jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Apart from the fact they've actively stated (repeatedly, during their main presentations) that running arbitrary code on a mac will not be changing.

For a company that seems sometimes to go out of its way to not give any information on anything it doesn't make sense to clearly and concisely make that statement.
Heads up – the linked article has not been peer reviewed yet: “Preliminary draft January 5, 2021–Please do not cite or circulate.”
"22. Without adequate funding, an idea won't get off the ground."

Maybe this should be the first law?
If I'm not mistaken, that equals 10,000 times the volume spilled by the Exxon Valdez (250k barrels).
Hm, that's an interesting way of looking at it, to be polite.

So, how much would you pay to prevent me from, say, burning the Mona Lisa? Or pulverizing the Statue of David? Or bombing the Sistine Chapel?

I don't think it's valid at all to assume that everything can have a dollar value associated with it; that would mean that the word "priceless" would be meaningless.

...and I happen to think that the value of life in the Gulf is pretty priceless.
The problem is when you get people who don't understand the issue, hiring people who do. And setting the price.

Also, the problem with these jobs boards is that you are competing with people in poorer countries, where wages are not as high in developing countries. There is no way you can do the same work at their price.

On top of all this, the hirer might be starting out at an incredibly low price, since it is not a huge priority, then increasing the price, although even for a low price this seems very low.
However, I think it is unfair to attack a Swedish guy (who probably speaks English as a 3rd or 4th language) for saying "small people" when he probably intended to say something like "little guy" or "ordinary people"

A misunderstanding that I believe is at the heart of the lyrics for _Common People_ by Pulp :-)
Reminded me of Paperbak (www.ollydbg.de/Paperbak/) which prints out paper copies of your files that you can later scan back into your computer.
Thank you! The language used looks exotic! Guess this is one more thing that makes Hacker News unique.
First, you have to take any article that calls out a trend without providing any numbers with a grain of salt. Second, he seems to believe that this trend is global and not local. That is, that internet comments as a group are all becoming more superficial, rather than a particular forum's posts becoming that way over time. I don't think I agree.
actually, both are acceptable terms
Actually, the NSFW section is only 0.65% of the site traffic. I think the most income comes from some casinos or this type of ads.
This kind of discussion/question always amuses me - because there is a relatively high chance that there is some form of porn on screen (as part of work) in my office most of the day :)
I'm not sure you deserved to be down-voted because it's a legitimate question.

Fortunately I don't think that anyone has tried to claim that posting to HN makes you a hacker. It's (news (of interest for hackers)) rather than (news of interest (for hackers)). So posting doesn't mean you are claiming to be a hacker, just that you are interested in the stuff hackers are interested in.

By the way in my view some of the most interesting hacks are done in Excel (for example the guy who wrote an Excel 3D engine - http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3563/microsoft_excel_r... - no one can seriously claim that this isn't a hack in the best sense of the word.) Making constrained systems do things they were never designed to do is practically the definition of hacking.
I'm no Microsoft-hater but that really doesn't sound like Microsoft.
He's clearly talented. He not only got Playboy to run his teabagger handjob, but he got them to run it anonymously and (presumably) to pay him for the privilege.
My programming background is fairly extensive in non-functional languages. I work in finance, and the company I joined uses R for a considerable amount of model prototyping.

I'd really like to switch to Python+numpy/scipy, but I haven't been able to find an equivalent of a data.frame, or some numeric+string data structure that allows for easy slicing on both.

Does anybody have any suggestions?
Well, I shouldn't say "clear" necessarily - I know this is a point of contention, and there are good arguments on both the Stallman side and the Torvalds side. I don't really know where I stand myself, honestly; I'm still deciding.

But regardless of what position you take, it seems as though RMS' decision to go ahead and push through the GPL 3.0, even though the community was clearly divided on it, wasn't necessarily the best thing to do. It's been bad for Gnu in general, I think; and the fact that RMS has popularized the sort of insulting term "Tivoization" hasn't helped.

Of course, I can see how people might disagree. After all, the whole point of Gnu is to stand against the tide of nonfree stuff in society - and standing against that tide means often doing unpopular things. From that point of view, all this stuff about getting community support and getting everybody to agree before moving forward is actually a distraction; the Free Software Foundation is supposed to encourage people to do what's right, regardless of whether it's popular or not.

On the other hand, I have to say that, at the end of the day, I think Free Software has to stand for a larger kind of freedom, even beyond just the software and hardware spheres. And that's why, while I actually tend to agree with RMS that what Tivo did was sort of shitty and anti-communitarian, I tend to feel as though it really can't be against the law for companies to do what they did. Torvalds and the strong contingent of kernel developers who are anti-GPL3 are correct, I think, when they say that you can't simply disallow distributors (be they individuals, organizations, or companies) from designing their software and hardware to work in a particular way together. If what Tivo did is forbidden by the community, then all kinds of really worthwhile and useful things - upstream version control, security updates, hardware optimization, etc - get forbidden too; at least if we follow the GPL3 license. This means less freedom for the people who help create software, regardless of whether they're malicious or not; I don't know how I feel about that.

