skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was an interesting decentralized project that I found out about here on hn that has an interesting solution to that.

It's called Aether, and it only supports text. Each node stores 6 months of all posts. Every person votes for their own moderators of communities so you can basically choose your own moderation filter that you get.

I didn't personally like the idea that it has amnesia after 6 months, but surely eventually clients would support saving your own threads to keep locally.

So you could subscribe to your own trusted adblocking/flagging list.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370208
I get so frusterated when anonymous reddit users overwrite their posts with some script in the name of privacy. Just leave out personal details from the public internet, it's not hard. Plus, if I really wanted to, there are at least a half dozen different ways to look at a cached copy of your overwritten reddit comment.
why does he have to work 'for' anyone?

seems to be loaded & well connected enough to easily do several of his own things..
> Dictionaries are marvelous tools.

1. If you have one. Google translate may also not be available due to lack of data or lack of mobile reception.

2. It assumes you know how to input/lookup the word. It's easier with Latin script. But try the same in Korea / Russia / Thailand / ... Even if you translate into target language you may not find the same version of the word, or just mix up symbols. (Without knowing they're different, what are the chances you'd mix up シ and ツ ?)

> There are no icon dictionaries, especially when everyone copyrights them so every icon is different

Is this really a thing? Every rear window heating icon I've seen since the 90s looked the same. I did check and can't find an image online from any brand not using that same symbol.
If you're going strictly based on going from skeuomorphic to flat, everyone is talking about the less intuitive and obvious UX design, not the aesthetic design of the UI.

In other words, the function, not the form.
> They gained marriage equality only 4 years ago.

Gay marriage was legalized in Massachusetts in 2004.
> The partnership with the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip maker was a game changer for China, which has long been unable to match the U.S.’s supercomputing power because of its inferior chips, one product the country has so far struggled to master.

Author forgot about Sunway TaihuLight, the top supercomputer in the TOP500 at the time the transfer happened, using a completely domestic CPU architecture.

> The AMD deal gave China access to state-of-the-art x86chips, which are made by only two companies in the world: AMD and Intel Corp.

Author forgot about Zhaoxin. The new LuJiaZui in particular is really interesting.
I'd also encourage you to check out https://angel-dart.dev/.
So instead of letting the system, which can easily determine which auth system to use based on the email, you're putting the responsibility on the user to remember what they used when they have potentially tens/hundreds of web accounts? Yet somehow putting the password on the next page is worse??
Exactly. I wanted to use Firefox on mobile but Brave is so much more convenient since it puts the bar at the bottom. Reaching my hand up becomes annoying since I might have to use two hands to not drop my phone.

Another thing that annoyed me about the previous mobile Firefox was the 'x' in the URL bar closed the bar instead of clearing it like Brave. I had to unlearn months of muscle memory since it was a habit of mine. Maybe it doesn't matter since it's just an issue after switching.
I doubt this has anything to do with my Unlimited Drive storage thing. Google are doing this to stop API consumers from storing user data on their own, presumably less safe than Google's, servers. I agree with that decision completely.
Thanks for the mild rebuke dang, I think you do a great job meta-moderating this community.

I wish I had stayed out of this from the beginning, I see no merit in arguing about whether HN has some themes. I’ve been watching it daily for a long time as you can tell from the age of the account.

If you want to do something that would be both a good call as a mod and a favor to a longtime user, just whack this whole thread. I was trying to chime in with some knowledge but just wound up pissing everyone off.
If you have a gap, then you end up with electrical arcing which generates even more heat
One of the problems with power is that the more power you have, the less truth you hear. Xi has grabbed total control of power in China, and one of the results is that people almost certainly tell him what they think he wants to hear, rather than what he needs to hear.
That is exactly the intended sense of perception in my statement.

You have, er, nailed it
A physical book can readily be hand-scanned in an hour. There are numerous guides to processing the scans from that point. Two of the besst I've found:

https://natecraun.net/articles/linux-guide-to-book-scanning....

