skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. Individuals are of course responsible for their own actions. But individuals who choose to form a community that very deliberately lives in a particular way and sets itself apart from the rest of society, that choice is a reflection of their character - indeed it's a decision I expect they would say they wanted to be judged by. And at that point it's fair to judge them on the overall societal consequences of their chosen way of living, positive and negative.
Wow, I didn't realize a maintainer could get something into Debian with so little oversight.
We need a wiby.me for any given time frame on archive.org.
We’re pulling the plug on Facebook
I used to have a Geocities containing weird bad poetry I wrote when I was a teenager.

I forgot about it, until years later I stumbled upon it again. I was embarrassed. I asked Yahoo to delete it.

But I'd forgotten the password, and I'd used fake personal details (wrong date of birth) to create the account, and I couldn't remember what the fake info was, so they refused to delete it because I couldn't verify that I was who I said I was.

What do I do? I hit on a solution. I decided to DMCA myself.

I sent Yahoo a DMCA takedown request for my old Geocities, and straight away it disappeared. Mission accomplished.
> Go's dependency management story is starting to resemble JS's modules story

It's worse tbh. npm was actually always usable if you knew what you were doing. Complaints with npm were generally down to misunderstanding, people not being aware of features like 'npm shrinkwrap' (which has now been replaced with a lockfile-by-default strategy) and of course registry issues (allowing unpublishing) that weren't unique to npm, and were only an issue for people relying on public registries at deploy-time, a bad idea.
> You're using the base16 theme for the first one, correct?

Yup.

> I liked the second one as well. What theme is that? [...] Also, you've mentioned in the sidebar that you've built it using Grav and Hugo.

The theme is a Grav theme, ported to Hugo[1] (hence the "made with Grav and Hugo" -- the actual site is made with just Hugo). The source for the site is [2]. And the source for my other sites are here[3,4].

[1]: https://github.com/matcornic/hugo-theme-learn
[2]: https://github.com/openSUSE/umoci/tree/b9e256550d732c14beeab...
[3]: https://github.com/cyphar/rootlesscontaine.rs
[4]: https://github.com/cyphar/cyphar.com
On the surface, this seems like a welcome addition. Given how long companies are waiting to IPO these days, 5 years may not be enough though...
I got a quote from them 2 or 3 years ago for a company and the amount was for $7K/year. RPX said they came up with the price based on the likely danger of patent trolls to this company, so I don't know if the price they would quote now or to another company would be the same.
I can't say the opposite is true. I learned a bit of old norse in university reading sagas and looking at modern Icelandic the problem really is the vocabulary, which seems completely different from what you find in the sagas.
> And Jeff Bezos, if you're reading this, come on - this is day 2 activity.

That is a serious burn. It really drives home the point of how serious this issue is.
You've got my email address from the email I sent you regarding the malfunctioning CC form. I've got a bunch of super eager UA-testers from BC Mountaineering Club if you're interested.
I worry that next Amazon is going to start denying affiliate links to political opponents and many blogs will be faced with a desperate existential threat. The politics of Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Twitter are so narrow and similar and yet they by themselves can choke any video maker or writer to death.
Why stop there? If you switch to triples (10 flips, reroll on 1000-1023) then you can get an amortized cost of about 3.4 flips per d10. That's very close to the ideal outcome of log2(10) ~= 3.32 flips.

Above 3d10 the rate of re-rolls increases; 20 flips for 6d10 gives a worse amortized cost than two sets of three.
Austin's ride hailing app, Fasten, shuts down
They need line of sight here, don't they? Or are they going to bounce weaponized lasers off mirrors in space?
I've lost the bubble, have we heard if the next flight of Arleigh Burkes will be nuclear?
Doesn't it seem as if, when amortized over all home residents and mobile callers, more resources would be required to build a home than to provide mobile service?
I have a feeling the accuser simply googled "premium currency" and found the article posted by Playsaurus about abandoning F2P. They probably just took the top 10 results skimming for smaller companies that were F2P. I guess this is what you get for self publishing a game.
Your guestbook is filling up. A reminder that nothing about social media is truly new...
Mandatory "Submarine" plug: www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Kazakhstan to Qazaqstan: Why would a country switch its alphabet?
I still have a site of this sort: a site I used to publish, which I created in the very early 2000s using my 90s html knowledge. It still uses frames.
Russia Threatens to Block YouTube, Instagram, After Complaints from an Oligarch
I welcome change from the article posted just a few weeks ago stating they work without question:

