jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I vouched for your comment, because your experience is still a valid data point.

As a counter to that, I lost a close friend to suicide. It was really good to be able to reflect back on the conversations we had and relive the lighter moments we shared together. I agree that dwelling on those things can be unhealthy, but they can also be a valuable part of the healing process.
Doesn't Signal already have backup? IIRC, when enabled it once per day saves all messages (encrypted with a backup key, which you have to write down somewhere) to /sdcard/Signal, and you can then use Syncthing or something similar to copy it to a new phone. If you put that /sdcard/Signal folder there before starting Signal for the first time, it'll ask to restore from that backup. WhatsApp has an identical local backup and restore flow (except that it gets the backup key from their servers, instead of requiring you to write it down).
I wonder if that database of censored URLs is floating around anywhere. If you had it you could set up a dark search engine just based on those. Yandex will do all the crawling for you. The Russian mafia has probably thought of this already.
> Darwin/XNU/macOS are not FreeBSD based, nor NetBSD based, nor OpenBSD based, even if in places it can take pieces of their code.

Apple disagrees[1]:

> XNU is a hybrid kernel combining the Mach kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University with components from FreeBSD

From Apple's kernel docs[2]:

> Darwin is based on proven technology from many sources. A large portion of this technology is derived from FreeBSD, a version of 4.4BSD that offers advanced networking, performance, security, and compatibility features.

XNU has a "personalities" concept, and the BSD personality is mostly just FreeBSD[2]:

> Above the Mach layer, the BSD layer provides “OS personality” APIs and services. The BSD layer is based on the BSD kernel, primarily FreeBSD.

Even the syscall interface is from FreeBSD. Here's a diagram of macOS architecture[3].

[1] https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu

[2] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Da...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diagram_of_Mac_OS_X_archi...
You should tell the government that.
I use this all the time even when I'm writing code in other languages. Love it.
And what independently testable, otherwise non-reproducible effect on the physical world would this "underlying force" have? This explanation reeks of the same long discredited arguments used by Creationists.
Build a browser on Webkit or Blink, just like everyone else? There's already dozens of those. You can download Chrome just as well in any browser.

It's great that MS is improving IE, because having a Webkit/Blink dominated monoculture is bad. Didn't we learn this with IE6?
the random pink highlighting is bizarre
And you've just increased your attack surface.
Maybe you just need to work on something you actually care about. There are a lot of hard and interesting problems which need programmers working on them, but boredom is understandable if you are just churning out the one-million-and-oneth generic web app.
> You wouldn't say "oh-four" to indicate four AM. You only need to say "oh-four" if the 12 hours system is the norm and you need to clarify you're talking about "military time".

The use of "zero-four" in military time is not to clarify that they are talking about "military time" vs. some other time system but to minimize the risk of ambiguity in environments where hearing might be difficult (noisy environments, poor communications links, etc.) and a mistaken communication could have serious consequences. If you don't have a clear, two-digit hour, you know you've missed something and need to ask for a repeat.

Presumably, the use of "oh-four" by some in non-military use of 24-hour time is an echo of that use.
This was the method I found but it didn’t work for me and I gave up.
Demand for Apple's M1 laptop isn't going to be a problem for TSMC if Apple is currently their only customer with volume production of 5nm parts. I'm trying to understand where the idea of any 5nm shortage comes from. The shortages described in this article are nothing to do with 5nm.
Yeah maybe it'll be in place for next time. But this looks to be about a once in a century event. It happened in 1917 and happening now. I doubt we'll handle it better in 2115.
It may be a false choice now but it might not be a false one in the future. At any rate, it is worth exploring the idea and it’s an interesting question regarding the circumstances that must be present in order for it to longer be a false choice.
Someone I know made the assertion that the disease is "topping out" and based this on the fact that "testing is increasing faster than positive results". I am highly skeptical of this claim simply based on the fact that literally no expert is making this claim, but I don't know how to dismantle this assertion. Anyone have stats/numbers that would refute this (seemingly) bogus claim?
Looked this up…

“Respirators with exhalation valves can be used in a healthcare setting when it is not important to maintain a sterile field (an example of an acceptable practice would be when taking the temperature or blood pressure of a patient). Respirators with exhalation valves should not be used in situations where a sterile field is required (e.g., during an invasive procedure in an operating or procedure room) because the exhalation valve allows unfiltered exhaled air to escape into the sterile field.”

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/disp_part...
I tend to take a similar approach to trying to be productive for the sake of keeping my stress levels down (and motivation up!).

When I'm failing to feel motivated or keep focused, I generally stop myself and instead ask myself why that might be: have I been getting enough sleep/exercise/socialization/etc? And I generally find my problem lies there, and then I can try to correct for it in the future (get to bed earlier, eat healthier, exercise more, etc).

