skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds more like any use cases I don't understand can't be that important. i.e. people who use software different than the way I designed are wrong.
The community? Sure.

The chat standard? Not in the least.
Can I create an iMessage account using a Windows or Linux desktop? Or are those second class desktop platforms?
> As a final addition, Hacker News accounts which are linked with Keybase accounts are included in the tree [1]

How do I claim the airdrop with keybase? If I have a HN/keybase account and a github account, can I claim the airdrop twice?

[1] https://github.com/handshake-org/hs-airdrop
What kind of maintenance is needed?
IRC in 1991, until maybe 1999... I don't think anything like that will ever come back. There were some vandals with their scripts, but mostly it was way more civilized than you ever see these days. Had a lot of enjoyable conversations, lots of fun.

Haven't used IRC for almost 20 years now.
I used to use mp3search.ru (project closed now). Tracks were like $0.10.
Thanks for sharing this article. I had a gut feeling that Yang was blacked out pretty badly, but I wrote it off as just me being biased and upset that my first choice candidate isn't getting as much screen time as I would have liked. After seeing this article with all the clear-cut examples, I don't think that it was just me being biased anymore.
I always find projectM looks nowhere near as cool as milkdrop even on the same presets, but I’m not sure why..
Best I could locate right now is https://medium.com/@ml.at.berkeley/demo-day-september-2016-2...

"Every day, millions of files are uploaded onto Github, a coding repository where users share code and collaborate on projects. But how do you tell what language those files are written in?

Identifying programming languages are surprisingly hard. Symbols used in one language often have different meanings in another. For example, ‘#’ in python indicates a comment, while in C it indicates a preprocessor command. Even worse, code in one language can actually contain code in different languages, such as HTML, which can contain CSS and/or Javascript.

At the moment, Github uses a giant checklist to identify unique quirks in the language. For example, if the code contains “:- module”, then it’s probably"); background-size: 1px 1px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px);"> Mercury. However, most languages simply don’t have enough unique quirks for this method to be accurate enough.

The current solution the Github team at ML@B came up with is to use a machine learning algorithm called a Naïve Bayes Classifier. To optimize the program, they used Github’s checklist as a guideline for choosing the correct language rather than a hard-and-fast rule. Currently, the team is working on scraping Rosetta Code, a large repository of code in hundred of different programming languages, for data that they can use for training the program and testing its accuracy. Eventually, they will want to see if implementing other models, such as neural networks, can improve accuracy."

I'm certain I saw more advanced claims of success on this project and that github knows about it, since last time I asked they were 'still talking about it internally', but every link I had is dead...

WELL now that I googled seriously, I think I was too pessimistic, there seems to be some movement on this front at github : https://github.blog/2019-07-02-c-or-java-typescript-or-javas...

Excited to see what's coming out of this new endeavour... Just sent an email to github support, fingers crossed.
Everybody says this, but they simply take it as a matter of faith. I don't see any statistics to back it up. The article itself points out that there simply aren't enough self-driving miles at this point to make a valid comparison.
> I don't see how that's a difficult distinction to make.

Citizens United is a non-profit that produces documentaries, and sought to distribute a documentary about Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primaries. It was sharply critical of her.

Fahrenheit 9/11 was a documentary produced and distributed by a for profit company called Dog Eat Dog Films, sharply critical of George Bush, and released in the summer preceding the 2004 election. The director, Michael Moore, was open about his hope that this film would impact the election.

You can watch both documentaries online now if you want to judge them on their merits and whether you consider each to be good political speech, or bad political speech. The idea that the FEC should be able to decide on your behalf is what the Citizens United decision was about.
Yes, I don't get this. I would love to turn my home into a duplex (probably going to start with an airbnb though due to bad tenant law in our state). Sounds like the best way to go from homeowner to asset owner.
I still use it, every single day. Works well and now has SSL encryption to the server, which cuts down on snooping. However, true end-to-end requires client support.
People who don’t own property are entitled to the same representation, rights, and political activities as those who do. That includes activism and advocacy for housing that serves all the community and not just homeowners.
You could absolutely have more diversity by simply adding people, rather than displacing or removing anyone, which is precisely what the comment suggested.
I met my partner in one such channel about five years ago. We’re getting married this October. A lot of the guest list for our wedding is made of folks we met on IRC.
People don't realize that this very platform is controlling your discussion.

