jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hi, you're right; sorry for being sloppy.

I simplified the term bank teller to banker when I wanted to pose that problem to some non-native English speakers. I did that reduce some "distraction" — the term 'teller' (or bank teller) is uncommon in most regions other than North America. But when posting it here on HN, I forgot to put back the original phrasing.
Thank you. I'm checking out auditd now.
> And it would be an injustice for me to be unemployed because my employer was forced to pay Silicon Valley wages.

No, it would be good, because it would mean that they were more efficiently utilizing their current workforce, probably through technological advancement that should ultimately benefit the entire industry. Technology is almost entirely driven through higher labor costs and dictating better conditions for employees. The benefits of technology improvements are also not zero-sum (equal to their costs to develop or maintain), and are redistributed through those higher salaries and through taxes.

If you end up unemployed at that wage level because your skill level has not made the new cut, there are other things you can do. Wanting to program but not being able to find somebody who wants you to program at the minimum wage is no more tragic than wanting to program but not being able to pay your rent doing it.
You could be tracked by anyone, not just Google.

Private browsing doesn't save your search history, clears your cookies/sessions, doesn't save auto-complete suggestions. This is more about keeping things private from other people who might use your computer.

But as far as websites' ability to track you this isn't really all that effective. Yes, logging out of all your other accounts goes a long way but there's still plenty of ways to track people. Incognito mode does little against sites that try to fingerprint browsers.
actually chat apps started decentralized, irc was a protocol and it was by far the best communication tool
I’m the founder of a YC company in the current batch focused on solving this exact problem! https://www.emergetools.com

We parse Obj-C and Swift runtime metadata to determine size contributions of individual types and functions in your app. We use this analysis to post PR comments with granular size diffs to help devs write smaller, better code.

I tried it out on the Uber app and immediately noticed a disproportionate impact from their code-gen dependency injection framework, Needle. The codegen is responsible for over 30k classes in the app binary, and contributes over 10mb! In general codegen is a common problem with Swift binary sizes, and the fewer reference types generated the better, it even helps with startup time!

We’ve written a blog post with case studies about how 7 of the most popular iOS apps could reduce their size: https://medium.com/swlh/how-7-ios-apps-could-save-you-500mb-...
I like the use of a virtual DOM and the custom tags. Custom tags is what makes Angular easy to use. But I would like to see some benchmarks. I'm afraid parsing every single byte of every single html template is slow.

Riot also needs widgets. Lots of lots of widgets for material design widgets for making desktop and mobile apps, and twitter bootstrap like widgets. Good developers are lazy developers. They don't want to make an entire eco system.
Living in Manchester, this amuses me too.

This discussion is very reminiscent of the debate over skeuomorphic user interfaces. As with the transition from physical interfaces to virtual ones, which has drawn interface designers towards the use of skeuomorphic elements to varying extents over the years, we are in another period of technological transition away from normally aspirated internal combustion towards quieter, more efficient means of making motion. To ease the transition for the conservative masses, some degree of skeuomorphism will be needed at first (although I personally think that creating synthetic engine noise is a horrible, horrible idea!).
There are plenty of non-authorized biographies around, which no one would think to call "fiction". Not being vetted by the subject does not preclude accurate research.

Basically, it looks like you're implying the author is making stuff up. If that's indeed what you're trying to say, it's fine. But please state it outright.
I take it from the article, nothing but a statement from the safety agency asking "car manufactures" (not even mentioning Tesla) to not misrepresent their data to the public.
> In the general case, callbacks are slower due to the need to keep creating stack frames over and over, instead of leaping into already-existing ones in progress, and things like Go will always have an advantage there.

Theoretically it's the same asymptotic cost. If you have state that has to be saved from I/O operation to I/O operation then you have to store that somewhere. In Go you would store it in the goroutine stack; note that allocating a goroutine stack requires an allocation. In Node you would store it in the callback environment, also requiring an allocation. In theory an optimizing JavaScript engine could reuse the same captured variable environment across multiple closures if it's the same, resulting in the same asymptotic performance as Go.
When journalists and their associates, friends and family are threatened in the name of 'national security' we should all take note.

This is a turning point in history, the first time for me when the mask has slipped for just a fraction of a moment. That this led to the story of the Guardian laptop destruction is a second piece of evidence for a machine that is spinning out of control.
Giving credit where it is due. Specter was inspired by simple

https://github.com/gschier/simple-blog

I wrote about it here

http://www.staticshin.com/inspiration-behind-specter
Not a D3 expert myself so hard to know how "big" each of the bullet points are...but the interpolated zoom is pretty slick: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/6301817

And custom geometry transforms: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Geo-Streams#wiki-transfo...
I have a Nokia N86, I love it, and use it alongside my android "phone" (which is basically a tablet for my use case).

