jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
To quote Pierre Spray, one of the "Fighter Mafia" who had a hand in the design of the F-15 and drove the design of the F-16, the F-35 has been a massive success. What's not asked is "What is the mission of the F-35?" and in Spray's opinion the mission of the F-35 has been to drive funding to Lockheed.
It’s no different than how the entire Western media establishment has been relying on one-off style testimonies pushing atrocity propaganda and basing almost their entire genocide thesis off of anecdotal evidence.

You’re acting like it’s my goal or duty to convince you, which is not the case. You can choose to believe what you want to believe.

My simple goal here today is to make the point that the US has a long track record of manufacturing consent to achieve its geopolitical goals and that we all should be aware and on guard for it. This Uyghur genocide story throws up too many red flags for me.

Here’s Lawrence Wilkerson (retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell) being very candid about America’s interest in Xinjiang. Hint: it’s not because they care about Uyghurs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKBTT827b84
They've now added these to the search bar, above everything else.

If you already have top sites disabled on your start page, then you have to re-enable this and then disable the checkbox, before re-disabling it all. Terrible UX, arguably a dark pattern and user hostile.

https://twitter.com/OhMySMTP/status/1364274675459764231
Sure, but it was just an example of what kind of things FJB is doing to the code
What's wrong with that attitude and what do you think should be better by now?
No it doesn't. You can't unlock your Mac with your Android whereas there are plenty of apps that can do that from your iPhone:

http://macid.co/

http://www.knocktounlock.com/

http://www.fingerkeyapp.com/

http://www.appuous.com/products/mac/keycard.html
Im confused what limitations are you refering to? anything that you can't do with jQuery you can still do with straight java script. Just cause you use the framework does not me you are shackled to it. As for the using tables.. these two things are fundamentally different one has a place and is horribly misused when used for layout. The other is a framework that adds a wealth of functionality and additional functionality via plugins.
Billboards are expensive. Who would pay to put art up there? Artists?

Then you're back at artists advertising their work.
It may be set up like this mock up http://i.imgur.com/wD9b189.png

The OLED display facing away from the eyes, bouncing back from a secondary surface.
I'd bet that most new Forth implementations are done for CPU:s that already have vastly more powerful languages available. So if someone want to get stuff done they would probably rather use a more productive language for that. But if they want to tinker around I'd imagine a Forth implementation would be a pretty fun learning experience. I'm myself implementing a Lisp (MAL) just because it's fun. I'm not really planning on using the implementation for anything though.
The visual processing part of the brain can completely overwhelm auditory processing: see the mcgurk effect.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2k8fHR9jKVM

I am not at all surprised that there are also olifactory illusions which are impossible to “unsee”.
I’ve long struggled to “get” functional programming - both its syntax, and it’s real world uses. Everything is so terse and abstract and I find the lack of clear expressiveness to be daunting. It all often feels too “magic” to me which makes me suspicious. Then I wonder “what’s in it for me?” - how does it make my job or life easier? (I find myself much less motivated to learn something new without a clear answer to these things.)

One things I’ve found enlightening is when participating in Advent of Code exercises, watching how people are able to solve problems using functional languages. While I may not always grok the solutions in their entirety I’m often impressed by the compactness and elegance.
Fwiw, this: "I didn't pick Unreal Engine because of the 5% cut over 3k"

Is out of date by almost a year now, Unreal is now royalty free until 1 million dollars of revenue, at which point they take a 5% cut

They even backdated the change to start of the year so that developers who were charged under the 3k arrangement got refunds
> The comparison with gold mining is quite apt actually - one of the use cases for Bitcoin is to act as a store of value and hedge against inflation, precisely like gold.

Ahem, the primary use of gold is jewellery, not a hedge value against inflation. That's where the vast majority of all mined gold ends up (plus some in electronics and medical applications).
A 2-line CSS file. :-)
Not true. Berkshire invests in dividend paying companies, and Buffet likes that these companies pay dividends. From Buffet's 2012 letter to investors:

> Most companies pay consistent dividends, generally trying to increase them annually and cutting them very reluctantly. Our “Big Four” portfolio companies follow this sensible and understandable approach and, in certain cases, also repurchase shares quite aggressively. We applaud their actions and hope they continue on their present paths. We like increased dividends, and we love repurchases at appropriate prices.

Berkshire itself doesn't pay dividends, but the reasons are largely technical. First, an investor can just sell shares to get a return on their investment. Second, there are tax benefits to doing it this way.

