jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's good that there's little indication here that Windows is switching to a paid subscription model for home users.

What's not good is that the rest of the subscription rhetoric is still there. I already let Microsoft screw with my system through Windows Update, because it's necessary; a lot of the other behaviors of other subscription systems (creative cloud is a big example) are things I cannot tolerate in an OS. Stuff like shutting off after X days without Internet access, pushing big changes without warning that I didn't ask for, and so on.

To be fair, Microsoft is doubtlessly aware that those kinds of things would be a problem. But even if they get around that, the subscription model crystallizes the developer's leash on proprietary software users in a way that I find difficult. Even if there was no practical difference between Windows 7 and Windows 10 as a result of a subscription-esque model (for home users), I would be uncomfortable with switching.
If "you can complain if you want", then "Nobody is forced to host your site. This is partly how free market capitalism works" is not any kind of rebuttal to their complaint, is it?
It is not about Windows 8 but about TPM 2.0. Which basically limits the control over your computer, it might be mostly harmless for private users but for governments and critical infrastructure it is not.
Apologies, just getting to this now.

The various accounts are a bit flippant of me. I tend to accumulate downvote brigades. After some time I'll notice that immediately after I post something (as in under 20 seconds) it will be downvoted several times or if a post has two digit 'karma' I will come back after some time with significantly less (though usually no new comments/discussion). In addition sometimes an account will "act oddly" - like refuse to update comments even when it is witnin the correction window or my HN tab in Chrome will be subject to regular crashes, requiring me to edit comments elsewhere and post them into HN for fear of losing edits.

Real or perceived, so far rotating accounts has seemed to deal with it fairly well. I also don't link credentials across machines (well, I try) - so you sometimes see two accounts active during the same week (never simultaneously posting however).

I've been thinking a lot about this rotation policy (solving the problem another way). Dunno.

So far as I know nobody has ever tried impersonating one.
Thanks for posting, i've been building up a bookmark folder of these and this will be even better. I think there should be some kind of sorting of articles in a library format. So those interested in YC or what ever subject can find a curated archive.
Being able to assemble a solution from parts (as in R packages) is super flexible. But complex and potentially brittle.

Reproducability is a big problem all around. When I create releases I put the binaries as well as the source in version control, because changes in tools/libraries etc mean that I probably won't be able to create the exact same binary several years later from the same source.

There is always a tradeoff between flexibility and simplicity. Clearly software needs to be able to change, or you are never going to be able to improve it or fix bugs. And an assembly of constantly changing parts is clearly going to come with its own challenges.

My own software product, Easy Data Transform (which competes with R to some extent) trades off some flexibility for simplicity by having a single set of binaries for each platform. You can't add any components (without hacking). So the same version of software should always give the same result.
yep, here in the UK everyone I know uses whatsapp. Some people have telegram as well, but WA is the baseline. The only SMS texts I get are marketing and automatic notifications.
If you check the news I think you'll see my information was correct. Please don't allege rumormongering when you may just be missing facts.
> You can go to /r/conservative right now, and write any crap you want.

You chose the worst example. /r/conservative has been getting brigaded since before this election. One of the reasons for which /r/thedonald was quarantined in 2019.
I know because everytime a big news from US get published in my country national papers, i used to open several subreddits in order to hear both sides of the story.

> I can go comment liberal ideas on Breitbart and immediately be shouted down as a commie CCP bootlicker and be blocked.

The same happens on the other virtual side of aisle. And it's not something unique to the US. I'm not American, but in my country the political discourse has been polarized the same way, with one side accused of been Putin's puppet, and those voting for them being accused of being fascists, and the other side now getting accused of being on China's payroll and getting called comunists.

The side controlling the biggest subreddit in my country, is the same that believes in the "russian puppets" story.

If you post from your personal account about some scandal that is on the national newspapers regarding the side they believe in, people start scraping your profile searching for information in order to dox you, and start sending you private messages insulting you.

If you post by using a throwaway because you don't want to risk receiving death threats just for having a different opinion, they start with the usual "this account is new, it's a russian propaganda troll".

The moderators delete threads and comments about arguments that damage their side, and if you politely ask for an explanation for the removal they insult you, ban you and mute you.

They got to the point that when some polital topics became damaging to their side because of huge mistakes that were made, they banned those topics with the excuse that "they bring brigaders and propaganda accounts".

This is not something that's only happening in right leaning echochambers.

And I don't think that this is something that helps keep an healty political discussion.
For me hackers keyboard is still far best keyboard found, the only thing that annoys me is that it has no smileys button, for everything else it fits great.

