jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> There is no metric by which Whatsapp is worth 19B, except for the fact that Facebook can spend that much money.

What if they're worried about an independent Whatsapp being a threat to FB's business model? As in, maybe Whatsapp isn't "worth" $19B (whatever that means) but it's a threat to destroy $50B of Facebook shareholder value? In that case it would be rational to buy them out to ensure that doesn't happen.
2020 is not far off but there is room for another recession before then.

There has been a lot of money flowing into equities and startups as well past few years - I guess it's at least partly because of QE (in the US, Japan and Europe).

But in general I think it's great there is money flowing into innovative companies, whether in some cases they are overvalued or not.
Its also ambiguous there are about 5 different, relatively popular "x64" architectures.
My grandparents were cremated, but then the ashes were buried in an old cemetery similar to the one in the article, with gravestones and all that. So "cremation" and "using land as a cemetery" aren't necessarily opposed.
I wonder what this means for the metro Provo/Salt Lake Area. I live in between the two cities and would love to have access. Has Google expanded to the metro areas of other Google Fiber cities?
The cloud vendors haven’t gotten “Kuberneted”. The whole concept of “lock in” is exaggerated. At a certain scale, you’re always locked in to your infrastructure. The rewards are too low in doing a wholesale switch of vendors, and when you try to stay “cloud agnostics” you spend more maintaining layers of abstraction and you don’t get many of the benefits of cloud services.

Kubernetes hasn’t changed the landscape as far as cloud providers market share. AWS is still the leader, Azure is still big in MS shops and GCP is an also ran.
There are quite a few examples of space companies that meet that definition, have you looked at them?
>It's up to the judge, the (grand jury), the tribunal, etc.

The judge has the power to let them search your property.

Nobody has the power to let them search your mind, and they can only do so by imprisoning you or otherwise depriving you of your rights.

The distinction between a search warrant and self incrimination is a big one. You should always have the right to say nothing.

If forensics and data know for sure you did something, the stuff in your mind is unnecessary. Either they have the weapon or not, so to speak. You shouldnt be placed in a position where the justice department "is entitled to" the knowledge in your head.
Traffic is just so hard to measure if you equating page views or hits, or packets with relevance, economic value, importance, etc.
I guess what jacquesm was getting at was that instead of extending C, the world should have left C behind a long time ago and transitioned to other, safer languages.

These days there are excellent alternatives to C, but of course we also have vast codebases written in C that would be too big of an undertaking and too much of a risk to rewrite in a safer language.

There may not have been any sufficiently widespread alternative in the past in terms of developer mindshare, and sufficiently performant considering how limited the hardware was in terms of both speed and memory and storage. There is also the issue of portability and of embedded platforms, and that remains problematic to this day in some cases but in other cases the possibilities for using safer languages are already really good.

Even in cases where an alternative was known and suitable, people in the past had legacy codebases that they were working with too that they didn't want to risk rewriting in any other language. So they just kept adding to the code that they had.

The legacy-code that we are sitting on now is so many lines of code that one might wonder, was it even justified that they didn't want to take on the risk of rewriting the code in the past, while there still was a chance to do it all in one go? Maybe, maybe not.

Either way, we can do nothing about the past, but if we keep growing the legacy codebases, the problem only gets bigger in the future.

We should not strive to rewrite it all at once, but we should use safer languages when we extend our codebases, and we should use safer languages when we start new projects.

Every line of code that we write today adds to the amount of code that will make up the legacy code of tomorrow.

Let's strive to make the legacy code of the future safer, so that our children may run their societies on safer software!
Those operations can choose to pay income taxes. A lot of small operations (contracting shops whose customers are businesses) will do just fine without limited liability. You can also limit liability on a contract by contract basis. Many people are incorporating their operations just to be able to claim business expense deductions on their income stream. This seems unnecessary.
Very relevant to mobile applications/websites with 3g connectivity. I recall seeing an interesting talk from Google about how the Google Maps team optimised the latest Maps API to send larger tiles less frequently to perform better among other enhancements.

Just found a video that talks about this here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcvx5QHTJ5U
Damn it, Sony.
I would say "pretty good" - which is probably why I bring it up. This particular office is also in a superb location which is a big factor to me.
Wait what you guys actually save time by automating things?
Its just insane how much legal garbage is thrown on the average person these days. If I walk in to a store, I don't have to be presented with a book on the stores terms of service, they all have the standard rights dictated by law (examples: can record video, can inspect bags, may refuse refunds for change of mind). Once you know the standard rules, every store is the same.

Now when you want to buy something on an online store, every single store has its own terms.
Thanks for these! My assumption is that hiring Keller means they plan to gain advantage by world class execution rather than some crazy architectural leap of faith.
"Ahead of the new year changes, one case has raised particular attention among observers – that of the Leave.EU domain, with speculation mounting as to whether the website would remain online."
...
"However, EURACTIV can exclusively reveal that ahead of the end of the Brexit transition date, the organisation migrated its registrant address to a site in Waterford, in the Republic of Ireland, in a move that is likely to provoke accusations of hypocrisy from commentators."
...
"The recent development has been long in the offing. EURACTIV reported in early 2019 that the European Commission had plans to revoke all UK-based .eu domains quickly after the end of the Brexit transition period, with the objective of taking all such websites offline within 48 hours after this date."
I take it seriously, and I'm considered a crusty old lunatic sitting in the corner ranting about imaginary security problems. I built my own version of WebPack because I couldn't trust the huge number of maintainers in the dependency chain for that project. Docker/Kube gives me the screaming heebie-jeebies.

The only time anyone will take it seriously is when they're hacked. And then their defence will be "but this is what everyone does! It's industry-standard".

I've come to accept it's a fact of life in the industry at the moment. Hopefully it'll change, but the only way I can see it changing is if the level of hacking increases to become intolerable. Yet there appears to be a high tolerance for hacking incidencts - it's accepted folklore that hackers are very smart people that can't be stopped no matter how good your system is.
In my country (France), as of yesterday, 45 635 people have died in hospital (having access to a ventilator with few exceptions) and 19 780 outside (no ventilator). So in my country, the majority of covid19 victims had access to a ventilator and in France alone, ventilation has saved around 90 000 people (for 65k death). I'd be surprised if it wasn't the case elsewhere in Europe too.

On the 1.8 million dead from Covid19, 500k came from Europe, which means around 750k were saved by ventilators there. It is already not “tiny” and I'm counting Europe only.
Great! I have done some user research for a similar problem, and what users look for in reviews is mainly a list of potential problems, so that they can decide if they can deal with them or if they are dealbreakers.
As I said, the report broke. Stop.
As the headline says.
And yes you're right that they "may be just using the FREE version", but it's a "may be".
Well it's quite possible the top 1% are already selling to each other at huge scales through the firms they own.

What really helps is being able to capture new efficiencies uncovered by innovation.
Yes I am so sorry for the confusion.

When we breathe, first the lungs fill up, as adults we exhale at this point. We should continue breathing until full lung capacity i.e until it pushes the diaphragm down which in turn pushes the stomach giving a sense of pot belly, if you have a pet or a child notice their stomach while they breathe.

There seems to be little confusion about chest/stomach breathing. We draw air with lungs which reside in the chest, its just that we are training our body to take deep and longer breaths we get a feeling that we are drawing with stomach

As PG says one needs child like curiosity, we need to child like breathing :)
Oh, sorry I forgot I also had user-agent checks in the code, good catch! archive.is checking was based on IP ranges, since they spoof their user agents as Chrome and use proxies. I removed that too now. All that should be left is a noindex tag on the 1,200 individual game pages at byuu.org/preservation (which I'm told is very important for web indexers; they're all auto-generated thin-content pages.) I believe both archive.is and archive.org ignore noindex anyway, and the full databases are on GitHub at icarus/Database. We should be all good now, but let me know if you find any other issues please.

I don't know how long it'll take for archive.org to remove the exclusion. Requesting it originally took a couple weeks. But they have my approval to start indexing it all again in any case.

I've already paid up for the next year of hosting, so the site should hopefully remain online at least that long, but I might not pay for it forever in the possible event I don't return, so if folks want it mirrored in even more places, now is the time.
It's not high quality or well researched. It uses biased sources. Trump took action in January, despite the ongoing impeachment circus, but the post contains a sentence ("Trump could have done something between 4-6 weeks sooner per briefings in January") that implies otherwise. The house even voted to undo the action Trump took against the virus.
I didn't think of this. Thanks for sharing!
Source?

Even so, they regularly fail on even delivering two days after shipping, and even more often on one-day.
According to The South China Post.
Maybe the authorities should start sending sham tests that always test positive. Honestly what difference would the test make if they keep meeting people. Even after the event, they expose themselves to infection
"Simple carbs can impact me heavily!"

What effects do they have on you?
This is also evident in the analysis that I just submitted - COVID-19 Cases / Capita (1M): https://public.tableau.com/profile/neil.panchal#!/vizhome/CO...
If it's just the last week, I wouldn't worry about it. The world is changing dramatically. A little escapism and an aversion to spending brain power on deep dives is perfectly normal.

You may be having a low week. I find that I cycle on about a six week cadence. At the top I absorb deep information like a sponge. At the bottom I stare blankly into space and don't do much. I'm not diagnosible as bipolar, but there's a bit of that. It's been a constant pattern of my life and I beat myself up over the lows for some years until I just accepted that this is what I am.

You also might be telling yourself that you're interested in something, but you're not (possibly not anymore). That's fine, too. You might develop interest again. You might have developed enough depth where the things you're thinking you should look at are simply not interesting anymore and you need to find deeper material.

Don't beat yourself up over it. Take the pressure off. Relax. If something comes up that you want to play with, play with it, but consciously don't make it a goal or expectation of yourself. A few nights ago I started writing a pedagogical implementation of a relational database in Python. A couple weeks ago I wrote tetris in JavaScript. It would be so easy to say, "Oh, now I have to make this project a finished thing to show I can do blah blah..." But I'm not going to. I'll pick it up again if I feel like it. Or I won't. No one was paying me. They were for my own entertainment. It didn't matter if I didn't finish.
That's a classic example of a tangent (single point of contact, leading in a completely different direction), and flamewar tangents are most of all what we want to avoid here.

Current hottest topics are like black holes that suck in any unsuspecting spaceships that fly nearby. Our goal is to steer clear of those, because they lead to the most repetitive and inflamed sorts of discussion, drowning out anything that is quieter or more obscure, and ultimately, anything interesting.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, they already call out terrorist activities, which makes me wonder what "violent extremism" refers to. Maybe something as simple as taking a hard line against abortion and peacefully holding a sign outside a clinic could be considered violently extreme?
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Does Android TV have more than the de-facto standard Android 3-year support package, or will we have to throw our TVs in to the land-fill in a couple years?

Big news this year is Qualcomm is committing a whole extra year to security updates, so now you can keep using your car/tv/phone a whole 4 years! Oh boy!

Remember when we had that brief window, where phones had to come unlocked? And we had a surge of DIY folk making all kinds of neat Android distributions? Feels like such a far-off hard-to-imagine glimmering age to me now. Before the Republicans set about insuring the corporations had whatever rights they wanted, dismantling this basic consumer & ecological protection.
> i couldnt find any other versioncontrolled articles.

Did you look? All markdown files aside from the readme are articles. Or did you mean articles which were altered after their initial creation? https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil/commits/master/L... is one, it was added in 1803 and modified in 1986 and 2014.

https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil/commits/a191667d... is also one, with modifications in 1986, 1987, 2007 and 2013.
Thanks for clarifying Andrew, I missed that point.
Here's something that you should remember about using pipes and fork(2) in Python 3: By default, O_CLOEXEC is passed to the pipe(2) system from the CPython runtime.

This means, that reading the read end of the side in the parent process after you forked will not work. Thefore you should explicitly change fctl flags and remove os.O_CLOEXEC:

fcntl.fcntl(readfd, fcntl.F_SETFL, fcntl.fcntl(readfd, fcntl.F_GETFL) & ~os.O_CLOEXEC)
And South Korea has the highest rate of soju drinkers.

If you’re gonna pull a statistic out of a shadowy place, at least explain its link to the question.

(For the record South Koreans drink twice as much alcohol as Italians)

https://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/global_alco...
Go read any of the old HN threads on AirBNB. Saying this had these kind of effects was decried as “hotel industry propaganda.”
I mean unless the houses were going to sit empty otherwise, then of course there would be an affect. Not really sure what the article is trying to say.
That was a lot darker than I thought it was going to be. With a name like Cabinet Magazine, I thought I was going to read about a better kitchen sink.
I also recall a talk about the diverse kinds of people in math. One (I hope I don't misremember) was Hilbert, held up as an example of someone who could seem frustratingly dense -- he'd ask many questions during a talk. But once he started wrapping his mind around things, he could see very profoundly.

In contrast, the other was a fast calculator like von Neumann; maybe it was von Neumann. The point of the talk was that there's no single type who does good mathematical work. And the moral was that you shouldn't feel bad if you feel confused and foggy while others seem quicker on the uptake. This could also describe Hilbert, Einstein and Grothendieck.

(I hope it's clear that my knowledge of famous mathematicians is very sketchy, based on half-listened talks and random snatches from books...)
I wonder how many years we are going to have to wait for a congressional hearing on PayPal (which afterwards will change nothing but at least it will be on the national agenda for awhile).
Why would any developer or engineer who has even an iota of consideration for privacy, web standards, and, indeed, humanity want to work for such a repugnant company as Facebook?
Hmmm 200k pre-orders and climbing. The haters may have some humble pie to eat.
Alternatively, only use SDK in login page, and keep the login page separate, or use a click even to load it. And after login is done, you no longer need to load the SDK ever again.
I think the driver ratings could be largely derived from app data. How close to pickup do they get on average? How close to drop off do they get on average? How erratic is their driving? Do they speed a lot? Other traffic violations? A lot can be gleaned from the GPS and other data. The only remaining factor would be the human side of things: are they nice, is their car nice to sit in?
It sounds like you've never been to London? Who says 'TFL train'?
I guess they deleted that part now :)
Well, if the queen would take the king, the queen was able to get the king basically naked. Which I suppose is some kind of problem in the USA.

