jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
SketchUp itself is under active development, however they've stopped offering a free version of the desktop application and only offer a stripped down web version.
Because not a lot of parents from the cyberpunk reading generation ran out to name their kids "Case". I mean if Case McGraw had grown up now to be a top NFL Quarterback, Case would not immediately raise connections to cyberpunk in your mind.
Zig refers to itself with a version number < 1 and says that the language is not yet stable. That's going to filter the less adventurous crowd out right away. And that's probably ideal - zig can work out the kinks with the adventurous crowd and be better prepared for its post-1.0 life.
How would content created with WYSIWYG editor work (and look decent) on any device other than it was created for, eg a phone?
Betting they're keeping the part on cars ordered with FSD, and those ordering FSD later will get a mobile service visit.
I used to like reading newspapers from across the spectrum. They had information and facts leavened with reasoned opinions, balanced perspectives. Reading the news media these days is no different than reading some rando on Twitter. Tragic it has come to do this.

The NY Times had a truly abominable series of articles on these all focusing on the "negligence" of the current government on building dams. Take this one for dated 2/8: "Before Himalayan Flood, India Ignored Warnings of Development Risks" [1]

Somewhere at the end:

"Exactly what caused the latest flooding was not clear as of Monday night, with the Indian government saying a team of experts would visit the site to investigate. Ranjeet Rath, the head of India’s geological survey, said initial information suggested a “glacial calving at highest altitude.” Calving is the breaking of ice chunks from a glacier’s edge."

Dams had absolutely nothing to do with this tragedy. Some folks on Twitter are claiming that Dams might have reduced casualties downstream by modulating the flow but every single article seems to have an anti-dam agenda. I too hate the aesthetic of dams because they are monolithic and massive and alter the landscape. There is something primal within us which clamors for unaltered nature. I also don't like the eyesore of the gas-fired power plant a two miles away from where I live. But I don't try to warp every tragedy and lay it at the feet of the power plant to further my aesthetic biases.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/world/asia/india-flood-ig...
You have to get people invested in the solution. Some people call that buy-in, others use that term a little more tepidly.
This brings me right back to the national treasure Joe Bussard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPhtR09p6zM

and many others

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joe+bussard
"No mention of Javascript. How is this still relevant today?"
You said nothing about whether he assumed disproportionate amounts of credit, but you didn't have to because that is a given since it was stated by the original poster. Now you are trying to discredit that part of the description by saying it is hard to judge. May I remind you that we are discussing an example presented by someone else. If you choose to selectively discredit parts of the given description to suit your position, we are no longer discussing the same example. Perhaps you believe that nobody ever assumes more credit than they deserve.

I admit that I am biased against people who assume disproportionate amounts of credit as CEO. I think that is a highly undesirable trait in any kind of manager.
I think a simple way to explain the MIT license is that you can do whatever you want with it as long as you don't say that you created the library yourself.

Textures that you create are as yours are images you create in Photoshop. Probably even more yours than that ;)
I video chat on a regular basis with fellow high school students with macs using iChat AV.
Actually, that makes sense. If Flash were on the iPhoneOS devices along with some kind of cross-compile dev environment, then Adobe could develop its own iAd clone. By controlling runtimes, and development environments, Apple makes it much harder for a competitor "ad within the app" framework to exist.
Wap is insanely old and never took off. Until the iphone and 3g.

Technologies need to mature and reach a level of performance and usability before they go mainstream. This is what's happening with iPhone & videoconferencing now. This is it's time.
No. Assuming it’s correctly implemented, it’s more secure than an identical app that sends the password over SSL to the server.

This is not an innovation in cryptographic theory, but it’s something you don’t usually see in a web app.
/This policy is, of course, roughly equivalent to only dating married people/

Doesn't make that much sense, since we're all prolly gnna change jobs 5 maybe 10 times. I hope I don't get married 5 or 10 times.

Maybe job applicants could put a note on their resumés saying what they want to be doing in 3 to 5 years.
Since you feel it was so harmful I've removed it.
The issue is that there is a lot of possible external calls that could be made. Therefore huge traffic for one particular item is not a problem, but moderate traffic for lots of different items is a huge problem.

I am able to cache the results (and I already am) but I don't want to keep the cache too long (it's setup to expire after 30 minutes at the moment and that's as high as I would like to go). I'm running on Heroku (which uses Varnish for HTTP cacheing) so once the cache is populated I can handle tons of traffic.

Ideally I would like to combine non-blocking HTTP requests with HTTP cacheing. I think the final goal should be the capacity to handle around 50 uncached requests per second.

