skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My impression (not in the field) was that Uber wanted to believe in this out of wishful thinking, and then everyone scrambled because they thought they were going to be left behind.
I'm not sure what "powerful tools ... in the browser" means for you, but here are some pure front-end JavaScript projects that I find to be powerful:

1. "Live" documents/notebooks like:
* Tangle - http://worrydream.com/Tangle/
* Mozilla Iodide - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/03/iodide-an-experimental-tool-for-scientific-communicatiodide-for-scientific-communication-exploration-on-the-web/

2. Visualization libraries:
* D3.js - https://d3js.org/
* Vega - https://vega.github.io/vega/

3. Processing - http://processingjs.org/
Wasn’t the concept of social networks and even Facebook itself a product of the government run DARPA
There is mild value to photo-resist processing DIY, 2-sided is easy and it's a lot quicker than waiting for a shipment from china.

But 3d printing, CNC routing, all those methods are an order of magnitude coarser production and not suitable for anything except very simple projects, and veroboard/stripboard is about on-par signal integrity wise.
If you have 3rdparty professional-grade plugins from NI (Massive, FM8), Xferrecords (Serum), Fabfilter (some of their amazing data vis use win/mac native graphics libraries), Arturia, etc, then you still aren't going to be able to use Linux as they don't build plugins for that platform.
I miss the culture that came with small distributed IRC networks. I miss the technical people that chose to use the networks. Those people moved to where they could reach more of their friends and family members.

I do not miss patching the IRC servers and upgrading / rewriting configurations (Unreal IRCD 2.x 3.x 4.x and now 5.x) and Anope services. Certainly not when we went from thousands, to hundreds, to dozens of users. Too much work for too few people making use of it.
No. It's not like that at all. Otherwise there would be no controversy.

The airdrop tool takes your private key and your passphrase,
does some overcomplicated (and unconventional) magic with it and asks you to post the resulting data to the public.
I feel like this article ended before it should have. I'm still not exactly sure what the author means by Don't Repeat Knowledge. Should we not be refactoring or... just don't go overboard?
It turns out that description in this blog post is wrong. Profiles.json Documentation from rstat1's commit (https://github.com/rstat1/terminal/blob/58f442dfd2a476de5552...) describes new setting this way:

"When set to true closing a window with multiple tabs open WILL require confirmation. When set to false closing a window with multiple tabs open WILL NOT require confirmation."

I just checked it and indeed setting it to "false" turns off confirmation.
> There cannot be an equal opportunity platform when everything degenerates to "the richest guy wins the contest for mindshare"

I mean there are all kinds of disparities in terms of likeability and attractiveness. Certainly, those who are rich have an easy way to advertise -- by spending money -- and thus to be seen. However, some people are naturally louder than others. Some, more outgoing. Some are extroverts. Some not, etc. Our government is formed from people who are able to convince others to vote for them. This is not about ideas, or the 'best ideology'. It is ultimately about likeability, which differs already from person to person. I don't understand why money makes a difference.

Anyway, as we've seen money doesn't make a difference. In the last election, it bought Clinton only a narrow margin in the popular vote despite spending twice as much. And of course it cost her the election.

I don't see much indication that -- at the highest levels of office -- money makes much difference. Perhaps it can at a local level, and of course buying votes outright should be outlawed, as it is. But I do not understand the moral outrage here.
This is kinda sad to see. It's been almost a decade since I last used Corona (then, it was called Ansca Corona), and I found it fun and exciting to use. My employer at the time wanted to use it to build a game app, and I spent a while messing around with it, learning Lua on the fly, and in general having fun making a "game".

I found the system to be easy to use, and relatively high performance. The only thing that was an issue - at the time - was something very strange, which kinda impacted another app we were building:

Corona had a map component, for google maps - but for some reason, it wouldn't work for Android - only for iOS! So - you could create an app with that component, but if you compiled it to install on Android, it would fail, but you could compile it for iOS and load it on an iphone and it would work fine.

At the time, we had an app idea from a client that we wanted to use Corona for, but because it needed mapping, and that didn't work, we were forced to go with another option (PhoneGap and Bootstrap Mobile), that wasn't nearly as performant - but we could embed a google map easily.

Contact with Corona revealed they were working on a fix to get the map component to work with Android, but it came too late for our purposes (and actually didn't happen until about a year or so after I had left that position and had moved on).

Anyhow - I'm glad that the system will live on, although today there are a ton of other options available for easy cross-platform mobile development. Still, I haven't found anything that worked quite as well as Corona.
I think it's important to push forward with getting people out of bad habits. In a lot of cases, the only way to do that is to force it. I don't often agree with things Apple does, but their forcing people to use x64 is similar to this I think.
> In most places new supply is high end and is making more housing available for people who don’t lack access.

