jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well I'm typing this on a N900 and it's rather enjoyable. Not sure what might have been wrong with the model you tried, but the responsiveness on this one is easily on par with the iPhone or other Android phones. Better I might even say, especially while multitasking.

Regarding the resistive touchscreen, it only took me a couple of minutes to get used to and while I do miss multitouch, the accuracy is great. I am with you on the UI being a bit confusing though.
Cloud computing is the mainframes of 21st century, with upgraded terminals, so it suits them.
Thanks for saying this. I'm glad I am not the only one feeling this way after all!

I literally said the same thing yesterday to another comment in another post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25672161

This sort of censorship will backfire badly. I won't be surprised if a real Civil War breaks out in America because of suppression of right wing groups by the Big Tech. This division is very real and scary. I shudder to think what sort of ripple effects it will have on 100+ countries where Big Tech operates! If it can nuke the US President's account what chance do other Presidents/Prime Ministers or Governments have?

Please remember that this is not just an action/reaction issue. It is not that simple. There are Second Order Effects at play. You can't even launch a rival platform without first gaining traction. How would you gain traction if the medium for gaining traction is controlled by Big Tech? How do you promote a Twitter alternative if Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter ban you from their platforms. Can't advertise on Google, can't put your alternative app on Android Play Store or Apple Play Store, can't promote on Twitter. Literally have no choice but to follow the guidelines set by Big Tech and be at the mercy of Big Tech. We are looking at a Big Tech Cartel controlled by left wing ideology. That's precisely what it is today.

So what should the right wing do? Create a right wing Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple alternative? Are we staring at the balkanization of internet as we know it?
But it's Tesla so it's better in every way...or something.
> people, despite saying otherwise, are not actually interested in spending more money for a better product

Hmmm, cheapest Mac laptop $999. Cheapest Windows Laptop $199.

Sure PC sales are higher than Mac but isn't that at least one example of people want better over cheaper since plenty of people choose the more expensive (better?) product?

I don't think it's the only example it was just the first one that popped in my mind.
>California and some other western states (WA) are doing what they can to ramp up licensing fees on older vehicles to make them less affordable.

Do you have a source for this?
Ah, I don't know. The Model S had a much wider market appeal because it looks exactly like a Maserati. A commonly agreed upon good looking car. I agree that you're probably the exact market this monstrosity is aimed for. But that 'status' based market is tiny. teensy, itty bitty. Why do you think the Model 3 was such a profitable success?
Depends on if the question is easily googled or a general dupe.

I don't know about you, but I find when I'm on a poorly-moderated forum, it's just the same questions asked over and over again every day.

Do you really need to explain Search to every noob who you downvote?

(Note that I never look at new Stackoverflow questions. I always find the site through Google, because someone's always asked the question first. I do improve answers when needed.)
The extra strong steel panels also raise questions about accidents and crumple zones. Modern vehicles are designed to absorb as much force as possible instead of deflecting the impact.
Michael Gentry's "Anchorhead" is my favourite game of all time, of all genres (and I used to devote a lot of time to gaming back in high school).
>Regrets he expressed moments before haranguing the DOJ, at length, for their misconduct during the case.

Is that supposed to make a difference?
> Another idea, a heart rate or brain wave monitor connected via bluetooth

I like this idea. It may or may not be practical, but it's out of the box thinking and would certainly warrant some investigation / development.
Since transparency seems to be off/on, could you use a 1 bit GIF for the mask instead?
Your credentials are great, but it sounds like you need to work on your interview skills, and not necessarily the technical side of things.

I've worked at three of the major league firms you list, and interviewed several hundred engineering candidates between them.

If I was to give one bit of advice, it would be to focus less on getting the perfect solution to their questions, but instead, talk through your thought process and explain why you're doing certain things and not others.

The most difficult interviews to evaluate are those where the candidate goes all quiet at the whiteboard, and then panics when they assess their own performance as poor.

I've recommended hiring plenty of people who were excellent communicators and logical thinkers, even though they didn't successfully answer the interview question, but they walked me through their thought process, and I could see that they're just getting tripped up on something.

Think about a handful of the coolest problems or bugs you've ever worked on and be able to explain why they're cool. Have a good understanding of common data structures (trees, tries, lists, hash maps, etc), and their big-O complexity. You've got to be pretty excited about something to get a PHd in it, so let that excitement come through in the interview.

Your communication and energy level, especially excitement about your chosen field, are as important as the technical questions.
> I hear NYC to PHL is 30 mins by heli.

