jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Key Modi rival Rahul Gandhi among potential Indian targets of NSO client
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/19/key-modi-rival-rahul-gandhi-among-indian-targets-of-nso-client
Immunity Generated from Covid-19 Vaccines Differs from an Infection
https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-generated-from-covid-19-vaccines-differs-from-an-infection/
Goodbye Zachtronics
https://kotaku.com/zachtronics-farewell-goodbye-closing-eliza-last-call-bb-1849096767
Show HN: A tool to send push notifications to your phone, written in Go
https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy
Amazon to Launch Mobile Ads, in a Threat to Google and Facebook
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-21/amazon-said-to-launch-mobile-ads-in-threat-to-google-facebook
Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/07/30/an-open-letter-to-microsofts-ceo-dont-roll-back-the-clock-on-choice-and-control/
Bitcoin blockchain issue - Mt Gox Bitcoin deposits temporarily suspended
https://mtgox.zendesk.com/entries/21477395-Bitcoin-blockchain-issue-bitcoin-deposits-temporarily-suspended
Amazon memo: Here’s why we should acquire Ring (2017)
https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1549489359459454976
Building a Billion User Load Balancer [video]
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa16/conference-program/presentation/shuff
Chromium Blog: A New Crankshaft for V8
http://blog.chromium.org/2010/12/new-crankshaft-for-v8.html
UVB radiation was the Devonian-Carboniferous extinction kill mechanism
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/22/eaba0768
AMD ships microcode update to disable some branch prediction
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-01/msg00004.html
Criticizing Google got me fired
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/31/i-criticized-google-it-got-me-fired-thats-how-corporate-power-works/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-f%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
Uutils: an attempt at writing cross-platform CLI utilities in Rust
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
Amazon Investigates Employees Leaking Data for Bribes
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-investigates-employees-leaking-data-for-bribes-1537106401
An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
https://henrytapper.com/2010/01/09/an-employee-whose-job-was-to-be-sacked/
Why Do We Judge Parents for Putting Kids at Perceived But Unreal Risk?
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/08/22/490847797/why-do-we-judge-parents-for-putting-kids-at-perceived-but-unreal-risk?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160822
Maigret: Collect a dossier on a person by username from thousands of sites
https://github.com/soxoj/maigret
24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/24-core-cpu-and-i-cant-move-my-mouse/
In MySQL, don’t use “utf8”, use “utf8mb4” (2016)
https://medium.com/@adamhooper/in-mysql-never-use-utf8-use-utf8mb4-11761243e434
Chrome, the perfect antitrust villain?
https://alexdanco.com/2019/05/30/google-chrome-the-perfect-antitrust-villain/
So You Want to Compete with Steam
http://www.fortressofdoors.com/so-you-want-to-compete-with-steam/
Archaeologists in Turkey unearth 2,500-year-old temple of Aphrodite
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/2500-year-old-temple-aphrodite-found-turkey-180976694/
LittleD – SQL database for IoT, can run queries in 1KB
https://github.com/graemedouglas/LittleD
How I Build
http://pketh.org/how-i-build.html
Zulip 3.0: Threaded Open Source Team Chat
https://blog.zulip.com/2020/07/16/zulip-3-0-released/
Show HN: Learn Python the Right Way – free introduction to Python book
https://learnpythontherightway.com
Snowden reveals GCHQ spy programme with link to Scottish police
http://www.thenational.scot/news/us-whistleblower-snowden-reveals-gchq-spy-programme-with-secret-link-to-scottish-police.18661
Freenode IRC operators now engaging in routine abuses of power
https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_abuse
Crony capitalism may be cannibalizing productive capitalism in the U.S.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-21/the-wrong-kind-of-entrepreneurs-flourish-in-america
Can We Stop Drawing Trees on Top of Skyscrapers?
http://www.archdaily.com/346374/can-we-please-stop-drawing-trees-on-top-of-skyscrapers/#.UU-2q9uRnOI.facebook
The De-evolution of My Laptop Battery
http://www.ifweassume.com/2013/08/the-de-evolution-of-my-laptop-battery.html?bg
User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
https://userinyerface.com
Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1
https://petapixel.com/2021/05/26/couple-buys-7000-camera-from-amazon-gets-empty-boxes-instead/
Mailchimp Is Shutting Down ICO and Blockchain-Related Emails
https://futurism.com/mailchimp-is-shutting-down-ico-and-blockchain-related-emails-and-people-are-freaking-out/
A Swede Returns to Silicon Valley from China
http://blog.traintracks.io/a-swede-returns-to-silicon-valley-from-china-2/
How to Write Your Own Compiler (2009)
http://staff.polito.it/silvano.rivoira/HowToWriteYourOwnCompiler.htm
Not a single car was sold in Shanghai last month
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-16/not-a-single-car-was-sold-in-shanghai-last-month
What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)
https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-revenue-model/
California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 days a year in the state
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-california-plan-to-chase-away-the-rich-then-keep-stalking-them-11608331448
Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies
https://useguard.com
Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/carnegie-mellon-launches-undergraduate-degree-artificial-intelligence
Portugal Bans Use of DRM to Limit Access to Public Domain Works
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/portugal-bans-use-drm-limit-access-public-domain-works
Computer science as a lost art (2015)
http://rubyhacker.com/blog2/20150917.html
A Look into NASA’s Coding Philosophy
