skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not an implausible argument! It's already been successfully argued that "jailbreaking" is legal. I just don't know how easy the argument would be to make, and what the counterarguments would be; it's hard to think of any very good precedent for this. (Nintendo's old "lockout chips" are the closest I can think of, maybe?)
The local news isn’t an intrinsically valuable product, that’s why it is often subsidized or paid for by people who are paying to get a message in front of you (advertisers).

All the other value in a newspaper, which is largely entertainment, is accruing to a few big publishers or spreading to some combination of websites, blogs, podcasts or email newsletters.

Financial news is one of the big exceptions because people can adjust their positions, and the paper can earn its keep in subscription revenue.

So what’s the solution? If there is a solution to be had, the market will find it, but near as I can tell, the local news by itself just isn’t very compelling in most places, and that’s probably because most places are pretty boring and there are other institutions for getting word around about this or that: Church, blogs, neighborhood meetings, Facebook groups, NextDoor, Slack, or whatever.
It took me about five minutes to even understand the task. I first pictured a 3x3 grid with a word in each box. I thought I was supposed to populate the boxes with any word from the list -- oil, gas, or dry -- and then read them back.

I guess I'm living proof that not all programmers are smart.
it's not just polite to accept offers. It allows the other person to feel good for the act of giving.
This is ridiculous. R Kelly performed for years as a known pedophile with an adoring fan base. Cancel culture is mostly a myth. You’d have to do something pretty damn bad, way worse than “slighting”, for your behavior to go viral enough you’re “harassed day and night”.

Social rejection is how you learn to be social, and it ain’t gonna ruin your life. It’s just painful.
I see the JavaScript has all the async and callbacks while the Python is simple procedural. What are the benefits of the JavaScript version? It's definitely harder to grok for this newbie.

I also wonder what a plain ole RESTful API would look like. Why does everything need an SDK/library?

Ex:

import requests //wish this was built in

token = '07a3e79a-c34c-4603-9a87-3fa47678d37c'
db = '51e71cb3-a40d-46bc-af3a-7bb77fde04a9'
key = 'myKey'
r = requests.get(f'https://easydb.io/{db}/{key}', auth=(token, ''))
What about Wikibuy is a wiki?
It should be pointed out AlphaZero plays better than Deep Blue. I think comparing computational resource usage is important, but direct comparison only makes sense with equivalent performance level.
Boeing intentionally snaps of the wings of prototype aircraft to find the breaking point/prove the margin of stress.
You should post these every once in a while to /r/WritingPrompts and see what actual humans make of them.
> Let's imagine the Christian god doesnt't exist. How does that logically lead to nothing mattering?

The entire book of Ecclesiastes is about this. I wouldn't presume to summarize it all in a comment box, but it does cover a lot of grounds in different approaches to the meaning of life. It claims none of them really work all that well.

And no, it doesn't say, "But you die and go to heaven or hell anyway" over and over. It's not very supernatural at all, actually.
Earthquake Conspiracy Theorists Are Wreaking Havoc During Emergencies
Same as confluence, it is a pity that they force wysiwyg on everyone.
Lots of good research but the Paul Graham post on Do Things that don’t scale was way more succinct and insightful
It is a supply chain and value chain problem.
Honey isn't inserting themselves between the blogger and the seller automatically. The user is doing that when they use the Honey add-on after visiting the blogger's website.

This is no different then a user visiting a different website about the same product and clicking through the affiliate link on that new blogger's page before making the purchase.
They had both.
Same for Teams. Based on what I've heard I thought I will like it but the input box ruined it for me. It's beyond pathetic how a company the size of MS cannot implement a text-box that outputs text how I want it more than 1 in 10 times.

While I agree that non-technical persons would not get Markdown, not a single non-technical person ever messaged me something with markup. So why not just disable the shitty WYSIWYG and make markdown-formatting a opt-in choice from the sender of messages?

