jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How.... did you do this. I must learn. Did you really just code all of it? Or did you make it in blender and export to gltf? I’m a music producer and a blender user who has been learning webgl using pixiJS and babylonJS. I want to know how to get to this level.
For whatever good it does, I did sort of think about the fact this was an over generalization, when writing this, but it's also absolutely the way I thought about it at the time. I do actually remember having a more limited but similar feeling visiting a library in I think Bath, UK which felt similar in quality to the libraries in truly tiny towns growing up in Ohio. It was free, but the services offered and number of books was way worse than I'd expect from a similarly sized US city especially one that seemed sort of well to do. Meanwhile I think a lot of people in the US have a mostly fair impression of Western European countries investing a lot into their public sectors, but for better or worse my very scientific impression is that the US invests a lot more into libraries.

I didn't mean to imply that all libraries charge in Europe though. I knew that wasn't true, I just would have assumed before that all libraries in western Europe were free
That’s an interesting way to scrape people’s connections and phone numbers.
I'm not making a case for or against him. I have a very strong opinion, but talking about him tends to be a lightning rod issue and ultimately does not results in high quality discourse.

If you want to know more about the allegations against him, then here are two articles to get you started.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90618666/mozilla-and-tor-join-ca...

https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

If you want to know more about his accomplishments (and there are many) then these will get you started:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/building-richard-stallm...

https://www.cmpod.net/all-transcripts/history-open-source-fr...
People should learn from made up stories?
Freight and passengers should never share track. The needs of both are too different. Mail and perishables are a possible exception to that rule.
Actually, out-of-order instruction pipelines are limited by this problem because the more instructions you allow in-flight, the more stages in the pipeline. The more stages in the pipeline, the more physical distance information much travel on the chip. So lengthening the instruction pipeline runs into fundamental problems.

Hence the move to multicore.
As mentioned upthread, even a self hosted solution like piwik is blocked by default.

So great to see what we're sacrificing upon the dubious privacy altar...
This is good advice, but the benefits and advantages are not entirely explained.

The approach is that client's should declare their own interfaces and libraries/backend's should implement those interfaces.

- So instead of:

app > depends on > api

- It's

api > depends on > app interface
&
app > depends on > app interface

Basically another version of [1] "The Dependency Inversion Principle", which allows you to break hard dependencies into lightweight interfaces.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_inversion_principle
Handling tech transitions is the responsibility of the people being replaced, not the people doing the replacing.

If you sit around expecting the rest of the world to take care of your best interests, you’re going to have a bad time.
They're actually par boiled, then fried once at the factory, then frozen, then fried again.

Strangely, following this exact process results in a fantastic french fry made at home. I started doing this after reading about it in the Food Lab book by Kenji Lopez-Alt. Highly recommend that book btw.
ah. That makes a lot more sense than hn being short $100. Thanks for modding.
> Saying pets are environmental-friendly is dangerously wrong,

I didn't say that. They're just not as bad as you make them out to be.

> Pets are like a virtual human extra-population (1 billion in order of magnitude)...Their footprint is probably somewhere between 3% and 10% of the average person,

So like 30-100 million additional humans? You also didn't specify what country the "average person" is from, whose footprint you're comparing a pet to. Either way, it's not that big - barely 1.5% of the human population in terms of impact.

I can only think of two reasons why anyone would suggest "eliminate all the pets" as a serious solution for environmental problems:

1. They already hate pets. Which is a valid (if unpopular) personal opinion, but not a basis to formulate any sort of policy on.

2. They want to alienate people who might otherwise be on board with environmentalism. Because that's what will happen if you suggest to people they have to put Fido to sleep right now to save the planet.
> Why should his desire to not have voice assistants in the house trump his roommate's desire to utilize the technology ...

His roommate didn't have the courtesy to even ask about it up front. :(

That being said, his roommate may just have not thought about it. Only way to find out is by starting the discussion and seeing how it goes.
Places like Birchbox are huge pieces of crap. They free trial you but also renew you automatically for a year at a time and won't let you cancel. Look up reviews of it any you will see hundreds and hundreds of complaints and I experienced it first hand.
Graphviz has been the gold standard of visually appealing graph layouts for a couple of decades now. Frankly, it seems that it was the most successful output from AT&T/Bell labs since C++.

A lot of programs that do anything with graphs have graphviz backends simply for debugging.
.../what version/ of Settlers? Original Flavor gets dull after a short while, I find.
Netflix is already streamed to several Linux devices, so the technical issues of a Linux implementation have been figured out. TiVO runs Linux, so does Boxee, and they support Netflix streaming. I expect there are several other embedded devices in the same boat.

