skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that Slack and discord are essentially ephemeral verbal discourse AND that they often become the _default_ mode of communication. This isn't bad as a small community, but does limit the growth of these communities. Newcomers are at a disadvantage as are anyone that's out sick/vacation etc. Anyone who's worked somewhere where major decisions are made in hallway conversations and never documented should understand the problem.
Demos. Allowing a users to test-run your application in-browser instead of just looking at screenshots is a game changer. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the primary motivation for the wasm port in the first place.

I agree with others in that using wasm to build a web app would be lunacy.
Where do I take the SuperGLUE test?
In Japan, corndogs are called "American dogs"
> I use Signal without Google Play Store/Services

Can you talk about battery requirements? For me, it proved to be a major battery drain to the point I uninstalled Signal. I don't seem to be the only one with this issue [1].

[1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/6898
High Times has been advertising those things for decades, just not for food.
A Metamodel of the Telemac Errors
An interesting challenge would be making a compressed air powered computer or tv for them.
>And yet the very personality flaws that make him so utterly despicable were the same things that allowed him to accomplish what he did in the first place.

And yet those personality flaws wound up being the reason he is no longer president of the FSF or on the MIT board of directors.

Being obnoxious, disrespectful and a rape apologist didn't help him accomplish anything in regards to free software. He succeeded despite those personality flaws, because the community around him enabled him, and many would (and have) argued that he has held the progress of the movement back.

>I'm glad that scum like him aren't allowed to have power anymore. And yet...and yet.

Being an asshole doesn't make you a good leader or effective communicator. I feel like this is some weird cargo-cult belief that's entered the community because of people like Stallman, Linus Torvalds or Steve Jobs. We don't have to give scum like him power, we choose to, because for some reason we consider giving in to empathy and tolerance to be a form of weakness.
Not only is there to such consensus, but there is an important (important beyond religious issues) lack of consensus of what is the most accurate text to be translated.

Modern societies weren't the first to find absurdities and contradictions in holy texts. Early scholars decided to search for the "actual" underlying meaning. For if the gods are infallible, and failures in the text must be human failures trying to translate their gods' word into lowly human expression. In christianity this "hermeneutic" scholarship laid the groundwork for modern linguistics, hermeneutics and semiotics.[1]

As for translations: I was surprised to learn that the biblical supposed prohibition on homosexuality dates in the English bible as far back as...1946. [2]. Which makes some sense; until at least Pope Urban, the Catholic Church was happy to perform both mixed sex and same sex marriages [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hermeneutics

[2] https://medium.com/@adamnicholasphillips/the-bible-does-not-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_same-sex_unions#Pol...
Y U SO PESSIMISTIC???

it's actually not that bad! I mean nowadays, what's going on right now. Media has gotten better at emotional appeal but that's about it.

Nothing is gonna fire. And noones going to hell (trust me, I'm an engineer). Politics are complicated and always were, nothing new.

My point is, we (humanity) got it! Tech and scientific progress didn't slow down but accelerated.

Worry not!
It's not a natural fit for a secure mobile messenger if you want to stay anonymous. For some of us, security == anonymity. Tying your identity to a phone number that can only be obtained by handing a telecom your government identity documents fails.

And I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but uploading entire contact lists should also not be considered a natural feature of a secure mobile messenger.
Actually the destruction was headed for us when billions of people overseas were going to rapidly develop to our level of technology. There’s only a few hundred million of us and over a billion more of them. The US positioned itself to be in the best possible posture as the market leader through setting the terms early to benefit themselves just enough, but also lenient enough to keep our real pressures for disruption. There’s a good Frontline episode with Kissinger about granting China MFN status. He clearly saw the writing on the wall.
First electric ute engineered in Australia for use in mining and agribusiness
I suspect it's highly correlated with TED talks.
> I have never used or heard 'land a plane' in this context, but the sentence didn't immediately strike me as unnatural, incorrect or unclear.

It struck me as pretty awkward and very ambiguous. It probably means 'obtained' but 'captured' would be a far better word in that case. The suggestions that it means 'hit/shot' don't work because in that case it's not the aircraft that is landed but the shot, which is landed on the aircraft.

Also the use of the incorrect plural "aircrafts" when 'aircraft' is both singular and plural makes me think it's just a poor question.

The very fact that there's so much discussion about it is evidence that it's not straightforward even among native English speaking humans.
Scanning the Entire Internet for Imageboards
> while they shun modern tech

This is a common foible of "educated public," and a lot of people misunderstand the Amish: they don't shun modern tech. The have cars and phones, computers and websites, and such. It's not about the tech but what the tech brings about. They consider the social implications of technology: Who does this technology replace? Who does this empower with good habits or bad habits? If I use this and then I am done, what do I do with it? Does this make me dependent on something out side of my control?