I use ssh a lot and all the suggestions and other bells and whistles of other keyboards are more annoyance than anything else, but i need access to all the keys that normal keyboard has.

And '/', tab and enter must be accessible all the time this is absolutely primary requirement for me to use any keyboard.
He turned a country into a continent? What does that even mean?
Wait I'm confused. When did roblox turn from a janky lego clone from the neopets era into something worth 11 figures? Do they have some sort of massive international userbase or hit mobile app I'm not aware of? That's nearly half that of Blizzard of WoW fame.
Yes it is correct, in theory at least ;)
SEEKING WORK - Remote. Located in the EU, but can provide overlapping hours for the U.S.

I'm an expert Python/Django and Javascript developer with 12 years of experience. I have a strong systems administration background.

My Github profile is https://github.com/msamoylov and my blog is https://samoylov.tech

I’m an experienced developer with

* 12+ years in Python

* 12+ years in JavaScript

* 12+ years in SQL

* 12+ years in Linux server administration

* 10 years in Django

* 4 years in MongoDB

* 2 years in Swift

* 3 years in AngularJS

* 1 year in React

* Less than a year in Elixir and Phoenix

My focus still lies in Python and Django, but I do pretty much Swift work, too.
I agree as well. While he has had a big impact on technology I don't see the domain expertise to justify his assertions. He is just another person trying to make a guess about something that no one can accurately predict.
Aren't we as consumers partly to blame as well? We want everything cheaper, and so that's what the corporations have given us.

That is certainly part of the problem - it's exactly this mentality shift especially in mobile I am considering wrong. But I am sort of biased, an outlier maybe so I cannot objectively tell if it really is wrong in general, or if that is just my opinionated view on it. Because in the last 10 years or so I have bought electronics, tools, components of all sorts for which I explicitely chose to buy the usually more expensive one from a reputable brand because I learned by experience it would not only serve me better but also last much longer, and I never regretted those decisions (just to name some concrete things: woodworking tools like circular saw/sanders/dust extractor, bycicle components, DSLR, music player, kitchen appliances, oscilloscope). But not a phone: too much choice and not enough information available so I cannot possibly tell if I got one it would serve me like 5 years or more. So I just got a rather cheap dumb phone hoping it would last.
Your comparison is interesting since everybody I know has said exactly the same of iOS 7.
He had to shut it down - but as far as I remember, they got the SSL key anyway. None can tell me that providing it in a font size of 4pt would have stopped them. I think that typing 2560 chars is not that hard.
URL: http://thesecondgame.com/free/

* 1 Rule!
Collect the sweet orange circles in a second and move to the next set.
That's the one and only rule!

* Sequential sets!
Repeat each set the number of times needed to move to the next level.
It grows on you, as it grows with you!

* Infinite levels!
Each level is accomplished when all sets are complete and then the next comes right up.
It never stops!

* Bonus! (free feature)
Refill the time in your set as you walk down the levels, taking advantage of the green circles in the game!
Who wouldn't love a free extra second?

Hint: Bonus appearance is random, so don't blindly count on it :)

Play it in a bus, in flight, in the subway, at a coffee break or while waiting in queue. Stress your limits. Its super clean interface and its infinite levels make it a pleasant run to a time journey. Start with a second and keep the seconds coming.

Insanely easy to understand yet so difficult to master.
I've seen them in some vendor-specific data formats in the financial space.

They seem to be from an era when the formatting models were either fixed-width fields, or a serial set of variable width fields delineated by FIELD SEPERATOR, GROUP SEPERATOR, etc.

What both models lacked was a good way to handle optional/sparse fields. If you have a data structure with 40 sub-fields, a JSON, XML or YAML notation can encode "Just subfield 26" pretty efficiently, but the FIELD SEPERATOR model usually involves having dozens of empty fields to space the one you want, and a lot of delicacy if the field layout changes.
In my day, we used to just insert the server into the rack, plug it into the network, terminal into it and configure it. I'm not being sarcastic here. There was a clear correspondence between what we were doing and what it meant for the infrastructure. Now there are so many layers of abstractions that we've basically forgotten it's all just CPUs, hard disks, memory modules and network connections.
I think people would totally do that for Wawa. I know some people who are crazy into the whole Wawa vs Sheetz debate.

There's a whole community around "low-end" VPS and server hosting, and BuyVM's staff have historically been active figures in that community. The Discord is an offshoot of that. It's not all that unusual; a lot of companies do community outreach by running communities for people who do things related to their services. Digital Ocean themselves do this in another form with their documentation libraries.

