jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
if anyone doesn't capture anything or move a pawn in 50 moves its an draw (better train on that bishop & knight endgame :)... if anyone claims it, so uh, not sure how that counts :) However if an checkmate is impossible with the remaining pieces it's automatic

edit: missing pawn from sentence
You don't.

The people who consider cell phones or internet access* as luxuries are stuck in the past, probably in the time they grew up. They also often speak of flat screen TVs, laptop computers, and even microwave ovens as being major luxuries compared to the "normal" equivalent. (Can you even still get a CRT TV?)

*It's extremely common for several poor people to share internet access, but at least one of them has to be paying for it.
Unfortunately this is almost guaranteed to bring a legal attack from Qualcomm, with or without actual grounds. I've never encountered a more litigious company in my (long) involvement in electronics, or the tech sector in general. Whether Qualcomm employs more engineers or more lawyers is an open research topic.
large institutions going bankrupt doesn't mean millions of americans will be thrown out of work. that's a boogeyman used by economists to short-circuit that line of thinking because it threatens moneyed interests. the value of those businesses remains and they'll be quickly bought up and revitalized by excess capital looking for returns (part of the problem is concentrated wealth that doesn’t know what to do with itself). let that excess capital be unleashed rather than sitting sidelined. we need more bankruptcies at the unproductive top-heavy end of the economy.
Co-founder, 3rd startup, helped a handful of others grow.

I meekly suggest a different framing or mindset.

It is less "this idea is good or bad / market demanded it or not" - which suggests a passive, fixed worldview - I propose a more proactive approach: "am I able to make people adopt our solution or not."

If you launch something innovative (i.e. not 1-1 comparable with existing alternatives) your effective market is 0. This applies even more if you create a new category. So you can be faced with the situation where market demand cannot be satisfied unless you know how to reshape its adoption dynamics.

In this case, validation has multiple pieces that have to come together: is there compensatory behaviour to prove that existing solutions are underdelivering; can we identify an early adopter psychographic looking for a specific feature set we're able to create; do we have a way to get to them;
What is fair about this? That there is more than one dishonest asshole out there? Sure, that's true.

Does it make them any less of an asshole if someone else is also being an asshole? Not in my eyes.

Whenever someone acts like an asshole, I stop my dealings with them, avoid any interactions.

With humans, that means no longer talking with them, calling them, or messaging them.

With an online service, that means saving my data and deleting my account, never installing their app, never going to their website, creating a straight-to-trash filter for their email.

In both cases, I will share my knowledge about them close ones if it can save them some grief.
They were eventually given the right to “print” EUR. One of the many problems with the euro system that periphery countries have unfortunately been subjected too.
About 2.5h more? :)
Was the Pinella County Public Water Supply [0]? The article didn't make it clear.

[0] https://mytapwater.org/pws/fl6521405/pinellas-county-utiliti...
Apples to oranges if it's not electric
You reminded me of The Wire's piece on McNuggets :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvq3Pf3j61c
Java has really great tooling to make it really safe if one wants to — the problem is usually the managements’ cheapness with programmers fresh out of school/bootcamp. There are areas with high security requirements where Java is used with great success.
6:2. Barret was not on the court when the case was heard.
> For one it could reduce the likelihood of the draft being reinstated and people forced to go due in Vietnam.

Could it, though?

Remember, if you’re not in a swing state, your Presidential vote is literallly—
Thanks for the tip. I have added a note about storing this in a git submodule to the post.
Pretty average review really, spent the whole time talking about a few bugs which are no doubt being sorted out. Fair enough they are warning that it is buggy but surely they could have worked around them and talked about the actual main purpose of the device in more depth, which is, waking you up at the optimal time. He basically got frustrated and didn't test that properly.

In a couple of weeks/months when those specific bugs are sorted out this review will be absolutely worthless. I look forward to seeing a review based on how someone felt after having it wake you each morning for a while.
Who would go there and pay to pay full attention to him speaking if they could watch him speak for free online while doing other things too?
This is stuff you should have learned in school in a numerical methods or numerical analysis class. If you didn't, take a read of What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic.

http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
I've read that statistically, you are far more likely to die in a car accident than a plane crash.
I'm the author. Feel free to email me anything at rbitar [at] gmail.
To be totally honest, I'd rather have HN allow posts that are of dubious topicality than to turn into another stackoverflow where topics are closed/deleted if they don't meet the strictest definition of what's allowed on the site. Sometimes the harm of off-topic posts is much less than the harm in doing away with them.
That's insanely high res. How many pixels would my 15" MBP have at that DPI?
Moving up to a dual display was a huge improvement. Much easier to have source material up in one window and type in another. However, I see a pretty sharp diminishing return beyond two monitors.
probably because there's profit in exclusivity.
Yes, the point here is not about the total valuation of each asset, which affects every holder equally, but about how individuals can influence, or not, the relative distribution of said asset.

