jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That hit me recently - was sat in an airport the other side of the world having just sent my mum a WhatsApp saying we were through security and sharing some snaps from that leg of the journey.

Even within my lifetime, that'd have been a £10 phonecall and a postcard that might or might not arrive in a week or so. It took 20 seconds to have an immediate, searchable, chronological update on what we'd done and where we were. Incredible.

That being said, if Google Photos and WhatsApp go the way of the dodo, we're a bit screwed.
"The AWS free tier will expire 12 months from the date of when you first sign up."
> The TCO managers claimed that monitoring workers was necessary for keeping them safe, or to prevent them from stealing. But it wasn’t convincing in the slightest.

OP clearly has very little experience with a post-soviet work culture. In Russia, Kazakhstan and other nearby countries, drinking at the workplace (and I mean, getting blackout drunk) and stealing from your employer is still very common for blue-collar workers.
Mac mini would have been a good comparison for another SFF PC of some sort, agreed.
Huh? That's not at all what made Gmail a succes.

If I'm on Wave, and you're not on Wave, we can't use Wave together. That's the end of it.

If I'm on Gmail and you're on AOLMail, we can email one another, and I can tell you how awesome Gmail is.

Gmail was a well-defined product with obvious benefit. Wave wasn't, and to boot you couldn't immediately use it for its intended purposes.
The first link in pg's email that you quote in your post asks to be kept confidential. You might want to redact it.
Except that I do 50% of my emails and know many others who do exactly the same or more (and these are not short emails) from their iPhones. People who lived on their blackberries live on their iPhones or Android touchscreen phones. While it might be a problem for some for most it hasn't been one.
Yeah - agreed :)
If the current client works, then what is Dropbox's obligation to provide a new one? As I understood it when signing up for a 50 GB account, my payment was for increased storage. There is no sales language on their website indicating that I'd benefit from any future features. They don't sell you on future benefits, and looking at their features page [1], I don't see any language that would imply anything to this effect either.

1 - https://www.dropbox.com/features
I got five invites to give away, let me know if you're interested. Then connect with me using my username kilian@joindiaspora.com and I'll add you to my hackernews aspect :)

Edit: Downvote? Seriously?
Any suggestions on those topics?
One need only look back at the previous threads on the App Store to find people arguing that Apple should be legally forced to open their platform up to competitors, which would pretty much gut these kinds of privacy-protecting moves. Facebook will immediately move exclusively to a separate app store that doesn't ask developers to justify user-relevant reasons for the permissions it requests, and immediately start demanding full permissions or else you don't get to use the app.

So essentially, people here tend to agree in principle with Apple protecting user privacy and think Facebook is overbearing and infringing on user privacy, but think Apple should be legally stripped of any tools to actually protect users' privacy, because muh sideloading is more important than people's privacy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26165966

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26276238
Oh, of course, but the distinction (not being pedantic, it is important) is that they control "behavior" not "consciousness".

Many people obey some mass idiocy promoted by some organized entity precisely because of their intelligence, appreciation of the situation, and their take on the equation of benefitial social behavior. It's not heroic but it is not unintelligent. And this social calculus may actually be happening inside the heads of the majority of the population. We simply do not know.
Crazy slow in Europe.
Hey, I can't comment about Matrix's P2P implementation as I haven't played with it yet. It's still a heavy work-in-progress I believe.

Regular Matrix is pretty straight-forward - you join rooms and send events. Events get propagated to all participating/federated servers that are in the room. You watch for incoming events.

The Matrix devs should be able to say more about their P2P implementation. :)
Go Grouparoo!
This looks cool! Since Insight is based on Firefox, it there any chance Firefox sync will be added? Or perhaps sync for Chrome/Edge?

This reminds me of Kitt Browser, which brought some of the Chrome extension APIs to iOS. Eyeo acquired it to make Adblock Browser for iOS, and Kitt has since been removed from the App Store.

Some resources relating to it are still online [1, 2] and Adblock Browser, which is derived from Kitt Browser, is open source [3, 4].

[1]: https://github.com/kitt-browser

[2]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nfoWMgNYMkE

[3]: https://github.com/adblockplus/adblockbrowserios-core

[4]: https://github.com/adblockplus/adblockbrowserios
Why not both? You get to build up knowledge on planetary engineering in parallel and create survival technologies to hedge against us failing to regulate climate and create a long-term backup for humanity.
I use https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id691121579 but the UI is very basic - it doesn't come with any filter lists, you need to point it at a hosts list like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BlackJack8/iOSAdblockList/... manually. It's not compatible with other VPNs at the same time and it displays as a VPN in the top bar. Not ideal but
I assume it comes from a secondary meaning of the word in English, "leniency in judging others", applied here to others' arguments.

