skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So to take this to its ultimate conclusion: These copyright holding corporations are just blindly optimizing for maximizing their grasp on any content whatsoever. If there was any more subtlety to it they wouldn't claim a 10 second bit of accidental background radio, that the maker of the video never wanted or asked for. I can't wait until they realize they can build really large speakers and be able to "audio bomb" and lay claim on anything recorded, anywhere ...
> You are not aware that all browsers currently hide port numbers in the URI bar if they are 80 or 443?

Which is why hiding the protocol is stupid. How do you know which port is being used if you don't know the protocol. You are actually arguing against your own point.

I know it is port 80 or 443 based on the protocol - it's deterministic. I don't know that www or m maps to the same place as the apex domain name.
The terrible truth of climate change
My job is remote. I moved to a hobby farm in Utah on what was (at the time) the dividing line between suburbia and farmland, and an hour from SLC, so it isn't too far if I need a larger city. But I rarely actually go there.

Many people who joined our company moved because we were 100% remote until a couple years ago when we were acquired. I'd say more than half picked some small town. The specific small town varies greatly, depending on what you like to do and who/where your family is.
Pretty sure the average citizen doesn't carry the Daishō any longer these days. Unless they're all actually ninjas with concealed weapons.
"Also that tobacco doesn't cause cancer, guess what those studies have in common?"

No, please do tell me exactly what those studies have in common, with citations.

You asked for something that isn't rumor and second hand stories. I provided. Now you move the goalposts and ask for my single best story. Please clarify your behavior and your motivations in engaging in this discussion: Do you actually wish to process data that is contrary to your belief on how the world functions?
Show HN: Arc – Hire full-time remote developers and engineering teams
But even then, my work network for example decrypts traffic or if it can't blocks it.
كلمات اغنية يا بنية قاسم السلطان
Based on other things MS is doing, it tells me they're hiring a lot of young developers who only know web tech and don't give a damn about the user experience.
Yeah but the list specifically mentions C++, which I think is part of the reason why this category is hard. Python on the other hand is definitely more entry level friendly but it's still Qt. This should be emphasised.
I can count the number of assholes I have met on Facebook. It's 0. I only put people I like in the first place on it, and surprise surprise, I enjoy using it.

It's not the tool people, it's how you're using it.
It's not exactly blindfold. With blindfold, the blind player still knows the opponent's moves...They just don't have the luxury of being able to _look_ at the state of the board (although top-tier chess players don't need that luxury).

This is a little different, but I think/speculate they would still have enough heuristic knowledge to crush most people.
In addition to the other reasons given, it’s possible that the gearbox wouldn’t hold up with the new motor. Tesla originally built the Roadster with a two-speed transmission but the high torque of the electric motor kept shredding them, and they finally shipped the car with a single fixed gear ratio.

I think there are a couple of super high end EV models with transmissions, but almost all EVs just have a fixed ratio.
The point of the article is precisely that the US _doesn't_ have free everything, much less adequate support for the poor.

Huh?

The chart at the bottom says US safety net spending is higher than Australia and Canada.
Given the state of civics education in many parts of the country, a significant portion of people may not know how laws are passed. That doesn't give governments carte blanche to start passing laws in secret, because "people already don't know how it works".
Can Anthropologists Propel Astronauts Toward Mars?
> Can't we do better than this? Or do we have to accept and depend on Google to create our desktop software?

We're working on a crossplatform app that runs on macOS, Windows, Chrome OS, Android, and iOS.

The UI runs on a webview provided by each platform and it's the same codebase for all 5 platforms. The native layer is as thin as possible, but there is some functionality we've had to repeat in each platform.

The macOS app weights 15MB. A hello world in Electron weights over 100MB. I think we've done pretty good.

The previous version used Electron for Windows and macOS, and Cordova for Android and iOS. This allowed me to do the 5 platforms on my own but introduced many problems.
Hello HN!

We're excited to announce Arc today! We aim to change the way we hire and work remotely.

My first startup SocialPicks (YC 07!) was actually a remote company back in 2006. I was based in the Bay Area, co-founder Keven was in Vancouver, and our lead dev Olivier was in Toronto. This was pre-Slack, pre-Zoom, pre-Trello. I guess we’re the OG’s of the remote world. Back then it was actually quite hard to grow our remote team, as this would require, essentially, trusting strangers on the internet to join us on the intense rollercoaster ride of startup life.

Fast forward to today: The bulk of remote hiring services are still focused on finding short-term freelancers, rather than thinking of remote work as a genuine full-time employment option. It’s clear that the friction of going remote is still too high for many organizations and individuals. This is why we are launching Arc today: to offer a complete remote hiring solution to find full-time remote developers and build remote engineering teams.

