skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this is a pithy response, even if Samuel Hacker wasn't fictitious, it would still not be a particularly good one.

In the United States alone, there are more than 40 million black people. You do understand the difference between 40+ million English speakers who must hear and see the color of their skin be used in a negative connotation vs. what would be incredibly obscure connotations if it was even true?
>"Haha imagine the same advice for bitcoin 15 years ago"

Or Tesla, or Apple, or Nvidia or, or, or... literally throw a dart at a list of NASDAQ stocks 15 years ago, same thing.

Hindsight is 20/20 and no one can read the future. His point is that you're better off investing in things you can control than gambling on a "sure thing".
Folding@home
Syncthing has been life changing. Very much "set it and forget it".
Might I suggest having a spot in the margin devoted to that button, placed either halfway down the paragraph or (if you have a really really long P or selection) halfway down the screen?
By being slightly behind, you get to learn from those languages that live on the bleeding edge. The laggards get to benefit from all the corner cases found and mistakes committed.
Which makes sense, containers aren't virtual machines.
I would actually like a solar roof for just this reason: when I have no choice but to park in the sun, it would be convenient if it could produce enough energy to maintain a reasonable temperature without impacting the remaining range.
instability of mRNA is not an issue under the following proviso, the truncated fragments of the whole mRNA must not destroy the structure of the epitope regions; and beyond this level there are still PAMPs [pathogen associated molecular patterns] that will trigger an immune response pathway as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_immune_system
Clojure’s STM is basically unused: from what I can tell, STM turns out to be better in theory than in practice.
Well, I wanted the same effect as two separate checkouts (ie entirely separate branch structures) but with a bit of the disk space shared between them, but that's not how it works.
The following is almost a reflex for me:
Win+R -> notepad -> Ctrl+v -> Ctrl+a -> Ctrl+c
Ordinary people hang US flags off the front of their houses. In a bizarre indoctrination ritual, they make their kids pledge allegiance to the state from a young age. They think they're the greatest country in the world.

Have you taken a good look at your own country.
Well, this doesn't need much of a demonstration.
The rest of a division will be the same "visually" if you keep "stacking" the same number on top.
I've been typing on a ~60eur let's split for the better part of a year now. Made myself some nice armrests out of scrps of locust. My more expensive keyboards don't hold a candle to it imo
I wonder if that's a response to the recent (three weeks ago, Flight 2292, Cincinnati to Phoenix) American pilot's observation that something 'cylindrical' flew right over the top of his aircraft, 'that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing'.

https://nypost.com/2021/02/23/american-airlines-pilot-report...
So we can no longer use words that are colors inside of an idiom incase people think you are talking about race? You have to find some kind of line of reasonability. Sure, are there lots of remnants of racism/sexism rooted around our culture. But does that mean just nuke anything that has a color in it?

Heck, you aren't even thinking of the consequences of your actions suddenly turning non racist words into having racist meanings. What do you think will happen post "blacklist" "culture"? You go from 100% of the population using the word "blacklist" with literally 0 race connotations, to maybe 80-90% of the culture using ban or block list, while some 5-10% of the country either keeps saying blacklist or starts using n*ggerlist because you have now added some new racism into the language.

Want some really really recent examples? "Banning" the use of retard, now has everyone calling each other autists. Which is waaaay worse lol
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The last really prophetic world's fair was New York, 1939. That's famous for GM's vision of the future of 1960, the original "Futurerama" . Freeways everywhere. RCA had television. AT&T let you make free long distance calls. All that stuff happened.

The 1964 World's Fair had another GM exhibit. Colonization of the Moon. Underwater cities. None of that happened.

What could we have in a World's Fair now that looks ahead? Colonization of Mars? Mars sucks as real estate. There may be research bases there someday, but as a self-sufficient area, it would be tougher than Antarctica or a continental shelf. Robots may some day be a thing, but they still don't work well in unstructured environments.
There is a madden modding community at footballidiot.com/forum

Might be the place to start. Madden 08 is the biggest target as far as I know, but someone there might be able to point you in the right direction.
If the goal of wealth accumulation is not actually to be better off but to be better than your neighbour (as it is), then positive sum games become zero sum games functionally.

So no, that's not really a solution either.

But even then, the goal isn't to limit human productivity, is it? It's to limit how much we work and lifestyle inflation, which doesn't require growth to go to zero.
> Was Gmail really 10x better than Hotmail?

No.

Gmail did not suck badly enough to be merely 10× better than Hotmail.

