skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at IBM TJ Watson research at the time. It's hard to "steal" from IBM, because at the time I was there, IBM's #1 problem was getting its research into the world.

In 1996, I worked in a group on digital cash payment schemes, digital checking, years before PayPal, they had a trusted enclave (CITADEL PCMCIA card), we had a MIME plugin for Mosaic and Unix email that would do peer to peer digital money transfers, and when it came time to ask "when are we going to try to productize this", the answer came back "we talked with banks and will be ready to do a pilot project in 5 years"

This is much like Steve Jobs "stealing" GUI, Smalltalk, and Ethernet from PARC and claiming there was no innovation. At that stage, shipping something consumers can use is innovation.

If you were a techie/engineer in 1998, as opposed to a general consumer (of which there were very few), Google results WERE better than AltaVista and competitors. The early adopters and pioneers switched because like with Chrome v1, a lot of the value proposition was obvious.

The bigger question perhaps is why didn't their competitors react quickly to prevent their rise, and I think the answer to that is in general, once a company makes a large splash, and gets the public attention, it's hard for others to overcome the free value from being the thought leader. This is true of Apple and true of Tesla in cars. Tesla makes the best EV right now. It's sexy, it's fast, and Elon Musk commands the world's attention. One day, other brands will catch up, they'll be Tesla competitors just as good, but no one will care, and Tesla -- if Musk doesn't fsck it up -- will continue to have a halo effect, a reality distortion field.
The problem is that Amazon is now basically the market itself while at the same time a competitor or a potential competitor. Small businesses don't have much choice in the matter if they want the ability to reach an entire market. If they go their own way and build their own retail experience, there is a ceiling on the percentage of the market they can sell to.

Without any regulation to curtail this behavior, the end state seems like it will have to be Amazon owning the markets that have the best margins and the least risk. Competitors will die and Amazon will be able to increase prices to maximize their profits without needing to worry about being undercut. That sounds exactly like what anti monopoly legislation was written to protect against.
Do you navigate to this site by IP address?
Not long ago - just to see if it would work - I designed and 3D printed a replacement key. It worked.

It wouldn't be too difficult to McGyver something similar to a lishi using 3D printing with a thin metal insert.
Or that people who are good at processing structured text tend to use/like Haskell.

(Not disagreeing with you, but the causal direction isn't immediately obvious to me.)
Always remember, 4chan is a .org .
I believe the original intention was to tax the market value of the land a structure sits on, not the structure itself. So in the case of apartments, presumably local density would have to be fairly high to make it a good place to build an apartment building there in the first place, and so the market value of the land would also be high; but the units would not be taxed directly at all, though their occupants would have to pay some fraction of the overall LVT. (Presumably that fraction would be higher for the penthouse.)

You can see why the LVT is relatively density-friendly: the taller the building, the less tax paid by each resident.
Counter-points:

1. At the time, Firefox’ total installer size was ~4-5MB.

2. Much lighter than the contemporaneous IE8 and default Firefox skin, but it just came down to removing the menu-bar and status bar. Chrome’s lack of a traditional menu-bar put me off for a while, I’ll admit. I also disagreed with Chrome having its own visual-style on Windows instead of using the system theme. I know Chrome integrated with Aero Glass on Vista-and-later, but I was an XP hold-out until 2013 when I jumped to Windows 8.1.

3. “Dynamic” is overselling it. Internet Explorer had an auto-hiding status bar since version 4, albeit only in full-screen mode.

4. How is that a good thing? It wastes a thick line of screen space if you downloaded a single file. I preferred Firefox’s separate download manager window.

5. IIRC, Chrome’s “close-everything-without-moving-the-mouse” feature wasn’t in its earlier releases - and I had that functionality in Firefox (back when Firefox had a single close-current-tab button on the far-right instead of close buttons on each tab)

6. Who prints web-pages? Even in 2008.

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But yeah, Chrome’s attempt at cutting down unnecessary UI was bold - and prompted Microsoft to redo IE9’s UI to look like Chrome’s in 2011 (despite that, they never fixed the “snappy” feel that Chrome has - why does IE still freeze briefly for 1-2 frames every time you switch tabs? Why is the address bar still so fiddly? Oh well, IE is dead now so we’ll never know...)
This is exactly my experience. I've found becoming proficient with Pandas to take much more time than other data manipulation libraries like dplyr or Pyspark dataframes. The Pandas way of doing things is just not memorable or intuitive.
> but this post shortens that to "there’s no such thing as rationality"

