skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. You're right that there's no button you can push to delete an entire account history, but wrong that there's no way to remove HN comments. We take care of deletion requests for people every day. We don't want anyone to get in trouble from anything they posted to HN, there's nearly always something we can do, and we don't send people away empty-handed. I can only think of one or two cases where we weren't able to make a user happy, and neither of those cases had to do with identifying information being left up on the site.

The reason we don't delete entire account histories wholesale is that it would gut the threads that the account had participated in, which is not fair to the users who replied, nor to readers who are trying to follow discussion. There are unfortunately a lot of ways to abuse deletion as well. Our goal is to find a good balance between the competing concerns, which definitely includes users' needs to be protected from their past posts on the site. I don't want anyone to have the impression that we don't care about that; we spend many hours on it.
If you care about performance then you should start by reading High Performance
Browser Networking (the text is available online here https://hpbn.co/ ).
Hi! PM on the Codespaces team here.

I wanted to quickly help calm any potential concerns about changes to VS Code or its model.

Codespaces is a separate, additional service from VS Code, very much focused on providing compute catered to developers and their workflows. We hope you'll use and love it, but we're also very happy if you'd prefer to continue to use VS Code in the ways that you may have previously done.

Either way, we will continue to invest heavily in VS Code as you know it. Codespaces will not change that.

Hopefully that helps clarify any concerns!
Lecture videos to go with it https://aalto.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.a....
Huh the Surface Pro 7 i7 should have a vastly superior GPU. Where does it fall short compared to the SP4?
Back when I did more road trips with friends I measured how long stops take. Stops take a lot longer than people think. People think a gas and pee stop is 5-10 minutes tops. Really 15 minutes to half an hour. Fast food place, half an hour. Sit down meals take more than an hour.

Yeah certainly by myself, I could do a gas stop in 5 minutes. With other people never works out like that.
I used to think that too, but

- economically trains are a monopoly. This point dwarfs all others.

- we don't have two-directional rails everywhere

- electric trucks can change the economics and mitigate the pollution of trucking
You are right that it is not as necessary as before but there are still plenty of times where vi was still the faster option. Since Vi is so lightweight, opening large files remotely might be useful vs vscode remote ssh.

But yea vscode remote is really good.
Recently saw a Chemical brothers show that amazed me, I'm sure they borrowed liberally from these pioneers.
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Soo proud of the Matrix Team!!! You are doing great work! Thanks for the transparency and doing your best to implement this protocol. Can only imagine the moving pieces and hard work to get this right.

I've had the pleasure of meeting some of the core team and they are some of the smartest and humblest people.

Looking forward to the realization of a unified and open messaging/communication layer with the help of your thoughtful effort.

This work may sometimes be thankless. But here to say the community appreciates you all; including all the open source contributors working on the clients, server implementations, and supporting software (bridges, extensions, bots)!!
There is a massive working medium. For massless particles such as photons the connection between energy E and momentum p is E = p *c or p = E/c. Since c is large, the momentum p you can carry per energy E is small. For a massive particle with mass m the connection is given by E = p^2 / (2 m) or p = sqrt(2 m E). As long as E is small (so small that the velocity of the particle is small compared to the speed of light, but that is required anyway for the non-relativistic approximation I am using here a) the sqrt doesn't hurt you too much and you can actually carry much more momentum per particle.
If information equals knowledge, and knowledge equals power, then secret information is secret knowledge and hence secret power. (of course if correct and applied correctly).

One I learned at a young age is that you can learn to absorb the good traits of people around you while avoiding picking up bad traits (mostly around the idea that just because you don't like what a person does in area Y, doesn't mean they can't be good teachers/mentors etc in other areas). Rejection for single issues is a major problem in todays society I think.
> Are the arrows going to prevent you from walking through someone else's exhaled air?

In most aisles, it's almost impossible to maintain your distance from others if people are traveling in both directions, since you're frequently passing closely. If everyone makes a one-way "circuit" around the store, you can maintain pretty large distances.
My web developer story – junior level
> more reasonable people who know how to heat food up

If the food was advertised as potentially cold or wrong upfront with no guarantees it would be one thing and the market will adjust (only people who want to take the gamble would order).

It is not advertised as such, and the prices don't reflect it either. You are offered a deal where you pay money for warm, or at least correct food to be delivered. The problem is that one side doesn't want to uphold their part of the deal but still expects the other side to uphold its part (aka paying the money). That sounds like false advertising to me and we have laws against it for a reason.

> how many times did you heat up and eat the food anyways after getting your refund?