Gmail was lightyears beyond other early free webmail services.
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> Now the only value proposition is some wishy-washy privacy stuff that is much harder to sell people on, even if it's in their best interest.

They'll still use Chrome or Edge/IE, but will use NordVPN or ExpressVPN after seeing their favorite YouTuber claim that the VPN protects their data and gives them privacy...

...while still not using an ad blocker, which makes the VPN almost entirely worthless from a privacy perspective. At most, it blocks your ISP from seeing what you're doing.
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Ask HN: How to prepare for job search with experience at only one company?
Since graduating college, I've worked at a single company (8 years). It was a local startup that has since been acquired and continued to operate under its name. Given my professional career is limited to this startup and company culture, I fear I don't have much diversified experience with different processes, expectations, general ways of doing things within the tech and software industry. At least no experience beyond however long we tried sprints, agile, kanban, different tools, different third party/outsourced services, etc.

For context, I started as a marketing intern, and over time worked officially in customer support, QA, project manager, and now product manager capacities. No coding experience, for what it's worth.

The company still exists and has local recognition, so I'm confident company reputation could go a long way looking for a gig at another local company within the tech space. And that said, I'm not necessarily actively looking for a new job, but the prospect is appealing to me to say the least.

Is this something I just need to try overcoming by emphasizing other positives? Beyond reading secondary takes or familiarizing myself with industry standards within my current and previous roles, is there more I can do? In practice is this not that big of a deal?
This is not necessarily true because it's forgetting the potential countervailing impact of progressive taxation.

With basic arithmetic we can show that UBI+more progressive taxation can create the identical first-order outcome as traditional welfare+less progressive taxation. The function marginal_tax_rate(income) can be optimized to make the outcomes the same.

[EDIT - What I'm describing here is just the negative income tax, as another poster mentioned]
https://www.prosoundnetwork.com/business/akm-factory-fire-sh...
I was wondering that about myself for a while. Upgraded from a laptop to a desktop and it's awesome. The ease of maintainability (and upgradability) and ergonomics of not having a laptop on the table are awesome. Plus it's much cheaper.
It’s not exactly the same, but Burning Man comes pretty close in a lot of ways.

If you haven’t been, there are thousands of art projects at a grand scale, things that take up blocks of space a piece, and they are built by artists from around the world, giving everyone a global perspective of what is possible.

I also love the idea of showcasing what is possible for a society. There is a true sense of community, immediacy, and collaboration where everyone there is an active participant.

There are dozens of smaller events with similar properties, likely one nearby.
WTF.. 30 trackers on pcmag.com!! The irony. I retract my upvote.
Same factory made chips for Audio production hardware too. In fact I think anything using SHARC components has been hit pretty hard. Just a bad year all around for chip manufacturers across the board.
This reminds me, I got contacted by a freelancing platform the other day that had a "token" too, it was called Braintrust.

Their token didn't even trade because they were waiting to "go public" and I said "like, on the Nasdaq" and they said no, with a token sale of the token that doesn't exist yet. But their dashboard does give you a token which you cannot use and cannot withdraw, no different than points in CandyCrush. The people there genuinely believe in the token perk and blockchain aspect though, but don't seem to realize that it doesn't pass basic checkmarks of legitimacy which can be fixed by simply issuing it and throwing a liquidity pool o Uniswap like you guys did.

They're also doubling as a placement agency and "sell yourself" platform.

Leads me to believe they have no idea what they're doing, validated by reviews about them on other platforms.
A centralized proprietary service is exactly what we need to replace the other thousands of services who all do the same thing but look evil due to some mysterious coincidence, totally unrelated to being centralized and proprietary.
When my bank says they're sending me a new checkbook for free, I definitely do not expect to pay the price of the paper or anti-fraud features. Do you?
Same here but I've concluded that there is nothing better than a simple install of pure OpenBSD or FreeBSD and setting the rules on /etc/pf.conf. Its safer, faster, lighter and I could argue that is also easier to admin with just SSH and no web code in between.

For example, in the latest version of OpenBSD which has a Wireguard kernel implementation, the management tool has been basically included in the ifconfig command.

ifconfig wg0 create wgport 5180 wgkey ...

And then you are set. For persistence you create a /etc/hostname.wg0 file containing the commands to bring the interface up.
I'd like to see them try to enforce that rule with banking apps...
"A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirement for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no social position at all to maintain."
> Debugging JS in IE6

Visual Studio (even back when it was called Visual Interdev) supported first-class script debugging with Internet Explorer going as far back as Internet Explorer 4. Ditto cscript/wscript.

