jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The links to resources on better comic fonts and - even more so - dyslexic-friendly fonts make this actually useful.
While a strong type system is one way to achieve the goal (and probably the easiest one from a language design perspective) it is not the only way. The original E design did not rely upon typing at all but used cryptographic security at the message-passing layer to accomplish the capability semantics desired. Strong typing made it easy to apply the core ideas to Ocaml, for example, but it could have been accomplished in a language with weaker types but a more rigidly designed message-passing architecture like Erlang with just a few tweaks to the VM and OTP system (e.g. a lot of the tools that make hot code loading and debugging things on-the-fly possible in Erlang leak too much information about the system and would have to be changed.)
I actually love how the word Joint has different meanings to different people. In San Francisco when people hear Joint....
I quite like the name to be honest.

And I sure like the design as well.
Actually, he will be generating co2 and selling it back to one of the other people in the shared production space. The space will be selling power back to the grid in the daytime using solar panels.
I agree with you there, that was pretty ridiculous when I first saw they were attempting to do that. I will say though, I don't believe that was necessarily to force people to buy macs to develop. I think that by keeping people on the same toolchain, using the predetermined API's and LLVM, they could make major enhancements without having to worry about all the 3rd-party apps still working.
This only affects all the popular crap and cloud locker storage is not available in Europe.
It has its uses, but W3Schools has been criticized for being inaccurate[1], and there's better documentation out there now (HTMLDog and Mozilla Developer Center have been mentioned[2][3]).

[1] http://w3fools.com/
[2] http://htmldog.com
[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
This assumes that giving everyone a basic income is a life preserver. If giving people in poverty money was the fix, we would be done. People have to want to get out of poverty. Really want it. The system right now incentivizes people to stay in poverty. The "cliff effect", where government benefits decrease faster than gains in earnings, keeps many people from getting out. Trying to address that problem first would be better than just giving everyone money.
Great thanks for your feedback, I will setup an installation in my home lab this weekend, super excited!
i think the "poorly written terrible analogy" has been upvoted to rank #3 (as i see it now) because it points out a paradoxical logic. The key point of the article is when he points out that the rich wouldn't care to keep their $1000. When the reader first sees the tagline, they are intrigued because it makes no sense to give bill gates $1000. Through the analogy, one can see though, why it does. I think the purpose of the analogy is exactly that point--and not one to try and match the real-world dilemma. Also... to the comment about going to law-school and no shortage of good housing-- you are not understanding what "poor" truly means.
Real estate works surprisingly differently in different countries. In France real estate agencies are used for pretty much every deal (afaik), in Germany there's quite a lot of local listings in papers or dedicated websites that cut out the realtor (standard contracts are freely available, the process is pretty standardized). I don't know how it works in the US but in Germany eBay classifieds for rental are becoming more and more popular so that may be a direct competitor down the line.
It's like when you learn how to notice aliasing artifacts in photos taken with DSLRs. It cannot be unseen. So even if those issues are mostly noticeable in low-res, you "cannot unsee" them in higher resolutions anymore either.
I think that if instead of QE, the fed just sent every US citizen, no questions asked a check for 1/300 000 000 of the total value of the programs, the economy would have been in better shape right now and we would have healthy levels of inflation.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/14/obama-secret-ki...
Indeed, IIRC some of his work has exposed spreadsheets showing people being scammed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and these call centers easily make 5 figures a month just extracting money from the unknowing.

"Kitboga" on YT manages to keep scammers on call for hours and hours, quite amusing that in the end he's the one gaining monetarily as his videos sometimes get millions of views.
Of course! It turns out that GHC implements the Monad instance for IO by using `returnIO` and `bindIO` in `GHC.Base`.

I played around with these as a mini demonstration of using IO in Haskell without any mention of monads: https://gist.github.com/jameshfisher/1d735b5267e8f848b280
I know my mum has a Moonpig account so I'm pissed about this, but I don't recall if I have an account.

Recently, I have mostly been using CFHDocmail. It's 96p for a full colour A5 greeting card of your own design.

(It's also cheaper to use them to send letters than it is for me to buy a stamp. They also do postcards, going as low as 38p delivered. Lots of mailmerge and API stuff available too iirc, but I've never used any of it.)

Edit: They may use windowed envelopes for the cards, when I tested they didn't, but now I've been told they do. I've not sent one to myself since my original testing, and none of the recent recipients have said either way. I'll make a quick one and sent it to myself!
Got it. thanks for the clarification.
I've been expecting somebody to come up with this for years. I guess the HBO streaming announcement finally opened the floodgates.

They still are bundling a package of channels, I guess wanted a-la-carte but broadcasters would have none of that. It's probably the smallest package they were able to negotiate.