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Creating_a_DjVu_file
It's like High and Mighty II.

https://www.amazon.com/High-Mighty-SUVs-Dangerous-Vehicles/d...

Also worth mentioning is the effect of these walls of steel on visibility, both for other drivers and for non-drivers. Lower visibility means shorter reaction windows means more collisions.
No, I've never checked that.
McCartney never reached the heights he reached in the Beatles in his solo work, but he was probably one of the most talented musicians in history.

You can can be an absolute genius as a collaborator but stumble a bit when working without someone around who can tell you ‘no’. There are a lot of brilliant writers who absolutely need a good editor.
Was this written by the advertising department of Intel?
It certainly seems there wouldn't seem to be much value in dealing with him now.

Historically speaking there have been plenty of former spies, folks who handed over information and after escaping just lived their lives elsewhere.

Folks seem to think it operates like some movie where governments are extracting revenge left and right, that doesn't seem to be the case all that often.
Why do I think this is FUD?
I have worked for certain major semiconductor companies. At least two of them.

The question is not “Why did AMD hand over all its IP to China,” the question is “Why did our incompetent government allow this to happen and why did they turn a blind eye to the strong arming that was going on?”

A further question is: “Why did only some (always smaller) tech companies fork over the IP while very large ones did not?”

Let me tell you a story about a fab in a distant country that begins with a C. The rumor was that it was a very expensive server fab. One day, the wafer (the thing that the server chip is produced with and is extremely valuable, multi billions in the case of a server chip) went missing. They locked down the factory for 48 hours and brought in a search team, scoured the building from bottom to top and then found nothing.

Then, as if by magic, the wafer appeared three feet away from where it went missing. Industrial espionage. And that is what you get when you are big.

What happens when you are small? They put a gun to your head (metaphorically) and say “Split off a company and hand it over to entities controlled by the Chinese government. All your IP will be shared with them. They will own the market in China and send you a royalty check and have the ability to modify your IP to build custom products. If you don’t like it, fuck off, no China for you.”

What lazy, incompetent and useless western journalists have been shockingly non curious about is why certain companies like Microsoft and Apple magically don’t seem to get this treatment.

It is almost as though....some other arrangement was getting made. No lazy western journalists to my knowledge have yet bothered to investigate why it is that Intel, Microsoft etc have not been forced to do these IP sharing agreements while AMD and others have.

One day, Lazy western journalists might be curious and get off their asses from
Covering trump but somehow I doubt it.

Blaming AMD for “handing over the keys” is fucking stupid. It is the United States government’s lack of a spinal cord that is the problem. These companies had no choice. Either play the game or get shut out of the market.

Bad journalism, everywhere along with a lack of curiosity.
magic-wormhole is useful for terminal-to-terminal in realtime. I actually wrote something similar for that too [1] because I didn't want to have to rely on a Python ecosystem. This new server is mostly useful for browser<->terminal or browser<->browser sharing, especially when its not realtime oriented. share is very similar to transfer.sh and send.firefox.com.

[1]: https://github.com/schollz/croc
I remember several years ago I saw this IOCCC winning entry on regex and thought "maybe we should write a parallel version" And it's good to see someone has it implemented now!
https://www.ioccc.org/2012/hou/hint.html
Or VMs (guests) in z/VM. The guest OS can be linux, CMS, z/OS, z/VM (2nd level), etc.
Gates has said as much: no.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060411095315/https://www.latim...
You got me. I actually do have a British accent.

but I don't have his hair
USB had been out for a couple of years at that point, and it had no traction. I remember finding PCs with dusty, unused USB ports next to the PS/2 plugs and serial ports.

