skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sum types without generics will still be good enough? I think for things like Option/Result we need both sum types and generics.
Our street in North Oakland (Colby St.) is now a "slow street": parents push strollers, kids are learning to bike, teenagers are skateboarding, techies commute to BART on bikes, oldsters walk in the street chatting. Wonderful change!
Their beliefs are irrelevant. You don't get to break laws and due process just because of your beliefs and anger. How many mass shootings have we seen from people with "beliefs". Stop trying to justify people burning cars just because they don't get one they want right away.
Nope, bad aspect ratio. Let me know if you find a 1920x1536, though. (1600x1280 would also be nice, and a 2560x2048 would be a 4K monitor that's actually useful, although thomaslord's objections still apply.)

Edit: actually, wouldn't 1440x1280 (aspect ratio 1.125, which is even less than my usual 1.25) be a better use of such a LCD panel, rather than a obviously-useless 1280x1440 (with a aspect ratio less than one)?
If you put in even a little effort to conceal your identity, it makes it very hard to find you.

But if you go around with your tattoos and face uncovered, and wearing uniquely identifiable clothing, any 4chan thread can find your identity in a few hours.
I totally agree with you. I think what's killing Facebook are the endless reposts, just show me original content, please.

I was working on a script to hide shared posts, but it broke after the last update. Maybe I need to fix it and publish it as a browser extension?
> I wouldn’t be opposed to a GitHub NewsFeed, project chat, or even DMs.

Please god no.
She's kinda fucked either way. Even a misdemeanor would be annoying to have to explain every time she wanted a job, a felony would just about guarantee she'd only ever be able to be an entrepreneur. But otherwise I agree, skip jail, just hit her with a treasury offset for the cost of the car along with a suitable extra for penalty. She'll get the message for a long time.
Same, man. I'm HENRY for my age (18), and really enjoy my $500 apartment, while parking an ancient Tesla outside it
Heh, like the Wet Bandits.
Did you forget about pandemic?
Back in 1998, a group of my friends and I all built "Celeron 300A Dual CPU" boxes, to, among other things, play Starcraft under WINE.

At the time, with a little bit of PCB modification, you could modify the relatively inexpensive 300A CPUs ($150 each IIRC), and get them to run in dual socket boards at 450MHz. I recall the similar CPU rated for 450MHz dual socket being $500 or $1000 each.

Windows, at the time, had no ability to run on multi-processor machines, where Linux had pretty good support for it already.

So one could run StarCraft under WINE under Linux, spread out some different tasks like graphics from the body of the game engine, and run the game significantly faster under Linux than under Windows.
Probably more like a house built 100 years ago. I bought a made-to-measure blind for my flat a few weeks ago. Followed the instructions, went to attach it to my window frame only to find out that my window frame bows so much that the metal bar won't actually attach to the wall. Stuff like this is rampant in non-modern build housing, not just eccentric built.
You'll need to start again, because the way we're tracking things changed. That said, if you've been submitting updates consistently those will count towards certification, and if you go through and mark all the content you already viewed as complete you'll be most of the way there already.
> With many tech industry jobs mostly WFH until the end of the year and the future in general uncertain, a lot of people, especially those with leases coming up for renewal, are thinking this is a good time to make a move.

I'm not sure I understand this. Tech industry is WFH for now. So you move out to Flyover, USA. Once the COVID-19 crisis is over next year, it's back to business as usual, and your company says, "Well, back to the office, everyone!" Now what? Move again? Do people just love moving or something?

Is the rent difference plus the cost to move all your belongings/vehicles (twice), plus the hassle of changing your kids's schools (twice) and uprooting everything (twice) really worth it?