Doubtful, unless you're in some kind of military helicopter. NYC to PHL is close to 100 miles, no helicopters go 200 miles per hour.
I think I get it now, thanks. My confusion was I didn't realize that the github merge button is "smarter" and more recent than the diff being show. I always assumed they were in sync, which is definitely surprising.
You're dodging the question: why tax profits?
I agree. PgBouncer (or something better) should be baked into Postgres.
This "crisis" is all so absurd. RMS is one of the greatest programmers of all time, if not the greatest. Fabrice Bellard is a script kiddie by comparison. How many of you use gcc? Emacs? You think he should be kicked out of the FSF? He founded the freaking FSF! All of you critics are a bunch of parasites. You either make room for the guy or start your own thing.

The software world would be such a startlingly different place without him, this may be difficult to grasp for younger people. Things like Github may not even exist without him. I guarantee you a Github would not defend a youtube-dl in that RMS-free reality. Git itself wouldn't exist, or you'd have to pay for it. Even Git's creation story, via Linux, becomes unlikely in absence of a free software movement.

He created an entire world of software. Given how things are going, with software eating the world (rapidly accelerating over the past year), he may very well be responsible for creating the world as we know it going forward.

Everybody worships Steve Jobs because he wanted money. And people put up with his abuse because he made them money too. But there's no more money to be made from RMS, and his defenders are thinning.

It's so upsetting to see an old man's life work ripped from his hands, for him to be treated as a nuisance (rather than lionized), but the world is not a good place.
If you only mean "how not to be bothered" (instead of radical actual solutions of legal nature etc.), and the sender is a recurring number, very probably your phone OS has an option to reject calls and/or messages from specific numbers.
Indeed, but that's only really because we've underfunded it. It wasn't so long ago (last labour government) that waiting times were reasonable, and it wouldn't take all that much money to fix.
If I understood your question, cheap + good + slow is generally when you do everything yourself.
This is total speculation, but here’s one reason the strategy might be smart: You can be held legally responsible for your specific marketing claims, but not for your reputation.

Since security is difficult, aggressively marketing your products as secure is fraught with liability. Sooner or later, some oversight is likely to bite you, and if you’ve made promises, you’re now on the hook for those promises.

But if, instead, you just talk about what technical steps you’ve taken to improve security, and then let enough time pass, you can get a reputation for being secure without ever having made any guarantees. You just let people notice how you respond to security issues, and the relative frequency with which you have breaches. That strategy takes longer to work, but it’s harder to sue you for a public perception which you never actually endorsed.

Assuming this is the strategy, I don’t even think it’s particularly nefarious. It’s fairly incentive-aligned, since it only works if your track record is cleaner than your competitors, and it hacks around the fact that consumers aren’t willing to pay the price for actual security guarantees (which would probably involve SLAs, and Apple essentially acting as both a vendor and an insurance broker).
It's a shame that Django's templates are still so bad.

You can't just import and call some arbitrary python function. You most likely need to write a template filter or tag [0]. Maybe there's a good reason for this but it just feels like I'm working around a weird issue in the framework.

Also, I can't use parentheses inside if statements in a template. It's a strange restriction.

I know that Jinja2 -- which is good -- is supported. But it's a second choice, requires some setup and it's not the usual way of doing things.

Don't get me wrong. I like Django and it's still far, far ahead of most other web frameworks. But, because of these issues and also because the frontend story in Django is not that great I find myself reaching for Rails, these days.

[0] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/howto/custom-template-...
At Yell we're currently working on our first public API, and only on Friday did we have the conversation and decided that doing JSON well was far more important than supporting XML at all.

The decision was a quick one, we just asked the iPhone, Android and web devs where we should focus, what they wanted most. The answer was unanimously JSON.
As the site loading continues to spin, I think back to some commentary about the Chevy Suburban. "The Suburban is popular among thieves, but at 12mpg they won't get very far."
The only thing I miss from XML is the ability to comment out something. I discovered the other day that it wasn't apparently possible.
Comparing the costs of allowing the government to see me naked and the supposed benefit of allowing the government to see everyone naked before getting on a plane, I think the benefits come out on top. The mind-reading scenario doesn't fare as well. I'd rather let planes occasionally get blown up than require the government to read everyone's mind before getting on planes. However, if the government seeing everyone naked can save a lot of lives, I think it's worth it.

The potential damage from unauthorized weapons or explosives being brought into a courthouse, bus terminal or federal building isn't very high and might not be worth the cost of reduced privacy. Train stations, perhaps, depending on the capacity of the trains and how many people one terrorist could take out. Retail establishments have competition, so even if they thought it would be a good idea (which I'd disagree with), they'd go out of business.

