jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Sure but that does not in any way take away from the point that siloed messengers are a bad idea.

Well, too bad! Usability trumps idealism when network effects are at play.

> If the XMPP/Matrix people wanted to they could set up a trusted third party server to link identities to phone numbers just like Signal does

Usability is so bad that you're defending Matrix and don't even know this is already available, just has terrible UX.

Chat protocols don't matter at all if the final product isn't something grandma can easily use. Element has many of the pieces in place, but it needs go further.

I say this as I use Matrix. I've set-up Matrix for my SO and family just to talk to me, you know, like a bastard. I want Matrix to succeed.

But it's not going to happen unless it can match tit-for-tat the usability of things like WhatsApp or Telegram, even if that means having defaults that geeks find "icky", like railroading the user into a single instance (and hiding non-matrix homeservers in a corner), defaulting to using the phone number as an account without passwords, and auto-joining to an identity server.
To the extent that these are related, it's because of disability.

Braille is just a writing system. Signed languages are generally not.
came here to say the same thing! That phrase stood out when I was scrolling through the comments. nice
This same story is playing out in the Videogame Industry.

That industry is arguably booming too, making more than it ever has in the past and growing wildly year over year.

And yet game programmers make some of the lowest salaries among all devs, last I checked. Especially at entry level.

To me, that entire industry seems geared towards grabbing fresh faced grads who are loaded up on dreams of making games, putting them in infinite crunch, and discarding them later when they are burned out.
Hi,
I've been using RealityKit for a while now, and whilst it's great, I've found myself wanting for more Debugging features, I've created this small Swift Package with the aim to help visually debug Transforms, Vector and Materials from within Xcode
> Apple says in the coming weeks, it will update its iOS software for iPhones to require apps to get explicit consent to track what people are doing on their phones for the purposes of sharing it with third-parties.

That's all they are doing. They aren't preventing companies from tracking users in this way. They are just requiring them to get permission.

Says a lot about Facebook's business model that this is a cause for "all-out war," and that they'd rather try to stop the feature than convince their users to enable it. I guess they know that at the end of they day if they can't do this behind their users' backs, they probably aren't going to be able to do it at all.
I believe this impacts all apps using Facebook's SDK.
Well, SpaceX has a 'tourist' mission planned for this year, and its not very likely to slip much.

https://www.space.com/spacex-unveils-inspiration4-all-privat...
> I have noticed an interesting trend in our discourse about reading lately

>imagine yourself rich, happy, driving a Lamborghini, living off dividends from your stonks, and reading books.

This is bill gates, warren buffet. He says this is his secret, who am I to question someone who has actually done it.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Summer-Books-202...

"Whether you’re looking for a distraction or just spending a lot more time at home, you can’t beat reading a book. "
You can combine such a privilege escalation with an USB virus, social engineering, etc. to get remote root access to a machine and eventually all machines of a network.
I agree. Really don't appreciate the level at which researchers are willing to make these comparisons right now. They're moving fast and publishing things.

It's probably far too late to change the name for computational neural nets - but I agree. Something like a "differentiable learning graph" or something would be better.
> How would we would/could we chose between the rights of two different population segments?

What is there to choose between unless we force people to take the vaccine?
"Cheap" == billable time * per-worker capital and support, not elapsed time.

Obviously, if a given workforce on a time-based compensation consumes more billable time units, they will cost more. That isn't the general case envisioned by the GFC triad, but rather that additional resources (bodies, brains, greater talent, tools, extended workdays or weeks) be applied. Classically, The Mythical Man Month. Accrued technical debt is another (often hidden) cost.

Good / Fast / Cheap is a possibility / optimisation frontier. When you are at the frontier, you cannot optimise any one third factor without sacrificing one of the other two.

An obvious countertactic in negotiation is to argue that the task is not yet at the frontier / optimum. In practice, this may be true, though the frontier may still lie far closer than such tacticians generally seem to posit.
Man, you're reading too far into my comment. I was just saying the sentence reads like:

A wealthy individual (WI) coming to his neighbors.

WI: "I'm worried your homes might be bought by individuals that affect my privacy, I know you don't intend to move, so let's make a deal that you can still live here and pay rent."

Neighbors: "Ok"

Random YC Comment: "(WI) left them in their homes, rather than reneging on his deal and casting them out of their familial homes to the street."

----

A Feudal Lord (FL) dies and his heir receives the fiefdom.

FL: "You are now my serfs and I've decided you may continue to live here and pay me a percentage of the crop yield, I am a generous lord."

Serf: "OK, m'lord"

Random YC Comment: "(FL) left the peasants in their huts like the generous lord he is."

---

A state industry has been privatized and is now owned by an Oligarch, to include the housing provided to the workers.

Oligarch: "Party land now my land, you may continue to live and work here to provide me profit, I am a generous businessman."