The reason we're thinking it may be appropriate for HN, by the way, isn't moral, but intellectual: uncharitable interpretations of others' arguments is all too easy and makes discussion tedious and uncivil.
The percentage of startups founded or co-founded by immigrants should be about the same or higher.
I used to write software rasterizers in a past life. AVX-512 is straight-up an observed 8x performance gain over SSE: a well-written software rasterizer is a very clever thread-scheduling algorithm wrapped around long lists of FMA-load/store sequences.

I know that ray-tracers, databases, and other 'big data' all gain equally-well from AVX-512. The IO-request depth on these new parts is such that, for ALU-heavy work, with good IO-spread, memory latency is completely hidden---fetch time is still ~250-300c, but you just no longer see it.

The only thing I miss is 'addsets', which was dropped from LRBni, as this instruction was 'the rasterizer function': it now requires a fairly involved sequence to replicate in AVX-512.

Pining for other lost things: if we had the LRBni up- and down- convert instructions, a software texture sampler would be a lot more feasible.
I think this is something that should be understood far more - I've seen far too many developers basically give up when the execution of the code they're debugging goes into something they didn't write or an exception happens in there, and are shocked when I'll just keep on tracing in Asm. In fact for languages like C++ where a single statement can do a lot of implicit things, I prefer to debug in Asm since I can see exactly where things went wrong.

Maybe education is partly to blame, as many students are taught that the only thing they interact with is the source code, the binary being an opaque blob that comes out of a one-way process, and trying to go the opposite way is somehow seen as "wrong" (legal issues notwithstanding); the emphasis on low-level architecture and Asm as "you're not supposed to know this" further adds to the notion, along with the increasingly closed nature of software and hardware. Contrast this with those who grew up with early computers of the late 70s/early 80s, where it was almost second-nature to use a disassembler and analyse the firmware even without its source code (the source was usually Asm in those days, so you didn't miss much, but my point still stands.)
I think your concern is addressed in the "HN Guidelines"

"What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. "

More at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Increasing the availability of any kind of labor (whether ordinary programmers, or "great" programmers) always lowers the price, and if it didn't lower the price, there would be no effect.

It turns out that high-wage employees (e.g. software developers) actually benefit from high immigration because of the resulting increase in capital inflows.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w12497
This one is the true classic:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2oyhlad64-s
Listening to de Lucia's Entre dos Aguas album now — stunning work.

Meta: delighted to see a story about such a wonderful musician on HN. Sad that it's an obituary.
> Technology has many levels. A cpu is a technology as is a touch sensitive panel -- but a specific arrangment of cpu and touch sensitive panel etc, is also technology.

We're not discussing the existence of technology, we're discussing the creation of technology. If this distinction were not important, anyone who acquired a computer could claim to be its creator. If this distinction were not important, someone who put a computer in a box would be equal to someone who invented binary arithmetic.

> So, what does "Jobs didn't create technology, he sold it to people" mean?

It means someone else had the education and creativity to invent something for Steve Jobs to sell, to call "fantastic" to crowds of eager consumers, to import into his reality distortion field. The same reality distortion field that makes you think selling equals creating.

> Or you mean, he wasn't a coder or engineer, he was the head of the company making it? Well, that's true, but duh!

So that's your argument? Now I understand why you have the views you do.
Ok so this system works by tracking MAC addresses. I assume the same sort of system using cameras and facial recognition would work too, and you can't turn off your face. I assume this must be already happening somewhere.

The amount of privacy we think we have must be a small fraction of what we actually have.
HN discussion from first iteration, SiteGazer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6612286

But when I turned it into a real service, there was virtually no interest:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6654544

zrail, I've got some Ruby code that hits Selenium to take these screenshots. Email adam at cameralends if you're interested, you can have it too.
Is it correct to call the debate around renaming this a Coq-fight?
I don't have personal experience since my MBP has a SSD. Things page fairly quickly. It will affect the total life expectancy of the drive. With the new models of MBP that's a real problem. The drive and it's logic board have to be replaced. This will require me to pay a "Genius" to do that. Ideally I could just pop a few screws and be done.
> if they call it a tight race, the candidates will pay them to run ads.

All the spending happens well before news channels start reporting ballot counts. Multi-million dollar political campaigns do not rely on the news media to tell them how they should spend their ad budget over a months-long election cycle.

By the time news orgs start reporting actual ballot counts, it's too late to spend any more money. A good chunk of votes have already been cast via mail. Poll stations have either closed or are at best a few hours away from closing.
It happens without any facebook app installed, just tinder + whatsapp and voilá, you'll get the suggestion when you log on with a browser.
Recently I've seen startup, where you were earning XP points for quickly closing customer support tickets, and earning badges...

A college buddy worked at a place like that. But it wasn't a startup, it was a long-established company.

It was also 1996, and he learned that closing deals on copies of Windows 95 was worth twice as many points as other software, so he focused all his efforts on that so he could do half the work of his "teammates" in his cubicle farm.
Actually, reducing irrational fear of terrorism can reduce incidence of terrorism - as terrorism becomes a less effective tool it will be employed less. "Refuse to be terrorized" isn't a bad meme.

Beyond that, one doesn't need to fear the first-order effects of terrorism in order to support such a program. Fearing damage done by undirected (or maliciously directed) overreaction to terrorism is plenty.

"This also would only ever be a private effort, as it would completely undermine the goals of the state."

I'm not convinced the state is quite that monolithic, but I think this is likely better as a private effort anyway.
To be the voice of disagreement, Uber in London is absolutely fine if you put the destination in when you book the Uber. It'll then have the sat-nav which they require to navigate ready-to-go when you depart.

I don't mind them following sat-nav blindly at all - because it's good enough, and cheap enough for my London-navigating-by-proxy needs.
Just be outwardly aggressive.
This looks awesome. Are the winning bots' source available after the tournament is concluded?
I started "programming" in the mid eighties during primary school. I made little games, and made the PC play music and that sort of nonsense. As I got older the games got more advanced, I even built a simple graphical OS so my parents didn't have to use DOS.

Strangely I never considered my hobby as a possible career path.

It wasn't until 1997 that I realised I could make a living out of being a developer. At the time I was working in my uncles PC store repairing computers and doing some basic web development stuff (for free) for his customers.

One day my uncle introduced me to a guy in his late sixties. He was a farmer that had taught himself to code and had written a piece of software called FarmBase. He wanted my help to update the application for Windows (until then it ran only in DOS). After talking at length he offered to sell me the software for some nominal fee essentially as long as I promised to "do it justice". At that time he was making good coin off the app, but couldn't keep up the maintenance (he was earning 5-10x what he offered to sell it to me for, so I'd make back the investment in 2-3 months). Sadly, I didn't have the money and let the offer pass.

The upside is that until that moment I'd never considered "writing code" as something that could be a real career. Not only was I inspired to write code for a living, I was inspired to (eventually) run a software company.
From this article I gleaned two things.

1. Networking is still the most important predictor of small-company acquisition.

2. Google will pay ~$25 million for a feature.
I'm curious which paypal product you use, and how it's working out for you?
I didn't get that error on either Chrome or Firefox.
Some random questions for you:

What language/framework/tech is your programming tutor written in?

What skills/qualities are you looking for in a cofounder?

Where are you located (closest city I guess is enough)?
Interesting (& not surprising)that Netflix has proven to be a larger deterrent to piracy than anything the studios or government has come up with
There have been some suggestions that the CIA backed Tor so they may be willing to support such systems.

PS: According to Wikipedia Tor Originally sponsored by the US Naval Research Laboratory,[10] so that's another group that's probably worth looking into.
Also, Clojurescript.
Yes that could happen too. But physical and digital connections need not be mutually exclusive.

I only argue about digital connectedness because it still needs improvement.

Meeting people in person...not much can be improved there. You just need to turn up.
I feel that I should recommend the melodica than the recorder, you can play it like the piano rather than learning the very delicate fingering required for the recorder.
Thanks for mentioning Filtered in step 2. I always thought Word generates a ridiculously messy tag soup, but that's in default HTML export. I tested it with Filtered now, and the final markup is surprisingly clean.

It actually is a half-decent solution for static HTML generation. Wish I knew that in the past.
Isn't not mentioned it was on on NPR? (I can't find it on NPR though) (edit: Found it, see my next message)

Citation: “They [general practitioners] remember having seen very strange pneumonia, very severe, particularly in old people in December and even November,” Giuseppe Remuzzi, the director of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan, said in an interview with the National Public Radio of the United States.
Only a clam seller would come up with that ;-)

I like it! ^^
I'd say finish it before commenting. Part of the essay's point is that we're all looking for quick and easy payoffs, like trying to get a whole book off the first chapter.
The title is basically clickbait; there is no link mentioned between the Spanish Flu and Sweden's welfare state except both happened in Sweden in the last ~100 years.

I suspect they aren't linked. Societies have generally changed a lot in the past 100 years. Pre- and Post- WWI Europe are different beasts.
Thanks for making this! I would be interested in support for netflow so that it could potentially work with any capable router/firewall.
You can't be that naive, can you? Imagine it'd be about celebrating deaths in the overpopulated 3rd world. I guess you can imagine the heart attacks taking place.

P.S. "dick pics" shouldn't even be discussed, let alone a thing. I hope I die so that I may leave this vulgar, decadent, ugly world.

Bruce Charlton (The Genius Famine) got it right: the obsession with our animal instincts, esp. preoccupation with sex nowadays is a sign of dropping mean IQs. In other words: d y s g e n i c s.

