jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I will wait for the Skylake version, that should bring the best out of these beauties. I have the Ivy Bridge version (UX31) and I love it. When I bought it I wasn't sure if choosing it or Macbook Air, choose the Zenbook for its better resolution. Same thing is happening now.
Not only that. The hacker could only use the token to transfer money between you and KickStarter, not to another account. So unless they also had access to make withdrawals from KickStarter - they couldn't do anything useful other than annoy KickStarter with a bunch of erroneous charges.
I downvoted your post for the reasons:

1. Too much bile:
| tech bootcamps, consultant scammers, open source hipsters... pure scum... i deleted half of cuz i knew it would just piss ppl off & was a waste of breath

If you know enough to not write this, why did you write it?

2. The lack of proper grammar. If you can't take the time to neatly express your ideas, why do you expect anyone to take them time to understand them?
nothing particularly wrong with Flippa per se, it's more to do with the listing requirements and the way this particular product, and the related assets, are structured.
It says that's the price with a contract. So it's not really $0.99, it's $0.99 plus a monthly installment you agree to pay over the next two years, which will be rolled into the rest of your wireless service charge.

US cellular providers have very opaque pricing so it's hard to tell how much those installments really are. But usually when you have the option to buy a phone with or without a contract, the spread's $400-$500. That strongly implies the real price is about $401-$501, amortized over 24 months.

Long story short, using the perverse mathematics of United States mobile phone pricing, the £200 you're finding is about 3/4 of the $0.99 the article says Americans are paying.
I wonder if we'll ever see on-demand assembly of stuff like this.

Amazon doesn't have to invest anything into phones that might not get sold, just "raw materials" that get assembled into phones on demand in their fullfillment centers.

Any unassmbled processors, screens, cameras, etc. just get sold back onto the market if the phone doesn't gain success.
BT Speakers typically use A2DP, which sounds horrid. Recompressing already compressed audio is not a path towards goodness.

That said, reading up on A2DP, it seems that A2DP supports higher quality audio streams, but I have yet to see anyone advertise such in their products.
As usual, the answers are not simple. At our last hardware startup we ended up manufacturing the mechanical parts (injection moulded case, springs, etc.) in China via our industrial design company but did PCBs, assembly and packaging locally in Poland. We simply didn't have enough prior experience to design a foolproof assembly process (which involved flashing, testing on GSM/GPS repeaters, etc.). We are considering moving the to production to China, but only once we solve any critical hardware bugs, smooth out the wrinkles in the flashing/testing process and reach sufficient quantities. With small orders of 100s of units and unexpected disasters like resistors tombstoning due to small errors in solder paste stencils, a five minute call to the manufacturing plant beats cross-timezone, cross-language and cross-culture debugging every single time.
> little inconveniences of Linux on a laptop just weren't worth the trouble

Specifically: sleep/restore, display brightness control, sound, battery life, wifi, fonts, endless desktop tweaking. ymmv, but this stuff has just never been optimal out of the box.

When I say "wipe the floor," I mean in regards to time wasted (measurable) and appearance (subjective).
Much further along in human history than the Neanderthals, but I can give some examples of the OP's claim from my own experience in academia. Over the last decade, genetic studies have broadly confirmed the mainstream view of the spread of the Indo-European languages, that Proto-Indo-European existed in the Pontic Steppe and the Indo-European languages were spread in various directions by populations that can now be identified not just archaeologically but also genetically. This is seen as racist by many Indians, because the popular view in India is that Sanskrit is the perfect, divine language, and all the Indo-European languages descend somehow from Sanskrit speakers leaving India for Central Asia and Europe, and spreading their civilization along the way.

Also, the uninformed layman may assume that any discussion of “Indo-European genes” is a rehabilitation of Aryan-race fantasies from the early 20th century.

Genetic studies have also sparked some disputes among indigenous peoples of the Americas, because group X says it had been there since time immemorial, but genetic findings find that the earliest buried inhabitants are genetically unrelated to the present people.
Yup; I'm a sighted user who uses edbrowse daily. I don't understand why TUI browsers like w3m, lynx, and links2 went mainstream instead of line-mode browsers like edbrowse.

I actually test my sites on edbrowse and w3m before I test in other graphical browsers like Konqueror (Blink and KHTML), Epiphany (Webkit), and Firefox because the latter group is nearly guaranteed to work if the former does too.

If every simple progressively-enhanced non-app website supported edbrowse and NetSurf, maybe the Web wouldn't have ended up becoming this mess.
Why does Jerry get the credit for cartridges? The Magnavox Odessey had cartridges about four years before the Model F.