Worker: "ХОРОШО"

Random YC Comment: "The Oligarch left the workers in their housing, as long as it still provided him a profit."
You had more than a year now to get out of your top floor apartment lease.

Not to mention that a pandemic is not an accurate reflection of what real remote work looks like.
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Holy - wasn't expecting this here.

My father bought me in the 90s Правец 8Ц (Pravetz 8C), which was Apple ][ E clone (or something like this). Had 80 columns (PR#3), 128kb banked memory - awesome machine... and was more expensive than a russian car (according to my father).

Growing up in Bulgaria, not really knowing what sold software means - we end up having most of our games cracked, and you'll be like - "Hey another cool game by the Merchant!" (no it wasn't the "Merchant" that made the game, it was "EA", or some other real company.. ."Merchant" were one of the hacking groups, replacing the original game logos with their own...)

A bit later, round when communism fell or maybe later - even Bulgaria started producing it's own games... not really - same thing - "KARATEKA" - in cyrillic, or "MOON PATROL" as "Лунен Патрул" - and I think it was claiming it was done in my country (could be wrong though, they might've got the license after all!)

It was so much fun to use it!
I don't disagree that you can put stuff that is done first above the first %%, and then stuff that is done after scanning after the second %%. I just don't think that this makes %% analogous to BEGIN and END. For one thing, stuff can be moved around from one of those sections to the other, without changing the basic organization of the program. For instance, prior to the first %% you can put prototype declarations, and move everything to the bottom.
Quite honestly Yosemite is the most buggy Apple product I've ever used - it has made working with OSX a chore. Apple has not fixed one of the bug reports I filed during the beta phase (which I'm not convinced has finished).
As if WW 1 and 2 are in fact a single event with a strange picnic pause in the middle.
There are many affordable and safe neighborhoods in Philadelphia.
I considered the age thing, but given the rapid paradigm shift here (pre-kid, post-kid), I think that can be dismissed.

That I can feel the same with 2 - 2.5 hours less sleep than I did a year and a half ago suggests to me that I have conditioned myself.
No because the same social and economic pressures may apply to all of them. That's exactly what used to happen to black tenants when all of the "100 baby landlords" decided to ban them. It doesn't mean they probably deserved to be banned, it's that there was a systemic problem that couldn't be fixed simply by having competition. We already see this with politically unpopular people being banned from all popular social media sites, despite them being separate companies with different owners.
Gotcha. In that case disregard everything I said above except the part about making the site mobile friendly. As I said, I know nothing :)
I do it everyday man. I had to block a kids channel called FGTV. The dad who runs the channel is super inappropriate and I didn't want my son to learn from him. Do you think my 5 year old understood that?
It does if your average user is so uneducated they freeze up and whack the next button until the screen with all those words on it goes away.
Yes, practically everything every social media platform has done over nearly the last decade which anyone has ever disagreed with has been equated to Nazism, Stalinism, Orwellian dystopia or the Salem Witch trials. The slippery slope fallacy is very popular, especially on Hacker News.
I know a lot of people that ride their bikes at work at such temperatures, and one of the biggest issues with doing that isn't the cold - exertion really warms you up - but badly maintained, snowy shoulders and a higher risk of cars crashing into you.

Especially now that ebikes are a thing.
Right, I mean at the end of the day the social problems like the one you mention instead of the technical merits of one platform over another is what will dominate in the long term. So whatever stack is chosen is not going to matter as much as people think. If the problem is ill-defined and there is lack of agreement on what exactly is being solved then adding technology into the mix is not going to make a difference.
It'll fail from a signal handler inside qsort, or inside the callback function.

It won't fail recursively - while the second call is happening, the first will be stored on the stack (see the take and replace in the callback shim function)
Also if accessibility is a requirement, you'll have to implement a fallback in DOM, although you're probably no longer optimizing for raw speed in that case.
I guess.

But they're just black and white.

So do they dye and bleach them?

Damn expensive, too.
The robot might presume some slop in the mechanism. So you'd be able to miss the number by 1. Which makes it 30^5, dropping the rate to 93/s
I'd blame the user. Speculation: when you add an event you can choose whether you add it to the work or to the personal calendar and those people chose to add it to the work calendar, which is public so others in Google can see when that person is busy, which in turn is useful to schedule meetings, etc
I couldn't read the article because of paywall. But from the part you quoted. It seems like this can be a plausibly scenario:

- Someone (possibly a group of people) is trying to organize a time for maximum attendance for some meeting or protest.

- They are checking peoples "public for internal" calendars, maybe sharing between themselves.

- "Screenshots of some of their calendars, including their names and details, __subsequently__ made their way outside the company." This means they are not leaking the screenshots to outside from my understanding.

As google has access to all data, reason why this calendar screenshots shared etc, and never mentioned here, making me suspect google is at fault here.
It's a cheap way of getting a floor-mounted safe though.
Different use cases for different people. I'd love to have video chat on my phone for when I travel for work. It'd be great to video chat with my kids while I'm away. We could do that with our laptop, but that'd require me to be in my hotel room, with my lap. Then I'd have to call my wife, have her dig out her laptop.. etc. Basically it's enough of a pain that we never do it, we just have plain old fashioned voice calls.

But, if video chat was integrated into our phones (and particularly if it wasn't restricted to wifi only like FaceTime), then video chat would be as easy and frictionless as voice calls. I think I'd probably use it a lot under those conditions.
I can help you with that, if you need help. It seems to be all static, so your best bet is to use static-appengine-hoster, which I developed:

http://blog.stochastictechnologies.com/easily-host-multiple-...

It should only take a three-line change or so to let you host it on GAE. Feel free to email me if you need any help with it or anything, and use wwwizer.com to get the www record.
Unless you intend to do development for iOS, buy a PC and dual boot into Ubuntu. Even if you really need Photoshop of Office, you can run them on the Windows side. You'll feel dirty, but you'll be fine.

With a Linux machine, you'll have an environment closer to whatever server your application will run (nobody deploys on OSX and nobody sane deploys on Windows), which is a bonus. Plus, package management will save you lots of time. If you want to partition your machine on several environments, you can use Linux containers to do that and have many little Linux "servers" running without interfering with your desktop and taking up very little resources (much less than full blown VMs would).

Disclaimer: I am writing this on a Mac. I love Macs, but I work on Linux.
This is exactly why you don't base your entire business model on a third-party service.
On stackoverflow the criteria for voting are considerably more concrete, yet it's clear that voting there is strongly biased by vote counts. HN might have more rational voters (though look who's saying so), but they're still human, and the fuzzier criteria, shorter active lives of posts, and volume of comments to scan through probably more than make up for this.

(I could've made this same reply to other comments here.)
upgrade failed, unity/compiz does not work with my graphic card. none of that detected, worst ubuntu upgrade so far.
With noscript, browsing still works fine, you just have to explicitly allow the javascript you want/need rather than allowing just any site to execute code in your browser.
"A crucial aspect of the system was the need for genuine information to be sent along with the deception material."

An important part of misinformation is that truth is being fed in the same proportion as lies. If everything is a fabrication, that alone gives out valuable information.
This was one of the pages that helped me formulate my current recipe. High moisture content and not overworking the dough are key for me. It can be a sticky situation while kneading with all that water, but the result is worth the messy hands. One of the better ones I've made: http://www.flickr.com/photos/midnightzulu/3517525006/

FWIW, best pizza I've ever had was at Apizza Scholl's in Portland, OR. Second best was my own.
Inspired by this comment I actually spent 30min looking on Redfin. Most of the coastal land I found is listed for around $1-2M (for ~1 acre), from SF area down to LA. Check it out! I was actually pretty surprised by this.
I don't think it's ridiculous at all. Have you ever worked in the defense industry?
Shame on you Adobe! Yet another hole in Flash, isn't it time to pack up your tent and move onto the dust bin of history?

Furthermore it's more shameful to release an update for the manual update users two days after the automatic update users get it. Get over yourselves already. This is already being exploited, push fixes out faster or atleast at the same time.

Steve Jobs was so right.
don't be discouraged, it's par for the course.

we're talking about quality lines of code: debugged, qa'd, and working as expected. perhaps even after the customer has had a chance to peruse the beta. you will be surprised how much time you'll spend in meetings and how hard navigating and contributing to large projects becomes.

curiously, the number of lines of quality code expected by a developer has not changed much since "the mythical man month" was written, which was about IBM machines in the 60s, despite the obvious advances in programming languages and programming environments. it's still around 10 or so.
To have or to be?:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Have_or_to_Be%3F
I'd like some good reading on arguments against supply-side economics and its applications during those two presidencies. Even better if its from somebody who knows a little bit of what's what (you) on the topic. :)
I'm not sure that following djb in all things is the greatest idea ever, though.
Wonder if it was a response to criticisms posted here, then.
So, there's no way I can purchase music then? So there's nothing unethical about me pirating, then? Since it can't be a lost sale? That argument doesn't fly with the people who own the copyright and your argument doesn't fly with me.
In this space there isn't a 'winner-takes-all'. There is room for lots of startups without killing each other, and contrary to all the naysayers, JS on the sever is HOT!
Ahhhhh, Nick McClaren. Those were the days.

Incidentally, that's a thread that includes Tim Newsham, Wietse Venema, Daniel Bernstein, and Theo de Raadt. Read it! I do not acquit myself well on it. I miss Usenet, but I have gotten much less obnoxious in the intervening decade.
Might also be worth noting that Debian's disregard of the upstream (compared to say Fedora, which makes an effort to get patches into the upstream before using them), has gotten them into trouble on a few occasions.

The most prominent in recent time being their absolutely braindead patching of OpenSSL which dramatically reduced the entropy in key generation, which would have never made it through the peer review process of the upstream... Debian likes to think that they are the upstream of the projects they use, but unlike the BSDs they really are not.
The article mentions that just after it talks about connection limits.
I wonder if this is one of those things that's more effective when no one knows about it in advance. Otherwise it works like marketing to new hires which - at least it seems - might somewhat defeat the purpose.
No problem! Do let me know how you get on setting it up, and if you run into any project-specific problems.
Surely you're understating the time? 15 minutes sounds like the "happy path" estimate. Don't you have to think about mixed content and other edge cases? Or do these just not come up that often?
jrockway proposes one-way trips to Mars for politicians.
yes please! thinking about it more, it seems to me that one of the advantages is that each of your investors provides access to their network of companies -- most of whom are likely to be avid users of your product, so it's a win/win situation. but on the other hand, i've always heard that a a complex cap table is also a potential problem going forward. so i would love to hear what your thinking was.

and, congratulations!
I would be very surprised if it didn't, this should be the same as what shows under the "TTY" column from "ps -f".
Over the last 5 years, I've used FolderShare, Live Sync, Live Mesh, and Dropbox. The first three were made by Microsoft, and they all had significant data corruption issues where from time to time files would simply disappear. I've never had that happen with Dropbox.

So Microsoft has made three attempts to do what Dropbox does and has still not succeeded. I think there's more to it than what you're proposing.

Specifically, I think you're missing key ingredient #5, file conflict resolution.
with shopify's code size jruby needs 2gb of memory per process and we found that it spends almost all the time in GC.
I'm glad that you found a friend to upvote you, but that is a ridiculous retort. If you are going to spend the time typing a reply, you should do us the courtesy of making it worth the time everyone else spends reading it.

I wonder if there is notion of wall-time in the HN codebase, with which we could only allow a reply that took at least a minute to compose.
Interesting. But what reason is there to use this over one of the StackExchange websites?
Why does "Upcoming Office Hours" include "From Aug. 4, 2010, 2 a.m. to Aug. 19, 2010, 5 a.m."?
I remember his first reaction was to laugh at the iPhone for being too expensive. It's hard to think of any better example of missing the entire point.
I've been going to a simliar phase as you and the author in the last year (mentally I labeled it as "the loneliest year in my life (so far)"). My solution, as yours and the author's, is also to go back where my home and my friends are (this is still a month from now though).
I pretty much had the same problems too: meeting new people, having new colleagues and also do stuff with them, but never feeling quite connected.

So I've been wondering lately what this has to say about my personality. Am I just not ready yet to just leave what I call home now (and my friends and family) and start somewhere else again (maybe for a really worthwhile job in a cool city)? Or am I just the kind of person that is not cut out for doing this kind of stuff?
This uncertainty is also amplified by the fact that I have a friend who is about the same age as me, mid-twenties, who just last year left to live in L.A. and seems quite happy there.

Maybe you'd like to elaborate on how your life changed after you decided to go back and if you think you will ever try to live somewhere else (wherever that may be) again?
I'd really appreciate it!
I would call this historical fiction, not a biography. The author says as much (after tens of thousands of words that almost no one will read all of). Quoting someone else, he writes:

"As part of the narrative, I have included passages of dialogue. Dialogue— what words were said— is a fact like any other. It is not necessarily a quotation from an interview with me and I would discourage readers from inferring that one or both of the speakers is a direct source."

The article ends up being overwhelmingly flattering, and subtly balances the flattery by bringing up and then dispelling muckety-muck from the news, with an insider POV. And of course no one has to vouch for a word of it.
My only point was that the Casimir Effect doesn't represent the harvesting of energy, only force, force isn't energy, therefore the effect doesn't violate energy conservation. This is consistent with both quantum theory, in which virtual particles can't unbalance nature's account books, and energy conservation, a principle that stands at the center of most present physical theories. Here's an example:

http://arachnoid.com/conservation_of_energy/#Planetary_Orbit...
Totally OT- but I can't figure out why he was banned. A few 'Show HN' posts in a row (for the same product) maybe? He was probably just trying it at different times to get traction. Weird.
Quote the wording you think Trump used to organize an insurrection.

Juxtapose that with the wording you would be okay with him using to organize a protest.

Then try to tell me that the difference between them is "insurrection".
Corporate executives do not have a fiduciary due to maximize shareholder returns. If the shareholders and board of a public corporation want to quit making money and just throw massive parties all the time until the corporation runs out of money, there's nothing stopping them from doing so.

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...