My ideal design would be an Android-powered Blackberry Torch format (with a slightly larger screen).
NHTSA doesn't PUBLISH ratings above 5 stars. Regardless, the 5.4 IS relevant.
More people are hacking their diet, in other ways than simply changing the base ingredients but keeping the same macro ratios, and keeping the accepted nutrition guidelines. In other words, it is not much of an improvement over the status quo that's making the USA fat.

If Soylent fails, it is also because of the inherent failure with the accepted nutrition guidelines.

The other people who are hacking their diets, with great success, are commonly referred as the Keto community. We don't have “tired headaches” like the poster.

For us, 45g of fat and 400g of carbohydrates seem way too unhealthy. Make it the other way around and we can talk.
He has a website, that's the reason.
I take issue with the author's assertion that IE9 / DirectWrite font rendering is decent. It is not.

Screenshot: http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4bvoyUBFG1qz8fb2o1_400.pn...
(More info: http://aggregated.alanhogan.com/post/719242884/richard-fink-...)
Sure they could--provided you aren't using them in a way they approve of.
Dreadful post. Why, exactly, does he have a hard time believing it? The post doesn't say; it merely re-iterates that the author is incredulous. Closest you get is this:

"What ever happened to looking at the team, their vision, their track record, how well they’re executing, is the product solid, etc."

Which doesn't dismiss the point of the original. Say you look at those things ... exactly how good could they be to outweigh the fact that the CEO downwards are extracting exorbitant amounts of value from a fledging firm? The original article's point is: never good enough.

There are similar truisms in many fields. (eg, the now well-cited example that the only thing that truly dooms a relationship is contempt). Finding them takes experience, and incredulity doesn't counter that.
For something so basic, I always find this very tricky to get right. Interference from global state can sneak in all from a lot of different unexpected ways.

One of my games allowed people to save replays and levels to the web. The online infrastructure, creation of the editor and debugging of replays dwarfed the time taken to create the game in the first place, making the game take over 4x as long as it otherwise would have. (Note the levels and replays list is only from the last day, never got around to doing an all time best.)

http://www.rocksolidarcade.com/games/stuntpilot2/
For those using jvm languages (Jython anyone?), Apache commons VFS provides similar capabilities.

http://commons.apache.org/vfs/
The Readability extension helps with the font size and formatting but not with the very long paragraphs and lack of section headlines.
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This is what I see...

> moustachehedron 10 hours ago | parent | on: Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool

> *******

> Hmm, doesn't seem to work for me...

When YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
Credit risk modelling is a Political Objective. They can't be separated. The only place they are separated is in the figment of someones imagination. The use and investigation of these models does not happen in a vacuum. The real question is, does better modeling help society? And that is through and through a political question.
A short system design doc with a working prototype is vastly superior to a 50 page design doc with no code.

Think of it as the scale model of the house in the original example. It’s a way for sake holder to see and feel what they’re going to get.
I think far less would be needed for each person.

If Britney Spears can have conservatorship, why can't other mentally disabled people?
Okay, we're in agreement there. Homeless people's problems by and large aren't their fault. Certainly the solution isn't pointing fingers at them.

I guess the main thing I'm trying to say is that I take issue with the parent comment. I think it would be a huge, absurd mistake to take the funding for programs that meet material needs and instead give it directly to people with mental illnesses, drug addictions, and other issues. If these people were in shape to handle money, they'd likely have some. They need help, and cash is not help.

So... what exactly do you mean by "giving a damn?"
This is an all too common a problem with mega corporations.

People write blog entries or tweet hoping to get those viral through HN or other forums, in order to get some attention of these corps on our "small problems" (in their view).

Like the WSJ quarter page ad (how much was that?), aren't all of these just bad workarounds?

With profits largely hinging on the large numbers vs relying on each and every customer, all the metrics-driven work is bound to leave everyone from the fringes in the dust.

