jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>There are >400 million monthly active Facebook users in Europe today [1]. It is pretty absurd to think that a substantial amount of them would prefer losing access to Facebook over an EU mandate, especially considering most people are likely aware at this point that Facebook is using their data.

Most people who rely on it are business, and they stay in to compete with businesses who are also in it. If nobody has access to it they will just rely on other means, their own personnal website, other social medias that would fill the gap...

Most individual would be annoyed at first as well, but then all end up migrating to the another thing once the dust settle. More than facebook, this would be more the loss of instagram and whatsapp that would annoy them but they would easily move to telegram and signal. Many non-tech people already have a telegram account for example but don't move out of whatsapp because they are all on it already. Nobody wants to be that guys asking anyone else to abandon the group and move to somewhere else just for the heck of moving. As for instagram, they would quickly switch to tiktok, snapchat or something else that fills the gap.

I'd like to think open source and decentralized tool would have en edge but I am very doubtful it would happen. It is always easier to migrate to a single jail cell than being free.

Anyway, Facebook/Meta has just filled a form to cover their ass. They aren't threatening to leave EU. If they have to keep and manage the data in EU they will find a way. It will just be costly and hurt their finances hence the obligation for them to mention the riskier route.
I've built a few:

- https://onlineornot.com (a SaaS)

- https://maxrozen.com (info products)

- https://deploywithflags.com (another SaaS, started recently)

The effort to build a SaaS is immense, and I imagine building a SaaS to be like building an app on easy-mode. While building a SaaS, you're in full control of the entire customer journey - from discovery and getting their email, to convincing them to trial, to converting to a paid customer. While building an app, you're stuck with whatever your walled garden lets you do.

The learning curve to convincing people to spend a recurring sum of money with you is very steep compared to getting them to pay for something once. Consider writing what you know about a topic for a blog, then use that blog as marketing while you write a small book on how to solve a thorny problem for that topic. Significantly lower time investment for a decent pay-off (a few thousand bucks if its your first time, and it's a valuable problem to solve).

That being said, the part that makes it "worth it" for me is how much I've learned about running a business, marketing, sales, and product management. Things I never get a chance to explore as part of my day job as a frontend software engineer. If I purely measured hours spent vs money earned, no, not worth it, but sometimes things are worth doing for reasons other than money.
> gcc doesn’t have a rotation intrinsic, so I couldn’t try it there

Gcc and Clang both recognize the pattern of shifts and OR that reproduce a rotation, and substitute the actual instruction, no intrinsic needed.

I bet MSVC does too.
I agree, he is using economic, and political power (or at least celebrity power) to try to force censorship.

IMHO the correct way to deal with free speech you don't like is more free speech.
Project appears to be semi-dead, and was early stages when it was alive.

Incidentally, Elsa is already the name of a C++ parser: https://scottmcpeak.com/elkhound/sources/elsa/
Heh, i feel like maybe hardware constraints also play a role here.

For example, right now i have 4 1080p monitors connected to my computer. I've never really needed anything more than the ability to snap windows to either side of the monitors (or bottom/top for vertical ones) or make them full screen.

With a higher resolution monitor (or an ultra widescreen one) i suspect that it would rapidly change and i'd need to look into either more advanced snapping setups (e.g. AquaSnap or PowerToys FancyZones on Windows, or the Linux equivalent, though even XFCE is pretty flexible out of the box there).

That said, on a laptop i probably wouldn't even try doing that and in many cases the software where i would actually want some sort of tiling already has it baked in - SSH clients like MobaXTerm (though Remmina is also nice on *nix) or all of JetBrains products. Tiling OS windows with smaller sizes feels rather inefficient, because many OSes out there waste space immensely with menus and other always visible items.