https://mystudentvoices.com/a-look-into-nasas-coding-philosophy-b747957c7f8a
Domain-Driven Design
https://verraes.net/2021/09/what-is-domain-driven-design-ddd/
Nokia to add open interfaces to its telecom equipment
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nokia-5g-idUSKBN2480S0
Bitcoin Developer Guide
https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide
The Book That Every Programmer Should Read
http://onlinehut.org/2011/10/the-book-that-every-programmer-should-read/
The Token Effect
https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-token-effect
One of the FBI’s Major Claims in the iPhone Case Is Fraudulent
https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/one-fbis-major-claims-iphone-case-fraudulent
Why Clojure?
https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2019/08/22/WhyClojure.html
Show HN: A completely different way to write responsive, vanilla, CSS
https://propjockey.github.io/css-media-vars/
Conditions of ACME's Unconditional Guarantee
https://www.kleinbottle.com/guarantee.htm
Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/16/us/obamas-path-from-critic-to-defender-of-spying.html
Silver: A free implementation of Swift for .NET, Java, Android, and Cocoa
http://elementscompiler.com/elements/silver/
Wal-Mart will pay employees to deliver packages on their way home
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-01/wal-mart-taps-employees-for-quick-deliveries-to-take-on-amazon
Gail, not Gmail
https://gail.com/
Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer
https://monicalent.com/blog/2019/06/03/absolute-truths-unlearned-as-junior-developer/
GB Studio: A game maker for the Game Boy
https://www.gbstudio.dev/
On rebooting: the unreasonable effectiveness of turning computers off and on
https://keunwoo.com/notes/rebooting/
Intel’s future now depends on making everyone else’s chips
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/intel-slipped-and-its-future-now-depends-on-making-everyone-elses-chips/
Why isn't everything normally distributed?
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2015/03/09/why-isnt-everything-normally-distributed/
Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/12/amazon-still-hasnt-fixed-its-problem-with-bait-and-switch-reviews
There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'
https://whispersystems.org/blog/there-is-no-whatsapp-backdoor/
Google Apps drop support for IE9
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/11/google-drops-support-for-ie9.html
The NFL wants you to think these things are illegal
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/the-nfl-wants-you-to-think-these-things-are-illegal/
Twitter suspends Sci-Hub account amid Indian court case
https://twitter.com/verge/status/1347597998155591680
Bruno Simon – 3D Curriculum
https://bruno-simon.com/
Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3208
ISP Spying
https://harrisonsand.com/your-isp-is-spying-on-you/
Xterm.js
http://xtermjs.org/
E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160524006209/en/Ink-Announces-Advanced-Color-ePaper-Breakthrough-Technology
Uber, Lyft drivers manipulate fares at DCA causing artificial price surges
https://wjla.com/news/local/uber-and-lyft-drivers-fares-at-reagan-national
Chance of Dying From Backscatter Radiation Same as Chance of Terrorism
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/11/18/chances
Greenwald: "The Sunday Times’ Snowden Story Is Journalism at Its Worst"
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/14/sunday-times-report-snowden-files-journalism-worst-also-filled-falsehoods/
China and Taiwan Clash over Wikipedia Edits
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49921173
Pricing Principles
http://insideintercom.io/four-pricing-principals-to-never-forget/
On{X}: The Coolest Thing to Happen to Android. Courtesy of… Microsoft Israel?
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/05/onx/
The U.S. Air Force learned to code and saved the Pentagon millions
https://www.fastcompany.com/40588729/the-air-force-learned-to-code-and-saved-the-pentagon-millions
NEON is the new black: fast JPEG optimization on ARM servers
https://blog.cloudflare.com/neon-is-the-new-black/
Applied Category Theory
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-s097-applied-category-theory-january-iap-2019/index.htm
How to Pass a Programming Interview
http://blog.triplebyte.com/how-to-pass-a-programming-interview
Windows gets a new terminal
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/windows-gets-a-new-terminal/
A CO2 capture solvent with exceptionally low total costs of capture
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/ee/d0ee02585b#!divAbstract
Adrian Frutiger has died
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/master-of-the-univers_swiss-font-legend-adrian-frutiger-dies/41659284
Netflix is not a tech company (2019)
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/7/31/Netflix
No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1269-4
GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/24
Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54269144
Intel Kills “Tick-Tock”
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/03/22/intel-corp-officially-kills-tick-tock.aspx
No Hello (2013)
https://www.nohello.com/
State of Independent SaaS [pdf]
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d6fd1b92a7aeb00017966dd/t/5e291fc7d2e9fa1df81e2a8c/1579753464656/sois
URLs are UI
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/URLsAreUI.aspx
Uber Loses London License over Concerns for Rider Safety
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-25/uber-denied-new-license-by-london-s-transport-regulator
His diehards are already convinced of that.
That these algorithms are crude statistical approximators of hidden latent biases in the training data? That's their entire method of functioning! That's the entire process of a neural network. It seems you're wanting something that can predict the future, which is currently outside of our matrix multiplication skills.
Police have said a lot of things in Seattle that turned out to be complete falsehoods. Nearly every night of the protest, they'd make false statements that were trivially disproved by video evidence.

