jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
looks like rails.io currently has some ipv6 problems:

Fast:~ schmidp$ host rails.io

rails.io has address 188.40.182.49

rails.io has IPv6 address 2a01:4f8:100:9461::49

rails.io mail is handled by 10 mail100.fks.de.moriz.net.

Fast:~ schmidp$ ping6 2a01:4f8:100:9461::49

PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2001:470:1f0b:1751:685d:197d:eaff:7861 --> 2a01:4f8:100:9461::49

Request timeout for icmp_seq=0

Request timeout for icmp_seq=1

Request timeout for icmp_seq=2

^C

--- 2a01:4f8:100:9461::49 ping6 statistics ---

4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

Fast:~ schmidp$ telnet -6 2a01:4f8:100:9461::49 80

Trying 2a01:4f8:100:9461::49...

^C

Fast:~ schmidp$ ping6 www.heise.de

PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2001:470:1f0b:1751:685d:197d:eaff:7861 --> 2a02:2e0:3fe:100::7

16 bytes from 2a02:2e0:3fe:100::7, icmp_seq=0 hlim=59 time=28.155 ms

16 bytes from 2a02:2e0:3fe:100::7, icmp_seq=1 hlim=59 time=36.392 ms

^C

--- www.heise.de ping6 statistics ---

2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 28.155/32.273/36.392/4.119 ms
Awesome, nice work guys!
One might also consider tweaking this to allow for stringing together of longer video lectures/debates on various topics.
it’s always been that way. just not visible due to high level of background noise.
> much of the software competing with Zoom has really bad accessibility for disabled users,

Does that mean Zoom does in fact perform the necessary legwork on the accessibility front?
They don't seem to know how to switch between apps very well.

I'm temporarily between computers and using my iPad as my main computer. I also thought it would be a fun experiment so that I could learn the pros and cons of using an iPad as my main computing device first hand.

The new(-ish) mouse support is wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. I have a keyboard with a built-in trackpad, and when I'm using my iPad at a desk, it's far superior to constantly reaching up and pawing at the screen. Apple took a huge step forward here.

But there are still some pretty serious issues. The iPad is really aggressive about killing apps, to the point that I'd switch back and forth between apps (using Cmd+Tab on the keyboard) and it would frequently restart the apps from scratch. Even when switching between just two apps. And a lot of apps don't fully restore where you were at when the app was killed.

This issue alone is bad enough that, long-term, there's no way I could use my iPad as a laptop replacement.

The other issue is that I'm a software developer, and the software development story on the iPad (not for the iPad) is quite sad. There's absolutely no support for the two languages I use most frequently (Java and C). I can't even develop a simple web page (HTML/CSS/JS) on the iPad itself. There's no way to save and view local web pages.

Based on Apple's history, I think they'll be stubborn and thus really, really slow to add the features I want (though I think they'll add them eventually).
Indirectly, by avoiding a liquidity crunch.

Specific direct aid is called fiscal policy, and would have to be enacted by Congress (or possibly to a limited extent by the executive): reduced taxes, direct payments or credits, loan guarantees, government spending, other economic policy.

The Fed's tools are monetary policy, and manipulate the overall money supply. That's a powerful, but limited, power.
It seems like at some point you have to let a wound bleed. If we keep bailing out bad investments every black swan event, you're never allowing for a correction. Eventually the accumulated amount of bad business would be too much for the gov't to save. To borrow from biology, it seems like we're constantly interfering in the process of autophagy.

Unfortunately there's no political capital to be saved with such a decision.
Previous [lack of] discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22641500
One person I speak to online is a reverend, who's been asked to be part of an ethics committee which will be making those decisions when resources run out

What do you optimise for?

Number of lives saved? Number of Years saved (so better to save someone with a life expectancy of 40 years than 2 people of LE of 5 years each)? Do you remove ventilators from those who it's just delaying the inevitable? How to do you factor in non-covid cases?

Do you take into account how "good" the patient was? Were they self isolating or did they go to a pub lockin? Have they been hoarding toilet paper? Do you save the person who caught it performing CPR? What about the Key Worker who caught it while delivering food to the town? How about the dumbass politician who's encouraging people to ignore the restrictions?
It is insane that HTML has no "include". None of all this would be needed if we could just do:

<include src="myComponent.html>
I don't understand the point this piece is trying to make.

> Could a part-time programmer like my father write small-business software today? Could he make it as safe and productive as our LAN was? Maybe. If he was canny, and stuck to old-fashioned desktops of the 90s and physically isolated the machines from the internet. But there is no chance you could get the records onto a modern phone safely (or even legally under HIPPA) with the hours my father gave the project.

Sure.

> We can have the LAN-like experience of the 90’s back again, and we can add the best parts of the 21st century internet. A safe small space of people we trust, where we can program away from the prying eyes of the multi-billion-person internet. Where the outright villainous will be kept at bay by good identity services and good crypto.

> The broader concept of virtualizing networks has existed forever: the Virtual Private Network. New protocols make VPNs better than before, Wireguard is pioneering easy and efficient tunneling between peers. Marry the VPN to identity, and make it work anywhere, and you can have a virtual 90s-style LAN made up of all your 21st century devices. Let the internet be the dumb pipe, let your endpoints determine who they will talk to based on the person at the other end.

OK, but we have VPNs now. The problem with keeping your medical records on a modern computer isn't that your modern computer isn't connected to your other computers. The problem is that it is! It's connected to your other computers just like it's connected to everybody else's computers. Your simulated LAN is not safe in the way the old LAN was until -- as the article already noted -- you disconnect it from the internet so it's an actual LAN.

So Tailscale has diagnosed the problem and recognized the solution. And they propose... to do something different. It's not clear what. How does their proposed solution address what they say is the problem?

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Side note:

> (or even legally under HIPPA)

The relevant regulation is actually named HIPAA. I've always pronounced this as "hee-pah", which would make sense given the spelling. But that is not normal usage. People in medical fields universally seem to pronounce it as if were spelled "hippa". It's interesting to see that circle back the other way.

There's something strange about the flow "I don't know how to pronounce this. I'll pronounce it as if it were a different word." -> "This spelling is inappropriate. I'll spell it like it's pronounced." You end up with a spelling and a pronunciation that are both completely unrelated to the word you're notionally using. Eventually people will start to ask "how does HIPPA stand for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?".

It's like when people ask "what does wifi stand for?" and I have to tell them "high fidelity".
I love kotlin because I don’t have to ever worry about all this stuff
I'm curious. How is that feature useful for an unemployed person? If someone visited your profile and didn't text you, they are not interested, right?
What do I gain by sharing my salary with others? What does it cost me? For me, there are moral answers, economical ones as well as hedonistic ones to these questions.

But I know this:

Information is king and it helps to be flexible (abillity to move for a job, ability to start there quickly, ability to be out of a job for weeks/months ...).

I try to do this: advise colleagues that I think should earn more, what to do, what expectations are ok, without destroying team morale and my (selfish) status (knowing that I earn top).
HK is a decent choice. You do probably have to go there to open a bank account. But regardless, far more important is the tax/domicile rules in your own country.

Edit: Also judging by the comments so far you don't want to trust HN on this.
Had to look it up

70 yards = 64 metres

50 yards = 45 metres
same with VCs
The perspective that the Church-Turing hypothesis applies to the physical universe is mainstream but unproven. It is implicit in the work in the original post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis
Do you need to register a corporation? Or do you just need a legal entity other than yourself to pass your earnings through? Will you have employees? Partners?

If you just need something simple with no employees partners then you probably only need the equivalent of a u.s. LLC which separates your business income/debt from your personal income/debt. Find whatever the equivalent is where you're a resident.

