jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've been using Emacs for 15 years or so.

I recommend Emacs to anyone who thinks it would be fun to use Lisp to configure a text editor, even if just a bit. However, that is an "if and only if".

If you choose to go beyond using emacs lisp for configuration, then I would say that emacs-lisp is an extremely fun and productive environment to work in: many programming languages give you a good standard library and package ecosystem, but with Emacs lisp you not only get that, but from the outset your project will be born into a mature and extremely fully-featured text editing environment. It's possible to create useful projects with a very good feel, with relatively few lines of code. If you don't have another excuse to use a lisp in your life, this is a very good one.

I would like it if Emacs would stop distributing itself with the ridiculous splash screen and 1990s menu icons.
> I can imagine of world of horrible patent trolls who have AI generating "art" constantly just so they can claim the work for themselves when a human artist creates something similar.

You can do the same thing without AI.

For example: You can create all possible combinations of colored pixels in a grid of 800X600 with trivial code. Then you can publish all those combinations into a GitHub repo and now you own practically all art possible in a 800x600 grid.

As a bonus: you're now infringing the copyright of everyone who has ever created an 800x600 bitmap image.

Copyright is just incompatible with technology.
To step back a bit, the way I see it, the main goal as a language designer is to ensure that users can be productive in the language. Many factors play a role here. Language features are an obvious one, but there's also (in no particular order): standard library, ease of integration with other code, documentation, community, tooling, etc. That's a lot, so as daxfohl says, picking your battles is key. Not everyone will agree on the relative priorities of these factors, and that's totally fine too. However, I personally think that tooling is (one of the) super important factors. "Fast & snappy tools" is actually one of the explicit design goals for Muon [1] (design principle #12). So releasing a language server so early on in the life of the language underscores that, yes, Muon is a language with a strong tooling focus, and I hope that resonates with people.

[1] https://github.com/nickmqb/muon
Probably not, but honestly I'd try helping with an early startup that is trying to solve problems that truly matter e.g. immunotherapies. You may be rewarded well in case the company grows and you are an early employee. And it will bring a lot of satisfaction. Maybe you can do this during a FAANG sabatical, to hedge your options.
Many states have started implementing laws against falsely claiming service dogs.

https://www.animallaw.info/content/fraudulent-service-dogs
>If you look at some of the sites in that report listed as having contaminated water, many are located near military bases, like Oceanside CA. These bases are the largest sources of ground water contamination of all sorts but specifically PFAS because they routinely practice fire suppression exercises.

I read a report recently that suggested the DoD was scrambling to incinerate its firefighting foam supplies, to avoid a PR disaster. However, the safety of incineration as disposal method has been called into serious question, namely that it doesn't sufficiently break it down and instead distributes it more widely through the environment. Any insight from you or your partner?
I wonder the same thing about Apple....

Does believing you're the last sane man on the planet make you crazy? 'Cause if that's the case, maybe I am.
I'm surprised that the law requires you to allow dogs in your car. It's one thing for a public space, but for a private service it seems like it should be okay to have a no-dogs-allowed rule.
> I disagree. LTCG as income without smoothing makes exactly as much sense as taxing regular income without smoothing does.

> Yes, there’s a strong case for smoothing. There’s, independently, a strong case for not structurally favoring capital income and not structurally disfavoring labor income. While it is desirable to address both of those (and doing so simultaneously would be a good idea since there is no conflict), there is no dependency between them.

in theory yes, in practice no. the current system treats the common case where wages slowly increase pretty well. people with highly variable income get screwed, but it's much more common to get a yearly 2-5% salary bump.

in contrast, assets are much more likely to be sold in chunks. I haven't realized any capital gains over $100 in the last five years. but soon I will have to liquidate a large portion of my holdings for a down payment on a house. having those gains taxed at my highest marginal rate would be far worse than the fact that I can't smooth out my yearly raises. it would almost double my taxable income for the year.

aside from that, I agree with what you wrote. I would certainly vote for your solution.
So not only a good decision, but one that was decided 6-2, with the younger judges (left and right) among those 6. It looks like it could be a solid majority on the side of sanity on this particular issue for a long time (knock on wood).
that was good one!
Straight up Marshall McLuhan, hot (immersive) & cool (passive) media.
Great idea! I've bought pieces from galleries, storage containers, and artists direct and had this idea too. What art you buy says something about you. One thing is that art is a little bit like clothing- the brand matters. Something that is recognizable or has meaning outside of the visual work. Not sure if this is "legal" but if you can do art in the style of previous masters but custom to something that I like, I would buy that for sure. Or collaborate with living artists to create prints. Like a black swan portrait in the style of Juan Travieso.
Your only option is to export the database from the desktop app and use third party tools like https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools to decrypt the backup. However in my experience this backup does not include all of your messages and as such there is no way to get your chat history out of this walled garden.
>They got in, then what? they didn't fire a single shot

Then: four people killed

There are lots of ways to do harm without shooting. Many politicians are elder. Somebody could have suffered a heart attack, Biden for example... and then what?.

And some of the rioters were trained professional soldiers. Do they had access to harmful substances?, chemical poisons?, Nobody knows. Do we remember the 2001 Anthrax mail attacks to democrat senators and journalists finally linked to a Fort Detrick employee?.

In fact is even easier, in the middle of a pandemic just collaborating to spread a lethal virus between smiles and selfies would do the job. Videos show people touching three times each inch of the same knob door in a minute for no evident reason.

Those people was armed, organized, directed and manipulated.
If this negatively affects any former employees that's terrible but are we supposed to feel bad for VCs? There have been other stories like this where the HN response is "Won't somebody think of the VCs!" and I just can't do it. They're adults and business people, they'll live.
Not just never selling shares. Convincing the other shareholders to gift him 55bn of their shares as annual salary. Smart but not repeatable infinitely, sooner or later some of you will button on that you are being fleeced. (So sell now and retire, or regret it later.)
> Just curious, what exactly are you trying to hide?

That's none of your business.
> Actually, many countries have presidential and/or parliamentary immunity laws, partly so they can say what they think without fear of prosecution.

Those laws are a mistake, because sooner or later, you elect a man who revels in being above the law, and who will act accordingly. Yesterday, such a man started a coup, in order to retain power. A few days before that, he was committing election fraud in Georgia. These are serious crimes, the consequences of which he is shielded from.

It's just a modern version of the divine right of kings.
Honest question: would you say the same if that would be in a different country?
No, that doesn't work, because programs in general don't give one output bit per input bit, and they can also take a very long time to come up with their answer.

E.g. input stream: stream of description of Turing machines and their input tape. Output stream: A stream of booleans that are true iff the respective machine holds.
how to fix -> ticking clicking sound in macbook pro unibody

Seems like the faucets are better here, but the macbooks are broken.

No suggestion for "a pair of pl".
I feel he missed a point on why code and not "assets" are open-sourced, though I'm also finding that point it hard to articulate:

Because assets are relatively separable (as compared to source code), and relatively liquid, in the sense that you can put a $$$ figure to the cost of replacing them. If you receive code without graphics, you can still represent all the game objects by solid colored squares and try out the game: then you can price out replacing them with clip art, or custom professional artwork, depending on your goals. If you receive graphics without code, then for most values of "you" you'll just give up because you can't afford the cost, time and cost/time uncertainty of reproducing the entire code base.
I'm talking in addition to the OBD systems. This one can also record telemetry (steering angle, wheel slip, etc.).
And that's just because there was so much media attention (which was arguably because the accused were rich white guys).
In the US, the courts crafted the "suppression of evidence" doctrine as a remedy to violations of the Fourth Amendment right to be secure against unreasonable searches/seizures. The courts didn't have the power to punish the law-enforcement agents who violated the Fourth Amendment (because there didn't exist an appropriate statute criminalizing the behavior or because the prosecutor was unwilling to bring charges), so instead they refused to allow such illegally gathered evidence to be presented at trial. Note that evidence gathered by a private actor (independently of any gov't investigation) is not suppressible under this doctrine.
I had a similar experience with a Visual Basic class at community college (required credit for the degree at the time). Since the class was kind of boring (was already a C programmer, Basic was way in my past at that point), I wanted to make the projects more interesting. So, on a calculator project, we were to make a hand-held calculator emulator. I asked if there were any restrictions on the type of calculator, and was told no -- any one. So I emulated an HP RPN style calculator. But since the instructor never heard of RPN before, and despite an introduction screen explaining it, he still failed the assignment.
I guess we are playing with words here. A specific google-device will have its OS update earlier than a similar non-google-device. Catch is, more recent google or non-google devices usually get the update earlier.

Google would like you to believe that you will get your update as soon as a newer version has been released, sort of in an Apple IOS update way. The reality is very different.
The article says they lay off 2800. The total number is perhaps much higher?
>I'm unaware of a VC that's intelligent about security

See Ted Schlein of KPCB.
I'm not sure what to reply in the face of so much bile. Hacker News used to be the home of people who built cool stuff and wanted to show it to each other. Now it's the home of people like you. Docker and CoreOS might be competitors, and we might disagree on many things (ethics in particular), but at least we're both building things and sharing them with others. That's our contribution to this community. What's yours?
Because the financial companies that control everything on Wall St. hate them. Box isn't a very powerful company - they're no Google - and can't easily go against the grain. Box desperately needed that IPO, they're burning very large sums of red ink.
Here's the Stellar team's blog post about this. While there's no attempt to conceal this, it's also not being spelled out clearly enough: the Ripple/Stellar "consensus" model is a centralized and does NOT provide the guarantees which Proof-of-Work does in Bitcoin.

https://www.stellar.org/blog/safety_liveness_and_fault_toler...
Your welcome. I really like Twilio, they are good to work with and their API is really pretty easy and only takes a small amount of effort to get setup. Good luck!
I can't figure out how do you download the slides from iTunes? I click the "Get" button but nothing happens.
The parable is really about the nature of corporate politics and the art of perception management.

I'm not sure how obvious the underlying point is -> programming languages and methodologies are structured by political requirements.

Programmer A is writing software. He knows nothing about perception management and status plays.

Programmer B is furthering his career and angling for a raise. By accepting 'corporate coding standards' he has proven he knows how to play the game and uses the project to increase his status.

The quality of the finished product, in terms of user experience and practical usefulness, isn't nearly as important as the social processes that created it.

IMO the interesting question is how much this applies to coding culture and language and OS design as a whole.
non-non-coiners should give this a read and reflect too
You can get insurance for anything, but surely one of the requirements would be to know what is going on in your own books...
I doubt that Israel didn't know about the action... and I'd say it's likely they sanctioned it.
In order to satisfy their wafer supply agreement with Global Foundries, AMD ships a GF fabbed I/O die in all their volume processors. I'm pretty sure that once they have met the terms required to exit that wafer supply agreement, we will see AMD shift that I/O die to a newer process with lower power draw.
Doesn't this drastically increase the potential for dangerous mutations? All that analysis regarding the current strains doesn't capture the full picture to me.
I was trained as a census taker back in the day. We were instructed that “race and ethnicity” was explicitly ‘self identified/defined’ not based on any physical, cultural, or geographical origin. If a respondent wanted to write “Minnesotan” or “dog” in that box we were to accept it at face value.
Hell, raise prices and then rebate back if their drivers see you just running normal games and crap. Win/win.
>So Facebook wants to argue that it's a worse experience for consumers if they're not being tracked, but the truth is that they know a large portion of users don't want the experience that Facebook is offering.

I think this is true for a lot of people on social media. They're there for the people and topics they care enough about to explicitly opt into. Ads and recommendations can fuck right off.
This would be like the barrier function [1] for gradient based methods; which produces some challenges for those techniques. Do you know how this affects gradient free techniques?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrier_function
A better option may simply be to fork and add the additional features, not necessarily create a new client.
Same experience for me. It's like Open Office. Somehow open source can not produce delightful user experiences
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It’s very possible to personalize ads without personal information.

It’s not possible to de-personalize Facebook, its whole knowledge graph is built around identities. Permission to use that data can be managed internally but it’s always gathered and processed initially as personalized.
Snaky comments aside, I would guess that this has something to do with Windows/Internet-Explorer licenses. Its totally not cool, but let us give them the benefit of doubt until it turns out that they have malicious intentions.

[As an aside I wonder how many people actually use Spoon for doing cross-browser testing of their websites. IIRC Spoon Browsers cannot access websites in the local Intranet.]
It's too late to get rid of this ridiculous security theater but it's not too late to get rid of invasive and utterly ineffective procedures that are just getting started.
Scandinavia and the Netherlands are easy destinations for Americans. Ordinary people speak good English for the most part, and even those who claim not to speak English actually understand the language quite well (mostly thanks to decades of exposure to subtitled American TV shows).

At least here in Finland, English has become the de facto working language at many companies and university departments. Nowadays there is almost always at least one non-Finn in any team, and nobody assumes that foreigners would ever learn Finnish. In large European countries like Germany and France, it's still often assumed that you'll adapt to their language and way of thinking (the French in particular will take it for granted that you're there to absorb the radiant glow of their superior cultural heritage ;)).

Northern Europe is also pretty good for finding IT jobs. Finland has Nokia, Sweden has Ericsson, Netherlands has Philips, Norway has... lots of oil money, I guess. And Denmark is simply a fun place. Take your pick ;)
Even in fairly conservative financial environments I've seen developers getting read-only access to production application servers and databases to troubleshoot specific problems.
>"well, you gotta do what you gotta do"

Except they don't. This procedure is not remotely effective, it serves no purpose except to shame people into using the naked scanner (and indeed, this appears to be the point, since the "pat down" takes place in plain view of everyone). This is why you should be outraged. This is pure thuggery.
IE usage recently dropped below Chrome usage on Mibbit (Including our widget which is deployed on various non-techy websites).

Firefox 55.1%
Chrome 20.7%
IE 15.2%
Other 4.4%
Opera 3.0%
Safari 1.6%

The time when you have to support IE, for many, is coming to an end.

On a related note, I got a phone call from Microsoft adCenter the other day, asking why I hadn't spent any money with them for a year (Different website I run which needs big ad spend).

I said "Last time I tried the interface in Chrome, it didn't work".

She replied "Ah. Chrome is Google and so it's not compatible".

MS never cease to amaze me.
Err... the date says it's from August.
In the UK, English is (unsurprisingly) widely spoken, but it's a little different to the English you're used to.

Expect endless confusion over faggots (meatballs), football (soccer) and the myriad of ways to describe the weather.

They also speak English in Ireland, you can get by fine almost on English alone in most of Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and bits of Germany.

You'll probably find England the easiest to deal with and it makes a good base. Ireland is lovely but at the moment the job market isn't so great. The economy's very shaky here in England too, but people are hiring for tech jobs.

Your best bet is to try and get transferred through an international company, find a UK-based company that will sponsor a visa (hard, as there's plenty of tech workers here), or come over to study on a visa that will allow you to find work here after you graduate.
Question: What about Title III?

I've seen mentions in this thread of it coming out by the end of the year. What are other peoples thoughts?
> I find the article quite neutral and well-written.

Sorry but this is not neutral:

> Most were heavily disputed by the defense, but they nevertheless served to define Kleiner as having refused to evolve since it was formed in the early 1970s.

So she claimed one thing, the defence claimed another, but the author thinks "Kleiner [.] refused to evolve since it was formed in the early 1970s."

The article spends a great deal of time talking about her accusations, but absolutely no time talking about their accusations towards her. It doesn't even try to qualify her accusations, and they're stated as near facts (which is ludicrous given the jury decision).

Essentially the article has taken a side. The whole third of the article is dedicated to "women in SV" and how they're discriminated against. Hard to call that neutral given the subject matter, it hardly reads like something which could be supportive of Kleiner for example.

Look, I can totally understand if people agree with the article. I cannot understand how anyone could call the article neutral or balanced. It simply is not. It has a side/agenda/bias, regardless of where you stand on the issue.
Trust (authentication) and encryption are linked... iff your threat model includes defending against MitM attacks. For threat models that merely try to defend against trivial passive eavesdropping (such as bulk XKEYSCORE style surveillance or even just the local busybody that just learned how to use tcpdump), encryption alone is very useful.

I strongly recommend using full authentication whenever possible, of course, but in the cases where that is not (yet?) practical, enabling auto-generated self-signed certificates for TLS should usually be a very simple change.

Really, the only people that I expect would be against such an easy change are people doing NSA-style spying or businesses with a surveillance-based business model.
Easier to type too. No need to press the shift key.
Ok, so let's talk about that case.

Michael Brown supporters/witnesses made claims about that situation that were later shown to be false.

I am arguing that the public ties the validity of that case to the underlying grievance.

Same here: If people think Pao was lying or view her negatively, that causes quite a bit of harm to her cause.
Cory Doctorow has been making and refining these points for a while now. If you have read his essays or seen him speak you may have heard some of those paragraphs already.

You can even see bits of it in his 2004 talk: http://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt

But it's an important topic and he's not wrong.
I'm using a jekyll blog running on github action and github pages
here is the writeup about that system https://umtksa.github.io/my-public-bookmarks-service

And here is the actual links page
https://umtksa.github.io/links/
Just for some context, here's how the items under "Ecosystem" on laravel.com break down on free vs. paid:

Free:

- Breeze

- Cashier

- Dusk

- Echo

- Horizon

- Jetstream

- Mix

- Octane

- Sail

- Sanctum

- Scout

- Socialite

- Telescope

- Valet

Paid:

- Envoyer

- Forge

- Nova

- Spark

- Vapor
Disagree. You can make your opinion and you can take your precautions. But unless you were not directly harmed you should not “say bad things about them”, as you put it, just because they are a suspect in a case.
Not an answer, but a pointer...

https://github.com/hugovk/bitsofpluto is the GitHub repo for the code

https://twitter.com/hugovk would be the person on twitter to ask.
Have you seen the ads? If you did, it's not broken from their point of view.
BDD means testing that you've delivered what the customer asked for. User stories expressed as test. This is like the architect's rendering of a building; it expresses and implies certain desired qualities.

TDD means testing that you've implemented a system which has all the significant qualities you expected. It intends to prove that the system does all of the right things and none of the wrong things on the way to delivering what the customer asked for. This is more like the blueprint of the building, making all significant details explicit.

You could practice BDD without TDD, though I've yet to see someone choose to. You can practice TDD without BDD, which I've seen many people do.
I'd really like some detail on this...