It just wasn't popular (and few people knew about it) because most people doing front-end web-work _back then_ weren't using Visual Studio, and in general most people weren't doing back-end web-work in Visual Studio either because (pre-ASP.NET MVC), ASP.NET WebForms is, was, and ever-shall-be, godawful.
Incentive? not having to do hard labor? making more money?

I think that most technology has made life easier if not measurably better for humans. Medicine, machinery, transportation. Those things dont make life better for people? I suppose the cynical take could be that it is for the 'ruling class' but I think the measured take is that even the lower rungs of society have at least some access to better jobs than they did 100 years ago.
Same goes for Cinema4D, wouldn't know of any numpad shortcuts
I think it was obvious beyond any reasonable doubt that I meant USB over USB-C.
Defend crypto? Dude the blockchain database is what's going to change things. The coins aren't the technological revolution happening. The storage of information and its reliability is what is important here. You're just mad because it's replacing your old ways which you cannot defend.
> I feel like it's really lame that its Swift version 157 or whatever and they still don't have a stable async/concurrency story besides callbacks.

It is frustrating, but it seems like they are finally getting there. It’s frustrating since a language like Go had a good concurrency model almost from the start. But Go had different constraints and arguably has less surface area to cover.
The Weezer video it included! Still love that song!
I know of the STL but don't know a damn thing about how to use it. They didn't teach STL at all in my university, even in the C/C++ classes.
Unions may be part of the costs, but please don't underestimate infrastructure failures that arise from in the project planning and execution phases.

For instance, the construction union may mean that you pay a man to just stand around and do nothing, but when the MTA doesn't have any idea what people on site are supposed to do to begin with, and when they scrupulously dispose of all the people with project expertise the moment Phase I of the project is over (with no concern at all for Phase II), it's hard to assign that as the root cause for the billions in cost overruns on the Second Avenue Subway.
Didn't feel like reading the article then, I take it? Just the text extract in the link provided would be a start.
I do similar things constantly as well. It makes me not enjoy maybe "modern" apps and web apps. That think text highlighting is somehow a bad thing.
It's not re-used. It goes to a landfill. There's too much street garbage mixed in by the time they sweep it up in the spring.
You can stream back ups of multiple database files with Litestream. Right now you have to explicitly name them in the Litestream configuration file but in the future it will support using a glob or file pattern to pick up multiple files automatically.

As for cloud backup, that's just one replica type. It's usually the most common so I just state that. Litestream also supports file-based backups so you could do a streaming backup to an NFS mount instead. There's an HTTP replica type coming in v0.4.0 that's mainly for live read replication (e.g. distribute your query load out to multiple servers) but it could also be used as a backup method.

As for synchronous replication, that's something that's on the roadmap but I don't have an exact timeline. It'll probably be v0.5.0. The idea is that you can wait to confirm that data is replicated before returning a confirmation to the client.

We have a Slack[1] as well as a bunch of docs on the site[2] and an active GitHub project page. I do office hours[3] every Friday too if you want to chat over zoom.

[1]: https://join.slack.com/t/litestream/shared_invite/zt-n0j4s3c...

[2]: https://litestream.io/

[3]: https://calendly.com/benbjohnson/litestream
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Supporting system76, librem, etc was once about investing in support for linux....

Yet those companies provide zero contributions, rebadge open source projects, and just re-sell taiwanese white-label computers while going great lengths to hide that and fake innovation.

if pcpartpicker.com adds a single checkbox to their searchs: "[ ] support in mainline linux kernel", it would make more good to linux support than all those companies combined.

Also, barrel charger plugs? ugh.
If you need to build a gas power plant to compensate for the production solar and wind can't give when you need it, the price per watt of electricity explodes.

Picture this: It's 9PM on a cold winter day, sun has been down for hours and there was not been a lot of wind today. People are home, watching TV and heating their home. Batteries are now empty (they started depleting at around 5Pm when the sun went out). You now need to produce 100% of the peak electricity consumption of the year, using gas, oil, coal, nuclear or hydro.

This scenario shows that whatever you do with wind and solar, you need to be able to produce 100% of the peak electricity consumption with controllable power plants. The cost of wind and solar is not the cost of the power plants vs the cost of the gas power plant it replaces, but on top of it. For every GW of wind you add to the grid, you need to add an equivalent GW from a controllable source just in case. This backup GW won't be used most of the time, but the cost of it should be taken into account when you compute price per GW.

It is unfair to compare the price per GW between solar/wind and gas/nuclear/coal/hydro, when the feature of both are so different. Solar and wind provide amazing ROI, when they want to, not when you need it to. So the cost needs to include the price of the backup system that's going to stay dormant 80% of the time. Ans that significantly change the math of it all.