There have been a handful of companies that have indicated the desire to expand their WFH/remote opportunities long-term, but most of them have given no such guarantee. If you're in Iowa and you get called back to the office, what's your plan?
I don't know but desktops used passthrough networking, so there wasn't a PC with network connectivity left.
Well I spit out my drink at "artisanal torch" so I hope you are happy lol. But I had the same response when I read the title before I opened it. I enjoyed guessed for a minute on how that was all connected.
He’s great! Consider https://mothereff.in/ampersands
Yeah, there are definitely downsides to gentrification without mythologizing 1970s/80s vintage 42nd Street.
Perhaps the more expert someone is, the less impressive Starlink appears.
Trashing: The Dark Side of Sisterhood
https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/gknla6/this_looks...

Photos here of a starlink ground station with three small devices that are quite possibly the end-user equipment.
Just make it up in volume! ;)
If you could pitch in a couple bucks to make their life miserable for a little while, they could finance a campaign to make your life miserable for a long time.

Laws are the only reasonable recourse. They may have better access to laws and legal maneuverings, of course.

But you're measuring things incorrectly, I think. You write:

> there are many people who've reaped nothing but benefits from being horrible

Nope. They've reaped what they've sown, and they are horrible people. They might be rich or powerful, but who really cares?
In Canada, bank transfers are so seamless that I see no chance of this ever gaining traction. It's called Interac e-Transfer, and all domestic banks are part of it. All you need is access to online banking, so it's universally available. It's free, too (for personal accounts).

The way it works is the sender signs into their online banking and initiates an e-transfer. The sender doesn't need the recipient's banking details, only a phone number or email address. The recipient follows the link in the email/SMS message they received, signs into their online banking, and selects the account to deposit the funds into. The entire process is immediate.

If the recipient has registered that email address or phone number to auto-deposit into a specific account, all the sender has to do is type in the amount and hit Send. Otherwise, they will have to create a short question with a secret one-word answer that the recipient needs to answer correctly.

How could WhatsApp payments be better than that? Not everyone has WhatsApp, and if you want to use it you'll need to go through the hassle of linking your bank account.
I have done exactly this with Twitter's "mute words" feature, and let me tell you it is incredibly great. I would have abandoned Twitter long ago without it.
You say "branding" as if the names of BOTH parties don't stretch back to the early days of our democracy. If you object to a party including "Democratic" in their name, complain to Thomas Jefferson.
Personal URL shortener on your domain with automation through GitHub Actions
i think only across all stores using Shopify Payments.
@dang Rust discussion derailing a Go thread.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23548166
Soft boot doesn't have to read the bootloader from ROM again.
Actions are louder than words. There is no defense for kneeling on a man’s neck for 8 minutes.
True - I mentioned the possibility for more funding but promotions is another thing. Part of the problem is that academic research is so specialized that it's often difficult to assess the quality of the research articles themselves - that and the sheer number of academics pumping out papers now - this makes prestige indicators indispensible for other researchers and administrators to make quick judgements about the quality of their researchers and also communicate this percieved quality externally (for university ranking, attract donors, etc.).

Anyway, for a close community of researchers on a specific topic, it's possible that they can make such agreement (to start over with another journal) - but in general it would be quite difficult to coordinate such a consensus in a larger community.
Isn't that basically what the stillborn Intel MPX was?
See this blog post from 2017: https://blog.cloudflare.com/unmetered-mitigation/

TL;DR: This doesn't happen anymore.

(Disclosure: I work for Cloudflare but I don't know anything more about this than is written in the blog post.)
Ask HN: How do I get Press for my Tech Product Crowdfunding Campaign?
Hi HN, long time reader first time poster.

My startup is on the cusp of launching a kickstarter for a cool tech hardware product in the next few months. Don't worry we'll post a "Show HN" for sure :)

I'm wondering, what avenues does one go through to get into Techcrunch, Engadget, The Verge, etc., if only for a small article somewhere? Who do I contact, how do I get started on this process?

Any advice appreciated, thanks.
I think most countries most cops don't carry guns. Even in the US most security guards don't. My preference would be ban handguns and have far less armed police. And much higher vetting for cops that do carry.
Seems relatively risk-adverse. Glad they're providing more variety to their data transferral services, but this really does seem like an extremely niche system that not many companies will fully utilise.
I think there are an awful lot of misconceptions about "highly addictive" substances. Yes, they're addictive. That doesn't magically ruin peoples lives though.

