skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case anyone was wondering, the Netflix cyber crime show "Unit 42" is quite good.
I've built a half dozen Fender Bassmans and a few Fender Super amps over the years. I thought the article would be about this kind of amp building, but evidently not many hacker news readers play blues harp through a tube amp.

Low tech tube amps are quite easy to build, although they cost a few hundred because the transformers, chassis and tubes can be pricey and the cabs and speakers aren't cheap. The results are great, though, and I'd say go for it if you are thinking about trying.

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He also described his pursuit after the hacker in „The Cuckoo's Egg” witch is one of my favorite books ever
Not intending to start a flame war, just to expand my knowledge.

As someone well versed in C#/VB please ELI5 why F# is so superior to it's OO cousins?

Seems to me like it's actually more difficult to get to the same results with functional languages especially when C# has a lot of "functional" paradigms included?
I agree it's a much better standard, but it's not a minor sacrifice for every one. There are a lot of old things which will be discarded and contribute to e-waste, though that may be somewhat offset by one connector. I wish people didn't go quite so scorched-earth on one port, especially apple. Just offer both for a while.
I find I use the 15" laptop screen more when it's on my desk than the smaller laptop screens. Sometimes you want to get work done so ignoring other distractions on secondary screens are great. i can go full screen at 1680P and not feel out of sorts but full screen on a larger display doesn't do it for me.
Complicated. Ask a lawyer. It depends a lot on the specifics of what you're doing, and case-law makes a lot of very subtle distinctions based on exactly who you're scraping, what their ToS says, how they present the ToS, how much data you take, what you do with that data, is it public, is it facts & numbers vs. opinion & expression, how much you might inconvenience their other users and staff, whether you're a direct competitor of them, etc.

I suspect you'll actually get different answers depending on which lawyer you ask. If you've got deep enough pockets you can probably ensure you get the answer you want, and if you have really deep pockets you can probably ensure the court gets the answer you want. But if you're just a student who doesn't want to end up in court, there are potential minefields there.
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Firefox needs to make the choice compelling. That is why I switched from Firefox to Chrome almost a decade ago; Chrome was so much faster and better. It's still faster and better.
https://devdocs.io/ isn't exactly equivalent to manpages, but works well enough. You can even download documentation for offline use.
Sorry to hear that, I've never been somewhere with such customer impacting practices. I don't think this is normal, but my sample size is not sufficient
What do you do about license tainting in your code base? Stack overflow provides all of its answers under a Creative Commons license. An example may have been lifted from a GPL source, do you care that you have contributed this to your community project or corporate employers code? If the answer is no, then why care if you google or not
The Volta and higher architecture share ALUs with the floating point units, so nothing is really going to waste. Same with the tensor cores.
I did, but I get beach balls of death now and then, I also need a websocket frame inspector
Yeah! They're depriving it from Facebook!
I'd say the act of web scraping alone, is almost never unethical if you are careful to not cause undue load to servers. From an ethics, not legal perspective, I don't see a whole lot of difference between your computer's silicon eyes and your organic eyes just looking at something that's already in plain view.

It might be illegal in some jurisdiction; IANAL but I think you can just get out of that jurisdiction and scrape away if that is the case. It might violate some ToS but ToS isn't law; the consequences of violating a ToS are usually on the order of getting your IP banned.

What you do with the stuff you scraped can be ethical or unethical.
> the concern is less about what’s ethical and more about what’s legal.

Please reconsider this position. You're teaching the future generation of engineers and scientists. Even if it's not strictly the topic of your course, please don't teach your students that everything that's technically legal to do is fine. Show that being socially conscious matters as well. Everybody will be better off.
On mobile, I am using Safari and article just about desktop version. I should have mentioned this >_<
I think the main idea is that words like "tech-native" are really just weasel-words that can be used as a post-hoc justification for rejecting someone.

If my first immersion in tech was BASIC on a PDP-8 in the 70's when I was 12, does that make me tech-native or not?
You can pack more battery into a larger body.

Speaking for myself, 15” is a comfortable size to write code on using a larger font, due to slight vision issues.
>I'd wager that more people are harmed by pseudoscience and religious false pretenses than they are by the state lotto, but alas I have no number to back up my hunch -- and they're hard numbers to come by.

It is hard to measure the effect of religions, however, it is pretty obvious the lottery is not good for poor people.

In the US alone, 35 billion dollars spent by the poorest third of households in 2014--half of all lottery purchasing. [1]

Americans that make $13k or less spend 9% of their income on lottery tickets [2]

I think may be better off buying crystals or going to church, because lottery windfalls also often result in misery. [3]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/lotteri...

[2]
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/what-the-lottery-ha...

