skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind, most people were using operating systems that were on par with RISC OS in 1995. Most homes and offices still used DOS or Windows 3.1, Windows 95 was just introduced, Mac OS would not see preemptive multitasking or memory protection for another five years, the uptake of OS/2 and Windows NT was rather low, Commodore was bankrupt, Atari was in serious trouble, BeOS was still in development, and NeXTSTEP was targeted at high end workstations.
Do you need someone to google that for you? Really not a good way to ask a question.

Public APIs as we see them now were not a thing in 2000. There were talks about web services, but that was really different story (see WSDL). SOAP became a standard only in 2003 and it had different set of constraints and purpose.
Thank you for the link, I enjoyed the post a lot. The drawings you've done add a lot to the explanation. Do you have any other deep dives you've done in the same style that you'd recommend?
Emacs has a CUA mode to address that specific issue: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/CU...
> A bizarre echo of North Korea’s “three generations of punishment” doctrine could be seen in the boycotts of Holy Land grocery, a well-known hummus maker in Minneapolis. In recent weeks it’s been abandoned by clients and seen its lease pulled because of racist tweets made by the CEO’s 14 year-old daughter eight years ago.

Seeing stuff like this makes me wonder why people keep using social media at all.

It’s terrible that this guy’s daughter made racist posts 8 years ago, but we have no idea what kind of person she is today. She could be doing community organizing against police brutality and it wouldn’t matter at all.

The posterity of childhood is one of the most dystopian aspects of our technology-driven society. It’s like a 2020 version of the Scarlet Letter.
EBCDIC. That's still around? Ugh.

COBOL apparently still has major problems with UNICODE. COBOL in IBM land can only do UTF-16. Some IBM products are big-endian UTF-16, and some are little-endian UTF-16. COBOL (PeopleSoft version) in Oracle land can do UTF-16 and, sometimes, UTF-8 in programs for fields not stored in the database.

It's late for the language to be in that state.
> It doesn't really matter what the dissertation says. Because we don't follow dogma. REST has evolved. Whether people understand it or not isn't that important, what matters is the patterns that emerge that people are actually implementing on working applications.

You seem to forget the litany of articles claiming everybody did REST wrong all the time… Yes, it doesn't matter today. We have GraphQL that put an end to that era of complete bullshit.
Not a monopoly, but they have enormous market power, which used to be sufficient to get into anti-trust trouble.
It's literally one of the ways they make nuclear bombs so it isn't that crazy.
> This highlights why it was so irresponsible to create CRISPR babies, and why you take things slow in science. Don't let the analogies about bio being programmable just like a computer fool you - it's not that easy or that simple. Bio is messy and complex.

> As a biologist and programmer, nothing makes me roll my eyes harder than SV types talking about biology like a computer.

Same.

But in truth, I'm glad this experiment took place, we need to adhere to the rigors that uphold the notion of incremental progress for a desirable end, and this begins by quantifying just how immense this problem really is. I'm glad that Dr. Jiankui He did it anyway.

It cost him his career and he will likely remain as a cautionary tale for all other future biologists in academia, but in Biohacking scene he is really no different then the pioneers in cell biology that often resorted to self experimentation, History in Biology is such a fickle thing: we'll laud them when the outcomes favour conventional wisdom and it accepts there methods, but infamy awaits anyone who defies to go out of its per-ordained confines. Even though we all accept that the walled garden of peer-reviewed publication is flawed and riddled with so many unnecessary things that encumber its ability to live up to its potential when it can use unorthodox or unconventional means and methods.

The Health Sciences, specifically that of genetics and cellular and molecular biology, has a history of being the punk-rock branch. Where even a monk playing with peas in his free time can help establish the notion of inheritable mutation (Mendelian genetics) based on adaption created by a British Medical school drop out who took to sea-fairing and island hopping to create the concept of what we'd eventually call Darwinian Evolution.

This is our History and as a Cell/Molecular Biologist myself, I take great pride in it and I have tried my best to live up to this reputation and apply this to my work in Agricultural and Food Sciences after abandoning my career as a lab scientist.

Dr. He got consent from the parents to undergo this procedure and move Biology in a territory it otherwise would never go for another couple of decades at the earliest. This is more than what some physicians did not too long ago, and the data we obtained from those experiments proved incredibly useful to this day.
I believe the tunnel contains the "track" that allows the particles to whizz around and be accelerated to very high speeds and eventually smash into each other, hopefully causing them to smash apart and reveal their inner contents.
It does make more sense to me to just use Tor then block everything using AWS/Google, as much as I dislike those companies.
Finishing a side project
Surely the current SRP situation is exactly the reason. It's a bit of a mess right now with many basic features missing, like the absence of Ambient Occlusion out-of-the-box with URP.
HN has had plenty of major threads about Assange, including just a few days ago.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I’m not arguing applications I’m arguing innovation. They do the initial research and then companies monetize .
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Please don't create accounts just to pick up where the last account left off when we banned you and explained why.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Since roughly late 2016 the UUA [Unitarian Universalist Association] has been ever trying to "get on top of" their self-described "white fragility issue". This has caused and been a source of contention amongst many within both the UUA itself and also with UUs and UU organizations at large over the years since.