This is basically a TV cable provider using the internet as last-mile infrastructure. There will be lawsuits from big cable, they will lobby regulators to impose cable service fees into them.
I've been wondering the same thing recently. Thanks for asking!

At the moment, for me, it is a combination of either adding the article to Safari's Reading List, or if I'm more interested in the article bookmarking it.
> Going by that logic...

The government didn't tell Amazon to stop carrying the book, so your point is irrelevant.

> But you would...

Well I haven't really thought about that, because in reading the post, I was just distracted by the exaggeration that I pointed out in my original comment.
Let me get this straight. This is a person who has openly admitted to knowing how to hack banking systems among others, then travels to countries like Abu Dhabi and the Dominican Republic to present that information.

We are surprised that he is searched at the border to the US? He was treated politely, not physically harmed and had his hardware returned. Sounds like the government is finally doing their job.

Maybe there are "certain" people out there throwing his name around and the government was obligated to look into this.

I would not support gross negligence by our government and this sounds like normal procedure to me, given the extenuating circumstances.
> MSNBC’s Brian Williams reads a tweet: "Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. U.S. Population, 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million"

> NYT Editorial Board Member Mara Gay: “It’s an incredible way of putting it. It’s true. It’s disturbing”
No. Olive oil is great, but don't put it in your deep fryer. I like to use ghee, personally.
Also ethanol. 7 kcal per gram.
I think you know the answer is "yes".
You are describing scenarios where it’s noticeable. It’s like saying if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there.

However my point is, just because some may become aware of their tinnitus when wearing say...AirPods Pro, that doesn’t mean they are the cause. I would notice it with those just as I would with the silicon earbuds that come with Roku remotes. But don’t notice it with my regular AirPods.

There are times it’s worse for me. Like when I’m stressed and times it’s suppressed, like when my adrenaline is pumping. And there are times when it’s more noticeable, like when it’s dark and quiet and my primary senses are dampened.

But regardless I would be part of that % of the population that has tinnitus.

And just because it’s noticeable with x device doesn’t mean that’s the cause.
That requires ShitStack
> next gen shell needs to focus on structured data

Agree completely. I wrote about this "JQ is a symptom" - https://ilya-sher.org/2018/09/10/jq-is-a-symptom/
The margins on burnt bean water are insane. Even when accounting for paying a 'fair wage' to workers in a foreign country.
> The constant rate of "New Study Finds Coffee Improves [insert health benefit]" articles

Yep, this has become so inflationary, but it doesn't mean that studies and findings are invalidated per se.
If multiple (independent) findings come to the conclusion X, then the correlation becomes stronger and stronger. When the correlation is strong (multiple findings conclude X), then you can be reasonably certain that X is likely.
Or am I wrong with this?
I'm just glad that I seem to have passed through whatever set of factors that caused me to be "randomly" selected every time I entered the US for years on end.
I am using ServiceUptime's free service, but looks like wasitup.com is much better. ServiceUptime pings website for every 30 mins while wasitup pings every 5 mins and that's too free :). I have subscribed to both the service and will see how they are doing and carry on accordingly.
Thanks for the immediate response.
I have a fan page for the hn-books site (shameless plug: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hn-books/176636875710129?ref=s... )

On it I talk about what books and tools we're reviewing and cool book and tool stuff for startups and hackers. Hn-books.com is a hobby site, and the fan page is a part of that hobby of collecting cool resources.

But really, at the heart, it's all links -- links to the site, links to hn, recent blog entries with links. I don't do events, and resource links are the most useful thing I can provide. So when FB banned me from my own fan page, I was kind of freaked out. Why do that?

The only answer I got was because I was spamming, but heck I was just doing what the page was supposed to be about. I guess the problem was that somebody joined the fan page, then complained about the links the page was providing. The links they asked to get.

Just like with Ars, I found very little help. I finally sent an email off into the blind with something like "I am not spamming. I am simply maintaining a page full of resources. People who want to be fans of the page expect to see these resources. That's the whole point!"

A few days later the ban was lifted. The whole episode happened with very almost zero useful information from Facebook.

So somebody out there is reading these emails. But my customer service experience was far from pleasant. I hope Ars gets it straightened out. When you're in a situation where you can be punished for little reason and without much recourse something is whacked somewhere. This situation desperately needs some transparency and structure.
As far towards this endpoint as you can tolerate, target being the only tech hire in a certain tech discipline, ideally not working on the main point of the tech there, w/ low outsourcing abilities (i.e. a MSP won't take your job),

- do it at a smaller, non-tech company, where tech is important enough to be a part of it but not the prime time.

- do it on a engineering team for agtech or one of these smaller tech cos with niche purposes out west/midwest.

- do it in QA, IT, cybersec, all can be single hires. Ability to find yourself in a disastrous situation where you are on point to fix it are higher, but you're also playing the odds that likely can work for you mid term at least.