Cold food actually results in a partial refund which is fine by me (though the option for the full refund should still be offered IMO, as some foods might not taste the same after reheating though I haven't experienced this personally). For me cold food was never a big deal, it was the incorrect food that made up the majority of the problems, often they wouldn't respect the extra options like "no cheese", the food would be completely different from the description (I guess the restaurant changed the dish but didn't update the menu on the app) or outright receiving the wrong order with someone else's order receipt attached to it.
Assume good intent until proven otherwise. Because there are plenty of people who'll repeatedly treat you like shit, and then continue to demand you assume good intent.

To which I say, pardon my french, fuck that noise. People are entitled to the benefit of doubt only as long as there can be doubt. Once that is gone, act accordingly.
fwiw, I totally agree with everything you've written, and take it in good faith.

I've heard the words "power tool" and "platform" used to describe what you're talking about. The best tools have a simple core with many silos, but those silos are highly-configurable and composable. You can call it UNIX-philosophy, but it's evidently existed in other domains (carpentry, baking, "interchangeable parts" in manufacturing) for a very long time.

I don't think there's a lot of software written this way. Vi, Excel, UNIX pipes, functional programming languages, regular expressions, GNU ledger, Redis come to mind.

Not a lot of consumer software fits this description, that I can think of.
It’s actually impressive how often VS code or ssh has exploded for some reason without losing any work.
So nice when it works and has been breaking incredibly badly for me recently. The Python extensions that vscode was trying to bring up whenever I connected to my remote had some weird interaction with a virtualenv and just pinned the server to 100% CPU and rendered it completely unresponsive. Repeatedly. Reboot to recover.

Generally extremely good, but for obvious reasons this makes me think twice about connecting to some things.
Uber lays off 3,700 employees amid coronavirus pandemic
I heard someone complaining the other day that every iOS application has the Share button in a different place and sometimes a different icon altogether, and poured another one out for the poor, misunderstood Charms bar.

Windows 8 had so many great ideas and it is an open question if Microsoft had stuck to their guns a little longer and waited for more people to get used to where their cheese moved if Windows 8 might be even more fondly remembered for moving touch UIs forward.
mm, that could be a nice solution.
Cookie consent needs to fuck off for the vast majority of the internet. If you are in the eu or you do business there it probably applies. Everywhere it doesn't.
Everyone =/= everyone unfortunately.

I agree with your approach though.
Yeah, well good luck with that one.

With this feature, MS just ventured in a space where no-one can compare yet.

If this ever gets popular, that's check mate right here.
If the article is right about the scaling required then I'm very skeptical that this will ever be practical. A 1 kW magnetron is a part found in just about every microwave oven. Scaling that up by 4 orders of magnitude would need a 10 MW RF source or amplifier. I'm pretty sure those don't exist and if they did they'd be very large and heavy. A long time ago I used to do RF engineering for particle accelerators and the most powerful continuous wave RF amplifiers I ever heard about were on the order of 1 MW.

An even bigger problem would be efficiency, which this article doesn't even mention (haven't looked at the original paper). High power RF amplifiers aren't particularly efficient, I would guess around 30%, and there would also be waveguide losses and cavity losses if any resonant effects are used to get high enough electric fields. I would be surprised if there's much hope of that competing with conventional jet engines on efficiency.
I actually started using that meditation app because Nick Cave recommends it in one of the Red Hand Files too.
thank you! made my day
We have reached peak startup
We do indeed restrict ourselves to tabular structures of data, both on the web-page level and outside.

Many non-technical people think in terms of spreadsheets and tables. If you give people the spreadsheet/table as the data structure primitive through which you're iterating, they get the concept of a loop straight away.

Couple that concept with teaching them a variable, and they can achieve a lot.
Also, between two years in and death, it's still very common to fail into the trough of despair when working on a creative project. Brian Eno has had a pretty good creative run, but he didn't make that Oblique Strategies card deck because he never runs out of great ideas.
Not to perpetuate the fox stereotype, but of all the things a fox would show up on the front page of HN for... :3
The idea that landlords should be bailed out in any fashion seems folly to the extreme and I’m glad to see it argued against here. Collecting rents from people without the capital to own housing, in addition to increases in land value, is about as textbook an example of parasitism as one could imagine. Let them all take a bath and keep people housed.
VSCode is great and has a lot of advantages. I still use vim in a terminal because of tmux. Unfortunately that means I have to give up some of vscode's advantages.
My opinions are not mine and they are holding me back.

Give multiple and opposing views equal respect and disdain at the same time. Treating a thought as your own, as an opinion "you hold" greatly holds you back from a great deal of valuable perspective. Of course you surely hold some world-view and gauge things from that position but try to cultivate more of these positions as if you were someone else.

Don't get your sense of self so wrapped up in all the thoughts and ideas that flit about in your brain. You will surely be a different person in 1, 5, 10, 20 years and may well have a completely different perspective then.

