jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Giving fake location data could create real problems. Suppose you do this then forget. If it’s a safety or navigation app, you tell the phone to give it fake data, then you forget and maybe use the app much later. Now you’re using a service that thinks you’re in a different location.

One of the examples given here was an app that gives you safety alerts. A navigation app might give you useless directions. There are a thousand ways this could go horribly wrong.

I suppose iOS could present some warning, but that might interfere with the UI, or be misunderstood.
Without the "How" in the title, the meaning changes a bit and made it sound to me like scientists were shocked that a single called organism could be intelligent without a nervous system, when of course a nervous system is not an absolute requirement to behave intelligently
This really helped me see potential in NFTs. Before your comment, I was just seeing NFTs as this new certificate of authenticity/ownership that was going to be lost in a sea of property rights management governance. But after reading what you wrote, I'm starting to see NFTs not as the big deal, but the apps that build on top of NFTs. Because having a MgT digital card by itself may not mean much, but the MgT application layer may only recognize official NFT cards to play (which seems easy to do from an app perspective) and therefore the NFT gets used in this code.

So I think NFTs may hit more in other fields outside of art, like digital playing cards, digital event tickets, etc. May still work for art. Could be fascinating to have an app layer on top of the art. Almost like an art museum, or maybe exclusive art events where you have to have specific NFTs to attend. Almost like exclusive membership to a club.

(Oh great, now with all these ideas in my head I may not sleep lol)
Yes, I am looking forward to better type systems (and community habits/norms around those type systems) solving most of these problems. In particular, I would like to see the community gain enough faith in the safety guarantees of more advance type systems to back off of blind line coverage mandates. But today we have Go and Java's type systems, and the same coverage mandates as Python and Node.

In particular I would like to see the compiler enforce that you either return a legitimate value or raise an exception, and that the caller does not go down a path that calls for a value if an exception was raised. I hate that a reference can get 10 miles away before you discover there's no data there, and it being wrapped in Option or ? or a technically-not-null zero value doesn't mitigate that.
If you do not see it how it would be useful, my recommendation is do not buy it.

I have not bought it, but I have used it. I justify using it because it is useful to me: It helps me understand how people very different from myself interact with their world. These other people are not wrong, just different. Remarkably often, the differences are quite comprehensible. It helps to organize those differences. The precise details of how to organize them are not especially important, because it is just a way to break up what would be a lot of confusing detail into chunks that minds can grasp more easily. If it matches how other people organize, then we can talk about it.

Certain ways of organizing differences satisfy more criteria than others, and so have attracted more people to use them. MB is one that does, and so has. That doesn't make other systems wrong; and that other systems exist doesn't make MB wrong, even if different systems are more useful in one place than another.
Digitised data from the scrolls for textual analysis was a thorny topic for years, according to my father who worked a bit on this at Edinburgh University with Andrew Morton. People guarded datasets jealously. The dead sea scrolls centre, places like the Freud archives, they're guardians of artefacts but also guardians of a specific group think. If you attack their credibility, you lose access to the data. It's maybe normal, human, but for scholarship its pernicious. The Vatican archives are in some ways more open i believe, Dan Brown not withstanding.

(My dad and Morton mainly worked on new testament, easier to get the texts maybe. He said if you go back to the earliest Aramaic, its plain the Pauline epistles is the work of a committee which pisses off a lot of people.)

The amount of bullshit in biblical scholarship is crazy. Digs in Israel are finding second and third heads of John the baptist all the time (that's a "name of the rose" joke)

Lots of careers have been built on 1-2cm of scroll. I can't read hebrew ancient or modern, I'm told it's a dense script with ambiguities in written form, which make interpretation overly subjective.
Okay I made halfchess.com . I recently made an update to improve monetisation and next day day I saw I had purchases of $16 on google analytics. I was quite thrilled and thought its only going to go up from here. Until I checked google play console to realise that there had been no purchases. It was me who was testing some new payment buttons and generating fake purchase analytics events. My learning from the experience is, it feels great to see your app making a few dollars the first day it does so.
That was sunk by the mods off the first couple of pages, despite its upvoting velocity.

PS you don't need to downvote this, just wait for the mod action. But for veracity, search for it on the first 3 pages. It's not there. And then compare its time of posting and score with entries that are there
Happy to see another iracer here. Got mine in June and it’s been a blast.

I’ve looked into doing some dev related work, seems like the apis are funky and limitations can be quite odd. This will probably be my inspiration to build out a side project.

Good luck, have fun, and see you on the track
It's better to post the original URL rather than a shortened one. HN can deal with long URLs
> Let people decide what they want to see. If I want a censored Twitter, or Wild West Twitter, let me choose.

