skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How that is true? I've been asked for credit report when getting a credit card, renting apartment, signing up for phone service, signing up for internet service, signing up for the TV service, buying a car, buying any of the kitchen appliances, getting a mortgage, buying life insurance, buying car insurance... You get the idea. What kind of "average American" does none of these things? It's certainly not an average American I have ever met or heard of.

How does that make you a customer? This has uses for the companies you buy things from, but not for you directly. I live in a country with no credit reports (credit is given using other metrics) and in do way do I see this as you being the customer or consumer in this case.
Looks more like a lisp than the lambda calculus. Nice idea though.
The author mentions WebAssembly, yet writes at the end :

" and a security model that allows us to forget that we run thousands and thousands of untrusted scripts every day."

WebAssembly is designed to run in a sandbox. I suppose that does not by itself make it completely safe, but it can not be much worse than the current situation, can it?
Yep. I find it refreshing with news provides which does not pretent to be unbiased, none are.
> Am I being unknowingly unreasonable in wanting this?

i don't think so. or if you are, then i am too. or it depends on how much you want this and why.

i lurked on the Hurd IRC about 5 or 6 years ago, and i get the sense that developing these systems is a lot about the journey of development. it seemed as though most people who were running the Hurd used hardware virtualization.

the browser can certainly be viewed as block to minimality. have you tried elinks? could a V7-like JS runtime replace JITing it?

i don't have answers to these questions. i do think framing the original question around minimal webbrowsers (where "minimal" means it can be run on Minix or similar) is insightful and appropriate to the forum. thanks for posting this question!
what/where is the something?
>we have really hard time finding good engineers even with very good compensation

Everyone thinks they are offering good compensation, regardless of whether it actually is. Somehow, I doubt you'd have the issue if you offered 100k.
Have you used iOS or are you making assumptions based on what you think you know? If it was obvious why iOS was badly designed then I wouldn't have to ask.

a) It depends on how the app works but in general you are right. But this is to save data, especially in cases where there are a lot of images. Some apps do download the content when it receives the notification as well.

b) Are you suggesting typing is that much more difficult than swiping on a keyboard? Even if that were the case, you can download a keyboard from the App Store that allows you to use a swiping motion on the keyboard.

c) That's more Facebook or Twitter's fault for not handling the same events as the built in browser, not the failing of the OS.

d) That doesn't make sense. You're protected because app developers have the freedom to provide sane defaults? What about the bad actors that don't provide sane defaults or add malware? I'd rather trust the OS to enforce sane defaults than trust the app developer to, because at least the people that make the OS are generally competent, whereas app developers are more likely to not be.
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I get the impression from the article that they weren't expecting an anaerobic space: "Archaeologists lifted up a piece of concrete flooring while exploring the foundations of the fourth-century stone fortress. They were struck by a layer of black, sweet-smelling and perfectly preserved anaerobic soil in an area where it was completely unexpected".
How so?

Do you suggest that sprawling suburbanised cities were too big to bomb effectively?
Thanks for taking the time to provide a specific example where the results weren't up to your standards.
Yes, I have a lot of gripes with Android too. But it's not as restricted as iOS.

And no, I don't get any option to download an MP3 from Safari on my iPad.
People are having children later on in life so it would make sense.
>The problem is that we are losing the simple jobs. You have a lot of people with a basic education, who could do good simple work. The push for higher level of education kind of work is removing them from the market.

The obvious solution to this is to make more people qualified, not to prop up "simple jobs" that aren't economically viable.
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They explain it in TFA: https://changecopyright.org/en-US/
> so you spend also excessive amount of money on water because you drink it several times a day?

I sure do, because I prefer the quality control and availability of municipally-supplied mains rather than sinking a well in my back yard.

Your point about conspicuous consumption is pretty unfocused. Should everyone use the same laptop, do the same job, be paid the same rate, lest be accused of propertarian tendencies?
Even their status page is apparently hosted with them.

The first rule of status pages is "Don't keep them with your website". Come on, it's not that hard...
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Very bad reform. Among the other things, it makes any site directly responsible for every copyright violation of its users.

For a change, this is as bad for big and small companies.

Not even Facebook can policy all the posts of their users for words, pictures, sounds and videos. FB won't get a takedown notice, it could be sued directly.
I might be wrong, but I think that they haven't posted any actual text because the document(s) got leaked.

If you're looking for a proper discussion about this and the actual text, EDRi (something like EU's EFF) is probably what you're looking for. They did an extensive coverage of this in the last couple of days and have published the leaked documents.

Some links:

https://edri.org/leaked-document-eu-presidency-calls-for-mas...

https://edri.org/estonia-loves-digital-why-is-it-supporting-...

https://edri.org/six-states-raise-concerns-about-legality-of...
I have a lot of trouble feeling any amount of empathy for Brazilian natives after seeing How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971)
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It's interesting how capitalism is able to monetize everything even social justice. This story could be entirely made up, it fits perfectly in her narrative. I find it unlikely that the BBC reporter contacted her, most likely the PR firm recommended to her by the VC that "told her" to dye her hair arranged for that profile.
Multi-monitor works fine. Single monitor, high DPI is very tricky, and barely works, never consistently (like, GNOME looks fine, but Firefox looks tiny). Multi-monitor, where every monitor has a different DPI value, has absolutely no support.
America’s division: We united in the wake of 9/11, then partisanship re-emerged
True and the peaceable majority are irrelevant.
Status is also updated at twitter[0].

[0] https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus
I think this is the directice in question: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELE...

Summary: https://iplens.org/tag/proposal-for-a-directive-on-copyright...
> 4K ATV comes out this month apparently

Any official links I can share with my friend who is an Apple fan? All I came up with in a quick search was the rumor sites.

Thanks in advance for your time.
but isn't wasm something that is supposed to be compiled into native binary? Which means if there's a way to trick the compiler to compile something that looks innocuous, but when run (or somehow exploited) that it does something it's not supposed to?

In chrome, the process sandboxing is supposed to protect you - it doesn't matter if it's wasm or not. Does other impl. of wasm does similar security-wise?
One point not mentioned in the article, but obvious from the photo: her natural hair is black, and the blonde hair was also dyed.
1) Keylogger can be switched off for Germany, 2) Main feature of Kickidler is a video recording for all employees, 3) "unzulässig, wenn kein auf den Arbeitnehmer bezogener, durch konkrete Tatsachen begründeter Verdacht einer Straftat oder einer anderen schwerwiegenden Pflichtverletzung besteht." But concrete facts can exist.
Yes I'm in australia and the maths has probably changed - plans are a lot cheaper now. Still I stand by my comment, a large percentage of iphone buyers don't look at the price, they look at the monthly rate - if the difference is $10 a month then it probably won't change things much imho.
Maybe you don't have apps that play mp3's? Technically it should be possible. See also this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5985729?tstart=0
> but isn't wasm something that is supposed to be compiled into native binary?

No, it compiles into a binary code of its own. That gives it near-native speed, but it's no "hardware-binary" code.
That's also what the founder instinctively suggests. I don't disagree. But my posting here stems from certain concerns:
1. BigCo can easily outlawyer us
2. Tangentially related to 1, BigCo is likely to own a classic 'portfolio' which could be unleashed on us. While many individual patents in the portfolio might be of dubious validity, fighting them off will be a very expensive game.
If you aim for 90%, and a few 60-70%s slip through, you can maybe train them up or fire them. If you aim for 60%-70% and end up with a 20-30%, then you have to fire them.
You're right in principle, and I thought about writing the same. But trademarks are IP too, and I have a hard time seeing how this applies to them. I also think copyright is far worse than patents for a few reasons. Firstly, patents do expire, whereas copyright never seem to. Secondly, patents disputes are mostly between businesses, which mean the forces are roughly equal on either side. Copyright disputes are sometimes between businesses, but more often than not, they are between businesses that hold the copyright on one side, and consumers on the other. And in those cases, the balance of power is tilted massively in favor of the right’s holders. Which I am guessing goes a long way to explain why the copyright period keeps getting extended.
Sandsifter: find undocumented instructions and bugs on x86 CPU | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14872418 (91 comments, July 2017)
It's worth noting that in the original context, humans aren't the salt of the Earth.
If global warming decreases heat transportation to the surface, wouldnt the atmosphere and the volcanos form a self-regulating plant?
More info:

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How do non-nerds become nerds? "View source" can be the lid of the pandora's box for lots of young people who become inspired to be developers.

Alos the web is not just for nerds! HTML is a language that lots of everyday people can write now - it is empowering.
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Isn't QNX the only actual microkernel that has any kind of significant active user base (though not for the desktop use case, of course)?
You make a good point.

Still, as enthusiastic as I am about the purity of Stallman's pure goals, let's not have the perfect be the enemy of the good. Freedom for developers isn't hurting anyone – if anything, it has resulted in so much software that, while free, also doesn't need to be astronomically expensive. Imagine how much you would have to charge for a web app if you had to rely on non-free software only. What would a stack like that even look like? Windows, IE, ASP, IIS, Oracle, a paid UI library (or equivalent dev hours) ... the tools itself would be expensive enough to make most of the software market disappear.

I'm self-employed, and I know my job wouldn't exist without free dev tools.
The truth is that Amazon will most likely be adding job, but the industry as a whole wont.

At some point Amazon will start dropping jobs too.
Parent's comment was against excessive, i.e. superfluous abstraction. And that pretty much by definition must be avoided.

Abstraction in itself is a good thing. I just think of it as "compression". We have to express solutions to problems in the shortest way possible, otherwise they become unmaintainable.

What most people fail to see that a dead simple language like C provides with all of the tools to solve many problems with good or optimal abstraction. And if you add abstraction like OO and implicit memory management to solutions for many complex or performance-oriented problem domains, these solutions become effectively non-solutions. Because in these problem domains, decisions about memory allocation or data organisation are part of the solution.
I'm going to post a slightly mean reply. Do you question every story you hear?

My wife is a successful blonde female academic (more successful than me). I often go with her to events she is invited to and there is always some people who assume she is my "dumb wife" that I've brought with me.

At every event at some point I usually have to say to someone "Don't ask me, I have no idea. Karen is the person you should be speaking to", and they are always surprised. I've had people accuse me of lying when I say my wife is better at some academic topic than me. Yes, genuinely. That isn't an exaggeration.

I can see it's annoying being a blonde and female academic. Far too many people just seem to have hard-wired that "blonde female = stupid".
I use the Lineage ROM on my Nexus 5, and that does the trick for me.
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My wife dyed her hair blonde once and noted a noticable change in how she was treated. She described it as people being nicer to her but also sort of taking her less seriously. She also got hit on a lot more. She went back to her normal brown pretty quickly.

It's not just the obvious things like race. There are thousands of little prejudices. For guys I've read studies from sales about how men with broader shoulders or more prominent chins land more deals.

I find this stuff profoundly depressing. We are not really intelligent beings, just clever apes.
Reason I posted here (with a throwaway account) was I hoped (based on the crowd here, and certain comments I'd seen in the past alluding to related first/second hand experiences) to hear from someone who had encountered this sort of situation before.
"Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers."

This link does not seem to target the intellectually curious, nor does it seem to be picked by a ranking algorithm.
That also stood out to me. She is just changing already not-original look from trying to be more attractive to be more serious. I really don't understand how this is interesting enough for full article.
Ask HN: Best Documented Web APIs and Integrations?
Title contains the questions. There are so many documentations of various styles out there.

Which are the best API documentations you know? Comprehensiveness, Readability, Usability/UX, Look&Feel, extensive use of standards... whatever factor makes it special/favourable.

Looking for role models.
A gitlab feature I miss on Github is "protected branches" and being able to add contributors that can only push to unprotected branches. This way you can give people access to the main repo while still being able to check code before it goes into master
I wear a shirt to be taken more seriously at work.
Source is thousands of years of human civilization before the industrial revolution.

We weren't always taking asthma inhalers from Walgreen for the several thousands of years of our existence on this planet.
I kind of wanted to do that, for the hipster geek cred, but after retina screens, actually usable touchpads and operating system that just works and also is unix at the same time ... I just can't go back.
I upvoted you because I think it's an interesting position, but you should realize that adding duties will discourage people from doing any contributions at all. It starts to feel like a case of "no good deed going unpunished".
The Swedish price also includes 25% VAT, as well as the cost of consumer protection afforded by Swedish/EU laws (which in the US you have to pay extra to get through AppleCare - although AppleCare does go further)
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I think it hasn't been framed right. National ID is what gives the easy tax returns, protection against identity theft, less reliance on outdated systems like slow bank transfer, paper checks, manual voter registration, census processes...

I'm not sure what the fear is with a large central table having a number in one column and your name and address in the others.
According to the article, the concrete floor was laid about 30 years after the artifacts were abandoned. If I understand it right, the fort had been raised and leveled more than once in between, so there was a thick layer of soil and debris between the floor and the artifacts at the time the floor was laid. The unknown question is why such valuable items were left the first time the fort was abandoned.
I put my pants on.
It wouldn't help. If we spent more engineering effort on efficiencies that don't have a substantive effect on consumer response, we're just being inefficient with our time. That will result in less capable software, higher big counts, or higher software prices. Software is written with budgets, and nothing is free.
Where did you sell it?
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Wow, this article has almost no content. Maybe wearing baggy clothes, thick-rimmed glasses and brown hair makes her behave differently? It's impossible to tell - you can't do double blind tests and repeating experiments in social situations is impossible. Also, n=1. There also counter examples, like Marissa Meyer or Thereza Holmes.
People have been saying these things for the last decade, and they still bought the next iPhone.

And I'm not saying they are wrong. But they bought it for one thing, and that's the "feels" it gives them. It's not Android, they are not buying a phone, they're getting an iPhone(tm).

Now, when you can buy a Huawei P-whatever that has the same lines-on-white flat design UI, the same speed, it's not the specs. And yes, the iPhone looks better, the Huawei thing feels bulky in comparison. Does that feel worth 500 USD? That's up to the customers.
I know a bit about the transcendentalist movement of the early 19th century. I'd be interested to links to earlier stuff.

I think the birth of proper AI is a critical juncture for this idea (either enabling more self-sufficiency or reducing it). Which is why I'm bringing it up again now.
AFAIK, that whole effort is pretty much dead.
I would rather use a feature phone than a "slow" smartphone. Responsiveness shouldn't really be a extra feature, at least not for the basic apps(contacts, notes etc).
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Thanks. It's what I believed but smart people told me that lambdatalk is not implemented with lists at its core and so can't be defined as a lisp's dialect. Another reason comes from the regexp based evaluation, working on a string from beginning to end, reading and writing in situ like a Turing machine, and also from the way lambdas work as pure text replacement processes, like a beta-reduction in lambda-calculus. In fact the dwarf lambdatalk and the giants Lisp/Scheme/... are all descending from the same tree, the lambda calculus.
Yes, Coke does taste different depending on the country.

(And I've tried it on 5 different continents.)
I think something like this has to be integrated directly into github or the project's issue tracker to have a chance to gain any traction. But honestly, even then, I'm not sure it would work.
I found this[0] (PDF) to be a good summarized critique of the proposal.

This one[1] as well, although it's a bit longer.

[0]: https://www.communia-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2016...

[1]: http://copyright4creativity.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/DC...
"Degrade"? Getting a job contributing to FOSS projects sounds pretty good to me.
If you have to work 2k hours to make the 250k each year you aren't wealthy.

Yet.

If you can save and invest half of that eventually you might be.
That statement is made by how I view my open source projects, and thus what I expect from other open source projects. Could be that my expectations are too high, but I don’t believe so. This is not entitlement, it’s expecting a level of seriousness similar to that I am willing to give.
> Do you question every story you hear?

Do you not?

Edit: I feel a bit awkward about being on the same side as the "this is bullshit" people. I think the general message that it's harder for women to look "appropriate" in a business setting is probably fair, at least based on some of the conversations I've witnessed among my male co-workers.
It's only depressing if you've been told lies all your life to the contrary of reality.

For most people these things are rather obvious.

It's why business men wear suits instead of plain t-shirts (or worse, hoodies).
It wasn't an arbitrary upswing. Hellenistic period lasted a good 300 years, and there was a decent prelude to it. Note the civilizations that came after it, although great in their own right. Including the Roman civilization had its own goals(Territorial expansion, cities, entertainment, Urban living etc etc).

Now to give you another example as to how things could reverse and take forever to recover. Take a look at USSR and its space program. They were once in race to putting man on the moon and sending probes to Venus. Today? Not really that ahead of the pack.

NASA on the other hand, has had relatively a lot more success. But a lot could change if there is some unanticipated political or economic crisis that could set back US as a country. Of course a new country will likely replace it, but the end and start points won't be exactly the same.

The point being you need continuity and need to keep the inertia going to achieve stellar growth.
I work at a keyboard 8h per day, so I happily pay $100 for a keyboard that is nice, even though I could get one for $20.
Same with the phone. Even if it's just some minor improvement I use it so much that it's worth it.

Also it depends on what you use it for. If you use it for web browsing/messaging/email/phone calls then most phones will do. But other features such as the camera might be very dependent on price. Adding $100 to the price doesn't add much to the ability to make calls, but photos actually get noticably better with each dollar still.
Then add a disclaimer that the repository is not actively maintained and is looking for maintainers. This will absolve the responsibility of the entity that can no longer sustain the project and set the expectations of visitors accordingly.
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> municipally-supplied mains

I don't know where you live but here in Germany this water source is pretty cheap while of high quality. So this would rather be an example of pragmatic spending behaviour.

A $1000 smartphone would rather correspond to vanilla-flavored water filtered in a space ship using a high-tech-crystal-structure ...

> Should everyone use the same laptop, do the same job, be paid the same rate, lest be accused of propertarians tendencies?

Exactly - you are identifying yourself with those possessions. In my experience people with such materialist life philosophy are tedious and annoying.
It appears as though a lot of iPhone and Apple fans are down-voting you.
I; too, would expect a better DAC+AMP for that money.
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