jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Aldi owns Trader Joe's, but I wouldn't call them same chain. For instance, Kroger owns multiple chains with the store format, branding and products that differ a lot.

From my experience the US Aldi (which is part of an Aldi Sud) is a dimlit, bottom of the barrel discounter with a small selection of basics. Where Trader Joe's is a quirky "Hawaiian-themed" specialty grocer with a good selection of the unique-to-US products.
Thanks!

The “inappropriately burdening” cases is what I was thinking of. I suppose I would disagree that the theory is inapplicable. The law burdens isps by requiring them to alter their ordinary business practices in a way that substantially affects interstate commerce.

That said, I’m sure the issue was raised and rejected.
Also "Formula-fed children have about twice the risk of vomiting or diarrhea during their first year."

Yes, that's bad. But it's not that bad. Try your best at breastfeeding, and if it doesn't work out, so be it. Better to focus your energy in being a good parent in other ways that you can excel at than dwelling on what isn't working for you.
I think that the browser is going to eat the desktop/OS and that most apps will eventually be browser-based.

PWAs are the initial movement in that direction. As browser APIs expand and support more use-cases through WebAssembly, WebGPU, native filesystem APIs, etc. more and more apps that were primarily or only available as native can be supported in the browser.

I know that many people hate web apps because they're often slow, clunky, bloated, etc. but a lot of that is changing as the frontend ecosystem embraces new and more efficient frameworks and technologies. The browser provides everything one needs to build fast and responsive applications - It's an issue with incentives and culture more than anything to do with the fundamental tech.
With the NYT in its death throes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26122924) it's time for the Valley's answer to new media journalism.
I've spent many years in the academic spaces, both in public genetics labs as well as in computer science departments. I've never encountered anything like what you claim, and no one I know in academia has either. Extraordinary claims like yours need proof, no one will or should take you at your word, especially when there is the weight of many others experiences that cut against your claims.
But if you did a google search for his real name, his blog was not on the first page of results. Which was the main objective.
Ishmael will drive home some key points.

The little book of humanism is good.
For anyone who has seen enough rotten articles from this particular organization https://www.blocknyt.com/
If you hold that all governments are unethical do you pay taxes, get mail, stop driving if pulled over by a policeman, etc.? Is it equally unethical for a government to provide for collective defense, collect taxes, enforce contracts, imprison people or to control borders?

If you're willing to admit that there are gradations to the inherent unethicalness of government actions then it's at least conceivable to grade them on the same ethical scale as every other group.

You have fundamentally the same position as someone who claims "there is no ethical consumption under Capitalism." There may be some truth to that worldview, but people have to live in the world where both governments and capitalism are the status quo. Both sentiments are broad enough to critique a large fraction of human society, and thus can be pulled out as a 'reason' for targeting any particular aspect one may instinctively dislike without having to put in the mental effort to determine why.

Secondly, you say Facebook has governance only over people who have given their consent. Taking second order effects into account this is clearly not true. Facebook was named as one of the "determining" factors in the Rohingya genocide by UN Fact Finding Mission. Negative externalities exist, and in practice they can be quite common.
Betamax machines had higher picture quality but they were more expensive and tapes had much shorter recording time. I wouldn't describe this as the market selecting an inferior product.
The UI is absolutely horrifying and I love it.
It’s compared on a deaths per unit of energy produced basis. Kind of like how we compare stats per capita between countries of different sizes.
Well that was part of what I was saying - being able to reprimand effectively is part of what makes him a good leader for this thing. Being excessively polite and sugar coating everything doesn't instill the same desire to do things right next time. I think he's acting exactly as he needs to.
Versioning through HTTP Headers was the spark for why I was looking around for guidelines. I think it is the better way to go other than URL versioning.
> Mathematics are more limited

The fundamental point of the Church-Turing thesis is to show that everything computers can do can be described by mathematics, so any programing language has either the same or less power than math. They are certainly easier to use for many problems, though.

Additionally, Gödel showed that there are true statements that can be described but not proven by math, ao it can never be a perfect model of the real world.
Strange. I thought that solution (output soldered onto the GeForce) was discontinued a long time ago for this range of machines. My setup works really well both with the HDMI output, with the Thunderbolt output, and of course with the laptop display.