I have personal thoughts and feelings on the matter for several reasons but I won't get into them here in order to try to remain neutral in merely stating the fact that said contention exists.

For those curious, I encourage research and if it's not too much trouble or against impartiality on my part I can try to point the way to some sources.
It's insane and it leads to conservative resurgence, not only in USA but all around the world. Which then returns to USA, and so on in a vicious circle.
That's fine, but I feel disoriented by the idea that postmodernism was it, that there's nothing after it. Is that all there is?

Then again, "The End of History" was almost 30 years ago!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Las...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_That_All_There_Is%3F
Thank you. I downloaded this.
To get it out of the way, because it does need to be said: fuck this guy. "Hate speech does not exist." It's not news that Gab is a platform for white supremacists.

"Free speech" here is a dogwhistle; he's pushing an agenda that promotes actively violating the civil liberties (and basic physical safety) of others. The second his ideas get a foot in the door he'll swap sides and try to close it behind him.

When neo-nazis and white supremacists talk about "free speech," they're straw-manning themselves, because for their actual position, straw is an upgrade.

To be clear: there's no constitutional or other legal violation here; visa isn't the government, they're legally free to "vote with their wallet" like the rest of us.

The problem of course is that their wallet is rather larger than most, and it is definitely the case that larger corporations have too much power over individuals and smaller businesses. Reminds me of this:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/

...so by all means let's push for policies that make for a more egalitarian playing field, for everyone. Some silly ideas of the top of my head: a wealth tax. use taxes as a smoothing function; I'd argue for the bottom segment of the population to actually receive money from the government. Change the FTC rules such that by default mergers of companies over a certain size are denied. Maybe make acquihires harder somehow. We can debate what should be done.

Note that he doesn't actually make any suggestions in this vein, he just jumps from "enormous capitalist organization was mean to me" to "it's the commiees and they'll come for us all." He's not for free speech, he's just trying to sow hate without coming right out and saying it.
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> But the 16 bit string character representation doesn't work well with modern Unicode.

What do you mean? UTF-16 works well with all unicode characters. Some characters are encoded by two code units, but that's true for UTF-8 as well. ASCII strings are stored using 1-byte encoding on modern JVMs. I would prefer UTF-8, but hybrid ASCII/UTF-16 string works fine too.
Well yeah, if your shock waves for fusion are created by nuclear fission chain reaction that technology has been quite ready and mature since the 1960s.
Exactly, and in general - there is no shortage of programmers - there is a shortage of programmers who are willing to work for 5-figure.
In fact it is enough for functions to be complex differentiable once (in which case they'll automatically be differentiable infinitely often).
1) HTML is not parsed as strictly as you would expect.

2) The OWASP guide is a good HOWTO.

3) During daily work, ask yourself, "How would I get around this?"
> The DARPA grand challenges have bootstrapped:

I have a contrarian opinion about the impact of DARPA and related programs (ARPA-e especially). To some extent, there is a confusion of cause and effect. DARPA is good at identifying possible nascent technologies and funding them. They then have a flag planted, and can claim "we helped invent X", which is hard to disprove. But was it because of DARPA involvement, or was DARPA merely there at the right time? They have definitely funded plenty of projects that go nowhere.

ARPA-e makes this strategy explicit. They'll give money to an up-and-coming startup between rounds and then claim all later investment as "follow-on funding". They then report "follow-on funding" as a success metric to congress, which seems easy to game. ARPA-e has been around for over 10 years and I don't think they can point to anything coming out of the program as a legitimate game changer.

I do think the applied research programs do some good and has some impact, mostly as a way to convene the broader technology community. But for the most part I would rather have the government focus on funding basic research instead of applied research.
-1 to images in color. BW images are way less distracting.

According to your comment I think you might like https://hnews.xyz/ that I read when in mood of a "HN magazine". I'm tempted to make a switch now.
strange. I would have thought "take 10g of flour" - something 2-5 times the comparable volume, is "never intending to engage in good faith." it's certainly a false statement.

