jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Every dismal derivatives trade should have some winners on the other side.

Unless the market collapses. In that case, all you have are losers.

OTOH, markets collapse not because resources are destroyed, but because investors realize they never existed.
Richard Hamming needs an editor -- that's a good one...

PS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming
Back in 2005, I did something similar for a while after this [1] was posted to /. Eventually it became too annoying, and I switched to Password Safe and then to 1Password. Both are, in all ways, better than that slip of paper.

[1] http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=152097&cid=12762...
Exception 2 seems retarded - most people have their email on their webpage, but who the fuck wants to be contacted by a recruiter?
Momentum, in Grand Rapids, MI: http://momentum-mi.com/
That's pretty similar to my reasons as well. I find it gets in my way far less than others, and when it does there's a full-featured Terminal, or it's likely minor enough to ignore entirely.

It's hard to realize how much crap you have to put up with while running Windows, until you get rid of it (whether for OSX or Linux, BSD, what-have-you).
If you are a keyboard person, the Mac will drive you insane and Linux will be happy land.

I disagree. As a keyboard person, I can move way faster with the mac than I can with Linux. Linux' keyboard-based workflow is constantly playing catch-up with Mac OS X's (like Expose). On a mac, I can get by without hardly ever using the mouse.

I'm a vi person, btw, since we're on the subject of religious flamewars. :)
People are switching to Mac OS X on MacBook Pro.
I don't think you're helping the case much when you throw ssh into the mix...
I look forward to finding out the truth behind this. I'm sure it will come out eventually, though we might have to wait 25 years. Long bet anyone? I'll put my money on the NSA.
Because of "504 Gateway Timeout" errors? ;-)

edit: I really wish I could read the article.

edit 2: Now that I am able to read it:

> When a problem solver uses a Linux desktop, they are immediately confronted with the possibility of being able to modify every part of their system

Yes, but some of them never do it. They modify it once to tailor it to their needs (I check-out my Emacs configuration) and never touch it again. When I moved to Linux in 2002 or so, I spent some time trying skins and desktops and so on. Now all my computers use the default look and feel provided by Ubuntu. The last 4 years have been like that.
A "high end Linux vendor" for laptops? Like what?

And who would be that "somebody else", worrying about the drivers? Surely not the "high end Linux laptop vendor" --because, even though he would have basic stuff like the video card, wireless et al working, with anything not embedded in the laptop, you would be on your own.
Well, a number of Trump's opponents did think we'd be living in a fascist dictatorship inside of a year after he was elected. That didn't happen. This is very, very bad, worse than I expected, but plenty of people on Twitter expected the imminent end of the United States as a free society.
Not in the first edition, as I remember...
[edit: this was other comic with "fake" moon landing - Martin Mystere, nothing to do with Alan Ford]
> This feels like saying "The Tor network will keep you online". You still need someone providing hardware and electricity. Unless I'm missing something about these offerings.

Nobody but you knows that you're hosting hidden tor service. One need to perform a sophisticated attack to discover its location. You can buy VPS from Amazon and host your hidden tor service there and Amazon guys won't have a clue until NSA guys will come to them.
So you think that even though the study showed that people so interested in wine that they are in training to become an expert couldn't tell the difference, that doesn't mean joe off the street can't tell a difference? I call bs.

Color white wine red and most people can't tell the difference.

Mix a few wines together and slap an ancient, expensive label on it and most of the world's top experts can't tell the difference. (as evidenced by some of the massive wine scams that have gone on for decades mostly unbeknownst to all the wine experts that buy the fakes)
There are several references to WSL (Windows System for Linux) in this thread, but I think this shall be posted as a separate WSL-related comment.

I switched to Windows after almost 10 years on a Linux Desktop (mostly Ubuntu) when WSL was in version 1. It was slow and buggy.

However, as of today, WSL 2 is a very strong reason to use a Windows machine as a dev machine.

Windows Terminal is fast, snappy and modern. It looks like and behaves like a regular *nix shell with all the bells and whistles.

