jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Whenever I think about politicians lamenting about the deepfakes, I can’t help but wonder if they’re attempting to get ahead of Jeffrey Epstein new. Epstein allegedly ran a blackmail operation by recording people in “compromising” situations on his island and ranch (and probably other places).

“That wasn’t me on camera. Must be a deepfake!”
Too bad it's GPL, is there something like this that's MIT, BSD, or Apache licensed?
Look, no one needs to take a loss on anything, per se.

First, we tend to build really huge homes. Make it possible to build small homes and that makes it possible to increase housing supply without tanking the price of the large houses.

Second, remove some of the tax protections that make housing super cheap for people who have owned it a long time already. This is a major issue in California and it's one people aren't going to want fixed.

It is a subsidy for The Haves who got in before prices went up and intentionally locked in their low costs and pulled the ladder up behind them. Their prices are low. It's everyone else who is paying for that.

You don't have to tank the prices on real estate in California to begin remedying this. Believing you do is part of the problem.

Start bringing down administrative costs and administrative barriers to building more housing. Ease up the choke hold on the supply.

You can have both "more butter and more guns" if you help people make their lives work. It's amazingly hard to be a productive member of society while sleeping in a tend and dodging the police. Getting back into housing tends to bring costs down while improving ability to earn, etc.

Stop flushing the lives of The Have Nots down the toilet in the name of preserving wealth for the privileged few. It does not have to be a tragedy for the already privileged to dump less on the less privileged.
I think the emphasis was one "great". I.e. your parent wants to say that this thing Joel wrote was not great.
That article you posted is silly.

Regarding the first paragraph: well of course these are going to be literally translated; why would you not translate words like "search engine" or "browser"? Do you want the French to use the actual words "search engine"?

Regarding the second paragraph: actually, most of the words one would put in that category have translations: web (toile), driver (pilote). "wifi" makes sense as it is (as it was coined by an international alliance); "modem" still makes sense in French (modulateur-démodulateur).

Regarding the last paragraph, again, most of these make sense. "Fonts" existed way before computers and thus have a valid French word; "download" was appropriately replaced by "télécharger", from "télé" (distance) and "charger" (load). Again, why would French people use the actual word "download"? The former allows one to guess its meaning even if they have no clue what the concept of downloading is.

There are a couple silly things ("courriel" being one of the few valid complaints, and even then the same argument as for "télécharger" still holds), but overall it's really not crazy that a language would translate words so that they make more sense.
Short blog post about hitting my goal here: http://pragmaticstartup.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/my-first-da...
> UK society has decided that girls are not destined for IT and that needs to fucking stop.

That actually sounds universal.

I think a big part of choosing a career/education track is having role models. If there are no women now in tech, then girls will not be inspired. Imagine how many boys are inspired by Elon Musk to work on cars and rockets.

Quotas are not the end game. It can be seen as a necessary hack to kick start the process.
Agree on nested functions. Gcc has them as an extension but the last time I looked, clang did not. A pity.
In my state, the utility owns the power lines and is responsible for trimming the trees.
I was maining a ThinkPad a few years back and wanted to switch to a beefy desktop. I went into Micro Center and, instead of doing my own build which I totally could have done in Micro Center also, bought a PowerSpec PC with a Ryzen for not much more money and considerable time savings, under the rubric that I could always upgrade it later.

I couldn't be happier. Their machines are pretty much white-box builds. Some of the cases are a little ricey but they are fairly easy to take the covers off of and the internals are nice to work with. The motherboard is a bit weak, but like I said, it can be upgraded, and it comes with enough power supply to support all but the most extreme loads. Not a bad starter choice if you want a new gaming or otherwise tweakable PC.
I have been using version control of one flavor or another since I started down this career path in the mid 1980s.

My home projects went from SCCS to CVS to SVN to GIT over the years. But there was always some form of version control, even for my home projects. I generally followed what I was using in day to day work, but with out all the process modeling, just the base version control.

Briefly in the mid 1990s I also dabbled in 3DFS and Plan9 for date based file systems. Those sort of negated the need for explicit version tracking systems, but neither idea endured the test of time.
why investors don't fund dating https://andrewchen.co/why-investors-dont-fund-dating/
Anecdotally, this seems to be a typical use case for LibreOffice.

Both my mom and my sister use LibreOffice for "everyday" office tasks like resume building and simple budget tracking, and it's what I recommend to all of my tech-indifferent friends who need to do light office work but don't want to pay for MS Office.
Might be big for bigger vendors too

The POS terminals for BlueMercury (a national cosmetics chain) are iPad Airs with a tap-to-pay reader bolted on them. This would remove that bulk, expense, and potential point of failure.
It looks like something written by a non-native speaker, doesn't it? They also have the following:

> With its fast-charging batteries, the device is capable of staying alive for 48h straight.

