jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Here in London tons of people and places have pay touch readers like this:

https://imgur.com/nNaDddR

I'm talking museums asking for donations. To street performers in the tube. They're everywhere.
It's not the appearance. Load it on a mobile browser and you'll see what everyone is talking about. You wouldn't even have to change the desktop version. Just have a mobile option too. HN's layout is so deadpan simple is would be incredibly easy to build a mobile interface with a modern CSS framework.
I liked the way the content is presented. I had Parallel Computing as one of my elective this semester, and the subject isn't kool any more when you dive into it. Parallel Computing is tough IMHO and it takes some brainstorming to solve even the basic problems like computing prime numbers or sparse matrix multiplication.
Also we use OpenCL, which itself is quite a complicated deal. ( TBB, OpenMP are simpler ). The tutorial makes the basics clear as well as the post have an aesthetic feel to it. All in all - a nice read.
Exploiting Memory Corruptions in Fortran Programs Under Unix/VMS

that is some serious bleeding edge shit right there
$19 is for a license that allows playing with the library, but not publishing the app. A preview license if you will, just to let people see if your stuff is what they actually need.

> If you can buy a well-tested off the shelf solution for this money, why not do that instead?

Sure, but who is to say that it is well-tested? That's exactly what the preview license is for. But all in all, gotta tell you that you have a tough task in front of you. What do you think the size of your target market? I am going to guess that it is quite limited (in fact, you said it yourself), so your best bet here is to try and land a sale to a very large developer or into a massively popular app. In either case you need tiered pricing to fully utilize the opportunity. Think about it. Been there myself a few years ago trying to sell sophisticated networking libraries (that is a much larger niche than yours) and it is tough, really tough.
I have seen contractors (collect data to generate me a quote) and real estate guys (information about the house, neighborhood etc) carrying around iphones and now ipads and putting them to really good use. What other non game examples have people seen?
>Having to pay £5 (or whatever it is now) to hide your personal information on your domain is truly evil.

Eh, when the domain name system was set up, it was designed with businesses and academics in mind. People who don't expect or want to be anonymous. The idea was that individuals would get services through a provider's domain, so the whole system assumes less privacy than one would expect out of a product one uses to run one's own email.

Really, I would personally be happy to give my customers a discount if they were willing to post contact info publicly. I mean, I wouldn't force the issue, because I know a lot of my customers really do want privacy, but my costs for hosting someone who says "hey, this is who I am, send abuse complaints to me" through rwhois on the IP or the like, and who handles those complaints without my help are lower than my costs otherwise.

I mean, I certainly understand and think it's okay that some people want to be anonymous, but you need to understand that you put yourself in a more expensive group by wanting that anonymity.

Now, is that 5 pounds per customer worth of 'more expensive' for a domain registrar? probably not. Abuse expenses are a little like insurance... 99% of your customers won't get any complaints, or the complaints they get will be resolved painlessly, but a few will be quite painful and eat a lot of time and money. (unless you take the 'kick off everyone who complains' approach.)

I haven't implemented such a 'discount for using your own realname and your own abuse contact' yet, in part because I'm afraid customers will see it as anti-privacy, so I'm still feeling out the idea, I'm just saying, there is an economic justification for it.
It’s a by-product of the projection Google Maps uses.

Try “congo” and then “greenland” (and then never trust maps again :).

This is actually another good reason to use a tool like this. Projections distort.
That's not what RESTful means. What your URLs look like has absolutely nothing to do with REST -- the whole point is that it treats URLs as opaque references to other similarly hypertextual resources.
Here's the emailer's original blog post that includes the audio from the Executive Response Team member's message:

http://attepicfail.tumblr.com/

You'll also find a link to Stephenson's contact info at the bottom (just in case you're inclined to drop him a line)!
>Do you consider death better than prostitution?

Strawman, though I suspect you don't even realize it. If you find a woman and her family starving your moral obligation is to provide her help: A legitimate, non-exploitative means of providing for herself, provide for her directly with reasonable or no strings attached or put her in contact with someone who can do one of those things.

What you suggest is cut and dry exploitation and it's troubling that you find it not only acceptable, but positive!

>Starvation is a bad situation, but unfortunately you have no one to blame.

Why are you searching for someone to blame? There is no way to know how the person got in this situation, and even if it is their own fault, we all make mistakes. But the person who exploits her situation is clearly in the wrong.

>No one has harmed anyone else.