If I'm, say, from a persecuted cultural group, I'll want to keep my wealth in an asset that has the same value whether I or someone else own it. Precious metals fit this bill better than both fiat and public-ledger cryptocurrencies.
He was a Washington Post journalist. It is a big deal because if you cannot protect this journalist then every journalist is a target.
outside, just like residential heat pumps.
I'll take that bet! https://dynomight.net/2020/12/15/some-real-data-on-a-DIY-box...
I don't wamt to remember what I read. I want inspiration. Being inspired and being creative serves me better then remembering stuff.
My guess? They don't want the content of their conversations to be processed and data mined by Microsoft. It's for the same reason myself and the teams I work with don't enable this feature in Teams, or in Google Hangouts/Meet/whatever, where I first saw it.
Sadly it's more than just that. OPEC and the Petrodollar is the main reason why the relationship is so unseverable.
When hunting monsters, beware that you don’t become a monster, etc.
https://9to5mac.com/2019/11/15/apple-ad-revenue/
Even if the equity is in the same category, it's unlikely to be extremely valuable.

A $2M exit sounds great until you factor in the extra taxes and 5 to 10 years to realize that. Many software developers could make a substantial amount of that, without the risk, simply by aggressively working career changes.
https://archive.is/7PzJD
Your comment just made me smile and exhale with a sigh of relief. You hit my sentiment exactly. Sometimes I don't know why we waist it all for silly business ventures instead of enjoying the splendor that the universe has to offer. It's baffling to me. Though, starving sucks, but do we need to try so hard to do such insignificant things (in general)? It's probably why I won't spend my time trying to write another Tetris clone in some obscure language; it's been done, move on. :-) Let's make a real difference so we can spend time reflecting and getting our minds blown by reality.
Wait, what? Jobs didn't create technology, he sold it to people (and did that very well). Before you reply, consider that I was there (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer) and I knew Jobs personally. I watched how he operated. He was very good at what he did, but he was a promoter, not a creator, of technology -- technology created by others.
I'll fund you on this.
One headache I had in the past was with a highly-available app with stored procs. It was rare to do parallel app server restarts, they were instead done in serial. (This did make certain migrations a pain.) Outdated app servers would continue calling pgpgsql functions in the outdated way until they received new code.

We solved it with a small wrapper around the calls to plpgsql functions — we set up a build process to generate unique names that were called by version. During deploy, we'd have two or more versions of the 'same' function running in parallel. The last deploy step dropped the now-outdated functions.

It worked relatively well.
John Oliver is remarkable in a sense he comes from UK to US, gets rich by cracking jokes about the very same thing that made him rich!
We found multiple vaccines for Covid in less than 1 year.
I don't know what point you are trying to make; the intent is key, but the intent is clear. The Chinese government is targetting the Uigher people and their supporters with the intention of destroying the Uigher cultural identity.

The Chinese government is doing all of these things to the Uigher people, and I am not going to replicate the exhaustively cited information that is summarized in the article[1] below to support each individual claim. I recognize that Wikipedia articles may have bias, but the bulk of the citations in that article are from recognized news sources.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
California is ahead of India, a country of well over 1 billion people, which pretty much refutes the size argument.
Any Joplin users here? How does this compare to Joplin? (besides being less supported on different platforms)
I wonder if this has to do with the overall decline of manufacturing in the US. Supply chains have been moving out of the US so iteration will be slower and more costly. Fewer talents would like to go to manufacturing. Fewer university professors are researching traditional mechanics now, for example, but more on "cutting-edge" stuff like nanometer materials. We also get fewer and fewer highly trained workers on lathing, welding, milling and etc over the years. As a result, it gets more expensive and more risky to build something as complex as F35.
I haven't found AWS to be predatory. Or Azure for that matter.

GCE also isn't so much predatory as incompetent and apathetic. If a Google failure wipes out your startup, you're a statistic and it's okay.
How do you track where you were in paginated HN? Ranking changes between reading a thread and returning to the page and links often swap between pages.
So only one way (upstream) communication via "beacons"? What about downstream - thats where the complexity is.
It's because we all have different expectations and use-case. A PDF is great if you need to ensure the formatting looks the same on all platform, while HTML and its derivative (ie: ePub) are useful when you have a myriad of display size where you want the text to reflow and maximize the screen usage and readability (font size, etc) without caring too much about the layout.
Office365 has a gigantic advantage in this space with Dynamics ERP
I would argue that if the police require any equipment in addition to the normal range of human senses to detect evidence, the use of such equipment should be considered a search. Whether the feet physically move onto the property or not, the equipment is breaching a privacy barrier.

