jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
“ Gamma rays are the highest-energy form of radiation, with wavelengths that can be smaller than the nucleus of an atom. (Radio waves, for comparison, have wavelengths ranging between about a millimeter to hundreds of kilometers.)”

This is so insane to me. I knew the wavelengths were small but not this small. Nature is so cool!
And in more than one place, viz.,
https://mobile.twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/119764819999085772...

And something that occurred to me: if it's true that "in the future everyone will code (to some degree)," don't you think it's OK to start the baby steps of textual thinking?

C'mon, it's markup with like six modes, people. Practice for half as long as you're on <time_wasting_social_app> in one day and you'll be fluent.
Is this real-time 3D taking into account dancer’s motions? I imagine it takes a crazy GPU rig?

In any case, very impressive.
I tried to make that distinction clear. I'll see if I can do a better job.

Most companies ask a customer for a telephone number in their forms and in their applications. Actually, just about any context where the customer's mobile device is not the item of attention. This was my first encounter with a company that specifically requested a mobile telephone number in their application. This unusually specific request illuminated some interesting possibilities in my mind.

If you experience circa 2014 has been different, actually, that's great! I'd like to see and compare some similar event applications around that same time period. (Still, it was the possibilities for the uses of a mobile number that really flagged my interest as well as the relevance to this conversation, not the rarity today of companies specifically requesting a mobile number.)
On the other side, as an user, I install some apps on my phone and the ones with bad reviews really deserve it. Poor Android ports, crap interface that didn't improve in 5 years and so on.
That seems to be the case. Even Android allowing apps outside their store to be installed but you have to find 5 more buttons in settings to click to get there causes people to just not do it.
Like some unions tell their members to vote for this or that party?

I’m still waiting for the Teachers’ Union to endorse the Libertarian party one day soon -I’m sure it’s gonna happen.
Only that it would have been way more profitable
Yea, fun fact: I like my Acer Nitro 5. I'm an Apple fan through and through, but I also like to run Linux and Windows and haven't done that in a while, so I bought an Acer.

I'm using my Acer now more as a dev laptop and my Mac more as a free time laptop. What I'm noticing is that I'm enjoying the typing experience on the Nitro 5 more, in particular because it has decent arrows (and a numpad :) ).
We're shipping in the US and Canada this summer and opening up additional countries in Europe and Asia before the end of the year. In the future, we will launch modules and products worldwide closer to the same date, but we're pacing ourselves on inventory on the first launch.

We placed our forecasts and risk buys on most chips early in anticipation of the silicon crunch that is coming this year. So far, we don't see anything that puts us at risk, short of there being massive unexpected upside on consumer demand (a good problem to have!).
Don't forget Gopher!

Orignal: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1436

Gopher+: https://github.com/gopher-protocol/gopher-plus

I feel like there is a lot of potential to "rejuvenate" Gopher somewhat in today's internet. No javascript, no cookies, no ads, no auto-play videos etc.

There are some nice new modern GUIs like https://gophie.org that are cross platform and modern.

Fun fact: Redis (yes - that Redis) just added Gopher protocol support (https://redis.io/topics/gopher)
I never installed Analytics on my personal website, and I instead get data out of the Google chimera instead of putting data into it. How? I look at my Google Search Console numbers to give me just enough data to figure out what works or not on my website.
They quickly evacuated. Presumably they simply forgot to lock it in the confusion.
Just to nitpick - the UK constitution is uncodified (ie not in a single document called a constitution) and perhaps in part unwritten but most (perhaps all) of it is written down in the various constitutional statutes and judgements.
Are you aware of the reasons that magnets can disable the device? Are the magnets inducing some current that overloads some high gain, non-invasive, sensing going on, for detecting the rhythm?
You say these things as if they are not facts.

BLM was protesting the injustice of systematic oppression that results in black people bejng murdered by police. 93% of the protests were entirely peaceful. In the other 7%, it is not clear if the violence was instigated by citizens or police.

On the right, you have people who storm the US fucking Capitol building while they are confirming the next POTUS. They were trying to disrupt the federal government. Some of them had zip tie handcuffs and were reportedly looking for VP Pence.

