skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why should our communication belong to one company? Makes no sense to me. Therefore start using signal

...this would make the problem you identify worse. Signal is one company.

> E-Mail is an open Standard. Instant messaging can be too!

It can be, but Signal definitely isn't.

Email and instant messaging don't actually differ in terms of what they're doing. They differ only in the social perception of what you should use them for. Why not use, say, Delta Chat, which is a messaging app frontend that delivers its messages by email?
When I worked with a university partnered research lab, it wasn't uncommon to have a heavily biased sample based on the university student population. The students were significantly easier to tap into and often cheaper if compensation was involved.

With that said, if there's an IRB process for any sort of human subject work, it's always skirting along the ethically grey area to do this. So, not only is your data biased towards a specific subpopulation (concentrated age groups, often concentrated socioeconomic statuses, etc.), faculty are often on the verge of unethical conduct with students.

98% is pretty high even for the cheapest of faculty I interacted with.
I've heard multiple peers worry about runaway inflation if UBI were enacted.
Have you read the documentation for this beast? It is complete but I would not describe it as easy to use. To be fair, we could probably slap an API and a GUI on top of this nonsense:

$ burrito -time +:30 b+g+cc+jf+jf+sf+sc-sc+i"Black Beans"+n:2/Ross \
b+v:cc+g+cm+sc+i"no rice"/Kathie

(sigh no double dash long options and a horrific base food specification thingie - yes it is complete and well formed but it is still bollocks:

FoodSpec::=<type>[options*][/<name>]
<type> ::= [b|t|m|q|T]
(burrito, taco, mexico city, quesadilla, Taqitaco)
)

RLY? Even in 1992 RAM was not too scarce. There was no reason to be so compact in form. If it was then those + symbols can go and better choices of options made to avoid ambiguity.
Curious as to why you think WeWork is a bad idea?
Unemployed people have economic impact, obviously. They consume their savings, increase debt, or are a tax burden on others (or all of the above). If they consume savings mainly, they may even show up as a positive influence on GDP. But it's not very sustainable, because for most people's savings are quite limited, and consuming them because they're forced to by circumstances is not really good for them.
Not at la costeña. They were pretty imperturbable. Plus it was here in the Valley, where apartments that came with internet connections had been around for a couple of years. This was all pre web of course.

I drove past that corner just the other day. The old crappy building has long been torn down and replaced by a modern multistory building. The burrito operation had long moved across the street and a little down the road to a former fast food joint but I believe is gone now.
Keyword: Universal basic income.
My experience with Wozi was interesting.

Some drinks like Club-mate (quite popular here in Berlin) become almost syruppy. If you like strong espressos, prepare to experience a different drink altogether. Try not to overdose on coffee, it will be tasty but it still has the same amount of caffeine.

Also, I didn't know pickles would be such a delicacy (the taste was completely unexpected and funny as far as a specific taste can make you laugh).

It's a great way to get a boost in taste and sweetness in many foods (without the increase in sugar), but you'll have to find out what your new you likes.

I very much recommend trying it out at least once.
You state this as fact when it is clearly an opinion about what would happen with a UBI. Moreover, if UBI was implemented as a tax refund, then there is plenty of precedent for not being alarmed.
No Commodore PET. As a person who started there I'm indignant. (but secretly these are pretty cool)
There's two levels of risk, Tesla owners taking themselves out, and then there is innocent bystanders being taken out.
It's pretty infuriating if you consider that we're all put at risk.
I'm old enough to see the difference that lower apartment rents and health insurance cost made in people's lives. One used to be able to live in places like coastal California on retail/etc jobs without needing a college degree.

I'm not against UBI but feel like that is just trying to fix a symptom (in the USA at least).
This brings back the memories. Another true story to add to this one. I (like many Sun cohorts) loved the burritos at La Costeña market, and we had adopted the FAX trick from Adobe.

Then along came the "Distributed Objects Everywhere" project (which invented CORBA) and they wanted an example application so they created "BurritoTool" which used CORBA to find the server that was connected to the fax line, and a nice WYSIWYG window to select your burrito condiments. Everyone loved it, it was a great tool and we all used it.

Then one day we show up and they tell us they have turned off their fax machine. We asked why, and they show us faxes for burrito orders that started coming in at 6AM and went non-stop until they turned it off. Some seemed legit but many were clearly not from someone who knew the place.