The only way to get out of this is to either reduce our total energy consumption, so that the current controllable plants can provide enough, and then build solar and wind, to reduce how often we need to rely on them. Or to find a green and controllable energy source, like hydro (which has other issues).
Monopsony
And the Firefox Android addon ecosystem disaster. A big thank to an HN user that once pointed me to Kiwi Android browser that accepts Chrome addons.

I had stuck to firefox 68 because after that https over ssl could be disabled remotely for corporate computers but now I switched to Chrome.

I think the end result will be Firefox removing itself from the browser pool.
> a^n % b = a % b.

That is not generally true. A quick counterexample:

a = 2, n = 3, b = 5
2^3 % 5 = 8 % 5 = 3
2 % 5 = 2
3 != 2
I've actually been developing my own UI library backed by SDL. It currently uses a DSL-like system similar to SwiftUI. I just spent some late nights working on a "hot-reloading" system, though it only works on Mac/Linux currently.

In theory any C based UI libs that support those platforms should work as long as they can be called from Swift.
I have good news and bad news. The good news is you’re probably more hirable than you think. The bad news is it’s still just a job.
Not taking down this content is indefensible!

Still not totally buying that Russias primary intent is to remove child porn and similar atrocious content.
I wonder what's behind that performance issue that led you being fired.
Are we talking about the same Google? I don’t remember them taking money without my consent.
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This didn't really help with the DOM or CSS, though. The developer toolbar that worked with IE6 was sorely lacking.
This essay cites no sources and provides no data to back up its big claims and projections. It’s interesting to hear what someone close to emerging technologies is thinking, but big claims require big evidence. It reads like reading Marx, or Kurzwell, or other utopian “futurists” more than anything practical and realistic.
If you hold it in the US, it could have only American companies represented and still call it the World's Fair. Just like Baseball.
This is big in enterprise software.

Some corporate customers have bare-metal servers, some OpenStack, some run in AWS, some on VMWare, some on Azure, more exotic options are not rare either.

Kubernetes smooths out the differences, letting you develop an application against a standard, google-able API that is deployable anywhere.
The annual CES convention is still popular. I see it as the modern equivalent of the world's fair, even if it is not quite the same and missing some aspects.
I must admit to being confused by this comment. What do you mean exactly by ‘all words having a declension’, and why would it complicate learning a language moreso than anything else? My confusion arises from the fact that the concept of a ‘declension’ is typically only applied to noun-y things, rather than to all words (the verbal equivalent is ‘conjugation’), and by this definition a ‘declension’ doesn’t even have to be very complicated — the English plural is an example.

(Unless you’re talking about declension classes, as in Latin or Russian… but from what I can tell, those are actually surprisingly rare outside IE.)
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these fragments of mRNA will be recognized as antigens, until the point that the folded structure of the epitopes is destroyed, these smaller fragments are still recognized as viral PAMPs and evoke innate immune responses.
You should look into negative income tax which should clear things up for you. You can provide a minimum income for everybody without spending a totally ludicrous amount. And reverse income tax is equivalent to UBI under a progressive taxation model.
Quality Assurance is also a pretty big cost along with labor and materials. The cost of living in America isn't cheap and the materials you're working with (due to their size and weight) were likely manufactured domestically or, if not, were handled domestically during import.

America is also super litigious but I don't believe that contributes significantly to public works due to the limits on state and federal liability.
As long as you have a valid developer certificate to sign the app and you have a development provisioning profile and your device is registered as a test device. For that you need to be registered as an iPhone Developer Program member ($99). And you have to constantly renew your profile.
A more recent one:

Retool

I just started using them, and it saved an ungodly amount of time setting up internal dashboards. Typically speaking internal dashboards are an afterthought, don't work well, accumulate a lot of tech debt, and yet are indispensable to running an online service. Retool isn't perfect, but what you get is way beyond anything you'd be willing to build for yourself early on.
I think when this is actually looked at that cricut is going to be found to be locally processing the images and the only cloud aspect is data farming.
Memory leak is a thing on JVM too. Tends to reoccur at times.

Java brought call stack dumps, security model and alot of standardisation across orgs.
Much of American constitution idea were conceived by 17th century British hipsters.

John Locke, Adam Smith, etc.
Personal project:

> This is a personal project, not backed by the author's employer.
In my experience, you'll still want to go to the NVIDIA/AMD website to download the latest drivers. What you get from Windows Update is likely 6+ months out of date.