skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fallacy of "they don't build them like they used to" applies equally to bridges from 1850, cars from 1970, and printers from 2000: the poorly built bridges fell down, the cars with inferior parts rusted, and the printers with chronic issues got Office Spaced. So of course only the well-made examples survived.
I don't think that's true in Canada either. I think it's only true if you're self-employed.
Maybe this is something you want to keep internal to your company, but can you say anything about the model architecture being used here?
Then they would probably get banned from Apple ecosystem. And Apple will defend itself saying they have a right to choose not to do business with anyone for any reason and they have deemed it best for user experience not to let Telegram in App Store. And Telegram developers would have no recourse.
I think this is really important for application programming, and one of the things that is promising to me about Nim. Also the metaprogramming / DSL stuff helps create eg. specific DSLs for UI programming and things like that (something we've seen people like with JSX in React for example). Can do things as far as https://github.com/krux02/opengl-sandbox (OpenGL pipeline DSL) or https://github.com/yglukhov/nimsl (literally converts Nim functions to GLSL (!)).
ATC talks a lot faster than I would have expected. Seems like that would be problematic.
By a common, open driver system, do you perhaps mean "driverless"? My new printer works perfectly on Linux but took quite a bit of fiddling to get to work on Windows. Scanning from iOS is a mess (the official app works, but it has a hardcoded list of integrations instead of proper "share" support, so actually using the scanned results is a pain). I haven't even tried scanning from Windows.

And the very best part: on Fedora 32 or better, scanning Just Works! This is the result of a project to implement both Microsoft's and Apple's scanning protocols in SANE, and somehow the result seems substantially better than Apple or Microsoft's implementations.
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What's the catch? have you disabled everything? There is no way a few apps run on Windows 10 with 1 GB of ram.
That can be a good thing for non-charismatic types. I know that I've hurt my career at times in past due to in-person failures like being visibly angry or raising voice over dumb statements/power-positioning by leader-types. Being remote has helped me throttle those reactions and not be so public about my feelings.
2001 called, it wants its shitty "Windows Sucks!" article back.
World wide safety net: Open borders isn't the same thing as everyone having the same safety net in whichever destination they travel to. Though related, they are distinct issues that can exist independently.

That said a world wide safety net would be a good thing to advocate for on moral grounds, no?

The EU has open borders for all EU citizens, and for the most part it's faring ok. There has not been a Europe-wide social safety net crisis as a result of this freedom, and crucially for this argument: there isn't an EU wide social safety net. It has freedom of movement without a universal safety net.

The USA's states are effectively countries. All USA citizens have open borders to travel between states in the USA. For the most part, it's faring ok and there has not been a USA-wide social safety net crisis caused by this freedom either.

Iceland and cheese for everyone: That sounds like what's called the slippery slope fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
Not that I'm aware, although I spotted this one on github: https://github.com/mikea/cpp-stream-fusion, based on a paper discussed at the time on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5507204

Stream fusion (or deforestation, in general) is useful in languages that encourage function composition. For that, functions must receive and return a value that can be composed together. In my experience, languages in the style C or C++ encourage functions that modify the argument in place (caller supplies their own buffer, for example), which bypasses the problem of creating intermediate copies of the final result.
I always thought Russ Hanneman was based on Sean Parker, he had an over the top flashy lifestyle.
We're sorry you feel that way! We're just getting started, we hope to get there soon :)
I cleaned one of those overflow pad assemblies once, on an old Epson. I got several more years out of it. But what a disgusting job cleaning it was. It's a great huge tank with many layers of pads. Do they sell replacements? One guess.
That or "anonymous sources" wouldn't have helped. That works with papers that have a long earned reputation of mostly reporting facts. They may have biases in their selection of which stories to run, or what angles to approach those stores from, but what they report as a fact is in fact a fact far far far far more often than not.

(Pause for people to jump in to cite examples of such papers getting it wrong. This will be the small set of examples that is always cited).

The Post is not such a paper.
Yes, this is true. I do not know about SSN but the two national identifiers I have (from two different countries) do have this problem (both leak birth date and one also place and gender).

But when an real random GUID is used then this is not a problem.
You're correct, but I think the "mystery" here is why a basket of unprofitable companies is outperforming broader indices.
> The lack of commercial purpose of ReactOS (and Wine) and it's primary goal of interoperability

So, if ReactOS ever becomes useful, it will be illegal to use it for commercial purposes?
What question are you talking about? What is your point exactly?
Perhaps the jetpack in the example video is, but this is not the jetpack that's been flying around LA International Airport, necessarily.
Launch HN: Openland (YC W18) – Community platform with automation
Hi, it's Yury and Steve from Openland (https://openland.com). We make it easy for any person or business to build a chat community.

