jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It seems likely the Nautilus article is related to the mentioned paper, which was published in November:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
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Online/MMO things do this today! Destiny 2 for instance actively removed areas from _paid_ expansions. WOW updated away the game that people liked and paid for and over a decade later decided that it was actually worth the trouble to give back what they had removed, purely because they judged they could re-sell it.

And, as the GP posters described, every time there is an update or expansion the value of existing items depreciates.
I was confused about this too. Like how does it work? A web assembly sandbox...
> but was always a touch put off by the pervasive "I am beautiful, adore me" undercurrent throughout its design, documentation, and even comments. I'll be the first to admit that's not a rational critique.

I should add, separately, that after a long career in web-development, this kind of reflexive emotional response strikes me as practically a survival instinct, so I am not judging you for it at all.
Well, what PHP does similarly avoids the risk of accidentally mutating shared values, but it's not the same:

• the value is locally mutable

• no duplication happens when you want to modify it and there is only a single reference
> all it takes is a word like "COVID" or "election" to trigger their censorship system

I can count multiple posts on my newsfeed in the last 48 hours on both topics, for better and worse.

Whatever it takes to have something cross a threshold where it doesn't show in newsfeeds, it's definitely something more than words like "covid" or "election."
Canada is even worse, we can't decide which one to use so you never know what format it's in.

I was once sent paperwork to fill out that had dates requested in both MM/DD/YYYY and DD/MM/YYYY formats on different pages.
The only solution to that confusion would be not allowing the options identifying character in file/directory names. Changing the character would just "change" the confusion.
The area covers my whole country and then some. Although small compared to whole Earth, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't enjoy having the spill as a next-door neighbour.
Wow, I'm not sure who you're responding to. I was remarking on the diversionary tactic of using impersonal markets to avoid taking responsibility. Perhaps I hit a nerve.
"Good for users"? it's not the users' business to know details of contracts between developers & Apple.

Jailbreak away - but Apple rightfully disavows any predicted or unforeseen consequences, and won't work with anyone who won't work with what Apple considers sensible rules facilitating development & usage. If you're going to bring bags of weed seeds (or anything else which predictably cause problems) into my walled garden, get out of my garden.

DRM assures you can use your purchased products on the devices you want ... and that nobody else can, and that nobody is going to repackage apps to include malware.
So even if you don't plug in, say you're on a train or in a park, you can't legally watch live TV without a license for your home? I remember 15 years ago people (not many admittedly) having battery-powered handheld TVs - if a homeless person were to use one of those on the street would he be breaking the law?
I can't emphasize enough how important it is to seek treatment if you feel this way. For years, I just lived with it. I look back on those now as lost years when I could have accomplished a lot, but instead sat around accomplishing very little.

Some people resist medication because they're afraid it will make them not feel anything at all. While this can certainly be the case for some medications, there are enough of them that you can usually find one that doesn't dampen your emotions completely.

In my experience, antidepressants tend to put a 'floor' under your happiness; you don't fall down into the dark depths that are hard to escape from. You also don't become unhappy quite as easily; I found a big improvement in my ability to cope with external causes of stress and negativity.
I think it's mostly on par from what I've used of DropBox and Google Drive. I'm sure there are some significant differences, however.

Personally the only thing I've really had a problem with using Box is the small file size limit as well. But everything else has been smooth since starting to use it.
open.dapper.net is pretty good for this.
With all of the mentions of turtle graphics, I'm glad that it was put into Hackety over the summer... what do people use to do stuff with Logo nowadays? Is it just a library used from another language, or is there some modern Logo environment out there that I'm not aware of?
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/8...

http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?pid=S0042-968620000006000...

It's not just lifespan. Medication and procedure cost, access, technology use, availability, number of hospital beds and health care workers etc.

The US does however have the access to the most advanced technologies (probably where the large funds are going), I'll give you that but numerous other reports show poor outcomes for other general health indicators (teen pregnancy rates, obesity rates, suicide rates etc..)
Fixed the 'Yuck' part. Still shows an error instead of homepage redirect though. Thanks for the note.
It works on formatted text files. So you could use Dropbox, version control, rsync, etc.
I think these kinds of things stem from a desire to repeat what we did as children. I know I started playing around with BASIC when I was 7, and while I don't want to have kids, if I did, I'd be looking to give them the same kind of experience.

That said, you can't force what your children are interested in. My father is a farmer, he couldn't really get me interested in doing that. So why would I expect that my kid would like programming?

That said, it's worth exposing them to see if they have that interest... but forcing it on them would end up poorly.
The problem with the Javascript/HTML route is browser incompatibilities. Not to mention trying to juggle two new syntaxes at once.
Yes. Also: Badges.
1-click verbatim search would be nice, instead of 3. Or even 0. "Verbatim" search, a.k.a. searching for actually what I wanted to search for. I rarely do a search that I don't want to be verbatim. The way it's hidden under Tools now I think most people don't even know about it.

