skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest display of naivete and arrogance to me is sincerely believing you can improve the world through capitalism.

How many failed shared economy experiments did we have that only made things worse?

Take AirBnb. An apparently great idea, it became popular because many needed an additional income to survive, to the point people accepted the idea of having strangers sleep in their houses for money as the norm.

Beside the incredible damage AirBnb did to the housing situation in many cities -in my city, 35% of the housing is now AirBnb only. Locals have been forced out of their own city-, did the "airbnbs" ever think that the problem they were trying to solve (people in need of more money just to survive) was caused exactly by capitalism, the same mechanism they thought they could use to make the world "a better place"?
Yes, compulsory licencing and royalty sharing applies. Also, if the recording is made from a performance in a venue, the owner must obtain a blanket licence from the music rights organisation.

The above is true for a couple of jurisdictions.
It would seem to me there are still two choices to make, meaning it’s still a binary choice-merely with more caveats and words involved to describe the options?
Seconding the suggestion for https://github.com/asvetliakov/vscode-neovim. Performance aside, it supports many more vim features and I believe it also plays better with undo.
Well, I'd replace "I have fear" with just "I fear" but that's not an issue of articles.
It highly likely that this person caused a $72,000 bill on all the websites he has crawled. It's just that the cost is spread out over multiple websites so it is not noticeable.
At least US has a carve-out for obviousness to people in the field. It has been chipped away at for a long time, so there might not be anything left of it.
15 years ago SV was the same as now, there was never a nobler past. There has always been externalities than the tech companies are willing to sweep under the rug if it helps them to make money.
How to Photograph the Orion Nebula
Not TL. The most interesting part is how the video explain the decryption method.
Believe it or not, Europe is actually a diverse place with numerous cultures, each with own social norms and behaviours.
Disney is making a movie about Keanon Lowe
> I would have thought that confirming you've seen something that no-one else on the planet has would be a somewhat difficult task

It would be. But confirming that what you've seen doesn't fit anything that has been described and categorized as a species, rather than that no one has ever seen it before, is a lot easier.
I wish that shell would be more sane.

I don't think that a shell should be a complete programming language. If you need a programming language, then better use one. There is xonsh if you are looking for something like this.

I think there should be a better bash with an very clean and consistent interface. Some of the most commonly used utils like awk '{ print $2}', sed, grep, sort, ... should be included out of the box to improve performance and to provide consistency across distributions.
I just opened up krunker.io in Firefox. lol.
They seem to care a lot about my privacy, because the popup said "We care about your privacy". Then I clicked "Show purposes" and it listed ~20 cookies, six of which are "Always active". Ones like "Technically deliver ads or content" which seems super important. lol.
I can confirm the popup lag was minimal, I hope krunker.io developers note that. lol.
> I opened the door on the left, knowing it contained the tiger or the princess. As the tiger leapt on to me, I begged the King for a do-over.

-- https://twitter.com/VeryShortStory/status/502108012501544960

> To my surprise, the King agreed, and I opened the other door. Too late, as the princess leapt on me, I realized my mistake.

-- https://twitter.com/VeryShortSequel/status/50210825752861081...
Introduction to gRPC – Part 3
Is it possible to parse the order of an algorithm in JavaScript?
Is it really possible to parse the order of an algorithm in javascript?

For example, normally if I have an array in another programming language,

I know that:

let arr = [1,2,3,4,5]

arr.push (1)

I can assume that the push is of order (n) because the memory of the array must be continuous. So in the worst case, the computer needs to copy the entire array to a new space where it can get continuous memory.

But this answer says that in javascript they are not continuous:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20321047/how-are-javascript-arrays-represented-in-physical-memory/20323491

"Worst case is the indexes are just hash keys, so the second array item at index 1 is located using hash key "1" in the object"
So the arrays in javascript are actually hash dictionaries?
I didn't claim Dems support this position. Beyond that, claiming that "there is widespread fraud" is "my" position, when I've stated otherwise clearly, shows more bias on your part. What makes you think I think there was widespread fraud? Perhaps you're projecting: if you defend people who are being suppressed and ridiculed, this doesn't mean you agree with them. Perhaps you are only able to imagine defending people you agree with?

I realize how what I wrote could be construed saying D's support the claim, especially if you presume I'm some kind of partisan hack trying to troll you. In fact, what I was emphasizing (poorly) was that the population sampled from which has one third of support includes Democrats and Independents, since I would have found one third of just Republicans believing there was widespread fraud to be somewhat surprising. I should have written "sampled from a population that includes Democrats and Independents" - I'd like to assume everything else I've written in this thread is evidence I'm not trying to trick anyone or score points. I am genuinely concerned at the level of dismissal, ridicule, and suppression of skeptics of the election, since the floor on this is a third of the country and history tells us what to expect when you leave that many feeling powerless to overcome a presumed deep injustice via speech, voting, and the legal system.
ISO/IEC 14496-10 is actually one of the free standards:

https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/

Presumably this is because H.264 is public. Your complaint is well founded, though: if you've built an AVC codec using public documents you may be frustrated to learn that ISO/IEC 14496-14 (describing the MP4 file format) and ISO/IEC 14496-15 (describing the AVC elementary stream and how to encode it as an MP4) are not public.