If you confess to murder in your own home on an ultrasonic carrier wave, and the police happen to be outside on the sidewalk pointing an ultrasonic microphone at your house, no reasonable person could deny that was a search of your home.

A visible-light camera with an audible-range microphone that coincidentally covered your home in the course of otherwise lawful activity, on the other hand, would be more in the nature of accidental eyewitness than intentional search.

When people take steps to create a private space for themselves, they judge by their own senses whether their precautions are sufficient. If I stand outside my own house and cannot see, hear, smell, or otherwise sense any activity within, I have a reasonable expectation of privacy. I typically do not use a wi-fi packet sniffer, or a FLIR camera, or a laser microphone to ensure that my activities are safe from interception from random passers-by, because they do not carry such equipment.
I agree, Apple's silence on various issues is incredibly unprofessional and is creating increasing resentment among consumers and developers, etc.
A lot of animals have had severe bottlenecks like that in the past. Cheetahs, for example, have so very little genetic diversity that they're all essentially cousins; cheetahs will accept skin grafts from any other cheetah with no fear of rejection. Humans have also had a pretty extreme bottleneck in our history, with estimates that there were no more than about a thousand alive at one point, which is why we don't have the diversity many other animals have. If we manage the remaining population carefully, even a small population can rebound with few fears of later genetic problems.
Doesn't Haskell have a bit of an aura that languages of similar size don't? Kinda like how people think you're smart/educated if you study Latin, rather than Old Norse?
My main problem with this "you can own a video game asset!" argument is that you just don't.

You own a token on the blockchain that currently points to something. Tomorrow, it could point to something else. Let's take the "only sword that can kill a certain monster" thing, and have a look at the parts involved.

The parts are:

- The token on the blockchain
- The art assets of the sword
- The stats on the sword (including what it can and can't kill)
- The list of games where this sword is a valid item

Of those, the NFT will only let you own or in any way control the first point. Let's say I get The Sword Of Dragon Murder in game A, and it is currently also accepted in game B. Woohoo, metaverse! The company in control of game B will control what it looks and sounds like in game B, and they will also control what it does there. Maybe it only kills dragons there, but the game has no dragons? It doesn't even need to be called the same. For a joke, they could have it display as "The Toothpick of King Arthur" and using it will have your character do a "pick your teeth" animation. Zero dragon murders to be had, no matter what you paid for the NFT.

Even worse is that you can't even control what the item does in the game you got it from. At any time, they can change the art assets so it looks like any ordinary sword, and remove the dragon murdering stats.

We even see kind of that in games now: Power creep.

When the next expansion comes out, your current gear is likely to be outdated, and you have to grind for the new stuff (or "microtransact" yourself up to date), and it doesn't matter if it's an NFT or a regular entry in a regular database, because your old stuff is still crap in the new area.

In your favorite MMO, take a five year old "best item" and try to sell it on the auction house. You won't get "best item" sort of prices. Why would that magically change with NFTs? Why are they exempt from this?

It seems obvious to me that the people talking about NFTs and secondary markets in games have not played any MMO for any length of time, or they'd know about nerfing and expansions.
It's not built in, but you could configure such a layout in i3 too (and I guess sway, since it's intended to be a clone?): https://i3wm.org/docs/layout-saving.html

Bit of first time setup but then you can just bind it to a hotkey after that.
"Trolls" (not sure if that's the correct term in this case) can only cover a small part of all the reputation repairs. Most of them stay below the radar, so nobody will even know it's been done.
Gonna throw a hat in for Deno. It’s not super mature, but you can certainly write isomorphic React + some MVC code in a monolith - nothing to sneeze at, looks promising.

I think tooling to generate typesafe SQL methods from inspecting a DB is a big win for the Deno ecosystem. And an equivalent for Storybook. From that point forwards, it’s pretty good for lean projects.
> Syndrome being the villain [is a bit of] trying to defend social hierarchies

He's a villain because he's trying to replace the hereditary caste by violence, and by consuming them. The tension is there outside of him -- and Mr. Incredible is a bit of an arse to Billy at first -- but it's his means, not his ends, that are the problem.
I got out of WordPress after about 18 years with it. I wrote about it at https://brajeshwar.com/2021/brajeshwar.com-2021/

However, when I suggest blogs for other people, the default is WordPress. I'm still navigating and learning the ideal, simplified, pattern with text files without the need to rely on any further complex tools.
You may not have solved it perfectly, but better than a version of Excel I once used. Every time you save, it drops the undo stack. No matter what. I think the latest versions have fixed this by now.
That's actually a country song.
That was pretty cool.
> fake information to lead the world to believe it was being surveilled