Megacorps are a reality, but how do we solve this issue?
hugged to death? 6pm sat 13th feb australian eastern summer time

(7:00 am Saturday, 13 February 2021 UTC)
I'm not impressed. The flash demos which were linked to were weak - slow, and non-intuitive. And he didn't really have an argument to back up his claim. He pretty much just said, "well sometimes you'll still want to use flash." Why? I didn't see a clear reason.
I hate "wide screens" with a passion - I call them short screens instead. My pet theory is that the LCD manufacturers like short screens better because they can sell fewer pixels while still advertising the same diagonal length.
The estimated IFR for this coronavirus is ~.05 to 0.1%. Even if it turns out to be something extreme, like 0.5%, it's not a big deal for the vast, vast majority of the population. But lockdowns and economic catastrophe are. They are a big deal for everyone. In this case the needs of the many are being overridden by the needs of the few.

If the shutdowns/lockdowns go for more than 4 weeks, I think we'd have been better off just letting the disease run wild. More people will die from the economic issues at that point. Might be too late already.
Is it really that odd that "innovation" is slowing when the most lucrative professions for those with technical acumen do not further scientific knowledge, or technical capability?

In the 1990s the thing to do was work at a consumer website, in the 2000s it was hedge funds and finance, in the teens it was large tech companies.

While the technical skill required to work in any of these areas is considerable, many not involved in tech do not view the output as progress. This may be the greatest complement to those who work in Tech - or it could be a sign that the incentives for what is viewed as true innovation are misaligned.

That being said, as of 2021 we have the following items that would only be dreams when I was a kid.

- Private space companies planning mars missions within the decade.

- Solar and wind are the cheapest sources of energy

- Nearly everyone on the planet has a mobile computer connected to a broadband connection.

- Consumer cars can almost drive themselves in specific conditions

- The most desirable cars are electric and get 300 Miles per charge.

- Almost anything that can be done, can be done over the internet.

It's not quite the extreme shift from the 1940s to the 1960s, but progress is happening.
My policy regarding unsubstantiated rumor is to ignore it not go trying figure out if it's true or not. The burden is on the person spreading the rumor to back it up not on me to do it for them. If you had linked the above in your original comment it would have been of marginally more value than than the unsubstantiated statement.

That said your link does not in fact substantiate your statement that I can see. It is speculation on twitter also with no substantiation. Rumors frequently have a long chain where links in the chain use previous links as substantiation. It's why rumor is so unproductive in the first place. It poses as fact but if you chase it far enough frequently ends up being false or misleading.
True - it was voted up by readers.

Of course, with the large contingent of SF articles I see here, wouldn't daily news covering the Giants and the 49ers be valid as well?
https://www.google.com/search?q=define+malware

"software that is intended to damage or disable computers and computer systems. origin: blend of malicious and software ."

The regard that people hold for these pieces of software aside, most of them are not actively malicious. Yes, they're annoying, but most of them are not doing anything worse to you than what the major ad networks are doing.

I hate that, I block that behavior with noscript and adblock, etc. But it's a stretch to call that malicious.
Preventing single-sided nuclear holocaust by creating mutually assured destruction.

Plans were drawn up and advocates were seriously proposing to enact them: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-pentagon-estimated-204-a...
It is still true. Google is an exception, it's certainly not the rule.
Also, I've started to work with a great designer on further improving the search UX.

+1. As a developer, who is also the sole designer in the team, nothing pleases me more, when someone does not try to apply common sense for design/UX.
Warning: This is a little off-topic.

This is a great announcement, and hopefully good news for both companies. However, I want to point out that this post is a classic example of what annoys me about so many startups' blogs:

1. What is blekko? I've never heard of it, and there's not a clear link to the homepage in the post, only to the results pages, which still doesn't tell me a lot...

2. What is skrentablog? What does that mean? Who is skrenta? Why am I not on blekko's blog?

3. What the hell are "auto-fired slashtag categories"?

Now, I can click around and figure all this out, but I doubt many people will. I'm sure I'm guilty of doing this too, but it might be worth it to take a beat when writing our blog posts and remember that most users who hit your page have no idea who you are, what you do, and they probably don't really care much.
My rule of thumb is that if you apply math operators to it, then it should be a number, if not, make it a string. There are still rare cases where you use a number as an id because you're trying to save on space, but typically not for a web app. I've also found that there are even cases where you don't need record ids. Statistical data, for example.
There's nothing wrong about it at all; it's a completely reasonable due-diligence security mechanism.

First and most importantly, employers cannot remote-wipe your phone if you haven't paired it with their Exchange infrastructure. Remote-wipe is part of the technical contract you enter into when you link your phone to your company's internal infrastructure. Therefore, while it's totally reasonable to be outraged at the prospect of your employer wiping your phone, the answer is simply "don't let them".