BuyVM's brand relies on the perception that they are laid-back, pro-free-speech, friendly, and helpful. The Discord is a way of broadcasting that. Now, personally - I think that attracts some people I wouldn't prefer to attract. But I know they've drawn lines in the past (banning overtly anti-Semitic people, for instance), so, fair enough. Their pro-speech attitude helped me when a site I ran was subjected to bogus legal threats from an unhinged former user.
I'm a big fan of this type of living. We need to provide
cheap places to park overnight RV's/buses. We have been
conditioned to believe we need to live in high priced
boxes. If things don't work out for me, it's a boat
off Dunphy Park. It will have a very well designed 12v
solar system.
Plenty of people raise their kids this way. When I see parents laugh when their kids fall down instead of panic, I smile. And the best part? The kids smile too, because they're actually looking to their parents for how to react.

I'd rather raise daredevils than anxious wrecks. My best friend has a kid who's always climbing on stuff, falling down, getting hurt. That kid is going to grow up to be awesome.
I guess because floats implement PartialOrd, not Ord, and what would you return if one of self, min, and max is non-ordered? Returning an `Option<T>` would usually be inconvenient.

Therefore clamp is implemented on Ord (meaning there's always a value to return), and there's an efficient implementation on floats which can define its behaviour with respect to NaN.

If you want the actual details,

* https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/clamp-function-for-primiti...

* https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44095
Sure, vulnerabilities and bugs can happen. They get fixed and people move on. Something much better coming out is not an existential risk for the cryptocurrency/blockchain space, quite the opposite, it's very positive.
Very exciting stuff! I'll try to take it for a spin tonight :)
Wall Streets dark pools may become blacker.
The description at the end about how it's basically a hostage situation but with the hostage takers trying to be fun is the most excellent metaphor for anything I've ever heard.

It's so fucking accurate, and explains why the site's content trends towards a very corporate-friendly "safe quirky" that I personally find nauseating.
How are rich families still having a significantly larger influence over our societies in the 21st Century? This is inexcusable. It's like we traded lords and nobles for politicians bought and sold by lords and nobles.
Very clever, everyone else who didn't want to comply with the rules had the same thought.

However:

Guidelines 2/2019 on the processing of personal data under Article 6(1)(b) GDPR in the context of the provision of online services to data subjects [1]

Section 3.3, Paragraphs 51-53:

> 51. Online behavioural advertising, and associated tracking and profiling of data subjects, is often used to finance online services. WP29 has previously stated its view on such processing, stating

> > [contractual necessity] is not a suitable legal ground for building a profile of the user’s tastes and lifestyle choices based on his clickstream on a website and the items purchased. This is because the data controller has not been contracted to carry out profiling, but rather to deliver particular goods and services, for example

> 52. As a general rule, processing of personal data for behavioural advertising is not necessary for the performance of a contract for online services. Normally, it would be hard to argue that the contract had not been performed because there were no behavioural ads.This is all the more supported by the fact that data subjects have the absolute right under Article 21 to object to processing of their data for direct marketing purposes

> 53. Further to this, Article 6(1)(b) cannot provide a lawful basis for online behavioural advertising simply because such advertising indirectly funds the provision of the service. Although such processing may support the delivery of a service, this in itself is not sufficient to establish that it is necessary for the performance of the contract at issue.

[1]: https://edpb.europa.eu/our-work-tools/our-documents/guidelin...
> The depravity of a platform where HR Managers are the rockstars speaks for itself.
Kikopup's YouTube channel has lots of good stuff about reward-based training too: https://www.youtube.com/user/kikopup
Yeah, i love twilio, but its value is in integrating with legacy services or customers who are stuck on old technologies. Using it to build new services around SMS/MMS that don't need to be built on SMS seems a little backwards.

"so we take this awesome system, it takes pictures that we upload it to dropbox, a perfectly acceptable destination for pictures. and then, for some strange reason, instead of sending an email or just leaving it there in dropbox or doing any of the other great things we can do with pictures, we make an MMS"
Ha ha oh man, sam. seriously: do you think about what you post at all before you hit submit?

you wanted to have a discussion behind closed doors before announcing this to the entire world? ok, that's fine, but that begs the question "why?"

given human nature, it's probably for nefarious purposes and propaganda control. I'm thinking you regret this bet, have realized it has only accelerate d the bubbles collapse, and are attempting serious efforts at damage control.

look, your a smart guy, sam, but you are pretty terrible at this whole communication thing, which is a shame considering that's a major part of your job.

lol
It's disappointing to see that the biggest "disruption" in the logistics space involves shifting risk further down the economic hierarchy. The most difficult part of last-mile logistics has been capacity planning, both human and infrastructure. And yet, much of this risk is now being pushed down to the entities least capable of absorbing it - what is the opportunity cost of being "available" as a DoorDash driver for a given shift with non-guaranteed compensation?