If you cannot see the clear daylight between those two things, and insist on reducing it to “violence on both sides”, then I simply don’t know what to say to you except to please re-examine your humanity as well as your critical thinking skills.
Groups becoming more extreme when they exodus is fine and part of the calculus. The reason to take it off of Reddit is to prevent more followers from joining up with them.

Stormfront is extreme and everyone knows about them. (Literally a white-nationalist website). But without a foothold on Reddit, they lack the ability to gain followers.

When LUE was banned from GameFAQs decades ago, they just formed up their own group (G00Ns, Something Awful, etc. etc.). They were no longer GameFAQ's problem, and GameFAQs no longer had to deal with its members slowly becoming indoctrinated by an group bent on posting pornography on video game forums where children were active. The rest of GameFAQs got better.

Ditto with 4Chan when they kicked the Gamergate people off to 8Chan. 4Chan got better, though the Gamergate dudes grew more extreme.
Not any more but I used to. Yes the Sun has a lot of readers compared to the FT. None of them are the sorts of people who are anywhere even close to power or influence, except in the vague way that any large group of people has power in a democracy.

You do have to be careful not to assume forwards causation. The argument that the British people dislike the EU because the successful parts of the press publishes negative stories about it can also be rephrased as, many people dislike the EU and successful newspapers don't ignore that. That is people's views drive newspaper coverage, not the other way around.

if you think that your average midlands swing voter would have opinions about supra-national trade standards without some serious narrative building, I have a bridge to sell you

But if you think the EU is actually only about supra-national trade standards, then I have a bridge to sell you too ;)

If the EU was just a European ISO that issued standards on goods labelling nobody would have ever cared, you're correct. It's obviously nothing even close to that, and very keen on trade standards being even less of what it does in future.
> Simple projects!

WP sites are far from simple. Maybe WordPress.com but definitely not the self host option. Not if you want anything other than a vanilla install.

> the client isn’t programmer-savvy
> wants to make changes themselves and immediately upload them over FTP.

Why would you want a client who isn't savvy to make changes themself? Advocating for cowboy coding for end users is trolling... unless you're upselling a support package!? They can tweak things in the admin but I'd think long and hard before giving said client access to server files. Not to mention how easily end users mess things up by changing admin settings.

Having worked with such clients for 2 years, I gave up because at some point, the support burden was just too much!
> We don’t deal with office politics and bullshit.

Maybe you meant to say - you don't have office politics. If you are not "dealing" with it then you are creating a bigger problem.

I believe politics are a side product of humans working together. It'll just be there. Just like eating causes you to fart.

Related interesting read but looks good only on paper - https://hbr.org/2016/06/how-facebook-tries-to-prevent-office...
yep! a how we made this video for the robot dance would be much much more compelling than one of those video for an apple headphone
I was wondering how this was done.

How on earth was what amounted to a userspace app able to talk to the NFC hardware to the extent necessary to process payments?!

Presumably the app received the relevant entitlements to be able to do this...?

How on earth was it done securely, within the Mobeewave app?
> lmao that ain't his reasoning muh brah

Please don't do this here, and please don't use HN primarily for political or ideological or national battle, as described elsewhere.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We are working on supporting CodeClimate and will hopefully have something to report very soon.
"if they are terrorists"
but the new native team still has some IE6isms like no native WebM support
So. I built Delicious while working full-time on a trading desk. So here's what comes right to mind:

- Start building stuff. Initial ideas are usually not great, but ideas plus execution lead to much better ideas.

- Don't build stuff relevant to work while you work there. They will probably own it.
Vancouver is in a bubble of its own. Where else 2M would buy you a 70 year old teardown on 1/6 acre lot in EastVan-like neighborhood? Just talk to realtors, and they will furnish a metric ton of evidence that it's the Chinese who are driving the speculation here. Houses sitting on a market for few months and then suddenly getting sold over asking in a bid war between 3 Chinese gentlemen... yeah, it's not Chinese :)
Although I agree with the author's frustration, the link's just another rant on the press release.

Anyone care to explain to me what their "Native HTML5" really means?
> We used to say "write once, debug everywhere."

Used to?
Here's a hilarious blast from the past: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java/msg/88fa108450...

