jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Extending Web capability by building in features to HTML, such as calendar-based date-pickers (sometimes useful, often tedious), is one thing. Those standards can either be retrofited into a console-mode browser (it is possible to display a calendar in plain text, see e.g. cal(1)), or degrade gracefully to a text-based input field of, oh, take your pick, YYYY-MM-DD, YY-MM-DD, DD-MM-YYYY, MM-DD-YY, etc.

Better forms inputs could very well be useful, I agree.

The recent MSFT + GOOG snogfest announcing major improvements to HTML by ... improving form and input fields in their (GUI-only) browsers strikes me, in light of rather ominous icebergs looming on the HTML horizon, of rather gratuitious deckchair-rearanging. No matter how fine those arrangements might be.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/opinion/why-women-had-bet...
"often" isn't that useful to me as an application developer. If I'm going to build local-first software and put it out on hundreds of thousands of desktops, once it's deployed, the database is outside my control.

Yes, I need convergance, but I also need to ensure application invariants are maintained.

I agree with parent that a CRDT isn't that useful for local-first software unless you can encode arbitrarily complex programmatic logic in the transitions. That way I as a developer have control over how merges happen globally and all invariants. It's too complex to reason about otherwise.

It's not clear to me if this paper gives me what I'm looking for -- I'm looking forward to digging into it.

There are other approaches to CRDTs that I'm more excited about: Statebox (https://github.com/mochi/statebox) from years ago is a CRDT that encodes arbitrary transitions and converges by rewinding and replaying in a consistent order. This is basically the same trick blockchains typically do to merge forks. Radicle (https://radicle.xyz/) is another related approach.

I think things like this are the better path forward for local-first software, personally.
Why is this piece of trivially debunkable Christian propaganda here?

First of all, any moderately educated person in Western history makes the connections between contemporary thinking and Christianity inasmuch as it was the dominant religion in the West. That is neither novel nor particularly contentious.

The extrapolation to the idea of human rights is... iffy. First of all because there are _quite a few_ systems of philosophy and religion that encode it as much if not more. I can think of Jainism and many Buddhist schools that were much close to modern human rights thinking 2000 years ago than mainstream Christianity was 150 years ago.

The rest, just... it sounds like the author hasn't grasped enough of the fundamentals in exactly how Enlightenment thought makes a very clean, deliberate break from Christian thought of its time.

Religious systems of thinking are so broad, so inconsistent, so encompassing and so ambiguous that you can make up whatever connection you wish to nudge it towards modern Human Rights. But then again there are equally compelling narratives from practically any religion. You could link it to slavery, the Holocaust, the Industrial Revolution or anything just by linking ideas together.

You're going to need a much stronger, direct, causal relation and a comparative study that shows better than this rambling.
The most depressing kind of response is "if you change the names, the point still stands". I already got the point being made, and I was worried about it when I first heard about the Iranian hackers in late March. The point isn’t what’s offensive. Grabbing my attention with a racist caricature to make your point? That’s the problem. Furthermore, it wasn’t just the name. It was a complete caricature of a dishonest immigrant to the West from my part of the world, with a name, a job, relatives who are also scammy disreputable people, and a crafty scheme. It was the whole racist package with batteries included.
The source of the currency is software written by humans and run on computers built and controlled my humans. The algorithm may be temporarily unflappable (as long as the cryptographic algorithms it depends on remain solid), but the implementations of it depend on humans in every step.
Remind me, who was declaring war reserved for?
Bitcoin is really cool.

I just wish I knew what to sell to get some. My dabbling with mining bitcoins has convinced me it requires a on-all-the-time setup to mine with any prayer of success.

Last time I looked, there didn't seem to be a real economy, just people trading bitcoins. ~.~
This comment is almost exactly backwards for most startup purposes.

In particular, S Corp compliance is more tedious and costly, while ownership structure is less flexible.
In the US, the Clean Water Act covers thermal pollution (well, "thermal discharges"), and based on the language it looks like the provisions have been present since 1972. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/33/1326.html

Actually I'm a bit surprised this isn't that well known with the recent focus on nuclear power, since thermal pollution and cooling system intakes that kill fish have been a minor source of controversy for some plants, including Indian Point and Vermont Yankee. Recent news on the latter: http://vermont4evolution.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/anr-to-rev...

And just for convenience here are the first few results off Google for thermal pollution:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_pollution

http://www.pollutionissues.com/Te-Un/Thermal-Pollution.html

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/Biotech-Environ/Environment...
> social media users are fickle, disloyal at the drop of a hat

I don't know about this.

Firstly, I would have thought search users would be fickle; but people stick to Google: familiarity is a huge factor for mainstream consumer franchises (Buffett goes on about Coke, Wrigly Chewing Gum etc) as opposed to early-adopter tech folk; Google goes to enormous lengths for good PR and visibility (mainly by actually doing good, which is nice); despite complaints, Google does its job (relevant results; very fast), and keeps improving. If a commodity like search can be sticky, why not social media?