I have this going on two very similar machines: A circa 2017 XPS 9560, and a circa 2020 XPS 7590. Both are 15". I don't have the 9560 near me at the moment, but the 7590 has

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]

01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev ff)

I'm happy to help you debug if you want. What happens if you remove all nvidia drivers and plug something into the HDMI port? Do you notice any response from the external screen if you hit for example control f2?
In other news: Bike Thieves With Diplomatic Immunity https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-consulate-stolen-bicycles-emp...
And half of all people don't understand that a bad joke isn't funny, especially when you hear it every time, over and over.
I think it'll still be a virtual machine? It'll just mean that there could be an ARM native virtual machine rather than one emulating x86.
Correction: it's the single browser vendor that draws the straws now. And it's Google. They've literally stopped caring about any objections to any of their proposals and just ship them.
No more AstraZeneca articles?
Open-source it.
The question is how to define "petty" and "serious".
In this video, it looks like they are probably only sampling ~200 locations (assuming that's a 1080p screen and they have gone for one pixel per signal)
On an iOS device they already have your payment details due to the inability to use the device with out providing a credit card. 9/10 times the user is already signed in to that AppStore/iTunes account and thus just needs to enter their password.

Thus when buying on iOS it's always easier to use Apple's system because you're already half signed-in and they already have your credit card.

But yes, if you re-enter your credit card details then they are pretty much the same except for having to re-enter your details.
I can't help but think that gun control activists have, pardon the pun, shot themselves in the foot with the New Jersey law:

Once a personalized weapon went on sale in the United States, the law said, then within three years, all guns sold in New Jersey would have to include such safety features.

How could they not have seen that passing such a law would impede advancements in gun safety by creating opposition which would not have otherwise existed (or at least to this extent), but for this law?

I suppose it is possible that gun safety was never actually the goal to begin with, but it still seems like such a predictable result, given the ferocity with which any real or perceived encroachment on the Second Amendment is met.

On the one hand, it's kind of amusing, in a way, to watch the instant, reflexive backlash which invariably erupts in response to even the slightest suggestion of tighter gun control. On the other, it might make some sense if one were inclined to take a conspiratorial view of the true purpose of laws like this one in New Jersey.
6C doesn't strike me as that cold for playing football in t-shirt and shorts. Actually, compared to most school football matches I can recall that seems quite civilized...

[It's been a while, so my memories of school PE do seem to becoming more like something from Ripping Yarns with each passing year.]
Applying overwhelming physical force is much less likely to have resulted in death than a gunshot wound.
Ok, the idea in general isn't good because most people won't use a good password and also because now there's a single point of failure if someone sees your password.

However, it might be okay if one can provide their own hashing function. Like a JS function that takes the domain and secret key as parameters.
Might as well get this out of the way to save someone else the trouble: I'd love to play this, but I don't want to authenticate through Facebook or Google Plus.
ADSL broadband was only introduced to the UK in the year 2000, so 10Mb might be pushing the boat out a bit.

A better question is who on earth were they hosting who had a website that was that popular back then? Napster?
controlling the people in power against abuses on the people

So how's that working out for you then? This story is right next to one on HN about NSA abuses, and there's the ongoing saga of police violence against black people. Is gun ownership somehow going to make a difference there? How do you expect armed politics to end other than incredibly badly?

The "government"'s usual device for disabling a gun is a bullet to the head of the person holding it.
There's obvious survivor bias, but those who attempted suicide and failed often go on to live fulfilling lives. Making it harder to carry out a self-homicide, or making it much more painful/scary than a gunshot to the head means fewer people will make a decision they would have, if they were able, regretted.
Who issued your driver's license?
the thread currently has 70 points

Also known as the 10% effect. See point 1: http://mattmaroon.com/2010/11/23/i-quit-hacker-news/

That's exactly the reason I flagged it. I don't want such stuff on the front page. It's extremely boring.
Lots of related discussion over on NoDPI: https://nodpi.org/ (edit: seems down at the moment)

I actually wrote my LLM. Cyberlaw dissertation on Phorm and the impacts of behavioural advertising.. interesting to see they're still around after getting wrist-slapped by the EU.
It's probably not nice to refer to Steve in that way ... ;)
This post has excellent advice: http://rustyklophaus.com/articles/20100627-HowToPracticeATec...

I wish I'd read it before completely bungling a presentation about Lua at a BarCamp. Make sure you've got hooking up your visual aids figured out first! I didn't, and it made me start off incredibly nervous.
Can you name some companies that I can look into for more info in NYC area?
At the moment, it's a tradeoff. Google App Engine frees you from operations but requires more development time. A VPS like EC2 requires less development time but a lot more operations time.

It's good to have the options but there's no silver bullet yet.
After decades of growth, they will grow old and fat and give up and pay dividends, like Microsoft. And when that day comes, the decades of not paying dividends will finally pay off in terms of the stratospheric heights the company has grown to.