No, you are interpreting it in a very contrarian way. With the context of the metaphor about the speed of light, you can see that he understands people are using this expression as an out or justification for lazy thought: "there is no such thing as rationality that is free from ideology so we should not listen to people who strive to be rational." Which is fallacious and absurd. Viewed as a whole, the piece is quite coherent.
that's unfortunate, I didn't think I was that unintelligible. In any case we do agree that this is the realm of government. That wasn't very clear to me in your original comment since pay and status are typically conferred by employers in American society.
Right, this seems much more like a landlady situation than a roommate search.
The lead time for pushing new "virus definitions" is a lot shorter once the vaccine is adopted and manufacturing chain is established. A central lab can download the new variants genome from labs all over the world, select some markers and push changes to manufacturing facilities through e-mail or even Git.
>Can we also talk about men

Absolutely, submit an article and we'll discuss it there.
I used it to do some tax optimization around ISOs at a newly public company (https://gitlab.com/mbryant/taxoptimizer/-/blob/master/amt.py). It gets pretty slow when you try to look more than a few years out, so I'm guessing writing some optimization logic by hand would've made more sense. Using Z3 here definitely beat me trying to do this on paper like I've seen other people do!
The linked site, obviously. It handily fails accessibility guidelines, far more-so than HN.
> BONUS 3: If @Namecheap is claiming the court order is correct, they must believe that the German court has themselves put up a phishing site.

There'd be nothing surprising about this. It isn't a point in favour of the court order being "fake".

When the takeover of Hansa [0], a collaboration between German and Dutch LE, happened they did actually alter the code of the website in ways identical to phishing. Collecting usernames, passwords, and location information.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/hansa-dutch-police-sting-operati...
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The data is currently readily available.

In the case of municipal broadband, you could vote for local politicians that are against dragnet surveillance.

Also, paradoxically, the 4th prevents the government from gathering data, but not purchasing it. In the case of municipal broadband, there is a strong argument to be made that you are constitutionally protected against invasive privacy policies, such as logging or selling personal information.
I can and do write shell scripts all the time which properly handle spaces, without ShellCheck. Not to say that it isn’t good to use, especially in a professional environment, but it’s not that hard. For parallel processing, xargs -0 and find -0 are your friends!
Yes, mail just put in the slot in my town goes to another town 40 miles away for sorting and comes back the next day.

We used to have a basket at the window where one could drop PO box mail for the same town, and it would be distributed directly. COVID killed that.
That's exactly it - you sign the guestbook when you arrive at the hotel.
Of course this pops up on my feed as I'm about to code a VCV Rack module...
I think knowing what you don't know is still a pretty big win. It can help people trust the models in cases they do work, and it can serve as a diagnostic for why it fails in certain circumstances.
So if someone disagrees that we live in a white supremacist culture, they should just sit mute and not challenge that claim?
Apple Watch could add blood sugar and alcohol readings after UK tech deal
Better now than in a few weeks?
Git Signature Operations via HashiCorp Vault
> Sure, but by that definition every commercial product constructed from multiple parts has a monopoly over all their components. Starbucks has a “monopoly” over what coffee is sold within Starbucks cups. Sorry, but I just can’t take that kind of argument seriously.

You're right, my reply there was poorly worded, fortunately you seem to agree with the point of the reply anyways since you say

> Copyright and patents are the very definition of a legal monopoly.

Which really is just the point.

However I am being entirely serious that there is more that not all monopolies implicate current anti trust law. Whether or not they do depends on whether or not they're a monopoly over the entirety of a market, not over a certain invention (patent) or copying a certain work of art (copyright).

You can see that at play in the current Epic v Apple case for instance. It's unambiguous that Apple has a monopoly over distributing apps to iPhones, it is ambiguous over whether the relevant market here is iPhone users, and therefore whether or not anti trust law applies.
He does not need access to corporate email to say that he left in protest. He can post such a statement on Facebook, Twitter, or email reporters from his personal account.
.com is for domains that fit into a single segment!
Is Big Philanthropy Destroying Democracy? [audio] (2018)
> I would never be able to save any money by making cool gadgets was a bummer.