Where does it end? When the costs no longer justify the benefits.
Reddit is a bit anti-entrepreneur

Parts of it, certainly. It definitely has a generalized semi-anti-capitalist vibe, and yes, anti-bigco. I don't think too many of those people are against entrepreneurship in the sense of individuals (or small groups thereof) making a living for themselves doing what they are passionate about; I would imagine that the crankiness would tend to arise when an individual or company started going past providing for themselves, to providing for themselves in gross excess at the expense of the livelihoods of other individuals -- possibly many other individuals.
I believe Kimba may have been a possible influence in some regard(at least prior to Roger Allers coming on board and changing the story to the Hamlet-esque plot). However, a lot of those "scene comparisons" are absolutely utter nonsense or just grasp-strawing. The only single one that's worth noting is the lion in the clouds similarity(although Mufasa appeared as a ghost in the clouds, whereas the Kimba one's just a cloud formation).

A good example of this article just trying to trick people into thinking that it is a rip off if that cliff dangling comparison. In truth, Kimba is actually just trying to climb out of a small hole with a spiked trap at the bottom of it, and the female lioness herself gets herself caught in trouble soon after that.

A lot of these comparisons are pretty much just a classic case of grabbing similar looking screen captures, and pairing them together out of context to fool people into thinking the scenes themselves are exactly alike.

I have no doubt that Kimba played some influence very early on in production, but plot-wise, they're significantly different at the end of it. This old article really needs to have a bullet put its head. It's caused so much damage and warped the whole thing into an unnecessary "rip off" controversy.
We need a name for this, when USA conservatives are so sheltered from political thought that they can't tell the Left from the Centre-Right. Lots of leftist stuff has been censored in 2020, yet one repeatedly encounters this blissfully ignorant sentiment.

https://twitter.com/sunraysunray/status/1320078487970041856
You can also live just fine off that amount in most American cities. $40k is basically $2,500 / mo after tax.

In the Atlanta area for example, there are plenty of nice 2-3 bedroom houses for $200,000 or even less, which puts your mortgage at $1,000 / mo. That leaves $1,500 / mo for a car, utilities, and food, which is plenty doable. Rent out a room if you want to for more income.
Being understaffed on a day when protesters have warned you they may take direct action is incompetence or complicity. They have agreements with nearby law enforcement who are often deputized in DC, yet didn’t activate those agreements until the perimeter had been fully breached.
Police taking selfie with terrorist: https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1346920198461419520

Police letting terrorists in: https://twitter.com/joshuapotash/status/1346931235176783873
Those slides are from 2017. P2P Matrix was released in June 2020. A lot of work is being done on Dendrite, the latest commit was posted two hours ago as of this writing. From the GitHub page for Dendrite: "As of November 2020 we're at around 58% CS API coverage and 83% Federation coverage, though check CI for the latest numbers."

So, yes, for now the metadata leakage is a real issue. However this is likely to change in the near future.
Not quite. More white people die by far in total, but as a percentage of the demographic more non-white people die.

This is largely attributed to systemic racism, but also to poverty.
To stretch that analogy: all is fine, except for "this guy's" neighbors, they are in for a terrible night. And when the crowd at "this guy's party" is heated up and collectively starts harrassing people on the street, it gets even worse.

My point: Fine indeed, as long as they "stay there". But they won't. This goes for any online community: it has effects outside of that community.
Wish it's possible to publish user 'eloff' 's story above too if he/she has no problem with it.
Yes, they're playing the game

But I'd rather have them push for net neutrality than for budget for more military assets.

(Now what we need is to find Oil on Mars or Tritium on the Moon or something)
I agree with Twitter's decision to ban Trump now. He has no effective authority at this point, and is essentially just trolling - and to deadly, if indirect, effect. I also agree with Twitter's decision to keep his while he still wielded meaningful power as a President, despite repeatedly breaking codes of conduct. When he wielded actual power as President, letting the public see his words has value regardless of what those words contained. But now that he's on his way out, they have no more redeeming value.

Critics of this decision often point out that this let Trump magnify his voice and spread harmful messages. I disagree. Trump would have tweeted through some other mechanism. We've already seen analogous applications pop up when social media bans big players - see thedonald.win as an example. Doing this would not accomplish anything in terms of limiting the reach of Trump's messages, and would only serve to further reinforce many conservatives' perceptions of bias in social media.
Can you loop the rest of us in? What happened today on those forums?
+1 from me on the slow times, maybe it's because of this very thread that has attracted lots of interest? I couldn't tell.
> Definition of Liberal used to be: "Willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas.

What an unusual POV

civil rights movement: not liberal

Vietnam war protesters: not liberal

Where did you find these liberals? The don't seem to have much in common with the liberals I know.
I imagine that would be to hold an elected official to account for offences that are impeachable. When a president incites a riot and puts under siege the entire apparatus of your government, perhaps it would be prudent to show that there are real consequences for this sort of behaviour?
You are right that a few too many people actually had the idea that was a possible outcome.