I'll be auto deleted by the wise HN algo it 'impartial' and godly mods
Yup, and this is what saddens me the most.

I'm closing next week in SF on my first ever home purchase (after renting for 10 years here, and 6 years prior elsewhere in the Bay Area). Sure, I would like for it to be worth more (outpacing inflation) in 10, 20, or 30 years. But I am not buying a lifestyle, or a guarantee of value increase, or a neighborhood frozen in time at this point forever. I'm buying some floors, walls, and ceilings. I'm buying into a community that I know needs to grow and change if it's to survive and flourish.
It's not orthogonal. If you are interested in bootstrapping a high income lifestyle, you won't marry a partner who is self destructive or destructive to you even.
This is indeed the crucial step, having had to do it several times as well. If you accidentally start the app before getting the backup file onto the device folder, going into the Apps setting and clearing all Signal app data is required to get the import process to work.
Rent seeking is bad for economy, and is antithetical to a free capitalist society.
Yann Lecun?
A big portion of WhatsApp users do not own any other device than a mobile phone, or do not actively use one.
If somebody can drop in excess of USD 1k on a phone why not drop couple hundred on a device somebody is spending most of the day touching.

This is different from a gadget you might put in a drawer and maybe use it occasionally. I have been using my trusty mechanical keyboard every day for around half a day for the past 15 years.

If it makes me feel good (ie. it has satisfying mechanics and is not irritating) then I have no problem paying couple hundred for it.
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I was just recalling an amusing anecdote. The brown color produced by the laser was because it burned the wall. It's too late for me to edit the post for clarity.
It isn't the price of housing that's the root problem, it's the arithmetic. There aren't enough homes in places people want to live for the people who want to live there. The price decides who gets them, but arithmetic causes the underlying suffering.

If there isn't enough food, someone goes hungry. The price just decides who. If there isn't enough housing, someone has to move out. The price just decides who.

Choosing "who" via a more equitable method than price doesn't reduce the amount of suffering, it just spreads it around better.
There's plenty wrong with hashtables in Common Lisp, they feel like an ugly bolt on. There's no convenient way to construct them or look at them (they're not readably printable, and you can't fix that yourself either). Even checking key presence in a hashtable requires multiple-value contortions.

On a more fundamental level, they also suffer more than sequences from the fact that common lisp has no well thought out concept of equality.
How do you solve event schema changes? I mean event has some data attached to it. The schema of this data may need to change in time. How to replay older events that do not match current schema? Do you keep all versions of event reactors to be able to replay old events?
I still use it. I self host thelounge, a cool web based client with bouncer features.

Quite honestly, I don't chat everyday, but there's a cool subscene that keeps it alive.
Isn't the entire controversy over global corporate activity structuring that has the effect of optimizing taxes within the letter of the law evidence against this as a "solved problem"?
> Clearly, this policy benefits landlords more than anybody

Well... no. If your SFH zoned lot is now duplex-friendly, it means your house goes up in value because it can be immediately rented out to two people or you can rent it out to another family immediately, without asking anyone, as long as you do the required physical modifications. Now your home value is increased by the amount of revenue (at an appropriate discount rate) it would draw in from two simultaneous occupants in perpetuity, which is always higher than the rate possible from one occupant.

It literally benefits everyone

> Of course, history is littered with cases of YIMBY theory failing urban housing markets

No, it's not. History is a constant example of the success of the free market, which YIMBY's are in favor of, and NIMBY's are against. This is ridiculous.
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The url you posted doesn't work/point to a specific issue...
WSJ isn't biased overall: https://www.allsides.com/news-source/wall-street-journal-med...

The editorials are sometimes right-leaning, but mostly fiscally so.
On my current work the main enterprise system client is written with Delphi and still in active use. I worked for years to gradually replace it with web system with Java, but there's still a lot to do. While I hate it with passion, because it was written by a few generations of developers with very poor practices, the mere fact that it exists and works is a testament to Delphi former glory.

Another component is Oracle 9i running on Itanium HPUX. At least it works fine.
> sitting comfortably on ... NJT

In what alternate dimension does this NJT exist in? I'm not often "sitting comfortably" on anything operated by NJT. Some days I'm lucky to be sitting at all.
Don't forget that Usenet itself has its own safeguards as in the news.admins and the newsgroup moderators should that particular newsgroup have it enabled.

