skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure this is old news - like fixed several years ago news.

Can we get a (2014) in the title? (Basing year on citations + url of same paper at https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2014/papers/StealingWebpa...)
So far there's no real proof that HFCS is any worse than other forms of sugar. The problem is more likely due to consuming more sugar in general.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3679479/
One interesting thing I noticed when I was living in the middle of nowhere on a 5 acre parcel: I knew all of my neighbors. I'd encounter them on a regular basis and would have meaningful conversations with them. People would help out when needed, I had all their emails and phone numbers.

When I'm living in the suburbs or in a big city, meaningful contact with neighbors is fairly nonexistent.
Similar experience. Not only did I realize how much we've come to rely on these sites lately to "stay in touch", I also realized who the people were that actually wanted to.

The ones who asked "did you quit Facebook?" via good old fashioned text message (lol I'm being slightly silly here but only just) and actually stayed in touch, actually would mention events going on to make sure I knew I was invited...it was quite an experience.

One friend has gone above and beyond in being accessible and supportive following a divorce recently and helping me find a therapist, dropping by to talk in person etc.

Those are the relationships that will follow you to the grave and I'm thankful for it.
* First $10M = $3M Valve + $7M GameDev

* Next $40M = $10M Valve + $30M GameDev

* Next $50M = $10M Valve + $40M GameDev

Assuming your game is expected to generate $50M in revenue, is giving up $13M (26% of revenue) for bandwidth + servers + store handling credit card info + credit card fees + technicians + support staff worth it over rolling your own? Or $23M if it's expected to make $100M?
'just media'?

Media is potentially the most valuable conduit for information for the human race currently. Newspapers, social media, news organizations, tv, apps, advertisements, and a million others. There isn't a 'just' related to media because it's so powerful and pervasive. It's a pipeline into 7 billion people's brains.
The problem with crony capitalism is the crony part, not the capitalism part. So I agree that laws (usually passed by people with more self-interest than understanding) are almost never the optimal solution, by definition. Trouble is that we don't actually have a true free market, so the question becomes what is the best real-world solution, given the distortions/limits of the existing system?
At this point in time just developer recognition is enough for a lot of people to work hard on a project that has an impact for free. The basics of Twitter is trivial to implement in a centralized way at this point (unlike Google which solves a hard ranking problem), but it needs decentralized serverless infrastructure, that hasn't happened yet. I think decentralized money has to win first, and other infrastructure can come later.
Windows 10 also gets a design icon design, tech news today
Same way they adjusted the rules so building schools, staffing police departments, and maintaining an army makes sense.

This is not a unique case.
It's a beautiful map but wildly inaccurate as others have pointed out. I compared some of the results against plots of land that I'm familiar with and found it to be off by orders of magnitude in all cases even for areas that are known for certain cash crops (e.g, Assuming every vineyard in Napa Valley is Alfalfa instead of grapes). Meanwhile, my family's small vineyard in the central valley is categorized as as soybeans and the orchard next door (one of the only crops that's clearly identifiable via satellite) is identified as wheat.
First they came for the Gab, and... I was actually pretty pleased because I didn't think the sort of web host that would stand behind forums run by the sort of people that gloated about how many hits their association with a synagogue shooting brought them were actually potential allies in fighting fascism...

Bitchute isn't the home of people posting Trump critiques. It's the home of people explaining why all criticisms of Trump must be dismissed as conspiracies initiated by the real enemy: Jewish New World Order reptilians https://www.bitchute.com/hashtag/trump/
Marketing, sales, and, business – the three-headed monster
Just look at the difference between https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/1... and https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2... . Also look at world population change in the same period. I don't see that discussed much but when the shape of populations change (which causes how things are funded to change as well and where resources are used) society has to change too but that is a lot harder and takes a lot longer.
> Excellent! Now explain budget deficits in Kansas, or federal deficits in the US, for that matter.

Extremes in ideals. Kansas cut their tax base too much without cutting their spending accordingly. With the US most of its the process of taking on massive amounts of debt under a pseuodo-socialist/capitalist system of welfare programs. 80% of the US budget goes towards paying for welfare programs: medicare/medicaid, social security, and debt payments that came from mostly spending on the welfare programs. The Republicans never slash, or kill the programs. The democrats always expand them without correcting the tax issues. For example, when Obama had the majority of Congress, he did not seek to raise the cap on SS taxes past the existing 120-130k line where it is today. Increasing the line, while also limiting payouts to an income of 120k, would pay for the program. What I mean by this is that there should be no cap, but the system will only pay out a maximum regardless of how much you paid in.

