skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> HN’s response was no, because that would “gut the threads the account had participated in”

I participate at Flyertalk, and a good friend of mine had a major falling-out with them a few years ago.

As a leaving gift, he wrote a script to edit every single comment he'd ever made over the [many] years he'd been contributing, to remove his many many thousands of comments.

As a result, there are thousands of removed comments, and of course, many thousands of threads which are, well, gutted.

In our new GDPR-aware world, isn't that his right?
We're also perpetuating values like fierce independence. This has an effect as everyone is focused on me-me-me rather than finding a mate. To this style of rhetoric, finding a mate is succumbing to the status quo, and surrendering to common relationship ideals.
But you aren't really advocating for anything. "Breaking a lot of norms recently" isn't really an argument, unless you have some specific argument for why lots of elderly people living alone is a good thing.
A part from the fact the he cited eth, that makes him not Bitcoin maximalist: he’s right.
Also because the arguments are always the same and in this same thread we have one of the most voted comments saying that the idea behind Bitcoin is “stupid”. Just that.
But it’s fine since we’re in HN, isn’t it?
>Why not? I want my employee to fit in with the team. If they drink then I want someone who drinks. This is reasonable.

In what universe? Sorry, but only a sociopathic boss would consider this "reasonable".

In fact, if what you wrote as "reasonable" was explicitly stated as an expectation in company communications, the company could be sued out of existence, and would surely could Twitter-red out of business too, and any team manager in a larger company would be fired with the compamny trying to disassociate with it as much as possible...
dude, everything crashed, stocks and even bonds. UK just bailed out pension funds. This proves that Bitcoin has became an asset class and it is very early.
Agreed on the compression fittings over the sharkbite stuff.
In considering that 90% of homeless people, you infer that the complexities that led them there are actually a single cause. This seems to be a fairly absurd notion. I would certainly find no wisdom in basing action on it.
It's possible that you misspelled "Money laundering instrument". ;)
If Google stock were really worthless, someone could buy all of it for pennies and do whatever they want with the company. Owning and controlling a company with $80B yearly profits isn’t worth anything to you?

A single Google share isn’t really worth anything on its own. But its value is tied to the collective value of _all_ Google shares, which _are_ worth something.
Maybe once PHP finally becomes a language of the past you will be one of the few holdouts pulling in $300-$400k per year or more for working on a legacy code base, like COBOL programmers for banks. Nothing wrong with that mindset if you actually enjoy working with it and can stand being on the constant butt end of PHP jokes.
There is a fixed total amount of Bitcoin that will ever exist, and they are released the the market over time. Bitcoin is not inflationary.
There are many tools that will help you answer things like this i.e. Wireshark.
Cryptocurrency can easily be exchanged for a whole lot of goods and services.
Notebook vs laptop, software developer vs softwar engineer vs programmer, app vs program. There might be a difference in definition but the average person uses the words interchangably.
This is why I invested in Monero years ago, when it was under a dollar. I concluded that since the only actual application of crypto up to that time was selling illegal goods and services on black markets like silk road, that it was really the only coin that made sense at the time (I'm sure others replicated it). AFAIK it is still considered untraceable, but the value peeked years ago around $400 IIRC. I made some decent money on it though and still HODL some.
Modern culture makes it easier than ever for people to reach each other but it also makes it easy for people to isolate and live alone.

Quite a few people seem to choose the latter even though it usually makes people less happy and less fulfilled.

Or… does it? I know more than one person who lives alone because they got too tired of drama.

I don’t live alone but have a pretty good relationship with my SO. If I had a bad one and could not repair it, living alone may be preferable.
You can get more expensive ones designed to last - but they’re nowhere near as cheap as the simple spools you find at Walmart etc.
Perhaps the account the OP was concerned about wouldn’t have turned up in the stylometry demonstration it linked to if HN had deleted it one, five or ten years ago.

Yes, there are permanent risks for past posts but that’s no reason to throw up your hands and give up on any and all attempts to mitigate them going forward.
It almost reads like this forum is designed to be a training set
> this puts the onus on people promoting paywalls to change their behavior.

The amount of onus this delivers has to be calculated using infinitesimals. Especially compared to the amount of money delivered by paying subscribers.
Could be the deduplication newer Postgres versions have for B-Tree indexes:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/btree-implementation...

> 67.4.3. Deduplication

> A duplicate is a leaf page tuple (a tuple that points to a table row) where all indexed key columns have values that match corresponding column values from at least one other leaf page tuple in the same index. Duplicate tuples are quite common in practice. B-Tree indexes can use a special, space-efficient representation for duplicates when an optional technique is enabled: deduplication.