It's also worth noting that ISO removes public standards. You may find references to public standards, like the link at https://ffmpeg.org/doxygen/2.7/webmdashenc_8c_source.html – but neither the linked ISO/IEC 23009-1:2014 nor any other version of the MPEG-DASH standard is available to the public at this time. Pay up!
But you did say it would be "useless" if there were different strains and now you are saying "there are multiple strains".

I haven't seen anything about the current vaccines not being effective to what is already out there. If that is true then what you are saying is wrong, because the fact that the vaccines can treat what is now filling up hospitals and killing thousands per day means they are the opposite of useless and in fact one of the most valuable things in existence right now.

Even the regular flu shot was recommended as being more important this year so that there would be less spread and less to deal with.

> I'm just stating I am going to wait and see if the problem is actually solved before acting like it.

No, that isn't what you said. That might be what you are trying to claim now that you said something ridiculous.
As a native Swedish speaker, I tend to follow Swedish documentation writing rules even when I write English. In particular, one should always use passive voice, and also avoid terms such as "you".

In other words, write "How to achieve X", rather than "How do I do X"?

The point I want to make is that when I write documentation, and change the latter to the former, most people seem to agree it's better.
What stops a company to setup a shop somewhere in Asia to develop cheap knock offs of their own chargers that would cause problems like fires, to ensure customers would never buy a knock off?
Yes it does- imagine an email server that can’t send/receive email from everyone with an email address.

At best it’s broken at worst it’s not an email server
> frankly I do not see any advantage of hosting on say Azure over hosting myself.

In my opinion, cloud hosting only makes sense if your systems are architectured around being hosted on the cloud.

If you can build your application in such a way that it runs in the free tier of serverless, then it's going to be considerably more cost effective than renting a dedicated server - but if you can't, then it absolutely won't be.
Q: And to get rich real quick?

A: Multiple inheritance!
Hear hear! I remember a senior dev at my first job being stymied by the command line; he was very adept in the IDE, but had a hard time navigating directories. It was definitely a disadvantage when it came to getting stuff done.

One thing the author didn't cover is how you can share reified knowledge when you write shell scripts. (It's the same with other programming languages, but they aren't as easy to write or modify.) That is really really powerful, because you can not only share it with others but also with your future self.

I wrote about this more here: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2019/02/04/learn-the-comm...
Binary Size Woes
Yep, I've given up on Brave due to this long ago.
At some point, even though all of this is subjective, it’s common sense and we can go back and forth on this endlessly but it’s wholly apparent that false conspiracies that threaten the stability of the best society the world has seen should not be encouraged. So most of us, and the people in power make that decision especially given that the company is private and they can do what they want.
Foster your network to increase your career options
Does anyone know why Hughes, a OneWeb investor, placed and won bids solely within the state of Rhode Island? Is this some sort of squatting play to qualify them for future solicitations?

Given the state of OneWeb, it seems very unlikely they will be able to deliver even across such a tiny geographic area.
The Brilliant Use of Complementary Colors in the Queen’s Gambit
What percentage of Americans do you estimate genuinely believe that Trump is literally seeking to overthrow democracy, even indirectly? And I'm not asking your reasons for believing it.
> The lighter the color, the more support there is.

Shouldn’t the blue for proprietary be like white with an outline or something then?
The problem with bad/unsafe replacement batteries is that Apple intentionally makes it impossible to obtain an original battery.

If you could just walk into an Apple store and buy the original, Apple-endorsed battery at a fair price there would be no reason to go with third-party (and potentially unsafe) batteries.
I'm not sure when you saw their org chart, but it's definitely not true anymore.
There isn’t.
That's a good analogy. Nobody writes lat/lon. So, your analogy is perfect enough to largely disqualify stylistic arguments.

Lat/lon is a data set primarily used by applications. IP addresses are much the same way aside from private networks and experimentation. If you need to describe a private space in IPv6 you have link local addresses that begin with fe80.

Modern routing tables are primarily defined by dynamic protocols, such as OSPF. If you really need to express a static IP address directly, such as for remote access to a switch, the IP address will be provided to you. This is why Cisco now requires Python for the CCNP.
The NO option arguably also becomes PHI, if carried through; i.e. "I refused the COVID vaccine".
> Would you agree that Independents, regardless of their internal preference, are a good barometer of centrists vs extremists?

