skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for linking that wikipedia page. Some of those examples sound crazy. In particular, I don't understand the motivation in cases where there was a sentence of several thousand years, and later it was reduced by 500. Does that reduction in sentence provide any kind of actual benefit to anyone?
Was this before or after the launch of the iPhone? I'm primarily curious because I was under the impression—based on several reports I've read—that at launch Apple actually had no intention of building an app store or allowing third party iPhone apps, which means "native" game development would not really have existed.
This is verging on an ad hominem attack: we need more federal powers because those people are awful baby killers!

The reality is everyone cares, they just disagree sharply on how to solve issues or which issues are priorities — to which the solution of several independent approaches seems reasonable.

When people in state A see that state B is doing much better because of policy X, they can choose to enact similar. I’m not sure I understand why they need to be compelled to adopt your preferred policies.

It’s interesting that you discuss “red states” being in need — but ignore the prolific violence in “blue cities” and poor trapped there.

As they say: Cure yourself, doctor.
If Aaron was still around he would have invented something better than Reddit. Probably several times.
I think "keep one for once" was intended to be idiomatic and not literally mean "one", but "on this occasion"

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/for+once
Ask HN: I have this domain codingtips.dev but I don't know what to do with it
I have a few ideas but I don't know if any of them is any good, such as a blog to post coding tips, or a coding book store, or a platform to link beginner developers with professionals to help them.
What's nuts about this how tons of people from all levels of government/society participated in this conspiracy.

It says a lot about the general attitude of Chinese people.

(I'm chinese, btw)
Also: isn't the UX of a pencil very close to the UNIX philosophy of having little tools that do one thing and one thing well, and work together with other things?

In that sense most software today isn't a pencil. It is more like a fully furbished office where you are not allowed to use a pencil but you have to use a silly oversized rubber-ballpen with decorative feathers instead. Oh and the paper is made of plastic and you are not allowed to change it because the guy at the door will beat you with a stick. On the bright side the filing cabinet might be the best you have ever seen — but you really aren't enjoying it all that much because you feel forced to write on plastic with a goofy pen that changes colours every 4 months. Ah, and you are forbidden to take the plastic writings out of the room (again the man with the stick).

I cannot believe that it is 2020 and the best thing we came up with is still just a text based shell (nothing against those, they are great, but I'd love to see the same modularity in typical GUI applications).
First of all, please fix your quoting, it's unreadable.

Secondly, you can say "it's just your bias/conditioning" about almost anything. Of course it's subjective. There's no such thing as "objectively bad taste". Nothing looks "objectively bad". That's why explaining bad looks is such a waste of time.

Of course it's just my opinion, but when I immediately reject an application because in my opinion it looks like crap, that's the only opinion that matters. Whether or not that hurts your bottom line is a different story. Microsoft isn't exactly known for good taste, yet it's a trillion dollar company.
> with high confidence that it will work and last a long time

And we need more of our software to be like that. Now if we could just do something about the constant pressure to compromise.
> but somehow when we're debugging something on a call, I'm always in the appropriate file at the appropriate line number long before he is :)

I’d enjoy seeing these parallel workflows happening, and seeing where Acme is a better <xyz>, or where it punts and has a completely different paradigm, besting your coworker (and vice versa).
> If you send a flush command to a consumer grade hd, it returns before the flush is done.

So essentially its a no-op?
Call us back when you get the entire internet to stop using emails and phone numbers for communication. There really isn't a reasonable other option right now.
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I agree, I think there should have been some drop-in replacement which would allow old scripts to continue working but also let new work make use of these improvements with `Date`. I feel that this duality will persist for a long time, and it can lead to answers, documentation and codebases becoming a confusing mess. It's hard to predict exactly what this mess will look like, only... er... Time will tell.
I am a mainframe Db2 DBA, after having 5yrs of experience, I had a resume of almost 4 pages. I was asked to interview a person with 20yrs experience his resume was 2 pages. His resume had all works he did in that 20yrs and tools he used. That day I decided if I am sending out an resume it's not going to be more than 2 pages. I can still remember his resume, it was simple to read.
I 100% agree but then again, people choose to buy those products so..
Right, I think the article shows a certain lack of self-awareness in places, but I see no reason not to believe that the author's heart was in the right place nonetheless.
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1. "...moving around a lot"
Yes, in some cases, but it's not a great point to make because there are also lot of cases where protesters are huddled together for a long period of time [0], [1].

2. I do agree on this point (based on live feeds I observed), but we wouldn't be getting the full story if we just talked about the protesters and not the tear gassed rioters, indoor looters and police officers who didn't wear masks. [2]

3. I have some differing perspectives on this point:

Most of the attendees that were tested statistically were a younger and less vulnerable population [3], this cost time, effort and money. How would this not have a direct impact on the future testing capabilities and resources that some of those cities needed for more vulnerable populations and rising cases [4]?

