jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I understand the love these incredible projects are getting on HN right now, but this one was discussed a couple months ago:

Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25556286 - Dec 2020 (166 comments)

and the current related thread is still high on the front page—long may it reign:

Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26271117 - Feb 2021 (182 comments)

There are also these related threads:

Actually Portable Executable - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273960 - Feb 2021 (133 comments)

αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24256883 - Aug 2020 (286 comments)

How Fat Does a Fat Binary Need to Be? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26103769 - Feb 2021 (68 comments)

Others?
Something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_Gyrocator
On a local scale, this makes sense. Make the units of data consumption match the units of data capacity. The files are measured in powers of 10, the disks are measured in powers of 10.

If the disk was sold on its power-of-2 capacity, then display the file sizes in their power-of-2 sizes.

On a larger scale, this is a giant mess. Apple is the only one who'd actually try and fix this. Both in terms of power (hardware & software) and in clout.
Everyone was too embarrassed to admit this was the origin of the feature. Fast-forward a few decades, and people are shocked that what was a euphemism doesn't honestly describe how the feature works.
Great work! Now if Unity would just update their runtime....
So your saying that tests should always rely only on the id attribute? Tell me how you target elements that have id attributes auto-generated by a framework either on the front end, Ember for instance, or the back end?

It's a nice idea, but falls over pretty spectacularly in the real world when you have a complicated web application.
i wonder if you mean SpaCy, which was on HN a little less than two months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8942783

i followed this thread and then installed SpaCy and ran the examples; really nice work in my opinion.
> I decided to give Sam Altman's Stanford course "How to Start a Startup" the Blake Masters treatment and create ultra condensed notes that everyone can read. The awesome thing about this is that there are lots of pictures to help explain concepts.

Even though it's "pay what you want", is it really ethical to even accept payment for essentially someone else's content?
Tim Apple could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot someone but HN would still use their products. Backblaze accidentally deploys a facebook pixel to its pages and HN cast it off to the tech shadow realm.
I wish I could say I'll choose an electric car that is built on FOSS so I can actually have the source code to the thing I own.

I don't see that being terribly likely, but the next best thing would be one with software that isn't openly hostile to me. I don't want my car phoning home or being updated without my permission. I don't want my car lying to me, hiding, or refusing to disclose the status of sensors. I don't want an entertainment or navigation system I can't rip out and replace with one of my own choosing.
Isn't that, at least for digital application, many chips can be replaced with FPGA, CPLD or just a good old CPU?
Only recently you can see some companies reproducing audio IC from the 80s, but not much of original work. It seems like there is a huge niche in that space, but probably companies think it is too small to be profitable.
The funny thing is that I'm not even that old, reading my initial comment you would think I'm talking about the 80s or 90s, but I got my experience with COBOL in 2009-2013 (not 4 years straight, I did other stuff too) when working at an insurance company. At the time almost the entire company was run from a few AS400 (and A LOT of office-people doing insurance stuff, of course).
Not sure who is downvoting everything on the other side in this discussion. I'm not saying that I'm against minimum wages - just that to credibly propose them, it would help to explain why you don't set it at $50. I think for social good it really might be the case that 15$ is reasonable; but the argument "I want to raise the minimum wage because I care about doing good-looking things for people" receives extra points in debate because it looks virtuous, and will tend to be overvalued.

Similar proposals like "Punish X crime more harshly" or the opposite "Let's let people out of jail early out of mercy", or "let's just make food free" also sound good initially, and are totally valid policies to consider - once we include all the hidden costs in the calculation of whether it would actually help!
I think that's always been a threat. If a large business decides to target an area you develop a system for, you're basically out of luck unless you have some novel IP that's difficult to replicate. You really have to have something niche, patent it, etc. otherwise you just roll the dice that massive entity X doesn't steamroll your livelihood out of business.
> (1) is the dog a service animal required because of a disability? and (2) what work or task has the dog been trained to perform?

I worked at a Costco for a few years, these two questions were drilled into us over and over and over and over. People tried to bring dogs into Costco all the time, and we'd ask these two (and only these two) questions. Occasionally, some new employee or someone who was grumpy would go off script and it was considered a very serious issue.

The folks with service animals knew the drill, would answer these questions quickly and succinctly. The ones without service animals would (sometimes) get extremely agitated about them.

