skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi guys,

DataTau has been down for more than a month. We tried to contact Rohit on Twitter and offered him our help to maintain or host the site, but got no answer, so we understood the project is over and decided to make 'a clone of the clone' on a .net domain.

We have been working on setting up a new version of the site with the same philosophy and Django based. We are not Web devs and although HN frontend looks simple, it has more features than we though. It is still missing some HN features (as original DataTau) but we are working hard to make the site better and bring the community back.

Please give it a try and report any bug you encounter.
Interesting that the adblock thing is finally nudging people away from Chrome. I've found it disrespectful of its users long ago.

The last straw for me was when it started to prevent my computer from sleeping because some unspecified page had active WebRTC connections. There is no option to disable WebRTC in Chrome.

I don't understand: why do they dare prevent my system from sleeping just because some page is doing some p2p stuff in the background? Why would a page even be allowed to do p2p stuff in the background?

Anyway, these days i use Safari (with its nice battery related optimizations) as my main browser with Firefox as a backup. Not missing Chrome in the least.

Edit: I just noticed i had a Chrome instance (with no pages) open and pressed cmd+Q to close it... and it told me "hold cmd q to quit. What the hell Google? Why do you think you're so special?
I'm the same way. I tried Chrome when it was new but at the time it didn't have a NoScript equivalent so I went back to FF.
You have no idea how to control these processes in the long term. There is a good chance that you would trade one problem with a bigger problem.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20255943. Slowness is a point I’m lifting from other arguments, not my own complaint. I could live with slowness, but that is not my deal breaker.
I don’t think this falls into that category, but the first example that comes to mind was the 1938 “war of the worlds” radio broadcast[0].

The dramatization was written as a news report and didn’t identify itself as fictional until well into the broadcast. Angry callers reported mobs taking to the streets, but the scale of the reaction has been debated.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio...
Wow, each of ⎕FFT, ⎕GTK and ⎕RE are substantial and impressive additions!

Thank you, and congratulations on the new release!
Climate protesters storm Garzweiler coalmine in Germany
Sigh, no I don't use facebook. I'm also a very small subset of earths population and also own a small subset of all internet connected devices.
Countries have a lot more freedom on how to administer their two-letter ccTLDs than do the operators of the gTLDs. I don't believe they're required to defer to trademark holders in the way you describe, though many choose to.
> I've never seen any proof of China actually using their exported devices for spying purposes. At most you can say their smart phones are leaking personal information back to China

How are these different?
> which led to poorly built and poorly maintained apps.

Looking around, I don't think these needed any help from VB to exist.
I have done a couple of projects during the last years at a few life sciences companies part of Fortune 500.

Their researchers aren't using R, Python or even eyeing on Julia.

They use Excel with VB macros and those skillful enough, get IT to install them Visual Studio Professional and carry on using VB.NET.

Also remember that VB.NET, contrary to F#, enjoys equal footing with C# across all .NET deployment scenarios and Visual Studio graphical tooling.
Many nuclear power plants have been planed and talked about, but untill the haven't started building it it is still quite cheap to chancel.
Vb6 is still out there being developed with, on Windows 10. Active community at vbforums
Also, giving people a signal that you're lazy or view them as a resource to exploit is an awful way to start a conversation.

Any given community's patience is, unfortunately, subject to the tragedy of the commons.
I feel like this is the approach that Mathworks [1] (Matlab/Simulink -> FPGA) and Intel [2] (OpenCL -> FPGA) use.

[1] https://www.mathworks.com/solutions/fpga-asic-soc-developmen...

[2] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/software/programmabl...
There are absolutely no standards at all when trying to code emails, it takes hours trying to make something that remotely resembles the same thing on every engine (Microsoft outlook rendering emails with their ms word engine, google doing all sorts of different things on desktops vs phones) - and hours more of testing and tweaking css and markup hacks to make them readable. Although this is another puzzle piece to scatter the landscape, I can’t say I’m against someone actually trying to lock some standards down on the email platform.

The counter is that we don’t need all the css and pizzazz in emails, but we’ve come too far to realistically go back on that.
I assumed it would be 640K. Nope, it's phones.
The Rodney King beating video is good example of a recording that led to direct and immediate social impacts.
Dunno - if you look at the ozone hole business it was fixed by a global action to ban CFCs and the like. An individual stopping using aerosols or what have you wouldn't really have fixed things.

