jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
the biological arguments have been proven to have no merit

They may have little merit in terms of ability.

However, in terms of interest they could have a lot of merit. Innate interest is often invoked to explain why a ridiculous number of women go to veterinary school, for instance. Did you know that the first Humane Societies were started by women, in a time when women did pretty much absolutely nothing?
You're misquoting my quote ;) The sentence fragment I'm addressing is "...the Qi Hardware cites just four other projects that follow the same approach: the Elphel digital camera, Pandora game console, the Milkymist One visual-effects video synthesizer, and the Arduino microcontroller."

To clarify: there are more than 4 (or 3) other projects. I wish the author had looked a bit harder instead of using only the Qi website!
Gruber is so angry these days. There's no more excitement. It's all defensive and pissed-off writing.
haha at the rate we're going... I think we'd be lucky to see a draft of HTML6 by 2022
No such post. Gruber hasn't suggested that he's submitted anything to the App Store. He has written several posts about others' rejected apps.
But sometimes Google can keep a non-bullshit, non-serious conversation going, say when two friends talk about a movie and it doesn't ring a bell, but then you google it and the first image suggestion reminds you that you've seen it too, and it was THAT movie! Back into conversation...

Or when something is on the tip of your tongue for an hour.
Technically true. But then you only live in that system by choice.

You can instead choose to live in a slightly different system that only overlaps the "system" in a few meaningful points. You can, for instance, avoid going in to debt or living beyond your means, allowing you to live for a fraction of what your peers require. That would let you work less. Like months per year less in order to cover your expenses.

That would give you a lot more freedom to pick and choose better gigs from better employers. Better still, could choose to program computers for a living, giving you the advantage of a much higher bill rate than most folks in that "system", as well as the option to do all you work remotely for clients you've never met face to face.

So yeah, sell your time and soul, but only tiny fractions, and on your own terms. That's one of the cool perks of this career you've chosen.
Win7 bypass is fairly similar with the change of utilman to cmd.
Fortunately, Windows Me fixed all those issues.
"never" and "lost" aren't words I would use with Mozilla. Their vision is solid with lots of innovation going on. They have major market share. They are light years ahead in terms of privacy and repeatedly beat all the other browsers in performance benchmarks.

Afaik, XUL is already replaced on the mobile Firefox version. Would not expect it in Rust at all.
Federal judges that never question NSA and automatically approve "3 month general warrants for mass collection".

Where's the "oversight" in that? That's why it was put there, no? To have oversight over NSA. How can you have any oversight when you just tell NSA to "collect everything".
Jiminy crickets!

Well, once you get past the interrupt stuff, the handset establishes a pdp context....
How many people can afford to hire deep mobile hackers?
Have you try FraudLabs Pro? It has a community driven blacklist which is active in web hosting community. It might be useful for Fly.io.
I feel conflicted about this decision. I've added some analysis here:

https://frequal.com/java/SupremeCourtOracleVsGoogleRuling202...

focusing on two areas:
* Google had the ability to make their own language and APIs for Android
* The chilling effect on future language/API innovation
You can actually input system stuff like this via: https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/user-manual.html#fl...

They already have support for build times and labels, but you can add arbitrary stuff like got hashes too
> Small men pointing at things on a map is the leading cause of war'

That may be true for people looking for conquest.

Wars can also be waged over resources when you’re running out of them (like a growing pop or your land has become infertile, etc.)

That quote trivializes things a bit. Kings couldn’t go to war just because. They’d have to get general agreement from lots of stakeholders, else they hold the bag.
For the cache: https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/remote-caching.html and https://github.com/buchgr/bazel-remote You can actually just set it up to use a shared S3 bucket to hold the cache.

For builds there are a few options to check out: https://github.com/jin/awesome-bazel#remote-caching-and-exec...
I’ve worked with deep learning models enough to know the cost of running GPU inference, and if the live queue stats published on the website are accurate, then thousands of dollars per month is certainly plausible.

I have no reason to disbelieve it.
Eh, this technology currently falls very squarely into the category of "almost good enough that I could use it for a creative project, but not nearly good enough that you're going to be able to convince me that the results aren't generated."

I'm not primarily interested about the dollars, I'm interested in allowing communities to do creative things. I think people are looking at this tech like it's only going to be used for deepfakes, and they're underestimating the extent it's going to be used to create voice-acted game mods, animations, anonymization tools, and other creative/helpful projects.

