skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sustainability is often about long-term productivity, not short-term productivity. A piece of land that's going to be in a family for multiple generations is a different thing from a corporate operation that is looking for quarterly or yearly gains. Yes there are some in the latter category that are thinking long term, but how often are they thinking one generation out, let alone multiple?
> I prefer ClubHouse now

The problem is not that you prefer clubhouse. Instead, it is that you have ascribed some magical property to it, and are treating it like it is some revolution.

That is great that you have found something that you prefer. But there is no need to talk in such grandious terms, when talking about a voice chat app.
>YouTube can ban you from the platform at any time for any reason. While it's not good publicity, you don't have a legal right to be on YouTube or receive money from them.

no, but being compliant in fraud goes farther than arbitrarily banning a user. Not a lawyer, and odds are there's not enough care to address this point legally anyway. But I don't think the potential case here is as open and shut as "we have the rights to refuse service".
You could also sign-up for unemployment insurance if you live in Denmark.

At around 2500 USD / month for up to 2 years, it's a pretty decent deal for average Joe. I think I pay around 800 USD / year for unemployment insurance.

In practice, I'll probably never need it though.. so I have considered dropping it.
People downvoting nutrition…I don’t get it…or maybe I do.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240545772...

Vitamin D levels had a significant difference between the case and control groups (p = 0.008). Serum calcium and serum zinc levels also had statistically significant differences between the two groups (p < 0.001).
You should have an emergency fund. After that you should be investing for retirement, or any other larger goals you may have, e.g., home ownership, replacing car.

But having a pile of money beyond those things "just because" does not really serve the purpose of money: as a medium of exchange for goods and services. Money in itself is not useful, it is only useful for the things it can give you: shelter, water, food, and the various other things as you work your way up Maslow's hierarchy.

At most having a (digital) pile of cash may help you sleep at night (assuming it's covered by deposits insurance). Paying a fee may be worth peace of mind.
Doesn't Apple do the same with Safari? On macOS I think Safari opens up sometimes even though my default browser is Firefox. Maybe when clicking links in Apple Mails? Not sure.

It's funny how Apple gets away when doing the same thing or worse than Windows, yet Windows is always the one getting criticism. Like how Apple always try to enable Siri after an update. Or how managing when an update should be done is incredibly worse on macOS than on Windows.
That's basically re-inventing the Database but on the client side. We have gone a long way but we are closer to having the server side just as a data store.
Why use a cloud gaming service?
This article reads like a first draft of Disney's Purl, with a bit of /r/thathappened embellishment (coke pouring back into the can?). Someone who calls their (her word) kind coworker "babe" and "tech bro" also raises an eyebrow.
> I should have added "in C / C++ / C#".

The only part of my response that would have effected was the aside about Smalltalk-style “become”, not the main point about the problem being one of constructing an inheritance heirarchy based on relations of immutable entity and using it for mutable entities with mutation contracts that don’t observe the same is-a heirarchy.
Be interesting to see how far they get with this.

Previous attempts/prototypes haven’t been super successful
Blown surfaces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_H.126
And a whole plane with a similar system of air being ducted through the surfaces and whatnot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_XFV-12
This might not belong here but I think there's something to be said for the changes Google makes and is currently making around Performance and Page Ranking. Black box bullsh!t metrics forcing everyone to appease the magical algorithms in their highly questionable tool. Their own framework fails here significantly.
My link was to DuckDuckGo - it doesn't generate personalized search results
“Everything old is new again”.

Not always inaccurate, but often used to overlook nuance.
>We eat store bought avocados several times a week, but I unfortunately haven’t had a single one in the years since that was even a hundredth as delicious as those wonderful fruits.

I find the quality of avocados (and pretty much everything else) varies by the season. As you get closer to California's season for avocados, they taste better and better. Once they have to travel further, they start being more hit or miss.

I haven't tasted one as good as the ones I ate off the tree in Kenya. Although, almost everything there seemed to taste better.
> How can a handful of names across an entire industry meaningfully affect your career choice?

I've found myself approached by recruiters for the exact large company and sizable department that one of these people has substantial rank in. It's already had an impact on my decisions.
It would be an interesting test, wouldn't it?

See if Transmeta Crusoe is vulnerable to Spectre?

But, even if it is... keep in mind that when running x86 instructions, you still have the x86 translation software proxy layer... that means that could could grab any given offending / problem-causing x86 instruction -- when you encountered it, and recode the VLIW output from it to output a different set of native VLIW instructions -- that you knew were safe...

In other words, with a Transmeta Crusoe -- if the x86 translation layer is open source and you possess it (and can code / understand things) -- then you'll have some options there.

Which is unlike a regular x86 CPU -- where the way it decodes and executes instructions -- cannot be changed in any way by the user...
Downvoting pattern on HN is the weirdest thing, even weirder than Reddit sometimes.