I could see him getting credit for ROM cartridges - as I understand it the Odessey cartridges changed game play but didn't contain code.
It's $200B on aggregate, so they just need to be worth $33.3B on average. That's more on the level of Adobe than Microsoft.
Many electric cars let you turn on climate control remotely. Do that a few minutes before getting in and you'll enjoy a cool (or warm) car.
There are only two positions on free speech. You are either for, or against it. Twitch has made it clear which one they hold.
> Historically, the Windows Command Prompt and the built-in Terminal.app on macOS were very slow at handling tons of output.

A very old trick I remember on Windows, is to minimize command prompts if a lot of output was expected and would otherwise slow down the process. I don't know if it turned write operations into a no-op, or bypassed some slow GDI functions, but it had an extremely noticeable difference in performance.
What are the incentives for up/down voting?
This sounds completely awesome! How do you get people to hire you for just a month or two though? I assume it's not as simple as the typical job search
That actually is a pretty good argument. I have indeed been playing fast and loose with the terminology; yes, it wasn’t a military coup, but it is still an unprecedented attack on the federal government, a riot.
None of the data you'd need to have policies based on calculated immunity is going to come quickly, if at all.

I don't think it's reasonable to try to run an open economy for those who are likely immune and a parallel economy for those who are unknown. There's no way anyone can verify any of that in a day to day setting.

I would expect that some international borders might reduce quarantine requirements if you can show evidence of probable immunity, but not right away.
Speculation and accusations are distinctly unhelpful.

If you have any evidence of Twitter's motivations, please post it. A leak of the internal e-mail traffic on this decision, if published, would be fascinating.

If not- If you're just asserting as fact your own assumptions about a company whose decision you don't like, then please go troll elsewhere.
Reopening the economy or not is a political choice and doesn't necessarily depend on vaccine effectiveness. The economy in Florida has been pretty much open since September. We can argue about whether that is wise but the reality is they are open today.
TFA:

‘ "We are seeing ... chatter from these white supremacists, from these far-right extremists -- they feel emboldened in this moment," said Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, which tracks and counters hate. "We fully expect that this violence could actually get worse before it gets better."’
Remember China and the USA were in a full bore trade war and despite some mud flinging and half-truths,essentially the global health system was kept informed.

The genome was shared. At least four competitors in global economic terms (China, Russia, the EU and the USA) all developed vaccines.

This is not like pre-hydrogen bomb information hoarding. The techniques behind mRNA are taught worldwide. Most medicines come from India, which was a leading non-aligned economy for years and years.
I implemented a variation on marching cubes for this demo [0] based partially on readings from this author. It mainly handles smoothing of corners so I can still apply textures adequately, not a perfect by-the-book implementation. Very performant in the browser across thousands of vertices. Was very grateful for this work!

(Note: I'm a SaaS company founder, not a game developer, so forgive the rough edges.)

Edit: If you notice lagging, it's actually synchronous Voxel / terrain generation, not the rendering! Never did offload it to a separate thread like I had planned. Built this during the start of the pandemic in a weekend or two.

[0] https://play.sunfall.co/
A brief, related rant:

Why the heck do mobile browsers not implement any sort of full page zoom or viewport resizing? (Perhaps better called "page scaling"; it's what desktop browsers do when you press control-plus/control-minus.)

My choice is either to increase the browser's text scaling and deal with tiny UI elements (e.g., upvote/downvote buttons on HN), or pinch-zoom and pan around. Both are awful.

All the machinery for full-page zoom ("page scaling") is already in the browser! Just let me use it!
this is a slippery slope. not wise imo.
Conflating arbitrary electronic messaging systems and public protest, despite obvious relationships between the two, doesn't seem very relevant or useful to me.

And sure, your second paragraph states a fact. But facts are fairly useless without context, and as David Byrne sang 3 decades ago (and no doubt many others wrote in centuries before that) "facts all come with points of view". A fact by itself is just a fact, and in many contexts (particularly if the fact is an observation about human behavior/society), not very interesting. The interesting part is: what do you plan to do with it?
I understand. I just happen to side with OP on this, from where I'm standing, it looks like a coup attempt. It doesn't look conspiratorial at all. It looks like they're saying "fair elections" but they're meaning "Republican rule".
> Every top math Olympiad participant representing the US is of Chinese ethnicity/descent, this should be noted.

But conversely, if you look at winners of the Fields Medal, Abel Prize, Wolf Prize, Chern Medal etc. There is surprisingly few Chinese recipients despite outnumbering everyone else in total population.
That's just moving from one silo to another though. Users of centralized services don't have much recourse when the company pulls the rug out from under them.
If you live in US, the number has to be probably close to $30/month to match what FB is making out of you
Form a labor union with your co-workers and demand more favorable compensation as a bloc.
> It frustrates me to no end that a group of people say, "The election had no issues" just as it frustrates me when someone says, "The election was stolen."