There is very little original thought, mostly there is just repetition and re-contextualization of the same old stuff. That is not a bad thing but you should really divest yourself from being emotionally wrapped up in opinions (yours or others) and treat them as the conclusions of research papers with small sample sizes.

Now when you converse with someone, stop thinking about "your" response, and just listen, really listen to what they are saying and try to really understand where they are coming from so you can integrate that into your thinking.
Always, always, stop people to ask them questions. Whenever they do something you are surprised by or say something you don't understand, ask them to explain.

I never fail to get a positive response.

Sometimes you feel silly if it was a simple thing, but you get used to that easily, and now you know that thing for the rest of your life.
How about telling your users to post on github/gitlab issues if they have something valid to add?
Guess we know who's responsible for the shortage!
Ever consider that people might do something for fun?
Are you basically advocating facilitating the spamming of a certain section of "morally bad" individuals? I'm not sure this is the kind of advice that will lead to a less controversial business.
You don't HAVE to finish reading a book.
I agree. I’d love remote intellij development, but it doesn’t seem to be something they’re interested in at all.
Now I'm wondering why you were running this in 2019. I watch a lot of nostalgia game reviews on Youtube and get the serious urge to build a '90s era computer from time to time.
I guess you should have said it's for desktop, then, since I felt like you're implying Linux browsers won't work (which they do).
Here is a smart one : Being wise is better than being smart.
Nobody who actually owns a car wanted to swap batteries.

There are many reasons: ownership of the battery, logistics of the swap and swap back, required payment for convenience, need to stop anyway, range of vehicle, etc.
The other more Daoist end of this spectrum is that your mind and body are you. Through the power of will you control both of these.

As a long time meditator the "I am not my body, I am not my mind" mantra has always bothered me. I am both of those and will shape both of those in my image. Dissociative practices will not bring me closer to my goals.

The comparison to eyesight is strange too. If your eyesight is poor you can not really train it to be better. Through regular meditation practice, and practice in other areas (self-discipline) you can absolute shape your mind and change your thought patterns.
Came here to say this. Didn't that connection sweep through here a while back?

I just checked. Turns out the herpes connection has been made before too:

(1) Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication (2 years ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540094

(2) Some studies show an association between the herpes virus and Alzheimer’s (2 years ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18265115

(3) Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease (2 years ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17366591

(4) Link Between Alzheimer’s and Herpes (2 years ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17521994
It's likely not the restaurant's fault it's cold. And the guy making $6/hr to deliver it to you tried their best, or got there later than they wanted to.

Once again, if you can't suck up the gamble that is delivery food, I'm glad you get kicked off the platform. I just wanted to give a response from another pov since you felt like you were wronged: I read your account of events and think "nice, the system is working."
There's lots of interest in support for many languages. It's more that the codebase is 99% one developer (me), and there was a ton of fragmentation early on that I'm still working to clean up, that both makes it hard to implement new systems as well as hard for others to contribute. We're getting there.

I'm hoping to stop cranking out code and actually write the developers guide soon, which I think will help immensely.
PCM Predictions from 1965
Why is this getting down voted it's a quote from Harry Potter ya dorks. It's so incredibly obvious that it's a joke I am supersized those of you who down voted it can tell the difference between a shoe and a hat...
Keep trying. I wasn't part of the Wal-Mart delivery area until last week. They seem to be expanding lately.
Because "automatically posting to GitHub" is the exact kind of bullshit that a society driven by capitalism comes up with. Employees lying to employers lying to investors lying to customers, all so they can make themselves slightly richer. No value is being created, no progress is being made -- it's all just a house of cards.

Then there are people like you praising it, and just because the goal of capitalism -- to amass as much wealth as you can -- is being met. Even though it's a complete fucking waste of human potential.

Makes life seem pointless.
Do we have any idea about what kind of ISP these rotating detonation engines can achieve?

And secondly, want to bet that the KSP2 devs are rushing to add this engine ASAP?
> assume positive intent.

I feel like this is somewhat related to Hanlon's Razor:

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

Maybe the guy driving like an asshole and making a sudden lane change is actually unfamiliar with the area and noticed a bit late that their lane ends or is becoming an exit/turn-only lane.
Do you need a CAPTCHA? Or do you need to slow down / stop spammers? Consider hashcash [1] instead of CAPTCHA if #2 is your goal. It can be used in any place where real users interact with your site at almost zero effort on their behalf, and can slow down spamming enough to make you an unattractive target.

I have a terrible / incomplete / janky proof-of-concept version at [2] that you could build from, or you could find one that was built for your CMS / language du jour.

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

[2] https://github.com/007/hashcash
Fully agree. On that subject:
theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/26/ships-she-royal-navy-language-row-female
And that still makes the solution cost prohibitive for the large company because there's likely only 10 people who have access to the software and ever use it out of the 100 000 employees.

