jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
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Of possible interest to HN readers is that the system and all the official games are public domain:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3117/a_history_of_gami...

"After product rights reverted back to Smith Engineering, an attempt was made in the late 1980s to resurrect the Vectrex as a handheld. Unfortunately, the pending introduction of Nintendo's GameBoy in 1989 put a practical stop to such plans once and for all.

In the mid-1990s, Jay Smith generously placed the entire Vectrex product line into the public domain, opening up legal, not-for-profit distribution."

Consequently, it's well supported by emulators.
I always found rally games to be a bit off too. The only one I found to be acurate was a Peugeot 205 rear wheel drive car in whatever the playstation rally game du jour was 15 years ago (I want to say Colin McRae?)
Seems opportunistic and unrelated to the current pandemic. The author is discussing things such as food being "the biggest driver of NHS spending as a result of obesity, diabetes and heart disease." And food's "unsustainable costs elsewhere". Title is borderline irresponsible at a time like this.
It is very, very far from "good" on macOS.
We could do that too, if there was enough social trust to make it politically acceptable (the tracking, that is).
The second propaganda article from The Guardian today; it makes an analysis on the food supply and it throws social inequality for a good measure - is social inequality driving food production? Really?

What is next, Pravda articles? Russia Today?
As if other government did not fail in controlling the outbreak in their countries. In so many countries, governments denied that there was a problem, or did not immediately scale up testing, as recommended by the WHO, or imposed incorrect criteria on who should be tested, or denied that the virus could be transmitted before there were any signs of illness (while asymptomatic transmission was reported in scientific literature). Still most governments are relying on lock-downs and not on testing, like the WHO is stating. There is only one country where a massive outbreak has been controlled through massive testing and containment, and that is South-Korea. Some other countries, like Singapore and Hong-Kong, have been able to control smaller outbreaks in the same manner. But even now, when cheap and fast test are becoming available, they are not being used on a wide scale, often under the argument that they are not reliable enough. I believe that even a little unreliable tests are better than no tests at all.
IMHO, Deno's approach to package management, that is to say, no package management ("packages" are just source files that you'd import directly using urls or file paths), is a breath of fresh air compared to the status quo in node where to import some javascript that's already hosted at some url (say on github), you first have to "package" it by describing it with some manifest, uploading it to some registry at a different url than the original, and then "install" it using a package manager from that other url, and at the end of the day not even have any guarantee that the content of that thing you installed actually matches what you saw at the original url.

Deno's approach on the other hand is doesn't force any of that indirection onto the user, and is analogous to (and compatible with) the model of modules on the web. Package management systems can be easily layered on top of that if the use case actually warrants that extra indirection, rather than having it baked into the core of the runtime.
> I tried getting Little Snitch installed on Catalina and it has to contact apple before it can be enabled

(A) It doesn't contact Apple for permission; it's asking you, the user, for permission to access certain aspects to prevent malicious apps from encroaching on user privacy and security — in no part of the transaction is it phoning home.

Locking applications out of unfettered access to the system is nothing new nor particularly Apple-specific.

Please do not spread unnecessary FUD.

> This whole "ask apple's permission" thing really annoys me

(B) I will direct you to point A.
Perhaps they have tested it internally and it just doesn't really work?
I'm not sure that 'having it far easier than most' somehow equates to 'excellent' for anyone other than Bill and Ted.
Wow, seems everyone is going back and forth on side issues, not the technical WTF at the core of the story. Is there any legitimacy to an arbitrary stack limit, particularly such a low one, and especially in a way that's inconsistent depending on the type of object the function is attached to?

This is only exacerbated by the uselessness of the available debugging tools and Microsoft's general unhelpfulness.
I think company culture is what you make of it, especially in a startup. You have the ability to help shape the workplace you're in and if you don't contribute, don't complain.

For me, I want to enjoy coming to work because of two reasons: (1) Building a product that connects with me and solves a real problem (2) I enjoy working with the people I'm with. It's the sense of camaraderie you build. All that other stuff contributes to that.
Your sarcasm does not become you. Neither does your ignorance. If you actually worked in the field of color management, like I do, you would know that, as with subtractive pigments, so with LEDs: There is no such thing as a pure primary in the real world. It is impossible to create an LED or a color of ink that is mathematically perfect pure Red, Green, or Blue. Because of this it is impossible for an RGB-only display to display all colors that are visible to the human eye. (Let's exclude UV-florescence from the equation for the sake of simplicity).

RGB displays use color correction curves and various profiling tricks to correct for the difference between the pure primaries and the actual light being output by the LEDs.