The message that is emerging loudly from the SV VC community is that they believe this model is one that should be pursued, aggressively. Let's be clear that in terms of labor and risk management, this is not innovation, it is a return to the status quo of a century ago - one that we as a society fought hard to change.

I fear that the plan is to just fight the legal and PR battles, and hope that the robots arrive fast enough and make the situation moot (aka the Foxconn gambit).
Was that a question for me? Anyway, I'm not familiar with Server Core, but after reading some documentation [1], it looks to me like a Linux server without X11 and extra services which is quite the norm.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh84...
You said you aren't sure he's building it right, and I'm with you on that. Some of the structure appears not to be glued, only screwed. Scary. Also, the planking looks frightening.

He goes on to say things like this:

"I’m not 100% certain how I’m putting in the port holes, but… I know I need a hole. Cutting out these framing members will help me layout the next steps. Right?"

and

"The project is a little on the dumbtacular side of things. A lot of my design was done using old school brute force design instead of math and software."

Not that one has to use math and software to build a solid boat, but going off the cuff with no experience and no start-to-finish plans is just asking for trouble.

At very least, he should have drawn up the entire design and had an experienced shipwright or two lend him their expertise.

The thing might make an interesting coral condo someday.
It's a Commonwealthism.

(I mean the British one, not Massachusetts.)
You cannot use Coke as an example. They have a strategy that can aptly be described as "profits before people". They've hired terrorist groups to kill workers who've done nothing but try to organize a union to have enough money to feed their children.

http://killercoke.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Coca-Cola
http://colombiajournal.org/colombia73.htm

It's like saying that the mining companies in Virgina have done nothing but help the people in that region, forgetting of course, the Battle of Blair Mountain, or the wages, or the treatment, or the pollution.

Some companies actually care. But Coke does not. It will never. You speak about the solution to a problem being motivated by profit and that is exactly what the unions were, a problem that was solved by the need to profit.

Some companies need to be stopped. To be taken down. Not because they produce a bad product, but because they are to far detached from "the human condition", and therefore see people as simply an obstacle to their profits.
Really freakin' cool, however it feels weird on mobile since there's no momentum scrolling with it. I just stops (and has the jelly effect).
The advice given to radio DJ's might be helpful: you're not talking to 100,000 people. You're talking to one or two people. In this case they're all sitting in the same room, but you can still pick out one or two who appear to be listening closely.

If you have a set amount of time to fill, avoid any anxiety about that by preparing more than enough material, and knowing ahead of time what you'll be sacrificing.

Since you know your subject well, focus on communicating your enthusiasm about it. We've all sat through lectures by people who sound bored by what they've chosen to spend years at.
The news I’ve seen has been calling it “draconian.”

e.g.

“China has used draconian measures to contain the spread of the virus, including locking down Hubei province and more recently stepping up measures to screen and quarantine overseas arrivals.” Reuters (NYTimes?) https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/03/21/world/asia/21reut...
You make a convincing argument, how can we conscionably blame these people for wanting to feather their nest, considering the pittance the public pays them?

Now replace politicians with police, and corporate interests with criminal interests (I'd wager they're equally as damaging), perhaps we have people with the wrong ideals in these positions?
We should align their benefits with those they serve. Letting them buy health insurance on the open market would be my move #1.
> Paid social networks have failed to gain traction because most people don't want to pay $10 a year.

Is there an option where I get to pay $10 a year in already popular social networks and they guaranteed my privacy? Maybe then we could start demanding better quality.

> People will give up their shopping privacy for extra discounts the the super market.

Some will. Even then, they might buy some things in cash. They get to choose.

> People buy cheap TVs that send data on what they watch which is then sold.

I was not aware of that, is it informed in the tv packaging in a way a grandma can understand it?
Weight and volume. The air has weight so it'll cost more to launch. The volume would also make them more difficult to launch. Assembling or unfolding in space near earth would allow you to make them larger and inspect them before they leave for venus.
Can you share some data that illustrates why you think this is a good idea?
A big risk I don't see flagged is the risk of losing the public's confidence in the vaccine approval process. People are already skeptical of the safety, despite pretty robust trials. Imagine if they went with one dose and it turned out to be marginally effective? Imagine how many people will just opt out of vaccines entirely?
Clamping floats is interesting, but seems pretty niche.
Yeah and it's a lot easier to sue doctors for malpractice than it is politicians for corruption/negligence. You're kinda proving my point.
It’s intentional. They save billions using this practice because some people don’t have the time, knowledge or resources to dispute.