I can feel what kind of the comments will be downvoted but can't pin down why. The best I can come up with is that certain comment will be downvoted when the "mood" (not even narrative) of it doesn't fit with the others.
i dont think this is relevant, she's not the only female developer in the team and i have rather a positive rapport with everyne else. It's just how the normal work situation becomes twisted into personal, full of self-defense and finger pointing, with potential to develop into crazy if i dont back off.

PS after giving this one more thought, i dont think i ever patronized someone because of gender, but must honestly admit i assume the mentor tone when dealing with unexperienced/less skilled developers. Shoot me, but it's not about maintaining my feeling of superiority, i know my skills. It's about building a rapport - if the other person reacts properly then there's hope for cooperation, if it's just games then sorry, i dont want that.
Their profits aren’t close to 78%, they make more profit than other companies because they aren’t perpetually doing race to the bottom pricing. Every machine and device they sell is a high end (in market sense) for that category of device and so has high end margins.
Nope, the men estimate women pretty much on a bit of flattened bell curve just like you would expect in reality.

The female estimate looks like a power curve from zero.

https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/yourlooksandyo...
Is there research or a startup working to genetically modify tropical fruit trees into a form that would be easier to cultivate in greenhouses. There doesn't seem to be any good reason why an avocado can't grow on a vine or even on a seaweed.

Such fruit could be cheaper and higher quality as it would be local and could reach ripeness on the plant. And it will be less susceptible to anti-gmo activists, because unlike usual GMO that benefits growers, or benefits customers in a non-obvious way (like golden rice), it will benefit directly customers who will be getting delicious tropical fruit which now they can taste only when traveling.
Only with a ridiculously long word list containing plurals and words people can't spell.
That's not true at all. Most cryptos aren't clones of BTC at all - they have wildly different consensus systems, interaction models, goals and capabilities. They all have their own issues and capacities, but saying they are all clones of BTC is like saying all existing programming languages are clones of FORTRAN and have the same problems as FORTRAN does. There's a huge variety, and we're still in the very beginning of it, nobody knows what emerges out of it and what would be successful and what would fail. It's probably decades in the future, maybe more.
Maidenhead Locator System
Once an enterprise reaches a certain level of scale that amount of complexity is almost unavoidable. Tools like Salesforce and JIRA are great for providing the needed flexibility within guard rails and a shared vernacular.
Hmm, I have personally considered if I could pay my taxes extra early!!!

I even if I loose my job and don't need to pay so much, I'm sure the government is good for it and can pay me back :)

Sadly, I still have to pay interest if I don't pay taxes on time.
Cool! Would be interesting to move around on the charts. Curious how these did in 2020 specifically.
If it's something that makes more sense as a website, then yes. I would go so far as to say any app that doesn't work offline is likely a dark pattern
Your surface area is totally incorrect.
Privacy is the thing that everybody talks about but nobody has it.

Move on.

Btw Clubhouse being worth $4bn?! New Studio 54?
I’ll be the only one to say this, but I love the $6 keyboards you get at any computer store. The large backslash key and perfect key pressure is what I like.
Western capitalists did not "invent" avocados, nor are they "fancy new superfoods". People objectively like them a lot, and biologically, they should, they're creamy, fatty goodness.

It's simply a consequence of people wanting to (and being able to afford) good tasting food.
"If not present, could not track a user journey"

Yeah, that's kinda the point...
And the foreigners can often use their time in Denmark as contribution credit to their own social security. Canada for example has a few such agreements, include with Denmark AFAICT:

* https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/canada-...

* https://retirehappy.ca/social-security-agreements-cpp-oas/
i can think of a few places where it's useful:

if you know that your data comes from a stationary distribution, you can use it as a compression technique which reduces the computational demands on your model. sure, computing the initial svd or covariance matrix is expensive, but once you have it, the projection is just a matrix multiply and a vector subtraction. (with the reverse being the same)

if you have some high dimensional data and you just want to look at it, it's a pretty good start. not only does it give you a sense for whether higher dimensions are just noise (by looking at the eigenspectrums) it also makes low dimensional plots possible.

pca, cca and ica have been around for a very long time. i doubt "their time has passed."

but who knows, maybe i'm wrong.
If you only talk about the tech behind it, then you're correct. However there is a scarcity of time and attention, which is what Clubhouse aims to capture. People want to be where things are happening. That's why land is abundant, yet I pay $2600 for a one-bedroom apartment in a city.

I've been using Clubhouse for a year, and seen various iterations. Earlier, there was so much human connection. I talked to amazing people almost 1:1, and it was like being part of a small club. As it grew, it became more like a 24/7 conference where you could drop in to hear any topic you want. Less my thing, but still fascinating.
A design requirement of the app is it works offline.
What is spyware to you? If it's spying on me without consent and sending private information about my computer it is definitely spyware, regardless of the database they use.

Since they don't ask for consent and uses PII, it is illegal under GDPR, probably CCPA and other laws too. It's also Not Nice™.
I'm disappointed the best she could do summing up her 20-year experience as a woman in tech is high baseline agression, cynicism, two examples of violence on her part, one genuinely off-colour remark and one piece of unacceptable behaviour by a colleague.

I would have preferred to see some analysis of how she has had to and did adjust to the way men think, some tips for colleagues welcoming women, something she appreciated in working with men, some area she uniquely shone because she was a woman in a male environment, etc.

What we got was a thinly veiled foregone conclusion of "anything I don't like is discrimination because I'm a woman" and "the problem is men". As usual, she is merely the victim, has no agency and no interest in a non-gynocentric perspective. As it stands, there is little to be gained from her post besides discouraging women from joining up and demonising men.
I think just about all of these are achievable except for the wax paper on which it's probably simplest to just recognize they are doing it wrong in San Diego.
I have been toying with making a game which is factorio-ish but literally for processors so potentially watch out for that (got a job now, though...)
So how does this invalidate the parent comment’s point? If Dogecoin was a better hold than Bitcoin does that somehow imply that Bitcoin is a worse hold than dollars?

And before you lecture about the function of fiat currency, remember the bottom half of society is forced to keep their entire net worth in cash because they are in a continuous financial emergency...
Facebook and Instagram forcing users to enable tracking. Also network effects and how to combat them would be interesting.
I've used PCA with good results in the past. My problem essentially simplified down to trying to find nearest neighbours in high dimensional spaces. Distance metrics in high dimensional spaces don't behave nicely. Using PCA to cut reduce the number of dimensions to something more manageable made the problem much more tractable.
Software developer tracks down code for beloved 41-year old game
Microsoft Office Lens is free and really good.

You can also do it natively now in iOS Files app and Android's Google Drive.
> I can't see how anyone could criticize playing the lottery unless you're doing it with money you can't afford to lose.

This is the majority of lottery players, you know?

You don't get $400 million jackpots by rich people playing.

You get $400 million jackpots by fleecing a lot of poor people.
Transmeta Crusoe is unlikely to be vulnerable, but it's Intel contemporaries aren't either. So you'd need to be looking at some hypothetical "today" version.

An open system with such a design would indeed be fascinating (the original wasn't open, and Transmeta was big on their patents on this stuff). More flexibility than microcode patches too.
"...I've heard that solid state amps are used in metal more commonly because they have a different tone"

Partially false. The general trend in metal has gravitated towards tube amp distortion (and digital modeling of it) precisely because of the different tone and responses vs solid state amps.

As a guitarist there's a certain response you get with a tube amp vs digital and solid state.

As an HN reader, I struggle to describe and quantify this quality besides the generic descriptors of 'response' and 'feel'.
I'll admit I didn't finish the article. I got as far as the author critising her colleagues clothes. If this was the other way round she would be pissed but because she is making fun of men itself okay to her.

She also seems to think a receptionist or assistant is beneath her for some reason.

I'm tired of pandering to the idea of all men bad all women good.
Yeah, that's what I was wondering : is this why I haven't seen a single delivery gal in my life ? ( Unlike trucker women.)
Pigeons (Columba Livia) as Trainable Observers of Breast Cancer Images (2015)
What the Normans Did for England
Thank you!

I was mildly troubled by the comment towards the end, "There were third- and fourth-generation members who I had no idea about who had signed up to talk about reliability without being second-guessed to death and hounded by people who just wanted to talk about [...] "a lot of work went into that"."

I've been sensitized, I guess. Yes, the way we do things is probably stupid. Yes, your favorite new framework or method or language or whatever might trivially fix all the problems that you can see. Heck, you might even be the smartest person in the room. But, there might also be a reason things things are stuck at a historical, local maximum.
Mitre ATT&CK kill chain framework now includes Containers Matrix
Honestly all websites should support a no-script, static version to prevent 90% of the webs BS. We used to be able to view sites with JavaScript disabled and actually things would work.

Also, instead of arbitrary cookies why not standardize authentication/authorization security mechanisms to avoid having those stupid cookie pop ups.

At this point there are common web pattern which separates the essentials from the BS—so why not get rid of the BS and keep the good stuff?
Not quite. Pronouns in Spanish are more complicated than in English. You can use él and ella as objects preceded by prepositions, as in a ella. And, while in English we make do with just subject and object pronouns, in Spanish there is a distinction between direct and indirect objects. So (since you asked) lo is for neuter or masculine direct objects, and la is for feminine direct objects. But for indirect objects, use le for him, her, or formal you. It’s tricky, at least for English speakers, because the indirect object comes up where you would least expect it. For example, I tell her in English includes the direct object, but in Spanish the equivalent is indirect.
You're contradicting your first comment:

> I want my search results to prefer [.....] other pages marked high for quality by people who [some algorithm] to this page.

Facebook/YouTube already do this and it is a disaster, which maybe even has indirectly contributed to rise of antivaxx, Q, Trump election, Capitol attack etc.

Before personalized recommendation systems, when an antivaxxer made a video, hardly anyone saw it, when they liked it, the like resulted in nothing.

When their likes started affecting their personal search results, liking one antivaxx video made search produce hundreds more of them. It finds so much of the same stuff they no longer have free time to check an opposing opinion.

You're operating under an assumption that your judgement is more correct or better for you, and the entire problem is about finding gems in an ocean of trash. The reality is more complicated, for you antivaxx content is trash, for them it is your content that is trash.
> You could say that about anything you construct in your model though?

That’s kind of the point, yes, model -> nouns -> objects.

> Stops being OO if it's not somehow similar to an admittedly vague concept of what an object is, surely?

There’s nothing particularly vague about “noun in the domain”; linguistic-based modelling certainly isn’t the be-all and end-all of OOP modelling, but its one of the traditional approaches dating back to the early 80s and its more sophisticated than thr kind of naive tangible-item approach that seems to be set up as a strawman here.

> I could write the whole thing as an ECS and call all the objects systems or components, and then they are nouns in the domain?

A relationship is a real thing in the domain being modelled, “systems” and “components” are (in the sense you are using them) not, unless the thing you are modelling is a an ECS implementation of a domain. There might be some utility for such a second-order model in OOP (if the OOP is for a code generator, for instance), but it wouldn’t be a model of the domain addressed by the ECS system, but of the ECS system itself.
But the products created by these giants are in fact often better than their smaller competitors, even if for no better reason than because the large company is subsiding the construction. The narrative assumption that people want the bad parts of these companies ignores the survey data that shows that people do care about things like privacy, and choose options when possible that optimize for it... they just can't afford it or have to make tradeoffs against it versus other things; like, I would never leave Facebook as I have lots of friends who use it and I want to see their photos and hear about their lives and get invited to their parties. A remarkable number of people--despite all the pains and costs of doing so--jailbroke their iPhones: most people like what Apple is selling despite it being closed, not because of it.
If you ever find this fabled avocado man, please send him my way (email in profile).
In case of IE with Windows, that situation was different because Windows had a monopoly. In case of Apple, you have similar devices available from other producers with a different OS, and cheaper at that.

Personally, a part of the reason I pay premium for Apple's devices is that I want a platform that is locked down, and one company that makes sure that all the others adhere to certain privacy and security standards.
Im not excusing what happened, but was the remix author actually making claims? Or did they just add a song to ContentID’s database? If it’s the former, that’s despicable and (almost certainly) illegal. If it’s the latter, it’s not their fault, but Google’s for having an overzealous system.
Maybe forcing the user to login with GitHub would be an option? And the changes to the database could be modelled as pull requests?
If anyone is looking to pair up on a burrito-ranking site for NYC, please reach out.

Have been working on a side project for it and would love a partner to build with. I already have the domain name for it (nycburritos.com)
This article makes me wonder if we'll ever see another social network ever again. Our opinions on privacy and security have shifted dramatically (for the better, in my opinion), however imagine an author writing about Facebook a year in under a 2021 lens.

Facebook (and others) grew because a lack of privacy and security was the goal. Images were public and tagged, conversations were viewable by anyone, the minifeed made it easy to see every change people made, etc. It was exclusive (college only) but also very public. The high amount of content and low amount of friction made it spread virally. Now it's much more locked down, but that's okay... it already hit a critical mass.

The current consensus about privacy and security seem to be at odds with what's necessary to make a social network work. The ability to connect with anyone at any time with no friction is what makes social networks thrive, but also what enables harassment and abuse.

I think it's likely we've already seen the last great social network.
America Needs a New Motto?
That all depends on what type of software you write. I don't think there'll ever be a language that ticks every requirement box.
It doesn't. I just don't believe in advocating for regular people to hold highly volatile assets with unpredictable performance.

The bottom half of society also hold large amounts of debt, one of the key functions of inflation is eroding the value of that debt. A currency like Bitcoin does not provide for this.
Why not just set an arbitrary threshold on how big you need to be before interoperability law applies to you? After all, people are only forced to interoperate with you when you're sufficiently big.

> I just don’t see how the law can make apps interoperable without huge barriers of entry that would benefit the incumbents.

I don't see how making such a huge dent in network effects will be anything but a detriment to the incumbents.