We go back to the office and do some snooping and see a bunch of requests to the burrito server in the wee hours before anyone is at work. We trace the IP address to a hotel in New York city. We call the Hotel and as it turns out Sun Sales is hosting an event and one of the things they are showing off at the "pavilion" is our cool distributed object technology. And using Burritotool! But CORBA has done its job and when it hadn't been told there was a local burrito server it sent packets back to HQ and found the one in the systems group lab. Starting at 9AM eastern and going all morning long, people had been making random burrito orders as part of the demo code!
> Deep down, we all know that the world is utter shit

Well, yes and no. On one hand, we're all destined to mortal frailty and death, and most of us will experience things worse than a nightmare and have to keep on going. On the other hand, to live is a precious gift with more beauty and potential than one can imagine, especially if focused on the other part.
> we have no word that encompasses both

“serde”
I wish we could have something similar in modern times. Instead, we have a handful of equally-shitty delivery platforms with terrible and bloated UIs and no API.

Wasn't Google supposed to solve this for us? Wasn't the news crammed for a week with demos of a disembodied Google-powered ordering Chinese food by telephone?

What ever happened to that?
U.S. carrier strike group enters South China Sea amid Taiwan tensions
Sorry, 178 year old tech.
The C-64 is nice but it doesn't have the USB attachment that my real C-64 sports these days.
Like the obsolescent Stuka during the Battle of Britain, the B52 would get slaughtered in a real war.
That's why networks are important.
This is my (basic, lay) understanding of how changes to UK law happen, as well.

For example, here is a collection of "Statement of changes in Immigration Rules: 1994 to 2020": https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-rules-...

If you click on the latest document, "accessible" version, you'll find paragraphs such as the following:

Changes to the Introduction
Intro1. In paragraph 6.2, after the definition of “English language course”, insert:
“ “EU national” in Appendix T5 (Temporary Worker) International
Agreement Worker means a person who is a national of: Austria, Belgium,
Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Spain, or Sweden; and who is not also a British citizen.”.

Changes to Part 7
7.1. For the second paragraph 276BB1(vi)(d), substitute:
“(e) the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the
Department for International Development or the Foreign, Commonwealth
and Development Office has determined should qualify for relocation under
the ex-gratia redundancy / resignation package, including confirmation that
they served ‘on frontline duties outside the wire in Helmand’.”.

Anyone interpreting this law (i.e. lawyers) does not have the "latest" version to hand; they have to stack successive changes.

There are other complications, which I can't recall, but I dearly wish someone would do this for UK law.
eval works very similarly to how it worked before -- when you eval some code it compiled it and then runs it. Every* Scheme or Lisp system supports this kind of compilation-at-runtime, and Chez is no exception.
> Introduction beforehand sows the seed for a direct transfer of wealth from the 49% haves to the 51% have-nots.

And why is that inherently bad? It may be bad (I happen not to think so) but would like more than a bare assertion that that is the case.

For example, in favor: from an economics PoV, increased liquidity and discretionary income on the part of the poorer population should increase economic activity (e.g. velocity of money) which is good for business.
This one I never quite understood. I could bet five bucks all of your extended family on facebook has email addresses.

Facebook seems indispensable in finding the people you're after, but maintaining contact doesn't seem to require it.

Or is it their updates posted to the entire world that you're after?
> You gotta remember that JSON doesn’t support all of the types that many languages do. So you need to engineer around that by annotating your attributes with a type or relying on a naming convention on keys. You can’t get mad at JSON for not being good at this.

Oh I absolutely can get mad at it. JSON was not designed to be good at this. That’s the problem! Well, that and for various reasons (some good, some bad) programmers decided to use JSON for _everything_.

JSON sucks. If it didn’t exist the world would probably invent and standardize on something better. But it does exist, and it sucks, and we’re stuck with it.
Before getting sucked into the enterprise world, I reinvented a bunch of wheels and this indeed gave me a deeper understanding of the inner workings of various frameworks and technologies. I noticed that my colleagues who had ten years or more on their resume rarely had any idea what I was rambling on about or the basis for the things they were using.

Their were so busy trying to get stuff done that they never had time to explore. I don't mean blog post or tutorial explore, I mean weeks and weeks of implementation and testing of patterns and low level engineering. Building database engines from scratch or writing a compiler or a distributed message broker, for instance.
Cinionic 4K Digital Cinema Projector: $341,419
More space trash. Thanks, Mr Musk.
How technical is that group? My family isn't and they've noted a few times that Signal feels sluggish(therefore not enjoyable) to them and missing stuff they enjoy on WhatsApp, like statuses.
They signed deals with Postmates and Caviar and now they can't ship features that will render those businesses irrelevant.
While I imagine it could easily be nitpicked in some fashion, it could be the case that automation values/milestones/something were used to determine the total amount to be distributed evenly among citizens (rather than an arbitrary number).
You might be interested in https://docs.racket-lang.org/xiden-guide/index.html (Sage also gave a talk at RacketCon 2020 about it).
> it matters a lot if you used standard libraries

Why? From a security perspective, an outage is a security matter, the remediation plan is what’s important.
Belief that you depend on Facebook to stay in touch with your family is so misguided and sad.

