jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>Btw, this "Hello world" example tells a little, basically, how efficiently memory allocation, and IO layer are implemented (that's why no one still could beat nginx).

Actually at least on other guy just beat nginx just other day -- don't remember the name, it was some Japanese made server.
It would need a third line for ego!
Yes, everyone knows this. This is not helpful.
> Youtube front page doesn't show any videos

I see videos all fine on Youtube front-page, using out-of-the-box filter lists. That kind of issue was never reported for uBlock. I would need to know exactly what filter lists you were using, including custom filters.

uBlock relies on 3rd-party filter lists to do the job, specifically, out of the box:

- EasyList
- EasyPrivacy
- Fanboy's Social Blocking List
- Peter Lowe's Ad Servers
- Malware domains

So if you think it blocks too much, un-select the filter lists you do not want.

Bottom line, whatever filter lists you use in uBlock, you will get the same results with the same lists with ABP.
My current favorite solution for blocking the more annoying ads and increasing security while preserving a low-latency browsing experience: Click-to-play for Flash Player (and all the other plug-ins).

There are lots of gray boxes now all over the web, but I prefer them over resource-hungry attention-grabbing Flash ads.
Yes and no. They are tasked with protecting national security assets within the US, most of which rely on commercial systems. When they find a dangerous flaw in those systems, especially one loose in the wild, they are to help fix it. To not fix it is to leave US systems at risk.

"in almost all instances, for widely used code, it is in the national interest to eliminate software vulnerabilities rather than to use them for US intelligence collection" ( quote from the 2013 panel report, not wired.)

http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/White-House-...
This stood out to me the most. 125g of sugar in a day's supply seems really high.
Hmm, so you took one job and feel like that is enough of a basis for making conclusions?

- Have you tried being a commercial dishwasher? I have. That's 8 straight hours of monotonous, yet highly demanding work attention-wise. $9/hr.

- Have you been a line cook? I have. That's 8 straight hours of monotonous, physical work plus a pretty painful burn at least once a day. $10/hr.

Okay, fine I take your point that programming requires heavy dedication to skill. Have you ever worked in accounting? My fiancee works as an accountant and is constantly pushed to work over 70 hrs per week and her job is extremely demanding. (She's the only one at her company that can figure out certain processes, hence the long hours and pressure. She currently is doing the work of 4 people.) $20/ hr.

I'm sorry, but calling your $100/hr occupation as a programmer a "coal mine of its own sort" is beyond absurd, and downright foolish.
Have you tried slow carb? Avoids dairy and adds legumes. I've found it easier to do and it's (probably) healthier.
We've been testing for months in Montreal, but Breather just opened in the US with our first spaces in New York City. Users reserve the rooms for private use on their phones with an iOS or Web app, pay with a credit card, then unlock the door with a unique code. Rooms rent by the hour for work, rest, or meetings.
I DON'T TALK TO RECRUITERS!

I'm amazed at how quickly the reporter turned around that story. I talked to her yesterday afternoon. Also unexpected: my face in the article, lol.
There is infinitely more to writing secure software than correctly using secure cryptographic constructs.
Apparently it would update previously if you already had it, but now it shows up as "optional" update even if you never installed it. The date that started was March 24.
It is Unlimited^.

^Conditions and Restrictions apply.
Oh, the technology exists, all right (UAVs), but nobody has been insane enough to use it for commercial aviation. So far - we might see a push in this direction now.
People do already choose languages other than PHP because they find PHP crappy. But in evolutionary terms, clearly PHP (and by extension Hack) are evolving, and are successful in their niche. If you don't want to use PHP you don't have to, alternatives already exist in abundance - including, of course, the fork of PHP itself. So use Java, or Python, or Ruby or C# or whatever floats your boat.

But if you're arguing that PHP should not be allowed to exist despite there still being a community that uses it and despite there still being improvements made to the language and despite its success, that's not an evolutionary argument, it's an elitist one.
If you haven't seen it Lior Pachter at CalTech has been sharing open source / 3d printable designs for lab equipment [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/lpachter/status/1354955229532360707
I can second Hetzner. In my case with their dedicated offering, though. Been running mail servers there since at least 2013 with next to no problems.

Google sometimes put mails into the spam folder, though not in recent times. Microsoft tends to block unused IP addresses by default, there's a Wiki page on how to request an unblock: https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Microsoft_Blacklist/en

I sign all my emails using DKIM and have good domain reputation.
Think about the basis of clutter. If you are working class you might have a decent size toolshed or a garage full of tools. When something breaks, you fix it. If you are rich, you may decide to rely on auto mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, and often if something breaks you just get a new one... even a car.

If you are working class you may have a sewing table full of half-finished repair jobs. If you are rich, you either buy new clothes whenever you want, or you offload that work onto a tailor.

