jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
ToS link returns a 404.

I might sign up for a 'Pro' plan next paycheck if they're acceptable. Could I use the service as my own outsourced design staff? Or would I be limited to using it for my own designs?

How long is your introductory offer running? I get paid every 2 weeks, so couldn't sign up today, even if your ToS is okay. What happens once the limited time offer is over? Prices go up, or you stop accepting clients?
Sorry Steve, I missed out the detail on this. At the minute we have not implemented IPv6. All of our kit is IPv6 ready and we are looking to go ahead with this very soon! Thanks again!
Pet peeve: dark gray text on light gray background, see http://contrastrebellion.com/.

Otherwise a great text, just its presentation is a bit distracting (at least for my taste/eyes).
Oh, I am well aware that their entire mode of operation is part-and-parcel of the human condition, I'm only noting the irony that this is exactly what they think they're avoiding.

But there's another issue here. Not only they believe they can escape not only the fate but the cause of the human condition, they are also, in many ways, blind to it, and this is what makes them different from other religions and even Communism. They are privileged, blind to the misery of the under-privileged, and their persecution story (every religion has to have one) revolves around intellectual superiority. In fact, they are distinguished by having led lives somewhat removed from the concerns of most people. So I think that makes for a pretty lousy religion.

The big question is, are they harmless?

> A guy wept because previous generations didn't have Kahneman and Tversky's foundational findings in behavioral economics? Excuse the following several minutes of nonstop giggling.

I laughed when I read that, too. That story, as given in the magazine, is meant to echo Christians lamenting those generations that lived before the time of Christ and therefore -- by definition -- could not have been saved.
Also common in India.
Can't say I am that excited. Why don't they build something that is better than FF/Chrome, not just play catch up?
Maybe something along the lines of it being better for society for capital to flow towards productive companies rather than gambling on zombies? I agree that it's an odd call.
True in Spanish as well, in my experience.
If it's an unwise but innocent lead - like your friend who is dumb telling you what stocks to buy - then nothing because nothing criminal has happened.

If it's illegal, say a company or investor in that company created a bunch of social media bots to convince others to buy into the companies stock - then they'll get to hire a lawyer and go to court, get fined, etc.
Very cool, thank you!

Also re-reading this thread, I thought of the hand signals that every driver must learn in case their electrical turn signals go out, which are the same as bicyclist signals. Specific to the point of being enshrined in law.
I wonder if this could be the case where Chrome's dominant position would bite Google in the ass.

Because if you're just a website, you do what you can with the information provided to you by the user agent (browser).

But if you're also the browser manufacturer which provides an "incognito" option, and your other (main) property explicitly goes around it as much as it can... that smells bad.
>Does not include GME. Obviously they didn't want to let that make the headline go to waste..

What in that headline implies anything about Gamestop?
>Fedora should have at least provided some addresses for the fallback even if they didn't want to use Google.

I have no problem with systemd but no, the OS should absolutely most definitely never use any other DNS than what is supplied to it from either the user or the network. Not only could the server some day become malicious but it is also extremely bad practice to hardcode something like this, even for fallback. It should fail loudly (edit: and if systemd really want a fallback, ask the user if they want to use a fallback on failure before using it).
After reading that I feel like coining a law:

Any discussion about software distribution will inevitably result in an argument about dynamic linking vs. static linking.
A lot of good software works just like this regarding the free trial. The program works for 30 days or 10 uses or such and then disables saving until you buy it. If the software is terrible you simply stop using it. If you found it useful and want to keep editing whatever files you made with it, then you buy it. They don't tell you it is free for 30 days and then charge you at the end of the 30 days unless you figure out how to cancel it. (Often made to be a very difficult task.)

Many newspaper web sites now seem to operate under this model as well, so many free articles per month as a free trial, then a paywall. Sometimes the paywall offers a second tier of free trial, like unlimited articles for a month, and then they start charging. One would argue that the second tier has to start charging automatically otherwise people could simply get a free trial each month. Not so, the free trial is tied to a credit card number and name so the person can't simply keep renewing trials forever. The card policy on trials in this case should still be to get consent before starting the subscription and charging. Many people avoid these sorts of free trials after finding out that cancelling the paid subscription is nearly impossible, sometimes requiring sending through the post a letter in a certain format to an unpublicized address. Having the policy be that consent is required would likely increase the number of people being willing to accept free trials, and the number who subsequently subscribe because they actually like the content or product and not because they got tricked by dark patterns. Many dark pattern operating content providers might have to increase their quality though to retain customers.

