jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Due to git's distributed nature, there should be very few people who are not able to work on their code.

Oh the irony! Actually I bet many developers are sitting on their hands when they can't access github.

I don't want to dump on github. It has been a great driver of open-source software. But by making itself a single-point-of-... so much, it kind of defeats the purpose of git sometimes.

Ideally we'd be able to download not just the repo but all the meta-info; issues, comments, pull requests, etc.
getting data into the hands of the right people is key, but i love how this project focuses much on building that context around the data.

a lot of the friction around using data boils down to ppl not having confidence that they're using it the right way.
This comment seems a little inconsistent to me. You complain about the fact that everyone doesn't have the mindset to solve problems. Makes sense so far.

Then you say carbon capture tech isn't going to work because... it's too focused on solving problems constructively? What is wrong with the mindset of carbon capture tech, exactly? What is the right mindset to have? (But also, the idea that we can figure out what solutions work based on diagnosing the "mindset" of those that propose them, as opposed to analyzing the solution itself in detail, seems pretty silly to me. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy )
Which addresses?
The average person does virtually no regular maintenance / checking of their car, even basics like tyre pressures and oil levels not being checked regularly, happy to leave as much as they possibly can for an annual check at the garage. There’s a shocking amount of people also happy to drive around ignoring warning lights flashing.

Imagine that scenario with tons of metal that could fall out of the sky when something fails.
It may also come down to what else the web service needs to do.

If you're just doing a CRUD app, you're probably right.

But if you're wrapping some complex logic that itself makes sense to writ in Rust, then I can see why you might want to write the web interface to it in Rust as well.
> Is "laughing at the absurdity of it" supposed to convince people of something?

Look, no one can convince someone of something when they are hellbent on seeing things in a certain light. I’m sure if you look hard enough, you can find some Uyghur somewhere in those videos blinking out “HELP ME” in morse.

But if Westerners are hyperventilating over Uyghur genocide while thousands of actual Uyghurs living in Xinjiang are making videos laughing at the allegations, don’t you think there’s something wrong with that picture? Rhetorical question.

Here’s another great channel from an Uyghur Vlogger showing everyday life in Xinjiang (she posts on Bilibili but her fans have been reposting to Youtube). Nothing about that screams genocide to me, sorry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KvC89nKCHo
They've been at this for more than 14 years. I was accidentally part of both the Boeing and Lockheed F-35 teams, and that was 23 years ago.

For a humorous take on the U.S. military platform problem, look for a movie called The Pentagon Wars [1] starring Kelsey Grammar and Cary Elwes. It came out in 1998, and very little has changed since then.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144550/
The 8-hour workday is in large part due to the efforts of the labor movement at the turn of the last century. Prior to that, 10- or 12-hour days weren't uncommon or legally restricted. Subsequent to the initial reduction to 8 hours in workday hours, it was thought that the trend would continue. Robert Levine touches on the 8-hour workday in his book _A Geography of Time_, where he briefly describes W.K. Kellogg's initiative in the 1930's to reduce the workday to 6 hours at his Michigan factory. He felt that hard work would replace long hours. According to Levine, "For nearly two decades, by nearly every yardstick, Kellogg's brainchild worked brilliantly"[1]. It only met its doom after WWII, when, as a result of a policy linking higher productivity to increased wages, workers began demanding eight hours again to increase their overall income.

1. Robert Levine, _A Geography of Time_, p141.
Also, where are the killer games for OS X?
The audience he's been speaking to since August 2002 are.
It's not that hard to unsterstand. iPhone had a lead on the Android and a lot of people invested heavily in iPhone. Now that Android has caught up in terms of marketshare it will take awhile for these people to catch up on their Android investment. As Android outpaces iPhone in the market, the app situation may end up reversed.
If you confine your worldview to right-thinking people, yes.

There are savages outside of city walls, who breed via biological means and use (shudder) Windows. We try not to think about or discuss them in polite society.
Funny, my impression is that all the useful apps tend to be on Android. For example, I use Google Talk a lot, as it saves costs for sending SMS. I keep begging my iPhone 4 friend to use it, but he never even comments. I am not sure if it is not available on iPhone (multitasking problem?), or if he just doesn't care enough. Alternatively Twitter DMs are free, too.

What am I missing out on by staying on Android (except eye candy)? Fireball says he could go on forever, but doesn't mention anything besides games.
one can add new contacts to telegram via the desktop app
You want an off-grid builder-grade house like you’d buy in a suburb, it sounds like. Going to be a long time before that happens. The builder homes work (both price and reliability) because there’s hundreds of thousands of them virtually identical. Trades know exactly what to do, even affordable ones, because they’ve done it 1000 times before. That’s a mature industry producing a stable product.