I'll believe it when its a citation from an impartial third party - a paramedic, a bystander, etc.

The fact is, the police retained access to both the East Precinct, and to CHAZ, through the latter's existence. They would show up in small groups of two or three, and were allowed in.
Half? Don’t make me laugh. I think a more accurate figure is 80-90%. Not surprising you just assume I’m a democrat, though, given your first post.
Your comment is very brief and ambiguous to me. Can you elaborate please?

Are you saying you agree or disagree with my statement?
I'm from a different country, so I get exposure to different media sources, but from my position, this sounds very strange. The media has been absolutely complicit in enabling Trump and the far right over the past four years, so while I agree that there is no reason to trust them, it's not because they aren't fair to Trump.
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> It is not a populist system that benefits the aristocracy and the working class by aligning corporate and state power in the national interest (fascism)

But that's exactly Trumps presidency? Or at least what he was attempting.

What you're missing is that fascism doesn't align ALL of the groups, just a fraction of each, and blames failures on the ones that aren't in that alignment
Do you think that the remedy to a legal disagreement on balance of power between local/state/judicial should be to throw out thousands and thousands of legitimate votes? Or are you saying those votes are fradulent?
Something about looking at that... strange feeling ... realizing that I too was programming for the Internet in 1996, and I could have asked the same type of question, in the same year, etc.

But in the intervening years Larry Page became a billionaire and is actually my employer, while I'm an aging pudgy programmer posting on hackernews.

Y'know what I'm saying? The passage of time is weird.

Ok, finishing my coffee now.
I have been using an M1 setup with three screens for the last month. For the first two monitors, I use one usb-c port and one hdmi. For the third monitor, i use a Startech usb-a to htmi adapter using display-link. It works.
I think in this case it's not only about your life beeing in danger, try this at any milittary base and the chances of getting shot are also quite high i guess.
The real attempt at overturning the legal election results, "legally": https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1347169481689354240

> 138 representatives —65% of GOP caucus—and 7 senators voted to discard PA. PA rules were voted in by the GOP but even the guy who got elected by them voted to throw out the ones for the president. They would have stolen that election if they had the numbers.

(The riot was an alternative approach to throwing the election by destroying the electoral college ballots https://twitter.com/SenJeffMerkley/status/134693870593264845... ; it's not clear to me whether that would be a mere paperwork hiccup or whether it could provide a pretext to really invalidate the electoral college somehow)
I think one source of tech churn people don't talk about is just growth. If you're 5x size you were last year, an entire system rewrite is relatively cheap, and if you expect to grow in the future, you can make riskier bets knowing they'll be cheaper to replace down the line. It's not ipso facto irrational. I'd be interested in seeing a breakdown of the correlations.
I agree, all my friends and familly are on WhatsApp and they will definitely not switch. So from my point of view, I have to balance the cost between sharing data to Facebook and severely hampering communications with my love ones.

I guess what I'm saying is that the network effect is just too damn strong (for me at least).
What are people’s thoughts on Line? It’s very widely used here in Japan, especially among younger people. I have used it only a little myself and don’t have much of an opinion one way or another.
I don't mean to say you have to be tech savvy to use Signal but it's mostly tech savvy people that want to use it.
Wi has a lot of coal by the lake, where is there a nuke? Chicago was almost all nukes at one point
Central air and a natural gas furnace are both on the same duct system and low maintenance.
> Farting into bubbles on LEO will not get you there.