If I'm still not feeling it after making corrections, then it's time to ask myself if what I'm doing is something that I really want to be doing? It's always disappointing when the answer is that it's not something I really want to be doing (sunk-cost), _but_ I've found walking away is better than continuing to beat myself up over a lack of motivation.
> "rooster" is also slang for "penis"

What dialect has "rooster" as slang for penis?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIEdExAOXf0

https://github.com/kristoffer-marshall/XScreensaver-RFID-Unl...

Anyone who may be logged on to multiple TTYs should prefer `vlock -an` over `xscreensaver-command --lock`.
I think I've posted it before, but I'll repeat myself nevertheless: Delphi was my first contact with programming.

I was probably 13 or 14 years old and had no idea what I was doing, but I could resize the windows, add items to lists, change the color of Strings and place buttons and stuff like this.

So, _obviously_ I needed the Delphi 6 Enterprise edition which a friend had (pirated of course) and gave it to me on one of those really cheap CD-R with that distinctive plastic smell.

One of the first "real programs" we wrote was something to read sensor data via the parallel port. It was for a school project where a belt had to move and then stop, once the light barrier would sense something. We killed lots of parallel ports in doing that, because we just didn't knew how to do it.

Didn't really write anything more useful at that time, but it showed me that there's a world behind what we see and know as "programs". Maybe it laid some fundations in my brain, who knows.

Every time I see Delphi pop up I think I should probably have a look at it. But I'm a web monkey now. Lost for everything good, but I like to think back of the 14 year old me. Better times.
You'd be surprised at how few people can do these jobs. An eye opening exercise is doing interviews and seeing how many people with years of college and/or experience can't code a for loop.

Demand exceeds supply and it's market forces not location that is the key driving factor here. Want a data point: London is roughly as expensive as NYC or SF yet the Big Tech total compensation is 30-40% less than SF/NYC.

I don't believe Big Tech will ever go fully remote. There are inherent advantages in physical colocation. I see this as a means of satisfying the ever-increasing demand. The Bay Area in particular is both largely exhausted in available talent and saturated in how many more people can be supported (given available housing and infrastructure).

Disclaimer: I work for Facebook and have gone remote.
The main thing I fear is that it would spark parent or other IP lawsuits. Admitting you based your successful game on someone else's ideas may make the other person's lawyers think they deserve a share of your profit.

I think a lot of IP law is hostile to that sort of free flow of ideas.
Can you explain how and why you think a documentary such as Ken Burns' Civil War series, a seminal example of American documentaries, is filled with action and conspiracies?
#1 comment:

> Instead we get a wildcards are bad argument; especially when that wildcard fetches data that you don't need etc; which I guess everyone agrees with.

#2 comment:

> Nevertheless in reality most of the stated reasons have almost no real practicability... So in most cases fetching to many columns would be no problem

This happens surprisingly frequently in a lot of tech discussions. The most popular comment accuses the author of saying something so obviously correct, that it's a waste of time to even bring it up. And the second most popular comment is someone telling the author that he's wrong.
It's worth comparing Bitcoin's proof of work to other schemes of maintaining currency value to understand this in a relative sense. The Military Industrial Complex which arguably is the mechanism by which the dollar maintains its position as the global reserve currency puts out 152MtCO2/yr [1].

Without making any judgement on if this ratio is reasonable: this is 3-5x more than BTC POW but arguably also contains other negative externalities like loss of life, etc.

[1] https://earther.gizmodo.com/groundbreaking-report-gives-us-a...
Thanks for the feedback! textnote did start out as a tool for a workflow I found myself using, but at its core is simply opening a templated dated file every day to take plain text notes, which I posted here because I hope it is sufficiently general for others to find use. I also am continuing to work to make it configurable to suit others as well. I'd love to take any suggestions for what you might find useful.

Thanks for sharing your post - I really like the idea of using git to sync/track notes and believe textnote can fit in with that workflow quite well. Appreciate your feedback!
What's the energy cost of a financial sector that takes a ~3% cut of all retail transactions, puts up physical bank branches to manage money, empowers a federal reserve to manage the value of currency with more or less competency... Comparing BTC energy costs to some mythical world where we just burn free lunches for heat is not honest.
Here's something on the next level:

https://thingstolucat.com/category/trip-planning/

Skurka is obviously is one of the great ones. But so is Luc and he extends quite a bit on the subject.
Interesting. I hadn't noticed that, although last week I did order a USB-C to DisplayPort adapter that is slated to arrive this week and is on the low end of "essential" for my new work-from-home life.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/disaster-medicine-an...
We've done shelf-stable groceries in bulk through Amazon before. We don't have a large enough bulk shopping list to justify Sam's club or BJ's, but an occasional order to Amazon is fine. Rice, noodles, things like that.
The DPI Scaling may be down to using earlier versions of Qt or being misconfigured.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/highdpi.html

