skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Links are one way

Is it even possible to change this? We did had (or still have?) backlinks in the blogging-world (trackback/pingback), but this is some active mechanism which simple does not scale well for physical reasons.

> things don't flow based on concept but based on this clunky chunk called a page

The base is a document, which describes the content and interface. "Page" is just the naming for some. Some others are called "App". What else is their?

> We still only have one functional semantic for cross linking the clunky chunks called the hyperlink.

We do have other formats than HTML. HTML had different approaches to include more stuff. Did not work for reasons. AT the end all dreams shatter on reality.
Just because it is common does not mean it is acceptable. Do you have any idea how ludicrously fast computers are nowadays? Multiple cores, each running at several billion cycles per second and several instructions per cycle. If each cycle were 1 processor-subjective second long, your average desktop processor would experience upwards of 248 years per real-time second.

Frankly, our entire industry should be ashamed that anyone thinks 4-6 seconds is an acceptable amount of time to render a fucking website.
"as many late term human abortions as possible" implies encouragement beyond simple permission.
Do they have a coding style or similar in which this is outlined?

I had a quick look at the code but I would be interested in what "a style that is something between C and C++" actually entails.

Avoiding templates but using classes/namespaces?
Minimizing use of the stl?
Some of my most vivid childhood memories are dreams I had. When recalling the events in my life, it's not always easy to recall which were dreams and which really happened. It's terrifying.

It's all too much information. I worked on cdrom technology 20 years ago. I don't want to know the sector size is 2532 bytes, but I do.
Whenever I hear this I automatically think "Oh, so you have stated you care a certain amount. This amount is greater than zero. Therefore, you are stating you do care?"
Have you considered a bundle that includes a case? I don't do a lot of maker/tinkering stuff so having the chip loose or on a breadboard wouldn't work for me in most situations. But I do sometimes have a need for an oscilloscope or multimeter, and would gladly pay ~$50 for one that had a case and some basic/standard connections, especially if it's supported by open software like yours.

Edit: I still bought one as is, lol.
You will still get a fair amount of cache misses, in which case, everything else in the stack being optimized will save your ass.

I am not saying that implementing page cache is bad — it is essential for WordPress —, just that page cache is not the only thing that matters, but seems to be the go-to solution for performance issues with WordPress, when in reality, you should look at the picture as a whole.
This is presented in a sort of hyperbolic way. But I do really think this is the future- and not as far off as people think. But not for nefarious reasons. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Average users value performance, cost, and battery life. The cost efficiency and capabilities of cloud compute will always outpace that of consumer mobile devices. So remote compute with zero user control is inevitable.

A stadia like experience for everything is what the overwhelming majority of consumers want- they just don't know it yet.
This is the correct solution!

And yet that means so many fascinating blogs go unread.

A while back, I scraped the top-level comments from a "dear HN, what's your personal blog" post, and found SO MANY AMAZING BLOGS!

The tool's here: https://random-hn-blog.herokuapp.com

I'd much rather read a small obscure blog with very little traffic (well, any small obscure blog but mine) than something that regularly gets deluges of traffic.

Something about knowing they're writing to a potentially huge audience changes the writing, I think...
Wow. Hey, Eric, wondering if you would like to send me your email password and a couple of your credit card numbers?

What, no? maybe you should not have an email and credit cards then in the first place? Or what did you actually mean with your statement?
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But if it doesn’t square with the rest of the language, especially since negating it somehow still means the same thing, can we really accept it even if some grand institution like “Merriam Webster” adds it to the collection?

I guess I’m a soft prescriptivist
> Also, plenty of gyrocopter pilots fly in the rain.

Indeed. I think it's just a question of shortening the life of the rotor a bit.

Another problem is visibility. We had to land in a hurry at the end of my lesson on Monday due to rain arriving at the airfield. I fly a Magni M16 which is an open cockpit and it was quite hard to see with the rain on the windscreen and my visor. There are no wipers or anything to help with that (like you might have on a fixed wing). I don't have the comparable experience in the closed cockpit aircraft though (e.g. Magni M24), so that may be better anyway.
It is just inductive charging. So nothing special.
> I always assumed that HTML was defined by W3C

Yes I think that's the impression they try to create.
>Your idea of heavenly C++ sounds like my idea of hell.

I'm concerned this may be the definitive C++ experience...
It goes beyond immigration too. I have an Indian passport and am in an EU country on a work visa for < 6 months and thus don't get a residence permit card. Getting a phone number and a bank account were insanely difficult, as no one wants to accept an Indian passport/visa as proof of identity. I ended up getting a (probably illegal?) sim card from a corner store, which required no identification. That makes me wonder how effective these regulations are.

As for immigration, applying for visas for every single thing is not fun at all. Canada gave me a 4 year visa even though my degree is supposed to take 4.5 years, meaning I had to collect all documents again, pay the high fee, and risk getting rejected and not be able to finish my degree for just one semester. The application did not get processed for months after that because the government wanted me to provide biometrics at a government run facility, which was obviously closed because of the pandemic(they closed 1 day before I had an appointment booked). It ended up being processed after my original visa expired, which was not a very enjoyable time.

US internship visas have restrictions involved saying that I can not go back to the US for full time work without going back to my home country for 2 years. The problem here is I have nowhere to go in my home country anymore.

In the past I've had to withdraw applications for internships in the UK/EU as they required travel for onsite interviews and my visa didn't come through on time. (Bigger companies so they only had a couple of options for onsite days). At least the companies were nice enough to reimburse the visa fees as they are hundreds of dollars for every single visa.

Making plans to go travelling with friends(before the pandemic) was always difficult as I was the only one would have to obtain a visa and so needed atleast a month of lead up time. Even then it's not guaranteed to come on time so the entire trip would have to be cancelled.

Even at the airport, I have been almost refused boarding multiple times despite having all the right documents, because systems don't work perfectly. Usually this is fixed by talking to a supervisor or someone else with more authority, in a couple of cases they called the country's border police to see if I should be let in.
The director of the NSA lied while under oath to congress, and nothing happened. As far as I'm concerned, what 3 letter agencies say publically is irrelevant.
How many searches do you run per day? If Google had a Red offering (like for YouTube) to remove adds from Google, I would gladly pay it.
iAd pretty famously failed because advertisers didn't like Apple's habit of not sharing user data with them.

>Despite massive size and overwhelming popularity, Apple has struggled to court Madison Avenue's influential media buyers, the people at advertising agencies who decide where to spend the budgets of the world's biggest brands.

According to a new report form Ad Age's Kate Kaye, this issue is due in large part to the company's refusal to share valuable consumer data with its advertising partners, meaning that brands are not able to pinpoint prospective customers with nearly the same precision as they can advertising with Facebook and Google.

Here's how Kaye said one executive described Apple's decision not to provide information about individual consumers to its advertising partners on the iAd network, which sells in-app ads on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices:

"One person familiar with the situation exec said Apple's refusal to share data makes it the best-looking girl at the party, forced to wear a bag over her head."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-people-think-apples-ad-17...
I read that as saying that AppDomainAffine is a concept, and that's why it's an unusual name, because a lot of naming these days focuses on mechanics instead of concepts (c.f. MarshalByRefObject)
> Living somewhere expensive (within your country) seems like a lifestyle choice like any other.

Right. I'm really looking to be able to drive a Tesla and vacation several times a year on remote tropical islands. Should my company pay me more for that choice?
Would you mind elaborating more on what changed from the first to second time? Did the situation change? Did your perspective/goals/motivation change? I'm currently in my first stint in management and really disliking it, and wondering if/when it might make sense to give it a shot again.
Yes, lets downvote the comment because it doesn't fit your personal opinion, even if it is confirmed by statistics.
Interesting - LUKS and Apple's Filevault take the opposite approach; wherein you must provide a password from an authorised user in order to access the contents of a filesystem/logical volume. Meaning that without authorisation your data is still encrypted.

I'm not completely familiar with Windows service management and how it handles logins - but doesn't the TPM auto decrypt function of Bitlocker mean that if you have a compromised system which has a dodgy service that starts at boot time it can potentially exfiltrate data from the machine without a user logging in?

Of course, if this is the scenario you're experiencing you have much bigger problems already haha.
It's a reasonable question. I've run Linux as my primary OS for years, and I have no desire to run Windows as my primary OS. (Linux is what I'm used to.)

My primary goal with the Windows partition was gaming, so it made more sense to dual boot than run Windows in a VM. So dual-booting made the most sense for me, even though as you say a Linux VM can be a great dev experience too.
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I was reacting the specific 'decentralization' mantra that is a linguistic artifact of cryptocurrencies.

> how well does economic value align with our human values?
I couldn't begin to define what 'our human values' even means.

> one of their new interns was, until recently, a practicing medical doctor

Is your argument that there is no person practicing medicine who would produce more utility for society by writing software at Amazon? Because that seems like a pretty extreme position.
Define "social network".

The Internet itself. (en.wikipedia.org: The primary precursor network, the ARPANET, initially served as a backbone for interconnection of regional academic and military networks in the 1970s. )
That is what saves the day of Safari actually being relevant at all, instead of Chrome overall.

I am an happy Firefox user, but don't fool myself, without Safari, Web === ChromeOS.
> However German laws are essentially: "Once you are notified of copyright infringing/illegal content, you have to remove it, lest you lose your protection as a service provider and become responsible for the content."

Youtube-dl itself isn't copyright infringement though. It's a tool that could theoretically be used for copyright infringement.
There have been variants but none so dissimilar that they are considered a new strain. The terminology is very precise here but the media have been mixing it up, causing confusion.

https://medium.com/swlh/variants-lineages-and-strains-of-cor...
1. Optional brick

2. Connector adapter.

3. Battery is replaceable. Just take/send it in to the shop or sell it to a refurbisher.

This isn't rocket science.
> On the other hand Starlink is 10x faster and half the latency of LTE.

Hmm, are you sure you're actually on LTE? That sounds more like HSDPA numbers.

Just did a speed test on an iPhone 11 with Vodafone Ireland's not-very-inspiring LTE, in an urban area. Latency: 21ms, 147/19mbit. This costs 20 euro with a cap, mind you. Capless LTE is also available, but on a generally somewhat worse network.
What stood out to me is that even on their "What is Jamstack" page, they never explain what Jamstack actually is.

"Jamstack is an architecture designed to make the web faster, more secure, and easier to scale. It builds on many of the tools and workflows which developers love, and which bring maximum productivity." W.T.F.

And yeah. Microservices ~= webserver + backend
Shit, will they get rid of Keep? I LOVE Keep and use it many times daily.
Apple hired Google's former head of Search and AI.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/business/apple-hires-goog...
If its amoral to create an intelligence that can feel pain, where does that leave having children?
If you look at the second picture there is far more clearance between the wheels and the body. Maybe that is shock absorption that extends before flight.
Quoting an authorities opinion on this matter is kind of oxymoronic when their opinion is that this isn't something to be dictated by authority. One wonders if it isn't slightly self-sabotaging of them to take this position.
"Something had to be wrong! I started to notice (increasingly!) my inability to recall trivial things; for example, the action points from a Zoom call, or a quote from a book that I had read a couple of months ago. Surely this can’t be normal?"

Except it's fairly normal under stress for people's memory to function more poorly and since we're experiencing a Global pandemic that has completely up ended our normal mode of living I would expect baseline stress for almost every one to be up considerably.