This already exists... and has for thousands of years. It's called "religion." ;)
You're correct, the likelihood of stars colliding is near zero, but the gas that forms stars in both galaxies will collide and that will create quite a spectacular view. It will likely resemble something like this: http://hugepic.io/bfc195a2b/4.00/2.02/-77.61
You don't have to trust them. But using their platform, you can reach such a gigantic amount of users, it's better to use it anyway. Even if they screw you afterwards.
I recently started watching live TV through a digital antenna and SlingTV, and I've actually seen a handful of ads for Google. I've only seen one or two search ads, but a bunch for Android thought their new "Be different, not the same" campaign. Still, many more than I've seen for Facebook.
While that certainly is an intimidating set of links you have there, only two of those have any discussion -- one over two years ago, the other nearly four years ago.
One does not simply pare down regulation. There's a reason it grew in the first place - even if it's nothing more than bureaucrats giving themselves a reason to get a paycheck. You have to strike at the root cause of the regulation, otherwise you'll get pushback or it'll come back if you don't constantly expend effort on it.
Because open-source chat platforms lack features that make apps like WhatsApp good for regular users.

How long does it take you to set up a Jabber client? Can you add a person to Jabber using just their phone number?
The full source wasn't available, but at least the product was available to the market. With Apple buying it up and taking down the source repos and the full product download page, the tech is lost to anyone outside of Apple.
will be interesting to see what happens when the rest of the VC's get back to their offices on Monday.
Bijections aren't necessarily isomorphisms. A bijection is just a one-to-one correspondence between two sets; an isomorphism also preserves functional and relational structure on those sets.

I note that this was brought up in the comments and dismissed by the author. A mistake is one thing—we all make them—but the way he shrugged off the correction is concerning.
> The neat thing about Dropbox is that your files get automagically mirrored to all your computers with Dropbox installed.

Is that correct? My understanding is that all your computers are connected to the same remote server on which your files reside, so that they all have access to the latest version. That does nothing to prevent loss of access / loss of data if the remote server goes down.
One of the things driving this is that e-publishing has lowered the entry barrier for people who write "genre fiction". It's easier to get published and put your work out where an audience can find it. By "genre fiction", I mean stuff like military science fiction or vampire romances, etc, that has emotional appeal to a fairly specific audience. In the days before e-publishing, John Norman's Gor books would pretty obvious example of that sort of niche-appeal content.

For this sort of fiction, "well-written" is less important than pushing the right buttons (the plots are usually fairly predictable). To use an analogy, the rise of e-publishing is similar to the rise of blogging, in that they both allow for the easy production and consumption of targeted content (and predictable button-pushing is the raison d'etre of many blogs, particularly those discussing politics).

Note, I'm not claiming all e-publishing is genre-fiction or poorly written, just like all blogs don't fall into the predictable button-pushing category.
This is a really scummy climate change denial website.

One great example is their coverage of ClimateGate, which is all about the negative:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/climategate/

But completely avoids mentioning that all investigates cleared the original subjects and found no wrong doing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_co...
CAFE laws probably to some extent.
The problem with Safari is extensions are nonexistent.

I need a few I cannot live without (a rule based proxy switcher, an ad blocker, a GraphQL client).
The company I work at maintains an office, but coming in is optional. Some people come in every day because they prefer not to work from home, some people come in just for special occasions that require in-person meetings. As long as everyone is clear that it really is optional, then there shouldn't be an issue.
This is a very common question: "Why don't we just add a borrow checker to <lang>?"[1]

Having the same level of memory safety that Rust has can be accomplished in one of two ways: garbage collection, with the associated cost, or extra annotations and robust type system. Changing any existing language to do that would diverge enough from the root language that it would no longer be the same language, losing the benefits of using an existing language to begin with, and foregoing the benefits of building a language that accounts for the way it manages memory in its features.

I also personally believe that it'll be easier to make Rust easier to use than to make GC languages faster or non-memory safe languages safer.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ijwl0e/the_borrow_che...
I don't go to work to socialize. I go to work to make money. And if I had enough money, I wouldn't work for someone else at all.

I socialize by going to conventions, events, clubs, parties; with people I want to be around.
My team had two remote people before the pandemic and my company has global offices so including remote workers is already something we understand.

I fully expect to have to go in to the office one or two days a week but the logistics are easier with remote meetings. There's no need to find an empty room, I don't have to take time to walk to your floor, etc.

> I get the nudge I need in the mornings to hit the gym again, I get cheap and healthy food during lunch with no effort on my part. And I get to see and interact with people who don't work in my team and I haven't had any work reason to interact with again.

These are personal problems. I have been exercising more while WFH because I have more time. You can't expect your coworkers to change their lives because you get a personal time-management or networking benefit.