> Deduplication works by periodically merging groups of duplicate tuples together, forming a single posting list tuple for each group. The column key value(s) only appear once in this representation. This is followed by a sorted array of TIDs that point to rows in the table. This significantly reduces the storage size of indexes where each value (or each distinct combination of column values) appears several times on average. The latency of queries can be reduced significantly. Overall query throughput may increase significantly. The overhead of routine index vacuuming may also be reduced significantly.
Most people don't announce to scientists that they've lost weight. Lot's of people do lose weight and stay that way, it's just that there are even more who don't.

Consider that the rate of obesity continues to increase in the US. This shows that people are simply eating more and doing less exercise. And of course those that are already obese are the least likley to consume healthy ammounts of food and exercise as needed.

In other words, yes, the issue with overeating is in fact overeating. The only way to solve this problem for the whole population (as in, not for a single individual) is to change society and how it views unhealthy food. Off the top of my head, fast food advertisments should be made illegal. The entire point of those ads to get people to eat fast food. This single step could reduce obesity in the US by a noticable amount and requires no loss of freedom to any individual. A sugar tax or the like is a more extreme solution. But this idea is not unfounded:

>Sugar, rum, and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

-Adam Smith

Book V: On the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth
Chapter III: On Public Debts

https://www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/chapter-iii-of-publ...
Stablecoins such as USDC and Tether (although despised by many) are used for non-criminal cross border transfers and savings accounts. Here is a recent episode of EconTalk that explains the use case in Argentina https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/econtalk/id135066958?i...
Agreed. My wife's been buying these. We have two plugin type, and I think 4 solar type.

The solar type seem to only last a year or two, but really nice for wrapping far away bushes and such.
What’s definitely possible is reusing green tea for a second or even third infusion.
"Error

This campaign is paused for now."

not sure this makes for a good hn post. nothing about the... app...? on the site beyond the marketing blurb, and the "campaign" (?) is paused
A script is a type of program, they're not two separate classes of things.

I think classically a script is a program whose subunits are each complete programs ('commands') that operate on a shared environment, with shell scripting being the central example. The definition has since been expanded by way of analogy to include basically any interpreted program which may have side effects on its execution environment.
There is also a psychological aspect of account deletion: Deleting an account can provide closure and make it clear to yourself and others that you distance yourself from a site - even if your old comments stay up.

By preventing users from closing accounts, HN is deliberately blurring the lines of who is still active on the platform and who isn't.

Lastly, if it really turns out there is a reliable method to associate HN accounts with a real-world identity, HN will get in trouble with the GDPR.

Really guys, leave the comments up if you have to, but give people a way to remove their account from it.
> There are an infinite number of ways to conceive of housing, than those two. Just try.

I'm not sure where you are going with this, because there really are only a few options, all of which fall into two buckets: private ownership or government/state/tribal ownership.
Thanks, I appreciate the explanation! I wasn't aware of it, I've only hobbied with B/W back in the day because it's so much easier (much less complex chemicals, being able to use red light in the dark room during printing)
> an ecosystem is a centralized entity

This is the opposite of the canonical ecosystem [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem
I know this is off topic, but how do people assess the risks of installing an extension like this?
The permissions allow "access your data for all websites" which includes reading passwords you type into fields.
This extension looks very useful, but in general I just don't know how to trust it.
For me, scripts are something I write quickly, don't put a lot of thought into, don't care if they have weird failure cases. More like a one-off thing.

If a "script" is critical, has to handle lots of error conditions, has to always have reasonable behavior, and is part of any kind of production setup, then it becomes more like programming.
So are you saying monero can solve the planetary crisis of users not being able to buy illicit drugs online?
What are the stations/receivers? Is this crowdsourced data?
Excellent, thank you! I'll add that to the article.
"We refuse to help because it's a mild inconvenience to us and we'll justify it by assuming that it won't help without knowing for a fact that it won't."

That's a fascinating stance that you've outlined and that others have parroted. A stance that HN has implied with the reply to OP.
I live in a rural village. There's a bus, which I take in the morning when I get the train somewhere, it doesn't run in the evening though, nor does it go in the right direction to do things like after school clubs.

It would really be helpful to have a second car for those rare occasions, and I can get a second hand Micra with 12 months MOT for under £1k. I'd drive it about 400 miles a year, which would use say 60 litres of petrol a year and cause about 90 tons of CO2, costing about £30 in petrol tax for the pollution it causes. Fair enough.

However I'd have to pay vehicle excise duty of £180 a year, meaning the actual tax per mile is about 50p/mile rather than 8p/mile.