If you need an actual corporation then it's much tougher. Where I live (Switzerland) you need to start out with a lot of capital, probably need a lawyer and an accountant, etc.

It will get complicated if you need to register a corporation outside of where you're a resident and paying your taxes.
Except it doesn't. Decoherence is simply a complicated way of saying, "We are only aware of the existence of systems in multiple states via their interference with one another", which is true, but the interesting question, the central question, is: why is true?

Why aren't we simply and directly aware of quantum states the same way we are classical states? Why is consciousness purely classical, and the classical universe the only thing we are aware of? Why do we have to infer the existence of the quantum world rather than simply having the experience of being in a superposition ourselves?
Now? Estonia. Hands down, Estonia. Although I haven't done it myself yet, I intend to, simply because it now makes an incredible amount of sense.

In case you don't know already, Estonia is offering an e-residency program[-2]. For the time-being it requires a quick trip to Estonia to get this (and it's open to everybody regardless of nationality), but afterwards you can run and administer a company remotely with this smart card. (Bonus points for the fact the smart card reader plays nicely with Linux as well as OS X and Windows.) Soon you won't even need to show up in Estonia, but will be able to register as an e-resident at one of their consulates.

Estonia have made it pretty straightforward to run a business there and it doesn't appear to be especially expensive to start an Estonian company either. To the best of my knowledge you can deal with the government entirely online and IIRC in English too. (This is a big deal because some English-speaking countries like the Netherlands have tax offices that are forbidden from speaking English unless they come out to you in person, even though all the staff are fluent. I hear this might change in the Netherlands in the future.)

Banking in Estonia appears to be awesome and developed. Stripe isn't there yet, but Paymill is.

Estonians are fluent in English and just about everything the government, banks, etc publish online is in English. The Estonian government even translates some of their laws (like the ones pertaining to companies) to English too. They might be translating others but I've just never looked.

Taxes aren't super low, but are pretty sensible and IIRC corporate profits aren't taxed until they're distributed. [-1]

To the best of my knowledge, Estonia didn't really implement the EU cookie directive. They got a slap on the wrist for it but no Estonian site (even big bank and government sites) has those "y'all accept cookies?" banners. That's a good sign.

The biggest downside to Estonia is its size. It's going to be a ghastly nightmare to hire a decent number of staff if you want them to be all in the same building in Estonia, but hey, why not just run a 100% remote company? But cross that bridge if and when you come to it. You can always just open up offices in other cities around Europe or other places.

[-2] https://e-estonia.com/e-residents/e-residency/

[-1] http://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/global/Documen...
Do not register a company. Accept Bitcoin and provide great service people want.
I remember >10 years ago there used to be some "plaf" libraries that provided very easy themeing abilities for Swing that even came with a WYSIWYG tool to create themes. It is a shame something like that never became part of Swing itself and instead you have to create tons of classes just for a theme.
Nobody over-promises (or under-promises for that matter) when the meaning of units and prefixes are clear.

Division by powers of 1000 ceased to be an expensive operation relative to user interaction a very very long time ago. And even back when it was, I am sure would the error have been in the order of 10% (as it is now with TB vs TiB), they absolutely would have taken the more expensive but more correct operation.

I just see no advantage in continuing to resist the unification of the meaning of prefixes. And where people prefer the old way for some nostalgic reason, just put the 'i' in there and you are good.
Those videos also show people successfully stopping without smashing into the car in front of them, and then getting rear ended by the driver behind them.

There's your baseline.
but does it predate Apache Arrow?
Isn’t this just a regular house with non-grid power and water?
Everything in excess of processing my shopping cart.
Yeah somehow I think you would have a different opinion if Chrome offered users a performance boost only on Google owned websites.
Though I was raised in the US. The one thing that I noticed that was weird was when my friends called their parents by the first name.