From Lawrence Page himself. Apparently back then you couldn't even set the User-agent header from Java's HTTP libraries.
To me printing is more of an art than a science — and as a graphic designer I can tell you that you usually get what you pay for in terms of quality. Another problem the author may have had is that the quantity of said order is so tiny that a major printer wouldn't have taken the job, so you get the small guys.
Music is what does it for me. Just put on a headphone and code away.
what the fuck DOES "native html5" mean, anyway?
FTP is an abomination and SMTP is not a file transfer protocol. I wish people would use SFTP.

The biggest problem is I've yet to find a SFTP server that isn't part of a SSH service. I'd like a nice pure SFTP server.
$40/month?
> You could tell all these things about this specific household because of a pot you found?

There's a lot of story in history. Construct a narrative stitched together from different sources. Orators in Greece would do the same thing, remember a few lines and improvise the gaps.
If it's not nonsense, then it should be trivial for you (NOT US) to prove as much with a peer-reviewed study.
Side note: "nerfed" is preferable to "gimped".

One uses the name of a toy in a derogatory manner, the other is a straight-up derogatory term for a group of people.
I'm not sure who I distrust more between a VPN provider and my ISP, but for sure I don't trust either.

Signal has received financing from the CIA so my trust level isn't high (even though I use it).

My point is that privacy is an illusion on any connected system and particularly a smartphone.

You can make less privacy damaging choices but IMHO there's no panacea.
I've been promised that for 20 years, and waiting for 27. I'm willing to see whether or not Linux ever really "desktops".
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We believe that travel makes us and the world better, and are trying to lower the bar to travel by bringing together all the information you need to travel in the best tool to organize your plans. Our product so far is a Google Docs for planning travel and sharing recommendations.

We’re an engineering and product-heavy team. A typical week’s work involves talking to users, prioritizing tasks on a kanban, designing on Figma, and building and shipping continuously. Harry and I have worked at Stripe, McKinsey, and Google and studied Computer Science at Yale. We've built profitable travel businesses in the past, and at Wanderlog, we try to take the best parts of each of the our past workplaces and bring them together.

We believe in work-life balance. We work regular hours, take time off as a team to eat lunch together (and even cook!), exercise, and enjoy time with friends and family. We love travel and believe it rejuvenates us and makes us better people, and have quarterly travel offsites where the goal is to just enjoy visiting a new place and use the tools we’ve built.

If you enjoy travel, and would love to make it easier for the rest of the world to do it, send us a note at founders@wanderlog.com! We’d love for you to join our team.
I love the win-win-win potential here.

Communication is so hard. People need information to help them get their needs met, but they may not know what to ask and they find it intrusive, aggressive and untrustworthy if you try to connect and get that info (about what they don't even know to ask).

I like the idea of passive communication channels for educating your customer unobtrusively. It can take a lot of repetition for them to understand the value of a thing and finally decide to try it.

To reach small businesses, you might try talking to Main Street programs in small towns and Chambers of Commerce. See if you can work with them to develop something in terms of presentation or packaging.

Main Street is a program for small towns trying to do economic development in historic town centers that have often been passed by in recent decades. They are typically looking to specifically foster local small businesses in their footprint.

It's a tough climate these days to be a small business. We need to be actively developing systems that support small business success. I feel like we are currently somewhat top heavy and it causes economic instability.

I'm involved as a volunteer in my local Main Street program. I run r/CitizenPlanners and I've posted some resources there about the Main Street program. This is the main overview: https://www.reddit.com/r/CitizenPlanners/comments/duf6ae/mai...

Main Street seems to be fairly hard to find, even if you know it exists. You Google it and get Disney references and song references.

Best of luck.
wont let me enter my temp
Hi VonGuard, I was just curious, if a position is listed as US-Remote, would you consider an applicant in Canada for that role? Thanks!
I don't find this all that persuasive. For one, I'm not convinced that "pseudoscience chakra bullshit" isn't meditation, even though it obviously doesn't work the way those people say it does. There are also people who view exercise in an unscientific way or believe it will have unrealistic benefits, but that doesn't make exercise nebulous. To my understanding, we have done brain imaging on meditators and can see that the practice is reflected the brain, so just like you'd define exercise as something that strains a muscle, you might define meditation as something that induces a meditative brain state.

I think you might be confusing lack of visibility, or difficulty of measurement, with indefinability.
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I'm sorry I should have been more clear that my car was built for the race track. Came on 2 bar of boost really hard and with a twin plate clutch meant only few people managed to drive it without stalling. A car built for the race track is not the same as your normal car. This is the difference I was trying to allude to.