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43143889

A terrible meta-analysis most likely paid for by the industry. It's also ironic since the same news site, the BBC, commented on all the terrible side effects of anti-depressants just the previous year!

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37682355

..and that combined with the fact that of all the studies that show anti-depressants aren't effective, only a fraction of them get published:

https://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_what_doctors_don_t_kn...

I don't think anti-depressants are a good option. I've tried several at two points in my life (under 13 and in my 20s) and during both times, I will say I hated them and the effect they had on me. There were some short term noticeable benefits, but I don't think they were good for me long term. I know people in my life who say drugs have helped them greatly, so I'm always weary of saying that.

I wish cognitive therapy without drugs was more commonly offered, but councilors are often worried about liability and always offer drugs in case of things like self-harm and suicide. Counseling helped me more than any drugs, and what really helped more than anything were significant drastic life changes:

https://khanism.org/perspective/a-tale-of-two-journeys/
The opposite of that can be equally irritating.

Take for instance the Galleria Borghese in Rome which only allows 500 visitors in pre-determined slots. If you miss your slot or everything is filled out during your trip, you'll miss out like we did.

What I haven't figured out is why museums like the Louvre need to close for the night, its art work. Why not leave it open all night long and shutdown for a few days for maintenance work.

[1] http://www.galleriaborghese.it/en/
it was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nKXjJ7O0s4
What you've described is essentially just a high risk strategy. Work at a bunch of different start ups, and hope that eventually you end up working for one that doesn't fail, and yields some returns.

The greatest predictors for success in life are industriousness and intelligence. Over time (and that's important, over time), the intelligent and industrious are expected to beat the odds, and achieve success. Ultimately there are so many outside forces in life that are beyond your control, that achieving success is always predicated on some level of luck. But eventually, smart and industrious people will rise higher than others. Life typically lasts for many years, you can blame luck if you want for any particular individual outcome (even though that's not entirely productive), but not for having a major influence on lifetime success.
Yup, Dreamweaver and Frontpage were very much a thing in that era. Plenty of WYSIWYG options existed.
I'm guessing it's cheaper. Why else would they?
So that's why emacs whigs out sometimes when trying to open very large files: because it has a recursive GC that has trouble when it runs out of stack space. Assuming I read the first statement correctly.

That doesn't seem right to me. (a) In emacs a file's contents aren't stored in a deeply nested structure, no matter what the size. It's a gap buffer. (b) Structure aside, that buffer isn't a Lisp object, but an object internal to the C level, so not subject to GC. And note that Emacs's large file behavior isn't especially different than other non-minimalist editors[1].

https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/editor-p...
There are all sorts of things worth complaining about in the world, but the fact that the US federal government is a republic and lots of people wish it had more direct democracy is an argument that’s been around since the founding of the republic.

Doesn’t seem like much of a ruse to me.

And regarding “doesn’t matter what other countries do”, come on! This is a thread about the west’s relationship to China in the context of Xi consolidating lifetime rule.

It’s explicitly a thread about our relationship to other governing systems. So your attempt to say people in the US have no standing to criticize China based on some individuals in the US feeling disenfranchised seems like the non-sequitur to me.
Show HN: NetCrawlerDetect (a .net std port of CrawlerDetect)
Not particularly good satire, either.
>A bipartisan consensus has formed around this idea. Senator Elizabeth Warren has charged tech giants with using their heft to “snuff out competition,” and even Senator Ted Cruz — usually a foe of government regulation — recently warned of their “unprecedented” size and power.