I think this is a strawman. Can you find me a source of a prominent* Democrat that said that this election had no issues? Most of the time, people who support the election's outcome mean that there was no fraud significant enough to change the outcome, or that this election had less fraud/was more secure than a previous election.

On the other hand, when Trump says the election was stolen [1] (along with some Congressional Republicans), he means that the outcome should have been him winning.

*Prominent being: US Senator, US Representative, Secretary of State, state election official, state governor, DNC leadership.

[1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13469288825958850...
IMO it works just as well and unlike Telegram it's actually credible... The telegram crypto is an absolute disaster and they have been pretty shady and defensive when asked about it in the past. Not to mention the back-end is closed-source. Also, the desktop clients still don't support encryption, many years after it's been first requested.
Did they really do this just as the election was being certified? No one outside of tech will be talking about this for a while...
DC is filled with a violent mob that feels uncomfortable with the truth that Trump lost. They are lashing out because they do not have the emotional fortitude to deal with their hurt feelings.
Thank you for this comment! I would also add something like "System architecture" to your points, because that often affects how things are developed.

I'm curious about the details. How, exactly, do you hammer those points out? One big meeting? Multiple meetings? A week or so "workshop"? How detailed are the answers to, eg. the Design, Documentation, and Architecture questions? Wireframes? Mock-ups? Architecture diagrams? Who do you invite to the planning session(s)? Do you re-evaluate things periodically using the same points? Do you run major new features through the same process, or just slot them into ongoing iterative development?

I'd be very interested in any elaboration you're willing to go into.
The "Dogpatch" proposal he co-wrote/linked suggests some directions he seems to think would be promising: http://us-east.manta.joyent.com/wesolows/public/dogpatch.pdf
Asana's absurdly long load time was one of the main reasons I was glad to stop using it. It's definitely not something I would considered well implemented.
That works until somebody either sets up an antenna close to you and starts being able to gather the same random data as you or worse they transmit on the frequency that you are listening and actively manipulate the random data you are receiving.
For me personally, I would be 1/10th as productive without resources like StackOverflow, nuget, Cocoapods, Ray Wenderlich or open source projects on github. Sure it's fun to come up with my own solutions for everything, but it would cost my company a lot more in time and missed opportunities.

Of course sites like Hacker News and Facebook can suck up some of that productivity, but the alternative is much worse.
What about it is a trap? Do you feel the same way about opnsense?
Alternatively, fire government workers who abuse their power or are incompetent.
> I did a Google search for "php mysql tutorial"

I have no problem acknowledging that the dominant advice in the domain of PHP MySQL tutorials has been to use escaping, and that that's a serious problem.

Clearly, we were thinking about different scopes.
What do you get with the $1.99 upgrade ?
HN isn't just about software/engineering, it's also about entrepreneurship.

Tesla is a startup with cool technology. They're taking on a market where startups never succeed and are navigating significant challenges regarding new technology, consumer bias, competitors, regulatory issues, business model, press relations, and more. Some of us find it fascinating and enlightening to watch them take this journey.

Edit: Reworded.
What I don't understand: If you are detained for several hours, why don't people call a lawyer? Why did he speak to the police (end even the FBI!) without legal counsel?
I agree. There is nothing wrong with them in the sense that it needs to be fixed. And if they fixed a time problem for people who dont enjoy food. Fine.
I still disagree with their approach and i think i have the right to state that without be labled as judgemental.
I do actually have a friend who is the same way. He says he eats just to be not hungry. He couldnt care less about food. I dont like this attitude. But he is still my friend. There is a difference between pointing out a different opinion and being judgemental. Its just a small part of his persona anyway.
I also like the simple but effective Keepa http://keepa.com to compare amazon prices in different countries at the same time.
In Europe for example, Hometheater amps are 50% cheaper in Germany than france, while france is cheaper on something else and UK is cheaper on tools and sometimes projectors (depending of FX rates)
Are we talking about the same kinds of "logic puzzles"?

I'm referring to e.g. stuff in Mensa books.
An adtech company once freaked out over a sudden 4% revenue drop, until someone pointed out that yesterday was 4% shorter than the day before.
Why would hanging upside down for 24 hours kill you (serious question)? Doesn't the heart pump blood with the same efficiency regardless of its orientation?
Around $200/mo a decade ago, now always over $1000/mo.

Also, in 1990 it was ~$140/mo. Inflation was quite gradual from 1990 to 2010, the last 10 years have been brutal.
I don't get it either, personally, but I remember reading around high school (90s) a book called "Boost your Brainpower" or something like that. They mostly recommended lots of visualization (they said the trick is to say out loud what you are seeing to improve) but also had a suggestion to watch multiple televisions at the same time, suggesting it would be helpful in some way or another that I have long since forgotten. I never tried any of those, but hopefully in a decade we'll be reading about "the browser feature that boosts your brainpower" and not "the browser feature that made the amphetamine crisis even worse".
This creates an opening for Israel-Saudi relations. It is like the US is being robbed.
A bit OT: But are any big studious (yet) applying some deep methodology to movie dubbing?
They are already waaaay beyond the maintainability threshold.
Does the UK not have a concept of Fair Use? It would seem to me that quoting an article's headline would fall under that.
I have a cheap prepaid LG dumbphone for similar reasons; it's nice to be not email accessible for at least part of the day.