I'm sorry, but saying the equivalent of 5 packs of cigarettes, smoked over an entire year, is "literally a massive amount of pollution," is not only in bad faith, it's quite literally crazy thinking.

my intention was for facts. I guess by your definition, facts and calculations are "bad faith," and "good faith" is screaming the sky is falling.

here's another comparison. we shed about half a kilo of skin per year. when you cough up a loogie, that's a couple of grams by the way, for that one loogie. that comes from your lungs too.
1 second of delay jitter with random dropouts and echoes are typically caused by problems at the ends (poor wifi/cellular signal, too much load on cpu during a high res video call, laptop overheating, etc). UDP protocol allows to make a call even in the presence of such issues, whereas circuit switching with reliable clocking would simply not work at all.
I mean, if there was someone who could scream at a wine glass loud enough to make it shatter, Klaus Kinksi would be that person. He was, by all accounts, only of utility to humanity when chained to a stage. Even the director who made "Please Kill Mr. Kinski" after working with him said that he was great in front of a camera.
The refill and acceptance of just hanging out for hours doing work are some of the benefits of Starbucks, but as someone who worked there as a barista, only the blonde espresso & coffee are palatable. It's of course subjective, but the rest of their coffee is usually gross.

For other coffee shops, why don't you just get a smaller Americano? it's just espresso shots + hot water, so a smaller Americano will be less diluted but the same amount of caffeine and better flavour. (amount of espresso varies from shop to shop, but you can just ask for another shot or two)
>So stunning, so brave.

This phrase is a meme that holds no value, and originates from an expression of spite and hatred. You should consider skipping things like that on HN, to keep your posts visible.
So, there are gaps to be filled or tools to flag them.
It helps shield the detectors from cosmic radiation, shields people living on the ground from radiation produced by the collider, and helps with vibrational isolation. But those are just nice bonuses.

The most important reason is that there are already lots of people living a nice small-town life on the surface, and erecting a giant, dangerous ring would wreak havoc. It would require land rights, cut towns in half, split highways, trigger lawsuits, and probably end up costing more money and time than just digging.
The functioning of this algorithm to be one of those tasks that computer scientists would call an "embarrassingly parallel problem" <shorturl.at/jrCKP>. One could easily split this into four subtasks each executing in parallel to give O(log n) complexity where n is the desired resolution.

In addition--I do not know if you have used this because I did not peer into your code--you may want to use a quadtree data structure, NOT an array.
USPS sells nearly $20B worth of money orders a year
I don't like that the author didn't bother to explain what it was Visa didn't like, I don't care enough to go digging and so I'm not inclined to take sides.

Visa is well within its rights to blacklist your company, I don't know if they are in the right regarding your personal accounts. But it doesn't sound like you've been blacklisted for "building Gab" which to me made it sound like you were a competing platform it sounds like you ruffled some feathers and now you are trying to play the "but free speech" card which doesn't apply to corporations.
In order to maximize impact. Press doesn't want to talk about this unless there is an embargo, otherwise they might be 'late' in which case they would rather not mention it at all (and not have to spend costly journalist time)
> You say that you “know” that terrestrial broadcast isn’t based on the number of listeners, and then go and make the same argument that Spotify pays better than radio based on “radio plays with n listeners.”

What I am saying is that even though the $0.12 isn't based on the number of listeners, there is a number of listeners (n). So that $0.12 should be divided by that n in order to calculate how much money is paid per listen. If that n > 265, then Spotify is paying more per listen. I agree that the on-demand nature means Spotify should cost more than radio. Still, the argument that Spotify does pay less than radio per listen is wrong, and it makes your case a lot weaker if insist on that, because it's contrary.

When I said $0.12 a stream isn't a viable model for music, I didn't mean because it paid the artists too little, I meant it cost too much! Paying the artist and songwriter $0.12 per stream means charging the user about $0.15 each time they listen to the song. (Which doesn't seem right when compared to the purchase price of a song, unless people listen to music they purchase fewer than 8 times on average.) If they stream 25 hours per month, at average song length of 4 minutes, that's about 375 songs per month, or about $56/month. For heavy listeners, it would be a lot more. I don't think many people would sign up at that level. It definitely couldn't be covered by advertising. That said, you could probably get a lot more than Spotify is paying. Still, it does indicate some room there to get more than the $0.00318.

It is surprising to me that we don't see more exclusivity with music like we do with video content, where subscriptions to various services end up being necessary if you want to watch a particular show. The consumption patterns are quite different. However, given the number of competing platforms out there and the low switching costs associated associated, probably the best strategy is for a whole company with a lot of publishing rights to pull their content from the lowest paying services. Something like what Disney did to Netflix.
My goto editor in the 80s for DOS and 90s for Windows was Norton Editor. I had it on various diskettes to use when I needed to edit files on customer's computers when I worked in a computer store in college.

However it looks like Windows 98 broke it (according to this message: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.editors/l24T-Wh...)

