skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disagree.

There is a lot of -- I mean a a lot of -- propaganda on reddit and HN. There are a lot of bad faith posters using throwaway accounts to skew dialog. I call em out when I see em, but it's pretty clear what's going on. 10 day old accounts posting in nothing but pro-China threads, or 1 day old accounts talking about how terrible Intel/AMD/ARM/etc. is.
Having a hard time thinking of such a case.
The idea of an app being a graph of polyglot components lives on, however, in the guise of microservices. The good part is you know everything exists out of process and you don't have to worry about things like COM's threading apartment. The bad thing is, of course, everything is out of process.

Everything old is new again.
You're right - that was a mistake in the quoted essay. Nonetheless, the essay's main points are that Scott Alexander's actions are not consistent with those of someone who values anonymity.
The antibody test specifically tests for a protein that only exists on covid-19.

A positive test result is much more reliable than a negative result.
Don't worry, it's okay. It sounded harsher than I intended ;) Welcome to HN!
Two Illegals arrested for sexually assaulting 13 year old they met on Snapchat
> Claiming that you somehow were not aware of what NSO is doing is just not one of those

The parent comment of the comment I replied to (try saying that twice as fast backwards) was attempting to point out that we should avoid using guilt by association. i.e. We should focus on innocence for the individual until guilt is proven.

How do you know for absolute certainty that at least one developer (who has ever worked at NSO at any point in time) never said "this is completely illegal and I'm not comfortable with being near it."?

How do you know for absolute certainty that at least one developer (who has ever worked at NSO at any point in time) never said "You know what, I'm really not comfortable doing this work. I thought this was a good gig and I'd be okay with type of work... but I'm really not. It's killing my soul and I can't stand it."?

> at least I won't give you the benefit of the doubt if you're working there as a dev.

Fair enough. You're entitled to that position.

For me: People can make mistakes. People can get in over their head. People can mistakenly believe the lies other people tell them. I'd rather assume someone is innocent until guilt is proven by evidence.

> Likewise, if you work for Hacking team, you know what you are doing.

What even is a "Hacking" team?

Project Zero could be considered a "Hacking" team. Are they bad people for doing what they do? We know about loads of new zero days thanks to them. Extending this, am I part of a hacking team? I do white hat research. Does that mean I'm bad?

Do you mean "malicious adversary" perhaps? Because that is an entirely different concept. Then we are dealing with malicious intent. That's when someone may indeed be guilty (if backed up evidence, of course).
Uh... imagine you stab someone, and they figure out it was you but haven't found the knife yet. As this would be the nail in your coffin, you put the knife in an envelope and mail it to your attourney. Do you think that would work? no? then why should it in this case?
Especially from the New York Times! They of all organizations should respect the individual's right to define one's own identity.
Facebook put out, at roughly the same time, 3 products competing with Snapchat and among themselves.

See Google chat/messages apps.

For that matter Microsoft runs Teams, Skype, and GroupMe.
Without knowing anything of the case aside from reading this document. This feels like the defendant is between a rock and a hard place and they were hoping to get the information intercepted in an attempt to have the evidence thrown out as their defense strategy.
Thank you for this, using it now.
Does this mean we could no longer use WhatsApp, FaceTime, Signal, and other simple peer-to-peer projects ?
Export of cryptography was written for the Cold War but still affects developers today. It wouldn't be a surprise if that is the case since Daniel Bernstein already took a case against US Dept Justice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
One of the few dangerous bike accidents I had involved a eBike. They should require a license to operate, their acceleration and breaking is far less predictable than normal bicycles and 15 year old kids should not be allowed to operate them.
It doesnt mean thee are no antibodies It means the antibody test doesnt test the right protein.
> Personally, since these comments aren't the comments of the article in question (usually. Sometimes they just refer you here!), I think of it less as comments to the author when posting here, and more like a discussion in a group examining that article.

But that's exactly not what they are: you can't examine an article without reading it, and in many cases it's blatantly obvious that commenters didn't read the article.

I'm fine with tangents, it's the on-topic ignorance that bothers me.
This is idiotic. Different situations call for different workflows. Working in a corporate environment with planned, infrequent releases? Use Git Flow. Doing continuous delivery instead? Use the feature branch workflow.