So that's my hypothesis, which requires less assumptions than "people are losing the ability to remember because of computers" but doesn't result in a blog post where I can talk about Anki or equivalents.
Counterpoint: I actually do work at a chip company and have never heard of any of this internally. Even from the people working on secure biometrics.

Neither of these anecdotes proves anything.
smart phone, deep learning
Agree with your positive response.

Missing from this conjecture is a synthesis with car and bike sharing.

There will also be massive land use, zoning changes when there's 90% fewer personal cars. Unused capacity (parking, roads) freed up and repurposed.

The role for autonomous driving for moving people (vs turking cargo) will look very different when our cities look more like medieval villas and college campuses.

I still cannot even guess if the future will be more concentrated or more sprawl. So I've provisionally decided "both", but very different from today.
Why the only ones? That hasn't been the general arc of tech-advancement. You think the rich and powerful are going to prevent companies from making money by selling life-extension to the poor by figuring out how to do it more cheaply?
I think there are plenty of things to knock cloud based SaaS tools for but quality is a weird one - there are plenty of high quality cloud based solutions that can deliver high quality outputs.
Yeah, IMHO browsers got worse in recent years, first with Opera 12 being killed off, then Firefox losing most of the power of its features/ plugins... (I still can't find anything nearly as good as Tab Groups !)
You've failed, unfortunately. Your "boring" content is actually quite interesting.

Oh well, everything else is true: Blazingly fast, low hosting costs, no comment moderation, etc.

>_<
I don't agree with the premise of your argument. I think you currently get a very nice luxury benefit, and stoping that isn't "penalizing" you.

I think it is a little silly that companies pay someone more just because they like living in a city. I admit that I have a strong preference for rural areas, but I don't expect an employer to pay me more (or less) because of that. I am constantly surprised that more companies don't setup in lower COL areas, but I guess that much of the in-person talent desires that enough to make it work.

Most people agree that it is good to treat people equally regardless of their background, and this policy seems to promote that.
> I can only imagine the mailing list discussion around that one :-)

Here it is [1].

This was actually discussed on HN a few months ago as well [2]. I've used Linux for 20 years and still use nano for all quick config file edits. It's part of my setup so I didn't even realize that it wasn't set at all by default.

[1]: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fe...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23818199
It's more that some tracking is important to result quality. For example, if I search for "eclipse" on Google, I get 5 results about the IDE, but my wife gets local maps & youtube videos about eclipses.
It has always been true that any computer connected to the internet could be accessed by an unauthorized party, even before the leaks. Disconnect from the internet and nobody is getting in, including the NSA.
C++ build systems will be your main blocker, as they're languages in themselves. Autotools, CMake, configuring Visual Studio/etc.

Easy tasks:

- Challenge yourself by cloning projects reading their README and compiling/running them [1]

- Port projects to other platforms (e.g. Windows-only game examples to Linux/Mac/FreeBSD) [2]

Codebases I've studied [3]:

sdl/graphic widgets: openttd, aseprite, nanogui(-sdl)

runtime / abstraction: v8, node, protobuf, skia

templates / language integration: pybind11, boost-python

wrapping C: libsdl2pp (SDL2 wrapper)

small: tmux-mem-cpu-load, uMario_Jakowski

huge: blender

Architecture / theory: https://aosabook.org/en/wesnoth.html, https://aosabook.org/en/audacity.html, https://aosabook.org/en/cmake.html, https://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html

Books: Scott Meyers C++ books

[1] It's C, but to push myself to grok build systems I tried to port tmux's autotools build system to CMake: https://github.com/tony/tmux/compare/master...tony:cmake

[2] https://github.com/jakowskidev/uMario_Jakowski/pull/1

[3] https://github.com/tony/.dot-config/blob/5c59f46/.vcspull.ya...
Plus 'Get the new iPhone 12 Pro!' and intercepting android device search queries. Can rapidly become not a loss leader.
Well yes, but if you actually want to use it to go from A to B then you gotta deal with having your gyro at B while your car is still at A. My first thought was also "why not get an autogyro and a trailer for it" but it does not fulfill the flying car ideal.
I didn't regularly use the Internet until I was 13ish. I wanted to be fair in the timeframe so that's why I said that. I probably encountered the Internet many many times before then, but it was not for regular usage.
New approach to detecting deepfakes by detecting pulse and heartbeat
You may enjoy browsing and reading the code of:

