jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Do the UDID limitations still exist? I'd say the Enterprise license would be a workaround, but pretty sure that Apple would revoke it as an abuse of terms.
... also a race against time. You can only capture and hold people's attention by doing the same thing for so long. They will need to continuously evolve their product to attract new users and also keep existing ones. Twitter's valuation is based on their unrealized potential, not because they're a cash cow. Without funds to ensure continued, rapid growth, they'll never realize it.
What was won? The goals he set are achieved.

Now, you may question whether he set the right goals, but that is a different question.
I wish I could say this to each and every Facebook app developer.
> Rely on the old mantra: If you think of it as a separate idea or object, represent it directly in the program; model real-world objects, and abstractions directly in code.

I think this is terrible advice. Thinking of object-oriented programming as "world modeling" leads to complicated designs that came from someone's pointless ontological analysis rather than practical considerations of what will make the best, easiest-to-understand program.

A simple example of this is the OO conundrum: should square derive from rectangle? After all a square is-a rectangle. If we're world-modeling, then the inheritance relationship is a beautiful and consistent expression of this platonic idea that a square is a special kind of rectangle.

But in practice, this inheritance relationship has lots of problems.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1030521/is-deriving-squar...

And what was it really buying you to begin with? Pretty much nothing.
Also, Enu: "A Logo-like DSL for Godot, implemented in Nim"

https://github.com/dsrw/enu
Specifically, the traffic was directed to two pages on GitHub... the other linked to a copy of the New York Times’ Chinese language website... A spokeswoman for the New York Times declined to comment. It isn’t clear who controls the GitHub site that contains the copy of the paper’s content.

[EDIT: Apparently this is a copy.] Notwithstanding the actions of some in China, reposting newspapers doesn't seem like a service GitHub really wants to provide. Would anyone complain if GH were to pull this content?

Incidentally, TFA was quite informative; good job WSJ!
They took over $100M in investment and have dozens of employees. So in that way, no $80M is not big.
Did you watch the same video I watched?

They practically had the thing hovering on the barge. All that failed was the angle!
These airframes will be around for decades. They’ll be retrofit to remove human crew when that becomes a viable option.
Hossenfelder is not that much of an outsider, she publishes respectable papers and is supported by many physicists, and she agrees with essentially every part of the present consensus.
Russia, China, India, Pakistan, and several other countries all have 5th gen/stealth fighters under development. Most at least look to have been heavily “inspired” by the F-35/F-22. These new fighters are all quite costly for their respective countries. It’s basically the international military version of “keeping up with the Joneses”.
steam engines were replaced by oil, and then, the rulebook was rewritten when jets were invented. That was 80 years ago. Jets are old. We need to minimise the moving parts. To do so we need to increase the density of stored energy so more can be used. The answer is atoms. Not old fashioned uranium atoms, but fresh, new fusion reactors. They shall create not heat, but clean electricity. It is long overdue. Even professor calculus knew that the best way to get tintin to the moon was by using nuclear energy. We need to reinvent the plane, not make a better version.
With the need of having a preview in the another window it's already not distraction free in my book.

edit: below people mentioned Typora - that's what I want in my favorite editors (vscode/obsidian)
This is pretty late in the discussion, but here's my advice: start with a smaller decent quality dob (6") -- we started with an Orion SkyQuest XT6 -- and get 2-3 decent eyepieces (10mm, 25mm, 32mm) and a 2x Barlow. You should be able to get all that for $750. That size scope is easy to carry and setup. With reasonable eyepieces you can do lunar, planetary (Jupiter/Saturn), double stars, star clusters, and nebula. None of it will look like the astrophotography, but seeing it yourself can be so satisfying. If you find you like it, there is no end to how much you improve your tech and how much can spend in the process! Also, check out CN (www.cloudynights.com) for tons of advice.
Heh. My first reaction to the headline was "yeah, because it's a euphemism" but apparently my brain went in the opposite direction to the author - not achieving product market fit is a much nicer way of saying "not widely useful". Nobody wants to be told their product is useless, so instead we say it just hasn't found its market yet.
Indeed, I would say the article is mistitled. Or at least, it was titled in a way that tries to capitalize on the buzzwordiness of the term "decentralized" without really using the word in the sense in which it is usually used by the cryptocurrency community. A better title would have been "Coinbase now permanently Remote-first".
What about network level privacy? i.e. they'd also want to minimize the linkage between broadcast patterns and characteristics of those 100k addresses
How much does that cost you? I was thinking of doing something similar, except through Amazon EC2. It could be quite a bit cheaper than having a home server, and definitely wouldn't be so loud.
There is more than one game during the world cup, 25B is the total number of non-unique people who watched all the games. It says that 700M people watched the final. If that many people watched every game there would have been ~35 games total (potentially watched by the same 700M people). I have no idea how many games in total are actually part of the world cup.
I believe Mojolicious is by the same author as Catalyst.
Sorry I barely know anyone aside from myself that is familiar with Flask.

If I were just the the engineer, I wouldn't mind at all. However, a lot of what I would be doing would soon be handled by others when I move on to other parts of the projects. (I stressed that I am a founder).
For rails check out Michael Hartls tutorials by example railstutorial.org, it contains an ebook and videos.
Only took me a couple of weeks to get through it and I can highly recommend it. I think it costs about $100.
Yuck! I really like Espresso but the lack of momentum and Sugars forced me to TM.

If Panic could create a TM to Coda migration path for those of us not interested in Emacs or Vim, they could snag a ton of customers. A way to port bundles and to turn off the dreamweaveresque portions of the app and they'll have my money. They actually ship software or at least keep people in the loop.
Since when does "comfortable middle-class lifestyle" equal failure? I think most people would love to make a decent income off their own project as opposed to getting a paycheck to be subservient to a boss.
> The 'standard' engineer configuration is a linux or mac workstation, a linux or mac laptop

Are there any restrictions on how much these devices can cost, or what models/brands are permitted?

> Chrome engineers have a more extravagant setup by default due to the cross-platform nature of our work and the redonkulous size of the Chrome debug binary.

I used to compile my own Chromium binaries when I was running Gentoo, though now I just use chromium-browser-bin from the AUR. When I did compile them, it took ~45 minutes each time - how long does it take on your workstation? I'm guessing it's at least 10 minutes - if so, how does that affect your workflow?
I added this information and others in this thread to my RSI org notes: http://thespanishsite.com/public_html/org/ergo/rsi.html
I'm really sorry about that bug and how long it's been broken for you. We'll have it fixed tomorrow.

We've worked hard to ensure basic browser functionality works. Every link on Instacart should work like a normal anchor tag would. This specific issue has less to do with it being a single-page app, and more to do with those specific Department/Aisle View More links being improperly formatted.
"system" actually has a ton of meaning, it's just been co-opted to mean "hardware" in software circles. It means a collective object that is greater than the sum of its parts.
No.

Credit worthiness should be because of an individuals past actions and not some attribute they may have been born with. Why should a tall individual who's never missed a payment have some invisible penalization applied because some other tall people are worse at re-paying loans.

Don't you see the issue here? You're penalizing individuals not based on their own measurable behavioral signals, but simply due to some physical trait they share with others. Not to mention, we wouldn't even understand why there's a correlation in the first place. Maybe tall people are 30% likely to have some unknown gene, why should the other 70% of tall people who don't have the gene be treated the same?
The 84 year old was from Thailand, which is just as far south as India.
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> For some reason people don't assume the same about natural languages.

As mumblemumble says, I think this is due to a blinkered understanding of programming, combined with the mistaken belief that if you know one programming language it's pretty straightforward to learn any other language.

If someone knows Java, Python, and JavaScript, and their idea of exotic languages are Rust and Go, then they have no appreciation of how diverse programming languages really are. Lisp, Haskell, Forth, Prolog, and assembly, will strike them as completely alien, which should be fine except they're under the impression that it's meant to be easy to learn another language.
In my opinion, for most projects what's necessary is to approach from a broadly informed perspective and then dive deep into multiple potential solution strategies to see what direction will work well. Then dive even deeper into the details related to the architecture you have chosen.

The problem with focusing too much on one area is that you can only deal with one particular type of problem and maybe only with one particular type of solution.
Hacker News headlines of the future:

Chrome extension which changes your user agent request header to get you a better mortgage

Googling "Fun activities that don't cost money" increases your interest rates, study finds

Samsung partners with Equifax to offer better car loans to users who upgrade to a new phone
The post was noting the irony of the article- not my personal ethics. But sure if it makes you that self conscious I’ll go there: there really isn’t one aside from getting lucky from the shore or some sort of sustainable fishing vessel.
Most people would view the message as being marketed to.

The employee was referred to as a salesperson. Any difference from marketing is pedantic.
I'd be interested to see those few sentences. If they are "no more deductions/exemptions/credits" that is (relatively) simple but would upset a whole lot of taxpayers.
True, but there's a decent case to be made that (1) transaction fees will have to increase (in general) as the block reward decreases, and (2) transaction fees will have to increase (for these centralized services) if they want to eat the cost of fraud [1].

