jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think if this was a decade ago, when Facebook was younger (newly post-IPO!), hungrier, and had a better reputation with the public, that might have happened.

But nowadays Meta is older and much more disreputable, many of their new products seem to be clones of other things that exist, from Clubhouse to HQ Trivia, and users are far more jaded towards the company.

Not to mention, mobile and tech in general has matured to a state that a brand new app store, at least from a tech giant everyone knows about, coming to iOS isn't as exciting as it used to be. What does another mobile app store offer the average consumer? They barely download as many new apps from the actual official App Store. Having to deal with another platform account, even if expedited through Facebook login would be another friction point for users, another set of confusing permissions to juggle, another payment system to hook up to, another downloads history to keep track. Users are already getting burned out by having to deal with so many video streaming platforms that piracy is making a comeback, why would they be willing to put up with a Facebook Store just to get Instagram? At least signing up for Paramount+ lets you watch the Halo television show, what does signing up to the Facebook Store do besides let you use Facebook- which you already can?

No, I believe that even if Meta really does launch such a store, they would not be willing to pull their official apps away from the actual App Store. They will hedge their bets because it is unlikely that all, or maybe even most, Facebook users will switch to their app store. If forced to have to use a whole new store for no good reason, many consumers will just stop using Facebook, and find substitutes to Instagram instead.
really dig the "slow" idea. Will you federate? There's a good argument for this here (you would have a built-in audience of at least 5m accounts):

https://www.michellelim.org/writing/into-the-fediverse/

Federation could be your "moat" to avoid joining the Club of Abandoned Social Apps (it's a harsh ecosystem, ask Clubhouse or App.Net).
It depends: Real-world nukes, or Hollywood nukes.

If real-world nukes, play with Nukemap to get an idea.

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
True. Metalpoint is not traditionally considered "pencil", but it can definitely be used for writing/drawing and the stylus has the same appearance and basic use.

Anecdote: In ~5th grade science class, we had a folded sheet of metallic lead that was passed around for students to handle. I suspect this practice has been discontinued!

At the time, I thought pencils contained real lead (Pb), so I tried to use the lead sheet to mark paper. It worked well! But not as well as (and had different marking characteristics from) a regular pencil. I assumed the improvements were part of the productization, but that the pencil still used real lead.

Wikipedia says, on the discovery of naturally-occurring graphite:

> Chemistry was in its infancy and the substance was thought to be a form of lead. Consequently, it was called plumbago (Latin for "lead ore").

It's funny how names stick. 500 years and counting on this one.
This is the upside of Apple's distressing tendency to burn backward compatibility. As a Mac dev who chooses to support really REALLY old machines, I've experienced the downside of this, needing to keep dedicated retro machines just for building retro software on, and developing everything repeatedly on different generations of computer instead of having it just work the first time.

This is the upside: if they want to make a quantum leap, they will absolutely do so if it benefits them, and everybody's expected to just re-buy, at Apple prices (mind you, trade-ins are a thing). Apple absolutely can afford to throw away anything that impedes them from doing what they want, and in the case of the M1 processors it's serving them really well. Turns out the fat wads of cash can be used to buy useful things, and when Apple wants to, they can CHANGE THE WORRRLLLD ;)

I'm sure the PC (not necessarily 'x86') world will find ways to more or less keep up: there are plenty of people who really, really want to keep up. It's just that complacency won't cut it: PC-land has to really seriously work to not fall way behind. Good. That's best for everybody. As a lifelong Mac guy since the 68040, I'm delighted the PC world has driven Apple to these extremes, because now I get to enjoy the results.
"Steve Jobs is no match for Tim Cool when it comes to being a CEO of a big corporation"

Other 'Big Corp CEO' features are antitrust and abuse of dominant market position, forbidding suppliers from selling spare parts to device owners, lobbying opposition to right to repair and spreading lies, disabling the device in case of 'unautorised repair', and running software on your device with the goal of sending their own customers to jail.

