skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be cool if the primer doesn't align to anyone yet, and all humans alive right now are just a few variants off from receiving the message
RFC 4824 - Transmission of IP Datagrams over the Semaphore Flag Signaling System
This seems like a great use case for a chromebook. Have you looked into that? It seems like the Apple premium may not be worth it. You get long battery life, a very slimmed down machine that can run a browser and a terminal, and they are just as slim as a Air + much cheaper.
The fact that Godot's own UI is made in Godot blows my mind.
Ask HN: Does anyone else still miss Google Reader?
I miss Google Reader still and don’t feel anything sufficiently replaced it.
Woosh

You missed the point. I’m not asking that literally.
Funny, I wonder how many guests didn't want to stay for dinner but felt it would be rude to say no. I now I would have stayed out of politeness if someone asked me to stay for dinner while I was in their house.
Microsoft aims to bring Android apps to Windows and the Microsoft Store
The threaded BSA BB has been standard for low-middle end bikes for a long time. Sure there have been a lot of different kinds of pressfit shell, but I would avoid them all except BB86/92 (Shimano).

Hub spacing in QR is standard at 100/130 for road, 100/135 for mountain. Thru-axle is somewhat new and I think we'll standardize on fewer than that eventually. I think some of those are a lot more popular than the others.
A few thoughts:

- holy jargon, Batman! From what I've gleaned, "holographic" refers to Tony Plate's Holographic Reduced Representations

- "hypervector" is just a swanky term for very-high-dimensionality vectors, a la "hypersonic", "hypervisor", hyper-encabulator, etc.

- this reminds me an awful lot of thought vectors. The first abstract linked mentions HRRs alongside semantic vectors, so both are types of hypervectors I think?

- this also reminds me of Numenta/Nupic/sparse distributed represntations. I think SDR's are also hypervectors?
Well this is what the smart contract / Ethereum folks are setting out to do. I think they will soon run into the fact that the function of the legal system is not to run through some obfuscated flow chart but to identify edge cases and resolve them by debating the original intent of the law. This is what happened during the DAO hack when they had to fork the chain because everyone agreed thats not what was supposed to happen.
as a corollary, nobody is typing in domain names, they click and tap on whatever was shared to them

your entire service's web presence can live on an instagram account, it does not matter

so although I am a proponent of using prefixes and suffixes, I'm also a proponent of obscure tld's or just not even bothering, and just hosting on github pages, you can even give direct links to cloudfront if you want

focus on things that do matter which is revenue, this debate doesn't even matter
> I imagine the CIA/NSA would target the PRNG hardware as the crown-jewel

The cryptography community seems to already be aware of this risk. I've read about random number algorithms that mix the results of many randomness sources so that one compromised source cannot compromise the result.

> and the next-best targets would be "enclaves"

Yeah, we should watch out for this. Secure cryptoprocessors are a great thing but we need to be able to trust them. We already have hardware that runs free software but the chip itself can of course be compromised...

> then back-dooring the algorithms themselves

I trust that the worldwide cryptography community will never let that happen. From what I've read they no longer trust the NSA implicitly.
I do think it makes little sense and it’s a message board, sometimes things will be said directly. If a preference is not rational and has negative consequences then it’s worth challenging. Who knows, maybe somebody will realize that squinting at the text on a 13-in screen while looking down and having their hands in unnatural positions for many hours each day is not great for them. I never said that you can’t have a laptop to take with you. I’m talking about development like the OP was - where things like compile times matter and where you can very likely remotely access your desktop if you want to show things to others.
Even veteran Linux users face absurd shortcomings in interoperability. Sleep mode being a trivial example, or using bluetooth headsets at all.
> These people don't represent anyone's customer base and can be pretty much ignored on the basis that they are curmudgeonly tech contrarians. They can't be sold to anyway, so who cares.