This smells like GitLab trying to increase its ownership of the ecosystem.
“Failed”? Mobile phones are much more secure and safe platforms compared to anything which came before.
Google Bringing Fact Checking to Images
I took the quote to imply possible categories like copagandists, white supremacists, Nazis, KKK, or even random apolitical opportunists, which is a distinction with a huge difference. After all, Trump did announce something like "Antifa did it" instantly after the riots started while law enforcement across the board has been struggling to find any evidence. It does smell like an astroturfed misinformation campaign intended to drown out criticisms of widespread systemic police brutality.
please tell me you are being sarcastic.
Yale is named after a slave trader, Elihu Yale. We should be suspicious of anything coming out of there until they change their name, make amends to the Black community and even pay reparations. #Cancelyale #BLM
More generally Enter acts as a left-click on whatever element has focus in the browser. If you press tab, you cycle the focus to the next link/input/button/whatever. Shift+tab cycles through them in reverse order. If a normal hyperlink has focus, you can do things like CMD+Enter (MacOS) or CTRL+Enter (Windows) to open it in a new tab, etc
That thing is Streisand effect to the max. No one cares about his name and it wasn't secret at all before, like he said himself. It's literally a google autocomplete. And even without that it's very easy to find. If anonymity is that important maybe don't put your first and middle name out there?
Some historical context might help: when this recording was released, the copyright lobby was still issuing takedown requests and blocking views on YouTube videos and websites. So in some jurisdictions this recording was the only one easily available to use.

Also, the open source and digital first nature of the transcription - the first high quality transcription in musicXML - meant that this project enabled lots of "downstream" projects, such as the first braille edition of the Goldberg variations.

Just because a piece is public domain doesn't mean it is accessible!
> Users can fail to configure mailto links to point at their preferred email client irrespective of it being web-based or native. (Unless it is the default for the platform I guess)

That's more the issue. It's just misconfiguration and users who are oblivious to that setting. In the past, I don't believe that Gmail prompts you to make it your default handler, and from the number of support requests we received due to this issue, it's clear that a good number of users do not have their mailto handlers configured.

Cheers!
Post history & Karma adds legitimacy. There might be a weighting effect from high-karma posters when posting or up- or down-voting other post.

There is a TON of propaganda and marking on HN though. These guys are just idiots, or are obvious dangles.
Sure it is interesting to see it this way, WinRT is what COM would have been if it wasn't the idea to turn around and make use of Java instead (via J++), see the Ext-VOS project and the history of F# for the juicy details.

Hence why many .NET configuration flags still have COM prefix to this day.

Also check the C++/COM Hilo project released for Vista, and updated for Windows 7 release
It looks kinda (being liberal here) like the old theme, but slightly worse and it has issues:

1.) Everything feels left especially on my 21:9 display. This makes going from opening issues to clicking "Code" a very long mouse movement.

2.) There aren't grid lines on the file view.

3.) It looks unprofessional. Professional tools have this feel to them, and this new theme doesn't have it. It feels like a toy that shouldn't be in the toolbox.

At this point I may just move to GitLab. It seems more feature packed and you can have it mirror a repo to GitHub for the users don't want to make the switch.
I don't see what this has to do with the parent, unless you're trying to say throwaways shouldn't be allowed.
If you are dropping down into a subway why would the engine be running? Unless you mean the hazardous fuel on the bike not being allowed on the train.
Does anyone know any piano performances of 1600s-style improvisations on top of the Goldberg bassline?

It's strange because I hear Church organists who improvise all the time-- everything from hymn chord substitutions to fugal treatments of a tune in Bach's style. But I rarely have heard pianists doing that kind of thing.
> On a Mac the only time you'll see one is on some extended external keyboards. It's rare, if nonexistent on Mac laptops.

What do you mean some keyboards? Any PC keyboard you connect to the mac will support home, end, page up, etc. (Unlike buttons 4 and up on mice)
Flarepoint-CRM becomes DaybydayCRM open sourced CRM system
Interesting, I've never seen Tweetdeck.

It would be more usable with the share links at the bottom and smaller column headings. Personally I don't often look at the Jobs posts so having a checkbox to hide it would leave more room for other columns' text.

If something could be done to make the 'line 2' info fit on one line would be awesome:

Ask HN: How to avoid over-engineering
software design for future us...
181 points by h43k3r a day ago
190 comments | discuss

Hover text for both abbreviated titles (and line 2) is useful.

Btw, I also made a 2-col browser that groups by post date. Click the column headings to change view modes. https://hackerer.news
Cute gag, but why is this top story? Not that there's anything wrong with /r/ProgrammerHumor but I go to HN for different reasons.
I don't believe it, but I think it's clear that a lot of people do - otherwise they wouldn't be willing to attend large events or pack into crowded bars. (And I'm biased, since I never really liked mass gatherings in the first place.)
This proposal requires TCP.
Basecamp’s protest of Apple’s policies is already benefiting other developers
Thanks for making quite clear that you are an opponent of the Enlightenment, and wish to return to a dark age in which people were slaughtered for having the wrong opinions on religion, or anything else - "better of without blogs like this" easily turns into "better of without blog authors like this".