Also: Even Azure Dev Ops suffered from the same problem. I have no idea, how the same company can produce VS (Code or full version) and then release junk like this.
Very cool, I will have to try this as well as some of the other suggestions. Thanks guys!
Really unsure why I was downvoted for this. I posted a link to someone else in this thread that has actually talked to Slack employees, it's directly related to the comment I replied to.
> Self-sabotage [..] is likely the greatest source of failure

People who got rich quickly often feel (deep down) that they do not deserve it and go to great lengths to self-destruct. Also just my private observations.
He was, by all modern standards, a rather terrible writer, though _Pelham_ is rather interesting if read as throwback
eighteenth-century fiction or a precursor to detective novels. If nothing else, 'his mouth full of truth and turbot' is a rather brilliant phrase.
I think I read that Khrushchev wrote that the thing he was most proud of was that after he was done officials in disfavor were merely demoted and sent away rather than murdered.

I think also read that in the west we think of there being a 20 year peace between WWI and WWII. Where in eastern Europe that period was one of intercine ethno-national conflict.
Gimme Shelter, the Cost of Living in San Francisco
can you recommend some resources for someone who's just getting started on relaxation techniques and meditation, etc?
It's not what DEC Alpha did, but what it didn't do. ;-)

The issue that comes up on Alpha is this code:

thread1() {
x = …; // Store to *p
release_barrier(); // guarantee global happens-before
p = &x; // ... and now store the p value.
}

thread2() {
r1 = p; // If this reads &x from thread1,
r2 = *r1; // this doesn't have to read the value of x!
}

The Alpha's approach to memory was to impose absolutely no constraints on memory unless you asked it to. And each CPU had two cache banks, which means that from the hardware perspective, you can think of it as having two threads reading from memory, each performing their own coherency logic. So you can have one cache bank reading the value of p who, having processed all pending cache traffic, saw both the stores, and then you can turn around and request the other cache bank to read *p who, being behind on the traffic, hasn't seen either store yet.

Architectures with only one cache bank don't have this problem. Other architectures with cache banks feel obligated to solve the issues by adding extra hardware to make sure that the second cache bank has processed sufficient cache coherency traffic to not be behind the first one if there's a dependency chain crossing cache banks.
The US is an aging nation. Old people don't move.
For millennial, they have a tough starting position and a long time to wait until the corporate hierarchies above them clear out from the surplus of boomer management. It makes sense that they must "wait their turn" for a longer time than in the past.
Natural Wine Became a Symbol of Virtuous Consumption
Ag needs a reboot in this country.
See also:
iPadRehab, Louis Rossmann and that Tesla rebuilder guy.
It would be so nice to cut off aid to those Trump farmers who rail against the “socialist” programs of the Democrats. Some people need to be educated the hard way.
While that might be true in practice, I do think not knowing when you transition between those two indicates a failing by your coworkers/mentors.

I encourage people I work with to read many of the books in this book series. I particularly encourage them to read “Hardware and Software Support for Virtualization”, since it’s basically a book on their job.
Cocaine drug cartel leader's interior designers take fall for crimes
Man I just LOVE how the linux kernel can have such detailed and important information in a simple TEXT file. Fantastically functional and prove they focusing on the right stuff.

At my previous company. I would have to spend the better part of a day to get my "documentation" in the "correct" Confluence Style And Manner. They were adamant THAT'S were the value is, to have documentation is the most beautiful and absurd style" and double-linked structure. You would have to block out a day or two in your scrum(what nonsense) just to focus on your documentation. And this is not some sort of important* software like Linux or Banking... but a stupid website.
I tweeted about this this morning.

https://twitter.com/krudolph9/status/1197180483185995776?s=2...

Here is a link to a reddit post. Please tell them this is obnoxious https://www.reddit.com/r/Slack/comments/dmyn45/does_anyone_k...
Atlassian products aren’t popular with developers. They’re popular with managers who don’t understand yet need to control developers.
For C++ and Python only.

And those Python bindings are laboriously backported by hand from the C++ API.

QT will never be a language-independent toolkit, and the world will always need one of those.
Both of your parents and multiple teenagers thought firefox was crashing because Services wasn't in the right-click menu?

