skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the heads-up! Working on a fix so you can't query a private room and send in Matrix events. We already block from Gitter -> Matrix side.
I've used bootstrap in the past as a non-designer to get a decent set of defaults for web applications. I definitely appreciate that aspect. But I am wondering if there is a lighter weight alternative. Maybe using reboot directly?
In that case an employee gave a resignation date of 11/15. Employer cut off the employment two weeks early and court ruled that it shouldn't be considered a resignation, but instead a termination by employer.

What's the parallel between those facts and the dispute here? Just not seeing any applicable precedent.
I'd also add: let us find it. For example, at least link it in your profile, if you don't want to share in the post.
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What if you fucked off.
Did you use wifi or wired ethernet?

I have a super stable 1 Gb/s fiber connection with like 5-7 ms to a close by AWS data center where I ran Parsec on a VM. I got ≈ 400 Mb/s to the VM, with < 10 ms ping over my 5 Ghz wifi. But I could still never get a stable setup. As soon as I went wired everything worked great. I think jitter is a big problem.

With a wired setup I could also move to further away DC's (like 20 ms) without any issue.
> Any frequent reader of HN will know that HN is pretty aggressive with censoring posts that don't fit with the overall ideology here, no matter how up-voted the content is.

Hacker News is quick to try to remove things that cause flamewars to erupt, yes. For some users this (regrettably) means that any controversial political or social topic gets a flag from them.
Yes, very old Pascal, not even TurboPascal! I started with Apple ][ UCSD Pascal, but that program was for HP3000 Pascal, which might be even older.

There was a trick for doing PEEK and POKE in Apple Pascal, using a union that contained a pointer to some type you could dereference to read and write, and also an integer so you could set the pointer. I had the hardest time understanding it, and just could not get my head around the "record case boolean of", but I just typed in the magic code with a bunch of weird ^'s and it worked somehow.

You can use type punning tricks with "union" to implement arbitrary unsafe pointer arithmetic in Pascal, since it lets you convert between pointers and integers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_punning#Pascal

Here's an article about that trick, in German (which makes it sound even cooler):

https://www.robert-tolksdorf.de/book/Tolksdorf-UCSD-Pascal-C...

p. 63: 3.1 "PEEK" und "POKE" auch in Pascal

[...]

type byte = 0..255
spchrinhalt = packed array [0..0] of byte;
spchrstelle = record case boolean of
true: (adresse:integer); ( Zieger )
false: (inhalt:^spchrinhalt) ( Inhalt )
end;

procedure poke(adresse:integer; inhalt:byte);
var dummy:spchrstelle;
begin
dummy.adresse := adresse;
dummy.inhalt^[0] := inhalt;
end;

function peek(adresse:integer): byte;
var dummy:spchrstelle;
begin
dummy.adresse := adresse;
peek := dummy.inhalt^[0];
end;
I'm in SF. I think I'll stay for a while longer bc:

- I enjoy not needing a car. Many neighborhoods are walkable.

- I appreciate the mild weather. E.g. I lived in NYC, and though I did not need a car, humid summers and snowy winters made it less pleasant to be outside.

- It's dense but not _too_ dense. NYC felt legitimately claustrophobic sometimes.

- It's still an LGBT mecca. Prior to the pandemic, I could be in queer spaces on a daily basis.

I don't know that I'll be in SF forever. But when I think of moving, I wonder where I would go, and what my life would look like when I get there. I grew up in suburbs and still associate those neighborhoods with isolation. Among US cities, it's hard to meet all of these.
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FWIW I largely agree with you. Zen is still competitive at ~7nm/12nm with separate corelets, so if they can match 5nm on a single chip, things will be back to normal.

M1 has 16B transistors on 1 "chip", a 3950X has fewer than 10B across 3. What else would you expect, for now?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count
Some of his dirtbag acolytes have

it wasn't out of line or insulting or somethin

Are you sure about that?
I don't see how any commitment to protect the oceans can be taken seriously without China committing to it. See this prior comment I made in a different discussion, concerning China's distant fishing fleet, which is ravaging ocean environments worldwide: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25120998
I've been playing Halo Master Chief Collection on Debian in Steam. It is amazing that gaming on Linux has come this far. RDR2 and Skyrim run better, faster, and at higher graphics quality and framerates than on Windows 10.
No, I wouldn't say that rings true. Yes it is objectively true, but it doesn't particularly mean anything to me or invalidate the arguments themselves.

What did really ring true for me was this line from the original essay, "Can you imagine a better way to destroy social mobility than by telling poor kids that the way to get rich is by exploiting people, while the rich kids know, from having watched the preceding generation do it, how it's really done?"