If you get your wish, you may be quite surprised when it turns out that you are one of those killed. Deluded ideologues who think they are virtuously persecuting the heretics are useful up to a point, but when they become inconvenient for those who are manipulating them to achieve power, they're eliminated.
For sure we can all learn through trial and error pretty much any UI. And I know there are complaints any time any big site tries to do a redesign.

But a good UI should be intuitive for a first time user. This seems objectively worse.
> Yet I find it lacking. I can never get IDE features like code navigation and completion to really work.

Same here. In the end I just gave up and installed Emacs with vim key bindings (evil mode). Took a while to set things up, though, albeit not so much the vim bits, which were fine, but the IDE features.

Vim is fine as a framework for text editing but as an application it's a bit lacking.
Pokemon Unite: MOBA game based on pokemon like LoL
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Just to pile on with fun new keyboard tricks! Caveat: "linux" here is largely specific to the Desktop environments I've worked with. 'Good terminals' refers to termianls that support emacs keybindings by default, which is the mac os terminal, and most linux bash/zsh terminals at least. I know Cygwin and Conemu respect this under normal usage too.

## Start and end of line:

- Mac: CMD + left, CMD + right

- Linux/PC: Home and End Buttons

- Linux/Mac/Good Terminals: ctrl+a ctrl+e

## "Word-wise" movement:

- Mac: option+left, option+right

- Linux/PC: alt+left, alt+right

- Good Terminals: alt+b, alt+f (mnemonic: 'back' and 'forward')

The 'shift' key can be added to any of the above to select whole words or lines, or parts of lines at a time. Combined with multiple insertion points you've got superpowers.
I'm not claiming anyone is fearful?

I claimed you can have a pandemic without fear.
When you say "less redundancy", do you just mean terser code? Or what exactly?

I don't see any DRY trade-offs, unless you're talking on a really micro character-count / code-golf level.
It is different if you are working on a team or as an individual. On a team it's important to build ways for people to work autonomously because once that's done the team as a whole will have more throughput. For an individual those same separations might be a drag on productivity. Regardless, careful consideration for what is _needed_ at every step of the way is important. Extreme Programming is worth a look.
Try CoC and whatever language servers you need. Nvim becomes really powerful with this combo.
Holy cow, Streisand in full effect. This story has drawn more attention to the site than it's ever had. I'm sure anyone that cares to know who runs it has figured it out by now. Also, TFA includes their general location, is that not an insane level of hypocrisy?
Wow, it's like Quilette and MIM Notes had a baby.
Hm, that would indeed be an alternative. I never tried hooking up a (windows-) keyboard to a mac, but don't see why it shouldn't work. Question is if the software or editors support the key layout.
Ask HN: Is it possible to quantify responsiveness of “Who Is Hiring”?
Hi,
One of the chief complaints I see on HN is that there seem to be a number of postings on "Who Is Hiring" where the emails listed don't see to be very responsive.
I'm wondering if it's possible to build something that works similarly to Mixmax's email tracking, but for groups. The stats for a specific job post email could be stored at a url that would be generated from something like the hash(username+email listed+datePosted) or something of the like.
When emailing a job posting, if everyone included something like this, it would give a huge amount of data about which emails were responsive or not.
I wanted to ask those who know more about how Mixmax does this whether this is even possible--my understanding here is really limited to plugging in Amazon SES for startups; and I don't use Mixmax. Just wanted to float the idea out there, and fully expecting that it's not a great idea or not feasible, but just wanting to hear feedback.
"GPT-3 is an extraordinarily expensive model by the standards of machine learning: it is estimated that training it may require the annual cost of more machine learning researchers than you can count on one hand (~$5m), up to $30 of hard drive space to store the model (500–800GB), and multiple pennies of electricity per 100 pages of output (0.4 kWH). Researchers are concerned about the prospects for scaling: can ML afford to run projects which cost more than 0.1 milli-Manhattan-Projects? Would it be worthwhile, even if it represented another large leap in AI capabilities, to spend up to 10 milli-Manhattan-Projects to scale GPT-3 100x to achieve human-like performance in some domains? Many researchers feel that such a suggestion is absurd and refutes the entire idea of scaling machine learning research further, and that the field would be more productive if it instead focused on research which can be conducted by an impoverished goatherder on an old laptop running off solar panels. Nevertheless, I think we can expect further scaling."
8.8.8.8 is a bunch of servers, and you may be getting different server to service your request than the one that cached your recently requested old value. Make several requests, and observe the TTL -- you may notice that it jumps around as you get different servers, especially if you space your requests apart a few seconds.
In designing PhotoStructure, I've wrestled with many of the issues you outline in your article.

* I pretty quickly switched from flat tags to hierarchical tags, though, for expressiveness, presentation, and organization.

* I also found it necessary to create a "Asset" that has 1 or more "AssetFile" instances, each with a stable URI and SHA. This scheme supports variant grouping (which is quite common due to backups and jpeg+raw pairs).

