skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love that all 3 of the snarky points here are illfounded :D

Yes, Matrix is a conversation history syncing protocol, and XMPP is a message-passing protocol. They genuinely are fundamentally different. It's a bit like the difference between SVG and Canvas. Sure, you can use both to draw pretty vector artwork. But one's an object graph, and the other's immediate mode.

In terms of Matrix having money: yup, it's true that folks have generously donated to Matrix over the years to keep the project afloat, and more recently Element has funnelled most of its VC funding into supporting Matrix. However, the whole "marketing, exposure and time to defend their work to the depth of the deepest reddit thread" trope is hilarious, given Matrix's marketing department is... me, the project lead? and I'm doing this in my spare time with my FOSS hat on. (technically there's benpa, our dev evangelist too, but he's ended up being hijacked by Element business this year).

Finally, "Matrix - the standard for open, decentralised communication" is like saying "Rugby - the game". It's not saying that Matrix is the one and only standard for open, decentralised communication any more than Rugby is the one and only game; it's disambiguating it from "Matrix - the mathematical construct".

Meanwhile, comically, xmpp.org declares itself "The universal messaging standard" and "XMPP is the open standard for messaging and presence".

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's not anti-housing. It's never anti-housing. Nor is it ever "neighborhood character" or whatever. The places that people are moving to have plenty of land to build.

What people don't like is that when upper middle class city and inner suburb types move in local ordinances that restrict what you can and can't do on your own land seem to always follow. And given a generation or so of change in that direction, it gets you the same overpriced, impossible to develop hellscape that those people were seeking to flee in the first place. This isn't unique to CA. Their stupidity isn't special. This pattern has played out all over the east coast and midwest.
> winds die at night

How sure of that are you? I’m not so sure but quick google says maybe not as true as you imply: https://slate.com/business/2015/09/texas-electricity-goes-ne.... Maybe région dépendant? Is that a deal breaker given power can be transported between regions?

> Battery tech

I see part of the point of this legislation is to drive innovation. We’ll never get change if we just say “it’s impossible so we have to burn fossils.” I don’t dispute any of your points really except if the policy is gradual enough it will force us to adapt and that is a good thing IMO.
He probably means FunctionComponents (as opposed to Classes)
Mature is the word you may be looking for.
aww, thanks tom! :D
You can fake it by misusing textures.

Actually there is a compute shaders extension, but it is only available in certain drivers configurations in Firefox.

Chrome only plans to support WebGPU.
The latest features for Pixel owners are here [December 2020]
I agree with this, except the part about Kanye inventing anything. I'd like to know what exactly you hear in "popular sounds" that you think he invented? There's almost certainly someone else who did it first.
Yeah, something like that...

Or, and maybe this is just my old man dementia talking, millions of extremely low-skill developers have flooded into the market, primarily building "web apps". An endless procession of "make trivial stuff easy for really incompetent developers" solutions appear to pander to them -- and their brother-in-arms "make trivial stuff seem complex and engineer-ee" solutions -- and this is a group that finds each of these variations on an obsolete theme revolutionary.

Humorous that multiple people have been triggered by the notepad comment. Yet...many extremely rich pages and apps have been built in exactly such a manner! That this is seen as outlandish is pretty telling.
Rote memorization is indeed not very useful, but the memorization of connected knowledge which you can build on top is essential for learning and creativity
Remarkably, I never have a problem with mangoes, despite being super-sensitive to poison ivy. The faintest brush of poison ivy causes a deep, weeping rash, but I handle mangoes without any protection at all.

There must be enough chemical differences to cause different effects. Whew.
We are glad you liked this sentence.
Given they are tieing it to Covid-19, which would be impossible to know yet they clearly are just on a mission against gas.

That's their thing, that's how they make money. I guess believe them if you want. These things are the new religions.