More than 3300 people who participated in the protests in Minneapolis got tested and 1.4% (now 1.8%) of them had the virus. This is needs to stated along side of the 7 day average infection rate that week of 3.7% out of 13,000 people. [5]

It's also fair to mention the most populated city in the US and the one that had some of the highest protesting wasn't asking people if they attended the protests when they got tested. [6]

I am sure there were other indirect impacts on virus patients like emergency response time and hospital services during the peaceful protests and non-peaceful protests that.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEmealSp7Aw

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z82gf5bk8kM

2: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/6/12/21288340/police-offi...
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/05/8701444...

3: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/24/recent-prot...

4: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/07/us-covid...

5: https://www.twincities.com/2020/06/12/mn-coronavirus-george-... (Published June 12, 2020)

6: https://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-contact-tracers-not-aski...
> MSFT gained 30% over 6 months (that's compared to pre COVID levels), what's changed that much?

1) assets are denominated in dollars

2) the amount of dollars in circulation has increased about 40% in 2020

3) Therefore, asset prices go up

That's all there is to it.
Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr
The genocide of Native Americans extends far beyond the introduction of diseases like smallpox, in much more intentional ways.
I don't have background other than reading the background included in the decision, but it seems that in late 1800s/early 1900s, the land was allotted into parcels with individual ownership by members of the Creek Nation, and after a time that ownership became freely conveyable to any person.

Conveying property to a non-member does not remove land from a reservation, and this ruling does not void any conveyances. Whoever owns the land, owns the land. This ruling just makes it clear that all of the land within the treaty boundaries is still a reservation. I don't know all of the implications this will have, but I imagine a lot of things done by the state of Oklahoma assuming they were operating within the state of Oklahoma may need to be reviewed, given that they were operating within the Creek Nation.

For example, can the state allow formation of counties and cities within the Creek Nation? What about if said counties and cities were formed inclusive of only land owned by non-members of the Creek Nation?

Of course, the court mentioned that Congress is free to stop honoring the treaty, the only requirement is that it must do it explicitly.
In the US, it's possible to be let out of jail for a life sentence in only 7 years, when you account for parole.

Judges are elected officials, so sometimes they like to make a nice big show of giving out a 1000 year sentence to appease the masses, when "life in prison without parole" would have done the same job.
I totally agree your logic makes sense too. My model was going along the lines of, "hey, our digital ads are down a few million" -> manager telling the assembled team "hey let's try and get the ad revenue back up, all please set the dial just a little bit higher!"

Not even suggesting malice there, just my imagination :)

[Ed. add:]

It's also that I don't even think Metz was necessarily aware the name would be such a big deal. It's very much normal practice to name people, and even if they saw that Scott was privacy conscious it might not have registered properly and just seemed like a "little bit of extra zest." However, IMHO they just should have backed off after it became apparent to them.
>> "I'm not sure why you're attributing this to some bad will from the platform instead of just basic supply and demand economics?"

I made no attribution to bad will. I described a phenomenon without judgment.
This is not specific to one party. There is someone out there, opposite to you, who says the same thing but replace red state with blue state.

The root problem here is the people who insist that their political beliefs should be implemented for everyone in the country, not just for the people around them who agree with those beliefs. This idea that "we can't leave anything up to local government because there might be some local government out there who disagrees with me" is why we have so much federal gridlock.
> I don't know about area's becoming ghost towns, but I do know some areas have been impacted, and may be coming back with a startup culture that is up and coming.

This comment is based on my experience on the African continent. Nokia seemed to come out of nothing, beat everyone and then go back to being nothing.

In reality, they are more than 100 years old, started in the timber industry and now moved to telecom infrastructure rather than handsets.

If I mention the name "Nokia" then people will look at me blankly if they are younger than 20 but otherwise say: "Oh the great 3310!". So, the expectation was that there would be ghost towns.
> Over-reacting is not 'by definition the result of an emotional response'. My immune system over-reacts to many external stimuli and causes allergic reactions. These are not emotional. So you're stating things that are easily and demonstrably wrong. This is the epitome of disingenuous.

The dictionary definition of overreaction is "a more emotional or forcible response than is justified". You're attempting to use the clinical definition of an overreaction in place of someone personally overreacting, which is incorrect. He didn't take down his blog as a result of his immune system overreacting, he had an emotional reaction which made him take down his blog. From a rationalist standpoint you're wrong.

> Otherwise, your lack of accuracy in previous statements makes me dubious about your argument.

This would be an emotional reaction to me defining the term overreaction correctly.
It's clear that Alexander has tried to maintain a level of anonymity for good reason. This article shows how easy it is for any independent thinker to get pulled into a broader "us vs. them" conflict, and be at the mercy of the worst actors from each side.
>Why should your extracurricular hobbies or "you as a person" matter?

They certainly do at elite US schools. The logic is that there's no shortage of students who could handle the academic work but Harvard or even MIT aren't looking just to admit the students who did best on an exam.

Added: The way it at least used to be done (and I assume this still applies at least somewhat) was that quantitative academic scores are used to set something of a floor but, beyond that, they were just one of the factors that went into admissions decisions. (With weights and other considerations doubtless varying by school.)
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lol duh, sorry and thanks.
For the visually oriented, this description of UX in image form can't be beat: https://imgur.com/mAttwt6
Usenet too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
There is a proposal for that[1] which introduces a `js:` pseudo-protocol for importing a build in module (or a standard library):

import Temporal from "js:temporal";

1: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-built-in-modules
I’m just here for the support. There is definitely someone here lurking that could definitely help :)

Also, I’ve seen a trend of terrible google support. Is this the norm?
Fair enough. The general dynamic still applies.

The original vision was perfectly sustainable.

Now it is generally not, and the value is dropping away.

Wasted.
I have been through multiple H1B applications, a Green Card application, and right now going through Naturalization process, on the other end, I am getting my brother through Canadian process.

Regarding the points you made, all these things are applicable for Canadian process too (my brother is stuck trying to prove the documents and degree because of the lockdown), its' just that in American system there are far too many people ahead of you this is why it takes much longer.

You're lucky that you have the skillset (and age) Canada values, otherwise it would be extremely difficult for you to migrate to Canada (whereas it isn't that much of a problem for US, unless you are in the unlucky line, i.e. China, India or Mexico).
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> This ruling, as I understand it, resolves a narrow technicality

That is literally all of the SCOTUS rulings. It's petty listening to bright minds discuss minute details. The fact that technicalities have far reaching effects is a sign that the system is broken.
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Agreed. A handful of sentences were completely unfair, and they've been rightly criticized in other comments.
But it's a very long piece, and the majority of it came off as reserved and even-handed.
I've seen hit pieces, this is not one of them.
A perfect reply. Thank you.
> Are you referring to the Work at A Startup posts?

Yes. it's brilliant and highly tasteful IMHO. I haven't responded to any of those myself, but their frequency is low enough and interesting enough that they don't bother me. I'm glad the site gets support to cover costs.
AFAIK Netflix still delivers DVD's at profit.
It’s not that fringe, given the Elon Musk/Grimes connection: https://pagesix.com/2018/05/07/elon-musk-quietly-dating-musi...

But you’re right it’s not part of the “discourse” except mostly as a joke.
Sounds interesting, but seeing as you are a VC funded startup, I have some reservations about this. How do you plan to sustain the business?

From the privacy policy, I see this:

> In addition, we may, from time to time, offer promotions with various businesses, websites, mobile applications or third parties, which may include opportunities for you to earn deposits within your Yotta account.

It sounds like you are just sharing our information with advertisers.

Edit: I know you addressed this in the post, but I don't see earning money on interest in accounts as a very sustainable business from a VC point of view.
What Gorsuch's opinion does directly imply is that the "promise" to the Creek can be revoked by Congress at any time, i.e. it's hardly a "promise" at all.
You forgot there will be a leap second and switch to summer time.
What about an open board with title and content where devs can share a 260 chars code sample, anonymously with a captcha to prevent bots.
The kolmogorov complicity post was arguably an announcement that he felt it necessary to do so.
> I can see lots of organizations panicking in January 2021 when the flash plugin suddenly stops working.

I'm still confused as to what this actually means. Is Flash going to remotely disable itself? Is Microsoft going to silently update Internet Explorer 11 to prevent flash from starting? Is Mozilla going to remove features from Firefox 78 ESR in a point release? Or is there just going to be an EMP explosion that corrupts every copy of the Flash plugin on every single hard drive in the world?
Of course there is "another side". They're wrong, but they understand it's a fight, and my side still doesn't, so kudos to them at least for that.

I don't particularly care about self-inflicted wounds, but the splash damage upon the people whose lives they make worse in the offing is a damning indictment of this conception of federalism.

Shit's broken, and it's broken for the weakest among us, and it's only getting worse with the "drown it in a bathtub" corps stomping through the White House.
> credit transactions are reversible and bitcoin isn't, so the middle party gets stiffed by fraud

So they hold the Bitcoin in escrow until the reversibility period has expired. Also, this is presumably what the independent Bitcoin seller has to do anyway, because it's their problem rather than the middle man's.

> you have to have a merchant account to take credit payments, and the networks will blacklist you if you do things like this

But the middle party isn't taking credit card payments -- that's the point. They're just forwarding the user's credit card info to any unaffiliated third party who sells Bitcoin and accepts credit cards, and then giving the Bitcoin to the target. They're not really a payment processor at all, they're just a process automation website for doing a multi-step transaction in one step to reduce friction. (Though they are in a perfect position to take a small cut to cover their costs.)
It already does run on ARM64 but it is only available to OEMs, meaning that you can't buy it as a consumer. And it only runs on some specific SoCs, most of which are Qualcomm ARM chips.

Things are likely to change as more actual ARM64 laptops appear. Some Windows on ARM64 laptops are already available like the HP Envy X2, the Lenovo Yoga C630, and the Microsoft Surface Pro X.
If it's in a data center security services have physical access.
You have a distinctly queer idea of what happens after a war. This isn't an American idea to take land after conquest, it's how it's always worked throughout human history, even with the Indians that warred amongst themselves prior to the American government becoming the ultimate victor against them.

You may disagree with the foundations of the conflict, and you can argue on those merits if you choose, but the results are the results all the same, and it's not theft when you win.
> Every dentist office had 5-6 Xeon chips sold at high margin.

That's a great observation.

For instance, I recently worked on a project to provide services to insurance agents via the cloud.

To me, it was interesting because it offered a lot of value for an insurance agency. Basically the last thing an insurance agent wants to worry about is some server in a closet that has a Blue Screen of Death.
Thank you for your kind words! We have been getting a decent amount of attention lately, but we are very much heads down, working on our science and deployment of our experiments. We announced in April, on Earth Day, that we have found a pair of bays in the Caribbean where we will run our first experiment(s). And in May, Stripe announced their selection of CDR purchases and we were selected for 3333.33 tonnes @ $75.

There was a lot going on in the world at the time when it was announced (and for whatever reason Stripe's post or the following article didn't receive traction on HN), but
that announcement made it into Reuters-> Stripe picks $1 million in carbon-removal projects to spur industry
https://www.reuters.com/article/climate-change-stripe/stripe...

This was our first bigger article, that came from our poster in December at the American Geophysical Union with our plan to take our coastal enhanced weathering "from the lab to the beach"-> Could putting pebbles on beaches help solve climate change?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/environment/article/Could-puttin...

Recently, we were in MIT Technology Review -
How green sand could capture billions of tons of carbon dioxide
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/22/1004218/how-gree...

Fast Company -> Ever been to a green sand beach? The newest geohack to fight climate change
https://www.fastcompany.com/90510254/ever-been-to-a-green-sa...

Popular Mechanics -> How This Strange Green Sand Could Reverse Climate Change https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a327992...

Inhabit -> Can manufacturing green sand beaches save our planet?
https://inhabitat.com/can-manufacturing-green-sand-beaches-s...

And more are on the way! That said, we are working really hard right now to have our pilot projects and foundational research completed, published, peer-reviewed, and CDR process certified in time for the UN IPCC's first global stocktake in 2023. At that time, countries will have to take account for how they will meet their targets and update their plans. We are working to make sure our process is ready to go by then for deployment.

>"The Paris Agreement offers a dynamic but durable framework for increasing climate action over time. One of the sources for this dynamism is the “global stocktake“ – a moment every five years for all countries to pause and account for what has been achieved so far, and what must still be done, to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement."
https://www.wri.org/blog/2017/05/insider-designing-global-st...
A turnkey solution for delivery-only restaurants

https://www.cloudkitchens.com/
Javascript runtimes do fine with concurrent operations, but obviously are not intended for parallelism.

On the WASM side: Does WASM support real threads yet? Otherwise moving to Rust wouldn't really help you? If it's just "WebWorker" like multiple runtimes, you might still pay serialization costs to move objects between workers.
I think it reads like Gonzo journalism without the self awareness of a writer like Hunter S. Thompson.

Too many narratives being constructed from coincidence, because a narrative is more enjoyable to write and read than a set of coincidences.
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That's what Interledger is trying to set up: https://interledger.org/overview.html
> But actually… that sheet also says that $51 million of their revenue is from digital advertising, down from $55.5 million a year ago. It's 11.5% of their total revenue, down from 12.7%. Not a huge problem but… it's still a business consideration.

But it's a business consideration that exactly supports the claim that NYT isn't about clicks and, in fact, that dependence on click-driven ad revenue is a declining focus of NYT and similar media outlets.
Interesting I'd never seen this. We will look into this for sure. Thanks for sharing