jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And we have 3d hologram without glasses with 3DS and OLED TV's as thin as a paper and 1gbp/s Google broadband letting you download Blu-Ray movies in less than 10 seconds yet we live with them today like it's nothing.
Um, but if this phenomenon is a creature why wouldnt it try to stay out of sight? Further if 'things in the sky' are easier to find why were the bird of paradise only recently discovered and recorded? Answer: because their rare and prefer locations that arent very occupied by humans.

Hell we have whole tribes we've only just discovered. If something doesnt want to be found, its not impossible for it to stay hidden.
Similar to "Street names don't recur" -
A named road will be continuous: a friend lives in a condominium,
in one of a group of 8 buildings bounded by 3 fairly normal roads.
There are 4 separate driveways between buildings leading to parking.

At some point the condo units were renumbered with street numbers,
and the disjoint driveways were all given the same name: <Condo> Lane.

Regular delivery drivers - USPS, UPS, FedEx, and pizza seem to cope,
but taxi drivers or other irregular visitors who expect numbers
to be continuous along streets are almost always baffled.

Similar to "A road will only have one name",
for emergency services - fire, ambulance, and police - a similar
case arises when a route passes through several small towns, each
with its own set of street numbers, possibly with variations of proper
street name, and perhaps with different direction/cardinality mappings.

For a motorist calling 911, reporting that one is at street number
123 on El Camino Real (on the SF peninsula) will probably map to
several possible locations, depending which of the 12 or so towns
one is in.
Yeah I agree, it's sort of the 'early adopter' version of where it'll be in a few years hopefully. That said because it's sort of a different medium model, I can see why this is hard to change or move past.
I was shocked to learn recently that California’s exclusion of non-competes can be voided if you are represented by a lawyer when signing it!

Basically a Delaware court found that a Delaware corporation could ignore California’s provisions of an employee who had worked only in california, due to “Freedom of contract” and specifically the labor code §925(e).

In general (I’m not a lawyer) it seems wrong to me to sign something you don’t agree with, even if you think it’s not enforceable.

Here’s a reference, or just ddg “Nuvasive” which was the evil company that got this ruling.

https://www.gtlaw.com/en/insights/2018/12/california-employe...
There may be a limit to software demand but we are far from reaching it. So far the demand appears to be practically infinite. The more software we have, the more we want and the more we are willing to pay for it. (By "we" I mean the total worldwide software market, not just consumers.)
We used to start up Quake while we waited then we'd forget about GTAO. Later we'd discover GTA had kicked us out for being idle too long. Then we'd just close it.

That should be embarrassing for Rockstar but I don't think they would even notice.
Rockstar could get a performance boost by bundling powerpoint: https://youtu.be/uNjxe8ShM-8
The term used in the article was “powered flight”. This distinction is relevant in the history of aviation on earth as well, and usually that term is used.
Doubt that. Popularity comes with heaps of PRs, some useful some less.

If anyone used a JSON parser that took 4 minutes to parse a file you bet the author would know by the time the 100th user comes around.

I had a tiny barely-used detection library that didn’t detect it correctly in a new Edge browser update. Someone complained about it within the first month. The library has 20 stars and Edge has 500 users.

Edit: Correction, it was 9 days after the browser release.
> Making an agreement you have no intention of adhering to is not ethical, regardless of whether the law backs you up or not.

Yes it is. If a company is making its employees sign unethical agreements, then they deserve any negative consequence to that.

Don't make your employees sign unethical agreements, if you don't want people to lie to you, and screw you over.

Unironically, companies that do this, should be named and shamed, and everyone should take every legal option that they can get away with to screw over the company and the people who are making these decisions.

> It's better to simply strike out that line and say it's not valid in California so why have it in the contract.

Nope. Screw them over instead. They deserve it. Its legal, and they deserve to have negative consequences on them.
It's typical self-righteous tech elitest drivel. What's not wrong with it? About the only thing missing is a reference to how anyone with two braincells uses Brave browser and buys bitcoin.
When you procrastinate, your brain is sending you a message. It’s telling you that it has already solved the problem, or that it knows how to solve it. Only the execution remains. It will deliver when time comes; till then, there are more interesting things to do.

My experience is quite the opposite. Most of the time procrastination means two things: either it is a task with a lot of stress and fear attached to it, or it is a task that the back of my brain knows damn well has some pre-requisites that need to be taken care of first, but the front of my brain doesn't want to admit that.

These can combine. Stuff that has an unadmitted pre-requisite task that is also full of stress and fear is never gonna get done until the absolute last moment, with a lot of stress and pain and swearing. If it is ever done at all.
That unfortunately pretty much covers what's wrong with that headline.
Those bread cracks look better than anything I ever baked.
10% of pollen making it to another flower of the same species to do its job actually seems like quite a lot. I would have expected a lot less, actually.
Uh-oh sorry the distinction is so not obvious in many thread. Consider some meme of the following: “We shouldn’t do any business with China and we should even sanction them. Do not buy anything Chinese made. Oh btw Chinese people it’s not against you guys just your government. I’m sorry if you don’t get any benefit or lose your income source”

In what universe does those views not mean hostility towards the people themselves. If you say that to any Native Chinese they’ll tell you it’s bullshit.
afaict the only people who really care about EGLStream are nvidia. And while GNOME and KDE might have the resources to support both API's (much as they don't want to), smaller projects like sway simply don't have the resources to worry about that.

I think one of the biggest failings of wayland is that it requires so much duplication of effort between different compositors. Ideally, the compositor shouldn't have to care very much about which drivers the user is using for their graphics card.
Won't they be incapable of using git via any other interface?
After trying Sway recently I read a bunch of github issues when debugging. I was disappointed to find many the comments toxic.

I’ll stick with i3 and probably look for something different in the future.

The examples that were easy to find again;
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1207#issuecomment-2984...

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/829#issuecomment-32683...
Yep. At this point, something as good as the iPad isn't even close to being enough.
Downvotes for not understanding! Woo!
This article is trash.

Reporter does something that they were asked not to, it happened to involve technology, blogger misses the point and calls The Administration a bunch of Luddites.
I would guess I am the "old" guy you mention buying the Blackberry. I own a Blackberry Bold and I love it. It does only a few things and it does them really well for me. And I really like the feel of the keypad while typing --- I do a lot of that.
I'd like a recommended book reading list.

Would you like that as an addition to the book section already found in the Library page

http://ycombinator.com/lib.html

that is linked to from the bottom of the main page, or somewhere else?
FWIW http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=8...
But even the medium-price ones are at least as good to my taste as that really expensive Bavarian white. Your mileage may of course vary.
It depends on how you read the code. Equals is the singular and would read as "I assert A equals B". Equal is the plural and would read as " I assert A and B are equal". I tend to think the second phrase, but both are correct from an English standpoint.
Nitpick: it assumes that there were no systematic errors. If (say) you switch randomly between steel and glass bowls, you results will still be valid, just with much wider (worse) standard deviation than you could have gotten otherwise (or much greater numbers of measurements needed for a given accuracy, due to Shannon/noise floor issues).
From the business perspective, Apple probably doesn’t care about selling the tags, the real value is in making the iPhone experience better. So if a user buys a tile tracker and it works better on iOS because of the iPhone network, that’s a win for them.

They don’t have to wipe out tile.
Or you could just increase minimum wage (unions help with that!) and get rid of tipping culture. Because fucking with peoples livelihood because your muffin took a bit long to come out is insane.
"Entertainers and sports professionals have unions which do not seem have this problem. "

Entertainment and Sports unions exist for completely different reasons.

Traditional unions exist because of an asymmetric power dynamic between workers and labour, at least, historically.

Sports Unions exist so that fairly highly paid athlete's can squeeze even more money out of their employers by gaining leverage.

Actors work in an aspirational industry that is massively oversubscribed with talent, and wherein the work is generally ad-hoc or contractual and conditions vary greatly.

The vast majority of actors earn very little and probably are not full-time actors. Their Union sets a 'floor' for basic comp and expectations because otherwise there wouldn't be one - but they generally don't get into controlling roles for talent, they don't control job definitions etc..

I have a neighbour who worked at an auto-plant and his job was to sit in a room and does nothing, observing the floor. A role with kafkaesque bureaucracy and roles that simply should not exist. Family members have priority for jobs. In a nutshell - that union has considerable control and influence over the operating nature of the company whereas I don't think that's a long term benefit of unions.

My sister in law works for a government sector union and their hiring practices have almost nothing to do with merit or qualifications, it's shocking. Again, a situation wherein I think the power of the union is a detriment to the system overall.

That said it seems clear that after a wave of 'getting along' in the US, surpluses are not being shared and unions at Wallmart, Google, Amazon etc. seem like a good way to develop better equity. But I suggest it would be better for everyone if those companies just did a better job with their staff and were more gracious and generous.
Other companies can be successful with stack ranking (or removing lower performers) like Goldman Sachs or big law firms. I feel like the culture issue is somewhat orthogonal: you can have a failing company with great culture (what was the culture like at Sun or Netscape? I don’t know but wouldn’t be surprised if it was good). You can also have a successful company with a bad/lacking/incohesive culture, or a culture you don’t like)
Using dnsmasq¹:
$ echo 'address=/.baidu.com/127.0.0.1' >> /etc/dnsmasq.conf

hosts file blocking is more difficult since you must list each subdomain.