It's really tough, because so many people are inconsiderately trying to pretend their animals are service animals, which makes life for the folks who require the assistance of a service animal much, much more complicated. If you've ever considered "just ordering a service dog vest online", please reconsider.
What's with the double quotes?
Of course we want an accurate portrayal of the character, the good and the bad. The worry is it won't be so accurate coming from a contemporary American perspective.
The user isn't the problem it's that fact that they all work differently. There's no unified API for launcher/startbutton, or task tray, etc etc.
Someone else is being downvoted into oblivion for using the term "link bait" so I'll tread carefully here, but this is the second time I've ended up on Geoff Wozniak's blog as a result of a headline that, on its own, is just as uninteresting as "some guy decides he doesn't like latest version of OS X", yet coming from Steve Wozniak it would definitely be worth reading.

It's not link-baity in the sense that there's really anything wrong with using your own name for your blog (although try telling that to Mike Rowe), but it's link-baity in the context of HN where the domain shows up with equal importance to the headline and where the name "Wozniak" is very clearly associated with one and only one person.

I think the "flag" link is unfit for purpose and should be moved & changed. Firstly, it should appear on the comments page as well as the listing pages. Secondly, there should be multiple reasons for flagging (or a free-text, one-line reason field), so that it's at least possible to flag a misleading headline for alteration, without the possibility that the entire submission could be flag-killed.

I even agree with the poster about certain issues with OS X. It's particularly annoying as someone that recently switched away from Windows, after finally losing patience with Microsoft's similarly erosive programme of needless tinkering and randomly breaking stuff in lieu of tangible improvements. However, I don't come to HN to read opinions that agree with my existing world-view and pat myself on the back for being right (or at least, that's not my main reason).

I am however interested in opinions that are not just from "some guy" but which represent the defection of a key figure, such as "DHH: why I've finally given up on Ruby" or "RMS: why closed-source is better after all". I would definitely read those and would be equally disappointed if the author turned out to be an unrelated namesake.
I think you have it backwards. The 'brutal cruelty and outright ridiculousness' of blood sacrifice is the whole point of Christianity. I realise Judaism has changed a lot, but in Jesus' time it was an unforgiving system. The death of Jesus was supposed to supplant all other kinds of sacrifice, and bring in a new system whereby you didn't need to atone for sins any more - you simply had to ask for forgiveness. When you discuss OT scriptures you aren't talking about Christianity.
Thanks. The speaker mentions Haskell, hopefully the religion isn't so important as the code patterns.
> Apple is probably glad to be rid of nerd/hardcore users.

Well, they aren't "rid of nerd/hardcore users." There's plenty of "hardcore users" who use Macs, and more and more try it out or completely switch over every year.

Also, why would a company who develops an operating system targeted towards creative users and developers be "glad to be rid of" such an important demographic?
Why can't you migrate your music collection away from iTunes? I thought the DRM was killed long ago.
No, it wasn't harsh. I'm still learning how to communicate my projects here. Trying to figure out the right level of doneness (somewhere between "tartar" and "shoe leather") before serving it up to the HN masses is its own project.
Good work, very nicely done. This has great potential especially for online marketing. Imagine being able to put together a new deal site or ad within minutes and sharing it on all social media channels. Some sort of basic logging/Analytics could be sold as a paid service. Future enhancements could be login, draft/publish mode, multi-user/collaboration, logging/analytics.
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Berkeley and Oakland have some pretty amazing tool-lending libraries as well. SF had one too, but I'm not sure what happened to it.
Jesus wept.
What's fun about it? It's not like it's an original witty thought. It's just regurgitation. And it's about as palatable to read.
Are you saying React.js isn't the way to go?
Believe me, I spend plenty of time up in there to make sure this library I wrote will be cool with .NET 3.5 or whatever. =) I wasn't sure if that had been wedged in with .NET 1.1. I've never seen even 1.1 in the wild.
Depends on your definition of "good performance". Idiomatic lisp was never able to compete with the Fortran-s and C/C++-s of its age, but Nim is.
I greatly enjoyed and appreciated this article. Thanks to the person who posted it. As with all things human, there is a wide diversity of expressions of Christian belief. The thing that stood out most for me in this article was the human depth, compassion, and wisdom of Faraday and Maxwell. There is a vein of Christianity today (as ever) that is wise, mature, sane, and thoughtful. There is also, of course, a type of Christianity today that is none of these things. Generally, it seems that the most vocal are the least mature. One averts one's eyes with sadness and pain at the many vocal displays intellectually trivial Christianity. All too often, immature proponents of atheism and materialism delight in heaping contempt and ridicule on this sort of Christianity, as though it were the whole of Christianity. It is indeed a humbling experience to be a believing member of a community that is the object of such frequent, intense, and painful contempt and hatred. The experienced intimidation is such that it fills me with dread even to make a comment in this forum. However, I would note that the uppermost echelons of science and engineering are not without a non-trivial representation of people of active and profound religious belief, even today. (This constitutes a sort of existence proof; "there exists at least one leading scientist who is also a person of active religious faith.") Personally, I am stellar neither as a scientist nor as a Catholic, but they are the twin foundations of my being. My faith motivated me to make a momentous decision, and devote the remainder of my career to the alleviation of human suffering insofar as I am able; I have the privilege of developing embedded software that runs ventilators for neonatal intensive care and other applications.
That's kind of the segment to Go was aiming for (systems/scalable)
Presumably you could do a sunglasses version with a couple of greyscale lcds and tiny cameras, that just blacks stuff out. Would also then be nice to get it to shade the sun as well. Oh and they should go completely black in response to danger, but that goes without saying.
Ah, that explains things. If you haven't played GTA yourself you are unaware how misleading and incisive your description of it was.