We believe that in the next five years there will be a massive shift from audiences (top-down content broadcasting) to communities (two-way communication between organizers and members and among members). For members, communities fulfill fundamental social needs: new friendships, safe space for self-expression, learning from peers. For organizers, communities help collect leads, sell, drive customer success, or earn direct revenue from members.

Today, building a great community is super hard. Getting people in one place, explaining and enforcing the rules, collecting member info, and interacting in a scalable personalized way takes a huge amount of time.

That's why we've built Openland. At its center, there's a new fully-functional messenger, comparable to FB Messenger or WhatsApp. On top of that, we added tools for onboarding, automated messaging, integrations (CRMs, etc.), analytics, and paid memberships. Community automation is what sets Openland apart from other messengers and community platforms.

Openland has actually started as a marketplace for urban land. While working on its messaging module, we realized that professional messaging in general is much underdeveloped and our talents are better suited for building a horizontal messenger than a vertical marketplace. We made a pivot shortly after YC graduation and spent the next two years quietly building a new messenger for communities.

Since our soft-launch this Summer, 250+ communities launched on Openland around educational programs, professional services, tech products, content creators, and nonprofits. There are also standalone communities built from scratch. The largest community has 14k+ members who've already sent 500k+ messages. Openland is free to use. Today, we take a small revenue cut from member-supported communities and will add premium plans for business-led communities later in the future.

If you want to start a community for your customers, students, fans, or followers, we'd be delighted to help. To coordinate, ping Yury at https://openland.com/yury or email at yury@openland.com.

Openland is built on FoundationDB, Node.js, and React Native. For anyone interested in messaging tech, we share our engineering lessons at https://openland.com/tech.

We’d love to hear your thoughts and questions. Do you run a community? Thinking about starting one? What tools have you tried so far? What worked and what didn't?
What about the privacy considerations? Are you keeping each user profile stored permanently in the cloud or is it somehow synced client side?
> Online, you can create a private Slack channel or even a separate off-Slack group for the in-crowd where you exclude others, and no one can see it.

Since you say politics reasons wholly because of this reason, it’s not like Slack is not available if you are not fully remote.
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I'm not saying you shouldn't share anything with anyone, but there are some things where the upside of sharing isn't worth the potential downside. when dealing with someone who is responsible for evaluating your job performance, it's unwise to volunteer reasons for them to doubt that. it's hard to judge productivity, especially for engineers. if you go through a rough patch but say nothing, people might never notice that you were less productive for a month or two. if you tell your boss you're having an issue with alcohol/drugs, they might perceive a drop in productivity that didn't even exist! unless your issue is so severe that it can't possibly escape notice, and/or you have a good plan to fix it very soon, there's just no reason to share this kind of stuff.

also, I would say work is quite a bit different than a gym. it's a lot easier to find a new gym than a new job, and it's much less disruptive to your life if you have to do so.
That's kind of what a drone is
Thank you for taking some time to check it out. We are actively working on that and will have that out soon :)

The documentation is based on Gatsby!
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I notice the author is using the wallpaper from Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), released in April 2008.
How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Expressions (2016)
It's like fullstory[0] but backwards?

https://www.fullstory.com/
I've read/heard others express their concern about how the XP code leak might be a problem for ReactOS. I hope they are taking appropriate measures.
Really? I had some decent success on FB early but not now. I also made a killing when MySpace launched it's terrible ad service.
You are either modifying Windows 10, using nothing inside of it post boot, or you are missing a zero after the one.
> Democratic politicians are the loudest ones calling for their breakup, ie. Bernie, AOC, Warren.

Incidents like this may make Republicans a lot more interested in breaking up Facebook and Twitter...
Lawmakers Demand Investigation into Surveillance of BLM Protests
I've had my parents set up with MATE and Plasma Desktop for about two years now without a problem. Both just work.

I haven't used GNOME in years because it was too unstable when I used it myself.
>> as suffering from constant paper jams and other mechanical malfunctions.

> All of that, including the interfacing are not related to patents.

This seems like a pretty strong statement, can you elaborate as to why solving paper jams wouldn't involve patented IP ?
https://nim-lang.org/ -- says "statically typed" within the first 7 words of the main description of the language on the homepage... Most of the features happen through the type system (eg. functions are always top-level and looked up through UFCS), and it has generics and so on.
5. don't like the barrier to communication, isolation, and distraction that WFH brings.

