jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I still fail to understand why Nokia doesn't get it done with Software. I mean, look at Meego. Maybe I'm naive but I was really expecting more progress. I thought they were set to go. All they need is development power. Get their Meego core run on selected hardware. Do they put enough ressources there? Are there politics with Intel going on? It is so important to get going. They should know it and put $$ there. All we hear from Nokia is news about Symbian being supported more, which is not really promotion in my opinion. Look at RIM. Look what they do with their playbook and QNX. So much more progress than Nokia.
We need diversity and competition in the mobile market. Currently Apple and Google squeeze the money out of our wallets.
(And we need more Qt ;-))
Let me get this straight: nothing is broken right now, and therefore legislation to stop it from being broken in the future is... bad? Is that seriously what he's suggesting?
The poor guys at Torproject will suffer!
Old (March 17th 2009) and already submitted earlier today with discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1948436
> Is this not abuse of privilege?

Not really. It is part of the journey towards evolving efficient systems as a whole. If you go by the 80/20 principle about workplace/work (which is true in most cases) - will you fire away 70-80% of the staff as a manager/entrepreneur? or will you give 80% the privilege of not doing as much work or taking on responsibility as the 20%?
I just remembered that Keybase sent me random Lumens a while ago that I never touched, and when I just checked back right now, they're actually worth a significant amount? I am sort of shocked. How do I spend this?
I actually tried facebook for a month with other windows covering up the "trending" sidebar. It was a little better but the ads in the main area still annoyed me.

Then I started unfriending people that just posted stuff that annoyed me.

Then I realized after 3 days there was literally no new posts.

Then I just deleted facebook.

I don't miss it at all.

I've got multiple group chats with friends that I like. People post funny and interesting stuff there and we talk about it without having to deal with what someone's crazy uncle thinks about the topic.
Correct. That plugin is developed by Google primarily as internal dev tooling, and the version of IntelliJ supported internally is generally not bleeding edge.
I create a lot of reports and dashboards.

Sometimes I make magic, but magic can be difficult to explain/understand, so mostly it's reports and dashboards.
They have to do two things :-)

1) Use ECC memory

2) Go underground

"One experiment measured the soft error rate at the sea level to be 5,950 failures in time (FIT = failures per billion hours) per DRAM chip. When the same test setup was moved to an underground vault, shielded by over 50 feet (15 m) of rock that effectively eliminated all cosmic rays, zero soft errors were recorded.[6] In this test, all other causes of soft errors are too small to be measured, compared to the error rate caused by cosmic rays."

"Soft Errors"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error#Cosmic_rays_creatin...
This particular thread is so good it's hard to believe it is real(ly fake)

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/mkq2k7/i_...
orange users experiment

Here is a link to the detailed thread about the experiment of putting user names of high-karma/comment users in orange,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467181

which as you'll see was a controversial experiment. (I post this link for the newer members of HN who weren't participating when the experiment was tried.)
That website doesn't do anything.
Thank you for posting this. Out of curiosity, what was/is your tech stack like?
Time to reverse this then.
I can't tell from the article. Does anyone know if Google Analytics is blocked by default? It says the default is Balanced mode and that the trackers blocked are mostly from Google. But it doesn't make it clear if Google Analytics is blocked by default.

Google Analytics uses first party cookies so it usually passes by default blockers at least. If they are blocking that by default this is a massive blow. Otherwise it's blocking things that are probably already blocked in other popular platforms such as Safari on OSX and IOS, and this is much less impressive.
q: What is 3+2?
a: hello, I am 30 year old guy from india. <insert a story about forced marriage> <some ramblings about caste system> 1500 words later: "and this, in short, how I got my prostate cancer"
I suggest you try taking a class at a local college. Having to actually show up will keep you interested and help you finish.
I would also look at career advice to help you plan your future. Your anxiety is partially cause by not knowing your future. Sit down with a career professional and life coach to plan your future and how to get there.
The article was great, but there are so many ads on the page. Every time I scroll on my iPad, there seems to be another ad in the center of the page. I’m going to assume this disappears for subscribers but just wow. The article was interesting, but the writing here is nothing I’d get a subscription for. Seems like the author read a bunch of TIL Reddit posts and glued their various bits together. It’s all one or two line anecdotes with no additional substance. Celebrities have a private terminal and skip lines? Color me surprised!
No they specifically mentioned this in the context of the us
I've been using a userscript called Googles Hit Hider by Domain from Jefferson Scher that allows you to blacklist sites since Google removed the ability to do it natively (it works with all the major search engines, not just Google as the name implies) : http://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/

[Edit: credit the author of the script]
You have to check this place out. It has been incredibly useful for a lot of people, myself included:

http://railsforzombies.org/

Good luck!
The cheapest data plan available to me is $180/yr. I've got wifi or better access any time I'm not driving, so I'm going to be annoyed if I'm forced to pay for something I'll rarely use.
NVidia's Tesla C2050 has 448 CUDA cores. Is Intel still dabbling with 48 purely because they want each core to be totally general purpose?
Just because smartphones have a higher profit margin for companies, doesn't automatically mean that consumers will buy a smartphone, let alone will want one.

If I ran an American cellular phone carrier, I would be remiss not to push my customers toward using phones with higher profit margins for me. If I needed to get customers to use smartphones by giving them away (with the realization that I would make the money back over the course of their contract), so be it.

Consumers may want non-smartphones, but if their carriers are giving them incentives to buy smartphones, I am not sure that mandatory data plans will prevent them from succumbing.
You're not the only one! Thank god for Ebay -- I'm going to be using dumbphones for a long time.
Mind shooting me an email? This thread will just get lost in my HN replies... 1.9.2 should build it properly.
Just putting it out here for comments, suggestions, and if interested, collaboration: https://bsldld.neocities.org
Could I take this opportunity to ask the HN community what they use on linux for photo editing (and what they like a out it)? ... if anybody like that exists ;)
If you keep thinking these dissident thoughts you may eventually come to the conclusion that huge portion of do-gooding is done for the benefit of the do-gooders, primarily the feel-good benefit. A few are trying hard to build a link between their own feel-good and the benefit of the supposed beneficiaries, but wishful thinking is rampant.
She'll be on this. Good one.
Pretty much everybody has the feeling that their income is "only sufficient to scrape by in a moderately convenient way". In the end, of course, they're all wrong: no income is enough to keep you alive. What good does homeownership do you once you're dead?

You're comment points out very effectively that this is an illusion. I'm sure you're aware that the other 90% of the people in your country are also at least scraping by, even though many of them have an income that is a fraction of yours. Do you suppose they spend all their time missing the conveniences you take for granted? Unless those conveniences are things like access to surgery and adequate food for their children (do you live in Zimbabwe?) probably not.

So consider whether the conveniences that account for the discrepancy between their scraping along and your scraping along are really worth the inconveniences required to buy them.

If you're like 90% of people, you never will consider this seriously — because if it wasn't crazy, everybody would be doing it, right? — until it's time for you to retire.
I’m not ‘wanting’ something.

I’m simply pointing out that the algorithms do in fact steer people towards polarizing content, that is not what they would have otherwise chosen.
The thing is... The claim of fraud have been investigated and nothing came up. Over 50 legal processes started not a single one of which convinced a judge that there are reasons to investigate.
There is nothing for the media to investigate.
That’s what they did.
Show me the politician inciting the Summer's arsonists to destruction.

There are always people taking advantage of or inciting chaos to do reckless things. They need to be tried and, if found guilty, punished. Even if they're the president.
> and statistical anomalies that suggest the election wasn't conducted properly

I have yet to see any strong evidence that the election wasn't conducted properly.

I have see a lot of people on HN make vague statements along the lines of "there are things that suggest that some shady things may have taken place".

Every one of these statements was unsourced, and carried a general subtext that any claim of fraud automatically deserved attention and belief, no matter how little evidence was provided, and that the burden on proof should lie on people refuting these claims.

I usually want to assume good faith, but this is really hard here. You obviously can't say "Bill Gates sent assassins kill my parents" and, when ask with any evidence that Gates did this or that your parents are even dead, complain that people aren't taking the Bill Gates threat seriously enough. The burden of proof is on you for making extraordinary claims. The claims of widespread fraud should require extraordinary evidence as well, and there really hasn't been any.
Signal has improved a lot. I burnt a lot of the same thing, but it's finally sticking when I ask people to first install it within the last year or so.
Its worth remembering that whatsapp used to have an annual charge, and it grew successfully with that. The charge was only removed once FB bought them.

Personally I don't know anyone that started using whatsapp after the fb purchase, so they were all happy to pay for their use of a messaging app.
Signal: https://signal.org/
You forgot to put your † somewhere.
How about that "Rent software before you buy" ad. I remember those places as operating in somewhat questionable legal territory, but here is a full page ad on page 117.
I am not sure why i need to scroll through 6 screens to see the price instead of just being able to click an icon on the first screen and jump to where i want to jump to.

Maybe there is a way that I just couldnt figure out. Why is it folks would never today implement a 6 or 7 step wizard with a bunch of next buttons. but its considered a good idea to do so with scrolling is involved...

would also like to see a big down arrow or some kind of standard indicator when a desktop page has this scroll behavoir... i was waiting a the starting screen for quite a while and then clicked on the 4 little icons before i figured out i just had to scroll down forever.
How does it look with transfers for other countries than US?
Blender has made a lot of strides in the past few years. Have you tried it recently? My last encounter with blender was in 2008 and it was rather painful. I gave it another try several months ago and got my socks blown off. I've since rebuilt my workflow around blender and there's no going back.
I don't think it actually works this way for NPM specifically, if you're using scoped packages correctly. I believe you can associate a scope with one (private) repo and it will not fall back on the public repo, or choose newer / higher-numbered versions on the public repo over a version from the private one.
Realistically, if you improve working conditions or pay in Bangladesh, the business will shift to one of 10 other poor countries in the developing world. That's not to say we should give up trying to do that. But the comparison of the low-skilled labour with scarce developers, is simply not a very good one, because most developers have reasonable bargaining power.
I'm not a security professional, but I'll spend a couple minutes and make a stab at it:

1. don't store everything on the machine(s) accessible via that root password

2. don't allow any employee unfettered access to everything

3. don't allow one piece of software to have access to everything

4. do not store backups in the server room, or even in the same building

5. buy computers that do not have USB support in any form

6. full disk encryption on laptop. Minimize sensitive data on laptop. Use smallest capacity disk drives on laptop. Don't allow any laptops to have access to secure network. Issue hardwired desktops to employees. No wifi to secure network.
I understand your point, and I also see where toyg comes from. Let me try to phrase it another way:

Some tasks are inherently complex. Take data modelling as an example. Properly designing a database requires formal training. There's no way around it, and when you mask database design with a UI, you get the worst of both worlds. The complexity is there, unskilled users won't be able to tackle it, and the UI gets in the way of professionals with formal training.

Naturally, there is a continuum of tasks to be done, some can be solved with a poorly designed solution. If a user is empowered to generate a subpar solution, it is still better than no solution at all. That's the secret for Excel being the second best tool for any data manipulation task (for each task there is a better tool, but excel gets the job done in all of them).

The error here is selling visual programming tools as the next evolution step, which will phase out text UIs. It's not. It's a different tool, for a different use case, to be used by a different cohort of users.
More than worth the energy consumption.
Yet another hot take on on the state of "remote", where remote actually means: US and Canada wide (and maybe UK but that would be a bit of a stretch).
>Despite all this China has 3x the GDP per capita of India. All despite the fact that India had democracy, private property and capitalist enterprises in this whole period.

This is a recent phenomenon that started in the 90s. China was essentially flat until 1993 (that's when India and China's GDP per capita started diverging).

Remember that article about a feed processing company in India not getting a permit to build a factory because he has to rezone land because all land in India is zoned for agriculture by default? The problem wasn't the bureaucracy. It was the corruption. The founder had to go to 14 different offices and one third of them didn't even process his forms because he refused to pay bribes. He had the bribe money but he refused out of principle and that heavily delays the start of the company.
"I was a smart kid, but once I boasted to my dad about how smart I was, and he came down hard on me. “Don’t you ever think that you’re smarter than other people!” he snapped. I took that lesson to heart, and all my life I have reined in my assessment of my own intelligence. But of late I have tired of this pose; at seventy years of age, I shouldn’t be posing. Dammit, I’m a genius, and it’s time I admitted it to myself." - http://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/seventy.html
I see, that's interesting and it seems powerful.

But I would never use such a feature, it increases the code mental load (what you should know before being able to read the code).

From one codebase to another, I can't even keep the same assumptions.
Or put another way: In your life you are optimizing over more than just money. Insurance is a way to reduce variance, and thus stress, and is therefore worth a nominal fee.
It is beyond incredibly expensive to bury 138/345/720kV transmission lines. Orders of magnitude more expensive than running structures. With that said the vegetation surrounding the lines should be trimmed.
Include women now and they might not be as good but they will inspire the next generation

Inspire the next generation how exactly? "Your predecessor was filling a quota but you're here on merit, honest"?
Wow, this article is great, it could be its own HN submission.

Another archetype similar to "Burrowers" are "Architect Astronauts" - when you try to generalize every problem and create a portable universal solution to it
Emulation is in userspace.
With the *REMOTE, *VIEW and *NOTIFY commands you could also have a huge amount of fun in class (much of it invisible to the teacher).

We also found a privilege escalation endpoint, and were only caught when the network server was upgraded to an Archimedes and the special badging on admin accounts in the GUI gave our MRBIG account away.
Pretty clearly we didn't, since even before the latest disaster, we had frequent brownouts.
LOL we have enough fires burning as it is..
My settings: https://i.imgur.com/8X1a7gs.png
You can compare against the rate of increase of US East or US West. An apples-to-apples of SPP (in East) vs ERCOT puts SPP at $5/MWh cheaper.
The runtime system might not free the memory immediately.
I agree, I personally feel that as web devs with four other major browers that basically follow the same standards, we should spend our time targeting them. But to simply ignore the MS/IE user base is pure ignorance.

I had a hand in porting a chrome-only app (embark.delta.com) over to all browsers and we had to remove all of the "cool" advances just to get it to work with ie9. Bottom line is that the combo of MS/IE still, and will for a while, retard the progression that is being made.

As long as IE is player, we'll have to say "fuck, but what about IE?" when we see cool new advances. This is why I am happy about the mobile browser landscape
What I'm trying to get at is that while 0.3333... is a "valid" number because it can be represented by a fraction, 0.9999... is not a valid number because it cannot be represented by a fraction.

Is there any merit in this reasoning, and the idea that 0.3333... is more valid a number than 0.9999...?
I am a proponent of specialization. I've found it is easier to convince clients to use your services if you have a track record of developing similar projects and appear to have expert knowledge in that area.

Of course, it's also great that have breadth of knowledge so you can always say Yes to client when they ask if you can do X.

I would think about which areas that you mentioned above you are most passionate about and what skill-types your current network has and base your decision off of that.
IIRC, the 486 was not pipelined, so you did't get 19 instructions, 4 of which could be memory instructions. You got 19 arithmetic instructions or 4 memory instructions, or something in between (without checking your math, but as I recall, that's roughly right).

There are basically two inner loop types in a game like Doom - the wall loop and the floor loop. The wall loop renders a vertical strip of pixels on a wall and the floor loop renders a horizontal strip of floor. Each of these loops is actually rather trivial to write and just walks over the pixels reading an input texel, modulate by lighting, and then write out to the screen buffer. (Actually, Doom had transparent textures for some walls, so that's a third type of loop). The wall loop is slightly simpler because it can be an axis aligned walk through the input texture.

There really isn't very much room to optimize these loops. You can unroll them. You can play with how you do the adds and carrys and maybe shave off another instruction. For walls, you can organize your texture data so that vertical neighbors are consecutive in memory. You can be very choosy about your lighting function. The hard work was setting everything up for your inner loop.
Good one, and thanks for the pointer!
Sounds like your hard work paid off indeed! Care to elaborate on how you gained users? Did you only email editors, or did you have other strategies as well? What were your pitches like? I'd love to hear!
Good catch. And that is why I chose the word.
Assembler simulator seems wrong. My understanding is that an assembler assembles assembly code.
It doesn't happen enough that I've seen to make it worthwhile
i.e. the Balmer era, who has repeated his hatred for Linux at every possible opportunity. That was the first time Balmer acknowledged Wine.

Nadella runs Microsoft now. This post is FUD.
> I wrote a long comment, but removed it since I don't want to be political on HN, even to correct a fallacy.

Delete this comment, then?
I guess they mean latest hack we have been the target of? Stuxnet was custom written malware targeting Iran, so yes I would agree with you but perhaps what he was trying to say is still true.
Compromise an employee.
I think it's a little more complicated/nuanced than that.

It's clear that some medical professionals felt the science wasn't there, and ofcourse it wasn't. The science takes a long time. i.e. there was no science that showed that for Covid19 the use of masks would make a difference. Sure, it's common sense, but medical professionals don't use common sense. There might have been some papers about the Flu (with mixed results) and there were some other random papers, but there was no clear evidence either way. If touching the virus and then touching your face is the primary vector then it is possible that masks make things worse. Again, to me it was always common sense you should wear a mask (and not touch it and not touch your face) but even here on HN people were arguing both ways given the existing papers/publications.

Then there's the nature of public health, where your messaging isn't necessarily about what's the right choice for an individual, but rather what's the right choice for the public as a whole.

I don't think the public would understand the nuance of make a mask vs. buy a mask, ofcourse there'd be a run on PPE. Even with the message there was a run on PPE. Good luck trying to find an N95 mask in Home Depot last year in the first few months of the pandemic.

I'm not sure what's the takeaway here, public health officials, and medical professionals are not really scientists, they don't communicate science, they have their own objectives. Generally their objectives should be aligned with our objectives as a public but they may not be aligned with our objectives as individuals within that public.

The bigger issue to me is how slow the response has been across the board in most places, because all those bureaucracies move at the pace of a snail, pretty much every country on this planet botched the initial handling of this (of special note is China ofcourse) and blew away our chance of containing this early on. By the time we were on the mask vs. no mask debate the die was already cast (and a lot of people wore masks anyways and a lot of those who didn't wouldn't wear one anyways).
The electric grid is going to be determined by what the power company provides. Industry has plenty of incentive to standardize that and they mostly do.

Every municipality (well, at least state, but usually county and sometimes city) does have the option to develop and enforce its own electric code. For the most part they've converged on a standard National Electric Code developed by an industry consortium, without any Federal requirements.