Air quality everywhere matters. Cooking with gas at home is pumping in a airborne substance. There's a good chance it might matter personally. But gas is changing the would environmentally and ethically for the better. We need to be sure from a neutral scientific source, if they still exist.
Google employees say AI researcher did not resign, despite what exec claims
Here's the problem: facts have a liberal bias.

If you try to create an apolitical platform, then you created a platform incompatible with facts.
>legacy housing stock probably 50+ years old

My first apartment out of college was an absolute trash heap. I lived in a studio, which had clearly at one point been a 1 br until someone put a wall in the middle of it to create 2 studios. Only two positive aspects about that place was the fact that it had a brand new gas stove, and that whoever had put up the wall failed to create a new electric circut for the studio, so my neighbor paid my electric bill for the year I was there :)
I saw that one as well.

Rent costs is the primary reason I hear people stating they changed to RV's, vans, buses. They can live anywhere, including some of the most beautiful parts of the country, then leave if they do not like it. So no rent, diverse scenery, meet many new people if you want or live in isolation if you want. BLM land is unrestricted for this purpose in most of the U.S.
"people like to", "some people are", "People are", "Humans are".
Is this number 1. ?
It's not about understanding or not understanding tailwind, it's understanding the CSS that it's applying for you. Tailwind is just a shortcut, you still have to know where you're going and why.
> can avoid writing to dead objects, can put any state needed for garbage collection in a contiguous space, and can run “all at once”

You can use arena allocation when these issues are relevant (which is not that often). Generally speakingm while obligate RC (particularly ARC) is indeed lower-throughput than obligate tracing GC, Rust does not really use obligate RC.
“Tech killed SF” is such a tired scapegoat. I also didn’t even work in tech when I first moved here, does that unfairly change your perception of my “killing SF”? Without the tech angle, arguments like this to me are reduced to the weight of “KIDS THESE DAYS DON’T GET IT AND RUIN EVERYTHING THAT I USED TO LIKE”
Ask HN: What features of non-English languages impact the ability to search?
In English, for example, I've found it helpful that "vs" is (1) universally used for comparing things and (2) not used for anything else. Searching for something like "Rust vs" is a good way to find things similar to "Rust". Without "vs", I could still search for something like "similar to Rust" or "Rust alternatives" or "like Rust", but there would be a lot more variety with how questions and articles are phrased and more false positives when including terms such as "like" and "similar"

On the flip side, it's really unfortunate to have entities with generic names such as the email service "Hey" or the Mac clipboard application "Paste" since searching for those terms would produce lots of results not specific to those entities. I imagine this is pretty common in lots of languages, though it also seems possible that in some traditions it's unconventional to have something named with any arbitrary word.

For those of you who search in other languages, what have you found to be benefits and pitfalls of the language for the purposes of searching?
So this is basically like old black jack card counting but on a lottery. Wait till the deck is hot and then play, play, play. What a great story!
Forgive my ignorance, but why do game servers ban Linux players in pvp games? Fear of some sort of modding only available on Linux?
Right, from the Shannon reference mentioned I got that. I'll accept that as an "inside" joke.

I still think "surprise" is one of the worst words one could use to describe this though, but that's not a fight I'm gonna win :)
Shoes are obstensibly removed to prevent the destruction of planes, not their hijacking. The problem of planes being hijacked was solved around 10am on 2001/9/11, before the government got involved. And if passengers fighting back isn't enough, locked cabin doors should be.

Incidentally, passengers kicked the shit out of the would-be shoe bomber too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25331407
(In Greek mythology Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, is the mother of the muses, goddesses of creativity)
Ask HN: What are your unused domain names and how much would you sell them for?
Love to see what unused domain names you guys have and if there's a price-tag on them. Entrepreneurs always collect so many stuff. Comment the number of domains and any you want to sell.
I've successfully completed bounty programs for Google, MasterCard, Dropbox, Pinterest, and some others I can't quite remember. I did the math each time for dollars earned over time spent, and the resulting figure is always under minimum wage. This is for critical vulnerabilities only (P1).
Agree with all points except "Dating scene for men"

As somebody who has lived on three continents in major metro area's as well as countryside IMO SFBA has the best dating scene.