But the crowd outside was chanting “Who’s house? Our house!” and just celebrating. Then almost everyone left and did not defy the curfew.
Wow! Yikes.
How many people have 16k monitors? They can add that in Windows 11 or 12.
All (recent?) Android OSs have Exchange support. Don't think this has a single thing to do with specific models or manufacturers.
I sincerely request that DigitalOcean's security team’s reasoning be made known to me so that I can have a chance to explain. This is unacceptable, opaque behavior that is unhealthy for the productive resolution of any problem.
Unlikely your suspicions are correct. Provisioning high QoS to the speedtest site is common practice (see fast.com for countermeasures), but changing the entire subscriber QoS because traffic to one particular destination is detected seems like too much work and doesn't really achieve anything useful.

If you are on a wireless network (either your upstream from a WISP, or internally on your own network), then I'd suspect some wireless air access control syndrome is the cause -- e.g. stations are usually randomly fighting for air, but when you pull down your big speed test file that ends up putting the network in a state where your station gets all the air time. Lo and behold all your traffic has better QoS. Basically your speedtest traffic, because it is a constant stream, shoved everyone else off the air and allowed your other traffic to get through at the same time as a result.
Luckily searching "Marsey the Cat" on Bing still yields the correct knowyourmeme and Twitter pages.
Ping measures latency, not bandwidth.
The company that wrote the article is a e2e testing cloud hosting company that runs your code in their cloud.
Hi, offtopic but: is webapp.io a pivot from layerci, or just a rebranding?

Interesting that you're folks now use firecracker. I assume it now fills in adequately for the previously homegrown tech at layerci [0]?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25979941
This is not relevant to OP but I am wondering if you can share how you went about learning electronic music production. Any good resources or advice?
Nice. Maybe I’ll add Trek apologist to my cv, somewhere at the bottom.
But what are they ranking higher?

Only the domains that display the stolen content, with no ads or anything.

What is in it for them?

It doesn't make much sense to do it other than if you're trying to affect someone else's ranking by causing them to be penalized for duplicate content. No?
Bitcoin, as a currency, is deflationary.

Bitcoin, as an asset, is wildly inflating. I could buy 1 BTC for $5K not long ago, but now it costs me almost $50K to buy the same exact amount of Bitcoin.

Inflation isn't strictly a function of the fed or the supply. Inflation can happen from demand-pull, which is definitely happening in the Bitcoin world.

Now that the cryptocurrency cat is out of the bag, the idea of a singular deflationary cryptocurrency only works if you pretend that all of the other cryptocurrencies don't exist.

Instead, we're seeing constant supply growth in the cryptocurrency space as new altcoins come online all the time. Even Bitcoin itself has been forked multiple times, effectively increasing the supply (albeit with caveats). I can trivially exchange BTC for BCH, so it doesn't really matter much that they're on different chains now.

The idea that cryptocurrency supply is fixed only works if you deliberately ignore all but 1 cryptocurrency.
It’s like coal mining in Kentucky and Pennsylvania; they’re more important to the region’s self image than they are to the region’s current economic reality. This sometimes creates silly circumstances where policy is aimed at a sector that’s fundamentally not that big, and hurts more people than it helps.
> Dollar for dollar, a bagged vacuum, when compared to a bagless, will almost always: ... Cost less to repair and maintain (Often including consumables).

He says elsewhere in the thread that "you're going to budget more than [$400] if you want a quality vacuum". He calls anything under $200 "pure shit". He recommends cleaning the brush roller monthly, and changing the belt in the vacuum yearly. He recommends a brand that sells a pack of bags and a filter for $100 that's "a 2 year supply".

Sometimes I wonder if people in threads like this Reddit thread live in the same universe as me. So many times it's cult-think to justify spending absurd amounts of money. (E.g. "obviously that $200 fountain pen is going to write so much better than a $30 Lamy.") The trap is when you start thinking "people who really care about X buy Y brand", and then you start thinking that way about everything.

For reference, I own an upright bagless Black and Decker that I bought from my local big box store for ~$70 over five years ago. I have never replaced any parts. I've cleaned out the brush maybe once in that time. It still sucks just as much as it does when I bought it (you can fill up half the damn canister on one vacuuming run). Even granting that I could get a bagged vacuum that would last the rest of my life for free, the $50+ a year for maintenance would cost me more.

(Granted, a more expensive vacuum would probably clean better by some metric, but this vacuum does not leave any noticeable dust or debris or my very low pile carpet.)
That depends on how you use it. Lots of people make professional 4K videos on their iPhones, for example.
1.4%? https://www.kiplinger.com/economic-forecasts/inflation
Pseudo random is sometimes even necessary. It's really cool when you generate reproducible test data via seeds.
Having an accountant do it in that situation is so not worth it. I know my parents also used one for way too long. So easy with tax software and with the government software you don't even have to pay for the software any longer.

Fun fact, they called the government provided tax software ELSTER which in German is also the name of a bird (Eurasian magpie) which is also known as the "thieving magpie". Who said the government didn't have a sense of humor!