skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if you could pick a bundle? A $1/mo, $10/mo, $100/mo bundle? You get whatever those bundles allow for whatever time window is set. Not the same as free and choice-wise is restrictive (but then the tyranny of choice).

While not "the" answer, it could be an option so that you're not paying for each and every content driven website independently.

Of course, the downside is this harkens to the time when we had limited sources of information (newspaper sub, broadcast TV, cable TV and radio).

If micropayments is not working (yet?) and advertising is proving too invasive but we're also not willing to pay underutilized individual subscriptions, what else is there?
Ah, but therein lies the rub. What is "100% Mandarin?" :). Is it broadcast news Chinese? Which essentially is just the written vernacular standard just read out loud? Is it the Mandarin that a Northern shop-keeper uses to talk to (Chinese) out-of-towners? Is it the Mandarin that he uses among his friends? Is it the Mandarin that kids learn in public school curriculum? Once these questions start to be relevant, I'd say that it's all just "Mandarin" for the purposes of this discussion.

Ooo... that's interesting. I knew that there's been a rise in regional dialect pride in general and that Hong Kong in general has never really been too fond of the Mandarin-speaking Chinese tourist masses, but hadn't realized it'd spread to modern Canto-pop. Might have to take a gander at some of the latest songs.
Cap gains is only on the stock's growth in the year after it vests. It's possible the stock doubles or more in a year, but generally unlikely.
There's certainly a fair amount of people from Taiwan who call it Hokkien as a matter of accuracy

I don't think that's the case here though. There's nothing specifically different from the Hokkien spoken in Taiwan. It's a dialect of Chinese and certainly cannot be called linguistically different. It would be like saying someone spoke Texan instead of English with a Texas accent.

The written language is traditional Chinese, nothing else. This is a common misunderstanding
so this journalist used a gps and it was great experience? great story!!
The US still hasn't caught up. SpaceX's Merlin engine is more advanced and less advanced than the best Russian engines: less efficient, but extremely simple (in sophisticated ways like face shut-off), and much cheaper, despite being built in LA.

Raptor and the BE-4 will probably close the gap.
My feeling is that either system can probably work if there is some level of known policy stability, education, and the freedom and incentive to innovate. Most improvements to living standards are thanks to innovation (business, process, technological, etc).
This is a great reply, thank you. I thought Harris was also explaining that full motor control remains by "me" until the corpus callosum is severed. Hence patients being unaware that their other hand is writing notes.

Do you have any further reading or information on communicating with the other hemisphere?
There's no such thing as Taiwanese characters. The island uses Traditional Chinese characters
"Flights are overbooked all over the world" Yes, but overall at a far lower intensity than in the US. I don't just mean 55/45 type things: I have flown continuously internationally for the last 20 years, worldwide, about 5-10 trips per year, and the only economy I have been bumped in was the USA. The data you gave about search matches in no way addresses the huge skew to events in the USA.

Contrariwise, the UK is the only economy I have used trains in, which routinely has major commuter train cancellations. The commonality here is a lack of capital investment and oversight

uniquely dense and complex nature of the US domestic network. More flights with more connections make for more uncertainty in the system, to which overbooking is an answer Yes. this I think is true. the US has far more dense flights, and has chosen overbooking as an answer but in no sense is it the answer to this problem: It's the one we've got. The regulator could have directed other approaches, but the cost consequences on airlines (who routinely seem to use chapter-11 methods to walk away from historical debt) would have been pretty bad. This answer maximises profit for airlines, at the expense of flyer convenience.
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I loved Scoot when I was in SF. Except after it rained. Some Bezos-bald tires on those things.
I remember downloading FastTracker II years ago to grab the .mod music files from Second Reality and burn them to CD.

The track that starts at time Index 1:54 on that linked YouTube video brings back so many memories. :)
Venn diagrams worked for me, and I'm an engineer.
1. Installing Lineage degrades many hardware features. For example, the camera will never be as good as it is on the official OS. This is what I meant by "open source drivers". Currently all of this stuff is binary blobs, which aren't even available freely. So it is impossible for Lineage to fully utilize the hardware.

2. Rooting presents another extremely stupid problem. Apps like Netflix and snapchat and many payments/banking apps will refuse to work. I cannot find a way to explain this except dev incompetency and/or hostility towards users.

3. On Samsung phones there is a Knox bit, which gets tripped as soon as you flash any image. On many models, people haven't been able to figure out how to reset it. This means that once you flash Lineage on your phone, you permanently lose features, even if you go back to the official OS! This is what prevents me from flashing my phone, since I really don't wanna lose Samsung pay and Secure folder etc.
This intrigued me enough to peruse car makers' web sites, and the result was worth creating an account to share.

Chevy has an extensive offering of "crate engines", given equal billing with its performance car models. Ford also has a "performance parts" site selling everything from engines on down. I had no idea.

