skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building notifications multiple times made me appreciate this, so, so much. Even larger companies have trouble with notification. One of my worst nightmares is notifications from Reddit and Airbnb (sorry TommyDANGerous). I hate it when email, in-app, push don't sync.
I joined HN after feeling the /. community that I had loved became too... negative and political than I liked. I asked around about another community and that's when I first learned about HN.
All the arguments about Chrome being insecure due to its proprietary software built upon it, are true, but why not use Ungoogled Chromium? (or another chromium fork that implements those features themselves).
Mozilla is in a very bad position, their main source of income as I understand it is Google, because they're the ones that pay the most to have Google as a default search engine in Firefox.
That and Googles anti-competitive practices, like when they implemented the Polymer redesign on YouTube, which had Firefox and Edge loading the site way slower than Chrome.

I don't know what Mozilla can do even if they do all the right things, because Google will just keep throwing money punches.
When you've done that read Ulrich Drepper's piece on memory - it's tough but this is what sets you apart from a cowboy (not so much the section on DRAM pinouts, but the whole thing)
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It's a matter of opinion and the opiner I guess. To go from factory OS to be able to run what's on the server side is not simple, and has been brittle. For me a better solution would be a Linux native box with the same distro & configuration to be able to avoid the VNC remote altogether. But for the company, perhaps that kind of solution would have costs in support and maintenance that would make it a bad choice.
Hey Hana & Josue, congrats on the launch.
I like your approach of how to integrate it into products (via native React libs). I think you could go even a little bit further. One concern I would have is that by using your react library, I also bring in a new state management (mobx). In our case it would be fine, because we are using it already, for others it might be an issue. The most extreme version I found is from feedback.fish, which gives a native react component, but internally imports their scripts still in an iframe.

The other thing would be, that the react package could export not only hooks to interact (useMagicBellEvent), but also provide some hooks or headless components to easier integrate with existing UIs. Something like this is very important to all external services we bring in, because our Product Design should feel like one.
> There's a difference between tax avoidance and paying more than you owe.

No, that's the same. Using your brain to legally reduce your tax bill is quite reasonable and we all do it. If you have a problem with how much taxes presumably Amazon, not Jeff, pays, take it up with your lawmakers.

> Perhaps I am too stupid to see how amassing billions while underpaying workers, and making money off children in sweat shops makes the world a better place.

That's a pretty uncharitable characterization of Amazon. I can make an economics argument that to have a company of 1.6 trillion dollars in value means it probably brought more than that much in value to people around the world. But it doesn't really matter, he didn't do it to make the world a better place.

Some of the things he's focusing on now, including blue origin, he is doing, I think chiefly, to make the world a better place given his past statements about why he started that company.
The above comment is obviously true, but how much does it advance the conversation? Not much in my opinion, but I'll try to build on it. I'll try to unpack what I think you were getting at.

While it is obvious that the comment doesn't say "First Amendment", that is not the end of the matter. When people talk, it is important to think about what they mean in a particular context. That comment very much relates to 1A, whether it uses a particular phrase or not, because it exists in this context of discussion about a bill talking about government regulation, which very much ties into 1A.

Let me circle back. My experience here on HN after trying to have substantive 1A discussions is, frankly, disappointing. Perhaps I thought that people smart enough to program computers would be somewhat good at unpacking logical arguments based on a complex legal history. I've found mixed evidence for this. Instead, I often see:

* Many people are simply unskilled communicators.

* Many people are unnecessarily pedantic -- meaning they make a tiny irrelevant point but miss the huge issues in play and don't connect with others as people

* Many people lack the tools or willingness to clarify, learn, and understand.

* In terms of subject matter, the basics of 1A are not well understood. Instead, dogmatic assertions tend to be used.

* FUD and slippery slope arguments are prevalent.

* Balanced discussions of pros and cons are few and far between.

* Even if the basics of 1A are understood, the authors often do not do a good job of formulating their questions in a way that signals their understanding and clarifies their question.

These are unfortunate patterns I've seen. This is why I shared some basic information to ground the conversation.

You may call me a critic, skeptic, or cynic. However, I think I'm being fairly accurate as to the quality of intellectual discussion around 1A on Hacker News.

So much of the 'legal' conversation I see here on HN would be laughed out of even an undergraduate law class. We can and should do better. It is not for lack of intellectual reasoning ability. Other things seem to be getting in the way: dogma, fixation on narrow things to the detriment of the broader context, ego, unexamined rigid beliefs, a lack of historical awareness, insular worldview, etc.
Nice landing page, but I am missing the "Pricing" section, I would never sign-up to a product that doesn't disclose pricing beforehand.
Do they still use horse parts for the glue that keeps the boxes shut?
I am not aware of the folks behind Gnash, and Mozilla obviously cares about the web, but I don't think either of those organizations have the dedication to Flash that Newgrounds, or even the NYT, have.