But hey, i'd argue that my current setup only has manageable cognitive load because i use overlapping windows managers as "optionally tileable" and due to the amount of monitors have a maximum of 8 open windows without any overlapping. Someone might achieve the same with a single (albeit larger) monitor and a proper tiling manager.
This is a very exciting project, but since the use cases are security related, I am hesitant to use a closed source project. Are there any plans to open source this?
linix admins?
There are a few CNG filling stations around my town (in the US). I believe a few organizations use CNG in some of their vehicles (a cab company and VA shuttles come to mind), but I rarely see vehicles filling at those stations.
Infamous Authors' Outlines for Great Works of Bad Literature

* Martin Amis' UML diagram for London Fields

* EL James' Balsamiq mockups for Fifty Shades Of Grey

* Dan Brown's PowerPoint decks for The Da Vinci Code

Couldn't resist ;)

Though clearly Balsamiq mockups are the odd one out since they are useful.
>> yes, it's a shame, but it really means that nobody values the work of a true journalist (especially investigative journalism)

> I find your fatalism disheartening.

It's not fatalism but rather a political statement.

OP argues from within the superficial logic of capitalist exchange: the value of a commodity is whether and for how much it sells.

Uninterestingly enough, the thing which the OP will not be sad to kill is investigative journalism, which is pretty much the only branch of intellectual work that can undo the corruption that is brought on by the above psychotic logic.

What you think is fatalism is actually poorly disguised pro-corruption propaganda.
Absolutely. Every hacker knows its all about libraries these days. (sorry I'll stop now)
I might be misremembering but I'm pretty sure that when reading "Barbarians at the gate", they referred to these eighties' physical worksheets also as spreadsheets. The spreading of the sheet in the table is, in fact more physical than digital...

EDIT: This article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8526319
Is there a LLVM backend for AVR ? (not a snarky question)
It depends entirely who's doing the using right? I know my work has terrabytes of excel docs on network drives with calculations. There are doubtless innumerable google docs in the ether with collated responses to questionnaires. There are the checklist spreadsheets Dad had for packing prior to going away.

It takes all sorts :)
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Firefox-version:-benc...
It's because of this: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/enabling-shared-array-buff...
> As it should. If it weren't for capitalism we would not enjoy any of the abundance we have become accustomed to having in the past century.

That argument can't be directly applied to the future. Just because a system worked in the past, doesn't mean that it will work in a future world with different constraints. Hence why many think that today's capitalism is not a good political model for the envisioned future of mass automation.

And of course we can't hold on to an idea out of reverence and respect, i.e. "be grateful for what it has done for you, you privileged first-world dweller, you".
> I've never met anyone who cooks rice by boiling the water first.

Standard practice for pressure cooking rice. Bring water to boil, add rice, stir, close lid and raise to pressure.

Brown rice in 14 minutes. Yum!
Until China introduces a property tax to get all that unused property [1] in use working for the economy. And a lot of people have borrowed from banks, family, and loan sharks to speculate in real estate; the landing won't be as soft as the wumao want you to believe.

[1] 3-40% of all apartments in Beijing aren't even renovated, and that is supposed to be a first tier hot market.
As someone who could reasonably be classified on the libertarian right, I think you're conflating different views under a blanket heading of 'advocacy of Cuba'. I certainly do not think communist dictatorship is a good form of government. But I am opposed to the economic sanctions, which are pointlessly destructive and worse than useless; they hurt the innocent more than the guilty, and they create an atmosphere of isolation and paranoia that makes bad governments worse not better.
"Automatic deduction for cabbies who often tip themselves and hand you less change without asking - give me my change in full and I'll tip you, thanks."

Couldn't that be entirely (and easily) avoided by simply handing them cash and asking for a specific amount back? Ie. fare is $10 and you want to give a $2 tip, you hand them a $20 and ask for $8 back. Is there a benefit to not asking for a specific amount back that I'm missing?
Is there any indication they're going to sell Cast radio compatible chips to end users? I seriously doubt you could get one without signing NDAs, etc.
Rent is very cheap. It's low speed and relaxed. Lots of people like those things, even if I m not one of them.