Thankfully, the Web is not exclusively a commerce platform. Not all websites are beholden to investors.
What! A default, non-personalised vim setup?!
Chains at the same nominal width (e.g., "11 speed") are approximately compatible (Shimano/SRAM).
> the US changes course and its public opinion shifts dramatically all the time

And if you want a more recent example of this, look at gay marriage!
Good article. I followed up on their work with ICE as well and how some members on that team were shocked by the penny pinching on food, medical help and even in illegal areas of due process. Fuck McKinsey. Spreadsheet, growth, models my ass if you do not realize the human factor
I know GPL 3 gets a lot of flak, but it made sense when I heard him talking once, and he said something like "and then I had to add freedom 0, which gave you the right to RUN your program".
Most of the complaints I have seen online are will not power on, DOA type issues. Not many yet (some review units out of box etc).

Apple deems itself a consumer company and perfection is too expensive. Apple quality is generally going up every year, but slowly.

Apple makes incremental improvements manufacturing nearly weekly just like software builds. I always say never buy first gen, or at least never on the first day. Never assume your machine is just going to work.
This design is made for vacuums. Really. Once your chain is dirty, you're well below the 98% efficiency figure they're competing against.
side note: BBC now checks that IPs using iPlayer are coming from a residential IP address in the UK. It won't work from a UK-based VPN endpoint.
I agree with everything said there.

It is still the best system for motivating people we have invented.

While for aesthetic reasons I still prefer centrally planned command economies where failure is met with a bullet I can't deny that those are terrible once the foundations of a modern society are put in place, e.g. roads, electricity, water, trains, public transport, telecommunications, etc.

That said, we would benefit from a decade or two of eco-Stalinism to deal with climate change before going back to normal.
Why is this shallow outrage piece on the front page? I get it, you’re upset. Preaching to the choir (bonus points because it’s a YC investment substack) is the worst way to deal with it.

Sociopath this, narcissism that. Your gif there is right: it’s all so tiresome.

Every thread that’s remotely related to health and lifestyle on here has a handful of people saying how Buddhist breathing techniques are a great remedy. Go do some breathing exercises and quit shitposting on a Saturday.

If this is what HN is reduced to, feigning some moral drum-up about oh how unfair things are, get off your ass and do something. Leave the damn website for tech related talks please.
It's been done. It didn't take off mostly. Some combination of too heavy or too inefficient or too expensive.
Please yes for me. Never met anyone like that, it would be interesting.
You could spawn independent actors for each invocation. That provide a degree of separation and be fine for secuirty, if the beam process was run as your user pid. Handling multiple stdin/stdouts would take some work, but doable with standard erlang libraries.
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_stone
I have a hypothesis which you are more than welcome to go ahead and try to disprove, I’d be only happy if you succeed. Your comment contains no arguments to the contrary, however.
To be fair, it might be illegal for them to keep logs. Probably just timestamp, source IP and requested resource.
This has always been the domain of the carriers, not Apple.
If you had an M1 you’d understand
> Lately there's been posts on HN reminiscing about QBasic, which is great, but it seems almost like a niche group of people who in the 90s were still using DOS a lot. (Which, granted, was a lot of people). But I completely missed it - it almost feels to me like it didn't exist and someone retconned history to add it in.

VB costed money, Qbasic came free with the operating system. There was an active QB scene well into the late 2000s owing to the fact that many poorer families would buy secondhand equipment that had Qbasic on it totally free.
You can get it up to 3 4k monitors and the original laptop screen running together with this MacBook Pro. But it becomes laggy.
On a great many web sites I have to spend the first 60 seconds on the site clicking on "X" boxes in popups to make them go away. In many cases there are actually several layers of popups obscuring the content, and some are delayed so they only pop up after you start reading the content. No I do not want to subscribe to your mailing list. No I don't want to take your survey. No I do not want to "chat" with your bot-pretending-to-be-a-human. Yes this is my sixth article from you this month but I will not be paying for a subscription, because I have enough of those already. Yes cookies are OK but I want the minimal set. And no I will not disable my adblocker because doing so makes this whole bloody nightmare even worse.