Why do IT departments need this capability? That's easy: when you synced your phone up to their email system, you collected an unspecified number of company secrets. Some of those secrets come with a legal obligation to safeguard them. In a surprisingly large number of companies, some of those obligations have theoretical criminal penalties attached to them.

Turning off your Exchange access doesn't get rid of secrets Exchange disclosed to you already. Companies turn over tens or even hundreds of employees a week. It's absurd to suggest that they'd leave this matter up to chance, with or without a "scrub your device regularly" policy.

More to the point: when companies lose PI, PII, or financials, they end up in the newspaper. Usually, when there's even a reasonable likelihood that data has been exposed, companies are required to notify impacted business partners, incurring contractual and legal expenses. Even if you just left the phone in a bar, and the thief is almost certainly just going to wipe the phone anyways. It's naive to suggest that companies accept the risk of landing in the paper or in court every time someone loses a phone.

It's also perfectly reasonable to point out (bad) IT departments that require you to tie your personal phone to their email systems. By all means, bring up "remote-wipe" when they refuse to buy you a crappy Blackberry instead of letting you B.Y.O.
> As far as I'm aware there's still no real progress on getting better curves (e.g. curve25519) into TLS, despite a lot of noise on the ML, which is a real shame.

I thought Google was pushing for it to be adopted in TLS 1.3. Did everyone else reject that idea or what happened?
<3 Linus
I was in the Air Jordan shop the other day and I saw a tank top made of Cordura®. Courdura® Fabric is now becoming more and more popular in the sports clothing industry. I decided to do a test on this fabric and see its laser processability. Passingly, I made myself a camouflage purse.
Honestly probably what you already know. When you're effectively a nation state like SK (with all due respect), it's super easy to have conversations among all the players about linking (all) the traffic management systems to the modalities to the consumer experience, air or ground. Koreans are very used to multimodal transit, and have a rapid adoption rate of new technologies. If you're comfortable creating an integrated("open") information traffic system, agree to conform to standards, things like literally leaving your car stuck in traffic to drive itself to the office and switching to an electric scooter that your car automatically booked for you just up the street from your location becomes a lot easier. A lot of the primitive to create new transit systems are there, it's the cooperation/integration and government will that is missing, South Korea has these in spades.
Can we stop the "user prison" stuff?

I've got an iMac 2020 here, I log into iTerm2 and macports has every things I want, installed cleanly and co-operatively with the Apple frameworks and kernel.

I'm running Firefox and Thunderbird and Office 365, all native. I also have suppler supported clients for iMessage, Whatsapp, Telegram, Skype, Spotify (whether Electron or not).

I have developer utilities like Dash, which is one of the best documentation browsers ever, I have native UI neovim with VimR, I have menu bar utilities for monitoring, cloud sync with Google and Microsoft (and iCloud if I wanted).

How exactly am I in a user prison? I'm running the Beta Big Sur and the only bug so far is that the Karabiner kext doesn't load.
You guys didn't have phones?
Creating perfect types for every single input is also an anti-pattern. Most of our needs fall somewhere between "works pretty well" and "formally verified". Riding herd on the type system to prove ever more invariants about your system is usually a waste of time.

It's reasonable to put a little more effort into it along API lines. But there's a reason that the compiler doesn't make it easy to define an integer type that can hold values between -7 and 923091.
EMR was obviously inspired by Google. And arguably the whole idea of using huge numbers of cheap x86 machines, rather than more expensive servers was inspired by Google’s search architecture.
Oh, I understand. Not sure!
I've been saying this for years! There's a lot of hype in tech around "backing up" physical things with scanning technologies. But you simply can't do it perfectly. There's no such thing as a perfect "backup" because reality is aggressively analog.

A digital copy of a painting is way better than no copy at all, but it's not a replacement. You can't carbon date a digital scan, etc.
But does this make a difference in practice? I’ve been to China only for short business trips, so I can’t judge. But when I looked at the city and talked to people in China and outside of it, I didn’t get an impression people are oppressed or suffering. I don’t claim I have the evidence, but it’s just that so many people here paint a grim picture and I’m afraid it’s only based on US propaganda.
I really like “Smell Detectives” by Melanie Kiechle (a little review - https://ivypanda.com/essays/smell-detectives-by-melanie-kiec...). It is a book that focuses on a concerted effort by physicians and public health officials to promote hygiene in the United States’ urban centers. So, pretty informative and interesting if you are a fan of something like this ;)