On a side note, it's not really quiet. The railroad hauls shipping containers off huge barges, places then on train cars, connects train cars together into huge trains (I have seen a train with six engines) and hauls them out. They build trains all night long, banging cars together, honking horns, diesel trucks straining.
Not if you use --lzma, which is what gives you the best compression usually
And human stupidity ended millions of North Vietnamese lives and about 55000 North American ones and left many more on drugs, dealing with the effects of Agent Orange epileptic shock, while a young Richard "Dick" Cheney learned none of the lessons of that era, dodged five drafts and started wars killing hundreds of thousands more decades later. Rinse, lather, repeat.
I should have mentioned: you have to say the questions out loud, and give out the answers out loud. And yes, your answers should be elaborate (e.g. explain how to do row elimination in a matrix).
I would also highly suggest people use 'git add -p' so they consciously add hunks to the commit.
Well, if it's as good as claimed, then maybe it needs to be described as a new category, alongside Huffman, arithmetic & Rle
As another commenter mentioned, tig is amazing.
Perhaps I'm not following, but doesn't that explanation imply that a Tesla's efficiency increase over the average car comes overwhelmingly from reductions in wind and drivetrain resistance? For the numbers to come out this way, that efficiency increase would have to be vastly larger than I would have guessed.

I would have guessed that most of the loss of efficiency (as in the fuel's heat of combustion divided by the displacement of the car's weight) of a gas car was heat loss from the internal combustion engine. But I know very little about cars.
I loathe cubes, the article resonates with me as this configuration combines the worst of most worlds. The pseudo-privacy of cubes does little to block noise and promotes anti-social actions.

“Cubicles even make people behave badly. Researchers at Cornell studied 229 employees at eight firms and found that those in cubicles were more prone than those in open-plan offices to have long, loud conversations—sometimes unrelated to work—with colleagues or on the phone.”

The key to making open offices work in a software development environment is fundamentally about having sufficiently low density, and having management giving a shit about basic conflicts.
Sony PRS-Tx (I think all 3). Seems like they all used Gingerbread, but for simple apps (e.g. just pulling a web page or text) that should be ok.
>Would be interesting to look at the 'stresses' that occur within schools

For this to be an accurate explanation, given their data, schools in the southern hemisphere would have to start school six months later. Do they?

Your question is interesting nonetheless.
Google perftools are bloody awesomesauce.
Ah!.. We did test it with multiple inboxes, and was working. Can you please send us a screenshot to hello@refapp.co so that we can look into this?
People said the exact same thing about RF car fobs years ago. It is only a matter of time before the technology comes down in price and the software for doing this type of thing becomes more common. Never say never.
Another one living under a rock before iPhone make it into the world.

Apparently I dreamed of doing Series 30, Series 40, Symbian and Windows CE updates.
would redis on a server, with webrtc as an interface fit that requirement?
> designed to not sever fingers

Where is the fun in that? I say sharpen the blades and make it a real teaching moment.
Chick Corea's gadget bag [2014]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/talkingtech/20...
So, like Canus Latrans and Canus Lupus?
Chick Corea had an awesome collaboration with Bela Fleck, producing such a fun mishmash of blue grass and jazz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7BMtIG_3fg&list=OLAK5uy_mU6...

Combined with his stuff with Bobby McFerrin, he's definitely someone that anyone curious about jazz should check out.
As well as... Vintage trading cards!?
I'll do it for $5
Thanks :)

If anyone isn't aware, it is named after the infamous Wu-Tang Clan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OEcZqG9xnE
There are two reasons I switched back to my iPhone after three weeks of having fun with the Nexus one:

1) the iphones touch screen. I don't care that much about the smoothness of the scrolling, but I really care about the ability of the touch screen to accurately track my finger position. While the N1 often is /good enough/, sometimes it fails badly and recognizes taps miles away from my finger. This is really bad when trying to type.

