skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your grandmother would have to run her own node!

Answered by others.

...

> There might be competition on providing a nice "experience" but you would either pay for it,

... yes please

> have it be ad-supported

... our only choice with the current Facebook

> or it'd turn in to a Linux-desktop shitshow.

... and this is were you earned my downvote. Stop spreading FUD. Please! The Linux desktop is quite usable to the point were many of us prefer it over Windows or Mac.

> Imagine how much more fun spam filtering could be if it didn't have a dedicated team but it would just be you (or your grandmother) going up against the legions of determined spammers.

One word: whitelists

Another word: shared
This is something I never heard of thought of in the context of aging populations but it sounds true. It builds a self perpetuating cycle - if the population pyramid leans older, it leans more conservative, which drives an agenda that limits volatility and thus innovation, which can stagnate an economy that can constrict reproduction if there isn't enough prosperity to justify having children.
Great work! Minor typo: the first code snippet has a missing right parenthesis.
Behad Esfahbod is, quite frankly, a font and script genius. When I was delving into understanding LibreOffice's font and layout mess (which is getting better, btw) I kept seeing his name and work in harfbuzz.

The world, I feel, owes this man a great debt and I fear he is one of the great unsung open source heroes we seem to hear so little about!
Cool! I authored a web based accessibility tool called Graybit some years ago. It allowed you to enter a web address and browse the web through its proxy, which converted all CSS, html and images to their grayscale equivalents. The idea was to simulate complete color blindness to raise awareness and encourage higher contrast and things like using underlines for hyperlinks.
It is happening other places (check out lots of countries in Eastern Europe). Making it worse in Japan is their aversion to immigration (as pointed out in the article), and the cultural forces that make Japan extremely unfriendly to working mothers.
Jupyter implementation of CORDIC algorithms
Installing excel does heinous things. I try to keep my csvs opening in notepad++ to avoid corruption
Really? Seems to me that Lisp has strongly resisted adopting any syntactic sugar whatsoever for terse array manipulation. I can hardly imagine where in any mainstream dialect this APL influence is palpable.
The suffixes should be exe, com, js, hta, vbs, and so on, for extra evilness.
Most of the unique elements of Japan's culture come from emulating Western programs. First in a militaristic way as a response to Commodore Perry, then as a result of the post-war occupation.
This article makes me unreasonably glad to be working in a framework (Django) with good i18n tooling and few special needs re: textual images.
Flow (psychology)
IIRC you can increase the displayed error count.
The WER dialog with the buttons should be familiar to anyone who used WinXP.
Xenophobia implies malintent and an unenlightened view. I could just as easily say that Japan is very protective of its society and thus is selective about who gets to join. It is fundamentally a balanced approach to immigration.

Of course, this is offensive to those who have been indoctrinated with the dogma that all people are the same and deserve the same opportunities, regardless of the cost to society. I think you can see clearly the flaws in the post-enlightenment primacy of personal liberty in America and Europe today. It's a kind of extremism, which will inevitably repeat the cycle of destruction, revolution, conquest, etc.
Sorry about my earlier comment; re-reading yours now, it's clear you're writing about the same thing.
For now: the final ACA replacement bill isn't quite ready for a vote. The final language may end up allowing for discrimination against preexisting conditions. It's not unreasonable to suggest that laws protecting against use of genetic information could get repealed someday either.
Uniprocessor Garbage Collection Techniques [pdf]
I've DNS blackholed the entire .link TLD, along with .science, .country, .click, and .rocks.

So, there's that.

(DNSMasq, router-based blocklist.)
This is indeed fascinating. Never thought of it this way.
Is there any way to get SSL error messages in Firefox?

https://irc.verylegit.link/0x8c*download()194mobiads(windows... is supposed to redirect to Facebook, and it does if you use HTTP. However, over HTTPS Firefox just gives me a very generic "Secure Connection Failed" message. (Chrome is rather more helpful, giving me "ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED".)
Though honestly, I kinda like ideographic languages. If the symbols could be enumerated in a byte and leave space for delimiters and punctuation, then I'd be down to be globally colonized by an ideographic language. Really the only difficult ones (for computers) are abugidas, abjads, and whatever thai is written in (and I suppose it is a bit of a pain to compose hangul, and still more jamo than would fit in an ASCII-sized encoding).
I get “Secure Connection Failed”in Firefox Nightly when clicking on the demo link.
The same sort of competition that brought us gimps old UI? And gits various laggy gui-software?

Yep. It seems to be well aligned with those who actually cared.

Often when a project gets to focused on ux it goes downhill IMO. Ref gnome spatial revelation etc.

Im sorry, but when it comes to UI- i'm for some mighty fascistic designer taking it all into his hands.

Fine. As long as there are alternatives for the rest of us.

Example: As far as I'm aware Mac OS X is really good - but I don't like it. I really want it to be there for people who like it, but I'm happy that Windows and a number of Lknux distros exist for people like me.
Because that was fixed in 8.3.1
Same can be said for Sweden, Germany, etc.
CTO as a startup cofounder and CTO of a large (100+) company are such different roles that they should really have different names.

If you're CTO because you co-founded the company or you joined at an early stage and you just happened to be the most senior engineer at the time, you really have no idea what being CTO of a large company is like.
Click the (i) icon to the left of the URL in the address bar, the the `>` button, then “More information” at the bottom. The technical details say the connection is not encrypted.
Great article, thanks for doing what you do ;)
Sounds more like a COO than a CTO.
Your comment says little and explains less.

You might consider improving one or both scores.
Wow looks better than balsamiq I will try this out at work.
Yes, black holes. Life is essentially struggling, scrolling, stuffing. Suicide is the default option. Surprisingly none of us are dead yet. It's not easy to be alive. We continue to give a lot.
Are you referring to the section of the game where you use an x-ray to check for sex that doesn't match the passport? I don't think that's reasonable to classify as extreme, the US government exhibits the same strategies for identification, requiring proof of clinical treatment to get a sex change on license.
This is a joke, but I don't get it.

Is this, like, resentment at being desireable to employers?
meredydd's specifically voicing concern with decision markets, not prediction markets. Hanson's Futarchy paper outlines the difference (alas, wikipedia unhelpfully treats them as synonyms).

Hanson's "Adventure 1" is quite a bit more specific than "improving our prediction making ability" (which of course could unlock tremendous value).
There is a constant pressure on the living. LIVE MORE! There is no further reason given. LIVE MORE! Why? LIVE MORE!
Woz would love this, I hope he gets to see it
Do you care to share the reasons you've taken this decision?
Skype, before clients with minimal memory, cpu, and battery life became common (laptops, tablets, and phones).
A similar site has been around for a long time: http://www.shadyurl.com/

example: google.com -> http://www.5z8.info/dogs-being-eaten_x2r3rq_5waystokillwitha...
lol! Anyone care to explain?
Doesn't work for any HTTPS site.
Johnson Sea Link accident
Watch the video. The institute thinks its students are "products" gifted to the world
I never said that. I just provided facts to back up evook's claim that "you can't compare Crimea with western Europe. Crimea was mostly Russian to begin with". Even if you look at the 1897 census, it was 33 % Russian.
Paperwork, and the inhumanity of being a cog in a machine, with the machine not forcing you to do evil but rather making you very good at self-generating evil out of a desperate desire to survive.

Another game with a similar take on moral choices is This War of Mine. Both are fairly serious works of literature; do not play either with the expectation that you will feel good about yourself or the human condition afterwards.
thanks for the ad
Maybe think about what good you can do for those far less fortunate than you, such as animals in shelters for a positive example. Any positivity you can create in that world has a ripple effect of positivity to the lives they touch. Benevolence to the weak might feel so rewarding to feel like meaning. (That worked for me, when I was annoyed by humanity.)
Apache Foundation's DNS down?
https://qz.com/1005761/mit-is-overhauling-senior-house-haus-...
and some more stuff, like https://www.reddit.com/r/mit/comments/6gv0d9/pilot_2021/
That's ok, the tunes in the Messiah are not original from Handel :D Many of them were lifted from Italian popular songs.
I find it slightly weird and offensive that the products contain sexual orientation information. Are the products being bought to be paired with other products, sexually? Or are they being bought to perform labor? Does the labor in any way depend on the sexual orientation of the product? Isn't prostitution illegal in the country where this company operates?
There are few startups as well in India banking over Chai with lots of VC's money pouring in.
That's a feature!
Infrastructure as Code, without the code
Sigh. Thanks for the correction.
None taken!
I miss Cheddi's! The tinku left its mark on my psyche, sigh.
> is much smoother than it was 10 years ago when I made my first iPhone OS app.

The app store has been around for less than 9 years.

> App Store was opened on July 10, 2008
Ok, I want a machine to do nothing but run office. I have given up on the portion of my Steam library that doesn't run on Linux, but running Steam would be a bonus.

I have no interest in the app store, or any of Microsoft's cloud services, and sending my data to Microsoft (or leaving open a remote diagnostics backdoor) is a complete deal breaker for me. Since my Win 8 box downloaded backports of the Win 10 spyware without my authorization, I have physically unplugged it.

Is there some reason LTSB will not meet my requirements? I can afford $7/month.

It seems like the best choice at the moment, but I'd rather not waste time if it can't run office (or has hardware issues, etc).
Parks?

You could eliminate half of roads and still have ample room for emergency services.
That "feature" does not appear to work for me. It probably should be a feature though.
In many ways I understand you. I am sorry for us both that we both must understand life this way.
I can't think of a situation where plain "pip install" doesn't work that the correct fix is to use sudo.

I strongly think that if you're going to give advice on how to install, then you'd be better off suggesting:

python3 -m venv speech-venv
./speech-venv/bin/pip install ...
# or activate and use "pip install"
FYI, this is a commentary on MIT's recent decision to close and depopulate Senior Haus. Senior Haus is (was?) one of MIT's more creative dorms, and many feel it was especially supportive of some students that didn't fit in elsewhere.

MIT decided to depopulate Senior Haus because they statistically were less likely to graduate on time (numbers were questionable at best). Students felt like trading off a supportive community for graduation rates represented commoditization of students, hence the website.

In particular, Pilot 2021 is supposed to focus on wellbeing, health and career development, hence all the references to meal kits.
The real Pilot 2021 website: https://studentlife.mit.edu/housing/undergraduate-housing/re...

The administration of MIT have decided to nuke a dorm whose culture they didn't like and forced everyone to leave (they claim too much drugs and poor graduation rates). In their place, is "Pilot 2021" in which only freshmen will be moved in (and a few select upperclassmen).

Students feel the administration has been less than honest in their handling of the ordeal (and the dorm's year-long probation period) and had no real interest in helping the dorm improve or listening to the students' needs.
I think it's really hard, if not impossible, to make that determination, and that's the moral hazard. There are also people who believe that any desire to commit suicide is a mental health issue that can and should be fixed.

I think it's reasonable to always err on the side of caution, since obviously we can't (yet) reverse death, so there's no going back in the case where the causes of the suicidal feelings can actually be fixed.

But I also believe in self-determination: if you really are determined to end your life -- for any reason -- you should be allowed to do so.

So I guess I'm personally somewhere in the middle: try to stop suicide attempts, but if, after getting help, the person still wants to end their life, maybe you should just respect their wishes and let them go, as hard as doing so may be.
I just played it for the first time after seeing it on HN tonight. It's entertaining in its own way and I'd recommend it, but as I stepped away from my pc it made me feel grateful that I don't work as a customs officer in real life. I suppose that was the intended effect :)
Yes, and every Captain out there puts the minimum "closest point of approach" for any contact that they're willing to accept into their standing orders, precisely so that they will be woken up by the watch team with enough time to make it to the bridge and assess the situation.

But this still relies on the watch team detecting the contact and realizing that it will pass near to the ship, and so again the ship's captain is back to relying on his or her watch team to at least get to that minimal level of competence -- because if they can't rely on the officers on watch to be able to wake them up properly, we're back to captains who can never sleep.
What an amazingly perceptive description, seriously well thought out. Truly impressed.
One thing I noticed here in Japan that is sort of related is the lack of reasonable access to birth control control. You need to go to a doctor/ clinic to get the pills, and they are not exactly cheap. That is hurdle 1.

Even worse is the morning after pill / emergency pill. You must go to a doctor/clinic for that as well and it costs $200 usd.

They definitely make it scarier / more difficult to have sex here.
That's a total strawman.

Suggesting that there might be a better way than today's status quo is different than saying that certain people don't deserve to exist.
Ask HN: If aliens / ETs are discovered, how will that change the tech industry?
Will they go on FB? Will we be able to use their technology?
http://saveseniorhouse.mit.edu/
Ask HN: Intermittent Fasting q  What do you do when very hungry after sunset
What do you do when very hungry after sunset ?

Tea coffee
Juices?
What do you do to suppress hunger after sunset as buddhas diet and IF advises against eating after sunset
> people like you will always find a reason to complain.

That's really lovely.
There are some broader lessons from this than who believed what and when (or what other philosophical or religious traditions had similar or "better" beliefs).

Belief based solely on faith has a pronounced tendency to go off in the weeds. That's the distinction which the scientific method makes, particularly in the tradition of the bacons -- Roger Bacon (13th c.) and Francis Bacon (16th c.), no relation. Each emphasised the value of observation or experimentation.

Second: if you find your premises, or traditional authorities, at odds with observed reality, you might care to strongly favour dismissing your premises or authorities, rather than your observations -- so long as the latter seem to be independently verifiable. An interesting case of this developed most especially in the 19th century, within the field of geology, where the record of the stones was found in marked difference to the record of the scripts, particularly the biblical record. Noted geologists spent not inconsiderable time attempting reconciliation of these records. There was no reconciliation possible, of course, one of those records was simply wrong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dwight_Dana#Publicatio...

Third: if you've found a persistent discord between observation and theory, then it's quite likely you've illuminated a lacuna in your knowledge or understanding. Again to geology: it was clear from the geologic record that the Earth was at least some hundreds of millions of years old, but no known force or energy could explain the observed temperature of the Earth's interior. The answer to this turned out to be previously unknown form of energy potential and release: radioactivity. That also happened to provide the clock by which the Earth's age could be determined, as well as the mechanism by which geology is ultimatley founded: plate tectonics. Not fully accepted, it turns out, until 1965, though it's now considered the fundamental organising principle of geology. Which gives us a fourth lesson:

Fourth: You can study a thing for a long, long, long time before you come to a proper understanding of it.

Fifth: Study of ancient authorities isn't wholly useless. I advise people to look to philosophy, especially, if not for truth then as a record in how the truth, and error, are arrived at, over time.

And finally: it's not enough to come to the correct answer, but to come to the correct answer through the right chain of reasoning. Science is structured knowledge. It's not a dry recitation of facts, but rather, the structure, through which, those facts become evident. If not self-evident, then building on observation and mechanism. Precursors of current understanding, absent the underlying structural foundation, are interesting, but are not science as it's properly considered.
The points that you bring up are precisely why I wish to self terminate, Yet our old saw the very reason why I am unable to complete the job. What a miserable existence to be stuck between the unending desire to die and the knowledge that death could actually be an infinitely worse fate.

They're also the basis for why I rationalize against procreation, at least for myself
If you like that, I recommend JS Bach by Albert Schweitzer. A slightly different perspective, but also good.
How badly does the function pointer technique effect interprocedural optimization? Since LLVM would know the exact control flow it should be able to do the optimisations anyway?

That match(int) technique seems naïve. How would you handle the function arguments/application. The size of the function would also, presumably, large enough to be either very bad for one's icache or requiring more optimisation, which on the assumption that my previous paragraph is correct would make this a wasted effort?

Has this been profiled at all?
Relationships stemming from likability have more health benefits than status:

"Yet this same research reveals that there is more than one type of popularity, and most of us may be investing in the wrong kind. Likability reflects kindness, benevolent leadership and selfless, prosocial behavior. Research suggests that this form of popularity offers lifelong advantages, and leads to relationships that confer the greatest health benefits.

Likability is markedly different from status — an ultimately less satisfying form of popularity that reflects visibility, influence, power and prestige. Status can be quantified by social media followers; likability cannot."
Have you considered the thinking beyond your own blip of life? The death of other, does not signify anything. It is merely death. It is the failure of the conscious mind to see death beyond its facial value. Death. It is freeing.
I'm not saying it's the right way to do things, just that it's not unreasonable. Corporate infosec teams just usually aren't staffed to deal with this sort of issue. At best they can pass the user to regular support, or pass the issue on to whatever engineering team is responsible for third-party 2FA. And that's where the issue lies: if Twitter's regular support wasn't completely useless, we wouldn't have this problem here.
Well, in their own interest, it may be better to bite the bullet, and learn English.

I ran into my own first book on programming at the end of the eighties, when I was fourteen. It was an old photocopy of Borland Turbo Pascal, in English. There was no translation available in vernacular. So, either I gave up on programming, or else I just had to get used to reading these things in English. Later on, programming became my full-time profession. If I hadn't done the effort of doing what it takes, and figure out English, today I would probably be queuing for unemployment benefits or another social handout. My kids would now be begging in the streets, instead of happily enjoying their costly private tutor and cosy private school. The kids obviously understand vernacular, but the classes are firmly in English, if only, because the other parents also know what time it is. The false beliefs and pagan gods of vernacularity make it so that the rich are getting richer, while from the poor, even the little they have, will be taken away from them.
> meal kits

Food at MIT is a very interesting topic. The administration has been pushing "dining halls" and "mandatory meal plans" for 15 years now, thinking that college should be a Disneyland resort experience you can sell parents on as part of $60k+/year tuition (instead of a place where adults live, clean, cook, and eat like adults).

In reality, cooking and community kitchens has been a big part of MIT's culture. It's fun, it builds community, and it's stress-relieving. Also, meal plans are really expensive and many students do not want not-very-good-food for $20 a meal.

Fun story: I remember one dining hall banning to-go boxes because MIT students were inclined to take their meals to-go so they could eat their food quickly in isolation and get back to work. The administration thought if they forced people to eat in the dining halls they could somehow build a community that way.
Direct personal realisation, an increasingly take-no-prisoners approach to online abuse, and a considerable amount of evidence from elsewhere that such TLDs are almost entirely void of value.

My router doesn't have sufficient resources to list individual hosts, particularly where widespread abuse is found. Plus it's just too much fucking work.

BlueCoat Security (now part of Symantec) have been publishing a "Shady TLD series".

https://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/floating-down-stream-...

Basically: to 2-3 nines, these TLDs are nothing but trouble. If they can't clean up their own acts, fuck 'em.

And let that be warning to other TLD registrars.
Yes. Opinions are important in interpreting whether or not a historical case can be interpreted as a precedent in a current one. That's one of the principal concepts in common law systems.
AWS is so f-ing confusing sometimes.
Yes,to an extent. I do not pick up low rated riders. You have to ne a real asshole to not maintain a decent rating as a rider. 4.70 is my cut off during the day. After midnight, I do not pick up anyone under a 4.8
http://www.fiftythree.com/pencil
https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/

Kind of already an established name in the Apple world.