Yellow LEDs can extend the color range of an RGB display into areas of the gamut that the display could not otherwise "hit". The same could be said for (presumably theoretical) Cyan or Magenta LEDs.
> I can kind of see why people didn't like him.

I think you are completely mistaken here. His personality (as evidenced by this quote) is actually why you have heard of him.

People didn't like him because he claimed they were doing wrong. And they disliked him even more because he had the statistics to prove it. Had he been humble, they would have disliked him just as much, but would have found him easy to ignore - and you would likely not have heard of him.

I have detailed a modern case in an answer below [0]. Had semmelweis provided a good scientific explanation, some of his opponents would have probably conceded defeat, but I'm quite sure others would have found something else to latch on to.

It still happens. See e.g. Atkins (of the Atkins diet fame). See, e.g. Shechtman (recent noble laureate, of the quasi crystal fame). You've heard of them because they did not shut up. But that's not the reason people didn't like them.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8901440
On this subject, I strongly recommend watching an illustrated documentary called "Money As Debt":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqvKjsIxT_8
pkill foo or killall foo?
Both go to a prearranged meeting point (e.g. the north pole).

This seems too easy. Did I miss something?
The first thing that comes to mind is that Selenium doesn't generate mouse move events when doing something like clicking two different buttons on a page, or when testing something like hover. So I would definitely concentrate on user-generated events, assuming that it's not easy to detect on the backend (via something like user-agent).
They didn't say they disagreed, and in fact there is very little consensus about food science. Even the article says that the process by which the time-restricted diet functions isn't well understood.
See here:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/set...

"-u The shell shall write a message to standard error when it tries to expand a variable that is not set and immediately exit. An interactive shell shall not exit."
Levels 51+ introduce a black and white mechanic that decrements or increment the tile instead of them all just increment. This does add a level of complexity.
This is exactly what I do also, all I use SourceTree for is to review my changes. I'll go back to the command line to commit and push.
Thanks for the confirmation and the additional background information.

So an open-source/free version of one of those "re-hosting" packages sounds like it would be useful for someone wanting to learn about cobol + mainframe development, but I can't imagine that ever happening (demand can't be too high) lol.
That's not the New Yorker's article title.
Stores will have a strong incentive not to advertise that they're using your service, as Nordstrom found out. Will you be doing anything to check whether stores post the stickers properly? Will you terminate service if they don't?

Euclid Analytics keeps their customers secret, so if a store doesn't post notices, there's no way for us to know they're using the service. Will you be keeping your customers secret as well?
The blog post: http://blog.atom.io/2014/02/26/introducing-atom.html
In the days of YouTube celebs and Twitch, I can see a new future for rally spectating.
I thought Senna was gifted when I saw that video of him driving the NSX. But this is something else!
I don't think it's possible to generate a general parser for the Journal Officiel in an afternoon.

It would make the author a _very_ efficient worker.
>Today, the interesting action is in frameworks. When I sat down with other faculty members at Johns Hopkins University to plan out a new course, frameworks dominated the conversation. Is Angular better than Ember? Is Node.js all that?

This tells more about the sad state of the modern university education that about the IT field...
> What about Vietnam, where most of the country is projected to be underwater by 2050?

For that matter, what about the Netherlands, where 21% of its population is underwater today? Or rather, 21% of its population is below sea level. They manage to keep the land above water. The article addresses this. ctrl+f "400 years ago"
It's a linear scaling factor for how many lines of code I tend to take to express the same medium-sized program across these languages.
> There's a difference in reaction between someone nervous of cops vs. someone about to die in the willful act of mass murder.

That's a pretty nuanced decision for the inspector to make. Polygraph machines and their operators routinely mess that one up.

I doubt that they themselves claim they can make that differentiation, and if they do so make that claim, I'd bet cash on it that it has been untested as far as accuracy regarding false positives.

Generally speaking, teaching 'technique' to a layman and expecting them to all be of equal caliber is just simply wrong.
This was an internship. Normal employees don't work these kinds of hours.
>It's quite obvious that much ignorance and xenophobia followed, but I don't think it crossed (laughably subjective) line of 'rabid.'