If you're really worried about this stuff though, you can take some comfort in the fact that by far the worst examples on the site are of real-world voices. This is currently technology that as far as I can see is far more suited for generating new voices or voicing cartoon characters with well-defined patterns/inflections than it is for imitating the president.
I think the answer is that machine learning solved the problem better. My GMail spam folder used to be in the tens of thousands from the last 30 days. Now it's in the low hundreds. (Low enough to locate the occasional false positive.)

I can't tell if Google is just not telling me about the vast ocean that the filter considers obvious, or if it's just gotten so effective that the spammers gave up. Whatever it is, it's working. I dunno if other email providers are similarly effective, but the tech exists if they want it.

Now, there's still web forms, which don't have the vast spraying power of SMTP, and also don't have the same kind of access to data to drive email spam filters. They usually try to de-automate the process with CAPTCHAs, which are also kind of a proof-of-work system (a "work" that's supposed to be cheap for humans and expensive for computers).

Maybe you could install a proof-of-work based system there? Not being email, it sidesteps some of the issues on the form reply that SI_Rob reposted.
The route involving Seattle is actually Phoenix TO Seattle, which is somewhat surprising, and means 3/10 of the list puts people in/through Seattle.

That's a surprisingly large percentage / number.

Intuitively, It feels like too many people to either be:
- On their way somewhere else (home to BC, hopping the Pacific, from AK to lower 48)
- Coming for snow (either ending in WA, or legging to BC,ID,WY,MT)
- Coming home from holiday
- Subjecting themselves to January in Seattle [1]

… but maybe in aggregate the above add up to our 8–10 position.

Now that I've written the above out, and others have pointed out, I'm recognizing a pattern with Atlanta: we don't see bigger cities as starting points, just their aggregation point (Atlanta). Maybe reasonable to assume the same for Seattle.

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[1] Not a dig, I live here.
> Chrome is a shitty browser. Google is a shitty company. Stop defending shit.

> You are the one spreading FUD here by claiming that the new API is so much better than the old one.

This kind of language is not welcome here. Please have a look at the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I read the design documents and I'm convinced that the new API is a big improvement, and that the design decision was made in good faith and for technical, not political reasons.

The uBlock Origin developer is very trustworthy, but there's so many things that can go wrong - like a workstation, repository, signing key or account compromise.

It's a massive single point of failure. Anyone who can sneak malicious code into the extension has instant and unlimited access to millions of browsers and sensitive personal and company data.

A project like Chrome has extensive processes and safeguards to prevent this kind of compromise, including strict code review. As far as I can tell, uBlock has no code review process[1]. We need to move away from such points of failure no matter how well-intentioned they are.

[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commits/master

The webRequest API also forces a lot of IPC overhead and serialization in the runtime, no matter how fast the extension itself is. uBlock is very, very fast - but it's still a lot slower than native code in the core.

I'm not against adblocking or in favor of stripping away adblocker features, but why not implement it right in the core of the browser, where it belongs? Chrome is open source, if Google doesn't want to do it, another vendor or open source project most certainly could.
Obviously they will change the tape now that this version has been burned.
In the last election, Jo Jorgensen.
yeah, i bet it has every presentation ever done sitting in good ol' ~/Documents or the desktop.
> The overreaction ... In May, DC was literally on fire from the BLM riots

Speaking of overreactions ...

> They didn't set anything on fire. They should not have stolen or broken anything. That's wrong and bad and should be condemned.

Okay, so to be clear, there's a difference between breaking things with your hands and setting it on fire. One is "bad", and one is "rioting". Huh, interesting.
I think there should be dark patterns and ... darkest patterns.
The video footage from inside the chambers at the time of the shooting showed people were still in chambers, mostly up in the second floor gallery, but a few on the floor.
He regrets being part of a failed coup attempt planned and executed by halfwits.
Probably won't federate. TBH, federation doesn't appeal to me that much. I recognize it has benefits, but it also introduces significant complexity.

Plus, Slow Social is already designed to work with the most widely adopted federated platform: email. Posts can be sent as emails, and there is no comment system other than opening up an email and starting a conversation with them that way.
Ok, so there are no civilized societies in Africa per your definition.
Its like going back to the black monolith at the Dawn of Mankind. Most of the advertisers have been gone for 25 years, I bet. I did spot an interesting ad on page 258 teasing the release of Excel, to be the reason for buying a computer.
Are we talking about Wisconsin governor Scott Walker? Because he survives a recall vote and then goes on to help make Wisconsin a right-to-work state.

But wait. He specifically exempted police unions from his busting legislation, didn't he?
To summarize: 1A was good when it was being used by liberals/Democrats, but is bad now that it's being used by conservatives/Republicans.
Expensive cars have benefits to the driver which are not related to other people's perception. The same cannot be said of diamonds.
I mean, there is a valid point of reducing the mental load, but the alternative is paying significantly more for electricity (and producing more greenhouse gases). Particularly as we rely more and more on non-dispatchable renewable power sources.
Same here. Kids want to spend time with their friends. Also we'lucky to have excellent teachers, no byllying at school and so on.

A few days ago the school organized a poll and around 70% says they prefer normal school whereas the rest prefers online classes.
> And in just in case: 0 sarcasm in this whole comment.

That sentence reads very sarcastic. Could you clarify?
If it's so close to Unix, why do all the C functions have it the other way around? e.g. memcpy(dst,src,n)

I've always thought AT&T syntax is made for machines & debugging compiler output while Intel syntax is made for people and large scale coding...
So for automatic bootstrap use a hard-coded or generated list of long-lived nodes or a list downloaded from different p2p systems. The hard-coded list could be updated with a new version. Additionally allow manual input of addresses.
My kid wants to go back to school. He tells me most weeks that he misses it.

He is currently doing all the work he would be doing but on our kitchen counter with his mother or I. He gets all the hard bits of school without the fun bits.

Perhaps the writer of the article should try asking the people he is talking about?
If I did not need the money I would never code again in my life, besides some automation and web scraping to archive stuff I want a local copy of. Life is simpler and happier for me when I minimise computer time.
Excel spreadsheet is still underrated even in 2021. Regardless of the fact that governments and whole companies use it religiously.
For me at least (Bose QC35) I hear the ringing after I take them off, not while they're on. They're good, but not that good. My ears ring the most at night.
> Most kids prefer not being at school to being at school.

OK let's listen to them, and just delete school and see what these kids say in 20 years?

Maybe kids don't like school, but school doesn't exist because kids like it, it exists for different reasons such as :

- parents can work in the mean time

- kids can be taught things

Kids not liking school is not a point in the "school should be open" debate. It is one in the "how to make kids pleased to go to school" debate though
Why didn’t Obama immediately share birth certificate during birther stuff?
Drones have been launched intercontinentally, although with a significant failure rate, since last millennium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAI_Corporation_Aerosonde
No, its called I got the name of the Act wrong.

Do you deny the primary point? That its illegal for you to sue vaccine makers?
HiSux.com ... smells like opportunity.
Deflation is almost invariably a sign of economic distress. This can easily be observed historically.

By the way the term I think you mean is "quantity demanded" with respect to price, "demand" is invariant to price.

Under deflation average income decreases. It's not like everyone is suddenly richer. Your employer gets less money, and so has to pay you less, or lay off a portion of their workforce. The price of labor is a price like any other.

Assuming a fixed money supply, hoarding currency will cause deflation. Hoarding currency takes money out of the money supply. Saving by making investments is different; the money is still participating in the economy. Deflation discourages investment in useful activity. If you can earn a 5% rate of return just for already having money, why bother with a investment could return 5% or less?
I don't have a way to hit the API that hard, if you do, would love to see the results!
And if the TLD is under the control of another country?
Go's parsimony is about cognitive load. I've programmed for 30 years and am an expert in complex languages like C++. I find that when I write Go my mind spends far more time thinking about the problem than the language, which I like.

The language is modern and powerful enough to spare the programmer from some of the worst drudgery (unlike C) and is much more inherently safe, but it's not a jungle gym of complicated constructs and difficult quasi-mathematical concepts that (while interesting) detract from the task at hand.
True. Especially if nature already has the best direct carbon capture technology since hundreds millions of years for free: trees!
It's funny because most of their profits come from PPC and AWS. The way I look at it their global retail and warehousing operation is Jeff Bezos Hobby.
That's right, the Aztek had a built-in pop-up tent for tailgating. Good memory!
> "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter"

I don't like seeing this quote in the context of programming.