Which would be a far more convincing argument if it wasn't the fashionable thing in the tech industry to try as hard as possible to never grow old and fat.
This is most apparent with digital textbooks, which are often only sold as rentals for the duration of a single semester. You are paying for the book, except it disappears after a few months.
I generally build systems with as little as possible installed initially. Then install exactly what I need. With Ubuntu I can't remember if I ever had to hunt down any dependencies. The security updates are non-intrusive and rarely require reboots. Compared to Windows constant nagging about this, that and whatever it is so clean and painless.
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The Japanese announcement is full of apology:

"2011年4月21日よりPlayStation®NetworkおよびQriocity™の障害が継続しており、お客様および関係各位に多大なるご迷惑をおかけしておりますことを深くお詫び申しあげます。"

Which is a polite and flowery way of apologizing for the ongoing interruption of service.

http://cdn.jp.playstation.com/msg/sp_20110427_psn.html
It's not really a different discussions if you viewed scored comments as filtered comments.
Ubuntu JeOS is excellent for minimal server installs. Then you add exactly what you require. I prefer LTS editions for all critical servers.
I didn't see this before, but this is pretty cool. If you're interested in this kind of stuff, Noah gave an in-depth interview and talked about some of his other strategies in the Startups Open Sourced book I just posted on HN 2 days ago. Noah managed to get the largest discount I've given to anyone--and probably ever will give to anyone. It's going to be featured on AppSumo.com Thursday, so watch for that if the $20 seemed too high.
That's not practical. Password hashes should be slow, to stop dictionary attacks; and it's easy to imagine a couple thousand "similar" passwords (flip case of some characters? 256 possibilities for an 8-character password. Add year of birth? 20-50 possibilities. And so on.)
One means more work on my behalf, and the other is to support a minority of users.
Why don't they list the field strength?
So, the Intel's compiler trounces GCC when the code it emits run on certain x86 processors. And Microsoft's compiler does a much better job when the target runs on Windows on x86 processors.

If we narrow the target enough, all comparisons become interesting. I am quite sure GCC will blow both Intel's and Microsoft's compilers out of the water when it comes to compile code for IBM mainframes. I am sure it's much better than Intel's when it comes to target my phone's ARM processor.
It takes a little aesthetic knowledge so you don't look ridiculous, but everyone should probably learn a little basic aesthetics anyways - it's one of those areas that a tiny bit of knowledge pays huge dividends.

Very true, but how does one go about gaining this knowledge?
Cool. I always saw this as a limitation but honestly it's very, very rare that I need simultaneous write - just simultaneous read. I will start recommending KeePass + Dropbox to those who don't trust LastPass. What's KeePass's browser integration like?
I would pay for the dataset of these individual 9750 images. Anyone with gigapan camera cares to share/sell some gigapixel images?
Ah yes, the famed NZ man drought.

My girlfriend's also Kiwi, but like a lot of Kiwi's we'll be looking to return to Australia for a while after Europe. Better weather and more to do.

Our homeland seems to be the place to return to raise the kids, however. I think that's a major driver of Kiwi's returning home to Godzone.
> and arguably stagnant

This is like complaining someone's market share is stagnated around 99%...

As for "working on", it has two interpretations. While I certainly thing GCC has less patches per month accepted into its codebase than clang, there are a whole lot more people compiling C code with it. I would not be surprised if we discovered more code is compiled with GCC than with all other C compilers combined.
I built something similar at my last job to keep me sane. It was incredibly beneficial. I'm rebuilding a different version now and wondering what you're using for search?

Do you have any additional metadata fields like "tags" or "categories" that can also be searched?
I believe he could repeat that feat 120 times and still be a billionaire.
Masks are equally uncomfortable no matter what country you happen to be in, so I think a different explanation is needed to explain why people are wearing masks more in some countries than others. (Availability is the obvious answer.)
Some people like boobs, others like ass, and a subsection of people just love feet.

I guess if you really think about it, adoring any body part is a “fetish”. It’s just socially acceptable to like tits or ass, and society has deemed adoration of feet as undesirable.
Do you spend alot of time and money keeping it upto date?

Seems like you could create an app that did images and contacts etc. with file conversion and backups and charge a subscription.
It did include email addresses in some cases, just not all of them.
Given how heavily Adams struggled with procrastination, I wonder how he'd have fared in today's distractopia... he might not've gotten around to writing much. But what I wouldn't give to have him still around even just for the occasional quip.
Certainly I cannot be the only one who finds phone numbers, email addresses, and many other things quite inconsequential compared to name and address.

In particular, there could easily be a postal system implemented where the sender would not need the actual physical address of the receiver. The receiver could easily ask the postal service to generate an arbitrary key which could either be single use, or multiple use, in order to deliver, so that one could receive mail and packages without having to surrender information regarding one's place of residence to the sending party.

Recently, I was hand delivered something from my sports club at my address as an apology for COVID. All quite considerable but I'm not so comfortable with that apparently my physical address is known to arbitrary members of said club, and that I was required to give it in order to sign up, which is necessary with modern technology.

There is no theoretical need to surrender one's physical address to join a sports club in theory, but physical addresses are exchanged everywhere as though there be no problem with this. They are of course the easiest way to stalk and harm someone.
> Do you accept PRs for the Rust benchmarks?

Sure! I'll take a PR that adds script/bench-rust-png-decoder to the Wuffs repo.

