skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of the article wasn't to present a realistic scenario; it was just saying "never underestimate the value of time in making money"
Regarding the quote by email, that’s also one way to quickly loose people.

They give out a number and if you click the it’s too expensive option, then they tell you that it could be cut by up to 70% if you contact them. Not bad but maybe it could somehow be added to the page. Ideally with a big on info on why.

Right now it feels to me like they’re just quoting you high and then swapping that out for the real price they want to charge you. Usually when stuff like that happens, it’s still inflated.

That’s the feeling I got when I saw that.
That’s a bad website. Hijack scrolling and back button.
Not quite true. It might affect astronomical observations from the moon:

On the down side, the Earth’s geocorona could interfere with future astronomical observations performed in the vicinity of the Moon.

“Space telescopes observing the sky in ultraviolet wavelengths to study the chemical composition of stars and galaxies would need to take this into account,” adds Jean-Loup.
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=skynettoday.com
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This is a really misleading title!

I don’t normally leave negative comments but how did this article even break the top 10? There’s no correlation between this formula and reality.

99% of ad campaigns have negative ROI, and those that don’t need massive scale, not a small seed tranche.

Advertising is a powerful but expensive tool, not a solution to becoming an overnight unicorn.
Parsing itself doesn't need jitting but as soon as you start to use the parsed data to interface with some typed containers the data plumbing consumes much more time than parsing does and drags down all the optimization. For parsing to interact well with static languages jitting is a possible solution to look at.
> Donaghy's track record of making calls that favored his bet was 23-3-4

They know which games he bet on and which games he officiated, so they can track his calls in games where he had a vested interest in affecting the outcome.

> The odds that Tim Donaghy would have randomly made calls that produced that imbalance are 6,155-to-1.

Basically, there's no way an unbiased ref could generate such an accurate prediction of the winner.
I can’t go back to a hobbled templating pseudolang after jsx
Seattle is just now allowing wood construction in high rise buildings. Previously they were an early adopter in mid-rise buildings which is why you see a lot of apartment buildings with exactly 6 stories around (1 concrete ground, 5 wood as allowed by the building code).

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/washington-state-to...
I'm not sure if this is satire or not.
"Tech Giants" is being used in agreement with virtually no reasonable definition of the phrase. For those who didn't read the article, the bill allows people to sell up to 50k a year of home cooked food with relaxed licensing restrictions. The author argues this bill will do virtually nothing to help independent dumpling makers, tamale vendors, etc while the bill is being advertised to help these types of business owners. Instead, the bill was essentially written as a carveout for a startup called Josephine.com which is a marketplace for homecooked meals. The company is currently out of business, so it's hard to see how it could be characterized as a tech giant. A bit of research turns up 3.1 million in seed funding. [1]

I acknowledge the author's argument here, but they're really decrying the the fundamental nature of an open democracy. This bill was a direct gimme for the startup, but it actually doesn't seem to be a bad thing. A business that lots of people want to patronize now gets to operate legally. I find it hard to see how that's a bad thing.

[1]https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/josephine#section-ov...
It's not magic. The things that enable writing this kind of code are essentially practice and specialization. Most people have to write code that works all all architectures and where performance is probably less critical than having a simple, workable codebase - so the opportunities to practice writing SIMD code are rare under those constraints.

Unfortunately, the fragmentation of SIMD standards and various pitfalls in implementation (the much ballyhoo'ed "running AVX will make your processor clock to half its speed or something" exaggerations, for example) make a lot of people nervous about putting in the time to commit to developing expertise, which is a shame.
Since you know the number, have you considered reaching out to its current owner to coordinate passing off the code?
Not just internationally.

The last time I was in northern New Jersey, Warwick Valley Telephone Company still supported five digit dialing across area codes!

People could dial 4nnnn to be connected to 973-764-nnnn (a New Jersey area code). They could also dial 6nnnn to be connected to 845-986-nnnn (a New York area code). There were about 15 different short codes across two area codes.

There are a lot of these little regional telephone quirks across America, and I think every one of them is awesome.
What is the kernel-space equivalent of a root shell? presumably you wouldn't try to load your full payload into the kernel space, just try to give yourself root access somehow?
Any technical blog articles you have that explain how you were able to ascertain these incredible performance gains?

Kudos on some incredible work! :)
> unless they get very close

Sounds like it could still influence hunting as the predators have to get very close to make a kill
But remember that your comment wasn't actually addressing avmich's objection to the assertion "All JSON is JavaScript, but not all JavaScript is JSON".