Also, when I search for a lot of things, the results are 90% obviously fake sites with super-dubious junk URLs...I'm not sure why they're not blocked, it can't be that hard.
> Also, I find it annoying that you can't message someone on WhatsApp without adding them to contacts.

The trick that i use is to type their number into the domain wa.me in the following format https://wa.me/xxxxxxxxxxx

That allows you to open a chat to that specific number without adding them to your contact list.
This is not a change, it has always happened here. Also, saying that HN is turning into reddit is so old that there's a rule about not doing it.
Kotlin is going down the same path, with JetBrains trying to create an eco-system of its own.

I bet in a couple of years, as the Java VM platform keeps improving, it will only matter to those stuck in Android.

This is a movie with a script I have seen multiple times.
Thanks for the link! I think this is tightly connected to Donald Knuth's Literate programming paradigm, i.e. there are also platforms which generate beautiful reports out of the embedded comments in your traditional source codes. However, you won't get the interactivity for free.

I personally prefer Jupyter because it seperates the programming language (Python, R, C++, etc.) from the representation (for instance Web) and still allows interactivity for a certain degree (given a backend running the source code).
Does it make sense for any application to be written in Java?

It's been years since the last time I used one. And I don't miss it a bit.
I wonder the degree to which people enjoy WFH is the same as the degree to which they enjoy working on a laptop. Even the people I know with a dedicated room for work set up want to go back to the office if they prefer multiple monitors.

I can understand why people who are working from their kitchen table want to go back to the office, but for those that have a dedicated work area, wouldn't they set it up the way they want?

I have a multi-monitor setup at home that's better than what I have at work since I'm not limited to IT approved hardware. Related, I also have a loud clicky keyboard that I can't get away with using at work since everyone in the shared office area can hear it.
Hey Neighbor! I'm in Mesa :-)

There's dozens of us...dozens :-D
I think, starting in May, Chinese engineers will be ready to upgrade the M1 to M1X for you for a separate fee and 3 months before the start of official sales. :)
My boss on a project roped me into hobby chat as I was taking a five minute break to stretch my legs. He turned it into 40 (!) minutes of non-work chit chat.

I don't want to be unfriendly, but I'm at work to get shit done because I'm getting paid. If someone wants to talk hobbies, we can do that another time.
And when it comes to finding bugs in your unsafe concurrency primitives in Rust programs, there is a tool called Loom that helps with that, as a powerful complement to what ThreadSanitizer provides: https://github.com/tokio-rs/loom . You can think of Loom sort of like QuickCheck, except the permutations are all the possible thread states of your program based on the memory orderings that you have specified.

Here's a video that briefly talks about what Loom can do https://youtu.be/rMGWeSjctlY?t=7519 (it's part of a larger video about memory orderings, and is a great introduction to the topic).
I wonder how 50-500 individually heated/cooled homes from 8-6 compares to the energy required to heat/cool a single office/office block?
Docker-swarm?
I was thinking of (one day) creating a "Let's build a" series in the following order:

1) Students learn about assembly, opcodes, etc. They write programs for an imaginary machine and only run them on paper for now.

2) Students write their own CPU emulator (in C) that can run and test the simple programs from 1.

3) Students write a compiler to a simple HLL which allows them to write more complex programs, and test against the emulator.

4) Students build the processor which was being emulated in HDL, and download it to FPGAs, testing outputs of the programs generated by their compiler against the emulator.

I think most schools already do something like this, but mine missed the compiler part.
If it's the famine in Ukraine [1] that you are talking about, absolutely. But, are you saying that it was done as part of industrialization?

My great grandfather was one of the peasants you describe (his land was taken away). Although the state use of land was inefficient, it was not the continual famine that you imply. Food shortages occurred, but, they occurred under the Tsars as well. The industrialization that occurred pre and post WWII in the USSR seems pretty undeniable though.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
Comment 1 is the most recent comment, not your oldest one.
God forbid they actually open-source their own drivers, and save the community a shitload of work, if this is so magically inspiring for them.
I am starting to wish for ePub versions of the docs. That would let us use our eReaders/iPads.
The irony is that the article takes pains to describe what a computer is. Now, the only way to read the article is on an online version, and you obviously must know what a computer is in order to read the article. You're unlikely to find old back issues of Playboy in a library. I know what you mean, a more solid use would be if the article had said 'computers will never take off' and now the article is availabe only on computers. Whether it's an amusing coincedence or hard core irony as you describe, I think it's fair use of the term.
Hello,

While I do not have time to go over the whole video, surely you could have come up with much more serious reasons why Swift might be preferable to Objective C than "uhm, it has no namespaces and looks strange". Also, there were no reasons why "not to use Swift [yet]", making sure to mention the terrible state the developer tools are at this point, as well as many many missing language features and other quirks which make it a language not yet ready, in my experienced opinion, for large projects, or when some C/C++ operability is required.

