jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Most ppl in this thread is still trapped by concept of ownership of something tangible.

Why not break out of that and think digitally.

Digital ownership is like putting your name on a building, like a museum. Completely meaningless to most but a few. And that is worth it enough for some folks to send millions to do it.

NFT ownership is exactly the same thing. The article says that creators just need a few thousand of devote followers to make a living. A NFT doesn't have to mean or worth anything to millions of people, just to a few thousand will do. It's enough to create a vibrant marketplace centered around some creator.
Don't know if they are widely available or available anymore but the last time I bought a TV, I got a commercial display for digital signage which had no smart tv features. It just had a bunch of HDMI/av inputs which I used with game consoles/android TV box. The screen is not as great as latest TVs for home use.
As the paper explains. At the actual energy consumption level, the modulation techniques used by WiFi are about 3 times more efficient than Bluetooth.

The whole premise of the article is that this allows for efficient use of WiFi hardware to emulate BLE like behaviour.
Further on Monkey - founded by Ben Pasternak,

"Monkey was acquired by Chinese social media company Holla for an undisclosed sum in December 2017" [0]

Re my previous point: That's one of the things with trademark law: once granted a mark, one is in fact legally obliged to defend that mark, and any unauthorised use(s) of said mark, otherwise one loses the granted trademark status. That's how it works. (Not that I can be sure this is to do with trademark law, but it has been mentioned already, and it could very well be.) So I strongly suspect the OP has in fact no legal recourse here whatsoever (but I'd strongly advise seeking advice from someone qualified in the matter).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Pasternak
You wouldn't get any if that information unless you ran -g with gcc. However, the article uses the source code and doesn't decompile anything.
The scripts are still pretty messy right now. I'll probably clean them up a bit and upload them once I reach 0.1.
Run a mumble server and give each developer their own "office" as a chat room.

If you chose not to talk casually when remote that is really up to you.
I have completely 180'ed on this topic. I used to think to be a successful startup, you all had to be in the same room, ideally at a big huge desk etc.

After working at my current startup, I realize I was wrong. We are an entirely remote operation, and have been since day 1. A few of us are in Austin, and rarely meet for a face-to-face, but it's more of a 'oh yeah, you actually exist' meeting rather than a hash-it-out sort of meeting.

I think the reason we have been successful is because being remote has forced us to write things down, in our wiki (in the form of product specs) and in JIRA (in the form of specific features and bug fixes). With just those two forms of written communication, we've solved 95% of our communication needs. We almost never skype or use video conferencing... it's just not needed.

The other reason we are successful is due to experience. We've all done startups before, so we know the drill. I can't emphasis how important this is enough, but does deserve more explanation. (unfortunately I can't muster the amount of typing atm).

IN the end, we can focus on getting work done... without the distraction of office chatter, commuting, long lunches.
Everyone is in charge of ONE thing at a time. That thing being the most important thing that will make everything else easier.
The One Thing is a good book.
I think it's supposed to be a pun...
My teammates would take ice baths to burn calories routinely.
Or, you know, as a gig or piece worker, you can choose to do something else, which as it turns out is not a choice a slave enjoys.

Do you feel kind of dirty suggesting that a slave can just choose to kill himself and comparing that to Barcelona cab drivers? If you don't, why not?
If, and I mean if, such a health outcome differential between being a vegan and not, then it would be widely known. As far as I am able to garner from known population studies my children will be a few inches shorter due to a vegan diet, no less intelligent, and will have a very compassionate ethical starting point, which is something I personally value.

However, if veganism required is to scale back massively scientific research due to drops in human intelligence, I would be on the fence... Further, I do recognize that giving up meat to be an actual sacrifice of summer form... There seems to be a large biological desire to eat meat, which probably is actually largely derived from gut bacteria, if I were to guess. Still, perhaps giving up meat is an actual sacrifice. With my indifference to meat after 16 years or so, I am heavily biased towards veganism as a tool for meeting the climate needs of our current planet biosphere.

Nah, man, I really don't like meat and I can't think of a defendable defense for it's continued consumption given what we know today.
European countries are more similar to each other than they are to the US, or to most countries in Asia or Africa. They’re also more similar to each other than the US is to any other country in the Americas besides Canada. Those reasons are why we sometimes talk about them as one cluster, even those of us who know that the various countries aren’t identical.
>Ecto prevents N+1 queries by default, which I think is clearly better

How does it know what associations to eagerly load without knowing about the views? It can't eagerly load all of the data on complex objects.
I don't think the Varoufakis example is fair because, as the quote literally says, it's a title that Varoufakis has given himself, and he is often flippant and unorthodox himself. It's not derogatory.

