skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IRC was created in 1988. There have been several chat protocols created since then [1]. A few notable protocols that tick a lot of "modern" boxes:

- Jami

- Matrix

- Signal Protocol

- XMPP

The better question: why aren't new and existing technology companies embracing these protocols and making them ubiquitous?

Personally I think it's because companies have a vested interest in creating walled gardens. The more users that are forced onto a platform, the more money they make. It's against their business interest to create a product that works with their competitors.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_instant_messagin...
And yet, as a counterexample, HTML and HTTP persist. Maybe things aren't as straightforward as they seem.
Wow. That’s a fine looking car.
In the US, poor whites' lifespans and healthspans are decreasing, likely due to the opioid crisis.

Even the best health care also can't currently cure many of the illnesses that harm quality of life the most, like depression or Alzheimer's, both of which are increasingly common.

Finally, what about hope? Life is miserable if you don't have hope for the future, and many people are feeling hopeless about climate change and other impending disasters.
I would hardly call a 150m2 home a "mega home", even in London.
> Doesn’t matter, nobody will use it

Yes, that's the same thing I felt when I saw the article. It seems like an app for the wrong time and place.

Now if they had something to reduce the cost of a taxi, like a group taxi app where you may have to book in advance but you pay 1/5th of the normal fare since you share the cab with other people, that may be somewhat interesting. Such services exist but not as an app, as far as I know.
Green stripes on the paper idea for printing is great.
Ask HN: How do you secure an iOS Framework?
I found out that after building a Swift iOS Framework, the resulting binary contains a lot of symbols. Symbols that should not be there at all like names of private properties, classes etc. It is not only the framework binary itself that contains metadata/sensitive informations but also the `.swiftmodule` file that even includes absolute paths.

I have tried many combinations of compiler flags in order to suppress this behaviour but could not eliminate it.

Ideally I want the symbols not to be present in the framework binary nor in `.swiftmodule`, but I guess that is impossible to do, so as an alternative I guess I could make use of an obfuscator (I was unable to find a fully working obfuscator for free).

Have you encountered this problem? How did you solve it? Thanks.
But guiding that 60 year old lady through configuring her company phone is how you discover that your process for configuring company phones is broken. When the people who design a system never interact with the people who use the system, that is how you end up with shitty unusable IT systems.
Yeah the keyboard is nice, but the full-click trackpad is a rackety piece of crap.

Have to use a mouse on mine as the trackpad click switch has so much travel that I’ve accidentally moved the pointer off the thing I wanted to click on by the time it reaches the bottom. Tried using tap to click and fiddling with the settings, but on Linux it’s temperamental.
I keep thinking I want to start a small bee colony. The local university started a bee lab a few years ago:

https://www.beelab.umn.edu
Ever more technology may not actually be the solution to the problems created by technology. We could already produce all our food just fine without pesticides. We don't need more technology, we need people to recognize that this isn't a minor issue that can be ignored, and actually make a change.
older generation is not wise at all. they should be saving for when the current pension and old age benefit system collapses. i guess they are the same people that gave us climate change so i am not surprised at their shortsightedness
> [Tabs] Releasing middle mouse button on a tab closes it, even when the actual click was somewhere else VB-43962

I filed this bug two years ago. I guess there are fewer and fewer mouse-users.
I was honestly looking forward to an explanation of what utensils to use, and what sort of wines to pair them with. As it turns out, lignin is not especially nutritious to human beings, so perhaps “read books” would be a more helpful choice of words. Obviously the implication is that you only read a book once, but I’m not sure I can get on board with that.

I think I’ll go reread Red Dragon, which has a lot to say on the topic of consuming.
> "At this moment there is no clear-cut data available," zur Hausen said in an interview from Singapore two weeks ago
Crypto is filled with scammers and until these vultures are removed from the ecosystem, the field will remain a joke
> Cab drivers in Japan usually take pride in their work. It’s not uncommon to see one waiting outside a home and scrambling to meet the passengers at their front door with an open umbrella.

Nothing to do with "pride in their work". When there is competition usually what makes the difference is the quality of service or the human touch. A cab ride is pretty much the same from one cab company to the other, so they try to differentiate with other things, such as knowing their regular customers.
Old news with no effective remedy and a steadily dropping barrier-to-entry. "Also works on Teslas" is the new (but unsurprising) part.
Exactly. Reading any good book and fully understanding it takes a lot more than a simple once-through hearing. Sure, you might catch the themes and be able to have a water cooler conversation, but the best books are the ones that aren't page turners; ones that you spend all night on, and only make it through 20 pages.

Besides, when I read something really good, like Hitchhiker's Guide, I usually flip it over and start it again!
I have a lilac bush that depending on the time of year you're bound to bump into (and bee bumped into) by the local bumble bees who are floating around it.

Bumble bees seem like they're perpetually out of control.
I disagree heavily with the author's understanding of fiction and absorption of ideas in fiction. Fiction IMO is best viewed as an exploration into a concept and not a presentation the way non-fiction is. In the way nonfiction describes the shape of a phenomenon, and is excellently riveting in its placement of the reader in the backdrop of whatever it describes- fiction walks the reader through edge cases and underbellies of the same world.

As an avid reader of nonfiction and fiction equally, the two cannot be read with the same eye to gain the most. If one were to continue with the consuming metaphor- it's very possible to eat fried rice with a shallow, metal spoon- but some authenticity is lost in the experience of eating even when it still reaches your mouth and your gullet just the same.
Nostalgia?
"Decent behavior" describes the process.

"Well deserved" describes the outcome.

So you might say the outcome is well deserved only if decent behavior comprised the process.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_economies...
Slack did not kill IRC. It seems like a few people here are saying that.

AOL IM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Chat, SMS...all killed IRC. Sure, there's a small niche of users out there but it's a deserted island for the most part.
Check the motherboard specs, they are a bit hit and miss when I was looking.

I am using an ASROCK - B450M Pro4, Crucial - CT16G4WFD8266 16GB ECC with a Ryzen 5 2600.
yes, these are very promising projects, but they are just starting out this year unfortunately. I hope they will prove to be stable and close enough to the OpenJDK as time goes, but I wouldn't bet a new product on them just yet, unfortunately.
ActivityPub shows a lot of promise.
I feel the same way; weddings have always felt like an unnecessary extravagance.

Some friends are getting married on the weekend and I was shocked to learn that they're spending close to $50,000 on the wedding, and that's after a raising over $5,000 at their social and getting financial support from both their families to pay for the event. That's like a downpayment on a house! Insanity.
I think that was something available to Slack in the past when it had it's IRC gateway. Sadly they closed that down.

We all have our own ways of doing things and I personally prefer to have applications run independently so I like my Slack client and my IDE and terminal etc. etc. separate.

I've always found if one tool can do it all, it's generally a worse experience than dedicated software applications and doing a Cmd-TAB (I'm on a Mac) is just as simple as switching to another window in a single application
Continuous Fuzzing Systemd – Case Study
When I first started grad school as a biomedical engineer, I did a rotation in a neurophysiologist lab who was looking at how turtle neurons are able to survive longer without oxygen, hoping along the way to apply it to stroke survival, etc. But, his overall goal was to learn about how the brain stem controls respiration.

I described this guy and his lab to my parents as a "basic science" which they took to mean it was simple "easy" science. In reality he has studied the same square millimeter of turtle brain and a few proteins for decades, and knows it better probably than anyone who has ever lived.

In these contexts, "basic" and "low-level" means "insane level of detail that no one else wants to bother with."
Descartes Labs creates a TOP500 supercomputer on AWS with a company credit card
If you can ever work it in, I recommend making an event out of it. I try to, at least once a month, head down to a cafe I haven't been to yet and read something I've been putting off. It's really cathartic for me at least, and gets me out of the house; I find that what little free time I have at the house outside my busy schedule usually gets squandered doing ???.
That's really stretching the idea, but I did listen to the song back then, and probably the whole album because why not—but nope, no relation.

Now, the Princess Superstar's song is uncannily similar, also consisting largely of banter (though with noticeable differences in delivery)—but the Japanese connection eludes me. I, in fact, first discovered ‘Perfect’ randomly and rather recently through a remix, and then listened to all the other versions, and still found no leads. Googled for Japanese covers or sources, for good measure, to no avail.
Cinebench is a good test for highly optimised graphics performance (mostly floating point arithmetic). This maps fairly well to many common compute intensive applications.

For more general benchmarking something like Geekbench is probably more useful, as it tests performance for memory intensive, cryptographic, integer and other workloads.

Here are the benchmarks: https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks The top appears to be dominated by Intel, but AMD is often better scoring at the same price point.
Or zkSNARKs/Nightfall on Ethereum.
And Amazon did not even notice:
https://twitter.com/_joemag/status/1141541266959687681
While we're at it, the arrangement of spikes on a Stegosaurus' tail is called a thagomizer, after a Far Side cartoon. And it's actually referred to as such by real live paleontologists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer#Etymology
You want notable ? AMD is currently beating Intel on price, single threaded perf, multi threaded perf, TDP/power usage at equivalent performance AND on many of the "little pluses on the side" (more PCI-e lanes, ECC supports, ...).

When Zen first came is was a huge deal, but it merely put them as a real competitors, with a decent advantage on many cases, reinforced with Zen+. But Zen 2 put them ahead in almost every category, and in all markets; threadripper and EPYC are just as strong in their areas.

Either Intel has something strong about to appear, or they're going to face a truly difficult few years with customers going AMD now that it's not merely "one generation of chip" that was good. It feels like getting their 10nm working will not be enough by itself.
"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!"

But the problem is that those that don't pay hurt even more.

The US makes it illegal to pay kidnapper ransom and, as a result, US citizens have much worse outcomes (often murdered) when they are ransomed abroad.

The theory that it makes US citizens less attractive targets is confounded by the fact that some families/friends of the victims can and do pay anyway (illegally).

Planet money did a podcast on it.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/09/01/548032302/epis...
On Truth and Lying in the Extra German Sense
Illusory wall ahead
of what? it seems to miss whatever its aiming at.
Haha, sorry - bad choice of word there. I simply meant "forced to leave"

The issue isn't whether it's big enough - it's that it's my home.
Any tips on how to handle reading through more technical books?
I care about WCAG, PCI, GDPR and things like privacy policies, security and accessibility. However, I work for clients who simply want an inexpensive (as possible) website that they like the looks of. My competitors sell increasingly inexpensive solutions that lack these considerations, further driving down the expectations of price by the client (race to the bottom). Convincing them to care AND pay more is difficult. The lawsuits have made them afraid, and in some cases frantic. I don't believe FUD is the most effective way to improving accessibility. Maybe the ends justifies the means, but I cringe thinking we're lining the pockets of law firms for only marginal improvement.
IMO cmd+tab is far superior since it requires less movement from the rest position. I can navigate contexts extremely efficiently. I also use cmd+~ a lot for in-app window switching.

I do like the idea of having the touch-bar as a notification center though, that would be pretty helpful.

I have my Macbook on a stand with an external keyboard. Besides being ergonomically better like that, I also missed the physical esc button way too much and would often accidentally hit the touch escape with my left pinky. Being a touch button all you need to do is graze it and ESCAPE!!1
If Slack adopted the IRC protocol, it would be subject to the same issue Microsoft had with the early web -- either implementing proprietary extensions to the spec to enable features, kludging in new features by abusing existing functionality, or waiting for spec consensus before expanding.

And furthermore, it'd be reimplemented almost instantly by Facebook / Apple / Microsoft / Google.

So I can see why they decided to chart a different path.
That's when Intel "let's go faster" made them meet the 4Ghz barrier head on for the first time. More than a decade later and we're still pretty much there.

One has to wonder how things would have gone if they didn't have the Core-M architecture on the side back then.
It failed because the point was to unify the privacy policy of all Google services (which means data collection would be less spreaded out across the different Google services). The Google+ front (the product users used) was more an excuse for people to sign up and agree to the terms. It had some interesting ideas but was never on the path of success after the initial goal was completed.
400,000: Total Apollo Workforce
The author tried to advocate a "practical view" of fiction books. When your sole aim is to extract some useful idea, why not read the abbreviated version or community reviews on Goodreads?
> Not a fan of Slack but they do have more than chat: voice and video, screen share, drawing on screen, shared control

Most of the features are a no-go in large enterprises and from what I've seen, enterprises will also choose better tools for some of that functionality (like zoom over slack video).
Rowhammer comes handy ;)
Well, yes. A lot of things are done at local authority level for no good reason - although it’s also true that relatively little of that is services where they have zero influence over the cost - they can spend efficiently or inefficiently and offer gold plated services or bare bones. The system was more transparent than comparing band D tax which is what happens now because some local authorities are mostly low band stock and some mostly high band, and that in turn is more transparent than the old rates system.
Then why is it that every Sony product I've used feels clunky? Perhaps it is an issue with their approach to QA than any of the individual teams. If so, I don't expect this app to be any different.

Regardless, if people associate your brand with "clunky", they'll find reasons to dislike even a quality app. You really need to be consistent across your product lines to benefit from brand recognition.
Just don't call the method "print"
It's not like crypto hasn't been used for ransoms and such. This gubment is bad bullshit from libertarian idiots needs to go away.
A great post-apocalyptic MUD that I can't remember the name of at the moment sort of started like this. Every year or so the admins would reset the game, and when people logged in, it would be pre-apocalyptic... and one lucky player would have to cause the apocalypse to set the game in motion again.
ECC is also working fine for me on the X370 Taichi with a first-gen Ryzen 7.
Quite frankly, the time in the office is some of my least productive time, and I'm sure that is the case for a lot of other people as well. Most of the real work gets done in the car driving in, or in the shower, or laying in bed trying to get to sleep.

The time to get worried is when you see that people are spending big chunks of time on LinkedIn or Indeed, or they start unexpectedly coming to work in attire that is one or two levels up from the normal day-to-day. The end is nigh when that starts to happen, and clamping down with poorly conceived attempts to wring more blood from the stone is a great way to accelerate the effect.
At the default setting, there is a noticeable absence of ships in the Atlantic to the west of the British isles - where is the traffic between Northern Europe and the Americas? I wondered if it was due to really bad weather (no - it appears to be good), but if you zoom in, the traffic appears.

As far as I can tell, this is not a consequence of the filter settings - no exclusions seem to be set.
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I went looking for some support for ant-vaxers. This was a top DDG hit <http://traceamounts.com/ten-lies-told-about-mercury-in-vacci..., which was remarkable in its lack of references. The very first claim is

The Facts: The Eli Lilly Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for Thimerosal acknowledges that exposure to Thimerosal in utero and in children can cause “mild to severe mental retardation and mild to severe gross motor impairment.”

Ok, so where is the actual data sheet? You've got a link to it to bavck up this claim, right? Err, No? The rest of it isn't much better.

I actually met my first and only anti-vaxer a few months ago. She quite clearly didn't have a clue about chemistry and wanted to make out this big pharma conspiracy (I used to work in medical trialling so I knew more about the crap that goes on than she ever would). I basically called her a crank.

Seems there is no reasoning with these people because it's not about reason or truth.
The malware could wait for a pull, then feed the server false data.
For the longest time, Flickr had URLs ending in .gne which was thanks to it's start as Game Neverending.
Shopify Fulfilment Network to Compete with Amazon
> Maybe no more than any other chat application (Slack has been the nicest of those which we have tried though), but my workplace, which was born around office messaging, has recently started to push towards more voice communication and I feel like that has brought a decrease in productivity.

> Having an automatic transcript of all discussion was the most amazing resource. Now I, along with everyone else, have to rely on faulty memory, which leads to more meetings to continually check that we understand each other, and longer meetings as it takes a lot longer to convey ideas. Quite frankly, it is a disaster, in my opinion.

> But perhaps in both of our cases we are simply resistant to change.

Voice chat is almost always faster for me as it is easier to have a discussion and potentially whiteboard. If people aren't taking notes during meetings (or snapping a quick photo of a whiteboard drawing) that doesn't sound like a communication problem but a personal one.
Getting 2FA Right in 2019
> I just I wish I had more time to read.

When I started working two days a week a colleague of mine said he was jealous and wished he could do the same. While he agreed that objectively there was absolutely no reason he couldn't actually do the same.

Isn't it about setting priorities? What stops you from for example spending less time on your side business and more time reading? Please don't take it as judgemental, I am really curious.
First of all the language is released on June 22. It was released today for 7 hours. There's no more early access.

Second of all, you haven't listed any of these "false pretenses". Your AST and runtime points are laughable. So is the "dependency" on glfw and freetype.
You really need to use a term other than city to describe what you're describing. I live in a city, Edinburgh, as do the various folk who have mentioned living in Manchester etc. Their not mega sprawling metropolises like London but their still cities. You're confusing the discussion by using the term improperly.
You are not Google, you are not Netflix
How to optimize website conversion rate with dynamic content?
www.Redox-os.org

Written in Rust
> Frankly, the right way to use something like a Shapeoko for a project like this is to design the parts for the process.

Definitely agreed. :)

> https://www.ebay.com/itm/LAGUN-FTV-1-VERTICAL-KNEE-MILL-w-Al....

Heh Heh Heh

It'd be tempting to get one of those, then convert it to CNC. But... other priorities atm.

For my stuff, the tolerances of a Shapeoko are fine. For now. :)
I'd disagree if you have a job where you will earn most by far in London. You can live really cheap if you share a flat and you dont need a car, so you'll save much more in London than other places. When you have a family things are very different.
Thanks for taking time to write out your thoughts.
Vivaldi using Webkit... Its Chromium isnt it?
It might be because Slack has support, a great UI, lots of users, and 'just works'. A company I worked with tried to setup Riot and Matrix and they were having all sorts of problems. Even when they tried to use the Riot.im website there were bugs and features from Slack they needed that were missing. What Matrix and Riot.im is doing is still good though, I hope it takes off.
There's always been a segment of people who would blow way too much money on weddings. In the past, these people just put them on credit cards.

On a broader level, specialized loans are where the money is at for lenders. When lenders know what people are aiming to buy, they can work with cottage industries that sell to that particular market and get kickbacks. I'm sure the next step for this is shit like wedding insurance policies, preferred vendor "discounts", etc.

Wedding insurance is a thing, because, of course it is.
I m more interested where did that magic come from? How come this though-secreting organ in our heads feels good vis-a-vis something it does not understand, and why is this more prevalent in early age.