I'll also take patches to script/bench-rust-png. I'm not as fluent in Rust as I am in C/C++ or Go, so I might easily be doing something silly there.
My guess is that the OS assets would have to be redone after that. We are still stuck using pixel art for lots of things, and it is nice to have some standards until vector is good enough for everything.
Thanks man!!

(full disclosure: I'm OP and I posted the link)
Just fyi indexOf is O(n), which means if you tried to do:

var count = 1000000;
var arr = foo(count);
for (var i = 0; i < count; i++)
arr[i]();

It will take O(n^2) and will probably never complete whereas all the other solutions here will probably take ~1second.
They probably would be if swift was open-source.
Speed is not a function of capacity in this particular context. A car with 1 seat driving 500 m/h is faster, don't you think, than a car with 4 seats that drives 50 m/h.

I mean we can argue semantics, but if you want to send $100 from the US to the Philippines, bitcoin is generally a lot faster than your bank, even when you have to buy bitcoin and sell it in the Philippines because of international transactions taking much longer than local ones.

As for capacity, bitcoin's 'Chief Scientist' just wrote a blog post on scalability: http://gavintech.blogspot.de/2015/01/twenty-megabytes-testin...

To make a long story short, thousands of transactions per second (Visa averages about 2k) is certainly possible. I'd be more worried about bitcoin adoption (from an interest/tech/growth point of view) as a limit than technical scalability issues as a limit, especially with things like sidechains. (Look at Blockstream's Sidechains for example as a solution, just got a $21m investment.)

It's generally held that it can scale, whether it can grow and become popular and well used remains to be seen (I think it's likely but it's far from certain).
Clearly isn’t, but while inflation means more wealth to productive people, it slack increases the wealth of asset holders.

Your cash goes down in value, your debt reduces, but your house increases in value, the rent you can charge goes up.

Inflation helps those in debt with fixed interest payments which is great. It doesn’t effect those owning assets though.
ISO-8601 was a good early attempt, but unfortunately it has some negative points:

- Only offset-based time zones are allowed (which are next to useless).

- Omitting the time zone defaults to local time, which renders the time ambiguous. Defaulting to UTC makes much more sense.

- BC dates are all offset by 1 ("-1" = 2 BC). I know the reasons for this, but this could have been moved to the implementation and not exposed to the user.

- Lots of silly things like fractional-minutes and multiple ways to represent the same data bloat the spec and implementations.

This is why I rejected iso-8601 and developed my own for https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/ct...

Examples:

2019-8-5 : August 5, 2019

-300-12-21 : December 21, 300 BC (proleptic Gregorian)

12:05:50.102 : 12:05:50 and 102 milliseconds UTC

4:00:00/Asia/Tokyo : 4:00:00 Tokyo time

2019-01-23/14:08:51.941245 : January 23, 2019, at 14:08:51 and 941245 microseconds, UTC

1985-10-26/01:20:01.105/America/Los_Angeles : October 26, 1985, at 1:20:01 and 105 milliseconds, Los Angeles time

25192-11-01/03:00:00/48.86/2.36 : November 1st, 25192, at 3:00:00, at whatever is in the place of Paris at that time (global coordinates 48.86, 2.36)
Everybody is hyped up here but can someone explain to me what are the implications for the future of programming?

Will I be able to write apps in a single language and have then run truly native on any OS or what else will we be able to do?
> VMware knows that applications are more likely to be abstracted as containers than virtual machines in the future, so needs a competitor for the likes of Red Hat’s OpenShift and needs that competitor to have real traction.
The TZ format counts how many hours behind UTC you are (how many hours should you add to get UTC time). The ISO format counts how many hours ahead of UTC you are. Neither choice is inherently correct, but the discrepancy is pretty annoying.

Use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database names instead.
This article claims that redo suffers from several security issues at the very end. But can anyone explain to me how a userspace program that is run directly by the user can have any security issues at all? Also, apart from the PATH issue, all those "security holes" seem to require changing files, making them useless.

Besides, the author is wrong about the reasoning of apenwarr to implement #! processing[0]: it's done primarily to avoid having to make .do files executable. execlp() even executes /bin/sh all by itself if no header could be recognized[1]:

"If the header of a file isn't recognized (the attempted execve(2) failed with the error ENOEXEC), these functions will execute the shell (/bin/sh) with the path of the file as its first argument. (If this attempt fails, no further searching is done.)"

[0] https://github.com/apenwarr/redo#can-my-do-files-be-written-...

[1] http://linux.die.net/man/3/execv
Question, what happens to the ledger (Blockchain) if the miners (accountants) no longer get paid for mining Bitcoin? (Asked with respect)
Because I'm familiar with it, and this tool specifically aims to improve workflow when creating many JS modules.
Thank you for this, looks amazing to create simple tests