jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I missed the first 3 or 4 minutes of Avatar because I was playing with the glasses and a laser pen pointer :-)

On one level I agree with you that this seems, at least initially, as tidy bit of theoretical physics. Most people 'get' that light is an electromagnetic wave, and of course Maxwell tied the two together quite elegantly.

The clever bits will be these two:

1) Is there a material, either natural or 'meta' in which the structure can convert a fraction of the light passing through it into a magnetic field. If so, and the light is modulated, you can induce a current in a conductor. Could be useful, could be a parlor trick.

2) Can you run it backwards? Which is to say if you generate a magnetic field of the proper type and orientation in the presence of such a material, can you convert the magnetic field into light? If so what frequency? What coherence? Does this paper provide the foundation for a LAAMR (Light Amplification by Amplified Magnetic Resonance) (no, its not a pun on 'lamer' :-)

I expect if you can create the latter you could probably get a Nobel prize (or at least share it).

Am I the only one who enjoys finding out we're wrong about some long held scientific beliefs (in this case the magnetic influence of light)
I requested some additional information and was sent a 200$ offer by one of their staff. I presume they just check whether you're a founder or not?
They are charging only 9.6 cents per month per number. If they raise this to 9.6 dollars per month per number, any compay with <10 numbers will not see any difference in it's anual budget.
There are too many errors here to deal with. Just the fact that you think being an Arab is analogous to being a librarian for these purposes raises a number of questions in any reasonable reader's mind. Perhaps you think that some people are made librarians from birth and have no choice about the matter.

Your final statement is not even a rebuttal, it's merely an appeal to popularity.
I think what most people forget is... It's not like Vietnam is going to be fine, and then like a light switch in 2050, it's completely underwater... And oh, shit! Where do we put these people?

Vietnam probably already has thousands of climate refugees, and as 2050 gets closer, more and more people will leave, and by 2050, probably a lot of people will still be there, having figured it out somehow.

So, yes, I believe this is a huge problem. But I think most people have this idea that there's going to be some set time where it suddenly becomes HUGE. Maybe there will be some Black Swan moment. But it's just going to progressively get worse, slowly not suddenly.

The problem with things like that is, progressive problems have a track record of going unsolved.
Well if so it's still just the side-effect of not loosing out on selling their services in the target country.

Maybe you are right and it's the best way, I however also see how everyone is deeper in their own bubble with their own reality. Something that can easily cause a very skewed post-fact world view.
Hopefully there's more to life than having enough food to eat.
Hi @missmadeleine

The trigger sounds like a great idea! We built this over the weekends and are now compiling feedback from the earliest set of users to improve it further!

Regarding the sync -- Yes, it syncs directly with one email ID associated to your google calendar and then syncs events created across devices/sources etc
If 'at the top' means 'capable of being better at Go than any other entity in the known universe', that statement is correct.

It can be viewed as the adaptation of a great competitor -- if a superior adversary emerges, a great competitor finds another way to win.

The rest of the article is worth the read for context. This excerpt alone didn't capture the full spirit of the article.
To be fair, the "minimum security standards" are a very low bar.

I hope the public soon realizes that harvesting metadata is just as valuable to advertisers as the actual content of your messages. In fact, it's arguably more valuable since you can discern all of the details without any of the regulations.

E2E Encryption is ad tech's latest sleight-of-hand. Everything, including the metadata, should be encrypted. It's otherwise pointless.
What assumptions are you basing this on, curious to know if horses have a disadvantage over longer durations.
That's not surprising given that borders are not in any way "reality". They are mutually agreed upon conventions that, well, not everyone agrees upon.

It should be no more surprising than having a British English dictionary and an American English dictionary, only with higher stakes.
I don't think a generic version would have ever caught my attention at all. I'd think Instagram's jumped the shark if they branded it with that. Like, that would just sound like a photo frame that only shows IG posts or something; I'd roll my eyes and move on. I don't know anything about WhatsApp other than people were hacked or something.

For non-tech folks, I think the Facebook brand great. They chat with friends and family with Facebook messenger. This must be where they can make video calls to those same people. You get it just by seeing the name and the product together.
The reason that Craigslist is popular is because there is no BS involved. It's plaintext. You click on something—it loads. It does not ask you where you are or try to sneak info from your browser. It doesn't stop loading while it's doing goofy Microsoft stuff. It doesn't stop loading while it harvests your personal info. It's dead simple.

I'd suggest you emulate this, above all else.
>They have not accomplished anything because the majority opinion (by a wide margin) is that government power is benign and for our own good.

Their problem is that they don't distinguish between government power and government services. You can't object to public roads and schools and expect to be taken seriously.

We need to organize a group of people who are willing to accept that the government should operate a fire department without accepting that the government should operate a police state.
Average price of a 3 bedroom house in central London is currently around $4,900,000.
- "Fastest" would be direct connection between me and the person I'm messaging, no?