VSCode works both with the Windows filesystem and with the WSL. You can even run `code .` and it will open a proper Windows VSCode instance in a Linux directory.

I have been developing and running (with/without Docker) Python, Ruby, Java, Node, Elixir on a WSL-enabled machine for quite some time and the experience is good.

From a smooth development process point of view, I don't see any reason to use a Linux machine anymore.
According to the article:

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After all, nitrate is naturally present in many green vegetables, including celery and spinach, something that bacon manufacturers often jubilantly point out. As one British bacon-maker told me, “There’s nitrate in lettuce and no one is telling us not to eat that!”

But something different happens when nitrates are used in meat processing. When nitrates interact with certain components in red meat (haem iron, amines and amides), they form N-nitroso compounds, which cause cancer. The best known of these compounds is nitrosamine.
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https://github.com/home-assistant/android/issues/42

> We have no interest in maintaining a branch of the app that doesn't depend on any proprietary services.

Developers explain why they wouldn't (naming issues, and "the point of the android app vs just using a browser is to have the location tracking, which requires google services") and then the thread was closed. And then I stopped following the issue and begrudgingly installed from Play store (I'm not de-googled, because like the GP mentioned, it's very hard to do even if you think you have done it, so in some cases I don't even try).

There are a LOT of locked threads in their github issues on the same topic. The F-Droid version appears to be a build of the appropriate repo, and the description says "This is the minimal flavor that does not have location tracking or notifications" (so the 2 things mentioned previously, location and push notifications are hard to do without Google).

https://github.com/home-assistant/android/pull/682 here is the PR that adds in a "minimal" flavor without the Google features.
I stand corrected. A bunch of neat things have happened since I stopped paying attention, and I'm pretty proud of the HA team for getting around to resolving this amicably, even if they were a bit rough about it in the beginning.

edit: ... I just realized I installed Home Assistant from F-Droid when I just re-imaged my phone this weekend. Without even realizing it.
You're right.. and You're strange :))
Don't forget about Saudi Arabia!

Their "Crown Prince" assassinates a dissident journalist by placing a plastic bag over his head to suffocate him while his fiance waits outside the embassy in her car.

And leaders like president Rafael Reif at MIT invite this brutal dictator onto the MIT campus in order to thank him for his donation to the Media Lab in a photo op covered by the newspapers, presumably as a form of reputation laundering and because Rafael Reif cares about human rights about as much as he cares about the sexual abuse of 12 year-old girls.

Why is the Crown Prince's violence "more legitimate" than folks who perhaps mistakenly think the election was stolen from them and feel the need to break a few windows in order to protest the ballot count?
Right out of school (early 2000s), I did network modelling consulting. My main client bought a Sunfire V1280 box (12 CPUs, and the server room guys hated me for the amount of power it drew/heat it put out) to run network simulations. As I remember, the main two advantages SPARC and POWER systems being sold at that time over x86 were (1) reliability and (2) memory / I/O bandwidth.

I tried to look up who first said something along the lines of "A supercomuter is a tool for turning a compute-bound problem into an I/O-bound problem" and all I could find was an ArsTechnica article referencing it as an old joke. I thought it was an old joke by someone of the stature of Cray or Amdahl, but maybe that's apocryphal.

In any case, our network simulations attempted to perform a min-cut (using number of packets as the cost metric) to partition simulation nodes among threads, run one thread per core, and pin a thread to each core. With a network simulation, though, as you can imagine, the problem was usually bound by memory bandwidth.

Also, the client was a defense contractor, and the 400k+ USD box was an artefact of "use it or lose it" budgeting. If they didn't spend all of their budget by December 31st, the group's budget would be reduced the following year. In their case, the high cost of the box was a feature.
Isn't cell division more or less a random process? So even if the genetic code is similar, it can result in different cell patterns. I.e the process from DNA to cells isn't fully deterministic.