While they have technology, they limit who has/owns the technology. Complex tech is often communally used. But, personal technology is usually chosen with durability, simplicity, and reliability in mind. Check out their buggies[1]. These things aren't necessarily simple or cheap. Good ones are designed to last and be handed down, not like your old beater car you hand to your kid because it's frame is rusting out. They understand building technology quite well. We just don't think of it that way because of the materials used.

[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/car-technology/a24666/...
> hints at a storied construction?

By the way the process of producing that translation was well documented at the time.
Are things like this usually targeted, I.e. the hackers know enough about you to know who you are and you probably know their names or at least know someone they know? How do hackers even pick their targets?
Actually automatically it selects it wrong. If formal quality parameter is the same it chooses by bitrate, so it very often and in this case too goes for AAC audio and VP9 video, which happens just because of the properties of the codecs.
Not really. He asked IANA, which was literally 2 guys in a room back in the 90's. Literally anyone could get a port assigned in those days, just like anyone could get a /24 address block.
Sorry, I mean that Ring's server then only acts as a router. I strongly doubt it does that now, though I wouldn't give them money so I can't say for sure.
Douay-Rheims is a translation from Latin to English. King James is a translation from Hebrew and Greek to English.

But neither translation was the first of their kind. The Wycliffe Bible was translated from Latin in the late 1300s. Likewise, Tyndale started publishing a translation from Hebrew and Greek in 1494.

The article is about the discovery about a piece of paper from one of the King James translators. So it’s the earliest handwritten manuscript from the King James translation effort.
If you care about it that much, whip up some patches and maintain them.

Maintain patches that will never be accepted upstream? Thanks, but no thanks. And then what about proprietary apps? Electron is a scourge that's helping perpetuate mediocre user experience and an oligarchy.

Beyond that the Electron build system is a rats' nest. If there were some killer app out there that used Electron I'd probably consider it more seriously. But Electron is a bit like systemd: an exceedingly poor solution but just good enough so that most end users don't complain too loudly.

JS but C++ for some things is just as bad as C++ for everything. Qt isn't an option for me any more than Electron is an option for you.

No, it really isn't. Using JS (ick) for the majority of your app insulates you from most of the big scary C++ bits. There are other options besides Qt and Electron. Using Qt (or pretty much anything else) would also do the opposite of trying to entrench an oligarchy.

Users don't actually suffer that much.

As much as that sounds like a ringing endorsement of Electron, I'd say the steady stream of complaints about apps like Slack are evidence to the contrary.

If your web app is good to begin with, bundling it in Electron doesn't make it worse. You seem to be okay with browser based apps, so I'm not understanding where that disconnect is.

What's acceptable in a browser is not in a desktop app. This is the same reason there's anxiety over Apple's push to bring over the iOS toolkit to desktop macs: context is everything. Expectations are higher for native apps and simply slapping an Electron install on a web app doesn't comes closer to "why even bother with a desktop app" than "hey, desktop apps are a much better experience".

Beyond that a browser can share code that electron apps can't. I don't need or want N installations of Chrome/Chromium (with the resulting overhead and security implications).
As long as they're not training on the test data, and they're not submitting hundreds of submissions tweaking parameters trying to improve their score, I don't see what the problem is. If the algorithm can do a great job at classifying hundreds of new test cases it has never seen, and it isn't over-fitted, then that means it is good at that specific task. Of course the task itself may or may not be useful, and you can have some meta discussion about what "understanding language" is, but the computer definitely is doing a super human job at that given task.
That was my experience. I used (and not gently) hundreds of 5.25" floppies in the mid to late 1980s and had very few problems. Wore out drives, but the disks lasted forever. At first 3.25" disks were very good as well; it was normal to install a commercial software product that was distributed on a half dozen or more 3.25" disks that would all work perfectly year after year. Later quality dropped off and floppy media became rather unreliable.

I can only imagine how reliable a mil spec 8" drive with mil spec media must be.
You don't. Even humans frequently leak information like this. It's just a consequence of having incomplete or incompletely analyzed information.
Sorry, I misread.

I disagree, recently one event has shown the violence is just under the surface.

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

Large groups of people went to that mans ranch just to threaten the govt.
Unless you hit certain thresholds, this won’t require an account. It’s not designed to run analysis, only to simply share data.
I see that you're running this as a for-profit company. How do you plan to monetize it?
I think it's good that the poster named Paul Machle because now, this controversy will follow Paul Machle to Paul Machle's next business after Paul Machle is (hopefully) fired for doing severe damage to the reputation of Gitlab.