A small company buying a software might actually have a bunch of employees using it.
Effectuation: https://innovationenglish.sites.ku.dk/model/sarasvathy-effec...

Entrepreneurship is a process. Effectuation helps to explain how opportunities are not just discovered but made.
Rolf Dobelli [0] wrote a few columns on Avoiding News Consumption and will publish a book later this year with the title Stop Reading the News: How to cope with the information overload and think more clearly.

In 2011 he wrote an essay Quit the News in Dutch NRC Next newspaper[1]. The next day the withdrawals poured in :-)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Dobelli#Avoid_News_Cons...

[1] https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2011/09/01/weg-met-het-nieuws-1203...
You don't have to believe your thoughts.
There's a few lists around the front page of our website, but the most comprehensive is:

https://iostindex.com/?filter0ButtplugSupport=3
Life always goes on. Until you're dead. But then you won't care. (Flippant advice given to me a long time ago, but with a lot of truth buried in it)

It's just important to remember that most of us care how life goes on. And so "the small stuff" suddenly spirals into big stuff, because you didn't pay attention. So, be careful to label things "small stuff" unless you can't influence them.

You can't fix idiotic driving, so the idiot driver? Small stuff. The fact that every driver on the road is potentially an idiot, or, worse, actively out to get you? A really important reminder.

Focus on what you can control, dismiss the rest.
'Twas a simple typo, but I'll happily retcon it into a pun!
There is no effective difference in the safety of delivery vs curb side pickup.
Preference cookies are not allowed to persist without consent. Not only is your interpretation of the regulations very highly opinionated, but it’s just outright wrong on some points. Your assertion that anybody who deviates from your opinions on the regulation, or doesn’t share your misunderstandings must be abusing data by asking for a cookie consent is frankly ridiculous. The guidelines also state that even for Strictly Necessary cookies, the site must explain why they are necessary, something your canonical example of a good site fails to do.
Coronavirus Layoffs Rock Silicon Valley’s ‘Best Tech Companies to Work At’
Yea the dark side of Vim is that it is at best IDE light. With coc, it has gotten better but still far behind vscode.

It is a trade off I gladly accept to use vim and tmux. Aside from that, vim plugin for vscode is pretty good for doing pair programming with the team.
I think that's bad advice. Enemy is too strong of a word, but there are conflicts of interest between you and your teacher, your boss, your team members and even your parents.

What's best for you is not necessarily what is best for them. They may help you to achieve what's best for both of you, but not what's best for you alone. Those are often not the same things. Assume people are acting in their best interest, not yours.
I sometimes do the same. It's weird to me that some places immediately sell your email and other orgs do not. Like a graph database conference seemed to lead to a lot of new spam.
The problem is that it’s not folly to those who own the land, who are also typically in a better position to influence this kind of policy.
I will be extremely curious to see if this turns out to be a model that works well, and if Google/YouTube and Twitter winds up doing the same thing, or (maybe even better?) Facebook+Google+Twitter cooperate to share a single board.

It seems like it would be a smart move -- as long as the board comes up with respectable policies, it could effectively immediately insulate the companies from a lot of criticism.

On the other hand, allowing/removing content is only one part of the equation. Prioritizing which content to show (and to which users) is arguably a far bigger issue (with serious democratic implications) that this board doesn't appear to touch. But it's such a can of worms, I also don't see how they could.
As a business, it needs to partition out the consumer buckets into various groups for profit maximization.

When you're stuck with an empty cardboard roll in the middle of a three-flusher, you'll pay whatever price Wal-Mart asks.
The only places we usually see RS-232 (either swing or TTL) over TRS is estim, funny enough.
Was this reply to the wrong comment? Cause your first line is a total non sequitur to what you're replying to. And this is definitely a space people both a) can compare (compete?) and b) MS is playing catchup to (albeit with a great advantage).
It's already a verb, ever heard "Netflix & chill"?
Electric trucks will still emit a rather large amount of pm2.5, and are still heavily dependent on both direct and indirect federal subsidies.
Pew suggests about 50% of America is the middle class, earning about $78k a year. I'm not sure what fraction is in manual labor jobs but if labor means working then the rate is about 62%.

From BLS data, about 12.7% of the population lives in poverty, workers/children/etc. This group is disproportionately minority (non white) and an example of the social failing of the richest nation in history.
That is a great idea. I really want my email hosted some place and that I could write my own "post arrival" simple business logic.
Sales: Oh really? Because we've identified 42 critical vulnerabilities in your code base

Customer: We know the software runs on java 7. We don't need to pay you 100k to find out.
Sorry, are you saying that it's a good thing to sell stolen credit cards because there is a market for them?