We're introducing Arc early to get feedback from the HN community. As we work to reduce the friction of hiring remotely for both sides of the hiring equation, we invite you - developers and organizations alike - to join us on this journey.

We would love to hear any thoughts or feedback!
Is it really possible to hide an aircraft from modern radar? Even if the aircraft had a radar footprint of a bird, no bird flies near or over mach 1.
Gah. The metaphor of calling screen area "screen real estate" has always been a pet peeve of mine but this "20 vertical pixels of virtual real estate" has me simultaneously impressed and horrified. Why not just "20 vertical pixels"?
This is more like courses a talented undergrad math major would take through 4 years.
Apparently, companies ASK for these websites from grubhub, because grubhub offers it to them. They can then take ownership from grubhub, but apparently a lot of companies never take ownership, so grubhub burns money holding these sites.

Source: colleague is a software developer at grubhub
Alternatively the market is flooded with ML people and the value of ML on your CV is 0.
Funny quote from Albert Einstein related to this topic:

— If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see
my clothes, open my closet.

Said to Elsa after she suggested he change his clothes
before receiving a delegation of visitors from German
president von Hindenburg, 1932. Quoted in Brian, Einstein,
a Life, 235
They should just call every modern fighter "Icarus".
Adam Savage Meets Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 Spacesuit
> It's hiding though, not conflating, it isn't violating any standard.

By doing what?

> Not to mention, how is a protocol irrelevant but a "www." subdomain isn't?

Because the "www." hostname is part of the identity, the protocol is not (if we are talking about HTTP/1.x vs. HTTP/2 or QUIC--HTTP vs. HTTPS is part of the identity, of course).

> Both are equally useless for most users when browsing.

That's irrelevant. It still is part of the identity of the document.
I don't understand why Amazon is relevant here, it is like saying someone who worked for Target assaulted a random person, really doesn't make any sense. This article just seems to fishing for clicks and attention.
Behind the rise of the funeral livestreaming industry in the US
The Problem with Sarcasm
Detection isn't the issue as much as determining what is clutter and what isn't. When you reduce your signal to the level of noise, you can go undetected a lot of the time.
White and well-off: What typical Burner is like, according to Black Rock City
Short range could be OK. But their justification for it is just silly. Say that it’s to save money or something!
You're supposed to take it home? I've always thrown the bag in the nearest trash can.
Very close, but it is not there yet. The following is at least preferable:

- Full clarity along the lens

- Double the resolution of what the current VR has

- Foveated rendering (to be able to handle the high resolution)

- Dynamic focus

- Eye tracking (to get dynamic foveated rendering and focus)

- More comfort (lighter headset, improved finger tracking, better weight distribution, better foam, cooling etc.)
I love this video, because it's an in-depth look on what it takes to preserve a piece of history - the first spacesuit used to walk on another heavenly body. Apparently, preserving something with 25 layers is a lot more complicated than anyone anticipated.
Doreen Fernandez: Filipino Food's Champion
I assume you're joking, but this is sorta racist and also dismissive of the value of stricter gun regulations.
Interchange Acquired by Kraken
As in a single person made this? Even for a team of 10 that is simply amazing:

- Attractive and professional landing page

- Fully featured demo site, free to try

- [1] Over 10 SDK's built for all popular platforms (react, vue, angular... etc)?!!

I would be happy to have implemented just a fraction of what you've done... Like a sibling comment said; you should be very proud of yourself

Get ready to scale :)

[1] https://github.com/BuilderIO/builder/tree/master/packages
> Revec automatically finds equivalences between vector intrinsics across different instruction generations by enumerating all combinations. Equivalences are established through randomized and corner case testing

> We adopt a test case fuzzing approach for generating equivalences, with 18,000 randomly generated inputs and combinatorially generated corner-case inputs, inspired by test case generation in [6]. ... helped Revec to significantly reduce erroneous equivalences, and is consistent with the methodology in [6].

It sounds like an interesting approach. But how hard would it have been to ask an expert to encode this information instead of empirically? And what about instruction side effects, proc/coproc flags/modes etc? Does equivalence consider those?

The llvm-revec fork has the pass, but does it also have the code to reproduce the automated enumeration (and testing)?
It depends a lot on how they make that money. Do they do it by writing a popular, insightful book that everybody wants to read[0], or by running a hedge fund that buy companies, fires half the employees, loads them with debt, and sells them in an IPO?

[0] Hasn't this taken JK Rowling straight from poor to billionaire?
I have thought about this for about a day, and I can't agree with you.

Every time I have seen complex GO code and investigated how it got that way it was simply the result of one of the following. 1) Writing GO code before fully understanding the language. 2) Trying to write GO code like it was some other language.

I have seen some crazy complex GO in my days, and after spending hours and hours of trying to figure out what the code was doing -- I have always been able to simplify the program to a nice concise bit of code -- and I can assure you there are much better programmers out there than me.

Often the complexity is people trying to implement generics in some crazy round about way, or have prioritized dependency injection, or code coverage test to a extreme.

My favorite example of this is https://github.com/rdadbhawala/dutdip -- and here is a good talk on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBLJV0cPRBM

The code base that implemented this in production is an amazing mess, I can assure you of that.
I hope Flutter for desktop will prevail.

https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding

But I think they will focus on mobile first so the time when we can use Flutter for desktop programming is still far far far away.

Also you forgot, PyQt and PySide: easy but terrible performance.
Interesting. Learn something new every day. My dad’s cancer treatment last year was completely covered. Even the hospital lodge my parents stayed at for a few weeks while he was in hospital was covered. I’m Glad that NZ isn’t a completely socialist country and just has socialist ideals.
> Hm, hiding the protocol and the host part in the address – what next, hiding the domain?

they will replace the domain with google.com, and it already started
Well, if they didn't build their own computers, they certainly went to a lot of trouble to fake up photos of the family members doing electronic prototypes. And I think some of those photos may be older than PhotoShop, so faking them would have been more work than just building a home computer, though validating the photos’ apparent age might require digging up 1980s Mexican computer hobbyist magazines. (There's a convenient list of computer-magazine articles stretching back to 1981 on the Biyubi website; if you're in Mexico, maybe you could try to find them in a library or a used bookstore.)

Also they offer a course in building your own electronics that you can sign up for if you go to their workshop. I can't go to Mexico so I haven't signed up for it; it's at least theoretically possible that the course doesn't really exist and will be canceled if you do sign up for it. But if that doesn't happen you can go there and take the course and see the G11V3 and presumably Fénix and Biyubi in person. I've seen comments in news-website comment threads from people who claim to have done so and claim that it's real, and no comments from people who claim to have done so and then been rejected, so it seems most likely that the course is for real.

Together with Óscar Toledo G.’s amply demonstrated skills at programming under extreme resource constraints, skills which require a great deal of practice to acquire, I think the evidence strongly favors the hypothesis that Fénix, Biyubi, the G11V3, the electronics courses, and the rest of it is real, if maybe a bit oversold.
> laying moral judgement on others is a vanity

To help form our morals, we have to judge everything. This is an integral part of turning life experience into wisdom. But this isn't the same as judging people. I cannot know what's inside the mind and heart of my neighbor, even if he does something extremely evil. So I cannot condemn him for doing evil. I can condemn the evil itself, but I cannot condemn him, which is just another way of saying that he is not salvageable. Because people can change. I recognized this even before I was a Christian. That's also why it says of Jesus: "he will not quench a smoldering wick."
Google is using nix!
In what way is this variant a more difficult problem than StarCraft 2?
I notice the correlation coefficients there are lowest for retail and services, industries I tend to think of as crappy to work in. That makes me wonder...are companies behaving rationally and only optimizing for happiness where it matters, or is there a statistical artifact here where they can't find a correlation in industries where every company's workers are miserable.
I think PyQt and PySide are in third category: easy but terrible performance.
This reminds me of some the trade-offs I've looked at with monorepos: https://epage.github.io/dev/monorepos/
It's a step up in usability for everyone, including native English speakers who know what https means but can't remember the precise url, but a step down in security from type magic incantation correctly
Interesting. This reminds me of how a history teacher used a variant of Chess to simulate warfare as part of a class project - https://www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstreet/comments/13gemx/so...
I learned typing on a typewriter during my college summer holidays because the general advise was that if I end-up being a total academic failure, I would be able to earn my bread by typing legal documents at the city court. I thought it was a useless idea but learned it anyway (in two languages, no less).

As it happens, this came handy throughout my career (before and after I was a software developer). No matter what you do, you are much more productive on a computer, if you can type without looking at the keyboard at 70-80 wpm (not bragging because in the world of good touch typists, that is a poor score).
>And how "free" is it when we pay the taxes for it?

It's free as in... when someone needs it, no matter how much money they make or do not make.. whether they are employed or unemployed.. they can use it "FOR FREE".

Calling the police for me "IS FREE". My kids going to public school for me "IS FREE". Calling the fire department "IS FREE". Going to the doctor when you are sick should also be "FOR FREE".
method described seems very similar to Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book

----

I always wonder how many people follow this sort of advice, and how many hours are they spending when they do follow this advice
Not him, but pretty similar, yes. Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19393279.

I was mistaken, the CPU is a stock Z80 but the guy implements other parts of a bespoke game console, in microcontrollers.
The people who produce them benefit from the result.

Who says we need massive governmental spending in healthcare? Why governmental healthcare authorities of course! I'm skeptical, especially when the specific examples provided don't match up with the rhetoric.

Also the burden would not even be that people die from lack of healthcare in the US, it would be that more people die from lack of healthcare in the US than people die from healthcare rationing in the UK. He's a case of someone who actually died from that[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Gard_case
China feels the heat over rogue CFC emissions
Brian Goetz Speaks to InfoQ on Proposed Hyphenated Keywords in Java
I think the difference is market share. Chrome is at an estimate 60-70% of all worldwide browsing. On desktop, it is over 70%. As a result, most developers (the primary audience of Hacker News) use Chrome as their primary browser so they tend to see what their users do. Safari has a fraction of that; 15% overall and 5% on desktop. The truth is that this is being discussed with Google because it affects the vast majority of users whereas previous changes affected few (and even fewer in the Hacker News core audience)
Patience is measured here by the question "Would you rather receive 100 Euros today or x Euros in 12 months" [0] -- when I was broke, I definitely would've said 100 today at just about any x value. Now, going through the tree I guess my patience has gone up significantly

[0] Link under Table I in https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/133/4/1645/5025666#1368...
Is it not meant damnable in us to be trumpeters of our unlawful intents?
Concurrency doesn't have to be hard: Kotlin Coroutines and Channels
More likely this one: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtmultimedia-multimedia-video-qmlvide...

Simple QML viedo player.
Notes on Alvin Weinberg’s Autobiography, the First Nuclear Era
HAND & BRAIN chess

I developed an online version of Hand and Brain Chess to play against a computer. In each move the BRAIN (stockfish engine) will highlight the piece or pieces that are the best move and are the only pieces that you can move. It is your job as the HAND to play the correct move.

http://handandbrainchess.com/

In the original variation 2 players plays together against someone, one say the piece name to move (BRAIN) and the other must move it (HAND). There are some really funny videos online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL2pn1yIs2Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-fSQAX4wkg
> meaning it assumes that the university employees,

Phishing is definitely possible inside your email org, anything from a malicious browser extension to desktop malware might be geared to send bad links to all users (or a subset) within the logged-in Gmail/Outlook directories.

But ya, that sounds like some pretty bad anti-phishing software. Sounds like vendor lock-in more than anything, especially if it's replacing the email links on the mail server itself.

What are the chances it just runs the domain through Google safe browsing? :P
We also have unprecedented population density. 10,000 years ago I wouldn’t have walked within sneezing distance of 1,000 people before lunchtime.

Just because something wasn’t needed before doesn’t mean it isn’t needed now that circumstances have changed. We also existed for hundreds of thousands of years without seatbelts.
It is not about being confused with a bird, but simply about the fact that things that are less reflective (whether due to size, material, or geometry) are able to get closer before crossing the signal:noise threshold.
I'm surprised Kivy [0] doesn't get more attention for desktop app development. Apps are developed in Python, it's cross-platform and MIT licensed. Running the hello world example uses just ~2.5% cpu and ~57mb memory on a 2015 mbp.

[0] https://github.com/kivy/kivy
"I must ask you this: Have you reached out to private charity and been "denied"? Until then, I would not make this claim."

Does the homeless begging for the spare change of private citizens count? I see this all the time.
This is an inaccurate model. As an end user, I want the developers to be super-productive and iterate quickly so they can add the features I want. The priorities of end users are what you dislike. We choose "this has the features I want" over "this is lean and snappy".

There are lean and snappy text editors out there. People choose Evernote and Word, because features. There are lean and snappy audio players out there. People choose iTunes, because features.

There's lean software out there, and there's bloated software our there. Right now, it's (often) the bloated software is popular. Popular software is tautologically popular because it's what the most people use.
Any open alternatives to LoRa? I would like to setup a network that would cover a 20km radius even if it is only 1kb/s
So question based on this, is this a reason to be for non-GMOs? I would imagine that a lot of GMO crops have such patents, and as such, by purchasing them, you are supporting the patent holders. On the other hand, non-GMO craps would not have such patents, so you are not supporting them.

I imagine there could be a flaw in this logic, but I welcome thoughts to it.
Does Capitalism Still Exist
Which opens the door for the other HN to play SEO games.