Time will tell I guess.
International.
Think of a physical zipper, where the two sides with the teeth come together to interlock...

xs = [1,2,3,4,5,6,...
ys = [a,b,c,d,e,f,...

[ (1,a),
(2,b),
(3,c),
(4,d),
(5,e),
|6| |f|
|7| |g|
|8| |h|
|9| |i|
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https://kezan.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Zipper_Thumb_144...
I also wrote a lot of 6809 assembly in the 80s- for broadcast character generators. I wrote a multi-tasking operating system for it at one point- I used the DP register to point to per-task local storage (exactly like errno in multi-tasking UNIX).

My co-workers went nuts with the PC-relative capabilities, but I didn't bother- those addressing modes were pretty slow.

We had a cool piece of hardware: an in-circuit emulator. The 6809 version of this one:

http://www.decadecounter.com/vta/articleview.php?item=1064

That thing was the bomb, because it had trace memory so you could watch what led up to an interrupt causing your system to crash. Non-symbolic though, you needed the linker map and assembly listings by your side to do anything.
They might think that it’s better for people to have access to their technology than not to, even if certain apps are unavailable.

Would it be ethical for them to abandon all of their customers in Pakistan over this?
I guess theoretically, companies would either have unmoderated user content, or completely sanitized user content that goes under human review. Little to nothing inbetween.

A big grey area seems like websites that give users tools to moderate content and let them handle it. Not sure what the courts would think of that.
Anyone know if gelatin causes extra animals to be killed? If not, you probably could feel okay about it.
> basic assembly

Even some people actually working on compilers still talk about pipeline stalls in a ye olde pentium/RISC sense rather than the out of order monsters we have today.
Thanks for the follow-up message, phonon. You are absolutely right and we take these concerns very seriously. Insurance is one of most regulated industries for good reasons.

The A/B test can be used for non-insurance products, such as waivers, trip fees, etc. Definitely agree that this is a small niche and won't change anything in the insurance world, but can be valuable for a subset of the companies.

Our goal when designing the product is to make it modular so it empowers our clients with what they need. We have customers that don't use everything we offer, and that's totally cool!
Please don't harass new accounts. The odds that you're nailing some impersonator are much smaller than the odds that you're being a jerk to someone who you ought to be welcoming to the community. That's not the kind of place we want HN to be.

Of course many new accounts aren't really new users, but that's not necessarily illegitimate. The site guidelines ask you to Assume good faith for a reason: communities that don't, end up turning on themselves and become poisonous, almost like an auto-immune disorder.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's particularly important to understand and abide by this guideline: "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data." Internet users are far, far too quick to imagine they're seeing this and accuse someone else, someone perfectly innocent, of malicious manipulation. We don't want that here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:dang%20astroturf&sort=byDat...
When I tried nix on my mac a while back, it took forever to install basic things, had very verbose logs, was far more complicated and was missing packages. Is it still like that?
In Musk’s case I don’t think he’s trying to emulate anything, looks like legitimate social awkwardness to me. Bet he does the same in private conversations!

You may have a point re. the audience - as far as I know the teams involved in the launch would all sit in the front rows, and naturally cheer for every bit of their own work being introduced to the world.
I wasn't even aware it was polarizing. Have enjoyed using it for the past 6 years and never thought much about it. The comments of "it sux", "worst thing ever" feel very petulant.

Love that i can install/update the packages i might need and get on with my day.
Have you looked at `hupper` from the Pylons Project?

The author posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26039366
Here's a relevant statistic. Microsoft tracked all their security vulnerabilities over 10 years and found that 70% of them were caused by memory-related bugs.
14 years ago, and sounds like they handled it well.
Insurrection!!!
Android apps have to request [0] Location Permissions to access the device's location at all. There are different permissions for foreground and background access and for coarse and fine precision, but it does require some explicit permission no matter what.

Now, the app's behavior when denied that permission (i.e., whether you will be allowed to use Tinder at all if you deny location permissions) are up to the developer.

[0] https://developer.android.com/training/location/permissions
Sometimes seconds earlier. In his most recent viral interview, he went from "where was this (critical) attitude) in 2008?" to, in his very next sentence, "look who was right about Tesla? not the shorts."

Guess what? For years and years and years, everyone thought "Wall Street" was right, because real estate prices kept going up and up and up and up. People who saw what was happening, like Michael Burry, took an absolute thrashing on their short positions for years because the market refused to correct itself, it just kept going up despite the problems becoming increasingly obvious.

That is not obviously different from the Tesla situation. Chamath sounds like he's cheerleading the exact kind of narrative that he criticized Wall Street for not being critical of. And in any case it's not like the history of Tesla ended last week, so absolutist statements of "right" or "wrong" are nonsense.
Fair enough, I agree those are experts.

