jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Mastodon itself as a service and protocol, is pretty wonderful.

But in terms of namespace, domain-name, and instance issues, you've got pretty much all your traditional Internet concerns, with a few new twists added.

My first primary instance has gone the way of the dodo, and its domain is now parked somewhere entirely different (https://mammouth.cafe). Numerous other instances have also come and gone.

My current instance, run initially by an anonymous administrator, was transferred to a Japanese concern, who don't do much to keep anyone advised of service outages or their causes/resolution. This is an instance with 56k registered users, large by Mastodon standards.

Then there are the issues with blocking and federation, which don't immediately concern namespace, but could as blocked instances die, and potentially others occupy their namespace, or they change their identity to evade blocks.

There's been a lot of agitation over the dot-org PIR self-dealing and corruption, as that's a fairly commonly-used TLD, either directly by instances or for related resources. The whole DNS / registry system is a bit of a mess.

The fact that between the Internet and DNS there's no real allowance made for either space or time is becoming an increasing stress point. What solutions might exist isn't clear, but assumptions of the 1970s and 1980s are not being sustained 30-40 years later.

As I've noted a few times recently, a dictionary bibliographic entry typically consists of little more than name, dates, nationality, and profession. Webster's 11 Collegiate includes some 6,000 or so such entries. There are roughly 1 million times more people than that now living, and another 100 or 200x more who have ever lived.

In digital systems, there is no distinction between use and mention -- the name is the thing and the thing is the name. This is convenient in narrow scopes (time, place, scale), and ... exceedingly inconvenient over broad scopes (time, place, scale). UUIDs address the collision problem but not the convenience. Convenient shortcuts address convenience, but not uniqueness requirements.

Since meatspace identity is who you are, and other references (names, nicknames, registration numbers, etc.) are not identities but identifiers, the problems aren't as manifest. Your actual identity cannot be merged with another (though numerous related aspects and relations can be). Online, if A and B are suddenly both called "A", then they are both "A".

I think we'll be sorting this out for a while yet.
I think in the case of AWS, your services would continue to run as long as your bill is settled. It would only affect you if you logged in.

So if you fell under the free tier then I'm curious if it would continue to run indefinitely.
Not good at all. I still trust Mozilla to a large degree but I definitely don't trust their partners. Mozilla needs money to operate, they need partners and they'll will have to give something to them in return for the money - that is all ok and just how things are. What is not ok is that associate so closely with shady operations like Cliqz for example.
Our email campaign app, directmailmac.com, lets you turn off open- and click-tracking.

Disclosure: I work there.
I like to mix art and technology, the product is used by many people to create inspiring stories. I work in Visual Effects.
It's the same for webex sensing compatible devices via ultrasound.
Cruise and Waymo have both had fully driverless taxis running for the public for quite some time. If either of them had ever tried to murder a passenger or passerby I'm sure we would have heard about it.
This summarizes it well for reads:
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSRaidzRea...

For writes, the system is copy-on-write, so for each write, there is a full read of the containing record, often across all disks, so the updated record can be written out in the new location on the disks without disrupting the old record, which may still be referenced by snapshots, etc.

Adding additional disks gets you more throughput (you can split a single large write across more disks, but not more OPS.)
I wonder what's going to happen if or when YouTube starts to implement restrictions on how many videos you can upload. People are being conditioned year after year that they can go back to YouTube and expect to be able to upload videos at any time. There will probably be some level of strife if that were to suddenly change.

That would also bring into question if "significant" content creators would have more leverage to upload more videos than the average user. Then all the people that expect to be able to upload unlimited videos would either move off to a competitor, condition themselves to think otherwise, or something else.
It'd be interesting what the effect might be if one day of the week only non-renewables are allowed on the market and the renewable energy is required to be used/transferred elsewhere or is only paid a marginal rate.
Yeah, there's sometimes a lot more hacks like WTF-8 and WTF-16 in practice on UCS-2 originally systems (including Windows and JS) than is healthy: https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/
NFC API itself don't enable user to steal from contactless credit card. See Android.
“I think it’s important now to tie care to Quality by pointing out that care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristics of Quality” Thank you and RIP Mr.Pirsig
"Most people with families don't work crazy hours."

With an average age of 28[0].. what percentage do you think have families?

0. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/technology-workers-...
It's only a "game changer" because SF is now too crowded and expensive, so startups are moving to Oakland because it's still close by and a little cheaper.
Right. From the essay: "But it is dishonest of the anti-immigration people to claim that companies like Google and Facebook are driven by the same motives". "Dishonest", "anti-immigration people", if that's how the "principle of charity" starts off, where do we go from there?
I can speak for myself. I often up vote for the conversation rather than the content of the linked article.
It may be useful for you to actually read TFA, which (spoiler alert) is not by me saying that we need to screw down the number of people we allow into the country, but is rather by another gentleman who has been stranded someplace unpleasant due to the ill winds of supply and demand, and wants to transform immigration policy until he washes up someplace more suited to his temperament.
Here's an example of SolarCity/Tesla using new batteries like that: https://gigaom.com/2012/04/17/tesla-solarcity-quietly-sellin...
Sorry, I meant 19th st in Oakland.
C++. It allowes no sloppy coding. In mid 80's I was a BASIC
coder at home, but these days, even though it's just a hobby, I feel I need strict rules how to code.
Sam, Finland
Negotiation only works if both parties are equal. You are not equal to Facebook, they have a hiring pipelines miles long to replace you, and have no need to negotiate anything with you. The cost to replace you is just the cost of doing business.

I hate how this always comes up as if the hiring model is in any way balanced between an employer and employee.

I was once asked by a New York based company, at one of their remote offices, what I wanted for a salary. I said “$180k, what you’re paying for this position in NY”. They said “No. We know what you were making before, so we’ll offer you $5k over that.” It was never a negotiation.
No, you don't have to compromise at all.

Personal experience: I had a great math teacher in mid school; he gathered the best students from the 5 classes in that year in one class and he set the baseline quite high. For the last 2 years half of our class was taking the prizes at all the inter-school competitions in the city and a few of us from the nationals. Most of that class went to the best high schools in the city and most are today great doctors (medical) or scientists. Imagine that did not happen in mid-school and everybody would be an average Joe - that is a loss for humanity, not just for us.

Try to read Ender's Game (the book, the movie is terrible). This is very tough, but if you need great people you can help by creating the conditions to grow them. How many Einsteins wasted their lives achieving nothing and how earlier curing diseases and improving technologies was possible if that waste did not happen?

The compromise is to waste the resources that we have in the name of equality; we cannot make everyone smart, we only can make them all stupid, so let's do equality.
Too many people are missing the dry humor in this post
Of course you can create new assets.
I will say that it's not BS to "believe in the product and have interesting problems to solve." I've been there myself.

However, you have to look out for #1 and "interesting problems to solve" won't pay the mortgage, so you better make sure that despite how great the job is, you are paid at least the market rate.
Apart from accessibility, isn't this mostly caused by the "immediate mode API" versus "immediate mode implementation" confusion I described in another sub-thread?

There's nothing in the idea that forbids immediate mode UI frameworks from keeping any amount of internal state between frames to keep track of changes over time (like animations or drag'n'drop actions), the difference to traditional UI frameworks is just that this persistent state tree is hidden from the outside world.

Layout problems can be solved by running several passes over the UI description before rendering happens.

For accessibility, the ball is mainly in the court of the operating system and browser vendors. There need to be accessibility APIs which let user interface frameworks connect to screen readers and other accessibility features (this is not a problem limited to immediate mode UIs, but custom UIs in general).
This whole thread is side-stepping the point of the original article. As I understand it, the point is this: if we're going to get on a moral high horse about equal pay, then we should also apply that standard to the things we consume. So I'd think that links to ethical consumption guides would be more on point for this thread than further discussion of what _we_ are paid.
That would be grounds for banning advertisment, not mention. As it stands, at least as of a couple months ago, even using the words "gamergate" or "8chan" earned you a three day automatic global ban.
Fidelity is the largest shareholder in many stocks, it has a massive amount of client funds.
We used to have the option of regular supermarkets, but they later banned it because they didn't want students eating inside the school at winter.
Same thing with .no [1]

[1]: https://www.norid.no/navnepolitikk.en.html#link5
So I think the case for selecting all of the columns (and for an ORM-like approach of selecting related fields at once) is to reduce the number of queries. Generally I think that selecting two columns at one point in application logic and firing off a separate query for another two columns later in execution of a script is going to be worse than selecting 6 columns. Query performance is not the only consideration here, you also need to consider network performance of transmitting the data from the database server to the client (although that equation might change if you're using an in-memory database or something like that).