Also it was weird how kids and parents were friends with each other. Not in my house! Parent and child had only two things of conversation school, not getting sick, and making sure I eat the food before it got cold.
>Google doesn't fingerprint browsers like other adtech networks do

Citation needed :)

I'm taking part in the Browser Fingerprinting Project that was on here recently[1] and the only browser that isn't marked in the test as trackable so far is Firefox[2]. They don't use cookies for the test so third-party cookie sandboxing or blocking is irrelevant. If Google doesn't use browser fingerprinting as you say then they really should fix Chrome.

1: https://browser-fingerprint.cs.fau.de

2: I test most mainstream browsers as I already had them installed on Windows and Android devices for testing.
The idea is right, but the implementation doesn't seem great. I can't judge it fairly, because I've never used it, but based on your description, and the article, I completely believe that the way Mazda is going about this is horrible.

>Mazda is looking to add more simple, tactile controls into the cars. A quick tilt of the volume knob to the right or left goes forward or back single tracks

Ugh, if only there were some kind of dedicated control for some of these things that are being moved out of touchscreens. Something you can just tap on, sort of the way you do with touchscreens, but that never moves or changes, so you can tap it without looking.

Boy whoever invents that will be a billionaire!
So freaking amazing how good the 3D depth perception is on that 3rd GIF. The right side of his hair is correctly obscured when he turns his head and even his eyelids move correctly. The only slight issue is his "lazy eye", but then you could argue the AI took a little creative liberty
I will enjoy 16 GiB of RAM, this is an already solved problem.
Thanks Chris.. Maybe a note saying payment by Stripe would make it more easier to address concerns over giving credit card info
Not just you; I thought the same.
How is this related to her?
We live in British Columbia, and now that we have "wildfire season" every year, it's very easy to tell the difference between good air and bad air. I suspect a lot of people are jumping on this as well for the same reason - Silicon Valley is in California, and they're harder hit than anyone else with this.
It would be amazing if Novena or other projects like it evolved into something resembling Google's Project Ara, but for laptops instead of phones.

Laptops have unfortunately never really achieved the modularity and ease of modification that PCs have. They are seemingly perpetual slaves to cost, form factor and all the concerns that follow.
True, though I wouldn't personally buy two laptops just to avoid update hell. I'd rather just manually update once I'm sure it won't bork my system, and only when I can afford some potential downtime.

That said, I can't imagine too many developers or IT professionals who only have one working computer at their disposal. I am typing this on my Windows 7/Slackware main workstation, with an old laptop running OpenBSD to my left and an old tower running NetBSD to my right. I can jump on either of those two and get back to work in a few minutes if this one goes down.
Now I'm curious if Steve Wozniak still uses OS X...?
I'm sorry you had a poor experience, but I think most would agree that such problems are quite rare compared to other OSes. Also, it sounds like you had decent support from Apple. Though they failed, they expended significant effort and money to try and solve the problem.

But your anecdote doesn't address my point: Do you think any combination of laptop brand and linux distro would be more likely to have everything work out of the box than Apple hardware running OS X?
> In fact, I reported a fake Dropbox app that listed "@Microsoft Corporation" as the publisher. MS wrote back to say the app was fine, and if the developers were lying, I should just leave a review.

Or the other form of support: post to Twitter/HackerNews/etc. and light a fire that they will quickly need to put out...
I am glad someone else feels the same way. I always make sure to have a huge table of symbol just after the index page. If I am writing a 100+ page thesis I want to make sure I can "call" one of the symbols to express my idea. The trick is to give nice easy to remember names to your variables and leave as many common variable letters like a,b,c,d,x,y,z to be used as local variables if needed.
Bow out if you will, but I've agreed with everything you've said thus far and don't think you made any false/slanderous/etc statements.
This is true of every country except the handful in East Africa where the human race originally evolved.
> Fuck off, Apple.

Log off, user.
It is unfortunate that we still are worried about objects and aren't so worried about messages. Most devs don't think about or care much about messages at all.
Just reporting... sorry if I sounded too harsh. I actually love the idea and appreciate the effort!
I don't.

