skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not on the USA. Maybe the feds have access to all these databases, but I guarantee the local police don’t. Things are very distributed here.
Language learning app Duolingo confirms it has raised $35M on a $2.4B valuation
> Linear text is easier to represent. Same reason why we don't lay out programs in some sort of graph structure but instead write text from top to bottom.

Oh, but you actually do! You write your programs in form of trees (abstract syntax ones), and those trees generally represent directed and usually acyclic graphs of dependencies. For example:

(defun foo (x y) (+ x y))
(defun bar (x) (foo x x))

(foo (42 (bar 12)))

Is a tree of tokens (with an implicit root node). It's obvious when you write in a language like Lisp; most popular languages only obscure this by a layer of syntactic sugar, but you're still writing trees.

And the reason we don't lay out programs as visual, interactive graphs[0] is because text is faster to work with using digital tools. It's faster to type the structure than click it into being[1], it's easier to grep through it, to diff it, etc. But that has nothing to do with linear flow of text - linear flow is a limitation that we do our best to work around.

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[0] - Except we sometimes do, see: LabVIEW, UnrealEngine's Blueprints, Luna Lang, shader editors in just about every modern 3D application, ...

[1] - Though structural editors exist; see e.g. Paredit mode for Emacs, which lets you do edit operations on the tree your code represents, moving and splicing branches around while ensuring the tree structure is never damaged.
>overloading the company VPN, and DDoSing the company

This is illegal in most countries, no?

I don't believe picketing is illegal as long as certain conditions are met (not blocking egress, etc.)
Apple was routinely criticized for years for not doing more things. Why don’t they have more models? Why doesn’t their software have infrequently-used features X and Y? Why aren’t there a million levers and dials so I can customize my machine?

It’s because they were whole-assing one thing.

I haven’t been keeping track, but I think it’s true that the breadth of their product line is bigger or nearly as big as it has ever been, and certainly much bigger than 10 years ago. They got there organically over the last 20 years, instead of developing shovelware.
I suspect that their main consumers are people looking for a historic feeling. You can get cheaper ones, presumably made in China.

That said, they're suprisingly reasonable. They start at around $30 on Amazon. (Compared to $10 for the cheap one at the local hardware store.) Some sites turned up actual vintage ones cheaper.
The comments are part of the PR
Seems like the company Color: I have this product already on my Mac, and in combo with an iPhone, all of the described functionality and more. All the work is done locally, none in the cloud, which is what I want.

Personal CRMs like this don't seem like a huge market.

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At the risk of sounding like a shill, how I have all the functionality described in the article:

(I assume android users already have the functionality described in this article as they only support gmail)

On the iphone, the contacts app automatically scans for phone numbers, mail addresses etc in your mail and messages (I get a message from an unknown number and messages says it thinks it's from "foo" as an email from "foo" included that number in its signature block). I hope the M1 means that this kind of functionality will migrate back to the Mac soon.

And on the Mac I use BusyContacts which aggregates the info for a given person X into a single address book entry. It connects to a bunch of address book services (unfortunately LinkedIn and FB seem removed their APIs a couple of years ago). When you look at someone's card you also see recent messages and email from them in a sidebar.

I am the only person I know of who has bothered to add a third party contacts manager, not that this is the kind of issue that comes up in conversation.
Paolo Perrotta's git courses are excellent
Turning that into a career seems like a moonshot, making it comparable to other "achieve celebrity" plans young adults may have (become a movie star, become a famous youtuber, become a famous rockstar, etc)

I think in general these aspirations shouldn't be shat on, but young adults with these aspirations should probably be gently guided in more realistic directions.
The 16" MBP has the biggest lithium battery you can have and still fly on US planes:

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...
Hmm just tried it... It's ok BUT not too happy with it overall..

On Mac terminal the blocks don't align properly, and on Xterm it starts rolling weird like a CRT TV with the scan lines missing.

Also the controls are not using a normal menu and keys that we know from lynx/links/elinks. And the donation nag thing is annoying. First convince me it's great, then ask for donations :)

I love the idea but not the execution.
A few that come to mind:

FullConvert - for automating database conversions
Beyond Compare - for comparing Folders, Files, Tabular Data
There's also a TEDx talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_voss_never_split_the_differe...
looks like this has been run through a paraphrasing tool
A $5 DigitalOcean droplet/VPS.

There's so much packed in there. A public, static IP and just enough RAM and disk to do anything you could possibly want to. And the relatively low RAM and disk limits does make you think about memory and disk consumption in a way that you're seldom otherwise incentivized to think about it while you're in undergrad.

It's also a gateway to developing working proficiency with linux, which is absolutely a huge multiplier for any software engineer. Just knowing how to grep, sed and 'awk {print $1}' gets you so amazingly far. And on a higher level, knowing how to throw together an nginx proxy or simple postgres db etc is also huge.
>>>He tried with Iran. They declined the invitation,

Which part of this is the President "trying" and the Iranians "declining"?