Essentially both parties fail to observe the logical outcome of their philosophies. The Republicans are for a small government and a large military, which isn't really contradictory. The military is a specific power of the US government under the Constitution. The trouble with them is that they don't actually pursue the process of paring down the government. The Democrats are for large government. Their problem is they don't pursue the tax side the way they should. They need to increase taxes on the poor like the Scandinavian countries. In Finland, the average person pays 30-40% of their income to the State. They don't have a progressive tax system like we do. The Democrats don't pursue this. As a result, they go into debt.

A direct democracy doesn't protect against this. Look at recent Florida elections. There is less than a 1% difference between the gubernatorial candidates. Should the 49.9901 get ruled by the other side?

> Enough white votes, maybe, and trying to exclude people from the franchise is still a powerful strain in US politics.

The South didn't have, and knew it would only loose ground, to the Northern votes if it only leaned on its white population. The first industrial revolution was growing the North even in the early days of the Constitutional system. The South needed the white Democrats, at least the precursor, once the cotton gin was invented to support slavery. Before the gin, slave labor didn't help that much. Cotton was too expensive due to manual labor. With the gin, all those bails of cotton that usually rotted in the fields were useful and valuable as long as you had the labor to get them out in time. The northern bankers made the funding available to purchase the slaves and extend the cotton trade.

The founders were more afraid of direct democracy that led to the Athenians getting pushed to the sea when a demagogue rose to power due to sweet words. Again, unless you require a supermajority for all votes, direct democracy is easily swayed by political hacks like Colbert or Catiline.
Yes, this is a problem on HN and one cost imposed by the guidelines. The problem is that if we don't incur that cost, we end up with tons more flamewar and much lower overall quality, not to mention existential risk.

I've written about it over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Unfortunately it seems to be a fundamental tradeoff rather than anything easy to fix.

I'd love to get more people to understand that editing out the nasty bits from their comments (not that the GP was nasty) doesn't mean making everything bland. We want posts to be alive, just as you say. The rules aren't a moral thing or even a cultural thing, just a safety thing: we want this place not to blow up or burn down.
with all due respect, my friends who work on Clang and GCC are better programmers than 99% of commenters on this site

I presume that both you and the majority of the people who work on compilers are great programmers. Which makes difficulty in communication even stranger.

Summarizing the anti-UB side, we really don't like it when the compiler drops explicit error checking code on the basis that error check would only be used if undefined behavior occurred. That is, I'd like a naive check for overflow to either emit an error message, or to compile as written with the behavior dependent on the underlying architecture.

Even register allocation depends on exploiting undefined behavior—who's to say that some wild pointer you created didn't accidentally point to some local variable?

The confusing part is that you (and many other smart people) seem to feel that "don't drop explicit error checks" is completely equivalent to "don't store local variables in registers". To me (to us) these are completely independent, with the dropped errors checking being a "real problem" and the possibly clobbered variables being a "not a problem", and in fact, everything working the way it should.

Could you explain more why you feel these two are equivalent?

My guess is that the difference is philosophical, between those who feel that the source code is a recipe, versus those who feel the source code is a mathematical proof. In my view, the goal of the compiler isn't to create a perfect program suitable for an perfect abstract machine, rather it's to translate the intent of the programmer into assembly language suitable for a particular deterministic processor.

I have no problem with a compiler that produces code that crashes on malformed input (division by zero, reading a NULL pointer) but I want it to leave the actual crash up to the processor. With overflow as with the case of clobbered aliased variables, I'm fine if the compiler generates code that only works correctly if the runtime error does not occur, but I'm not OK with reasoning non-locally that the error checks can be omitted because the error is logically impossible. Do you really not distinguish these two cases?
My understanding of the things that catch people out are things like:

function f(){
let a = {};
return function(){};
}

In all (IIRC) major implementations, the object allocated for `a` will be held on to after the function returns because it exists in the lexical scope of the function returned (even though it isn't—and never can be—reached, as static analysis can prove).

Basically all the other bugs I'm aware of are cases of C++ code not treating things as roots when necessary, mostly in DOM code.
This is really weird. I don’t know what to tell you. Very few people in England want to commute to Central London by car. The traffic is terrible, parking is hard to find and expensive, and you lose all the time you spend driving.

You’re fighting a war on behalf of someone who doesn’t really exist.
The cell phone carriers have never been regulated by net neutrality and I’m okay with that. There are four major national carriers, if one carrier is customer hostile, another carrier will pick up the slack. We saw just that with the rise of T-mobile.

Most people only have one company offering terrestrial internet. So yeah that should be regulated. It’s considered a natural monopoly.

Companies don’t have to depend on the major cloud providers - but there are at least three major ones and IBM and Oracle are making a play. There are even smaller providers that just host VMs like Linode. I can easily imagine Linode partnering with companies to provide managed services.

On top of that cloud providers hosting servers is dwarfed by the number of companies who are using colos. There are plenty of business opportunities out there.

So no, I don’t think that you should have regulation to protect a business model. Government regulation and monopoly regulation in particular was meant to prevent harm to consumers.

But you really trust the government to have sensible technology regulation?
Yep, just enough to flip the device state.
Difference between forward and reverse proxy server
The “ref” part of your links to paid services certainly satisfies the expectations of an affiliate link for just about everyone. If you are not getting something in return for linking to them, why did those links need to carry your identity?
Did they really introduce it with a few months warning? The London equivalents slowly ramp up and are made public half a decade before implementation.
I agree, but at least he manned up and made a prediction on record, in writing, and about the future.
There are legitimate topics that can jeopardize ones career or even personal safety if you broach them publicly. For example I think stating the equations 'woman == human female' or 'lesbian == female homosexual' has gotten a lot of people in trouble in recent years. Even on many social media platforms and content management platforms that's bound to get you banned.

> silenced rather than defeated

No-platforming exists though, many people are silenced. Some people do need safe cover, as internet mobs can do real damage, as internet mobs can turn into IRL abuse even.

In the last decade there has developed a real culture of fear surrounding woke and identity politics. Lots of people quake at the prospect of committing wrongthink, performing wrongspeak, and instead push into the other direction via virtue signaling, to ward off potential attacks and keep their rightthink membership up to date.

At this point anonymity is definitely a necessary tool for so many people who would otherwise be exposed to varying levels of danger for speaking.
I guess it depends on what you mean by systems programming. You absolutely need to understand memory barriers if you are doing operating systems work; no language can spare you from that.
> If you can read mails in your editor you are doing it wrong (sorry emacs users)

Actually I got to know and appreciate reading mail in vim with notmuch-vim and value it over mutt. It provides a consistent user experience with your native vim configuration while the notmuch backend really focuses on the real (mail) stuff. So in this case the phrase about tools which end in an email client holds not always true to everyone.
I can't say any clearer, we have no affiliate links. The '?ref=littlelingua' appended to every URL is the same as Product Hunt links having '?ref=producthunt'. We are not making money from it. It is not affiliate marketing.

But even if it was, I don't know what would be wrong with that. It's a useful resource, and would benefit from a source of revenue to improve it further. What's going on here? Read this: http://www.cyrilchandelier.com/dont-be-a-free-user
No one said they were the first(because actually they weren't, neither in Europe or Spain itself)
I deleted Instagram a few months ago and I’ve not missed it once. The people who post more take up most of my bandwidth and those people I sincerely do not care about but due to social etiquitte have to follow. As I grow older I find that I really don’t care about maintaining superficial relationships with acquaintances, many of whom I might not see ever.

Other negatives- I click on one picture of a scantily clad woman and my entire search feed turns into softcore porn for a month.

Culture is too vain. Selfies, blatantly showing off, spending hours on touch up apps were looked down upon in the entire history of the internet until that Ellen selfie photo that got huge. Apple, Facebook, Google, the media all advertised and made it socially accepted that the vanity is good. That had it’s pros and cons but I feel like we are crossed over on the cons side too much.

The culture is too global. Everyone’s opinions/posts/comments all converge to the same dumbed down pop culture accepted norms/memes. Everyone tries to be funny in the exact same socially accepted way and there is no originality.
I am personally much happier to see AWS implement managed versions of OSS like Kubernetes and Kafka, than to only see them offer their proprietary versions (Kinesis & ECS).

The fact that all of these services are based on OSS software is what will help keep Amazon in check as they continue to grow and dominate, because at the end of the day if AWS starts to turn into Oracle and get abusive with their pricing/licensing then the customer has a lot more leverage to move to another cloud or self host.

I am not holding my breath for some kind of government driven intervention, nor have I heard an idea of how that would work that makes sense. I think OSS is what is saving us here, and we should celebrate when a project becomes popular enough for AWS to offer it.

Is it fair to the developers that they don't get compensated, nope, but isn't part of the point of OSS to make sure that great solutions get reused and widely deployed?

I think companies building great software can continue to make money servicing it even with AWS in the picture, but I think if you want to make unicorn returns you are going to have to move further up the stack.

Honestly, at some point I hope we are no longer even taking about low level components like Kubernetes and Kafka and that we look back and laugh at the fact that we used to have to license and get support for these things individually. I do also hope that we manage to find a sustainable (if not equitable) model to support the development of these tools.

All the clouds are built on top of the Linux kernel and nobody really expects the kernel devs to get a cut of all those profits, but they seem to have a sustainable model for development, I hope we can continue to figure out good ways to do this for more and more OSS tools.
But why is a sphere's surface area four times its shadow? [video]
Most men wore some kind of hat outdoors, but top hats were already mostly out of style by that time and worn only with formal attire.
Oh it was in relation to the article :) the question was "Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?" and my first point was in direct reference to this. "Why do people that don't know how to use vim vim" that's all.

At first I wanted to write a direct answer to the article, but since I started ranting about my gripes with vim I tried to change the tone of my comment while keeping my starting argument.

PS. I used to only use nano and people kept asking me why/making fun of me. And most people that told me to use vim didn't know shit about it.
> I'd euthanize my kids and spend the rest of my waking life in one of your jails, dying childless, rather than let them live in your world, raised by you, and not me.

Sounds like your idea is to reject society for ultimate freedom. However, you do not get to both escape its bonds of obligations yet also enjoy its benefits. Are you ready to give up everything? I invite you to ponder on the historical meaning of outlawry.

> My actual position is that life sciences are going to radically change

You're not a doctor or bio scientist, you have no basis to speculate about a solution to disease that makes immunisation superfluous.

> Why bother haranguing people about vaccinations, when five years from now, biological agents might very well be a solved problem

Because we need to fight measles now or people die needlessly.
Sure, but it's a lot less disruptive solution to boot times than switching OS.
The US of course. Look at the list of sites the plugin works for: none of them cares if you ignore their paywall. The likelihood that you would subscribe is negligible. It’s American readers they are after. And for them the jurisprudence is clear. No deliberate subversion of access controls allowed.
Will it? People die every day in the USA due to lack of access to health care.
I don't think the Queen actually has any power to do anything anymore. She's more of a figurehead and I would guess is nowhere near deciding anyone's fate (if she ever was) much less deciding political races.
The one thing that has not changed over the 20 years since BeOS was around is waiting for the computer to respond. We still wait, except now we're often waiting on network rather than OS latency for that button to indent, or do something.

I find it very noticeable, not least as in terms of those basics we seem to be stepping backwards for responsiveness.

Loading software should be quicker, but no one cares about space and size any more, especially as more and more becomes a front for a browser. Even native software is faintly disappointing. You load a game in seconds from the lightning fast SSD then it takes 2 min to load the save as that's bigger than some OS's. :)
I’d also be curious who your team is exactly and what are their results? Be very interested in learning more
> I would instead think ahead and decide how much I like the idea of rule by bureacracy vs. elections.

I might take some interest in whether or not the criminal allegations are true and supported by evidence.
Yes, this always is the case with any decision. But usually the ones making those decisions are not on the receiving end of the downside. See also: automation.
Is the problem here really about closed platforms? I don't think problems such as "spending too much time on validation" would be fixed if the author published photos on a personal blog instead of facebook/instagram. For example:

> I tended to post carefully constructed photos on Instagram about once a week, which seemed like a reasonable cadence, with a focus on my relationship, career and travels (I'd alternate them to give off the impression that I'm a balanced person). Like most users, I'd pay close attention to the number of likes and views I received

I'd say the problem is that public exposure is by itself stressful, no matter the platform.
Fiction : 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'

Non-Fiction : 'The Art of Thinking Clearly'
I’ve found that a majority of people who use vi(m) and profess to hate Emacs because of the complexity of its shortcuts also spend their whole time in insert mode, using only the arrow keys for movement, leading me to think that these people just hate efficient editing in general.
> 1) ... perform the operation in 32-bit registers - if available - and even if available, usually far far far fewer in number

False for x86-64. There are sixteen 32-bit general-purpose registers: eax, ebx, ..., r8d, ..., r16d. There are sixteen 64-bit registers too: rax, rbx, ..., r8, ..., r16.
Good luck self-hosting DynamoDB and your AWS Lambdas...
I was not joking! I would love to do searches with regular expressions over commits. For example, to look for all projects that have deleted code with the GPL license, you could simply do a search on '^-This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify'
My position on this very specific question is: "no."

But let's not conflate content producers selling user data with content producers selling access to content.
Baggier clothes were in style, so hard to tell what their actual weight/waist size could be.
This is false. The return fee is 50 cents a unit flat, no shipping costs added onto that.
I'm super interested in Amazon being known for destroying OSS businesses. Can anybody expand with some examples I can dig into?
I gave the HyperV enhanced sessions a shot. It's pretty nice. Full VM with copy paste, smooth mouse navigation, properly sized windows, high res.