jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Of all the "deplatformings" this one is the hardest to feel sorry for. They clearly had a lot of technical debt and very little expertise in what they were doing. Seeing their AWS bill, it's apparent they were not without resources either.

As far as I am aware, they are still just moving around their horrendously cobbled together Wordpress monstrosity to whatever giant benefactor that has a couch they can crash on. It's clearly other peoples' fault that they are so dependent on other's technology!

And while I am very receptive towards conservative ideals as well as criticisms of tech and mainstream media, this is a bit like watching someone starve to death because Blue Apron stopped delivering to them.
1. ToS violation to record and publish shows without 'written' consent of all the people in the room (which is effectively not enforceable)

2. iOS only

3. Invite only

4. Not ADA compliant (leaves out deaf folks)

5. Buggy

6. Centralized

7. You can't easily delete your account

I personally tried it and deleted it. No thanks.
That whois information is interesting, I registered the domain through google domains. The Canadian company is probably being used by google for whoisguard reasons?

The site runs client side only, with no external API calls, so assuming you trust the code in the repo is the code being served to you then no data can leave your computer. If you're curious you could probably verify by clicking around on the site and checking the network calls made to ensure there's no external API calls
You are right, I misread your answer. Germany at least seems to be handing out fines.
I just run foobar2000 under wine. The font rendering is a bit iffy (some lines of text get clipped horizontally and vertically, as if the calculated dimensions are smaller than the rendered dimensions), but it doesn't bother me enough to investigate.

That said, most of my music listening these days has been pointing mpv at an internet radio steam.
Having to undergo the process is a huge downside. I’ve done it 4 times. Forgot how bad the first three were (thanks brain) but my latest was a terrible time.

Another downside is that you will have scars all over your legs.

Your legs should not be more prone to breaking.

Gait and balance will initially of course be affected, but there’s no long term problems there.
Yes, those knobs can be controlled by the BOINC client. You retain full control over how/when your computer uses its resources.
The expectation was that Airbnb type properties would become available as long term rentals, and fewer people would turn dwelling into short-term rentals. But, those houses that were already in use for Airbnb remained so, and many houses in need of renovation that might have otherwise become rentals (long or short) instead sit dilapidated. Those cottages I mentioned end up difficult to move on the real estate market because they are just too small for most people’s needs - again, great for a weekend stay, not so great as ongoing living places. Our local market is a more “traditional” market than say California or what’s happened to Seattle and Vancouver, so of course our experience is going to be different.
Agree with you on this, like I mentioned above I was uninformed - happened before I was born :) Thank you for the information.
> This is incredible. Not only do you start with an "upper bound" less than one-half the accepted value, you then toss in a "3-4 order of magnitude" reduction, which is so fantastically impossible that there has clearly been zero actual thought. Just rhetoric. Elon Musk, is that you?

3-4 orders of magnitude lower than the plague which has an upper bound fatality of 100%. That's not controversial. 3-4 order of magnitude lower than 100% is 0.01 to 0.9%, a range very much in line with your suggestion and that of health officials.
Maven needs a UI because of its pathologically-verbose XML syntax. Compare a pom.xml with its Gradle equivalent...only one is designed with humans in mind.
Huh. And now I've learned about British that/which! Thank you.
It's reassessed, but the increase is capped.
Not just that. A quick Cmd+F brings up this which as you might have guessed derailed into mostly tangents with little added value:

"Oh, wow. The language was complex already and this makes me avoid C++ unless it's constrained to a narrow subset (something like Google C++ Style Guide). No wonder languages like Go and Rust gain so much traction."
PIA and freenode have different parent companies, but what are these suspect activities? The network would be in an uproar if they existed.
They've said the plan is to nationalise OpenReach. That's the commercial wholesaler, who provide the fibre, the cabinets, the kit in exchanges. As the article notes, ISPs will have the option to keep going continuing to use OpenReach's infrastructure, now nationalised and named British Broadband. So all that's changed is the supplier of the pipes.

How does that kill competition, enforce a monopoly, and ripple through into 5G - which is the mobile companies and nothing to do with OpenReach?

For someone complaining of everyone's lack of smarts, you seem to have very little awareness of what is actually proposed. The sad thing is, BT invented a lot of the kit that enabled fibre. Much of the research whilst they were still a nationalised utility, and proposed to roll it out 100% in the 80s. That was FTTH not FTTC. Thatcher stopped it. The tech was sold off to the companies they now buy from.
Cool, that doesn’t have anything to do with a market discovery mechanism for parking prices.
You are both kind of right and wrong. It's actually 85 percent for the value of the car up to approximately $28,500 in 2019 figures, and then 150 percent on the exceeding value.

But: Add 25 percent VAT to it as well.

So take a standard car which is $40.000 without taxes. It will be:

(28,500x1.85+11,500x2.5)1.25 = 101,844.
So it is more or less like a 155 percent tax.

Take an expensive car which is $80,000 before tax:

(28,500x1.85+51,500x2.5)1.25 = $226,844
That is like a 184 percent tax.

On top of that, there are other taxes that you have to pay yearly or biannually, including a tax depending on mileage, another depending on weight, and there is also heavy taxation on gasoline.

On your bike, you pay the 25 percent VAT.
Can anyone give some substantiated information about Kape? Why is so bad? All I found was FUD.
Part one of a series I am writing exploring why we have difficulties estimating.

This episode starts easy with extrapolation, and adds the confounding factors from there.

Would love some feedback!
Yes, that's great, thanks!
You are being downvoted - but this is realistic. Restaurants trash or donate expiring food. Corporations shred perfectly good hardware instead of giving it away.

Not saying it's good - but there are reasons these policies are in place.

It can also result in the situations we see here which sounds like this doctor had the best of intentions and is being punished for it.
I really would like to get one of these nice split keyboards but I have not been able to find one with ISO Nordic layout (Swedish/Finnish if printing the keys).

The UK layout is close but not quite there (enter is 2 rows tall in our layout and one extra key next to it)

http://www.farah.cl/Keyboardery/A-Visual-Comparison-of-Diffe...
> The argument was about their exile, not their assets being seized.

A fair point, I did pivot back from answering this regarding exile.

If we consider why a set of international human rights principles were pushed in the first place, it was to act as a preventative measure against totalitarian governments abusing their citizens, and in particular, was a reaction to how the Nazis brutalized and killed millions of people during and prior to WW2.

What it wasn't intended for, is restricting how exactly to transfer power within a state.

Article 9 of the UHDR states that:

> No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

The key qualifying word here is "arbitrary". For ordinary citizens, this is taken to mean that due process and the rule of law must be applied. For a head of state who is ordinarily immune from prosecution (as the Queen and her family are), it can't mean this, because the normal due process doesn't apply to them.

So if Britain did abolish its monarchy, the only interpretation of "arbitrary" that makes sense here is that the monarchy be treated according to the protocols decided for establishing the new republic. And if this statute outlines a process for exile, then so be it.

(Conversely, if it says nothing about exile, but the new government attempts to do so anyway, then this may well be in breach of Article 9.)

> Of course, if the new law target only the former monarchs, and not every similarly wealthy man, then it goes against the other human right of fair justice and æquality before the law.

As noted above, this already doesn't apply to the royal family. They are protected from any legal consequences for their actions that would apply to an ordinary citizen.

Targeting them specifically would simply be redressing this imbalance of justice and power.
From what I understand, credit cards don't really protect people in that way in most countries. Only on the ones where fraud is already rare.
And then when we don't spend that energy it's a huge scandal!
It is almost 100% compatible with docker. I only had to do minimal changes in my Dockerfiles to use it.
With `tmux` there is a visual mode that allows to `tail -F` with search, selection etc.
You might enjoy reading the Austrian Economics take on this at the mises.org web site. Their front page has a few articles on how (sometimes) deflation is just fine.
I'm not sure you are correct - maintaining suburban infrastructure is a net drain on coffers. However, even if you are right, driverless cars would not do much to stem the new wave of urbanization.
Yes, bugs affecting only older hardware don't give direct useful information about the current code quality on new Macs. However, it does give useful information about the state of the software engineering department at Apple. It's also still relevant to potential buyers of new Macs, because it gives some useful information about the code quality on that hardware years down the road, after updates.
Pretty sure that animators are paid more in line with musicians than programmers.

Also, think about going to jail for 2 months. 2 months where you're locked up and have absolutely no liberty. If this thing was minor, there's still 2 months you'll never get back. Not to mention the job you probably lose during this stint. I don't wish prison sentences to anybody, not even my worst enemies.

I wouldn't feel as bad that we feel so strongly about locking people up if the conditions weren't so absolutely awful. I'm sure there's a way to make prisons more survivable without sacrificing the "making sure people are inside the box"-ness.
I had pretty much the same experience as the author. After several years developing on OSX, the development tools, package management and simpler desktop experience of Linux just were more appealing.

It also isn't a disadvantage that now my desktop setup is a lot closer to what we also run on the servers, down to exactly same packages and dependencies.