Disabling Javascript makes most of this insulting crap go away, and sometimes it is the only way to read the content.
Bugged Selectrics:

https://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/th...
And it's gone now.
Don't most companies also provide workstations at desks for engineers? I know many who only use their laptop for meetings (until WFH) and it always seemed like a huge waste.
> "The problem is the whole culture is focused on delivering new stuff instead of preventing problems and improving existing systems."

The same disease exists at other FAANGs and large tech companies. Nobody ever gets a promo for maintenance work and being on a sustained engineering team is seen as a career dead-end.
The more productive conversation isn't around the tone of this particular "outrage piece," but the bombshell it references: The New York Times article about McKinsey's proposal of paying pharmacy companies rebates for OxyContin Overdoses [1]

1 - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/business/mckinsey-purdue-...
That's a fresh perspective, thanks for sharing.

How do you debug?
How do you introduce new features?

I have had the pleasure of working with a system loaded with stored procedures. It wasn't the most pleasant. It was convenient, when you knew what is going on. But when you don't know, it's was torture.
Sorry I couldn't read the full article since it cuts off behind a signup wall.

Anyway for anyone wondering who Arnab goswami is: he is one of the vilest people in the Indian media industry who loves to bully people and do media trials which have ruined many peoples lives like this(1)

(1) https://theprint.in/india/man-labelled-pervert-delhi-ka-dari...
My family always used the phrase “taarof nakon”. However, this then leads to recursive questions of “by agreeing to not taarof, did they just agree out of taarof?”

I agree with the other poster who hates it; it’s an obnoxious method of social interaction only enjoyed by people who like drama.
Ah, cheers!
That still uses Javascript, and that seems to be the parent's point.
The term Holodomor emphasises the famine's man-made and intentional aspects such as rejection of outside aid, confiscation of all household foodstuffs and restriction of population movement.

In the summer of 1930, the government instituted a program of food requisitioning, ostensibly to increase grain exports. Subsequently, in 1932, food theft was made punishable by death or 10 years imprisonment.

At every [train] station there was a crowd of peasants in rags, offering ikons and linen in exchange against a loaf of bread. The women were lifting up their infants to the compartment windows—infants pitiful and terrifying with limbs like sticks, puffed bellies, big cadaverous heads lolling on thin necks.

Why is it that the hammer and sickle and other communist symbols are still proudly worn by so many people? Why hasn't there been a severe and rightful reckoning, like with nazi symbols?
Undeleting a file overwritten with mv
Smaller group and often less willing to put out cash for it (besides the few who would be willing to pay substantially more to get great applications on Linux).
They have everything to do with Google’s track record of bending to requests of governments and entities of interest. To think they wouldn’t do it if they centralized DNS under their umbrella is a farce. No, I don’t have direct evidence of them removing sites from their DNS servers, but there’s plenty of evidence of how they operate the rest of the company.

To take a specific service and say they haven’t is just naive.
Just the sheer number of people calling for Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, etc to censor others is remarkable to me.

I came of age during a time when we on the left believed fiercely in personal freedoms, especially freedom of speech. We would blast music that would say things like, "F--k you I won't do what you tell me." [1]

Now the same left I loved can't erupt in protest fast enough when social media aren't censoring idiots. We used to all know that censoring of anybody was wrong, but also that it didn't work. Censoring was what corporations and authoritarian states did to people, and we hated it.

That's just one example of the change people have gone through.

[1] https://genius.com/Rage-against-the-machine-killing-in-the-n...
Yes we had our 2 minute of hate thread on it a couple of days ago. Either do something about it or quit feigning outrage by submitting blog posts.

It was useless then, it’s useless now. There is no “bombshell” here. It’s on par business for billionaires.