I am married now, so I have been out of the single pool for a couple years...but before that I will say that SFBA had the most attractive pool of available woman in the world, if intelligence, creativity, independence, being self starters and physical attractiveness is what you value.

I sure found the love of my life here.
Yup. Can't wait for someone to implement a Matrix-powered Disqus clone!
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> Especially not because of something as temporary as a pandemic.

One could argue that diseases were major contributors to the collapse of the Roman Empire - internal problems didn't allow them to keep the external forces at bay.
It's certainly better than what one would expect from a magazine, but I strongly suspect 20q does/did more in terms of training. In its heyday it was uncannily good. I'd say it'd guess my object 80% of the times in 20 questions and 90% of the time within 30 questions. The weights would update if different people gave different answers for the same object, etc.

In its current incarnation, it is fairly poor as I mentioned in another comment. It couldn't even come close to guessing a screwdriver, for example.
> I think this is a little harsh

Only if you read the question and assume that it is something besides a question. How does a person ask the question that I asked and mark it unambiguously as a question, not a statement (and do it without unnecessary baggage)? How do I convince people to answer the question instead of reply the way you did, to something you received instead of what I asked? Is that question not tolerable (it got flagged) but the other commenter's is fine?
But why there? Why not somewhere else?

Only seemingly non-random factor you gave is the Emerald Triangle, which could be the answer.
2900ft houses is a good way to skew the argument in your favor, but it's a bit of a strawman: the vast majority of houses in the Bay Area aren't 2900ft to begin with, yet 2000ft house are plenty, with 4 bedroom, on, say, a 6000ft lot. You can easily find one of those for $2M, and they're not shacks.

This is a $2M house, 2600 sqft, 5BD house on an 11000 sqft lot: https://www.redfin.com/CA/Santa-Clara/2602-Birchtree-Ln-9505....

But going back to my earlier price range. I took me all of 2 minutes, not months of open houses to come up with these:

For $1.6M, you get this 2200 sqft house: https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Jose/1244-Broadleaf-Ln-95128/h.... Or you get this 2500 sqft house: https://www.redfin.com/CA/Santa-Clara/1453-Franklin-St-95050....
Or use a really round bottom wok. Or a Norwegian apfelskiver pan. Or a Japanese tacoyaki pan. Or proper broiling in a salamander. Or for putting out the BTUs cheaply enough for beer making.

Gas stoves and equipment are appreciated by good cooks.
Proton is still very new, and it's night-and-day better than any previous gaming experience on Linux. I don't think past trends necessarily apply
Teddit link: https://teddit.net/r/bobdylan/comments/k8fj42/bob_dylan_sell...
Tristan Harris on the need to change the incentives of social media companies
It is entirely possible to have a "semantic web" and tailwind at the same time.

IMHO the perfect combination is BEM naming that is purely semantic combined with tailwind cruft that is purely visual.

So you can end up with:

<div class="profile_card a-bunch of-tailwinds classes">
<div class="profile_card__heading more-tailwinds-classes">
<h3 class="even-more-tailwinds-classes>Hello World</h3>
</div>
</div>

I say this as someone who was revolted by the idea of tailwinds that has then seen the productivity of the team at work absolutely skyrocket after using it.
Questions 1-5 establish immediately that it's a small, carnivorous, unpleasant animal; you go on to establish that it's inedible, forest dwelling, palm-sized, and can climb. Some sort of spider is an obvious guess. There are other possible answers (tree frog, perhaps?) but spiders rank very highly in human psychology. Your main lesson here should be that you are not as original as you think you are!
> ... none with >16GB RAM and they’re all Windows - guess only egotistic people want Linux and 32GB RAM?