Please consider actually getting a first hand impression of things before you regurgitate some propaganda.

I wanted to point out that the things you mentioned are not what the game is about. The suggestion for psychological (not psychiatric) help arose from the fact that you sounded overly distraught from playing a game in your own way.
Israel is paying about $30 a dose about twice the Pfizer listed price in the US and EU not 10 times more.

It’s paying 10 times more when comparing to the AZ vaccine but that’s not apples to apples.
Prisjakt (Pricespy) is very deep in Swedish online shopping culture. I wonder if Amazon realizes what they are up to. It does make their website feel superfluous to me and more like what what I'd expect from a company of the year 2010.

What I like most about Prisjakt is that they don't try to second guess what I want given a basic search phrase.
Instead, Prisjakt gives me the categories to drill down into tables. Sortable and filterable tables with product name, price, rating, and category-specific columns (like storage size and $/GB for hard drives). The filters run DEEP. If you're looking for a HDR display, you can be happy with a "HDR" filter but also opt into DisplayHDR 1000 certified displays with 120+ Hz. For the entire Sweden because every decent Swedish retail chain and store is on this website, and they have everything between solid state drives and shoes in their database. If you look for watches you have filters and columns for e.g. automatic, solar powered watches, etc.

Amazon is very, very different. They're also a front to various stores but try to make it appear like THEY are the store when they are really not. Prisjakt instead just has this razor sharp focus on making you in charge of the data and forming decisions based on that, and then when the decision is made, presents you a list of the stores with that product and their respective prices. You are in control and maybe you prefer a certain one because you're a long time user there and like them.

So Amazon becomes a "fake store front" (like Sweden's CDON) and Prisjakt is more like just a database. One optimized for usability and presentation.
Would you even be able to disagree with authority? Have you ever in the past?
Errr, the article you're quoting says:

> Tundra vegetation is composed of dwarf shrubs, sedges and grasses, mosses, and lichens.

So, they want to replace grassland with... grassland (maybe with less shrubs)?
As a US citizen overseas I hate filing pointless US taxes. Sending paper forms half way around the world with no confirmation is archaic.

In theory I'd love a tool that could save me wasting my life on this every year. However, would I trust it? Not from a malicious standpoint but it seems there's been lots of changes over the last few years and I'd need to know the tool had been properly updated. To do that I'd have to go and read all the updates/instructions each year (just like I do now) and then also check the tool was correct. I'm not convinced a (free?) non-accountant DIY method helps when the monetary cost of it being outdated/bugged could be significant.

I guess you could argue that this is no different from any other open-source software and it's my choice to either personally audit it or assume someone else already has - including all the schedules I use. I'm struggling to understand why I have more of a concern with this compared to, for example, my web browser. Perhaps I am just especially (and irrationally??) fearful of the IRS and the consequence of getting taxes wrong.
You're right, I'm the one who misread the end, I thought the author said he wrote to Patreon, which doesn't seem to be the case.
This is not great...
You think Trump is an icon for the people these threads here on HN? I don't think so. I think there's a free speech vein in this community that is independent of support for Trump. It might even be the majority.
That's pretty baseless, as they are not discriminating on the basis of political party or political affiliation. Romney's remarks aren't being removed, because he's a Republican who's not encouraging violently overthrowing the results of our elections.
>devolves quickly into a discussion of mixed voltages

That would be me spotting a problem in the design, and Im sure you meant elevates ;-)
They can make political statements on Twitter, pushing legislation to make a political statement is a mockery of the process, a mockery of the actual victims of terrorism, and it costs a boatload of money with nothing to show for it.
Isn’t everything effectively centralized in so far as a server host can cut your service? Or an ISP? Or even a payment processor? It seems the systems we built are too complex and rely on the judgment of too many humans. Humans that are easily influenced.