Retweeting bullshit doesn’t improve your carbon footprint, get it through your head. You can scream all you want about what McKinsey is doing, but one thing you won't do is enact change by making blog posts with silly gifs inbetween bolded text proclaiming how outraged you are.

This is the pharma industry. It's been this way for decades. Don't pretend like you're woke and moralistic in light of this "bombshell" now please, it comes across as trite.
> Indentation is normally four spaces. Tabs will be rejected by the parser.

You love to see it.
Right. I bet many of them also love open-floor plans despite research showing that they reduce the number of meaningful interactions by 70%.
Nah, it's not optimism, it's intelligence, really.

Yes, it's definitely a message from peoples of olden ages.
That's only on the touring models, where the lower maintenance intervals justify the weight and inefficiency. The smaller off-road models like my F750GS and the performance-oriented models like the S1000R use chains for durability/repairability and efficiency.
A platform native video editor (no cross platform capability), which uses native GUI toolkit would look something like this:

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9...
I don't doubt the proposal existed... But can someone explain why this is a good idea even assuming a lack of ethics? Would this really have changed the behavior of pharmacies somehow? Pharmacies don't have any influence over prescriptions, do they?
That certainly is possible. She uses plenty of sugar, along with a few spices.

I think it's also, though, that we pick apples ourselves in local orchards, looking for good ripe ones and processing them within a week or three of picking.

That means we can pick varieties almost exclusively based on their flavor profile. We don't have to worry about how well they survive in transit or sitting in grocery stores.

The big processing operators do have to worry about variables like that, as well as what types they can keep in supply year round for consistency of flavor.

I imagine that cuts down on the varieties they can realistically use.
To me, it rather reminds of the (actually existing) Japanese tsunami stones - the stones littering the coasts of Japan bearing inscriptions warning not to build homes below the point. The Fukushima Daiichi plant was built below that point, in fact it was built on the beachfront.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2018/03/11/how-cen...
What do you mean by cross-regional dependencies? Isn't running in multi-region setup is by itself adding dependency?

Speaking about multi-region services. What do you think about Google now offering all three major building pieces as multi-regional?

They have muti-regional buckets, LB with single anycast IP, document db (firebase). Pubsub can route automatically to nearest region. Nothing like this is available in amazon, well only DIY building blocks.
Motorcycle sprockets are usually made from steel (longer lasting) or aluminum (lighter). The sprockets need minimal cleaning and lubrication and usually wear out at the same time or after the chain, in my experience. The chain and sprockets are replaced as a set, as using a new chain on a worn sprocket can accelerate wear.
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Herodotus on the Origin of Language
Presumably, you don't see yourself among those occupying a mass grave.
meh if replacing a battery is a once every two year operation that you can pay a shop $2-40 + $10 of battery cost to do it in 30 minutes depending on the cost of labor where you are, is it really that big of a deal?

Key word is repairability here, not necessarily user swapable. You can go buy chunky construction worker edition if you want all the swapabillity if you want to.
How to Contribute to an Open Source Project (2019)
> According to the JPL Small-Body Database, the closest approach to Earth has already occurred, on 4 April 2019, when it approached to a distance of 13,121 km (8,153 mi).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_CD3
Maybe this is what linux desktop needed to finally break through. But not yet, only after everyone realizes how much freedom they gave up in a couple more years
This is plugshare.com
This doesn’t actually happen in tech. Nobody can hire enough people, and everyone wants minorities.
I switched to BazQux Reader ( https://bazqux.com ), and it works great. Very similar to the old Google Reader layout.

Granted, I also didn't use any of GReader's "social" features, so that's not anything I cared about replacing.
India's ill-defined laws about things like "terrorism" and "sedition" are truly horrendous. Rules let people be held in jail for years while the police "investigate", and a pliant court system refuses to censure deliberately slow and sloppy investigations by the authorities.

It's a system which lets governments, and particularly the current government, target political opposition with impunity, instilling fear among other opponents and critics. If you don't have strong political backing or public prominence, you risk your freedom if you oppose the government.
Bypass paywall:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201128053447/https://www.econo...