For a really obvious example, consider alcohol. For a slightly less obvious one, consider that the stimulants prescribed for ADHD are by and large amphetamines (in fact methamphetamine itself is one of them). When a significant percentage of the population is consuming the equivalent of meth on a daily basis and not experiencing significant issues it strikes me as extremely misguided to attempt to pin addiction issues on the substances alone.

Regarding addiction itself, I'd suggest that life circumstances has much more to do with it than anything else. (There is research regarding this but I don't have it to hand right now.)

One of the reasons addicts commit crimes is to get money to pay for drugs. However, they generally pay significantly higher prices for lower quality products compared to the local pharmacy. They wouldn't need to commit crimes in many cases if the drugs themselves were more affordable. This is entirely due to prohibition and the black market.

Another common reason they commit crimes is because many of them struggle to obtain good jobs and stable housing. Much of the time this is due to their criminal record, which is often due to a drug related arrest, which is again entirely due to prohibition.

Add to this the observation (already noted elsewhere in the thread) that prohibition singlehandedly fuels much of the black market and thus much of organized crime throughout the world. It also (often as a direct result) drives police militarization, widespread surveillance, and authoritarian political agendas.

As far as I'm concerned, the moral panic surrounding the consumption of intoxicating substances has singlehandedly caused a significant portion of (possibly even the majority of) society's ills at this point.
>I would also add, when it comes to 4K and, for example, MacBooks, things fall apart quickly in my opinion. Cables, adapters/dongles/docking stations just must match up for everything to work in proper 60fps, and it gets worse if you have two external displays.

I agree it's a bit of a mess, but USB-C monitors solve all those issues. I just plug my MacBook in with USB-C, and instantly my 4K (60 Hz) display is connected, along with external sound and any USB peripherals. No fussing with a million different cables and adapters. It's the docking workstation setup I've dreamed of for a decade.
I'm impressed. I don't know of too much work that's going on upstream for optimizing boot times, other than some of the clear linux stuff: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Clear-Li...

There are folks looking into improving boot times on Android; turns out init and kernel drivers are a tangly mess of {dependency} spaghetti. Loading kernel modules can induce delays in processing relocations.

The kernel patches disable a bunch of stuff, including ethernet it looks like? Most of the kernel changes comment out blocks of code, or trade long delays for shorter delays with more iterations.
Use of nuclear technology gets green light in Rwanda
What pendulum swing? The suburbs and exurbs aren't emptying out.
Read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Chossudovsky to understand what this CRG is about. Spoiler: conspiracy theories.
there are a number of apps that can keep stock between multiple platforms, pull listings/ads as inventory decreases, etc.

i built one.
Show HN: PC app for consuming YouTube in moderation
I've made a PC app that provides an isolated environment for watching YouTube videos by putting them in versatile playlist. This means that you're not exposed to recommendations, comments and so on because they're too addictive.
Canada does. See my other comment about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23558111
Life imitates art https://youtu.be/iDbyYGrswtg
Yes, this. Even if you have only one hidpi screen, Windows still looks bad, because the fonts look terrible when rendered on a hidpi screen. This is one thing keeping me on "lodpi" screens for now.
its not about js compatibility it is more about platform / browser specific glitches
Thinking about this a bit more, I think a 10x is like one of those maths proofs that says "I can prove it exists, but I can't tell you what it is!"

I "10x" was originally intended as a hypothetical talking point.

There probably are 10x people in a team. The 10x status could change rapidly as circumstances change, team dynamics and company goals change. Someone else might take the invisible 10x crown once they get to work on a project that aligns with their strengths.

At any time you don't know who to 10x is. You need some system to decide what is a fair salary and who you want to try hard to keep. A good manager should have a feel for who that is in their team. If that person moves into another company they may not be that person anymore in the new team.