"staying alive" just sounds like a terrible choice of words for a medical device.
> Other than that I wish more unification was done on ML algorithms and dynamical systems, just in general. There's too much crossover to ignore.

Check out this work, "Deep relaxation: partial differential equations for optimizing deep neural networks" by Pratik Chaudhari, Adam Oberman, Stanley Osher, Stefano Soatto & Guillaume Carlier.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40687-018-0148-y
Toyota and Honda, being Japanese companies, also treat their older employees as indispensable, and keep them on typically for a lifetime. The institutional knowledge that these employees have is beyond invaluable. Having experienced older employees on the floor and the lab allows them to sidestep a lot of what might be called "obvious issues at a glance that can be fixed in an hour" to an older employee, that would otherwise be a reverse-engineering nightmare plaguing a newbie for a month.

These same older employees will be less effective if "poached" into another company though, since so much of the experience they have gained is with proprietary tech. Institutional knowledge is very real, and Tesla has only just started accumulating lifers with whom they can leverage that knowledge.
I don't get why it's a problem for companies to let people go who are actively advocating against the companies interest.
I think you're right. They use terms like "final pixel" when they talk about it, which leads me to believe they're capturing the background and not just rerendering in post.
I think the biggest wins they get from it are that the actors can see what they're supposed to be standing in front of and that they get realistic lighting on the actors and other props from the environment
That depends, is the policy:

a) As an employee, you are not allowed to make statements about internal matters on behalf of the company.

b) As an employee, you are not allowed to talk about internal matters outside the company.

If A, then I have no problem. Companies have PR teams and random employee #13554 might not have all the information about an issue.

If B, I have a huge problem as the first amendment is a thing that exists.
> where I'm from
Where is that? And is maligned that much more common than traduced? Is either one intelligible to the average person in the street (wherever they are from)?

Anyway, I quite like to read a word that I have never used, it enriches my vocabulary.
The grammar of the English language does not forbid one to write in Greek, but if you choose to write in Greek only, you will compromise on a lot of people being able to understand you.

The same with standards, and you are misunderstanding on purpose.

If Google chooses to not support simple HTML, then they are choosing to not support countless accessibility tools, and they know it. Some blind people will have a more miserable life because Google attained a de facto monopoly, but does not recognize some of the moral obligations that people like me feel should come with such a position. "With great power comes great responsibility", or maybe not.
No?

Hooks law is an approximation to a material (and spring) property that sets the PDE up. Sin(x) is the solution.

But I could be wrong :S
You can use the browser's built-in framecounter.
Funny thing: I got an offer from Aol last month.
If people were as interested in car accidents as they were in terrorist attacks, the media would hype those just as happily.
1.5 Tesla, according to http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BaBar_experiment (I don't think this kind of magnet can, in practice, be upgraded, but corrections are welcome)
I don't buy that not raising money slows growth. Your growth is a factor of finding product market fit. Fast growing companies are not doing it because they spent millions on a super bowl add- they are not buying growth (and when they do it turns out to not be real, and thus you end up with the situation like groupon)

Fast growth is about finding a product that resonates with the market and leveraging that.

That takes time and attention-- not money.

And what do you give up when you chase VC money? The time and attention of the CEO who should be the one finding that product market fit opportunity!
We removed "with zero memory allocation" from the title, because it may be misleading.
That changing background color makes my eyes bleed.
Depends on your present. I like to make a choice before buying things. Especially coffee.
Not at all, we need to cut back on emissions everywhere. That also applies to Americans, who emit 3-4 times more per capita than what is sustainable.
Title is a little dramatic. Saying they smashed the truck when the window glass broke when it shouldn’t have but everything else was the same is inaccurate.
You don't buy a trailer, you rent it for €20 for a few hours (or a few more bucks for the entire day), move whatever stuff you needed to move and then bring it back. No storage or HOA issues.
This is just a longer worded version of Rewrite It In Rust :-P
In earlier times, identity was mostly a function of social relationships. This seemed to be a lot more concrete than abstract concept of identity that is popular in industrial societies.

Here are some other things that might inform/create identity besides political opinions shared on twitter: race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, occupation, consumption preferences, skills, activities, appearance.

All of these are ideas to some degree, but some are more concrete than others. But ultimately, identity itself is an idea and I don't think it can be fully separated from other constructs of the mind.
Perhaps they did it on purpose as a marketing gag.
You see them everywhere in urban and rural Australia too, though the aussies call them ute.

