jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Are there less support calls per capita for Mac & Linux users because the *nix users are more tech savvy? For example, I'd expect developers who manage their own machines to ask for help less often.
I want to implement something like viewtext.org on my own server (not using an API). I recall somebody mentioning a package that did a pretty good job of cleaning up a web page but can't find it. Can anybody recommend anything?
> To most people there has been no dramatic shift in software quality from Apple. [...] Apple still ranks very highly in customer satisfaction.

Source?
Graphic and GUI designers like to get antsy with Google because Google refuses to hire them.
There is so much distrust for Microsoft, that I think even if they did throw their weight behind Mono they would get very little mind share. I think that the Java replacement will come out of the open source movement. I do not know who it will be or even if it is existing as of yet, but I think that Java will serve as an example to people when selecting the next big language.

There are a lot of interesting languages, unfortunately some of them require the JVM to operate, which binds them to the same restrictions as Java. There are the scripting languages such as Python and node.JS, which while interesting, have a tough road to battle for mind share due to the fact that they are scripting languages. I personally have no issue with scripting languages, but others do and so it will serve as a scarlet letter for those languages being the one.

There are others like Google's go that are open source and available. I do not know if a language such as go will become a dominant language in the foreseeable future, but do believe that it will be a language with similar licensing options and similar freedoms due to what has happened in the Java market.
Lately I've been finding there is no amount of sleep that makes me feel rested.

Really I prefer the brown or yellow-green phosphors of IBM PC and DEC VT* terminal screens.
Anyone else feel like there is a lot of esoteric information here? For instance:

> Are there any problems with serving pages as application/xhtml+xml?

I've never had to or considered serving pages as application/xhtml+xml, there's no reason for me to know the answer to this question and I've been working on the front end for ages. If I ever had reason to serve a page application/xhtml+xml I would thoroughly research it. Although I would say the JS questions look decent.
> All the respect in the world for someone who wants to stride out into the wilderness and build a hobbit hole with their own two hands.

Okaaay ... not where I was going. I suppose you can do that.

You can also build yourself an office in your backyard, which is what I'm going to do in a few months. Won't save me any money, but I expect it to be fun.

I feel sorry for those who can only think in dollars and cents. Not everything is about maximizing utility. You're allowed to have fun. You can even have fun improving one's financial situation.
Lots of popular novel writers use formulaic writing, applying the same recipes again and again, and that seems to please their readers. Pretty much all Agatha Christie novels share the same basic plots (one character is killed, sleuth asks questions to everyone, finally everybody is in the same room of a castle / manor and sleuth gives the answer), with the same stock characters (rich people), for instance, and she is one of the biggest book sellers ever.
Telegram apps are open source, I wonder if it would be simple to make it work with matrix's protocol.
A sieged Senate just doesn't fall into 'stuff happens'. The last it happened was by the hands and torches of British troops during wartime.
I do think you're leaving out a lot of contaxt when claiming that simply posting as a right-leaning individual in a non-political subreddit will somehow get you banned. Unless you're directly attacking others or posting really hateful stuff, getting banned will first involve some kind of escalation and very often also one or more moderators asking to tone it down or disengage. If you decide to stick to your guns at that point instead of taking a break, that's when forced timeouts and bans start to happen.

As an example of you probably leaving out a lot of context, you used the phrasing "wrongthink ban", which almost always goes hand-in-hand with (false) claims of being censored.

You also wrote that engaging in political discussion from a right-leaning viewpoint in non-political subreddits "carries a decent risk of getting some sort of wrongthink ban".

Dragging politics into spaces where they're not welcome is a bad idea, and will quite rightly upset the people in those spaces. It's their space and they get to choose what is welcome in it. Someone trying to forcibly insert themselves or their viewpoints into other people's space, when they are not welcome, is bound to create friction and anger.

Reddit doesn't promise that anyone has any right to participate in whichever subreddit they want to. That is up to the users and moderators of any given subreddit, no matter how arbitrary their rules may seem. You are free to find other subreddits to participate in. If your politics or general attitude is generally so that you find yourself unwelcome in most subreddits, that should be an indicator to perhaps be a little more diplomatic yourself, honestly. Or just disengage from Reddit entirely, you'll be fine without it.

Being of the belief that you should be welcome in all spaces and greeted on friendly terms by everyone is a really privileged position to hold. Not everyone is welcome everywhere.
If you think it looks interesting, you should have a look at Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). Looks familiar? It should be, as it is the new name of Perl 6. It now also comes with an IDE (https://commaide.com) if you're so inclined :-)
Yes, that's how I understand it to work; TEE (Trusted Execution Environment).
Gimme a call when the left attempts to overthrow the legitimate government of the United States of America with force. Until then, don’t presume to know how I feel.
If you have any interest in open source development (which these days we all should given that 95% of the lower parts of our stack are open source projects) it's well worth reading the essay/book.