Forgive me for being incredulous, but what are they using it for? While I use Services, I'm not under the impression that it's particularly common. Perhaps Mozilla haven't prioritized the matter because they, like myself, are wrong about that? (And maybe calling Firefox garbage isn't the best way to correct their cultural blindspot?)
The Mister Rogers No One Saw
I've experienced this as well. I wonder what it is that makes the dreams so vivid after abstaining from a neurochemical perspective.
“ According to RetailMeNot’s suit, Honey infringes on U.S. Patents 9,626,688; 9,639,853; 9,953,335; and 9,965,769, which detail technologies related to things like facilitating access to promotional offers, merchant offers and coupon codes.”

Gross!
What exactly qualifies as a web technology? Isn't anything on an IP address a web technology?
I feel that probably they feel that they can repeat their past performance because it came easy to them, lose discipline around their gains and later when they can't repeat it, just lose all of it.
The last part seems on point. I imagine a lot of advice people give is pretty obvious and the person with the problem has already considered it but can't action it because of some other reason the advice giver didn't think of and the person giving advice is sick of having to explain why all of the suggestions given will not work.
Could you share your queries
Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations [pdf]
Why are people living in a city they cannot afford? SF is a tourist town. It’s a small dense town. It’s delusional to imagine that everyone from families to students to seniors to homeless and artists should live in this tiny little city by the bay. There are perfectly liveable towns in the Bay Area and beyond. The region has a public transport problem..not a housing problem. The narrative is distracting the government’s appalling failure to do the job they are supposed to do. It seems deliberate.

ETA: The last part makes me so mad. Did he just give a homeless person tequila and that’s the warm fuzzy ending? That’s just wrong on so many levels.
Profilers profiling profilers. Because why Do It Right The First Time when you can slap another layer onto the stack?
That's exactly what Reddit recently added, when they wanted to become more newcomer-friendly, and I have to say that it works pretty well!
Its easier to just date someone who likes having problems solved.
> the distinction being made is that Honey redirects them to a _new_ seller that offers a cheaper price, essentially poaching the customer. The blog's affiliate never makes a sale in the first place so of course it never pays out.

Based on what you surmised, Honey essentially acts as a middle man between two businesses. Did I get that right or am I missing something here?
Yes they do. I got a Thinkpad recently with a Ryzen 3500U and it's quite competitive to the competition from Intel. Yes, it's more power hungry than Intel, but the iGPU is much better than Intel's and I don't need to fuss with a dedicated card on Linux. I play games, compile software, etc, and it's a great machine, with my only complaint being poor microphone support (fixable in software).

I buy AMD for compute power and cores, and my laptop works far better for CPU intensive tasks than a comparable Intel based laptop. My main complaint is that I wish I could buy something with an extra battery (Lenovo T series used to have a second battery option) and more than 4 cores in a 14" form factor.
Also MLK Jr., Mr. Rogers, and Teddy Roosevelt. Very boring.
Yeah I know ... my comment was in jest ....but note the dateline below was yesterday...<raised eyebrow>

https://www.krgv.com/news/spacex-extends-buyout-offer-deadli...
The accounting profession exists, precisely because you need to get it right and successful founders don't have the time to be wasting their time on it.

Trust me on this: don't think you can survive the tax system on your own. Hire an accountant or bookkeeper.
A lot of these from years past have made it in to the Linux package “fortune”. If you pipe fortune in to the program “cowsay” you can have a cow tell you a short silly comment. On all my computers I do this in the .bashrc so it happens on every new terminal. Highly recommended.

sudo apt install fortune cowsay

Then edit ~/.bashrc
Add the following line to the end of the file:

fortune | cowsay

Enjoy!
> disliked primarily for historical and technological reasons

Huh? AFAIU, all the historical source code uses tabs for indentation. Both K&R and BSD style uses hard tabs, as does Linux kernel style and most older GNU project code for that matter. Various Unix programs assume tabs, for example indentation elision in shell heredoc syntax ("<<-") only works for tabs.