Honestly if my family is going to own just one car, it will be a SUV, instead of a sedan/compact.
One pain point we have run into is the inability to fail over to a previous master that only has access to other WAL logs. That is, we have nodes that can see each other's WAL logs, but not each other's full database. Last master can come back alone, a previous slave can come back alone, but a node that went down as master and came back after having missed transactions apparently cannot.
Whatever the fine details of the ruling, the proverbial floodgates opened immediately after CU.
Kudos! Truly, Dart has redeeming qualities! Incidentally, this code is the best argument I've seen for "American-style" date writing, with the month first. Or would it be as easy in Dart to override integers with a "DayMonth" operator?
Hey guys I'm selling lemonades and wondering if people just want to have a cup in a sunny afternoon. If so, how do you define a good lemonade? Should I also think about adding ice to it?
Thanks, Demir
Before I comment, I want to clarify. I'm not trying to come across like a jerk.

I certainly think there are things about the current system of employment that can improve. But you can negotiate what you get.

I stand by the statement that you don't always get what you want, but you can compromise with an employer and meet in the middle. Digging your heels in (like unions often do) isn't very productive.

If you don't like the terms, you can look for employment elsewhere, right?

One other thing to consider... remove the gatekeeper/middleman. By that, I mean work for yourself. It's not easy, but you have more flexibility to charge what you want, and go after the things that are important to you, in your work.

In addition to working for yourself, I'd like to add that having multiple streams of income, even small, can give you a greater degree of freedom.
I've been using https://www.goatcounter.com and it works great. Nice and simple and I can turn off some tracking features for things I don't care about.
After a recent story on HN about all the horrible tracking Disqus started to do after being acquired by an ad-tech company, I ditched it and Google Analytics on my semi-dormant personal website. The process of fixing it got me interested in working on my site again and I ended up upstreaming the patches into the Hugo theme I use[1], so now everyone with that theme can benefit easily. I ended up using GoatCounter[2] after examining several alternatives in the market, predominantly because it was free for personal sites, but also because it was very no-frills which is all I really needed. I also appreciated that I could control retention rate and other configuration that might affect my visitor's privacy to collect as minimal amount of information as possible.

I don't think there's anything wrong with having basic site analytics, but I appreciate that there are now alternatives to Google Analytics that don't try to do the pervasive tracking that's become commonplace online.

[1]: https://tristor.ro/blog/2021/02/05/ditching-google-analytics...

[2]: https://www.goatcounter.com/
Believe it or not, $50 is great for a "self service" company like this. No enterprise sales teams pushing complicated billing or contracts, just customers (mostly devs/startups) choosing what they need without endless upsells. Looking at churn and seeing that per-customer number go up over time is the real tell here.

Keeping it simple is actually very hard :)
Okay, so weight the costs by how many people experience them then. Oh! More people live in those big cities? Huh. And those cities are the only places with jobs that have experienced decent wage growth? Man.
How is it GDPR compliant if you're sending the IP address of the visitor to that service? Not saying that it can't be used, and not saying that they would use / store the IP in a non-hashed way, but at the very least I will still have to disclose (and possibly opt-in approve) the use of that third-party service to my own users.
> They are also:

- Get funny when you need to pass binary data.
I don't see how, unless you're counting Windows application installers as single-file executables.
Let's imagine a scenario that could result from this:

1. DJB criticizes NIST and other standardization institutes and their curve selection choices

2. CFRG fails to recommend a curve (or a suite of curves) for TLS WG

3. Microsoft refuses to adopt Curve25519

4. Everyone else does

5. Interop problems

6. ?????

7. Everyone who has to clean up after this is aligned strongly towards standardization processes.

That's how they are a problem.

(For the record: This isn't a conspiracy theory, I don't think anyone wants this to happen and is actively trying to manipulate things to make it happen, it's merely a hypothesis on what could happen.)
Apple is introducing a pretty big gap between their MacBook Pro line and the new MacBook Air if this is true.

The current MacBook Air 13" has 1.08kg while the current 13" MacBook Pro has 1.57kg. That's a pretty big difference if you carry a laptop almost all the time.

For me, losing both USB ports, the SD slot, and having to carry a USB adapter and converter would be just inconvenient.

If they really removed the SD slot, why wouldn't they instead replace it with a MicroSD slot? It seems like microSDs are very popular right now, have become insanely cheap, and fit into every camera with a normal SD slot through adapters.

Why would they drop the thunderbolt port? Again, if this is correct, Apple could of course be working on a Chromecast-esque thing you can carry around and put into the HDMI slot of the TV, connecting to it over 802.11ac WiFi or so.

No charging port? Ok, maybe Apple is developing a high-power wireless charging technique, but I have my doubts. Possibly the port is just on the back.