¹everyone should
To paraphrase the famous cartoon: if you locked people in a box for a thousand years with 500 still frames of Joe Biden eating a sandwich, by the end they'd be adamant that the pictureas are the prettiest thing ever produced on Earth.
Do you have the same lack of sympathy for homosexuals living in repressive societies? If they are not willing to be stoned to death for protesting the (often religion-based) law are they just a bunch of hypocrites?

Even in less repressive societies it was not that uncommon for drawing attention to your homosexual nature to make you a lightning rod for hate crimes. And the reaction of the rest of society wasn't "I'm appalled that such a thing would happen." It was, "What did he expect announcing that he was gay?" In the face of such attitudes, you blame the person being oppressed for not wanting to fling themselves under the bus?
Holy crap!

Do you really have ~100 browser tabs open?
Although the picture will inevitably not be to everyone's taste, your conclusion seems unwarranted.

Based on the other available evidence (the linked article, his acting as an Equality & Diversity Officer and as a political campaigner for a party which - at that time - was pretty keen on people's rights) one could more easily conclude that he cares deeply about how people treat other people, and how people can work together to get better outcomes for everyone.
You should maybe make a github page with this text on it and submit that as a normal story, then we can click on the links. And you will have proper lists, fonts etc. Or if it's something people can try, submit it as a ShowHN.
Along the same lines of porting things to the real world: this DRM chair.

http://vimeo.com/60475086
I was thinking if a virus was first spotted in New York City and it had a virus lab, would that be immediately blamed? It’s like all there is in Wuhan is a wet market and a virus research lab and they are located next to each other. I think that’s how the world perceives Wuhan.
>My brother is the director of the VA for the state of Alaska, was commander of the 10th medical wing USAF, personal flight surgeon to the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the pentagon, among many other accolades. (Colonel Timothy Dean Ballard)

>My grandmother was a surgical nurse in san jose and los gatos for 50 years and did medical malpractice consultation for 20 years.

>My Aunt is the NICU lead at El Camino.

>My step-grandfather was a top cardiologist (and mayor) for Saratoga. FL Stutzman

I think all of that's irrelevant unless they agree with your conclusion. As someone related to psychologists, I can attest that being related to people in a field doesn't necessarily result in you being well-versed in their field. Source: It's basic psychology, and if you disagree then you'd agree I know a fair bit about that.
Slightly meaningful at best.

Most people’s experience of a region are hugely tourist. Like folks who visit NYC and see Times Square, then draw conclusions about your average New Yorker. Likewise folks who visit Hollywood and make a conclusion about California.
Terrence Tao's measure theory text is one of the best undergraduate math textbooks I've ever read. It teaches you not just about the subject, but about how to approach it the way a mathematician does.
> can ... write *buffer = malloc(n * sizeof *buffer)

The extra parentheses are there for the us humans who might need help distinguishing between * as dereferencing operator versus * as multiplication all happening within the space of eight or so characters.
You may be eluding to it but for others that don’t know, There is an index chart that measures the USD against a basket of non USD currency called DXY.
I believe there was an entire episode of Almost Live! where Bill Nye went around Ballard as a cop arresting people for not conforming to Norwegian stereotypes
Re humor on HN: not a problem in the guidelines or in practice. HN just has higher standards for humor, and that's a good thing.
I think you're totally right about taking on that job, but couldn't that particular example just be you doing something nice for your family? I wouldn't consider that a job as it is a favor.
Don't know about the US, but here in the UK having an incorrect address in a contract may make it trickier to enforce a court decision against a company as certain kinds of documents used in the court process are only valid if served to the Registered Office of the company.
This post reminds me of the book "Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload".

My take is optimistic. Charlie Munger uses mental models to handle his business decisions. Maybe we just better mental models to handle high frequency information digestion and distribution.
It's the set cover problem: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_cover_problem
I was under the impression it sort of grew into a multipurpose rootkit tool
Exactly. There is a qualitative difference between what pavel_lishin mentioned and ads, which while originally meant to inform people, now grew into a social cancer.
I worked at a company, an office in the middle of Copenhagen, in the middle of day a truck pulled up to the bike rack and maybe five guy just loaded the whole thing in the back of the truck. No reason to deal with locks or chains. Nope just stole the entire rack in one swoop.

Sometimes it's quicker to be a gang
So if only now matter you mean that nobody should pay their debt? Cause i know a country who goes to extreme length to get back his money... So which was in it? Both ways i guess.

By the way if you interested the US is STILL in Irak, Donald Trump PARDON the CEO of Blackwater, US is supporting the war in Yemen, look it up it goes on and on....
The more polite phrase is The Featured Article. :)
Solutions like vidir (apt install moreutils) let you use vi to rename everything all at once.

