jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Interesting how they aren't focusing on the most important revelation in that story, which is that the NSA went to considerable effort and expense to fix the things that a FISA judge said were unconstitutional.
This is so patently false I'm not sure if you aren't just trolling. I use windows 8 on a 150 DPI screen (28" 4k) on my work desktop and a 220 DPI screen on my laptop (rMBP). Both have no problems, and most commercial apps already support it (chrome, IE no problem, I've heard phtoshop is ok as well).
Sounds like Facebook is actually having people use their homes as their offices (claim that tax deduction!) and having an open office for meetings. But they are afraid to admit that individual work happens at home.
There has been a Radiolab episode about the slave-like conditions the workers at Amazon face:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/brown-box/
Most supposedly anti-consumerism arguments I hear imply we should devote more attention to our purchases.

But, if you want an identity that isn't based on consumerism, it seems we should devote less attention to your purchases rather than more.

Honestly, I don't care about toilet paper. If I can hit a button and move on with the rest of my life, that seems better than spending time shopping for it.
I agree with most things and that's been the general sentiment in our accelerator, too. However, I don't consider it a waste of time. Pitching is great in a way that it forces you to have a clear vision of what you want to do. And boy, I needed it. Every time I pitched, I got questions I knew I didn't have good answers to. These were the biggest holes in my business plan and pitching alone made me think harder about them.

As for the demo day, we were told early on that it's a big thing, but it's unlikely that we'll be discovered then. I got in touch with a pretty great investor who's kinda interested, but I think they're way out of our league now (series A/B level), so we'll wait. Also, on that day we initiated a B2B deal which just might turn out to be what we need at this stage (we're building a prototype now).

I love the Berlin-SV comparison and your conclusion!
Celebrated one of our wedding anniversaries (or whatever you'd call that) there.

Crap if you want to swim, but quite amazing to relax and fun to stay over night.
I'm pretty sure most Americans will give up amazon for free education, health care, paid maternity and paternity leave and the many other social benefits Norway provides to its nationals.
Speaking as someone who spent too much time on a farm as a kid, you can do a lot with a tractor.

The only thing you really have to watch out for is popping a wheelie and crushing yourself under it. Imagine my surprise when I found out that real cars aren't like that.
From the phase 3 trials you'd absolutely expect cases to occur after vaccinations. That's what the 95% efficacy after 2 doses means, that 5% of people had symptomatic infections.

Hopefully it is the case that the 5% are people that have a weak response to the vaccine and the remainder mostly aren't infectious. They can study this by monitoring for asymptomatic infections (I don't know if they are going to or not).
There’s a lot more to being born a certain way than genetics though. For example the pseudorandom way neuronal cell interconnections are initially established. The dynamics of the way cells divide and specialise and how organ structures form in an embryo is a long way from being predictable or well understood in terms of the variation it might introduce.
Our election was interfered with my a foreign country. That is not at all the same thing as widespread fraud.

> but that would get Trump booted from Twitter

Trump has called for and praised violence for five years now. He only got banned after fanning the flames during an invasion of the capitol building. (He literally says stay peaceful but not even anything resembling leave until much later in the day)

> It isn't a serious argument to say that Trump is bad because his opponents can deduce he means to do secret evil so it is OK to out-of-context quote him

You don't have to out-of-context quote him.

"We love you. You are all special" while talking directly to those who have invaded the Capitol. That isn't out of context at all. It is exactly what he said and there is no alternative interpretation.

> Pelosi can say that and get the opposite treatment

Do I need to link all of the times where Trump repeatedly said he only lost the popular vote because of fraud. It wasn't a vague statement but a direct one that was repeatedly stated.

> The current situation is not that unusual for losers of a US presidential elections.

No president has waited more than a day to conceded in the modern era. Unless you count Florida where there was odd things going on. Even then it was over once the Supreme Court ruled on it.

Clinton was called out for not conceding the night of the election even though she did first thing in the morning.

These actions are not normal. And I am not even talking about yesterday. Way before that we were way away from normal.
I haven't used Signal before but this and the discussion on GitHub issues reminded me about a toy project that contains a WhatsApp chat to JSON/CSV "converter/exporter" that someone may find mildly interesting:

https://github.com/zikani03/pakadali

Heroku dyno here: https://pakadali.herokuapp.com/wa2json.html
You can create Signal group chat (up to 150 members) https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007319331-Gr...
My grandma and her identical twin had very similar personalities, skills, interests, and life choices. Even their voices were very similar.
Is it possible that it's a joke based on the material of the OP? Maybe we're trapped in some sort of International Obfuscated Internet Thread Contest...

Edit: ok, I'm guessing it's a joke about Turing completeness. Loops, you know.
I'd try to build something real on it while doing as much from scratch as possible.