Who thinks it will? Is SpaceX planning on funding LEO bubbles?
Still just a Sleep(), right? So the latency in the callback can be added to the next time, with resulting drift. The idea is, I know when I want to be called back, as an actual number. I want a sleepuntil() that I pass the actual time.
I'm not sure philosophers debating is a useful signal about whether an issue is settled. I'm having a hard time thinking of a topic on which philosophers would not debate.
Crunch is typically the result of poor planning or design on the fly or by focus-group. So, to that end, it's not the crunch's fault, even though it sucks, it's the fault of design and production not getting their ducks in a row.
To be fair whatsapp is not just a single messaging app, it's hundreds that work on all sorts of shitty phones in all sorts of languages.
As jedberg said, we're heavily invested in Linux on the cloud, which means there's a large cost associated with the move (porting infrastructure software, tools, and testing).

But FreeBSD has been improving on EC2, such as PVHVM support. If the benefit was big enough, it might outweigh the cost. I'd like to do a little FreeBSD EC2 perf testing this year (as I would for any tech that might pay off)...
I was the founding CTO and VP of Engineering at Wayport (now AT&T WiFi Services.)

The answer is really, "because they are rapacious".
One of the great things about the internet is the ability to play chess against anyone online, through any of the many sites such as Yahoo! games etc.

I used to play a bit online, and as well as improving my chess just through more play, the pressure of playing under time limits really forced me to develop a strategy, something I'd never realized, despite playing many games over the years.

Playing on-line, self-improvement should be pretty clear, just from watching your number of wins and rating gradually improve.
I don't disagree with your points but let me give you some counterpoints:

1. Taxi services are balkanized;

2. Many tax services don't allow you to order a taxi ahead of time. You have to flag one down (eg NYC). For ordering a car, you need to otherwise deal with an (expensive) car service;

3. Uber made the payment process seamless and I cannot overstate how important this is as a user. I hate dealing with NYC yellow cabs, card readers that don't work (or actually have skimmers) and a stupid touch screen where your minimum tip option is 20%, etc;

4. The ability to rate both drivers and passengers may have its issues but IME it tends to keep passengers on better behaviour and cars in better condition;

5. Taxis have weird edge cases. In NYC, for example, getting a cab at 3-4pm was nigh-on impossible because of the shift change. It also means that drivers near the end of their shift may not take you places too out of the way;

6. Whatever the costs of owning and maintaining a car are, the traditional taxi system has huge taxes in the form of medallion costs and quotas. These costs are directly passed on to consumers;

7. Uber may well have a lot of value in value-added services. They're trying this with Uber Eats, for example. I can't say if these will be successful or not. I've certainly seen cities where I've tried to use Uber Eats only to be told "There are no drivers available". Obviously the drivers haven't signed up because there are plenty on Doordash and Seamless/Grubhub.

8. I see the flexibility for drivers as a huge plus rather than the rigid shift system of being a taxi driver.

9. The barrier to entry as a driver tends to be low because for many people they have a car anyway.

Taxis died because it's a horrible user experience that was propped up by a government-enforced monopoly. Good riddance. I mean I feel bad for NYC taxi drivers who were lured into paying a fortune to buy a medallion before the market crashed, many of whom had limitd English proficiency and were the victims of predatory practices that should be illegal.
I have been sort of an early adopter of GIMP, and in the past I was quite a heavy user for many years, and I never really understood all this bad press that GIMP gets, especially the UI. I used GIMP for many years, some months on daily basis, sometimes only few times a week, but quite regularly, and I always liked it, and never had problems with it. Then one day I had to edit several images on a computer that was not my and only had Photoshop on it, and I think I started to appreciate a little the frustration a long time Photoshop user with muscle memory must feel when using GIMP. The two hours of using Photoshop were some of the most frustrating in my life: everything kind of felt familiar, and I knew all those features that I want to use are there, but I had the hardest time finding them and figuring out how they worked. Everything seemed to be in the most illogical places, key combinations did not do what I expected them to do, dialogs did not make any sense. I managed to finish the work, but it took much longer time than it would in GIMP, and was incredibly frustrating. I am sure the Photoshop UI made perfect sense to the people who designed it, and that someone who is used to it can get great work done with it, but it made no sense to me. That's probably how Photoshop users feel when trying to get work done in GIMP.

These days I do not use GIMP much since I work almost exclusively with vector graphics, but every once a while I have some situation where GIMP seems to be the appropriate tool, and I always find it pleasant and easy to get back to.
Do you have any links to these batteries? I'm very interested.
We have this already:

http://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/
I have a t420s, and replacing the DVD with a bay battery was a very worthwhile trade.
You learn about the people that you're bullshitting with. We're social animals, we live in groups, we solve problems in groups, we tackle adversity as groups. Our lives depend on our abilities to function within groups.

Bullshitting is a type of play. Play is important for developing as an individual and for a group developing a shared identity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_(activity)
'There's also the fact that nobody uses the construct "xx hundred" for numbers above 9.'

Count me amongst those who do. By subjective reflection - and standing significant chance of being wrong - I would say most frequently when I've had to do a bit of arithmetic on values where rounding to hundreds is most reasonable.