skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and it has the same kind of "decades of slow incremental improvements by shaving corners off" kind of vibe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_sofa_problem
"Often" homophobic? "Nearly always" making light of rape? Are you just making this stuff up?
> Then what the hell is their job!?

Their job is to let people do their job without interference from an "application architecture group" and pointy-haired bosses, as Joel Spolsky once pointed out: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/04/11/the-development-ab...
What danger are you referring to?
To paraphrase someone else, marriage has, historically, been a pretty atrocious institution for women. Maybe as women as a class become educated and conscious of history, there is now an ambient awareness of this.
Great work! A small improvement that can take you a long way is to expand on your portfolio. Currently it lists 2 "icons". I have to click into it to see what is going on. How about you expand on each? Something like so

EDIT: Formatting was weird. See this image
https://imgur.com/XZN0Yqj
I forget at times that I originally started using Gmail because of the spam filtering. My main problem wasn't getting spam, it was getting alerts on my damn phone that I got spam. I don't mind checking the spam folder, as it's like having a bunch of people at the front door waiting for me to come outside. If they all knocked, I'd never go outside.
it would take a month to come back with the estimate. you don’t just call the insurance and get a price.
I was expecting much deeper digression into all the alternative evidence that was mentioned, and how that should prove:

1. Encryption isn't a silver bullet to protect someone from being found guilty of crimes they committed

2. All the angles from which other evidence can be gathered is highly likely to close out any thoughts of reasonable doubt.

Relate it all to the case that was used as an example, then pose the question, would you have any reasonable doubt that they were guilty?

Requiring the content of the accused's phone is akin to requiring their signed confession before they can be found guilty.

The article's conclusion is a little offensive:
I felt willing to give up a little more of my personal privacy to make sure my fellow citizens are safe. Where to draw that line, though, is decidedly not black and white.

It IS black and white. You don't need to give up any personal privacy to make your fellow citizens feel safe, that's how it's been for a long time...

I'd actually feel less safe knowing there's a government spectre hanging over my digital life.
Prerolls are cigarettes and CBD Flower is Hemp. Hemp and Cannabis are exactly the same plant. The difference is CBD is non-psychoactive and federally legal and THC is federally illegal and the defining chemical of marijuana.

Why do people consume CBD if it doesn't get you high? Well it has anti-pain and anti-anxiety effects that you can experience without using a mind-altering substance.
It's tough for me to say because I've read multiple estimates and they vary by a factor of 10. Amazon's promises https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/amazon-selects-new... are one thing, what actually happens as the deal is approved and implemented is another.

I don't take Amazon's numbers seriously until they show that they will live up to their own hype. If Wisconsin's Scott Walker was elected on making 250,000 new jobs in 2010 he has fallen far short of that. One of his job-creating deals was Foxconn, something he used to tout heavily but tried to shy away from when he last ran. Foxconn's 13,000 (I'm assuming human) job figure for Wisconsin hasn't been met. I'll believe it when I see it but I still don't see how New York is getting a fair deal in this; it seems like they have no problem attracting businesses to their city and don't need to give nearly as much as they are.
Its being downvoted for the same reason that Assange is so hated. Unfortunately most Americans are incredibly susceptible to propaganda. Its why 90% of Americans continued to believe Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11 even years after the invasion of Iraq. Even for those few Americans with the capacity to be skeptical and think critically, its much easier to accept "conventional wisdom" and adopt the official narrative than to consider the possibility that our government regularly disseminates lies and propaganda. Groupthink is not only real, it is perhaps the dominant driving force in society.
Apple enters multiyear agreement with A24 to make original movies
Awesome. Just filed https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/1027 on our end to track it.
I just bough a Quanta LGA2011 board off ebay. In the BIOS PXE settings were IP's that belong to Amazon.

So I have to wonder if Amazon even used SuperMicro hardware.
I know with great certainty that they used Quanta as a board manufacturer.

So who planted this story is my question. Who would stand the most at bringing down SuperMicro.
I would rule out the Chinese because they were made to look bad.

So who else in the US manufactures motherboards and would benefit from SuperMicro's demise.

Did the same people also drive SuperMicro stock down to a point of it being delisted?

I hated seeing a "Designed in the USA" motherboard manufacturer dragged through the mud.

I have used their affordable dual CPU motherboards dating back to BX chipset.
Ultra-reliable and feature packed.

I even made some negative Supermicro comments at the time.
Amazing how easily even intelligent people can be brainwashed.