Also, selecting all the columns at once has an ergonomics effect of making it simpler to take advantage of caching when writing multiple components which might query the same data within the same execution.

That being said, I do think selecting less columns is better than more, an even when using an ORM I find myself writing projects and helper objects to reduce how many columns I need in my queries, but I view that as more of an optimization, a secondary concern that I can take care of after the main logic is implemented, rather than a primary concern that should shape the initial implementation of the logic.

Of course, the performance concerns I have had might be vastly different than the original poster's, so take my comment with a grain of salt.
Lie? What's the intent behind the lie?
To reduce fire extinguisher sales?

The police officer died. So they might have had a stroke as a result of inhaling best spray.

What does that actually change? They're still dead and likely wouldn't have been if the riot didn't happen.

Unless you're arguing that it's natural causes.

Also the officer that commited suicide there isn't a public note, the family is refusing interviews and the police haven't said anything about their reasons.

You're the one making up reasons for their suicide to complain about biased media.
Being a successful game developer for Amiga is like being Puskas, the footballer in 60s. To be successful nowadays requires a different (more commercial) mindset.
A doctor's opinion really isn't worth much. Maybe a virologist.
I'll add that up here in the great north - we also use combined air conditioner/heat pumps but in most cases spring for the "low temperature" models with a built in defroster and higher pressure refrigerant - allowing them to heat down to -18°f. This would almost never make sense in a southern climate where it happens once every 20 years. Likewise, investing in any high efficiency/dual-source heating setup would not make any financial sense.

Any Texans looking for some guerrilla insulation/heating techniques:

Put up some painters plastic on the inside frames of Windows (with dual sided tape) as this acts like a very rudimentary dual-pane window. Kits exist for this also (apologies for the Canadian link:
https://www.amazon.ca/3M-2141W-6-Indoor-Window-Insulator/dp/... )

Next I would look into a propane space heater (sometimes referred to as a garage/barn heater). These can be operated on a standard 20lb tank and can keep a house warm for a day or two on a single tank. Co2 levels are minimal but you should still make sure you have a decent co2 sensor nearby.
800 columns in an OLTP is insane, that was my reaction when I read the OP. But in analytics it's not so unusual, although at that point a SQL DB is probably not the right solution anyway, and the data scientists probably do need all the columns.
It shocks me that non-open-source or non-e2e-encrypted options are included in this list.

Listing Telegram (effectively not encrypted) in a list next to Signal/Threema makes no sense to me.
Very interesting. How much additional data, compared to a conventional fat server architecture, needs to be sent across the wire with a fat client? The blog post makes it sound not too bad.
Considering the vast majority of programmers are proprietary programmers, at least for most of their week, I would consider the GPL not designed specifically for all programmers, but rather FOSS programmers, which is a minority on Github (and everywhere else, except highly specific communities).

It makes sense for Github to promote other licenses.
It's more obvious than that. The argument is logically wrong.
The Economiszt wants you to subscribe to ead the the full article, which is here: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/03/messagi...
> Yet, claiming ownership over any part of the surface of this ball of space rock is arbitrary, and no principle of justice can truly legitimize it.

One very easy principle can: the value of land goes down dramatically if you can't kick other people off of it. Exclusive use is critically important. Unless you'd like other people traipsing through your house.
Apparently I didn't make the comment very clear: he should build a webapp instead. Make it a game if you want, but build it outside their walled gardens.
Gonna need a math model of that too.
> What's wrong with consumption?

Human beings are more than vessels for SV douches to make billions they don’t need.

Or in the case of Peter Thiel (hello HN), to make billions to use to go out of their way to make the world a more miserable place.

Computers should empower people. They made them more than they were. The likes of the iPad go out of their way to take a device that someone, nearly everyone on this site, can learn from and grow from, and replace it with one that works hard to prevent you from exercising any brain cells. It says pleasure comes from being a potato, when the people who created it know that the pleasure in their lives can from being active creators.
The experience I've had on versus off my meds says different.
> "web 2.0" set the course of internet technology for a decade

oh and how did that turn out?
> RISC-V was designed to to be a teaching ISP

Do you have a source for this? RISC-V always seemed like it was a production ISA from the get-go
For desktop Linux you can rely on glibc, OpenGL, Vulkan, X11 (even with Wayland) and OSS/ALSA/Pulse() being present. That is really all you need* to run a game and there are plenty of libraries that you can ship with your game if you want their functionality, statically linking them when possible. This approach has been shown to work since 1999.

