skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, Murdoch's death was a real tragedy, he died far too young.

When one takes a moment to look one finds that there are far too many brilliant minds that fall into this misfit category. Often they are their own worst enemy and the world doesn't respond kindly to the fact.

Another worth noting is Oliver Heaviside. He's almost forgotten these days and much of the fact was of his own making (his name really should be more prominent). Yet he reformulated Maxwell's equations into the four that we know and use today; he gave us coaxial cable, figured out impedance matching on telephony lines, essentially invented vector calculus (along with Josiah Willard Gibbs who did so independently on the US side of the Atlantic), and much, much more. Essentially, Heaviside put the finishing touches on mathematics and classical electromagnetic theory just in time and ready for the quantum mob to take over.

That said, he had little idea how to handle the scientific
establishment and he was always the outsider. It's worth taking a moment to read his Wiki bio:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside

Another tragic case is this damn, damn stupid boy (he was hardly more than one and clearly acted like one):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89variste_Galois

Galois was dead at the age of just 20 through his own utter stupidity. To have such a great mind to leave the planet at this age is almost incalculable - in fact, he died 15 years younger than did Mozart (and we continually lament his death at such a young age).
How many 100% Canonical applications are there in an Ubuntu install? The installer and... maybe the repository management UI? I mean, it's clearly an announcement to make Google happy and try to help giving Flutter some momentum but hardly a defining decision for Ubuntu as a desktop.
eloisius, I applaud you for your efforts. You certainly appear to have done it sincerely.
( I had a cursory glance at the doc you put)

But there is a fundamental problem, you are looking at numbers gleaned from 'studies' and IMHO mostly they revel nothing unless the study was done carefully, intelligently and with integrity. All these traits are missing at large in the scientific community. A broken clock is correct twice a day. Also factor in politics, something which I did not early on, most of us with a technical bent of mind are naively un-aware of this.

Regarding autism + vaccines, I never looked into it. But I have looked at (and mostly listened to people who I think are credible have dug up numbers from the CDC website) and my conclusion is that for most part they are generally useless, perhaps 1 or 2 vaccines out of the 30 or so are truly effective. There are also instances of clear harm where populations what were vaccinated fell ill and the ones that we not vaccinated did not fall ill. Finally anecdotally, the people who most certainly get the flu are the ones that were vaccinated. Ofcourse people will dismiss that by saying anecdotes are not data.

Where ever a vaccine did appear to have succeeded, there were other factors in play. A clear case of (well-intentioned) people who drink their own kool-aid believe that their efforts are paid off.
GDPR is an absolute disaster which has already stifled innovation and entrenched incumbents
This is the computer I learned to program on (the TS1000 US Version). The manual for it still has place of honor on my bookshelf.
As I was reading, I thought the article was about to answer this. I guess I have to add “No One is Prepared” to my mental clickbait filter now.
>VS Code is also very slow, you just don't notice it as much on today's machines.

Seemed to be running great on Core 2 Duo machines of the kids learning coding at a remote village I visited recently.
I suspect we are dealing with two populations here: those who think bullshit is a valid mode of argumentation, and those who know it is not, but use it anyway. Those in the latter category know that their bullshit can be called, so they are only likely to use it when they are fairly confident that it will not be recognized as such by their target audience, or when they consider the stakes justify the risk.

Politicians and political commentators, trial lawyers and PR flacks come to mind.
> In any case, if you use an ad blocker, which you absolutely should...

Why should everyone block the lowest friction way to pay creators? Besides the security argument which speaks more to JS, IMO.
Small scale personal blogs cost next to nothing (as in: reasonable web hosting packets for $2/year exist), why would they need ads?

Wikipedia on the other hand makes lots of money with one of the most obtrusive ads on the internet (giant banner that slowly rolls down stating some variant of "if everyone donates just $5 we can stop annoying you right now"). But despite getting more and more donations every year they don't make the ad less annoying or run it shorter. So I have zero confidence that giving them another revenue stream will help
You're correct, though if I understand correctly, some NFT platforms do provide some (centralized) feature for "unlocking" content. For example, you could upload a full resolution art piece to an NFT platform or any other place and have the server serve the content to any request that proves ownership of the token.

This is a pretty terrible system, though, as it's completely off-chain and not "Web 3.0" or decentralized in the slightest. The server has to store the "private" content in a private centralized database, so the server owners also can access the content, and any hacker could access the database and publicly dump all of the supposedly token-walled content.

It's just taking advantage of the fact that any computer can determine the Ethereum address that owns a particular token and can check to see if a message was signed by that address's private key.

I could imagine a future standard that could maybe integrate this into Ethereum proper, though I'm not sure if it's technologically possible.