If you are working class your dirty clothes may pile up, and you need an ironing board and maybe a clothesline. If you are rich, you use the dry cleaners.

If you are poor your dishes pile up because you cook meals frequently, and you may not even own a dishwasher. If you are rich, you may eat out frequently and certainly can afford a dishwasher.
I am blind. I know or have known at least 20 other blind people sufficiently to know what their browsers are. None of them used Links. One of them used Edbrowse. The rest (including myself) are Firefox, Chrome, or Safari. I have at least one personal project (not public) which uses React heavily. Saying that Links is necessary is an outdated view, so much so that we have things like the accessibility object model [0] in progress to possibly go so far as even supporting use cases like remote desktop connections in the browser by making fake screen reader only nodes in the accessibility tree.

In general, the terminal itself is even not so great. There are efforts like Emacspeak which mandate learning what is essentially a second desktop environment, but outside that it turns out that offering semantics (which only non-text browsers and apps can do) is useful: for example knowing whether or not the cursor is in a text editor, so that deletions are significant, or whether text is a table.

The idea that JS is bad for screen readers--or indeed that we use text-based browsers--is a consistent misconception that is no longer true. It was true 10 or 15 years ago, if not longer, but everything AT has come a very long way since then.

For a source that's not just anecdotal, this has info on primary browser: https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey8/

0: http://wicg.github.io/aom/explainer.html
Here's one paper I've found by quoted researcher, which I think is kind of relevant to the device/what this article is about:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30734558

I think they are creating microfluidic chips that analyze miRNAs. So, I imagine it's an orchestra of pumps, valves, etc pushing very very small amounts of liquid around and using an array of techniques to detect things, all dictated by microcontrollers. It's as interdisciplinary as you can get!

It should be noted that these papers are actually in great abundance, when I get happy is when a big company (e.g. Toshiba or Olympus) takes over because it means a return is to be made, i.e. they're going to pay for the patents and finally bring academic papers to fruition, and putting their weight behind it, probably make it work to solve problems like "cancer" (by detecting it super-early, making it easier to take out).
I agree with this. We'd be on a slippery slope to idiocracy.

(Maybe we're already there!)
I have put together the Material-UI Table component and react-table v7 for a project. Apart from the Typescript for v7 being a bit insufficient (but easy to work around it, and possibly fixed by now), it was an absolutely pleasant experience.

It’s almost like react-table v7 and {insert UI component library here} are made for each other and it’s incredibly valuable, more so than the previous react-table.

Absolute kudos to the developer and I look forward to UI component libraries writing their table display components to target the semantics of react-table v7.

This has some real potential for any UI library to get first-class table functionality without sweating and needlessly repeating the implementation details.
Then... May I ask why only Apple devices are officially supported right now？
I've actually started to hate YouTube so much (just for being terrible to content-creators and consumers, and supporting toxic videos (time watched is a ranking factor, promoting high-engagement "edgeline videos)), and so on and so forth) that I wanted to create a white-label HTML video player that would keep the benefits of a consistent, well-made UI but drop the publisher aspect of YouTube.

I don't think I ever will, but the world needs an alternative that has a good encoding/optimization (like switching to lower bitrates on slower connections), a unified interface (familiar no matter what site it's being used on) and that doesn't tempt users to write custom skins for the video player.
That extended far beyond early stage employees. Hundreds of thousands of folks (nationwide) lost their jobs at established companies in the wake of that mess. I don't see how early stage employees faced any greater risk.
It would be great to throw entries at actual security auditors, mixed with innocent versions, and see how they fare.
Also this is a ridiculous product. Why wouldnt I just use a free service like trello? That does this better and more fully featured than you do? 30 bucks a month is a stupid high ask for something as simple as this.

Not to be harsh. But I would never consider using your product based on its value/cost.
Great work, thanks !
This is an excellent demonstration of the value and transparency the blockchain provides.
Well, I never thought that I was an innovating or unique grumpy mofo. ;)
Does anyone know much about the fourth founder, Rich Miner, and why he didn't want to accept the offer ?
I'm not arrogant enough to think that "women" care one bit about what I'm doing.

it only trivializes the focus of the issues to the wording choice of a single fucking person

Have you been on Hacker News before?
I'm really excited about Daala, in ways that VP8 and VP9 never excited me—VP8 seemed like a damaged version of MPEG4. Although it looks like MPEG4 will be "good enough" for the web for a long time to come, it seems like HEVC development is weighed down by some perverse incentives.

See this post from "Diary Of An x264 Developer" in 2010: http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/360

Meanwhile, Opus came along and outperformed HE-AAC, which makes me think that more good things are going to come from open standards.
Jeremy and I were carrying the orange team haha fun game!
Intel does security really well. They set an example how all large companies should do it.
Regarding simplicity, I’ve observed the following about design. Usually, designs become more complex with time. If the RATE of complexity increase exceeds a certain level, the design is crap and that approach needs to be scrapped. Occasionally, a design gets simpler as one goes forward. THOSE are magic!
check archive.org
> Each attendee is his/her own congregation, perhaps with a "buddy" to help enforce self-discipline.

There should be a new fad : Agile 'life'. Work with a partner. Always run tests by validating that what you are doing is aligned with the official "Christian" doctrine.
Our take on this: users like spreadsheets. The spreadsheet interface is the goose that lays the golden eggs; it's what allows so many people to get so much done. Thus any replacement for Excel has got to preserve the spreadsheet UI and preserve it in a relatively familiar way. Those criteria narrow down the class of possible replacements.

We met with a group of spreadsheet support people once at a fairly large company where, as is typical, IT was trying to force the users off their spreadsheets. Here is how they said users were actually using the spreadsheet-replacing-proper-enterprise-apps that they had been mandated to use:

1. Open the enterprise app.
2. Paste the data into Excel.
3. Do whatever they want.
Your early history of relativity isn't quite correct. The experimental results posed no convincing challenge to the established theory. After all, Lorentz' theory of ether contraction in the vicinity of moving bodies (the exact same mathematical operations that we today see as a fundamental building block of special relativity that still go by the name Lorentz contraction) could adequately explain those experiments (the maths is exactly the same as for a relativistic interpretation, yielding the exact same predictions for all experiments possible around 1900).

What motivated Einstein's work (and that of other, less successful theoretical physicists at the time) was the mathematical impossibility of classical mechanics and classical electrodynamics both being correct at the same time. After all, his paper that introduced special relativity was called "on the electrodynamics of moving bodies." There were no mirrors involved.
Thanks for giving more information.
I'm surprised this didn't get more interest at HN, it's highly germane to our lives. I have a few questions about it, including "what about non-string datatypes in the DB?"
> I usually have to struggle to make things work on Windows.

My strategy for this has been to start with a "any Windows support is entirely accidental" approach, and then once someone steps forward to fix it place them in charge of Windows compatibility. There are never very many Windows users who are actually interested in helping though, especially compared to the number who complain about it not working.
Why is it that everytime I click on the link, I get a file downloaded? I don't really want to open it.
A lot of HNers are also about 30, have some regret, and some have a hangover?
I don't know about you, but for me thinking is almost impossible without writing, drawing, or interacting with some external medium. I can't just sit still and think deep thoughts. This only works for very shallow thoughts.

I used to think this was a property of my aphantasia. However, in recent years, I've heard a lot of people claim that writing is thinking. In fact, most writing out there is an artifact of thought, and not designed to be read by others. Few people recognize that distinction, and that's why good writing is so rare.
Where now = for 5 years or more.
> The golden age were the 8 and 16 bit days, where game genres were yet to be invented and publishers were keen to take anything that came their way, and we were creating stuff that were told the hardware wasn't capable of.

None of that is true though. It's just the rose tinted glasses one wears when looking back at the games one grew up with and loved.

> where game genres were yet to be invented

Actually by the 16-bit era quite a number of genres were already really well defined. This was even true for the 8-bit era for some genres (like platformers, maze games, etc).

> publishers were keen to take anything that came their way

That very much depended on the publisher -- just the same as it does now (some publishers will buy any old indie crap and others are more selective). And it wasn't just publishers who were known to reject games, Sega Japan were famously strict about the titles they'd allow to be licensed on the Mega Drive. It was Sega America who allowed any old release to be licensed.

> and we were creating stuff that were told the hardware wasn't capable of.

That's selection bias. There was a lot of mediocre titles around too. Many of which didn't push the hardware or was less creative about the use of hardware resources. But people tend to remember the more impressive titles, in part because they have aged better, but also literally because they had that "wow" factor.

> Modern games, in whatever form, most of the time are just watching yet another x-men remake.

The 8-bit and 16-bit era had their fair share of copy cat games. When Mario Bros was a hit everyone seemed to jump on the bandwagon to make a Mario clone. There were hundreds of Pac-Man inspired games (and Pac-Man itself wasn't the first game of that style). Not to mention all the side scrolling shooters, JRPGs that are almost identical from one another, etc. Even popular games like Galaxian was themselves a knock off (eg Space Invaders). And don't get me started on the number of Space Harrier and Outrun clones on the Famicom.

Even copy cat games aside, most successful games saw sequals (and even many unsuccessful ones). Alex Kid had 4 games. Wonderboy had 3. There are around a dozen 8/16-bit Sonic games that are 2D platformers (ie not counting Sonic 3D Blast and Sonic Pinball) and Mario has even more titles to it's name.

Don't get me wrong, I do love that era of gaming. In fact I'm a massive collector of the original hardware and have ~20 consoles (including some obscure ones) still hooked up in a spare room...all of which still get regularly played. You could say this is a big passion of mine. But with that it does mean I also see my fair share of shelf fillers -- and they do outnumber the classic titles despite what your fond memories of the era tell you.

As for what the golden age was, well that's subjective and likely whoever you ask will say it's the era they grew up in. Each new generation of gamers have seen a new paradigm in gaming and that's what they'll remember fondly.
You're probably thinking about some app not being able to start when some other specific app is running because both were using a GUID copied from SO for implementing single-instance apps.

Possibly the SO question in question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/522874/615306
IIRC, it's because the British Army can trace its origins back to the New Model Army, so pledging allegiance to the Crown was more than just a formality back then.

In contrast, the 'Royal' Navy was created expressly by the monarch so allegiance is implied.
Sure, and that's a legitimate subject for debate as to where legality and morality should intersect. I think it's also reasonable to say that one group imposing their opinions on others without sufficient justification is immoral. So then we go to the merits of the justification.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

> In June 2014, Judge Lucy Koh expressed concern that the settlement may not be a good one for the plaintiffs. Michael Devine, one of the plaintiffs, said the settlement [of $324.5 million] is unjust. In a letter he wrote to the judge he said the settlement represents only one-tenth of the $3 billion in compensation the 64,000 workers could have made if the defendants had not colluded.[19]

The final settlement was for "$415 million and other companies settled for $20 million."

Remember, wage theft and related crimes are wide-spread because they are so profitable and because people don't get thrown into jail over them.
I will have to disagree on your say about software/hardware integration. Its bad on the Mac, but I have had no issues related to integration after 3.xx kernel upgrades on any other PC. I find a heavy online supportive community for Linux if I happen to encounter any issues down the lane compared to OSX. Like you mentioned, brew isn't as great as apt-get for which I keep going back to using dmg's.
There are physics limitations on batteries. I am not sure there will be a breakthrough. Obviously its worth investing in materials research, but for an average person commuting within a city, the technology seems there. The breakthrough needs to be the price.
Would you like to report the issue faced on GitHub so that we could track and rectify them really quick.
This is the mythical power-grid attack that people have been talking about since the concept of cyber-warfare was first dreamt up.

It’s lucky we caught this now, before there are enough PowerWalls to seriously destabilise the grid if this attack were to occur.
Do you know any articles about this? Would like to learn more.
Author here: yep, that was me.
Hybrids are fine, there’s not a huge amount of complaint about them in F1. The fully electric engines do sound quite horrible though.
> Node is popular because so many people knew JavaScript anyway.

Is that true, though? I see very few JavaScript developers with a solid background in computer science or software engineering on the job market, compared to the demand these days, as more and more stuff goes to the browser or native HTML applications. Taking kids out of web design schools is too much of a gamble unless you already have a senior JS dev on the team to keep an eye on them.

But then again it might be different in places like Silicon Valley.
A few stand-out quotes:

People tend to romanticize their own motivations and histories. They value what matters to them now, and forget what really mattered to them when they started.

This. I think we often seek out the wisdom of our heroes - but often they're so far removed from our stage of life that they can't remember what it was like.

Many great businesses are actually born out of frustration or even hate. Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp, the co-founders of Uber, didn't start their ride-sharing service because they loved transportation or logistics. They started it because they were pissed off that they couldn't get a cab in San Francisco.

This is an interesting perspective on what motivates a business: it is that you're passionate about the topic, or angry that no good solutions exist?
either it's fixed or you are having unicode issues. looks fine to me.
36. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
34. Emma -Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
Great job! The open source community needs more free/open source app templates.
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
The project itself is done. It does everything it's supposed to do. Some things could be done a bit more efficiently, but it seems to be fast enough. The readme is a bit outdated, but the usage bit (which is printed if you run it without arguments) covers everything.

I kinda lost interest in this project, because, back then, it actually didn't work. The SVG spec had to be fixed first and Chrome didn't even display those images at all due to a bug.

Basically, the problem with the spec was that it required the masks to use some nonsensical color space. Half of the implementations didn't, because it didn't make any sense and because the wording was extremely confusing.

Anyhow, the spec got changed and browsers started to implement this newer version of the spec. Nowadays, it actually does work.

Well, that's basically the whole story. That's why there isn't an article which promotes it. There were showstoppers which made it completely unusable.
Also, asking for something you're not emotionally invested in has little bearing to asking for something you're emotionally invested in. As an example: Asking someone you only just met for their number bears little resemblance to asking a someone you really like to go for coffee or dinner with you... when you're emotionally invested, rejection stings.