- http://www.serenityos.org/ (Andreas Kling)

- https://godotengine.org/ (Juan Linietsky)

Those are among my favorites because of simplicity and readability vs the complexity of the domain they implement.
It might seem weird here in 2020, but you can chime in on something without arguing for any position.
Ah...yeah, I didn't even consider "shot" being similarly weird. I guess I'm just used to it.
I wonder if windows 10 can/will be able to boot off zfs ? Then we'd finally be able to share a disk and let zfs deal with encryption...
Here's a website that graphically shows:

1. how many countries each passport can easily grant access to [1]

2. how many passports each country will easily grant access to [2]

[1]: https://www.passportindex.org/byIndividualRank.php

[2]: https://www.passportindex.org/byWelcomingRank.php
I'm not a C++ expert and most of my experience is with the JUCE framework so I'm a bit biased, but I think the JUCE codebase is a pretty good example of (opinonated) good practices, I often refer to it when trying to work out how to do things, even if I'm not actually using the JUCE classes/data structures: https://github.com/juce-framework/JUCE (it's a cross platform framework for developing (primarily) audio applications and plugins)
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You can use custom allocators to minimize dynamic allocation. STL now provides some of these allocators out of the box, but it still can be useful to define your own. Arena or memory pool allocators are the first that come to mind.
Society at large draws all sorts of lines between what's ok to do to animals and people, doesn't seem weird to question this especially as they potentially get closer to being a human equivalent brain. The question gets worse as we get more complete brains grown and then to the potential for uploads.
I think you're imagining a "work for free trope" (which exists, but definitely not for mid/senior/staff engineering levels) where there is not one. It's a thought exercise, and being overly pedantic about it is not helpful.

The point is that if the only reason you have to move into EM is the bigger paycheck, you're most likely going to be happier sticking with your IC role and having the slightly smaller paycheck but enjoying work a lot more.
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Second this recommendation, I enjoyed that book very much. However, I felt defeated by the end, because I couldn't act on the presented information in any meaningful way.

Halfway through the book the author tells about how much he had struggled to write and had to isolate himself from technology for a while, but only temporary. He then came back and felt the "shallows" once again.
What value does DDG bring to Apple? Its user-base is insignificant (Apple will instantly have a larger user-base the moment they set it as the default in Safari). The branding is terrible, especially for Apple. There’s also nothing special about their tech since it’s just a Bing API wrapper. What’s in it for Apple?
Germany and Sweden are the top 2 most litigious countries in the world, so I guess perception is off.[1] The USA is still in the top 5 though.

[1] https://www.academia.edu/35495485/The_Most_Litigious_Countri...
They lost a bunch of points for not calling it "The Flying Dutchcar". Very disappointing.
It's now 13 days later, and the FBI, the DOJ, and the director of national intelligence have all independently confirmed that the laptop's contents are not part of a Russian disinformation scheme.
The Senate seriously asked that ambiguous question? Depends on what one views as 'bad behavior'. This is more tinder for more pre-election political ranting. Nothing productive here.
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It’s VMware’s hypervisor. It installs to bare metal and you run vm’s on top of it.
Have you ever worked with lab mice? It leaves you with this exact juxtaposition of seeing the fantastic progress being made with mouse models and seeing the very real suffering on such a large scale.

The fact that many experiments are okay on non-human animals but not humans is speciesist. Still, it’s the line we are all most comfortable with. I’d rather not have people be experimented on. I’d rather continue to have the advances in science built on the lives of untold number of lab animals. However, the line is arbitrary.