It's not enough to have credit card policies on these things, subscriptions are so often abusive that legal reform is needed. In addition to requiring consent after the trial, auto-renewing subscriptions should never be allowed to be the only or default choice. Auto-renew should be something you have to opt in to and we need legal reform to require that disabling auto-renew must be simple, straightforward, and available.
But why wouldn't I just use Gulp then?
Anything that decreases the probability of an occurrence such as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=943356 should probably be rejected.
>This chart covers January - November and includes an almost 50% drop in march. And it is still not as volatile as e.g. TSLA.

...and if you don't cherry pick one of the most volatile, well known stocks in the market? We can keep doing this, but TSLA is not "the market", it's a single company and trades completely on hopes and dreams. It's not a good surrogate for every other company.

>There is no such thing as "real cash" - you can exchange Bitcoin for dollars like you would with stocks

Yes, you can trade fake currency for real currency so that you can actually use it. And companies represent real assets; BTC is thin air. This is not a difficult concept to understand. BTC has _zero_ intrinsic value as an asset.

>The reason Bitcoin is worth as much as it is, is precisely that many Bitcoin "hodlers" are not selling, because they understand that Bitcoin has a fixed supply while the USD continues to inflate, which increases wealth inequalities and enables government to spend money with less democratic oversight.

Stocks hedge against inflation as well, so do many other asset classes. BTC trades like it does because a whole lot of people want to get rich quick. Of course some people share your opinion, but we're talking about something that provides no actual value.

If you have to trade it in for a currency you can actually use and it goes up with inflation then... it's no different than stock in a good company from that perspective. It goes up more because it trades 100% on speculation and the greater fool theory.
There are still a few working on it, but nobody seems to be making any headway. The overhead of dealing with money is just too high. There are so many ways for it to go wrong -- theft, fraud, contested charges, hacking, connectivity failure, to name just a few. The transactions are small, but to be profitable you have to move a ton of money, and that makes you a target of every possible failure mode.

I'd love for it to be as simple as a digital check: "You have my permission to take $.05 out of my account" cryptographically signed with my very private key. It would cost basically $0 to validate, and the server would move money from database A to database B. But that server has to be hyper-secure, and the app doing the signing has to be hyper-secure -- all for a nickel of money. And now I'm running a bank, so I need to actually prove to the government that I'm not going to abscond with their money and that I'm not being used for money laundering -- which means checking IDs by hand. And customers will complain, so I have to run a help desk.

It's just too much hassle. You can try to piggyback it off the efforts banks are already putting in, but they still won't see it profitable for a nickel at a time, or even a dollar.

I think everybody hoped that somehow cryptocurrency would solve it, but it doesn't -- security requires burning too much electricity. Maybe there's an answer out there somehow, but nobody has found it yet.
There is this weird meme that using Python is beneficial during interviewing -- you mention it, the OP mentions it, I have experienced it myself and seen friends mention it.

I don't know how or why this meme infects people; in my interview experience (MSFT, Google, Oracle, FB, Amazon, other smaller places) nobody ever batted an eyelid on me using C#. My advice would be to only use a language you know best, as long as it's appropriate for the role -- and most mainstream languages would be appropriate for generic FAANG SDE roles.

Using the language you know best will bring all sort of benefits -- you'll code faster, you'll be more confident, you might even find a place to show off a little. There is no good reason to give this advantage up.
Why lump getting rid of the algorithm in with the other stuff? I don't use facebook but I use Youtube which also has a much ballyhooed algorithm. I've tried skipping their homepage (and thus skipping the algorithm) and just going to the list of videos posted by my subscribtions in what I presume is chronological order, and let's just say I usually find what I want more quickly the former way than the latter. I can only imagine it would be the same with a social network.

It turns out that even for channels I subscribe to the percentage of stuff they post that I want to see is pretty damn low, even lower than the "hit rate" of the algorithm which also isn't great. Now imagine a social network where you connect with people for reasons other than that you think you'd like what they post (you met them IRL and they asked you to add them, you want to talk, etc). An algorithm of some sort would be absolutely mandatory.
I did not say that a cell is not made to do something (the entire point of an mRNA vaccine, as I mentioned multiple times, is getting body cells to temporary do something). I specifically replied to wrong statements. A cell is not DNA, and there is very big difference between claiming an mRNA vaccine does anything to DNA (which would be a permanent change) and what it actually does. And the immune system learns through the same mechanisms as it does in a traditional vaccine. Given the fear and FUD around this, it's important to be precise about that.
Plus removing IG, FB and other social media apps dramatically improves battery life on older phones.
I wonder what the speed of installing software off of 4 floppies on an emulator is like (not enought to try it myself of course). Does the emulator recreate the slow read speeds or the sound of the read heads seeking?
Following your link I found the place where, in a few days, the author will presumably post the description of what Quanta requested a depiction of : https://natureintheory.artstation.com/albums/762329
Relatedly, another fun fact is that Cincinnati also had a street car system that was a regional envy and compared favorably to San Francisco's. One hill climb especially was remarked upon at the time as being as scenic if not more so than the scenic cable car lines that have become preserved and enshrined as such tourist destinations in San Francisco. (Some of the historic cars that have been restored and put back into use by San Francisco even originated on that Cincinnati line.)

