skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw this in one of your other posts and it seems super interesting to me.

1. Improve the web site slightly (add a contact method and pricing info) and make it clear that it's a company offering an enterprise software tool. Programmers will be viewing the site, so it doesn't need much more than is there already.

2. Charge a flat $7,500/year for a commercial usage license and increase it as the functionality increases. Offer email support and updates. Many programmers can buy a $7,500/year piece of software without their management even asking a follow up question.

3. Write some blog posts showing how to use it and why it's good. Some benchmarks (LOC, performance, etc) vs alternatives would be a good source of posts. Real world examples that people can copy/paste to start with is probably the most useful.

4. Submit the blog posts to HN and some subreddits.

5. Profit (maybe)
Probably using something other than synchronously clocked digital gates. Analog neural networks and the like:

https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/articles/consideri...

...or reversible computation...

https://cqi.inf.usi.ch/qic/80_Toffoli.pdf

https://calculemus.org/logsoc03/materialy/ConservativeLogic....
Aaronson also addresses Penrose's consciousness/intelligence/computation ideas in this podcast: https://youtu.be/nAMjv0NAESM?t=2176 (timestamped to that part)
I'm using a droplet, but also pay for analytics (Plausible), Cloudflare Argo, ads (100 daily visitors for a euro daily).

The complexity so far has mainly been polishing usability (autocomplete, responsive design, parsing DNS records, adding ip info, etc).
You linked to Google instead of the guardian.
Design Conferences During a Pandemic
2021: "I just built a perfect blog...YYYY-MM-DD-Title.html" ;-)
Wow, what a fun game! Projects made for the fun of it tend to have a certain charm to them compared to projects made for profit.
That's missing the point. I first have to decide whether I want to click on one and if so which one I want to click on.

The illustrations don't help me decide. They don't even particularly encourage me to click.

I'm sure if you came to it cold you'd see what I mean. Great illustrations aren't a rare commodity on the web - people want to know what the actual game will look like.
Then Google knows you weren't going to and doesn't.

https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/Qmdpah7j4mLswRLsv55qX4R9RzK...
This article was on HN recently, and it does a pretty good job of explaining how we did this to ourselves by making the dollar the global reserve currency:

https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/
I would imagine most people are going to buy the music where they usually buy it from. And with just three sites it compares I could just check these sites by myself. So for now it lacks a bit of content.

However, something I would like to see and i think could be more niche-oriented would be similar as this but for physical releases. Discogs does have some retailers, but they need to manually upkeep their inventory in there. If you could scrape physical releases and show where I can order album X for the cheapest (shipping included) or even see where it is available to buy, that would be a service I would love to use.
> for some unknown reasons

ka-ching

educational and government contracts need disruption and this is a symptom
Of course they are going to tell me something more. They will tell me what the actual game looks like.
Using this logic isn’t it likely it came from the US? Simultaneously saying it’s nothing and China did it seems suspicious.
As a preface, I'm a web moron. And as a web moron, I don't understand why the major browsers haven't just created some flash sandbox for these apps to run under. Are there technical limitations to shipping a flash "virtual machine"? Or just a complete lack of will to do so?
SpaceX will attempt to recover Super Heavy rocket by catching with launch tower
> Personally I think the extra space does improve readability. I would advocate that the extra spacing should be handled at presentation time.

Extra space between sentences is standard in English typesetting (spacing in printed text is language-specific BTW) precisely for readability: it lets you, in general, read by sentence.

The problems with deferring it to presentation are 1 - "raw"=ish text often is the presentation (consider just long text in a code comment -- and almost anything in the terminal) and 2 - you don't always write in text that is undergoing any kind of presentation processing in realtime (e.g. you're writing TeX, or Markdown for that matter). You want to be able to read it easily.

The inverse is not a problem: a typesetting system can just coalesce spacing and make its own inter-sentence spacing decisions.
My understanding from a quick google:

The issue is that if you write a Haskell program, and you want to deploy it as a single executable, then GMP is included (statically linked), so the LGPL applies to the executable.

The two obvious ways to meet the LGPL license restrictions are:

* license your code in a way that is LGPL compatible (e.g. open source your code using GPL)

* you could provide the app in a relinkable form (ie a big .o file) as per section 6.a

Essentially there is no tidy way to distribute a closed source Haskell executable without removing the GMP library, which was the sole remaining LGPL dependency. It was not trivial to remove the dependency because of the library’s quality (amongst other reasons).