* The "stable" bit of the URI includes the physical volume UUID, so changing mountpoints don't perturb the underlying AssetFile URI.

* I originally used a prefix on the SHA to support multiple algorithms, but found it to be too expensive for subsequent lookups to need to calculate n different SHAs. Instead, there's now a "version" for both Assets and AssetFiles and individual libraries are migrated to new versions automatically (which supports changing SHA algorithms, for example, when that's indicated).
This blog runs on ARM microarchitecture
You don't keep your volume muted? That's a little silly
Yes for the love of god
I'd add multi-paradigm. It's really powerful that you compare teach/compare/mix OO, FP, and others without leaving the language.
I'll argue that that should work, on some level. Communication with one's attorney is privileged for a good reason, and under your theory the police can interfere with that whenever they imagine the package you've mailed isn't a communication.
After the SSC debacle, NYT is likely to learn itself a thing or two about boycotts.
This is a motte-and-bailey argument if I've ever seen one. It's true that it's simple code. It's true that it's not going to replace programmers anytime soon. It's true that this is not novel computer science. But this is clearly a novel program and it's also clearly not something that other methods could have done.
I prefer the PEP syntax: it looks like the instanciation of the object I'm trying to match, so it makes sense to me.
I've literally never had a problem with Git Flow, nor have any developers I've worked with. It's fine.
Hacking with Environment Variables
Atos QLM E: Atos quantum simulator
I don't know, but it may be something like this.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-wkumari-dnsop-ha...
I self host bitwarden for password management. This gives me access to passwords on all my devices. I don’t sync history however, nor tabs.
The Segway S-Pod
Go on....
I don't think that's true. It's very dangerous to make epidemic policy without accounting for model uncertainty, because by the time your model's clearly and unambiguously falsified it may be too late to deal with it.
Is there a similar tutorial that support rpi 2 ?
Sometimes, authors take their influence and create something greater (as Tolkien did with MacDonald), and sometimes the derivative work doesn't understand what made the original great so falls flat.

Also, to say Tolkien re-arranged things is true as far as it goes, but look at how much he re-arranged: he used his knowledge of several languages to create several other languages; he used his knowledge of several myth systems; he used his own personal experience in war.
> has sort of agreed on an outer bound for how far right is too far

You think Stephen Miller wants to stop with border camps? This is an absolute absurd claim to make.

> There is nothing you can support that's so far left you will be expunged from polite society.

Where is the comparable person to Stephen Miller being anywhere close to public policy on the left? We have one barely socdem congressperson. Where are the NYT opeds about third worldism?
Why doesn't HN have a way to do quotes?
Hacker News has only the bare minimum of possible formatting: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

In general this is fine. It satisfies the need for preformatted text blocks for programming, word emphasis, and hyperlinks. Some other kinds of formatting that HTML and Markdown support are arguably fine to omit: bullet points and numbered lists can always be written as text.

But I think quoting presents a particular deficit in the current system. Because it's the only way to indent text,

a number of users choose to use these code blocks for quotes. Beyond this font being less pleasant for normal text, it disables word-wrapping, taking its screen width outside the reader's control and having a particularly unpleasant effect on mobile devices.

There are of course conventions like prefixing lines with “>”, but because of word-wrapping, that visual cue is only there at the beginning of a quote, not at its end. I think this is more of an issue for quotes than it is for lists, because list items should be short, and where a lot of quotes are used in a comment, it can be harder to see at a glance what is and what isn't the original contribution of the author.

Having an actual formatting option to produce a <blockquote> would improve the reading experience for large quotes and hopefully discourage the use of code blocks for quotations.
Tell me about it. I read the headline and I thought "Sysinternals? G-RoM!" ... found out that this is a "new" tool from 2009.
Hmmn, I always thought "communications for the purpose of securing legal advice" was recognized more broadly.

If I send a copy of a document which can incriminate myself and was created before hiring a lawyer, to a lawyer for legal advice, can the government seize it? If so, if I outline a document after hiring a lawyer and then send it for legal advice, can the government seize it?
Sometimes the source of the problem is political: one trying to make a more general framework to deprecate another team, or to avoid being deprecated by generalizing in a slightly different direction.

How do people “defend” that in big Corp?

Boat the technical roadmap and requirements with fantasy future features, so they can say “well that framework doesn’t support X, and our framework will support X”. It doesn’t matter whether X is useful in practice or not, since the managers don’t always have the power to make that call.
Right, but the whole point is that their opinion isn't valid?
I recently signed in for the first time in a long while in order to chat with a friend of mine in the Navy. While my "friend's" list is about 700 people, it looked like no more than a couple of dozen of them actually post anything regularly. That's a big change from 3 or so years ago.

Obligatory anecdotes are not data disclaimer.