I've used Qt successfully here with different DPI, and it works well once configured for the most part. It's still not perfect on Windows, but it's a lot better than it used to be when set up properly.
I have been running two 1440p displays on my Retina (on 150% scale) laptop and they've been playing nicely for as long as I've had this job. It works quite well for me, no need to run any special WM programs except for Divvy

Similarly for grandparent post, VLC runs 100% fine on my 150% scaling Win10 laptop with a 4K screen

These bugs must be somewhat transient...
Not really my department! I do work at STScI, which operates the MAST archive that will eventually hold all this data, so I'm sure someone in my building knows.
You're right, of course. I turned the "about" page on. Was holding off until I could spruce it up a bit, but I guess it's ok for now. Wasn't expecting hackernews to really jump on this.
Indeed. Increasingly I'm viewing iOS apps as value-add only, that is to say apps attached to a given service or other offering, designed to augment such a service.

I am sure people will cite a zillion examples of businesses that make their living from iOS apps, but increasingly this appears more like winning the lotto, akin to 'making it' in Hollywood, than as a viable business model for all comers.

The reliable way to make a living as an iOS developer is to develop for a bigger company that needs an app as a side-show.
From article: "The whole galaxy contains over one thousand billion stars." so presumably yes.

I would even say that we are only seeing brightest stars and clusters of stars.
Assume you stored torrent metadata in the bitcoin blockchain. How would you shut that down?
If you're doing direct sales, I recommend leading with your unique visitor and subscriber counts rather than pageviews. Unless you're seeing > 70,000 pageviews a month you're unlikely to get the attention of Tribal Fusion or similar networks.

Then you can say "My site reaches 10,000 {doctors, practice managers, programmers} a month. Buy an ad, and they'll all see it sometime."

To this end, one of my clients of mine sells 120x240 spots in her sidebar for $250/month, and sells them out consistently (3 spots). All sites are different, but perhaps that can be useful as a starting point.

Another good tip I learned from a client, for finding advertisers: go to all your competitors sites/magazines/etc, and see who is advertising. Then call those advertisers on the phone. These folks are already geared to do media buys, see the value in it, etc. Should be relatively easy to get them to try you out too.
It feels a little flimsy and does sin around in the headphone jack, however, it's a neat little dongle and I have yet to have any problems reading cards. I generally keep the dongle in my bag so that I have easy access to it when I need it.
Yeah, that's true. I like using it more as a launchpad for ideas. It's definitely not going to generate the next Flickr!
Full disclosure: I abhor Monopoly.

The "fun" part of Monopoly is trading with other players. It's actually a pretty acceptable game as far as diplomacy goes. The worst problem with the game is that it very quickly devolves into a situation where two players have a decent chance to win, everyone else is royally screwed, and the game still has about an hour to go. Also, it's terribly reliant on luck: while it is possible to actually be good at Monopoly(i.e. there are strategies and skills that will seriously increase your chances of winning), a few bad rolls and/or a player adamant about not selling X property or trading Y player (this happens a lot IME) can leave you completely out of the game.
You may want to look into charities and orgs that are active in the gulf cleanup efforts right now.
Sorry, but for what reason should the state intervene here? I could see the point in a system where everybody has state-run health care, but even then a junk food tax would probably attack the problem at the wrong end.

Never mind that the criteria for additional taxes would be pretty hard to specify and justify...
More BS. It is nearly impossible to hurt yourself with free weights unless you drop them or try to lift something much too heavy.
The site is slow. When you type the title you have to wait for the autocomplete and click on the movie. The speed is the biggest problem, but it gives good recs.
The actual specification ISO 8601 costs like 300 bucks[0] to get a copy of, so hardly any developers implementing time libraries have ever read it.

The reason ISO 8601 handling is broken is because all these libraries are implementing against a wikipedia summary of a spec.

It's a strong argument for free, open standards.

[0] https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030078...
"The strongest reason that caused me to leave programming was the need to do daily reports on time usage."

I can see why that would drive someone to leave a job. I understand what he means by being haunted by his work, but I think I would have looked for a new employer (or maybe new team internally).
That's fair, but then he shouldn't have been surprised when his site started hemorrhaging users who were there entirely for the freedom of speech they enjoyed.

8chan will probably last much longer than 4chan precisely because Fredrick refuses to make those judgement calls about what is and isn't acceptable. He doesn't need to bear a heavy conscience about what kind of speech he is allowing, he just follows the law to the letter and lets people do their thing.