But of course maybe that's a fair tradeoff for what that extra user-freedom it gives us. I could go back and forth on it all day, and often I do. Like I said, I don't think the GPL3 was introduced quite right, but it's more of a leaning I have than an actual conviction. It's a tough issue.

What I do know, however - and moreover what the whole community agrees on - is the Free Software is essential, technically, economically, and morally, for building a better world for computing.
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mgijmajocgfcbebo...

I double-click the word, and get
"If you have tenacity, you are very determined and do not give up easily."
This seems to be a re-submission of a page by the same person:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007597

Was this deliberate?
Another vote for Swedish. I'd pay a lot more than 9.99 too ;)
It started a bit earlier than that. Sony's WebTV came out in 1996. Which fed perfectly into Microsoft's paranoia that the web was about to make Windows irrelevant.
I'm wondering how many of those who drop out of college to start companies succeed -- and by success I don't mean Zuckerberg or Gates type of success but have a profitable company and make enough money to live a comfortable (not extravagant) life?

I believe college is not for everybody or at the same stage of life (i.e., you could go back if the company you started doesn't work out). But I do agree with Thiel's point that a degree provides some level of insurance.
> Who's going to seriously invest in an online word processor or spreadsheet with Google apps squatting on the territory? Just MS.

There are 6 listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_suite

Google's word processor began life as a startup (Writely). It now has real-time collaborative editing from Google's Etherpad acquisition.
I'm glad someone is stepping into this opportunity, but it's plain to me that Apple had originally intended to release the iPod Nano as a watch. Look at the default clock and the square dimensions. Perhaps this developer will eventually discover the reason for Apple's trepidation--or perhaps this is a rare Apple misstep.
>It’s a free tool

If by "free" he/she means giving Google the easiest way to track everyone's movement on WWW...
Yeah, but most /businesses/ that use it and force their employees to only do so because they mistakenly believe upgrading will incur a heavy cost, when if managed correctly (just lift the restriction on your employees) the cost is neglible...
That's quite a touching story. Now I know how to handle it if any of my kids ever disgrace the scientific method,
Linux, Emacs and Org-Mode http://orgmode.org/

Anything else is just heresy and witchcraft :)
Perhaps if it was able to influence the future of the internet, some of it's other problems would be solved?

I would argue that Africa actually will influence the future of the internet. Considering there's about 15% of the worlds population there, that's over 1 billion potential customers!
i've never understood why some are so averse to ads as a business model in new media... it seems as if facebook/twitter are in a real place to sell me stuff i might actually want, which could be a great service in and of itself.

sure - the execution isn't quite there yet - but it seems we'll get there in the next 5 years? i don't work in the industry so i could be misguided - will the actuality be more akin to a bunch of spam in my twitter feed?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7312467 that is
Oh, for clarification: "after having been doing it that way for 12 years" means, I did it wrong for 12 years!

The above described method has proven itself to be superior to what I was doing before.
Because if you're concerned about Facebook's privacy standards, why not just give all your information away to anyone who knows how to break a Rails app? At least those people have earned it.
As far as simple visual illustrations go, this is the best I've seen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-p8yZYxNGc#t=6m31
> The TSA posts are manifestly off topic

The guidelines leave an opening for politics and even religion, so long as you're contributing something genuinely new, which has been true of a few of the TSA stories.

The rest need to be flagged aggressively.
Clearly Facebook stock is worth more than your company's stock.
I view this as a win for everybody, it will avoid a lot of duplication of effort and fragmentation.
Heroku would be easier for some, but not myself. I'm not a Ruby developer. I do most of my work in Java and dabble in Python for the occasional project. AppEngine fits this perfectly.

We spent three years working on DotSpots on the EC2 platform. While you can certainly boot up an instance of your application and get it running, there's still a lot more infrastructure work required to keep it going, scale beyond a single webserver, etc. On top of that, you've got to keep something like Pagerduty running to make sure that your instances aren't wedged or your MySQL box isn't running close to its storage limit.

The big benefit for me was being able to chose a language I'm strong in and just deploy something that automatically scales. This is particularly important during the early phase of the project where you are a lone coder doing all of the work.
Yes, agreed. They're very friendly and humble. The quality of their teas speaks for itself. I didn't know they had one in CA! A good tea dealer is worth so much win.
There was a quote from day[9] that really struck with me and wonder if anybody has some intelligent opinion on it.

"MMR [in context of systems like elo] is __not__ a measurement of skill, but of progress".
Did you stay in Malaysia? Or did you have to move around for economic reasons?
They are using the old 'foo and bar or baz' style as a cheap substitute for the ternary operator. That should be 'bar if foo else baz' in modern Python.
While funny etc. We have so much waste in the world as it is - the last thing we need is the toxic waste of a perfectly good machine being blended and thrown out.

I have never had respect for the 'will it blend' concept, regardless of how funny one may find it. It is simply wasteful.
There is a command-line program called "file" that attempts to determine the file type (format). It uses a series of known formats and returns the first matching one. I have found it useful to reverse engineer proprietary formats.
> Sleeping on the back will give them a flat head.

I'm fairly certain this isn't true. I would expect there to be a lot more flat-headed babies and people around. I don't think I've ever seen one. Not telling you what to do, just pointing out I don't think that part is factual.
No. You can't even do that in a desktop. AMD and Intel CPUs don't use the same socket or pinout.
My server's access logs are almost useless when I've got an SPA with a significant amount of client-side functionality.
This is a little bit easier to pull off when you product is less than a year old. Try doing this with a product that is 10-15 years old
Actually, that's one of the more reasonable strategies of this form. What would you have done to reduce the harm of that problem?
Ars Technica has a sceptical but optimistic/hopeful take on it:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/framework-startup-de...

Edit to add quote from Ars article:

Framework is promising an awful lot in its very first product—"thin as an XPS 13, repairable as a custom-built gaming PC" is a pretty tall order to live up to. We very much want to believe, but it's going to take a full Ars Technica teardown before we're completely convinced.

Although we're skeptical, we are hopeful—the fledgling company does have a pretty solid pedigree. Framework founder Nirav Patel was Oculus VR's head of hardware from 2012 to 2017, and he was a Facebook director of engineering beyond that. The company's team also includes design, engineering, and operations people hailing from Apple, Google, and Lenovo.
This is pretty cool, but how did you find this?
Excuse me if this is a little off-topic, but the article just reminded me of it. There seems to be a recent trend over here of stories in HN appearing before the actual news. See speculation about recent NASA and Apple announcements. Sometimes, I can't find later stories that tell "the answer".

What ever happened to new Google Phone? I was first planning to buy the Desire for programming, like you. But the possibility of a "clean" phone has me waiting...
I think nltk in combination with another reference is a great way to learn. You can start out with a small project, have it functional off the ground, then dig deeper.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... is excellent as is http://metaoptimize.com/qa/a stackoverflow style site which is active albeit specialized.
I'm happy I have some choice. With my bank I can refuse to enable it for my VISA, and there are some merchants I use where I can choose to use Secure3D or not when paying.

It's unfortunately obvious that the CC companies are pushing this as hard as they can, with no concern for customers, banks or merchants. :-/
Every time I see one of these articles come up on Hacker News I always think "Oh, I bet Anandtech's article must be out." And I go there instead of reading the one linked here.
ROS has really influenced the way robotics research is done at the lab where I work. A cohort of recent grads came in and replaced a lot of ad-hoc formats with ROS bags. It's also being used to exchange data and standardize interfaces in some DoD-funded work (i.e., not just student projects).
Why would a lyft driver be paying SF rent? The notion that low income earners ought to be renting in extremely expensive neighborhoods is nonsense.

If I can commute across the bay so can everyone else.
How do you and the author see this at all as a gender issue? The author says that coding is making "because it is widely perceived to be done by men" and that there are "gendered, capitalist benefits of being a person who makes products."

I am utterly baffled. Where does this even come from? How do you look at this issue and see even a whiff of anything related to gender?
I'm really curious how symbolic the old 'youth blood' myth were. As if they had some slight proof that it could work but did it in a cargo cult way.
"Are we to rely on physicians, who largely have no grounding in genomics, to actualize the genomic medicine revolution?"

I don't think this should really be the role of physicians, or at least not solely.

I personally really wish the public sector (here in Canada) would undertake similar efforts to 23andme. My group does to an extent (for specific cancers mostly), partly research-grade and partly clinical-grade, but we're very limited in scope and resources, and hence scale.

Add to that the crazy politics at play which incur huge costs in terms of duplication of effort (e.g. everybody's implementing their own variant annotations databases expecting everybody else to chime in) and also really limit how and what information can be shared.

For instance patient data is mostly anonymized, yet that doesn't guarantee you can share this information freely with other research groups or even clinical groups. This is only the tip of the iceberg though, the barricades faced by the public health sector here (and I suspect a lot of other places too) are only getting worse. Meanwhile, private organizations have practically no problems sharing information internally or plowing through (often using research backed by the public sector).

If we want genomics and the benefits that come with it to become more widespread, the public would need to demand greater transparency and efficacy from the public agencies that rule over the health sector. Of course, the public would also have to be willing to invest more (or better) in their health, which is considerably easier said than done. Finally, people working in the health sector might appreciate not feeling like they're going to get sued all the time ; their time might be better used if they didn't spend half of it filling in forms after forms or writing 100 pages validation documents every time they change a couple of lines of code... The public is, most likely unknowingly, largely responsible for that.
You don't have to trust them, you trust your credit card company. All you have to do is tell them its fraud and the charge goes away.
A single human driver can't kill other people at scale. Human drivers are predictable in aggregate, from decades of observation of driving patterns. Every single software update has the potential to turn the whole fleet into murder machines at once even if last week it was comparable to human performance.
I think the biggest issue is provenance and access control/logging—Drive doesn’t have a lot of great tools for that. Backups as well.

That said, I’m struggling to imagine how you could even efficiently process on the order of 1 PiB of data from Drive. Having that in a data warehouse or some object storage close to your compute seems required to make any good use of it.
How else are you supposed to differentiate between hardware drives?
The courts don't want to get involved with politics, hence the lack of evidentary hearings & dismissals based on technicalities such as standing, mootness, latches, jurisdiction, lack of injury, etc. A judge has a number of tools to avoid hearing a case.

This crowdsource site has a collection of the evidence.

https://hereistheevidence.com/

~~edit~~

To flip the standard around, the chain of custody has been broken for millions of the votes. This means these votes cannot be verified as being authentic or legal. Also the IT infrastructure is not secure, despite Christopher Krebs' claim. How do I know? Georgia's Election Machines was remotely exploited by Jovan Pulitzer's team. Pulitzer also has diagnostic technology which can forensically verify if a paper ballot is inauthentic.

America simply needs to do better. Third world countries have higher standards with their elections. This election (& others) is an embarrassment to the United States.

~~edit~~

To fix these reoccurring issues/embarrassments, we need the following:

* All laws need to be followed

* A full certified chain of custody for all eligible & legal ballots

* Audit ALL Elections

* Open Source ALL relevant Election Software & Hardware

* Public Domain & distributed Voter Rolls

* Public Domain & distributed Precinct data

* All Tabulation traffic is logged

* All Electronic Ballot images is saved

* All ballots are forensically audited using automated processes. The forensic technology should be Open Source.

* Equal representation of both parties with the poll workers, poll watchers

* Protect poll watchers from harassment & removal

* Ensure public health safety measures do not affect Election Integrity
I agree 100%. Of course that is what lots of people have said previously about similar incidents coming from the left but calls for prosecution and stronger police tactics were dismissed in favor of the less-than-peaceful actions because "reasons".

Personally I'm exhausted at trying to "score" the actions of two teams when in fact I really don't want either team to win. It has become an absurd attempt to decide which team is less awful while each side fools itself into thinking it exclusively represents political virtue.

I'm hoping that events don't escalate further and that perhaps there is some opportunity for the emergence of some alternate political parties and more thoughtful political leadership in order to let the existing parties fade into history.
Certainly although it is not completely safe to surf the Internet we should always try to follow all the recommendations in cyber security, for this one of the best blogs is https://demyo.com/
Don’t forget Snapchat. The app is closer to WhatsApp than Instagram
In fact there is clear evidence of this with M1. It has optimised instructions to speed up retain/release of NSObject subclasses, which is a frequent operation on almost all Objective-C and Swift classes. They also designed the M1 to support a memory management profile used by x86 (and not ARM) to accelerate Rosetta translated binaries. I'm sure there are more.
Interesting; possibly running under Rosetta? I could see crypto operations being very poorly emulated, and if it had to be translated first (if you only ran it once), that would obviously be even worse.
Is there a reason why there isn't a client that can work with matrix/signal/telegram/any service with open source clients available? Are there any existing OSS projects which have made any progress in this domain?

People are right, it doesn't solve the issue with Whatsapp, but it would mitigate some of the barrier caused by the network effect.
I'm also sceptical of walled gardens, something usable in this domain would make this less of a problem when some drama rises over Telesignix, switching clients is a lot less of an ask than switching everything.
From a security perspective, Signal seems like the winner. I just wish they'd invest in better design/UX across the board especially their desktop app. Their app looks and feels like a boilerplate Electron app.
Sometimes its about opportunity. I've been using Telegram for years with just a handful of people (and a bunch of bots...love Telegram's API). About 8 months ago my niece discovered that WhatsApp was owned by Facebook (so uncool) and switched to Telegram all on her own. I took that opportunity to onboard my mom and sister who then brought on some mutual friends. And just like that...WhatsApp was gone from my phone! This new agreement might hatch similar opportunities.
Her watches, why him, fog

A nice description why crypto.
Why would you pay more for faster DNS? Most browsers come with DNS prefretching built in, I doubt it really matters for a website.