If you don't want to do that, at least read the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
One consideration here is that lack of consequences enables escalation - if it turns out that this disruption is not prosecuted and punished, then (as their core reasons for doing so have not changed) they are going to be emboldened and repeat similar acts with more force.

Breaking the loop requires a deterrent, not only verbal "we will not stand for this".
Hello! I work on this project.

Don't worry, the breathing system does not rely on the Rasberry at all.

We use an electronic board that was made on purpose by a Medical company and relies on STM32 hardware.

This board sends telemetry to the Rasberry PI and we have a Rust based interface that shows charts and some controls.

If the Raspberry fails, the Firmware still run fine, and you can still change the settings on the machine using physical buttons and a LCD screen that is directly connected to the firmware
That is unfortunately most likely true. Stalin is a case in point.
This is an extremely basic and superficial comparison, why is it being upvoted
There’s more truth to this statement than I am comfortable with.
Competitors are not disadvantaged by Microsoft adding privacy-friendly features to Edge. Google would be capable of transitioning to a business model that respects people's privacy. If they would want to, they could flourish under such model.
A programmer becomes good after they have gone through at least 3 to 4 projects. Straight out of the university, they would have the potential to be become one.
> Google will still show original URLs when I hover over their links, but when I COPY them, I don't get the URL, but some redirect link through Google.

Google is doing that for a very long time. I use this extension to get rid of it:

https://palant.de/2011/11/28/google-yandex-search-link-fix/
it's nitpicking... i just saw "A History of APL in 50 Functions" (the original title) changed to "A History of APL in Fifty Functions".

HN's hive-mind at work. social platforms need to rotate mods imo.
No, warrants authorize searches/seizures.

I'm not agreeing with the practice, I just explained it, how pieces of evidence (and testimony) can legally establish that there's evidence that the defendant has ways to produce.
Yeah for sure, we just finished a PS4 game at work so have the SDK but we weren’t using pmfx until we now moved onto a new project.

Has been a while since I directly used PSSL but remember it being very similar to HLSL so it should be quite straight forward..
This is what I don't understand... why didn't we run several parallel studies for different dosages and time frames? I highly doubt there was a shortage in the pool of people willing to sacrifice themselves.
Describing non-alienation as “feeling good” (as another commenter did) or “not feeling weird” is a great way to pathologize my observation of how weird it is to work a six-figure, ad/surveillance-optimizing job at Google in order for there to be more malaria nets in Africa. Trust me: I don’t believe that EA is sound in any way (or “effective”, if you like), but in this thread I chose to focus on just one aspect of it, indeed its most bizarre feature, which apparently isn’t bizarre at all to all of the Soylent-drinking life-optimizers out there, so my point has been like, as they say, seeds on barren ground.
Some, but not all, universities do have institutional repositories for their own work. But they are at best inconsistently used. Some academics also (when allowed by the licensing agreement of the journal) put their own research on a personal/lab website. But again, this is inconsistent, and really relies on secondary solutions like Google Scholar to be usable (unless you already know exactly which paper you're looking for and navigate directly to the author's website).

The bottom line is that in most cases, academics rely on journals even for access to research from other folks in their own university. Things get passed around informally. And there are changing trends, such as preprint archives (like ArXiv), in some fields. But the majority of research is still paywalled.

Edit: To return to your point, yes, I was sort of discussing some Platonic ideal of "The Taxpayer". Obviously, if you live in the US, your taxes don't pay for research in Europe (only for universities' access to that research). And we could be talking about federal taxes for federal grants, but state taxes for state-run schools. But in general, the point is that the journals make exorbitant profits from labour paid with public funds.
There was some programming language akin to PovRay (not to raytrace) in order to describe the scene with commands like "place a solid here" and so on.

I can't remember its name.

EDIT:

https://www.contextfreeart.org/
What we need is a new 'SAT' tailored to find top notch coders
Well, there is a vim mode for emacs.
This is true. I watch that show and laugh my ass off because so much of it is true. I hope it never ends.
He's not espousing having a rigid plan. The way I read it, it's about putting major goals ("launched X") and doing something along those lines.

The downside of not having a plan is that it's easy to just do what life presents you, instead of thinking about how you can take steps forward in your career.
It is not zero-sum ? companies like Google, Facebook pick 1 out of 100 programmers, if there was 10 fold increase in programmers, they would start picking 1 out of 1000. Instead of complaining shortage of programmer it makes sense to build software development processes around "average" programmers rather than insisting on superstar programmers. How many other fields do that ? Have you read an ad about hiring only superstar plumber,pilot,electrician,nurse? Even if its true that your company will benefit from so called 10x programmers why not train people to be 10x or give degrees to people who are only 10x. Just increasing the pool of 1x while insisting on hiring 10x doesn't make sense.
No. I dropped out of school at 15.
enums and structs are value types (and Result is an enum) so I think that you could just return self for the error case (gaining cleanliness and a little efficiency).

