jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> As I understand, deactivation is temporary, deletion erases all data

That's the problem, what we or regulators understand may well be very different to what actually happens

> aren't there consequences to this

A slap on the wrist at best, I'd bet my house on it
> But now someone has cracked the M1 chip, which means that you can upgrade the memory even if you don't pass the official Apple.

I'm not sure exactly whats happening with this translation or how the M1 was 'cracked' maybe they mean physically ?

I really think they mean physically.
I have the same, but notice it more with audiobooks. An entire year can go by and I will get a flash of where I was at a precise moment in the book exactly as you describe.

Something similar was as a teenager: I could remember when/where I learned or first heard a new word. Sadly that ability has been waning.
I would be interested in reading a PG essay responding to this very point.
I didn't see what you are seeing in the thesis. There was nothing that said that the sole end goal of programming is to be expressive to humans (whether those humans be yourself, other coders or end users).

As for audience, when coding you can consider your audience to be both humans that follow you, as well as the machine it is running on.
How does github do it then? Wouldn't said company need to be registered in the country where the employee lived full-time and worked? Otherwise how are taxes, insurance, healthcare, etc going to be handled?
I've just read through the Nim manual. On the surface, it looks as simple as Python - but it is ridiculously deep when you look at all the template, macro, term rewriters, etc.

Whether or not you can make use of it without being aware of all those things remains to be seen. I suspect the answer is mostly yes, i.e. that one can use the nim ecosystem effectively without knowing all of that. (my answer for C++ would be "mostly no" - you need to really know everything about all the dark corners of the language to use the ecosystem effectively).

I'm trying to think of a good way to implement automatic reference counting with copy-on-write, e.g. for big arrays, but haven't come up with one yet. Could a Nim veteran kindly point me in the idiomatic direction?
Another commenter in this thread said that Automattic workers outside the US and Canada are contractors:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8811183
The title of this article is too ironic not to comment on.

I think it's interesting because a good title itself is intrinsically "clickbait" or begging you to stop and look for more. From the Paul Graham essay to the header on a high school science fair board, titles are design to get your attention. The problem lies now with content which content created with greater attention to the bait than to the actual body itself. A good designed title is just that, until it lures you into content which does not live up to its billing.

If we can't trust titles what now do we use to decide what content is worth our time?
This is very true. One can argue that much of the difference can't be overcome - there is no way that a public education can outperform someone whose life involves Mandarin immersion and test prep tutors.

That said, there are schools (say the Success Academies) who find a way to perform well, even with poor kids, many of which are english language learners and special ed. Unfortunately many cities (and the progressives running them) are doing their best to chase away these reforms rather than embrace them.
Remote workers present challenges.

Which is worth more a company with 5 employed engineers or 5 oversea contractors?

Managing developers across time zones can be a big problem. If the developer in the Ukraine has a question for a manger asleep in California, he has to wait.

There is no casual connection between people - no going to a bar to talk things over, no stepping away from the computer to talk. All communication is filtered down through the pipes.
I can't really say why, but many things I've read from Atlassian/Bitbucket in recent months always had the feeling of B class (in contrast to A class). Even at the end of the article I still don't get the real problem that is solved. Commiting Mergeconflicts is not an advantage. And that logical error thingy I have never heard or seen before. Maybe because the people (who's opinion I care about) review commit diffs in detail and are able to rebase -i anything that looks bad?
Looks to be an attempt at setting a readable line-length.

http://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability

I usually like reading articles with this width, but there's usually a different color background to differentiate the article from the page so there's not this huge white-space void.

Other than that I thought the article easy to read.
I was thinking of history as what actually happens as opposed to what should happen.

Assessing C#, code for example, you have at least two fewer entire classes of vulnerabilities to look for.
Open source still has its security benefits. When an exploit is publicized, the "fix" for it can be highly scrutinized, and people can comment meaningfully on whether it actually fixes it, and can contribute their own. I remember looking at diffs and the accompanying analysis when heartbleed was out, and it was informative and reassuring.

When an exploit in closed source software is publicized, we have to take their word for it that it gets fixed.
ahh, but is it social?
So, in the article it's claimed that Wales wanted to do a study using this method, and (implied) if appropriate, revise his conclusion.

This is four years ago, anyone knows if that happened?