Nobody is stopping anyone from building a Twitter clone for anarchists. By all means, if you build it, they will come.
from about 2000 to 2015 we were relatively free of moral puritans trying to censor people, language, art.

but now it has returned with a vengeance and even worse than the moral panics of the 80s and 90s.
The core problem is the failure of the contracting agency to set requirements and stick with them. Once a contractor gets galloping requirements you get instant proof that better is the enemy of good.
Avax also failed their big launch and had accounts with negative balances.

Aside from that; at this point I think eth will end up becoming a stack of tech.
Hmm I couldn't get it to work with video chat so I should try again
Google is squarely a product company. They make products, they manage them as products, and users are a function of marketing, product performance, and support. Professional services firms are customer companies. They have no product other than solving business problems for their customers. Its likely that a VP at a reseller could name their top 15 clients and their relative spend from memory, whereas a Google VP could spout off 15 metrics that drive their division, but not have much awareness about customer spend or what’s driving it within their business.
The judge "held that Nye’s reading of the contract was “unreasonable” because it would mean that Disney would not be able to collect any distribution fee at all".

In other words, if the artist is not being screwed over, then the judge knows the contract is being misinterpreted, ipso facto and quid pro quo.
Telescopes: depends on your use case. Check out the sticky on reddit.com/r/telescopes

Books: Again, depends, but Turn Left at Orion and Cosmic Challenge are good ones.
> I didn't say force. I said incentivize.

Incentivize usually means offering something to someone to make something attractive.

That is not what you are proposing. You are proposing to take away her money by force until she can’t afford to live there.

> If her property taxes aren't artificially constrained by prop 13

Taxes that rise based on a tax inspector estimating the value of an unsold property are at least as artificial as taxing based on transactions. There is nothing ‘natural’ about property taxes. It’s a system constructed and imposed by the local government.

> she'll see her taxes go up over time

Yes, through no fault of her own, if and only if other people continue to drive up prices.

> and decide how much she values staying in the house and paying the increasing taxes

Agreed. If other people drive up the price, they’ll be able to force her out of her home.

> Society benefits from incentivizing her to move, so that more humans can occupy the space she is currently occupying, which will improve regional productivity, reduce highway and transit overcrowding, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, all sorts of good stuff.

A kinder way would be - why force grandma to move, when not doing so would bring all of these benefits to areas which need them more, and frankly, have better incentives in the form of currently lower costs?
Really? That's not what they told me when I worked there. They were such flimsy vehicles, so what I was told sounded reasonable.
I'll take it as a "yes" - you have jumped from a single self-reported case to "a likely cause of many Morgellons' disease cases is actually tropical rat mite".
According to their twitter account, it's a single one-time fee (http://twitter.com/AppSumo). I just got upgraded, and now I have 510k free data points to play with!
That's hypocrisy rather than irony. And not HN material.
Technically, it's not a pie chart, it's a rose diagram or polar area diagram. More info here:

http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ex/crimea-rose.html
Not really. It is an advanced design for a civilian airplane. Most Cessnas are capable of only 4g's at cruise speed. The Bonanza is capable of 11 or 12 g's. It has the potential to destroy itself due to the dynamic energy it has available at cruise speed. The V tail is very well designed. As airspeed increases the pull on the yoke is less rather than more for increased G. One design flaw was to increase the tail cord length starting with the C model without moving the front spar. This created a dynamic twisting which, under G load, causes the aircraft G load to increase without pilot input. The fix was to tie down the leading edge of the stabilizer. I have owned a Bonanza for 28 years and love it. It is an aircraft designed about fifty years ahead of itself. It is very, very safe when flown by pilots aware of the design. Unfortunately the FAA does not require owners to be trained in the capabilities of the design. Whose fault is that? I love the airplane.
Nope. Everybody is missing here that the mute switch has a dual purpose as an indicator when the iPad is not in use. This means that if you're at a meeting, you can just glance down at the iPad and tell if it will make noise. There is nothing essential about orientation that warrants its being indicated externally when iPad's not in use.
Yep, so it is! Edited my post.
Try setting up E911 service for a GVoice voip phone in your house sometime -- you'll run across a lot of web UIs that look >10 years old.
I read all of it against my better judgement and I still have no idea what you're really talking about. There was no substance, just vague allusions. But anyone can make those. I could tell you Zuck is a lizard person and make odd hand gestures as I whisper about dark secrets. So what? It comes off as being written by a crank.
If you are thinking about the “which is often more memory than the system actually has" part, I don't know if it's outdated even today: the vast majority of Linux systems these days are Android phones, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if a good proportion of those didn't have more than 4GB of RAM.
This seems like good news for Julia. Some wondered why Google would develop S4TF with an LLVM backend when Julia already existed and had better support for things like linear algebra than Swift had.
Thank you for the aside!