In general, value investors like Buffet don't like the mentality that companies should always invest in themselves. Instead, they like well-managed companies that specialize in what they do well. Growing beyond this is what they consider a bad sign.
Shameless plug: I wrote a little Python timer for Linux that works great with a dropdown terminal like Yakuake: https://github.com/krotera/timerBeetle

I often use it for timed tasks, and it's faster than reaching for my phone or even opening a browser tab (and, unlike a Google or DDG timer, it doesn't keep ringing until you re-raise the browser window, find the tab, and silence it, which always annoyed me). : p
We can't explore all possibilities because of our limited time, so people use simple heuristics to get by. Prior experience/information always trumps no experience/information.
I pull enough of the referenced page to get the html title. If it's the same, ish, and the domain is the same, then my script flags it up as a probable duplicate. I'm looking at adding more checks, because some sites use the same title for every page regardless of the content, but that's my first approximation.
He brings up some good points for those who agree with his stance. While they sometimes have a bit of wisdom to impart, I have a tendency to not listen to the jaded and disenfranchised old guard once they begin whining.
If I wasn't a programmer, I'd only use the web.
Wow, that's fantastic. One of the things I love about Google's cloud is the easy SSH-in-browser. If Azure has this I'd love to use it. I hope it's just not tied to that terrible new portal. It's just so slow (in rendering, esp. over RDP) and clunky and laggy and confusing. The old one is far better (and would be all I want if they'd just move all the services I never use to the bottom so I don't have to scroll).
I really hope for a design form like the MacBook 12".

CPU was really underpowered but it felt so small, cute, and optimized in term of reducing footprint. M2 can bring this form factor to the next level.
Python 3 encoding management was broken, because it tried to impose Unicode semantics on things that were actually byte streams. For anyone actually correctly handling encodings in Python 2 it was awful because suddenly the language runtime was hiding half the data you needed.
Can be read here without visiting FB: https://outline.com/AHDhkL
XAML is a markup language, that counts as declarative, but you can think of it as a subtraction of C# (the ability to create instances and bind their properties), it doesn't add any advanced declarative programming features and definitely nothing fancy type-wise as in F#.

I don't know what they did, but it seems reasonable that it would share a type checker with C# but have a unique parser.
Interesting point. This would suggest pretty sizable synergies from the oft-rumored Microsoft acquisition of Intel.
On the 2600 if it saved you a byte or two it was a big win. Remember your program had to fit in 64 bytes of memory. Not kilobytes, single bytes. And your numbers are BCD encoded, so they're extra inefficient.
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.nl/2010/02/from-mis...

I'm not sure I read this right but if I did this guy advocates monarchy over democracy.
For me the big advantage of using a parser generator is that they let you write things a bit more declaratively. Bottom up parser generators also have the advantage of being able to recognize some grammars that top down parsers can't and they also detect grammar ambiguities at compile time.

That said, handwritten top down parsers are very tweakable and flexible which can be a big plus. In particular, error recovery and things like semicolon insertion. You also get more control over code size and parser performance.
Wow, amazing how accurate karolisd was with their first few predictions for 2014.

Spark will gain more traction in the data mining world.
Companies running on linux will opt to have their codebase in C#.
we will likely see a dip in the economy which will affect all includijg tech workers.
Julia will start to appear alongside Python and R for data analyst/mining positions.
Actually the correct usage here is “phedantic”, from the Latin “Phedantus”, meaning… Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
"abundance of F/OSS has pushed us towards SaaS as one of the few places left to make a living from pure software dev, and the oligopolies arising out of it. What about Linux (Android) being used as the prime spyware vector, and Linux being used for cloud lock-in (k8s et al)?"

It's not like closed-source software would have prevented any of this.
This is true.
Apple Maps has improved significantly.
I still wouldn't trust it like I trust Google Maps though.
A typical new car practically lasts way longer than a car built 30-50 years ago, early 2-3x the value there. Account for significant reduction in chance of death, MPG improvements, and these numbers make complete sense.
Not for property taxes. If one is that far behind, one can sell long before facing anything confiscatory... and incarceration for it is not a thing.
I wrote Notica (https://notica.us) to do something similar. It uses web browser notifications so it works on the servers you are SSH'd into and also to your phone.
Perhaps its related to the large number of homonyms in the Chinese language. All TV is subtitled in China for a reason
I'm glad I'm not the only one!
How good does this work for non US stocks? I don't think you should invest all your money in stocks of just one nation.
The "ecosystems" aren't so tied to languages anymore. There are lots of nice languages targeting JS, JVM and .NET that let you use libraries and framework made for those platforms.
HP-42S or the successor from Swissmicro: https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm42
This is a really good point and an example of how real investigative journalism is not present in this story.

Was the journalist approached by a co-ordinated group of three former Apple high-level security execs in order for them to Greenwald&Snowden-style inform the public, themselves openly inviting massive career risk (even when "anonymous"), with real skin in the game and thus with real credibility worthy of maybe oh even up to government investigation?