- "Most secured" (secure?) would be an open-sourced application that's been vetted by others, not a crowd-funded start-up.

- "cloud computing" - why?
Those tests get false positives all the time. I failed an explosives test once in Denver. The TSA agent guessed correctly that I had been rock climbing. Apparently this happens a lot, no idea why. They let me go after 5 seconds of chatting.
Huh, hadn't heard of Clooj. Another Clojure IDE written in Clojure is Nightcode: http://nightcode.info/ It's open source under the Unlicense, but very young — even the early releases of Light Table may be more polished at this point.

On the other hand, it has Paredit mode, which is still "coming soon" for Light Table :)
> rotting in a bank vault

I thought this turn of phrase was rather amusing, considering that gold is often favored because it doesn't deteriorate at all.
you sir, are a champ. I'm going to keep playing and working with this thing. I wish you all the best. thanks for your help.
Nah, that's just author over complicating simple thing (quite common among Haskell programmers). If he thought for a moment before starting Haskell, he would find out that associativity is enough for map reduce operation.
> which led me to believe that the problem was that FastMail email address

... or your IP address, or name, or history of payments with the card, or...
https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs
C, which is usually the fastest language in all benchmarks and the one others compare to is not inherently fast. In fact it is often considered faster than C++, which makes no sense since you can write C code in C++ (mostly) and the compiler usually has the same internals.

The biggest reason, I think, is that C encourages you to be memory efficient. Allocating memory is not trivial and you have to keep track of all your pointers. On the other hand, it makes it easy to modify things in place, where other languages favor immutability. But if you do a lot of allocations, create a makeshift garbage collector, and memcpy a lot, then your C code will be really slow, because you are basically doing what makes other languages slower, but worse because other languages are heavily optimized for that use cases and your code most likely isn't.
What's stopping Google from pulling an uno and requiring news organizations to pay Google to have their content searchable?
using threads (or, my preference, stackful coroutines) does not prevent you from using futures for pipelining and composing computations. But it avoids having to explicitly [1] chain continuations to wait on them.

[1] I count await as explicit as it forces the awkward top level only suspend model.
Here's the full bill if you want to wade into it (PDF): [1]

This [2] may provide some helpful commentary.

From Google/Facebook's viewpoint, one of the more distasteful aspects which is rarely mentioned in most coverage is that they must give two weeks notice of algorithm changes to registered news businesses.

There's a perception in some circles that this is a fairly unnuanced money grab by the government on behalf of Murdoch media[3]. A perception that was not helped by earlier drafts excluding the public Australian Broadcasting Corporation and SBS from the trough. Two organisations the current federal government is seen as being hostile towards.

As I understand it:

- The bill would not allow Google to simply drop Australian news sites from search results (hello Spain News!), hence really only leaving the option to block Oz altogether.

- There is no acknowledgement at all of the value search engines provide to media organisations by the links provided.

- The forced arbitration conditions are quite... forceful. (I'm not really across this aspect.)

A common nickname for our our Prime Minister among his detractors is "Scotty from Marketing" [4]

[1] https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bi...

[2] https://www.gtlaw.com.au/insights/its-here-news-media-digita...

[3] https://youtu.be/2BPLBIgKjN8

[4] https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2020/01/where-the-legend-of-sc...
I was in one of these for a few months. Strangely enough, changing all my editors color schemes from darkmode to whitemode helped me to overcome it. Over time I went back to darkmode for the most part.

Maybe it is similar to working from a different place? (e.g. coding sitting in park instead of the same old office day-in day-out)
There was speculation that they were partnering with Kia/Hyundai to do the manufacturing. This was big news a week ago, but Kia/Hyundai have backpedaled since.
As I remember it, the "highly relevant" results on Google were almost exclusively determined by a $299 Yahoo! Directory listing or a DMOZ directory listing. If you could get the Yahoo Directory or DMOZ to link to you with your preferred anchor text - you were all but guaranteed the #1 spot on Google. Of course it didn't mean as much back then, but boy was it easy.

This brings back a lot of memories. Like you said, Yahoo! was referring all of the traffic. For those of you that weren't around or don't remember - the Yahoo Directory was based on the alphabet, like the phone book. I had to beat out AAAUsedLaptops.com with exclamation-point-used-laptops.com (listed as "! Used Laptops"). No wonder Google won.
And that's part of the problem.
IAAL
From a medical perspective your problem is circulation, exercise, eat right, use supplements, and take a break every couple hours by walking around, working out, or anything. It'll go away in a couple months.
And yet so many people are urging this same government to craft new "net neutrality" laws. Bewildering.
You got me. I hope I'm in better than the top 80%, but I'm doubting myself now that I wrote that... :P
I'm in the "show karma only after voting" camp.
Sunshine! PG gets lots and lots of sunshine. The health and fitness
benefits are amazing since sunshine helps with the creation of Vitamin
D, and everyone needs Vitamin D. Since PG is a certified dietician and
also a Medical Doctor (MD), he truly understand how to stay fit and
healthy by maintaining the amount of Vitamin D he gets every single day.
Listening to his advice is very wise since he really is quite the expert
on this topic...