If you're curious, the application is: http://ajax-gist.com/
And the source code is here: http://github.com/aarongough/ajax-gist
No, you missed the point. The point was that the people farming are going to be taking up bandwidth and this will (further) degrade network performance for others. And so when the speaker has a call fail and this occurs to them, it will be annoying, presumably due to how frivolous a use of bandwidth that activity seems to the speaker.
Note that it is still bias! In a psychological/statistical sense. A good lesson to remember.
Â“You could go to Mattel.com, download Barbie, scan your MomÂ’s head, slap the head on Barbie and print it out,Â”

And this would be good how? Reminds me of that Seinfeld episode where George's fiance had a doll that looked like his mum.
Expected launch timeline:

T-0:00:00: Liftoff

T+0:01:10: Mach 1

T+0:01:23: Max Q (maximum aerodynamic pressure)

T+0:02:37: MECO (main engine cutoff)

T+0:02:41: Stage 1 Separation

T+0:02:49: Stage 2 Ignition

T+0:03:29: Nose Cone Jettison

T+0:09:00: First Stage Landing

T+0:09:27: SECO (second engine cutoff)

T+0:10:02: Dragon Separation

T+0:12:00: Solar Array Deployment

Landing barge location: http://www.vesselfinder.com/?mmsi=367017460

Additional streaming options:

- Youtube official stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohnnl4nOcGU

- NASA stream: http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

- Spaceflightnow stream: http://www.livestream.com/spaceflightnow
intersting - thanks for sharing :)
I don't see any video, just the twitter? feed when I view this. What am I doing wrong?

I've had to fall back to NASATV

edit: I bet that's what the 5 mins remaining on the countdown is waiting for. I'm really stupid.

edit2: Stupidity confirmed, video is now live.
So it is okay to deprive generations of future servers of a guaranteed livable wage, just because the current one will be affected temporarily?
Meditation, in it's highest form, is equivalent to sleep with awareness. Neuroscience already has indicated that sleep has something do with our information gathering system[1]. So in that sense meditation should help you to organize thoughts over time.

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51e2NEmuI7I
If it is so necessary and expected just include it in the price of the food. Why leave it to my whims at all? In what other situations(excluding restaurants/cabs) do you routinely part with more money than is legally owed?
if this phone takes a 32gb sd card like my nokia asha, it makes a mockery of the affordability of "smart phones" with "huge storage". and also battery life. and reading the article, it does, happy days.

was worried microsoft would do away with this line!
old Nokia phones had a great UI before they added all the 'smartphone'-crap.

I hear you!

Those were the days, when your phone would react instantly to keypresses, and so reliably that you could type and send entire SMS without looking at the screen.
Most users don't search for extra info screens and extra information in apps. ESPECIALLY not the older generations. I'd argue that the majority of people may understand the blue tick, but that _very_ few understand the difference between a single check and a double check.

Even the ones who do understand a little about the checks probably don't bother thinking about the difference between "sent" and "delivered". They'd understand it if it was pointed out to them, they aren't stupid. But they don't care enough to realize it because they shouldn't _need_ to understand it most of the time.

And even so, the checkmarks are very subtle and easy to not notice if you don't expect to need to look at them. A user is more likely to say "well it didn't give me an error so it must have sent, I wonder why nindalf is ghosting me" rather than "huh, I wonder if WhatsApp actually _delivered_ the message to nindalf, let me check"
Most people wouldn’t pay but some would pay a lot, in the form of donations.

I can easily envision a world where Facebook was a nonprofit along the lines of Wikipedia. Ad-free and supported by donations, the site would serve to connect the world (Facebook’s ostensible mission) without resorting to dark patterns or A/B testing for addictive engagement. I think there are plenty of wealthy people out there who would love to support such a site, if it existed.

Technology-wise, such a site could be built today, no problem. I have no idea what to do about the network effects that comprise Facebook’s moat, however.
This is a reasonably good resource and the moderation keeps out "junior" topics quite well.
I am unaware of Telegram's implementation, but this is not necessarily true. The app could use a secret you provide and only you know (most obviously, your password) to store and restore chat history.
Look at the videos, no waving through going on, quite the opposite. One woman was shot by police and died.
The news here is that Session is dumping Signal Protocol in favour of something simpler. So not so much forward secrecy and denyability. They do not think such features are worth the cost in complexity.
Why not just drop the manned fighters and develop drones instead?
Being bald was good for the careers of The Rock and Bruce Willis, but that only holds if you're not a fit tough guy with the right head shape.
This is just another sign that the US defense establishment has opened its eyes to the reality that the US could lose a war of attrition against a major power. We have focused too much on high tech weaponry, and we're now vulnerable to being overwhelmed by large numbers of low tech enemies. It doesn't matter if your fighters have a kill ratio of 10:1 if your enemy can replace those 10 fighters faster than each one of yours that you lose.
It's not cool to haul in personal details about someone as ammunition in an argument. That's a form of harassment that we don't allow here.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

This is the second form of personal attack I've had to warn you about in the last few hours! And you've done it before, as well, unfortunately. No more of this, please.