(Edited for clarity.)
It requires a difference of priorities and ambitions. What draws people to the DC area is not the same as what draws them to SV. It’s not a disparity of capability. Aside from that, your point really is not accurate. There are plenty of companies and entrepreneurs users in the DC area that generate FAR more value and revenue than SV startups. Take a look at the wealthiest counties in the US. Loudoun County and Fairfax County have been the top of that list for a while. Or Montgomery County for that matter.
It’s hard to reduce crime rates when you constantly manufacture new types of victimless crimes and create lucrative black markets to incentivize participants to use assault, intimidation and murder in the course of business.
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To be fair, American wages, outside of the bottom percentile jobs, are much higher than their counterparts in the developed world.
> Things may have changed since, but AFAIK the C++ implementation would always allocate on the heap for nested messages

This is no longer the case if you use arenas: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/referenc...

> and perhaps even for optional scalars

This has never been the case, except for string fields where std::string forces us to allocate.

Ideally we will eventually use std::string_view for string accessors instead of std::string, so that even string data can be allocated on an arena instead of the heap.
I think a better question would be:
"Do you want to enjoy your life while you're young, thus increasing your odds to live longer and better[1], or bet you'll live to an older age and, hopefully, enjoy life when you're old?"

1: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/how-research-shows-you-can-l...
> Google's implementations, at least C++ and Java, are a bunch of bloated crap (or maybe they're very good, but for a use case that I haven't yet encountered).

Right, they were designed for use in Google's servers, where binary size is mostly irrelevant, while speed and features (e.g. reflection) are valued.

"Lite mode" (not mentioned in the article, for some reason) optimizes for code size instead. Admittedly, it's not as small as an implementation written from scratch with minimal code footprint as the main goal, but it does cut the size quite a bit...

(Disclaimer: I wrote those C++ and Java implementations, but that was 10-15 years ago, things may have changed in the meantime...)
Then it needs to secede from Maryland and the whole union so they can use their holistic solutions to policing. Our constitution does not support the way the police act.
The courts have looked at these allegations and the actual evidence is slim to none, and far from being about a big enough number of votes to change the result of the election, it's not even enough to change the result in one state.
> The other alternative to the pointy nose theory

you'd think it would have been much more successful with Obama
Did anyone do the same with research for other countries? I’d be willing to bet the US and European research also mirrors features of COVID-19.
People tolerate these kinds of things as necessary evils.

It would be great if we didn't need ID to drive and didn't need SS but that's not the world we live in.

The fact that people tolerate necessary evil is not argument for more evil.
It's true, you won't die if you stop spending money on fitness like you would for food/shelter. I would still put "reasonable" fitness spending higher on the spending hierarchy, then, say, alcohol or Netflix.
What is this thing with JSON support? Don't people use pb so they do not have to deal with JSON? I'd expect that for a truly lean pb implementation, adding JSON is a 300% increase in code size?
The problem here is that "anomalies in the genetic code" is, I believe, their claim, not fact, but presented as a fact along with established facts, which may be interpreted as a deliberate attempt to spread essentially 'fake news'.
That's 9 trillion dollars worth of money.

Each party is dedicated to making sure that their constituents and only their constituents get money. After all, if the other guys can write endless checks for you, why on earth would they vote for the other guy.

Also, sooner or later the US dollar's reserve status will disappear, and all of a sudden, all of the money supply we have flushed into the economy will manifest as inflation.
To anyone ready to say “you can’t donate to Firefox, only the Mozilla Corp” — don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
I don't have a copy of my favourite cartoon from years ago - The Pygmy Shrew - but there is a "ruffle-ised" version of it here:

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/699

However, I can't download the file to upload it to the internet archive. Any tips? (It is, actually, available as a vid file on YT, too, but the original was an flv - here is the YT version: https://youtu.be/d5LA3i_XrVU )
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What would be the point of that? Flash is not an open standard and has been abandoned by Adobe. If you're talking about a sandbox in general, isn't that already the case with Javascript? The environment Javascript executes under in a modern browser is really rich and a lot of work has gone into making it secure and performant, none of which can be claimed by Flash.
Sorry, but those animations are BAAAAD. Arguably worse than https://www.lingscars.com/ .
> Do people really not use libraries in Germany any more?

I am really chuckling at the double meaning here.

> And I really should not have written my own HTML parser for it
Learn more about the new linear types extension in GHC here: https://tek.brick.do/64693fb8-39b4-40a5-8762-768009eeed91
It doesn't make sense to rational actors, no.

But for people arguing from a position of bad faith--people disagree with the very idea of unemployment insurance or social welfare of any kind--it makes all the sense in the world. "Look at these people stealing all this money. We can't have that." Then they slash budgets further.