He is wholesomely taking part in taking away property rights from masses of people and bringin about a new age of digital serfdom. You will own nothing, and anything from your phone to your toaster can be used against you.
Oh this is so kind of you. Right now I am all set but it is possible that I need help especially with simple things like how to find a place to stay when I arrive in Germany this summer. Again, thank you for offering help :)
I've started it and a few pages in I would largely agree with this review, it's very America-centric. You have to simultaneously believe that the NSA are the best in the world, and that foreign hackers despite being nowhere near as smart managed to steal all their hacking tools, and it's lucky for them that they did otherwise they would have no chance against the NSA because they are the BEST! USA! USA!

If it doesn't get better than that pretty quickly I'm unlikely to finish it.
So Zcash developers feel threatened enough about Taler to spread FUD about it. Sounds like a positive signal to me ;).
The temporary fad of personal computing still seems to linger around, though.
I tend to sum that up with a joke self contradictory sentence: "Normally this would be special pleading but....".
To a local server running in a Wasm env? Yes please!

And by local, I mean running in the same page.
Is the space actually being used more effectively? What can fit in the laptop without a SD card slot that couldn't fit with one present? Why is a smooth side with no ports somehow more valuable than a side with usable ports? You can't think you'll see any savings passed along to use for Apple taking out a part that costs them a few dollars at most. Removing the feature won't save any consumers any money, only reduce usability overall.
Interesting, pax-utils-v1.2.5 on Arch Linux 5.10.9-arch1-1:

> pspax
USER PID PAX MAPS ETYPE NAME CAPS ATTR
[1] 3209832 invalid system call (core dumped) pspax

Stack trace of thread 3209832:
#0 0x00007fbdb92d89ab __socket (libc.so.6 + 0x1019ab)
#1 0x00007fbdb930dce0 open_socket (libc.so.6 + 0x136ce0)
#2 0x00007fbdb930e1de __nscd_get_mapping (libc.so.6 + 0x1371de)
#3 0x00007fbdb930e62f __nscd_get_map_ref (libc.so.6 + 0x13762f)
#4 0x00007fbdb930ac47 nscd_getpw_r (libc.so.6 + 0x133c47)
#5 0x00007fbdb930b0b6 __nscd_getpwuid_r (libc.so.6 + 0x1340b6)
#6 0x00007fbdb92a3895 getpwuid_r@@GLIBC_2.2.5 (libc.so.6 + 0xcc895)
#7 0x00007fbdb92a2eeb getpwuid (libc.so.6 + 0xcbeeb)
#8 0x0000558995732566 n/a (pspax + 0x4566)
#9 0x00007fbdb91ff152 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x28152)
#10 0x0000558995732e8e n/a (pspax + 0x4e8e)

Dump of assembler code for function socket:
0x00007fb1d04139a0 <+0>: endbr64
0x00007fb1d04139a4 <+4>: mov $0x29,%eax
0x00007fb1d04139a9 <+9>: syscall
=> 0x00007fb1d04139ab <+11>: cmp $0xfffffffffffff001,%rax
0x00007fb1d04139b1 <+17>: jae 0x7fb1d04139b4 <socket+20>
0x00007fb1d04139b3 <+19>: ret
0x00007fb1d04139b4 <+20>: mov 0xc0495(%rip),%rcx # 0x7fb1d04d3e50

This can be a system library incompatibility though as don't have all system packages up-to-date.

The code compiled from https://github.com/gentoo/pax-utils runs but displays just = under CAPS for every process.

So I am not sure it is generally usable outside of Gentoo (yet).
1, because it's expensive (take a look at MGM situation over the past decade)

2, having access to 1 studio, especially a no-name studio is extremely non-valuable to Netflix. When is the last time you saw a movie because it was released by Sony Pictures, or Lionsgate, vs. seeing it because the content itself was interesting to you? I'd hazard you've never done any such thing, because effectively zero people consume content based upon who owner is vs. what the content is/who the creator is.