Too late to edit, though.
All of what you have described is entirely legal.
> Any ecologist would tell you that trees plant themselves if left alone.

They'd also tell you that the attrition rates are terrible.
But at some point these guesstimates get sold as scientific discovery.

First example from TFA:

Prof Pearson said the remains of a cow, which was found at the site, suggested animals may have helped to pull the stones to their resting spot in England

What, they didn't use trucks? A much better indication than "we found a skeleton" for these ancients having used oxen to move stones would be any remains at all of the sorts of yokes and related equipment that allow oxen to pull heavy loads. Cattle are primarily of value for their meat and dairy, so the fact that humans and cattle were merely associated at any particular site certainly doesn't mean what the good professor seems to claim.
Frankly, using a personal profile for work activity in this vein is just not a good idea. Regardless of whether Linkedin ‘forbids’ creating secondary accounts.
> TrueSkill is patented,[3] and the name is trademarked,[4] so it is limited to Microsoft projects and commercial projects that obtain a license to use the algorithm.

Capitalism sometimes leads to stupid outcomes as this big issue with "what is property".

Imagine if physicists patented their equations, forcing universities, books, movies, wikipedia, etc.. all to pay for the privilege of using their equations. The world would still be in the dark ages with just a privileged social class with access to advanced knowledge.

Not to mention this will bar a totally valid shot of others human beings of getting into the same result while trying to solve this problem, giving they are using a math toolbox that is generally available to anyone.

Corporations should have the right to explore something they worked on, of course, but look at this example where Microsoft already implemented and still profit from their invention/discovery.

Using the legal system and not creativity to stop everyone else to progress using not just their knowledge, but the knowledge that can come from everywhere its pure stupidity as its not serving towards a collective good.

We are in the middle of the COVID outbreak right now, imagine if this sort of adversarial view were prominent in the world, how many more people would die if basic techniques about making vaccines were patented?

This is just utterly stupid and it's another proof that the system is broken.
Japan has a lot of homeless that can only be seen by visiting certain places,such as internet cafes, where they can shelter at least for a bit or for the whole night.
This article goes into a little too much detail imho. I have had great success explaining Git to coworkers using post-its, permanent marker and a flip board (no computer!) and going through the steps Git would take (abstractly, not exactly) when performing certain commands. All commits (and their relations) are written down on the board with the marker because they don't change (eg: rebasing just creates a new line of commits). The branches are written down on post-its and can move around (like this article explains, they are just pointers). You can use a whiteboard with non-permanent marking for the working directory and index if you want to go that deep.
Creating semiconductor fabs takes billions of dollars in investment and can only be achieved by a few very large companies, most likely with government support and coordination in any country that builds them. While it is true that China has a private sector with its own set of interests, the Chinese government is already working very closely with relevant parties in this particular circumstance.
Or NeXT RTFd
My day-to-day Linux usage was mostly in the '90s and 2000s, but back then anything related to power management was just like that. Like, power management stuff was generally implemented and available, but often disabled by default because it was only 99% reliable when it needed to be 99.99999% reliable.

Back then the consensus was that it's a really hard problem for all sorts of reasons (including but not limited to proprietary hardware, crappy hardware, etc.), which of course it is, but that given a few years and the shallowness of all bugs under the collective eyeballs of the entire Linux community it was inevitable that it would eventually become rock solid. I just remember a lot of people being really really really insistent about it, and when sophomore CS undergrads on Slashdot are really insistent about things being true then you know it must be true. I'm seeing the same advice here today, so you're in luck! Give it a couple years, it'll be fine. Either that or "Windows doesn't do it that great either". Either that or "nobody actually needs to use power management features and if you do you are computering wrong". Either that or "I've never had a single problem with power management on Linux but I've had tons of problems with it on macOS and Windows so there!" Aren't you glad you asked?!?
Agreed. Git should be treated as a deep skill, as important to practice and train with as unit testing and regular expressions.

Think of your git history as a product and art form in itself. If you don’t enjoy writing your commit history, readers will not enjoy reading it.

On a tactical level, I highly recommend buying Sublime Merge 2.
This is a good overview of Git internals. If this stuff interests you, Chapter 10 of Pro Git offers similar descriptions of Git objects [1] and Git references [2], and then continues onto Git packfiles [3] which are not covered by OP.

