skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just want to say that this was a kind, detailed, and thoughtful response -- beneficial to the OP, no doubt, but also probably to others.

It was nice to be reminded that sometimes the Internet doesn't suck. Thanks for taking the time to write that reply.
I wonder if the Apple Silicon decision is going to have a large impact on what CPUs are used in the datacenter? I (and I suspect many others) would just default to x86_64, because that's what I develop on and compile to. I suspect many developers on Apple computers will start to look at the differences and choose whatever meets their requirements while minimizing costs. Should this trend continue, this could even have effects on the whole x86_64 ecosystem, as the datacenter CPU market has a large effect on the high end consumer CPU market.
You often don't know who is calling you until you pick up the phone, so you can't make a judgement about whether it's worth paying for the call until you've already started paying.

That, combined with the fact that it appears to be unique to just the US & Canada (maybe NANP in general), makes it bizarre to me.
I think you're reading a lot into a very short post and that it's pretty ridiculous, not to mention extremely condescending, to suggest that OP might have NPD
I often think of it as: As a website owner, will partnering with Google - a market leader in the advertisement space have a direct negative impact on me and my stakeholders?

If not, it has been observed that there's very little incentive to communicate that change through.

As much as I'd like to believe that altruism will win in the end, it has been established that ultimately the capacity to gain materialistic advantages can often triumph over individual's judgements.
Indian Punjab has used tube wells and free/low cost electricity to drain and deplete its aquifers far more efficiently than Pakistani Punjab (which has its own problems with waterlogging, salinity, maintenance of British canal system and lack of catchment for rain and floodwaters). Kalabagh Dam will probably get built the fifth of never if Sindh has any say about it.
No need for the public housing: the hard part is to get anyone (public or private) permission to build. The building is relatively easy business.
To me it seems like Bitcoin (and other pow cryptocurrencies) are almost like the climate change scapegoat for a number of social and economic issues that have seemingly come to a head recently to facilitate their rise.

People mine because it is expensive, it isn't the other way around, so the real questions we should be asking in good faith are things like "Why it is profitable in the first place?" and I think it is probably related to other questions like why have the greater financial markets become so wonky, why has the behavior of investors changed so radically (GME et al), why have politicians been unable to be effective policymakers for decades, and why many institutions, both social and political in nature, appear to have become less trustworthy in the eye of the greater public? These are some of the questions among others which I think probably provide a better understanding of what is happening than the overly simplistic 'ponzi scam' explanation that has been repeated ad nauseam since its inception.

Bitcoin is just one of many things (pretty much everything) that have been able to use energy profitably, while subsidizing the costs by externalizing them via climate change, that part isn't new. People get too caught up on bitcoin because it is new and nobody understands it (not just from a technical perspective), so it is really easy to dismiss. Singling it out in that manner seems silly.
Not just writeable by web user. The page here[1] suggests making files and folders world writeable all over the place (to be fair, followed by disclaimers.. but still).

>If you use Permalinks you should also change permissions of .htaccess to make sure that WordPress can update it when you change settings such as adding a new page, redirect, category, etc.. which requires updating the .htaccess file when mod_rewrite Permalinks are being used.

Go to the main directory of WordPress
Enter chmod -v 666 .htaccess

Making a server configuration file (.htaccess) world-writeable. What could go wrong? I am amazed that shared hostings still somehow manage to keep their tenants safe from each other.

1: https://wordpress.org/support/article/changing-file-permissi...
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## Playlist pattern ##

How about adding support for “playlists”? Drawing on music apps and even stock picking apps this pattern is about supporting a layer of curators who could curate articles from various sources into their lists and these lists could be subscribable In addition to standard RSS following for single domains.

Would make for more use friendly onboarding experiences.
And could be as simple as curators sharing their own lists of “tagged” articles/domains.
Stream API allows you to write fluent codes until you met checked exceptions. I wish they had solved this.
I think I will just block Chrome users from my websites
Please read about how safe browsing works in Firefox (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Safe_Browsing): it's using the privacy respecting update API described at https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/v4/
This video from Electroboom has a lot of similar comparisions, examples, tips and tricks for high quality audio. With all the science behind to back it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7CtnR47w20 (Fantastic channel btw)
> This frees up cheaper units for the less well to do.

For people who want to learn more: this process is called 'filtering'. See eg https://www.planetizen.com/blogs/100293-how-filtering-increa...

> New housing tends to be upscale, thus more expensive.

