jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> it doesn’t do any one thing the best and doesn’t present an interesting paradigm

That's absolutely true. But once you've been through the language paradigms, written Forth and Prolog and Haskell and APL and Lisp, you don't gain much by immersing in a new language.

At that point you start looking for languages where the things you loathe about them intersect minimally with what you work on. Python has relatively little to loathe and is very convenient. I still reach for it by default as well, and I was at one point best known for my Haskell work.

It has nothing to do with Google marketing. Norvig's established enough where he lends luster to Google, not vice versa.
A wrench attack will always be the easiest vector. That said, there is no other asset in history that gives you this level of security for such marginal cost. The cost of securing $100 is essentially the same as the cost of securing $100m.
Laws are not bytecode sequences, and courts are not dumb VMs, no matter how much programmers want them to be.
It’s open protocol and source though, so making a multi-device version wouldn’t be impossible
Didn't this already happen a few years ago?
Of course Eliza [1] is a famous AI bot, but I laughed quite a bit when I learned (on PAIP) that they wrote a program to simulate a paranoid schizophrenic (PARRY) and made then talk to each other [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARRY
It is obviously not possible to catch Wikipedia as a knowledge base, for the same reasons as it is impossible to catch Facebook as a social network or Apple as a content-distributing platform, and specialized collaborative sites, like Stackoverflow are years ahead.
Quality would dictate how long, IMO. Also, for this type of roundup, personally I'd get more use out of an audio podcast rather than video. But regardless, I'd want it to cover stories well, whether that takes 10 minutes or 60.
The algorithm used to be very complex and a big trade secret. Now it's just a bunch of big neural networks, and while still secret, doesn't look very different to Bings. The difference is Google has much more data to train theirs, so the results are better.
Another thought, and yes, I am going full Godwin here, because I think it's an important intellectual leap to make: In many European countries, using Nazi symbols such as the swastika is a criminal offence, so you can't use the symbol in games, in advertising or as a bumper sticker. However, it is not a criminal offence to show the symbol in a history class; to display it in a museum; to show it in a PowerPoint presentation during a lecture on WWII at university, to print it in a newspaper showing a defaced building etc. It is, above all, not a crime to say "Hitler" or "swastika" out loud. There is no "He said the H word". Even though these are arguably the most universal signs of hate and murder, you are allowed to discuss them. "Lest we forget", I believe is the saying often used with this rationale: If you prohibited anybody from ever talking about it or mentioning it, it would be forgotten after one generation at the latest, and with it all the important lessons learned from that terrible period of human history.

"He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" in Harry Potter is another example of a rhetorical device used to instill bloodcurdling fear and larger-than-life authority of a a Wizard-of-Oz-style villain. Note that this is a children's book. Every adult person should be able to see through that.

And so - I am sure, there are many other examples - I ask again: Why do such things keep happening? Why, when individuals are clearly able of rational thought, as the editor's initial reaction shows, does there seem to be a hive-mind or "invisible hand of the market", or whatever you call it, that seems to get large groups of people to come together and stone someone for saying "Jehova" because his wife's cooking was so excellent.

I ask this sincerely, even though I use comedic examples. For me, this is an existential question of one's own sanity, that I struggle to comprehend what really is going on here, and I would love to hear what others think about this.

Could a possible answer be, and I realize I might be getting controversial here, could it be that modern American society, lacking a nuanced way of looking at difficult historic matters - because it always seems to be either "Free Speech" or "Death" with no middle way - has chosen this visceral reaction because it never learned to deal with or discuss its history in a non-confrontational, level-headed manner? Clearly, using $badword in normal everyday conversation is unacceptable. So it follows from there - using this logic framework - that any use whatsoever is unacceptable? Just spitballing here, looking for answers. Could very well be that I am wrong. If so, please don't downvote me but instead explain. Thank you.
Kamala Harris encouraged the extremely violent and destructive BLM riots that killed more than 25 people and caused over $2 billion in property damage, but that didn't seem to get anyone's attention. She even set up a bail fund for the terrorists who participated in those riots.
When I'm browsing HN on my phone I often tap the wrong link by accident. I've come to accept clicking on the wrong link,, however, as regularly the article is one I wouldn't have clicked on otherwise, and the content is interesting. The other day I went on a 50 minute detour reading about Cambodia based on such a mistap.
I don't find this very accurate. When I started programming, I didn't read many books, didn't know patterns and all that. I just did whatever was necessary to get the result I wanted.

Between then and now, I've learnt a lot of theory, and I think the key to good programming is just to keep applying what you learned to your software and to keep evolving.

Microsoft Languages and Frameworks don't suck. They made design decisions based off a lot of legacy stuff - they didn't have the luxury of being able to create a brand new SDK. The attempt they made (.NET) turned out pretty alright. The .NET languages and frameworks are pretty good and consistent.

Python is a good short start, equivalent to learning to develop with C on the console, but once you graduate this level, it becomes horribly limited. Making a GUI with python is a convoluted and painful process. So python may be suitable at the start, but one should quickly graduate into a native SDK for the platform you are working in.

And I don't think either of the two mobile SDKs is really well suited for beginners. There is a lot of non-language things to take care off when developing for mobile.

I personally think the best programming way is : C on the console -> .NET or Java. Those will give you a good grasp about what most programming is about and then you can specialise in whatever you want to do.
Maybe I'm an old grump but any time I'm offered a deal that seems to good to be true (the "I can't believe they are paying me to do this" mantra) I know there is a catch.

However, sometimes a deal is worth doing anyway, for your own reasons (e.g. getting experience in a technology or in a market). But at least do it with your eyes open understanding exactly what position you are in.

It reminds me of a quote in The Big Short:

When a Wall Street firm helped him to get into a trade that seemed perfect in every way, he asked the salesman, "I appreciate this, but I just want to know one thing: How are you going to fuck me?" Heh-heh-heh, c'mon, we'd never do that, the trader started to say, but Danny, though perfectly polite, was insistent. We both know that unadulterated good things like this trade don't just happen between little hedge funds and big Wall Street firms. I'll do it, but only after you explain to me how you are going to fuck me. And the salesman explained how he was going to fuck him. And Danny did the trade.

Treat employment like any other deal - try and understand both sides.
I feel it strange with so many YES votes.
I thought at least 90% will vote for no, for security reasons. Looks not.
But yes, Let us not forget Not the Nine O'Clock News.
I think this is a better paradigm than Augmented Reality glasses.

The medium is limited but interesting.

Perhaps this would be more portable if there is a projector underneath a table with a transparent glass top and a camera on top to view inputs.

Potential Applications

1. Mapping (Interactive maps, interactive routing, real-time weather, etc)
2. Collaborative art
3. Engineering CAD and CAM modeling and design.
I’ve always found it ironic when coming across discussions of people’s frustration with Agile (uppercase A) only to see the “you’re doing it wrong” comment-which I’ve seen often right Here on HN, among other places.

Mainly because wasn’t one of the foundational elements of agile (lowercase A) “people and tools over processes”?

Lately Agile feels as ritualistic and process-heavy as a checklist for a rocket launch.
Seems like IBM's problem with iSeries is that they aren't encouraging new usage. They aren't working with universities to offer students any kind of courses, and don't seem to care whether or not the system is adopted. Not sure how sustainable it is, even considering the positive qualities of the system (security and simplicity of command structure, for example).
I mean... Greenland Minerals question is an Australian-Chinese enterprise, so I am not sure what the point of your comment is! Agreeing to develop the mine in Greenland doesn’t even meaningfully address your (myopic) worldview about stopping Chinese domination of rare earth supplies. Unless you think the intervention of unscrupulous Australian capitalists is a meaningful check on the Chinese government.

A major reason why the mine is being opposed is that a lackadaisical approach to toxic / radioactive waste is not in fact endemic to rare earth mining. It is seemingly endemic in multinational state-corporate enterprises (on which Greenlanders will have very little influence, cf the Malaysian government’s experience with that mine, which was also owned/administered by an Australian company).
Ha! I think we actually agree pretty strongly.

Except that I'm not even sure that the next Instagram or whatever should be a web app - it should be a native app.

I saw the beginning of the "write once - run anywhere" concept decades ago. Sounded fantastic. Yet here we are and it is more like "write once - stumble and crawl someplace".

It is most discouraging that many major houses do it so badly, and even their native apps are similar bloatware...
The article speculates that the hardware is “no more” than 16 years old. Obsolete, but newer than the original code, meaning that it not that strongly tied to the hardware.
A cryptocurrency is generally more easily spendable in an open market. The sell potential that a founder has with 75% of the supply is massive.

If I created a coin today and sold 1% of the supply to you alone, on what basis would you want to store any value in that currency? Given constant buy demand, The currency's market value is defined by what I do. This is why organic price discovery for a currency is important.
Cosmic rays are not exclusively associated with the sun. There are a lot of Galactic Cosmic Rays still. It's pretty much leftovers from supernovae, black hole mergers, neutron stars, accretion disks and such. But yeah, at night would be better.

Edit: Correction, there is very little difference and fewer cosmic rays during the day. Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0105005.pdf
For personal use it seems I agree with other comments that it seems like alot of work. But in a corporate setting it could be useful, wonder if these types of applications (NextCloud) is how the cloud gets broken up eventually.
If you miss a deadline or delay the launch of a product does the company dock your base pay?

Look, I'm not saying you shouldn't optimize for your own goals. You do you, no judgement.

What I am saying is that running a successful company means optimizing for the company, not the individual. And the best run companies make sure that the incentives of their staff are closely aligned with the company.

If staff are functionally lying to their company about their output, something has gone wrong.
I like woopra too and I just checked out clicky's demo page. Clicky is really nice. But if I were to compare woopra to clicky, I think woopra has a nicer interface/visualization. They just did an update yesterday on their web interface and its now almost as good as the desktop client.

I use three analytic and all of the them are free. I don't use woopra anymore, but I will probably use them if I am looking for a commercial solution. Clicky seems to have more customized tracking solution and looks like a better solution for people who are looking for a more in-depth tracking data.
Slack should understand their market advantage is targeting development communities (with their partnership with Atlassian for instance).

Microsoft, Facebook, and others are going to eat their lunch as a generic workplace chat tool.

And if your clients are developers than they're going to have different needs and wants than your average non-tech user. They understand markdown, they don't want the editor overriding their intent.
It looks like something my son would have designed when he was 5.
What has Tesla's PR team to do with Elon Musk's personal tweets? This is a very poor argument...
Fox News and their siblings (NY Post, WSJ mainly editorial, etc) have been running with the NYC is over narrative for quite a while. Especially the 'more dangerous than ever' trope. And they always talk about moving to TX and FL where the large cities have a homicide rate 2 to 4x what NYC's is.
I know it's off topic but I'd love to learn more about how the modeling of COVID went wrong. You can pm me if you want to take the discussion elsewhere.
>don't realize what I'm missing since I haven't used a modern macbook

That's what I thought as well, but every time I try to use my colleagues Mac it's a struggle, movement speed is really weird as it's not linear, tapping doesn't behave as one would expect (never had a problem with Linux or even windows with that). The whole thing is a weird button which presses when I don't want to.

True, I have used it maybe for 10 mins in total in.my life, so that's probably the main issue (I hope for the sake of the people who actually use it).

On the other hand I have seen long time users and it makes me cringe. What a pain, learn some shortcuts and use it for random text selection only.
Hi HN! This is my first time posting here despite being a daily HN reader for many years. This is the first "public launch" of my project, Wortharead. It aims (eventually) to address a lot of current problems with news and news products (happy to discuss my thoughts on those if anyone's interested).

Anyways, I hope y'all can try it out and let me know what you think. FYI, you have to register to try it out, but if you really don't want to register, you can go to the sign in page and enter <name>@test with a blank password (try to make the name unique to not conflict with others using this method); you'll have to register a separate account later to keep using.

Happy reading!
Switch to Solana?
Will the internal layout (and thermal characteristics) allow for a larger battery, perhaps at the expense of ports/expansion slots?
if you have multiple jobs, you already have another job, so it was clearly possible.
Love seeing a startup focused on hardware. Skeptical about the success but bravo to their efforts.
I'll make sure and tell my grandma that she can save money by wrapping her BTC and trading it on another network rather than making on-chain transactions /s

It blows my mind the amount of talent being wasted building "solutions" for an intentionally crippled chain. One can only polish a turd so much.
we do too. Though these days it’s mostly for time only.
I realized that I was procrastinating my "go heads down and write some code" tasks, but not my people/team/leadership/management work. That was all I needed.
.Web is still in dispute 5 years after the auction finished.

When will .exe, .jpg or .png ever also be in TLD?
I lost count how many bytecode formats and sandboxes I have used, or read about.

WebAssembly is what the browsers now offer us, so I have to accept it, that doesn't mean I buy into the security story, specially when basic stuff like bounds checking inside the same linear memory segment is not considered as relevant.

That paper is just the first of many yet to come.
It's not. And you could offer the Brooklyn Bridge on Facebook. Transactions don't take place on Facebook. If I browse Facebook for a basketball, we meet up and they want to hand me a soccer ball, I don't give them cash. If you're conducting a trade for land/property, you need to go through all the processes normally involved in property transfer -- survey, title insurance, etc...

Facebook marketplace just links buyers and sellers. Settlement is something else.

Why is everyone so intent on Facebook/Twitter/whatever being the arbiter of truth? These problems aren't new to any of the new tech.
> Why hasn't anyone duplicated exactly the reader experience?

Huh? I use a self-hosted CommaFeed instance and it still works great.
Oh my gosh, you and me both. I'm so tired of the lame excuse that it's a "secure messaging platform". If the mindset were truly that having a copy of the message was insecure, why wouldn't they just set every chat to expire? Because it turns out people want a balance between security and functionality.

IOS has had filesystem access for going on 2 years now, there's literally no excuse beyond laziness for not letting us backup and restore the signal messages. I don't even care if it gets dumped into an insecure format if that's the only way it works. I'm far more concerned with someone intercepting my messages in-flight than any other vector. If someone has a backdoor on the phone itself, one signal backup is the least of my worries. Ignoring the fact that backup would be optional.

Incorporate SMS (with a red background or something obvious that the chat is insecure), incorporate backup, and just fully embrace being a messaging app. If they do that they'll make the world universally more secure because it will increase adoption 100 fold. I'll have a lot easier time convincing my dad to use signal if I don't have to try to walk him through "well when you're texting grandma, use this app, and when you're texting me, use this app".
I think SMS 2FA is fine for the most part, so long as you have a decent password, the problem is when companies introduce recovery numbers and make it back into 1FA
The `keymaps!` macro does indeed look somewhat cleaner, but I wonder how many hours it took to develop for such marginal benefit :p
The Sohu link doesn't talk about the link between YC and Miracle Plus, it's just a brief bio about Qi Lu (he was speaking at that Tsinghua event).
All else being equal, sure.

But China are still making construction workers into nuveau-riche at a prodigious rate. They're creating the proto-Rockefellers and proto-Carnegies of China, right now. Those people, and especially their children (who would become the actual Rockefellers and Carnegies of China), are going to have some impact. China might "manage" (i.e. suppress) that impact, but a large bourgeoisie class is uniquely powerful in terms of its ability to throw money around to influence foreign politics as a knife against the throat of the local state.

Consider: the Napoleonic Wars weren't a consequence of the French Revolution; they were the second phase of the French Revolution. Sometimes the best thing to do to get your government in better shape, is to convince every other major power that your state is the bad guy and needs its ass kicked.

Right now, China is (barely) keeping a lid on global unrest against them—but a big part of that is that right now, Chinese citizens are still mostly positive and patriotic about their homeland, as you'd expect of people who just went through an industrialization boom. Take that coefficient and flip the sign the other way, though...
> Whataboutism does not help progress on either front.

You are completely missing the point. At the end of the day you have to pick a browser, and so it matters a great deal which one is worse, even if neither is perfect.

Personally I still trust Mozilla above any other major browser vendor. They're not even in the same ballpark.
You know VRcades actually exist, right? These aren't theoretical.

There are several VR arcades near me in the Portland, OR metro area. And as the other commenter said, people don't play games that have long storylines at them. They aren't playing Skyrim VR. Instead, they're playing games like Beat Saber or racing games. In other words, they play the type of game you'd play in a normal arcade. Games that you can easily enjoy in 3-5 minute sessions.

VRcades also aim to be a place to hang out. You pay to rent a VR space for a certain amount of time and can play whatever you want on the headset for that time. There are couches nearby for friends to watch, and they sell food and drinks.

It's actually a great model, though I'm not convinced it'll survive, but not because of a failure of VR, but because the whole "arcade" concept has been slowly dying.
> > I don't think this is that oppressive.
>
> Yeah, well, it didn't happen to you, did it?

Correct, and that's exactly what makes it not oppressive: the fact that it doesn't happen to random people pulled on the street. When this starts happening, then you are justified in claiming that your country is turning into a police state.
Tip for you: Google thinks that for every one of you, there are 10x as many folks who do exactly the opposite - and want those results.

For most of them there is no "try again", they simply give up and blame Google (and maybe try the query in Bing/Yahoo).
I .. don't want to offend and all (Amir? Sounds Israeli to me, but I don't claim to be an expert).

But this 'It works so well at Ben Gurion' statements get old, really quick. It doesn't.

Traveling to TLV is fine and no problem. Getting out just sucks. I feel treated like shit every single time, it's just borderline acceptable half the time (the other half it's really, really annoying, causing delays and trouble, stupid, braindead, unnecessary, idiotic, etc. etc.).

This coming from a German that lived for one year in TLV and works for a company that sits in IL, so I've been there before my relocation and afterwards. Currently I'm at 14 or 15 visits only, so .. my data points are obviously too few and I just managed to pick the wrong time? Right?

Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5866764

Short version: No, the Israeli version doesn't make you feel like a human being either, most of the time.
Do you use ChromeOS or have you installed something else?

If it is a ChromeOS device, I don't believe you. You cannot be an effective sysadmin administrator on a ChromeOS machine unless you're propping up Google Apps and nothing else.

If you have installed something else, the value proposition of a pixel is flawed and your education district shouldn't have paid for it.
You mean this one?[1]

I think it worked out pretty well for them.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_NBC_Universal_by...
This article is very interesting. I always thought Mr Auernheimer was running his mouth off in order to get the maximum sentence possible!
It's too bad we'll almost certainly never be able to answer the meta question of how or why we ended up with the rules we did.
Why is that? Do you also find it infuriating when magazines and books don't use your preferred font? Perhaps it annoys you when web pages don't use your favourite colour for every element too.

Web pages are designed and typography is part of the design.
Completely agree, the weird dark grey text makes the whole site look foggy. It actually one off the most annoying colours I’ve seen used for text.
You mean you haven't lead lined your home yet?
Sorry no docs right now. You can take a look at this to get a feel:
https://github.com/layeh/gopher-json