For example, if you plant identical trees, will they grow their branches identically, even in a very strictly controlled environment? I guess not.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25692481.
It's my impression that identical twins do actually have similar (but not identical) fingerprints. Specifically, fingerprint patterns can be broken down into a few broad categories like 'loop' or 'whorl', and I've heard identical twins will often have the same patterns on the same fingers.
The worst outrage based on pathological lies.
Obligatory Earth did us a solid and ended 2020 early in unprecedented fashion.

Can anyone speak to the problems regarding "true time?"
How has noscript impacted your browsing experience so far?
There are a tiny number of ways but they're all so fantastically expensive it's pointless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesis_of_precious_metals#G...
Nice tip. I never knew DTA would work on youtube. I have always used youtube-dl.
"It's better to simply store the UTC time of the event, and nothing else."

The whole point of the article is that /you cannot know with certainty the UTC time of a future event/ if you are starting with a wallclock time in a particular location.

In this article, a 10:00 am meeting in Santiago has one UTC value prior to a new law, and a different UTC value after the new law.

If you are saying everyone should "schedule in UTC" like you do, good luck imposing that on the world!
It seems hwrng is mandatory otherwise /dev/random will block easily for virtio-rng.
Great opportunity - for nation states that don't have the ability to create a cyber department, just outsource to somebody who can spy on everybody. There are some great economies of scale, since more than one client is going to be interested in mining in Brazil or some piece of oil information from the middle east... You've got multiple customers for the same data.
Until three weeks ago, ArchLinux shipped with a dangerous and completely useless rng-tools package, which was used by major EC2 AMIs:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/34580
Don't forget Ivan Efremov's works. E.g. "Andromeda Nebula".
http://getkirby.com/

You can build pretty advanced pages with it.
Sorry to ask but, what do you and the author refer to with 'demos'?
This makes me wonder if we might be flirting with the computational equivalent of autism.

Could autistic children have learning impairment due to their inability to correctly sort/segregate stimuli, in the same way that these neural networks generate high-confidence false-positives?
you, sir, are a talented man.
> cute cat videos will only get you so far.

Aren't we already spending more time watching videos on YouTube / CollegeHumor and funny pics on Reddit than we do watching films? One might think that we have solved the content / attention problem. What remains to be solved is monetization.
It's simply unimaginable that this loss of talent hasn't had a huge impact on the company.

It has. Absolutely. Microsoft used to achieve domination in every area they entered. Console DOS, graphical Windows, word processing, spreadsheet, entry-level desktop programming with Basic then VB and VBA, internet browser, corporate email with Exchange. Nearly every product blew up into owning its market.

In the 2000s, that dominance faded to merely being a strong competitor. Server OS, database, video games with Xbox, development with .NET, and all the enterprisey stuff like Active Directory and SharePoint. They all became viable and performing product lines, but hardly leaders, with market shares just about on par with the competition.

And in the 2010s, every me-too product by Microsoft is a fringe marginal player. Bing, Zune, Surface, Azure, Windows Phone... using any of those pretty much gets you laughed at. What happened at Microsoft that they can't take over such industries at will any more? The massive loss of talent and adherence to bureaucracy over excellence has to be part of it.
What do you mean Syria used? Syrian terrorists or Syrian army?
(Thanks for the link it's interesting.)

"because I shot the video"

I've watched about 5 minutes and so far I see where you are interviewed but what part did you shoot the video on?
Given the lack of information in that article beyond a single anecdote, we have no idea how common rape is at Burning Man. However, rapes occurring wouldn't preclude it from being "one of the most peaceful .. festivals"; it merely has to be better than most of the others for that to be true.

(I have no idea whether it is true. Never been.)
Looking back with a purely amoral, realpolitik perspective perhaps at the end of WW2 the US should have leveraged it's temporary monopoly on nuclear weapons to conquer the USSR and impose a true Pax Americana on the entire world? There were a few political and military leaders at the time who advocated exactly that but they were seen as fringe warmongers and no one else wanted to attack an erstwhile ally. Would the world be better or worse off today if we had followed that path? I don't presume to know the answer but it's interesting to speculate in an alternate history sense.
Dropping the "freelance" tag was a good decision.