I couldn't find anything similar for Toyota or BMW; their "performance" parts catalogs seem to consist only of superficial accessories like steering wheel covers.
> Fractional Reserve Banking is less than 100 years old.

Fractional reserve banking is centuries old, and originally involved deposits of gold and silver (first at goldsmiths, but as early as the 1660s at banks). Europe's first bank run happened in 1664, when people tried to redeem bank notes for the underlying reserves.

> We didnt have fluctuating interest rates among the working class

Interest rates fluctuated, and the working class were deeply exposed to the impacts.

> When the world used gold and silver you would have trade deficits causing economic troubles.

Global financial crises were routine during the era of metal-backed currencies and did not only (or mainly) relate to trade deficits. See, eg, the panics of 1819, 1825, 1837, 1847, 1857, 1866, 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, and 1896. (And that's just focusing on US and UK history during the 19th century; the list could be much longer!)

> These are vastly different problems

Citation very much needed.
Why not just run a FOSS OS?
I don't know what the person you're responding to meant, but you might want to have a chat with your Chinese friends about different skin colors. Not only do many cultures have a thing about lighter skin shades, even the 1920s US backlash against immigration was mostly about 'swarthy' southern Europeans, who weren't as lily-white as northern Europeans.
How about another angle: Android is Open Sourced and much powerful than SailfishOS. It's much easier for their target audiences to targeting Android than their OS.
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That sign depends on the circle-cross symbol, nuclear warning symbol, and bottles all being meaningful 10,000 years from now. We have trouble deciphering symbols from less than half thst long ago. Your point about mining could be true, unless some geological event makes it more accessible.
The problem is that those limitations prevent you from being able to do any real "data science".

The GUI comes with a whole host of built-in assumptions about the data and what it could tell you, and you're probably not smart enough to know what those are and how to correct for them.

You might as well just search for your keys at the base of a streetlight.
But I think the expectation of free internet services sort of originates in that kind of attitude. Because originally the internet was a bunch of hackers using their spare bandwidth and their spare cpu cycles to host web sites. Perhaps they enjoyed it enough to volunteer the extra cash for dedicated servers and dedicated internet connections.

It's only after that in the second step that people try to monetise. Nowadays of course it's money from the getgo, but things have changed.

There's still plenty of free today. Lots of people run websites with highly interesting information and then distributed it without benefiting from the ads that run on the site (e.g. a Wordpress blog, where the privacy invasion and ad revenue profits go to Wordpress not the blogger).
> It’s been over a decade since the iPhone was launched. Its cost hasn’t come down.

Huh? Says who? How much do you think you could charge for an iPhone 3G today?

Apple hasn't lowered prices in the manner you're imagining because they are a luxury brand. Their business model is that you pay extra so that other people can see that you own an iPhone. Lowering prices means they get less money while losing value. But Apple has lowered prices in a very real sense, by providing much more performance at the same inflation-unadjusted prices.
exactly. the way I understood it, if you’re interfacing with a computer monitor instead of shuffling around magnetic bits on the disk by sending electric impulses directly to the write head, you’re using a graphical interface are you not?
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Sounds like most undergraduate probability/statistics classes.
Arguably, one of the primary driving forces for the popularity of mindfulness in the west was the work done by Joh Kabat-Zinn with Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).
> Users won't want to work with a Windows from a decade ago. Not only that but it'll have bugs and no support.

Depending on the age group, I guess. I know plenty of people who would say that Windows had its peak usability around Windows 2000/2003 and only got heavier and more confusing later on.

If I know that ReactOS had a good chance of running most regular Windows applications, I'd install it on my mother's laptop in a heartbeat, and she would love to see the familiar, lightweight OS.
Sure, that's mostly true. It doesn't mean they're wrong.

As Jaron Lanier pointed out in his recent TED talk, with previous information technologies like books we figured out how to both charge for the information being distributed while providing access free of charge to those who could not afford it via public libraries. https://www.ted.com/talks/jaron_lanier_how_we_need_to_remake...

Furthermore, what Feld and others are describing here is an economic externality. You could both be right that many people would not and/or could not pay $5/month, yet still the negative social cost of a free product costs that user far more in the long run in the form of political unrest.
> I couldn't find anything similar for Toyota or BMW

Not quite true. Toyota Racing Development (TRD) does sell performance accessories (superchargers) for some engines. BMW has M Performance and you could put some of the M Performance parts on a non M vehicle if you wanted to.

Other manufacturers also sell fully built race cars for customers to buy and race (Blancpain GT Race series).

https://www.blancpain-gt-series.com/cars
> YouTubers don't have a financial arrangement. Nobody can produce a paper contract.