That assertion is indeed incorrect.

avmich then wrote "I thought they diverged specifications".

That is also correct. JSON was meant to be a perfect subset of JavaScript. Instead, and by accident, it diverged from the relevant specification.

Your comment instead was mostly focused on opposition to changing the existing JSON specification, which is a different topic.
That’s actually a pretty popular phishing method currently.
I beams are quite safe if the fire retardant remains on (a major cause of the WTC collapse was the fire retardant getting blown off by the impact).

Trusses on the other hand are quite dangerous in a fire.

https://community.fireengineering.com/forum/topic/show?comme...
Not really a question, but if you ever get to the point of wondering what a good next challenging project would be, consider generalizing some of these techniques into a next generation Yacc / Bison replacement.

Something that can take generic grammer rules and turn it into a high performance parsing engine.

It wouldn't have to support every possible grammar or option. Json isn't that complex of a language, but even a limited set of grammar options in exchange for a performant parser could be of benefit for a very large set of problems.
That article is from August 2017. The latest one I can find on the tower is from September 2018 but it appears to be nearly complete (target completion data is March 2019).

[1] https://archinect.com/news/article/150084833/the-world-s-tal...
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Good idea! I'll try. Thanks! The number may or may not be recycled, in case it's not recycled, it would simply be a NULL number. Wish me luck...
In jvm-land circe-fs2[1] is a streaming Parser.

[1]: https://github.com/circe/circe-fs2/blob/master/README.md
Thank you. More description of the work will be forthcoming but please be patient (for non-sinister reasons).
If you’re making an address book app, don’t expect people to put what you expect in the fields you give them just because you label the fields a particular way.
It may be a good bet, it may not be. Hedge funds now buy up stocks before they get indexed.

Stocks will still beat cash in the long run but the main thing is to be ahead of the curve.
This is spam. There's literally nothing original or unique about this site, no accompanying details on how they made it or anything you'd usually expect on HN. The site itself is a cookie-cutter clone of dozens like it, and exists solely to upsell people to a paid service.

It's happening lots lately too. Look at the Gmail spam-tool that got to the top of the front page earlier, or any number of posts lately that are just people gaming HN's front page to get free clicks to their service.
Oh now that would be an interesting tool
>Isn't the difference here that Federal courts can't create law, only rule on constitutional matters. Common law (state and local courts) can create "laws".

Uh, no. This is just completely incorrect. Things like reasonable suspicion are standards created by federal courts that have the force of law (see Terry v Ohio). The logic is based on the 4th amendment, but the standard was created by the justices.

District courts can't really create laws since it's not binding on any other court. Appeals courts do all the time, in fact one of the easiest ways to get something to the supreme court is to have a split between the circuits because that creates different law in different parts of the country.
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I am now reading "Red Star" a 1908 utopian novel by Alexander Bogdanov, where another advanced Humanity is living on Mars. In this Utopia, people frequently transfer blood one from another. The author presents blood donation as one of the greatest form of Fraternity.

Interestingly, Bogdanov founded one of the first blood transfer institute with only volunteering donors. At that time, most blood donations were paid. Later on, thanks to better conservation techniques, less blood was needed, and volunteering became generalized world-wide.

Bogdanov also believed that blood donation could rejuvenate people. His wife said that he looked 7-10 years younger after his experiments. But, in the end, he died, because he received malaria-infected blood.

That is interesting to know that some 2019 issues already existed more than a century ago: blood transfer, paying for blood, rejuvenation, etc..
Input > We will do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

Output > We are guided not by our will, but by a capacity for self-reflection

That is amazing.
Definitely this one! https://youtu.be/10sDqSUjXHc

Think about how you could fill a 2D plane with infinite parallel lines, one for every single point on a real line. Imagine, for example, running vertical lines through every point on the x-axis, how this would fill the entire plane.

The Hopf Fibration is similar. It's a way of filling all of the space on the surface of a 3-sphere (which locally feels like 3D Euclidean space) with interlocking circles. Each of these circles can be mapped a point on an ordinary sphere.

Thinking of it in the other direction: for every point on the surface of an ordinary (2-)sphere, you can assign a circle on the surface of a 3-sphere. By taking into consideration all of the points on the 2-sphere, and all of the circles they represent, you can fill the entire surface of the 3-sphere with these interlocking circles!
No. If something is profitable, it moves value into someone's pockets. Bank robberies, advertising/spam and nigerian scams are all profitable but create no value.
It is really strange that they added another library to do unauthenticated AES when nacl has a symmetric AEAD mode...
This is a clear sales pitch - inflate cost estimates, obscure any source datasets and then pitch a 70% cheaper solution?