But yes if you have a stock car and you take it on a race track you'll most likely be ok as long as you follow the rules.
If by "not overly" you mean "completely and invisibly", then sure.

There's extra financial value in knowing who is attracted to whom.

I cannot imagine just how terrible the privacy must be for people dating via Facebook.
>I was interested in building something like this when COVID-19 first hit.

Same here. I spent a panicked month and a half on full-time pre-production for a competing product in this space, as an unfortunate alternative to seeking a job at the time.

>There are currently at least 18 projects operating in this space.

https://theonline.town/ is missing from your list. There's probably half a dozen more I could add if my notes from the time were properly organized.

Please don't feel bad of course: we've reached a point where full quantification of all non-stealth competitors in a busy space is very difficult, if not impossible. Indeed, your list has projects I was previously unaware of.

>I think it's still a space with a lot of potential, but there are now a huge number of competitors.

The number of competitors was staggering. It felt like a veritable gold rush: almost every single novel design concept I came up with was eventually independently thought of, but nobody ever wove each together into something truly cohesive. Heck, even the name was jokingly thought of by some random person on Twitter months later.

>I still think that there's a lot of potential for someone to come in and take over this whole space with a product more polished than is possible in the browser,

I don't think the browser as a platform is an issue; it's extremely capable. There's just a huge amount of apathy and entrenchment in that space now, and the usual rules pertaining to software moats apply just the same. It'd have to be something really special to unseat Zoom and all its clones at this point.

>I suspect that the winning team will come from the ranks of game developers, not webdevs who cracked open a webrtc tutorial one weekend

Having watched endless projects borne of weekend WebRTC tutorials spring up during that time period, I cannot agree more.
Same here... And I think it was quoted here a week or so ago again. Great story.
It makes a nice acronym.
The only difference between a manager and the other on-the-ground engineers is that the manager works more closely with the stakeholders to understand their requirements in more detail than the other engineers have time to. With that additional knowledge in hand, the manager helps guide the other engineers to make the right tradeoffs. It is still engineering, just at a different level. A level not everyone enjoys working at, granted.

I guess if there is an accounting analogy, it would be selecting one accountant to work closely with the government to ensure that the tax law is fully understood and to watch the other accountants to ensure that they are following that tax law, reducing the inefficiencies of all the accountants in a firm needing to spend their days acquiring a perfect understanding of the tax law and not spending their days doing the practical accounting work.
This is unbelievable. Is it the beginning of a coup?
Oracle and Microsoft already use JVM and CLR for that.
Incredible and sad.

Live reports https://twitter.com/MEPFuller and https://twitter.com/igorbobic
US democracy seems to be on rather thin ice. This attempt at violent revolution will fail, of course. If the next guy is slightly smarter, all bets are off...

And yet, if one were to try to name the top three problems of US society based solely on what was discussed on HN over the last four years, it'd be "cancel culture", social media companies' half-hearted attempts to rid themselves of these people, and the New York Times being terribly biased against this mobs' grievances of... something, I guess.
Well you list the company name and enough ethical failings can be found for that also
They would say that, wouldn't they? At every turn they have parroted the CCP line, and never once have they publicly criticised them (as they have with the US and the EU).

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/world-h...
A great deal has been written about the public fear of government, but I contend that we now face a period where people are equally afraid of the media. I have not read one good reason for the NY Times to have published this man's true identity, and I fear what could happen if you did anger the media. They have almost as much power as the government: While they can't handcuff and put you in prison, they can destroy everything else about your life; or change it for the better, the power is there.
> https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-rules-...

Summary: Engineer builds dashboard of links that get the most hateful responses. Engineer notices it's also conservative media. Engineer understands that there is a direct tradeoff between engagement (profit) and doing the right thing (not promoting content that breeds hate). Engineer quits because Facebook does not do the right thing.

If hateful content is engaging and Facebook is promoting content (putting it higher in feeds) because it is engaging, then Facebook is promoting hate.

Engineers have quit because they see Facebook's complete lack of ethics and understand that Facebook is hurting the world.
If those patches has been deployed before for decades on millions of servers? Yes, of course.

I have no idea what the outage is supposed to be on your example, a bad reaction?
So how is that not important to de-risk?