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/21/734683701/trump-reportedly-or...

He's probably the only Commander-in-Chief I've had so far to say "I don't think it's proportionate to bomb a bunch of people because we lost a drone."
Learn to Code – A Detailed Guide for Humanities People
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25017167
How far out are you drawing the line? You mention another year so it's gonna suck more in an ironic sense for you if side effects come out 2, 5, 20 years from now.

I'll be the first in the queue personally. Lets get back outside, even I'm bored of these walls now.
Oh, fair enough!
Big difference is how easy it is to spot weed growers vs fermenters.

Fermentation simply requires a warm dark place to take place (the darker the better). Which means you can EASILY ferment a lot of alcohol with very little input.

Weed, on the other hand, is a plant. Plants need light and water (and quite a bit of it). This is why weed gets busted so frequently. Small scale is harder to detect, but large scale weed growth has a BUNCH of tell tale signs.
If they put 64Gb directly next to a high end CPU and that made it 10% faster all around i suspect it would be a pretty popular choice despite the lack of upgradability.

What about ECC?
It would only require credentials if you need them to fetch from a private git repo (or other protected playbook source); otherwise it (traditionally) uses the "local" connection, meaning it will launch python subprocesses rather than trying to ssh into localhost
My provider requires random urinalysis and an expansive privacy waiver. (And everything is recorded in a state registry that is available to local government agents)

In the US, it is good practice to be careful with what you say to doctors, especially about drug use because patient-doctor privacy is mostly a myth these days.
The loss of institutional knowledge caused by a mass exodus at the same time would cripple them (and pretty much any company that doesn't have incredibly rigorous standards for documentation).
Very interesting paper I had not seen before. Seems like with more targeted magnetic stimulation the effects could be enhanced.
Absolutely. Anti-competitive laws aren't intended to prevent current market share, but rather level competition for future market share.

If Google has 99% current market share for mobile OS, props to them. They deserve it for working like heck, delivering something amazing, and finding a model that allows them to distribute for free.

If Google has 99% market share, and ensures it keeps 99% market share in the future by setting up licensing deals to tie Google Apps + App Store together... that deserves a lot more scrutiny.
The 16" MacBook Pro has a 100 W*hr battery. This is the limit of what the FAA considers a "consumer sized battery" [1], so going larger would restrict the ability to take them on commercial airplanes...

[1] https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/more_info/?hazmat=7
I now have to go to extra effort to get my default branch to be called `master`. Plus I can no longer assume that the default branch is `master`. I have to check for every project whether they are using `main` or `master`.

Maybe not a lot more effort, but it definitely is more effort, and for basically no gain. Let's not kid ourselves that black people being targeted by the police care about Git branch names. Hell apparently nobody even cares that Git is called Git, which is definitely a ruder word than "master".
I recommend you educate yourself more on imposter syndrome, HealthyGamerGG is a great resource - check out this session with one of the top D&D dungeon masters struggling with imposter syndrome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op1xW6eKEbU

Best of luck!
1.go to any psytrance festival and think about lucy in the sky with diamonds

(edit: actually it is impossible to dance with an impostor syndrome, so there you go).

2.only >lacanian< psychoanalysis. most useless kind of psychoanalysis.
> - git: literally a pejorative

And very deliberately so.

>- any website name ending in -hub, cf websites of interest to teenage boys

Does -hub have a general negative connotation in your language? In English it just refers to a centre of something, in physical objects usually something with a radial topology.

If the existence of pornhub.com is enough to make the use of the pattern *hub problematical generally then I'm going to create pornbread.com and force everyone to eat untoast & butter.
Isn’t Onlyfans a porn community?
Marissa Mayer launches a new iPhone app, Sunshine Contacts
I think dino has patches for it to run better on small devices. the default texting app runs on libpurple so it has support for jabber, i dont know if it constitutes decent though, I have nobody to talk to on jabber :(
It's not a bizarre position to take when someone wants something to come live in your digital home.

I'm not saying "Tim Cook has something to hide because he won't show us his private life". I'm saying "Apple wants to send a machine to come live in other people's homes; if they won't show the machine's insides, I wouldn't trust that they've got nothing to hide".
One of me pandemic projects was to take the books on Standardebooks.org, parse the ePub and write transformations into HTML with indexing. Was trying to build a platform for me to write tech books on, but I wound up just enjoying getting into the classics again. Will probably delete my book and just make it a site to read the classics online.

https://papiary.com/
I guess it would be bad if the interceptors were highly concentrated in a single nation or coalition, but as long as each coalition has plenty (relative to the number of warheads) it shouldn't be a problem. Note that the distribution doesn't even need to be very even--let's say each nation is capped at 100 warheads and Russia has 1000 interceptors and the US has 10000--the US doesn't have much leverage on Russia despite an order of magnitude more interceptors. So as long as all of the interceptors aren't concentrated on one side of an engagement (and it would be very unlikely for this to be the case for any enduring period of time) all is well.