Have fun coding and making tutorials!
I wonder what percentage of stuff is in house? I mean what percentage are developers who want to create new experimental things and the poor guys stuck kludging together some huge undocumented systems of contractor libraries?

Is innovation shot down if it competes with a contractor or has monetizing potential? How many fundamental systems are designed in-house and how many are external?

Is it easier to push yourself if you understand the potential significance of your work?
Not as much as you'd think. During early evaluations, AGCAS proved itself a lifesaver. I'm pretty sure there is a way to override, if it malfunctioned. There are cases where the system falsely detects an unsafe condition, the pilot hears the warning tone, before AGCAS takes over.

One thing the 737 Max doesn't have, which the F-16 has, is ejection seats. The pilot can eject if AGCAS puts them in an unsafe situation. I don't believe there has been a single case of a pilot ejecting due to a false AGCAS activation.
> is maple syrup an essential product

No.

> that is at risk if farmers convert the land for other agricultural use?

Yes. You basically have to let very productive land untouched for 40+ years before you can have a single harvest. At current prices it's not worth it. Once a maple grove is gone, it's gone forever.

Current pricing makes it a viable proposition for farmers to keep their groves.
> the nominal reason (and not a bad one if you are not a full pacifist) is to retain development capability for the next time

Is the F-35 a good example of what we want our next aircraft to be? It seems to me that we now have a whole development infrastructure set up to build expensive, buggy aircraft. That "development capability" that we've retained isn't a good one.
Social justice includes climate justice and social issues are very much interconnected with issues of environmental sustainability. Consider the appropriation of lands from indigenous peoples and destruction of its natural ecosystems to install monocultures for profit. Consider the fact that poor people must buy cheap disposable stuff again and again because they can't afford to buy long-lasting, more sustainable goods which have become too expensive for profit-seeking industries to produce at scale. Consider that urban sprawl was largely a result of racialised segregation and that the ubiquity of environmentally destructive vehicles and road systems was encouraged in no small part by the desire of certain classes of people to distance themselves from others (or others from them).
There's a statement on their website also

http://frys.com/

It's an end of an era. Many a time whenever I needed some emergency hardware a run to Fry's was the only answer. Setting up a startup office? Run in for Ethernet cables and some cheap Dell servers. The RAID controller in your server at AboveNet died? Run to Frys. Need a geek toy for a Christmas gift. Yep, Frys. They had every kind of obscure electronic part you could possibly imagine sitting on a shelf. None of that next day delivery nonsense.
I've also run tech for a 60 person startup, run security for a 300 person company, and worked closely with security & compliance at a 6000 person company.

What I will say is there is a lot of waste and overhead in the tech security industry overall. You can pay a vendor any amount of money you can afford, and they will add some incremental value via automated scanning, pentests, compliance reporting, but the value has no correlation to the money spent unless you have no baseline security awareness to begin with, and if you don't have that then no amount of money will save you (eg. Equifax breach).

IMHO the right way to do it is: make sure your tech and infra leadership have baseline understanding and do the fundamentals right (eg. use bcrypt, put your infra in VPCs with private subnet and bastion only access, use IAMs with least privilege, etc). The incremental cost of those things is negligible if you know what you are doing, so make sure you have at least one person on the early-stage team who knows what they're doing. Next step up (if you are consumer app) do a bug bounty and minimal scanners (prioritize infra scans). Eventually you'll need more, but it should be a function of success where you have hundreds of engineers, are making tons of money, or have specific compliance requirements as a result of lucrative enterprise sales.
A $10 billion investment in anti aircraft missiles that forces a $100 billion investment in aircraft instead of schools and semiconductor fabs is great ROI for an adversarial nation state that knows their government would be wiped off the face of the planet if they ever decided to use them.
> The more I used my iPhone when I had it, the more I started to understand the issues Apple faces when providing a mobile platform and why that philosophy and opinionated-ness exists.

> I'm really glad Apple has found a way to ignore the noise from developers that don't understand those challenges.

To mangle a Churchill quote, the best argument in favour of a curated App Store is a five-minute conversation with the average app entrepreneur.

