skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here.

There are alternatives to Google Inbox (Spark, Superhuman - that I just discover) but I don't want to add a third-party that can read my emails.

Given that Inbox is sunsetting and the trust issues I have with Google in general, it's the first time since I created my Gmail account that I'm considering moving to something different.

If Fastmail or Protonmail had the Inbox features such as Snooze and grouping of emails with the quick "Archive", I wouldn't hesitate a second.
Glitch by the makers of slack. I had two usernames which I played under to experience the various talent trees. The game is in my opinion unique up to this day as a shared multiplayer world where the odds of meeting a random who was friendly and helpful was very high.

I would spend an hour or so each day meeting random people and we'd go off on random quests, exchange materials, grow things together.

The game may not have survived but the game itself certainly left a mark where it proved that a community based game could be peaceful, cooperative, and a metric ton of fun. Even more importantly, the game was amazing even if you met only two other real players in a single hour session. I could go on for hours praising everything that tiny speck made with glitch.

It would be a dream come true if Stewart used some of those millions from slack to revive glitch as a pay to play game so that the game is self supporting. There are a lot of us who miss the world of glitch terribly. Good times. Sniff. Good times.
Yes, the auto play recommendation algorithm was soooo good.
Robinhood gets almost half its revenue selling orders to high-frequency traders
That's mostly true, with a caveat. By default the oracle is not decentralized, but what is decentralized is the "backstop". If I create a market, I can also be the one to report on the outcome of the market (versus it being decentralized in the original plan). What they introduced is the concept of a "dispute". So if I report on a market you can dispute it and say "Hey you are lying" and if enough people agree that I lied, you get a portion of the market fees. So you are correct, it's no longer decentralized, but it's also not centralized. Not perfect, but still pretty good.
It's not quite the same as emulation, and the overhead is less. It natively supports these syscalls, and in some cases the syscalls trigger the same code as their windows counterparts

In others, like fork, entirely new and unique code is ran.
Seconded. With Google reader, I never really was a fan of their web interface and preferred the Feeddemon desktop client. Sadly it was discontinued after the death of GReader. Switched to Inoreader since then and I must say the web interace is much more to my liking.
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The big universities will NEVER give out high quality equivalents of their courses online. The problem is the undergrad tuition is helping to subsidize the higher-level research that MIT and other big name schools are known for. How many times have you heard the stories about how undergrads are being taught by TAs or graduate students because the professor is off doing some research.

MIT and the other schools know if they gave away their core curriculum's online that are basically the same thing then less people would want to go to the school at the current over inflated rates. If you guys are looking for a revolution in online education, I hate to say it, but don't look at traditional institutions to do it.

The revolution in online education will be done by someone similar to a Steve jobs or Jimmy Wales (wikipedia) that basically has no connections to the traditional education industry but is just very motivated to change the world for the better. We all know that teaching is not rocket science (many people can teach it) and most of the significant human knowledge is being written down in books. The only exception is for the stuff that is cutting edge latest research but of course people aren't going to learn those topics until they've learned all of the other known subject matter on the topic which is recorded in books. So overall, the goal here is to simply take those books, produce free equivalents of them (the knowledge in the books are NOT subject to copyright) and then create some sort of online self-study system where people can learn the material. Tools need to be created that help people to learn the knowledge on their own and offer innovate tools to self-study.
I was soo looking for a tool like this. I considered Zotero which is much too research-focussed for me. I really appreciate the annotation support and Anki integration! Thank you :)
I too use it daily on multiple machines (albeit Windows Pro with Hyper-V) and it's changed my day to day dev work dramatically.

Combined with Docker there is no reason for me to even look at MacOS or running Linux natively (which I have done before for years.)

For me it's the best thing to come out of Microsoft in a long time.
Logitech MX Revolution mouse. I’ve tried their subsequent mice but none of them feel quite the same.
WSL involves no virtualization.
Screenhero, which got acquired by Slack and integrated into it. It was great as a stand-alone product which I used not only for remote pair coding but also for just calling friends and family whenever we needed to share control of one screen.
Life is transient, death is instant. Farewell, Paul Allen.
You might consider other metrics, like the school grade level that most journalistic entities write for. In the USA, it used to be that most journalists wrote towards a 5th grade reading ability. Assuming that the article is correct, then many journalists who sell to air-pollutant-exposed people (which is most people) should be targeting a 4th grade reading ability, perhaps even lower.

On a wild tangent, there has been a huge increase in clickbait over the past several years.
When I saw this article in the HN list the first thing I thought of was Hypercard. I started using it a uni to do text analysis for my sociology thesis. I went from knowing nothing to a visual word mapping stack in 2 weeks, my only programming experience prior to that was apple2 machine code and AppleBASIC nearly 10 years prior. With that experience I was employed by the university to renovate their Stacks. Now I do programming everyday, and am constantly nostalgic for the something like the Hypercard experience. I search all the time for language alternatives and as interesting as it is, no languages are as intuitive as HyperTalk. Just as I was telling myself Hypercard could be my career, Apple discontinued it! There were some companies that jumped to 'replicate' it but I suppose they didn't have the genius of the Apple engineers, they weren't the same.
Even today I have to build a web app and I'm agonising over having to do a HTML interface and hook up functions and the ajax in javascript and do all the sql for the database, its just so repetitive and boring and hard, not fun.
Anyway nice choice.
Outside of his work at Microsoft, I was mainly aware of him through his ownership of the Seattle Sounders in MLS. I live in the UK, where we have world-class football teams aplenty, but I think the Sounders were the first team in MLS that I saw that had the ownership and the facilities to be taken seriously in any league around the world. It's a shame CNBC missed his ownership of that team, because he's done as great a job with them as he had done with the Seahawks.

I searched him up on Sunday while at the Seahawks game in London, and I saw that he was undergoing treatment, but his Twitter post made it seem like things were going well and that he'd pull through, so it's been a real shock to see that he's died.

He sounded like a great guy, and it's always nice to see the successful ones be great guys. Co-founder of Microsoft, a set of successful sports teams, numerous philanthropic donations and organisations. RIP.
If they were “simply sharing [their] personal experience” instead of giving (what they think as) actionable advice, then please explain the following:

– Title: “How I’ve Attracted The First 500 Paid Users[...]”[1].

– “TL;DR” section of the article: “You Don’t Have To Get Covered on Large Blogs” and “Ignore All Competitors” [2].

Also, it's a 'they' used as a gender-neutral singular[3].

[1] https://blog.inkdrop.info/how-ive-attracted-the-first-500-pa...

[2] https://blog.inkdrop.info/how-ive-attracted-the-first-500-pa...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
>Maybe this was the only way to ensure the gift of all $350 million. Or to build multiple new buildings...

If it’s anything like the funding that goes to climate research, chunks of the gift will get funneled into projects that are tangentially associated with AI, for the reasons you mentioned.
If there are specific ways you can pick out to improve Audacious, open some issues: https://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/projects/audaciou...

Hotkeys and mouse bindings should be fairly easy to update.
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I think this article reverses cause and effects. It seems to start from the assumption that there's nothing special about LISP and then points to big cultural moments where programmers revered it and said "this accounts for 20% of the meme" etc.

I'd say those cultural moments exist because LISP /is/ something special. You could write SICP in Java (someone probably has) but the code would be way longer and less beautiful.
You may have heard it before, but I would recommend using Docker over faffing about trying to install PHP etc on the host. For Laravel look into https://laradock.io/ . Very simple to get a full environment setup.

Looking into how Docker works properly takes some time, so there is some overhead with that, but being able to switch environments between projects, test upgrading libs etc and instantly being able to switch back has been a game changer for me.
I just opted for an Ubuntu notebook in exchange for a MBP. At my new gig they let you choose between a MBP and a Thinkpad 470 (with two monitors each), and I think Ubuntu is WAY better for development. Saying this as someone who used Macs
from 2003-2015 almost exclusively.
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You're not actually discrediting the claim that they 'decided which books made it into the bible, and which ones were "apocryphal"', only offering a rationale for doing so.

It remains true that they decided which parts of existing and accepted Christian doctrine were true and which parts were no longer true.
So basically you simple predefined what technology makes people 'respectable' and and what not. Seems to me that you are just assuming knowledge that actually nobody has.
You're talking about macro social/political trends. Obviously HN can't be immune from those. Perhaps you've noticed us trying to moderate it—in the literal sense of that word—as best we can. That's hard to do and we have few resources to do it with. So if you care about HN, could you please avoid harming it further by kicking at a situation that's fragile and getting worse? Instead, assuming you know more, you could contribute some of what you know. If you'd do that in a non-inflammatory way, it could be helpful. Calling names just strengthens the ignorance you're complaining about, which makes you partly responsible for it. (Not to pick on you personally; we all do this.)

Even if you don't care, we need you to follow the site guidelines if you want to keep commenting here. They say: "Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) This comment and others haven't been meeting that bar, so please do better.

I would not call this article shallow. It's full of details. Better questions to raise would be whether it has been corroborated (as pftburger did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18227679), and what relevant information it may omit. It also seems legit to wonder why so many such articles have been appearing lately, though because there isn't much evidence one can point to, there probably isn't a non-flamey discussion to be had there.

