skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is fantastic, and it should help you get hired!

In late 90s, I got a gig in part by demo-ing my own personal MS Outlook emulator web front end (backed by ColdFusion POP3/SMTP calls). It was entertaining getting a 1996 browser to look and behave like Outlook — had to love frames and multipart server push.

Seeing Bear, Terminal, and VSCode here are all both delightful and impressive.

Typo feedback:

“In the last sever days, Safari has prevent 95 tracker from profiling you” —> “In the last several [seven?] days, Safari has prevented 95 trackers from profiling you”
I would say "privacy is only for those who value it". Nobody rich or poor is
forced to use Facebook (and plenty of wealthy people do use it).

I think Zuckerberg is more sensitized to privacy issues because he knows how the
sausage is made.
To compare this to the 1950s is... very strange. For listeners, the broadening of access to the full diversity of music between 1950 and 1990 was unprecedented in history and will never happen again, simply due to the rise of technology, and the sudden access to all the traditions of the world within a single generation.

> Lil Nas X and The Weeknd, neither of whom fits comfortably in the genre they are assigned to by the RIAA.

For me, this is generic and formulaic music that could have come out any time in the last thirty years (except for the ubiquitous "autotune/overcompress" sound I suppose).

"Not fitting comfortable into a genre" is so bland a compliment!

But I agree with this - all the action is in Bandcamp and similar.

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A composer named Steve Reich wrote several pieces of tape music (processed tape recordings) back in the 70s that were a huge hit (in avant circles), but then he went to study in Ghana and decided that this was a mistake. He felt that the purpose of music was for humans to play and sing together as a group activity, and that pre-recorded music did not fulfill this very deep human need.

I was skeptical when I first read this, but time has proven him entirely right.
In order to exchange data over a serial connection, the ones and zeroes have to be sent with exact timing, so the receiver can reliably tell where one bit ends and the next begins. Because of this, the hardware that's doing the communication can't do anything else at the same time. And since the actual mechanics of the process are simple and straightforward, most computers with a serial connection have special serial-interface hardware (a Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, or UART) to take care of it - the CPU gives the UART some data, then returns to more productive pursuits while the UART works away.

But sometimes you can't use a UART: maybe you're working on a tiny embedded computer without one, or maybe you need to speak a weird 9-bit protocol a standard UART doesn't understand. In that case, you can make the CPU pump the serial line directly. It's inefficient (there's probably more interesting work the CPU could be doing) and it can be difficult to make the CPU pause for exactly the right amount of time (CPUs are normally designed to run as fast or as efficiently as possible, nothing in between), but it's possible and sometimes it's all you've got. That's bit-banging.
She lives in Russia and attends some local events. There is no reason to hide if you don’t travel outside of Russia.
Well that's how they got to 2 billion users...
I didn't downvote (can't), but it was probably the dismissive snark which didn't add anything to the discussion moreso than the idea that earned the downvote. Also, some people are tired of the reflexive kneejerk company-bashing overall. Most of us can acknowledge that these companies have problems, but to shitcan what appears to be a personal project because it runs in Google Chrome is an overreaction.
It is an opinion piece, not a fact piece. It isn't trying to make a factual case for the slowing pace of innovation in software, he is saying that is his impression based on his experience in the field, and then using that as a premise to explore a nugget of an idea that builds on that premise. The idea isn't "biotech excites me", the idea is "some fields are limited by the availability of new ideas and others are limited by the ability to execute their ideas; the latter are more exciting".

I think a fact-based article exploring the question of whether software really does have a slowing (or just slow) pace of ideas and innovation would be much more interesting than this article, but not every article has to be factual reporting and synthesis, some can be of the form "I believe this is how the world looks, and I draw these conclusions starting from that belief".

Personally, I relate to his premise, though I'm unsure it's true. It does seem to me that there aren't many new ideas in the industry. We seem to "just" be doing things we've been able to do for a very long time, but making them more accessible to more people, more efficient (with respect to human time while not necessarily computer time), and more scalable. We seem to me to be doing a lot of streamlining but not a huge amount of innovating.
Not owning the house means that your landlord can kick you out at any moment because they can claim that they want to move in. Which means hunting for a new place, which is extremely difficult due to the massive shortage. There are also massive financial benefits of owning a house, for tax purposes, beyond avoiding the yearly increase in rent. This happens even in the cities in California with the highest amount of tenant protections.