People still talk about Reagan's imaginary welfare queen 4o years later to justify cutting social welfare programs. They'll use any excuse they can find.
Not really. The only elections that really matter are the primaries. In California and CO, once you have that locked up, the party machinery will make sure that no other canonicate gets elected.
Apple wanted to kill flash because it was CPU intensive and Jobs hated it. They wanted the first iPhone(s) to have great battery life and the web was plagued by flash intros, games, and what not at that time.

It didn’t help it had a lot of security issues and it certainly helped its downfall. IMHO we are better without it and good riddance.
Hm.. I worked on a piece of software with similar needs of polling random people for their opinion. Have you considered using Amazon Mechanical Turk?

I imagine some bias would be there, but probably manageable. In return you'd get the ability to poll way more than 50 people for a very reasonable price.
By "dropping support", they mean "it won't work, at all". Set the clock forward on your PC to January 12th, 2021, and try using it.

"Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021"
> compared with e.g. the search for the higgs boson

Understatement of the month, haha. I don't suppose you debate in engineering circles?
> I can't see why they would care about people modifying the games or equipment they own.

Nintendo has previously sued a company for selling a device which allows people to mod the device they owned. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Galoob_Toys,_Inc._v._N.... Nintendo is notoriously anti-consumer in this regard.

And anyways, restricting mods is unnecessary to encourage the economic viability of video games.
It’s not “exactly” true, there are plenty of cases where departments have fired individual officers for the singular act of lying in investigations.

A better way to say it is that there aren’t enough honorable police departments firing enough dishonest cops.

And in this case they will argue that misleading != lying.
Or, you know, something in between. It's not an either or.
I don't think that's a valid retort to what I said. My point is that they make no pretense to argue in good faith.
RunAsDate.exe to the rescue
Also, their bogus computer “models”, were generated in Microsoft Excel.

And once in a while, they go: Oops, my computer made a mistake.
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I'm guessing flash sites were also horrible on a small touch screen. The simple act of having to rewrite most of the web without flash in a time where smartphones existed probably did a lot of good.
> Eventually, the state’s computers started to flag anomalies: out-of-state banks, duplicate email addresses and multiple names using the same bank accounts.

There are also entire markets of compromised remote protocol computers, sorted by location and bandwidth, payable in cryptocurrency.

This allows you normal, dynamic residential and office IP addresses that even flagging VPNs will allow people to get around.

It is likely these are used as well, and gives state agencies a false sense of security. I don't consider those organizations having any solution.
Almost uncontrollable LOL here
You pointing out that overreaction is further propagation.
Some ways they have not kept Firefox working for you in 2020:

- Laying off 25% of their engineers

- Investing in a 400% increase in leadership salaries and bonuses during record-low market share

- Adding more advertising to an end-user application

- Sending all of your browsing history to Cloudflare

- Launching a VPN grift which sends all of your data to another third-party (and charges you for the pleasure)

- Terminated Firefox Send and Firefox Notes

- Failed to open source Pocket, 3 years since their promise to
I'd say a distro like Debian is nearly tautologically defined by it's packages.
> I don't understand why the major browsers have just created some flash sandbox for these apps to run under

They haven't done this. I don't know where you heard that? The whole point of the article is they're dropping Flash instead of doing this.
Yes, a very clear answer! The problem we were solving was that apparel firms have really long lead times: they design their lines for a season 9-12mo before the customer buys it. That means they can't iterate on their designs; DecisionCandy would let them do so in a lightweight way, by showing their sketches/previews of pieces to their customers, and doing a "which do you like more" survey to score the items.

The problem here is that it takes 9-12mo to find out whether the app does any good, and YC is a 3mo program! We were only just about to sign a pilot deal at the time, so the timing wouldn't have made sense.

And indeed, that long of a feedback loop is realistically too slow for a VC startup. We closed up and I "pivoted" to something totally different a few months later.
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>Did you read the article?

I did. ACLU is trying to prevent this program from restarting after a trial run.

>or you will never get the public trust necessary to really make a dent in high crime areas.

Where is the evidence that 'public trust' is the reason for the high crime rate? What if the causality is reversed ... what if high crime rate is what breeds tougher policing because you know, police are human, and it has to mess you up being exposed to the worst of humanity, every.single.day, working in one of the most crime filled city in the world.

> But you have to punish and root out those cops who aren’t

Sure, nobody disagrees with that, but to be clear, that won't fix the crime rate in Baltimore.
I guess they did some low level jobs in the holiday season.
Car manufactoring pays way to good to give these jobs to irish travelers.
Build this video-sauce.com so normal people could use make use of youtube-dl to archive videos.

Sites like this were nuked off search for 'reverse cypher violation'
Very small traffic mainly used by youtubers to download their own videos or to make clips. No revenue.