Otherwise, it was and still is the wild west in terms of content and quality.
Whilst its always interesting to know whether the operating system is bottle-necking performance (as some versions of windows clearly do). I've never experienced a situation where I've actually had a performance reason to choose between Linux/Windows. For me it has always been "This thing I'm doing is linux only" or vice versa so operating system isn't a real choice.

Do people actually make decisions like that? I guess if you're doing some python based data analysis it could make sense.
> I cannot fathom the proliferation of phone-only messaging apps.

Because they work. Not ideally, but reliably.

I can pick up my phone, and actually message my friends, and I don't have to debug why my open source Linux client isn't compatible with their open source Windows client, or their XMPP server doesn't want to talk to my XMPP server, or figure out which identifier they're using today.

Signal takes away choice, and delivers a product that works. Which beats a product that is theoretically "better" (multi-device support, desktop support, ...) but in practice cumbersome or just not up to the task (e.g. because my friends aren't using that messenger, or OMEMO messages are not decryptable because someone mismanaged their key, ...)

Moxie made all the right choices, even and especially where unpopular: Aggressive action against alternative clients to keep their existence marginal and ensure a consistently good user experience, phone numbers as identifiers to overcome the network effect, etc.

In order to be useful, a messenger has to support mobile - I will want to talk to my friends when I'm on my way to meet them. So for a desktop messenger it's either flawless multi-device support or failure, and the former just doesn't seem to be achievable yet. A desktop-only messenger is useless because it doesn't meet my needs when I most need it; a mobile-only messenger is a bit annoying, but works 100% of the time, even when I'm using a desktop, because my phone is also nearby.
I was born in the 90s so I never used IRC outside work. I used it for work on a daily basis until a couple weeks ago, and I hate it with passion. The vpn drops and you miss messages. You are offline you miss messages, don't want to miss messages? set up a relay (seriously?!).

Now I'm on a team which uses slack, and I miss how lightweight hexchat is, but in terms of being able to use it my phone and having something that just works without any additional effort it only has advantages.
Bottoming out depends on a lot of things.

Topre offers a little padding on the bottom as you squish the rubber.

Plastic plates or PCB-mounted switches offer a little give.

Personally, my daily driver has thick steel plates, but it's a small board and I type on my lap, so my thighs cushion the blow.

And regardless of what keyboard I use, I bottom out, really heavily. Box Navy switches are considered rather heavy, but I bottom them out with no trouble.
IRC is still the greatest to ever exist and is still around.
Prop 13 would be easy to fix:
1) Limit to primary residence.
2) Charge market rate tax for everyone but for homeowners that want to defer assess it as a lien on the house that is collected once sold. New homeowner tax will drop once tax revenue is more equitable. Make this deferment income based.
3) Remove from commercial property.
Can you link to the specific issue? You linked to a search, not sure if by accident.
There are no republicans in california. Like, the CA republican party is completely defunct at this point, and I am a (former) California republican; now a republican in another liberal state.
It's still there. You can start again.
It's not the ISPs themselves, necessarily. You have a box that you own and that sits in someone else's network, where their security policies and practices apply. Those policies and practices are not going to be the same as yours. Perhaps more importantly, other people have physical access to the hardware. That includes employees of the ISP, but perhaps also 3rd parties (think multi-tenant datacenter, for example). That's why you should treat that box as being in a hostile environment.
I'm not sure a FrontPage site would be much better. It's also a big mess of generated markup you'd have to go through manually, if you didn't have the proper FP version.
> Documenting code via single-caller functions is usually a mistake, because to everyone else who looks, the set of functions is an API.

That's a really good way of putting it.

I try to avoid it by not writing new functions, but gladly using existing ones, in my implementation of whatever single new one.

For example if I'm writing a find_and_update_foobar function, I'll use find_foobar if it exists, and with the right signature, but I won't write it just to implement the one I actually care about; ditto update_foobar.

But, professionally I've mainly only used python; so I find it still deteriorates into a mess. (I type hint extensively, but still it only takes some missing hints, or something too loosely - or wrongly - typed.)

I haven't used rust professionally/enough/on something large enough to be sure, but my feeling is that it just having a type checker prevents so much mis-refactoring.
In many countries (an ever-expanding list), you cannot purchase a SIM card without showing ID, and a copy of your ID is made and sent to the state authorities. That is, mobile numbers are always connected with your identity, you cannot have an anonymous phone number. Consequently, the state can easily determine which of its citizens are using Signal.