It's sad to me that any discussion of inequality has started to be so much more focused on bringing everyone at the top down rather than empowering those at the bottom and helping to bring them up.
I'm guessing this is a mix of attestation and inspecting what they actually do instead of just blindly checking the certificate and that the signature is verified? I'm curious how well executed that works when it comes to less well behaved anticheats (like Riot's Vanguard generally stays hands off, but GameGuard will immediately heartbeat a "ban me" and intentionally cause a bluescreen to cause you to "lose any data collected by your debugger" when it notices it's being looked at).

This type of BS is super common in Asian countries/published MMOs and a bit less acceptable in the west (you still have EAC and battleye, but at least they make an attempt to use TLS?)

Another insane example: xigncode has long since advertised a feature that the game developers can remote control into your PC like VNC. I don't know whether any developer has chosen to actually enable it, but the fact that they push it as a feature is some serious clown-egg-face.
I appreciate this, it's a cool concept I haven't seen before. Does this exist for other sites, like reddit?
Yeah, that's my concern. It would be different if I was wanting to buy a house. I actually like my apartment in the bay area, but when the office did shut down I looked at what it would cost. I wouldn't save much money because I wanted to stay in California.

My employer is becoming more WFH friendly. But they are explicitly saying post-covid fulltime remote will require an adjustment for base salary and future equity grants. I don't think that would be a good financial decision for me. Even if my compensation didn't get cut I would probably end up needing to take a pay cut or move if I wanted to change jobs.
> I don't see how the Slack workspaces that I've used heavily would work with it.

Quite simply: you don't know what you are missing.

I was sceptical at first as well, but having the ability to branch off into separate sub-topics while still maintaining easy visibility is extremely nice for organizing conversations and catching up on things you missed in busy channels.

The nice thing is: you can just use flat channels where appropriate, or just ignore the nested topics and read a channel as a regular continuous stream.

It's incredibly conducive to long-form discussions and organizing information, while still retaining the casualness of a chat when required.
Casually discuss logic puzzles and probe to see if they understand the concept of a paradox. Talk about the odds of something happening and see if they can think in terms of probabilities beyond 50/50.

I've found myself as a mathematician that conversations just flow with other people who have a math background in ways that they don't with other people. It's probably due to a conversational deficit on my part.

As others have mentioned, something really important is mental flexibility, the ability to look at new evidence and adjust your opinion. You can find out if people have this ability in a casual conversation, but it would have to be a long casual conversation.
> 40 percent of the world’s coastlines

At what resolution? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox
I'm not a supporter of Paul Graham at all, and I'd have flagged this story instantaneously if I'd seen it.
So, that's getting fired for cause, maybe, but not resigning. Google's official story is that she resigned. You have to stretch things pretty far to say that taking an action that might get you fired is the same as resigning. Resigning is handing in your badge and laptop and leaving the building. Getting fired is being called into a 4PM Friday meeting with HR and they escort you from the building afterwards.

I am not really even sure how meaningful an email telling your coworkers to stop working on their projects is. It really depends on the tone. When I was at Google, I used the internal social media extensively. I am sure at some point someone said something like "I'm really depressed about how my project is going" and I would reply with something like "You should join my team! I have a req!" That's technically telling someone to stop working on their project, but is a completely acceptable thing to do.

Ultimately the exact details matter, and we don't have them.
Depends on how much you value housing size / quality. You can't get a big house in the Bay Area but if you opt for something smaller you get a lot more disposable income to spend on other luxuries.
This community does not like it when others ask hard questions of their heros. Look at the first coverage of Tony Hische as a prime example.
This is some great advice, although I'm not completely sold on number 8 and number 9.

For number eight: If your reviewer is being a douche, I don't think there's harm in pointing it out, respectfully. Nothing says that both sides can't learn from the review.

As for number nine. I'm not sure if adding comments is going to completely help; I'd rather refactor to make the code as explicit as possible, including the tests[1]. But more importantly, I don't think that sacrificing possibly more idiomatic code for the sake of beginners is a great trade-off. I think it's better to encourage people to get more familiar with the language and technology being used.

[1]: Which is usually my first stop for when I might not understand something in the code itself.
>> Even modest SPAs reach into the tens of thousands of lines.

I still don't get how we got from fifty lines of code for a form with simple client side validation to a React/Vue/Angular/Next version that needs 100 different modules and a thousand lines of code to replicate. Why do people see this as a huge advancement in front-end development?
Who do you think moved out to CA in the first place?
Bootstrap 5 barely on beta though... Did you guy early adopted?

Also Bootstrap 3 to 4 have had patterns of dropping support of IE versions.
My entire reply is about Google (not even specifically Google!), but you're still focusing on Gebru.

> I have no idea

Why are you commenting then?
I feel strongly that it was one particular option that you listed, but I think this is a fair assessment. Wonder why it's being downvoted (maybe I'm missing something from this story too).
Better how? Scientists and professors with decades of experience in this exact field, disagree[0].