[3]
https://time.com/4176128/powerball-jackpot-lottery-winners/
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It's not usable because the sand has been mined by the sand mafia for more than two decades. I'm from that area and I've seen thousands of trucks carrying sands every day. And the river is continuously being polluted by industries. It'll take immense effort from the government to make it usable.

One district collector (Irayanbu) tried to fight the sand mafia but he was transferred soon after.
It's a strong observation, now what do you propose we do about it?
Germany even has an agency (the "Verfassungsschutz") that is explicitly tasked with spying on the political views and activities of political "extremists."

Nominally, this is to prevent the rise of another movement like the Nazis. But ironically, one of the first parties to be banned was one of the only two that had vigorously opposed the Nazis during their rise, the KPD. Nowadays, there are suspicions that the Verfassungsschutz is riddled with far-right sympathizers itself, given how it has handled several cases.
Sandvig v. Sessions

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/dc-court-accessing-pub...
I know a little about tube guitar amps, and my understanding is that they are desired due to their “defects” compared to more accurate solid state transistors. I would assume headphone amps would want pristine amplification— why would you want tubes, then?
Faceid is very nice on a laptop. I have “login with face” on my SurfaceBook and it’s very convenient
Define "content".
Given the laziness, you'd think memoizing an arbitrary pure function would be easy in Haskell - at least as easy as Python, where you can do it with a one line decorator.

But no, it's pretty complicated: https://wiki.haskell.org/Memoization you even have to involve fixed point combinators. Pretty disappointing.
>Readers: reducing your emissions will make a difference, not just your reduction, but you will lead others, who otherwise might feel alone, to join you.

I'm fairly confident that every individual I personally know would react with a bemused "how quaint" if I started riding a bicycle or eating vegan or whatever as a way of fighting climate change. I'm sorry, but I just don't foresee a massive number of people changing their lifestyles voluntarily.
> The second part is that people will stop believing media, which might actually be a good thing.

Why is that a good thing?
Yes! When I first got into OneNote (2007 version?) I put a lot of effort into using and customising tags but quickly hit limits. Even if other features never updated, an overhaul of the tags system could drastically increase OneNote's usability.

It always felt odd that the same app that reliably converted my handwriting to text a decade ago had a small, fixed number of tag slots and no ability to import icons. I remember thinking "well surely this was a v1, they'll improve it in later versions" but no, not even the tiniest change.
For one thing, it's way too late. We have to cut global emissions by 50% in the next 10 years. You'll barely have broken ground on a nuclear plant in that time.
Operation BULLRUN said they were both backdooring systems and weakening standards to ensure they could get in. There's also been attacks facilitated by their activities. Thanks to Snowden, we don't have to speculate: NSA, FBI, and CIA are enemies of the state if our cybersecurity is concerned. They must always be assumed hostile.

One exception I make is defense contractors that take money from them to build OSS tech. In that case, one can just scrutinize the tech itself. Most of the positive contributions in this area come from Galois Inc. Cryptol language is an example. On proprietary side, Rockwell Collins SHADE toolkit and AAMP7G CPU were likely NSA-funded to large degree.
We tried paying a big SEO consultant with a long track record of big-name successes (allegedly) $10k/month and the poor results we’re getting had as much to do with the whole hiring high paid consultants who waste your time in weekly meeting busywork than actual SEO not working. Not a good idea for small businesses or startups, even if you can afford it, IMO.

SEO is still a long term investment that every company needs to make for the benefit of their users, helping people find you and your information on search engines is a good thing (assuming you’re providing real value).

The only problem are the spam sites who still succeed occasionally on the fringes. Which was why we were motivated to get SEO (and SEM) help in the first place - as one of our biggest competitors is a shameless gray/black hat spammer that their poor customers keep finding on Google.
Firefox must have realized that their UI for handling "top sites" was bad. In ESR v60.7, the Tiles/topSites block has a menu where the first entry is "+ Add Top Site". This was missing before.

In fact, this problem was not directly mine, it was a request from my parents.

I made my parents (nearly 70 years old) use Firefox. After an upgrade of their FF, they lost their usual homepage. In empty tabs their custom links were replaced by the dynamical list of their most visited sites. At the time of change, most tiles were not even relevant because their recent activity was not representative. They were annoyed, tried to fix it, and failed.

There was no contextual help, and searching technical info is hard for non technical persons, especially if they don't understand English. So my parents called me for help. On my next visit to them, I tried to do it myself, but did not manage to guess how it worked. DDG helped. After this episode, I wondered if FF was the right browser for them. It seems that Chromium's UI is more stable, and that is important for ageing people.
Vendors were the least affected by all this and they just did whatever was most profitable for them. Remember that the original message i wrote above wasn't about vendors but about by the time Windows XP came out it was already riding a huge popularity wave that began back in the DOS days. Whatever vendors took out of it, this sort of tactics made DOS hugely popular.
Expressiveness is too powerful. I have to understand what the author was thinking. What you typically want is composition. With composition, you have to understand what the author is doing.

