skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hell, I bet there are insiders who were surprised about the decision to close up shop on Google Inbox.

Not an insider, but TBH, I was always pretty much sure that one of Gmail or Inbox will go away soon. With Gmail having more user base, it was natural for Inbox to be subsumed by gmail.

Inbox was not really fundamentally different from Gmail. It offered some new features, but I can't imagine that it would be too hard to implement them in Gmail too (e.g., snooze feature).
So even Hacker News data gets analyzed, monetized and sold to third parties. When did I opt in to you scraping my profile and determining my mood?
Aren't mice already projections into our dimension of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings?
It's actually interesting because Rob Kitchin has started almost exclusively using the word "capta" in his later works. I'm tempted to follow him in doing that in my personal writings. (Captcha and other forms of "data labor" [1] or even "data slavery" is also something that I've started exploring.)

[1] https://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_facpub/11/
It's constantly bombarding me with ads and spam emails.
i find the most annoying thing it's not mobile friendly, good luck tapping on comments on front page
The Haasts Eagle had a small wingspan relative to it’s size, supposedly as an adaption for forest flight/Moa hunting. So depending on what measure you choose, eg weight, a bald eagle could be less than half the terror.
I have no problem with doing either (so long as pre-arrangement never becomes mandatory), but that doesn't address fairness for illiterate voters at all. Also, it doesn't really tackle how a voter-verified paper ballot processing system that involves electronics is fairly described as "a disaster of security problems".
Was reading the comments and realised it wasn't what I thought it was talking about. Very different besides name and node/js, check out this tiny local JSON database, LowDB: https://github.com/typicode/lowdb
>Maybe you would like this to work in Perl:

> sqrt($x) = 12;

>and now $x contains 144. No, too bad. That is impossible, or at least extremely difficult. (Maybe you could do something ridiculous,
like replacing the built-in sqrt() with a user-defined "lvalue" sub that tied its argument or something. Oy.)

Adding variables to the lhs of an equation, logic programming, is something I'm toying with the last years. I wanted to name it cps, but now use logic sounds better to me. Every primitive op knows about its inverse function, and assignment is a matcher, as in functional programming. perl unfortunately has no matcher, their smartmatch op cannot match structures, it really is a dumbmatch. but that's easily fixable with a few lines of recursive code. there do exist nice prolog systems for lisp, and even a slow one for perl. Currently I'm using picat for such tasks, mixing declarative logic with normal forward expressions. http://www.picat-lang.org/
It’s speculated that they did, and there is a small amount of evidence to support this - cave drawings and word-of-mouth legend among the Māori.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&object...
We finally found the raid controller.
wooosh
I'm worried about individual services being killed, not the entire Cloud business.
Ask HN: How to start with .NET
I'm looking for resources to tell me how to start with .Net to be able to MVC application or set up API
Facebook Builds Chip Team, ASIC
That assumes that a significant number of people a) know that Google has a EV certificate and b) actually check it. To the first point, I'm not sure that Google actually does have an EV cert - looking at Google.com, I think they just have a DV cert. And to the second point, I suspect that few people actually check if the cert is EV or DV (If they check that the connection is encrypted at all).

Having an EV cert for yourwebsite.com does nothing to prevent fishing if people are directed to someotherwebsite.com.someotherwebsite.com. So, whats the point if going through the extra pain / expense of getting one?
Not really. Like you said, we have better beginner languages now, Python being the most prominent (especially seeing how it has a turtle graphics library out of the box). BASIC is extremely inconsistent for a modern language.
Extended validation and organization validation (EV and OV) certificates do not solve any technical cause of phishing. They're also poor instruments for attacking the social efficacy of phishing attacks. The phishing demo you linked in that Twitter page is not mitigated by EV or OV certificates.

These "extra" certificates are sold at a premium 1) so CAs can earn more, despite the race to the bottom; and 2) so potential victim companies of data breaches can point to all the "extra" effort (read: money) they invested in security. But they fundamentally do not improve security, because they're predicated on the idea that non-technical end users will use increasingly more sophisticated methods of identity assurance. The software security industry has decades of case studies which demonstrate this is not the case.

Simply put: you can't solve phishing by stuffing more and more authentication signals into a URL bar and a padlock icon. Approximately all users won't even bother to check and most will simply click through warnings. Trying to design better, more "verified" certificates is a clear example of a local maximum. It seizes upon a weak proxy for security against phishing, then tries to optimize further with the bureaucratic scar tissue of identity verification. In so doing it completely loses focus on the core issue.
Yeah, but the perception is that google discontinues things. Even if unfounded, perception is very important...
I might try to explain this but I think I will definitely miss something or won't be able to articulate. Instead, I would suggest episode 1 of Life of Birds [1].