Secondly, a social networking service is intrinsically harder for users to change, because you are connected to other people. Of course, it has to do its basic job well; you have to keep improving it; you need good PR. In other words, it's your game to lose.

I'm not sure why MySpace failed, but I think part of it was targeting teens/young people (who like change, both in adopting the new and in then discarding it), e.g. via bands, which is also hit/fad oriented. I think facebook's uni students are less dangerous in this sense, because they more often want to keep in contact after graduating (compared with teenagers), and facebook have worked hard to grow out of that dangerously fashionable zone anyway.

warning: this post contains guesses.
Please correct me if I am wrong. Basically she is dying because she defrauded a bunch of rich dudes and created employment opportunities. The rich dudes are pissed and so she is now facing a death sentence? This is pretty screwed.

Sending her to jail is one thing but death sentence. That is just idiotic.
erlyvideo does HTTP Live Streaming "internally"

segmenter (various open source variations floating around googlecode, github and other places) does too, by creating the files and letting you stream them out with your own web server (Apache, nginx, ....)

There's enough support for it to be useful.
I wonder how high the GDPR fine will be.
If you want a giant ring buffer with deterministic low latency, manual refresh control is a godsend.
Why are there people running anything publicly accessible?

If you are running on the cloud, there is no need for any VMs to have any public IPs at all. Exception for your Bastion host, and even that should be restricted to known networks.

All incoming traffic needs a layer of indirection. On cloud providers that's usually their load balancers.
I just read this after I posted a long reply... is this what they meant?? lol
Yeah, I'm definitely a strange person but I want to say that me and my coworkers are largely insulated from the negative effects of the WeWork debacle. We always knew working in a WeWork was a temporary thing, maybe a max of 2 years in this space before we have our own office space to work from.

I don't revel about the 2.5k employees that lose their jobs at all. (Not that I befriended many of the WeWork employees, but they're very nice people and I would hate to be in their situation, especially this close to the holidays.)

I revel about the irrational exuberance from the upper echelons of management/banking. I revel that Neuman, Softbank, JPM, Goldman Sachs, etc. are now getting called out for trying to dress up a pig in lipstick and sell it to the public at 10x its current (perhaps, "real"?) valuation.

Your last paragraph though - it's hard to make the determination that "WeWork's meltdown is leading to corrections in earnings growth/investment from tech companies." Not necessarily true imo, earnings growth was bound to correct sometime soon, especially with economic data pointing that demand is starting to slow (which is why central banks across the world are easing rates).
Orders of magnitude faster than JavaScriptCore in 2008?
You still can't. You cannot boot a version of macOS earlier than the supplied one, for any particular machine.
Average lifespan of products that have been killed, when they are killed. The actual average lifespan is probably much longer.
As a kid, I still remember the day that my dad was helping me with my Maths homework.

On one tricky problem, he unconsciously started muttering the numbers out loud, and I was surprised to hear him saying them in Tamil (he is from Sri Lanka, but we spoke only English at home as far as I've known).

I asked him about it later, and he said that in his head, he always translated the numbers or problems into Tamil, solved them, then translated back to English to present the solution - because he was taught maths as a kid in Tamil.

He could still do all that faster than I could in all English!
Ideally, they wouldn't re-invent the wheel again and just stick with the ODATA protocol. They already have the platform to do so - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/odata/resources/roadmap
>I understand that getting rejected is frustrating. What I don't understand is the apparently pervasive attitude that asking candidates to put in some effort is unacceptable. It reeks of entitlement.

Most of us put effort into the skills on our resume. What's annoying is that no one on the other side apparently recognizes that and asks us to reprove our skills with things like this anyway.

>I also understand that any sane company is going to do its due diligence before making a bet on someone who just walked in off the street

And there's not a better way to assert my argument than when a company treats a PhD the same as someone who just walked in off the street.
They would still maybe get a date. I think it would work to everyone’s advantage. Then they could work the rest of the week without firefighting every day because of xyz on the media.
Are you thinking of AMC?
I warmly recommend adding Everything to that list. It's an instant-results file search tool that indexes your entire hard drive. It lets you find any file instantly.

https://www.voidtools.com/

EDIT: for some extra context, this tool changed the way I name and store files. I hardly ever navigate to a file anymore. I search Everything for, well, everything. After a while, I found myself caring less where I store a file, and more what I name it. I now add any word to a filename that I think I might search it by. Effectively it's a bunch of tags right there in the filename. This removes the need for a separate tagging program like the author suggests.
People have rebutted this on HN ad nauseum. It always is a core group of HN perma bears moving the goalposts and playing ignorance.

“Could it be that I don’t get this technology and the market is better at valuing it than me? ... No! It is the market that is wrong! I AM SMARTER!”
There are many published studies highlighting the volume of Bitcoin transactions associated with illegal activities. For example, this one from the University of Oxford: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2018/02/sex-...
Obviously. The beautiful part of this approach is that it doesn’t disable the icon in the taskbar that alerts you of updates... but it won’t restart automatically.
Allow this 60-second video to express my feelings about these "Mac" keyboards: https://youtu.be/7haqnQvrYfI
> This was back in a time when one guy could be familiar with every single line of code running on a computer, from user space programs right down to the kernel.

This is still possible, by the way. Humanity hasn't lost the ability to create simple computers. :) We just see less of them because the complex ones are more useful for day-to-day life.
They can also be wrong about either or, they are people too. :) Like you said - only time will tell, and maybe we could be friends then, and life will go on.
While Skype is indeed a massive lock-in because it's proprietary end to end I wouldn't say FaceTime is. Given how 99% of it is standard, I expect "anyone" with enough intent could reverse engineer the glue. It has been done for AirTunes/AirPlay already. I'd say it's in the same state as was GTalk when it started and Jingle was not published at the time.
You might be right. But, looking at history, I'm always more conservative about predictions as to changes in human nature than in level of technology.

On the other hand, consumerism as we know it really only exists for about 100 years. It might be a passing fad.
"There is a huge market for Flash applications for enterprise."

Java and Internet Explorer are also huge in the enterprise. IMO, I'm blessed not having to work in enterprise. I simply wouldn't have the patience.
I have a notebook for jotting down notes whilst I'm talking on the phone.

When I want to schedule or prioritise tasks or when I have lots of hashing out to do in my head prior to entering data into a more structured online task management system I use a whiteboard and index cards:

http://workingsoftware.com.au/indexcards.jpg
The load was for election night, which is more than likely a full order of magnitude, or two above their normal traffic levels. So their normal setup of RoR is fine for normal amounts of load, but would fail under that expected spike. So they used all their page-creation code in rails, but instead of serving it out like normal, they create the static files, and serve those. You lose out on interactivity, but make up for it in performance.
Working 6 days a week for 12 hours a day is how this guy avoids burning out? I think 72 hours a week qualifies as a death march.
Or maybe they can make Flash work properly on Linux?
Why is it that every time there's an article about people leaving Google for Facebook it makes it to HN's front page?
This is certainly a framework to watch. Not much to work with yet but the guys are building a solid back-bone before they put in the higher level work.
Natural gas has up to 7% of helium:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium#Modern_extraction_and_d...
Just replaced my rpi with a 10th gen nuc. It’s not fanless. It’s pretty quiet and power use wise it’s sipping under 10W when idle (which is obviously most of the time). I run proxmox on it and a couple of VMs with home assistant etc.

I looked at SBCs but getting something that had a well built case and reliable passive power supply, gigabit/WiFi/Bluetooth/nvme and also manages a high peak workload (recompiling kernels etc) without breaking a sweat at ~$3-400 is hard to beat.
> Why aren't Apple's apps themselves also having to ask for permission? I personally do not trust Apple one bit, just as I do not trust Facebook. So why is it so much harder to disable Apple's tracking, compared to Facebook's?

They do ask, either on every OS install or upgrade (things like Siri) or first use (non-core apps). If you look at the various privacy settings, Apple’s own apps are listed and you have the same controls to block or limit the data they can access.
It's not inexpensive. They mark up individual food items (which has the added bonus of increasing tax and increasing tip if you pay by percentage), charge a percent service fee, a delivery fee, and an assortment of other fees; and encourage you to tip (which for awhile, they were deducting from the amount they promised the driver).
Likely only if it’s forked away from anything to do with its current maintainer, for reasons only a Google search away:

http://valleywag.gawker.com/why-does-google-employ-a-pro-sla...

That’s the problem with trolling like that: once you do something cool that’s unrelated and try to move on it’s not clear if you’re genuine about anything any more. The history there will absolutely make larger interests hesitant to associate, contribute or integrate in something like, say, LLVM (regardless of the merit or lack thereof), particularly in today’s less forgiving culture.

Note that I’m not sharing an opinion on the content. It’s a metaobservation about where we are, for better or worse. That’s on page 1 of my Google search for “wow, who’s this amazing coder?”, so my path is the same anyone else would take doing due diligence on getting involved.
> c) biometrics must be securely stored and 100% controlled and managed by the end-user

I really was hoping this meant that biometrics were stored on the client. But, from reading the comments here it sounds like they’re stored in the cloud. Storing my biometrics in the cloud is gonna be a no from me.
How many actual examples do you have of the same funds blowing up which outperformed for decades?