No matter where you live in the world, you don’t need Facebook, not at all, not one bit. It requires absolutely zero extra effort to stay in touch to exactly the same degree, see all the photos, send all the messages you want, with dozens and hundreds of other global services that all your contacts, even tech-phobic grandma, already can super easily interact with.

I have never had a Facebook account, yet I still keep in touch with all the many contacts in my network from high school, college, past jobs, global extended family, immediate family, OSS project acquaintances, etc. etc. - all with zero Facebook.

This utterly false myth that Facebook is necessary, or even the slightest bit important or even useful, to keep in touch very closely with all the photos, comments, etc., really needs to die.

You can completely delete Facebook on a whim right now, and 100% of all that stuff is just as immediately, easily achievable right away with zero loss or deficiency from removing Facebook.
China had a worrisome record on outbreaks like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003, and though it had since invested heavily in its health care system, many of its people still lacked access to affordable, high-quality care.

I would be very interested to see whether China has a larger proportion of its population who 'lack access to affordable, high-quality care' than the US which does not have a single-payer health service.
I think it would definitely be better to do a SSG or even wordpress with static output since you can throw it all behind authentication, which greatly reduces the attack surface.
Can't help but wonder if receiving a professionally typeset burrito order by fax would have raised any eyebrows in 1992.

Probably not much. Faxmodems were a thing in the 80's. Maybe not common in the early part of the decade, but common enough that we had one in my home at least by 1988.
Google is threatening to pull its search engine from Australia
Barrier doesn't work well if your displays don't have similar DPI - the mouse cursor will slow down or speed up when you move to another display.
I deleted WhatsApp and moved to Signal and many contacts followed. Not all, but most. If the momentum continues, then the rest will follow.

Viral growth and shrinkage means this is one case where being the change you want to see can have immediate effect.

If you can, try it. If it doesn't work, you can always go back to WhatsApp in a few months.
> Every time I see these kinds of video, whether that is of protein translation, kinesin walking on microtubule, [...] I get this feeling that Panpsychism is closer to truth

Those two are... sadly quite different than the TFA video. Those are cartoons, steeped in artistic license, accommodation of animation software limitations, and artists regrettably but intentionally prioritizing "pretty" over a misconception-spawning lack of resemblance to reality. Think of a video of Saint Trump's day, with frames selected to show him floating along, limbs unmoving, through a deserted White House. Problematic when learning biology. Not a good source of ground truth.
WhatsApp worldwide usage is estimated to be more than 2B+ users. Even if this article is accurate, it doesn’t really mean much. In the HN bubble lots of people have migrated to Signal with all of their contacts but outside of that bubble nothing much seems to be happening. Note that I’m not agreeing with these changes, I’m just observing reality.

To put things into perspective, let’s assume that 25M users (as stated in the article) actually moved to Telegram - which I use and like by the way. Let’s assume they fully moved and stopped using WhatsApp (very unlikely). That means less than 1.25% users moved to another platform - and this means assuming many things that aren’t probably real.

It reminds me a bit of the articles about DuckDuckGo vs Google where many people think big changes in usage are happening while ignoring that the average Joe will keep using whatever it’s using unless there’s way too much trouble to continue using it.
I think it’s worth noting how this ends a city’s culture.

And the issue is rents of all types.

I walked by an old favorite restaurant of mine which now has a for lease sign in the window.

It seems the rents in SF act as a filter only allowing longevity for certain types of restaurants:

- ones that use cheap terrible ingredients and production habits with high prices

- megacorp food franchises

Both underpay employees.

It feels like gone are the days of a person passionate about some culinary niche or ensuring their workers get a livable wage following through on that passion and filling the city with new and interesting food options.

The story of the restaurant I mentioned earlier already endured the rents of 5-10 years ago by starting as a tiny place, like a coat locker at a hotel, that sat 6 but churned out quality food and soon become as known for their excellent food as their infamous waits.

They were able, in a few years, to upgrade to a bigger space but now they’re gone.

I’m doubtful even their original success story could happen in the same city now.
Don't write on the lines, and draw pictures.
Huddlecam used to have a product that was a little like this. They were targeting cameras, but it seems like it also worked for soundcards and possibly some other devices. I have no idea how reliable it was.
A lot of other equipment goes into making semiconductors beyond lithography. Applied Materials and Lam Research are two major manufacturers of semiconductor manufacturing equipment that are located in SV. There are many smaller ones also.
GNU Guile 3.0.5 Released
Network effect is the moat that is insurmountable according to those that believe big tech should be regulated like a utility.

If a new TOS policy with a bunch of legalese can damage the moat I would say the moat is pretty vulnerable.

It seems less clear that the market can deliver a solution for people that post untrue things on the internet.
Will this make an actual impact, if criminal records searches are what employers, landlords, etc use?
> The problem with inlining all CSS is serving all the global styles all over again with every page load. You're gaining a great first impression at the cost of a poorer experience for every subsequent page load.