Soft tabs (spaces) has been a relatively new thing in the C/Unix world. You may not notice it because, working as well as they do, hard tabs magically indent according to your local preference, so hard tabs aren't noticeable.[1]

[1] What doesn't work is right-hand alignment. That's most noticeable in modern BSD code, where the style is to tab-align variable types and names into different columns. If your tab stop isn't set to 8 (the required tab stop), they don't line up. Most hard tabbers don't mix indentation and alignment, anymore.

EDIT: Here's the earliest source code for vi I could quickly find: https://github.com/n-t-roff/ex-2.2/blob/220a2cfa/ex.c
It uses hard tabs. It's also still using pre-ANSI function syntax, suggesting this code wasn't cleaned up before committing to Git.
Two days after that article it's 275K. Needs work, but the basics are there. Fly!
The ability of local agencies to just post to your feed has been a feature of Nextdoor for years. They can also close their posts to discussion, which is pretty irritating.
The WYSIWYG editor on Slack that everyone is hating on is actually Quill-based. And do note that it's always been based on Quill, they just recently added more Blots/Embeds to it.
I see. I was hoping there was still some way to quickly backup from google photos directly to linux.
Goldman Sachs are open sourcing the Alloy modelling framework and Pure language
Or just use recursion?

But hey, this article is an interesting way to get around that!
Acid rain can't be good for limestone. At the size of the pyramids, though, I'm not sure if the effects would be noticeable at all. It also doesn't rain much in the desert.
I did point this out at the top of my original comment.

“I mean, it's cool that computers are getting even better at chess and all“

> direct comparison only makes sense with equivalent performance level

This makes no sense to me. 50% increase in performance can be compared to 50% increase in processing power to evaluate level of brute force-ness.
Sounds like the people you hang out with are narcissistic assholes. Maybe they have something to do with your predicament.
We're in a period of relative technological stagnation compared to a couple decades ago.

Kind of. There's no new "must have" consumer electronics product. 3D TV was a flop, robot vacuums were a dud, VR goggles make 5% to 15% of the population nauseous, and everybody has a smartphone.
The "lose money on every sale and make it up on volume" model (Uber, etc.) is coming apart. Self-driving cars don't work yet. Moore's Law has hit a wall. Wafer fab cost is so high that the next node may be unaffordable.

There's lots of stuff to do, though. Solar panels and batteries work pretty well, and there's a few trillion dollars of those to be deployed. But it's not a Make Money Fast business. Electric cars and charging stations work, and those need to be deployed. The battery manufacturers need to get their automation act together and start pumping those things out at high speed at very low cost.

There's also lots of room for progress in bioengineering. Editing DNA is just beginning.
nVidia was rarely competing on their merits in the chipset space.

They were popular on AMD because the other options were spotty at best. I loved my SiS 735 and ULI M1695 boards, but virtually nobody touched the chipsets-- almost exclusively second tier manufacturers. VIA was the leader before nVidia hit, but they had a long string of half-baked launches... you had to assume that you'd wait for the second-revision chipset.

On the Intel side, the only place they competed was in a specific enthusiast gamer segment. The nForce 780i chipset was hot running and unpopular, but people bought it because they wanted to run SLI. I srtill have one sitting around, from a "gaming PC" I fished out of a dustbin The heatsink on the chipset is comically large and cries out for a fan.
> Back then people still thought Java would take off on the desktop.

You know, I find myself using a substantial amount of Java desktop software.

I license JetBrains products and earn part of my living using them. DBeaver is another frequently used tool. I've spent no small amount of time in Minecraft (the Java implementation.) Java desktop software even pops up in hobbies; SimSmith is one example.

There are others. Doubtless there will be more in the future. Are we all sure Java failed on the Desktop? It certainly didn't wipe out the competing paradigms, but it's still here and still seems to work pretty well for a lot of people. There aren't any Java web browsers, but then there aren't any C# or Python web browsers either, so I'm not sure what unit of measure I'd need to observe the failure of Java desktop software.

