OpenNIC, DNS.watch, or Quad9 if you're after something that isn't operated by a creepy megacorp.
Yeah, it kinda ties back to the question of under what circumstance can an ISP cut you off.

You could at least get around DNS level stuff with a P2P application layer. But if you're cut off at the routing level by everyone then yeah, no go...
One of the things that interests me (of many), is the use of cmake.

Does anyone have good references on extending cmake to new tools that don’t produce executables per se, or otherwise work in non traditional ways?
"Her detention is a sign of how closely China's government scrutinises comment on the internet."

It shows how they punish it, but that statement is piss poor. Here in the UK (hi BBC, think you've heard of us, you've based here) we've seen an MP get suspended for saying something on Twitter. I don't remember reading that it was a sign of "how closely the British government scrutineses content on the internet". Oh, that's right, it doesn't fit the image of the story correctly.
If we say Porsche is Apple then Android is probably VW - both producing excellent products that looks pretty similar from a distance but with relatively little overlap in the markets for their core products.

[NB I mean VW branded cars - not the entire range of VW brands, which is huge]
As an angel investor, does that mean I can start funding companies with badges instead of money?
As I understand, there is a request from the public prosecutor of a Swedish city/district for him to brought before the prosecutor for interrogation. This prosecutor is a government official, prosecuting suspected criminals in name of the state. If by 'a lawyer' you mean someone who works as legal counsel for a private party, then no, they are not the same. What I meant was that a 'subpoena' (to use the in this context more or less equivalent concept in common law system) from a public prosecutor in many Western European countries is usually granted, and as such the headline is not as premature as it may seem.

Anyway, if the confusion is over the word detain then yes I agree that that may not be quite what is happening; I hadn't looked at it that way. It's not like they're going to throw him in jail (for a longer time than it takes to arrange the interrogation), it's just that they want him to be picked up by the police to be interrogated in order to determine the merits of the case.
I disagree for the simple reason that some countries do not recognize the public domain, so people in those countries cannot use your code at all, without risking legal problems.
How the hell do you win a race that doesn't end? i.e. - "Aug 30, 2006 ... Why MySpace Won The Social Networking War." There is no "winner" there is only the current leader.
But is one year of "re-education" in a labor camp without a trial a fair punishment for that?
Some would say the greatest fonts were not created, but discovered?
Cheaper hack if you can't afford two computers. Two seats. I don't work when sitting in my bedroom, but when I sit at my living room table I only work.
An enjoyable description of tech companies, small & medium, that make money for the founders but don't exit big.
Wait—but items 2-4 are also implied by item 1. "Tweet" is just a jargon-word for "Twitter message" or "Twitter post", conveying no extra significance or connotation, and the Times standards editor is correct that journalists should avoid argot and jargon whenever possible.
Great feedback @djb_hackernews and @dpcan! I'm constantly evaluating how I'm communicating with others and improving it where I can.

While this isn't justification for poor communication skills, a conversation is affected by the other's perceived notions as much as the way you present yourself.
Yeah Michigan does have it tough, but there are some great pockets of entrepreneurship popping up both in West Michigan and the Ann Arbor area. I'm hoping we can turn around the feeling of hopelessness to something better.
Agreed, I've found that the more time that's spent trying to shoehorn an implementation to match a spec to the letter, the longer it takes to ship.

So long as the delivered system does everything it's supposed to do, the plumbing doesn't really matter as much.
I don't like that idea, because of one simple limit. You cannot diff databases (easily). Of course you can dump them, make sure the linebreaks are there between records, make sure they're sorted, etc. etc. But checking the whole config in or out of a VCS is much more useful in general. It also provides an easy to browse record of changes.
I believe that all comes free with the scm he is using, fossil.
Yeah sure. It needs perseverance and, well, a bit of luck. The main thing that will help is SHREK:

Say who you are: "Hi I'm [name] calling from [company], we're a web agency nearby that specialize in X."

Note you may have to repeat this step more than once as you will most likely get through to a secretary. If this is a totally cold call (you've not spoken to the person before, you don't know their name) you should make it sound confident and like there shouldn't be any reason not to put you through to how it is you need to speak to. If you don't know who you need to speak to, ask for a generic title, don't be afraid of asking too high (e.g. "can I speak to your CTO?")

Hook: "I've just been looking at your site / I spoke with someone last week / We met at a trade fair / I know X, who apparently is an ex-colleague of yours / We've just done a website for [a key competitor of theirs] and wondered if we could do something for you."

Reason statement: Why should they be interested? "We have a new web design service we've aimed specifically at X"

Key questions: If they sound interested, figure out how important this could be to them. "How do you update your website currently? / How much is X costing you? Have you considered integrating your website with X?"

The above would be easier if you have a specific product, but if - like us - you're a service-based agency, you'll have to play it by ear a bit, or maybe create specific products for industry niches. I'm not a natural salesperson at all, but one of the first things we did when we started our company was to invest in a training day from an extremely good salesperson in our network. It's paid for itself many times over.

One of the hardest things is to keep motivation when you have a list of phone numbers in front of you. This is a game of numbers, sooner or later you'll call someone who is currently after exactly what you're selling. In order to do maintain enthusiasm, 'visualise success', such as what the potential new business would do for your company, for you personally and professionally.

Obviously there is a lot more to this. Does anyone else have any other tips?
I need to retract my previous comments on the other HN post that the communities would just choose over other open source alternatives for Node.js stuff. Well, now this is open-sourced too!

Cheers and happy holidays~!
Another that I forgot about. Scientists are making progress on hacking bees' pheromones directly: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22606797

An 84.3% increase in honey production. That said, I don't think there's any research on long term impacts.
What puts them in a different market now? Nothing.

What supports my claim that the market was created by Apple and Google? You cannot exclude "faster processors and a slicker UI", as you put it - nor what they're a part of. It was a revolutionary change in user experience.

Your point about neither Google or Apple having involvement in the industry is a good one and it's not completely uncommon for stories of disruptive innovation - which this clearly is...
This is just one point of view of money and taxes, a mechanism to extract value from conquered population.

This probably still happens in 21 century, but I hope we can see beyond that, at least in 1st and 2nd world.

Money infrastructure for most people there is primarily a convenient bookkeeping mechanism for trade. In most cases, government should not directly involve itself with such trades.

Towards your question, if soldiers stopped taxation, their supervisors would rectify that eventually. If Rome stopped taxation of conquered populations, the coins would still retain value in Rome.
I mean, you should always have a backup of your dependencies (up to reason).

I develop mobile applications, and use SonarType's Nexus repository storage as my primary dependency resolver. Everytime I fetch a new dependency it gets cached.

A monthly script then takes care of clearing out any cached dependencies which are not listed in any tagged version of my applications.
One thing to consider is that ssh is much more likely to be throttling than the terminal emulator, so having a really fast terminal emulator won’t really fix problems with programs that output too much. I’m also not saying that throughput should be totally ignored, just that it shouldn’t be the metric used to benchmark and optimise ones terminal emulator.