Macs are definitely a small portion of the computer market, but it’s a big enough market for companies to target. You’ll find Mac-specific keyboards from big-name companies like Logitech, for example. With the iMac, USB went from “weird connector nobody uses” to “we have a guaranteed pool of millions of customers with no alternative.” And because of the U in USB, those products worked with PCs too, if they had USB ports and drivers to make them work. It kicked off a virtuous cycle where more peripherals meant more computer supporting them meant more peripherals.

FireWire wasn’t the same scenario since there was no pressing need to support it. USB was good enough for 99% of what people needed. Unless you needed high speed storage or high end audio, you didn’t need it, and USB versions were cheaper anyway. FireWire was never pushed so hard that it was the only thing available on many popular computers.
160 mW/m2? The average solar irradiation at the surface is around 500 W/m2. Oh, and radiative thermal flux is 4th degree of temperature (so this is equivalent to, well, 0.008% or 0.023C increase in temp to compensate). Talk about completely inconsequential.
Good point, and I agree as for not putting the burden on the user, that's why personally I'd used the bloom filter approach to quickly disable password input (not remove the field) and display a short explanation for the redirect.

Normal users would see nothing out of the ordinary, and SAML users would see what they see now plus an optional explanation for what's going on.

I have received my fair share of confused calls regarding (microscopically) more arduous login processes and presenting fewer people with any change at all helps tremendously with reducing those calls.
Sure, but why would they want to? Even the slightest hint of that would sink the product and end a line of revenue. If it's successful enough to be worth cheating, it's also successful enough to be worth not cheating and just taking the fees.

Of course, the incentives would be different for individual employees, and possibly sufficiently so that the product would forever be tainted with cheating.

Unrelated to all those considerations, I think the whole thing is kind of disgusting. It smells like a play to exploit compulsive gamblers by producing an always-available product, even at hours (or months) when there is no game going on. Who does this appeal to, other than compulsive gamblers? All the other reasons I can think of to wager on a sporting event vanish when it's a fake event dressing up a virtual coin flip.
By the same logic, my comment to the original post is currently the top of all comments – does that mean the majority have rebutted in favor of the current design? Of course not.

Point being: whether a design is good or not is mostly subjective, and great design is often polarizing. A more scientific survey would be interesting, but it's still fun to see all the diverse responses here.
> At least one airline loyalty program I belong to now requires User Id, Last Name, and Password to be filled in.

Ha! Yes AA’s login field requiring both your name and id is annoying but United takes the cake for asking you “secret questions” on every login and you have to pick the answers from a 10-choice drop down.
Yes, I remember. I am counting from Obergefell v. Hodges.
> The tech stack builds upon itself, which means you can devote years to learn the stack and still enjoy the fruits of your effort for decades. You just have to keep up with the changes, not relearn everything every five years.

Then you get laid off at 50 and have no hope of finding another job at the same salary.
What was the price of this. book? Numerous engineering texts run $100s, some north of $1,000. Pure rent-seeking.

Reasonable pricing has proved the best piracy.
The Origin header can be spoofed. The point is, if advertisers don't have confidence the number of time an ad is shown is legit, then the site hosting the ad has all the power.
I really miss my old MacBook, besides all the keyboard issues and lack of USB-a ports, the battery life seems to be absolutely atrocious.
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Yeah, I know, but I was hoping for something more substantial than "I got hit a couple times at Black Flag shows."
The "auto" keyword is a life saver when dealing with templates/pointers etc in C++. It is a real time waster figuring out the correct syntax for declaring your identifier, when you know perfectly the type's semantics. This is probably more of a flaw of C++ than an argument for type inference though.

Not once have I wished for type inference in Java for instance. Just learn to use the damn IDE and its code completion feature.
> For instance, to think Jony Ive being even remotely responsible for the keyboard debacle seems preposterous to me.

I can definitely picture a world where Jony’s ruthless push for thin and light resulted in the butterfly keyboard.
It appears that "Less than 5%" was an option. Where are the six you see?
That was my experience with it as well. Once I got "fluent" in driving manual, I wasn't even consciously thinking about it, so it wasn't any harder to get distracted than when driving an automatic. And your hand isn't even on the shifter most of the time anyway.
Fair enough. I'm sorry that happened to your friend.
To be an executive is to be responsible for execution. Someone who allows major blunders to happen under their watch is not a successful executive, whether they were personally responsible or not.

You can't make excuses as an executive. You can't say "there wasn't enough quality control," because you have the power to create the quality control process necessary to prevent the blunder. You can't say "I wasn't aware there was this risk of keyboard defects," because you have the power to create reporting structures that will surface such risks to all key stakeholders, including you. You can't say "I didn't have time to focus on functional deficiencies or risks because I was focused on aesthetics," because you have the power to hire and delegate to the most talented employees in the world; you have the power to do whatever is necessary so that you do have the time to focus on what needs to be focused on. You can't say "I didn't worry about functional risks because I wanted to focus on design," because your job is to execute, not to do what you want to do.
I have heard this for years. Android support as well.
Ask HN: Where do you go to keep up with industry trends and new techs?
Looking for an aggregator that is more specific to new programming technologies, programming practices, and system architecture. I know there are various recommended tech blogs, but I find they're too specific.
Scooters
But outer dimensions mean zilch for reachability. The dream phone is an iPhone SE with the body shrunk down to a iPhone X style frame.
Slow to work on? Oh no, you didn't. I'd even contest it's more productive, as the developments tools come preinstalled and they integrate seamlessly with the platform.

It isn't as flexible as a PC, but you shouldn't expect it to. You learn the design, conventions and idiosyncrasy of the platform and work with them, not against them.
Almost all EV and electric mobility range numbers are pure bulls*it. Scooters with 40 miles range? You'll get 15 miles at best. They measure those doing laps on tracks. I can't imagine how absurdly mindbogglingly braindead they must be to think doing laps around a track is anything representative of the real world. Do the company execs spend all their day in the office, and have never in their life ever seen a hill or traffic light before?
Gruber has not been shy about bashing Apple’s design decisions with either the keyboards, or the prioritizing of thinness over battery life.

The keyboard debacle was a direct result of Apple striving for thinness.
On mobile that page breaks up words if they hit a line break... I don't even know what to say about that.
I remember reading somewhere that Jony said if he weren’t designing computers he would like to be designing cups.
Even in 2015, everything about this was 10+ years out of date.
Chiral Ligand Design
Happens all the time. I'm not at a desk all the time -- I need to move my laptop around to interface with hardware and such.
In somewhat similar cases, if the mods see it or if someone sends an email to the mods, the account got banned. hn@ycombinator.com
Custom Library Design
Yes.
Make good content, sell it at a fair price, and trust your users.
iTunes music store has been DRM-free for years.
I'd like to know how they made the population estimates. It just seems like a difficult thing to do.
For many birds, including crows, take off is almost instant. Flap wings, lift exceeds gravity, up you go. Swans don't do that, I presume because they can't. They need a considerable run-up - call it 50 metres on land. If harried it may be impossible for the swan to fly away.
The trackpad is perfect. It's the best feature of the macbook pro, and it's why they don't have or need a touch screen. It works perfectly. If they'd just pair it with a real keyboard...
I would actually be interested in seeing a crude analysis of this, because I don't know if there is a skew or if we just tend to notice the things that break our expectations.

There are a few recent shows where a gay character is a part of the core ensemble, but I'm not sure gay characters are overall more than 1 out of every 30.
The printing press has also been nothing but trouble.
...Steve Jobs folklore:

Steve Jobs told employees a short story when they were promoted to vice president at Apple. Jobs would tell the VP that if the garbage in his office was not being emptied, Jobs would naturally demand an explanation from the janitor. "Well, the lock on the door was changed,' the janitor could reasonably respond. "And I couldn't get a key."

The janitor's response is reasonable. It's an understandable excuse. The janitor can't do his job without a key. As a janitor, he's allowed to have excuses.

"When you're the janitor, reasons matter," Jobs told his newly-minted VPs. "Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering."

"In other words,' (Jobs continued,) "when the employee becomes a vice president, he or she must vacate all excuses for failure. A vice president is responsible for any mistakes that happen, and it doesn't matter what you say."
It’s also not abnormal for equipment on a bus go onto the roof.
Berlin: Volkswagen launches WeShare electric car-sharing
But throwing together a lot of cheap unreliable systems is, cheaper, easier and more flexible. I don’t care if my containers are crashing several times a day. I don’t care if a node in my kubernetes cluster falls over. I’m not working at the level of a single machine.
I am much better at using CLI's than I am using GUI's - just for this reason.

Every time I see an icon, I have to think - what is it the person is trying to tell me. Usually, words work much better for me.

I know many people that love architecture diagrams. I much prefer to read the words instead of looking at pictures. To me, a word is worth a thousand pictures.
This is a bit tricky for a reset because it changes the meaning of percentage heights in child elements.
The iphones have been waterproof since the 7 I think. The 3.5mm connector isn't waterproof, the lightning connector evidently is.
You've misinterpreted. The data is presented in six bins. But that doesn't imply the question was multiple choice. If it had been, then there's no way to get a mean of ~25% from the answers.

The question asked was: "Just your best guess, what percent of Americans today would you say are gay or lesbian?"
The point is dear friends and colleagues, that none of us signed up to be computer professionals only to have our craft usurped by a bunch of management types trying to make a name for themselves by spouting eastern philosophies and wearing ragged golf shirts

I am tired of having a textbook thrown at me every time I ask a human question and treated like a factory floor worker by human automata and recent grads suffering from impostor syndrome

I know there is more to software than bottlenecks and efficiencies and all that tripe it seems quality and quantity are the only measures may as well go back to East Germany where all this bullshit emanates from in the first place

Even the damned ranking system on hacker news is an echo to the system used in North Korea. Software has become a breeding ground of groupthink and it's this kind of crap that fuels it

Are you seriously telling me Toyota is a better software company than Nintendo?
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That's a heck of a reference, thanks for sharing! And there it is https://swtch.com/try.html#args under Alternative: Add arguments to try. Seems I have some reading to do.
Absolutely, but the tone of the OP was not one that I felt reflected that viewpoint.

I got the sense there was a conflation of "didn't do things the way I wanted" and "poor design choices".
>splice random highlights from real NBA games and combine them

This is the future of sports, cattering to the internet age and going for the short attention span markey. I'm not even complaining, I wouldn't sit through a whole game either.
Yeh it was used many times during the Cold War by both sides.
When you give a lot of power to someone with a lot of talent, great things can happen. The downside is that nobody’s perfect (even talented people) so a person with a lot of power can make a wrong decision and that may be all it takes for the decision to be final.

In that type of structure, preventing wrong decisions comes down to things like the personality traits, wisdom, etc. of the people with all the power. In other words, is he or she the type of person that can be convinced NOT to do something that they would otherwise decide to do?

I can only observe what has come out of Apple in recent years. I immediately saw things I disliked in their software when Jony Ive was also put in charge of software (to this day, much of iOS-7-style apps seem form-over-function to me and I want more gradients, damn-it). And there were also some massive hardware failures, most of all keyboards, screens and Touch Bars. If Jony made most of these calls and just couldn’t be convinced otherwise, I’m glad he’s gone and look forward to a happy medium of “pretty nice but usable” hardware and software.
Seems strange to me that China was able to manufacture processors but they couldn't manufacture ballpoint pens domestically until 2017.
It had to die for more practical reasons - a pixel perfect interface is impossible to maintain with difference screen sizes. At the time there was only the 3.5 inch iPhone and the iPad.

Apple knew that various size iPhones were in the pipe.