Yes, and that's also the mechanism for how we got nicer and nicer houses over the centuries.
Definitely worse, but also the next logical step given that an ad company has achieved relative browser dominance and has such weight to throw around in defining web standards.
Moves like this were inevitable. Writing's been on the wall a while now too.
The info I have in a non-sharable google doc is as follows:

iPhone GPS Location (4s and recent)

This document will give you a step by step procedure to retrieve the GPS location of a lost person using the “Compass” tool. In order to use this tool, the iPhone owner must enable some privacy settings which may be “on” by default. If you cannot get the GPS coordinates from Compass, go to the “Troubleshooting” section.

Asking for GPS Coordinates
First ask the lost person to launch the compass application on their iPhone.

If the person does not know what it is, provide them the following instruction:
Put a single finger in the middle of the phone’s screen and swipe down all in one move. This will bring out the “Spotlight Search” tool.

Ask them to type “Compass”. This will bring up the “Compass” tool into view as seen below:
Ask them to select the “Compass” application in order to launch it

Once launched, if the word “Calibrate” appears on the screen (as seen below), the user has to initialize the application. Let him know he needs to move and rotate the phone until calibration is done.

Once calibrated, the user should see the coordinates at the bottom of the screen. If the coordinates are not there, go to the troubleshooting section and restart this process from step 1.

Troubleshooting
Be aware that only iPhone 4s and more recent are equipped with a GPS chipset. All older iPhone will not be able to provide you with GPS coordinates.

In order for the “Compass” application to provide the GPS coordinate, it needs to be authorized to communicate with the GPS component of the phone. To ensure this authorization is set, follow these steps:

Ask the person to launch their iPhone settings

From the main “Setting” page, have them select “Privacy”

From the “Privacy” section select “Location Services”.

Under the “Location Services” section, the “Location Services” setting should be “on” (or green) and the “Compass” entry should report “While Using”.
https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto/
Genetic Mapping
Vertical integration at its best.
Where everything eventually ends up. In the ocean!
Once tools using bpftrace become common, refactoring the Linux kernel will never happen again.

It would break too many tools that depend on exact internal function names existing.
It's even worse.

If you win an actual lottery, you can transfer your winnings.

If you win the rent control lottery, you are forced to sit in the house. Use-it-yourself or lose-it.

Thus, as you say, people stay in the old place even after it no longer makes sense for them.
Regardless of whether it increases the local temperature, it's clearly not increasing the overall temperature because that energy in the wind would have ended up as heat, somewhere, eventually anyway.
well... Kinda. Proprietary data feeds that you have to pay big money for is totally a thing. I wouldn't call that public information.

Additionally, with hft data speeds matter and exchanges only allow co-location of servers to 'premier firms'.
Or maybe he just kills himself because he's close to being homeless already and a few hundred assholes just told him that he's a hopeless, narcissistic, uneducated "creep"?

Snakedoctor, I think this whole thread says a lot more about Hacker News and its penchant for armchair psychology and condescension than it does about you and your future prospects.

There's a few helpful posts here... take what you can and go out and seize the day! I am routing for you.
I've been using Brave since the redesign of firefox mobile, initially on android and shorty after on my laptop too. I came for the built-in ad blocking but have come to really love their alternative to the paywall/advertisers/user-data monetization schemes. Advertisers can purchase unobtrusive text ads or new-tab background image ads. Users can choose to see either of those ad streams or not, and can choose how frequently they'd like to see them, in return they are compensated in BAT (basic attention tokens). BAT get their value because ads on the platform can only be purchased in the token, all of which are already minted and in circulation. Websites like Reuters can opt in to receiving micro transactions from each brave user in exchnage for the content viewed. Contributing for content is optional, and you can set the split how you like, or turn ads off entirely.
I turn them off when I'm coding, but have them on when I'm just reading hn or wikipedia. Over time, if adoption grows, the value of the audience will too, so there is speculative value in the token, which creates a feedback loop incentivizing more and more users to switch to Brave. I hope it can be a real business model for monetizing content soon.
Why tax carbon emissions rather than directly taxing the manufacture of bitcoin? Carbon taxes increase costs for everything. Should we increase the cost of say, hospitals because some people _really_ want to mine bitcoin?
Agree to all! When I was rewriting the OneSignal docs I followed the same rules you laid out as well as a few more:

5. Get every step right. Don't make assumptions that the reader knows how to configure something you mention in passing, spell it out. This is especially important if good engineers are writing docs since they leap over little things that less skilled users might not know.