His secret, of course, is running Y Combinator. Being the face of Y
Combinator means he can sit in a windowless room all day and still get
plenty of sunshine. How? you might ask? --The answer is simple; running
YC means there are countless people always trying to blow sunshine up
his ass.

NOTE_TO_SELF: I'm gonna get drilled for having a sense of humor. Oh well, life is better laughing.
Congress cannot amend the constitution as easily as it can pass a law. The States have to agree to it as well.
This article makes me weep for our species, mostly for the absurdity of the premise, but also for the diminished quality of a once great website and the mockery of journalism it's become.
> working on various internal company side projects on my own time

Maybe they love that you’ll work for free if they keep dangling the carrot in front of you.

If it’s going to take you years to get what you’re qualified for, then doesn’t it make sense to find a new job at the appropriate level? It should only take a few months.
It certainly is to the people complaining that TV is too political. It’s even worse if they admit gay people exist.
Could one not add a new rebasing strategy to git by generating patches from the git history? Are the concepts non-translatable?
> My practical advice: If you use git every day and you don't know how to rebase, reset, cherrypick, and stash from the command line, make it a goal. Then, once you're comfortable, learn how to do it in a visual tool like Gitkraken and make an effort to incorporate them in to your daily workflow.

I do agree you should learn rebase, reset, cherrypick and stash, but I don't agree that you need to learn on the CLI. I mean, use the CLI if you prefer that, but the git GUIs are perfectly adequate for performing any of these operations.

I used to use git CLI heavily, but in the past few years I have simply not needed to, to the point that aside from a small handful of the most common operations I don't even remember a lot of it anymore. Partly this is due to maturity of the GUIs, and partly because old practices like SSHing to a dev server to edit+commit something there are just totally obsolete and unnecessary these days.

Even for a simple commit, there's a massive convenience of seeing the timeline and being able to interactively stage and look at diffs that is just miles ahead of CLI, and lets me break down commits into better units of work and write better messages.

There's a stupid gatekeeping thing some developers still do about git CLI, I don't get it. It's as valid as dictating what text editors, color schemes, input devices, or OSes "real developers" use. Judge people on their output, not their tools.
OR helium ion microscopy, but that is not as widely available afaik

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_helium_ion_microscope
Sorry for the confusing title; unfortunately I can't change it anymore.
Is it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2222522

That's the text of a text post. The same issue can be seen here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26739220
That's a cool explanation.

I'm a bit slow on the uptake, so I had to re-read a couple of sections, but it was helpful.
Sort of related: I learned from reading about Facebook's lack of moderation that Myanmar is one of the few countries that doesn't use Unicode (and hence UTF-8). It uses something called Zawgyi that apparently has to be heuristically detected!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar_(Unicode_block)#Histor...

https://www.globalapptesting.com/blog/zawgyi-vs-unicode
> Attributing stuff to a malicious effort to make the public more manipulable (as if that was necessary) should be dropped in favor of the natural incompetence of the press in framing issues reasonably.

Except we've known for a long time that the mainstream press works, very intentionally, to manipulate public opinion.
I contacted the host (theplanet.com) about the abuse but haven't heard back from them as of this moment.

I'll email Sparkstation if I don't get a response from the host. Thanks a lot.
Didn't know there was a process. Would have agreed with you even without knowing that :)
"I tried to think of a shitty idea with no potential market, and came up with 'beer that tastes like urine.' Then I realized Miller and Coors beat me to it."

(trying to show the importance of the execution of an idea)
Wow, I was surprised to see mine at the edge of the graph on its own. I wonder is that a good or bad thing..! :-)
I really don't understand the "Mark is only 26" argument. I'm not arguing against you in specific, rokhayakebe, I've just seen this argument come up time and time again. The "Mark is only 26" argument may be strong if Mark went and got drunk one night and had some candid/unfortunate photos taken, but the man is trying to build a multi billion dollar franchise. I don't think anyone should get a break using this excuse. IF he's too young (and I'm not saying he is), then he should just step down. If he's not too young, then let's not talk about his age :)
Awesome, thanks for the btw! You on Linux/Mac?
No, I'm generating a tree.

Put every node in its own component. Find the shortest edge that joins two components, emit that edge, merge the components. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

Also, braces penalise you twice. Code that is identical except that one includes, the other excludes, a pair of braces are distance 2 apart. There is some reason to say they should have distance 0. Fully parenthesised code, and then ignore the close (or open) brace would fix that.
A slight nitpick: Hogan's Heroes was about a prison camp for Allied POWs - not a concentration camp.
If I woke up in the morning and had a shocking lack of worries, between two software products and client work I could probably find something real to worry about without having to manufacture worries out of the ether.