And it has to be said I love the regular upgrade cycles of major projects like GNOME and Ubuntu. Every six months I get a new version with many incremental updates. No need to speculate what Apple will put in or leave out from the next big cat
If Twitter is worth 10 billion, then I hope nothing less than the number ___ billion is on the table. Give em hell Tweetdeck.
"If every thing I said went over your head, and you think I’m crazy, it just means your time hasn’t come yet."

Someday I hope to be as smart as he is.
Yes, this is how Move Network's streaming works, how Apple's streaming works, and Adobe just announced official support for streaming this way last week[1] (edit: oh and microsoft buit it into iis too).

What they do is parallel-encode their video feed to many different bitrates, then as the client is keeping up or not keeping up with the incoming chunks they move up or down the scale of which chunks to send. The best part is, it works via existing http cdn's like level3 and akamai, so just about anybody can stream live video this way to as many people on the internet as they can get to watch it for the already commodity cost of cdn bandwidth.

[1] - http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/04/adobe-throws-in-to...
That remembers me the history of Angry Birds creators: Should they have stop after 6 years without a huge success ?

http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/03/11/angry-birds-overnigh...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314532
Thanks for your feedback. I like the whole idea of AWS but I found their pricing model mis-leading as their products were laden with text heavy pages that were not clear cut.

It was only through actually setting up a reserved instance and seeing I was still being charged every day did I realise that the reserved instances still carried an extra cost.

Thanks for your feedback
Not really. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/15/business/company-news-xero...
The vast majority of graduates do not leave college having intensively studied anything as rigorous as physics or mathematics. Most leave college with a degree that they didn't work very hard to earn.

College offers the opportunity to do what you did and work your ass off, but most have no such desire.
It's funny how fast things have changed since Thrun won. Before that, IIRC, cars wouldn't manage to drive 10% hitting a rock. All of a sudden : Google Cars everywhere.
That'll mean no more drug development.

My grandmother had rheumatoid arthritis, and it made her life utterly miserable for her last 10 years. Recently, Enbrel was developed by a biotech for profit company, it is the first effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.

No university or government came up with it. A for profit company did.
You really think the government would have trouble doing a handful of raids at once? They have enough officers to do a thousand raids at once. The FBI and Interpol did just that recently, coordinated across more than a dozen countries:

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/800-...
This should be fairly obvious? There have been myriad occasions where we have collectively discovered that certain "facts" are not, in fact, facts at all.

Given that the reality of reality is beyond the grasp of certainty, a platform owner still is able to make choices about what is and is not acceptable within their community. This is well understood in indie game community management; nurturing nurturing communities involves removing bad actors, and making _subjective_ calls about whether people are acting in good or bad faith.
I work at a Teams co with about 60k people and vid/chat/share/etc works without issue. Issues, in my group, are extremely rare.
Contactless bank cards were widespread in the UK before Apple or Google had their own payment systems. I think the "real story", as it were, is that the banking industry held contactless payments way more than Apple ever did.
That may have been a signal that you should tip more.
Circumventing property law has absolutely been a selling point of crypto, front and center, since its inception. The real no-true-Scotsman is saying, "Those who want an extra-governmental system of property aren't the real crypto fans." Yes, they are.

In reality, crypto's true purpose is a moving target, so it can never be criticized because that's not what crypto is really about.
There is what appears to be a rather amusing side-effect of this principle:

“The arrests today show that we will take a firm stand against those who allegedly try to use virtual currencies for criminal purposes.” - Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. [My emphasis.]

There's no reason for the Justice Dept. not to take a firm stand against those who try to use virtual currencies for criminal purposes, or say that they are doing so - and, in fact, that would be rather better than taking a firm stand against those who have merely been accused of doing so. I guess that 'allegedly' was inserted here in order to forestall a claim that this statement deprived the defendants in this case of due process, if or when it comes to trial.
DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts.

The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi
The main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/

The project released the new version DietPi v8.1 on February 5th, 2022.

The highlights of this version are:

A new image for Hardkernel's Odroid N2(+) SBC has been generated, which is now based on the mainline kernel Linux 5.10, built by Armbian, updated to next LTS 5.15 soon.
A new image generation method, powered by debootstrap and own U-Boot configurations, allows for cleaner and more consistent U-Boot based SBC images in the future.
The DietPi drive manager and backup tools received enhanced dialogs and process indications.
The DietPi software installation tool got some general enhancements regarding cgroups for container platforms like Docker, K3s and the upcoming MicroK8s, as well as IPv6 and nf_tables support for iptables, used by VPN servers, WiFi and Tor hotspot implementations.

