jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I guess because Conal explains the type inference limitation in question using mathematical terminology, it's tripped the author's "cargo cult mathematics" detector, but it actually sounds more like a software engineering concern. They want to avoid having new instance declarations break existing code (inferences), which seems like a reasonable property to not want to have from a software engineering POV. It makes more sense when building from code files than in interactive mode.
It's a bit disappointing that immigration descends to bring a shouting match over who's more patriotic far too often.

Paul Graham's essay is actually pretty good - it tells gets that we're ending up in a world where the skilled workforce is not heavily biased towards stable, highly developed countries. Rather, countries like India, China, etc now have a skilled work force probably out numbering the long-time developed countries.
The advantage of subscription is that everyone is always running the latest and greatest. Typically software will instead charge for major version releases in the future which segregates your users and increases support costs. This is not good for anyone. Interested why this is a turnoff for you though. What would you like to see instead?
You only need to remember a big random number (can be a long phrase from a book you like), and a rule that generates keys, e.g. (keyid, seed) -> hash(keyid + seed). Needless to say, you never write the seed phrase down. At most you keep a vague pointer to the author of that book.
Her Forbes bio:

Heather R. Morgan is an international economist, serial entrepreneur, and investor in B2B software companies. She is an expert in persuasion, social engineering, and game theory.
And have commune add 10 hours of unpaid labor.
Save content from the woke memory hole.
I would be somewhat worried that information could be abused now or in the future. Since that data is necessarily going to be noisy, insurers probably aren't going to make black and white decisions based on it, but they could score you somewhat worse over it. You could maybe trust them that their algorithms would be able to determine that since you work in health care and are probably in the top 5% of people who search health terms that your individual data is polluted by your job, but I would never trust an insurer's black-box algorithms. They only need to be statistically correct over the population, they can always fuck you over individually and still make a fantastic profit for themselves.

Is this really going on? Maybe not, but is it worth it to ignore the risk? Can you just use DDG so it isn't a question?
Try with LibreSpeed?

Hosted version: https://librespeed.org/

Self hosted version:
https://github.com/librespeed/speedtest

For those who need to document lower speeds than SLAs from their ISPs, this will help you check for chicanery, shenanigans, and sneaky QoS. Recommend.
I would say specifically late 1800s to early 1900s American, when unions were busted with guns and women had zero political power. I can’t remember Brent Spiner’s original lines in the episode the Ferengi were introduced, but I think it was something along the lines of “all the bad bits of the old west and none of the good bits”.
Google has their loss-leader products that exist for the benefit of the online community, but I don't think that this is (necessarily) Yahoo lacking that benevolence.

Let's face it, Google has a lot more capital to back non-profitable products. Yahoo supported Delicious for as long as they could, but ultimately it's hard to justify liabilities like expensive, non-profitable projects to your shareholders.

Google can do it because they've proven that their strategy stuffs the coffers regardless.
for hackers, working on such problem is in different order of magnitude more fun than just earning money.
For a company that was legendary for their perpetual "beta" web apps, they sure do increment those release version numbers on their browser awfully quickly.
This is really annoying... I have over 3000 bookmarks on del.icio.us all nicely tagged, nice browser plugins, use it every day, etc. Definitely hoping to find an alternative that isn't a step backwards...
I've gone to use Delicious several times but stopped short at the login screen.

There's no way I'm going to use a service when I have to create a Yahoo account.

Same goes with Flickr.
The reason the US doesn't have hate speech laws are pretty much the same as the reasoning given in this ruling. It's just a matter of how far a culture is willing to push these ideas.
Facebook is changing the BSD license from being an implied license to being an explicit license, so it's not the same as BSD license; via DannyBee (open source lawyer), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9113505
Over the years I've gone back and forth between Sublime, vim and emacs. Atom is the first editor I really love. I've been using is for about a month now for serious haskell development. Yes it's still a bit slow to start up and a little buggy but it's not even at version 1.0 yet. I just really like the UI and the simplicity of installing and configuring packages.
This buy-up argument is impossible in a free market.

Let's say there are 10 people renting apartments that a monopolist plans to buy out, and each of their properties are 'worth' $1, meaning you could reasonably expect to pay $10 for one property. They also rent out their appartments for $1 each.

What happens when the monopolist starts buying properties? He buys a few, and they notice he's going for a monopoly. They will raise their prices, because they know it will be worth it for the monopolist to pay $20 or even $30 to aquire their properties.

Let's say, through a miracle, the monopolist endures these exponentially growing raised prices, buys 9 of the 10 properties, and raises rates to $3 to cover the losses he's had to put into buying his last couple of properties.

Well, the 10th would be able to rent his land out at nearly the same price as the monopolist, say $2.50. But notice that the 10th property owner didn't have to over-pay for his land, so he will is making way more profits than monopolist, which would price his property out of the range of the monopolist.
For a slightly more provocative example for what is a "decent" flight, see http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-21/billionair...

“America’s lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence,” Greene said in an interview today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “We need to reinvent our whole system of life.”

This was said by "Greene, who flew his wife, children and two nannies on a private jet plane to Davos for the week".

OK, he not only made a speech but also had a dinner with Tony Blair so it wasn't just for that speech.
IANAL however it's more correct than people realize. Facebook is changing the BSD license from being an implied license to being an explicit license, so it's not the same as BSD license via DannyBee (open source lawyer), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9113505

EDIT: Changed ANAL to IANAL...
> Without the aid of a central authority, people are able to decide on a set of rules that must be respected to play in the market.

What you mean to say: people will reinvent laws and governance.
I'm on the other side of Germany (Czechia) and everybody knows who Charlemagne is, it's basic education here, you learn it in 6th grade. It's not that positive figure here though, Czech people didn't submit willingly to his empire.
Similar idea to https://dotbigbang.com/ except it's more platform focused and not browser native
May I just say kudos, sir, for dealing with this situation with such aplomb. It is easy to imagine an alternative response, with far more anger and less curiosity. You are like a doctor looking at a disease: "Ah, look at this awful thing happening, how interesting!"

Also, given the way they were using your site, effectively reverse-proxying you and adding ads, it implies that you have access, in your server logs at least, to all of their traffic! And that might give you insight into their motivations, and maybe other elements of their operations. I mean, it sounds like a reasonably clever, small scale scam operation in Russia; but if they proved out the technique with your niche site, then they can easily duplicate with other sites, in which case it is effectively a new kind of malware that has to be solved by Google!

Last but not least, I wanted to encourage you, and others, to consider whether this kind of attack would work in a decentralized world, what search looks like in that world, and therefore how this kind of attack might be mitigated.
You wrote: "we're resorting to using garbage to build homes".

Do you also consider recycled (1) concrete, (2) steel rebar, or (3) asphalt in the same "garbage" category? Thirty years ago (~1990) there was very little of those three being recycled -- think landfills(!). In many high income countries, homes, schools, and office buildings are using one or more of these.
This. Would be better to not have to trust anyone!
The neanderthal male chromosome is missing from modern humans.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35992612
As far as I know, we don't know anything about the "courtship behavior" of Neanderthal or Homo Sapiens circa -50k. And I doubt anyone can compare their "general lifestyle" with certitude. It doesn't mean these claims are wrong, just that they are not based on facts.
Wow, hard disagree. From a discoverability perspective, enter has the dictionary definition of "to go in to something" as in to enter a building for example, or in this instance to "enter" a file. Furthermore, single key shortcuts should be reserved for more frequent actions, eg enter vs Cmd-O.
Enter as rename is not only unintuitive, but it's also an action which is performed less often than opening files.
This article is the net sum of these two concepts,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_ruin

How to Avoid Gambler's Ruin ( using Kelly Criterion) ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
You can get texts, app notifications, and phone calls, you can play music and podcasts, you can download app updates, an app you opened earlier is still in the same state later. All with the phone screen off. They also know that none of these things are possible when their phone runs out of battery and dies. I think most people could notice the difference between these states and realize that screen off != phone off.

What I think most people don't notice is that the fact that simply because they can receive phone calls and notifications implies that they are in practice being tracked.
MySQL has window functions and native JSON now.
Cloudflare's blogs seem far less markety and far more about sharing interesting technical wins.
Besides the house of Saud there are multiple other clans that historically have held power there, and continue to be powerful and influential today. The other key to power in SA is control of the oil money.
They're very evasive about pricing. There are many online PCB fab houses, and they compete on price. There's no pricing link on the home page. If you look at the terms of service, there's a link to pricing.[1] It's a bad link.

[1] https://patchr.io/pricing
This is what the law says, but I don’t understand how this is expected to work: without some kind of treaty from the US government, the EU has no way to make US companies comply.
(citation needed) here is an alternative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts_in_Transylvania
The harassment would be the doing embarrassing things with the unlocked computer. A manager or team lead shouldn't be picking on their employees like that. It's something more OK for a peer to do. Ironically, it's the interns who I've seen get into it the most and make it a game. They really got a kick out catching the full timers.
Great article, great product, great cat.
> So why shouldn't Rowling be able to pass Harry Potter on to her kids? Why should her business be treated differently?

Because we grant copyright in order to encourage further production of creative works. Rowling's kids are not likely to produce further works no matter how long their copyright is. There is no benefit to society for granting copyright much beyond the life of the creative individual.

In fact, the problem is precisely the opposite. Because we keep giving longer copyright terms, properties like Mickey Mouse and Sonic the Hedgehog get dull, uninspired treatments when new people could take those properties and make something cool.
> So why shouldn't Rowling be able to pass Harry Potter on to her kids? Why should her business be treated differently?

Because her kids could do absolutely nothing and live off of royalty checks or whatever her media empire generates and still be very very rich. That's dishonest in a lot of people's minds, right and left, and people tend to want to fix that problem.

(Just because I mentioned that mindset tells you absolutely nothing about whether I hold it.)

A more sophisticated take on that argument is, if someone can set up their entire genetic lineage from one series of novels, where's their descendants' incentive to create more? Are we really that sure that nobody descended from Rowling would have been a creator but for this windfall?

Another, somewhat related argument, is the idea that copyright stakes out too much territory, which would otherwise have been used by legal fanfic, which could set up other families, and why should we disallow that? I know Rowling is very permissive about fanfic, but why should someone else's business be up to her?
I love stories where persistence over time pays off. Thanks for posting this.

This story reminds me of Sugru's story. If you have not yet read "A partial visual history of sugru", it is well worth your time. Of course, this has been posted to HN in the past.

http://sugru.com/us/story
"So long as we insist on living in a world of enforceable contracts we will continue to empower the very beast that enslaves us. We are operating on the implicit expectation of the right to use force and in turn manifest a society built on violence and coercion rather than love."

This gets at the heart of why lawyers and the legal world are despised. Anyone that has had the misfortune of dealing with the legal world learns very fast that its a world of non physical violence.
This reminds me of Miłosz Kośmider's "Zeros in JavaScript" comparison table: http://zero.milosz.ca/

Essentially the same thing, but covers a few more operations.
His music is also amazing. http://parallelogram.cc/owneroperator/
> “disruption” is an extremely positive term for when an old market model is displaced by a new market model that is better for the consumer and often cheaper to provide.

Not to me. It's a term for using a bathroom in such a way as to make it unusable to others (thanks, Gilfoyle!).
Strongly disagree.

Every part of the car interior can be replaced if it is designed from the ground up with that purpose of retrofitting. For instance you look at a dress shoe and think that the shoe has to be thrown once it is worn out, but Allen Edmonds shoes can be re-crafted once they are worn. They look as good as new. If something as tightly coupled as a shoe can be re-crafted, the interior of a car surely can be.

Also - with an electric motor most of the complexity is in the software - which can be easily upgraded. Autonomous driving - needs massive changes to the internal system ? Like what ? From what I can see - the physical changes needed are in the steering department - that's about it. Rest is all software.

I can bet any money that one day Musk will upgrade a Model S into a driverless car. Perhaps in the next 5 years.
The point was to prevent the certificate of Biden as the president. A coup to keep trump in power, as it were.

What other reason do you think they had for storming congress?
I don't need to listen to the Qanon conspiracy theories, racist rants, gun worship, law enforcement deification, homophobia, transphobia and other dehumanizing speech of the far right.

There is literally nothing of value to be gained.
Hey if we didn't follow the constitution before, why should such a paragraph stop us?
It's not a restriction on the definition of open source. A truly open source marketplace has space for apps that do shitty things—and for forks that do fewer shitty things.

If anything is a restriction of open source, it's demanding that the developers of Atom implement a feature the way you want. If you don't like their code or their stewardship, badgering them on this one point doesn't fix the underlying difference in principles.
'In one of the most iconic scenes in British television comedy, Trigger, the butt of so many ‘Only Fools and Horses’ jokes, proudly reveals that he has used the same road sweeping brush for his entire career. “This old broom”, he says “ has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles”. We, the audience, are laughing at his apparent stupidity long before Sid points out “how the hell is it the same bloody broom then?”'
It argues that you would _trust by proxy_. So: you trust the company (site) you're visiting, that company trusts third parties, and by proxy you trust those third parties.

The problem is that most people wouldn't trust those brands in the first place if they new what shady third parties they enlist.
Well maybe Uber is a bad example because it has many competitors but the selling point of subcontracting business is usually that instead of employees having the option of working for a large variety of employers those employers will now only hire (temporarily) you if you work for a specific subcontracting business. This means the number of potential employers has been reduced from thousands or hundreds to a number you can count on your hand.
> There's a reason we say Free as in Free Speech, not Free Beer!

Agree.

A major problem that needs to be solved is creating a user-funded, donation-based model of free software development. The old argument was that copies of free software can be given a price and sold on tapes, thus the distinctions between price and speech - you could potentially support the development of free software by selling copies. But this practice has largely disappeared in the Internet age, and it seems the only business model of free software today is value-added services.

One could argue that free software, by its definition, allows unrestricted, free redistribution (both speech and beer), others can still distribute it for free, so it's meaningless to sell copies. But I would say that many users may still want to pay to support its development if there's a system in place to encourage it. Currently, the visibility of donation in free software remains low.

For example, there's nothing to prevent us from asking for a donation to download on the official website or an "app store", or integrating a payment system on a code hosting platform, or a micropayment system that encourages you to pay $1 for reading some documentation. You can even integrating a micropayment system to a package manager that pays while you are installing something, or even refuse to provide documentation from the official website or support from a package manager unless you've paid, forcing people to either pay or find a 3rd-party's copy, it's ethically questionable but remains valid under the principle of free software), the possibilities are endless.

The only obstacle I see is the lack of a good micropayment system, but it can be solved in principle.
What do you mean? You can hunt your own product on PH now!
Via https://www.buddybuild.com/ acquisition.

https://docs.buddybuild.com/builds/xcode_versions.html
An interesting move... at an interesting time!!! I posted few days ago here, on HN "Ask HN: Do you know a regular Twitter user?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21584586) ;-)

I see it as an interesting move because it will allow Twitter to have a more "honest" number of real used account.

Moreover, for Twitter, it's a way to build stronger engagement: a lot of people will connect to unused account to avoid the risk of loosing it (even if they don't really use it, just to avoid loosing it).

So the active accounts number will not be that honest! In a way it's a kind of FUD...

And it reminds everybody that Twitter is about "live and news", not building some kind reference.
I am not fully veg but have reduced consumption of meat hugely and don't buy it for home anymore. What I have found is really good is retextured soy protein. I get a bag for about 2 pounds and it has 60g of protein in it.
I'm not sure if they've improved it, but in the past Zoom's web client was missing significant simple features like gallery view that made it basically unusable for social calls.
There is a lot of space in between Tiktok's current policy and allowing literally anything that's legal. It doesn't have to be a binary choice between chaos and strict policing.
Governments are incentivized to do everything wrong at every level.

* Unlike a business, governments don't earn revenue from providing services that people want. They earn revenue through taxes, which they get to collect regardless of how well they govern.

* Unlike shareholders, politicians have zero skin in the game and are therefore incentivized to be as wasteful as reckless as possible. If a politician passes an overly generous pension plan that ends up bankrupting the state several decades in the future, the politician will suffer no consequences whatsoever.

* Unlike monarchs, politicians don't own the state, its land, or its resources. They merely get to control the state for a short period of time. That means they are incentivized to extract as much personal wealth out of the state as rapidly as possible during their short tenure.
Maybe a lot of user issues regarding lag wasn't GB of memory which everyone made it out to be but really slow OS and Intel chips getting progressively slower all those security patches...
Is it illegal to sell your artwork at an auction, and a criminal happens to be the one to buy it? I honestly don't know.

is the onus on an artist or on an "auction house" to vet buyers. If post sale it turns out the money was fraudulent, does the artist need to pay it back?

In crypto terms. You the artist simply put a NFT up for auction at OpenSea. You the scammer happened to purchase the artwork on OpenSea. However KYC is not well enforced, enabling for money laundering between the two wallets.
Sounds to me like an extension of their turboencabulator.
> They would have much more credibility if they were to have equal representation from both sides of the political spectrum, and also include equally represented opposing views in articles for controversial subjects.

"Both sides probably have some good points" or "the truth is likely somewhere in the middle" are guidelines that are wrong often enough that they're not very useful.
> I don't see how fences are ever enough for mutual exclusion.

I thought the same. Memory fences alone can't guarantee mutual exclusion.
You put your existing chip in the microwave to encode the upgrade electromagnetically
Oh wow! I didn't realize that! Awesome!
> Motivation and talent are more more important than a particular school.

That is probably true, but there are undeniable benefits from the networking that happens at schools like Stanford. So if you have motivation and talent, you may derive even more benefit from going to an Ivy or similar school.
Hubicfuse is as stable as nitroglycerine. Completely unusable on OSX.
I'm kinda shocked by how many people are saying "they like the poster on the left". The one on the left is a train wreck.
I'm curious to see how they do this. It doesn't appear that any of Blackberry's recent models have been a hit with consumers or enterprise.

John Chen does seem like the most level-headed exec in Blackberry's revolving door succession of CEOs, but with that said, I'm not sure what Blackberry can do to make itself an attractive alternative to iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone. It seems that Blackberry has essentially given up all of their market share, and what they need to do now is to essentially build their platform from scratch.