You don't seem to comprehend the concept of exploitation.
Consider this from her point of view. Here's a girl, that has never worked in "the real world", and has no idea what the costs of living and consequences of this debt will be. Technically she's not old enough to go to a bar, but she should be allowed to accrue a six-figure debt? Consider if this was any other industry. If you bought a product at a store that the retailer knew would break the second you took it home, or say a home from an owner that knows that the foundation is unstable, then there would be ways for the purchaser to invalidate the purchase. That's because in any transaction, the purchaser has the right to full disclosure of the product, so that they can make the decision to purchase with the full knowledge of the consequences. However, in the education field, there's a certain level of deceit that both the universities and lenders are complicit in: they know that they are charging excessively for a degree, based on the salary the student could expect to get with that degree.
If I were an AT&T shareholder I'd be somewhat concerned to have a CEO who thought "hiring someone make legal threats" was a better use of company funds than just filtering the guy out as spam.
But Palm wasn't a smartphone company, either.

Wasn't Treo the first device that could really be called a smartphone?
This might be useful in a country where the government censors certain topics.
Inventory weight limits add grind due to having to manually shuttle items around instead

Also there is just nothing fun about inventory management IMHO.

In Skyrim I always did a player.modav carryweight 10000 and things became SO much more fun.
I like to write really basic little games to kill time. Stuck on a flight? Clone tetris or minesweeper or whatever. And of course I use D.

Well, I wrote a version of my support library for those games for webassembly too and you can play some of them online!

http://webassembly.arsdnet.net/

None of them are "finished" per se, I'd be on a strict time limit and just left it where it landed when I ran out, some not even really working, but there's some little playable chunks there. Tends to be 60KB or so of webasm, really not too bad (no need for the emscripten bloat etc since I did it all myself)

It amuses me to compile the same program for Windows, Linux, and the browser without modification.

(that's all I personally use webassembly for though, since I'm not a fan of SPAs...)
so far everything (trial, videos, etc.) that you are selling is behind sharing something of a PII.

Why? I just want to try the shoes on before buying.
Yeah, by that logic any car that came with a tape deck had "future aux cord capability": https://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/312120241135-0-1/s-l1000.jpg
You think there is a moral equivalence to the CCP and Nazis? This is China you are talking about... the country that has shown no military aggression outside its borders.
This is great! All languages should provide an idioms page on their website.
How funny - it got me through the same course but barely 2-3 years ago.
Clever! It depends probably on the tech you are most comfortable with. I would probably copy to vscode and then use search & replace with regex there, or use multiline edit.
Sounds like madness. Should we expect a new tool that orchestrates all of your Kubernetes clusters?
There's a big difference. Having to find an exchange and hook everything up to my bank account is a hassle (especially when I have no need to do it). Sending BTC to somebody using an Android app isn't and is something I have done frequently (e.g. donating BTC to parties who have helped me or offer something I enjoy).

I don't want a world where I have to transfer the BTC to USD to use it, I want a world where I can just use it. MasterCard acting an an intermediary is fine with me, somebody has to bootstrap this.
>one of those things that C is renowned and notorious for: something that is useful at times but unpredictable because it is flirting with undefined behavior.

This describes all the stuff that makes C useful.
> What's he suggesting?

The fact that it is ambiguous leaves room for it to mean whatever the controlling party wants it to mean. As long as people can't agree on something as fundamental as the goal, it's doomed to fail.

> Give women discounted internet?

Somehow I don't think he was suggesting a "pink tax" or some kind of "ladies internet" that filters some explicit pictures. I think "inclusive" roughly translates as favorable in sentences like these.

Surely the fact that the internet is the exact same price for everybody, regardless of group characteristics, is the ultimate goal? I don't think it is sensible to begin adding bias where there currently is none.
It seems we've beat the webserver serving this blog with one hug from HN.
it's ridiculous. i only realize it when i install pihole and microsoft is there at #1 tracking domain
Being sponsored would likely conflict with his real objective which is to get tenure. Someone could forget and perhaps be sponsored; I imagine that might happen down the road when the author becomes too busy to keep it running himself.
There’s more to it than that. It’s also that our marketing team can understand and work with Wordpress. Static site generators are still the domain of “developer websites”

Taking 5 minutes to build frankly is more a reason our developers give in and say “meh whatever the marketing team wants, just point me at a place to blog”.
> and yet their active Mac user base did not grown anywhere according to that number.

Source for that?
I've definitely experienced a case (I think on hotels.com) where I was using two different computers to look for the same room, and they both displayed consistently different prices. I think on the more expensive one I was already logged into my account, so that may have made the difference.
That's a good thing. It forces the police to actually do their homework rather than invade people's privacy whenever they want.
Facebook will let you broadcast lies in secret (ie targeted at specific small groups so you and I don't know what lies are being told) just so long as you pay facebook to propagate those lies. Nazi party propaganda targeted at those showing mental health problems, sure, just pay facebook and they'll do that for you. They've said so.

I really think this is the right way to think about what facebook are and what they do.
I recently bought an ultra-minimalist ergo keyboard that is designed to minimize hand movement, and that seems to be how it is working out for me, too. Keeping my hands in one place all the time is actually more tiring, and all the extra chording I have to do on a keyboard with so few keys is increasing the number of weird positions I put my hands into.

I'm hoping that that it's just that I'm using different muscles, and I need to get used to it. But I'm also becoming increasingly prepared to face the possibility that this keyboard is harder on my hands, because it takes work away from my elbows and shoulders, and gives it to my wrists and fingers.
One thing to remember the buyers realtor gets 3% of that fee.

There a flat fee listing services. and they offer photos etc.

The other thing is to find out what they are going to do for the 6%. beyond put it on MLS. advertise it on social media? create sales packets? mail postcards? email it to other real estate agents they know? open houses? get professional photos? help with staging? help with pricing?
I am completely behind the idea and would work full time on it (if I had my time for myself) but all such documents or sites are all talk and no code and it's getting tiring.

I get that they want to inspire, to show data backing up the idea that people are open to that software model, and in general to give hope and inform but... I am getting way too cynical and I can't help but wonder if actually writing a tool that builds the foundations of such a movement wouldn't have been a time better spent?

I mean, at what point will somebody do something about it? And does it have to be your average overworked programmer who is sacrificing their scarce free time? When will one of these organizations that periodically toot their own horn about much they care, will hire several hardcore programmers to do something?
I recently "quit" Twitter myself. I say "quit" because if you actually delete/remove/whatever your account, your handle may then become available for others to use. To avoid that, I used a combo of scripts/services to remove all of my Twitter data (tweets, likes, follows, etc.) and scrubbed my bio, profile pics, etc. I also set a reminder to log in every 6 months to avoid being purged and have my handle become available that way.

I'm using https://fraidyc.at/ in Firefox to follow any Twitter accounts I still care about and it works great, even better than Twitter honestly as all tweets are now chronological and I can segment accounts based on how often I care to view their updates, tag them to organize them, etc. Next, I need to move all my YouTube subscriptions to Fraidycat or similar, but, other than that, I'm done with modern social media (deleted Facebook in 2016). YMMV, but the less I use modern social media the more my quality of life and mental well-being have improved.

I say "modern" since social media has really been around since email and it's really only the more recent incarnations that have gotten so toxic. Communities like HN and some sub-Reddits are actually still quite enjoyable.
Trading volume of "Other Crypto Assets" (non-BTC/ETH/LTC) made up 44% of revenue in 2020, which they attribute to DeFi crypto assets. I wonder how 13% of their assets drives 44% of their revenue? The section on Applications talks about DeFi as peer-to-peer financial agreements, which implies there's some underlying economic activity going on, as opposed to just speculation, but I haven't been able to find anything else that digs deeper into that piece.
Binance did something like this with BNB.
Not treating people differently based on their beliefs sounds like someone with leanings on either side, rather than extremists on either side.
#31 by population is not “tiny”. It has more population than California.
> a trackball mouse ended up working great (I didn't like using the trackpad, since switching from the keyboard to trackpad on a laptop is fairly uncomfortable

Switching from the keyboard to something an inch away is uncomfortable for you, but switching from the keyboard to something a foot away is not? I don't get it.
My point was, those high end machines that compete with mac laptops already exist. XPS, HP Spectre, Surface laptop, higher end ThinkPads and ZenBooks, Razer Blade Stealth and Pro...

As for S76 systems, you can't really compare a $2000+ Macbook with a $1000 System76/Clevo ODM with the same criteria. They're just perfectly fine machines for what they cost.
Kindle version: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XKDHDXT/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&key...

I also sell the epub directly on gumroad bundled with the PDF
https://gum.co/everydaydata
Yeah, it feels like Intel is sort of in the Pentium 4 days again, but without the Core microarchitecture sitting in the wings, and way more well funded competition - not just AMD.

It's hard to see what they can do. AMD is winning on every measure I can see on x86, and M1/Ampere feel like a huge curveball thrown at them. I don't even think they could switch to using TSMC fabs to help them shrink the process size as all the capacity is booked up for years (especially by Apple).