AWS has so much crap in it that no one can know everything. I'd focus on the major, most popular services.
I am going through this problem right now.

I told customers the price and it would not move and all updates will be free, however I am about to release the second version of the product.

It is significantly more stable, faster, more features, better designed, and one of the best applications I've ever made.

I want to recoup the time spent on it, not to mention my sales from v1 have started to drop and I want to bump that up again. Maybe I'll release it as version 2 for pay but initially at a discount? I do not know.
Suggestions?
So you guys wouldn't fit this criteria either, right, having taken money from Bezos?
Oh that's just crazy. I just clicked that link but didn't click Confirm because ?u= is someone else's user ID.

What's sad is that because it's numeric, you can run down a whole list of IDs, opting people out or in.

So what's k stand for, crc32() or something like that on the u parameter?
This looks like a cool product if both people have a secondary screen.

A similar but much more low-key solution that I love using is tmate[1]. Tmate is a tmux session that can be shared over SSH. It's super easy to install and anyone who has a SSH client can join in two seconds. It's great for pairing sessions if both developers are into vim or emacs editors. Or just to show a quick thing.

[1]: https://tmate.io/
America did not dominate for all the 100 years, Japan represented a much larger share of the world economy in the 80s.
We have 3 sources of difference, genetic heritability, home environment and "others". The things you talk about would go under "others", and they aren't very interesting since we have basically no influence over them, as everything we can influence via nurture goes under home environment and nature via genetic heritage. So for example, of we compare growing up in a rich or a poor household (this includes going to a better school, better neighborhood, better food etc), most of these studies shows that it has almost no effect at all.
Even with CoScreen you only share screens/windows when you want to. You can go online/offline with a tap of a button and in any case it only shares windows on a display you choose.
Coming from Norway, where this is a concept that is being taught from primary school, because we have extensively legally protected rights to access private land ("freedom to roam"), it always surprises me how difficult this distinction is to get for people.

We had it hammered into us from childhood, and it boiled down to getting us to think about what would affect us if people wanted to access our land, and what would have only minor effect, and what kind of access we might want to have that would have at most minor affect on the owner. It takes minimal prompting to get kids to come up with trade-offs that deals with the distinction of "walking through someone's yard" vs. "grant access to larger areas of land".
Every time I do the !g anymore, I never find Google has any better results. Usually, I just get 32,000,000 more results listed that are just auto-generated junk. Most of those don't even have the words in them that I searched for, so I don't understand how they come up.
> "The potential upside to users is a smaller data bill."

Ideas that are terrible for end users almost always include a line like this: one small potential benefit for the group getting screwed. The possibility that any users will see that benefit approaches zero the closer the plan comes to fruition.
Probably meant iTunes.
I don't disagree with you, but that's an issue for the seller, the woman, and eBay to sort out through their dispute resolution process and/or small claims court.

Nothing about her obligations makes lying to her right, just as nothing about breaking the law gives a police officer the right to beat a confession out of a suspect.
That link and everything associated with it is exactly why I don't give him a chance just because he's Orson Scott Card.
As one programmer to another -- don't do it. Programmers can never learn the ART of graphic design from books. B

Graphic design is a black art -- for most programmers; you could end up spending a whole day trying to create a 32x32 icon and still hate it. I have wasted many afternoons cussing at my own design work.

My advise is to get really good at a web framework in a language of your choice and create code that separates logic from presentation. Leave the design work to the pros.
My library used to have the 8086 project book. When I was young I used to drool over the projects in it for hours but I never had the resources or the knowledge to build anything. I might have to check it out again now that I have both.
True, there would definitely be some loss of content. Of course, you could give an account to students based on their obtaining a .EDU address. :)
If they didn't abstain, China would likely respond with tariffs, costing Canada billions. They're also worried about the two Michaels, a couple of Canadians imprisoned in China that have been used as political pawns for the past few years.
As a parent myself I have only one piece of child rearing advice.

First: Read a bunch of books (which will contradict each other)

Then: a) do what you think is right and b) when someone tells you to do X (especially, but not only your mother or mother in law), if you disagree just say "Funny you should say that because I just read the exact opposite" and hand them a random baby rearing book.

This sounds like a joke but the biggest problem in child rearing is well meaning busybodies and we figured out this effective way to shut it down. (Busybodies who were strangers we just smiled at and ignored).
Wasn't the goal of the F-35 to sell an inferior aircraft to allies and keep the F-22 for the real action?