Especially in the early days, there were no end of clients asking for user-hostile and abusive behaviour. "Apple won't allow that" was an oft-repeated phrase that won a lot of battles for end-users. It certainly has its down-sides as well, but it really does protect end-users from incredibly shitty experiences.
I'm hearing time-of-day dependencies from a number of companies. It seems to be a major thing.
Here's a much better post on this topic from the folks at Wealthfront: https://blog.wealthfront.com/always-file-your-83b/
Well, there were definitely far-right people acting provocateur at BLM/A-fa rallies, so I don't see what is wrong with those statements.
This reminds me strongly of the wait but why article on Overton windows. Highly recommended for anyone interested in this sort of stuff.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/09/american-brain.html
Its the Motte and Bailey fallacy.
> I mean, it's manageable when there are three, but it'll become a huge burden when there's 20.

There are more than 20 already (more like 2000) when you start counting national/university-level preprint servers. As I said, Google Scholar already indexes all of these sites, with many nice features.

Personally I'm very fonf of exploring the two "citation light cones" emerging from one articles - those cited by the article (past) and those citing the article (future).

> Notice the modern media consumption patterns. The publisher doesn't matter. Only individual articles do. People land at articles through Google queries and links shared on social media. I believe scientific papers show the same pattern to a large degree.

I think you're absolutely correct about this. But what I'm proposing (many repositories, indexed by search engines, together giving complete coverage) is exactly like that. A single archive, Sci-Hub style, is more like what Google is trying to do with AMP.
1776-2020.

In all seriousness, there’s a balance that can be had. We ought not surrender any freedoms enthusiastically. Once gone, they will be gone forever.
(c) the policies of private companies that are not subject to public utility-like regulation never amount to censorship in a way that is worth wringing one's hands over.
If you have a somewhat modern Android device (2012 flagship and onwards) you might be able to read the tag, as long as its not Mifare classic.
Was that before or after many high-level Democrats and Celebrities denounced Trump and committed to resistance on Nov 3, 2015.

4+ years of no-quarter given raging against Trump has set the tone for the future of America. I don't think anyone is going to like that future.
News papers have published letters from readers for many years.

They've had editorial standards.
I don't know if this is much different -- it's faster for sure, but crazy people haven't always had a huge platform.

In fact, it's seems reasonable to let people say whatever they want so long as the audience is small.
And I wonder isn't that pretty much how it works today?

I doubt Twitter would ban my account, if I tried to incite my 5 followers to stage a coup :D
It appears that (at least) one person died by the hands of them.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/capitol-police-o...

Also, a terror attack doesn't need to kill people.
Please don't do this here. Check out these links for why:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Users usually post workarounds in the threads, as they did above.
No one in Apple is allowed to talk about it, is one difference.
It was filmed from the inside of a submarine, and the door is in the reflection of the glass. Maybe someone came in from another compartment of the sub during filming?
It's 20K people and you're hiring the geek squad, there's bound to be weird people. However, from what I've seen, they were very sensitive about this, especially the women/men employee ratio. I was told during a visit some years ago that this was about 40%. I found that incredible.
Here are a few enormously successful (and highly complex) products that you missed:

1-2) AdWords and AdSense revolutionized web advertising. Those two products generated $6.5 billion in revenue just in Q1 of 2010.

3) Android. Others have commented that this was an acquisition, but that happened in 2005, and it was a relatively small team. I'd wager that most of the current Android code was written after the acquisition, and by engineers who weren't from the original Android team.

4) Chrome.

Regarding the number of engineers, Google had 20,000 employees as of March 2010. You can make your own guess about how many of them are software engineers, but it's a lot less than 100%.
Does Apple actually have some plan here, or do they just do whatever they need to to make their apps look good, and all the 3rd party devs just suffer?
Our nature is necessary, but not sufficient, for religion. Religion wasn't invented by human hunter-gatherers; it only came around after the advent of farming, when we began to think in long timescales (like harvests, or winters) and had static resources (crops, houses) that had to be defended. Thus, we invented prayer to try to change the far future (i.e. long-term weather conditions—due to the large intervening period, it wasn't obvious whether it worked or not in any given instance, so we assumed it did), and commandments to justify our right to static resources, or our reasoning for pillaging them. We also invented the afterlife to explain how our feeling of consciousness would proceed into the far future, and gods to explain capricious phenomena (like lightning, or floods) that our minds instinctively anthropomorphized.

Hunter-gatherers had their own "natural" superstitions, such as the belief that opposing tribes and the unliked were capable of "witchcraft", but these were abductive reasoning, seeing effects and guessing at individual, short-timescale past causes, rather than inductive reasoning, seeing events and proposing prinicples that would explain/predict future events.
I know what earl said. I understand everything everyone has said in this thread so far. Thank you for attempting to clarify that for me though.
Evolutionary psychology is a cesspool. Honestly it's as if 95% of the researchers in the field have never even heard of the scientific method, or things like "proof" and "evidence".
Actually, impact has been a verb for a very long time... though generally referring to wisdom teeth or, uh, feces.