The Economist as a paper overall is very open-minded when it comes to different ideological points of view. I remember the analysis of Harry's and Meghan's move to the US through a Marxist lens[1], or their surprisingly positive take on China's developmentalist state[2]. For a magazine with a self-declared pro free-trade and market-based bias they tend to reflect a lot. I'm way to the left politically of the target-audience of the paper but I really don't think they deserve the reputation they get as some sort of unabashedly capitalist magazine.

[1]https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/01/16/harry-meghan-an...

[2]https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/08/13/xi-jinping-is-r...
It's more than just being upfront about their bias. It's also the way they avoid descending into demonizing and name-calling. Even when discussing leaders of whom they clearly disapprove such as Recep Erdogan, Jair Bolsonaro, and Donald Trump, they don't come right out and declare them as "lunatics". Instead, they try to write dispassionate analysis which often drives readers to the conclusion that they are lunatics. This might seem a subtle distinction, but it is a marked departure from the shrill tone of many other media outfits.
Market cap is an expression of how much investors think a company's stock is worth.

For an apples-to-apples comparison of real growth, you want to compare _revenue_, not market cap. Amazon has not yet passed Walmart in retail revenue (as of 2020) though it's true their revenue is growing much faster. Hence the XKCD references.
It's not really about vacancies, is it? Vacancies are a convenient, simple, and clear "other" to blame for what is actually a complicated crisis _generations_ in the making.

Only a small minority want to acknowledge that the future of urban centres looks more like Hong Kong and less like Springfield.
Not my experience. Have shipped several AAA games with scaling, no baking.
> That seems like a ton of effort for them to keep up with, though. Would it not be easier to make an appimage?

It's really not. At SublimeHQ we simply create a deb, the rest of the packages are generated from that automatically. Obviously there's some high initial cost in setting all that up but changes to this kind of infrastructure are very infrequent.

appimages/snap/flatpak cause huge problems for development tools. You need to be able to run system executables in the system environment for stuff like build systems, git, etc.
I'd start by looking at the open source projects you currently use. From that list you continually filter down:

(1) which are in languages you known or are willing to learn enough to contribute in?

(2) which require contributions; sometimes open source projects are marked 'feature complete' and will only accept bug-fixes etc.

(3) of the remaining which are about a problem space that you can understand, want to try to understand, and are willing to contribute to.

If there is no candidate at the end of that list you can always search GitHub (or GitLab, SourceHut etc) by language and popularity and try look for feature, bug, or documentation contribution that way. I found for myself a good starting off point to be the things I am already using that were accepting new features that I wanted to write features for.

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Exceptions:

Of course documentation can be (programming) language agnostic if you can generally understand the flow of the logic and it isn't too technical so if documentation is your thing have at it!

Bug-fixes, depending on the project, may require debugging which can be trickier than writing features and tests (in a happy-path world).

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Example:

You use a few libraries, some in Go, some in JavaScript, some in C. You only know Go and don't want to learn JavaScript and C at the moment; so naturally you filter out all but the Go libraries you are using. Of the remaining you are excited about 1 or 2 of them and so you peruse the codebases, the open issues, and any mailing lists for feature requests, pending bug fixes etc, and eventually after understanding how the library is structured and generally how the codebase works you can work on a feature or bugfix.
I disagree. My experience is that excellent programmers become fanbois because of their frustration working with sub-standard tools. So when they find the tools (by which I mean language) that allows them express their craft in the best way possible (for them), they latch onto it and become fanbois.

All of the great programmer's I know (small sample I guess) have a favourite language, and generally dislike working in other languages, even though they can.
OCaml is currently my language of choice. I love functional programming, been doing it for a while now, but it's nice to know that if I read an algorithm in a textbook, I can just implement it as-is instead of doing a translation to be purely functional (and sometimes having to fight to get back the asymptotic complexity). The module system is also absolutely great, and should be copied shamelessly by more languages.
I don't know anybody who redistributes source code as a single C file, but you could try concatenating the files into one. Usually people redistributing source code don't mind having several files bound together by some make|build script. The nim compiler has the --genScript switch to make one. Most people willing to get something redistributable prefer a binary static|dynamic library or final executable.
Damn! I know one thing for sure after reading this, I am not even trying AWS until I really really know what I am doing. For now I'll stick with VirtualBox and DigitalOcean.
Having some activity in your back yard is definitely worth it, and there's so many people that don't have that because they (have to) live somewhere that's densely urbanized.