And of course, there's the additional deterrent of a globalized economy. Most nuclear countries depend on the global economy and have a strong incentive not to devastate it by way of nuclear warfare. The odds of an isolationist country like NK owning all of the interceptors is pretty low IMO.
Data-Backed Methods for Local Weather Prediction
Not to hijack the conversation, but seeing as some experienced devs will likely scroll through here: how does one deal with the fear of "aging out"?
Depends on what you're looking for but adding an additional layer of drywall (5/8) with acoustical sealant sandwiched is an inexpensive way reduce sound transmission.
Learning to jailbreak and flash routers to get around these parental controls is what got me into programming.

I had managed to get myself unrestricted internet access from pretty much age 10 onwards using a "broken" laptop I had secretly fixed, and the "restricted" iPod Touch that I had unlocked by editing the Springboard.plist.

At age 14 they had a talk with me where they said they finally were going to give me some restricted internet access and I almost burst out laughing because I had been online hours per day for the last 4 years, but managed to keep it together.

Ten years later and it's a fun story we all laugh about. I wonder what I would be doing today if it wasn't for those parental controls motivating me to break systems.
Nice. I should take a look at OCaml maybe.
States have these registries in place already. This is just the next step.

edit-to-add: but the state registries are not de-identified.
Tech books for the Indian market have been a good resource. The books (and maybe exercises) slightly differ to the US prints to keep control of the market.

I acquired a huge stack from an Amazon UK seller for literally pennies each.
I completely agree. I can't wait to see what they will build!

Right now, software is still incredibly undervalued for what is possible long-term. We also need to make software _easier to make and maintain_, but "programming literate people" will reinvent the world over the next 50 years.
You don't really pit them against each other in the sense that two dealers are going to duke it out on a conference call or something.

You just state what you want at a price and then walk away if you don't get what you want. Some will flat out tell you "i can't beat that price, go for it" or they won't even bother responding to calls or emails.

When you have other options, it changes the power dynamic of the relationship and gives you a ton of leverage. The dealership needs you to purchase the vehicle and that can't happen if you walk away.
Facts don’t depend on what I’m arguing for.

I’m arguing against comparing remote work to the gender pay gap.

Being female is not comparable to being remote.

Most people have more choice about where they live than their sex or gender, for example.

I assume you are not arguing that sex and gender are just preferences.
> Hard to fault a business

What? If a business is causing a large negative externality, that's a bad thing.

Just because you can't "fault" people for pursuing profit doesn't mean they should be allowed to do it any way possible?

I just really don't understand this worldview.
It's sort of the opposite here in Canada, where dairy production is managed on a quota system (you need quota to produce and sell) and the quota is regulated such that the price remains stable (and more expensive than in the US) for the benefit of the farmers who have quota and in theory the public, who has a reliable "reasonable" price.

It's dubious on many levels, but has its defenders.
It's right, but it's kind of a non-sequitur. It seems to be a response to "you should be homeschooling your kid", which sequoia didn't actually say. They suggested the problem is "school taking up 100% of her time, energy, and attention", and obviously homeschooling is how they are addressing it themselves, but you can imagine other solutions. Off-hand:

* For starters, school doesn't last until 6:30pm unless you let it. Extracurriculars are extra. If you need afternoon child care (and most of us do), there may be less directed, more creative options available.

* Schools can make changes, and you can encourage your teacher / school / district to do so. Less homework (an idea which has some science behind it iiuc) at least. Maybe a later start time (although this runs into tension with parents' schedules).
Interesting. I web searched and Google told me 10TB so I went with that.

I think we're still within the information revolution and to put it into perspective let's look at the textile revolution.

Clothes used to be expensive. Someone maybe owned 1 or 2 sets, often passed down from their parents. You could easily illustrate your wealth by wearing many layers of fine material. Simply owning many clothes was sufficient to signify great power and prestige.

Then the textile revolution came and today durable well fitted clothes are cheap. Unless you're a fashionista or have children, they are almost unmeasurable in ones budget (children used to wear dresses because it was a practical solution for one garment throughout growing childhood)

But this took generations AFTER the mechanical loom and all the technology existed. The society of clothes making also needed to be overhauled and that took arguably a century.

That's where we're at with information. Our industrialism can create the material requirements for the storing and transmission of information readily, sustainably and cheaply. However our cultural and societal overhaul to accommodate it is still maybe only a 1/3 done.