I suppose we could get into definitions of racism here. We're likely talking about "institutional racism", for which "prejudice plus power" is a pretty good definition, but I think perhaps "prejudice multiplied by power" might be even more apt. The prejudice was clearly considerable, but the power, and how it interacted with that prejudice, is what raises it to the level that I think could be called "rabid".
Unfortunately, the scope for many web applications, even big and popular ones, seems closer to mine than yours.
Could you provide the link to where the Cato Institute says that letting the person die is an acceptable option?
You could say it's even more narrow than that. It only applies to these two parties and this particular case. While it might be informative with respect to what and how this particular judge thinks, it's merely a decision on a pre-trial motion and provides no precedent that other parties could cite in future CFAA cases.
This happened to me - because of incense. Specifically, the Nag Champa in the Red box (not the blue box). It is super good stuff, but the machine does not like it too much.
A month ago:

'We'll release an Android version later'

A month later:

'We'll release an Android version later'

You consider this progress at least in terms of PR & communications?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8443309
My friends generally broke down into three groups, those who were to busy to hang out because of their career, their family, or they were into bad situations I didn't want to get involved with (drugs, alcohol, wrong crowd). This wasn't the case in my 20s but now that I'm in my 30s this is just how it went down. Ultimately sitting behind a desk paying a mortgage for 30 years outweighed the social aspect of being lonely right now in my life. But visiting Portland is like going on vacation in my home town and I plan on buying a rental with a garage apartment just for me to have a home base when I'm in town. With all the financial freedom I have I see this in a few years. But yes, my partner wasn't 100% down with the move, regrettably didn't move with me. Also watching friends gather and text message each other in the same room was a funny moment for me.
I entered John Wayne in the search box and it found nothing. But I know there are at least one or two of his movies on NetFlix.
looks really interesting, thank you!
There's an old saying: "The fish stinks from the head down."

A players hire A players.

Cheats hire cheats.
How does the foundation talk to the server?

Do you have to use php?
Yeah, I realize if you scroll all the way to the bottom and ignore all of the up-selling of premium access, you can see the real answer, but their pages are designed specifically so that you don't notice this and don't bother to scroll so far. I just use Experts Exchange as an example because they seem to be another company that uses SEO gaming techniques to get a PageRank that isn't really justified based on their content.

I'll admit, I have gotten an answer or two from EE, but at the same time I also wonder where they stole the real content from. These companies that do SEO rarely generate any real content themselves. They all violate copyright in flagrant ways.
I'd also suggest to focus on niche. One particular niche that I can probably think of right now is "pay as you go" or "prepaid" hosting which is only provided by nearlyfreespeech.net as of yet.

I think you can experiment with billing and can come up with an innovative sales pitch. Also honesty matters a lot in this industry. It's the reason why people who host on nearlyfreespeech.net, prgmr.com and linode.com swear by their service.
Three words: legitimate business expense.

I am not a tax attorney, but I would think everything spent with AirBNB providers during this period would qualify as research, and as promotion.
Although they don't seem to be all that well-informed on the topic, ironically, parody is a valid defense here — because they aren't actually marketing a competing product, I don't see how they could be infringing on the National Pork Board's mark.
is http://letsfreckle.com your full time career now?
since when is the milestone for bootstrapping "launch"? I thought it was always profitability?
1. Agreeing on it doesn't make it moral. [Edit: although it does create a moral majority, aka, the tyranny of the majority]

2. Trickle down economics at its finest. Where's the evidence?

I'll give you some counter-evidence: music after vs music before MP3 pirating. Seems like this vibrant cultural explosion happened despite all that lack of trickle down, huh.

By your logic the colonialists and imperialists did a favor for all those tragic natives. I mean, where would all those Indians and Indonesians be without all that wealth creation by the East India Company?!?? [Edit: or Apple]

The point is this system of IP is predicated on acceptance of not just winners but losers (at life), and justified with a generous self-serving of trickle-down economics.

[Edit, to insert an LOL at people who think IP wouldn't be created without necessarily oppressing foreigners and people born without silver spoons. Note, I am aware that I have to construct the connection, and I haven't done that here, but there's no point in this forum, abstractions like this remain couched as a conveniently theoretical debate, despite the very real lives that poor people lead]

[Edit, to insert another LOL at people who think that we must support our wealthy people's desire to create more wealth]
That is the governments job.

They aren't regulating an app on the store, they would be in this hypothetical scenario regulating the labor practices of a multinational corporation, which is for sure the job of any government.
No offence, and I can see that you've been downvoted but how do you actually propose solving this "unnavigable" problem? By bulldozing existing property that is owned by multitudes of private landowners and building new roads or something else??