Huh? Hardly anybody sells Linux laptops, mostly not on Amazon either. I think you'll be hard pressed to find many laptops pre-configured with 32GB RAM on Amazon too.

> Some people do make use of a higher res screen, just because you don’t doesn’t make it useless.

Okay, but the person I was responding to said that 4k is "table stakes". It's clearly not. Point being - not everybody wants a 4k screen. I didn't say that they were useless to everybody, I said that essentially "most people don't want or need them".
It doesn't, but you are welcome to enjoy your own bias in your interpretation.
CRAN is definitely one of the best "features" of R. A very strict and official repository that requires human approval. Most often, that human is part of or close to the R Core team. Most guides I've read for getting a package on CRAN have to mention not wasting the time of somebody who's likely a busy statistics professor.
Digital Archeology
> but even the evaporated vapor from a pot of simmering soup can make it momentarily angry.

It sounds like it can't tell the difference between water vapor and harmful pollutants. Not that it needs to for it to do its job, but the machine may not be a good indicator of actual pollution levels.
Own five, I want to sell three.

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Oh do fuck off, you pompous prick.
+1 from me.
When I started as the sole (junior) Dev at work I wasn't very good with css. I made use of things like bootstrap etc heavily. Eventually I found tailwind and started using that to augment what I was building, and now I use it solely.Thanks to tailwind I have a much better understanding of css.
Interesting to see this on Hackernews. I appreciate it. and thanks @bmcn2020
To put your comment in perspective:

Intel has 90+% market share in servers.

Apple has 15% market share in personal computers.
Because it fails to meet the 'it's the platform stupid' maxim.

ie languages aren't nearly quite so important as the platform.

Stuff wasn't written in js because early js was a brilliant language - it was because the platform - the web - was brilliant.

Many have written 'better' languages that compile to js - https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...

and while typescript is one of the better, more supported ones, isn't it just another one?

Surely in the end it just adds complexity and fragmentation of the ecosystem?
I would assume other people have commercial rights percentages within Dylan's organization, management and past agreements, the sale price is highly unlikely to all go into Dylan's pockets.

The big revenue comes from film and advertising licensing, we saw this when Michael Jackson (who owned the Beatles back catalog along with Sony who he was in a vicious battle with).

Despite the claims in this article, Jackson didn't sell out many Beatles songs, it was Sony after he died who enabled and profited from Beatles songs in commercials and films.
https://www.biography.com/news/michael-jackson-paul-mccartne...
It had a surprisingly hard time with grandfather clock. Although the fact that my clock is white, so I had to say they can sometimes be white, probably led it down the wrong path.

It gave up eventually but then the first in the list of extra guesses was correct.
Given the premium Apple charges for RAM, I don't even want to "napkin calculate" how much a 2 TB ram Mac pro would cost!
As someone who lives in the DMV (VA) - what’re the biggest factors influencing whether you can continue to live here long term?
Paul Graham Is Not a Public Intellectual
Here's Socrates answers:

> "what should I do with my life?"

Try to improve body and spirit. Shape and obey the rules of he society you live in, be thankful and respectful of the liberties society has produced. Obey the laws of the city above everything else. Live by them, die by them.

> "what is the purpose of my life or of the world?"

The meaning of life is to reach happiness. To do, one most attain knowledge. Knowledge is virtue.

> - "should I help someone in need or help myself?"

You should help someone in need of help, because this way you help your spirit and the society (in Socrates parlance, you help the "city/neighbourhood/etc".) Acting in a selfish way will hurt your soul.

> - "what subject (including mathematical or scientific subject) should I study or work on?"

You should study them all, do your best to gain knowledge because knowledge is virtue. Know thyself, realise you know nothing.

> - "how should we structure our society?"

See Plato's "Republic", it's pretty detailed. Of course is utopian yet many ideas could be adopted easily.

> - "how should we as a society or as individuals spend our money?"