I added subtitle generation (unreleased), which adds the punctuation. All for fun, which was indeed fun.
Many Chinese sellers will list items on Amazon for a multiple of the price listed on AliExpress. You're essentially paying a multiple of the price for faster shipping.
I built http://hopscotch.global back in like 2014 as a side hustle with high hopes. The idea was to get people to put together lists of activities and then share/review them. I still think it's a decent idea but I was young and expecting a "if you build it they will come" sort of scenario. So once it was "finished" I didn't know what to do next so I moved on to the next thing.
Conservatives can only blame themselves if high-tech companies have lots of liberal people. There is no law of nature that says that conservatives cannot design software or write code. One easy way to solve this is to stop being so obnoxiously anti-intellectualist. English conservatives can do it, and they are not necessarily smart.

But that mob behaviour is not left or right; it is totalitarian.

> people like Anima leading committees at the top of CS hierarchy

Yeah that’s a travesty.

> If I was in rural kentucky working in a coal mine, I would be shouting about how the reactionary wing of the right has completely taken over discourse.

As you bloody well should. They voted for it, but these people are still getting the short end of the stick again.

> I'm in tech/grad-student/urban/academic circles, so I speak about the bad actors there.

As you should, too! But I think you mis-diagnose when you attribute this to leftist tendencies. This is a religious war and the real losers are reasonable people caught in the crossfire. The problem is the cult system, not the liberal flavour of one side.

> I was careful to never mention the word 'left' in my comment.

You’re right, sorry. ”liberal” is a centrist ideology, even though apparently some people think it’s communism (which is absolutely not liberal).

> This wing of ultra-prescriptive / thought-policing 'hyper-liberal' left is very "North American college campus phenomenon". It doesn't map onto left movements around the world at all.

Yes! The contexts are very different. Although this has bothered me quite a bit recently, seeing the same sound bites getting translated for local consumption in several European country. It seems this behaviour is contagious.

This is not what liberalism is, though, any more than neocons or the alt-right are actually about conservatism. Liberalism is about individual freedom. Thought police is an aspect that some supposedly progressives imported directly from Stalinism.
To be honest, I would’ve thought that organic meat might produce more greenhouse gases, since they need more land and higher quality food for the same amount of meat.
Ticketmaster employees accessed a competitor's computers using stolen passwords
That’s cool. Everything about the design fills me with nostalgia and takes me to the good old days of the Micro ISV, the Joel on Software forums, and my own, now unsuccessful, plans for world domination.
> AFAIK the C++ implementation would always allocate on the heap for nested messages

FWIW if you reuse the same message object for multiple parsings, it will re-use the sub-objects as well, thus amortizing away the allocation cost. Parsing the same message into the same object twice should do zero allocations on the second parse. This is the intended way to use Protobuf for small-size messages.

Apparently the C++ implementation has also grown support for arena allocation more recently. (After my time, so I don't know much about it.)
ASN.1 is basically an IDL. There are multiple encodings for ASN.1 but DER is one of the most common ones (you can also encode to JSON or XML).

DER is indeed TLV (tag-length-value) and there are many code generators available.
For me, I've found that no matter how much I've enjoyed life in the past, other than good memories, it does nothing for me in the present.

I still enjoy life in the present but I do sacrifice a bit of it so I can also enjoy life when older.

If you don't want to completely sacrifice today for tomorrow you simply adjust the age related weight in the Excel sheet :-)
>HTTPS-Only mode ... will also ask for your permission before connecting to a website if it doesn't support secure connections.

This is being done with the best of intentions but browsers scaremongering over HTTP sites as if they are dangerous is a bad thing. There is more to the web than commercial transactions!

Human people cannot feasibly be cert authorities. Only corporations can. When browsers will only display sites that are authorized by corporations we're eventually going to be in big trouble. Yes, LetsEncrypt is a benevolent corporation, yes there are even options beyond LE, but as we know from the dot org fiasco as long as there is potential money to be made these benevolent dictorships will eventually go very bad. And that's ignoring all centralization making a very juicy target for government censorship.

Encrypt, yes. But also allow plaintext. The potential for a down-grade attack on a "secure" site is worth far less to the world than being able to communicate person to person without a corporate intermediary approving every bit.
What if it turns out to be like the Spanish Flu where we got the origin wrong and most of this conjecture is meaningless because the premise is faulty?
If you leave the door to where you live wide open when you're away for some days, that can also end badly.
As they should. They are more than 50% of the population. Now, just make it fair and equal, instead of five white women, how about 500K women of color? Hell, just give the girls all of it, and we'd all be better off, and having a lot more fun.