- do it at certain Fortune 500s, which often doesn't really know what they wants from engineers and will often use their engs as people who plaster code over whitelabel apps from vendors, and blame the vendor for all issues.

- consider your use of custom infrastructure/hacks, such that you're hard to replace
He doesn't mention Concourse, but let me say the complexity there is beast.
Amazon presumably doesn't share purchase history with advertisers; you get lumped into a cohort with certain interests/keywords.

An experiment to try; if you only go shopping/searching for vacuum cleaners but don't actually buy one you are likely to see the same phenomenon.

Why do advertisers pay for this? Because conversion statistics show that showing ads to people shopping for vacuum cleaners do actually result in vacuum cleaner sales. A/B tests back up the causality of the results, so vacuum sellers pay for the ads.

Why doesn't Amazon remove you from the cohort of vacuum cleaner shoppers after you make a purchase? 1) it would reveal that you made a purchase. 2) Amazon would lose out on additional ad revenue.

I have no inside information on Amazon but it matches what I've seen on other large ad networks.
The irony is that increased corporate taxes tend to mean big companies actually pay less tax.

Corporate taxes are on profit, not revenue, so if a company spends all of the money it makes on investments, they owe the government nothing. Of course a profit seeking entity will want to take profits eventually, or else there is no point to investing, but if you are confident that corporate taxes will go down at some point in the future, it makes sense to invest now and take profits later. Small businesses might not be able to wait for very long for that eventual tax break, and corporate taxes can be a real burden for them, but a big company can always access capital if it needs to and can go decades without reporting a profit.

If you were a billionaire leader of a massive corporation that was looking to spend billions in the next few years on capital expenses that reduce your reliance on labor, a corporate tax hike would be ideal. It's easier to get your board to go along with the big investment and it hurts any would-be competitors who needed the money. Bonus points if you convince the public that you're a man of the people.
You are not alone. Transport for London found safety concerns as the biggest reason people do not cycle in London. Interestingly, many people who do cycle also considered it too dangerous.

For what it's worth, your risk from diseases of inactivity (diabetes, heart disease, etc) are far greater than the risk of cycling, even with poor infrastructure. Most people who take up cycling to work see an increase in life expectancy.

The solution is to separate cyclists from motor traffic on all major roads and introduce 30kmph limits on quiet roads. The Netherlands did this and has far lower accident rates, despite having more children and elderly people cycling. They don't wear helmets either!
This is the first time I've seen a dev-made musical intro video for a game platform and it was great!
> Whether or not Signal's server is open source has nothing to do with security

This true only when you are exclusively concerned about your messages' content but not about the metadata. As we all know, though, the metadata is the valuable stuff.

There is a second reason it is wrong, though: These days, lots of actual user data (i.e. != metadata) gets uploaded to the Signal servers[0] and encrypted with the user's Signal PIN (modulo some key derivation function). Unfortunately, many users choose an insecure PIN, not a passphrase with lots of entropy, so the derived encryption key isn't particularly strong. (IMO it doesn't help that it's called a PIN. They should rather call it "ultra-secure master passphrase".) This is where a technology called Intel SGX comes into play: It provides remote attestation that the code running on the servers is the real deal, i.e. the trusted and verified code, and not the code with the added backdoor. So yes, the server code does need to be published and verified.

Finally, let's not forget the fact that SGX doesn't seem particularly secure, either[1], so it's even more important that the Signal developers be open about the server code.

[0]: https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/

[1]: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/07/10/a-few-th...
It’s probably safe to say that some major hacks have been made possible by security researchers publishing POCs for vulnerabilities that will inevitably never be completely patched by everyone. It’s not like a POC is just a tool that’s being abused, it literally has only one purpose.
If someone had asked me yesterday if I could build them a webpage or if they should use Wix I would have say I'm sure Wix is fine. Today I would strongly advise against it.

The argument of not being locked in the basement is really important for small businesses which is why Wordpress got so huge in the first place.

Having the ability to hire one dev and if that doesn't work out being able to go to another is a major selling point for a small business.

Good luck porting your wix site if they turn evil and yeah that already seems to have happened.
Someone wrote about it on TNW and my poor little Heroku instance exploded. I'm gonna move import to a background worker and see if that helps matters.
Uh, I don't think you need to worry so much any more:

http://androidheadlines.com/2010/12/evernote-for-android-updated-making-800000month-revenue.html

I believe this was discussed here just the other day.
Shopify certainly has a good deal going for themselves, with that they take a monthly fee AND a percentage of revenue. Nobody else in this market has been gutsy enough to ask for both!
Wow, this is really cool, obviously.

Not sure if it's the lighting or the text I'm trying, but it does have a tendency to make words dance around insanely. The execution could be improved upon a bit.