Netflix needs at least 2 of the major studios providing them content, preferably 3 or 4 of the 5 majors, in order to provide access to a wide range of material.
I hope this isn't similar to Assange getting bail and NASA discovering arsenic based life.
If a randomly clobbered together and unvetted system is compliant, but bcrypt isn't, that just goes to show how little FIPS140-2 compliance actually means. (as if everybody didn't already know it's worthless)
I admit I games the system a bit to re-post this link, but it seemed very relevant. I learned a ton from this discussion, so my selfish reasons were met.
You have OAUTH tokens for that. Many gmail-related webservices are using them. (Like etacts, for example)
I wrote an article on this, scroll on down to "The Solution" http://cointelegraph.com/news/113255/keeping-score-at-the-20...
We're trying to avoid the internet callout/shaming culture here. It's not helpful and it has negative systemic effects. When you have a substantive point (which your GP comment definitely did!) it's best to make it thoughtfully and respectfully.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If this was actually implemented as part of the hiring process, people would just game the system. It's very easy to not "like" that Jack Daniel's or Bob Marley page if you are aware some algorithm might label you a substance abuser.

I also find it interesting that the article seems to assume Facebook is omnipresent; then again, maybe it is. Anecdotedly, my girlfriend has been living without a Facebook for two years now and it's never been a problem. She actually claims that her quality of life has improved.

As for me, I don't have an active Facebook. I made a new account after deleting my old with one that showcased all my juvenile high school/college idiocy. I check the new one about once a month

On my old Facebook, I had accumulated over 1000 "friends". Now I have about 30. This is because I only made this new Facebook so my family members could share pictures with me.

I wonder what two different kinds of personalities these algorithms would produce. I doubt either would be truly accurate.
Don't you generally type with two hands? How often are you locking that this is a problem?
Seriously? Acquired for "tens of millions of dollars", half a million dollars in funding? I'm not usually the one to ask things like this but could someone please explain what they're buying here?

400k users signed up during beta, okay, but for a service like this I don't see how that translates to these kinds of numbers.

If they have data that tells them they can convert a meaningful percentage of users to a premium plan, sure, but somehow I doubt that's AOL's plan.
The machine is necessary. Although the spy is able to produce a Y number with the machine and the guard knows Y, if the guard doesn't know X he also doesn't know how to generate a Y number with the machine.
The $15 gas can is exactly why I picked one up for $3 and keep it in the car.

It's been transfered over three cars now and I've never used it but one day will. Some stations might not even have one to loan. Same thing for jumper cables (which I've used twice in two decades for myself, and another couple times to help others).

But there's a 180 degree different perspective here too as a woman, there will always be a few people who stop, but I rarely trust any of them. This is why I carry two different kinds of old cellphones in my car (one sprint, one GSM) since they can still call 911 or I can call AAA on my regular phone.
that, that looks manageable
If the SAP/Oracle case is any guide, then even having a well-funded defense won't save you from massive losses.
NY Times has required an account to sometimes view free content for more than 10 years now. I got an account back then and it still works.
i'm going to run through this, hopefully a weekend is enough to run through most it.
The roads in new developments are built by the developers. I'm not sure these roads have much to do with deciding to drive to work or take the train.

Yes, its true that most interstates are rural. Of course that is true. I'm sure that its 95% rural. That's the nature of a network that connects all of the major cities in the country. And this 95% is probably a lot less relevant to whether you decide to live in the suburbs than the much more expensive part. Of course, your edit about the cost of the SF road acknowledges this very fact.

Its also true that in dense urban areas, interstate highways make up a fraction of the roads used for commuting.

Highways that must be put through existing neighborhoods are very expensive. And that's where highways to the suburbs had to be built. Usually by forcing other people from their homes. A lot of the true costs of building roads is hidden in pollution too.

The cost to build something is not the only cost. Roads have to be maintained, snow removed and potholes filled.