No, the US distribution of political beliefs is not a unidimensional center-weighted distribution. More independents are either extremists outside the main parties on the main axis between the parties or sitting equally far off on axes orthogonal to that axis than are centrists.

And most centrists are in the neoliberal capitalist faction of one or the other for the major parties.
Yay, I'm glad you like it!
Access control lists are more flexible than User,Group,World type permissions, but are nowhere as powerful or composable as capabilities.

[Edit] - Example: On a linux machine, how could you give access to only one file in the whole system? Answer: By setting the permissions on every single file other than the one in question to deny access. Set the permission to allow access on the one file you care to share.

With Capabilities, the token IS the permission... and it doesn't really take much to implement it, once you completely grok the idea.
The Underground Sistine Chapel
First of all, I agree 100% that a debugger is an indispensable tool. I just say that it is often not necessary or useful when you are writing new code or reading old code that you are supposed to edit. Your example about interpreting a crash dump is definitive.

I've had a fair share of using debuggers in my life, and I ended with my anti-debugging stance as a matter of fatigue, and a sense of time lost. I know what debuggers are capable of, especially regarding data visualization. But for your example of the variable watch, what are you going to watch, precisely? That the value of a variable is always positive? That it increases one by one? All these things are better served by assertions. What kind of information can be inferred by just looking at the evolution of values of a variable that is not easily formalized as an assert or a simple in-code test?
> When people earnestly pursue something abhorrent or deluded.

Which is exactly what happens all the time. People like the "airbnbs" thinking they can make the world a better place and pursuing their delusion with earnestness, only to cause bigger problems in the end.

I wish capitalists could at least be honest and admit they found an inefficiency in the market to exploit and they just want to profit from it. At least there's no hypocrisy in that.
Interesting, I found Tuple to have amazing quality and latency. Best I've seen with such a tool.
I've designed Python fantasy cards to learn it easier
> Unserialising remote, untrusted PHP objects (!) (Why does Vimeo provide/encourage this?)

I see nothing in the error message to show that this is the case, what am I missing?
I have a similar ice tray, but the cubes are too wide to fit into any of my flasks.
Finally, someone who got what this is about; attacking anyone and everyone that dared to question her right to attack the company that employed her and the people that work there.
It's weird to write the test after solving the problem. You should write the test before solving the problem to get the most benefit. You can then edit + compile + run test until the test pass and normally this is shorter than the "edit+compile+start app+replicate bug manually in application+debug" loop.
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-20-5A1.pdf
III A 7,

"we expect bidders seeking support for the 25/3 Mbps tier will win support only in areas where higher speeds
are not economical, and that a five-year term .."

support for rural telcos IMO
Seconded.

I have tried many options (Paged.js, github books,rdoc,pandoc) and I have never been satisfied with any of them, the process is either very complicated or the books look like crap.
Counts as legal paper trail at least.
> Facebook and Twitter are not communities in any meaningful sense, because they are global, and generally speaking meant for "anybody" to talk about "anything"

Why do Facebook and Twitter not have an "I hate this" reaction (I'm aware Facebook added "angry" but this was fairly recent)? Or a way to mark people as enemies as well as friends? Why do they prevent you posting certain kinds of graphic videos or images? Why don't Twitter let you post messages of any length? These are all limits to your freedom to express yourself.

They let you create your own groups/communities, but Twitter and Facebook clearly have their own idea of what they believe to be healthy discourse and what kind of interactions they want to nurture, and they encourage that through their UI features and moderation. Same with HN with upvotes/downvotes, who gets to vote and dedicated site moderators.

> is the whole global platform moderating everything,

It's not as simple as you're making out. I'd be against my ISP moderating what I post online, but there's more to the internet than just Facebook and Twitter. They might be popular but they don't have absolute control and aren't a prerequisite to other forms of communication or self-organisation (unlike your ISP or mobile provider).
True (or mostly so), but not useful. Math is obscure, and science is not trusted.

Not that "we" are any better -- we can't even get technologists (or doctors) to understand statistics. How can we hope for a general-population understanding of scientific process?

My answer: We can't. We can hope for leadership that steers the conversation in a useful direction, but democracy sometimes gets in the way of the elevation of useful leaders, and the media has no interest in promoting good (mostly boring) governance.
• https://craphound.com/feed

• https://boingboing.net/author/cory_doctorow_1/feed
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16558310
No it isn’t. How many hackers can you name who built their own media platform?
I don’t have any skin in the game here, but what if you don’t build auto-scaling, which keeps this comparison fair. How does pricing differ now?
If the data is small, then expressivness is more important. If the data is large, then multiple processes connected by pipes lets you employ more CPUs.
It’s not buy vs. build. It’s _rent_ vs. build.