The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v8_1/
sigh, thanks for the response. I think I may move onto RaspberryPi instead. Boringproxy looks like an interesting tool.
And that's not even illegal in all countries. In Austria, Germany and Switzerland, for example, the law explicitly allows copies of copyrighted material to be shared among friends and family.
i wish i had read this few years ago. great advice.
Focus on what you don't know. With 8 years of C++ you don't need to be doing 50% of the things on that list. Web development isn't that hard :) For example, you don't mention anything about html, css or javascript. Or design.

If you think these things aren't important; think again. Most clients will be more happy with tight html/css that sticks to the design they agreed to than they will ever be with your server side code.

On that note: if you have professional designs and you get clients to sign off on them 100% at the start, you will have far fewer problems at the end. People tend to change their minds 500 times about what they want things to look like, and it will cost you money if you just let it drag on arbitrarily. First it's "can you please move that text over a bit", then it's "oh i really want to add a social sharing widget, if you don't mind", then "oooh yeah we really wanted a gallery of pictures here.. and please could they connect to my flikr account, and umm.." etc. If you have a contract (an image) of every page then they sign off it, or pay more at the end for adjustments (at double the rate, of course ;))
Umm.. Live tiles are a huge part of windows phone dev environment. Not sure you could change much on the home screen.

Maybe rounded corners? But why bother?
> Technology doesn't pay the bills. [...] Don't lose your idealism about making use of the right tech stack, and where pragmatic, don't miss an opportunity to explain why it's important. [...] generally the guy with the purse strings isn't technical, and is in no position to appraise your use of tech.

You know, I've never understood this line of argument. The way I see it, the client is either clever enough to see technology really is not important to the problem at hand or too dumb to realize it is. If the former, you'd be guilty of overengineering and missing your client's objective (by being too costly, too complicated, etc). If the latter, why would you care to explain and "do the right thing" (the client will not pay for things he doesn't know are important)?

There are many technical people who feel underappreciated by their clients or management peers. I think the only solution is to find out if the wizardry really is needed in the first place; if it's not, do the minimum (if you accept at all); if it is, then let the bozo fail and either compete (you know something they don't) or leave for a better client/customer/mgmt. Will pay better and you get to keep your sanity and pride.
and ideally with links to the exact lines of code (chromium) that do each thing ;)
I think your analysis is correct. Before jumping to the “US is a bully” narrative, one should consider:

- they whole problem here is that Hauwei and other state-sponsored Chinese firms are flooding the market with below-cost, compromising devices in order to give the Chinese government broad access to sensitive information [0]

- Hong Kong is dying under the Chinese boot [1]

- China is running concentration camps [2]

Our community isn’t used to thinking about open source software - or technology in general- in the context of geopolitics. We seem to agree IBM was wrong to help the Nazis manage the Haulocaust [3] but don’t apply that logic to China. Yet. Maybe our children will; that’s on us.

This is another skirmish in the long war around the Chinese Rise. America is by no means perfect, but I think we’ll miss Pax Americana when it’s gone. We need to search our souls and find our spines.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/17/18264283/huawei-security-...

[1] https://www.vox.com/2019/11/18/20970453/hong-kong-protests-2...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/fina...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
It's pronounced like the French word "coq": https://forvo.com/word/coq/#fr (because it is the French word "coq")
Checked the Portofolio and seems to be... authentic? Cthulhu Fhtagn!
ClojureScript ends up somewhere around the same size. Maybe it's some magic number that a full-featured environment converges to.

Since Scala.js (like CLJS) is backed by Google Closure Compiler, I bet you'll also reach for the Closure Library for a lot of stuff where one might reach for JQuery or equivalent otherwise. The stuff in there is of course optimized for Closure Compiler, and slims down quite well.
Come on now, that's the exceptional case here.
This specifically furthers the interests of a ruling class, the Chinese Communist Party. It is explicitly giving the CCP an American funded and developed technology which they can use for further development of racially profiled mass surveillance for the continued genocide of the Uyghurs. This is an awful move.
I'm really hoping this thread doesn't devolve into a framework flame war, but those who are interested in angular or currently using it would find this post very interesting. It clarifies a lot of the reasons why the Angular team felt that they needed to do a complete rewrite instead of incrementally improving 1.x and it also outlines a lot of the exciting new features they hope to include in 2.0. I personally appreciate their dedication to the web components specification and a desire to seamlessly co-exist with it. Atscript illuminated a lot of interesting programming concepts I'm not personally familiar with as a front-end developer and I'm intrigued by them. Definitely worth a read if you have time, Rob Eisenberg has a very extensive understanding of Angular.
1.5B docs by just six people is impressive but I suspect that computers did a bunch of the indexing work.