The problem with the story is that all of the accusations are technically feasible.
We know TAO does this from Edward Snowdens wonderful truthfulness.

So we all wanted to have an Ahh-Ha moment. Too bad we were duped.
>"While senators are no strangers to opposition research — they use it all the time against political rivals — they take a dimmer view when it used against them outside of election season."

Why? And how long is "election season" these days? It seems to be almost always.
Man, I want an X220 with newer gen chip in it.

The new usb-c side dock solution, worse keyboards, and the ultrabook form factor's thermal properties...
The problem I have with this, is that if you don't get to use your new shiny tech in your job, over the years you tend to forget the knowledge, at least that's the case for me. Does everyone else have eidetic memory?

I found myself having to look up syntax and idioms of languages I was productive in a decade ago.
A month or so back I tried experimenting with Airtable based on glowing reviews on HN and elsewhere. I really hated the on-boarding process which forced me into a template (contact list, schedule, todo) when I just wanted the equivalent of a blank google sheet. The concept of structured data collection in a user interface that anyone can ramp up on is very compelling but I didn't even pass go.
what's driving me (and others I know) away from Facebook is that they are actively scanning and deleting content that we have created and stuff we want to see in Secret groups (some are of an adult nature, and Facebook is very obviously against any "adult content") but straight up fake news, memes that are borderline racist and inaccurate and inflammatory, and other absolute clickbait trash remain visible all over the place.

I'd delete it too if so many things I keep track of were elsewhere.
RIP devs that need to sanitize address data from random textarea inputs
0th-order. Propositional logic, boolean algebra.
A lot of the "weird machines" for C are microcontrollers and the like; the 8051 is mentioned, but another big "C-hostile" MCU family is the Microchip PIC, which still has its own C compiler. DSPs are another category where unusual word sizes are common (24 bits for char/short/int is often encountered.)

It’s amazing that, by carefully writing portable ANSI C code and sticking to standard library functions, you can create a program that will compile and work without modification on almost any of these weird systems.

The big question, which I ask whenever someone harps on about portability, is does it even make sense? Is your average PC/smartphone application realistically ever going to be ported to a 6502 or a Unisys mainframe? Keep in mind that I/O in particular is going to differ significantly, and something like standard input might not even exist (think of a fixed-function device like an oven controller with only a few buttons and LEDs for I/O.) I don't think it's particularly amazing, because the "core" of C essentially represents all the functionality of a stored-program digital computer; so if you completely ignore things like I/O it's not hard to see how the same piece of code can express the same concepts on any of the latter type of computer.

It should also be noted that these "weird" environments are often not "strictly conforming" either, because it's either impossible or doesn't really make sense to. Besides the "omissions" they will also have "extensions" that help the programmer to more fully utilise the platform's capabilities.
Ask HN: What do you believe are the “fundamentals” of CS/SDE?
Assume no prior knowledge of development, other than knowing "programming computers" is something humans can do.
Yeah the Laws of Form notation is very elegant and provides a really profound conceptual foundation. Always loved the book and the people who've tried to take it even further (some surprisingly good discussion on the LoF yahoo group over the years)
Yeah, I dont see butthurt as being any different than "pain in the ass", and I've never heard "pain in the ads" referred to as homophobic.
Note: Smallest known universal cover. It isn't proved optimal (and probably isn't).

Also, the title here is a little confusing as this has nothing to do with universal covers in the usual (topological) sense; this is about Lebesgue's universal covering problem[0], a problem in plane geometry.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebesgue%27s_universal_coverin...
How much of that is luck/genetics? As a Mets fan, David Wright is an easy counter example of someone who was known to work hard and then struggled with injuries.
Ugh. This is what I was most afraid of. People making money by generating public outrage. I feel used.
I’m not sure about everyone else, but I can point to a very specific date as to when we all became unhappy
That's not true. Fast carbs make you hungry again. Slow carbs satiate pretty well. Eating frequently also makes you hungry faster. Two meals a day with slow carbs won't make you eat more.
Sure, robots cannot eliminate all jobs, but they can significantly decrease the number of them.

In McDonalds example, cashiers disappeared, but new servers did not magically appear, so the total number of jobs has decreased.

The same way, in "online order" example, author has not realized that while the human still helped with the order, the electronic system likely allowed them to fire one of the cashiers.

I am not sure how elastic the labor supply is -- but if it is not very flexible, then even relatively small changes can affect wages a lot.
Can you give an example of a consistent and complete logic?
Don't really have much choice in a home theater gaming PC. My X900F does 4Kp60 with HDR but nothing faster. Since I sit at THX recommenced distance I really need a proper 4K render to make it look good.
but many survivors of suicide attempts decide not to repeat their attempts

I survived a suicide attempt at age 17. I'm 53. I'm still frequently suicidal, in part because of an incurable medical condition, in part because the world is a shitty place, full of really shitty people.

I have not made a second attempt. There are myriad factors there. One is that if I'm stuck here, it's better to be stuck here without extra medical bills and people assuming me to be incompetent. My life is hard enough without those additional burdens.
Oh, please. Let this ridiculous conspiracy theory die already. There is absolutely no evidence that Seth Rich was anything more than a mid-level DNC employee who was the tragic victim of a robbery gone wrong.
Thought experiment: you are now Mayor of Tulsa and have received a $100M grant to "make Tulsa exciting". Assume the situation is that whatever you propose would not be opposed.

What would you do?
Feature request for the lists: cross-list Message-ID search.
Thank you! I definitely need to improve the portfolio section. I had a few ideas but wanted to deliver a sort of MVP and start there. For example, the two listed "clients" is sort of misleading. I've done a lot of work for BC and need to be able to show the user the details on that. I was thinking I'd center the BC logo and have a slider of sorts under it with 4+ columns of "projects" I did for them. The second client item is, however, just a single site I threw together with WordPress. Anyways, I'm thinking on that!

I appreciate your feedback!!
Definitely going to add this.
One thing that they didn't list there that probably deserves a mention is SHARC with its 32-bit word architecture, which they decided to manifest directly in C type sizes:

CHAR_BIT == 32
sizeof(char) == 1
sizeof(int) == 1
sizeof(short) == 1
sizeof(float) == 1
sizeof(double) == 2

I suppose the alternative would be to use an addressing scheme encoding bit offset in the pointer, like some of the other machines in this story. But that's also much more expensive, and this is a DSP architecture, so they went with something more straightforward. Curiously, this set-up is still fully accommodated by ISO C standard.
> Did you know or should you have known if you lean against the wall it will fall?

That's a pretty reasonable question based on my proposed scenario. Everything else is a pretty deep stretch.

There's also the question of what is "right" versus what is lawful, which is a map versus territory situation.

Anyway, I'm sure a case can and will be built. And part of the reason will be that humans need scapegoats.
Right, but you wouldn’t want a conductor who has never listened to any music. You can have an expert orchestra, but if the conductor is just waving his arms around like he saw in a photo once, they’re just going to ignore the conductor and do their own thing.
> Sure, they have had their share of issues, but I don't think they are systematic or intentional.

Or Google is just better at staying out of the spotlight:

> Disclosure will likely result “in us coming into the spotlight alongside or even instead of Facebook despite having stayed under the radar throughout the Cambridge Analytica scandal”, Google policy and legal officials wrote in a memo obtained by the Journal. It “almost guarantees Sundar will testify before Congress”, the memo said, referring to the company’s CEO, Sundar Pichai. The disclosure would also invite “immediate regulatory interest”.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/08/google-pl...
This has been my experience, too. For example, I wanted to use Airtable for a survey, but after needing two missing features which have been requested for a long time [1, 2], I lost my motivation.

1. https://community.airtable.com/t/add-new-linked-record-when-...

2. https://community.airtable.com/t/random-number-functions/129...

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5 Reasons Why to Invest in a Data Analytic Tool
Note that I didn't say what my politics are, you're making a big assumption there.
Wikileaks has stated explicitly they are not focused on Russia, mostly due to a poorer understanding of the language and culture:

> Most of WikiLeaks’ biggest revelations concern the US military-industrial complex….Why aren’t human rights abuses producing the same effects in regimes like China or Russia, and what can be done to democratise information in those countries?

> In Russia, there are many vibrant publications, online blogs, and Kremlin critics such as [Alexey] Navalny are part of that spectrum…..In Russia there are competitors to WikiLeaks, and no WikiLeaks staff speak Russian….WikiLeaks is a predominantly English-speaking organisation with a website predominantly in English. We have published more than 800,000 documents about or referencing Russia and president Putin, so we do have quite a bit of coverage, but the majority of our publications come from Western sources….The real determinant is how distant that culture is from English.

source: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/12/no-julian-ass...
Nonsense. The Washington Post remains one of the best publications in the US. I certainly trust it more than Russian propaganda outlets such as Wikileaks.
Hidden Cam Reveals Hotels in China's Nasty Cleaning Habits
I agree with you but on second thoughts, maybe that's okay if it pays for itself over time? I pay my ISP ₹3K a month. I wouldn't mind buying SpaceX's router for say ₹30K if my bill drops to ₹1K a month.
Hey, if Assange/Snowden had ever believed they were powerless, we wouldn't be talking about them. Same goes for countless other figures throughout history.

It's up to us who believe something else to convince more people and achieve critical mass, which will make the difference.
Then why haven't we seen competitors to SpaceX besides the money burning pit that is Blue Origin?
They post newsletters[1] about WebRender on a regular basis.

[1] https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/webrender-newsle...
Relevant mention: just saw new billboards in LA for the Facebook Portal video chat devices today. Anyone who uses these should expect to be data-mined good and hard.
Experts caution over linking IVF technique to increased intellectual disability
Categorically denying any role for these statements (or rather what they represent) seems slightly silly. We all have values and goals besides money, and when they inevitably come into conflict, we make decisions.

Google sees "organising information" as its mission. My desk would currently make an excellent opportunity to organise some information. Are they going to pay someone to sort all these papers? Probably not. Does that mean they have sold out their values? Unlikely...

You're hiding some of that range in the phrase:

> push comes to shove,..

...which makes the idea rather meaningless. I've shown one side above, the other is equally trivial: When Google has few billion dollars it can invest either into wearable sensors for health tech, or opening a Pizza chain, they are more likely to go with the former, even if they have similar expected returns.

If "push coming to shove" is intended to mean a situation where the very existence of Google is at stake, then they'll choose to live another day, even if they have to scale back their ambitions. I doubt anybody would expect them to behave differently.

As for examples: it seems that Apple is forgoing some profits by not participating in the big data grab. Yes, it might also be a good business decision. But it takes some commitment to values to be motivated enough, and to have the courage, to make a decision so markedly different than what the competition does.

Google leaving China is another example. Yes, they may soon return. But in the meantime they left a few billion on the table.
No direct flights from SF or NYC :(
Assange and Wikileaks have been demonised because they decided to release information in such a way as to deliberately influence an election.

The DNC/Podesta leaks were timed specifically to cause maximum negative effect to Clinton and the Democrats.

Then there's the lack of curation in some of the leaks. A lot of personal data that shouldn't be public by any means (e.g. medical information, sexual identity) has been leaked by Wikileaks. There is a limit to what information should be open and available to the public.

I also can't help but feel like they've stopped being transparency campaigners and whistleblowers, and now do it for the social media spectacle and publicity. Just look at how they released Vault 7, with their viral cryptic posts before the release. Wikileaks feels more like a media agency than a group of transparency crusaders these days.
I don't think there are many self-claimed libertarians actually voice for open-borders. It is just an extension of interpretation out of the theorists. Limited government doesn't mean a complete denial of necessary national governance. It can be easily argued that void of such governance isn't in the interests of those libertarian ideals.
But where are they ranked in BBQ? I moved to North Carolina from SF Bay Area and NC has much going for it ... but North Carolinians think NC BBQ is like top-3 (Lexington style, Eastern style, etc.) -- but I don't see it. I much prefer Louisiana or Texas BBQ. I'll say other aspects balance out the mediocre NC BBQ.

If Oklahoma / Tulsa BBQ is in the top-3 that might make up for a few of the deficits.
> As someone who lived in a warehouse with at least 20 other people for a decade of my life

not going to lie, this is a story that I'd love to hear more about. I've been thinking more about the co-living/co-working space these days, and a kind of a warehouse commune idea too.
Oops that's a bug, thanks for spotting.
I've spent a lot of time suicidal. I generally dislike seeing PSAs of this sort.
Quantum accelerometer precise enough to track location without GPS
We had something close... but it folded as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Suppers
If Starlink didn't route data in space and instead used space only as a last mile, would it be significantly cheaper, or have higher bandwidth, or be feasible to provide without data caps? What are the economic and technical tradeoffs here?

I don't mind the latency of today's fiber or cable Internet, and if it's problem, it can be solved by moving servers closer to users.

That is, what if, instead of bypassing the fiber backbone, Starlink just tried to connect everyone to it? Because I'm assuming that sending a terabit of data between two major cities, like Chennai to NYC is going to be cheaper via undersea fiber.