Unless you are actually purchasing whatever it is you’re using... and I’m guessing they aren’t doing that.
At the very least there should be a global irrevocable license to implement the standard exactly. I imagine this could still allow the patent holder strong rights if any other party were to deviate or iterate on the standard. But it’s insane to me that standardization bodies don’t insist on this.
What do people think “periodic” in “periodic table” stands for?
I meant specifically on this issue, which clearly, due to its nature, is highly partisan along R/D lines given the fairly obvious incentives to believe one way or another to gain power. Do you think on this specific issue (that the election was stolen) that Independents ought to tell us a bit about what the average, non-partisan belief is?
Not much. The idea that through hard work you can get anywhere, no matter where you come from, is just a gigantic delusion and a lie we've been insistently taught to believe.

There's billions of people working daily harder than any CEO just to bring food to their families. They will never become rich.
I don't think so, serving a page from cache is far cheaper than requesting, crawling, and storing that page in a database. Cloud comes with a premium, too.
If I'm understanding your position correctly, its basically that the people providing testimony are all liars?

I haven't seen evidence of that, and cases being dismissed is likewise not evidence of that.

> That claim was pretty thoroughly demolished in the case and in the replies to that comment.

Source?

> again, just look how idiotic the cases are being run

I agree completely with this. The legal teams have not done a good job.

> hearsay

This word just means it can't be provided as evidence. It does not mean that the person is lying.
GitHub Dark Mode is too Dark
Yes, the article is definitely in need of an editor's touch.

The sentence "She placed a can on one of the Observatory’s telescopes, which had been forgotten about until September this year ..." makes it sound like it was the telescope that had been forgotten.
How to Adapt to American-Style Self-Promotion
Isn’t a Mustache a type of beard? Maybe that is different in English, but in German a mustache is also called "above lip beard" (Oberlippenbart)

Thanks for the sources on the Syphilis, I like this Part from the second article:

> The important question for Nietzsche scholars is whether this diagnostic controversy has any interpretative bearing. We know, for example, that Nietzsche suffered from insomnia but it's not clear how that information impacts how one interprets Nietzsche. Of course dementia of any kind is a far more serious condition and seems to bring with it textual implications. But what exactly are those implications?

This is kind of similar to the discussion whether Art and Artist are connected or not.
There are too many services that have continuous billing. Only way to hard stop is to start deleting compute and data.

Most AWS users would rather lose money than data and service for their customers, and bills are easier to negotiate than trying to recover your infrastructure.

The in-between approach is to create rate limits (either per sliding scale or total), which exists for some products but is probably too complicated to implement for everything.
Previous discussion (two months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24839887
I’m not sure why this comment was downvoted.

The use of certain content blockers can be detected, but it’s not a very consistent metric.

Screen size, canvas, and user agent are use more often because they never change.
Yes, but the bad side-effects of e.g. fake news and hate speech on FB and Twitter, "industry disruptions" driving wages down, etc., maybe weren't all that readily apparent 15 years ago.
The quote is present in the first Internet Archive snapshot of the article: https://web.archive.org/web/20201209131227/https://www.zdnet...
If code had instrumentation for every variable someone ever looked at with a debugger it would be unreadable because it'd be buried under instrumentation code, configuration to only enable instrumentation when needed, ... That's not to say instrumentation/logging/... aren't useful tools that can be more appropriate, but "never use a debugger" seems like a misguided dogma that seems surprisingly common. Part of the strength of a debugger is being able to look at all the things to find the ones worth a closer look, without having to add instrumentation or logging to every single one.

> by adding [...] comments, [...] etc

If you need a debugger, those are not there or not good enough, and you can only meaningfully add them after you understand what's happening.

(EDIT: there is also a wide variety in what people count as a "debugger" further muddying the debate)
TIL "git status -s". So much ad hoc bad parsing no longer necessary!
I was about to post that I recently read it and felt all smug that they didn’t even know all the species of whale back in 1851. So much for that! But of course I wholeheartedly second the recommendation.
All LSP clients for vim will give you that; it is whatever command calls `hover` on the language server (e.g. ALEHover for ALE or LanguageClient_textDocument_hover for LanguageClient-neovim). Obviously you should bind these to some convenient command like <leader>t.
What's the difference between post-hoc rationalization and learning from experience though? I don't see him making any claims of pre-ordained success or that luck isn't a factor, he's just pointing out a quality he's seen to be valuable in the context of startups and how it can be a contra-indicator to the type of BS artist that proliferate around any kind of profitable industry.

Sure we can always question motivations (eg. yours could be envy or sour grapes), but that is unproductive.
counting hours doesn't work so lets count unicorns? Want some of my koolaid? You seem to be out.
Have to pull this old chestnut out: https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...

I am not the author of that piece, but the analysis is wonderful.