6. Write for translators. Many users don't speak English well and will be running docs through Google Translate. This is a variant of your #1.

7. Consider docs a seamless extension of the product. Use the exact wording and same visual language of the product and make sure docs pick up from where exactly the user was in the product. Evaluate these flows so wherever someone gets tripped up, the right doc is there waiting. Ideally do bidirectional linking so the product itself also links to these.

8. Super consistent language. Figure out your nouns and verbs: someone playing a game is always a 'player' (vs sometimes a 'user' or 'gamer'), someone sending a file is always 'transferring' (vs sometimes 'sending' or 'uploading'), etc. Unless you pay close attention ambiguity is going to creep into documentation.
it may be that crypto is seen as a way to mobilize untapped wealth that currently sits in cash (for whatever reason); with cryptocurrencies you have something that is relatively unregulated, so that crypto may mobilise that kind of money.
Personally I like to support news with subscriptions. I do so across the political spectrum, both so I’ll be better informed and so we can have high quality news from each worldview, free from bad incentives, instead of noise on all sides. So far, I’m not sure that subscription models have successfully prevented bias in either left or right leaning news media, so I’m not sure it’ll help here either. But it is probably worse to not have subscriptions at all and have either an unprofitable or ads dependent news industry. We’ve already seen how activist can campaign against advertisers and bias corporations in these last few years, and the same could happen to tenured that outlets like Reuters.

So even if it isn’t the whole solution, it may help in part, and for that I’ll subscribe and support it if they stay true to the sacred role of neutral journalism.
In fact, if you read the discussion, you'll find there are no plans of moving from PHP at all. Nextcloud is not moving to Go.
That's not a great idea either.

Just hand them money without strings attached.

(Though, the German government does subsidies poor people's rent already. It's called Wohngeld.)
How Did a Self-Taught Linguist Come to Own an Indigenous Language?
TSMC Boosts Capital Budget Again, to $30B
Java language gets its hate from its historical lack of focus on developer happiness. Beyond the language, the crufty experience with Java Bean, Java EE, WebSphere era all contributed to this.

Thankfully, Java ecosystem has learnt from other languages and frameworks and with Java 8 onwards has addressed some of major pain points
For e.g. lambda, streams, vars, text blocks, records etc,

On the other hand, Shopify and Dropbox that used Ruby and Python heavily had to invest in type checking to bring back some sanity and this is evidence that beyond a size of code base, static type checking is worth it.

Considering these, I find Java to be a very good option to build stable enterprise applications compared to Ruby or Python.
That study says that if you replaced 100% of the power generation of the United States with wind farms concentrated in the middle 1/3rd of the country that it would create localized 0.50C rise in SURFACE temperatures at the wind farms and 0.24C rise in SURFACE temperatures across the whole USA.

The authors note very clearly that isn't a global rise in temperature and would be offset by the effects of GHG reduction. Furthermore the wind farm cost is "one time". The effects of GHGs are cumulative.

See:

https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/false-claim-wind-tur...
Magical Thinking: Bitcoin Gathers at Disney
A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using *genetic engineering* techniques.

Selective breeding is something else. It is very difficult to somehow selectively breed a marine mollusk gene into a carrot.
Let me tell you it is just as rough on the other end of the phone. "Yeah, I just got this email from somebody I don't know but it had an attachment I want to read. My anti-virus will not let me open it even after I disabled it. What is wrong with your email server? I even sent it to my laptop and Excel won't let me open it as well, what is wrong with your email server? Oh never mind it finally opened but it looks blank and now Outlook is acting weird, what is wrong with your email server?"
It seems not. The FLoC page (https://web.dev/floc/) says:

> For pages that haven't been excluded, a page visit will be included in the browser's FLoC calculation if document.interestCohort() is used on the page. During the current FLoC origin trial, a page will also be included in the calculation if Chrome detects that the page load ads or ads-related resources.
Wait, I feel like I have to ask: what do you do that requires contacting newspapers to issue retractions so often?
their going
I'm a bit unclear about what the process they are using for the quantum random walk.
Like, after 2 steps, what is the state that it is in?
Presumably not just (1/2)|-1> + sqrt(1/2)|0> + (1/2)|1> , because then that would seem to just give the same behavior as the classical random walk.

The linked code has a Hadamard gate, which it cnot's onto some other qubit, and then negates, and then cnots onto some third quibit.

Ah, the wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_walk makes what it is describing much clearer!
Basically any kind of building is good for affordability.

The big problem (in urban US) isn't that the wrong kind of people get to build, but that not enough building gets done.

Berlin also doesn't build enough at the moment. I heard that Hamburg has done a better job recently of approving more construction.
That's basically Substack, right? There is a lot of buzz around it right now. I haven't formed an opinion, I see a lot of potential good and bad in that model.
previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26817517
I presume you are talking about buying a domain from a domain squatter.

I wouldn't buy from a squatter. So far I have been able to come up with suitable domain names and use various means to get referrals based on suitable search terms, etc. I believe that people use a search engine more than they bother remembering domain names. Of course, I could be wrong.
The purpose of Docker is to containerize specific applications, not to run general-purpose virtual machines. There are Windows Server base containers for Docker, but the point of them is to do things like deploy a server (that just happens to be on Windows Server rather than Linux) as a Docker image.
Ne, the Nice Editor
That's a sweet typo
Yeah, "Open core" doesn't have a great definition. Certainly I agree this is a pretty contained feature, and I shouldn't have written "switching ... to an open core model" given the evidence in this thread.

But "Element Matrix Services" (aka New Vector) launching and marketing a product/feature that is not open source is AFAIK something new, and it'd be very surprising if this is the last such feature they announce.

(Before today, they were one of the very few examples I knew of a VC-funded open source company where their product remained entirely open source.)
Here is a service that lets you request anyone's location like the insurance operator did for you. Super easy and handy when you're trying to find someone who's not able to find their coordinates on their phone themselves.

https://yourlo.ca/tion
>Lots of lower-tiered jobs literally just need people to show up and do what they're asked. A part of getting a "first" or "entry level" job is accepting you're there mostly to learn, not to teach/move outside of your lane.

I recently saw a junior CV that said "I can lead and I can follow" in personal skills... meanwhile his CV was full of spelling mistakes and his biggest project was setting up a website for some realestate agency.

The number one thing I would want to see in a junior hire is effort and attention to detail, on the extreemes I prefer working with someone who's less talented but reliable and paying attention over someone who's technically capable but unfocused and all over the place.
There Are No Good Arguments for Intellectual Property (2010)
Or, just don't be a dick. You can easily, and legally, leave a restaurant without leaving a tip -- but most people don't because they feel it is appropriate to support the waitstaff financially. It's not hard to sneak into the back door of a movie theater, but most people don't because they realize it's the same as stealing.
What stack do you recommend?

Node/JS or GoLang or React, Java?
Doesn't it also benefit anyone who buys ads or anyone who displays ads?
I raise you GOES-17 aka GOES-West currently:

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector.php?sat=G17&sec...

Though it’s a trade off! GOES has a really fast return (10-15 minutes, IIRC) but doesn’t do global and has comparatively poor spatial resolution (red at 500m per pixel, many near IR at 1km, LWIR at 2km). So you can get some data every 15 minutes, but for the city of San Francisco it’s only 10x10 pixels.

This is part of why folks like to join high-resolution data with high-temporal frequency data like GOES. Including me! (Well, I hope to get back to my side project using the Descartes Labs API to “learn” high-spatial GOES from the combo of sentinel2 and GOES).
Yes, the Punjab region is beautiful. But maybe you should read about it more: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/coverage/parched-punjab-20535
http://water.columbia.edu/research-themes/water-food-energy-...
https://theprint.in/india/governance/save-punjab-from-desert...
The region is not green because of the agricultural practices, it was always green and is now dying due to the destructive agriculture.
An interesting question would be how much of this can be attributed to readers from China and other countries that block Google. It's a common problem on other sites that loading of something non-important is attempted from Google servers, but the page doesn't render (i.e. doesn't show anything) until that ill-fated request times out.
All the papers jw mason quotes say the theory matches reality. Basically that rent controls strong enough to make a difference reduce housing quantity and quality.
Will HN respect the paywall, or will outline.com links start appearing in every comment thread originating from a reuters.com story?
Olympia. State Capital. You have Comcast. And Centurylink will give you up to 8mbps in many places. Oof.
You remind me of some of my friends. I think you might benefit from a little perspective—standard life narrative scripts (like: "get a job") might not be so helpful for you, for instance. Shoot me an email rot13(baylgjbpnacynlguvftnzr) at gmail and we can jump on a call sometime.