Wait until you get older and realize that if you want high quality, you have to drop down one-two levels on whatever you want to buy to avoid pointless shit like "Alexa" or "Google Home" integration.
Were they entirely unprepared for this meeting?

"I condemn white supremacy" should not have been difficult words to say. It does not require careful phrasing. Particularly right now, so shortly after famously Trump refused to say it in the debate, and then weeks later we had the attack on the capitol.
An intermediate case between life-and-death healthcare and who-cares music recommendations is machine translation. Thanks to advances in AI and to companies like Google and DeepL providing translation services for free, MT is now being used widely in the real world. Sometimes it performs miraculously, enabling effective communication and cooperation among people without a common language, and sometimes it fails horribly.
Beavers chew through cable, knock out Internet service to 900 customers
Anger and poor impulse control led me to rage quit a job. And I wasn't the best developer. I don't think any job was ever sorry to see me go.
Fine. Gates bad. Bezos good. I get it.
Out of curiosity, how does that process work from a practical standpoint? How does an early stage company find you? Do they pitch you, the same way they would pitch VCs? Why not then spend your time directly pitching VCs, instead of pitching bankers who then have to go out and successfully pitch VCs?

Sorry, I'm probably coming across as attacking, but really am not. I just have never heard of this role before, and am asking out of genuine curiosity.

(Also as a sidetone, is there a specific name for this type of deal facilitator besides the generically overloaded "banker"?)
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Not the same thing. Check out other relevant responses here, too. In short, Home Depot or Lowe's are buying products to resell. They are the seller themselves. OP's argument is that Amazon is the platform facilitating the sale -- hence the mall owner.
Verizon killed commenting on the news section last year, so I doubt they would be interested in revising the instant messaging functionality of YIM... Maybe the new owners might take this route, it remains to be seen.
Is this really a serious question? The success of a for profit company is defined by “profitability”.

Spotify - like Jobs said about DropBox, they are a feature not a product. Most of their revenue goes back to the record labels. Their gross margins are slim

Uber - is losing billions and it’s unit economics isn’t good.

Lyft - See Uber

Tesla - it’s “profits” aren’t from selling cars.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/31/investing/tesla-profitability...
> It's REALLY impressive that you only need to read 54 KB out of 700 MB, to fetch the records.

the harsh reality is that doing sensible queries that only reference and return the data actually needed always makes things faster. Even with server DBMS. Oh, how many times have I lamented the naive "select *" for forcing all the row contents even when there was index coverage for the actually needed data.
It's an example, not an argument. An argument isn't really needed; the way microwaves heat things is well-documented. For example: https://culinarylore.com/food-science:do-microwaves-cook-fro...
So where's the fork? I mean someone forked GIMP to get away from the dumb name....

HN has a pretty wide reach, but TFA was awfully long, I hope enough folks will read this to perhaps coalesce a critical mass around a real fork, with legs, and a proper community.
I wish it wasn't something you had to go looking for. I never would have thought that it would be an issue. If you do Google searches for inplace, you get no results on the first page discouraging its use.

The documentation should clearly say if the inplace argument causes an internal copy, because the availability of it implies that it doesn't. I've used inplace many times with Pandas because I've had code that I know is working with large amounts of data and I've thought "well I probably shouldn't chain these and cause tons of unnecessary allocations just to have prettier code".
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Where I live (not the US) has clean, efficient public transit and high density urban planning.

What do most of the middle class want? To move out of their cramped apartments into a single family home. And to own a car.

People act like suburbanism was forced on people when the reality is it’s preferred by many.
> If I start a new taco truck company and put "burrito.services" or "burrito.catering" or "burrito.ai" in a huge font on the side of the trucks, a fairly large number of people aren't going to immediately recognize that as a web site address.

Well, unless you put "http(s)://" in front of it.
And we think having like-count boosting on insta is so terribly new and fresh!
Kids are the only people in your life the longer you know them, the less you know them.
My first job out of college was doing flood zone determinations with this data. FEMA updates their FIRM (Flood Insurance Risk Maps) flood zones in most places every few years.

Just checked here in Austin and it was last updated in 2016. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/availabilitySearch?addcommunity=...
Probably the opposite. Back in real 'grandpa' time, nobody thought twice about downloading and make/make install random stuff off of the internet...
Larger interests have driven government since at least the 70s into the 80s when corporations became the major source of money for the parties.

They want cheap labor, low taxes, pretend regulation (Google, Apple, Amazon, etc.)

Politicians pretend they listen to the public and they go through motions but rarely deliver what's in the interest of the people who elected them.

I doubt today ATT would get broken up.
oddly, I was having this conversation with a consulting client very recently. The client asked for an "in-memory datastore" .. personally, I am fluent in PostgreSQL and had already done some early versions of a solution using Postgres. Speaking, I was trying to get across the idea that Postgres can be configured specifically to a RAM balance such that, it starts to act like an "in-memory datastore". You can think of the server instance as a "wrapper" around the action of tables and access. The client was/is skeptical and also knows no Postgres personally. Perhaps there are some architectural parts missing in his mind that blur multi-node, cloud'y datastores, versus single node.

Postgres certainly comes from the days of single-box, many workloads, many users.. Currently, there are more varied scenarios, and that common case is a lot less common. As this article shows very well, Postgres is actually a very capable tool.
While I agree with you that it's mostly the parents, I think we poorly equip and support parents.
Many have had poor role models to begin with and without external influence are doomed to repeat history.
Support for parents is quite poor IMO and should be massively increased.
Unfortunately, our society requires children to continue the next generation but we seem to value child-less people more (in our rewards to them).
Bill, Melinda Gates announce split after nearly 30 years together
Last link should be https://kausa.join.com/jobs/2206862-senior-software-engineer...
Yup. It’s one of those “shit or get off the pot” type things.
according to that link, the initial announcement is also [flagged] and has less points and comments than todays main thread about the Gates divorce announcement (which could comment in instead of complaing here). And the one post with >100 comments is as much about Bezos being even more rich as about the divorce.
Certainly, though the trend for printing vehicles, business cards, letterheads, outdoor advertising signs and such seems to be to omit the "http(s)://" or "www"... Since in real world use almost nobody is actually typing the http:// into the browser anymore, as might have been necessary when we were running Netscape Navigator in 1999.
I don’t necessarily obey them, but I find it difficult to work when a toddler is going crazy around you.
Bill and Melinda Gates to divorce after 27 years of marriage
Storage Changes for Google Photos
As long as you can be thoughtful and curious about tech-related stuff and communicate that thoughtfulness well in text, you belong on HN. There's certainly a tilt toward career SV types for obvious reasons, but this place has everything from genuine, jaw-dropping geniuses to people who are just hobbyists, and a lot in-between.
One theory for the decline of the Mayans was slash/burn/plant only works until you run out of forests, and they paved the region with cities all doing that, instead of using fertilizer.
Tesla claims to have avoided chip shortage
The gray text is intentionally used for this purpose on HN.
I can do some household tasks, but I was referring to work that requires concentration and no interruptions.
Yes. I wasn’t able to read the content on mobile at all and I have okay eyesight.
But on the other hand a .org file would probably rank pretty highly on the [file extension trustworthiness scale](https://xkcd.com/1301/)
If this is the primary reason, it's kind of strange to choose Apple, a company with a notoriously secretive and authoritarian internal culture.
Bill and Melinda Gates getting divorced
You can always go without shoes for a while to save up for good ones.

A lot of the things people don't even consider giving up are non-essential. There's a strange hoarder mentality where poor people are unwilling to sacrifice anything at all, even if it led to future improvement.

It's another fallacy, I think. When you're hungry it wouldn't occur to many to voluntarily fast. Sugars fool humans well. Artificial flavorings fool them even better.

Note the core of my argument: $1 of good food sustains you longer than $1 of bad food. What good food is so expensive per smallest unit sold that anyone couldn't switch to it?
A few groups, out of hundreds.
One of the big features was also the fact that it was running multiple processes. Back then, if the browser crashed it just took down the whole browser with all tabs, which was also a bit more common with the numerous plugins that were required to browse the web.
Hey Ben, just curious where you found the $100M-$250M annual revenue number? It sounds about right to me (looking at traffic numbers and estimated CPMs / conversion to Yahoo Premium), but I've dug for a concrete figure in Verizon's annual reports and never surfaced anything.