Lipstick meets pig.
So this is like the Carnot Cycle for investing then? The "theoretical optimal maximum" for a cycle, that efficiency will be measured against but can never be reached?
I find it incredibly ironic that the person's user name is KorematsuFred given the context.
No, as much as I hate Facebook: fuck phone numbers. The idea of using phone number as a personal identification tool is so bad, I'm struggling to believe this is not some kind of conspiracy designed for the solely purpose of mocking the user. It is bad enough that phone numbers exist at all in the eyes of the end user by the year 2019, 15 years after Skype with user-friendly logins appeared and when about a half of the planet uses the phone almost solely for the purpose of having a pocket-size internet access device anyway. But making phone numbers a passport of sorts (a proprietary, insecure, easy to lose passport, over which you have basically no control) is the worst, the most stupid/evil idea ever. And there's no way around it, it is used by (supposedly "secure") whatsapp, telegram, google, facebook, every fucking pizza delivery service and, well, basically everything else. And I hate every single person responsible for helping that happen.

Seriously, I would do everything I can to destroy fucking phone numbers, but I have no idea how can we stop this madness.
Oh yeah - that's why their 70% discounted hybrid MVP solution is advertised at the end of the calculator... they're trying to sell their services by showing extreme stats imo.
I think many would be happy to go to jail and keeo the billions instead.
I don’t think I’ve grokked that yet.
I predict that someday, somebody will invent a fail-safe, backup manual method for tying shoes.
You don’t have to get anywhere near melting temp to weaken the beam strength of steel.

From the internet:
Average building fires reach temperatures of 700 to 1000°C.
Steel weakens dramatically as its temperature climbs above 230°C, retaining only 10 percent of its strength at 750°C.
Wood generally does not ignite until it reaches 250°C. Once it catches fire, wood develops a protective insulating char layer.
After 30 minutes a large wooden beam will have lost around 25 percent of its strength in a 750°C fire and retain structural integrity – a steel beam will have lost 90 percent strength and will have failed.
your landlord will get the notification about carbon monoxide on their phone. Then they will call you. It might be a false alarm twice. Then it might be real the third time but then they decided to not call you and just silence it.

lot's of thing can happen by incompetence, not even have to go too far on the scenarios.
Woah, that's a seriously fast loading site. Well done!
So since I got a phone I have always used it as my address book (yeah, I export and back it up). In the early days Android was pretty nice. You can enter all sorts of things in there; multiple addresses, numbers, company information, birthdays of friends or other important dates etc..

But latterly, Android just won't do birthday dates. Oh sure, the dates are still in there and get exported from the database but there is no way to enter the information or look at it on the phone (I use BirthdayAdapter from F-Droid which causes a reminder on the day)

I expect that some people just put the birthday of their friend in a phone number field. In fact I'm pretty sure that millions of people just use random fields for their own purposes full stop, they just don't care about any of that.

So the article is saying that it is their phone, don't try to control them. If information is in the field and you can't parse it? You store it and export it as received but otherwise ignore it..
Maybe top 5 users (by karma count) get to change their username color? Would be another meaningless change on theme.
Expected chair lifespan > expected cell phone lifespan. (sadly)
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Wood for construction (and paper) is harvested from fast-growing industrial pine plantations. Building with old growth wood is inefficient even if it wasn't socially unacceptable. The demand for that stuff is all in high-end furniture and other decorative items.
Here's an angle you might consider pursuing. Disqus basically doesn't follow their terms of service:

https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/1097690326477635584

Perhaps there's a niche there for someone who is a bit more stringent about keeping out the garbage.
I ran one of the Codable benchmarks in instruments, and here's what the top functions were:

19.98 s swift_getGenericMetadata
19.15 s newJSONString
16.17 s objc_msgSend
15.33 s _swift_release_(swift::HeapObject*)
14.45 s tiny_malloc_should_clear
12.81 s _swift_retain_(swift::HeapObject*)
11.28 s searchInConformanceCache(swift::TargetMetadata<swift::InProcess> const*, swift::TargetProtocolDescriptor<swift::InProcess> const*)
10.46 s swift_dynamicCastImpl(swift::OpaqueValue*, swift::OpaqueValue*, swift::TargetMetadata<swift::InProcess> const*, swift::TargetMetadata<swift::InProcess> const*, swift::DynamicCastFlags)

So it looks like a lot of the time is going into memory management or the Swift runtime performing type checking.
anti-spam, they said... and you also have this (vomit),

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18085580

Yes Facebook is using your 2FA phone number to target you with ads
But what is actually burning in a steel and concrete structure? Drywall and carpet?
Do you mean: could the moon strip away our atmosphere with its gravity in the absence of solar radiation?