Burning wood even discharges more CO2 in the atmosphere, than coal[1] and we haven't even started to talk about where all those trees must be grown to keep up with the demand of an energy policy based on solar/wind + biofuel backup, like we are planning in Denmark.

It is not a terribly good idea and it is infuriating how little science and facts matter to a political discusssion that one would think was based around those elements.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/opinion/pruitt-forests-bu...
[1] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aaa512/...
As a French Canadian, I can assure you that with the right toppings you can without a doubt eat enough potatoes to reach insane amounts of calories. Granted, we put gravy and cheese on top and consider it a base for the actual toppings.

https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2013/02/05/poutinevilles-heart-...
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While I don't disagree with the Canadian government's messaging being disingenous, 7% of the entire Canadian GDP came from just resource extraction in Alberta (not to mention the ancillary industries surrounding oil and gas). Recently, that made it the largest industry in the country, even ahead of banking and financial services. [0]

Compare that to Denmark which employs about 2000 people in resource extraction [1]

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/oil-and-gas-gdp-growt...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Denmark#:~:text=Denm...
Potatoes have a decent amount of water and fibre (almost as much as apples). There's some dumb internet idea that the type of macros are what really matter, so potatoes are bad because they're all carbs (not protein). Really, if you want to lose weight than less quantity and less energy density (which means replacing macros with water and fibre) is going to matter a bit more than whether the macros are carbs or protein.

That said, yes they'll lack some nutrients if that's what you were getting at. Some mixed veg would be a good idea.
The author so desperately tries to convince the reader that he doesn't personally dislike Paul Graham that it has the opposite effect.

For those who don't have time to read the article, the author argues that Paul Graham is a salesman (not an intellectual), and the product he's selling is capitalism. The author thinks capitalism is evil, and as a proponent of capitalism, Paul Graham is also evil.

The author's hatred is clearly born out of envy for those who are more traditionally successful. This doesn't necessarily mean his ideas are wrong, but it increases the likelihood that his views are one-sided. Skepticism is warranted.
Tailwind is a system for design. It constrains what options the designer has to work with. This means both less chances to get things wrong and a smaller domain to wrap your head around.

Tailwind is configured out of the box by some very excellent designers. The color palette, fonts, spacing, etc. are all crafted to work together harmoniously. You have to go out of your way to configure it poorly.
How many times can SV, SF, the Bay Area, California die? How many of these articles will be written? How many 400+ comment meltdown threads about the end of Silicon Valley will we see?

Our economy is cyclical, so is the technology industry, and so is the technology industry within the Bay Area. It seems to me a large cohort of the HN community has reached an age where they'd typically move to suburbs, "back home", or just to cheaper areas to raise a family. This was hastened by COVID, and yet, the next cohort of new grads is right around the corner, just like it is every year. Is the calculus about where to live different? Slightly, now you pick from 10 metros instead of 5. Are people going to be full time remote? Yes. Can they live anywhere? Certainly. Will new grads be better of starting out in an office just like most people here did? Certainly yes.

Can we recognize for a moment that the collective value of the technology sector located along the West Coast is probably north of $10T? If anything, the tech industry is annexing new metros, not moving to them, as tech continues to eat the world.
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Completely agree. I'd say, historically speaking, that Facebook became a constrained negative environment while twitter was more of an open, entertaining, and free environment (and less tied to actual life/society). This isn't the case any longer.

Facebook is now far less egregious & more of a soft environment to socialize with people you personally know. Bubbles/pockets of societal function and some large-influence which is lesser enabled than the prior.

Twitter is a platform that justifies large societal movement through "influential information".

(I don't have the best english to articulate here)
An armored Nissan Maxima?
"China embargo" could be replaced with many other terms. Here's another to try on for size:

> I don’t know what a Global Warming Plan would look like, but I know that any first world government who tried it would find themselves promptly removed from power and a newer consumer/polluter friendly government installed amongst rabid cries for new iPhones and maintaining current niceties of life.
It is gonna dillute so much it will not be a problem at all...
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Ever done starch extraction experiment in middle school? Potatoes are almost pure starch.
Nothing wrong with potatoes, or chicken for that matter. And yeah, tons of fat would be bad, but as you say yourself they are not terribly obese, so by definition the amount of fat (and anything else) can't be that huge.
Exactly. This argument that cheaper workforce is out in the sticks, waiting for “remote work” is a lie corporate America has told to keep people in the office.

The truth is, no matter where you are, talent knows what talent is worth. We price accordingly and in the end the market is stable at a certain price level.

We’ve been seeing this over the last decade in major US cities competing for SF-level talent. Tech is one of the highest paid professions. Remote or otherwise. To say companies will just go hire someone cheaper assumes they can find someone cheaper.

In the end I think the real winners are rural America (or Europe or where ever you live). Having a lifeblood of capital come back to small towns and the like will decentralize our cities, improve our quality of life, reinforce the need for infrastructure, and allow innovation to solve those problems.