Or did this journalist have a python script that emailed every single public address of all ex-employees of every BigTech corp, looking for responses, robotically fishing out clickbait headlines that harbour the feintest enough outline of what integrity might look like?

Obviously, there's a wide range between these two extremes, including Real Investigative Journalism that oftentimes co-ordinates the investigation itself. But, that is extinct, and since provenance is not established well in the article, my default is, assume the worst, in every case. Yes, literally, bots wrote this article, it means exactly nothing. Fugazi.
RMS does not mean free as in free bear but as in Libre.
If you're only going to use multiplication going forward (no adds), I wonder whether interpreting the output as an exponent will pass enough tests.
There's already a thing called `dnsq`, it's part of the djbdns suite (along with dnsqr for recursive queries).

I actually miss it, now that pretty much all of djb's tools have fallen out of both fashion and maintenance, it was a much better -- and simpler -- tool than dig or nslookup.
I’m confused by this line of posts. Are you saying making it easier for people to cancel services they don’t need is a bad thing?
This isn't just about earning market share in China. Just about any organization that operates in China (or hopes to) has a vested interest in, e.g., having reliable email access there. If your company uses Google products for email, etc., then these days you'll have some real challenges making them work for folks over there. Microsoft can capture a lot of American business that way. (Concrete fears about employees losing crucial access tend to outweigh philosophical arguments about government surveillance when folks sit down to make these decisions.)
I would love to see them. And I have great faith in historians' own abilities to resist that urge -- they are well trained at that; I am not so sure how others would fare.

Becoming a "quantitative historian" used to be a dream of mine (before I abandoned an academic career in either math or history). But then I realized that I enjoyed reading a transcript of a German witch trial no less than a Marc Bloch epic narrative, and found it to no less educational. :)
> and while it has excellent modularity and packaging characteristics

If only... In actuality, the majority of python's package management is being redone by pypa, and it's not complete.

That's been my biggest problem with python; the circuitous path to deployment the Right Way in an enterprise, where one doesn't simply publish to pypi.

It'll get there, but to throw around the word "excellent" hides a lot of the current pain.
At the time it was happening, no one knew that. The media was comparing it to SARS.
If they're pausing the nonessential economy, I don't see where it stops "I have a biology degree and experience, I'll transition from a paused job into a research team working on Covid-19".

What it stops is "I need to perform some trivial make-work job because the hotel/bar/unessential retail I used to work at shut down, and otherwise I starve and get evicted, so I'm going to traipse around and weaken quarentine procedures."
To their chagrin, their job mostly consisted of catching people breaking the strict campus conduct policy as opposed to dealing with real problems.
I love that attitude towards self-hosting and it not being the sole hobby from that day on. Casual self-hosting if you will.

House-keeping UX is key for self-hosting by laypersons.
- Plenty of packages can't be recycled

- Plenty of recycling is diverted to garbage because somebody put garbage in the recycling stream

- Plenty of recycling facilities are at capacity and cannot process all of the recyclables, and divert them to garbage
When is it coming to NYC?
Generally, a system like this might work by handling queries via two ways:

* A "point" system - spend "points" (or credits) to find a user by license plate.
* You can buy credits with money directly, or you can earn them by contributing information

That way, if you're a data contributor, you have access to the information without having to pay. That's how data.com works.
What total crap.

Capitalism has never been about morality. Every single paradigm shift centers more and more value and wealth in the hands of increasingly elite few, while more people fall into poverty. Is this moral? Well, the author drives a car, uses the Internet, buys clothing made in Asia, doesn't he? Who gives a fuck? Obviously not him.

Software is just the next paradigm shift. It allows you to do, cheaper, faster, and better, what we previously did with more inefficiency. Having your secretary or personal assistant or "people" book you a table somewhere is exactly the same as having an automated service do it and buying it at auction later. The former is just way more expensive. Software lets more people be assholes. That's capitalism. That's why we're here.

Do we need to have a conversation about whether new products are moral? What about a conversation about whether existing products are moral? What about a conversation whether the prison-industrial or military-industrial complexes are moral? What about a conversation about the kids we kill in drone strikes or the unemployment generated by NAFTA or any amount of suffering caused by the existing order of the world?

I'm sorry if I have to be the one to break it to anyone but the world is a horrifically fucked up place. You probably have never seen how fucked up it is and if I linked you to some videos that are just the tippy-top of the iceberg of fucked up I'd probably get banned from HN and never hired again. Software doesn't change this at all.

What software does is make it much, much easier to be part of the horrific system we find ourselves in. Uber is an 80's taxi managers wet dream. Absolutely anyone in that industry would have loved to get their hands on that! Does anyone seriously think that if you said to anyone in the taxi industry in 1970 "Hey, fire all your employees, get them back on as contractors making way less, use this software to dispatch them and sit on your ass watching the cash roll in" they would have turned you down?