It's not for everyone, don't act like WFH is some sort of amazing thing that only people in bad situations or who are incompetent dislike.

1. is straight up incorrect anyway, my schedule has gotten more consistent since working from home. It's entirely based on your own ability to start and stop your workday.
Would not be the first time the US government has transparently tried to lie about and smear families of government critics.
I think no one is thinking past "but I'm more productive!", that's including employers and employees.

Productivity is not the be-all end-all of a career! Human interaction (of any kind) is important, "wasting" time going to lunch with colleagues is important, serendipitous encounters at the coffee machine are important.

I know for certain if my employer decides to go permanent remote, I'll be looking for another employer. This is not the way I want to live and work.
I think it's like anywhere else, with some people you're just going to click and be friends, whether you met at work or at a house party

Some people will dislike you; most people will be neutral. But it's all wetware and basically instant
The good kind of bad problem! We're actively on it, we are hoping to restore everything back to asap. Apologies.
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Close, but you're missing a step: create new money, give it to Americans so they can afford to buy exercise bikes, put a gun to the head of anyone who dares challenge the US dollar hegemony.
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Lots of inaccurate info in here but also some valid points. UWP sucks really bad and it does reduce the reliability of the system, especially when UWP-type things end up in the shell (e.g. start menu and action center).

I will point out that File Explorer includes a shortcut for opening PowerShell at the current directory, which can be triggered through the File menu or alt-f-r.

Its worth highlighting that Linux isn't an option for everyone. I personally prefer the design to Windows 10 and hate Microsoft's anti-consumer stance. I'd love to confine it to a VM that I only run when I need something specific. Unfortunately, Ubuntu at least cannot handle using Intel graphics with Nvidia graphics in a mixed-DPI setup (one monitor 1080P, one monitor 4K). I think this is a reasonably common setup. Running a kernel update is also troublingly likely to render the system unbootable (it has happened multiple times on Ubuntu, zero times on Windows; I've done many orders of magnitude more Windows work than Ubuntu work).

I feel slightly jealous of the folks who are feasibly able to run Linux on the desktop without compromising on hardware.
Why would you use the market cap as a measure for large when we're discussing overvaluation? It seems like more fundamental measures (revenue, earnings, market share) would be more appropriate.
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Don't follow the platforms. Follow the advertisers.

Do whatever Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and the other big and hugely successful advertisers do. They have entire staffs to make sure their ads end up in the right places at the right prices.

See what your competitor is doing, and then do slightly better. Assuming you can afford it.
How is it GPL-incompatible when the CUPS project explicitly made exceptions to the Apache 2.0 License for GPL compatibility?
I even have a reason why drone is better: Drone is one syllable, RC Aircraft is four.
Haha now that you mention it, it does sound a little odd! Will go through the content again. Thank you so much for your feedback :)
Then come up with a better defense. The government is not preventing you.
Judges can only enforce laws passed by Congress. “Congress shall make no law” seems like a much better plan to me.
works great via telnet 80

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1) No, quite the opposite. It was one of the reasons cited by the CDC as to why they originally did not support widespread face mask use.

2) This ties into the fact that PPE supplies were low when the pandemic started. They did not want to declare a mask ordinance while hospitals were still having a difficult time sourcing PPE themselves. The fact that many people would either be unable to purchase masks or be unwilling to participate made it so that they would just be working against themselves at a time when supply management was critical.

3) Is sociology not a science? It is a matter of public policy. Ensuring that healthcare professionals have access to PPE is the prudent course of action when dealing with a pandemic.

>> I don't think there ever was a scientific consensus that masks aren't effective against airborne diseases. There was a political decision, and that can change any time, but it has nothing to do with data collection or the scientific method.

What are you even talking about? Mask use continues to be studied widely[1]

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si...
The point is that blindly copying the investment strategy used by a majority of other players inevitably leads to what some call a bubble.
No worries! Keep up the good work.
Yes, this is pretty funny to read!

I'm sure I'm not the only one here who has been using Windows since 3.1 and Linux since 2.0.x (early Debian). Nothing in this article is exactly "news" at this point in history.
Even if that was possible (no idea), I don't know that it would help. Graphics processing works on GPUs because it's a massively parallel task. With audio, increasing buffer sizes for more parallel processing will inherently increase latency. And if you're not dealing with massive buffers, then you're just shipping data over to the GPU for no good reason.
>Second, Python 2 to Python 3 was horrible, and created political problems which hadn't existed before. Now, at the end of the transition, we can see how badly it was managed; Python 2 could have been retrofitted with nearly every breaking change and it would have been lower-friction.