Exciting times.
Exactly Like english or any written language, generally books are typesetted against a bunch of general conventions. You dont choose if you get one or two spaces after a semicolon. Your book is not great because you wrote it in leetcase, you focus on the meaning, not the details.
https://www.npmtrends.com/bootstrap-vs-bulma-vs-foundation-v...

tailwind is the new darling (for good reason IMO), and it can only see BS with binoculars.

It's like asking if any developers are still using Chrome. They are, overwhelmingly, even though I am convinced that Chrome is inferior, spyware and being used to strong-hand the internet. I wish I could change reality, but at least let us acknowledge it.

It is a trait of the news media to state their wish as established fact ;)
Indeed, my friends and I threw a band together, to cover that album, and quickly discovered that it was impossible, so we turned to punk rock instead.
If there is any corporate entity I'd happy giving public funding, it would be SpaceX. Their end goal is to settle Mars and potentially other bodies in the solar system. Compared with the absurd amounts of money wasted on defense contractors, I am perfectly happy with funding SpaceX in every way possible.
Intel's server market is full of customers with proprietary x86_64 binaries that can't easily be ported to other architectures, and until recently had very little competition in that market because AMD's pre-Zen server processors were uncompetitive.

Throwing in to that market with an ARM processor would limit you to portable software, putting you into competition with not only Intel and AMD but also Amazon and potentially Qualcomm and others. Which could actually hurt Apple if it gives ARM competitors a wider market for their processors and therefore more resources to spend on development that carries down to PCs and mobiles.
> It's none of the game's business what other software my computer is running.

I get the sentiment here but we're specifically talking about a mechanism specifically designed to detect other software that is used for cheating.

The alternative is a world where games will only run on machines with SecureBoot, a signed kernel with kernel security on, and only whitelisted signed modules.

There isn't a good solution for how to run games where the clients have to be semi-trusted on a hardware and software stack controlled by the user. If you give me total control over the environment in which a program runs I can make it do and believe anything.
I think you can put together a list of counter examples pretty easily. Blind optimism is perfectly fine for making progress, in the cases where the action taken turns out to work.

Plenty of people started businesses on what may be termed blind optimism and succeeded.

I think it even helps a little to underestimate the obstacles in innovation - otherwise one might not attempt it in the first place. But just a little, because diverging too far from reality brings its own problems.

Optimism is essential to progress.
> I think one problem for CPUs specifically is that people plainly just don't care as much about speed anymore. Modern processors are extremely fast.

The rave reviews that the M1 Macs are getting for performance and power efficiency shows that large step improvements in CPU performance are noticed and greatly appreciated. We just didn't have anything as good as the M1 before to really understand how much better computing could be.
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Oh he'll never be able to read my comment in all this fog.
I'm more curious what caused the wave of populism in the late 2010s. Was it really Russian propagandists on social media?

COVID will be gone in a year or 2, but the economic damage may cause things to be worse.

My best hope is a reform of the medical cartels, but that is wishful thinking in the face of a billion dollar lobbyist group.
I first heard of mastic, I think, in reading a novel by Nikos Kazantzakis. I think it was The Greek Passion.
There are so, so many rich sidenotes in this post.

One I like:

"Of course, there are confusions. There’s yet another birthdate for Schönfinkel: September 4, 1889. Wrong year. Perhaps wrongly done correction from the Julian calendar."

Here we are over 100 years later and still dealing with constant time and calendar bugs.
Yes, but the bulk of its code is the original TeX code, from 1984. It did not attempt to reimplement or modernise the core code. Until a few years ago, it was even still built from tex.web plus a set of change-files plus some C/C++ libraries. Nowadays, the main change-files have been merged into the WEB source, for easier management, but it's still the old TeX code at heart.

Actually, there was another intermediate stage: XeTeX is in effect a descendant of TeXgX, an extended version of TeX that integrated with the now-discontinued QuickDraw GX graphics and font technology on classic Mac OS. But anyhow, it's still a direct descendant of Knuth's code. (No criticism intended: TeX was -- and still is -- a fantastic piece of work, but its code is from a different era and was shaped by constraints that are irrelevant today.)
Same deal here. 400k, hell even 200k to me would seem like "I've made it", and that's just accepted as normal for others? Also, been doing IT way longer than 10 years.
Well, I'd say it comes down to the fact that most potato preparations are horribly unhealthy.

Not the potato's fault, just the meals that surround it. Probably the only tradition potato prep that has a chance of being sort of healthy is mashed potatoes. Even then, those often get loaded up with milk, butter, and gravy.

Take rice on the opposite end. Just as unhealthy as potatoes yet a ton of traditional rice meals are super healthy.
The thread is about stopping Apple and people being forced to buy Android.