skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also only about 1/4 through. Cool to see that the first piece on Neuralink with quotes from significant numbers of the actual team chooses to be long form and in depth.
You have to do it holistically though.
Is there an official Docker image yet?
> then that person is not worth talking to

That's a highly charitable reading of what was written.

I responded to only part of the comment because only part of the comment offended me: "I'll find someone smarter."

Sure, if one ignores the hyperbole (like a compiler deleting all of your files compiling your UB source code, because that ever happened), some of the idea has merit. But the expression of that core idea was not done well. But I ignored all of that.

The idea that a compiler author must be mentally deficient in some way for following the language standard is absurd.

Technical correctness should not be the final word in any discussion (and I never said it was), but calling someone "not smart" for being technically correct in a situation where technical correctness has a lot of value (even if you are focused on the drawbacks) in a comment doesn't really deserve a complete and thoughtful reply.
Show HN: Send POST requests via simple URLs
exactly. this was driven home for me when I read babbit by sinclair lewis [1]. It's all about "keeping up with the jones's" consumerism in America. It's amazing that it was written 95 years ago.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbitt_(novel)
Societal collapse doesn't have to mean going back to the stone age, it could mean e.g. the Iranian revolution. Or for a contemporary example: the Syrian civil war.

Even Spain was a dictatorship until 1975. Everybody should consider the possibility that their society will collapse, even if they choose to do nothing about it.
Can you link to that post, to clarify that?

Though the post I responded to didn't mention that - it just said "this is a poor argument" without reference to bad statistical claims or the other posts.

Also, what is the standard for "debunked"? links/data by themselves don't mean anything without validity, and what you and I consider valid may differ.
This entire space is littered with hard to use and/or flawed products. It's extremely difficult to get right. And even things like HDFS, which redefine the problem into something much much more manageable and with better semantics for distributed computing, have had their own issues.

Take, for example, my favorite storage system Ceph. As I understand it was originally going to be CephFS, with multiple metadata servers and lots of distributed POSIX goodness. However, in the 10+ years its been in development, the parts that have gotten tons of traction and have widespread use are seemingly one-off side projects from the underlying storage system: object storage and the RBD block device interfaces. Only in the past 12 months is CephFS becoming production ready. But only with a single metadata server, and the multiple metadata servers are still being debugged.

With Ceph, some of these timing issues are that the market for object store and network-based block devices are dwarf the market for distributed POSIX. But I bring it up to point out that distributed POSIX is also just a really really hard problem, with limited use cases. It's super convenient for getting an existing Unix executable to run on lots of machines at once. But that convenience may not be worth the challenges it imposes on the infrastructure.
That's a lot of errors for one document.
Subsidizing education is absolutely not redistribution of wealth! It is an investment. Giving a child a good education increases that child's lifelong income, some of which is taken as tax, which can mean putting money into education can result in a profit over time. This is especially true when you consider that giving a child a good education decreases their likelihood of having to live on welfare or unemployment. Not to mention that having a better education decreases criminality! You think welfare is expensive, consider that it costs about $50K a year to hold a person in prison. And I'm just talking about money: there's all kinds of benefits to society as a whole when the populace is better educated. Decreased crime rates means fewer robberies, rapes and murders. A better educated workforce means a larger talent pool for high-tech companies, which is matched by an increased demand for various products.

So don't just write off publicly subsidized education as wealth redistribution!
he seems like a bit of a jackass, but I've never met him, so I don't really know. mostly though is the question of why Kid Rock should get invited to white house to meet personally with the president. It's just an obvious and absurd case of political tribalism.
The law is not always universally good.
I find that to be an odd definition of society. I think you mean government. And I don't believe redistribution from effective producers of economic resources to less effective producers is societally beneficial.
Canada is a better place to live but due to the low population, culture (less consumerism/socialist mentality) you are not going to generate outsized returns from pure capitalism.
In the end Netflix is one of the places people would like to work because of stuff like this. The sheer scale of operations at netflix combined with modern technology is very interesting to many engineers, so it also kind of work in favour of their HR.
Good point -- although it makes sense why it isn't frequently implemented. DNS lookups aren't cheap for this kind of thing.
Actually I don't think it's that bad for South Korea, despite what some media says.

1. impeachment: Ultimate example of democracy at work. And no general stepped forward to declare he must rescue the nation from the chaos or did the society collapse. All institutions are working as they should. Unlikely to see such calm transition of power when a president is impeached in non-developed nations.

2. NK is NK, always firing missiles, even before all this.

3. S Korean govt is at least able to respond and/or have US willing to put in the weight to respond. Remember Ukraine?

No seriously, S Korea cannot be compared with other places with bad things happening now.
I'm only speculating, but the problem may be the complexity of the paint server interface. Using it requires FuncIRIs which-- as one commenter on another thread pointed out-- can cause name collisions with inline SVGs.

You could of course abstract away that problem with javascript post-processing-- but then you have yet more complexity, this time for a problem that doesn't exist in the domain of CSS.

That limits the expressivity of the feature. For example, I wouldn't be able to just play around with SVG mesh gradients inside about:blank in Firefox due to a deeper problem with resolving FuncIRIs. Whereas I can trivially create a CSS gradient there and experiment with them.
$5mm net worth is considerably easier than the $1-$10mm/year that was quoted. That's achievable with income of several hundred thousand a year, which is orders of magnitude more common than making several million per year.
To properly allow the Googlebot to crawl your site, you usually combine checking googlebot with an IP whois lookup. This is also what Google recommends.
Also, if you want to have more control over what gets matched (as opposed to only checking entropy): https://github.com/ezekg/git-hound (I'm the author of this one.)
I started this project to learn about Redux middleware and client-side routing in React/Redux. It's my first open-source library, so tips/suggestions are greatly appreciated!
The model I got doesn't seem to be on their website any more. It was basically an extra-firm, without the 3-zone thing.

I sleep about 1/3 on my side, 2/3 on my back, and occasionally on my stomach (at least on this mattress -- can't stomach sleep at all on innersprings or memory foam). For side sleeping on this thing, I strongly recommend a good thick pillow. For more reference points, I'm a fairly small and light person, and grew up sleeping on foam mattresses that most people would consider rock hard, so this is reasonably soft by my standards.

That said, in the 5 years I've had it, it's converted two boyfriends (both of whom weigh at least 50% more than me) to foam mattresses. One bought the same mattress but added a soft 2" latex topper (which is great for side sleeping but was too soft for me for back sleeping); the other got a Casper (which I found soft and saggy and a little sludgy by comparison, but is still waaaay better than innersprings). Both swore they were never going back to innerspring mattresses.

If you do get a foam mattress, make sure to put it on a platform or slatted bed rather than a box spring.

Whatever you decide, good luck, and sleep well!
I don't wish. I put my efforts into overthrowing your so-called "natural" order. Nature, after all, is merely everything compatible with the laws of physics. If we create a universal basic income, or pass living-wage laws, those are natural!
> With your explicit consent, we may collect data about how you use your device and applications in order to help app developers improve their apps.

That is all Apple's policy has to say about Telemetry collection. It doesn't say when or how it gains consent.

With Windows you can't install without consent. I'm not going to re-image my Mac to check but I wouldn't at all be surprised if consent was part of that first boot EULA that you agree to.

Ultimately you find Microsoft's transparency on the matter is unsettling but Apple's hand waving "Trust us to do the right thing" is ok?
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14163054
It was a very good fit with my skills. And I really had wanted to start something for a long time, and did not find anything. Not passionate about the sector at all. Still not.

But after working on this for many many years, improving little things here and there, then a few bigger things, it became more and more interesting, with a sense of pride that comes with competence and achievement, regardless of the sector.
Strawman? His question was why is it necessary for everyone to be an ubermensch and your response not one message before his said "Because that's how nature works[.]"

Unless you meant to write something completely different, that's your stance and he rebutted it
That's a great ideal to strive toward, but I don't see the case for forcing everyone to adopt that ideal.
I am not talking about different kind of brains. I am talking that maybe day to day work is quite different. I have no idea, what does mathematician's day look like, but I guess they don't have scope creep, arbitrary deadlines, bug reports from users and crunch times.
Easier for the developer or the user?
CryptoCurreny portfolio tracking tool
> What you are suggesting is akin to suggesting that fascism and democracy are both the same

You've taken dictatorship and equated it with fascism. I'll assume you didn't intend the bait and switch there, but it's not necessarily the case.

It's worth remembering that not all democracy is good, and not all authoritarianism is bad[1]. California's proposition 8 banning homosexual marriage was a democratic decision, while supporting the arts through encouraging the establishment of People's Houses[2] was an authoritarian one.

The point that I believe the grand-parent was making is that a lie in support of a goal that you like is not better than a lie in support of a goal that you don't. Both are lies, and shame on whomever proffers them as fact. If your position is indeed the superior one, then you shouldn't need to result to lies to bolster your position.

That said, it's been well established that unions, democratic or not, are not always acting in the best interests of their members. We've seen this time and again with kickback cooperation, compelled membership, disallowance of disassociation, corruption, etc.

I'm not necessarily invested in the debate here, so please don't take my position as arguing for or against either side, but as I recently mentioned elsewhere, if your position is that "unions are good and companies are bad", then you've fallen prey to ideological confirmation bias, and are disinviting nuance from the conversation, which limits the effectiveness of said discourse.

It is indeed "not that simple".

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictatorship

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Houses
But the evidence supports the idea that social isolation induces measurable changes in behavior and neural activity.

And you can definitely make causal inferences if you don't understand everything. If that weren't true, you wouldn't be able to infer that moving your arm makes the coffee cup in your hand move unless you knew everything about physics.
I'd say that's just flat out dishonest reporting on CNBC's part.
It's a template, lots of businesses fit it pretty well. He isn't inviting competition to his corner of the garden, you'll have to find your own. This won't work for self-indulgent humans, very true - so it won't work for everyone.
What I find weird is that it's not really used. Why generate bool, true, and false?
Keeping your day job until the opportunity cost outweighs the monetary value of your day job.
This article massively exaggerates the positive attitude Russians have towards women in tech. My Russian mother keeps telling me time to time that there must be something wrong with me that I have this genuine interest in tech things being a girl, because "all this physics and computers is not a girl's business"...

As some commentators already mentioned, Soviet Union tried to make no distinction between male and female professions. But nowadays social roles of men and women are strongly polarized and Stem mostly considered as not women's business.
I've been listening to:

"Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal"

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CDUVSQ0/

As you can tell, it's the kind of thing meant for the best seller list and isn't a scholarly work or anything, but the preface stresses it's based on lots of interviews.

If nothing else, it's a fun read and the background of the founders is pretty interesting.
but this is really a poor argument for D
your thesis code, isn't necessarily code that will be used by many people or shared with many developer (you didnt even share a link to the source code)

a thesis, just produce a proof of concept

D is unpopular , and I really believe that going after c++ was a bad idea .. if this was not clear at first, it should be clear by now, yet almost 100% of the article i see on D never stop from claiming how much better it is compare to c++

I guess the lesson learned from D's unpopularity is, when creating something dont focus on one competing tool

I recall how one time Linus Torvald, bashed subversion on how "Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System" -- Wikipedia

Was a horrible design choice from the start

By focusing on C++ they added a GC, as an advantage (because C++ didnt have a GC)
but now that many people priase Rust for not having a GC and arguing they prefer C++ over D for it ... now they are trying to dis-integrate the GC ... very reactive, design decision ... and i doubt this will help much
No, you don't welcome a rigorous discussion. You want to repeat discussions we've already had, in which you were not persuaded to others' points of view, and you didn't persuade them either. The likelihood that we'll all see the divine light of von Mises and convert this time is extraordinarily low. Stop trying.
No, most banks will reverse illegitimate transactions for run of the mill customers.
Tried SimpleNote? www.simplenote.com
Do you really consider everyone paying their share to be 'substantial taxes'?
Dart 1.23: Better strong mode support
That's very dismissive.
Ask HN: What would you be doing if you didn't have to work for a living?
Assuming you're a programmer, researcher, or an entrepreneur (which I assume is a good chunk of HN readers), what would you be doing if you had enough money that you didn't have to work for a living?

Would you still be doing what you are currently doing (programming, research, entrepreneurship, other) or would you retreat to some other hobby, such as traveling, painting, etc?

One of the reasons I'm asking is I'm wondering if, in a world where everybody has a guaranteed income, would more technological or scientific progress be made (since people are now free to pursue this without worrying about their mortgage/rent/food) or would less progress be made (since there is no strong profit motive to motivate people to do all the hard work)?
Except that there is evidence of causation, not just correlation. That is the purpose of performing a rigorously controlled experiment. If all we were looking for was evidence of correlation, that would be unnecessary.
#FUNcationFriday Is There Enough FUN in Your Life? FREE Drone Giveaway
Plastc is closing after rising $9M from backers
Surprise MONSTER trout in small pond
I have never witnessed any. I'd even say that girls were treated with more respect. Maybe it has something to do with me living in exUSSR country.
But for some reason there are mostly males talking about this problem, and for some reason they cannot except the possibility of women making the choice by themselves — there must always be some evil male forcing them and succeeding.
GPFS.
If we did this, the date range would be set to "Forever" 99.99% of the time.
I wonder how many of them sign up with Uber's suicide car loans?

I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of the ones who stay are the ones who can't leave without suffering financial destruction.
It is a component of child-rearing. Forcing people to pay for the education of other people is redistributive.

If it's truly an investment, we could let the student loan market handle it, since the returns (in increased income) exceed the costs.

As for social benefits, I believe the negative effect of encouraging people to have children when they're not capable of personally supporting them, and of reducing the incentive to be productive, outweighs the positive ones.

Before the era of government education, the level of education in society was improving steadily. I don't see history suggesting that society, left to voluntary relationships and income distribution, enters into a downward spiral.
I think blaming this on impulse control is self-serving.

I expect those with lower incomes tend to feel more oppressed and unhappy. They work hard every week but it's always paycheck to paycheck, and they always feel beholden to their employer. They don't have the financial freedom to _really_ control their lives in any significant way.

So perhaps they compensate by seeking fulfillment and distraction with netflix and video games. There has to be some outlet for all of their frustration, some way of mitigating that feeling of helplessness.

I live with a guy that has worked at Walmart for 13 years. He comes home absolutely exhausted. I don't know how he keeps going, but I have to think that indulging in movie theater visits and other forms of entertainment/distraction may actually be vital to maintaining his mental health.
If you cannot afford food, you can't eat it. /s
There are always alternatives to networks with monopoly power from the network effect. Which is why our Great-Grandfathers (the Great-Grandmothers weren't able to vote, then) passed those laws.
My top advice would be to look for their comparative advantage. For some that's an ability to work very hard at something they're not obviously talented at or attracted to. OTOH I knew someone who fit just that description who still failed to make the move from technician to programmer, after a lot of personal time studying.
I remember feeling scandalized the first time that I saw a banner ad on the web. I also remember the epic flame wars on Usenet (sic transit gloria mundi) when Canter & Siegel made the first commercial spam campaign.

At times, I have wondered how much of the Internet would shut down if ads were forbidden. Sometimes, that thought sobers me. Other times, that thought gladdens me.
Show HN: Build nice list with faceted, full text search by editing yaml file
Its a lot easier to do events based programming in Qt/C++.

Here is a Qt/C++ tasks[1] that greatly simplified async programming using Qt's event system.

[1] https://github.com/mhogomchungu/tasks
(Louisiana resident) I remember being taught about this issue in 2nd Grade, 15 years ago. So I agree with everyone's confusion to suddenly calling it an emergency.
On the contrary, I think they might be happier than many people in developed countries. When you look at the Maslov's hierarchy, they get less security and safety but might be getting more of the higher needs (intimate relationships and friends, sense of belonging, feeling of accomplishment/mastery).
This is interesting to me because it suggests that the future of work is in the hands of those who can hustle, rather than in sharing-economy fiefdoms like Airbnb and Uber.

I've been adamant for a long time that the best path to a growing economy is lowering the barriers to entrepreneurship through education, less onerous regulations for small businesses, tax incentives to start a small business, and, probably more important than any piece of legislation, a change in the culture.

Entrepreneurship should be the first choice for everyone, not just folks that read HN.
>If you're unambitious and living on 20k a year (like your friend in foodservice),

As a matter of fact, her old employer never gave her full-year hours, so she had to deal with a basically minimum-wage income of ~$15k/year. She finally found a new foodservice position in her area (where she can afford the housing costs in mere driving distance to work) that will convert her to full-time this year, so she's making a bit of a move up. She's also been attending community college to become a paralegal, but that takes time when you're working and also dealing with personal issues.
>If someone wanted to sue the Archive, they would probably argue that every time archive.org serves a file they are making a copy... which is true, after all, if anything reproduced digitally is a "copy" in that sense.

It absolutely could be/would be argued. Otherwise an arbitrary library or archive--oh, lets give it a name like Google Books--would have the right to make digital copies of physical books available to the public. Obviously Google tried to do this and (although the case was/is complicated) they weren't allowed to do this unconditionally.

ADDED: Or, heck, any site could declare themselves an archive and offer up ripped CDs to the public.
I find there's something fundamental about small sized demos. Trying to craft something as diverse as possible with as few symbols as possible means you have to encode chaos and order at the same time.
And using irony was, as I think I've noted, a fault on my part, given the forum population.
It's just a bomb, rather a bit larger than other bombs. What's the fuss? :)
> I'm not sure how you are concluding this.

1 in 100 Australians are in the millionaire club. By contrast winning the Powerball Lottery has odds of

76,767,600:1

To win Powerball you need "only" to match 7 numbers from a pool of 40 possible choices.

By contrast to become a millionaire you had to make 1000s of individual decisions along the way and yet every year approx 10,000 new millionaires join the ranks. How many Powerball winners are there per year? 1 maybe?

It may be comforting to think that luck plays a large part in people becoming rich, but logic dictates otherwise.
Not really. The author has been a professor at George Mason for most of his career, and it's quite a stretch to refer to the whole faculty of George Mason as "on the payroll of the Koch brothers".
I briefly lived in Mexico last summer and this was my experience. Drivers would give out their personal number. This was also a more tourist-y area and they would try to pitch me on local spots that I should visit.
A previous workplace of mine does block Netflix, and consequently their tech blog.