People are outraged when you put apartments and condos in their multi-single-family cities because "lower class" people will move in. Don't those "lower class" people currently lack access to live these places?
Please post back if you find it, I'd be curious to see.
The Citizens United case showed the slippery slope we were on. Michael Moore was allowed to release a movie about how a particular presidential candidate was bad just before the 2004 election. But when Citizens United tried to do the same thing in 2008, the FEC said it was a campaign ad and stopped them. If the law had been allowed to stand that way, we would have ended up in a world where popular media figures have special speech privileges you or I don't get.
The problem is traction. Most people just aren’t aware of Firefox or know very little about it.

The solution is to partner with celebrities, the biggest ones, to make Firefox more popular as a choice for better privacy.
A billionaire would need to direct the newspaper to carry out such actions - if they were directing the newspaper in such a manner it would be a campaign donation, giving a candidate a ferrari counts as a donation since you're giving them something of value, even if the campaign didn't actively solicit the donation - in theory these sorts of media tricks already fall under unrecorded campaign donations that the FEC should be going after, in practice the FEC has no teeth.
Interestingly there is a concept in learning research called "desirable difficulties". The idea is that learning something, forgetting it and then struggling to learn it again leads to faster learning times. It may be that struggle is inherent in the process of learning something complex. If you equate struggle with pain, then I think it makes some sense. I have found that the best learners I know are also a little bit obsessive. They can't let go of a problem. So for them, the struggle in inherent in the way that they operate. For others, I think, the struggle can seem daunting. I think it's reasonable to suggest to those people that when learning something complex you are likely to place yourself in uncomfortable situations. However, it's important for those people to realise that the discomfort is not harmful and, in fact, can be challenging and rewarding.

Often I think it is quite similar to the situation where some people can not conceive of doing endurance sports. They view it simply as pain, or at the very best boring repetition. Others thrive on it. But if you want to learn how to enjoy endurance sports, it's probably a good idea to acknowledge that there will be times where you will be uncomfortable (possibly intensely so).
There's a lot of problems.
You may be advertising for a candidate you don't support just for the money. Most of the advertising has nothing to do with policy positions. The money paid isn't disclosed. It manipulates people easily because it's fad chasing and the candidate often isn't even in it. It promotes rampant consumerism, validation, and group pressure.
Then again, there's a big problem with Facebook in general. But that's a whole other can of worms.
Jack Dorsey’s comments about SF are a warning sign for the city’s tech scene
In the California case it did happen but the "landlords" are owners of single family homes. Here's a typical example: https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-sb50-f...
From what I understood of the article about secure value recovery [1], SGX is used to derive a more secure key from the password you provide, so a broken SGX alone is not enough to decrypt the data stored on the server, you still need to crack the user’s password. Of course this only helps those people with an actually secure password, which is why they go through all the trouble with SGX. This makes me feel a bit better about their reliance on SGX – as long as you use a long random password stored in my password manager, you don’t have to trust SGX at all.

[1]: https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/
Even inspecting the binary doesn't prove anything in general. Halting problem...
Near is a decentralized community-run cloud computing and storage platform
This election make sure to cast your vote for any candidate with an orange spray tan. This message brought to you by the 'more orange men in politics PAC'.
Hah I'm glad I'm not the only one. I finished reading it and thought that it felt like an intro and they entirely left out the meat of the article. Thought maybe it was just a lack of related knowledge as I just dabble in coding but yeah I figured at some point they would define what it was actually supposed to mean in depth. When that didn't happen I was left wondering what the point of the article was.
>Like DRY is wrong? I don't really get the point of this article.

More that it's a guideline, not a law. We should always use best judgement to decide when the tradeoff of readability and declarative code is worth a small amount of repetition, rather than religiously refactoring something for the sake of it.
I'm surprised no one mentioned it here: before Front Page was a Microsoft product it was created by an independent company, Vermeer. But as many pointed out it produced horrible code.

My favorite editor of the day was a "hand coder" called Home Site

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia_HomeSite
Flip it on its head a bit.

Let's say you live in a neighborhood of mostly single family homes. A new law is passed changing the zoning to allow higher density, and other barriers to building up are reduced or eliminated.

A few people near you sell their homes; they're bulldozed and are replaced with multi-family units. Sure, over the short term, your home value might drop because of greater supply helping to meet demand.