"Several dozen HN users will go to the website, see which variation they get, clear their cookies until they get the right one, then pay me $30... and then cackle madly" is not a real worry.
you can do this yourself with an IR blaster. the infrared signals sent from the remote to the TV are not encrypted. only catch is you have to program the right signal for the TVs in the bar. it won't take long before people figure out what you're doing though.
They are in the empire business, and the best empire for them are human vegetables.
Is there more? Yea. Do you need for most code ? No. Also I lied I have coded professionally in C++.
Looks nice, uses coreboot and disables ME :), i5/i7, "Up to 40 GB DDR4", "2× M.2 SSD. Up to 4TB total." Holy cow that's a powerful machine.

> USB Type-C Power Delivery Compatible

It's capable of charging by USB-C? Then why does it have the old-style circular power jack?
Can you fix data?
I can point to a bunch that worked out fine, historically.

In modern times? Which ones are you thinking of? I can't think of any except maybe China, which is a curious definition of fine given how badly beaten they've been by their nearby neighbours e.g. compare the trajectories of South Korea/Taiwan vs China.
If it wasn't for the 16:9 screen I'd buy it in an instant. Specs are sufficient for me, the battery life sounds enticing and the screen is matte. I'm just curious if I'm the only one that has such a strong preference for a less wide screen ratio.
> her "the world is going to shit" hypothesis

I see no such hypothesis in the article. Your comments in this thread have taken it in precisely the wrong direction: tedious, predictable, and acrimonious. Please don't do this here.
You're right, the digitization effort was around 2000 or so.

But you're presenting that as somehow being bad, while it's actually better than what a lot of other countries have.
Thesis of the article: Californians are fleeing California and causing the same housing pressure in the spots they flee to.

The real question is whether these other locations can avoid the high-density housing NIMBY response that became entrenched in California.

It isn't just a matter of income disparity, which the article pivots to. It's also a matter of density and demand.
Good to know! I find myself thinking of flame retardants in furniture. Most fatal house fires were started by smoldering cigarettes, and so flame testing of furniture is designed around these conditions. But smoking has plummeted in prevalence, while flame retardants have demonstrated all kinds of negative health impacts.
I was hoping that he might realize that more people would embrace his ideas if he shared them freely. I understand and appreciate the need to earn a living, but he's apparently been doing that anyway by writing games.
I understand your sentiment, and I agree that the future probably is one where we use and generate a lot more energy then we do now.

But I do hope that in that future we also use that energy a little bit smarter, and proof of work's incentives are indeed aligned poorly from this perspective.

Disclaimer: I am conflicted about the subject, because I think there is merit in crypto, and also hold some myself.
> Edit: As to why they're valued at $3.5B...

You’ve got the decimal place wrong. It’s $35 billion
This. But it would require some kind of introspection to see that the extraordinary salary which caused them to move there in the first place might be actually a contributing factor for a lot of the problems they are complaining about.
Is there a practical reason for the limit? I tend to switch to tethering over Verizon 3G for large downloads as it is faster than my ADSL connection. I don't have an iPhone, but I can't imagine the benefit of a potentially slower connection to download something.
>one of our salespeople got overeager and tried to sell you your soul back. He will be reprimanded.

I don't think the (non-)apology even gave that much, just that the training/policies will be "reviewed", which is even weaker:

>>In light of this incident, Canonical will be reviewing its sales training and policies.
One reason I dislike inflation is that I don't want my currency -- a utility object -- having opinions about my financial life. Inflationary monetary policy and its consistent 'nudge' to spend is the economic equivalent of the pop-up.

Of course, you could argue that a hard cap is equally opinionated. But I think it's a much more 'neutral' position, where it deflates because of real economic growth, and you spend it because of your own time preference.
I dunno man. I'm struggling to see how this is catching anyone by surprise.

I'm not endorsing more ad spam, but I'm really caught off guard that using a service with a real name/email and getting added to a CRM is generating this level of indignation.

Do none of you guys work in corporate? I get Linkedin/email/phone spam all the time. This isn't new. The only interesting thing here is that the trigger and the response time were so short.

Again, I'm not advocating for more of this or even saying I like it. I'm just saying "why are we all of a sudden upset about this?"
I am of that general opinion, but not for the small subset of folks the government invests with the power to shoot me.
It's not that much higher though. Back of napkin tells me that it's like 60$
Also, ed wasn't open source. Vi still used ed, so even of vi itself was open source, it wasn't completely functional.

It was only around 2001 / 2003 when Caldera open sourced some UNIX utilities under an open source license as part of the Heirloom project. Parts of that were ed and mailx.