Buffett outperformed SPY for most of his 60 year career. Do you think he doesn't know what he's doing, and it was all luck, just because Berkshire Hathaway isn't doing as well as it used to?
Pensions are your money held until later. So I am not sure that should apply as the employer should have no part of it and it should be managed by a third party.
It is already quite straightforward to convert analog instruments to a synthetic display, and it wouldn't be too hard to use that technique to generate a state space to quantize against. But you really need to be able to pull each meter apart to make sure that you can enumerate all possible states, otherwise you'll end up with undefined input. You can do it in software by fuzzing inputs, but stimulating hardware to extract state is another story.
Opensuse has an excellent default kde.
I'm of the opinion that MPs with a continuing outside job are incredibly valuable. The obvious example are the many MP doctors (who need to keep their skills current if they are to maintain registration) but wherever they work, having an active link with the "real world" brings another dimension to their policy decisions.
Yuuuup, that's more or less it. Elsethread:

One former LL volunteer at the local level seeing forged documents in order to get older kids in younger kid leagues:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26297842

Discussion of the baseball pipeline and the importance of getting that early playtime and coaching:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26298649
Not sure about the counter-weights, but without a tail rotor, I'm pretty sure it requires either a collective on both levels, or else software to navigate properly when the body is spinning, and some mechanism to allow it to safely land while the body is spinning.

The torque to spin the rotor changes with the blade angle, so to keep the counter-rotating torques balanced, they need to control blade pitch on both. I suppose the blade drag is a non-linear function of blade angle, so technically they might be able to keep the torques balanced with cyclics on both and a collective only on one, but it's certainly much more simple to have at least collectives on both.
Clever. So the rest of us just need to send a single reply with that first email address to set a chain of events into motion since the scripts are already set. Hah
> I wish I had not sold my 78's to Half Price Books a few years back. I had a couple hundred records, some of which had probably never been played.

How much did you get for them? I assume HPB puts almost all 78s in the dumpster.
I have been on 6S+ for YEARS - and have no desire to upgrade due to, I believe, this is the last iPhone before facial recognition - which I DO NOT WANT.

---

We bought a house recently and it came with a Cobra 8-camera security system - which comes from Harbor Freight (inherited - I didnt install it) -- but its remote mobile app is some shady 3rd party app from China - and it rarely works, but I am convinced it allows for backdoor access by the dev... so I don't use it...

Is there any way to use this with the cameras I already have installed (inherited) with this app?
Indeed, the identity is only required to deal with an empty input.
I’ve been a fish user forever, but the lack of support for sudo !! has never made sense to me. I’m glad to finally know that there’s a 2-keystroke alternative.
The conditions the encourage whale feeding and an analysis of current models for whale movement was the purpose of the study was discussed in the study that collected the data the animation is based on.

Our current best understanding is that whales are drawn to the region due to a thermal fronts in the water and concentrations of chlorophyll (from their food source) that make it easy for the whales to feed efficiently.

If this is a topic that you are curious about, give reading the study a try. I don't think "armchair science" from people that don't bother to read the source material adds much value to any discussion.
>> He appears to agree with Murray that some class differences reduce to heredity.

> So? When did that became illegal? Or news?

What does illegality have to do with anything in this context?

I mean holding an idea can be both legal and abhorrent/wrong at the same time.

And isn't bringing up legality here kind of a Motte & Bailey fallacy? (I'm genuinely asking, I only learned about that the other day.) People condemn Murray's ideas because they're distasteful and wrong, but it's certainly far easier to defend their legality.
If a jury cannot follow (what is assumed to be) basic rules

That's why you got down voted: you assumed something, without knowing, and you were completely wrong. Read a jury's instructions just once, and then let us know how basic it sounds then.
If you want to pick a fight, try someone else. I'm not in the mood for sarcasm on this pleasant afternoon.
This sounds like a very promising tool. I'm really excited to hear all of the talk about extensibility.

One thing that is conspicuously absent is any mention of it being open source. I can certainly appreciate that Github is for-profit, but I would love to have a clearer idea of how free / not-free this tool will be when it is publicly available.
I'm not sure about the bcrypt implementation, but if the work factor is public (i.e. you have to know it before calculating the hash), this gives you information about the password, which is bad.
I read about that particular collusion yesterday and it chilled me to the bone. It's the biggest thing to drop so far.
In French too (produits blancs/bruns).
The difference, as I see it, is just that these people in the video really fight for their right. The cook will let his fists talk, if they don't pay. That dvd guy will never buy this dvd and so on. In the IT world there is the problem that there are actually really many people that let themself beeing enslaved and accept those situations. If 60% of the dvd shops would react positively to bargaining, every client would try it. That is "just" the situation w face in our business.

If you didn't see it, I can connect you to some companies. Work for them for some months and you see that 90% of the coders there (contractors or employers) effectively put themself in slavery.

Although not all software developers are like this, we all have to suffer from the consequences of these acts of low selfevaluation.