Eliminating all bezels on the sides of the keyboard for all models of the new MacBook Air (only one model, the 12" one) seems exaggerated. I would much rather have a slightly bigger MBA with some bezels (it is also comfortable to rest the hands on them) and a decent battery (the current MBA's is great).

My preferred solution would be for them to keep the current 13" MacBook Air, give it a retina display, USB 3.1, and maybe upgrade the processor.
- team was not scrapped by jeff, at least not until large number of people walked out due to mismanagement

- prototypes that worked (and were of phone size & shape) existed more than 2 years before launch but then (as mentioned) team walked and it all had to be scrapped

- hw team often undercut sw team by replacing components and not telling anyone about it

- hw team often made mistakes of the very basic variety (two separate sets of pull-ups on a single i2c bus)

- some parts choices were motivated by personal interests of people in the hw team, even against their own data & analyses. This was allowed to proceed

- some of the management made the team look very foolish in front of vendors (asking questions that made no sense in the current millennium)

- sw team was kept busy by endless meetings with no end in sight, which significantly cut into any chance of productivity
This is one of the top things people always asked Kickstarter. In general Braintree now seems like a better choice since it lets people pay with Payapl. Though I don't know if it could meet Kickstarter's needs to hold onto the money until a certain point.
Thanks for your advice!

My co-founder is currently working on a true marketing site. I'll be sure to pass this along.
Thanks for suggesting another tool to look into! I only glanced at their homepage, but it looks like they may be using Swagger under the hood because some visual elements are similar and the functionality is also similar. It does appear to have many of the features that I am looking for, so it definitely warrants further investigation.
If you haven't heard of Schiit, it's a fascinating story of a small company that builds high end and low end headphone amps/dacs, for much less money than competitors. In CA.

One of the two founders wrote an online book about it here:

http://www.head-fi.org/t/701900/schiit-happened-the-story-of...
Thank you for testing it on Windows. I just got an Azure instance, so I should start doing proper tests on Windows before releases. Thank you!
I just posted this a few weeks back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8684640
By definition”, I begin
“Alternative Medicine”, I continue
“Has either not been proved to work,
Or been proved not to work.
You know what they call “alternative medicine”
That's been proved to work?
Medicine.”

- Tim Minchin
How many of these failure s are due to insufficient testing on i18n?

IMHO, using texts to replace icon based buttons is clever to simplify the working of screen resolution adaption, however, it does increase the possibility of inconsistency between different locales. I still remember NYTimes.app for iPad displayed ugly aligned date texts which is just too long to fit into the space left for them, only in Chinese locales, which they do not officially support, and I doubt that they really did testing on it.
Yes I agree

Also in a similar idea, I think PostMarketOS, LineageOS, /e/ foundation, etc. are nice for privacy minded people on the short-term, but on the long term if we want things to truly change, we have to take both hardware & software independence like PinePhone & Librem 5 are doing.

If the foundations you build upon are too hostile towards you, on the long run you'll spend all your time & money fighting them instead of achieving you original goal.

However sometimes it becomes near impossible to do your own thing. Google has infected the whole manufacturing world with their own Android HAL & specific drivers and now it's impossible to find any competitive modern SOC running standard Linux decently (with GPU, Linux drivers, etc.). Which is why PinePhone has an old crappy chip and Purism took an automobile chip for their phone. And even that might disappear as IoT/Cars/Planes/etc. are using more&more Android instead of Linux. Even Microsoft is moving to their own chip.

The situation is very sad and extremely anti-competitive, but soon, the only way to run your own platform on some modern hardware might be reverse Eng (if that's even still legal by then)
If multi-region deployments weren’t an enterprise only feature, Nomad would be a lot more appealing for me since Kubefed is still nowhere near ready.
And the moment that exists most of the issues the author currently ascribes to C will also be true for Rust.
Well 50gb for a complete SDK and compiler suite and IDE isn't that large. Visual Studio, the comparable IDE for windows starts at around 20GB but can easily exceed 100GB if you include all the features of the product. For Linux, a complete development tool chain for C++, Java, and Python with all the associated libraries will easily exceed 20GB. So Xcode is in the ball park. The difference between Xcode and Linux toolchains is that the latter are broken up into smaller pieces that can be independently updated and Linux has package managers that handle those updates gracefully.
2. Ah, I did set it up (and it had to do it by hand to dual boot). It's just all these things added up--they're table stakes for an OS.
this is amazing. good work! unbelievable
This is about Francis Bacon the contemporary artist.

Why are there so many famous people with the otherwise uncommon name 'Francis Bacon'?
Where order isn't specified, that doesn't mean it can "be reversed". It's just not part of the relevant state. So, I would say that's orthogonal to the issue of reversibility of computing.