Objects (of classes) are reference types so if Result was a class there would be a difference between returning self and returning a new Result.
Never noticed the logo, elegantly regular and cryptic.
Yes, it does help. You have set me on the right track and I will now look into the Ember.Resolver. Thank you.
Distributed; knowledge reusable in Akka.JVM.
The congress members are part of the problem, as he's gone over. They approved the illegal problems and were looking to bury public mention once they figured out all the scope of the programs since they were implicated and didn't want blowback during their own elections.

You keep saying you "don't like fleeing", but you haven't provided an alternative that would both provide real change and not have him being threatened with the prospect of a firing squad.
People remember HIPAA poorly? Ive worked very closly in the industry, and I think it was a net positive. It could have been better, but it sure beat what was there.
> he also seemed unwilling to push at all, just said "okay!" in a sing-song voice that implied "yeah whatever, go die"

Is the idea here that you wanted the interviewer to beg you to stay on the call?

I interview for a BigCo. Most of us do it not because we love interviewing but because 1) It's a way to check the "citizenship" box on performance reviews. 2) A director or VP sent a mass email exhorting us to join the interviewer pool. Everyone I know in fact views interviewing as a chore that takes away from one's day job. But, there's standardized training and emphasis on objective tests and rubrics to minimize bias. Given this assembly line process and the fact that most interviewers want to be elsewhere, there's very little reason to expect a random interviewer to want to sell you on continuing a process that you consider yourself above.

If a candidate proclaimed that they didn't agree to the terms of one of my interviews midway through, I'd certainly exchange a few words with them to try to make them more comfortable, but in the end I would by fine with bidding them farewell and being glad that writing up that interview feedback would be easy.
He looks like a Dick Tracy villain
Per core I think, emphasis is mine.

> It looks like a single core has about 28 levels of memory parallelism, and possibly more.
But again, these are not job interviews, they're professional licensing requirement imposed by the government, not by employers. And I don't think Facebook requires its engineers to re-interview for their own jobs every x number of years, so that's disanalogous too.

Ironically, the last thing that Facebook engineers want is for the government to regulate them. Just wait until they face the professional ethics boards. ;-) When has a programmer ever been kicked out of the industry for unethical behavior? More likely, they get promoted.
Sometimes it's just more pleasant to focus on the work, even if it's boring and we are doing it for someone else. We have to spend the time anyway, we could spend it by being alert, or distracted and drifting off. Being alert feels good and there is some satisfaction from the work being done. Being distracted is mentally draining.
Also, it's not only the stake holder that is profiting from the work, it's society as a whole - we all depend on this work.
That may be the result of inlining clock_gettime, though that would imply a pretty different implementation from the one I am familiar with.

AFAIR on x86 a locked rdtsc is ~20 cycles. So to answer the gp question, it has around a precision in the few nanoseconds range. Accuracy is a different question, IE compare numbers from the same die, but be a little more suspicious across dies.

No clue how this is implemented on the M1, or if the M1 has the same modern tsc guarantees that x86 has grown over the last few generations of chips.
I disagree. Google gained popularity not just for search results, but because their clean search page was a breath of fresh air compared to the busy portal sites of the day. Gmail became popular because its UI was so much more refined than the other email sites of the day. Likewise for Google Calendar.

I think they've taken people's attention seriously from day one.
Speaking of streaming servers, does anyone have experience with erlyvideo in production?

http://erlyvideo.org

I have it up and running on my mac - the web UI could use some love though.
http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/y2k_humor/Cobol.html
"You say funny things", "Stop this nonsense", "some breaking news for you" -> Not needed to prove your point.

I never said that C++ was not useful, neither that it was not a good programming language or not in use today. In fact, of all the offers I receive, half of them are in C++. And I don't think everyone writes web applications.

I said that I was wrong thinking that I would become a better programming by reading those books. I would become a more technical C++ programmer, but not a better programmer. By learning other languages, helping other communities and understanding their philosophies, I get a different perspective on C++. It's like trying to understand the humanity by sticking in your city instead of traveling around the world.

So, I understand now why Meyers suggest using Fonctor and High-Level STL functions instead of for-loops. I understand that Andrei Alexandrescu, in Modern C++ Design, based its TMP on Lisp cons principles. I understand the advantage - and disadvantage - of compiling.

Do you use raz0r (4 karma for 500+ days?!) when you are frustrated and want to bash on something?
I don't get it. I don't have any idea what it is! I somehow started off with Andy Warhol, then somehow ended up with a cure video and finished off being linked out to a posterous page.