I think also the dynamics have changed in the server market in the last 10 years or so. You now have a much more condensed market with this big cloud operators buying millions of CPUs and having much more leverage over them before.

I would be surpised if by the end of the 2020s if ARM wasn't standard in nearly all server workloads. Most software can run on it unmodified now - databases all work great on ARM, and most applications are interpreted or run on a VM, so it is pretty easy to move to.
Might be a bit too redundant and wordy for HN audience, but I think it offers some good insights.
uk.news.yc is the name. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6677098162
Zero/near-zero dependencies, minimal configuration, portable, and trivial to run. Awesome.

Even if Redbean here doesn't end up taking over the world, I hope that more ecosystems and toolchains sit up and take notice. We need more tools that look like this.
My mistake here actually. They still need to go through FCC testing but they can enable already deployed devices through SW/FW updates.
Will the user be able to replace custom BIOS, that is a killer feature no notebook or laptop offers ?
> I don't see Congress giving a blank check to scientists and engineers, like China does.

What are you on about? Have you seen the defense budget in the us? It’s massive by any metric you look at. A huge chunk of that is pure R&D.
The point of Bitcoin now is not really payments. But it is a store of value. In that case, 30$ is not much for ability to send it anywhere in the world within minutes and store it for free as long as you want. Compare that with gold, or any other asset.

People supporting Bitcoin "Cash" are of the view that Bitcoin should be used for everyday transactions. They are really minority.
Curious about what your NixOS setup is like, do you currently use flakes and home manager?
This is really cool. What does 1.5mm keyboard mean ? Does it mean 15mm, because 1.5 mm is too small to feel at the fingers.
And to do anything non-trivial requires years of tediously building up a knowledge of all the abstraction layers and dependencies between you and the machine. For a long time there is nothing you can do that a million others haven't already done far better and made readily accessible.

I can personally attest to what a massive turn off this is. I grew up in an age when computers were a part of everyday life, but their inner workings - hidden behind a mountain of ugly obfuscation. If you find the rare trivial task like making stamped websites fascinating, good for you. But for people like me who couldn't care less, it takes some sort of external impetus to actually discover their interest in computing. In my case it was a half assed mandatory programming class in engineering school where I found out I had a talent for it, and discovered an interest in the inner workings of things I had been taking for granted all my life.

Just because resources are easy to find doesn't mean anybody cares for finding them.
>The problem is that stateful connections suck and create artificial complexity when you don’t need them. Instead of managing the state of your app you’re now managing the state of your app and a connection to a remote server. HTTP is a stateless protocol on top of a stateful socket connection. It wasn’t designed this way by accident.

Then again, it wasn't designed this way to build applications with, either. It was designed to serve documents (the HT in HTTP).
> They're essentially a public utility.

No, they're a website owned by a private company.

If you want there to be a public utility that provides the same service Twitch does, write to your representatives.
> Is there any solution other than total anonymity, keeping one's online and IRL personae hermetically sealed off from one another?

In my mind there really isn't. Or at least having a single platform that you are the "real you" that is completely whitewashed of anything other than harmless platitudes (see how most CEOs present themselves online for an example of this). (Oh and make it impossible to use that account from your cell phone so you're unable to use it when drunk or otherwise inebriated.)

Then you can have a bunch of different accounts online that use other names.
Can't believe Yunohost isn't more cited in this thread. I had to setup a whole productivity suite a few weeks ago, it took me less than 2 hours with everything right.

I am particularly impressed by the easiness of the update process.
> The problem is that React might not exist over a couple of years.

I agree with you in principle, but I think I disagree in details. Programming using standard web apis certainly feels more future-proof, and all the power to those who have adopted web components. But React doesn't look like it's going away within the next decade. And even if Facebook somehow implodes, and no other company steps up to support the work of the React core team, React's api has been copied by Preact, which has Google's backing; and JSX has spread even wider. Importantly, React in itself is larger than DOM — it is a reconciler that can be used for canvas/webgl (react-three-fiber), for mobile applications (react-native) and windows applications (react-native-windows). So there is a good indication that React will be with us for a while.

But again, I completely agree that many projects that get started with React don't need to have been.

> I program for decades.

Two decades ago, Perl was a good choice :-) And look where it is now.

We are lucky with the rigorous backwards compatibility of HTML, CSS and javascript. But planning for decades may be a bit of an extreme. I wouldn't like to inherit a frontend project that was written two decades ago and hasn't changed since then.
Senior mainframe programmers seem to get paid less than entry level java/SQL programmers where I work at.