There's no way to prevent someone from just publicly releasing the art, but one could imagine some system like the full resolution piece stored as a public key-encrypted blob in the blockchain which can only be decrypted by a token holder.

Maybe upon token ownership transfers the key could be encrypted with the token buyer's Ethereum address public key, though I'm not sure how or if it could work since I think the original content key would have to stored on the network in some fashion in order to later encrypt the key for token owners. So it might not be possible even in theory, though I don't know nearly enough about Ethereum and cryptography to say with any certainty.
Slack, Spotify, Signal and Whatsapp desktop, Skype, Discord, MS Teams are all built on web tech. I think even Office 365 nowadays has a lot of the UI stuff written in react native.

A lot of older linux software is non-web based but that's not the average desktop user.
India to have highest GDP growth in 2021
The way they talked about it expanding and it’s softness I thought it was a new crash absorption technology like in Demolition Man (the movie with Bullock, Stallone and Snipes) where it instantly fills the car
Probably industrial surface coatings, paints, epoxies, sealants, greases, etc where you need to obtain certain mechanical properties from the fluid using the least volume possible (because every bit of additive is displacing the product that does the real work).
How you talk changes how you think.

The scary part: Most won't remember the change.
Idea: Let people donate the processing power of their billions upon billions of personal devices out there, like the SETI/Folding@Home projects but for general distributed computing, give them some kind of e-currency for that, and establish an economy on based that currency.

You can run whatever you want (up to the storage/electricity limits I allow) on my computer/phone when I'm sleeping, give me eBling, and charge me eBling for web searches etc.

Make it so that donating 12 hours of a mid-range phone's CPU would pay for 24 hours of web searches, or something like that.
There is also educational value in having a variety of people trying the same thing in different ways. Here we are in this thread with people talking about engineering details that popped out when contrasting different designs.
that's not my point. For some reason having 3 dials that can control the whole climate system in the car, and which can be precisely configured in moments isn't enough. Instead we throw the dials away, and we must use an array of buttons, menus, clicker wheels and temperature readouts instead. why car manufacturers decided to go that way, i'm not sure.
This idea rings familiar to me as someone who got into the stoicism trend, but then realized issues with it. The problem isn’t that your house fell down and you lost your job and now you can’t afford therapy, the problem is that you haven’t stopped to think how much worse it could be and how grateful you should feel about how things are right now.

If we can reframe bad management and unfulfilling work into an employee’s emotional problem, then suddenly everything is easier, isn’t it? A good worker takes their medication before coming in, and goes to therapy to learn how to be better at following their manager’s instructions, and takes more medication in the evening to feel good after a long day’s work. Well, I guess there’s nothing new under the sun, these things have been happening to some degree for a while, and especially self-medicating with things like weed and alcohol when not working.

Will having a majority-un-medicated workforce soon put a country at an economic disadvantage? Will the alternative become a cultural relic that some countries fight to preserve through regulation, the way France preserves its traditional cheeses?
In terms of ROI, the best £69.95 I ever spent (I still have the receipt from WH Smith). It wasn’t the first computer I ever used, but it’s the first one I ever owned at age 9 and it led me down the path that’ll be familiar to many here...
I’m glad I still have it, and the Spectrum and Amiga’s that followed.

Incredibly, the ZX81 hardware and software scene is still alive. You can get parts for it quite easily, including keyboard membranes, molex connectors for the membranes, replacement jack sockets. SellmyRetro is a good place to start [1]. The composite video out is a simple and worthwhile modification.

The ZXPand+ interface [2] is an expansion unit that has a 32k RAM upgrade, SDCard slot, AY sound, hi-res support and a 9-pin joystick interface.

The zx-key is a replacement keyboard, and David Stephenson tells a great story about its creation [3].

And games too [4]. I always loved the design of the cassette covers, and cronosoft guys have done a great job reproducing them. I reminded how good an imagination you needed playing these games back in 1981!

[1] https://www.sellmyretro.com/category/retro-computers/sinclai...
[2] http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/zx812.html
[3] http://www.zx81keyboardadventure.com/search/label/ZXKey
[4] https://cronosoft.fwscart.com/SINCLAIR_ZX81/cat5357733_41194...
Show HN: Categorize people and their posts on HN
Why don't we focus on better quality adds to encourage people to not use ad blocker? Speaking of ad blocker, is there not an ad blocker which instead of 'blocks all ads' and have to whitelist. Can't we 'block no ads' and have to blacklist?
A few factors come to mind:

Web ad-blocking technology is much better than cable ad-blocking technology.

Cable is mostly oligopolies, which are big on extractive behavior and revenue maximization. A lot of the good stuff on the web is individuals and small groups of people who want to make stuff sustainably but aren't focused on maximum revenue.

People will stop paying the extra money if their experience doesn't get better.