Even something like IPFS relies on unrestricted access to the internet. I’m against most government intervention, but requiring certain services to refrain from censorship seems like the only real path to an open web.
Screaming in someone's face is an action, not speech. Should the person be stopped from expressing the same sentiment by writing a letter to the editor or posting it on their blog?

Even if someone is saying something supportive to you, you would probably prefer they don't scream it in your face.

Posting a statement to a Twitter account that people are free to follow, ignore, or block at their will is not even remotely comparable to physically forcing yourself into their presence to yell at them.
I’m aware of the politics of the authors. Both articles you posted amount to ad homs. Neither even attempt to engage with the evidence presented in the reports.
I think five people dead and pipe bombs being planted in the Capitol building counts as unrest.
Here's what the domain names look like, for those of us who's DNS hasn't propagated yet.

http://50.17.223.71/
This post really highlights the needs for collapsible threads. I'd be very interested in discussing more about asset forfeiture at large, but it's ridiculous to have to wade through all the Liberty Dollar bullshit in order to do that.
Tumblr has the same thing.
If you want Sony Music you wouldn't buy all of Sony. Of course, these conglomerates may not be willing to sell off their "money-losing" record labels.
I'm a sucker for paper+pdf+ebook bundles, which you can usually get from publishers but not Amazon or B/N. I also like that the author gets more.

It's great that No Starch is setting themselves up as the "quirky" compsci book publishers (this, Eloquent Javascript, Land of Lisp). Does anyone know if/when we can expect Learn You an Erlang for Great Good in paper form?

(I'm also amused to see that I'm not the only one who was almost more excited by the stickers than the book.[1])

[1] http://twitter.com/#!/telemachus/status/58983940987420673
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MJ Research, cool! I've got one of their PCR machines in my trunk, all taken apart. We used it as inspiration when we were first starting, it's got some nice design features. Keep in touch,
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This is a pretty important detail, because it means that only the most obnoxious site designs will suffer. There are still some ads. Indeed, the remaining ad space might even grow in value, partially compensating for the loss of the obnoxious follow-on pages.

Of course, that assumes a more intelligent metric for ad value than just the raw number of page views. Which means that this whole thing could end up benefiting Google. Who has the analytics data to help put a value on ads that is more intelligent than just "cost per thousand downloads of the ad, even if those downloads are on page seven of a ten-'page' article"? I know who!
And billing, I guess. Ok.
I've found the Visual Studio debugger to be very nice, actually. It shows STL classes in an intelligible way, and the IDE integration is (as expected) excellent. Unfortunately OSS alternatives are still a lot less intuitive, and VS is stuck to Windows.
Your memory might've been wrong. 0.00025 is just too small a number for a system like this (Multi tier, RPC every where distributed systems).
Do you think that Microsoft could ship IE9 with an ad blocker installed and enabled by default? Do you think they could get away with blocking all ads except those they distribute? Or, do you think people would step in and demand regulation to stop them from doing those things?

I always thought that Microsoft could have killed Google's non-search business and other free "cloud"-based competitors by shipping an ad blocker in IE. It would have ruined Microsoft's own free online service business, but they could have thrived on software license revenue alone. But, I think the DoJ and the EU would never allow it.
I'd reverse the question:

Why doesn't Firefox already do this out of the box? It's not as if adblocking is a particularly new concept. This is ten-year-old technology. It's not as if adblocking isn't known to be something people want: Geeks use it all the time.
Nambu for Mac reverses every short URL and does so without affecting the app performance negatively.
I don't get why you're being downvoted to oblivion. You were perfectly polite. So people disagree with you about the definition of martial art. So what?
They might be willing to invest the time and money to become proficient at this attack, if they believe they'll be able to use it on several high-value heists -- think jewelry shops or museums, if you knock over a handful of those without causing a fuss you could make many times your investment.
I don't know why you missed it, but it mentions both isomorphism (code that can be run client side or server side) and the virtual DOM (web components, etc...).
At first thought, chaffing seems like a pretty good idea, but isn't it vulnerable to analysis? By which I mean, if the spooks can demonstrate (based on tracking identifiable markers in your cookies or some other means) that you're at your office, shouldn't they be able to effectively ignore any traffic from your home internet connection?

Maybe if we were all running Tor exit nodes or something, but naïve chaffing sounds pretty ... well, naïve.