[1]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects

[2]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-References

[3]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Packfiles
Actually not 100%:
http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/ffallers.html
Sadly Safari is the only useable iOS browser, as it's the only one where Content Blockers work for ad blocking.
I wouldn’t call ddmmyy “European”. Many countries use yymmdd (nordics, for example) which is the iso order. And the order in which alphabetical or numerical sorting works out of the box.

Other than inertia/tradition there is really no excuse for shuffling around a date in any other way.
Forgive my ignorance, but can't that be solved by statically linking things?

Don't you just end up with a less hackjob version of a container when you do that?
Also, for what's worth, my grandma uses XMPP just fine...
I'm working on something similar:

A dron the size of a baseball with camera that is floating around you and records your actions (it doesn't record every action, but it can recognize certain ones: e.g., reading, running, sleeping). The recorded actions go to a sqlite db. It should be extendable in terms of recognizing actions in 3D (perhaps some ML is needed to achieve better results).
I've been a Trackpoint addict for over 20 years, using computers 8+ hours a day. I wouldn't consider any other pointer method. Trackpoint drift is an issue, but it's not really a big problem. A few times a month, it happens for a few seconds, then it works itself out. I have had episodes of cramping, but they've gone away with no long term impact.

It may be that I've become more zen/accepting, because I'm sure a mouse or trackpad can be more precise pointing tools, but it's worth it for the connection. Input is all about the keyboard and mouse, and the proximity just makes so much sense, especially when using vim mode. I could imagine better systems where typing with a keyboard is still the main input, but they would all involve not taking my hands off the home row.
Out of curiosity, are there any general benchmarks available as to how this stacks up to something like nginx when it comes to static page serving?
At a previous job, our build pipeline

* Built the app (into a self container .jar, it was a JVM shop)

* Put the app into a Ubuntu Docker image. This step was arguably unnecessary, but the same way Maven is used to isolate JVM dependencies ("it works on my machine"), the purpose of the Docker image was to isolate dependencies on the OS environment.

* Put the Docker image onto an AWS .ami that only had Docker on it, and the sole purpose of which was to run the Docker image.

* Combined the AWS .ami with an appropriately sized EC2.

* Spun up the EC2s and flipped the AWS ELBs to point to the new ones, blue green style.

The beauty of this was the stupidly simple process and complete isolation of all the apps. No cluster that ran multiple diverse CPU and memory requirement apps simultaneously. No K8s complexity. Still had all the horizontal scaling benefits etc.
If you have a hole, or a series of holes, to fill in a wall or anything wooden (a smallish hole that a screw needs to fit into), and you need to plug it to put a new screw in (say for example the hinges on a door need to be changed and you want to put the door in the same place) - a simple hack is to get a wooden pencil, shave it down and hammer it into the hole.

Where it stops, or starts to crack under the pressure from the hammer, break it off. Rinse and repeat for all holes.

Then simply use some glue in the hole (around the pencil) to make it fit snuggly. Allow to dry and re-screw.

At least you don't have to buy wooden chips/strips or anything fancy to plug holes. Good old fashioned wooden pencils (No. 2, e.g.).
Try replacing "men" with "women" and "women" with "men" and speculate on whether The Atlantic would have published it.
By most corporations, I think you mean most large, public corporations incorporate in Deleware. I just didn't want to hassle with being a foreign entity in my own state and the taxes and fees in Illinois are reasonable.
The layout is simple, but at least to me, the orange of the menu bugged me...
To what do you ascribe the paranoia? To me, it seems Australia is a lowish-crime country which, despite its cultural closeness to the US and UK, doesn't have nearly as many international enemies.

So why so much interest in preemptive data collection for law enforcement? Has there been a crime wave (even a cynically exaggerated one) using the internet?

Is there already a tradition of surveillance and meticulous just-in-case record-keeping, for example of all books someone has purchased or checked out of libraries?
Love the idea. Hopefully more will follow and reduce the need for 'readability' or the safari reader option.
A notable one: http://hacker-newspaper.gilesb.com/

Has PG ever discouraged or prevented HNers from creating such tools?

The only thing that I recall was discouraged was a Greasemonkey script that resulted in HN getting hammered with lots of requests on every page (I forget what it did but it did a lot of lookups on HN). People who used it had their IPs banned for a day or so.
You should also check out http://typekit.com/

It isn't free, but it is reasonable. And they have a much better selection of fonts.
I have to say, I was amazed at how nice an atmosphere there was when I visited LinkedIn a couple of months back. I was expecting something a bit stuffy, considering their market and somewhat conservative approach to innovation, but the people in the hallways and lunch room seemed genuinely relaxed and happy. It especially struck me after visiting Facebook a few hours earlier and finding it somewhat grim. All very subjective of course, but it makes me think this is a bit of real fun, not a horrific corporate attempt at 'flair'.