The real reason that Netflix doesn't offer desktop Linux support is, as far as I've heard from articles I'm too lazy to look back up to cite, Microsoft refuses to grant Netflix a license to the DRM for a Linux desktop client because Microsoft is concerned that a Linux desktop client would make it too easy to reverse-engineer the DRM scheme that Netflix is using (Microsoft PlayReady).
The thing holding our organization back from adopting Chrome over IE is file:// links. A small thing, but we use it to quick link to shared project directories. Chrome considers these a security threat and disallows them. My boss used Chrome for a week but when I couldn't get a solution to the file links he swapped back.
Some good points - it would be easy to counter, but what I would really like to see is an empirical study of successful ventures started by founders with a big company background. That would be a more meaningful way to understand how the experience translates.
Haha, I even tried installation twice (with Chrome closed) and was looking forward to demo'ing the Body Browser.

Edit: 3x, sent feedback on their technical deficiencies.
Probably to stop spammers taking advantage of it. Invitees don't need to verify their accounts, so a spammer could make 1 legitimate account, and then invite themselves a few hundred times for instant new verification-free spam accounts.

Just a guess.
Now they need to come up with an excuse for people to create accounts on the site so that they get their usernames.
He also said, "I was not heavily involved in the code in question. Look at the commit logs."
"Nowadays, John does some TV commercial voiceover gigs, and some voice work for Valve that he couldn’t elaborate on" -- anybody hope it's HL3 they're talking about here? :)
When did we decide that getting accurate serverside log-analysis is definitely more important than saving 100ms of load time?
Because it really is worth repeating - the Transmission web interface is pretty awesome.

Still, I think this is good news. There was a time I would have jumped at a uTorrent Linux client - and I know I'd still try it out. Transmission has been pretty good to me though.
Both the numbers seem high to me, but that could be a function of targeting the young, techy gamer crowd.
Couldn't have expressed it better myself.
You'll only get the "maybe" hit, and never the real hit, so you can't accurately detect this on the serverside.

Javascript on the page isn't run until you actually visit the page, so that will be unaffected.

I don't think this is a big issue since JS-analytics are already superior to server-side log-analysis (caching alone).
I agree with you that quantifying the size of a disaster is difficult. But I would say that rendering a 1000 square miles of land utterly uninhabitable for generations probably beats the damage caused to the US coast (Chernobyl). Or that 500,000 people rendered severely ill with long-term respiratory and realted health problems, thousands of deaths, premature babies with congenital defects, the destruction of farming land and poisoning of water for decades also probably tops Deepwater Horizon (Bhopal)

And guess what? Union carbide still haven't cleaned it up over 25 years later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
You could stick hundreds of huge images forced to 1x1 px size.

Maybe the "annoy a minority of people with tight bandwidth-caps"-attack isn't all that big of a threat.
It is when you have never emailed the list before and don't have a relationship with a mailing service to do it on your behalf. Not a lot of firms like people walking up with a 1.5m non opted in list that you want to send to immediately.
His assumptions are built into his response.

He said "how about this symbolism!" and talked about a piece of cloth. I'm now asking what an unarmed woman with blood pooling out of her head symbolizes. If it helps you answer the question at all, she was also a US military veteran with four tours of service.
This is a very poor take. There is a marked difference between meeting people half way and openness to alternative view points, and allowing a mob to attack and derail the proceedings of Congress with the express purpose of overturning the legal election results.

This was a shameful display by the police charged with defending the rule of law in the USA, and even more than protesters, the police who plainly allowed this to happen must be investigated and tried. Whether those are the boots on the ground or the higher ups I have no idea, but this can't be left to stand.

Given what we've seen tonight, this could have easily turned into a putsch attempt, and it would have been very hard to stop it once the mob was allowed inside the building. They could have taken senators and congressmen hostage, they could have forced them to overturn the elections in a mock session, they could have killed dissenters - it was only by luck that it turned out they were disorganized and essentially there for a stunt.
I don't know.
I live in Germany and the files are also stored in /sdcard/WhatsApp/
And also the message databases are under there, ready to be copied and decrypted.

You can also access the unencrypted messagestore database, if you have root access.
For me, it is located at : /data/data/com.whatsapp/databases/msgstore.db
I do this with my Samsung note 10. Also when I plug my Samsung tablet into my usb-c monitor I get a nice desktop. Lastly, purism’s phone supports phone-as-desktop as well
Uhh, none of your links suggest the aim of the BLM movement is to “topple the government”. Also portland is on the wrong coast from “the government”
I think Facebook should make email addresses accessible via its APIs. That shortcoming, however, is a far cry from what Berners-Lee says in this article.
It's Microsoft, so you must ignore it... until Google or Apple does it.