Also, please don't use HN primarily for ideological battle, regardless of how wrong other people are or you feel they are. It destroys the site for its purpose, which is curious conversation on topics of intellectual interest. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Totally! I’ve been avoiding “Made in China” products for the last 3 years. I’m always looking for alternatives. Yet, there are cases when there aren’t ... but still, in most of the time there are.
Excellent point. Europe has solved racism and sexism, especially in football.
Never leave them for even a second in the bath (drowning) and never leave them alone with food (choking).
The biggest issue with almost any kind of diet is that it takes gargantuan force of will to actually stick to. So I think that if one finds any kind of healthy (calorie and macro-nutrient-wise) eating regimen that they can follow, better not trying finding something else on the premise that it might be more effective.
Is the cost really that high? For the vast majority of projects, all developers will need to do is run "yarn prettier".

We can't expect everything to be perfect on day one, nor should we be stuck with the poor choices we made when starting a project. Maintainers should be allowed to change their mind after careful consideration and community consensus.
> SE works to ensure finding information is easy and painless, whereas a forum does not.

SE is trying to create create technical manuals one extremely directed question and one specific answer at a time. There is nothing wrong with discussion around questions or topics, especially if it helps to clarify anything being discussed. It seems like the moderators think there is only one way to ask or question a topic, whereas in reality people learn in different ways. Having multiple discussion points is helpful, the cream will rise to the top with votes. Duplicates shouldn't be closed either, there is value in seeing the same question answered in a different manner especially when both answers are correct. SO and SE has gotten so bad it's my last resort these days, I turn to Reddit before asking questions there and that is embarrassing to say.
Slightly off-topic: when Flappy Bird was cool, games popped up everywhere that were derivatives of Flappy Bird. When 2048 took the scene, a flurry of 2048-like games appeared. Flappy 2048 games also exist.

Does a Flappy Wordle, 2048 Wordle or Flappy 2048 Wordle exist?
Laundering within the constraints of a public ledger isn't feasible for long periods of time or large amounts of money - the only way to win that game is to be so small nobody cares.

They could have possibly gotten cash from cartels at a steep discount, but that story would probably have ended with a richer cartel and two dead nerds.
The answer (for now) appears to be no. Also consider that ARM will not stand still.

"According to SiFive, it is working on the design of a new processor that will be 50% more powerful, and that it will be able to surpass the Cortex-A78 of ARM."

https://techunwrapped.com/risc-v-starts-to-put-pressure-16-c...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29418153
> If you act as if something is true long enough eventually your brain will force you to believe it, or to stop those acts.

So there's a chance you won't ever believe in it? That sounds liek what I was saying.

> Plus anyway believers are neither inherently stupid nor possessing fundamentally different brain structures or anything that would enable a different set of experiences from everyone else.

That's the part I doubt. I'm not saying I am or they are smarter, I don't think it has anything to do with intelligence. I just think people can have widely different personal experiences, and some people lack faith. There are a few mentions of this, either being called "dark night of the soul" or "spiritual dryness": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Night_of_the_Soul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_dryness.

> All honest believers are also nonbelievers to some extent or at different times. What actions you take in the face of that contradiction is basically what defines your belief these days, as much as your creed does.

That's true when you consider people from an external perspective. I was asking about internal experiences.
I don't think servants were just status symbols. Cooking, cleaning and laundry without appliances was a very time consuming job which probably occupied the days of the wife and daughters of a family with no servants. Add to that inconvenient shopping, clothes mending, child care.
I still have issues on my desktop where sometimes I can't interact with the text area of sublime using my mouse. I can still use the mouse with the menus and stuff, but scrolling and clicking in the text does nothing and I have to use my keyboard only. Still not sure what is causing this issue as it doesn't happen all the time. The fix is usually just rebooting my PC which is rather annoying.
Conflict management and consistency in general.

The products you mention have no interdependencies within relations or between relations, such as an RDBMS has, which means that they can just push streams of individual K/V pairs without having to maintain consistency between them.

Most of those projects only offer temporal consistency (last write wins) and the CRDTs offered (eg., Riak) are exceedingly simple compared to the complexities of managing uniqueness constraints or foreign key constraints across transactions.

Hinted handoff -- a common technique that mitigates split-brain data loss and increases availability in a shared scenario -- simply wouldn't work in a relational scenario because nobody would have any idea if the changes would apply when the target shard came back.

Projects like Postgres-XC (ActorDB also looks promising) have shown that multimaster replication is clearly possible in a relational database, but also that it's clearly a difficult problem to crack, because as has been discovered the last decade or so, consistency is the enemy of availability and partition tolerance.