Possibly more so than just about any other city in the midwest (though they all made mistakes), Cincinnati has possibly the craziest history of paved over and unfinished projects.
Using realloc would be better, since it allows the memory allocator the option of not copying the string.
For anyone who can't be bothered clicking through 6 pages (yes, it's one of those sites, and yes, they are using a rather unique numbering system), the 6 ways are:

1. Mechanical Turk type work

2. Selling your hair

3. Get paid $5 to be a pretend juror to help attorneys hone their cases

5. Become an online life coach (seriously!)

6. tutor.com and friends

7. Answer questions via SMS
BeOS and QNX remain to this day some of my favorite OSs, in terms of being designed rather than grown (people often say this about BSD, but BSD is based on Unix, and Unix was grown) and complete (ie, packaging, window management, all tools implemented with accompanying control panels, etc).
From http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2010/06/01/enginee...

Choice Quote : 1. Stop releasing dispersants. So-called dispersants are toxic, and it's crazy to add more poison to the Gulf. Dispersants do nothing to assist the environment in naturally cleaning the oil; their main use is PR. They reduce the number of ugly pictures of birds covered in pure black crude. Dispersants break the thick layer of crude into smaller globs, but that doesn’t help the Gulf and its wildlife. Most of the crude just mixes with the water to produce a goop that looks like chocolate ice cream but is highly poisonous.

If this is true, and frankly, I don't mdoubt the statement then I think Leroy Stick is really on to something. Including the statement you single out.
No kidding. FTA: "They and their families made borrowing decisions based more on emotion than reason..."

Really, that is the justification in all this? I felt like I should get a loan (not "I truly need the loan because I've reasoned through all the details and risks involved") is now an excuse?

Who's fault is that exactly?
It's pretty poor they couldn't work out how to make things backward compatible.

Oh well, another job for me to do then...

I just love reading through a billion pages of a spec to find the actual data I need which could have been written in a single page spec. bah.

Would it be so hard for them to put the 'answer' somewhere? eg "To make your server work again, change "X" to "Y" in the headers".

I'll say it again, the spec is simply insane.

18. Let /number_1/ be a random integer from 0 to /max_1/ inclusive.

Let /number_2/ be a random integer from 0 to /max_2/ inclusive.

EXAMPLE: For example, 777,007,543 and 114,997,259.

19. Let /product_1/ be the result of multiplying /number_1/ and
/spaces_1/ together.

Let /product_2/ be the result of multiplying /number_2/ and
/spaces_2/ together.

EXAMPLE: Continuing the example, 3,885,037,715 and
1,034,975,331.
What would you change about your business if you had those things? Specifically. Release, then figure how to get those minigoals under your constraints.

If the answer is just "Execute", well, go execute then.
> I've never understood the appeal of the VR.

Try it before forming opinions, then.

Look and see if there are any VR arcades near you. For only a few dollars, you can test out a lot of games.
IMO, this even applies when replacing most C/C++: a lot of that code doesn’t need most of the benefits or C++ or Rust. Often, it’s better to replace it with simpler programs doing less work in Go or JavaScript or Python.

I love Rust, but most use cases just don’t need it. The language needs a pretty substantial amount of experience to use, though, so you don’t want just a few Rust programs lying around; no one will have a reason to learn, so they will be even harder to support.

Between these, it becomes pretty difficult to find a critical mass of problems that need Rust enough to both justify the cost and to get a decent amount of traction in the company.
When you move to a new country with the intent to reside and don't follow the law in regards to entry, you're an illegal immigrant.

It doesn't matter that you were allowed in legally; per the law he was expected to depart and he did not.
Well, let's see if he learns from this one. :-)
English is an open source language. It gets extended as needed. Schadenfreude is a word with no equivalent in English, so a big number of English people use schadenfreude as a direct way of expressing the concept.

As long as the language is extensible then I don't see a major problem with translation losses, because they can just get incorporated into the language of the day.

I get that each language has ways of describing certain things better than others, and those superior language features are likely tied directly to the culture that originally created the language. I just think that the cost of maintaining a large amount of languages might. T be worth it.
Perhaps the fine amount should be a function of market cap for public companies.
Ok this is interesting...not sure which corrupt Miami official (oh yessir they all are) is getting kickbacks on this, but it's big money...kind of like tearing down the Orange Bowl without permission, digging the port tunnel without permission, building the useless I95 flyover, etc etc. Billions of dollars are involved...and the article mentioned his father was mayor in the 80s and 90s...

Ha! That was when corruption was open and cash was flowing even more obviously than today.