Have they been hit with lawsuits or smears? Are they alleging that the attacks they demonstrated were actually used in this election?
AS I understand it, Quantum computers as of yet are only useful for a relatively small set of obscure operations. They're extremely fast of course, but they're not a drop in replacement for basic gate operations that classical computers and their crypto algorithms use. A cryptocoin like bitcoin uses multiple algorithms making them an exceptionally difficult problem to program a quantum computer to handle. If you ask me, we'll hear about Quantum computers breaking a lot of other things before they get to crypto coins.
How about Brave as a Chromium-based alternative to Firefox that isn't worse for the cause?
That’s literally the opposite of what bypassing means
As opposed to the 20% tax free, dilutive!! fee that goes to the SPAC sponsor for a finders fee
So awesome.

So gross.
There is some precedent that is related. A certain percentage of DOD contracts are required to go to Native American owned business. To qualify as native the business must be 51% owned by member(s) of a federally recognized tribe. Each tribe gets to decide who is or is not a member, most do it by voting or birthright systems.

Interestingly, for some other set asides they use "Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs)" as the qualifier. Membership is regulated by who gets in to those colleges. Thus they use college admissions boards instead of birthright or popular vote.

https://business.defense.gov/Portals/57/Documents/DFAR%20252...
Probably not too hard. There's a port of NitrOS-9 to this crazy thing, for example:
https://www.frontiernet.net/~mmarlette/Cloud-9/Hardware/Libe...

I haven't tried his CUBIX on his emulator yet, but there's a certain richness to systems that start with a full fledged debugger on the bare metal. And he's got his own assembler, Forth, BASIC, APL, C compiler...
So all I need to do is have a bot register n+1 accounts, then I can legally force them to publish whatever I want them to or else they have to go under to avoid legal liability? Neat.
Well incremental reform is on track to kill the planet, so I wouldn't say that's a good way to go about it either.
I can't think of anything more cruel and worse for society as a whole than to permanently damage some people because it feels vaguely cathartic and might serve as a "warning" to others.
I find it unfortunate that those two occupy the 1-2 in Mac packaging options. It never really got much attention, but I've always liked Rudix [0] better. The package selection is much worse and not really kept as up-to-date, but the installation mechanism is far superior to Homebrew and MacPorts (and even Fink). It uses actual packages (the kind that Installer.app understands) so it integrates much more cleanly with the Mac ecosystem and packages installed without using the package manager. Compared to the other options, it's an administrator's dream in a managed environment since all the first-party Apple tools for managing a fleet of Macs just work. Also, users who don't want to install the actual rudix tool can simply download the packages and install using using Installer.app (which they may never even realize they're running because it opens automatically when opening a .pkg file).

Unfortunately, most Mac users have never even heard of it and it doesn't really have the momentum or mindshare necessary to have a complete, up-to-date list of packages.

[0] https://rudix.org/
Thank you for the follow-up. This + your other comment showing that there is an export to JSON option make me feel a lot better.

I will set it up this weekend and see how it goes.
Oh, I hadn't realized that. I think the cases that I was thinking of were just rumors of future SPACs before an official confirmation: https://investorplace.com/2021/02/cciv-stock-no-imminent-luc...

It seems like this leaves a lot of room for bad behavior by insiders.
Thanks for the feedback, it's free during beta, but I haven't released that yet so it's just signing up for the email list for now.
MicroSD cards are nowhere near reliable enough to stripe a petabyte of data across them. At current prices it would also cost around $120,000 + the cost of the readers and the robot to swap them around.
It's only normal, they did the same thing when politically pressured in the US.
This book follows more along the lines of the coursework for a computer engineering degree than a computer science degree-- especially at institutions where CS lives under the math or IT department as opposed to the engineering department.

There can be a lot of overlap between the two, particularly on the software side of things, but CS curricula generally completely omit the electrical engineering portions of a CE curriculum, and that's where ECS puts its focus.
I just can’t even fathom having an original idea like this and then even more so having it work. Who thinks of this shit?
I've worked with a lot of folks who have made the move from Canada to the US in the middle part of their careers. Knowing nothing else about your situation, there are two things they did that might be relevant to you:

1. Really specific area of expertise that was needed by whoever was hiring them. "IT, software, ML" is very broad, but if you have a keen interest in data engineering for computer vision (random example), then you'll find people keen to talk to you. Try to narrow yourself into a high-demand niche.

2. Have a good "portfolio" of successful projects. I don't know your resume, but if you're stuck at getting to the formal interviews (i.e., getting screened out by automatic filters or recruiters), then you likely have a weak resume. This doesn't mean you need to work for a hot startup; work on side projects that stand out and show you can ship code/products.