So 10x probably exists (as defined as ratio of best to worse). If it didn't exist it means that most people are pretty much performing the same, which I don't believe. But I doubt anyone is permanently a 10x contributor, and I doubt many people (include the 10x-er themselves) can tell who it is.
My reaction to those numbers is different. 5 years seems absurdly large to me for a spontaneous act of vandalism that cost the tax payers max $100,000.
Is it though? End to end encryption doesn’t mean they don’t pass the key back to themselves.

It’s a bit of weaseling here. They say they’re offering E2E and that might be true, and it could also be true they are sticking with their original vision of cooperation with law enforcement because they “are aware criminals use the service”.

There is no required mutual exclusion.
Most fuzzers I think have a dictionary of special values they’ll occasionally use. I wrote a structure-aware fuzzer framework which uses random values for the initial generation, then on subsequent mutations will perform arithmetic/bit flips with a small chance to grab a special value from the dictionary.

Even without a dictionary if your input is reasonably small it should discover these special values given enough iterations.
As a geezer with glasses, I find my laptop screen works better than a monitor. The laptop screen is down in the reading zone of my progressive lenses, yet I can still look up out the window. A big monitor requires me to use glasses without any distance vision, making me feel like I'm trapped in a fishbowl.

I also love the fact that my window layout is exactly the same whether I am working at my desk or a coffeeshop. Or at least when I used to work at coffeeshops...
LG43UD79
> Luke Skywalker a rebel hero, or a terrorist threat to order

Given episodes 7-9, Luke is a terroristic threat to order. After destroying the existing order, he failed to establish anything better and it quickly devolved into what we see in 7. And he also failed to kill the main villain which meant that all the chaos and death that he was responsible for had no offsetting good.
Finally some consequences to these criminals.
LAW and ORDER!
Please See this other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23553446

And please look up the Converse Basic Grove of Sequoias. The whole place was destroyed to make fence posts. Oh, my bad I suppose "lease" is the current euphemism for destroying the land like that. But hey! cutting down all those giant sequoias improved the recreation opportunities, right?

That's an extreme example but any natural resource extraction irreparably damages land. Even grazing or roads have significant impacts that take hundreds or thousands of years to recover.

Roads dramatically change the landscape and cause huge impacts. And the roads usually serve some purpose, i.e. more damaging activities. Crisscrossing the landscape with roads has a huge impact on the land and does not enhance the recreational opportunities other than the ability to take instagram pics from your car.
When Security Takes a Backseat to Productivity
As a student its one of those things that you can't risk not having on your résumé. There's always one recruiter or one document-scraping application portal that could reject it. Plus every career counselor I've seen has suggested it.

I personally think that for software dev at least, making connections via Twitter or via friends is a better way to go for the first internship, but everyone has different paths to success :)
Yeah, that remark really bothered me and I felt like it misunderstood the point.

"Works on my machine" is shorthand for the flippant dismissal that, "I don't need to care about that bug because it didn't show up or cause problems in a deliberately ideal environment."

The repo author is saying the opposite, that it "works" even in "non-ideal environments". That is, he has no inherent negative association with "cop" even in a near-dictatorship where, in practice, most cops are bad and work with impunity, since he thinks the concept is legit (enforcing law and order) even if particular jurisdictions get it wrong.

So, if anything, he was saying, "it even works on forgotten legacy systems"...
As I understand it, HENRY is a term of art in marketing while yuppie is more colloquial.
There are dozens, here are a few: BigCommerce, PrestaShop, Magento, OpenCart

what are your needs?
That's why there are other exciting languages for you to adapt to like Kotlin, Swift, C++xx, Nim or even wonderful functional languages. Hopefully no one forces you to use the boring Go and if someone does, you can start a new startup and writi in "the exiting" language exclusively. ;) Enjoy!
The (or some of the) Starlink satellites stand out as a very distinctive line on http://stuffin.space/ currently over the Pacific and West Coast North America.
What, for when I report my friends to the police? Seriously though, the assumption that I would be one of my own contacts is weird.
> For the first time in US history, white Americans are faced with the prospect of becoming a minority in their “own country.”