Hello to future google searches looking up Paul Machle's employment history! Click "on: Gitlab ‘rethinking’ third-party telemetry" above to learn more!

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"running the risk of a candidate going direct to the employer"

When I get a solicitation from a third party recruiter without an employer's name, it's almost always trivial to find out who it is because nobody has time to rewrite a job description in their own words.
Human-cranked flywheel would be even better as it excludes the use of horse-technology, at least for that particular purpose.
What is the desktop client missing? I use it every day.
Their issue with electricity is with depending on the grid, not with electricity per se. They want to minimize critical dependencies on outside sources, especially single outside sources.

Gasoline is a commodity available from many sources, so doesn't cause the kind of dependency the grid would. Many Amish do use non-grid electricity, from solar cells, batteries, windmill driven generators, or gas powered generators.
Some problem collections by Arnold:

* Problems for Children from 5 to 15: http://jnsilva.ludicum.org/HMR13_14/Arnold_en.pdf

* A mathematical trivium pt. 1: http://www.physics.montana.edu/avorontsov/teaching/problemof...

* A mathematical trivium pt. 2: https://www.latroika.com/mathoman/exos/arnold-exos-math-engl...
Dope is about the only useful thing it can grow.
In the Computer Shopper case, it was mostly about price discovery for things you wanted to buy. You wanted X. You flipped through pages to find a good price on X.
Sure, you can believe that the original text was correct but the KJV is not. I guess what I meant by "The Bible" is "The Bible in English".

As a practical matter, few people know the Greek and Latin and Aramaic of the original texts, so to question the validity of the English Bible is to question the version they know and trust, that is accessible to them. If you question KJV, that opens up some other questions: if the KJV is wrong, which translation is right? Is any translation right? It seems like a hard question for which no answer is arbitrary and unclear and any wrong answer could have unknown bad consequences, and many of these people believe strongly that humans are very fallible when it comes to moral and religious discernment.

One defense against making the wrong decision is to make no decision, and simply to abide by the traditions of your upbringing.

Personally, I don't think Christianity is such a weak system of thought that it all comes crumbling down if you yank out the doctrine of inerrancy of scripture (such as it is available to them), but I can sympathize with those who don't want to try it and find out.
Do You Believe the Blue Light from LEDs Can Rot the Brains of Fruit Flies?
Markup (aka JSX) in js was already a standard way back in 2004 as E4X. It was however only implemented by firefox and adobe (actionscript).
Interesting. The last time I used the unofficial client for Ubuntu Touch, it couldn't send notifications because the only options for those were either FCM or APNS. I wonder if it'd be feasible to add notification support to it now using Signal's notification service.
Right. It’s not coffe from a coffee maker (mr coffee) but rather a diluted espresso shot to mimic the strength of coffee maker coffee.
So, do Amish consider solar power acceptable?
"reasoning, order, and logic" still make sense to me because I believe in theistic evolution - evolution is basically a tool that God used to get us where we are today.

There is also Pandeism (where basically God ceased to exist because he became the universe). Scott Adam's book God Debris touches on this.

FYI, (I'm not Catholic, but) the Catholic Church today holds that view that Science explains the how, and Religion explains the why. It was actually a Catholic priest that came up with the Big Bang theory.

FYI continued, I believe everyone should be open-minded and respectful. I understand that my beliefs may be wrong (after all not all religions can be right at the same time). I believe people taking either side to the extreme does not help anyone, and I'm glad we can have reasonable, respectful conversations here on HN.
They often do setup Python notebooks / Colabs you can simply run, especially with the data hosted on GCloud. Unfortunately not this time.
That would be a great opener if it was credible, as far as I'm concerned. The question is how do you establish the credibility?
Even in the 70s, you couldn't tell a contestant on a show that they could win a prize if they could not actually win the prize. There is something worse than being needlessly pedantic - it's being needlessly pedantic and wrong.
Weld. Solder. Mill. Turn. Thickness plane. 90° Join. I can’t see even fairly impractical ways to do all those without power, let alone any practical way.
This is one of the real bummers about the growth of the "ToDoList" app as the "Hello World" of these frameworks. It's really important to demonstrate backend communication.
Tor bridges do not have this problem, do not consume a lot of bandwidth, and are very useful for people who need to circumvent firewalls. I have been running one for years without any issues. The Tor Project is currently looking for more volunteers to run bridges:

https://blog.torproject.org/run-tor-bridges-defend-open-inte...
Having been in a few of these kinds of discussions inside companies, it's super-fascinating to find one that is open to the public! It shows what is always true: that any "corporate decision", seemingly made by some sort of AI machine, was actually made by one specific (usually unidentified) person. Popcorn moment for sure.
Wouldn't we have to wait for Decentralized Identifiers for that? I doubt the OSS project can do customer service when things go wrong.
That's fair. I was around and tangiently involved at the time, hence my ambivalence.
It means 'succeeded in shooting down' right? Seems pretty contextual, but understandable.
Even worse, encryption is math. Banning encryption means banning math.
Sometimes it happens. I was watching a season premiere episode and the last question of Double Jeopardy had Keyser Soze as the answer.