Honestly, what's your solution?
https://usesthis.com/ has 1000 interviews which after a while, in my opinion, got boring. More maybe too many folks were using the same laptop and apps.

https://lifehacker.com/c/how-i-work is more diverse.
>it's not easy. it's not fast to run. it's not fast to write. it's not fast to read. it's not memory efficient. it's not fun

Was 2010 last time you used Java? All these things were addresses in lat 5 releases. I like Java for:

* stability

* fast to run code

* fast to write code

* mature libraries

* good access to many good programmers (bad programmers write bad code which runs slow, is run slow and is read slow)

Try Java13 with modern GC (ZGC or Shenandoah) or GraalVM. It's really fun, fast, modern. 4 years ago I was into Kotlin and Go, this year I'm back on Java.
I started wondering about the physics of removing 280W of heat from the tiny silicon die/dice. Is most of the heat conducted through the metal connections or through the package? What material is the package made of?
Yes, and it works way better with screen sharing for some content, which is most, nowadays.

Take for instance a big 3D game. It is much more bandwidth-efficient to compress the frames and send that over than to send the 3D models, textures and transformation matrices over the net. We still don't have PCIE Gen. 4 bandwidth for networking.

Okay, this is an extreme example. But most apps (just take Firefox as an example) send bitmaps over X forwarding anyways. I use Xpra for these, but waypipe should work a lot better, in theory (less round-trips, etc). Of course, it's better if the graphics toolkit is install at both ends and can render the stuff locally (which was the intent with X). AFAIK a few support that, I wonder if rdp doesn't specify something to negotiate its use on a per-client basis?
Perhaps just donate the money to the recipient's favorite charity.
> I'm going to go with the format that gives me dramatic size savings, thank you Google.

As far as I've seen, testing has shown that WebP is not dramatically better than JPEG, as long as you're using a clever encoder (like MozJPEG, which is what we're talking about). If you have evidence to the contrary, I'm sure the MozJPEG guys would appreciate a test-case!

> That said, I can see how it benefits Firefox users not to be able to render WebP... sigh.

Instead of spending energy on dubious WebP, Mozilla spends energy on improving JPEG (which benefits everybody now) and Daala (which will hopefully benefit everybody eventually). I think it's a pretty sensible trade-off.
“Buttons”

Not sure if we’re talking about the same thing with that plural, but the first thing I change on a new Mac is enabling tap to click. It works great and you can avoid the annoyance of the audible click.

The second thing is to enable three finger drag, which the moves into Accessibility settings about 5 years ago.
From the press release I had the same reaction as many commenters here: this seems like a terrible idea because any model that tries to be better at everything inevitably winds up being better at nothing.

But I want to be charitable and so I wonder if there really is a game-changing idea in here that the press release does a poor job communicating.

Could this wind up physically measuring a ton of stuff that hasn't been measured at a decent resolution before, and so produce genuine meaningful improvements?

Or is there really some kind of new viable "supercomputer" architecture unique to climate modeling that will pay off massive dividends?

The AI part worries me the most, since it can be a notorious black box where critical biases and errors get amplified without even being detectable. But are there actually techniques here to drastically speed up the production of expensive calculations, that are cheap to verify as correct?

Or is there genuinely a divide between earth scientists and computer scientists where neither side is benefiting from advances in the other, and there's a huge genuine opportunity here for a massively productive paradigm shift?

I'd really like to hope there's something of value here, and perhaps someone here who has worked with climate modeling and knows actual details about this project has some insight.
Yeah. Who needs a swiss army knife anyway. Just carry two knives, a can opener, a corkscrew, a nail filer, a pair of scissors, a saw, a screw driver, fish scaler, magnifying lens and toothpick.
3d printing an entire custom graphical plate with text already on it seems more practical in production terms, although of course you would be limited in design terms by the resolution of what you could get out of your printer.

It would be interesting to do 4-color printing on this as well - obviously you would not have fine enough resolution to do a true "screen" but you could do what amount to multicolor woodcuts. Wonder how good the "reproducibility" is, in terms of ensuring that the paper is always accurately aligned/etc. Part of the charm though, I suppose.

Perhaps you could do the block-printing equivalent of "ascii art" and use some pre-printed blocksets which don't correspond to actual characters, but which could be arranged to print some approximation of an image.

Or just ascii art itself although these blocks appear to be fairly big for that.

Pretty neat and fun little idea.
I think, like the dollar/taxes example, it is circular but self-fulfilling.

If you asked a central banker why they value gold, I suspect they would cite the "Rare but not too rare" and "Easily distinguishable from look-alikes" (in other words, hard to fake or counterfeit) points from the article.

And the average person, on learning an ounce of gold costs about $1780 (today), I think will perceive this as valuable - a small thing with such a high price. And if central banks dis-horde, the price goes down and the typical person sees it as less valuable.