I also note that a non-open version of this that I use, scroll.com, negotiates deals with publishers. So setting some standards is a pretty obvious fix if publishers go against the spirit of things in a way that threatens the effort.
afaik "blacklisting" comes from the black binding of the book that usually contained the blacklist of a merchant, apparently also employers.

How do you think it came about?
Replit has touched on this idea, @tylerangert on twitter
Why homegrown? Pretty obvious solutions for big players to it is to run small servers on your infra, that will proxy all the communication. Given that by putting remote js, you already give 3rd parties access to your data, it’s not that really opening you to that much extra risk.

It’s shortsighted IMO to fight with remotely hosted JavaScript. It makes things more complex, but doesn’t really help with privacy that much for longer term.
Hmm, I'm torn on this. Using `const char* const` can solve the first issue. Regarding the memory, `const char X[]` is obviously better but it is a little less familiar to most developers. I'm not sure if it is worth saving the bytes as the cost of clarity.
Self-assessment being nearly useless for such a purpose
Hosting doesn't cost much. Content production isn't free.
Because ads are obnoxious and privacy nightmares, and also security risks. You can just disable JS and third-party cookies, but that might break some websites ( and that number will only increase due to the proliferation of SPAs and fancy frontend frameworks).

IMHO setting up ads on your website is higher friction that web monetization is.
Trying to tie this into every possible situation, no matter how tangentially related, seems a lot more like propaganda, brainwashing, and FUD than anything going on in this scenario.

Developers - many of whom are probably not "woke" - have been calling Torvalds a dick for decades.
Ads are okay, and as others have pointed out this will not make them go away.

Ad networks that track you, and slurp as much personal data as they can get are a problem.

Invasive ads that make noise or take over the whole page are a problem.

Ad companies that claim to be search engines but produced results based on who’s paying the most instead of what’s relevant to your search are a problem.

Basic advertising I’m okay with.
When I learned to play poker with some "semi-pro" players at the table, they asked what I did I said I worked in security and cryptography, which is what got me into playing. When they said, "oh, you're a math guy?" I said, "not really, more code, but the problems I deal with at work are edge cases where assumptions about math break down, for example like how statistical models of card shuffling assume an even, normal distribution, which is great in theory, but doesn't bear out in practice."

This created enough uncertainty and second guessing in their minds about their own odds calculations on each hand that with a bit of aggression and beginners randomness, I was able to take a few of them out.

I wasn't doing better calculations, I was just adding uncertainty to theirs. I still don't know much about playing cards, but that is how you bullshit bullshitters.
> Wikipedia

If I remember, Wikipedia is rather controversial, for having a ginormous war chest, but still having PBS-style begfests all the time.

I don't think they do any ads, now, except for their begging headers.
To all the company founders here... sometimes the difference between bullshit and amazing prescience is just success.

I don’t mean lying about the data when communicating, but prioritizing some signals while downplaying, dismissing or overriding many others. Did pg says founders need to be somewhat delusional or they’d give up?
Thanks, will look into both.
Looks very retro cyberdeck!
Well, what of it? It is still in archives and libraries.
Ten Things to Keep in Mind While Developing an App in 2021
There's a good chance you will never know the books exist in the first place if they are not allowed to be sold on the largest platforms. Surely you are not denying that availability is a factor in exposure?
The maths says they are wrong. There is nothing more to say really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGBxUNaQI1I
> Commodore had the largest warehouse of these in North America by 1984

That sounds like a story, have any more details?
Cocaine: The Drug Pipeline to Europe
Why don't we focus on better quality ads to encourage people to not use ad blocker?
Speaking of ad blocker, is there not an ad blocker which instead of 'blocks all ads' and you have to whitelist ourselves. Can't we just have ads on all websites unless we make the choice to blacklist it?
If anyone is seriously looking to buy a project, they care how much revenue it currently generates. Even if that number is zero, and you are just buying the code, buyers need to know where things currently stand.
I imagine that in order to be an anti-vaxxer and not crumble under the crushing weight of cognitive dissonance one would have to believe that claims about the benefits of vaccines already are loads of exaggerated pro-vaxx stuff that has been pumped out by (Big Pharma|The Government|Russians|Illuminati|Lizard People|Whatever other crazy thing).
Sure.

The short version is that this is for cases when you write frontend and backend code in different languages and they need to share constants. E.g. you might have an API in your backend called ExportData() which takes a parameter called ExportType that can be JSON_OUTPUT, TEXT_OUTPUT, CSV_OUTPUT, etc and you want to re-use those constants between the frontend and backend because they are often transmitted between the two.