The two things MS doesn't do is versioning and conflict management.
I thought the spam problem was pretty much solved a few years ago with the popularization of Bayesian filtering algorithms. I use email for the vast majority of my business communications and it works perfectly well.
The explanation pages are on their way. I would like to see an extra message "won't post anything" under the facebook connect step's button. I bet a test would show at least a 20% increase in conversion on that step.
Yeah, because existing anti-DDoS methods are so effective at "conventional" DDoS attacks. Uh-huh.
Seconded. I think an app like this should allow anonymous users for small files.
does anyone get the trick to #9:
"Mike has $20 more than Todd. How much does each have given that combined they have $21 between them. You can't use fractions in the answer. "

i assume that the answer is not that you give the solution in cents (so no fractions) or something like that...
Not long at all, hopefully.

http://fineoils.blogspot.com/2010/11/nook-colour-root-is-nea...

They got it to boot from an sd card, which is a step in the right direction. When it gets rooted, it will be one hell of a tablet for its price. Is this a loss leader for B&N? It seems very cheap for its build quality.
Steve Allen of Lick Observatory has over the years maintained a site discussing the problems of leap seconds (including the internal inconsistencies of POSIX time-related specifications): http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/. There's a lot of history, and a lot of confusion and conflict among the various standards bodies. It does sound like getting rid of leap seconds one way or another might be the best approach.
That's a bargain and your standard Oracle admin should just feel threatened

Pretty sure that's not the comparison folks are making. They're comparing it to Heroku, RDS, and self-hosting
I make an app to learn languages. What's different is that learning programs are automatically generated using Machine Learning (NLP). This opens up tons of opportunities (both on the educational side and on the business side).

* I'm a machine learning scientist and developer

* I'm looking for a person passionate about using technology to bring education to the greatest number of people

* I'm in France, Paris

* I'm launching the MVP in a month

* contact: nicolas AT globers DOT co
Rust is much safer for parallelism and has a lot of safety rules around closures, so this would probably be achievable in Rust without much pain via a clever template library.

The problem is that not all problems are easy to parallelism at the algorithmic level, and for some it may be impossible.

Alongside massively multi core chips I would also love to see
more efforts to push the envelope on single threaded performance.
This is something that always really stood out for me yet I hadn't seen any discussion about it. Is this something that most Linux users not notice? It was a reason I'd preferred GNOME over KDE and had always hoped it would improve at some point.
As someone who has interviewed many candidates for location independent tech work, my experience is that true talent is in the minority.
Parcel started out with nearly the exact same message "don't get in the user's way." Unfortunately, that project like every other bundler, found that mission untenable the more the project and userbase grew. These projects invariably start with the intention of taking care of the author's use case (and there's nothing wrong with that) but neglect larger ecosystem needs. That results in these kinds of bundlers being niche (see: Fastpack).

It all boils down to the need for complex builds to handle complex assets, and having to deal with the CommonJS format hell scape. (~90% of issues posted for Webpack and Rollup concern CommonJS format and Node-flavored module resolution) Once those two ecosystem concerns begin to be met, bundlers start getting in the user's way, because they have to.

ESBuild has legs, and may avoid a lot of the pitfalls, but only time will tell - it's very promising. None of this is to dissuade the author, or any potential users, from trying this new bundler out. However, over the last 8 years or so I've seen these kinds of promises many times. This is a situation in which the big players (Rollup, Webpack, et al) are complex where they are, because they have to be.
no, the type of mask doesn’t matter. the situations where masks help are minimal and fleeting, and distancing (or natural dynamics) does the work in most common situations. moreover masks aren’t typically worn in situations where they’d actually be useful (around familiars, because less distance). those are (some of) the human dynamics involved, which nullify the potential utility of masks. masks are primarily palliative, political, tribal, and cargo-culted.
Another one: when printing in Calendar, weeks start with Tuesday (everybody hates Mondays, so maybe that's a feature, not a bug)
FTA: "So to answer the post: yes, the street programmer is generally better than the CS graduate - at programming because CS courses are often so woeful. And the professor will beat the street programmer hands-down in the black arts of churning out papers. But in the CS departments which are not empty dojos, the graduates who have absorbed the wisdom of their intellectual fathers, and learnt to apply it under pressure will surpass the street programmer. "
Most websites are more dynamic than they look. Anything with frequent updates (news for example), user accounts, any kind of personalization / geo-based content, or running A/B testing will demand dynamic rendering.

That's not an excuse for terrible performance either way. At this point it's trivial to handle hundreds (or thousands) of req/s on common hardware if you just choose the right software to run.
Yeah, it's like hearing a ukulele and a folksy male voice in a TV commercial. It's been done, move along.

I too prefer barely more than "just the facts" that are relevant to the document's audience and purpose.
I've been running BOINC, and since none of the tasks required GPU, as you mentioned, I was able to scale to a number of devices that the client could be compiled on.