With CO2 emissions we have a lot of individuals trying to make changes and again it's not really fixing things - CO2 levels keep going up. It's a bit trickier than the ozone thing though.
The libhybris support that's mentioned near the end is the most interesting part, IMHO. In principle, that should ultimately be enough to run a postmarketOS-based userspace (and of course, a Debian Mobile based one, or any other distro of your choice) on any device supporting GSI ("Generic System Image")/Project Treble, dispensing with Android or AOSP altogether. Thereafter the only thing that the pmOS project needs to concern itself with is kernel support (bringing the mainline kernel and free driver support to more devices) and older devices that have not been "Treblized" already by the OEM or by the AOSP modding community. It's not as simple as one single image being sufficient for everything, because even GSI's come with a few variations (IIRC, 32- vs. 64-bit, and A+B boot partition scheme vs. A only) but it's very close!

Added: I've noticed that Alpine seems to have dispensed with ARMv6 architecture support altogether in the upstream. Unfortunately, this cuts off a lot of the oldest AOSP devices from support - devices that used to run quite well with CyanogenMod, and that ought to still be usable in some way, if perhaps not in a truly general-purpose sense given how limited some of them are (512MB RAM/512MB "internal" storage, etc.). Is there any hope of pmOS picking up this support?
I recently switched to Firefox as my default on both Linux and Android. Things work great and I have not noticed issues. On Linux it's working perfectly. On Android it's also very nice, but I subjectively feel it may be slightly slower than Chrome.
No, it doesn't. First of all, you have to account for deforestation which is already happening in unprecedented pace. So while you'll go around planning trees, in some other part of the world people are chopping them down to provide more land for agriculture or to support the demand for wood. So the overall net effect might be zero.

Aside from that, the fact is that you need a shit ton of trees to negate climate change. Planting 1.7 billion acres of trees would remove only 8% of yearly carbon emissions. Where will we find the land to plant all those trees? We simple don't have the real estate.
tldr version of this theory:

foreign adversary built a system to probe US advanced radar using submarine launched transparent balloons with radar reflectors mounted inside, probably with some small UAV like drone providing recon and some guidance/propulsion capabilities. These device are launched from submarines and perhaps collected by them. Then can be strategically arranged in lines and different altitudes and dynamically have their radar reflection turned on/off.

This theory accounts for quite a bit of the observations. Of course I’m still hoping for ET but ... Occam's razor
My old Garmin car GPS still works, and thanks to people using OpenStreetMap data I still get third-party maps that are up-to-date way beyond the expected lifetime of the device.

I don't use it often, but it's nice knowing I have a fallback in case my smartphone dies, etc.
It's called a gTLD and anyone can apply for one.
I hope that wooden building has excellent (and redundant) sprinklers. It didn't mention fireproof treatment of some kind. Grenfell showed how fast a tower can burn if it's flammable.
With a title like "FPGAs Have the Wrong Abstraction", it rather suggests that the author has something better in mind.
> The greatest mistake ever is the... whatever mismanagement I engaged in that caused Microsoft not to be what Android is. That is Android is the standard phone platform -- non-Apple form -- phone platform. That was a natural thing for Microsoft to win. […] There's room for exactly one non-Apple operating system, and what's that worth? $400 billion that would be transferred from company G to company M.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5g4sPi1wd4

He was asked a question just after 9:00 in the video about work/life balance in the early days of Microsoft and includes this in his answer around 11:40.
Ask HN: Why is .NET not popular with startups?
As someone with a decade or more experience in the .NET Framework and now with .NET Core, and a healthy interest in startups, I find it frustrating I cannot apply my experience more widely.

What are you thoughts as to why .NET hasn't taken off at startups?
Top five tips for handling .Net Exceptions
The first version of the software that made our company launch back in the 90’s was made with Delphi with a browser like component that we discovered, after making successful demos to French historic telco leading to more visible demos, was a 30 days demo and that we couldn’t compile anymore without a message box stating that.

So due to emergency we rewrote all in a week in VB6 (or maybe it was 4 or 5 I don’t really remember) with the Internet Explorer browser object.

And thanks to the simplicity of Visual Basic it was possible to do so !

And then the demos lead to sales and we are still here 22 years later
Looks like the link is broken.
Windows CE and windows mobile was terrible, making it open source, or aggressive 3rd party handset adoption with it would not change anything. Windows phone was too little too late.

Android copied how iOS worked and felt fairly closely to it and it became an affordable alternative product for the non bourgeoisie.

iOS is not so intuitive that anyone can pick it up and figure out how to use it. There are still older people that don't understand it and handset interfaces could be improved if a company can stomach throwing away a few complete designs for the sake of clarity. Microsoft just didn't have the vision required to make something that had its own merit besides being the poor mans iOS. To say that handsets can never be improved and that iOS is fundamentally the best it can ever be is short sighted. Of course a new paradigm can be found that is superior. An also ran that is cheaper is running with an also ran that has been around way longer that already fills that role. So the only way to get that market is to innovate.
yes: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...
Probably one of the problem with meat is too much water required for its processing which against has a processing cost.
US Military Emits More CO2 Than Many Industrialized Nations – Morocco, Sweden
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20253954
North Korea tries strictly control its citizens because it's a totalitarian dictatorship. That doesn't even have anything to do with economics. Don't assume everything the North Korean government says makes sense.
> James Cameron's special-effects company, Digital Domain, which used the operating system to help create the illusions in "Titanic."

I know this is a random tangent from the core theme of the article. But I found it funny that in 1998 we describe CGI as "illusions".
Wow guys! Really missed DT! Thanks a lot :D
Dreadful, if you take the Dark Forest theory to heart (see Liu Cixin's second book in the Three Body Problem trilogy).
How does Safari's third-party cookie blocking compare with Firefox containers from a privacy standpoint?
GP meant that its good that concrete is less used, because it has poor insulation properties. You seem to agree.
It's sort of funny that this was an actual TV program, but the association of hairstyle with personal virtue and shared political views is a much broader phenomenon. As a current example, online political activists/commentators have been known in recent years to disparagingly refer to people as having "fashy" or "feminist" hair.
I really like this take on this whole thing:

https://medium.com/@thegrugq/death-by-powerpoint-53472da3cd5
...besides making sure the surfaces stay clear of dirt or debris deposited by the wind.

Here's a 60 sec video of how they clean off the large panels at a vast solar plant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ErcsBEomnI
When has DNS ever been democratic? Since day one e.g. the .GOV and .EDU TLDs have been used only for educational institutions in the US, whose portion of the word population is on the order of 5%.

There's surely a lot of sucky things about the new arrangement where big companies can buy TLDs, but it's much more democratic for the rest of the 95% of humanity than when the US had de-facto control of the system. Just look at how many new TLDs are e.g. owned by Chinese companies.
Of course that helped Jeff Bezos get $100B, but even with sales tax, there's no way small companies can survive as major players in a commodity market at national to global scale.
This is a really sophomoric opinion. Do you really want to throw down, I.E sum total of worker suffering introduced by capitalistic states vs socialistic vs communistic?

If I can prove with mutually agreed facts that capitalism has a higher body count that any other political system, will you agree to change your position.
Eventually large number of people will reduce large amounts of emissions. Corporations, governments, and other institutions will follow.

I don't believe it. I don't believe cruise ship operators or aluminium smelting companies will change anything based on whether a New York or Sydney person drives less often and nitpicks about plastic food packaging. They need regulating, hard, and that means a worse economy and unhappier people with lower quality of life paying more for goods "for their own good", and that means it won't happen.

I feel it unfair that I should lead the charge to hermit-life eating leafy gruel and nitpicking over plastic lids while my brother flies halfway round the world on international holidays - and he does that because he's annoyed that he should have to care about climate emissions from an occasional holiday while business people fly over the pond for a half-day meeting and while cruise ships exist.

This is the kind of personal feeling the anti-climate-change movement has to address to get people on board, and chastising people "it'll be a catastrophe" isn't enough. I know it feels like it should be enough, but it isn't enough.

not just your reduction, but you will lead others, who otherwise might feel alone, to join you.

Only if I tell them, which I won't. The sort of people who self-promote are driving the bad things of the world - envy, aspirational Instagram lifestyles, consumerism. And the people who tell people "I'm vegan" are the butt of jokes and the hated holier-than-thou preachy people.

The people who actually will reduce their emissions will just quietly do that, like they just quietly check up on an elderly neighbour without making a fuss about how great they are for doing so. Self-sacrifice for the greater good isn't catching like shopping and showing off is.

You will also find after reducing driving, flying, meat, etc, that you'll wish you had changed earlier. You replace those things with other things you like more.

That doesn't follow. My alternatives to driving are worse than driving, otherwise I wouldn't drive right now. And I like cake more than meat - but I don't want to replace meat with cake, thanks, that would be a bad trade.
So you would not have expected the pidigits result?
slight digression, trying to find the repo source I went up https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-06/threads....

lots of releases, gnu is kicking hard
Israel is not controlled by the USA to the extent Hizbollah is controlled by Iran. Hizbollah answers to the IRGC and Qassem Suleimani. So do various Iraqi militias.
Neither Israel or Saudi Arabia are proxies for the USA. Supported - yes, but they are not used as a strategic deterrent which operates on American command (US has enough power projection to do it by itself).
I've never hardly known a free, or market-controlled anything in my entire life. What we have is corporatism, where giant companies go to government and lobby for monopolies of one kind or another. There is no actual competition, only a semblance of competition.

As bad as life may be for the average worker, it was far worse in the Soviet Union. Living inside the Iron Curtain sucked massively unless you were a member of the party elite, and then it was literally a party.

Same as it ever was--every system will be subverted by some tiny elite so that they can rule you and live the high life while you toil. The only thing that has ever partially solved the problem is for regular people to fight them.
Tim Cook's Stanford 2019 Commencement Address
What's the difference between a bourgeoisie middle class stealing labor from the masses of workers, and one titan of industry? The difference is a rounding error to the mass public.
Except that you are doing the same cherry picking that you accuse others of. I showed data from 2010 to 2017 to illustrate how significant the demographic change has been. For some reason, you decided to go back to 1980 to make a counter-point. Our definitions haven’t changed since 2010, so I’m not sure that’s a valid point.

To the rest of your point, test we should compare these things across cities, that is how we see the disparities. That point is more relevant to the original article and not the specific point I was responding to.
After a stint with VB 3.0, I focused into Delphi and C++ Builder as they were more in sync with my background and what I wanted from a programming language development environment.

It was only with VB 6.0 that VB finally got competitive regarding native code generation and ability to write OCX controls in VB itself.

Still, I do find VB.NET quite good even without the QuickBasic compatibility features, and the fact that I still see people move from VBA into VB.NET proves it is still approachable as on the old days.
I’ve always been intrigued by the heavy use of “let’s” in texts translated from Japanese and Korean in the past. I didn’t understand if it was a stylistic choice by translators, or if those languages did actually use it that much? It sounds so stilted in English, what linguistic mechanics make it not so in those languages?

Turns out it’s its own verb tense! It’s called the “volitional” and you use it when you want to emphasize that you want to do something, typically with the person you’re speaking to. The best way to render it in English is by using “let’s” (“let’s go eat”).

http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete/desire_volitio...
the post focusses on the practicality of haskell and addresses purity but leaves the biggest problem out: laziness, which is more or less the reason haskell exists, is the wrong default. In particular lazy I/O which can introduce horrible bugs or straight up mess with execution order of critical code, which in my opinion is an absolute no-go in an industrial language.
I loved VB a lot and am trying to build a modern day version of it which can build Webapp and Microservice based apps at yazz.com

(Full disclosure: I work at Red Hat but my views do not necessarily reflect my employers views)
Can't tell if you're joking but actually like this idea.
Julius Caesar didn't cross the Rubicon because he wanted to gain new power or wealth; he wanted to defend his own personal liberty and a sense of wounded pride.

That he destroyed the Republic was something of a side-effect. If anyone was the entrepreneur in this analogy, it was Augustus, who both founded the Empire, having a brilliant command of public relations, denied having done so.
IIRC Those are governed by the US; they aren't truly international
Some form of socialist planned economy will be necessary, you're right that world capitalism can't do it.
I'd love to see that proof.
> In other words, whatever you do with your life, be a builder.

> You don’t have to start from scratch to build something monumental. And, conversely, the best founders – the ones whose creations last and whose reputations grow rather than shrink with passing time – they spend most of their time building, piece by piece.

> Builders are comfortable in the belief that their life’s work will one day be bigger than them – bigger than any one person. They’re mindful that its effects will span generations. That’s not an accident. In a way, it’s the whole point.
Which part is not true? It literally says on the .gov page that I linked to that they can:

"board and search for aliens in any vessel within the territorial waters of the United States and any railcar, aircraft, conveyance, or vehicle. 8 CFR 287 (a)(1) defines reasonable distance as 100 air miles from the border"
Half the state’s population lives in the Chicago suburbs, not the city. Most of the wealth is in the suburbs.
It’s possible to build a Turing machine within Magic: The Gathering
My twist on this is:

I am a good back-end developer, I'm good at Googling things.

The things I tend to be Googling are typically either superficial, like syntax, or specific as in I know exactly what I want, how do I construct it in x language or y framework? It's quite rare that I have a problem and don't know how to approach it and they're the most fun. Sadly, it's also rare to need to look for algorithms. Just avoiding the run-of-the-mill complexity problems using common patterns or data-structures is sufficient. When they're not (e.g. performance or scale constraints), also fun times.
Banning CFCs etc did not require people to fundamentally change their lifestyles.

Reducing carbon emissions does so and due to that it requires knowledge and action from the individual I think as a politician trying to change people who do not want to change is doomed.

It is a lot trickier than the ozone issue and I think it requires action on all levels from the individual to the UN.
Those last 2.5 years are the culmination of what happened over a hundred years ago with Woodrow Wilson when he criticised the founding documents and dismissed the separation of powers.

This [1] appears to be written from a more right-wing stance, although it could just be rightly critical of Wilson's legacy. Regardless, it's not inaccurate. Hopefully the dislike of Trump will help to shock the rest of the system back into seeing a worth in a strong separation of powers. It's not that Obama didn't also disregard them, it's just that he's far more likeable and suits the views of a lot of people. Not so great when there's an incumbent you don't like.

And that's the point.

[1] https://www.grassrootinstitute.org/2012/09/constitution-201-...
That's a neat video, but wow those transition effects make me nauseous.