jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Suddenly losing access to your main mail account alone is a pretty big deal already and can have significant impact on someones life. Now add to that the loss of access to services like google drive, purchased apps etc.. The Terraria youtube channel was locked too through this if I understand correctly.

That his immense frustration stretches beyond the plan to release his game on Stadia is relatable in my opinion.
> OTA updates to car firmware is widely considered to be a stupidly irresponsible idea.

On one hand, it opens the door to hacking, pushing a malicious update, etc (stuxnet much?). On the other hand, if it is never updated, then we will end up with a zombie network consisting of lightbulbs, fridges, and teapots (yes!)

Edit: sorry I could not resist adding teapots (HTML error 418)
Reddit's greatest engineering decision of the past 5 years is leaving up old.reddit.com
Pretty sure the word "emulation" doesn't apply. The Z-Machine never had hardware to be emulated, only a virtual machine to be implemented. Ditto CHIP-8 though.

For emulating a real system, the Gigatron would be relatively simple. The hard part would be the display because it is bit-banged into NTSC.
There this project of a guy who built his own Silicon Graphics laptop: https://web.archive.org/web/20080530004443/http://www.jumbop...

It is something that has been on my plans for a time to refurbished an old laptop, buy an HDMI to LVDS controller board and replace its guts with a well supported ARM SBC.

Wouldn't be the first time someone does that, neither I would go as far as building my own keyboard but it is something I'd like to do.
All the replies are missing the fundamental difference between learning physics and learning git: every animal on the planet is intuitively schooled from birth—even before birth by their DNA—in the daily practice of mechanics.

Learning git is a comparatively abstract intellectual pursuit. You can't assume people know how to practice version control or even what its purpose and utility is, therefore learning this way is going to be very hit or miss depending on the preparedness of the audience.
I wouldn't count on that. Flights to Australia in the first place are exceedingly hard to get on unless you upgrade to business class.

Secondly, Australia's hotel quarantine has been at capacity since June, and limits the number of arrivals quite aggressively.
Garage says isn't a goal either.

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/design/goals/

"Storage optimizations: erasure coding or any other coding technique both increase the difficulty of placing data and synchronizing; we limit ourselves to duplication."
You really have thousands of things you can get rid of? My house is a mess because my wife won't stop buying things for the kids but even so, I'm sure there's not 365x5 things in here I could get rid of, unless I could every sticker and crayon separately.
I think small business is difficult to start in current competitive market,as too many people try to start their businesses, and most of the survived businesses have their difficitation products or services comparing with others. I admit that big giants have their adventages, such as resrouces and capital. But small businesses are more flexible, and they could keep more focus on consumers, and provide better services to customs. In this approach, small businesses would aviod blind spot.
Do you think that when people make 1000+ table relational databases it's because a) it's fun b) they're stupid or c) because it's modelling something that is inherently complex?

Big data is neither big nor particularly complex.
This reminds me of the article about the developers and testers who worked on software for the shuttle. In all the years, they only had 6 bugs ever reported on the shuttle, all of which were fairly minor as I recall.

It's so true that bugs are now simply part of life, and it has to do with the speed at which development must happen. I wonder what the Black team of old would think of today's web development wild west sort of approach.

Here it is: http://www.fastcompany.com/node/28121/print - They Write the Right Stuff (2007)
Speaking of Softlayer specifically, they've diagnosed then replaced failed hardware for me (hard disks and power supplies so far) in 15-30 minutes from the time I opened a support ticket. One of the incidents was around 2AM local time where the server is and their response time was the same.
The Reddit people do read HN and do what they can with the resources and manpower available to them. It disgusts me to see so much knocking of Reddit on HN particularly when Amazon is usually the problem.

I would upvote your cheap shot if you administered a top-200 site with a technical staff of three.
Lustig makes a few great points, but it's important to keep in mind there are some who argue he is a "fructose alarmist" and argue it's not as simple as "blaming fructose alone." A good quote from Alan Aragon: "I would add that fiber is only one of the numerous phytochemicals in fruit that impart health benefits. Thus, it’s not quite as simple as saying that fructose is evil, but once you take it with fiber, you’ve conquered the Dark Side."

Some links: http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/02/19/a-retrospective-of-...

http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-ab...

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/research-review/straight-ta...

I personally don't take sides with either. Like most things in the nutritional field, a healthy balance is more effective for me than trending behaviors and ideologies (i.e.: no-fat diet, "slow carb" diet, Atkins diet, etc.).
Yeah, but Amazon is the 800 lbs gorilla in the room when it comes to the cloud. When most people say 'the cloud' they are referring to Amazon. So when Amazon has an issue, rightly or wrongly, the e tire sector gets a black eye.
... but behind Amazon. I much prefer their idea that the music actually belongs to the purchaser. This concept that it would need licensing is bass ackwards, and harmful to consumers. The only situation where it seems appropriate is if these services are trying to compete with the likes of Last.FM and similar and trying to be social with music, but we all know that Ping hasn't been a winner for Apple. The RIAA needs to start showing actual value in what they are doing, which I guess they can't, meanwhile we all march on to other things.
I'm just hoping that Google won't bend the merchants over quite like Groupon does. A 50% commission seems ridiculous. Hopefully the competition can push that number down.
Yet you promote it on a non-niche forum. What else could you have possibly expected?
Which is a pretty big feat by itself in a time when most people were afraid of standing up from their crouching positions.
I’m working on a sub irrigation planter (SIP) for succulents and small houseplants to reduce the need to water and problem of overwatering. Currently working on the case mold and working plaster mold for ceramic batch casting!
I’m working on this:

https://findsome.help/

Hoping to open-source it this weekend. Trying to create a better way for communities to coordinate aid.
Yes; through bond sales just like they do right now. This requires some explanation.

“Legal tender for all debts public and private” is what gives money its value. People must use dollars if they want the legal system to enforce contracts and rights, and will continue to do so as long as there is benefit to that.

But what about inflation?

In simple terms, price inflation is when demand for goods and services grows faster than supply. Most dollars are not in that demand pool, as they all start out in the investment pool. The nature of investment is that efficiency gains must match the cost, or the investment loses. So an efficient economy balances both sides with investments which increase supply, and payments to workers, which increases demand. In this scenario, monetary inflation can be used to supply investment dollars up to the point where that balance is achieved. (Obviously not all verticals are affected the same way.) Government can be seen as the public goods investor, which is supposed to increase productivity economy-wide more than their own spending. So if that’s true, and all dollars are created under that constraint, inflation is impossible. Big if, of course. Even if not, there should be a very wide berth for ‘unproductive’ investment to inflate demand equal to the over-efficient gains in supply.

What about the environment?

Good point. Productivity has externality cost, some more than others. Firstly, we should be maximizing investment efficiency because financial waste correlates well with environmental waste. Secondly, there could be a strong case made for selling externality rights, and this alone could probably replace all tax revenues in the budget. I don’t know how that would work legislatively. If you ask me, this is what killed Al Gore’s campaign. He suggested that we make corporations pay for their waste, instead of people pay for their work.

So… bonds and maybe Pigouvian auctions.
Although I don't agree completely with OP's point it is true to an extent. I'm in the UK. My US colleagues earn significantly more (for the exact same job), they pay less for accommodation and get much larger accommodations (even living in comparatively large cities), and general cost of living (food, gas, clothes etc.) is less. I'm talking tech here (so not comparing low-skill/earning jobs) but at least in this industry Americans have it pretty good.
I thought about this too. My thinking was that it should have a replaceable pad that's the primary collector. I also wondered about a urine based test that changes color if it's positive.
> It's just important to free people from the need to enrich others just to survive.

Before I criticize, in full disclosure: I support UBI experiments. I have my concerns, but until we have data they’re just theory.

That out of the way: I don’t think it’s wildly out of line to assume a social contract that you need to provide some value to society to get access to resources (food / shelter / etc.) created by others. If I’m making food from a farm, you can’t just get food from me by existing, you need to offer something of value: working on my farm (services,) or exchanging goods I want to use, like better equipment. Or you give me money so that I can access those other two things.

And at the end of the day, we still need janitors, waste management, customer support callers, etc etc - jobs people hate, but must be done. And they will continue to be done regardless of UBI.
It is weird that this is your "last straw". Most likely you haven't used Ubuntu for a very long time and just want to influence others to switch away from Ubuntu.
Many bullshit jobs pay more and have better working conditions than many non bullshit jobs. Don't assume UBI would mean fewer people
working in ad tech.
During disassembly what surprised me the most was that the back plate is really rigid, since that plastic is reinforced with a metal plate. Instead of fixing that plastic-metal assembly with excessive use of glue, some 6-10 screws on the perimeter could produce the same solidity feel. Unfortunately much less repair-friendly and probably more expensive solution was used instead.
> It seems like every decade we find out everything we did last decade was bad and wrong but now we've finally for sure got it figured out

I think you're being unfair. Most of the time, it's not a major 180, it tends to be smaller course corrections, refinements over current understanding of data, and the discovery of even more correlated complexities.