2) this might be an issue of my specific device, but sometimes I have a really bad hissing noise in my headphones. I'm constantly listening to Podcasts and Audiobooks and I can't live with that. HTC has some knowledgebase entry about this one and recommends to periodically shut the device down, remove the battery while holding the power-off button, and then reversing the steps. This, of course, isn't something I'm willing to live with.

So in the end it's build-quality that kills an otherwise superior phone for me. Too bad.

I hope Google rev's the hardware and we get a N2 that fixes these issues. Seing all the trouble with manufacturers not updating the OSes, I'd rather stay with a "Google Experience" phone as that more or less guarantees updates, so no Desire or Droid or whatever for me.
One interesting idea (for JS) is defining functions as pattern matches on the arguments. Here's a factorial from the docs:

>>> var factorial = wu.match(
... [ 0 ], 1,
... [ Number ], function (n) { return n * factorial(n - 1); }
... );
>>> factorial(5);
120
You can prove she isn't 157 years old by checking her pulse.
A "little" slow meaning 2-3 fps maximum, at least on my iPad :)
Funny, his review of the Nikon D40 (http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d40.htm) helped convince me to take the plunge into DSLR land.

He does rail against much of the conventional wisdom, eg. more megapixels is better -- perhaps this is the source of your impression.
Yes, but words exist and mean things. The fact that everything is natural does not mean that unnatural things don't exist.
Nope! We went from not having a container orchestration system to having one.

If you're determined to be skeptical of the value-add from Kubernetes, my random post on HN ain't gonna convince you :) The developer experience improvement is obvious to people actually interacting with K8s.

I do want to clarify that this isn't the only thing we accomplished in the past year. Just the thing we shipped that was our biggest priority and had (by far) the biggest impact.
Youtube channel The Limiting Factor is going deep on battery technology and economics:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIFn7ONIJHyC-lMnb7Fm_jw
If lay people are misunderstanding what incognito does, and cannot be expected to understand how it truly functions then Google shouldn't be allowed to advertise it to lay people in the way that they do.

It'd be easiest to just not provide incognito mode at all, than allow another footgun into the hands of the public at large in a way that only benefits Google.

I think though that people can be made to understand with better education and examples in a reasonable time period.
The claim of industrial hemp being held down, is something one mainly hears from Americans unaware that there is an entire world outside their borders. In many other countries, though cannabis as a drug might be restricted, hemp for industrial use was never banned. Yet modern industry has shown little interest in use of hemp because, indeed, paper and plastic in their current forms are regarded as superior.
I drive more than 3000 miles per year and I've got this laptop for 4 years now.
Yeah, the harsh truth is that we've developed a part of the brain that makes us good with tools but other than that we're one step away from chimps. All of our desires for mating, hierarchy, tribalism, and status are the same. Very primitive instincts.

Any consideration that there's depth to the majority of human beings beyond sophisticated pursuit of Mating or Resources is completely delusional.

Some, very few people, have vision, but the grand majority are just existing in the four F's of survival (myself included, I'm no Elon Musk or Jobs or Einstein or Pasteur).
Kamala Harris was AJ of California from 2011 to 2017.

Kamala Harris was DA of SF from 2004 to 2011.

She is now Vice President.

This is where she was sending people to. She either knew what was happening and ignored it, or was so bad at her job that she didn't know what was happening in prisons.
...as a demoscener who has released multiple 64k/4k intros I hereby formally say: LOL.
Sit down with a user and watch how they use your product. This is a well known method for seeing how the product is being used, and what causes friction. No interpretation of user input required.
I really hope the JavaScript community (or especially a smaller universe within that, framework developers) would step back and focus on simplicity, small codebases, thoughtful patterns, tried and true methods.

The good news is the JS community is filled with young developers with a lot of enthusiasm and new ideas. The bad news is young developers tend not to have the advantage that comes with experience or a respect for the history of previous implementations.

I'm often horrified by some of the JavaScript I see - including very popular frameworks that developers "love" written by engineers people respect. The complexity is frightening, and every month there's some new word or phrase describing a programming concept I've simply never seen before.