Freelancer = I can be hired to do one of X, Y, or Z at a rate of $A per hour.

Consultant = I can be hired to solve business problems within areas of X, at a weekly or monthly rate that's based on the worth of solving that problem.

Dropping the "freelance" tag was a good decision.

Freelancer = I can be hired to do one of X, Y, or Z at a rate of $A per hour.

For finding out who are the clients, starting out with the industry you're familiar with is a good decision. If you "speak startup" and are familiar with the problems they have, then you're more likely to be able to be valuable to them.

But even within the startup ecosystem there are different types of clients. On one end there's the bootstrapped "company" that's not even a company yet and doesn't have a product, and on the other there's the startup with thousands of users and millions in funding. ... The value you can provide (and, by extension, the amount you can charge) is going to vary between the two.
I figured a provocative title gets more clickthrus. I got like 320 pageviews from a single post on HN - new, posted 1:30am PST.

Thanks for your feedback. I'll try to keep the posts coming and work on better titles.
The L5 moniker "safety of life" is an accurate name. It will assist GPS aircraft navigation, especially during the safety-critical landing approaches. Aircraft rely heavily on both GPS and WAAS satellites for corrections. Actually, L5 has been broadcasting on the two WAAS satellites for several years, but most end-users would not have used it. AFAIK, L5 decreases the error from multipathing and the ionsphere, among other improvements.
"in today's global forex markets it is trivial to shift from dollars to euros or whatever you want before or after trading for oil."

You're right, but the point is that after all is said and done, you have to purchase oil in USD, which creates the demand for the dollar; countries are forced to convert currency to USD. The fact that it's easy to do this is irrelevant.
Is this real or just an exercise? (sorry if that sounds stupid - you never know what kind of shit gets posted here)
Yes, really. There is a huge amount of US dollars circling in the oil trade. If those were instead used to buy non-oil stuff, the price of non-oil things will go way up and so the value of dollar way down.
But clean green energy.
Putting a type into a type-specific package like that is considered (IMHO at least) unidiomatic in the first place, so this isn't a situation which can happen in practice.
As long as children starve, we should not talk about free speech etc. at all! /sarcasm

Whataboutism at its best from you.
That’s possible, in the early days of Go I guess they spent a lot of time trying to optimize the compiler with googles ML teams
Could you elaborate on your gripe? (I'm the co-founder/lead dev)
This is directly related to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1397342 ("The RIAA? Amateurs. Here's how you sue 14,000+ P2P users").

In essence, the litigation strategy followed here targets those who illegally download films produced by indie filmmakers, sues them collectively as fictitious or "Doe" defendants, uses subpoenas to ISPs to compel disclosures of their true identities, and then sends demand letters telling those targeted to pay $1,500 or so to settle up or face litigation that is almost a sure losing proposition for them (I had discussed why I think this is so in a commend or two made in the link above).

It now turns out that Time Warner Cable, instead of simply complying with the subpoena it received, has moved to quash it and this has given EFF and other rights groups a venue in which to argue that a collective suing of "Doe" defendants in a remote forum with which the individuals being targeted have little or no connection allegedly violates the rights of those individuals.

In effect, the underlying litigation strategy being used here by those suing for copyright infringement "plays the numbers" and depends on mass processing for its effectiveness. As the article linked to above points out, the estimated recovery on these claims to date approximates $20 million and the strategy is obviously just beginning to gain traction, with many thousands more being and about to be sued in this manner.

What EFF and others are trying to do is block the ability of the plaintiffs in such cases to file in one convenient venue and use a single subpoena to gather the identifying information easily and quickly. The arguments they raise suggest that this violates due process rights belonging to the persons being fictitiously sued and, therefore, that the plaintiffs should instead filed individual suits against these people in the districts where they live.