Miami has had an internet NOC since the 90s, and real estate developers have the local government in their pockets...
It's really not that hard to find:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55045639
My dad is suffering from Lewy Body Dementia which is related to Parkinson's. He was an auto mechanic his entire adult life (from around 1960 - 2010). I wonder if he was exposed to TCE?

I did a 23 and Me test and never unlocked the health results. I'm a little terrified of finding out that dementia is in my future as well.
I’ve gone through the demystification phase a number of times. Unfortunately it’s always very surface level. There’s been a ton of things I’ve been trying to read about and learn about the past couple years. I could probably give a pretty decent, albeit rough description of most of them and how they work, but I could not implement them myself from scratch or anything.

And I still look up at some people and wonder how the hell I could ever get to that level. People who seem both wide and deep in knowledge. Even people who cross outside different domains and seem well versed across all sorts of fields. I recall being among some reverse engineers quoting seemingly from memory undocumented behavior of random Windows API calls.
Spot on. I see people talking about learning COBOL or not, but as you say that's not so much the point. You really need to know how ancient mainframes work. A programmer can pick up the basics of COBOL soon enough, but understanding the ins and outs of zOS and the likes? Much harder, especially the more recent your tech knowledge is. Approaches to software and systems design has changed dramatically since the IBM mainframe days. If you want to make money working on old software just learn Java EE or .NET Framework or something!
AMD tried something similar and the Kernel maintainers rejected the patch. At least that's how I understood it. I think this is a HN post about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13142285
I took a helicopter flight once where your seat was determined solely by your weight and that of the other passengers. I felt bad for the person that paid the same as me and got the middle rear, while I got to hang out the front door.
One of the reasons they couldn't just port it over is that it used some trident-specific CSS layouts to display the book pages. I remember extracting the JS/CSS they used and being very confused.
Yeah this sounds like way too much maintenance overhead. I've opted in for a middle ground: I don't use FAANG/MS for anything critical and choose other hosted solutions instead.

Posteo was already mentioned, Mailbox.org is also nice for E-Mail with an own domain. I only had to set up the DNS records once and rarely have delivery problems.

Nextcloud doesn't need to be self-hosted either, there are many good providers.
but what he's saying is he sent a notice of a DMCA takedown, not an actual takedown request.
IANAL but I do not see how you could be correct. I request any lawyer reading this to please chime in.
I did notice the complete absence of anyone searching for "section", its semantics dont seem to really make sense.

I do wish they would just let developers specify their own tag names, can default to block level elements with no styling, and a few very popular tag names (the current tags) have specific styling
Costco has an upfront cost to shop there. The annual membership fee might be nothing to you and me but for people struggling paycheck to paycheck, being required to pay an entrance fee just to shop is a problem. You cannot compare Costco's business model to that of the Piggly Wiggly that's serving the low income community Costco doesn't cater to. Costco wants to increase Piggly Wiggly's expenses to be those of Costco. What happens when Piggly Wiggly, not having the benefit of annual membership fees from members, closes down stores, leaving those with little padding in their monthly budgets with the requirement to pay Costco a fee just to get groceries? Costco's business model revolves around those annual membership fees so the more people forced to pay it, the better for Costco.
I feel like websockets get waaay too much hype and attention compared to SSE, especially for use cases that are barely interactive at all.
>It seems unlikely to me that any species capable of crossing the interstellar void has much use for slaves.

Based on what? There's literally no reason for there to be slaves in the human race in 2021, but there are. Why do you think that suddenly changes just because you can get to another planet?

Hell, aliens may enslave other intelligent beings for the sheer enjoyment of it. Assuming their actions in any way reflect humans and our societal morality is a pretty arrogant and dangerous way to think IMO.
> That's my personal requirement. On a personal laptop I always use the trackpad so I want it to be the best.

100%. On my personal devices I don't want to compromise on trackpad or keyboards (I like that apple went back on the butterfly keyboards).

The rest of my comment is just my personal experience so take it with a grain of salt. I've found the trackpad experience on the XPS and Thinkpad X1 laptops to be excellent under linux. The libinput [1] drivers seem to work really well and the gesture support seems nice too. What I miss from MacBook's touchpad is force-touch. Not having to worry about which part of the touchpad i'm pressing was really nice when I used a macbook.

I'm contemplating purchasing a m1 macbook air as my next laptop, but I'm also not sure i'd be willing to give up on being able to run linux natively on a laptop I buy with my own money.

[1] https://github.com/wayland-project/libinput
Their AUM was around $13B at the beginning of the year. They were short at $20. As was reported, they lost about 53% of that, call it $6B, as GME rose from $20 to $100, which is when they said they closed out. Their AUM wouldn't be able to survive $100 - $200 given their losses going from $20 - $100.