I also have an iPod Touch, which would solve your instapaper problem.

The only problem I can't solve is maps... obviously you can get maps on the iPod, but only when you have wifi, and if you have wifi you're probably not lost. There's always the separate GPS unit solution; you wouldn't want to carry it around all the time though.
I'm pretty forgetful when it comes time to figure out which files I've modified recently so I'm a big fan of making a timestamp file:

touch -t 201011271200 timestamp

and then finding the files that are newer than that timestamp:

find . -type f -newer timestamp

It's especially helpful since Zend Framework has such an arduous file structure sometimes.
I guess my question is, "what does Katahdin provide that Perl 6 doesn't"

The author with his degree?
What are you talking about? That is nothing like the topic of the article or what the parent comment is talking about.

Many Common Lisp runtimes compile things that you "eval" into native machine code when the eval statement runs. That is what the parent is referring to.

Many other languages have different "phases" of compilation. An example is Perl 5's BEGIN, which is Perl code that runs at compile time. This means you can write Perl to affect the compilation of the Perl program.

(Why would you do this? Here's an example. When loading the module List::Util, you want to be able to use its "first" function as though it was declared in your module. You can do this because List::Util can run some code at compile-time that installs the "first" subroutine into your namespace. Then as compilation (and runtime) continues, you will magically have that "first" subroutine in your namespace, and the program will compile properly.

If there was no ability to run code at compile time, then importing stuff from a module into the caller would have to be a language feature. Making the action of running code at compile time (and installing subroutines at runtime) makes it possible to implement this without help from the language author.)
A NY Times article will make Google love him more. You know, a link bank / mention of URL from a high "PR" site.

Bugger just got away with more of what he was looking for - ranking in Google.
Although in hindsight, I guess that's not really a bash trick, just more of a command line trick...
My wife is disabled. While at the annual group meetup/picnic one of the other disabled people mentioned how she got the dent fixed in her Z4 using her disability money. It's hard but I try not to judge. You never know the circumstances.
If it doesn't work yet on MNIST it's too early to talk about 4K images being processed at 7000/s.
If you are a full or part-time single parent, you are unavailable. Or you might be climbing or hiking in mountains, padding a river...

If you have to be called at 3am (and it's happened to me more than once), the workday is completed when the problem is fixed.

A smart employer does not want you to come in during the normal workday and doing something stupid, or get in an accident driving.
I remember Amazon hiring a lot of systems research people in 05-06. They were very keen on Xen, judging by the people they were hiring. I wonder if they still use Xen post their Citrix acquisition.
For clarity, US sugar tariffs make sugar expensive.
It's definitely news to me that Facebook is owned by "the American left".
It's not just one service, we're seeing Twitter and Facebook and now a mail service too. It's really a large fraction of the services he uses coordinating to shut him out for better or worse.
On the vacuum spectrometer I sometimes have to remind operators to push the DEGAS button.

Whenever they want to appreciate science like a fine art.
I was struck by a thought while reading the article- are the feeds of social media companies actually protected under section 230? My Facebook feed is more than just a simple serving of my friends content, it’s a work in and of itself (like a collection of essays).

It seems like a stretch given that the law states that they can’t be considered the publisher of “information” provided by others, but possible as these sites are the ones engaged in picking content.

The article mentions the roommates.com racial discrimination case. I wonder what a court would do if a site had some black box algorithm that ended up consistently showing a feed of rooms in one zip code to whites and rooms in another zip code to blacks, never overlapping.

Edit-
My point being- it might be possible to hold Facebook/Twitter/YouTube liable for the information in their feeds, particularly that which is surfaced out of order or from people a user isn’t subscribed to. But I’m not lawyer, nor do I play one on TV.
Actually quite an awesome read here.

But also kind of funny that the resource does a great job explaining what 230 is not — while a terrible job of what it is.

At this point, I have no idea what Section 230 is.

I’m not a lawyer and I don’t really care for the details of this. Hell, I barely understand how a bill is actually turned into law.

Though, I do know that the POTUS vs Twitter showdown today has put a bittersweet taste in my mouth.

I hope they pass a new law whatever it is.

I would even bet Jack is too to take the pressure off. He’s extremely measured every time I hear him speak, and I would bet he secretly wants a law explicitly forbidding him from being content cop.
It should also be noted that setting the server token as part of nginx core is part of their commercial offering [1].

[1] http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#serv...