One of the contestants answered "Keyser SOSA", immediately followed by Alex confirming with "Keyser SOZE, yes". There was a clear distinction between how the contestant pronounced it and how Alex pronounced it, but the contestant was given credit for the answer anyway.
It's weird, because I understood the second one as meaning shoot down, yet to me that's the same definition of landed. You just assume the enemy didn't land them gracefully without a scratch, because they are well, enemies.

So I would have answered that the word meant the same thing.
The reason there's confusion about that quote is it's always without context.

"Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people"

It's not so much that religion is meant to pacify, but that it does. It is soothing, and makes conditions which may be unbearable without it, bearable, preventing the people from attempting to change the underlying conditions which caused the suffering in the first place.
In the world of signal processing there are a lot of technical areas that are super important/lucrative but few people have expertise in them. Often it takes not only technical competence but years of experience.

To make this example even more specific, maybe you are good at writing fast decoding algorithms for new telecom standards.

There is also a lot of now low-hanging fruit in compressed sensing for the mathletes/computer people who know what that's about.

Edit: Actually, just learn math if you're looking to get ahead and have an advantage over many people. This advice doesn't make for the best blogpost or YouTube video but it's effective.
But it’s from a game show. Like, an actual show. 1/3 of the time they can’t just stop filming and say "whoops let’s pretend that didn’t happen." That interpretation of the problem makes no sense whatsoever.
That's really surprising. In the US, the banks are responsible for fraudulent transactions.
> People started boycotting GitHub before GitHub even did anything wrong.

Acquisitions happen all the time, but how many of those acquiring companies experience an almost immediate "mass exodus" of users? (I'm sure there have been others in recent history but I'm having trouble thinking of any at the moment -- other than GitHub, of course.)

Perhaps you should ask yourself why?

Why would all of those people immediately up and leave and boycott GitHub, especially "before GitHub even did anything wrong"?

Microsoft has certainly pulled the wool over the eyes of many... but some of us have both 1) been around for a while and 2) have a very good memory.

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By the way... you aren't exactly "new" here, so surely you're aware that it's considered appropriate to disclose any relevant affiliations when commenting?
Came to say the same. CMD+F didn't disappoint.
I agree with you isofar as lying as a means of extracting a confession from a suspect is wrong. But I don't see any harm in providing footage of the outside of my home, and quite frankly, I can't think of a situation in which police would have to lie to me to get it.
Smoke from Kincade Fire Expected to Reach Greater Bay Area Friday Morning
How did life expectancy grow during the crack 80s? Seems fishy
Having once male child eliminates the possibly of having two female children. You take a four entry truth table and scratch one out. The truth table is male->female, female->male, male->male. Tuesday is a red herring.

Note that there's some ambiguity between exactly one of vs at least one of which changes the probability but not as much as 1/2->1/3. (exactly one male on a Tuesday excludes the possibility of two males born on a Tuesday) Tuesday is not a red herring.

It's truth tables all the way down.
Twitter summary: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1187161460033458177.html
It's difficult to imagine a world before the internet, or even cell phones if you didn't experience it directly. There was distance, and there was "elsewhere." In 1986, the way you found people who shared your worldview if you were outside a narrow middle class mainstream was through music, or technology. When you listen to bands from the period and before, especially anything on the alternative vein, they were trying to create signals to find people like them.

The distance allowed for a counter-culture, where the lack of distance today means a counter-culture is too dangerous to tolerate.

If you had an IQ above a standard deviation, you were probably pretty alienated, and so you used taste in art, tech, and culture to find others like you. This manifesto was 3 years before before Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine. Ministry had just released "Twitch," into a pop culture dominated by hair metal, in a society where technology still meant muscle cars and mullets. Punk was truly dead, and the affects of new romantics and the me generation and yuppies were at peak decadence.

The Hacker Manifesto is an artifact of its time. I'm rather glad it sticks out, and that it can't be co-opted by our modern and enlightened hegemon. Sure, it's got more of a cringe factor now, but it represents something that was true then, and has remained so today: competence will always be a threat to complicity. There remain people who make, discover, derive, and invent, and they will necessarily disrupt. They are the only true progress. Manifestos rarely age well, but the courage they inspire and the work that results tends to set the trajectory of history.

I read this manifesto in 1993 and for better or worse, I can say I accomplished some things as a result.