Painting with acrylics vs Lego.
Power generation has enormous positive outputs: the power. But that's not an externality. Unless they start dumping all their output into a tesla tower so that everyone can get power for free, there is nothing to give them public money for. Their only externalities are negative, and they should only be paying the public.
I think better functionality and UX could be achieved with iPod, iPhone or iPad integration.

Use it as a touchscreen numpad / macro interface with context changed around the ‘focused’ application running on OS X.

Come up w cutesy mounts for desk, traveling, etc.

Or, get rid of the mechanical keyboard and touchpad, and make the entire bottom half a lower fidelity touchscreen.
My wants:

- Mini oled screen [0]

- 4k resolution

- 2012 body

- 2012 keyboard

- magsafe

- 32gb minimum

Most of these will guarentee a purchase from me as I'm replacing an ageing 2012.

- AMD Ryzen [1]

This will have me foaming at the mouth lol. I can dream I guess.

I'd love for the keyboard to not be piping hot under load. Or the laptop to be throttling under load or extremely hot weather. An AMD Processor or even an ARM can maybe have it warm or perhaps cool to touch?

[0]: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/06/21/apple-samsung-oled-ipad...

[1]: https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-3800x-benchmarks-leaked-cru...
The formation of peat in bogs does sequester carbon, but the timescale is long, on the order of several thousand years. However, higher atmospheric CO2 leads to greater plant biomass at “equilibrium”. Studies suggest that about 75% of CO2 has a half-life of decades and the remaining 25% has a half-life of tens of millenia, as I recall.
> "If that’s the case, the “obscure” library is immutable.js [0], one with mere 27k+ stars on github."

I suggest that your drop the snark (double quotes, mere) when trying to recruit. Not to mention you are not addressing the "ghosting" part, which is disrespectful.
Thanks for the counterpoint. Come to think of it, I really know one person who likes as-big-as-possible and he is a pilot and avid gamer, so he buys 'portable' gaming laptops.

The laptops I encounter when working with people all over the world are usually 13 inch or smaller and people nag a lot about that they are not comfortable to carry or use in cramped spaces. There are quite a few Japanese laptops that are popular among this crowd, especially this[0] jewel pops up more and more.

[0] https://panasonic.jp/cns/pc/products/rz8k/
steve blank defined a startup as "an organization in search of a business model". so yes, i'd say you are spot on.
A practical and popular corporate-driven language. Just like Go and Rust.

Then the company decides to bend it out of shape or slow down the development. People cannot do anything about it because it's corporate-driven.

And yet, people have not learnt the lesson.
You may want to review the court decision in the LinkedIn vs hiQ case[0][1].

> It is generally impermissible to enter into a private home without permission in any circumstances. By contrast, it is presumptively not trespassing to open the unlocked door of a business during daytime hours because "the shared understanding is that shop owners are normally open to potential customers." These norms, moreover govern not only the time of entry but the manner; entering a business through the back window might be a trespass even when entering through the door is not.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/court-rejects-li...

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3932131-2017-0814-Hi...
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Objectively speaking, if the subjective enjoyment of your music is generally increased, then that's a net positive. So it at least depends on the target audience.
> other developers went through the assignment without any trouble way under 2 hours.

May be they did know immutable.js already, few may have even starred the project on github.
It's not like upstream Chromium has accelerated video on Linux..
My workplace uses Bluescape [1] in a similar way, with a focus on multi-user collaboration. We mainly use it on dedicated touch-TVs (like a digital posterboard + whiteboard), rather than on tablets, but the thinking is the same.

[1] https://www.bluescape.com/
I kind of agree, and I think nowadays it's hard to promote a product on the Internet or even get noticed without putting a lot of effort. When the Internet was smaller, I guess it's been easier.

Off-topic: the author's product seems similar to my open source tool https://github.com/justcomments/newsletter-cli which allows sending emails via AWS SES
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That's not true, only tags that make web requests or do dynamic things are amp'd. You still use div and button and style and span and whatnot.
Great intro, but where’s the actual article?

(Also it’s pretty harsh to say that it takes “little talent” to become an SEO expert. Like all industries, there are charlatans selling snake oil, but there are experts who have invested a lot of time in developing their skill sets, and it’s not nice to be so dismissive.)
On mobile. What do you recommend I should use to read this on iOS?
This is all made worse by the fact that search is a monopoly.
> Dev tooling is poor compared to alternative

Really? Other than the websocket thing everyone keeps bringing up, I find Firefox devtools ahead of everything else. Especially for CSS layout.
For those who want to read the information without having to load TBB, you can use the clearnet URL: https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/2995/ice-payi...
I think the concern from these complainants is precisely for this bourgeoisie, not for mass labor.
That might be one way to reframe this to avoid the AgeLab paradox mentioned by Gopnik: "Old people will not buy anything that reminds them that they are old."

Rather than, "Here's a site for older programmers," it could be, "Here's a site that will help you bypass all those crappy hurdles that younger orientated startups will put in your way."

Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of younger programmers started flocking to that site as well. I know I would. But then I'm old enough to be protected by the ADEA myself.
I also don’t need them to focus on excellent bass and audio output via the internal speakers.

Not a priority guys.
Unfortunately SEO ruins great, witty and brief marketing texts.
Missed the Tactical High-power Microwave Operational Responder (THMPOR), opportunity, which would result in being lovingly christened "thumper" by your EWAR guys.
I find it strange that this Ask HN was ranked #23, then I refresh after a minute and it's #190...
DigitalOcean disables creating new Droplets in NYC1 until further notice
I don't believe lobbying as an individual is effective either. We need to participate in combined lobbying efforts to maybe exert an influence a fraction as strong as the thinly veiled (and occasionally outright) bribery committed by giant corporations and sociopathic billionaires.
I agree that paying for SEO is probably pointless; unless you're just paying for some Google ads yourself.

But the problem with your product isn't SEO, it's that anyone who knows what SES is, also knows how to use it for the thing you're selling, without paying an additional fee.
Well, yeah, kinda, sort of... difference being that if Visual Basic was open source, it'd probably still be around, just not under Microsoft.
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Firefox Sync does not have synchronization of contacts, calendar or map locations.
Just because you observe a problem doesn't mean you have a solution. That doesn't remove the value from the observation, as long as it's not a way to just regularly complain at everything without a goal.
Along that line I remember police reported being attacked by protesters with allmost chemical weapons or acid ... which turned out to be soap bubbles.
> Why is it reasonable to expect that proprietary synthesis tools are going to be better than an open source one? That definitely was not the case, long term, with proprietary C compilers of yesteryears. LLVM is the future, and mostly because of LLVM-IR.

Lol citation needed. Last I checked the performance oriented commercial closed source C/C++ compilers still outperform Clang and LLVM. And so does gcc for most cases for that matter.
Exactly. I’m pretty sure the most common Mac OS user is still in media or marketing. People who demand the fanciest, largest displays and printers. They’re not going to tie themselves down to a laptop display unless that’s just how things are done there.
Wow, that wasn't clear from the report. Getting the audio codec going seems like a much more tractable problem than calling.

I have a bunch of Nexus 5 phones. One even still works.
text/markdown is a bad idea because it's not backwards compatible. It should be text/plain; markup=markdown, since Markdown is perfectly readable without any software support.

See https://blog.freron.com/2011/thoughts-on-writing-emails-usin... for more thoughts on this topic.
A law enforcement agency is procuring products and services with money from their budget, to carry out their work.

What is the practical difference between this and their own "open source intelligence" efforts?
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I still have two products in production that I am supporting, both written in Office Basic on Access - It's been over 10 years now.

And my search through FOSS has been for a similar environment, preferably supporting Python 3, now that I reflect upon it. Kind of a hold-over from working in Borland's ObjectVision back in the day, or FoxPro before that (the jump to Visual FoxPro caused me to stumble), or Paradox before that (as well as Ashton-Tate's DB2-3 and variants).

And yes, I am a hack who still manages to comment my code, at least at first. One of those "bad examples" I imagine c-corp professional programmers cite in TedX talks. But I do get paid :)
I’m assuming you run an ad-blocker? Because the main difference in loading time is seen between a webpage with regular ads, and a webpage with ads that are forced to use the AMP ad framework. Without ads, sure, the difference in total latency before DOMContentLoaded is negligible.

> But it certainly doesn’t have any purpose.

“HTML” email is actually “email that renders HTML and CSS according to the semantics of Outlook 97’s HTML renderer that it borrowed from Word 97’s HTML editor.” Email clients stick to this because it’s a universal de-facto standard, and is still technically HTML. But it wouldn’t be AMP, since AMP specifies how a given blob of AMP should render in very fine detail. Standardizing on AMP for email would be one way of breaking free of the current legacy of email HTML rendering semantics.

There are other ways of doing that, but AMP is one of the only ones that does that while also specifying a packaging format for web-page archives that has MIME-compatible semantics (so that e.g. you can send all the media of a page embedded into the page’s envelope.)
What is TBB?
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