Even when an article is shallow, a shallow dismissal still breaks the guidelines. Commenters owe better not to the article, but to the community they're participating in.

p.s. You've mischaracterized my line about booyay by misquoting it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18214633). Those phrases are not objective descriptions—they're how each side feels to the opposite side (hence the 'fuck you' bit), which explains why they react so badly to each other.
- Example: https://marcograf.me
- Read the full story: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/rebout-me
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Technology by definition makes some tasks easier at the expense of making some other tasks more difficult. A spoon will help you eat, but it won't help you play football. A gun will help you project power and kill, but you won't eat soup with it.

Similarly, the blockchain is a technology that makes it easier to a) burn through shit ton of electricity, b) propagate scams and get-rich-quick schemes. It doesn't seem to make easier any task that's worth doing and already not better done with another technology.
I was diagnosed in 2016 with NHL - just as you, have two children (4 and 10). I am in remission now. Treatments have improved a lot over the years. I would not read too much into survival stats you'll find online. Do keep yourself fit and stress-free as much as you can - exercise, avoid sugar, healthy food, etc. I cannot overstate how important cutting down on sugar is.

You are not alone. Joining a online forum of survivors will be useful as long as you pick a good forum. I am regular at https://lymphomasurvival.com
* Sun Microsystems (not oracle)

* Psygnosis (before becoming subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment)

* IRN BRU candy bars
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I take it you've seen the HD version of AoE2 and the subsequent DLC/expansions. Its all on Steam. As with you and your list, the best made RTS were long ago. Sadly i don't think we'll likely see another AoE type game without all the shit that goes into modern gaming ( freemiums, DLC for even the minor thing, loot boxs and all that shit ).
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Where is the problem?
>>While I also love MagSafe and its features, wouldn't having a more standard port is much better?

I don't understand why it can't have both. Have a magsafe port, ship with a magsafe charger. But if you happen to connect a USB-C charger to one of the USB-C ports, charge through that too. No issue. Playstation portable was like this - you could charge it through proprietary playstation charger, or if you connected a mini-usb cable it would charge through it. No issue.
I know a couple of people who have done this with some success. It’s basically a game of front-running since you’ll never compete on price, unless you own the factory or have a real sweetheart deal.

Your only hope is to pick up the pennies on your race to the bottom, especially with your platform (Amazon) liable to compete with you, in addition to some very hungry foreigners who can live off of much less than you due to pitching power disparities.
Adobe really screwed up letting this die, now they've only realized it was a mistake, and released XD which is so far inferior to Fireworks
That analogy doesn't work for me. If anything, we'd have to look at every individual human as a system to be "booted" with the same OS. So they have a common API. But that's not an area where you'd want to use technical metaphors.

I think what you're trying to say is that we've got better tools than religion now. My approach here is to broaden the meaning of religion. As I said before every society needs common beliefs to function. I refer to those beliefs as religion. But I can accept if this is too broad for some people.
Representative CRDTs, at least Logoot and TreeDoc, were never truly proved. The correctness of Logoot and TreeDoc are claimed under the assumption that the required property of ids is preserved by the CRDT design. However, the existing id generation algorithms cannot achieve the desired property.

To be specific, I will enumerate two examples.

First, in Logoot (https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00432368/document",
the function generateLinePositions in section 4.2 has a serious error, which could lead to the failure of generating new identifiers. This flawed design can be also found in the following research (Logoot-Undo, https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00450416/)

Second, in TreeDoc (https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00445975/document), the function newPosID described in section 3.2 may generate incorrect ids. This function is to generate an id r between any two ids p and q (p<q) so that p<r<q. However, in line 5, if pn=0, then we would get r<p. Readers can refer to Figure 3, in the tree, the character dY precedes the character dZ in infix order, however, the id of dY (10(0:dY)) is greater than the id of dZ (100(1:dZ)), thus their positions are inconsistent their ids.

In the literature, CRDT researchers always claim their CRDT designs are formally proved.

However, there are various scenarios whereby CRDTs would have inconsistency issues as stated above.

In my opinion, I don't think there are much validity for these claims.
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From the respectfulinsolencecom article:

" '... Interventions targeting specific biological mechanisms are then prioritized and prescribed to optimize key biological mechanisms. Medication doses are specified to an individual’s needs. Individuals are re-tested periodically and the protocol is updated as necessary.'

What the hell does this even mean?"

With that type of attitude it will be hard to accept anything novel regardless of it's merits.
Palm Pre. I'm not a die hard Palm Pre fan but powered up the first gen recently and one could see the beauty of the user interface.
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I've read lots of anecdotes like this over recent years, with an increasing knot in my stomach. I don't drive much these days, renting as per requirement, so my own experience in the matter is limited. That said, I had to drive to the south coast one Sunday this past summer and know for a fact that for one day a year at least, England needn't panic too much about catastrophic impending insect implosion. I know this because I discovered half-way through the journey that there was no liquid in the window washers, so by the time we reached our destination, the windscreen was caked in obliterated insect matter and we had to spend a good 15 minutes with a bottle of inappropriately-carbonated water trying to clean it off for the return journey!

My hope is that a reduction here is indeed more to do with improved vehicle aerodynamics.

Certainly, my sense of dread through springtime, seeing very few insects dissipated quite quickly after a few evenings being irritated by a multitude of flying critters.

A welcome irritation though, one which I hope to always be able to appreciate...
>> They do this even though Lisp is now the second-oldest programming language in
widespread use, younger only than Fortran, and even then by just one year.

And the third-oldest is COBOL (it's at least as widespread as FORTRAN;
arguably, it's even more widespread than both FORTRAN and LISP together,
considering that it's used by pretty much every financial org on the planet).

It seems that, alredy from such an early time, the kind of languages we would
end up creating was already pretty much set in stone: FORTRAN, as the grandady
of languages aimed at scientists and mathematicians, that modern-day R,
Python, Julia etc draw their heritage from; LISP as the grandmother of
languages aimed to computer scientists and AI researchers, still spawning an
unending multitude of LISP variants, including Scheme, ML and Haskell; and
COBOL, the amorphous blob sitting gibbering and spitting at the center of the
universe of enterprise programmers, that begat the Javas, VBs and Adas of
modern years.

(Note that I'm referring to language philosophy and intended uses- not syntax
or semantics).

(I'm also leaving out large swaths of the programming community: the Perl uses
and the C hackers etc. It's a limited simile, OK?).
Bang & Olufsen have the same thing on some of their products, as does Koenigsegg for the center console in their cars.
Prismatic

It was an intelligent news reader that had amazing content discovery based on my interests and a solid UI.
I have no idea about the funding situation of Wire. I thought I'd read about it being VC funded. It also has paid subscriptions for businesses, though how big that is and how fast it's growing are not known. Signal's funding is only a recent event, and one could ask how long that would last too, since Signal doesn't even have a paid service.

Having seen may messaging services come and go, I wouldn't in the least bit be surprised if either of these disappeared in a decade or a decade and a half from now.
I had a similar experience with a top spec late 2016 MBP, which I switched to from a PC for web development. It was my first and last Apple product.

After opening the lid one day there was a loud crackling noise and the speakers were both blown. To repair it, the Apple store had to replace the entire top case (top half of the chassis including keyboard, trackpad, speakers) and also replaced the battery, which would have cost ~£500.

I got it back two weeks later after dealing with a smug 'Genius' who treated me like an idiot. He also claimed that the software diagnostics were clean, so there was nothing wrong with the laptop. I had to drive 1 1/2 hours each way to the store for a second time during business hours just to argue in person with them, because the speakers were clearly broken.

The exact same problem happened twice more over the next year, taking two weeks to fix each time. The final time was outside of the 1yr AppleCare warranty, and they wanted to replace the top case, battery and logic board for ~£800.

Coupled with the useless touch bar, 16GM RAM cap, awful display scaling issues/confusion when external monitors were attached, sluggish performance for video editing and OS updates that broke the machine, it convinced me to avoid Apple products completely.

I got a full £3100 refund after 18 months under EU consumer law and build a powerful desktop PC (16 core ThreadRipper, 32GB RAM, 1080ti) with £1500 left over.
As a programmer/analyst/manager/architect of 34 years experience (goddamn it), that's not true unless you stay in a "grunt developer" role for your whole career.

The greatest acceleration of your salary occurs early in your career, but that applies to most careers. The sustained level of your income is dependent on how you progress.

Personally, I think the movement to project management is a Bad Idea for programmers, because we make lousy project managers and they get paid like crap, because PM-ing is considered a "generic" skill that is not IT specific.

Product Management and Architecture roles are paid better because they need the hind/foresight to actually lead the development of a product/service. That skill is pretty much only developed by experience.

So like any industry, your career development will lead to potential income changes. How that reflects your needs as an individual (eg family etc) is up to you.
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it's not funny if you search for a job. They want developer or admin experts with ai knowledge but nobody is interested to invest in a newcomer (which means university degree with knowledge) in ai.