Personally, I'd rather pay a property manager to take care of everything rather than have to do it all myself, or have to find landscapers and plumbers and all that other drudgery. But I bought purely for the security that we only provide to those who own their own place.
It seems like the bird would want to position itself based on the current day's weather and not the average of the next 3 months.
While farming that uses even more water gets a pass?

http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/05/11/cows-not-almonds-...
What's interesting to me about the music scene of today is how closely it now hews to a "long tail" model. The publishers have so much data about what streams, so the most popular stuff has become incredibly homogenous (not that pop music wasn't always in a pretty narrow groove). But at the same time, thanks to the proliferation of music production tools and channels to share it on, the long tail is filled with diverse and interesting stuff from every conceivable genre.
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'obviously'? Meh.

One argument you can make is to partly defund the surveillance-based departments and agencies and put together a cybersecurity agency who is tasked with hardening the country's systems. I have no idea how someone would build a legislative and personnel firewall to protect it from the existing need to peep through keyholes, it's probably not possible.
On Sci-Hub and Science Publishing – Should Knowledge Be Free?
Granularity of several hundred is actually fine grained enough for it to be worth spending while targeting an individual. Remember the case where the guy tried to pin point a CEO of a company to catch his attention.
> This has nothing to do with upholding the law.

No, the law is actually very clear here. What sci-hub does is clear copyright violation. There's no real debate to be had.

Civil cases where damages get into the tens of millions of dollars routinely involve law enforcement. It's no different from a big insider trading case as far as the FBI is concerned.

The fundamental truth behind the protest (and again it's important to realize: sci-hub is an act of protest) is that the law is unjust. Rosa Parks was in clear violation of the written law too.

The reason for the pedantry is that if you imagine this as solely an act of an unrestrained state actor, you won't be incentivized to work for the actual solution, which involves passing laws and otherwise working with the same state you're complaining about.
Do you have any links on what Tokyo style housing is actually like? I’ve heard that you can relatively easily afford single family housing there if you’re willing to put up with a long commute to work.

Is that not correct?
https://archive.md/kEziH
I need some time to come up with an augment against that. But the tone and message with privacy differs a lot between Steve Jobs's Apple and Time Cook's Apple. I cant quite figure out precisely what is wrong but I just smell lots hypocrisy.

For example Apple tracks its user within App Store. Which is perfectly fine except their PR make its sounds like they dont.
The fact that it has "library" in the name doesn't mean it's meant to be a replacement for a public library. It's just a book swap with weather protection for the books. It doesn't detract from or compete with public libraries. People just like swapping books.
The binaries, yes. But it's just a collection of patches applied to upstream FF when you build from source. I'm compiling 78.10.1 as we speak.
Isn't that most software?
Nuremberg Code
China could soon have stronger privacy laws than the U.S.
They can't exactly move their nest after they lay their eggs. You gotta choose what will survive the worst case.
I'm wondering how soon we'll see driving licenses and other official IDs stored on the phone. A few years sounds optimistic.
If anything Cyrillic differs between Ukraine and Russia, and Belarus has it’s own variation too. Also “forbidden nationalistic lettet ґ”
1 US citizen is worth about 5 PRC citizens in terms of economic activity. The PRC's GDP per capita is roughly the same as Brazil's (this situation is unlikely to improve either [1]). Imagine Brazil scaled up to 900 million people and 1/3 of them are over 65. Social welfare systems start to buckly/collapse, and retirement benefits must be cut or the retirement age raised.

The only thing the PRC could do right now is force people to reproduce at gunpoint, and they even shot themselves in the foot there with the One Child Policy and now having 30 million more young men than women.

It's going to be scary to see Japan, the PRC, the ROC (Taiwan), etc. lose 1/4 of their populations in the next 30 years. The US is the only developed country with okay demographic projections through 2050, and that's only because of immigration. Not sure where you're from, but if you're in a developing country you'll probably be doing okay in 2050.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_income_trap
My girlfriend and I are at opposite ends of this spectrum in many respects. I seek novelty in most aspects of life. I often choose novelty over guaranteed enjoyment. My girlfriend, on the other hand, is afraid of novelty. When we eat out, if we have been to the restaurant before I can order her food without asking 100% of the time. It will be what she had last time.

My desire for novelty can be problematic. I find it difficult to maintain long term sexual relationships. I'm so bored of having the same sex in the same positions over and over again. But I'm also too introverted to be happy with polygamous or short term relationships, not too mention how expensive that lifestyle is.

Like you, though, I don't seek novelty in all aspects of life. I too wear the same few t-shirts and same pair of jeans every day. Maybe there is just so little room for novelty here that it doesn't matter? What difference does it really make to me if I wear a pink t-shirt instead of green? My girlfriend, of course, buys new clothes almost every week.

I also don't change things for the sake of it. My desire for novelty doesn't override if it ain't broke don't fix it. When I cook something I've cooked many times before, I will reproduce the method exactly and produce consistent results. My girlfriend will slightly change things every single time, sometimes consciously, sometimes not. My dad cooks like this too. I think he actually does seek novelty in the way he cooks something. If I cook a dish and it's delicious it will be just as delicious next time. If he cooks and it's delicious, next time he'll add a completely new ingredient to it, for better or worse.
But California is more entropic than Rhode Island, because, being bigger, California can be in more states than Rhode Island. In the center of the galaxy a star can be in N positions, in the periphery can be in f(N) positions. The further from the center the more possible positions (maybe the number of positions is related to Newton square law?).

Anyway, as I said, just idle speculation for fun.
That's what i thought
I mentioned almonds because California grows so many of them that the total water use of all the state's production outweighs the total for beef, but your point is valid that beef (in terms of water-per-pound-eaten) use even more water. This is another area we could free up the supply for residential use: Let other parts of the country develop stronger cattle industries. Or just let the price of meat go up.
> instead of the government serving as a middleman for charities and making political decisions on who-gets-what, it allows the citizens to more freely support the charities they like directly.

In this case it would make sense to make the donations mandatory and income-dependent. Let people choose which cause to support but don't let them choose not to support anything. I happily pay income tax for the state to support those around me who need it, which ideally should cover the need for donations fully, but see your point.

Still, nobody should be dependent on only the good-will of other luckier people to this extent, when the system and people's background influence economical success this much.
You know Facebook's business model sucks when it considers user consent almost an existential threat.
I think that it's just the same mechanism as the Linux Foundation itself, but specific for the AgTech sector.

My basic understanding is that on one side you have companies who want to sponsor open source tech they depend on, and on the other side you have open source developement teams who would like to be supported; the Foundation facilitates interaction between these 2 sides.
This is a really good idea! I love my small businesses but being coddled by the internet is so real, you get used to immediately finding exactly what you want. With local stores, you have to put in some work sometimes, and ghasp talk to real people, potentially a few, at different stores, to get what you need. It sounds like a lot written out like that, but the important bits are that the people you talk to, you learn things from, and that makes you better at finding things.

This tool is kind of like that effect, or an easing into it from someone who may have just bought the first-worst thing on Amazon.
Mindblowing: Advances in brain tech spur push for 'neuro-rights'
Not sure what you think the source code "says". I mean, I know what you want it to mean, but just because integer wrapping is intuitive to you doesn't imply that that is what the code means. C++ abstract machine and all.

But to answer the actual question: For C++20, integer types were revisited. It is now (finally) guaranteed that signed integers are two's complement, along with a list of other changes. See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p090... also for how the committee voted on the individual issues.

Note in particular:

> The main change between [P0907r0] and the subsequent revision is to maintain undefined behavior when signed integer overflow occurs, instead of defining wrapping behavior. This direction was motivated by:

> - Performance concerns, whereby defining the behavior prevents optimizers from assuming that overflow never occurs;

> - Implementation leeway for tools such as sanitizers;

> - Data from Google suggesting that over 90% of all overflow is a bug, and defining wrapping behavior would not have solved the bug.

So yes, the committee very recently revisited this specific issue, and re-affirmed that signed integer overflow should be UB.
Scrap the generational titles for our purposes here. It makes more sense to apply what say shes talking about to people born between 1978 and 1994. Older than that, and you're not really in the internet age. Younger and you think of the corporatized internet.
My exact first thought: gives you the best piece every time? Easy, always give the I block.
I believe this was just a typo, or a braino - from the context I assume the author meant a "true negative interest rate".
I'm not sure I understand the concept of paid access to scientific research, so I'd be grateful if someone with more knowledge of the topic could explain it to me.

Governments fund universities, people donate large amounts of money to universities, and a large portion of the population has student debt because of how expensive tuition is. Why are they charging for access to research at these institutions then?
There been a huge wave of post-Soviet immigration to New York in early nineties.

A certain amount of people still presume that people in that wave were all Soviet dissidents, intelligentsia, and repressed jews, and etc.

It only came to New Yorkers years later that whom they let in were faaaar from being some poor average Soviet citizens. CPSU members themselves, mafia, ex-spooks.

Back in nineties, an average Russian citizens would need to save for years just to buy a one way ticket to US, and legal paperwork.

Nobody, no regular person in early nineties Russia had money to just to fly to US, and buy a NYC apartment for cash.

A price of a NYC apartment was a few lifetimes worth of savings for even best paid people in union's government.
Every app eventually turns evil. I'm too cynical to believe telegram or signal aren't going to cash in.
I'd never heard of this either. It really is interesting!

I can't other articles on it other than that readme. Does anyone else know where I can learn more about it? Someone needs to make a Wikipedia page!
good code shouldn't need to be debugged either ;)
I've volunteered one offs before. A local urban farm needed to plant dozens of trees. They spent 15 minutes teaching them turned loose the group. We got them planted in like an hour. Then we moved onto weeding and litter cleanup.
The tactic of pushing users by deliberately degrading ux has been obvious for a long time with mobile websites vs mobile apps as well.

Usability of mobile websites has intentionally been kept worse than that of mobile apps. Probably from not long after smartphones and mobile apps first came to be popular.

Just one example is the local ads service by eBay where the mobile website is usable, but just so much more clumsy than the app.

And all just with the goal of pushing users to the apps because they enable much more valuable data collection.
Nice design, but looks like the db is not finished.

What can I expect from the listed backlinks?
(2) isn’t wrong though. Ransom ware dates to 1989 but the uptick goes hand in hand with the rise of crypto currencies for the obvious reason that you don’t steal what you can’t fence and cryptocurrency has changed the risk and feasibility dramatically.

I’m not saying I support government action here but we should be honest about the situation.
It seems so absolutely obvious that a jurisdiction adopting a "there is no such thing as IP" approach will have a huge advantage. What's the reason this hasn't happened?
> The hypothesis have been extremely successful and predictive.

Epicycles were successful and predictive. But they were later found to be the wrong way to understand the celestial motions.

The problem is these calculations with dark matter are just fitting observations with zillion parameters. It is busywork, yes sometimes it is useful, but it is not discovering new laws, just chugging along without having to challenge our concept of how star/galaxy motions really work.
Also worth noting that this extension works on other Chrome-derived browsers, like Brave, or the pure-OSS flavor Chromium.
I worked on gRPC Java optimization for a few years. The primary reason it is so fast is because it does hardly anything, and avoids synchronization. However, there is a deeper reason why Java was so much faster: more people were working on making it faster. The external C++ version of gRPC was ignored for years, with people focusing on optimizing the internal version. The other languages (C#, Python, etc.) all had significantly less attention that Java did, so they aren't nearly as polished. It's been amusing to watch how stirred up people get about how fast a "language" is, rather than how much time has been spent optimizing the particular implementation.
I'm surprised there's this many comments and none of them are wondering the same things as me: what does he do with that onion? Is it eaten raw like an apple? Roasted?
Al-Aqsa mosque: Dozens hurt in Jerusalem clashes
I've always thought it's weird that it isn't the other way around. Matter, electrons, even photons ... isn't the building block of the university. Fields are. Fields have gravity. I think it's really the reverse: why aren't there more fields that are simply self-sustaining?

Such fields, if sufficiently reluctant to interact with normal matter and/or photons, would be exactly dark matter.
It‘s the best randomness that is achievable i am aware of. Do you have ideas for improvements?

It‘s 2d because databases do not have kNN with index support for a single float value. And without kNN you are building approach #2 with all of it‘s problems.
Even the individual unicode codepoints themselves are variable width if we consider that things like cjk and emoji take up >1 monospace cells.
Also people who are aware of the invention of aqueducts would prefer that agricultural use of water be priced the same as residential use, if water is to be the main argument in opposition to allowing the state's population to grow.
Well, at least you recognise that you're doing it for yourself; self-awareness is the first step. Maybe you could donate money too, to make up for it.
It's funny how people in this thread are complaining about housing costs, homelessness, high tax rates, etc... and no one actually wants to blame it on the liberal policies that have caused all these problems. People are leaving California to states likes Texas and Florida, in part due to better costs of living and lower taxes. Unfortunately, said people will try to turn those states into another California by pushing for the same policies that ended up making California unlivable.
Thats why they said that and not “What is on your iCloud, stays on your iCloud”
This is fantastically done. Great job!
I recently poured over 'How I Wish I'd Taught Maths' [0], where an award winning high school math teacher reevaluates his approach based on neuroscience research and empirical evidence and finds his previous approach wanting. Fascinating, worthwhile book.

[0] 'How I Wish I'd Taught Maths: Lessons learned from research, conversations with experts, and 12 years of mistakes', Barton https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079K3HVMJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
You accepting the new terms was never really important. It is an extra legal protection.

You gave them the right to change your agreement when you first signed up. Agree or don't agree, in the end they will collect and use your content however they please.
I have been a DJ for about 25 years, playing in the US and Europe so I can at least talk about how the terms are used in those places. EDM used to mean something close to “electronic music”, but as of about 10 years ago or so it has come to mean a quite specific subgenre.