I had a very bland back yard (green ivies as walls, some other evergreen ground covering), but my girlfriend moved in two years ago and she's a gardener. We've got a diversity of plants now, the soil is alive again, and there's a popular bird feeder, regularly refilled, hanging on the shed now. We sometimes get a dozen birds flitting about there, who then get interrupted by a pair of magpies.

But, this whole neighbourhood I live in (very middle class, I'm at the outer edge) has been designed to allow for nature, with lots of semi-wild green spaces dotted around and lots of waterways.
> currently listed on the Shopify App store.

so their company developed a plugin for shopifys walled garden app store - which has T&Cs
Maybe it was blitter etc

Nope not CDTV, CD32 was a later project and really quite good but C= couldn’t sustain it. The story I think I heard was that the similarity in the controllers was some sort of homage. Maybe it was PS1 rather than PS2 ... thinking about the timeline that all lines up, and Sony would have been looking for a jumping in point rather than starting from scratch after being burnt by Nintendo.
That's what I love about FOSS!

If a program doesn't have the feature you like, it can always be added -- 17 years later.
Nice for Apple users but how/when can I run Mac and iOS applications on Linux?
Not sure what GNOME Boxes uses, but it looks good: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Boxes
Not surprising but interesting nonetheless.
Theranos was valued at $10B, with somewhere in the region of $1.5B invested. It was also entirely fraudulent, with explanations of their science that made no sense.

The amount being invested does not translate into any bearing on reality.
and yet the whole Mastodon and Briar ecosystems run on pennies.
safe spaces, gender studies, wokeness certificates, virtue signaling workshops, degrees in conformity & groupthink.

read William Dereshevitz' "Excellent Sheep", it's the best book on the subject.
We can also build lasers (some of us anyway), conceive of social security, vote, believe in money, trust the post office.

When determining what is fundamental to being human, these peripheral, incidental things don't get to the core of the matter.
Why not traditionally publish, so that you know your work actually has economic value, use the publisher to publicise your name and retain the digital publication rights so that you can self-publish and have two revenue streams.
`go generate` is a fucking terrible idea.

No. `go generate` is great for what it was invented for:

Programs that write programs are therefore important elements in software engineering, but programs like Yacc that produce source code need to be integrated into the build process so their output can be compiled. When an external build tool like Make is being used, this is usually easy to do. But in Go, whose go tool gets all necessary build information from the Go source, there is a problem. There is simply no mechanism to run Yacc from the go tool alone.

Source: https://blog.golang.org/generate

It's not meant as a substitute for generics, it's for running tools such as yacc.
Nevermind, I thought you meant something else. To be fair, though, your input doesn't have to be arbitrary subsets of a space. You could require, say, that all strings in the radix tree are about the same size.
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Realistically, No one is actually going to Mastodon.

There is no-one on there that bothers to post anything that can be seen by any serious person. Even if the whole of Facebook or Twitter just shutdown for a week, the masses would rather wait for it to get back up than to begin to either think about signing up to Mastodon, as the network effect is still stuck on Facebook or Twitter as it has done for decades.

With only as much as 2 million users on it after 6 years, Mastodon is essentially a confused contraption to the public eye with questionable and deranged beings that will put off 'influencers' to even get themselves and their followers to begin to touch the platform in the same way Gab has done. They still hesitate to join the platform.

For the same similar reasons, Mastodon has essentially failed and is not a serious competitor to Facebook, or Twitter. It is that remote.
Not available for expats, apparently. Opening an account requires a form to be signed by some sort of certification officer (not a notary) only available in the US.
I follow about a dozen DL people on Twitter, and use their recommendations in tweets. It is a deluge, and it is impossible to keep up, really.
But still the test would only fail after the merge, whereas you'd want to catch this before.
Well TIL, I actually never knew that. I've always thought it was only made liquid.
> I noticed that most (around 99%) tech people I know in-person do not believe in God

Do they talk about it? Some religious people are not particularly evangelical, especially in the workplace, so maybe some of them are observant religious and you just don't know about it.