Well, Earth has gravity, too. It's much stronger than the moon's gravity. In fact, Earth's gravity is the only thing that's holding the moon where it is! The moon might manage to steal a little gas from Earth and hold onto it, but the transfer of mass will be nowhere near what I would call "stripping".
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what languages does it support out of box? Or is it just a backend engine?
lobste.rs does this pretty well, they require you to select one of the provided reasons for downvoting a comment. It gives direct feedback to the commenter as to why their comment was downvoted. The HN and reddit policy is, intentionally or not, "downvote if you disagree." Without any direct feedback mechanism, it will stay that way.
Yup. Another example: Poland dropped a "0" prefix from area codes for landlines some ten years ago.
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It's on the list as a research project. It's not obvious to me at this stage that the bottlenecks for more advanced parsers are necessarily going to be in the same place as they are for JSON. It might make more sense to look at a state-of-the-art parser and see if we can contribute a few tricks instead.
Most videos on YouTube were of television and movies when they started.

The whole YouTube stars and original content came much later.
Germany can be seen as a supranational entity. Until quite recently Germany was a bunch of almost independent states, reasonably similar to what the EU is now. So far increased integration seems to have worked out for Germany.
No, you can literally do none of that with microsoft software.
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I am working on the android client incase anyone wants to contribute. Any help is appreciated.

https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android
Chinese tourists mentioned in the article mostly, probably.
There are a few shitheads from other countries I'm sure, but Chinese tourists are notorious for this.
Also, do you have SSO feature?
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> I'm under the illusion it's easier to influence a Swedish politician than it is to influence an order of magnitude more foreign politicians

Yes. And that includes the fact that the dumbfucks who think pi should equal three because bible says so also have more influence to the politicians at the level of Sweden than EU. I asked a question, why you think Sweden would be more optimal than EU and you basically replied "because I think so". Count me unconvinced by your arguments.

(Personally, I think that instead of discussing what is the right geographical scope of independent country, we should discuss which are issues that need to be decided on city level, which on state level, which on country level, which on EU-like entity level and which are issues that would actually need global democratic process to back them up. But unfortunately this discussion is way too complicated to the people that like to discuss with arguments like "Let's fund NHS with the EU membership fee instead")
Why would we be against it? I know it’s an unpopular opinion on HN, but I don’t have a problem with Facebook and Google being made liable for the content on their platforms.

Here is why: if you produce content, like music, you can put it on YouTube and YouTube will pay you for the views. They’ll only pay you for the content in your channels though, while themselves earning money from both the legal and illegal copies.

I’m not personally too worried about the privacy, people will always find a way to share, but the fact that YouTube makes money of the illegal content legally, just doesn’t sit right with me.

What’s even worse is that YouTube won’t tell us the profit ratios on our own content. Sure they’ll pay a record company to put music videos on an official channel, but they’ll never disclose how much money YouTube earns from it. Maybe it’s a fair split, maybe it’s not, but you have no way of knowing and you kind of have to be on YouTube. I mean, this last bit is where it becomes obvious that viewers are the product, because we only upload stuff to YouTube because they have all the damn users.

I know the fear machine, wants us to believe that private citizens wouldn’t be able to upload a video we filmed with a song playing in the background. But that’s actually already illegal. Only in its current form, it’s the private citizen who is liable and not the platform. I have no problem with switching that around, and make the platform liable instead of the individual. Maybe that will lead to more closed platforms, but my pets bet is that someone out there is willing to build a platform that allows the content and simply pays the royalties, for the same reason we accept the godawful YouTube contract. The users are valuable.

In Denmark, Sweden and Estonia we prefer the government to Google or Facebook, so naturally we support laws that moves power from the companies to the people.
> which helped previous generations of zebras who had stripes thrive and pass their genes forward.

You don't know that. The article doesn't even bother to test it.

They've observed that stripes lead to fewer horsefly landings. Interesting. I guess.

But, talking about evolution is a non sequitor. Show me the data where a zebra's fecundity is related to the number of horsefly bites it receives. There isn't any.

One can speculate about such things. But, if one wishes to be scientific, test to see if there is a measurable effect.

For all we know, zebras with MORE horsefly bites are MORE likely to reproduce. There simply is no data in the article one way or the other. So bringing up evolution is just mindless unscientific just-so-storytelling.
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