P. P. S. Yes, I am genetic scum too. Were I not a Christian, I'd blow my brains out in a heartbeat.
Interesting to find that editor/author Terry Carr was so instrumental. The first scifi I ever read was his Cirque. That was a deeply weird book for an 8yo in the early 1980s (and thinking back I'm not sure whose bookshelf I could have raided to find it) but I was hooked.
When I was 9 or 10 I went with some friends and their parents to a park that had a massive tree that was very easy to climb. Two of the boys and I hopped on and just kept going. Finally turned around either because we were shouted down by their parents or because one of us finally had some sense.

Later on that day, a girl from their family was climbing on a low branch (maybe 2m off the ground), fell, and seriously messed up her ankle or knee. She was on crutches for a while.

The boys and I must’ve been somewhere between 8 and 12 meters off the ground. In retrospect it’s one of the most dangerous things I’ve ever done, and I’ve done multi-pitch trad climbing.
"Anyone who says the modern world is a horror show has no idea how good they have it."

Depends on your actual location. Modern democracies were able to tame the worst human instincts down.

But Mariupol 2022 will likely enter the pantheon of worst horrors in history. Nothing good about that.
I see your point, and you're right.

But it's so cumbersome to increase the "walls of privacy" endlessly, when privacy is our right. But that's the world we live in, right?

Let's say I use the following to protect myself, my fingerprint - there are questionmarks too to use them:

TOR:
- I read that a huge fleet of exit nodes are bad. Probably the Gov. who's paying Millions to infiltrate the network. So, can I really hide my ass using TOR?

VPN:
- Same as with any other service. You must trust them that they respect your privacy, don't save data etc.

Blockers/Firerwalls:
- One needs technical skills to configure it properly. Luckily I'm able to, but millions of ordianry people don't.

It never ends.

So we have to do our part on our side and learn to live with it, and handle technology better than they do.

Thanks for your comment, very much appreciated.
Your science credentials are...?
> Since then, what surprises me is that this project continues to be a useful, possibly necessary tool for measuring and tuning Lambda performance.

Is performance tuning a relevant topic for AWS Lambda though? It's my understanding that lambdas are recommended only for:

* glue code for AWS events,

* Run fire-and-forget workers that are neither that complex nor executed often enough to justify the work of putting up a dedicated service, which already takes no work at all.

None of these use cases is exactly performance-critical. To put it differently, if any lambda starts to handle enough executions that performance and cost starts to become a concern, the standard approach is to just handle it in a service.

Beyond the choice of the lambda runtime and how much RAM is provisioned, what else is there that's worth being tuned?
I'd imagine someone could use text-to-image models like Dall-E to visualize a scenario with a few images
I would, but big tech is outpacing them in power and influence. Most people seemed to see Don’t Look Up as a warning about climate change, and it is, but I resonated far more strongly with its warning about Silicon Valley.
I thought MRI had no absolute spatial scale unlike a CT or X-ray does when a known dimension radio-opaque reference marker object is put into the field of view. Am I mistaken here?
"Evidence". The measured activity was the same as of a dream state. "Evidence" that life is a dream?!
You seem to assume that in some fashion, the minorities would be the winners of totalitarian cult's actions. They would not. The minorities would be better off living in a stable, lawful and democratic society, even if it does not try to declare war on the majority.

Russians do not run their country for a century, but yeah, they may respond by not renting you their crappy and overpriced flat.
Why use Dropbox Backup when one can just use Google Drive, Backblaze or even S3?

Does anyone even use Dropbox anymore? Last time I checked they restricted tons of features and kept nagging me to upgrade. Hugely annoying.
I'm not a fan of romanticising someone who may have started as a war hero but who then spent twenty years murdering civilians.
Oxidation maybe? It would probably lead to color loss as carotenoids age. Would cause the yolks to eventually fade.

I just googled -- eggshells increase in permeability to oxygen after the first week, so my guess is this is what you are seeing!
It could also just be that people are different and these experiences reflect more how people deal with intense stress.
Ukraine: the new weapon testing ground.
Don't give up boys, we need to do the last validation tests before mass production.
Sea level rise over this century will be somewhere between 1 and 4 meters. That's bad for some places like Cape Coral. But most of Florida isn't that low. Sea level rise is a very slow, long-term problem. The major reachable consequences of global warming are heat waves and regional declines in precipitation. Also hard-to-predict ecosystem sensitivity questions (e.g. fires in California).

I'm not arguing that we shouldn't be concerned about the ocean, but it's a generational problem, not a personal problem, in the vast majority of cases.
No it is a substitute. They are both phones, they both browse the web, check emails, etc. Obviously the iPhone SE is better but guess what? It costs over 4 times as much! A BMW 3 series is also better than Chevy Spark. Not everyone can afford to pay $400+ for a phone.