Finally, a word of caution --- Tier 1 companies in the US are fantastic. Depending on how you define them, "Tier 2" companies have a huge range in terms of pay, quality, etc. and you might be in for a bad surprise. Make sure to do your due diligence on the company, the city, and the specific team you'd be working in.

Source: I run a data science careers site at https://phaseai.com/ -- feel free to reach out if you have questions.
> a CRT Monitor is definitely something you don't want in a wobbly pedestal.

One should always have a good monitor stand. And that’s how the infection started.
Pro Display XDR stand US$999.
https://www.apple.com/pro-display-xdr/
What word would you prefer to use to describe an adversarial attempted takeover of the subreddit's governance?
I disagree in the importance of an S-1 disclosure. Detailing the actual business plan of the company, as to what people think the plan is, was invaluable for WeWork. Uber's quarterly earnings are a continual source of entertainment. I personally wouldn't put any money into a public company before an actual SEC-required statement, and an SPAC bypasses the first.
Usually a background check just means a credit check.
If not leaving Firefox, what is the preferred way to signal to Mozilla that we aren't happy with their leadership's choices?
The 6809 is a gem. So much fun to program in assembly.

Someone should do a Ben Eater style kit. I am very tempted!
It's because the 10x engineer is real: many people learn coding just for earning money, not like 20 years ago when most people did it out of passion. This means that there are more people that can't provide enough business value to be justified in a tech company.

At the same time they can use their coding skills to make non-tech office jobs more automated.
Definitely true. Although, if it took a month to gather the dozens of samples the author used in the article rather than minutes, a dedicated tracker would probably have more success using more traditional stakeout methods.

And then, if you’re someone who is concerned about that kind of surveillance, you’re probably not someone who is sharing your location on an app like this.
You can be too drunk to drive without being visibly intoxicated.

Regardless the impetus is on the individual to take an Uber to the bar if they plan on drinking.
That's the power of a monopoly. Apple didn't have it when the iMacs were presented.
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Fantastic hypothesis.
How would it work? Airborne poop particles? I've never seen my septic guy get poop on themselves and certainly not in themselves.
CodeMirror is such an awesome library, its one of the core components in our snippet management tool https://codekeep.io
Insurance companies and banks for one.

Once you've invested in the initial infrastructure (drives, libraries), the incremental cost of extra tapes isn't that much, so you can keep things on the shelf for a long time for not a lot of money.

Send to two tapes for resiliency and every few years to a tape-to-tape copy to stay on the latest hardware. LTO drives can read two generations back: the just-released LTO-9 stuff can read LTO-7 tapes, and also write LTO-8.

Though a lot of backup software supports S3 APIs, so some folks are sending (encrypted) bits to Amazon Glacier (Deep Archive) since they practically will never have to retrieve it.
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I’m a photographer, and weddings make up the largest percentage of my income. I advertise on The Knot/Wedding Wire, which are wedding planning sites and vendor directories. I pay something like $300 a month to be on the first page of results for photographers.

Some time last year they added a filter option to their vendor search results. Black owned, Hispanic owned, LGBT owned, woman owned, etc. There are a lot of options, only one of which can possibly apply to white men - veteran owned.

I don’t really mind the race related ones, as black people can be hard to photograph for (poor) photographers used to white people. Some cultures have different wedding traditions too.

But the woman owned option? Photography is absolutely dominated by women. I’m part of a photographer group on Facebook for my region and a lot of posts start out “hey ladies.” There are entire websites dedicated to “momtographers.” I would say for every 10 female professions photographers there’s one male or less.

That disparity evens out a bit when you’re talking about decently high-end photographers, but I’d still say we’re in the minority. Yet every time I log in they ask me which of those groups I belong to, and there is no “none” option. Every time someone uses those search filters it means I’m effectively paying more than everyone else for the same amount of advertising, just because I’m a white man.

It’s gross.
Uh...there's no surgery involved.
My grandfather and my high school science teacher both taught in youth "detention centres" for periods in their career. They both said students there were better behaved than regular schools. For the "inmates" (for lack of better term), school was a privilege and if they misbehaved, they couldn't attend. School was a good break from your cell/room.
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This is specifically what you shouldn't be worried about just based on the speedup that the article focuses on. This is about a constant-factor speedup from a better-engineered classical component, not the exponential speedup you get from being able to handle additional qubits.
I dislike where this is going.
> Should the assaulted be happy with the fact that the inmate will get a job?

Heck yeah! If civil penalties have been assessed, how else are they going to get paid?

Crazy how most Americans think even the smallest crime should mean life in prison plus anal rape
Guy runs a Comments-as-a-Service platform but speaks like he's some revolutionary icon. He needs to indulge in some self-reflection, I think.