skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My aunt would knit socks for me as a kid. I'd stand on a sheet of paper and my mom would draw the outline of my foot, and mail her the sheet. Worked great!
Why don't we have a single registrar for all TLDs? Why don't we have GitHub as the single repository for ALL software in the world?

My point is that sovereignty, innovation etc. are valuables which centralization can't deliver. "Monopolies will maximize profits and therefore, under-supply the product" is Economics 101. So, yes, economics of scale and network effects do encourage centralization but there are counter-balancing forces.

What we need is protocols that allow a sliding scale as opposed to non-interoperable silos. DNS, TCP/IP, Git delivered exactly that. While GitHub has the scale and network effects, plenty of people are happily using GitLab, BitBucket etc.
The article is about a documentary that's running about this complicated man. I don't know why a story about the man who co-discovered the structure of DNA was flagged here.
Forth in particular has driven the philosophy of not-invented-here roll-your-own to the extreme.

To be fair to Forth and Forth programmers, Forth is very often used in environments where they are running on the iron and need to roll there own. There were environments where Forth used the local libraries like Forth on the early Macs[1]. You could access the Macintosh Toolbox just like the other languages.

They are unsuitable for projects with many developers though.

I don't know about that. I get the feeling that Forth would be fine but require a common, shared dictionary for the project which isn't far from a common class library used in other languages. I'm not sure it would require more interaction than something like Smalltalk which has been used in large projects.

1) Forth was an early Macintosh language because of how cramped 128Kbytes is.
Why does the ř (r with háček diacritic) in the "Europhilic" Czech text sample appear so different from the normal letter r? Is it intentional? It's quite jarring to me.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/h6yNHCo.png
> When creating new works with Batman, you'll have to fastidiously avoid using any elements of the character that were introduced later, but you should be good.

Everything in your comments makes sense except this part. If this goes as currently planned Batman will be in the public domain, but not e.g. Batwoman (introduced decades later).

However, I can make my own new superhero now called Foobarman and introduce a Foobarwoman without anyone having grounds for saying I'm ripping off Batman.

So if Batman is in the public domain I'll be able to have a Batwoman. Having a female version of a character isn't per-se a copyright violation just because that path's been taken before.

Of course if I go further and actually rip off entire stories involving Batwoman I'll be in trouble.
That's the same DoubleSpeak telemarketers used to say when you asked if they were a telemarketer. "No No, we're just informing you of this new offer in the middle of your dinner with your family."
Adding onto all that is the existential anguish one feels realizing that it’s all bs and that people still buy into it. It’s really hard not to think less of humanity when we know we’re being so stupid/dishonest, yet everyone keeps along with it.
>Zuckerberg is who he is--the same guy who, in college, called his fellow students "dumb f---s" for trusting him with their data.

I don't really get why people constantly bring this up. First of all he's not wrong - anyone with a FB account (including myself) is an idiot for trusting them, and second of all, it's not even really that insensitive. I mean, could most people here really claim to have never said anything as bad as that in college?
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This was my thought as well. Put someone who is vulnerable into an area where passers by can't see them, and then what?

Hope the stalker doesn't follow them in? Hope the opportunist criminals won't go stop to stop looking for someone alone to rob? etc etc

Privacy and seclusion are absolutely not whats needed at a public bus stop.
Does that airline still allow you to fly with them?
Yes, the Linux port has been around for forever. It's just... I don't know, every aspect of the UI has always really felt like it was built around the macOS design ethos first and foremost, with Linux tagging along for the ride.
It's hostile and xenophobic
> Could something along the lines of the schengen agreement be feasible between Canada and US border regions, making it easier for people and capital to flow between them?

Of course it could, even if states like California left the union similar cooperation can be formed

Critics never seem to imagine that
You are twisting the concept of "chosen-ness" in an attempt to discredit the Jews. Disgusting.
strange. mine looks different (but ř is also a totally different shape) https://imgur.com/a/VpiXcGI (Firefox on Windows)
While I agree that in terms of your choices there is no real difference, I think you should read about what happened when you wanted to go to a vacation as a (for example) Czechoslovakian citizen in the 1970's and what happened if you wanted out (hint: you would most likely die).
I think it's questionable to group machine learning in with "game AI". Most "game AI" isn't "real" AI at all, in any meaningful sense, so I think the term should be put out of use, it removes a useful differentiation.

That aside, the Game AI Pro series is recent and probably a good addition to a list like this [0]. You can read the first two books for free. All books have different content, they're not just one book with newer editions.

[0] https://www.gameaipro.com/
Ahhh, the old Streisand Effect.
I've switched because chrome manages my accounts seamlessly across my Android phone and Desktop. It's an unfair advantage Google has. I don't know how Mozilla can compete in the long run.
I get no Reader Mode icon for this site in mobile Safari, only on desktop Safari. :-(
It's just an HN custom
Can you still link to libLLVM/libClang from a user program? If not, then distros can't really do that.
My boss's classmate from college went up to the ISS for the first time a couple of years ago. They graduated about 25 years ago and his classmate worked nonstop for 25 years to get to go to space.

My understanding is once there, you work 16 hour days non-stop.

I think most people would describe being on the ISS as anything else but "boring".
Being neutral on any spectrum, Richard Pryor and George Carlin are socially accepted as two of the greatest comdeians of this time and they spoke on politics often. If doing so does anything, it accomplishes bringing awareness to bigger issues to an audience who it may not normally be exposed to.
They've done something simular with the SCOTUS and dogs, so it wouldn't be out of the ordinary.
I agree it's reasonable but she claims to want the best for all people, not citizens of her country. IMHO it's a very important distinction.
> Almost all of the last near-decade of work in UIs has been a mistake.

You keep saying this, and it's just not true. The extreme skeuomorphism in the older iOS versions was just as maligned as flat design is today. I wouldn't mind adding some more shading to buttons to make them more easily identifiable, but let's leave the cheesy leather textures in the Calendar app dead and buried, please.

I'm not a fan of the Windows 95-era design either. As an example that comes to mind, traditional menus have atrocious usability. Ribbon-like interfaces that feature actual buttons you can click or tap on, with more important buttons larger and/or highlighted, have been a huge improvement over trying to wade through a sea of identical-looking pull-downs full of text. It's important to remember that the move away from pull-down menus was informed by a good deal of end-user research, a lot more than this article.

Regarding iOS, I'd like to see this study try modern UI fonts like San Francisco. There's a reason why Apple, Google, and Microsoft invested in new fonts, and that's because faces such as Helvetica (which, by the way, was used in iOS 6) that weren't designed for screens are harder to read.
Completely unrelated but since you are asking about teaching methods. My father did this regarding food. If eventually it turns out my sister and me didn't like a particular thing recipes were adjusted.

But to make us kids at least try, if we didn't finish our meals or we're being picky. He would put the plate on the counter and make us stand there until we finished. It was effective. It wasn't cruel, it was simply a method of making sure I finished my meal and tried new things. A solid balance in my opinion.
It boggles the mind that Apple with all its billions does not maintain the MAC App Store. It also baffles me that their products have so many bugs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18589703 for December; not sure who's in charge of the whoishiring acct
> Economics. Blockchain technologists seem to overestimate the extent to which new insights in economics are needed to understand cryptocurrencies and blockchains, as opposed to applying basic principles from economics and game theory. For example, a recent paper shows that thinking about miners and attackers in terms of stock and flow exposes important limitations of the security of Proof of Work. [1] I learnt of many other such examples at a recent conference on the economics of blockchains. [2] So I think a lot of the "cryptoeconomics" hype is misplaced.

Are people suggesting that new economics are needed? I don't think most people are suggesting that. They are suggesting that blockchains allow you to implement economic incentive schemes that weren't previously feasible.

> Privacy. It's often taken for granted that decentralized architectures will improve privacy. This seems obvious given everything we've learnt about Facebook, but a better way to think about it is that decentralized systems exchange one set of privacy problems with another. I coauthored a paper a few years ago skeptical of the "decentralization ==> privacy" story in the context of social networks [3], but I think many of the arguments in that paper apply to blockchain/dApps that are being built today.

Nobody serious says that decentralization == privacy. However, decentralization does allow you to to implement strong privacy systems, like Monero/Zcash.
Note how the people that get blamed in these cases don't have much power to begin with, whereas topics involving economical inequality (and money in politics) put the blame on them. If you're a rich and powerful individual or company, it's a lot more convenient to focus on something like LGBT rights (where the blame can be put on poor/rural/uneducated folks) rather than taxes and political lobbying (where the blame would end up on bankers and large corporations).
I greatly enjoyed this comment and the subthread it inspired.

For the peanut gallery: never give anyone in an extension in writing; your ask should be for immediate performance.

Why? Well, there are a lot of varieties of "performance" which aren't happy outcomes for you. Should you give someone an extension to their deadline and have them perform in a way which is displeasing to you, the default is they do not have a regulatory infraction if you complain [0]. Should someone blow their deadline and then perform and then have you complain to the regulator, they basically always have a regulatory infraction regardless of whether their performance is satisfactory, so their incentive is do whatever possible to prevent the complaint.

[0] Situation dependent, obviously, but lots of regulatory regimes will have an escape hatch like "unless agreed to by the customer" or "unless agreed to by the counterparty in writing."
I've heard the "we depend on illegal migrant workers to keep food affordable because they are the only people who will work for $3/h" line a few times and it usually comes from the 'anti-wall' folks.
I found the selection of 2D constraints to be very limited compared to Solidworks (e.g., no symmetric constraint).

Also, last time I checked (about a year ago), it didn't really have a way to create assemblies from parts.
So the data availability problem renders the fisherman solution useless in a pragmatic sense?
> Netflix Takes Down Episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Show After Saudi Arabia Complains (huffingtonpost.com)

huffingtonpost.com is regurgitated misleading crap.

Fin times which doesn't have to resort to shitty click bait titles and broke the story has the correct title

"Netflix pulls episode of comedy show in Saudi Arabia"

It wasn't a "Complains" it was a legal request of sorts.

Do we seriously expect by default for Netflix to "break the law"? Netflix is not to blame here, but you'd need the proper news article to get the real story I guess, not misleading inciteful huffpo babble.

I'll add Soap Operas are consider by some studies as amazingly empowering for women. I have no idea if there is an equivocal for men, but the people don't need political shows to move forward, this isn't the hit we think it is. Netflix in Saudi Arabia is what's empowering and can create change.
The results are reported, but the inputs - the websites and screenshots used as test data - are conspicuously absent.
The Onity lock hack was mine. I imagined many outcomes when I decided to disclose it; a meth-fueled crime spree wasn't one of them. Man, life is weird.
Anyone have any good theories as to how this could have happened? Is it really plausible that it was "accidentally" drilled during manufacture, and not detected?

I mean, surely there must be some kind of testing step where they test that the craft is completely airtight. And no one is going to be drilling anything after that point.
So which small rural town do you know of that is welcoming to non native Americans, minorities, or non straight people?
> why do we have ~200 nations instead of a single world government

Deltas in space and time plus the fact face to face conversations give you a better idea of the sender's mental state. Comms over the Internet are untrustworthy, if you don't have prior experience with the sender.

Also, language, which is related to deltas in time and space.
> It is great that Rust supports it, but I really wish people would stop talking about it being novel and unique.

What I really wish people would learn from Actors is that even if your programming language prevents trivial race conditions over shared memory or message passing primitives, none of that guarantees anything about the behavior of the system you are building once you start to compose those primitives. Gul Agha's dissertation was really eye-opening.
Yes, it did. I never had any service denial or other problem as a result of taking the airline to small claims court.

ETA details
Makeup in the Technicolor Age
Probably your browser falling back to a default font. Sure that Courier Prime includes that symbol?
>The long run trend is very obviously toward a single government.

Hmm, I think you will have to justify that statement, rather than simply claim it is a very obvious fact. Generally, there were fewer governments in the past as compared to the modern day.
Don't forget it was sealed, and the seal failed. So it was initially air tight.

To me that excludes sabotage, and instead points of error that someone tried to cover up. It also points to someone low-level/unskilled since they did a bad job of sealing it.
Why do a Show HN for work than can feature on a CCC?
But pull down menus were influenced by pre-mouse interfaces.

Many pull down menus still allow for keyboard based navigation through arrow keys and keyboard letters.
It says why right in the comments.

The whoishiring account threads post on the first US working day of each month.

We apologize for the fault in the calendar. Those responsible have been sacked.
It's interesting to note that the author's better experience with the language wasn't the result of any one improvement, but rather lots of little improvements, such as error messages, that overall added up to a better quality-of-developer-life.

I think Rust development is going to continue to be less focused on big features and more on small iterative improvements. Rust doesn't need silver bullets; it needs lots of lead bullets.
They don't care if you watch it, they care if people in Saudi Arabia watch it.
The January one is here but it's been deleted? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18800643
Nice to see this type of research coming out of МГУ (Lomonosov Moscow State University)!

Haven’t gone through the study, but seeing the examples wondering if there is also selection bias - many older Russian sites still look fairly dated and users may be more used to that look, finding it more familiar and easier to navigate.
I believe 'dang is going to republish tomorrow.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18801132
A comic on how to prove Elgamal's security in cryptography
Product Ideation Method: Zoom-In-Zoom-Out (ZIZO)
Interesting to look over these and see how at least many of the iOS issues have been addressed in later releases.
How did you miss the thorough explanation at the very top of the thread?
> But I personally think that it would at least be a small step into the right direction if people would internalize that free speech and copyright are contradictory to each other.

I'm not sure whether this would be a great victory for the cause of free speech or nail in the coffin for copyright reduction.
> that part requires a lot of training and expertise, if not an engineering degree and many years of experience.

Not in this place it didn't: nobody had a degree, and even the permanent staff weren't on particularly good money. For sure, better money than I was on, but not by a wide margin in most cases, and I'm talking here about people who in some cases had worked their for decades. As for the chemists, my degree was half biochem and half chemistry and I'd just finished my third year so I was probably "better qualified" than they were. They absolutely knew their jobs but, again, no degrees.
Let me clarify - I as talking about an area that allows a person to sit alone without the chance of anyone else sitting right next to them. I’ve seen benches with a separate seat with a high armrest or space between it to let a person sit alone.

Also, some of the bus shelters in my town have seats at the rear, which les someone sit and wait without wing visible from the street. Some have a small side wall which serve to obstruct the seated person from being fully viewed from approaching cars (if they wished).
Right... but that doesn't address the point that nations in modern day are still decentralized.
There's a balance to strike between intellectual property and censorship.
I'd withhold judgement - no matter how messed up people are, humans can always be great story tellers.

Yes, I guess it sucks if you think you get off scot-free for a DUI and multiple other offenses, but then are drawn back into the system. But that doesn't mean that this guy actually had his life in order, or quit drugs, or really did anything that he said he did.
That seems by design more than anything. Outside of iOS, plenty of software doesn't become obsolete in ten or twenty years. Even on the Mac itself, you still have all the classic Unix utilities. Will grep ever become obsolete? People are still using vi/m after 42 years despite all manners of new text editors and IDEs popping up.

When it comes to hardware (which is probably what Steve was most concerned about), there's still plenty of electronics that can stand the test of time. I'd say the IBM Model M will be admired and looked at in astonishment for centuries - no modern keyboard has managed to make it obsolete it in the last 35 years.

If there's Amigas running infrastructure and DOS boxes still working in the wild, I'd wager there's still some shop somewhere using an Apple II as part of its inventory system.
10 things artificial intelligence did in 2018
Close. There is nothing illegal (in the US) about creating your own currency as long as it is convertible to USD. With domain names there is no such requirement to interoperate with the existing root nameservers and ICAAN tlds. In your private .com there is no requirement that the facebook.com A record map to facebook IP addresses so you could collectively decide to map it to 127.0.0.1 and no one could do anything to stop you.
From your answer, I assume you own an Android phone. Mozilla could compete because Firefox has Sync, but Firefox on Android is some seriously laggy shit with built-in ads, so it's going to be hard for them to win.
> The purpose of the legitimate LoJack software is to help victims of a stolen laptop be able to access their PC without tipping off the bad guys who stole it.

Promise?
> Which strengthens hypothesis that the purpose of the hole was the hole itself.

Then why did they seal it with glue (that later failed)?

We have established the hole was made very badly, so you can not also say the person making it knew exactly the right kind and amount of glue that would fail at just the right time.

This seems like an accident to me, and someone tried to cover it up.
Well, there are tons of chatbot popups when I visit websites.
Amazing, the HN community never fails.
Post extraneous flamebait to threads. It lowers the signal/noise ratio and leads to worse.
It is not reasonable to compare Blockchain versus TCP. Only advocates do this because despite Blockchain technology being completely useless, it's a simple line that excuses all lack of progress / usecases, whilst simultaneously implying it will still take over the world.

It's a dishonest line to come out with and people on Hacker News should know better.
That is very interesting, thank you. I am not a lawyer so anything I say is amateur speculation, but it seems like that case rules mostly on Ford's ability to arbitrarily reduce profit to shareholders by reducing or removing dividends, not necessarily acting in the public interest. This goes back to what I said earlier about a corporation being free to act in the public interest as long as the shareholders don't mind, as then there is no injured party.
Joel "Nostradamus" Spolsky in 2001:

> Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like “Napster is a peer-to-peer service for downloading music” and ignore everything but the architecture, thinking it’s interesting because it’s peer to peer, completely missing the point that it’s interesting because you can type the name of a song and listen to it right away.

> All they’ll talk about is peer-to-peer this, that, and the other thing. Suddenly you have peer-to-peer conferences, peer-to-peer venture capital funds, and even peer-to-peer backlash with the imbecile business journalists dripping with glee as they copy each other’s stories: “Peer To Peer: Dead!”

> The Architecture Astronauts will say things like: “Can you imagine a program like Napster where you can download anything, not just songs?” Then they’ll build applications like Groove that they think are more general than Napster, but which seem to have neglected that wee little feature that lets you type the name of a song and then listen to it — the feature we wanted in the first place. Talk about missing the point. If Napster wasn’t peer-to-peer but it did let you type the name of a song and then listen to it, it would have been just as popular.

I've thought about that essay a lot in the past couple of years. For all of the merits of ＢＬＯＣＫＣＨＡＩＮ I never found it very useful for conducting transactions. Sure, that's the machinations of the federal deep state lizard illuminati, but also it always felt like architecture and ideology were the point, and serving an actual need was an afterthought.
When Apple did the flat redesign of iOS, it caused a lot of problems for my grandma who could already barely tell something is a button. I know I've struggled with toggles and check boxes that don't make it apparent they're active.
Deno, is like node (anagram) but runs as "A secure TypeScript runtime on V8"
Oh, I missed that part.

Yeah, makes total sense.