This is about as useful to me as randomizing the internets.
Not sure if it is a factor but Wowza has supported HTTP Live Streaming for a while, maybe they've been eating at a bit of Flash Media Server's market share.
When you did the restore, was all saved data from every app also restored? For example, progress on Angry Birds?

http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/2432/how-to-backu...
"Bnter was so star-struck by Spark, the company hadn’t widely pitched itself to other investors, but told the ones that it had talked to it’d be going with Spark"

Two things,

1.) I never heard of anyone getting star-struck by investors, but If you do get "star-struck" by investors you'll have a hard time getting their money.

2.)Another lesson: If you can bootstrap than bootstrap. You're better off thinking about how you're going to monetize your business. If you don't understand this please read getting real and rework by 37signals.
Grocery costs don't vary nearly as much regionally as housing, and also are not as significant a percentage of household budget, so that makes sense.

Personally I find grocery shopping quite affordable, as I'm sure do most in the HN demographic. However the rate of people experiencing food insecurity in the US was around 12% prior to the pandemic, which shows that grocery costs are a serious concern for many. People in that group, which has expanded this year, do not have the option to increase their grocery budget in proportion to price inflation.
I believe the term is called "debate". You're just assuming the question is rhetorical, but I don't think that's true.
these have all added to the distrust in 'science' among the general public, especially when new theories are being floated.
Most of the folks who work in web tech, electrical engineering, or people who classify themselves as biohackers cannot explain how lipotoxicity works or casomorphins.

Look at cheese/capita production and consumption capacities and graph that against aggregate insulin sensitivity averages.
I know. That's the tragedy if internet economics. It's incredibly natural and intuitive and wrong.
> Then acceptance (and awe) - “Excel is UI, a DB, and business logic all wrapped in 1 thing that everyone already knows how to use.”

We had a programming language that matched that description ...

Visual Basic 6 -- and Microsoft killed it because it wasn't making them enough money.
Even with UDP it's still not hard.

Sure getting it right might be hard, but getting it somehow good enough to not be obviously bad is much less so.

Not only are there thinks like DTLS, in the worst case you could just "ship" a AES key when you login over TCP/TLS and then you encrypt any udp message with that key or something like that. Sure there are many ways you can get it wrong but it's easy to setup and better then plaintext.
You can't just put it into the market. There are two sides to every transaction. You give money, they give stock, they get money, you get stock.

When more money enters the economy than stuff is created, the price that the person willing to sell/price you are willing to buy that stock for goes up.
I think it is an emergent property too but it turns out that philosophers use of the word emergent is not the same as other scientists use of the word. Philosophers use emergent to mean irreducible which isn't very useful.
My favorite part of this article (and in general discussions about SF) is that asking the homeless to move to Oakland is considered so inhumane it's unmentionable.
Hangouts is pretty good. Now it doesn't require you to have Google+ account, and (unlike Whatsapp) you don't _need_ to use a phone number that's tied to a telco, and it handles multiple accounts pretty well.
The initial scandal was that Nathan Grayson had been friends with the relatively unknown developer of Depression Quest for a long time, to the point of getting thanked in the credits of the game. He then plugged it, here:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/08/admission-quest-v...

And also covered her here:

http://tmi.kotaku.com/the-indie-game-reality-tv-show-that-we...

...without disclosing the relationship. Which could have been resolved with a simple apology and adding disclosure to the articles, but several major game sites instead responded with such a storm of ridiculous charges that game journalism was instantly sullied even more than it already was.

Because of this, GamerGate has been poorly covered in most game sites and rags like TechCrunch, so it's not surprising that you hadn't heard of this.
That said, Im amazed at the volume of seemingly smart people that choose to implement that steaming pile of poo.
I'm sure that someone now has his mobile phone number they are able to track his movements via SS7.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ0I5tl0YLY
Is there a name for that, where whatever the limit is, people set things right at it? The same is true in progressive tax brackets, and the number of cancer cases that people get right when people are eligible for Medicare in the USA.

Seems like it is common enough to have a name.
Noticed that LastPass is featured in the newly released Opera 11, as an example of an extension that can be installed. That's a pretty powerful vote as well!
"Governments shouldn't have a monopoly on governance."

Isn't governance what governments are for? Granted, governments are dysfunctional in many ways, but suggesting governments let others govern seems a bit silly. Who else is going to govern? Should we let corporations sit on committees, next to officials, forgetting that officials were elected, and corporations were not?

There is no guarantee that companies are going to take care of our interests better than governments do. And let's not forget that governments are dysfunctional largely because of the influence that corporations themselves already exert on them.
Big Rand fan? I love it. :)