For anyone brave enough to try random downloaded apps it looks like it is available here: https://winworldpc.com/product/norton-editor/20
> Yogurt in Trader Joe’s is shipped in from LA.

And Eugene, Oregon. TJ's French Village plain nonfat yogurt is Nancy's Yogurt from Springfield Creamery in Eugene (formerly in Springfield), run by the Kesey family.

https://nancysyogurt.com/our-creamery/
So VISA's actions don't violate the 1st amendment. That doesn't answer if they violate anti-trust laws, nor does it answer the more important questions of is this behavior, even if legal, also moral, and should we be worried about how much power VISA has when they can so easily destroy a business.
What is wrong with the comment though?
Creating nouns out of your RPC is actually powerful and transformative. Verbs are transitive but nouns can be queried, handled asynchronously etc.

It feels like jumping through hoops but you end up with a more solid API for the web.
Shale pioneer Chesapeake Energy files for bankruptcy
The departments of gigacorps that do software engineering well can execute circles around the others. A corporation's internal economy doesn't always or even usually care about that, but sometimes it does.
Yeah, I was saying if you bought a CD you would pay $15 for 10 tracks, or $1.50 per track. You would have to listen to that CD 471 times for the cost per listen per track to reach what Spotify pays the artist per stream.
No, you're not. But I'd not say something beforehand, because there's nothing wrong with such a project succeeding if that's what ended up happening. Being able to say "I told you so" isn't worth it.

Although I personally think Rust is fine. It's just that I thought the frontend and backend split is too complex. I am looking for something simpler than neovim, personally, and xi didn't tick that box for me.
It's worth noting that in medical culture, knowingly implementing a process that does not aim to eliminate
all type #1 errors as much as possible would violate the spirit of the Hippocratic oath, whereas #2 would not.
Everything I know about the book is from a Yaron Brooks podcast. He describes its worldview as one where all white people are inescapably racist by due being born white in this place and time, and that there is nothing we can do about it because it is part of our psyche. Additionally, it is not so much individual thoughts or intended actions that are to blame, but society and our institutions, that are also inherently racist whether or not there are any policies you can point to or not that indicate it. Apparently, white poeple are uncurable in this way.

Yaron's issue is that it denies individual responsibility for their wrong-headed thinking utterly; denies free will and the ability for individuals to change their minds and be decent; and finally, that by characterizing people as inherently this or that on the basis of race is itself a deeply racist approach to the topic.

Is this an accurate summary or is it mistaken?
Facebook content policies tweaked over time to accommodate POTUS
Don't feed the 5 hour old troll account.
> It's insane and it leads to conservative resurgence

Unclear what you mean exactly. The way I interpret it, please correct me if I'm wrong, is:

The concept of "White Fragility" is so ridiculous and overbearing that it causes white people to retreat to a more conservative stance.

In that case, I agree.

But I guess you could also mean it as:

White people are so fragile in their identities that being forced to be challenged about their beliefs and behaviors causes them to become defensive and retreat to a move conservative position.

Which is I think exactly what the author claimed if I'm remembering the book correctly.

Either way it's sort of a "heads I win tails you lose" situation she paints, which mostly makes me not interested in playing along.
Parts of the US being potentially "as good as the EU".

Nope, I'll just buy from the EU, thanks.
Both seem absurd 3,000+ away. As does the cup of Chobani I had at a hotel in Texas!
A rough heuristic I’ve found historically very useful to judge the relative sanity of a group or person on matters of race is the question “Do you want to ban Huck Finn?”

If you do, then I shall waste no time shaking the dust off my feet when I leave, because two things are true as a result. First, you think it’s OK to ban books and are thus beyond the pale to start with; Second, either you understand the denouement of that book and don’t like it because you’re a racist, or you’ve probably internalized White Fragility a bit too thoroughly and dismiss Huck out of hand because it dares to have the n-word in it and have never read the denouement or realized what it means.

It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:

“All right, then, I’ll go to hell”—and tore it up.

It was awful thoughts and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming. I shoved the whole thing out of my head, and said I would take up wickedness again, which was in my line, being brung up to it, and the other warn’t.

And for a starter I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything worse, I would do that, too; because as long as I was in, and in for good, I might as well go the whole hog.
Thankfully, you don't have to use Emacs on the console. Not even on a Powershell-only Windows system (such systems will let you launch graphical applications just fine).

Even in the article's use-case (remotely editing files on some remote server), Emacs ships with TRAMP, which can be used with PuTTY's plink to do remote editing (assuming the remote host is accessible via SSH): https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Tramp_on_Windows

There's also support for TRAMP over SMB, though I haven't personally tried it (usually for SMB I let the OS handle it and then point Emacs at the local representation).
Maybe you should read the book yourself and form your own opinion.
Love the recursion of seeing this page on the page on the page