The vast majority of users will visit one and only one page.
Yeah you and another reply have a good point that real time and asynchronous video communication paired with ubiquitous cameras on our devices might also be the next game changer. If so it's still the first inning or relative beginning of seeing the impacts of that technology on society.
The download links for the models are trying to serve malware. Is anyone else having this problem?
Apparently I wasn't clear enough. The reason that individuals and corporations have a smaller kill count than governments is because governments historically have more resources and freedom of action in order to commit atrocities. In the cases where corporations have had the opportunity, such as colonial companies or the United Fruit Company[1] for a more recent example they have not refrained from any action on moral grounds.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company#Aiding_an...
And Rick Belluzzo.
It’s not just the numbers, it’s who they are. Having a good portion of the tech/media scene move to Signal, even if it’s just conversations and intent, shifts the needle. Impact is more influential than most other segments.

I do worry about the move to Telegram. I’ve seen large law firms and privacy experts defend WhatsApp in comparisons to Telegram. I could easily see WhatsApp get those users back.
Such an odd design for the site.
AFAIK, the Pi 4 also supports this mode and would offer gigabit performance. Still not terrific, but maybe enough to be usable.
My understanding is that we’d expect to see it leveling off if that’s the case, but every year it just keeps dropping.
It would be revolutionary if "recommendations" wasn't a modern synonym for "advertisements"
Fullscreen isn't just for video though. It's very commonly used for games. I also wrote fullscreen support for "DOM videos" (e.g. https://pernos.co/about/overview/) using the fullscreen API. The latter doesn't even support Webkit because the compatibility work was just too hard.
"HTML and the Internet has gone back to the dark ages because it presupposes that there should be a browser that understands its formats. This has to be one of the worst ideas since MSDOS. HTML is what happens when physicists decide to play with computers."
This field is gonna be really important across domains!
Data streams can absolutely be provided as a service.
I have an idea!

An app that aggregates all of your different social networking apps (think AIM, but for social networks). When you talk with your friends, each of your messages get sent to different social networks -round robin style- this only gives each social network a portion of the conversation.
Your friends must, of course, also use the same tool to stitch the conversation back together.
Facebook purges left-wing pages and individuals
I definitely think of the first ~7 decades of the 20th century that way. If you were born in 1900, you would (most likely) have witnessed: the internal combustion engine, human flight (from nothing to faster than the speed of sound), a major world wide economic depression, two world wars, the invention of nuclear power, major social and legal changes in the '60s (in some places at least), and the exploration of space, starting from nothing and most likely including humans walking on the moon.

Or another way to look at it: during the N years I have lived, how much has the the world changed compared to the period of time between 1900 and 1900 + N? Though on reflection, I guess this is probably the sort of thought experiment that becomes more interesting as one gets older..
It simultaneously incentivises skilled emigration and unskilled immigration. It would drive an exodus of any entrepreneurial talent.
I imagine the complexity is bound to the language you are using. From JavaScript writing a JSON serialization library wasn’t that challenging. Compared to various other web technologies serializing JSON was almost trivial.
Personal info is not the same as my constantly generated stream of data.
I have trouble with RDP and a 1060, though I've not tried in many months so it might be something that has since been fixed.

The issue seemed to be switching between remote and local access, i.e using the machine locally, then from remote, then coming back to local. It would usually survive a couple of cycles of this then just be a black screen after login. Once in that state tricks to reboot the graphics driver did not work and reporting in speed working too, though the rest of the machine was up as services like IIS and file shares kept responding just fine.

My hacky solution is to run VM for most day-to-day work on that machine and remote to that, only using the bare metal when I need the fancy gfx card or otherwise the little bit of extra unpf gained by not having a virtualization layer in the mix.
Guile – Scheme Implementation Supporting R5RS, R6RS, and R7RS Standard and SRFI
Entirely difference reasons for equally spaced letters.

Typewriters had no way of adjusting kerning pairs. The space between ho and lo are different in proportional fonts. These are called kerning pairs. So, it was mechanically easier to make letters of same width.

Code is monospaced for many reasons others have replied here.
My wild conspiracy theory is that this is a solved problem but admitting it has problematic geopolitical implications.
American Airlines has so much extra wine that it is starting a delivery service
They should have been nice, instead of communicating agree with their terms or go and delete your account.

It's a lesson. No matter how big you are.
1. Communicate for understandability.
2. Don't take your customers for granted.
3. Change is hard, nudge them towards it instead of a push.
Their fear was that the app was malware. It was surprisingly difficult to dispel the idea
It is complex, but the advantage is that once I have the command figured out I can save it as an alias and be able to invoke it in seconds.