It these arguments stick, it obviously would upend this whole strategy but, in my view, the decades-long use of the "Doe" procedure, coupled with the fact that it is obviously not possible to sue individuals in the districts in which they live when you don't yet know their identities, makes it unlikely that the court will go with this argument. It will be interesting to see how the court rules.
Why are you irritated that Apple is making it hard for Firefox and Chrome users to see an advertisement for HTML5?
Why was this submitted again? I responded when it was submitted 2 days ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1396763 ), and jrockway already did an excellent point-by-point rebuttal ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1396823 ).

I really don't want to read an idiot F# consultant's[1] view on how every language that isn't the one he uses is dumb.

[1] For reasonably diminished values of "consultant".
What do you like about Woopra more than Clicky?
I honestly don't remember what Gruber wrote about the Macbook hack, but I remember us writing about it (back when we blogged current events in security), and I remember a back-and-forth with Gruber, and why I'm bringing this up is: do we actually know anything definitive about what happened with the wifi hack?

I'm not sure we do, 'boucher.
I think, having a link in the middle of a sentence is more distracting than using a footnote style link at the end of the sentence. EX:

The war of 1812 was started by the United States in response to a series of trade restrictions (do you want to know more?) to impede on-going American trade with France. Vs.

The war of 1812 was started by the United States in response to a series of trade restrictions to impede on-going American trade with France. (do you want to know more?)
For someone who espouses grand principles (Rework), David is taking the low road with his petulant ad hominum attacks. Calling Ballmer's stage presence uncool is a little disingenuous when it's clear that Ballmer was just being himself and trying to get his lethargic team pumped up. Before casting too many more stones, David should reread his mentor Kathy Sierra's post about how unhappy people drag down the level of discourse.
What I love most about Gruber is his inexplicable nature to post links without commenting on it. The sheer brilliance of it is amazing.

It's like an escape hatch—it gives him the opportunity to say whatever he wants without owning up to anything. Like the Foxconn suicides.

"I linked to the “hey, Foxconn’s suicide rate sounds high but it’s lower than China’s overall rate” thing not as proof that everything is just fine at Foxconn, but for context"

Right, sure pal. Whatever you say.
Alright, then show me! For example, the beginner tutorial was linked a while ago (http://nim-lang.org/tut1.html) and I wouldn't criticize it at all, because it's well written, but it doesn't show me why I would care about Nim when there are dozens of languages I could choose instead.

It looks like Python, with a little more types.

Fwiw, I'm also a language geek and my favorite language is Factor. If I wanted to evangelize it, I could show how idiomatic Python or Haskell code translated to Factor takes up less than half or a third in size. So that's its USP (Unique Selling Point) -- really short code. What is Nim's USP?

Julia: "fresh approach to mathematical computing", Rust: "safe resource disposal without GC", Go: "C successor backed up by Google", Swift: "Replacement for Objective-C", Clojure: "Scheme on the JVM", Nim: "no idea what to write here"

Is it the Why should I be excited? paragraph: "Nim is the only language that leverages automated proof technology to perform a disjoint check for your parallel code. Working on disjoint data means no locking is required and yet data races are impossible" If I understood what the hell that means, maybe I would be excited. :)
I loathe Coinbase. Their support team is a joke (over a month with no response) and site stability is non existent.
I saw this as an advantage though. They do not have whale customers bringing a significant % of their revenue. I see lower risk here

"Our average revenue per customer (which we refer to as ARPU) has increased significantly, from $35.97 in 2018 to $40.16 in 2019 to $47.78 in 2020. We have no material customer concentration as our top 25 customers made up 11%, 10% and 9% of our revenue in 2018, 2019 and 2020, respectively."
> Just identifying him doesn't mean he'd liquidate

True, but it is not a super unlikely outcome either. Identification alone could also result in a loss of trust in the system of Satoshi turned out to be, say, a government.

Could go the opposite way too. It's an unknown that is worth calling out.