All I'm saying is that growth would be much more organic and justified if those getting the benefits of sprawl paid its costs as they went, instead of receiving a subsidy that distorts things.
Aha: this seems to be the company: http://www.gentex.com/

They sell aftermarket interior mirrors, but sadly not exterior/side mirrors.
For the wealth of a society it might be a good think, because everyone is
pushing each other. For the happiness of most people it might be a bad
thing, because only a few can win.
Looks like the author is not really a strategist and doesn't understand basics about business models and nature of services as also what exactly a CAC is, what loss leader is and what free means for engagement.
It is more cross platform but integrated debugger kind of sucks. I am doing some project for Raspberry Pi 4 and had to resort to debugPrint() as on some breakpoints it reports gdb error and terminates debugging.
You'll be hitting the CDN, not the actual server.

As for the subpoena, you can make it harder to find you by spreading your addresses across multiple jurisdictions. Put the company that owns the IP in one country and make it rent them to another company in a different country who owns the servers and the website and rents the domain name from a third company in yet another jurisdiction.

Eventually they'll find you (there aren't many ways to escape a government forever), but this game can buy you enough time to move someplace where extradition is unlikely.
> But from now on you can get the inflated valley salaries from everywhere.

You can't. Spotify are an exception and I doubt that they'll keep this up long term or that many companies will follow.

And I think that that people overestimate these effects in general - the most likely outcome is that the salary distribution gets smoothed over to some extent i.e. big-city salaries go down a bit (or don't rise as high and as fast), remote and lower-cost areas see some increase in salaries but to a limited extent. But at the end of the day SV and big cities will still offer the best compensation, just with a smaller delta between them and the rest of the market.
None of the neutral language moves the needle. People have been pointing out for years that using more energy than all of Denmark to handle fewer transactions than a mid-sized Walmart is not a recipe for success.

There are too many bagholders, excuse me, "investors" who are financially motivated to keep pushing this stuff.
I'm surprised anyone would be willing to consider merging a branch into master that has not itself pulled the latest head from master. It puts the the person running the merge into the position of having to test someone else's code.

It would seem to me that if a branch diffs against an older point in master, then the PR should be rejected as not properly tested. Merging into master should never create a merge conflict; the merge conflict should happen and be resolved on the feature branch first.

Or what am I missing?
was expecting an article about ADOM :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Domains_of_Mystery
I just see them as "This is the way I organize my JS", so they're all useful to me.
I actually had to look up what doxxing is! I realized I had never gotten a proper definition. Doxxing refers to the practice of investigating and revealing a target subject’s personally identifiable information, such as home address, workplace information and credit card numbers, without consent.

I suppose you could argue that exposing frauds is a form of doxxing, but so could whistleblowing. I think there is a line to be drawn[0], but their names? How do you talk about the key players in a scandal if you can't use their names?

[0]: That guy who took a picture of Zoe's work place and posted it on twitter was over the line, for example. Then again, Zoe posted Mike Cernovich's address on twitter and encouraged her followers to swat him.
That matches well with the original guiding principles for software modularity: modules should encapsulate deferred or changing decisions, nothing more or less.
well, one way to a self-fulfiling proheshy is to advertsie below market jobs in the market you are looking at.
I speak for myself here, but it is not that I would recommend against talking in principle. Only, in practice the system is set up for talking to be universally a bad idea.

If the system puts in place some better checks and balances for people to fight abuses (as the one in the post on top), I will gladly go back and do my civic duties to stop crime.

So, how are they supposed to investigate if nobody talks? They are supposed to fight for better checks and balances, so people can start talking again.
It's unfortunate and maybe it can be engineered in a better way but still I'm happy to trade CPU and RAM for uncluttered web pages. Whenever I watch somebody navigate without AdBlock, I always wonder how they could get used to make sense of all that mixed mess of ads and content.

Furthermore if sites are paid per click my pre AdBlock contribute to all the ads sustained web sites was probably way less than $1. They are losing little by my use of AdBlock. One reason I didn't click ads was precisely that they are so intrusive and ugly. Thanks to AdBlock I'm spared with that and they don't lose bandwidth and CPU to serve ads that won't be clicked. Win-win.
I doubt even many users will be stupid enough to not only click some random fake error ad, but follow the advice of a dodgy site. Almost everyone who has adblock installed it knowingly, wanting the effect and knowing what it does.
Seriously, is this a joke?
Merely reduces the statistical power, doesn't make the inferences go away completely.