David Attenborough talks about the evolution of birds, what classifies a bird, where do we draw the line between dinosaurs and birds (he even talks about this elephant bird) in the first episode of Life of Birds [1]. Also, watch the whole documentary if you're interested.

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175394/
Totally electronic balloting is bad news but not what the article dismisses without evidence. I'm not for electronic tabulation by default nor do I see the need. Optically scanned voter-verifiable paper ballots will involve electronics but the tradeoff is that this arrangement conveys considerable advantages to certain voters.
If you want to be a software engineer, study software engineering, not some other engineering area. I think electrical engineering is far less useful to people if they are going to be general software engineers than being a cs major. You will spend a lot of time learning things that won't matter to software engineering. Of course if you were going tl be employed as an electrical engineer, but if you only were trained as a software engineer, you wouldn't be able to be proficient either. Study the field you want to work in!
All of this can be blamed on interest rates being artificially low due to political meddling. Exactly the same as Gordon Brown’s insane policy prior to 2008.
Why only USA is suffering from Opioid epidemic ? I had never heard of Codeine and Oxycotin based painkillers in India at all.
I don’t get this. Features complicate products and require maintenance. By your logic, features would never get built because they’d carry a lifelong burden.
I often read the comments first, and then determine whether I should read the article.

IMO, high upvote count without comments is a smell. Something is probably a little off.
Isn't that just someone putting some weird thing in some oddball BASIC implementation? I don't think any of the popular ones did anything like that.
> These 4 roots were created by GlobalSign and then transferred to Google.

Interesting, why would that happen? Why not generate the keys/certs yourself?
Exactly, it's often super clear there are voting rings. I've seen some posts shoot up to the top, that make absolutely no sense (often they drop out relatively quickly, once they hit the front page).
HN itself already pushes down articles that get more comments than votes. Maybe not as aggressively as this site does it, but threads definitely drop down the rankings very quickly if the number of comments starts outpacing the score much.
I see in these comments a lot of bitterness, where I think there should be opportunity: if you think Google made a mistake in killing Inbox and it was a feature beloved by many users.. why don't you spin up your version of it? They have already done the hard part for you: the idea.

When google killed greader, Feedly, The old Reader and other products rose up to the challenge. They felt there was market, and they launched (or just changed and marketed better) their product.

What is stopping you from doing the same now?
This is a reminder that radio waves are not yours, this is not about your hardware. Your phone number is accessible to anyone, even if you don't give your number out, it's still accessible to someone through random chance (a wrong number, for example.) - there are things we can own that have identifiers, a car is another one of those things, and if the DMV sends you a letter to renew your license, it's not a reminder that your car doesn't belong to you, it's a reminder that the DMV has your details.
All it takes to get downvote privileges is to submit a few decent stories. Anyone serious about being a solid contributor to the community can get there within a couple of weeks or even days.

People will downvote for whatever reason they want; HN admins can't control that, and couldn't stop people downvoting for disagreement even if they wanted to (though the karma threshold helps to limit downvoters to people who value the health of the community at least to some degree).

The best comments are those that people needn't strongly agree or disagree with, but that cause one to learn something new or think about something in a way they hadn't previously.

If you try and phrase most comments like that (which is surprisingly achievable, even - or especially - on the more contentious topics), downvotes needn't be a problem for you.
It would be neat if someone could port some classic basic games to this.
My wife dropped her phone down the toilet. It survived! So the no Jack was a big win for her.

The article is missing that very reasonable use case for no Jack.
There are much better languages than BASIC, for whatever purpose.
Can you please specify which are the dynamic compilers which produce faster binaries than Go? I’m just curious.
Does anyone truly believe they removed the headphone jack for any reason other than to sell more dongles and more wireless headphones?
This title is misleading, they are not building a general CPU (like x86 or ARM) but a Application Specific IC, which in this case is solely for executing machine learning programs faster than what a CPU could do.
I have always wondered if its possible to have three buttons (A)gree, (D)isgaree and (U)nhealthy. The first two buttons control how high up a comment apears in the thread/page and the last does the graying out currently reserved for downvoting. If there was any forum where people could deal with three buttons, HN would be it. Any thoughts?
I believe that the hacker news general attitude is correct that the idea is not the hard part. The hard part is execution and getting adoption. Inbox works and is use by many. Hundreds of functional imitations can/will die, even when readily available on github.
Why the Fed Denied the Narrow Bank
One thing I hope these cores can do is walk a tree that's more general purpose than just volume intersection, like a BSP tree for z-sorting.

We could have scenes with exponentially more geometry if the geometry is culled more efficiently. Stuff like walls covered in pipes/debris, cloth that wraps around the model's body as it moves, much more complex and overlapping shadow volumes, etc.
For some science, the baseline is very high. You can't do X-ray crystallography of organic compounds, for example, without a synchrotron.
US loses extradition battle with Russia for Bitcoin kingpin
This article is seriously lacking. For example this: https://www.hiv.gov/federal-response/funding/budget says:

"With the generous support of the American people, the U.S. government has annually committed more than $6.6 billion to bilateral HIV/AIDS programs, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and NIH international HIV research."

And yet the entire world spent 3B on all vaccine research combined, of which the US alone spent half?

The numbers are not adding up, unless most of the research is not for a vaccine, and if that's the case the article should have said so.
There is no correlation in being waterproof and not having a headphone jack. Several phones have both
Plenty of IP68 phones have headphone jacks.
“We’re heading to a place where we don’t have weavers; we just have shirt production.”

Not exactly the same but as long as we have national reservoirs and get politically enforced sustainability and diversity we should be fine.
how do you schedule calls, online meetings?
Pike’s attitude has been a large factor in me not bothering with Go.
How is this news for anyone? Also, as not to just leave a negative comment, I've been collecting media ever since cd ripping became a thing. I've "invested" maybe a couple of thousands of dollars into HDDs, SSDs and dedicated servers that my collection remains owned by me and my family. And the funny thing is that people look at me as if i were a some kind of idiot when i say "well i don't really use streaming media services".
Kafka and KSQL, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, and Other Topics Week 37
Samsung has had waterproof headphone jacks for years. My LG v35 has a quite nice "Quad DAC" and a waterproof headphone jack. It's absurd to think that Apple has eleventy billion dollars but can't design a waterproof headphone jack.
There is marginally more volume for the battery and camera/sensor array to take up. I'd rather have a thicker phone, especially one where the cameras don't protrude out the back, but I don't get to design these things.
I went with Radeon as well because their open source drivers. I am a very happy user. No more bad surprises when updating kernel, which has saved me more time than I'd like to admit, since I used Nvidia because of performance.
If the banks were heavily penalized for giving wrong info to the credit bureaus, the number of people having this problem of "identity theft" would plummet. If, while cleaning up your credit score you could also get a $10,000 judgment from the bank that libeled you, maybe you don't feel so shitty about the hassle the bank has put you through.
Or maybe they’ve carefully weighed their options, and concluded that e.g. Kubernetes on GCP works a lot better than on either AWS or Azure?
Something like this? http://devmgames.com/sillysailing/

I could have sworn in the developer's touch arcade interview that he mentioned having a CFD sim for this game.
I prefer the chronological order of hckrnews. Also this is more annoying to me because I cannot access it without a proxy (from Russia, probably because it's hosted on AWS).
Maybe limit his/her time to only 1 hour a day and warn about dangers of sitting on the computer too long.
I would wash my old Moto G under a tap whenever it looked a bit dirty. It had a jack. Plenty of phones that have jacks are waterproof.
> Take this comment thread on PostgeSQL 11:

That example doesn't seem to support your point.

211 upvote with only 54 comments seems like a thread with a very high votes-to-comments ratio as well as a high absolute number of upvotes, so I would expect the algorithm to rate it highly.

Perhaps, enough readers looking at the thread and enjoying the article or the discussion would leave an upvote, even if they don't leave a comment. However, in the "squabbly" threads, commenters seem to overrun upvoters, and quickly at that.

I've seen some where someone was creating new HN accounts to circumvent HN's comment rate-limiting, due to wanting to respond on so many sub-threads. It's difficult to imagine that kind of fervor resulting in thoughtful discourse or even conforming to HN's guideline regarding being more substantive when more divisive. As such, a high comment-count velocity would be a good "negative" measure, but, absent that, just comment count is a good enough heuristic.

> If you filter that out, I might as well just go to my feedly.

Personally, I don't think I'd use it as an exclusive filter, but, perhaps, as a next step after the HN front page (but before the HN page 2).
Using number of comments as a negative sorting factor sounds wrong. That's a very crude way of marking controversial topics.
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So I've tried using several bluetooth headphones before Airpods were around. They all sucked. Things like audio stuttering while inches away from the transmitter and short battery life is what made them suck. I gave up on bluetooth headphones for good; I hated them. Oh and the convenience of wireless wasn't even that important to me (or so I thought).

Now I have a pair of airpods and I love them. The improvement is marginal, but it's an improvement that touches many aspects of my life (commuting, cooking, sleeping, working). I love, love, love them.

> Does anyone truly believe they removed the headphone jack for any reason other than to sell more dongles and more wireless headphones?

I think Apple believes that wireless headphones are the future and they decided to prove that it can be done right. IMO they succeeded with airpods.

Removing the headphone jack was a forcing function. It's only an issue if you don't buy into the Apple ecosystem. Obviously that's a risk, but it's a risk that Apple has taken before.

Assuming it's some kind of cockameme plan to sell more dongles doesn't really fit the profile of Apple as a company, IMO.
That nauseating spin sounds like benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), caused by displaced inner ear crystals. You might want to research the Epley maneuver and similar and talk to your doctor - it's a trivial procedure that might fix that.
In an effort to provide a higher signal-to-noise ratio I've created a "Tech News Only" website at:

https://techstacks.io

As I'm more interested in reading about Technology News and announcements instead of the more political and non-technology content that's frequently appearing on HN.

It's a mix of HN/Reddit where anyone can create and become an "owner of a Technology" where they can moderate content posted to their own section and enlist other Moderators to help.

It's optimized for fast navigation and posting with a number of keyboard shortcuts to access most pages of the site. The benefit over HN / Reddit is richer metadata so you can drill into just the news you're interested in. You can "Subscribe" to different technology content and you can post full markdown so content is richer and more visually appealing (if that's what you prefer). In a way I like to think of it as a "hosted RSS" as you can customize your own news feed (in addition to the global feed) in just the content you're interested in.

The sites other primary purpose is to learn about the different "Technology Stacks" that popular Startups and Apps use, which is primarily where all the external contributions are going towards.

It's an OSS/BSD project which you can read more about its features and how it was built at:

https://github.com/NetCoreApps/TechStacks

Previously I was posting all the interesting Tech News/Posts I've found on HN/Reddit but haven't been able to keep up in the last 3 months due to work time constraints, I'll pick it back up when everything settles back down again, but would obviously love if others could contribute Tech News/Announcements they find interesting.

Ultimately I'd really like to frequent a better "Tech Only News" feed of HN's expert comment quality as I feel that a lot of good Tech Content is being lost and hidden by clickbaity and political news.
I'm waiting for https://superhuman.com/ finally to launch
Apple is pursuing the wireless future, as simple as that. Be it audio, data transfer, or even power. In the case of headphone jack, they pursue that goal by fixing the bluetooth flaws not by content with what we have right now. Is it a worthy goal to pursue? Time will tell.
While that’s quite unfortunate for you, is this a use case that affects a lot of users? I imagine that people in your situation are far less common than those who think the bundled headphones are good enough.
This is a weird article.

Headline says they are building an ASIC. Provides absolutely no details other than facebook are hiring hardware engineers. It could be a CPU (CPUs are ASICs too), it could be a GPU. It could be something related to machine learning, or it could be enterprise great switching fabric. Who knows?

Then the article goes off on a huge nig tangent about how facebook is working on a compiler for generic machine learning accelerators. The article explictly says that this compiler targets all machine learning accelerators, especially a bunch that are already in development or released by other companies.

These are completely independant chunks of news, nothing facebook has said links one to the other. Yet by putting both news items in a single article, the author implies that facebook are working on a machine learning chip, while providing absolutly no proof.
Had mine in my short pockets while wet wading and the damn camera flooded and died. I’m less than thrilled with apples waterproofing, headphone jack or no.
> unless most of the research is not for a vaccine

This. Only a small sliver of that would be for vaccine research, probably at a handful of labs.
Ask large cash bonus upfront. Large salary. Large bonus. No sacrifice for future a-la-startup sh.. promises.

Request "research-style" environment meaning no pushy bosses, no cr.. deadlines, relaxed, freedom workstyle.

You are an AI professor. You know, feel and understand something they never will.

You can make great things happen.
Efficient brainwashing disables "its subject’s ability to think critically or independently". It changes the quality (of the thinking process), and brainwashed people (subjected to framing or other techniques) may acquire information and think all day long without being able to take into consideration some pertinent facts/arguments, to consider them as what they are.
Yup, I use scrapers instead of the official APIs for any data from Google these days. It's works out better in the long run and you can do whatever you like.
I’d accept more thickness for a more durable phone, personally.
A shell scripting language written in a shell scripting language. What could go wrong?
Was it Ichor[1][2]? A bit later than the "early Windows" days I think (I remember hearing about it around 2007), but it also matches your description and it was the first thing I thought of after playing the game in the post

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MGoyAiPQog

[2] https://www.fun-motion.com/physics-games/ichor/
Look at all the money thrown into all of wars. Not just the longest-running war in history in Afghanistan and the War on Terror. But the War on Drugs. War on Poverty. What about global warming--how much money is thrown into that? Are we really making progress. Meanwhile every day I see homeless people on the streets, and read about stories of police murdering, beating, or swat raiding innocent people over nothing. How far could giving a little bit of that money to protect people's supposed rights to life and liberty go? Isn't that what we are supposedly going after, anyways? Or do we just donate to who causes based on other factors. Such as who has the best fundraising? The best lobbying? Or the cause that people with money personally care about?

Future generations are going to look back at us like we are psychopathic barbarians.
I hoped to see that the author dealt more directly with the address problem.

Is there no way to set up free post boxes with a fixed address for those that need them?