I can certainly see a lot of potential for this. Let me know when it's embedded in my augmented reality eyeglasses!
From the paper's abstract:

>In this paper, we study the task of reconstructing a facial image of a person from a short audio recording of that person speaking.

I can imagine a potentially interesting application of this that has nothing to do with privacy violation or surveillance (that I can see):

What if we could take an audio recording of an ancestor or someone else of interest, for whom we have no pictures, and output a probable face for that person? Sounds interesting and potentially "killer" to me. Maybe I'm wrong.
The iPhone 5 was nice but I have to admit the screen seems tiny to me today. I do use phones one-handed a lot but I find I can still do that with an iPhone 12 Pro with my (admittedly large) right hand. Have never been really interested in the Plus models because IMO they don't really work one-handed.
"I'm something of a server admin myself."

There's so many independent ISPs in the Midwest that probably have owners/founders that are ideologically aligned with the Parler people, so it's not particularly shocking that they would just figure out a way to self-host.
The passion it must have gone through.
? it's a data uri with a base64 encoded icon file

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme
Right, since I was on my phone last night I didn't really want to look things up.

Two albums to are on opposite ends of the Glass spectrum for me are: "Glassworks" (which I like a lot) and "Songs from Liquid Days" (which I am not so enthusiastic about).
Netflix pays higher salaries than the companies in the article. http://bit.ly/1EoHasC
Erm Medivil Iceland was tiny society and prone to generational feuds settled by axe murder.

Can you actually make a real case in teh real world that "government" in some for is not nesercery?
To their workforce or to a potential cartel they'd be federally forced to deal with?
I've still never seen a PC with a sane touchpad. That's the first issue in a long tail of grievances with the PC laptop ecosystem.

EDIT: This isn't a generic "pro-Mac" dig, I want a nice PC laptop because I like dabbling with Linux; however, even the high end trackpads are clunky, even with the pre-installed Windows (never mind the eternal sadness that is Linux trackpad configuration).
Just wait for the 2025 reunion tour.
Perhaps the question should be, “Why do women value gold?”

Using gold for adornment seems universal. And, it seems to be the females in the culture who primarily wear it. Of course, it’s a chicken and egg kinda thing; do women value it (and the men who have it) because it’s valuable, or is it valuable because women like it?

I’ve always liked the color of copper more. And, silver seems far more shiny.
However — and this goes back to the gender issue — the men would not normally have the task of polishing the stuff as it oxidizes. In other words, while a copper necklace and a gold necklace might appear equally pretty to a man, perhaps a woman would look at the copper and see not just the color, but the work that will be needed to maintain it.
If you want to be rigorous about computer science terms, calling it "interpreted vs compiled languages" is a misnomer, because being interpreted or compiled is not a property of the language, but of the implementation. There have been things such as a C interpreter and an ahead-of-time compiler for PHP which generates machine code.

The definition of compiler has never assumed generating executable machine code. Already in the 1970s, Pascal compilers have generated P-code (a form of "bytecode" in Java parlance), which was then interpreted. In the 1980s, Turbo Pascal produced machine code directly.

I've seen the neologism "transpiler" being very frowned upon by the academic programming language community precisely because a compiler is a compiler, no matter the output language — my use of "compiler" there was precisely because of my academic background.

I don't mind the term "transpiler" myself if it helps you understand it's a source-to-source compiler, but then, you don't see people calling the Nim compiler, which generates C code then compiles it into machine code, a "transpiler", even though it is a source-to-source compiler. In the end, "compiler" is the all-encompassing term for a program that takes code in one language and produces code in another, be it high-level or machine language — and yes, that means that technically an assembler is a compiler as well. And since we're talking assembler, most C compilers do not generate executable machine code either: gcc produces assembly, which is then turned into machine code by gas. So gcc is a source-to-source compiler? Is Turbo Pascal more of a compiler than gcc? I could just as well add an output step in the Teal compiler to produce an executable in the output using the same techniques of the Pascal compilers of the 70s. I don't think that would make it more or less of a compiler.

As you can see, the distinction of "what is a transpiler" reduces to "what is source code" or "what is a high-level language", the latter especially having a very fuzzy definition, so in the end my sociological observation on the uses of "transpiler" vs. "compiler" tends to boil down to people's perceptions of "what is a Real, Hardcore Compiler". But being a "transpiler" or not doesn't say anything about the project's "hardcoreness" either — I'm sure the TypeScript compiler which generates JavaScript is a lot more complex than a lot of compilers out there which generate machine code.
Really stoked for this. Good luck
To be clear — when people refer to "school choice", they usually mean a system that funnels taxpayer dollars to private schools based on student attendance. Similarly, when people oppose "school choice", they usually oppose that appropriation of public funds specifically, not public school alternatives in general.

It's a sneaky name designed to make you conflate the two.