>But the decision in a case currently before the Supreme Court could block off that path, by effectively shielding big tech platforms from serious antitrust scrutiny.

The case before the Supreme Court concerns interpretation of statutory provisions, not Constitutional law. A bipartisan consensus in Congress could negate the Supreme Court ruling simply by amending the Sherman Antitrust Act.
The morality of both of them is subjective.
I haven’t seen that. Even here there are plenty of credulous people.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16380767
I've seen worse. PolitiFact managed to fact check an article from military satire site DuffelBlog and just didn't seem to grasp that it was satire, at all. They wrote, in excruciating detail, about all the increasingly silly and implausible claims and at no point did it occur to them that maybe they should take them as a hint that the whole thing was a joke, an incredibly unsubtle humorous reference to actual events: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/nov/16/...
I hadn't even heard about them. There's not much more explanation on what happened, probably because they've been purchased by another ride sharing company that wants to keep the details intact/secret.

I really want to know what the true costs are. Uber has been operating at a loss and I wonder if Lyft has as well to compete. I'll be glad when Uber eventually fails and a new generation of ride sharing apps comes in to fill the void, hopefully with higher rates and wages for their drivers.
Tor wouldn't work without an abundance of users, it would have no value as an espionage tool if the CIA was the sole party using it. This isn't news, the CIA has a vested interest in keeping Tor anonymous, to protect their overseas assets.
I went looking for youtube videos showing the current status of the game and unfortunately most of them are from when the 2014 models were released. You need to dive into the forums for the most recent models (they are supposedly in the process of packaging a 2018 model pack though). This video is using the most recent engine and models combined with some models from the Blue Planet player made mission pack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wABQXJx7xFo
It's not even close. People have the freedom to make bad games; there's no way these trolls invented this idea and empowering them endangers everybody.
The latter -- f2p and premium currencies -- is the lesser of two evils. By a long shot.
Bitcoin Thieves Beware: Super Secure Wallet-Maker Casa Raises $2M
Spanish is a bit complicated in this context because I think the question was about nation of origin not language (though language is the offered reason for French/German-origin productions being hard to export.) A lot of the Spanish-language content in the US is, I think, US origin. Though a fair amount is of Latin American (particularly Mexican) origin, and some from elsewhere. But, yeah, there is a lot of Spanish-language, foreign produced content consumed in the US, and not all by native Spanish speakers.
https://youtu.be/ntICHMV-WMA
Is anyone else concerned that twitter and social media are now openly stating that they will manipulate content/people to fit their agenda?

Not really, based on what Jack is saying here, and Facebook's stance of "stop promoting third party posts and promote friends' posts more[0]".

A lot of what we see on social media now - slews of paid ads and suggestions based on easily gamed algorithms - are tools of other peoples' agendas... Do you think you're really in control of your social media feeds?

0 - https://www.vox.com/2018/1/12/16882536/facebook-news-feed-ch...
If you read further in the thread you'll see that Stefan Monnier pointed out that using a stack instead of a queue for
the objects would consume less memory than the current GC implementation.
He seems like a fine businessman, but an insufferable human being.
The resident orcas have declined enough to be endangered, largely tracking the decline in Chinook.
oh right, i forgot about them. My bad.
> Age 16-20 was a crucial time in my learning computer programming at a deep level.

And even greater opportunity cost is the lack of in-depth knowledge of your own language.

Language isn't just grammar rules. It also has cultural/regional/historical/etc.

You can learn a few languages and be somewhat proficient at all of them or you can have expert level grasp of the language - where you can discuss philosophical, historical, economic, cultural, etc topics.

Not to mention, jokes, puns along with culture-specific references.

Personally, I wish the education system ( in the US ) focused on english, latin and ancient greek for K-12. I don't think you can fully understand english without understanding a bit of latin and even ancient greek.
I cannot express my disappointment in the "The Ultimate Quiz" being unavailable.

http://brendanberkley.com/first-site/ultimatequiz.html
Ask HN: Tips for coming up with company name
I'm looking to re-brand our company image and name. Essentially for about a year it's been a generic placeholder that we always meant to change, something like "XYZ Automation Solutions"

I'm looking for a meaningful (ideally 1 word) name. I have some themes and ideas related to what we do, or want to do, that I like. But holy crap everything's taken! I tend to agree heavily with PG that one should be able to get the startupname.com domain otherwise it's just not viable as a name these days.

Any tips and strategies for coming up with company names? Much appreciated, this is surprisingly non-trivial.
Your experiences led you to "choose" differently. I had the same, though it took a while. Not everyone has those same experiences.
It could also just be limited vocabulary and that his outside use of "Mono" means something like "a creature which is somewhat similar to Mono".
I still fail to see how that generic tagline (albeit admittedly bad for a resume) is self identifiable. What industry are you in that is so small that one could find you from that?
For some context, Babylon Bee is a satire site, best described as the Onion for Evangelicals.

The publisher of the Bee has tweeted a warning from Facebook, threatening to throttle traffic to the site, because Snopes.com says obvious satire isn't true.

https://twitter.com/Adam4d/status/969405110324523008
> Is anyone else concerned that twitter and social media are now openly stating that they will manipulate content/people to fit their agenda?

All advertising-supported platforms exist to make money off someone manipulating the user for an agenda, so I'm not sure why it would be more concerning for the outlet itself to have an overt agenda.
True, I don't think people give marketing enough credit when starting a business. Look at the P/L of most internet businesses and you'll see that marketing and sales is the biggest expense.

A company's goal is to figure out how to market a product at a profit. It's hard. Drop shipping is no different but there your margins are very thin.

What most ongoing companies do is to have a retail business in place with actual products and use dropshipping to supplement it.
AI-Powered App Helps Physicians Spend More Time with Patients
> We need to fix GC being deeply recursive once and for all. Tweaking stack sizes on various platforms and trying to spot-fix GC for the occasional deeply recursive structure is annoying. Here's my proposal:

There is still a default stack size limit of 8 megabytes on Linux,
even though consumer machines nowadays have RAM measured in double-digit gigabytes.

On an Ubuntu 16.x machine:

$ ulimit -a | grep stack
stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
$ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15G 4.1G 2.8G 600M 8.7G 10G
Swap: 14G 626M 13G

This 8192 kbytes has not changed in at least 15 years, unlike that 15G. Slight disconnect there.

This 8192 is just the soft limit; applications can raise it up to the root-imposed hard limit.

Unfortunately, that tends to be only 4X larger than the 8192:

$ ulimit -s 32769
bash: ulimit: stack size: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted

$ ulimit -s 32768
$ # OK

Clearly, the hard limit needs revision too.

Threads are another issue; if you have a "can run in any thread" garbage collector, it has to live within a thread stack. You can't have huge stacks for each of a large number of threads. A thread's stack cannot be temporarily extended; there may be something in the address space preventing it, since it's just another mmap. (Don't think Emacs has this problem. :)
Tumblr has never really lost its wide variety of customization. I'd argue it carried on the Geocities and MySpace individual touch. If you go from one personal tumblr to the next, they often vary to a great degree in atmosphere, color scheme, content posted, purpose, layout, etc. You also still see all the expected bizarre design choices, broken layouts, etc. that one would expect given that. Being able to customize it to a large enough degree to give a sense of one's personality, was one of tumblr's primary appeals to its large younger userbase.
Great stuff, I miss the old web sometimes

I was reminded by your post that I had a game dev website back in 2000-2001 but I couldn't remember the url. After half an hour of google-foo I managed to find it. Tried wayback machine and, unbelievable, it's archived!

If anyone is interested in visual basic gamedev in DirectX 7 written by a 19 year old non-native english speaker, here you go:

https://web.archive.org/web/20011201013648/http://www.ancien...

Scroll to the bottom to find the glorious

Best viewed at 1024x768 with IE 4.0 and above

Good times :)
White People Have No Culture
HTML, JS, and State: A Challenging Way to Look at Web Performance
That's the standard (cheaper) approach, but you can also pay a little more to have your pet cremated alone and get their ashes. My wife works in the funeral industry and she's done this with all of her pets that she's lost.
You cannot use Win16 any longer on 64bit systems.

It might take yet another decade, but it will eventually happen.
http://brendanberkley.com/first-site/underconstruction.gif
Considering that this is #1 on HN, that free, 20-year-old server has some damn good uptime!
Are we still on Web 2.0? I'm guessing you're referring to Web 1.0. I find it amusing that nobody called it Web 1.0 even after they started talking about 2.0.
You also wonder how much consolidation has had to do with the erosion of social norms. An owner of a community practice might feel constrained in a different way than an employee at a healthcare company.
Any thoughts of supporting MPAS?
geocities simply made it "free" to publish on the web I thought? As opposed to being a platform that enforced complex policies
Would be more useful if you can comment on how/when patent trolling would be ethical
Wow, I remember that! I was amazed by it at the time. It was absolutely top notch.

But seeing it now has kind of ruined my memory of it, heh. Like replaying a video game from when I was a kid. But it's interesting to see just how much the standard for design has changed in a relatively short time.
Tor has no value as an espionage tool if only spies use it, so the "no one wanted it" narrative doesn't make sense. They need people to use it in massive numbers for it to be an effective tool.
"Committing twitter" sounds like a crime. An all-too-common one at that.
Nintendo Switch supports Vulkan as much as the PS 3 supported OpenGL ES.

It is there, but it isn't the main 3D graphics API.
Ask HN: Wedding planning?
I recently got engaged. Looking for recommendations for apps, services, etc to help smooth out the wedding planning experience.
But of course, according to your narrative, his posting is the inevitable consequence of his genetics/environment/experiences to this point, so there is no point in trying to scold him for it.
The problem with accepting HN or Slashdot's definition is both groups are extremely biased in this matter. The general consensus is patent troll == non practicing entity.

https://thelawdictionary.org/patent-troll/

Everyone here can disagree all they want, but they're still wrong as far as most lay persons are concerned.
They are impacted by weather - dust, humidity, rain and clouds. If there is dust or smoke in the air that touches the optics they easily melt into the glass and start fast degradation process.

The HEL demonstration with 15 kilowatts laser took forever to ignite small fire in a target boat (directed at a single point in the outboard motor). 150-kilowatt laser is ten times faster but simple water pump in the front of approaching boat is effective countermeasure.

DARPA has had low power laser demonstrators for 20 years. They are cheaper now but developing yet another is not going to produce more improvement in the power scaling of lasers. High power lasers are hard for optics and all other parts.
> Not really, based on what Jack is saying here, and Facebook's stance of "stop promoting third party posts and promote friends' posts more[0]".

Facebook saying that is just a way of saying “Make people using Facebook for advertising purposes pay more to reach the audience”, which is what Facebook makes changes to do frequently, usually with the same explanation and no real change in the amount of non-friend content (just the non-friends reaching you are more heavily tilted to those paying more for paid reach, i.e., ads that don't get distinguished from organic content.)
Surgeon performs brain surgery on wrong patient in Kenyatta Hospital, Kenya
When's big enough?
Fantastic, thank you, I will follow up!
Yeah but Facebook haven't really fixed the problem. That change was a nudge in the right direction but News Feed is still fundamentally optimized for engagement. Hyper-partisan content is just more engaging than nonpartisan content.
Those housing prices wouldn't be going up if there weren't an awful lot of successful people in SV.
That's pretty much WebTorrent, isn't it?
> in Rust

Saying what language a program uses only describes its grammar and runtime. Saying what dialect a program uses also describes its idioms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_idiom

For (a simple) example, actix-web uses actix, a library that largely changes the nature of writing Rust code. This might be called Rust-a or Rust', or something.

https://github.com/actix/actix-web

My point is that Rust is a really cool language where "the(/some) (sub)community(ies)" are developing and coalescing around great libraries outside of core std, making a very* robust language, or rather robust language dialect.
Yeeee, alcohol culture in IT.