The reason the world is shit is because everybody is waiting for a chance to screw everyone over. American culture has explicitly celebrated this since the 20's, because it's been profitable for the elites to make it so. There isn't any conspiracy -- this is just plain market forces. Any CEO that wanted to be "ethical" is going to get fired by shareholders for a CEO that gets share prices higher. Even if everyone at Uber quits in a massive crisis of conscious and lobbies for regulation, health care for drivers, and puppies and rainbows for everyone, someone will come around the next day and do the same thing. And people will use it, because it'll be cheaper.

Maybe society advances technologically faster by screwing everyone over all the time, except for the people that can afford to defend themselves well enough. We'll never really know, because those elites are so entrenched now that you'll never, ever see a world they don't own. Table reservations are the least of your worries.
Using dynamite to 'blow out' the fire by forcing the burning fuel and oxygen away from the fuel source.

It sounds to me like they were using the explosives to essentially force a change in fuel air mixture. Essentially the same idea as when the wind blows out your lighter or match. Just way more fun, because explosives. :D

Edit: Quote is from Oil Wikipedia Article above.
> That shouldn’t be surprising to anyone who’s gone through the experience of using IRC for the first time; the barrier to entry was a formidable challenge for the first time user.

I consider this a feature.
And the "previous generation" of power steering was hydraulic, which had a similar behaviour and setup in that it is an amplification of steering input.

Electric power steering allows for configurability of steering difficulty, which tends to engender the feeling of precision at a certain point along the effort curve. (Variable for different people, naturally).

Plus, with more powerful electric systems (better alternators, basically), moving hydraulic steering pump from belt-driven frees up the engine a bit, yielding less drag and better fuel efficiency.

But fundamentally, I believe that in modern vehicles, due to their weight, direct steering linkages are a bit rare.
I think many politician would rather be rid of Twitter, but as their competitors are all there, they can't not be.
Stop reading r/politics!
The technical discussion on HN is not better than on Reddit. There is more noise on Reddit, but the level of expertise in the top is often higher. The people on Reddit in technical discussions are often more knowledgeable and more open minded (the tone of the discussion is less serious). HN has more groupthink and hero-envy.
I don't know that I agree with your assessment that "designers are the core" of Apple's business, but even so, Apple's current state seems to be rather irrelevant to a discussion about a combination of founders for a startup. Wouldn't looking at Apple's structure when they were a startup be more useful?

Aside from that, there are a lot of founders who have some level of design skills -- they just also happen to do other things, since that's how startups work. When you have limited resources, having a dedicated designer is generally going to be inefficient (unless design/UX are crucial to your particular startup in the early stages).

Also, non-designer founders have a lot of options regarding design -- they can outsource it, find/use a template, hack together some html/css, etc.
I'd say - build an HTML5 app, but add native wrappers (just Webkit) so you can push it to App Store or Android Store. That's what I'm doing now (after a couple of native apps).

on iPhone webapps are still not as good as native ones - you can't put them on App Store (a large audience) and they don't handle multitasking well.

Assuming your app can be done in HTML5.. if it's a game or it requires a lot of integration with platform then native is the way to go (duh)
The App Store / Marketplace is a very important distribution channel, which I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss.

Downloading an app in today's modern phone is almost as frictionless as entering a website.
Both Intel and AMD/ATI have provided Linux drivers for quite some time now. Where Nvidis does have pioneering status is in providing solaris and freebsd drivers.
Not really. As far as the bandwidth, latency and reliability required for a decent desktop connection the current competition is none at all. I had a friend that had one of those services where you use wireless internet for the house, she did nothing but complain.

Of course there are things in the future, there is 4g and all of that, it is yet to be seen whether 4G will be doable if everyone in your building is using 4g at full speeds.
Higher Education Software sucks mightily for the most part. It's way too rigid and often, the cost of customization is prohibitive for offices working on a certain budget. Also, for some reason, common sense in decision making is not a factor many a times as far as Higher Ed IT goes.

I work in higher ed and often see quotes for doing very simple things to be in hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars. The integration of software from different vendors is a nightmare as no one really provides any sort of an API and such customizations usually end up being ugly hacks since the vendors would charge exorbitantly for doing the same. Also, there's rarely a way to successfully propose a change due to the investment in legacy software and sunken costs. Not to mention the crappy SLAs that the vendors provide.

As far as issues like wordcount, it could be something as trivial as changing the parameters on the backend for the system to accept X+Y characters for validation instead of X but still advertise the X character limit on the front end.
Seemed like the blogger had an axe to grind more than they wanted their issue resolved. If you were choked, I doubt a low level chat rep could fix it anyway.
Thanks, Mike. Yes, that would be much appreciated.
FYI, the Cato Institute was founded partly by Charles Koch, and you can research that yourself if you want.