To read the full article, JavaScript should be disabled.
Daniel Ingalls: The Live Web. Drag 'n drop in the cloud (2012) [YouTube]
You assume wrong, but there's more to life than living.
> Ultimately, when we reduce our fellow man to numbers in a spreadsheet, when we become alienated from them, we have turned them into shadows. And we too, have become shadows. A kind of perverse collectivism emerging out of individualism. Every person, reduced to a shadow.
It's not you. The computing industry is actively trying to hide the computer. Naturally, people who love computers are left out.

I found this article on Stallman's website and it was enlightening for me:

http://contemporary-home-computing.org/RUE/

> This approach leads to some great products on screen and IRL, but alienates as well.

> Robotics doesn’t give us a chance to fall in love with the computer if it is not anthropomorphic. Experience design prevents from thinking and valuing computers as computers, and interfaces as interfaces.

> It makes us helpless. We lose an ability to narrate ourselves and — going to a more pragmatic level — we are not able to use personal computers anymore.

> For government agencies, the destruction of hardware is a routine procedure. From their perspective, the case of deletion is thoroughly dealt with when the media holding the data is physically gone. They are smart enough to not trust the “empty trash” function.

> Of course the destruction made no sense in this case, since copies of the files in question were located elsewhere, but it is a great symbol for what is left for users to do, what is the last power users have over their systems: They can only access them on the hardware level, destroy them.

> Since there is less and less certainty of what you are doing with your computer on the level of software, you’ll tend to destroy your hard drive voluntarily every time you want to really delete something.

> Every victory of experience design: a new product “telling the story,” or an interface meeting the “exact needs of the customer, without fuss or bother” widens the gap in between a person and a personal computer.

> The morning after “experience design:” interface-less, desposible hardware, personal hard disc shredders, primitive customization via mechanical means, rewiring, reassembling, making holes into hard disks, in order to to delete, to logout, to “view offline.”
> This is sort of comforting

I would personally put emphasis on the "sort of" clause.

If bigcos with tons of resources can't align incentives to build solid software instead of deliver new features, who among us has a chance?
That's interesting. The first job I had starting in college was a 7 year stint. I started in one of the entry level jobs, but the company had lots of upward positions and they liked to hire from within. The second job I had was another 7 year stint. It wasn't until after that before my resume started to have those shorter durations at various places.
> To these snakes, people are nothing but numbers to squeeze revenue out of. Spreadsheet sociopathy. If every single consultant and banker disappeared tomorrow, we would be better off.

Who's the sociopath I wonder?
A number of years ago, an HN article said the most successful entrepreneurs are the most pessimistic.

I would say it is more about disbelieving in yourself, and still trying to pursue a goal greater than oneself.

"The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."
- GK Chesterton
But this time it was a _different_ dependency. They just want to make sure all dependencies are ruled out before migrating to GCP :)
I think of the opening to the show Weeds:

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same

is this what prosperity looks like?
Another bypass:

https://archive.is/20201126200708/https://www.economist.com/...
Even considering such an idea is enough for it to get in writing or presented is such an egregious lapse of ethics that whomever does it should be fired immediately.

"Sorry we know you're going to lose customers if they die, what if we make up the difference for you so you keep selling our product?"
Non-paywall link

https://archive.vn/1NXKA
"Ultimately, when we reduce our fellow man to numbers in a spreadsheet, when we become alienated from them, we have turned them into shadows."

The folks I happen to know who work at McKinsey are wrought with insecurity, ego & entitlement. They seem to love the business model of exploiting those most vulnerable.
You need something to enable the `<noscript>` content to be rendered, like a uBO dynamic rule `no-scripting: $hostname true`. uM doesn't do that.
Anne Applebaum wrote a forward for Solzhenitsyn's abridged Gulag Archipelago, would recommend.