However, over the long term, or even medium term, two things may happen:

1. Your home value goes up because single family homes are less available, and are more desirable.

2. Your home value goes up because developers want to buy your home in order to build a multi-family dwelling there.

Meanwhile, more people are able to live nearby, more affordably, likely cutting down their work commute and increasing their quality of life. I guess the incumbent owners really are that selfish that they fight tooth and nail to prevent others from increasing their quality of life.
I'm talking about naming; I'm not saying it doesn't matter which is male or female. Why is an offspring of lion and tiger called liger? Because the male was lion, and vice-versa for tigon. That's just plain patriarchism. Is it "bad"? I don't know. We certainly have a tradition for it.

Edit: that's a lot of downvotes and no comments. Are we beyond talking about sexism, or is my tone so off-putting.
The president's personality is by far more important than his/her political views given that their views do not matter when it comes to legislation if Congress is aligned.
The sqlite codebase is well-known for being a large, well-written C codebase:

https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite

The tests in particular are very impressive.

Some other notable C codebases: Redis, LuaJIT, FreeBSD, Memcached -->

https://github.com/antirez/redis

https://github.com/LuaDist/luajit

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd

https://github.com/memcached/memcached
So your only qualm is that it would be difficult to enforce? After all, this does not seem to be a problem with false marketing.
Is it fair to choose Java and C#, essentially the same language, as the representatives of static typing?
200Gbps per _socket_.
Renters absolutely pay property taxes - just not directly. Every rental unit I’ve ever owned has had the exact same property tax bill as the ones I’ve lived in, and the taxes were paid from the rent collected.

If property taxes increased substantially, I’d have had to raise rent...
Either ways my recommendation is to make a informed choice of NIMBY vs YIMBY. It appeared so far that NIMBY is winning and large number of people support NIMBY. This need not be because all these are evil people who oppose three points but might have legitimate reasons for their stand.

Make an informed choice rather than blindly picking sides.
> Yes but so does human intuition and its a heck of a lot faster.

It's also frequently incorrect.
99% is comparing the entire genome, introns and exons. 92% is comparing known genes gathered from the human genome project and subsequent research. We don't know the exact genes expressed by our ancestors since RNA is far less likely to survive in enough different types of tissue to get a clear picture of the entire genome but 92% of the genes we recognize in ourselves can be found in early hominids using the latter's full genome sequence. Between epigenetics and embryology, we know that the whole intron/exon dichotomy is fatally flawed and evolutionary genetics has long turned to more complex methods to trace relationships, which are very nonlinear even in our near family tree.

Both numbers are ridiculous and meaningless so don't pay them any mind.
??? Property taxes aren't passed on to renters? Only homeowners pay them, and landlords don't experience them as a cost they need to recover from their tenants?
I miss the feeling you had using it and the fun bots people made in some channels. I do not miss the difficulty of getting less technical users onto it and it's lack of portability with out some work. New tools these days make the portability aspect easy and barrier to entry low for less technical users which expands the user base of a lot of platforms today.
Researchers were not right about left brains
I find DRY fascinating.

It's the source of a large portion of the accidental complexity I find in code. "If I just create this abstraction, all this duplicated code goes away" - we've all heard it and many of us have told it, but few of us realise that it's the prequel to the most popular story of all: "all this code is such a mess, there are all these extra layers that don't really make sense and unpicking it is such a pain, I can't believe someone wrote this".

The story inbetween is about a young, inexperienced developer who has 3-days to deliver the one-feature-to-rule-them-all, to appease the almighty project manager, necessitating an adventure into the labyrinth carefully crafted by the developer in the first story.
> We're also not permitted to force our way into schools or private homes to do the same

Actually, you are allowed to protest on public property within earshot of private homes.

You cannot enter a private home because someone else's property and liberty trump your right to free speech on their property. In so far as their property includes the sidewalk (typically). You have every right to speak there. You can even protest there if you want.

> No one has an unrestricted right to go out and literally speak,

Yes, you do have every right to go out on public property and literally speak. That is literally the right you have that many have died for and the ACLU and other orgs have fought for. Try it right now! Have fun. There is literally no restriction as long as you are not physically harassing or verbally abusing someone, and you are not physically preventing anyone from passing you.
it was a interesting realization when I came to terms that a great many roles in our society exist because emotions are hard for people to deal with. So we "outsource" some large percentage of it to someone to be a buffer and absorb/redirect some of it so that the rest of the process goes smoothly.

Its present in some aspects of nearly every field and while its frustrating to those of us who like to think that we're more rational, it is more likely a genius hack of the human system that lets us get things done at scale/speed than otherwise.
> This smells more like desperation than passion.

They are one and the same. If you're a nice company a lot of people want to work for, those who want to are prepared to go through hurdles in order to do so.