I don't know the sales figures, but it may have been a success using those metrics.
That is not even remotely true. In the latest earnings, Google Cloud revenue grew by 46% year on year, and they said GCP specifically grew faster than Cloud as a whole.
> pearly whites teeth
I blame ads like colgate for this, natural teeth have yellowish hue.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/02/13/genocide-is-the...
> Like anything else in life, you can do a good job or a bad job at being a parent. If you're prioritizing your own convenience or ego or career over the wellbeing of your child, then you're a bad parent.

Sounds like you have no clue. Try looking after 3 babies then come back an talk to us.
An airport can contain a high number of boarding gates, not all of them are used 100% of the times. It would be very inefficient to allocate space and equipment for security check at each boarding gate.

Furthermore security checks can induce a variable amount of delays, it's better to perform them a little earlier than actual boarding in order to amortize for eventual delays.

One solution would be to have another waiting room after the boarding gate security check, and force people to pass to the "boarding security check" earlier than needed, forcing them to wait in the boarding room.

But there is no need to allocate a single waiting room for each boarding gate, as you can assume that each boarding gate security check is performed with the same criteria, you can have a single waiting area in order to optimize space. You will have then second level boarding gates for actual boarding.

And of course, since people are waiting there doing nothing, you can monetize them by providing shops, bars etc.... but wait, we are back where we started
Some sites (possibly hn too) do not display cached pages to authenticated users. This could be the reason you see a decrease in response time compared to when you're logged in.
I can agree with your criticism of plot of Eyes of the Overworld and Cugel's Saga, but Vance's worlbuilding is beautiful. It is a shame that most later fantasy and d&d worlds turned into banal Tolkien-knockoffs.
Bitcoin doesn't depend on exchanges any more than your HN karma might depend on exchanges, yet karma still has value in its own sphere - with or without an exchange rate. Anything that can be traded will be traded on a market if there is demand for it. All of that (everything that happens due to market forces, manipulation, etc) is irrelevant to bitcoin as a technology.
Really? Cool. That's explicitly contrary to the XMPP spec (unless it's changed since I last looked), but good on them for doing the pragmatic thing.
Email us at hn@ycombinator.com if you want some tips about how to present this to HN. (Same invitation goes for everybody who wants such tips.)

Edit: here's what I sent the users who emailed:

If you're sharing
your own work and there's a way to try it out, put "Show HN" in
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Posts without URLs get penalized, so when you submit, put your link in
the URL field and leave the text field blank.

Add a comment to the thread giving the backstory of how you came to work on this, and explaining what's different about it. That tends to seed discussion in a good direction.

Include a clear statement of what your project is or does. If you don't, the discussion will consist of "I can't tell what this is".

Include links to any previous HN threads that are relevant. Readers like those.

Drop any language that sounds like marketing or sales. On HN, that is an instant turnoff. Use factual, direct language. Personal stories and technical details are great.

For Show HN, the product/project needs to actually exist and there needs to be a way for people to try it out. It can't just be a landing page or market test or fundraiser or a blog post or a curated list or other reading material. Please respect this rule. If we allowed "Show HN" on all those things, nearly every post would be a Show HN.

Please make it easy for users to try your thing out, preferably without having to sign up, get a confirmation email, and other such barriers. You'll get more feedback that way, plus HN users get ornery if you make them jump through hoops.

If it's hardware or something that's not so easy to try out over the internet, find a different way to show how it actually works—a video, for example, or a detailed post with photos.

Don't have your username be that of your company or project. It creates a feeling of using HN for promotion and of not really participating as a person. You don't have to use your real name, just something to indicate that you're here as a human, not a brand. If you'd like to change your username, email hn@ycombinator.com.

If you're comfortable doing so, put your email address in your profile so we can
contact you if we notice anything, and also so
we can send you a repost invite. We do that sometimes.

Make sure your friends and users do not add booster comments in the thread. HN users are adept at picking up on those, they consider it spamming, and they will flame you for it. If a friend or a fan has something interesting to say, that's fine, but comments should not be promotional.

You can post a new release as a Show HN only if the new version is significantly different. It shouldn't just be an incremental upgrade. If you do repost, add a comment linking to the previous Show HN and explaining what is different from last time. This should probably only happen once or twice a year—more starts to be excessive.
Incidently I wrote a blog on it last week: http://grisha.org/blog/2015/03/20/influxdb-data/

The site says "production ready in March" - it seemed to me like there's at least 3 months of work there given that most of the clustering features (e.g. how to rebuild a fialed node, how to expand the cluster, distributed queries) are not there.

My other concern with InfluxDB is that it doesn't follow the fate of FoundationDB - get acquired by a giant corporation and disappear.
I don't think we'll have that answered within our natural lifespan. Both you and I are likely to die before we, as a species, know whether there's an afterlife

Pondering this, for how much grief it causes and how many people die every day (around 150,000), I wonder why "studying the moment of death with every instrument and method we can come up with, to work out if there's an afterlife" isn't a worldwide obsession for our species.
Do you think fast food startups aren’t required to comply with FDA, OSHA regs, etc to the same extent as McDonalds? It’s a higher barrier to entry, yes, but not impossible.
2nd part:

The fire in a theatre cliche isn't really true. There isn't really a broad "incitement" exception to freedom of speech / 1A.

It's an out of context/misunderstood quote from an old case. (And I want to say it wasn't even in a majority opinion, or something similar, that made it mostly irrelevant anyway.)

Part of the reason being, no one can agree on what "incite" legally means. Which makes it a political question, in itself.

People hear what they want to hear. I personally don't understand how anyone thinks that speech was inciting violence, unless they presume to think he meant something other than what he said.

That's trying to mind read, not a legal standard.

Basically, I disagree: it is a matter of political diversity.

Even discussing the merits of executing someone, be it deathrow inmates or politicians. But the standards of trying to judge what's a dog whistle is a criminal matter, not a censorship one.

Now, I'm not saying all speech, no matter what, should be left up in all circumstances.

I am saying there needs to be a presumption of good intention, and lacking some form of legal process (a la evictions), platforms should not be able to take pre-emptive actions without meaningful consequences.
I'd be willing to say that they met at the White House with the intention of a peaceful rally/protest. However, that rally is where the match lit the fuse. They were sent to the Capitol to cause mayhem. Two different but related events to consider. If there was to be an organized event at the Capitol, things would have been prepared differently. However, the Capitol was already undergoing preparations for the Inauguration. I seriously doubt the people in charge of those plans would have agreed to a rally at the Capitol.
I can think of a number of historical examples where the decent people were wrong. I'm not saying this is comparable, but people will say it is.
That is what was happen with an official website of the President of Ukraine[0] when Zelenskyy came into the office after Poroshenko on May 2019: all data & photo archive, stored until May 2019, was fully removed from website by new admins.

But that is another story...

P.S. In 2018 I uploaded photo of the highest flagpole with the State Flag of Ukraine from presidential website to Wikimedia Commons archive[3] (as photo archive was under CreativeCommons). Since 2019 this photo was removed[4] from presidential website... Probably that is the only survived direct copy of this photo (except those which are available in Internet Archive's WaybackMachine snapshots of this site).

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[0] https://president.gov.ua

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20190520174801/https://www.presid...

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20190519173435/https://www.presid...

[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Ukraine_over...

[4] http://web.archive.org/web/20190421232312/https://www.presid...
There's Urbit and Twetch. First uses some of ethereum, and calling a twitter replacement is 1% of it's story. Twetch uses a bitcoin fork as a db and users have to pay to post, but get impression revenue directly
> it's that it arrogantly dismisses people who were concerned even then as suffering from a bias.

It is your interpretation that it is arrogant.

Have you considered other interpretations? For example, I see Sunstein as being very interested comparing human behavior against rationality (in its various forms).

One of Sunstein's main points is that overreactions can cause more damage than the triggering event. This is a valid point, even if COVID-19 did not play out this way.

May I ask, what is your experience when reading economics-style writing? In my experience, the authors are often misinterpreted. The tend to operate at a different level of abstraction even though the words seem familar.

In this case, I don't think Sunstein is trying to call out individuals for acting irrationally. He certainly doesn't dismiss them. Knowing how people behave, he wants to build better systems to serve them. Sunstein, of all people, understands many nuances of human behavior, including risk tolerance. His 'project' (you could say) is connecting the dots between individual behavior and systemic problems.
This is an outrage, on par with if Fox News were to dictate which people were allowed to speak on its airwaves
Business development, product distribution
> When I watched the show as a kid I did not know they were supposed to be famous, I though they were just people from the street.

I love this :-)
> What does this even mean?

In most European countries intrusive monitoring is illegal. For example, you are not allowed to snoop on your employees email unless there's a very good reason for that (suspected fraud, stealing information, etc).

Even more intrusive tools are outright illegal.

> What about CCTV cameras? Can I not put one in my business?

You can. What you can't do is use them to snoop on your employees indiscriminately and you better have a clear retention policy for the footage and make sure that it's deleted after a specified period.

e: small clarification
If you spend more time with your child, you will also develop this "magical" power.
Who do you think is more efficient in terms of utilizing resources, Amazon delivery or USPS, a private hospital vs a public one /VA?
There is no reason what so ever to strive to cut waste, as bureaucrats know they'll be getting paid either way. So in all cases it's always "we need more money" at the taxpayers expense.

Not sure where this notion that government will deliver services in a more efficient ways come from. As the poster above said, there needs to be middle ground.