The long version is that I developed an application that runs on Kubernetes and can profile any Python application running in your cluster with no prior setup. (Useful if you want to debug a performance issue in an already running application.) My application has a Javascript frontend written in Vue.js and a Python backend written using the FastAPI framework. A user clicks a button in the frontend and chooses which process they want to profile and what type of profile it should be. (E.g. a regular flamegraph profile, a text file containing all the stack dumps, etc.) Then Vue initiates an API call to the backend. The backend checks what type of profile was requested and performs it for the client. I wanted to share the ProfileType enum between the frontend and backend. At first I just duplicated the constants by hand in Javascript and Python but I kept changing them as I added new features and got tired of syncing them by hand.

Hope this helps explain the use.
Thanks again for all feedback. I added all recent feature suggestions on github (https://github.com/retonato/torrenthistory-public/issues). You can vote for them there (just give a thumbs up for the issue you like) and see the current priority here: https://torrenthistory.org/vote/
Eliminating Next.js ISR Builds with Client Side Rendering
Because if lisp has it then we are not moving forward so much as people are creating new languages with the same features.

Don't know if that actually applies to Zig/D, but that's how I read it.
Scarcity and print # allow for making them rivalrous (e.g., only 200 numbered cards).

Royalty models have been tried where the owner of the original receives 90% of the sale of a digital print. See eulerbeats.com

Basically, I agree with your points and there are already active efforts in these areas that will make some NFT efforts very viable.
Other text editors. Other chat apps. Other music players. The same apps before Electron.
The incremental growth ship sailed 15 years ago. They need to zone with the intention to knock down badly built old buildings and build 3+ number of floors there instead.
I might be weird, but every time I hear about productivity, it annoys me.

People cannot be labeled as productive. A company, a process, a group, but not individuals.

This paranoia about procrastination and laziness has an awful impact on how we live.

Motivation is complicated. Please watch the rsa animate video on motivation.
Streaming is currently teaching us the same lesson. We now have all these different islands of content by major content owners and producers where we’re paying $5 here and $10 there for content that includes ads. Hulu, Peacock, Discovery+, Paramount+, Sling, even some content on Prime. I think it’s great most of these have an ad-free tier but for how long?
This is so important.

It's much less to do about ads and more about quality information and content created by people who have invested in it being able to circulate in our society rather than information and content which is free but created by hacks and incentivised by some other motive or has an alternative agenda. We're seeing the ramifications of that every day.

This needs to be brought into the web standards asap IMO.
I don't think that's the question. That guy paid for the exclusive NFT thing, but no one else is going to make a profit selling cheap copies of that tweet.
What's the decentralized underlying store in that case?
Looking through the docs, I don't see any mention of spam prevention or moderation. What tools are available or planned to help beleaguered site owners deal with the inevitable onslaught?
Please share a few of those proverbs, possibly some with nice anglo-saxon words in them, least we get overwhelmed by too much latinate pomposity
In the UK we have many options for TV.

The major options (as far as I can tell are):

* FreeView. This is digital TV that comes through your aerial. As the name implies, you don't pay a subscription for a base set of channels - which is quite a large number. Most of these channels have advertising. Some, like the BBC channels, only advertise their own programming, apps, etc.

* Netflix. Pay, and don't get adverts.

* Sky TV. This requires a subscription fee, and provides the FreeView set of channels plus more. There are still adverts, though, so you get to pay and also watch adverts. This is somehow a popular option!
Is there an online version?

It's interesting to imagine in the endgame the idea of rescuing one of your bishops in exchange of a knight. The relative value of knight and bishops depend a lot on the position, so in the endgame bishops are usually more valuable because they can move more. (Is there an endgame or the continual influx of rescued pawns keep the positions very closed?)
This is my favorite "easily explainable to someone who doesn't know math but still very interesting" problem.
Only in this case the value is stored in “digital gold”. Unlike gold, which is chemically stable, I’m far from convinced the digital format itself will end up sticking around long term.
As a KDE fan, the recent changes to QT's licensing have me concerned. [1] Given that Flutter compiles to native code, and doesn't require shipping a V8 engine with each application like Electron, this seems like a reasonable decision for them to make.

1: https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020
My biggest issue with ads is the tracking. It sounds like this system will make tracking easier, and leak information about your browsing habits to the wallet provider.

IMO the technology most suited for anonymous micro payments are blind signatures, like Chaum's Ecash or GNU Taler. This still has centralized issuers and some implementations require the payment receiver to be identified, but it neither the issuer not the payee can tell how you spend your money.
Hardware hacking is very satisfying. I highly recommend trying a project like this if you wish to take a break from working purely in software.
In that case why the appeal to your own authority “as a Computer Science PhD” instead of just showing the math? You are trying to have your cake and eat it too—-no credentials matter except your own.
I reread what you posted a couple of times, and I still have no idea what your point is. Vaccines are or are not harmful? If they are harmful, would you assert any specific claims and provide evidence please?