Witness the very slow progress made by XC to retrofit multimaster replication into Postgres, and the many challenges (such as sequences) they have had to solve. Or the fact that it's pretty much alone in the open-source field in trying to solve this issue with a modern relational database. Even very mature, advanced, commercial solutions like Oracle RAC and Oracle Advanced Replication require a lot of configuration, careful design and monitoring to get right.

Note that I'm explicitly using the projects you mentioned as the benchmark here, ie. multimaster-replicated stores with automatic failover based on consensus protocols. You can build a simpler system — single master, consensus-based election, strict consistency guarantee across shards (reducing either availability or partition tolerance) — but it's still harder than you seem to think it is.
Alex Tabarrok has been arguing in Marginal Revolution for "First Doses First" since mid-December.

Back then, media commentators and the medical establishment objected "But the clinical trials were for two doses".

Sadly, very few people acknowledged that prudence had a very real cost in additional infections, deaths, risk of mutations, slower economic recovery.

The consensus only shifted to "First Doses First" after the faster spreading UK and South African variants emerged, and the risk of inaction became more obvious.

If we step back from Covid-19, this kind of one-sided thinking is all too common in daily life.

We need more training (at school, university, in media debates) that the choice is never "Do A or not".

It is "do A instead of B (and compare the likely costs and benefits of both)". Or "do the first bit of A, learn some more, and do A' or go back to B". Etc.

Real options improve expected outcomes!
That's a very good question; there's a reason I said “at least” and not “exactly”.
My idea is not to tax luxuries to finance UBI.The point is to make UBI a sustainable thing not just a flat income that still plays according to the the market rules (inflation).

UBI needs to be coupled with progressive thinking.Simply build more houses and tax NIMBY or find a way to build more houses quickly.
The same applies to food.
There is no way to prove that. For every story of someone who lost $50k there are multiple ppl posting that they made $50k
In the link base 4 is shown to be equal to base 2 in radix economy. So maybe base 4 is a good choice as it would take up half the number of bits (quits?).
Why not describe your decisions in the code?
Yeah I found the same. It seems that there hasn't really been much research in this area, and somewhat annoyingly there isn't a widely agreed term for the problem, though for some reason most of the algorithms are described in terms of diffing XML so if you search for "XML difference" you can find some papers.

There's a few algorithms like XDiff, XyDiff, XChange etc. but be prepared to find very old code on sourceforge or more likely no code at all.

I couldn't find anything with a decent complexity that either had code or was simple/well described enough that I could implement it so I gave up.
Right now I know that we are getting a LOT of deliveries during the pandemic... I'm not sure it's quite that simple.
Well, there is a contest because I'm not convinced.

Your solution requires researching a bunch of SSGs, deploying and configuring them, and setting up a version control system (which you don't need for a low-stakes personal blog).

My solution is a text file on a web server, using HTML (which I already know) instead of a pseudo-format with a gazillion implementations.
I am all for pairing up and interacting with people directly and in a human manner. It's good for building rapport and trust so that things run smoother in every facet.

That being said, I think impersonal reviews are still needed. You don't always have time for the soft human touch, especially at a smaller startup. The defensiveness some people have should really only ever be a short term problem. I've worked with people like that and found that being persistent, objective (follow standards that you make everyone aware of) and consistent with reviews fixed that over time. Rapport building is good , but you can't require it every time, so you need the other end of the spectrum too.
When it comes to transportation infrastructure, you certainly don't want to plan the future based on apparent present demand. Los Angeles vs Copenhagen is a great comparison of the results of continually building for what people seem to want "now" (in the former case) versus building to create a better future.
I rode year round in Chicago. When weather was too extreme and unreasonable I took public transportation.
That’s a strong assumption. I for one wouldn’t eat less if I stopped biking. I commute to work, do shopping and go everywhere by bike throughout the year. I don’t own a car.
eBikes definitely help with the topography issues ( Seattle , Pittsburgh ). You still have the sprawl and separated land use patterns in a lot of cities though.

Of course summer commuting in Houston or Phoenix is going to suck no matter what your bike is
You have a few issues here with science and its application in society.

If I develop an application that can tell if you're gay or not, is it my imperative to report you to the authorities so you can be rounded up and disposed of?

I say you can very well develop such applications if you want to, using them especially against society at large is a privilege afforded to you, and one that can be revoked. Lots of other pseudo-scientific bullshit has been hoisted on the public such as eugenics causing massive amounts of damage, and i'm not looking for the next generation of this that will trend the same way.
Fully agree with what Esteban says, but also, the C++ Core Guidelines are an attempt to add some of these sorts of annotations, so it's one of the closest real-world examples of this sort of approach. They're not attempting to solve all of the problems Rust is solving, but every little bit helps, in my opinion.

Checked C is another.