[1] https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/the-low-tran...
You probably didn't follow the early years. I just can't ever see them taking the site-with-a-dash's monetization strategy.

It's exactly why they made it in the first place, they repeatedly rubbished expert's exchange in the podcasts and even went so far as to creative commons the content, you can download all the questions and answers if you want.
I don't blog either... but then once every few years I do and it turns out that when blogging when you actually have something to say is valuable to people.

Try medium, it works for such infrequent blog posts... and post the link back on here and we'll all get an insight into the learnings.
Ditto on the Sys Admin side with Python - Perl had modules for everything, but the inbuilt punctuation variables mixed with regexs for everything and the flexibility Perl offered led to a perception that nobody could maintain anybody else's stuff.

Sys admins were still about getting shit done quickly at scale, and Python slowly began to replace Perl. Python 2 had string methods built in, Red Hat switched everything to Python, tool.s like LXML started coming out right when we all had to munge XML all day and suddenly that was it.
> I find it interesting that these cameras and videos claim to capture photons as they travel through the air.

Where do they claim that?

A camera needs light to hit a sensor. It can't "sense" the presence of a photon at some arbitrary point in space.

That being said, I just bought a 5 mW green laser pointer, which is quite fun to play with. If you point it so the beam is in front of a dark background, you can actually see the light ray. So if we filmed this laser pointer, using the camera in question, we should be able to literally see the light ray move towards the object it's pointed at.
I know. That’s kind of true for all of us. But yet I believe this is not that important. Specially not important enough to put the language like a badge of honor beside the project’s name or description in the title, like how these “written in Go”s are.

If a projects seems interesting enough for someone, it’s more than easy to see what language is it written in. BTW, that’s how things work: you don’t decide to contribute to a project because it’s written in your favorite language. You first have to like the project itself, and if it happens to be in a language you’re comfortable with, you may contribute to it.
Because acacia does so well in African drylands. Its also a nitrogen fixing tree which helps it grow fast as it does.

The goal of reforestation in drylands is to increase shade to reduce evaporation. Once the acacia has provided enough quick shade they can (and hopefully will) plant other plants in the understory to increase diversity.
Great info! Thanks. Any idea about funding sources like QuestBridge for Graduate students coming to US for study from abroad?
Just common strategy to commoditize everything else but them.
Two separate domains run by the same entity cannot share cookies, which is what this proposal is mainly about.
The Queen holds a weekly audience with the Prime Minister. It's unlikely they make chitchat about the weather.

The monarch also vets laws while they're being drafted and can make suggestions for changes if they affect their interests.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vette...

The Queen isn't just the head of the armed forces - they swear an oath of loyalty directly to the Monarch, not to the people or the country as a whole - she's also one of the richest people in the world, running an organisation with centuries of experience in internal diplomacy, impression management, and PR.

So it's a complete myth that the monarchy is apolitical. The monarchy is the centre around which the (antiquated) British political system revolves.
> many communities depend on fishing for their livelihoods and for food

The film was pretty sympathetic to those communities. In particular, coastal Africans, who depended on local fish for food, and now are in trouble because industrial fishing operations are vacuuming up those fish.

The main point of disagreement in the article is the study about 2048. It's good news that the future might not be quite so imminently grim, but the film doesn't lean on the study all that much. For the other claims mentioned in the article, it says the film was pretty accurate.

So contrary to Betteridge's law, it appears the answer to the question is "mostly yes."
Aren't male children referred to as Master?

It sounds terribly old fashioned though.
doubleclick.com is Google's ad platform.
The brain is very plastic, it probably would adapt at any consistent input. A most interesting question is, what would you sacrifice?

Because the part that you would use to control your extra tentacle or whatever is probably currently used for something. If you are missing an arm is obvious what part of your brain you would use, otherwise, some sacrifice probably have to happen.

Even reading, it seems, take the space that is used in people that can't read for some detailed visual processing (1).

Maybe you could add some extra processing in the extra arm, so it's more "cheap" to use.

(1) - I learnt that in "Reading in the brain" by Stanislas Dehaene.
I tried Nix a few days ago. I set it up on an existing Arch install. I installed a couple of packages with "nix-env -i [package] and then tried to update them with "nix-env -u" as instructed in the official documentation: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/#ch-basic-package-mgmt

This ended up breaking the entire install. After a few hours of troubleshooting I found that the reason it broke was that it updated itself from version "nix-2.3.10" to "nix-2.3.10-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl" because it saw that package's version string as a version bump. The suggestion in the github issue was to instead use an unofficial third party package for basic package management because this was a known, long-standing issue that is not likely to be fixed.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/118481

The experience came across as a massive red flag and I decided not to pursue it further.
Oops, I went based on the quote from the article:

> So Robson and his two closest work buddies devised the scheme to mail him home

> "We were very good friends, only for about three months because I only knew them for about three months"
Maybe if you did a bit of basic research you would learn that the public _can_ visit Buckingham Palace and tour various rooms that were basically mini-museums containing parts of the royal collections. Last time I popped in was soon after watching Tim's Vermeer when I learned that the picture in question had been rotated into the collection on display.

It is absolutely amazing to see so many people who obviously have no skin in this particular game crawling out from under their rocks to share their strongly held beliefs about the royal family, as if the rest of us give a toss about your opinion...
Oh, did he say something about the atrocities then? In a very public role as the moral backbone of the nation? Did he apologize? I missed that.
Back of the envelope calculation: a 1 ms/day slowing would require ~10^20 kg of mass at the equator to be moved a km inward. For scale, wiki helpfully points out that the world's oceans weighs 10^21 kg.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=rotational+angular+mom...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(mass)#101...
One does wonder if there is any kind of endgame strategy here. Are they going to occupy the Capitol building until Jan 20 so they can claim that Biden isn't president because the vote didn't happen?

This seems a bit spur of the moment. Also, didn't President Trump say he was going to lead them to the Capitol building in his speech? Where is he?
It's important for people to have role models they can identify with. And role models are selected by those who are looking for them, not by the government.
I don't think Americans dislike nokia as much as we misunderstand nokia. Since they aren't marketed very well here, our idea of what nokia is as a brand was shaped by a cheap nokia candybar that was our first cell phone. That impression of nokia as "the free phone company" has just never changed.
There was at least a little precedent in that Google gave phones to I/O attendees last year and established that it was not out of the realm of possibilities they might do it again.

That said I did not buy my ticket to I/O this year under the assumption that I would get a phone, and I intend to go next year -- the value I got from the talks is still more than the price of admission and I couldn't care less if I got a phone out of it.
NY Times' standards editor Phil Corbett can set whatever rules he wants for the paper, but his disdain for this verb isn't going to influence all of the blogs, the social media, and other publications in using it.

I don't think he's trying to. I think he's saying that Twitter is not yet in the standard English lexicon and should therefore be postponed from appearance in the NYTimes. If at such time it does become as popular as Xerox or Google then perhaps they will reevaluate their stance. As far as his position on usage outside the NYTimes, he may personally dislike the world but professionally I don't think he cares either way.
Through a friend / former co-worker. We've worked together at university and at two companies and almost two other companies.

At the first company, I just happened to let him know I was looking for a job at the right moment. His group needed someone right away and I was a great fit. Unfortunately that company started to come apart 2 years later.

He moved on first, to what became my current company. He pitched hiring me and I went to lunch with his new boss and some other guys a couple times. When they finally needed another person, I was an easy sell. I've been there for a number of years now, through some rough times and an acquisition.

I tried to follow the same guy to two other companies when times were tough where I was. The new companies were ready to hire me, but the first one ran out of money and the second one just couldn't afford me.

I don't think we'll try again unless we finally start our own thing. We've tried twice in the past, but at this point in our careers we can't really tolerate a "ramen" profitability period.
OK, thanks for clarifying. :-)
I was at an open house at TechShop. We were going around the room introducing ourselves, and on person described where he worked. I immediately asked "are you hiring?" He was.
Thank you for this comment, it connected with some of my feelings that have precolated up since my initial question.

I agree, I need to establish a vision, and launch it fast.

Thanks for those book recommondations. Thats always been my problem: marketing
It seems quite sensible to me. There really is a significant portion of the population that has never even heard of Twitter (remember, there are lots of people who try to sign in to Facebook by typing "facebook login" into Google and blindly clicking on the first result), and they're probably disproportionately well-represented in the Times' readership. It's not about hating the word "tweet," just about "tweet" not being common among the 6.5 billion people who don't use Twitter.
I think that difficult part constitutes fiddling.
You guys should work on formatting your posts, bold list titles or italicize or underline - I am too lazy to read everything, I want to skim before I decide to read.
That is an epic XSS hack. I think they won.
sure, that'll be $2.
Curious to see if the founders retained control of the company after their Series A or not. There was a discussion earlier about this.