(Btw: I'm atheist if it helps.)
A microkernel is much easier to implement than a monolithic one. Been there, done that. The hard part is to get the messaging done with zero overhead (no copying), but using paging for the mbufs you can get quite far with that.
I think it's actually a great little story because in the end, everyone got what they wanted.

The lone programmer did his work, got paid for it and left, hopefully to find a company with a better fit.

The team was hired and got paid to do their work and, while doing so, created a process that the company felt comfortable with. Perhaps they are still working there today.

Everyone seems to have taken what they needed and got what they wanted.

There are an infinite number of ways to slice a thing. Choose one and figure out if it works for you. This applies to both sides, the worker and the management.
> What if you don't trust the random key generator on your computer? Just xor the generated key with some other files.

> NOTE: You can increase security significantly if you xor/encrypt zipped files, as they already contain very little structure!

> If your key is too small or if you are using it too often, you may be reducing security.

I hope it goes without saying that this thing should not be taken at all seriously.
Because it becomes a definition that's excruciatingly precise, but useless to almost everyone in the world.

I'm probably not the programmer responsible for fixing a bug in my OS; hardly any of us are. But we're all at the mercy of that bug being fixed. So aside from PR, there's literally no reason why I should care how long the vendor has known about it. I care how long everyone else has known about it prior to a fix being available.

If there's going to a be a widely-used term for one or the other, language is going to evolve such that the term covers the latter case because we have practically no reason to care about or refer to the former.

I would also argue that you should choose a word to describe such serious flaws in such a way that the "flaw" doesn't appear to go away if nothing changes except the passage of a very small amount of time. I don't want vendors saying, "we have no zero-day exploits" simply because they waited 10 hours to make the statement.
Even with the desc option it doesn't seem that great. How about using color instead? Recent topics could be brighter.
Daughter
How do you learn to program without learning any programming languages?
"Just do your best". This advice is intended to allow focused effort without harping on competitive aspects, but it has the effect of detaching the doer from any sense of responsibility for the outcome, and also leads to self-deception if you lie to yourself and claim that you did your best.

Sometimes it's OK to do less than your best, other times your best isn't good enough. Results are what matter, so figure out what result you want and accomplish it.
I said materialism, not ambition.
Or you could try a real alternative hypothesis like: "variation in the male test scores is not statistically significant".
I tend to think that anyone sufficiently intelligent, motivated and sane to be performing tasks for money is unlikely to be found begging on the streets of Seattle. To be truly, homelessly poor in America you pretty much have to have something seriously wrong with you -- whatever it is, it's likely to make you a pretty damn unreliable worker.

But hey, I'm sure they'd be willing to take the free phones.
I tried to access it here from South Korea. Got the Korean Police warning page. No go.
I know hating on the apple is all the rage these days, but that is like walking into the Coke company store and bitching because they won't let you sell Pepsi tee shirts there.
I saw it as a non-event simply because I already have all of their records (on CD and imported into iTunes). I figured most fans would also have most if not all of their music, so availability on iTunes doesn't change things.

Although it does make it very easy to complete a library that has all but one album or similar. Would be interesting to see how many complete sets were purchased vs. individual albums or even individual songs.
This is a good idea, but transcription for me is a must. Reading the handwritten (sometimes typed) scans of the prisoners writing is just too irritating for me, a person who increasingly relies on Readability to read just about anything on the web.

The last time I looked at freeware OCR software, the accuracy left much to be desired -- but I think it'd be a start, at least on the typed correspondence.
Seconded. Flipboard is directly responsible for me spending ~$20/month less on magazines. There's a local (motorcycle) magazine which I've bought every (2 weekly) issue for ~12 years, which I haven't bought a single copy of since I installed Flipboard. All the "I've got 10 or 15 minutes spare in a cafe lingering over a coffee or two" reading needs are better met by Flipboard (for me) than AMCN Two Wheels and New Scientist and various other magazines I'd occasionally buy to fill in time.

I don't think it's "the future of print media", but I think it's certainly indicative of one direction the future of print media might lie...
Uhh, why would it eventually get spent? My inheritance is probably going to be very high.
Not an evil thing in itself. Putting all that content in one location has some value.
It'd be too easy to get keys out of the software, so the studios wouldn't go for that. There's a reason DRM is baked into operating systems.
Short answer: they’re not at all trustworthy.