(*) Audio subststem devs' insistence on reinventing APIs is disappointing, but just use SDL or OpenAL Soft or whatever to abstract it for you or tell your users to use the available compatibility tools.
Physical goods have never been paid for with in-app purchases, so nobody will expect Apple to handle that, and nobody will blame them if things go wrong.
I often wonder about terraforming (on places like Mars planet).

Earth obviously had the leg up on water accumulation during its accretation stage (Hadean period).

Perhaps we can start generating oxygen early over there on Mars using a one-step CO2->O2+C catalyst.

This comes to mind: https://www.pnas.org/content/109/39/15606
When I tell people 'But Facebook is already breaking your privacy laws right now' I usually get something along 'then why does the EU not block it?'

So imho this can not happen soon enough, people think the EU is actually protecting them when it isn't. I hope more countries join as well
Hey,from my experience, things you can try are :

- Consulting/contracting (not freelance as it creates uncertainty and that could lead to stress)

- Design agencies (Front End/Design Technologist)

- Advertising Agencies who have a larger variety of projects (Technologist)

Hope that helps.

An example job I searched is based in Madrid: https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/jobs/view/2908478547
Much of the rhetoric and power plays echo of the tactics used by socialists (communists) to divide populations (rural vs urban, intellectual vs illiterate, landed vs serf, etc) but to their credit they had a clear objective (to win at all costs) BUT they also had an endgame. They didn’t let this eat themselves (Mao did play with fire here). And once they won, all that nonsense went out the window, the dumb idealist ideologues got the hard boot and everyone else followed or pretended to follow the new realideology to survive. It’s like they don't read history.
While I let my smart TV connect to the internet for firmware update reasons (bug fixes), I’m running my entire home network through NextDNS, and before that a PiHole. Not seeing any ads in the UI, and I note some attempted logging traffic is blocked.

Before I upgraded to LG last year I had a Samsung and it was trying to ping home constantly. It constituted 80% of outbound requests denied by the PiHole
There are a lot of complications with the story. The thesis was typed in January 1968 which was before Multics became operational, before PDP-11s. Neither Ken Thompson nor Doug McIlroy (nor Brian Kernighan), remember Dennis ever talking about working on his thesis... and people who know Selectrics and 2741 Terminals say that the machines were not set up to automatically type what appears in the dmr thesis, there had to be hand adjustments.
You worked at the Labs during this period? Can you write me at billr@thinkfun.com ?
Great link to reference paper!
I know it's not good form to post a 'Show HN' without at
least some kind of intro on the site.

I've just added a short into by going to https://mebeam.com or by clicking the logo at anytime.

The intro contains two screen shots of the interface
and what the buttons do.
"While true, VGA only did that at 320x200"

I remember being able to get VGA to run at 360x480 with 256 colors in mode-x.

"I had to resort to a weird mode whose name escapes me now, where you could only address every 4th pixel without a bank switch"

That's mode-x. You could also for example set all 4 pixels to same color with a single write, write mask was a 4-bit value. It was great for filling polygons.
I think you're misreading the article. The thesis is that the journalists are seeking to push their own messages; that the leadership of most news organizations still favors objectivity, but the rank and file (and the readers) increasingly believe that journalists have a duty to take a stand and deliver the right messages. The article references a moderately well-known incident where many journalists issued loud public objections to a NYT headline, not because the headline was factually inaccurate (it simply summarized a statement a politician made), but because it painted that politician in an insufficiently negative light.
The universe is moving towards maximizing entropy. We (life) are just an artifact on that path. In some ways you could argue that we are 'compelled' by the same thing the water is.

It could be that every atom is conscious. But my guess is that it requires some kind of a larger physical construction for consciousness to appear. It would still mean that our consciousness is a collection of simple compulsions. I just think atoms are too small to contain that behavior on their own.
tvOS has supported vp9 since last year, the youtube app however has been slow getting that message...

https://9to5mac.com/2020/09/18/4k-youtube-videos-still-not-c...
The people running football clubs use a somewhat more rigorous and selective process to assess the suitability of prospective staff. The clubs began marketing their products to paying audiences in the steam age.

Other than the part where organizations usually spend more than they bring in, I see few similarities.