Sure, they're both about writing, but in different settings. A person who writes a letter has one goal: for the intent of the letter to be understood by the recipient. However, a programmer writing code has two goals: not only for the intent of the code to be understood by future programmers, but also to make the code easy to change in response to unknown requirements without causing any regressions.

The article is a bit all-over-the-place, but I do agree with it in general, because I've seen far more bugs in production caused by changing code than by adding it. Therefore, I would rather use a language with advanced features I can use to make my code harder to change in the wrong way. I think that if you phrase it like that, it makes it more acceptable to "avoid simplicity".
> but no one treats it any differently than the rest of them

Which is precisely the problem, and the intended effect. It's a propaganda effort.
I’m willing to be that this change was motivated by investors. With Slack going public there is going to be pressure to develop mass-market appeal and not be focused on their earlier, more technical users. And maintaining multiple versions — one for engineers, one with wysiwyg training wheels, and more — becomes a headache in short order but might be the best approach to making easier to use spins on the core product.
I interviewed many candidates with PhDs for one of those major software firms, and I was not long ago one of those candidates myself.

My advice is to spend some time and practice interview questions: go from the problem, to the idea of the solution, AND WRITE DOWN THE IMPLEMENTATION in a piece of paper (or screen).

The last step is the key. Many people I interviewed knew how to solve the problem, but then had no clue on where to start when writing down a concrete solution to it. This is not a matter of being not technical, it's really a matter of practice.

Also, in those large firms, nobody cares that you already know a bunch of languages. It's better being able to demonstrate that you know one of those well. Part of the assumption is that if you know one well, you can learn the others if needed.
If it's not independently of each other, it's entirely unclear what the value of the phrase IS. It, again, seems to be reduced to shared logic—a cross-platform library.
This is really just the tip of the iceberg. There is an impressive level of polished UX spanning every aspect of Slack that is matched by very few apps anywhere. Everything from the on-boarding to the way mobile push notifications happen when you're afk, to the way it automatically gives you discounts for inactive users is just incredibly well designed.

You didn't even mention the integrations, which are where Slack makes everything else look like amateur hour. There are over 50 turn-key integrations, each of which is impeccably designed and offering comprehensive coverage of the service's features that you might want to wire into Slack. Then there are another half-dozen more flexible integrations ranging from webhooks to full API access that give you more granular control and customizability.

Saying that the media posting and search are merely cosmetic is an understatement. Imagine the delight of posting a link to a Google doc, then finding the content of the document indexed and available in search. This goes far beyond cosmetic, Slack is executing on the vision of being the actual go-to communication platform for a whole team, potentially taking a major bite out of email in a way few things have been able to in a professional setting.

I also find it very strange that you think it's higher value for non tech folks. For me, having GitHub (commits, PRs), CI, exception notification, system monitoring, and ticketing system all wired in, and the quality of the presentation of that information is what puts Slack head and shoulders above HipChat which does most of the same things, just not nearly as well.
>Instead, what I do care about, passionately, is helping the best ideas win (where I include "feasible" as part of my definition of "best"). Not the "best ideas from people willing to tolerate extensive personal abuse".

Applicable in many different areas.
I think you'd expect that from someone on the spectrum of pathological narcissism or psychopathy, which is I think not unlikely given what we know about him.
About 3 or so years ago, the senior designer at my previous job submitted a hard design to a client containing a banner with not-quite-rounded-but-almost corners that had to have transparency and would have to change color over time. As senior dev then, I never got to approve the design before it got out and I can still remember the horror when I witnessed what he had done.

I ended up trying a whole bunch of different ways to solve the problem, one of which was very similar to this method. As the author points out however, this does not work in IE8 among other things, and at the time this was a requirement... I ended up using different combinations with different levels of quality depending on the browser, a true nightmare which ended up eating a third of the budget for no justifiable reason.

In any case, the fact that we have to go through tricks like this to achieve both transparency and decent compression is pretty disappointing. But what I find maybe even sadder is the amount of resources we sometimes spend on things which seem incredibly frivolous, to me anyway. I'm sure Sapporo have pretty deep pockets, which the author rightly took advantage of, but that doesn't make it any less superficial.
This is more of a problem in open-source projects where occasionally someone would drop by a project and submit a PR without any prior planning, and more often than not disappear for a while before coming back to address your comments/review. It is less of a problem in closely-tied teams.