And there may be techniques for filtering out relayed material - perhaps relay traffic emerges from the node quickly enough that an observer can then figure out what entering traffic was just being relayed and remove it from consideration (always a concern with a high-performance mix network since you can't randomize retransmission as strongly as you could with email mix networks like Mixmaster where you could wait hours, without rendering it unusable) or relay traffic is constant enough that one can assume any 'spikes' are the user's traffic.
That's exactly my current way to stay up to date on news, and it's using much less time per day for me than Google Reader.
However pendantic, I feel compelled to point out that including the word 'want' in the title does imply intent.
A topic after my own heart. I think to perform well with minimal sleep is an art form.

Identify where you do your best thinking and make it a habit. I find that a good cup of coffee or a good workout bring out the best in my productivity. With some luck, there's a late night coffeeshop nearby you can frequent. Being around people alone can help keep your energy up.

The gym helps me decompress and gather thoughts - all the clutter of the current project or the events of that day can be reflected on and next moves can be put together. My regular gym has late hours so it's not unusual for me to get a midnight workout in followed by some more work. I can almost feel my brain sorting through the clutter from a workload as I work up a sweat. Best part - it's a natural way to boost energy and it works.

More than anything, being predisposed to that type of lifestyle helps (i.e. insomnia). I have instances where I'm dead tired but my mind is still racing - these are cases where it's hard to make myself fall asleep.

To sum it up, find a system that suits you. There's a strong possibility that that method requires you to be active (rather than passive) as you navigate through your day. Integrate it into a routine so when those occasions pop-up where you need to pull an all-nighter, the ramp-up isn't as dramatic.
Some would say there's something right about you.
My parents kept a stranglehold on things like TV and Video Games, and I'm glad they did. They slowly lost ground around the time I hit high school, but because of it I spent a literally obscene amount of time building things with Legos. I built some really cool stuff, too.

I was never much of a play-in-the-dirt kid, if I wasn't building something I didn't see the point. (sure, you can build stuff with dirt, but my imagination called for a bit more than dirt could manage as a building material)
Sometimes I wish HN had a separate "tl;dr" box that people could write on and vote for the best summaries.
All personality disorders contain normal traits; you’re not supposed to go around diagnosing or curing people unless it’s literally causing them to be “disordered” because of it.

I’ve seen a claim that DID is actually caused by psychologists telling suggestible people they’re supposed to have DID, but maybe mr. SSC guy was joking about that one.
>You've got to give serious thought to the idea that the Reagan-era cuts played a significant part in the rapid growth

Or it could have been the tax increases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Equity_and_Fiscal_Responsib...
Hey everybody.
The tutorial is for the newbies, and is only meant to be used for the web. Anyways, thank you for your constructive comments, will promise to keep that in mind when I`ll create another tut.

Regards,
Chris
Hi all. I wrote the post above, so to provide some context:

1. This was written with the Singaporean startup scene in mind. There are a couple of differences re:the environment in Singapore vs the Valley. For starters, students here prefer interning at banks, or other 'proper companies', as opposed to startups. Second, the startups themselves are often very new to the game. (Founders asking for NDAs are still a fairly common occurrence.)

2. Google SoC is doubly attractive because of the exchange rate. USD5000 is a big thing when compared to the market rates in Singapore, and that still doesn't factor in the benefits of learning from a large, well-managed OSS project.

I wrote this primarily as a response to the number of companies that hit the NUS Hackers mailing list with off-the-mark ads. I'm not sure if this would help other companies looking to recruit hackers, but hopefully the context would give you enough information to decide for yourself.

Plug: NUS Hackers is a student organization dedicated to the spread of OSS and hacking in the National University of Singapore. We're affiliated with the Singaporean Hackerspace (http://hackerspace.sg/) and both organizations would be more than willing to show you around/lend you some help/introduce you to people, should any HNer choose to drop by Singapore. :)