This doesn't make any logical sense. Your saying take the breaking changes in python 3 and put it into python 2? That's just a version number. You can call it version 2.999999.8 and do all the changes in there and the outcome is identical.

No. Every breaking change must have a downstream change in every library that uses that breaking change. That's the reality of breaking changes. No way around it.

Tell me of such a migration as huge as python 2->3 that was as successful. For sure there were huge problems along the way and it took forever. However I have heard of very very few migrations in the open source world that ended up with an outcome as successful as python.

>First, the excellent readability leads directly into hard-to-read code structures.

I don't agree with this either. You refer to fortran but most programmers here haven't used it so you'll have to provide an example for readers to see your point.
> I thought you can at least derive location and date of birth with quite a bit of accuracy from them.

You can for numbers issued before 2011, they're random now. The first three numbers are tied to the zip code of the application and the month/year of the application can be determined by the group numbers (the two in the middle).

https://www.ssa.gov/employer/stateweb.htm
I wonder if Twitter is also going to block links to this BBC article...
> Create a new account, watch any political video, and then click through the suggestions. Keep clicking through the suggestions and in hour you will be on some extremist nonsense.

Could that simply be the inevitable effect of Youtube being filled with garbage? It seems that suggestions linked to the current video by some keyword match (or whatever) but otherwise random would have this problem.

E.g. if you pick a good political YT video on some topic, and then randomly select half a dozen other YT videos on the same topic, they are probably garbage.

So while the selection process isn't blameless (it could be improved to promote quality videos) much of the fault lies with the quality of the available material.

How would the selection process promote quality? How does the machine know that? You can't tell from the likes and dislikes; such populist metrics would promote garbage all the same. It seems that it would require a large team of workers to curate videos.
It's necessary in busy airspace such as around LAX, due to limited frequency-time. Pilots are used to it.
How can you distinguish a drone from a an RC aircraft during flight?
some other comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24080444
You do realize that the literal meaning and the legal meaning are two separate things, right?

Censorship in a privately owned entity is 100% legal. As is bias...
Evernote version 10 for Windows and Mac is a major improvement
It's really sad how the most well-payed engineers and designers are spending the best years of their lives working on this hostile platform

I'm at the age where I'm starting to look back at the various phases of my life and think about whether they were wasted or not.

A lot of my similarly-aged friends are doing the same. Some who worked for the wrong tech companies really regret it now. At the time they thought it was cool because they were living the tech dream. Now they wonder what it was all for.
People will still go to coffee shops and restaurants. It's just that the location of those places will move from office hubs to residential neighborhoods. That's a good thing.

I'm sure co-working spaces will still have high demand so many office spaces would turn into that.
That doesn't follow (because "most of the stuff on top of HN" is a much stronger claim than what you said here) but I'm happy to answer anyway. The answer is that it frequently doesn't work. What we don't know is how many other cases there are where people are getting away with it. We can't know that; by definition, we're never going to know it.

Even there, though, one can make educated guesses, based for example on how many cases come up where people got away with it at the time, but then evidence comes to our attention later and we can figure it out in retrospect. Such cases are useful because then we can extend our software to catch them in the future.

I'd never claim that such manipulations never work; obviously we can't know that. It's possible that superclever manipulators are rolling HN in their hands like a piece of silly putty. All I'm saying is that if "most of the stuff on top of HN comes from [that]", then I don't know the first thing about my job.
Maybe the dangling arms of greek statues fall off over time (the article points out that statues held together with dowels are especially susceptible, vs carved from a single block)

But a lot of these statues have arms by their side. Further, the author mentions chisel marks and describes where a statue was hit to break it apart. I think the 'iconoclasm' explanation is fairly uncontroversial.
I read once that software created out of public funded projects in the US was public domain, is this actually true?
>methods like ChaCha20 can generate random data at 4GB+ per core per second on a modern CPU

That's around 30x slower than a decent version of PCG, which also has a lot of variants to cover a lot of use cases.
How do the determine what is misinformation. What precisely is the source. This is important, vitally important.
They investigated anyways because there were plenty of other reasons to suspect that Flynn was on the payroll of foreign powers, given that he was paid by the Russian state through their state run media RT in 2014 and accepted at least one paid speaking engagement from the Russian state in 2015 without seeking US government approval. Flynn later plead guilty to having lied to the government about some of these engagements (though he recently retracted his plea agreement).
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-flynn-id...