And then there's Android......
Its not impossible.. thats what they ended up with either way.. And how do I know its possible ? Well I have over 2000 developers working on the same codebase in my current company. I work as a devops and this conversation is stupid..
I don't think I can get any extensions loaded if I use RDS. They've basically handicapped what I'm reading is one of the most useful features of postgres
Yes, generally I'm with you not to shout or let other people shout. But in this case I thought it was appropriate to let him shout.
In the old days, we didn't use multiple Unixes by choice (mostly)
Ask HN: Where to Find Visionary Content?
I laugh out loud at armchair engineers who think they have any real insight into a massive engineering development program like Starship.

SpaceX has proven themselves over and over again of being more than capable of achieving their goals in light of people like you.
I just want a decent keyboard, non-soldered RAM, and a second battery with a quality 14" screen where everything works reasonably well out of the box on Linux. I don't care if it's a bit heavy or thick, I just want to have a good typing experience with high performance CPU options that don't get thermally throttled too bad.

Building a sleek laptop is all the rage these days, and everyone seems intent on convincing us that you can have a good keyboard in a thin package. Go the opposite way and make the best working experience possible and then work out how to make it easy to carry. As long as it's not ridiculously heavy (say, <5lbs or so), I'd consider buying it if it had a better typing experience.
Only if it’s also using the Web.
I agree with the brown noise over white or pink noise. Calming and low pitched. Try this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqzGzwTY-6w
Amazing research. I'd say, many people underestimate the phase of "1: Crack the chicken-and-egg problem ".

I think there are 3 ways to do that:

1) Investing a lot of money in ads and PR (many people won't have the resources)

2) Being the first one in a niche with high demand (e.g. AirBnb)

3) Staying afloat long enough to get enough traction.

I've been bootstrapping a software marketplace for quite some time now - https://www.saashub.com. A side-project initially and going full-time for the last few months. I can share, and believe, that SaaSHub is on the verge to crack the egg :) . It had 10k page-views yesterday. My expectations are that once it gets to 50-100k page-views a day, it would have cracked problem #1. Time will tell.
Perhaps using a term less euphemistic than “ethnic cleansing” would help people react more appropriately.
It’s just blogging - Kottke is one of the longest standing and most successful of all of them, and if his schtick was just mindlessly reposting links with no commentary or value add, he wouldn’t have lasted half as long as he had. ‘Welcome to 2019’ is a bit rich given Kottke started in 1998.
Part of the issue is that the chinese people literally don't see what the world is saying, the only information they get is constantly filtered and developed by the state. Really the state has created a perfect machine to control the thoughts of the population, its a very scary situation. So we'd maybe be able to conduct some information warfare involving full blown cyber war of unknown proportions attempting to hack into the chinese internet, I think things like starlink are going to make it harder for the chinese gov to implement the great firewall, however maybe they will just launch their own starlink...
Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) – Provides Security Through Diversity
This article is doing it wrong.

It should be an instruction manual on laundering it.

It instead lists how state actors messed up and defend the asset forfeitures in court.

From my travelling amongst the supposed wealthy in various countries, some cultures are just less flashy and more private than others.

The online lists of top 100 wealthiest people are 95% wrong. As in they only correctly list 5 people, in approximate order, and dont even have the names of the other 95.
> it supports markdown, except when it doesn't!

So, markdown?

Every website has its own flavor of it. Just reading some of the answers around here you can read "to do markdown better we made our own markdown".

Maybe because it is shitty. Just let users use HTML.
I read Apple's responses as "We want to protect the reputation of a brand of device which is marketed as user friendly, secure and private". If they open up the device to allowing anyone to deploy buggy software on, there will be a greater incidence of headlines similar to "iPhones with XYZ browser can be hacked!!", impacting the overall brand reputation for Apple products.
There seems to be an expansion of the meaning of “conspiracy theory” here, to cover just about any form of wacko-ness or crankism.

There may be some ways in which earthquake-prediction cranks overlap with conspiracy theories, but it’s not really a valid characterisation, and it seems lazy on the part of the writer.