For web apps, I throw uncut, raw and basic app online and see if it rolls. When and only when I start getting signups and questions whether it will do X or Y, then and only then I start thinking about design.

I usually end up with either ripping ideas from some themeforrest theme and going my own route or just buy the theme and be done with it. Same for icons.

Bottom line is not to waste time.
Before "just start building something", I recommend taking some project and start tweaking it to see how/what changes affect the app. Set some break points and trace through to see how the message (selectors) works. This get you used to looking that Objective-C code before you dive in.
I understand that you are trying to promote a vision of colorblind equanimity. While your intention may be genuine, you are, frankly, hugely mistaken in your assessment of the impact of racism.

Let's apply your declaration of labels as meaningless is arbitrary to another situation:

Surely you don't spend your time convincing women that the difference between consensual and forcible sex is a void label? That the concept of consent is a futile attempt to manifest an utter and complete abstraction with no inherent value or meaning.

Would you insist that it doesn't matter if a woman -- clinging to the delusion that consent matters -- might be offended when you act on your conviction that consent is an illusion. Circumstances and context are irrelevant, after all!

No. You would be a sociopath or worse, for pretending that a meaningful abstract act -- consent -- is meaningless because you can't understand it or are inconvenienced by it.

Your entire argument is flawed by fallacious and/or bad reasoning. Based on what you've written, it's obvious that you've never been significantly hurt or impacted by racial discrimination. Consider, then, that you are greatly unqualified to be dictating to anyone the nature of such experiences. The authority with which you deign to define racism -- or dismiss it as non-existent -- is astounding.
I recently went on our company retreat and spent 7 days in the Spanish countryside.

The last 2 days of the trip, we were in Barcelona.

While the entire trip was productive for important reasons (Wildbit is an entirely distributed and international team and spending social time with the team was extremely valuable and enjoyable), I found more inspiration and motivation from the couple of days in the city compared to the peacefulness of the countryside.

I wrote more about the experience here:

http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2011/04/signal-seeking/

Of note:
"Noisy environments provide sort of a filter to cut through the noise in my head. Sort of like panning for gold, if everything goes well, all of the cruft fades away and I’m left with some nugget of gold."
The commits will have the actual timestamps if he preserved history.
We might be forced to stop spending such absurd amounts of money on the military, and we may also be forced to restructure our healthcare system to something resembling sane and efficient, but the parent's got a point.
Hi Scott,

I know we talked about this already once before, but my team is looking for remote C# developers.

http://jobs.cheezburger.com

Jacob
Cheezburger Inc.
If that does occur I'd take it as a sign of some serious problems with social order. More efficient production should see gains for everyone, but a look at the last thirty years suggests otherwise.
A Cortex-M0+ core - which is a really tiny microcontroller - can do TLS 1.2 just fine (using the AES-CCM AEAD instead of the AES-GCM AEAD helps somewhat, apparently: I've not tried to implement it myself, so I'm not clear precisely why, but it's probably GHASH). With enough work, an 8-bit class chip with a couple kilobytes of RAM could implement a constrained subset. If that's somehow still too heavy, I'm not sure how.

I hope they can find a way to make TLS 1.3 work for their IoT scenarios: CHACHA20_POLY1305 and Curve25519 will also hopefully help, quite a lot. They're as small as they are fast.
I have a few friends who either work for the NSA or have worked for the NSA, and there's a stigma that follows them around. They get shamed for it (under the guise of humor), and people are clearly uneasy talking about things like drug use around said friends.

At least in my community, there's a strong negative pressure and stigma associated with working for certain parts of the government. And I guarantee that this impacts the NSA's ability to recruit from our talented pool of developers.
The type cover seems like a good thing in theory, but in practice feels very "tacked on." Especially in that you have to find a level surface (no pun intended) to rest the device on.
I think the way they are arranged is awkward. All the weight is where the screen is, instead of where the keyboard is. It's disorienting.
http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf

Or, the movie version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc