skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If believe that if there was demand for an "open Facebook", there would be an "open Facebook". And I say this as a HUGE fan of all things decentralized, open, and federated. I want the return of UseNet, WAIS, Gopher, RSS, etc., and widespread adoption of Atom, AtomPub, ActivityStrea.ms, APML, Salmon, WebFinger, blah, blah, yada, yada etc. But in reality, consumers have had chances to adopt these things and they have (mostly) chosen not to.

The optimist in me wants to believe that with sufficient "market education" people could be induced to desire an Open Web that includes open social networking, but frankly the evidence available to date doesn't support this belief. I mean, Mastodon / GnuSocial are available today, so why aren't most people switching?

Perhaps if a Facebook alternative emerged that was clearly better in enough ways to be compelling in and of itself, without needing the user to care about federation and decentralization, it could get somewhere and just introduce those things as a side effect. But, again, people have tried and thrown lots of money at this. Google (with G+), Ello, and others[1] have tried to establish a FB alternative with real traction and have mostly not succeeded.

[1]: https://www.fastcompany.com/40559106/the-privacy-first-socia...
I'd still use Ionic + Cordova. Or to be a bit more specific: The Ionic team released Stencil a few months ago, which is a compiler for Web Components. They also released Capacitor, which is a replacement for Cordova.

I'm considering switching to these, because it gives me a bit more control over all of the code (and I'm not really a fan of Angular). But I'd use JS for apps again whenever I can. It's just so much more convenient and especially since I can release a PWA or web version without much effort.
His work also lines up nicely with the DEC Alpha, early Athlon/Opteron, and Apple A4/A5.

With no malice, I'm not aware if anything of significance came from his time at Tesla.

It will be interesting to see if AMD can keep things going past Zen 3 next year (which is likely to be the end of Keller's direct influence), and also what Intel can do with his guidance, which I would expect to release sometime in 2021-2023.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21323015, which was posted earlier. I copied this submission's title, which is much better, to the other submission as well. That was a good rewrite, as the guidelines ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."
Uncovering Password Habits: Are Users’ Security Habits Improving? (2018)
I wonder where the authors get their funding from. My Dad sent me an article written by a friend of his that said that global warming is a non issue, etc. I did some research on my Dad’s friend and it turned out that the organization he helped start gets their funding from the oil industry, information that was not easy to find.

Authors of papers and articles that purport to talk about scientific results should have to disclose funding, finances, etc.
The proof that 1 is equal to 2. It has a fatal flaw, but it is fun to show people. In my experience, people who are active University students will figure it out. Others go OMG WTF!
S__D_ _R_B__

Would you like to buy a vowel?
Unless something drastic happens ISPs are going to win. They're increasingly charging per bit for wire data (where there is no inherent scarcity), lobbying to prevent competitors, and have taken public funds and failed to reinvest in their infrastructure.
That’s highly misleading, and the very careful way that you worded your reply tells me that you know this. Why the obfuscation?
> it's very tricky to build data visualizations that work well in both Light and Dark Mode.

I'm sure only a small percentage of people will appreciate the difference, but I am one of those people. Thank you for putting in the extra effort making it easy to digest.
Raku Perl 6 uses rationals by default for decimal literals. No imports necessary. You actually have to opt-in to floating point by using engineering notation.

https://docs.perl6.org/language/numerics#Rational
I don't think your tinfoil hat theory is so far-fetched. Like every other car company before Tesla, they've optimized for ICE cars. From their perspective, the ideal scenario would be that the electric car trend dies out as a fad, leaving their core business (ICE cars) unaffected.
Curious, what are some examples of public json files I would "subscribe" to?
Drivers are killing pedestrians at highest rate in almost 30 years
As well as old and wealthy. If they're going to be that overtly racist, they might as well go all the way.
I think it does poll, and it's just looking for a diff in the previous message.
Not trying to blame you at all for what happened, but for my benefit as a developer and for anyone else reading, did you ever apply for a trademark or consider it? I'd love to know the details of how that worked out if you did.
yeah sometimes that makes sense. if the lib in question in small enough it might be more valuable to port, so avoid having a multi language project, and avoid the effort of the ffi.

at least Rust -> C ffi is zero cost (usually)
I'll copy a response that I wrote elsewhere.

One issue that a lot of trans supporters don't realize is that similarly to how trans people could be offended when they are referred to by a gender not of their choice, so to could some speakers be offended if they are forced to refer to a person as a gender not of their (the speaker) choice.

This may be easier to understand by using a comparison. When I talk about the Muslim prophet I say Muhammad. However, many Muslims would say Muhammad pbuh (peace be upon him). This isn't that problematic, but let's say they the term was Muhammad ttp (the true prophet). Now I as a non Muslim believer would never use ttp because that would be insulting for whoever I believe in. If SE required that whenever I mention Muhammad that I append ttp, I would refuse as it would be extremely offensive to me.

Similarly by referring to a person with XX chromosomes [1] as she, is offensive to people who believe that genders cannot change. A reasonable compromise would be to let whoever is righting chose what they want, or even allow gender neutral pronouns. But what SE chose to do was to say that people who believe that XY is a guy are wrong and deserve no respect for their beliefs.

[1] someone corrected me and pointed out that there is a rare genetic condition where someone could have XX chromosomes but have many other male characteristics. So I would like to correct myself and say that for certain rare genetic conditions, I wouldn't mind being corrected. But for the vast majority of transgenders who are genetically similar to either males or females the above holds.
The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List [pdf]
Being an engineer doesn't mean you have zero design mindset. Engineers make beautiful diagrams too.
We use these to parse dependencies and auto-update:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-check-updates

https://pypi.org/project/pur/
Tesla has some of the best drag coefficients in the industry (0.23 cd for Model3). Only some specialized versions of other vehicles get better than that.
Is Luminar 4 a suitable Lightroom replacement?
>This, the "ID-3" looks like a prius

The Pruis is highly optimized for minimal aerodynamic drag. It's no coincidence the wound up with roughly the same shape. The Model 3 is a similar shape but more sleek because they have more length to work with.
Oooooooooooor, they are just good engineers and shape the car around the drive train. The id3 is spacious like a big car in the footprint of a small car. No engine means you can move the cabin forward, hatchback means extra trunk space and headspace for the second row.

Everyone in Europe is happy about getting more space in a smaller car. And this compact car shape is common here as well.

The car is completely normal and good looking. Limousines and SUV are not the only valid shapes for cars.
Why isn't my device compatible with this version? What versions are they targeting?
> Yes they are.

No, they aren't. You misrepresented his point, and now you're changing the argument.

> So, unless they where well behind you, picking your foot off the break was a poor choice for their safety.

You're still making things up. Nothing you have linked here supports your claims. When a car collides with another car, things can happen with variable degrees of predictability. Yet, you are arguing with certainty that despite a successful outcome I made the wrong decision in a situation for which you don't have all the facts. I'm not sure how you hope any of this will convince me I did the wrong thing.

Perhaps ironically, even by arguing that there was a right thing to do, you implicitly acknowledge that your previous statement about rear view mirrors which I objected to was wrong.
Investors hope psychedelics are the new cannabis
In some parts of the world, if you meet people and they ask what do you do, and you say, "I do X, I work for Y" they nod and understand. If you say, "I run my business" you are met with serious suspicion, as a possible scam artist. It can impact you real life social network, dating etc. Not only that, online businesses are not guaranteed for life, things changes fast. But career is. You can say I have been a teacher, IT admin, programmer or XYZ for 20 years. Doesn't matter if you changed job once or 30 times.
If you're wearing the watch on a daily basis then the battery gauge on the face makes it obvious when you need to recharge. You can fully charge the battery in the time it takes to shower and dress in the morning. And if you're only wearing it for flights then just leave it connected to the charger at other times.
It should. And I hope it continues to hurt them.

We keep hearing how bad corporate behavior happens because the cost/benefit analysis simply views bad outcomes as costing a certain number of dollars, and then you throw in the probabilities, and you can justify pretty much any appalling decision.

The best possible outcome of the 737 Max disaster would be a legendary business school case study showing management of technical endeavours by bean counters is a terrible idea.
When the large fraction of the world population that depends on seafood for their protein loses that input as ocean acidification crashes fish nurseries, do not expect them to adapt peacefully.

So, will WW3 be about access to living space, fresh water or protein? Or all three at once?

Not a great choice.
Can spamming help? Sure, but most mass-email platforms explicitly prohibit sending unsolicited emails. On top of that, if you were to get even a handful of spam complaints, your account will be immediately shut down.
The personal computer here is the Olivetti Programma 101 from 1965. This interesting machine has been discussed several times on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=olivetti+programma
Can you tell us more ?
Why are you so cheap...
How do you replace them...

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My understanding is that you would be making your own. E.g. if you had a site that people could comment on, make a url that serializes those comments as JSON and then point this at that.
http://archive.is/tEaVM
Yeah, I'd view Neumann a lot less negatively if it hadn't been for all the job losses. Someone getting paid a billion dollars to set ten billion dollars of Softbank's money on fire is hilarious in a vacuum, but someone getting paid a billion dollars when a thousand+ people are gonna get laid off and it's largely his fault, way less so.
Small favor from anyone reading this post. Even if this isnt for you, can you pass it on if you think of someone who might be interested? Thanks.
We are on a treadmill, though. There are a set of differentiating features that larger companies can supply and any time the tools get good enough for that, the narrative shifts. Very much like fashion.

For instance, everything has been Cloud Cloud Cloud for quite some time now and people are still scrambling to adapt to this forced march.

'The cloud' is building out a set of management tools that will ultimately help, I think, small companies transition to medium sized companies. But when those tools are good, people will probably also be migrating out of AWS and GCS into something else. At which point there will be some other set of tools or solutions that everyone else is copying.
Maybe he's getting some coaching from people where he lives now as he goes on his media tour before the next American election?
Scientist gets £2m decades after he invented diabetes test
Seriously, I'm amazed how many people are ignorant of this fact. They didn't just blackmail him, they clearly implied that he should commit suicide before recieving the Nobel if he didn't want the tapes released. ("There is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is.") They never released the tapes, of course, but he did die. Everyone also seems unaware that the King family was awarded $1 in damages from the federal government for the wrongful death of MLK; they contend that the US government assassinated him and used James Earl Ray as a patsy, and while they never got Ray's conviction overturned (despite trying) they did get a separate US court to agree that the government should pay them symbolic damages based on this interpretation of events.
Lobbying and changing laws to apply reality distortion fields on all their customers and the competition is cheaper than investing into R&D or infrastructure and provide a better service or innovate and compete.

If it’s true for ISPs, it’s true for other big players and is a symptom of a failing system.
It's pretty far fetched. There's money in service but not for VW or any other OEM. The dealers make money on service. The OEM makes money on cars and financing. It wouldn't surprise me if subtracting warranty from parts sales resulted in a net negative for many models. I'm painting with a broad brush here but that's the gist of it. Going all EVs would simplify a heck of a lot of things for the OEMs.
> This is one of the things that Tesla nailed.

And

> Model 3 - Bug Edition.

Choose one...
I agree, just a weird name. Why REFL?
Shades of "We do not support competitors' products."

Malign neglect -- build a regulatory system that is valid in principle, but it implemented in a complex enough way that it tends to fail often, which has a tendency to scare off consumers, and subject everyone except yourself to it.
People will tend to choose your product to avoid the hassle.

You see it everywhere, from non-Pixel Android phones trying to keep with new OS versions, to Windows and MacOS API churn and "secret APIs".
I've read the articles about why organic can be worse than regular farming. Which is why I used the word 'hopefully'. I fully realize that organics can use chemicals, it's just that their chemicals are 'approved'.

However, once again, we have just torn down organic, and left people with the status quo. I've yet to read about any studies talking about wildlife populations bouncing back because of the advances in pesticides, herbicides, and GMOs. I have however read several articles recently about the sharp declines in insect populations like I mentioned before.

This brings me back to me original complaint. Everything is bad. Nothing is helping.

And because regular farming is bad, and organic is bad, I can't make a difference. There is no viable third option(I don't care to hear about how I can buy land and grow my own everything, and weave my own clothing).

If you want the status quo. This is what you do. You shoot down every new path.
So it's Tesla's fault they're so far ahead?

We kept being told that Tesla's lunch was going to get eaten by the "big boys" but that's been 8 years coming and we're still... waiting.

Disclosure: I own a non-Tesla EV.
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg is grilled in Congress on cryptocurrency, 2020 election
Indeed. Especially considering that Vista had rather high system requirements; among other things, it required 4 gb of RAM, though Windows 7 only needed 2gb.
I think there was runway construction at SFO that had the 28/10s (Primary arrival runways) down to one runway for the summer.
Please try not to be so cynical. A $50B investment in EV is obviously not just a PR whitewash.
Writing a simple program to gather news from various APIs
Don't you think you have other stuff to offer?
Like guidance, developing the skillset of others and learn along the way?
I just paid around $3000 to replace pistons on a golf 7 with 73000km. Supposedly they know it's a fault but no local support aside from reducing the parts price. Initial quote was around $4000. Not loving VW. Never buying another until it's electric.
How Manhattan’s City Bakery Crumbled, Under Weight of Debts
I wrote more about my Hugo-based personal knowledge base here recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21311156

You can see it at https://maxmasnick.com/kb

Essentially it is a folder of Markdown files with some YAML metadata at the top to define categories. Hugo takes care of rendering the HTML, which is automatically deployed every time I push updates to the ‘master’ branch on GitHub via the GitHub Actions beta. It works pretty well, and allows me to edit on iOS via Working Copy.
I think it was Tim Minchin's Storm that brought the quip "You know what they call Alternative Medicine that works? _MEDICINE!_". This is an entirely true statement, but also seems to miss the R&D period. And I'm not specifically saying its a modern R&D period.

It was well known for centuries that willow and aspen tree bark had anti-inflammation properties, so R&D could simply be to test if chewing on branches or bark was what helped with inflammation, or does it need to be from a fresh tree or can a dead tree also provide benefit. Once it's been determine that it's the bark, then can one grind it up and drink it in tea? For centuries, drinking a tea made from some plant material was the cutting edge of drug delivery mechanisms. Then for modern times, what substance within that plant can be isolated that provides the specific function we've observed. Can it be synthesized? Can it be pressed into a pill, or placed in a capsule? Now it's what you and I may observe as modern medicine, but there is a fact that chewing on the bark, the so-called "alternative medicine" is just unrefined medicine, where the level of refinement is determined by your society's manufacturing and science communities. Some day, some culture will probably look back and think that it was uncivilized that we had to go find someone who we needed to convince to dispense physical chemicals that we had to consume in order to feel better, just as we might look at someone chewing on a stick to relieve a headache as wacky. That's what "Asprin" is for.

That said, I'm entirely in the camp that thinks that modern alternative medicine is a sham. Cannabis' biggest problem is obviously political, but it probably also has the biggest potential for being a candidate for research to isolate and properly identify the interactions with the human body today. It clearly has some effect on the body (and mind), but as far as I'm concerned it's flower is still a caveman era drug while CBD oils are essentially Victorian drugs. We might see some kind of modern medicine originate from it, but I'm skeptical for now.
Don't leave us hanging...Do you like typing German?
Do you type German at all?

> Does someone want their promotion/bonus and for that they have to reach x downloads?

10x yes.
A case that deserves to be taken as an example of lobbying: the German city of Munich, which in 2003 started moving all desktop workstations to Linux, and by the end of 2012 reported a huge success with savings amounting to 11 million Euros, but in 2017 they announced they would migrate back to Windows, probably because of this:
https://www.novinite.com/articles/155950/Munich+Set+to+Becom...
It's a gray area. Who is to say what the right amount of taxes to pay is? Too little, not enough government support for programs + public services. Too many, businesses can't flourish.

When will poor people ever not be mad at billionaires for not doing enough?

I think a big part of it is that American perception on how efficient the government is at solving problems given funding (tax dollars). Some people think the government spends too much on military, some people think the government doesn't spend enough.

With the country so heavily divided (50% left, 50% right), you have wide-scale conflicting opinions on "should I pay more in taxes" or "should I pay less".
I have no idea. I meant my comment in jest— this episode is likely to end in a movie about We— since there’s no evidence MS had heard of WeWork as early as 2010.
That’s more a reflection of how much people are wasting money these days than what a “reasonable” car is.
Indeed, what people like is strongly tied to personality.
> Sandboxing on iOS and Android is working great to prevent the spyware developers from achieving their goals.

For power users who use Tasker, Android's restrictions are a nightmare. I cannot, for example, kill an app using Tasker, and I really really need to do this. Plenty of other restrictions that made Tasker users' life difficult.

To be clear, this is on a rooted phone. Am I not allowed to algorithmically decide to kill an app on my own phone?
Yes when my wife was pregnant it was not common at all to use it during pregnancy, and was barely even medically legal outside of pregnancy. She became allergic to Zofran, Diclegis (?) didn't work, and neither did any of the other commonly used HG medicines.
Either way
The True Guide to True and False in PostgreSQL
> WHY do these vehicles always have to look so freaking dorky?

Because when the first Prius launched, it looked like a normal car.

Nobody wanted to buy one.

The second-generation Prius had an incredibly conspicuous shape, and it sold like hotcakes.
I've been to Reddit a couple of times, and never to that section. Unlike you I post under my own name. Anyway, the time for that valuable advice would have been before that comment spawned a big subthread and got upvoted into double digits...
Good. Corporations should be punished when corporate greed leads to negligence which leads to the loss of human life en masse in exchange for short term profit.

I don’t see how this is a bad thing for the market, if anything there will be more pressure to make safe aircraft.
I kinda agree.

He honestly doesn't add that much by being in the room vs if someone else had the same questionnaire sheet. And in some ways his wooden demeanor can even be detracting instead of some of the best interviewers who can melt away and give the interviewee the space and direction to shine.
Or all of the above.

Mature software can have a bunch of hard to fix bugs that you can't motivate anyone to work on any longer. If you want to continue making progress you have to route around the damage somehow.
How convenient that "someone messed up", supressing installs of a competing product, with no compensation for the error.

Under-12s can't have a Google Account of their own, so they can't spend money, so why would IAP be dangerous? The purchase part is behind a 13+ wall.
It helped that Rogan is a self confessed Quake nut. If someone didn't have exposure to those early id software games, they might not have been as much at home with Carmack.
I made a video yesterday with some details on this topic: https://youtu.be/ghFx_jyP1U8?t=390
The ID.3 is more spacious than a golf.
No, quantum supremacy is about quantum computers being better at one thing. Then there will be a reason to use them. It's like making a screwdriver when you already have a hammer. Sometime a hammer and nails is better and sometimes a screwdriver and screws is better. It's about picking the right tools for the job.
When someone detects a bug with smallest possible fix (e.g. typo) how long does it typically take from detection until all your users are able to see/receive the fix.
Welcome to the USA: At 18 we're asking to use the restroom while also being asked to make massive financial decisions about continuing education !!