After the printed word became really cheap with the advertisement supported penny presses of the 1830s it still took about 100 years of public education advocacy before you could safely assume every adult knew how to read. These things take decades because it's a function of generational churn. It's at the pace of human lives

I have a partially written book on this interplay I'll eventually finish one day... maybe people will be able to pick up used unread copies for $2 - I look forward to that day.
This is the best comment I've ever seen describing the actual practice of mathematics.
You can find some non English book PDFs here - https://bookdark.com/

(which are sourced from Gutenberg catalog, but with dynamic navigation and search)
master/slave is an analogy that is used in technology which has an obvious origin and personally has always made me slightly uncomfortable since I first heard about it with reference hard disk priorities. Similarly the terms male and female make me slightly uncomfortable with respect to cables and sockets.

However, master in the context of git has no connection to the concept of master and slave. They are two different words with different meanings. So to answer your question yeah I think there is a line and it is somewhere near to that drawn by master/slave but nowhere near that drawn by master as in the concept of "original".
Bluf seems to be a specific thing, no one mentioned that in the thread I'm commenting on.

The post that I responded to suggested having an intro with a summary of what's to follow is offensive
Ask HN: Hacker News Books Alternatives?
I used to use the Hacker News Books website [1] to find recommendations for new books to read based on what was discussed on HN each week. It seems the website has not posted a full update since the week of Mar 9, 2020 - Mar 16, 2020. Given that, can anyone recommend another resource for finding new books that would likely appeal to the HN community (tech, business, science, etc.)? Are there any other websites that parse HN discussions for book titles?

[1] https://hackernewsbooks.com
Perhaps insect metabolism differs (frankly I doubt they can metabolize it neurologically like we do)? Regardless, thrips and spider aphids certainly love to eat my weed plants.
> decades old requirements.

Old voting requirements does not mean good or secure voting requirements. In many ways, the vote is less secure because these requirements likely exclude many valid votes.

> show me one way this election was made MORE secure

Efforts to drive voter turnout were clearly effective. Many more people voted this time than in 2016. (And yes, turnout is a parameter in election security. There are many efforts to undermine elections by depressing turnout.)
integrated heat spreader
In the U.S. at least, there are quite a few pockets who think corporate structures are bad in general. I know HN tends to skew towards the entrepreneurial-minded, so it's quite a bit less here.

To be clear, I deliberately use the word "can" in my previous statement i.e., they may abuse their power, but also may not
There's portability, and there's portability. You can run a jar file on anything that has a JVM. You can run C code on an 8085 microcontroller if you have a cross-compiler and a way to move the file. So C code is portable to a whole world beyond the "mixed-platform" world that you're thinking of.

Now, either you care or you don't. If you don't need portability to every CPU made since 1980, then the difference doesn't matter to you, and Java, C#, and such are portable for everything that you want.
Highlights:

"How long will the vaccine protection last? Bottom line: Taken together, this study, several others over the past few months, and this recent work all paint a consistent picture of a strong, normal, lasting immune response in the great majority of patients. Add in the results we’re seeing from the two vaccines that have reported interim data so far, and I think that the prospects for lasting immunity from vaccination are also very good. Remember, the early vaccine data suggested antibody responses at least as strong as those found in naturally infected cases. There seems (so far) every reason to think that vaccine-based immunity will be as good or better than that conferred by actual coronavirus infection. I very much look forward to more data to shore up this conclusion, but that’s how it looks to me at the moment."

"How effective are these vaccines? Bottom line: the results we have so far indicate that these vaccines will indeed provide strong protection in the great majority of patients. The number of asymptomatic cases among the vaccinated population will be a harder number to pin down, but I believe that we should be in good enough shape there as well, based on antibody levels in the primate studies and what we’re seeing in humans."

"What about coronavirus mutations? SARS-Cov-2 doesn’t have anything like that mix-and-match mechanism, and it’s a damn good thing. Bottom line: the coronavirus can’t undergo the wholesale changes that we see with the influenza viruses. And the mutations we’re seeing so far appear to still be under the umbrella of the antibody protection we’ll be raising with vaccination, which argues that it’s difficult to escape it."

"How safe are these vaccines? What do we know about side effects? Bottom line: immediate safety looks good so far. Rare side effects and long-term ones are still possible, but based on what we’ve seen with other vaccines, they do not look to be anywhere at all significant compared to the pandemic we have in front of us."
Something everybody involved ought to understand before going too far down this road; you're not going to spread Silicon Valley prices all around the US and internationally. If you force the companies to pay a flat wage, you're going to get an averaging out at best, and nobody's going to be paid Silicon Valley's current wages.

Whether this is good or bad is beside my point, as are what other second-order effects may arise. I'm simply pointing out, "everybody in the world gets paid SV rates" simply isn't on the table. So don't go into this process expecting that outcome.
This returns 404 for me.
FCC votes to open up more Wi-Fi spectrum