Wisely :-)

I could make another such list for Aristotle, Spinoza or Nietzsche and they'll most likely collide. So my take is that what you're looking for is a "rulebook" to tell you that Nietzsche (or Gorgias in Plato's dialogues) is right and Socrates is wrong.

If that's what you're looking then you're out of luck, not only in philosophy which is the highest form of education IMO but in science too, as science is equally ambiguous. There's literally NOTHING out there that can definitely prove that 2+2=4.

IMO philosophy guides someone from the land of certainty to the land of uncertainty where he can make his own choices and decide what kind of person one wants/needs to be.

While we are shaped by our culture to a long extend, philosophy can help us choose the answers to these questions. Then we are able to accept the good and the bad part of our choices and live a life without remorse, second thoughts and regrets.
“When I was in college, I did some pharmaceutical testing”

You weren’t the only one.
Unless you are very inland LA is not 90s most of the year. Heck, it’s not even 80s most of the year. It’s 70s.
eskilsteenberg is truly terrible troll
Balenciaga: Fall 2021
Modern anti-cheat platforms can be pretty invasive and tie very closely into the operating system - ie, if designed for Windows, they often simply won't work at all through some other layer like Proton/Wine.

This is interpreted by many game companies as an attempt to cheat, rather than simply an unsupported use case.
> I think there was an element of hippy culture mixed in there that contributed to success from openness and willingness to experiment on paths not directly connected to profit.

I'd call it counter culture but I otherwise agree with you.
for one thing, they are not responsive.
Most importantly, he most likely carefully chose the contractual terms, controlling the use of his legacy how he wishes. And presumably prevents potential problems with disagreements between his descendants about something they all would have differing personal opinions about.

How many times have you seen an artist's oeuvre or author's written works be misused by his or or her descendants?
Anti-cheat apps like BattleEye still prevent a lot of games from being worthwhile on Linux.
Apparently Falcon BMS works on Proton too - for those unfamiliar it's an extremely detailed (study-) sim of the F-16, combined with a dynamic campaign in which the quality of your virtual piloting affects the surrounding war rather than just missions like DCS.

As soon as DCS actually knows what threads are we're in business.
Sorry but no.

"It began on January 1, 2001, and ends on December 31, 2100"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century
Slavery started to fade away through the 1800s.

Not in the US...The Industrial Revolution actually made slavery worse. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 dramatically increased the demand for slaves.

The change was the industrial revolution that let relatively ordinary people create enormous amounts of wealth if left with their freedom.

No, in the U.S. at least the Industrial Revolution meant lower-paying jobs in a factory within less individual opportunity for economic success. The Industrial Revolution killed the demand for skilled artisans and tradesmen. The 1800s were known as the age of the "Robber Barons" for this reason.
Anyone can feel free to let me know they're interested via a reply here.
Bingo! There is really no reason not to use it considering everything you just described, I don't know why people in this thread have such strong opinions on this? Maybe it's from years of seeing the new "fads" which repackage old, stable solutions and call them a new thing. I have yet to read a comment on this thread which makes a good argument to not use Tailwindcss.
>started now

If the context of the article is a comparison of which to "start with", what was the purpose of using outdated syntax (var, class components) instead of current best practices for the React example?
so true. I'm one that, even if I wanted (and I don't), it would be hard to park and drive through our narrow streets.. add to that the risk to get the car trashed just because It's a SUV.
> The argument I heard was that if you're researching at Stanford and make a productizable discovery you can spin off a company no strings

It's definitely not "no strings" - otherwise Stanford wouldn't be the actual owners of PageRank (which they licensed to Google).
Could you make a similar statement in 1970 about Detroit?
We ended up not using it because of it's lack of ecosystem which is pretty ironic for an interoperable framework.
E.g no documented mobx support, no competitive router.
What you've described indicates that while you may not agree, reviewing your own code helps identify issues.