I played this game as a kid, and I loved the sounds and especially the visuals. It taught me chess, and it enforced me to explore how to beat the computer with different moves (because I wanted to see all the moves, or a specific move). So it was fun to explore.
...something like "all of the above"?
I've tried slicehost, linode, and mosso (now rackspace - cloud servers) they were all pretty similar. I think the new linode pricing now matches the old mosso pricing.
Simple: because std utils are programs that do what they supposed to do. if problems bound are well within the definition domain of a std util then its all good. Supportability and Extensibility is way too generic for you to draw a line saying std utils can handle them all. After all, they are programs, not programming languages.
How could it not? The angular momentum is just disappearing?

Edit: Here's a link to an illustration, as your link provides zero information in that regard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGO4LtCctTk&t=141s&ab_channe...

I clearly see their rocket rotate around its center of gravity, with the same angular velocity as the arm it's sitting on, while the center of gravity is moving on a circular path.

So, again, how is it not spinning? Where does the angular momentum go?
> but taking out many tens of thousands of dollars in an attempt to become a librarian (one friend of mine did just that) is just stupid, financially speaking

The problem is, society needs librarians and other "non-STEM" science - we're right now, for example in Germany [1], seeing with the cluelessness of politicians on Russia how utterly ignorant it was to cut funding for Eastern European studies back in 2005. And mind ya that's Europe where "student loans" aren't really a thing because we don't have absurd tuitions because the government pays for universities.

We haven't found a way to incentivize people to take up these studies, and we absolutely need to, otherwise we are going to lose so much knowledge over the next decades. My s/o for example has a brilliant master's degree in art history, but funding for positions that match her experience is scarce to say the least, and covid didn't exactly help. She's currently working for the government to help fight the pandemic, but it's a sad waste of potential how many people like her are simply left behind.

[1] https://www.pnn.de/wissenschaft/slawisten-kaempfen-fuer-ihre...
The thing that is really dooming Russian armor in Ukraine isn't really the ATGMs and RPGs being deployed, it's the complete lack of functional thermal gear. Other than IR spotlights on most of the tanks I've seen, they're lacking in the high quality thermal sights found on most Western tanks and IFVs. If they use the IR spotlight, it's like shining a flashlight in a dark room. Everyone knows exactly where you are...

This means two things. First the UA owns the night to a large extent. This gives their SOF and TDF troops the ability to hunt the Russian vehicles at night and survive the encounters. It also helps them during the daytime as well; thermal sites are very handy in low light conditions. A hot tank engine stands out a long ways to a thermal site.

Even the Javelin CLU used by the UA has incredible thermal sites. This give troops armed with it much better situational awareness. I believe the NLAW has a good thermal sight as well, but it's disposable.
"Fun" fact: Microsoft set up Minecraft to be open to everyone by default. Consequence: griefing groups that scan the web and blow the ever living shit of whatever they can find on those random servers (TNT blocks can be supplied by item duplication exploits): https://youtu.be/hoS0PM20KJk
Frankly, I've never seen a portrait format poster :)
Some good work in this direction: https://github.com/robbert-vdh/nih-plug

Also, have a look at the vibrant Rust Audio community on Discord!
Also the Idea is to first create a framework and then create a ( framework ) drag and drop layout builder on top of it with some nice examples where user can chose from examples and customize it, for easy yet nice looking prototyping. I like bootstrap but to me it's too similar looking on almost every website that is using it.
Hmm, y'know, until this thread I had never heard the word "spook" as a term for a black person. Anyone know the etymology?

If anything, if you'd told me it was a racial slur I would have assumed it was for white people, since spooks are ghosts and ghosts are popularly imagined as being white.
Replacing the 3 additions of gapin the loop with a single subtraction (and an increment):

void condense_by_removing(char* z_terminated, char char_to_remove) {
int offset = 0;
for (; *z_terminated; ++z_terminated) {
if (*z_terminated == char_to_remove) {
++offset;
++z_terminated;
}
if (offset > 0) *(z_terminated - offset) = *z_terminated;
}
*(z_terminated - offset) = 0;
}
Reddit advertising ad been bought previously and independently, so yes, it was free in a sense. No additional cost was incurred, and the author made sure to point out that it might not have been a great deal if their situation had not included complementary advertising (or that's how I understood the blurb about strategy, anyway).