This is false. If money is being exchanged for services or (digital) goods, then there is a financial arrangement, in the form of an informal contract. But it's still a contract.

In the case of YouTube, it would probably even be considered a formal contract since there are the written "Monetization Criteria", "Partner Program Policies", and YouTube "Terms and Conditions" that the creator agrees to. This agreement to written requirements is a "meeting of the minds" and thus constitutes a contract.
There is a massive aftermarket parts industry for Japanese cars.

You can get aftermarket non-OEM versions of practically every part except for the chassis for old Nissan Skylines and Silvias.
Ugh. This website saved my ass trying to make HID devices work on top of the completely non-conforming Linaro DwUsbHostDxe driver (look at https://github.com/andreiw/RaspberryPiPkg/commits/master/Dri... for a laugh). I did end up having to hit the USB spec in the end, but it's a legit resource to get a birds-eye view of the whole USB1 and USB2 thing. It doesn't make USB simpler, but sure makes it more approachable.
I'm starting to think never.

It's too ingrained. And 2000 was a millenium shift. So I expect a new phrase to emerge.
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I'm not Op but I'll bet that this was probably a shop run by an owner big in the Land Rover/offroading community. Working on Land Rovers is probably his favorite hobby and he can cut breaks for people that will probably get into the community more.

The offroading community is huge and tight knit.
It doesn't have to actually be CLI. It does need to be repeatable (by you) and reproducible (by others), and it does need to go through a known API.

Those requirements will tend to drive you towards a CLI solution as the easiest/best available, but if you could get those requirements satisfied in any other programmatic way, then I think you'd probably be okay.

But then the problem becomes, can you do programming from the GUI? I think that's actually a lot harder to do.
I never said don't use GPS. GPS is excellent in a lot of ways. Google's consumer options in this space are world class and incredibly useful. I used them my self this past weekend in Melbourne. They worked.

I'm saying don't rely on it too much. Don't expect it to always be there. Have fun with other options. Learn to read a map because it's a fun and useful tool, and so on.

Use technology.

> This anti-technological-advancement stance

Please don't put words into my mouth or tell me what I am or am not. I'm literally a programmer working in tech who uses Google Maps at least once per week.
Thanks for your feedback. I’ll think about that last paragraph.
Huh. Something like 1 in 20 people will likely have their lives end in a car accident.
Can you? I have long been under the impression that Excel is to be avoided for all but the lightest, most cursory analyses.

From 2007:

http://people.umass.edu/evagold/excel.html

From 2013:

http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/ExcelProblems

I could post more but I would have to fire-up my old spreadsheet ;)
> Nobody's saying it can't be developed without Windows

The first sentence of the link: "Cosmos (C# Open Source Managed Operating System) is an operating system development kit which uses Visual Studio as its development environment."

At another point in the article: "Cosmos lets you create operating systems just as Visual Studio and C# normally let you create applications. Most users can write and boot their own operating system in just a few minutes, all using Visual Studio. Since milestone 5, Cosmos includes an integrated project type in Visual Studio and an integrated debugger. You can debug your operating system directly from Visual Studio using breakpoints."

And that's fine. Visual Studio is, as I've heard, an excellent IDE. But Visual Studio is indeed a Windows-only thing, for the foreseeable future.

In addition, elsewhere in the article it is mentioned about this project that the developers "want to make developing operating system as easy as developing Windows applications". That is clearly a bias towards the way of developing on Windows only.

And again, that's fine too.

But all this also agrees with my statement that it "cannot be developed without using Windows" in a practical sense. Sure, I could build my own, as you say, but that would be in conflict with the way the project's developers want it to work.
Seriously. Content like this is only useful for people who already know probability.
According to some people above, any Android apps that support Android 4.4 or below can be emulated on it. So, I'm pretty sure that does include these two, and Firefox in particular has been confirmed to work.
Any tips/starting point for the uninitiated?
IP counting or revenue counting?
You are comparing apples to oranges.

Plenty (all?) bitcoin exchanges have been hacked and their coins never recovered.
You do not need to 'hack' the blockchain to steal bitcoins.
Went through the article. The "Black hole starship" proposal is particularly interesting.

Reminded me of the ball lightning Tesla used to play around with Mark Train.
It is good. The privacy concerns are real though.
It's possible that the prosecutors in a local drug case got Snapchat data by subpoena, but much more likely is that it was given to them by an informant. Here's the real thing. Anything you do online is not private. If you want to keep something private, don't do it online.
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Another great oldie is 'The Third Man'. Most famous, I suppose, for the "cuckoo clock" speech.
> In a complex system with many layers of subsystems, having [Optimization Framework]s all the way down the stack would make the whole system run more efficiently.

Pretty extraordinary claim. Does the law of diminishing returns somehow not apply here?
It would probably also be better to use UDP instead of TCP -> you want to send updates as fast as possible, and if a packet is dropped you don’t want to waste network capacity to resend it — just send the next packet.