Maybe some of it is necessary - an honest attempt to satisfy the needs of a browser client, rather than a server. But my gut tells me this over-complexity is the result of not yet finding the answer to a question, or having the burden of satisfying backwards compatibility to last week's crap idea.

A rich, vibrant ecosystem is great, but I would love to see a more stable, thoughtful one as well. I'd love to see a community as committed to maintaining things that work, as they are to creating new things. I'd love to see young developers put a premium on using what is proven, not just what is exciting.

In other words, it's up to all of us to be careful with our votes. In some societies, you "vote" in the marketplace with the money that you spend. In our world of engineering, we cast a vote every time we star a repo, create a new fork, issue a pull request, or make a GET request to pull down the library into our project. Take the time to honestly assess how good something is, and whether you think it'll still be around in 5 or 10 years. It's really important we take the time to craft wonderful software.
This post assumes that GoGo are doing a MITM simply to block YouTube in order to prevent their network from being congested. My assumptions would be that

1) GoGo are blocking youtube in favor of their in-flight paid media services not just for badwidth

2) GoGo's MITM attack has little to do with media content but rather more about being able to read all the communications of passengers for "national security" purposes.

If they are decrypting and logging your traffic (including passwords) and communications, then I assume their scheme can be defeated by a VPN. If you want to send intimate messages to your lover, or discuss a political protest while in flight, without some nosy GoGo employee reading it, then probably using OTR (like Cryptocat or pidgin/adium), PGP (like mailvelope, enigmail), and ZRTP (Redphone/Signal) are a pretty good idea.
I think it all just comes down to how much time you waste instead of doing something useful. Like I'm doing right now writing this comment and reading HN. Nobody ever seems to admit how much time they waste watching tv, web surfing, sleeping, gaming, drinking etc.
Absolutely correct. I was thinking that, even if we words said something else. :/ I've updated the last paragraph to reflect that.
Are you not concerned that this might backfire horribly? This is basically outsourcing caring. I can definitely see someone interpreting this as "He doesn't care enough about me to spend time thinking about what I would like."

I don't mean to be shitting all over your business idea; I don't think it's a bad idea, but there are definitely some, uh, marketing problems to be overcome :P
I think you will find there is a connotative difference between the words "freelance" and "remote". That is, "remote" is often intended to mean full-time work from home as an employee or 9-5 contractor. Whereas freelancing is... freelancing. In any case elance, o-desk, sologig, etc are for freelancing and not for finding 9-5 work, generally speaking. Nevermind the fact that elance, o-desk, etc are just price war races to the bottom...
Flight MH17 can be an example.
What gas would you recommend and how does it compare? This would be easy to settle using data.
Really there currently is no cure for baldness, it basically boils down to two treatments(in the US:

1. Preventative treatments - These are to stop hair falling out and cannot regrow dead follicles, these treatments are minoxidil(topical liquid applied to head) and propecia(a pill which has sexual side effects).

2. Hair Surgery - A Surgeon removes hair follicles from the sides and back of a patients head and then implants them into the balding area(Elon Musk had this procedure). This is limited by how bald the person is as you cannot take too much hair from the sides/back as it looks bad.

So when reading towards the end it looks like the researcher found a way to 'clone/culture' hair follicles, so basically this will allow hair transplants of 'unlimited' amounts of hair see #2 that will never fall out at least is how I read it, please correct me if I am wrong.
Sigh... not everything is about race - folks may prefer live in a less developed, single-home community no matter the color of their neighbors.
For anyone curious, the “black doll/white doll” research on childhood development goes back to the 1930’s (and has been repeatedly researched since). Both white and black children alike will associate positive attributes (pretty/nice/good) with the white doll and negative attributes (ugly/mean/bad) with the black doll. It’s taken as an indication that even as toddlers, children can/will develop racial identities based on larger cultural stereotypes.