I was told this was a conspiracy theory??

> When a grand jury failed to indict a white cop who was videotaped choking a black man to death, black writer Brit Bennett captured this growing mistrust in an essay entitled, “I Don’t Know What to Do with Good White People”:

I'm sure the author will be delighted to learn that this happens to white people as well [1]. One would also assume the rate of being killed by police would be proportional to the crime rate, as every interaction with police carries some risk, and the rate of interaction with police is proportional to the crime rate. Of course we have to be careful when measuring "crime rate", as it's easy to fudge - a cop might let a white man off with a warning for jaywalking, but give a black man a fine. So you use something very difficult to fudge - the homicide rate. We find that despite blacks being 6.3x more likely than whites (including Latinos) to commit homicide [2], they're only 3.7x more likely to be killed by police (3.5x if only killings of unarmed are examined) [3]. I.e. whites are 67% more likely to be killed by police, per homicide committed, than blacks. The conclusion is inescapable - the police are actually anti-racist!

[1] https://www.dallasnews.com/news/investigations/2019/07/31/yo...

[2] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

[3] https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/nationaltrends
X230 at 1366x768 checking in, can confirm, no problem at all.

I'm primarily a C programmer. 1366x768 limits my functions to about 35 lines at 100 columns wide. My font is Terminus, sized at 14.

I thank my x230 for enforcing me into a paradigm where functions are short and to the point. I watch my co-workers flip their monitors vertically and write code that goes on for days. While it's not my style, I'm thankful I've been forced to make do of limited space, and it has trained me well.
They've been doing transparent DDOS mitigation for a long time. Almost since the beginning.

When I moved reddit from datacenter to AWS in 2009, I no longer had to deal with DDOS attacks. They just magically disappeared. I'm pretty sure reddit was still getting DDOS attacks after the move. :)
There is truth in this, like many "top ten lists" that have 7 solid entries, or "101 reasons to..." which run out of steam after 30.

It's a shame really to invite, even demand, comparison with Luther's text by this formula - and then fall so short of it.

Perhaps a bad stylistic choice?
It's hard for me to remember a software dev candidate I've interviewed in the past three or four years who didn't have a LinkedIn profile. Like one out of several dozens, maybe.

This could point at an earlier step in the pipeline - e.g. the recruiters at those companies may have been using LinkedIn as a primary search tool - but that's a signal of its own.
If you're ignorant, than so am I. My linkedin is horribly out of date (like, a decade out of date) and it hasn't seemed to matter one bit.
Agreed. I have a retina mbp that I use as the 3rd screen plugged into a 4K monitor over usbc and a 1920x1200 over dp. Everything works fine. Windows stay in the right place when plugging/unplugging, etc... My eyes also thank me every time I look at the 4K text on my main monitor. I’m debating buying another one and dumping the 1920 monitor.
> My preference would be ban handguns

We can’t even get assault rifles banned, good luck banning hand guns.
I don't know about rent, but home prices are spiking in the Kansas City metro as people aren't putting their homes on the market because of uncertainty. The demand is far outstripping the supply. People are getting multiple offers at or above list the same day they go to market and with special add-ons like inspection waivers. It's crazy.
Plasma Replacement Therapy Promising in Alzheimer’s Patients
I'm not sure what you mean, but you're not building and launching rockets afaict.
any time we can skip paying for incarceration, I'm fine with that. With the exception of people who pose a risk to society.
The man with the gold-plated expense account!
Thank you. I 100% agree. We've for some reason decided that "professional" and "enterprise grade" means dull colors, ugly interfaces, and zero room for "hacking" and "experimentation". That code needs to be "work". That the poster of the comment would claim that this is akin to the thinking of a six year old is in itself curious.

It's as if we're letting the jaded cynics of the world win.