I leave you all with a fantastic speech the late Christopher Hitchens made about the freedom of speech and why there is no freedom of speech unless you extend that freedom towards people you disagree with, even the ones you find completely abhorrent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIyBZNGH0TY&feature=youtu.be...
I thought you were going to demonstrate x11-mode or something! Whew.
this is really helpful. I was looking for a short from-typical-react-to-flux-example compact enough to read through at once. I get it much better now, and actually I have already a framework with models with 'global' state and use react to visualise them and have been wondering what would be the best way to do this (copy the models data into state, or try to skip state and use the model data directly). So I guess I'll have to have a better look soon. Thank you for pulling me over the line
This is completely backward. Your perceived worth is tied to your price. You will literally get better treatment and more respect by negotiating a better price.

Not negotiating just makes you look like you don't understand business and shouldn't be trusted with any business decisions.
Los Gatos, which is where almost all the engineers are.
If screen is your main concern, Yoga Pro 2 has a nearly 4k screen and is under $1000.
Similar service which I find a bit easier to use (and faster, although it might just be HN load right now): https://www.domcomp.com/
Hey, cool site. I'd prefer to remain a bit anonymous until I can sort this out though. Thanks.
Having the program be installed by root but not require admin rights to update, I presume. That sort of system is quite possible with services or scheduled tasks on Windows. In fact MSI can do that already as long as everything is signed.
After all the crap I've heard about PayPal we'll definitely be using another service when we start collecting payments soon
I take it a lot of people are going to be sitting with their mouse poised over the submit button as 9am rolls around, and if you're lucky, you'll get the 100$? Surely there's a better way to handle this; it's sort of an annoying gamble, imho.
Digg lost to Reddit because they thought you could have a community-driven site which sidesteps the community to cater to advertisers.

So the community left. And felt so betrayed, they salted the earth behind them.
Is there such a thing as a "reddit-like post"? They have a squillion subreddits for all kinds of different subjects.

I sometimes see posts which I'd upvote if it was on reddit, but which I ignore or even flag if I see it here, because the two communities are (and should be) vastly different. As a regular on both, it's sometimes difficult to remember to 'change my hat' when I log in.

Advice: Try to remember that any time you upvote a submission, you're encouraging more of the same type of submission.

For instance, I often make a point of upvoting submissions from people trying to engage the community, eg "look at this thing I made", "can I get some feedback on my product", "we just launched" and so on. Because that's the kind of stuff I want to see on HN. Real things made by real hackers; the stuff you won't see in the mainstream press because it was just made by this one guy. I flag stories which I know I'm going to read all over twitter and reddit and BBC news because, well I'll read about it there. HN, for me, isn't just a "top web news" place. If you're anything like me, you already know what the big stories are before you check HN. It's the smaller things that are more interesting.

One thing that always impresses me, though, is that the HN community can make even a 'boring' story fascinating through their comments and discussions, so that can make even 'bad' submission worthwhile.
But not for wikileaks apparently. Though I see your general point as they probably aren't discriminating. Paypal seems to do many 'random account verifications' these days. They freeze the account until its verified.
See the discussion we are having elsewhere about how hard it is to get out of the DOD black holes if you have been in too long.
Can you expand on what types of things you think we should be learning from China?
From Why the West Rules for Now,

"Some people think Chinese sailors even reached the Americas in the 15th C, but, as I will try to show in Chp 8, these claims are probably fanciful. The closest thing to evidence for these imaginary voyages is a map of the world exhibited in Beijing and London in 2006, purporting to be a 1763 copy of a Chinese original drawn in 1418. The map is not only wildly different from all genuine 15th C Chinese maps but is also strikingly like 18 C French world maps, down to details like showing CA as an island. Most likely an 18 C Chinese cartographer combined 15 C maps with newly available French maps. The mapmaker probably had no intention of deceiving anyone, but 21 C collectors, eager for sensational discoveries, have happily deceived themselves."
I’m not an expert on VR, but it seems to me that the consensus is that AR will truly mature after VR. So maybe it doesn’t make sense to differentiate, because at that point AR will be “VR-lite” rather than VR evolving as “AR-heavy”.

My personal opinion is that full immersive VR will be more compelling, as it’s going to all be about people interacting and collaborating over distance, and VR will work better for that.
I think you missed the point.

This website doesn't do anything but others do. Browsers have to support both.
Because those are technical gimmicks and nerds are very susceptible to fall for gimmicks. Users? They care about consistency and predictable interfaces that don't change every week. They couldn't care less if a toolkit looks dated. Motif, CDE, Plastique, XP-Style, Aqua, Quartz, Material, it all looks the same to them. Tearing? Users don't see it, because they don't have the fine tuned sensibilities to what technology should do, and how it actually behaves.

Playing a movie produces moving pictures on a monitor? Great!

Tearing? Without telling them, they'll hardly ever notice it.