If you have 5-8 hours to devote to a round, put everything you have into it. It's quick to set up and is certainly worth the cycles.
It's not intended as a personal attack.

You cannot cough your way to health here. Eating onions will not protect you from SARS-CoV-2.

Why is Hacker News okay with spreading falsehoods as medical advice? That's reckless at the best of times.
You were told incorrectly. They help quite a bit:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23498357

Even home-made masks help quite a bit:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18612429/
I agree. Asking for deep details is like asking “what’s wrong with you” instead of the reverse. Another show stopper for gtk is pretty trivial: it’s a real pain in the ass to get a working set of dlls on windows. The most sane way I know is to incrementally cut it from msys2 installation. That’s plain stupid and is killing an already half-dead framework, which was pretty good at the 2.x days. It locked itself into gnome, which is not even a crushing leader on linux desktops.
The web client has never for me on Ubuntu.
Germans would not agree and neither would their road accident statistics.
there was a quiet resentment at the need to reallocate scarce resources for a disease that was largely preventable

This is all too often how prejudice gets expressed. The resentment and hostility towards the group in question gets justified on some reasonable grounds other than racism, homophobia, etc.

I believe people suffering addiction are self medicating in the most literal sense for either medical or mental health issues that are going largely unrecognized and for which they aren't getting appropriate care. I think blaming them for "getting something preventable" is not significantly different from blaming those who got AIDS via transfusions for being so awful as to be in need of blood.

Gays were often living in the closet. The need to hide their orientation had a lot of real world negative consequences with serious implications for their health choices. Blaming them for getting something "preventable" is similar to telling women their abusive husband wouldn't beat them if they just didn't piss the guy off so much.

For the record, let me apologize to Christians and to the mods. I'm not anti-Christian and I've spoken in their defense before. I was in no way trying to start a religious flame war. My disgust with homophobia and with society's attitudes towards people suffering from addiction wasn't intended to impugn Christians or the Christian religion.
If I end up carving arrowheads by the river, that won't help me much :)

It's true that distractions were fewer but the work we expect ourselves to do is also very different. It's unclear to me that just getting rid of the distractions would be enough.
I’ve had the same frustrating experience and am also still without a resolution.
In my personal experience I noticed that it's a different experience reading a book or listening to it. Not sure if it's because of where my attention is focused on, and it's not even like I don't absorb the content while listening and running or biking. At the same time it feels like it's a different part of my brain absorbing it.

I've given a few chances to audiobooks, from short to longer ones, I don't feel it replaces the experience of reading at all, it's a different experience, like listening to a radio show but as it never happens to listen to an audiobook while doing nothing else it just feels another way to cram more "productive" activities on the same time slot. As I'm getting older I'm getting really tired of this hyper-efficiency with my time, it's became a worry and definitely is fueling an anxiety syndrome I didn't have before (of course, the pandemic has just made it much worse).

What I'm trying to achieve in life now is give myself more pace, to enjoy something I'm doing because I want and not trying to min-max my free time. So reading books now have their time slot during the week where I stop 1-2 hours just to read. The same for music listening or making music, I have no idea yet if it will help me but it's definitely much less stressful.

Sorry for the rant, totally personal anecdote but I think it ties to the reading vs listening differences.
I actually wasn't aware of that, I hope that means that the portfolio and ARM cores remain supported for longer term.
> That's a huge loss of generality.

Not really. It's just a couple of innocent javascript lines away (on a browser extension) to the site with visible photos.
White nationalists tend to delete their own videos when they think it will become evidence. Luckily people saved a lot of footage from Charlottesville and hopefully it will be the same for the videos from the Capitol.
I would be interested if you could elaborate more. Do you think they can gain much more from that factory than from disassembling a model 3? For me it is hard to grasp what kind of information would be valuable. Would it be granular things like temperature curves of some oven or rather the wholistic integration and automation?
I think that Elon believes their edge is in moving so fast, that copying them is not viable (that is also what he referred to when the whole moat thing came up with Warren Buffet). I hope it works out for them as I love their products and also hope that Elon gets rewarded for the risk, hardships and brilliance he put into it.
Some of the mob might already have the appropriate clearances for the various computer systems. I’m unsure if house delegates can enter with weapons though.

https://wvmetronews.com/2021/01/06/w-va-delegate-just-sworn-...
You can also dig into the problems that existed when you got to the project, and try to work out how they came to be. Project forensics is a skill set unto itself. And listen to and help people on other projects at your company. You can see how their story arc goes and where it surprises you.

An intelligent man learns from his own mistakes. A wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
This is false and you are spreading misinformation about what happened in Seattle and Bellevue.
Are you really excited that Zuckerberg and Dorsey get the on/off switch to a major communications channel in the US.