Until there are thousands of these things and the kinks have been worked out you can’t have that. Every innovative architect home has one (or more) secret horror story/screwed up detail you haven’t heard about. When doing something new you need to bear the mental burden of making the house work, build yes but also maintenance which is also specialized and non-standard.

There will be a lot of customers learning this the hard way as the industry catches up with demand.
ASICs like the Ant miner series.
I'm not sure that a gambling addiction comprises an inability to consent. It's a common belief that someone needs to "save addicts from themselves", but I can't see any moral basis for anyone else to claim the authority to do so.
Oh. I though that downvoting meant “this isn’t worth saving.”

I must not be smart enough to get what you’re trying to say.

Yahoo answers is a hot pile of garbage. The Library of Babel has a higher signal to noise ratio.
I used to be fond of Google products.
Key takeaway for me:

"As impressive as the new Xeon 8380 is from a generational and technical stand-point, what really matters at the end of the day is how it fares up to the competition. I’ll be blunt here; nobody really expected the new ICL-SP parts to beat AMD or the new Arm competition – and it didn’t. The competitive gap had been so gigantic, with silly scenarios such as where a competing 1-socket systems would outperform Intel’s 2-socket solutions. Ice Lake SP gets rid of those more embarrassing situations, and narrows the performance gap significantly, however the gap still remains, and is still undeniable."
I think that this is something senior devs/admins need to try and influence. I've made it a goal to actively mentor the less experienced on my team (and even some senior admins) during COVID. Sometimes I phrase this as "Check out this stupid thing I did." That lowers everyone's guard, and then you can explain how you solved an issue, or how you dealt with a stakeholder in a professional manner. If us senior folks want to have WFH, then we have an obligation to other employees to help them adjust and learn.
> My question was whether or not we should trust DuckDuckGo, not whether DuckDuckGo is more trustworthy than some alternatives, and not whether they collect less user-specific data than some alternatives.

Your question would be answered far better by reading their privacy policies and help site[0] to get an idea of everything they do to preserve your privacy, rather than asking on Hackernews. Of course, if you don't believe what the company is saying, I'm not sure what a rando on HN can say to convince you otherwise?

[0] https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/no...
We use a modified version of the Stellar Consensus Protocol that we reimplemented from scratch using Rust.

https://github.com/UkoeHB/Mechanics-of-MobileCoin/blob/maste... << Page 81 is where you want to go.
I disagree with you there. In Computer Science, you learn the science(determined truth) of computation(the act of mathematical calculation). The names of most degree programs are pretty accurate when you really parse the jargon.
obviously this is a reference to the iPhone, but I'm not sure your second two points relate well to the OpenGL side of things; Apple allow you to write direct (C, using the OpenGL libraries) OpenGL code.
It comes with the territory. A person in his position should face scrutiny. For many people, Facebook is now integral to their social relationships, and was built upon an understanding of privacy that is now being rewritten on the fly. When you change gears as Facebook is trying to do, you can't expect a free pass. The schadenfreude that you mention is all part of the debate of what ultimately will be accepted.
Easy credit explains a big part of the increases in tuition. Gov't subsidies that underly the ease of racking up 100K in student loans could directly impact the cost of college. If everyone applying to university can pay either through a loan or out-of-pocket, then it makes sense for colleges to raise prices. In turn, the employees of that company (the university) have higher productivity in real dollars so they all get higher wages.

People often think that they need more student loans because college is becoming more expensive. It is more likely that college is becoming more expensive because the gov't makes loans for college too cheap.
..it's a shared failure of parenting and loan underwriting.

But perhaps the biggest share lies with colleges and universities because they have the most knowledge of the financial aid process.
Definitely block prefetch on your site, it completely screws up stats to save the user 100ms of load time.

in .htaccess

RewriteCond %{X-moz} ^prefetch
RewriteRule ^.* - [F]
San Francisco parking fine revenue is on the order of $100 million, annually: http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-08-01/bay-area/17122003_1_me...

Parking meter revenue for three years doesn't match that: http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-01-25/bay-area/17226881_1_me...

True, not all tickets are written for meters, but it's clearly in the city's revenue-earning interest to make it more difficult to legally park and write more tickets. And since a parking meter earns $55-65 with a ticket but only $2-3.50 for an hour of legitimate parking, an entire day or two of legitimate meter use earns the city exactly as much money as a single meter violation. Some municipalities--Seattle, as I recall--expressly prohibit paying a parking meter that isn't yours; the only reasonable rationale for this is to increase ticketing rates.
"We have tens of millions of HP small form factor web-connected devices"

Is he referring to the iPaq? I thought those things run winmobile OS.
hmm...so they'll have iPaq webOS devices?

There is more here about their other plans:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/hp-ceo-mark-hurd-talks-datacen...
That's basically it, yes.
Isn't it what was said about Zoom some 10 months ago?
Dead cat bounce is exclusively a stock trading term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_bounce
I've lived in houses which were close to 100 years old(British terraced houses from the 1930s) and the idea of having to replace the roof is.....a bit weird. Sure they need repairs, an odd tile replaced here and there, but....replacing the whole thing? I can't think of any reason why you'd need to do that.
> > Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for
> > maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

> I am sure both csh and php aspired to do the same.

And I am sure they didn't. Such a bad take...

Languages are very often designed with a use-case in mind, or with a set of goals or core tenants.

Since he highlighted PHP specifically, there's a nice quote on wiki:

> Early PHP was not intended to be a new programming language, and grew organically, with Lerdorf noting in retrospect: "I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way."

If you look at different languages, they have different goals. Haskell was initially created to explore lazy-evaluation, one of Python's drives was to be extensible and to be friendly to use for people not familiar with programming (largely inspired by ABC)[0].

[0]: https://www.artima.com/intv/python.html
Deskmini with a low end pentium and an arctic 12lp.

its inaudible (I am sensitive) below 800rpm.

with ram and ssd you are at around 250 bucks.

I have an old NUC5 but its fan is whiny.
This article is a bit sensational: it doesn't mention these plots are being sold via any craigslist type of service, not just facebook.

I have seen another listing service push back a little against such postings, but given the ample space between the law and illegality, it is hard for them to identify semi-legitimate postings from illegitimate ones.

That space exists, because the transfer of property came with excessive taxes, procedures and costs the poor could not or didn't want to afford. So children inherited the property but not formally. Then they would sell their rights to the property rights. And so on. The "cartórios" (registration offices) register these contracts instead. The property itself slides into informality. In the end the government itself is to blame.
Don't know much about Tractatus.
Don't know much about d3js.
But I do know this let me see.
what a wonderful world they can be.
When you have gotten lucky with a couple of investments, you make a lot of money, when you have a lot of money, a lot of people listen to what you say, they argue with each other about what you say, this keeps them occupied and stay out of troubles like original thinking and such, so you need to come up with things to say, otherwise what will people do?
You're probably right.

So sad...
> memory unsafety

Memory unsafety is just one class of safety bugs, and a relatively unimportant one.

As far as payment processors go, I'd be much more worried about concurrency bugs.
Quite the provocative intro.

Does Google make money to make the world a better place, or does Google make the world a better place in order to make loadsa money?

By what evidence do we distinguish the two? Is Google majority controlled by its idealist founders still, or is it a money spinning machine for the pension funds which own it?
> If your server is done 20 times in 10 min, replace your incompetent eng, ops, service provider.

You could have incompetent engineers or you could have bad internet. The user could be on a train that is going in and out of tunnels. Or the user could be in a house using WiFi and the microwave could be causing interference.
What's the difference?
answer: nothing. Passive investing doesn't exist. Everything is active
Turing would be delighted to read this.
You might check out https://braid.org, which is like SSE but specifically for updating state at URLs, and works for binary data.
Probably too messy to understand what's exactly happening -- but my main takeaway is that if you implement your own DSL (for Graphviz at least), implement in such a way that you can freely mix DSL and raw bits. That way it's very easy to experiment or tweak minor bits without rewriting half of the code.
I see nothing about an American Dream and just some millionaire spouting off about paying more taxes which he he is more than welcome to do.
I agree with most of what the author wrote. I also don’t like how I can follow something who has good thoughts on Python but get their thoughts on politics. Then Twitter turned “like” into “maybe retweet” (you see what people you follow liked) so even if they don’t tweet about politics I see the political tweets they liked. I like the focus of subreddits in comparison.

I still use Twitter mostly as a write-only thing if I want to drop off a blog post, another place to reach me, and occasionally check my timeline. Lists are also a recommended feature.

With that said, I think Twitter has a bright future. Why? Because it’s always been a good way for celebrities to reach people. And in a world of Instagram, YouTube, Twitch, Tiktok etc there are more mini-celebrities than ever and they all use Twitter for any quick thought blurbs. So they’ve really benefited by the expansion of what constitutes a celebrity.

My mom also uses Twitter, never tweets, but just follows news outlets. And it’s the only social media she has as a privacy-oriented person which is interesting.

Like most social media apps, if you don’t use it compulsively and control how you use it, there’s usually at least some value in having a presence.
I definitely agree that error handling should be improved. I'm trying to keep the LaTeX output as portable/minimal as possible though so I'm not sure if highlights are doable. My current plan is to output more diagnostic info and let the JS interface figure it out.
My favourite minimal email client was nmh[0]. Essentially, all mail client commands are their own programs. This made extending it as easy as writing whatever scripts you want.

0 - http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/
That's clearly not true. People have been arrested for acting as money transmitters.
A "cartel" that represents their workforce, so yes by proxy, their workforce.
What you describe in the first paragraph is not censorship.

There's a whole thing around censorship not applying to private platforms, but even if you argue that the word "censorship" applies to a private entity moderating the content it publishes with its own money (like Hacker News: It definitely moderates content), the thing you describe is still not that kind of "censorship."

Showing or not showing your tweets based on Twitter optimizing for engagement and advertising is not like a government deciding that nobody is allowed to criticize the Dear Leader.

It's actually like a grocery store that promises to stock your product for free, but you aren't Coca-Cola, so you get shitty shelf space and positioning, until you either pay up for shelf space, or build enough demand for your product that the store decides it can make more money giving you better positioning.

Twitter also moderates content in a way that has nothing to do with engagement and making them money. But if you give someone free content, you have to accept them deciding how they feel like monetizing that content.

If you don't like it, write a blog.
People here are already set in their political tribes, if you were already a libertarian (or republican) then you just agreed with my post. If you are an Authoritarian you just down voted it.

Nothing I say will change anyone's minds on this topic, it is one of those things where no amount of data or facts will change minds. You either believe in a unionized Public school that only fails because we do not spend enough money, or you recognize that giving a monopoly over education to a group of people based on geography will always result in bad outcomes no matter how much money you spend.
Is it even comparable? As a developer I can create my own languages and tools. As a sushi chef you cannot genetically engineer new kinds of fish - only new combinations of existing stuff. Don't forget that programming is not a craft, art, or science. It's a combination of all. Sushi making is lacking the science component.
I may be missing something, but this:

>It added that its domain name system was compromised.

sounds like their DNS server was compromised.

Also, I've never worked with Akamai, but every cdn I have worked with just follows the ns records and resolves against that, which could be changed with access to the domain/registrar. Does Akamai not do that?
Yeah, well I think this is the confusion between "good" and "nice" again.
Ah, didn't think it used Wine in the final executable - I understand he used it during development to properly shim out the calls (Wine identified them for him) - and then he rewrote equivalents. Either way he is a mad genius and I have nothing but respect for him!
Thanks for posting that. The story is compelling, but without sources for quotes and more details, I'm left wondering how much of it was "artist embellishment".

There are enough factual stories about the war on drugs that will make your stomach turn. There is no need to "spice up" the story.
I can't find anything in that treatment I'd actually want to argue with. This sounds pretty much exactly right to me.

That said, here is as good an example as I am aware of for why the left-leaning world finds rationalists so outrageously exhausting. Including footnotes (footnotes!), this is a seven thousand word treatise on what can only be called a minor quibble. A psychiatrist wrote an anonymous blog, got outed, and doesn't actually seem to have been harmed much in practice. He's back to writing rationalist stuff under his own name.

Yet... this is somehow an existential thing we need to revisit (pg himself tweeted out this story this morning) again and again and again?

This is where the rest of us just throw up our hands. The whole idea of the rationalist perspective is that it's supposed to be detached from parochial loyalty. It's supposed to be about real problems and real solutions that affect real people in real ways.

And... when push comes to shove, it's not. It's just another tribe, waging just another tribal war. The fact that Alexander was wronged here is real. The idea that his wronging is of existential importance is just not remotely "rationalist". At all.
Correccion. It is actually 3 seconds via Wifi. Previous test was direct loopback in the same machine. Good for music and other non-synchronized activities anyways.
For EU VAT the minimum threshold is €10k (excl. VAT). You register with a mini one stop shop within your country which distributes the VAT to the other countries. If you're not selling to consumers in other EU countries the threshold is a lot higher.
> Android

I wouldn’t trust the world’s biggest tracking company not to track me.

You’re kind of moving laterally there. (From trusting Smart TV to trusting Google.)
This article could really be spiced up with some pictures (it has none currently), fortunately this linked one has some:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgolfier_brothers
I think that people were frustrated with the large inconsistencies in how the NYT handled that policy.
Yes, sometimes it seems that way but I think we should be careful about excusing this sort of thing that way.

For years before Trump I heard many say "all politicians lie" which is clearly not literally true, but became an excuse for not finding and rewarding the honest ones.

Or, "all the media outlets are crap" is used as an excuse to just read whatever pandering crap one wants to be true and to stop even trying to find quality media.

And (IMO) look where that has led us.
Developers want comfy sweat pants and t-shirts that look like dress shirts when you're on zoom.