But this is where it gets bad. If I ignore the sunk cost of the car and the VED, the per-mile cost becomes lower than the bus, thus it is far more sensible to drive than take the bus.

In my opinion VED should be rolled into petrol pricing, or just road mileage pricing -- take an odometer reading at the MOT and charge 5p/mile, 10p/mile, 50p/mile, whatever. It's crazy that the tax per mile is an order of magnitude higher for a car used once a week to go 5 miles than a car driven 100 miles a day.
If your definition of money = using something for goods and services, the crypto has certainly exceeded that definition.
> If a team expects this and you know you don't want to provide this to the team, THEN why are you choosing to work for them?

If an employer want an employee to spend the time between 17:00 to 01:00 at a bar then they can do what the owner of the bar do, employ a person to be in that bar. If the french law is similar to other countries then they would have to pay night wages, follow maximum work hours, and follow work safety regulations. There will also be a work contract that cover those hours.

If they don't want to employ a person for this job, or they don't want to follow the law that regulate employees, then don't use employees.
Non-referral link:

https://waveful.app/
Its a real concern in this case though. Read the news these days on what certain governments do to their activists based on their social media postings.
Interesting, sounds similar to the dictionary that CERN ROOT generates. Id like to be able to do the same, and a generic "dictionary maker" by what you've described could be useful for allowing multiple formats
All true, but I guess the Chinese will point to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_for_the_Extension_o...:

“In the wake of China's defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895), the British took advantage of the other European powers' scramble to carve up the country and forced the treaty on the weakened Chinese government.

Between 6 March and 8 April 1898, the German government forced the Qing Empire into a 99-year lease of the Kiautschou Bay concession for a coaling station around Jiaozhou Bay on the southern coast of the Shandong Peninsula, to support a German global naval presence in direct opposition to the British network of global naval bases. This initiated a series of similar lease treaties with other European powers. On 27 March 1898, the Convention for the Lease of the Liaotung Peninsula was signed between the Russian Empire and the Qing Empire, granting Russia a 25-year lease of Port Arthur and Dalian, to support Russia's Chinese Eastern Railway interests in Manchuria. Consequently on 28 March 1898, Britain, anxious of the Russian presence in China, pressured the Qing Empire into leasing of Weihaiwei, which had been captured by the Empire of Japan in the Battle of Weihaiwei, the last major battle of the First Sino–Japanese War, for as long as the Russians occupying Port Arthur, to make checks and balances of Russia. During the negotiation, the British stated that they would further request for leasing of land if any foreign concession took place in Southern China.

On 10 April 1898, the French, who also desired Chinese territory, forced the Qing Empire into a 99-year lease of Kwang-Chou-Wan to France to support France in southern China and Indochina. In order to maintain the balance of powers, Britain ordered Claude Maxwell MacDonald to pressure Qing Empire into allowing the expansion of Hong Kong for 200 miles (320 km). As a result, the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory was signed on 9 June 1898 in Beijing (Peking). The contract was signed to give the British full jurisdiction of the newly acquired land that was necessary to ensure proper military defence of the colony around the island. Some of the earliest proposals for the land's usage in 1894 included cemetery space, an exercise ground for British troops as well as land for development. From the British perspective concerns over security and territorial defence provided the major impetus for the agreement.”

Over a century ago, but more forced upon them than this is upon Laos.
He spends his time complaining on Twitter and hosting faux polls to unban right-wing trolls while misquoting "vox populi, vox dei".

He can almost certainly make time for spite.
If that was true, we should see a general world trend, and not a "Exceptionally USA problem".
UK government has takes GCHQ to review source code and make spesific conclusions.

The links you provide have unspecified official sharing his views of intelligence of unspesified quality. There appears to be no code review and no spesific information about what information Huawei has access to, which equipment is affected, etc.

I am not sure we can treat this level of intelligence with complete trust, it could be a PR excersise
I can't say I personally (or even professionally) need a systems language of the non-GC variety. The development speed vs execution speed differences don't pay off. At the same time, I'm very interested in how these lower level languages are becoming more and more generally usable. Rust seems to be leading at the moment and I find Zig very promising. My long-term bet would be for Jai or extracting "Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out".
> USDC and Tether (although despised by many) are used for non-criminal cross border transfers and savings accounts

One of these is almost certainly a fraud. The other provides utility, but largely in sidestepping money-laundering and banking rules.
Global Risk of Deadly Heat
How convenient that this is obvious enough to only the people who understand how this relatively complex technology works, but not to bystanders. The fact that you think stocks are closer to a ponzi scheme just invalidates the rest of your post even further.
Monero is digital cash. Cash is also used to buy drugs, but we do not ban it. I feel that financial privacy is a human right just like any other form of privacy. If you disagree then please post your last month’s bank statement in response to this comment.
> buying drugs online is a real use case

It's a use case that doesn't solve the problem with trust. Parties have to trust each other or use escrow. So, it solves only the "government control" problem.