> I guess it is positively correlated, anyway.

Memory is very strongly correlated with IQ.
I think flow charts are a lot more useful when the granularity is more coarse: the boxes should represent functions, not the logic inside.

compute thing -> predicate true ------> compute some other thing
| -> predicate false ->|
\---------------loop-----------/

... etc ...
The second and third paragraph were cut off when I replied on mobile. This was clearly my mistake.
Zuckerberg accepts that Facebook may have to pay more tax
They sort of do that with their launchpad program.

https://www.amazon.com/launchpad/startups/benefits
MIT Hacks
Meteor 1.9 (Node.js 12) and new Roadmaps
If housing was not a commodity, then it could not be bought and traded with fluctuations of value and expectations of profit on the part of the owners. The cost of housing would not be a problem if it was priced for the benefit it provides, instead of its profit potential.
That's been fixed a few months ago. The setting now sticks until you manually change it back or your contact replies with a Signal message.
It’s either that or attempting to trivialize the content of the link to let everyone know that they could do the same thing in 4hrs after work on a Wednesday.
Agreed 100%

I'm very involved with YIMBY Action here in SF: I'm on the board of both YIMBY Action and YIMBY Law, and I'm also running for local office in the current election: https://buss2020.org

If you have any questions about YIMBY, send them my way!
I've read a number of introductions to Clifford algebras, and I'm always left with the question of what the geometric product is supposed to mean. The wedge product and dot product are easy to understand and have obvious interpretations. But other than being a gadget from which you can extract these other products, I don't see what the geometric product is for, or why it should be the primary object of consideration.
I mistakenly did not see the whole OP comment when I replied. This was my fault as I'm unused to using HN on mobile and did not do my due diligence to see the full comment.
> the high-income and low-income housing markets are often effectively separate markets

That's certainly not true in SF. Housing quality certainly runs the entire spectrum here, but in the last decade I've seen low-income renters forced out of ok-ish buildings, and replaced with several high-income renters who do the roommate thing in order to afford it all.

Over time, even building "market rate" (which some people erroneously call "luxury") housing in SF will start to free up the older housing stock that's being occupied by people who in any other market would be considered high-income, and return that housing to its former middle- or low-income renters.

Regardless, with the exception of subsidized housing, it's not even possible to build low- or middle-income housing in SF right now. If you build anything at any size, it will immediately price out of budget for any low-income renters, and most middle-income renters. Part of that is just because landlords and sellers charge whatever the market will bear (which is a lot), and part is because new housing development gets so much opposition that it costs developers way more than it should to actually complete a project (it can take years and countless lawsuits and legal fees to even break ground), and they need to recoup their costs and make even a modest profit somehow.
It seems a bit of a pedantic distinction, but ok. I edited the comment. I don't think it changes the spirit of the comment, though.

I've seen many people try to argue that magenta doesn't exist, or isn't a color, etc., simply because it doesn't correlate to a single wavelength.

Regardless, what is he trying to say, then? That brown can't be understood because there is no such thing as a brown laser? My point remains.
> And there are many websites that cover obscure topics not found in books.

Yup. Are there any books covering the same content that ctyme does? (http://www.ctyme.com/intr/int.htm)
Eons ago I wondered why the IRC and NNTP protocols weren't being improved.

I still do.

The AIMs and MSNs and Skypes came and went. Now it's the WhatsApps and Discords. Every one of them trying to reinvent the wheel the should have just been fixed 20 years ago.

But why has nobody sat down and said, "Here's a better IRC, here's a reference client, here's the source code, knock yourself out."

It's still not too late you know. In fact, there has never been a better time (and need) to revamp those classic platforms for the modern era. With services like GitHub and AWS, it should be easier than ever to collaborate on building ever better clients and hosting servers etc.

Here's my wishlist for improvements over what I can remember of IRC:

• Mandatory encryption for client-to-server and direct peer-to-peer.

• Server-side chat history, spam filtering and DOS resistance.

• Ability to send binary data like images, audio, video and arbitrary files in public channels and private chats.

• Message deletion and temporary messages.

Basically a decentralized Discord (which is a centralized IRC to begin with.)
Not necessarily assuming, but giving a chance. A person may have a bad period in his life. Silently banning someone is as cool as reviewing a person for a job then giving him no feedback. It's ghosting. Or gossiping behind my back. Or downvoting me without explanation. You can do dick moves against me, but if I find out I'm going to badmouth you and tell everyone what a loser you are.
There's no reason why you can't slap some CSS (flexbox, cssgrid!) with some ES6 JavaScript linked on an index.html on a Netlify server...

Loads super fast.