Edited to add: One thing that has been annoying me a little, is when articles, regardless of their quality, are deleted because they lack notoriety. If these deletes adhere to the conclusions in this article (written by an outsider, then deleted by an insider, rather than both written and deleted by insiders), this strikes me as an example of a policy that should be changed in face of this evidence, since capturing the knowledge of these drive-by contributors seems more important than "saving space".
I've no idea if this is normal behaviour but i highly doubt it. They should realise that sometimes investments dont work out and thats what happens.

If you're open to it then allow them to invest in your new company, but dont give them it for free and dont discount it either, otherwise you're letting yourself get taken advantage of.
>Somehow I never understood that Zune didn't work like iTunes (or any logical establishment) where you pay for what you purchase. Zune makes you purchase points which are then redeemed for apps and media.

Anyone with an XBox will be familiar with this setup. XBox Live uses Microsoft Points as a currency so that Microsoft doesn't have to eat the cost of processing so many transaction fees on purchases of a dollar or two. I'm not sure how Apple gets around this on $0.99 purchases...wouldn't they have to pay $0.10-$0.30 per app/song sold? Microsoft's system cuts that per-transaction cost dramatically, because people would buy $10, $25, or $50 worth of points at a time.

And yes, you are the only one who bought a windows phone.
I agree with others that this doesn't make sense to become a default. However, it doesn't mean that's your only option. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/57563 looks like it might do the trick (although I haven't tried it). If not, it shouldn't be too difficult to create your own GreaseMonkey script and solve your problem.
All of these camera Apps - Hipstamatic, Instagram, Camera+ - massive popularity. I think that the iPhone is now clearly attacking the "photography" vertical as well as the "games" vertical. I expect Jobs to spend a significant part of his next iPhone roll out describing in more detail the attention they are paying to photography on the iPhone based on recent App Store results. Also looking for a big upgrade in the (already quite useable) camera.

Must be miserable news for the point n' shoot vendors.
Thanks for your comment, much appreciated!
I originally read about this patch here, http://samsaffron.com/archive/2014/04/08/ruby-2-1-garbage-co....

There hasn't been any activity on the upstream proposal for almost a year. Has the core team rejected the idea or is there still hope it will make it into a future version?
I am 100% agreed with what you said.

But I have problem with the way they have implemented it as of now. I mean to use it via web I need to scan the qr code every time.

Plus my phone needs to stay connected to internet. In India you can easily find lots of whatsapp users who wishes to use whatsapp via PC just because they dont have net pack on their phone.

Hope they remove this restriction soon.
You could create an identity system, where users can create personal accounts and have projects, similar to github. Maybe you should simply use github, that way popular projects would keep their well known names.

Do not hustle with email, install a system to handle MX records by the user, maybe with an interface that has some defaults (github, gmail).

After that create an OAUTH provider. Now you can provide other services through partnerships. I would not give away the ability to define custom sub-subdomains, instead let them choose between different service providers for predefined subdomains like these:

* forum.project.js.org

* news.project.js.org

* issues.project.js.org

* mailinglist.project.js.org

Create a skin-able overview of all the services at project.js.org. For the beginning you could simply pull in githubs README and add a navigation bar at the top. Later you could create something more dynamic.

Host an aggregator for each service at:

* js.org/forum

* js.org/news

* js.org/issues

* js.org/mailinglist

After you successfully created an enormous community and locked everybody in, turn evil, go into profit mode and add:

* jobs.project.js.org

* donate.project.js.org

* sponsors.project.js.org
<shrug> Sure, there are always reputation problems (whose opinion do you listen to?) but the additional level of abstraction is still beneficial, since it helps defend from people trying to condition your monkey-hindbrain using stuff you can't normally control.

The most important difference is it helps increase your ability to control your own unthinking behavior through other conscious choices. (This is generally agreed to be a worthwhile thing, and factors prominently in a lot of religious and psychological traditions.)
>Same with a car - if it's making a lot of noise, it's poorly tuned or designed.

Easily disproved. F1 cars produce about 600 horsepower, are extremely performant, and are loud as fuck.
I wonder whether she has done truly awesome things with her life. One of these pieces of advice you hear often regarding your true vocation goes something like _what would you do if you had no fear?_.

Well, she literally hasn't. So is she an Olympic champion who fights crime during the night and writes amazing novels during the day and commutes to work swimming together with a school of piranhas, or has she led a relatively normal life? She can follow her passion with no fear of failure or success or whatever!

I'm genuinely curious to find scientific evidence about whether fear is the only thing holding us back or there are other factors.
It's the same as hearing a recording of someone playing the violin vs. the real thing. Even with the best audio system you can still tell it's just a recording.

And I don't treat the sound the engine makes as a side effect of other attributes - it's just as important as acceleration or fuel consumption.
As soon as someone decentralizes social networking the way bitcoin decentralized money, all those proprietary silos will be disrupted.

And we have built the system to do it.
http://platform.qbix.com
If it seems more interesting to you, then why don't you do it?
> given how less common that seating arrangement is

It used to be much more common. They seem to have done away with it - I guess based on customer response not just randomly.

You can't now because it's mostly gone, but you used to be able to see when booking a seat that all the forward-facing ones were booked before anyone booked a single rearward-facing one.

And for example - United Polaris. Replaced a 50/50 forwards-backwards configuration they'd had standard for decades with the overlapping forward-only style almost everyone seems to use now.

I associate forward-backward with crusty old 747s and military transport and I think that's how much consumers see it as well - old-fashioned but practical if your passengers are cargo, and certainly not refined or modern.
I recall talking to an ex Apple employee who basically said the same thing, Apple really has no moral standing lecturing other companies on privacy when it has essentially capitulated to the Chinese government.
> If I say no contacts the call should succeed but with a zero Len response.

Actually I would take it further and say that I should be able to define its response or have it render a random but plausible template response. Otherwise a zero len response is too obvious that you didn't give it permissions.

I once had an app yell at me for not giving my GPS permission, but then yell at me again when I enabled a mock GPS on Android. It really shouldn't have been able to know I was mocking location.
It would not be hard maybe a week or two of hacking to make such an interface on top of an object store if you were motivated. A simple php or python app with a time limited key stored in a db of some sort. There though are already open source free apps that do provide user management, etc. If you are looking for an ideal solution, but you have to pay for it with money or time.
No.

I've used Abiword a bit, but it has been a few years, and Abiword doesn't really come close to the Microsoft Word experience back in the day. People generally have their favorite MS Word version that they like before it "went downhill", and mine is Word 5.1a for Macintosh. This is the last version of Microsoft Word that was specifically designed as a Macintosh application, rather than a cross-platform application with a Mac port.

Microsoft's turned out some very high-quality Mac applications in the 1990s and 2000s. Another notable one is Internet Explorer 5, which is unrelated to the infamous Internet Explorer 5 for Windows (the one with poor standards compliance), other than the fact that the products are made by the same company, have the same name, and have the same version number.
I think that image is faked. The caption says the difference will exist, but "not by this much". It's a fake.
It really comes down to priorities. If your goal is to consume the most amount of information as possible, you cannot afford to go to multiple sources. This is because you will be wasting your time with redundancy, getting used to a different tone/bias, and the overall time of navigating somewhere else. This is good for knowing stuff for "top of mind" reasons and just being "in the loop."

That being said, if there's a particular topic you are interested in, you should get multiple perspectives on it and become an active reader. This is the stuff where you can not only recall information but you can contribute to a meaningful discussion.

HN and Google News 7x a week. Google Reader on special topics 2-3x a week. BusinessWeek/Time/FastCompany/Inc 1x a week.
For me, it is just a matter of getting to be early enough to be a morning person. I tend to wake up when I've been sleeping for about 7 hours. It also helps if you actually get out of bed when you first wake up. I feel groggy if I go back to bed.

Hope that helps.
If that's a rule it was made up by people who hadn't considered the edge cases. If you're ending a sentence with a quote, and the appropriate punctuation marks are different for the quote and the sentence, then you should do whatever makes sense, with question marks trumping fullstops. For instance:

1. Did anyone else think "Battlestar was right"?

2. I thought "Battlestar was right."

3. I thought "Was Battlestar right?"

4. Did anyone else think "Was Battlestar right?"

Oh yes, and the relevant "rules" differ between American and British English anyway.
National public radio?
Perhaps, but a private foundation in Sweden is subject to the laws thereof - if Sweden wanted to regain complete control there's not much your foundation could do.
As I've not been commuting for a couple of years, I am way behind in my podcasts. Just this weekend, I listened to the March 10, 2020 episode of "Naked Scientists" (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/), a British radio science show from Cambridge. Chris Smith, a virologist, (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/users/chris-smith), at that time, said to buy beer rather than masks; you'll enjoy the beer and it'll protect you as well as a mask.

His concerns were that (1) cloth masks wouldn't help, and (2) that wearing masks incorrectly wouldn't help either. He was wrong about (1), but (2) is still a problem.

I'm sure I'll have opportunity to provide updates as I get further along. :-)

The Nature podcast didn't get on the mask bandwagon until early June, when they had an interview on the effectiveness of masks in this specific case.

No one I've seen has said that medical masks don't work.
Probably because it would mean having to side with Trump on something.
Gold is not a suitable comparison to stocks - it gets brought up on here all the time. Gold is not uncorrelated to the market. Gold is not a store of value. Gold is a speculative investment with a great marketing team.
Interlocking directorate
> All this to maybe catch one or two bugs

I think you’re significantly underestimating the bugs that could be trivially caught with types. For example, Airbnb stated a while ago that 38% of their bugs could have been prevented with TypeScript[1]. Types aren’t the solution to all bugs - this is why we have strong test cases as well - but they bring a lot of benefit, especially if done with diligence, not just to prevent bugs but about to aid in understanding the system as a whole (seeing the types of an object can make it much easier to understand what data is being passed around).

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19131272
Or, it could just be that far more people are investors today than there were in 1929. According to this site, only about 10% of Americans owned stock or speculated in the markets in 1929.

>In fact, only approximately 10 percent of American households held stock investments and speculated in the market; yet nearly a third would lose their lifelong savings and jobs in the ensuing depression.

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-hostos-ushistory/chapt...

Yet, this poll seems to indicate that around 55% of Americans now hold stocks.

>Thus far in 2020, Gallup finds 55% of Americans reporting that they own stock, based on polls conducted in March and April. This is identical to the average 55% recorded in 2019 and similar to the average of 54% Gallup has measured since 2010.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-own...

So if slightly more than one out of every two people you meet owns stocks, I would assume you're bound to run into a lot of people talking about stocks.
A simple thought experiment. A company in India decides to open an office in NYC. They say, it wouldn’t be fair to have different pay for different people doing the same work so let’s pay people in NYC a Bangalore wage. You’d laugh at them. That’s not how markets work. But for some reason we expect them to work differently in the opposite direction?
They've been doing this in other states for a very long time. I had to spend 45 minutes negotiating with them to get exemption from the fee or the extra monthly charge to bypass it.
It isn't even being manufactured yet (that is a pre-release unit). So, no. It is safe to say nobody has that experience.
I had a read but don't understand the connection. Could you please elaborate?
https://bellard.org/

Clean, well-documented projects showcasing demos that end up having huge impact. Some of these projects single-handedly spawned entire tech ecosystems. (see FFMPEG, QEMU, JSLinux)
And yet they didn’t. Consider the implications of that
Apparently other long objects need to be used for compensational purposes, I see.
FYI, Google has a working end-to-end encryption with RCS.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/19/21574451/android-rcs-enc...
>at least Pelosi's computer completely unlocked.

The report I saw before was one of her staffer's computers was unlocked. Was there a report about her personal computer? (Does she even use one..?)
Intel calls this in-band ECC and it's in their Elkhart Lake Atom SoC. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16102/intel-launches-10nm-ato... This is pretty inefficient compared to regular ECC but you can't really do regular ECC with LPDDR4.

Nvidia also implemented something similar years ago.
Can you imagine if it were BLM protestors pulling these stunts? A massacre would have ensued. Law enforcement tolerance for white mayhem is pretty damn high.
No, the DNC (well, it’s speculated).

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/pipe-bomb-rnc...
I can't find it right now, but there was a link a few months back that did some kind of text analysis for the most-"popular" HN users or so. Anybody else a clue what I'm thinking about?
They are giving credit where credit is due, to the person who made that concept real to them.
It is literally impossible to find the original source of every good idea a person has implemented, much less heard.
You should probably stop telling people what to do and appreciate alternate routes to arrive at good ideas.

Love your comment on junior vs. senior engineers. Very insightful!
> On machines with 64 bit addressing. There are lots of things that don’t work so well on 32 bit or 16 bit OSes that we have to unlearn.

Stack space is virtually free on 32 bit systems as well. V8 is not designed for or portable to 16-bit or 8-bit systems, so while your point is interesting, it’s irrelevant here.
Okay, that makes sense. I appreciate the concrete example.
I used to have this problem, but I set up my ipad with parental control features so that I am unable to distract myself.
Alcoholism is a disease and addiction. They feel physical withdrawal so alcohol is a need to an alcoholic.

It's sometimes hard to see that because alcoholism is a spectrum and people joke about being alcoholics. Dismissing alcohol as a vice is not unlike dismissing an autistic as overly sensitive.