It's like adding a second dimension, plus vi keybindings to the process
> Even if that was true, nature includes light sources as well as reflective materials.

Emissive light sources in nature (except for rare occurrences like lightning, certain jellyfish and cherenkov radiation) are all black body radiation.

That's very different from the colors and contrast ratios possible by modern OLED monitors. The best example would be the blue LEDs used in modern OLED panels, which when they were introduced had a strange unnerving blue glow because that color just doesn't exist in nature.

Additionally, the contrast ratios possible by modern OLED panels are also far beyond anything in nature, as in nature anything that is bright, be it reflective or emmissive, will as result also light up its surroundings and reduce contrast naturally.
Yeah, pretty much. The problem with all transit apps (including Google) is that they only consider x/y distances for estimating walking time. Getting yourself out of a 5-story hole in the ground to catch a surface bus, for example, may appear as a nearly-zero walk to the transit planner.
He used hundreds of hours of his time. What makes you think he would've refrained from paying a few extra dollars for the bandwidth?
I'm an educator; specifically a high-school teacher teaching plain old "Computer Science I". But Hacker News has helped me (and, in turn, my students) to be more self-aware, and encouraged me to work harder and take more risks than I'm naturally inclined to.

Edit: Oh, and I write small software tools to improve my teaching/grading workflow, but I did that even before Slashdot got started.
These lectures follow Norvig's AI: A Modern Approach. If self studying, I find it helps a great deal to reinforce what you've read through watching these lectures.
Yes. 300 words exactly. No tricks or gimmicks involved.

Sadly, I don't have any examples. It was a loooong time ago.

I think the 300-word cap was to force you to choose every word carefully.
iPhone critics have seldom let facts get in their way.

I found this observation coming from daringfireball rather ironic.
The "problem" is that you still need an employer. Calling yourself a business rather than an individual has not changed your situation. All you've done is exercise your capability to seek out other employers.
I understand your point but you might be missing NSA view on this. Their goal is (apparently) to source as much data as possible and, although breaking a jaw doesn't sound expensive as a one-off, it gets extremely expensive when doing it for a given percentage of the world population. In our own language, it's not scalable. And neither are the other options. Global automation of the gathering of personal data is much cheaper and much more useful (again, apparently).
What's the purpose of founding this kind of spying program? Do they expect to find Al'Quaida' sbire among the average joe?
Einstein was iterating, that's the thing. Without the massive foundational work done by others, their efforts large and small, he would never have been able to prove anything. Where would he have been without Newton? Without the people who created the math he employed? Without those who made important contributions to his theories, without which he might've floundered endlessly?

His insight was powerful, but like Steve Jobs, having an idea is one thing, proving it mathematically and experimentally takes considerably more work than one individual can possibly do in a lifetime.

While the achievement of individuals of that sort is significant, it's very easy to ignore the less visible people that were hugely significant in the formulation of these ideas.

Your own argument is working against you here. Was Steve Jobs "iterating" when he created NeXT? The iMac? When he defined what the iPod was? Or the iPhone?

I think you seriously under-estimate how difficult it is to have a vision for a type of technology and work relentlessly towards that goal over a span of decades. That's not a bus-driver following a pre-defined route, that's someone charting their own course, one that, in the case of Steve Jobs, broke tons of rules and challenged convention every step of the way.

Just as relativity is "obvious" now, to be taken for granted, so is the iPhone, yet both of those things completely transformed their respective worlds.
If it's registered it should be internationally recognized in USA and thus prone to suing for divorce?
I totally agree (although you need more than SRI, since you also need some way of signing the original content, but I'd love to see a full spec for this sort of thing). However, SSL is what we have right now that works.

And I think, of the browsers that do support SRI (possibly in prerelease versions or behind feature flags), they require the page to be delivered over SSL anyway.
Frank's also going to be giving a talk at Erlang Factory SF this year -- but this time on the Nerves Project itself :-)
But this is what I don't understand. When was there someone with authority to force all the Unices to adopt (1)? Autoconf came out in 1991, so clearly the problem existed at that point. That's coincidentally also the year Linux was first released, so it can't be blamed.

It seems to me that Unix was never a cathedral. Each specific operating system may have been one, but they clearly weren't more compatible back in 1991 than a Protestant and a Catholic cathedral are, since someone felt the need to write autoconf.

Please give me an example of this shining 20-th century "cathedral development", because I don't see one.
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> consumers for tolerating massive install sizes

You don't find out until after you've bought the game...
The "we can use worse software now that hardware allows us to do it" is why software is sunk so low these days.

We use Bink because it is better then the open-source alternatives, and that's it.