While communications on Signal are end-to-end encrypted, in authoritarian states merely using a secure messenger can draw police suspicion.
Haha, thanks!

The tables did turn on that more recently, when he was having trouble with his computer (an ancient-by-today's-standards Dell Optiplex running Windows XP); his power supply died, so I bought him a new one, but after he installed it he wasn't able to boot into Windows anymore. I figured maybe whatever blew the PSU also blew the hard drive (I've seen that happen before), so next time I was at his place he handed me the tower to take home and diagnose/rebuild.

As he's handing it to me, it dawns on me, "Well wait just a second..."

On the spot, I popped open the case, took a quick look at the hard drive, plugged in the Molex cable, put the cover back on, and handed it right back to him.

Hearing the words "Alright fucker, we're even" made my week.
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I agree. It’s a very small component of the overall health picture. But it is a component and should be researched.

Once the wifis gone the MCS patients spend more time sitting in front of wired digital display devices activating their central cortexes burning through their constrained glutamate supplies (which is also the most probable reason blind people don’t develop schizophrenia)which depletes their glutathione which increases their pathogenic load and inflammation while their spinal column is degenerating and inflaming from the sitting and those two things have a larger negative effect on them than the positive effect of the reduction in wifi exposure.

The disappointment at their failed remedy further aggravates their condition and nobody is interested in their next bright idea for alleviating their condition. So they live their life out labelled as a whinger and their negative emotions contribute further to their health decline.

They won't recover while exposed to er but because removing er won't cure them this is not a reason for not benefiting from minimising exposure.

Spinal function and glutathione production is as or more important for MCS suffers than a reduction in ER exposure which is important but nobody tells them that and I've no idea how to prove it but at least Im thinking about it while recovering from ME which has more utility than telling them to just get on with it.

The end of back pain book by surgeon Patrick Roth will gradually fix anyone's spinal function with a kettle bell and exercise ball.

Diet and sleep will gradually fix glutathione production.

No one will make money from researching this so Dr's are forced to ask patients to just harden up. There's a lot of benefit in hardening up as well but it won't recover spinal function or increase glutathione production or decrease er or chemical sensitivity.
I don't know if this holds water. Boomers who "bought in" during the 70s-80s (when prices were a much lower multiple of the median income) didn't have to make a public discussion of housing, because it was readily available to them. Had in not been affordable to those boomers, would have the silent generation said the boomers didn't deserve housing? As a public policy, it seems prudent to have home prices target some median of the income. If people can afford to buy homes, they are incentivized to stay in the area longer and establish strong community ties. That's why the U.S. Government heavily promoted home ownership post WW2.
Yes and it is an amusing anecdote. I commented because I've seen so many people who think that "color" must have a one-to-one relationship with wavelength of light, and it seemed your professor was doing that as well.
Crystal 0.33
It's good to see Acton quoted; he'd been so silent since his donation-to/association-with Signal that I was beginning to wonder if behind the scenes, there'd been a falling out.

However, these "enrichment features" from Signal over the last 2 years are less than what competitors like Telegram put out in 2 months.

Really basic things remain undone. Like being able to carry your contacts/message-history forward across planned device-upgrades on iOS – https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/2542 – 4.5 years after it was "on the roadmap".

Many of Signal's novel cryptographic innovations, while cool, depend on trusting Intel SGX: both as a technology & in Intel's stewardship of the master keys/attestation-chains. Many cryptographers don't believe SGX will be technologically reliable anytime soon, and much of the world will probably see US-based Intel Corp similar to how the US sees China-based Huawei.
I think this comment is accurate just from a logical standpoint. Backyard has two possible meanings here:

* Literal backyard: in this case, then maybe one could argue that if we accept the premise[1] that YIMBYs aren't homeowners, then they are in fact arguing about other people's backyards.

* Figurative backyard: in this case, then whether someone is a homeowner is irrelevant, because the backyard refers to the general area, shared by all residents.

Of course, as we know from this thread, backyard in [N|Y]IMBY refers to the figurative backyard. Therefore, we must reject the argument that people are arguing over other's backyards.

[1]: As I argue elsewhere in this thread, I don't think we should accept this premise.