The issue is people want simple answers, easy to follow guidelines, and guaranteed results. The science just isn't at the point where it can deliver those. So people make up best guesses for them each decade based on where the science is at that point.
Cutoffs create fiscal cliffs. This is not reasonable. You would need to make it so it's smoothly decreases with income and if you're at it you can just skip that step and deduct it from taxes paid.
If advertisers want to inform people, and people actually want to be informed, I'm sure together they will find a way to communicate, even if it does not include shoving stuff into other people's faces. Of course well-researched, unbiased consumer-oriented media are very nice but the bar for replacing advertising as it currently is is much lower. You just need a place to put stuff, maybe sort it into categories, and give more room to advertisers who pay more. The only difference is that people will engage with it voluntarily.
> It is good to see regulation

It is never good to see regulation. Never ask state to fix the problem or you will end up with two problems. Especially, the Big State.
lol leverage me up
> I think we've fairly well established that the complexity of the code isn't the problem. The IRS knows what you owe and could just tell you if they wanted to.

The IRS has no way to know which of your expenditures are tax-deductible.
Everyone wants to spy, nobody wants to be spied on. It's a typical part of what we call international power politics and it's been going on for roughly all of human history.

I honestly don't understand the point you're tying to make. Are you just complaining that it's unfair?
But where have you looked? To pick just one example, Brexit the Movie talked about the low quality of EU bureaucracy quite a bit.

The EU's old list of "myths" is a bit of a joke BTW. A lot of the so-called myth debunkings started with an admission that the claim is indeed true, but here's why it's actually OK. It's more a list of responses than myths. For instance the "myth" that they were funding trapeze artists in Africa was explained with words to the effect of, yes we do this, but it's totally cool so what's the problem? I've noticed hardly anyone who quotes the existence of that site seems to have actually read any of it. I think they took it down at some point - it was as embarrassing to the EU as the British press, really. Kind of a hall of shame of stupid stuff the press had picked up on over the years combined with a very weak set of justifications, often of the form of "we decided to do this so that makes it right".

Bendy bananas is a good example of that by the way. You claim the press made it up. You're lying, perhaps without realising it. Commission regulation 2257/94 specifies different classes for fruit based on, amongst other things, straightness. Read about it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Regulation_(EC)_No....

This is supposedly to make trade easier. Perhaps it does, although why the EU needs to define this vs just supermarkets and other bulk purchasers who care about banana straightness is very unclear. The debate about bendy bananas was never about whether the rules existed at all, but rather whether they represented a reasonable deployment of trans-national bureaucracy.

Your post is symptomatic of a more general problem: people who are very pro EU tend to believe they are better informed than they actually are, and tend to believe people who disagree with them about the value of the EU are just brainwashed idiots who don't know the facts. But when this has been tested rigorously e.g. in polls or studies, it's always been that anti-EU people have a (slightly) better grip on the facts.
It's pretty easy to make your own analytics. It's not famous, but I open-sourced mine; it's called Bast, written mostly in Rust, and it's easy to deploy it. https://github.com/kooparse/bast
I agree with the Java part, what I mean is that expressiveness should be readable

So think more Python and less C, things like:

while (*a++)

Are expressive but they're unsafe and actually doing things the language should have built-in (in a safe way)
After decades of exporting (and/or stealing) western IP and most of our manufacturing base to China, at the expense of the working class and to the benefit of capitalists, Trump was first to stop the bleeding. He wasn't particularly smart about it, and he should have built alliances, yet he went alone as usual.

With all major western internet platforms being already banned in China, Jack Ma having disappeared for weeks now after being critical of the CCP, there are still comments here why everyone can't be nice to each other, and what harm were those Chinese apps causing. The opioid crisis has so far killed more Americans than WW2, and at least some of it is caused by the evaporation of blue-collar jobs. This is a direct consequence of certain economic policies. Say what you will about the CCP, but at least it cares about its people - because they are doing the polar opposite.
> European countries are free to take whatever actions they see fit against US companies.

And the EU does. But ironically whenever that happens Americans argue that such action isn't about privacy but instead about the EU trying to promote their own domestic industries.

Though I guess that same spin would likely be argued by those on the receiving end of the US/China ban too.
Seeing as accounting is on its way to being mostly automated in the coming decades, this is not good advice.
But less money than software.
I think of it as a modified form of the standard format, where the standard format doesn't fulfill the needs of my use case.
You need to appease SA until you get energy independence. You also need to work towards energy independence in the meantime.
What makes you think he still owns bitcoin?

He may have sold it all once the price moved up 20% following his very public announcement.

In regulated markets, this sort of thing is called a "pump and dump".
Read this: https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/YDUH4vVfqmEmhJDX@gardel-logi...
There's a special place in hell for people that using variable length representations for time units that are meant to be consumed by machines.

I think it's across the hall from the room for people who configure servers for anything besides UTC.
Too true. The "teenager who likes to play a lot of video games and therefore enrolls in a compsci undergrad program" is an extremely common pipeline.

Not too many teens choose a career in programming because they want to build a robust framework that allows construction of large-scale analytical queries on unstructured data.
If you're in incognito mode and you visit a website with an embedded Facebook Like button, and Facebook's Javascript uses browser fingerprinting[1] to track you and build a further profile of you, do you expect that entity to not know who you are just because they don't have access to their usual cookies?

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2018/07/26/this-is-...
The IRS is probably a little concerned with a 501(c)(3) earning so much revenue from "search royalties". It has the feel of a real business not a traditional non-profit.
Don't know why this was downvoted, other than people just not agreeing with him.
Several disappointments, including in my state. I guess it's time to break out the letter writing.

Of course, Democrats (of whom I note several prominent figures) have long been whores to big media.
I don't even know the name of that fallacy, but it ought to have one.

(Yes I know parent is sarcastic.)
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" is a thought-terminating cliché and a tautology - if it's premature, it was done too early.

When people discuss the phrase, the conversation degenerates into random proclamations about when one should worry about things, proclamations that immediately break when applied to specific situations.
> Intel's processes (i.e. turning files on a computer into chips) have been a complete disaster in recent years, to the point of basically missing one of their key die shrinks entirely as far as I can tell.

Which one? I dont believe they missed a die shrink, it just took a long time. Intel 14nm came out in 2014 with their Broadwell Processors, and the next node, 10nm came out in 2019 (technically 2018, but very few units shipped that year).
You don't take issue with the bizarre and inefficient queries that it often builds? I've observed simple joins implemented using looping by Django ORM... I mean, WTF???
When my co-founder Jane and I started working on Userlist a couple years ago, we set out to build a better behavior based email tool for SaaS companies.

We wanted small to medium size SaaS founders (like us) to be able to send targeted emails to their ussrs based on their behavior. The right message at the right time instead of a stupid stream of irrelevant content.

After building the product on the side for quite a while, we launched in late 2019 with and allowed our customers track key usage metrics for their individual users.

However, we quickly realized that this doesn't cut it for most SaaS businesses (especially B2B). More often than not, a company account has many users of different roles, and in some cases a user can even be part of many companies.

It was a pain to manage these relationships in Userlist and almost all other email automation tools we looked at.

Today, this changed for Userlist, though. We just launched company account support in Userlist.

Our data model allows tracking users, companies, and relationships between them. You can model one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many relationships and even track relationship properties (like the user's role in a company) or company events (like billing events).

Our automation campaigns allows you to send messages to users (or subsets of users) based on things that happen in the companies they're part of.

Ultimately, we hope this allows SaaS business to send less, but more relevant emails to their users.

Are you as excited about this as we are? We're looking forward to hear what you think about our solution to this problem.

- Benedikt & Jane

P.S. We've been looking for that "what makes you better than X" argument — and we hope we finally found it. Maybe that's how our small team can outperform VC-funded tools? Fingers crossed :D
Do they have a roadmap for complete Firefox conversion to Rust?
If you like this sort of thing you should also check out the Chicago Manual of Style.

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/book/ed17/frontmatter/t...
How can one possibly do this? The amount of regulations/laws produced is so enormous, it is impossible to keep up.
I don't have/don't want a Clubhouse account (it seems like a very cringe-inducing platform for people past their prime), but I actually think you're wrong.

Quora lends itself toward SEO spam. It's written word. Clubhouse currently isn't archived in a machine-readable format. This eliminates a decent 60% of the value for commercial purposes, and probably 30% will be taken care of by users having the common sense to avoid any overwhelmingly-obvious marketing.

Of course, it already is seemingly just a platform for aging capitalists and twitter users to "have discussions," which seems like shorthand for "advertise themselves." I couldn't call it good by any means. But that's more or less what every social media platform is, and not different than what you'd find anywhere else.

However, it seems unlikely it'll get much worse from here.
And what was the suggestion? The flow of information is (You typing → IME converts key presses into text → Signal receives text) so Signal can't do anything to prevent a malicious IME from sending the text elsewhere. The best they could do is raise users' awareness that Signal won't protect them if there's spyware with privileged access on their device, and that their IME might be such spyware.
Yes, my 40% was actually with 1/2000. Thanks for checking the numbers :). Agree it's very easy to fumble numbers.
RHEL (I'd love for more software to start doing that, but understandably you'd hesitate, though my personal morality compass doesn't see any difference between getting commercial GPL software for free and piracy, so if I wanted to get it for free I'd do it either way)
Might be referring to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26628198
Brought to you by the authors of “this Dropbox thing is basically rsync and a bunch of shell scripts”
The decompiled code is just a best guess at what the assembly is doing, it's likely not completely correct or close to compilable, changing the asm is the easiest way to make changes.