Then again, TCP is a lot easier to work with, since you get an error on the client side if you made a mistake. With UDP there is no way to know if the packet was received.
The real question is why a company like Google is still giving stock to employees. The whole thing is a con at the expense of ignorant shareholders who somehow think all this dilution is not coming out of their pocket.
I would use a Jupyter notebook for data science. I don't think it's a GUI in the sense that the author intended.

In that case, IDEs would also be GUIs.
I have some degree of empathy for Tesla here because of the current state of media coverage of self driving vehicles. Any self driving vehicle is isolated, magnified, and repeated ad nauseam.

If accepting that people can die if they make poor decisions, which they ought be allowed to, was a thing - I would be right there with you. But today everybody wants somebody to blame for everything, especially with new technologies, and when freedom enables people to make bad decisions that can hurt a manufacturer much more than help them.

While their primary motivation might be greed, I'm not convinced it is. Apple on the other hand...
Of course worth mentioning is the “comeback of all time”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
Define "writing about technology."

A how-to (e.g. here's the steps in accomplishing this task)? A review (e.g. I tried this product and here I share how well it works and if it's worth your money/time)? Tech explanations (e.g. need to come up to speed on TechThing? I explain)? Something else?

And for whom? Developers, consumers, enterprise CIOs?

There are all sorts of ways to get paid for writing about tech. But it's easiest to guide you if you tell us more!
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Not really.

A couple of years back I was so poor I was sleeping on my brother's couch.

Not to mention that there are people on HN who are from developing countries, where even relatively well paid jobs don't pay a lot by Western standards.
Me too; I have had the tab open months, or years at this point.

http://prog21.dadgum.com/114.html - "Papers from the lost culture of Array Languages" - has links to this and a couple more interesting sounding things.
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Hardware support of laptops for FOSS is not that good unless you restrict yourself to Dell or IBM.
Sorry for the slow reply.

I read up on the symptoms and since I didn't feel any "pain" it indicated it was a pinched nerve.

I started doing some stretches lying on my back and sometimes that stopped the "zinging" immediately but not every time. When it did I could feel my spine in the middle of my back "pop". And if I laid flat on my back I could feel my spine had hump in it.

I could also feel some tingling in my feet and legs before it would start zinging me out, so I got to know when they were coming.

One day when I felt the tingling I stood up and raised my arms straight up and arched my back backwards as far as I could and slowly lowered my arms by bringing them down while pulling them behind me as far as I could in a half circle motion. All kinds of "popping" noises happened and the tingling went away instantly.

Over the next few weeks I had just a few full on zingers and when I did that stretch they went away almost instantly. Since then I've made a point to do those stretches several times a day and I've not had a full blown zinger in over a month.

It was bad though. Damn near paralyzing on my left side and I could barely walk when it was happening.
This slide has a nice answer:

http://mbostock.github.io/d3/talk/20111116/#8
WIPP is one of HN's all time most popular reposts:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=wipp&sort=byPopularity&prefix=...

Lots of past comments to read.

280 comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11851871
Keep scrolling.
I'm not sure what your point is. What's being asked is for the wisdom of the crowds, and for people to come forward with what they think their favorite short-list of HN posts are.

This has been asked multiple times before, and it's generally a useful and interesting discussion, and new things are learned.

If anything, linking to searches for prior times it's been asked[1] would be good. Also searches for people asking about favorite comments[2].

1: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=favorite%20hn%20post&sort=byPo...

2: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=favorite%20hn%20comment&sort=b...
I don't understand why the down votes? It could be true for him, while it could be the opposite way for others. It's all about your perspective. I have said it before, but saying again:

Now imagine an alternate universe where there are no tools like photoshop/illustrator invented (No GUI or mouse based operating environments), we would have still created art through command line. Perhaps it would be a sophisticated version of SVG that mostly people with development skills would be producing with the input of designers who would be occasionally checking the design and giving inputs. Now this process have decades of tooling to make things better, like the same arguments we have on repeatability through various tools like macros etc. Now imagine someone coming up with the idea of a basic version of photoshop, we will most probably dismiss that idea. Very few mainstream programmers would adopt such a tool (Enterprises would, as seen with RapidMiner). That doesn't mean one day that would evolve into the Photoshop that we see today and would totally eliminate development effort in producing art.

p.s. edited for typos.
> when a leading cause of death for most humans was regional strife

What leads you to believe that was ever a major cause of death for more than a tiny handful of people? It would seem the hardships of living before modern medicine and (any) agriculture would have killed far more people. Given how expensive/risky it was to collect food, why would any group of folks risk most of their healthy, strong brood to wage regional conflict? If they lost, all of them would lose by virtue of losing the most capable members of the society.