But I agree, crypto is not just a Ponzi scheme. It's an enormous investment into the world of criminals - individuals and organizations.
I'm not one of those who are affected, so unfortunately I'm without a sound rebuttal. You do raise a good point. Given that I'm not, someone who is may have more perspective that'd support one assertion vs the other.
>Not that French is an important qualifier, I fully expect the American legal system to take that long as well.

I appreciate your noble intent, but "French" actually is an important qualifier. American courts are quite expedient relative to their French counterparts, especially in civil matters. I would expect such a case to take 3 years in the US, tops.

More to your point, this is where France's workplace protections are generally pretty good. It's hard to fire workers for anything other than gross negligence or incompetence, and the courts are generally biased in favor of the employee (which comes with its own set of problems, to be sure).
Purely anecdotal: I work from home but one day per week head out during rush hour and drive across town for a gym appointment. I almost never drive between 4p-6p anymore — my usual gym hours are 5am. The rush hour commute is crazy and scary enough that I have considered cancelling it.

One factor I notice is most drivers have their phone up in front of their faces. And at least during rush hour, the biggest trucks are driving pretty slow and the smaller more random drivers definitely correlate to smart phone obsessed drivers. Lots of sudden moves.

Further, people on the freeway totally obsessed with their phones are easy to spot: lane drifting and driving speeds that are typically inconsistent with the prevailing speed of the cars around them.

I drive a Tesla and use auto pilot almost all the time (I don’t have FSD). When you’re going a very consistent speed, the inconsistent behavior of the cars around you feels way more prevalent.

Another potential factor: left lane highway driving. I drove in a 3rd world country this summer and they were very consistent about driving in the right lane and only passing in the left lane. No one at all drove in the left lane. I think left lane driving in the US leads to more risky maneuvers and road rage responses.
This is a guess on my part, though I think a plausible one. To verify you'd probably have to compare an index with unique values to one with many identical ones.
We know it's not the whole thing because the closing } is missing.
I have a multi generational household right now with my father staying in our finished basement. It’s working out very well, but we also have a fairly big house in the Midwest. I’m not sure it could work for us in a small place. It’d be hard for my wife and I to have a relationship or any intimacy.

Other cultures deal with this though. I’m sure it can be done. There’s ways to build privacy into a small place. Did it in college. But it would require some changes to how we expect to use the space, something more like a dorm with common areas than a traditional house.
You can take the possibility out of it when you look at Google's big data. It's not a question of "if it exists out there" or "how often it is updated if it exists out there."

https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combi... is updated daily.
Tbf, we dont have that many examples of people trying. Communism sucked in russia, but its not like they are that much better under capitalism.
Added python array for a sense of scale https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=zig%20array,nim%2...
Again, there are no substantive arguments in his post or yours.

I'm willing to listen to where he's wrong, but saying it's due to a lack of understanding ain't it chief.
Might be interesting to regrind french press grounds finer and change extraction methods.
I do it every day. First pot in the morning is fresh, and my “2:00 pot” uses the same grounds. It’s weaker, but that’s the point.
Companies, societies, laws, customs, are "artificial constructs" too. Not letting the disabled die off in the woods is also an "artificial construct". "Make fun of gays" and "gropple the secretaries" was a team bonding ritual well favored in US companies not long ago too. "Haze the newbies" too (also in the army).

What fun, eh?

You're speaking from towers of huge privilege with mininal compassion. If you think what you're forcing people working for you to do - or lose their job - is bonding, think again.
The i386 had 100x the number of transistors, it'd cover an entire wall.
Yes that's why they accept it at Amazon and Alibaba right?
> That said, the idea of a 99 year lease seems particularly troubling.

I wonder where they could have got that idea from [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_for_the_Extension_o...
> Darknet Markets have been operating for over a decade now, they obviously have tons of legitimate uses and have created a plenty of wealth

If the only utility of crypto is in facilitating illegal transactions, then prima facie anyone in crypto should be charged with money laundering.
>"If JP/SK/US did decide on military action against North Korea"

NK is no longer part of NPT. Would not this war be illegal? How does it correspond with "we are the nation of laws"?

>"I would expect China to stand back"

And what if it does not?
What do you do now? Anything special to handle narcolepsy or just a more accommodating employer?
Direct Link:

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_palm

Edit: The Software Library directory

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary