skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kind of hard to walk with your hands full of grocery bags if you are shopping for a family of 3+ especially in the winter.
In the winter too? I thought we were not talking about what's possible and what's not, I thought op was talking about equal convenience for him of owning a car vs using uber/lyft.
> do you get many people using it?

No not yet. So far I've been focused on coding though (and I've learned that's the wrong way to get things done, I should instead start with validating the idea). But now a MVP is finished, and I'm shifting focus to marketing & PR. And one of the first steps, is ... to rename the project from EffectiveDiscussions to Talkyard. That's what I've been doing the past week, and ... the plan thereafter is to focus a bit on embedded comments for static site generators. There seems to be a slight vacuum here; Disqus isn't so popular any longer, it seems to me, among tech people = those who use static generators.

> there are quite a bit of forum platforms out there

Yes that's a problem for me. When I started this, in year 2010, there weren't. But I spent many years doing the wrong things, getting a job again & doing this on the spare time only ... and now suddenly there's Discourse, Flarum, Slack, Mattermost, Rocket Chat, Spot.IM, Discord, Matrix, and others. Maybe I was too slow. On the other hand, Talkyard is the only project with HackerNews topic types + chat features combined, so maybe it can find its niche.
The shuttle did not fly a large number of missions to begin with... It was so unreliable (fatal accidents every fifty launches!) that it never had a chance. The SpaceX model of reusability looks a lot more likely to deliver.

If SpaceX succeeds at lowering launch costs then it would be easier to launch many small and disposable spy satellites than ever to bother refueling one.

Nonetheless, the point is that satellites are limited as to opportunities due to limited availability and limited time windows. This does argue that there ought to be a role for an SR-71. I'm not sure there's much of a role for an SR-72, but certainly for the SR-71 there ought to be.
Another green method for distributed consensus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-space

Basically anything which is cheap to verify but costly to prove could be used.

Proof of burn and proof of stake both ultimately destroy resources. But what if the proof is something that can be used by humanity? Like proof of charity? So instead of sending the coins to an unspendable address, you send the coins to an address which is a charity, such as the Pineapple Fund? Of course such a charity would need to have strict controls on it such that it doesn't funnel misuse the money (such as mining for itself), but actually performs charity.
I definitely can wait. I love that music is a physical medium, requiring a body in order to experience it, not just cognition. That music originated with and continues to largely be based on human bodies generating rhythm and sounds either intrinsically, (singing, vocalizing, body percussion, stomping, etc.), or extrinsically using acoustic instruments. I also totally enjoy electric instruments and electronic music, as they don't necessarily imply losing the various embodied aspects of music creation and enjoyment. Which is to say, embodiment is something I feel is truly important for many reasons , and is one of the reasons why I love music (saying this as a musician, music lover, and temporary pilot of a mostly functional human body).

I love that to play an instrument with some level of proficiency, it takes physical practice. I love that to get good at dancing, sports, or martial arts - takes physical practice. That these things engage your whole beingThat part of the joy from these kinds of activities comes from the time that is invested, the changes and improvements that are experienced over time. I love that we have muscle memory - that our bodies can be trained to respond faster than our thinking mind in various situations.

To me, while it could take some cognitive work up front in terms of synthesis, composition, and arrangement - the otherwise instantaneous transmission of this product from thought to machine strikes me, at worst, as yet another technological solution for a problem that doesn't exist. Not to say that it would never be useful. Just srsly... do we need an app for everything that could ever possibly exist?

/salt
I understand the author's frustration, though I don't agree with all of his points. However, what is Microsoft's motivation for investing in WPF at this point? If they don't improve WPF, will enterprise customers stop using Windows? Unless it moves the needle significantly one way or another, they won't do much with WPF. Besides, they have their hands full on other fronts.
It varies pretty dramatically depending on how much you have to pay for fiber, how many customers you're able to get per tower, what you're able to charge (competition) and what type of customers you get (business / residential / mdu).

My back of the napkin calculations usually show that to give one person a health salary ($80-120k) and pay a few contractors or lower wage workers to do some of the grunt work you would need 300-500 residential customers.
If you lost money in this scheme you are too stupid to live. Go hide your face in shame instead of wasting taxpayer money trying to fix your mistake.

"A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place." - Gordon Gekko
Please don't delete out of date information.

Signed, someone who's done a lot of legacy code maintenance (have you tried to find VB6 or .NET 1 doco these days?)
I'm gonna go and take issue with the claim that you were the first to come up with microarchitectural attacks, and that their story begins in 2004:

- Dan Page published [1] in 2002, describing an attack on DES exploiting cache timings. In 2003, he published [2] describing countermeasures to this class of attacks.

- Concurrently, a Japanese team also attacked DES (and MISTY1) with cache timing [3, 4].

- Dan Bernstein published the first version of his AES cache timing attack in late 2004 [5].

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2002/169

[2] https://doi.org/10.1016/S1363-4127(03)00104-3

[3] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-45238-6_...

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20060906064630/http://web.engr.o...

[5] https://cr.yp.to/antiforgery/cachetiming-20041121.pdf
Some invest, some gamble, it is an irrational industry so don't try to analyze it too hard :)
> I wish every small business could be paid to create jobs.

I always thought tax credits for businesses were more related to numbers rackets than to actual economic gain.

Here's a thought experiment:

I take one person from my company, fire him, and split the job into two people. Both get paid less than half of the original guy I fired. Yet one of the keeps the old title. Did I create a job? Yes. Did I grow the economy? Doubtful.

While splitting one job into two seems far fetched, it's not that far fetched to split 8 jobs into 10, say.
Would you suggest this to someone who has (pretty much) never used TypeScript? Case is, I am going to rewrite a project and this would be quite an interesting addition!
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I would have suggested Vivaldi as I think feature wise they are good to support and see what develops but they are Blink engine.

Is Tor browser any good? Its Gecko and very privacy driven I believe.

Alternately could you use an old Opera version when they were on Presto?
> Perl still powers a lot of stuff. It fell behind PHP because PHP outpaced it for growth in web development.

Oh, I'm well aware. I'm a full time Perl developer, have been for a long time, and love the language. It's just interesting to see history repeat itself.
Plus it extends the usefulness of transit and working around schedules/connecting endpoints with stops, is great for health and fitness, and in many areas there's decent diverse social scenebuilt around different types of cycling. No better way to know your city.
No. My USDT is on them deliberately putting that crap on the site in order to weed out anybody with a functioning brain. It's kinda like Nigerian prince scammer emails are full of deliberate grammar and spelling errors. You gotta filter out the noise in your conversion funnel.

Lots of crypto-coin stuff, including virtually all "name brand" crypto's, do the same thing. Most of the marketing is full of complete political, financial, and computer science nonsense. Anybody educated in any of those topics takes one look at the crypto space and goes "nope. sounds too good to be true. pass". What's left is a much more, shall we say, naïve set of marks to go after. You know, the kind that won't likely sue the shit out of those at the top of the pyramid... or even report them to the authorities. A very nice feature of Bitcoin is it specifically targets those with an anti-authoritarian bent--the kind who blather on about tax-theft, how the police should be deregulated, free market private industries and how the system of law should be replaced with cold, hard, unfeeling computer programs. If you were a scammer, wouldn't you want to target a group of people who wouldn't in a million years report you to the police?

Good stuff. The "crypto space" is an amazing thing to watch. Never a dull moment.
or a gazillion dollar job with a company once he retires from the state job. Maybe not with Foxconn but with a supplier or client of theirs. Wink + nod=
I've seen this defined in some infrastructure bill (usually it's not defined). 1 job created really means 1 job for a year. If the job exists next year too, it's apparently created that year too. This doesn't match with my definition of creation, but it seems to better match up with reasonably likely job outcomes of projects advertised as job creation.

Eg: this factory will create 13000 jobs over the next 5 years doesn't mean there will be 13000 more working people in 5 years, it just means 13000 man years of work in the 5 year period.
ISP: Here's a cheap IoT plan! $5 a year!

Customer: Yay I'll buy a ${Brand} IoT device.

...

Customer: ISP, why isn't my {$Brand} IoT device working on your network?

ISP: Oh you need the $150 a month add-on to support your ${Brand} IoT device because ${Business Decision}.

The benefits of net neutrality still applies to IoT devices IMHO.
I've just started using Thunderbird again this last year, comforted by it. It's definitely better than it used to be. The survey is a joke, I don't trust product management/design if they're asking people to donate their time to this survey. Is this grainy screenshot of downloading a ton of email rather confusing or "clear"... I can't help but laugh at the confirmation that is being begged for and stop taking the survey.

I guess a fork will come out if it goes the way of Ubuntu.

I love Mozilla's products and mission.
And it's not difficult to swap it out for a consistent hash balancer or other solution.
The flip side of this is an experience I had a while ago interviewing with a Canadian company for a remote position. Since I expected it to be an issue, I was up front with the interviewer that I needed a minimum of $X to pay my bills in the Bay Area and that I wasn't interested in moving. They were not willing to proceed, and told me that was the reason. I appreciated their candor, but it really turned me (as an American) off of Canadian companies.
Huh. That's interesting. Do you know if that's positional? I.e. it's predictable? For example in English you know an "s" is /z/ when between voiced vowels, most of the time. Or OE "good" vs "geostran dag".

In any event, as per English, French, among others, an alphabet does not have to orthographically represent the phonemes exactly.
My thoughts exactly. I'm not a combat veteran, but I've suffered from PTSD due to violent situations.

I think we're retraining our brains in the EMDR and CBT sense.

Any game will do, but competitive games like Rust and PubG are my favorites. DoTA 2, Destiny 2 and many others have a special place in my heart.

Seeing the WHO support a diagnosis of "video game addiction" turns my stomach. Yes, some gaming is escapist. Yes, if someone has little to no joy in life they'll take it from games and build neurological patterns, and behaviors around them. Any experience that yields dopamine people end up calling addictive.

I'm not shocked at how out of touch a psychologist must be to ignore the fact that many gamers are suffering from issues elsewhere in life, many games are likely poor, and other gamers likely have little time or opportunity to do anything else.

"It's addictive." -- Well, it's therapeutic, the cheapest form of entertainment, often virtually connects us to others and ends our isolation, creates grey matter and helps us retrain our brains.
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Great. /s

I published ONE video about how to easily fix a head-scratching computer hardware problem, because there isn't any other guide on it.

I get about 1000 views a month, tons of thank yous and make a few dollars.

Because I won't get 4000 hours of watch time[1], and nobody will subscribe, I'll get squat.

And zero motivation to publish more videos.

The next time I figure out a life-trick[2], I won't bother.

Who subscribes to videos about fixing stuff anyway?

[1] Don't you hate those videos that are 5x longer than necessary? WHY ENCOURAGE THAT?

[2] That fancy French mustard you bought? Don't bother with your hands. You'll need to use a corkscrew to open it.
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Bad headline: "Miles Davis is not Mozart"

Besides being trivially true, MOZART WAS A MASTER IMPROVISOR!!

Classical musicians were great improvisors for generations… until the late 19th century boon of the symphony orchestras and all these conservatories focused on getting musicians to follow the notes perfectly and watch the conductor and ignore creativity. In the 20th century, improvisation was rubbed out of classical music.

Today's classical pianists are pathetic improvisors. But don't think Mozart or Beethoven or Bach etc. were like that. They were much more like the jazz pianists.

This study is mostly just further proof of the tragic impoverishment of classical tradition over the last few generations.
Racism or not it's reality IMO. Blackmail or patriotism does wonders to "help" your old country. FBI can threaten you or your brother in law with jail for x, y and Z unless you help them. So can the Chinese
> Windows lock-in is dead and that is what the WPF/Silverlight game was.

This statement is in total contradiction with what UWP is: a platform so OS-locked it doesn’t even run on Windows < 10. On the other and both WPF & Silverlight runs on multiple Windows versions and Silverlight was supported on Mac OS.
What I am amazed at is that a naturalized citizen would run the citizenship gauntlet, actually become a citizen, and then go and betray the country they presumably worked for.

On the other hand, there's no effort or merit in being born at a particular geographical location.
That’s a great idea!

I’m going to talk to my senior about trying this out tomorrow. They love stuff like this
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> The MBP isn't the successor to the air though

The 13” non-touchbar MBP was actually announced as a MBA replacement when it was introduced if memory serves.
Well add to this the environment mapping using sound and wireless.
So we give them our personal data, share our environment, share our bio-metric data.
In few words one can completely reconstitute your life without asking you nothing and use these data for purpose you will never know.

The real issue as it was for BTFII, it target also children in young age. So we persecute rapist but not persecute these behaviors that totally rape the point of view and behavior of small infant.
Especially if linked to any related games our children play with. If these new AI algorithm work on grown human being, their impact would go even further on infant!

At this point i would prefer my child playing with DUKE NUKEM than the actual modern smartphone/PC games!
I'm sure it is the same with any city in Germany compared to Zurich.
I could and should do research on the gates foundation. But that wasn't my question. It's why do we assume they are altruistic in their endeavours?

(specifically in this case with Nigeria and debt toward Japan, a very, very odd mix of circumstances that don't seem to be allowed to be questioned here)
I completely agree except for the part where it's useful.

In my mind, Flow is dead. The issues are mostly ignored, third-party type definitions are sparse and of varying degrees of bad to completely wrong.

> I find the whole situation very unsatisfying. It is clear - when you actually use it heavily for a big project for a longer period - that a type system on top of Javascript is very difficult to maintain.

Agreed. This is a tough problem and it's a never-ending maintenance battle. This is especially true for an ecosystem that prides itself on making npm packages as small as possible ... they all need typings!

> On the bright side, once you get your code all "type system ready" you really do find bugs - even if it's just a few.

> ... even if it's just a few.

This is exactly the conclusion we came to in our large codebase and we decided to rip it all out. We didn't see the win at all. We ripped it out and didn't notice a single difference in our dev workflow. We also got the benefit of reducing our syntax cognitive load.

> There is too much friction between the language and the type system.

Agreed. An optional type system is a maintenance nightmare. The amount of time it takes to get it right cannot be understated. It wasn't worth it for our large web application and the benefits are so minimal imo.
American Declinism has been a popular meme since the 50s, some day it will be true I guess [1]:

>Twenty-two years ago, in a refreshingly clear-sighted article for Foreign Affairs, Harvard’s Samuel P. Huntington noted that the theme of "America’s decline" had in fact been a constant in American culture and politics since at least the late 1950s. It had come, he wrote, in several distinct waves: in reaction to the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik; to the Vietnam War; to the oil shock of 1973; to Soviet aggression in the late 1970s; and to the general unease that accompanied the end of the Cold War. Since Huntington wrote, we can add at least two more waves: in reaction to 9/11, and to the current "Great Recession."….

>What the long history of American "declinism" — as opposed to America’s actual possible decline — suggests is that these anxieties have an existence of their own that is quite distinct from the actual geopolitical position of our country; that they arise as much from something deeply rooted in the collective psyche of our chattering classes as from sober political and economic analyses.

>For whatever reason, it is clear that for more than half a century, many of America’s leading commentators have had a powerful impulse consistently to see the United States as a weak, "bred out" basket case that will fall to stronger rivals as inevitably as Rome fell to the barbarians, or France to Henry V at Agincourt.

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/78216/america-in-decline-tho...
Thanks for writing this. I didn't like the opening paragraph either, and your comment is a better rebuttal than I could have written.

Colin, I think this is a good perspective on Spectre and Meltdown, but it feels like the entire opening paragraph was an unnecessary attempt at a "me too" that implies you're the modern father of these sorts of attacks when that isn't really the case.

I understand you're establishing credibility and expertise (and you have both), but it's disingenuous to begin with, The story of these attacks starts in late 2004, and then go on to describe your own work. I think the rest of your post has its own utility without writing a narrative of these attacks that inserts you at the beginning of them.
sounds like a good way to get audited. abusing tax loopholes like this might be worth it if you're a corporation with an army of accountants/lawyers to defend you, but if you're an individual, you're easy pickings for the IRS.
Not even adware or an ad in the state it was rolled out either, as it did nothing, except checking for an about:config-flag. If you manually enabled this flag, then it would have flipped around a few words.
This is an interesting idea I think. Actually, on narrow screens, I don't use more than one or two indentation levels. Thereafter everything is flat — and instead of arrows, there're clickable "In reply to @username" text one can click and jump to the parent comment. Here, the color coding you describe, could maybe be helpful.

When there is enough space for indendation, though, I'd prefer indenting. Otherwise, cannot visualize more than the first indentation depth, right.

(Hmm not sure what you have in mind with "no clicking required" — Hacker News and Talkyard also don't require any clicking?)
Iodine doesn't naturally occur in salt, it's added artificially (and probably wasn't being added in the era we're talking about).
Wow. Thanks for the explanation.
Perfect play for the van dwelling SV crowd (or renters anywhere). What are they going to put a lien on when the most expensive thing you own is a macbook pro?
> it's a heck more convenient to have a car when you are regularly going to costco, ikea, trying out a new local bakery or restaurant,

The idea of going to physical stores to browse articles has become mind numbing to me. 'Regularly going to costco, ikea' when I can just order on amazon, get ikea to deliver to my home, get non-perishable/fresh food online from supermarkets that do home deliveries, have 5 bakeries that I can get to in 5 minutes of bicycling and more restaurants than I could care for (European cities are nice like that).

> We could still do many of those things when we didn't have a car, but it's far more boring

Maybe for you.

> far more exhausting

Getting things delivered to your home is far less exhausting than going through the mad labyrinth of Ikea that was built to keep you in the store for the longest time possible. Just the thought of having to find the exit again makes me feel hypertension.
Keith Jarrett _can_ swing (super hard!) - but he doesn't always - so some of his work qualifies here.
I believe you could put a ham radio up there but it's quite expensive - most tower contracts I've seen are $1200-$2500/month. Also if the tower is already full (at it's structural capacity for wind loading) then you would have to pay for upgrades before you could hang your HAM (which would be tremendously expensive!)
What makes a problem interesting to mathematicians is often not the result itself but the expectation that the proof will require techniques and philosophical ideas that change the way the general theory is handled.
BitConnect executives should be jailed for one year per “BITCONNEEECCCCC” shouted.
UWP does have some neat new stuff, but they didn't have to ignore the desktop like they obviously did. Desktop is a second-class citizen in UWP.
I'm always amazed how aligned nations are on copyright. I believe US actively pushed this in trade negotiations. I assume this is why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright...