skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how analogous this is to “don’t talk to VC associates” advice. Corp dev is interested in buying a company, any company, at a low price but even once corp dev is sold they’ll have to sell the deal to someone who matters. People confuse “this corp dev person is interested” with “this company is interested”.

If you’re not actively looking to sell, _definitely_ don’t bother taking the meeting unless there’s a champion high up who is personally interested.

Come to think of it, recruiters aren’t all that far off this either…
I saw an article about that. It took the voters having to vote on banning camping. The mayor opposed banning camping from what I recall.
Intel, Microchip, NXP all have Fabs in AZ already. Would be exciting to see TSMC and more.
Perhaps the command line tools are all you need? They are much smaller than Xcode.
"He must have died while typing it" comes to my mind...
Not Legal Advice
Dude, nothing beats the Amiga.
The Graphics Gremlin - a Retro ISA Video Card
I mean, we can't kid ourselves here: none of these operating systems are 100% of the way there. By your logic, MacOS isn't 100% of the way there because it can't play the same games as Windows, and Windows isn't 100% of the way there without running Final Cut and Logic. The issue with that metric is that it will grossly play against your favor if we're being diminutive about the amount of software that's on each respective platforms.

It really depends what you do on your computer. I think a better way to look at it is that each of these OSes will do 90% of the things you want them to, and you just need to pick and choose which 10% matters the least to you.
Anyone interested in a comprehensive summary of the Amiga legal spaghetti should take a look at https://sites.google.com/site/amigadocuments/

Play by play updates on their Twitter at https://mobile.twitter.com/amigadocuments
> you are just down some bizarre philosophical rabbit hole if you truly believe that

What I've said isn't anything radical, and like I've mentioned above, this is a common tenant of pretty much every ethical system that life is an end in itself. This perspective is outlined in Nozick, Kant, Scanlon, Nagel, Rawls and countless others. Some of these authors have influenced the legal systems of entire nations. Rawls and Kant, for example, are considered "main stream" ethical theorists.

> Under this logic policing is unacceptable

No, because as I've already stated, justified self-defense is a different situation entirely. The situation of extrajudicial killings by police is, however, unacceptable.

> vaccine research is unacceptable, driving a car is unacceptable

This is a false equivalency. The key difference here is the informed consent that's associated with the actions. Nobody is consenting to having their confidential data released. In the above situations you listed, one of the stipulations of engaging in, say, a vaccine trial, is a clearly stated risk. A vaccine trial on someone unwilling is wrong. Someone who willingly agrees to 'open-source' their data and gets killed as a result is also in a different situation that the one we are discussing.

To pretend that someone who's willingly engaged in a dangerous activity and died has experienced the same sort of wrong as someone who'd date was leaked against their will, and as a consequence was murdered, is just nonsensical. Notice how I said "if anyone dies as a result of this" not "anyone dying makes any situation automatically wrong".

If I walk on a sidewalk and get hit by a car, I am the one who decided the sidewalk's risks were worth it. There was no gun to my head. As my life is mine, I can dispose of it and use it as I see fit. That's not something anyone else can do or decide for me.
Oh thats a pretty cool idea! I would love something like this that could split audiobooks into bit size chunks that I can listen to.
I have my old Spectrum and Atari ST and from time to time I run them. My friends had Amigas and Apples(or their parents had them) that were super expensive at the time. I bought one Amiga from a friend when it got old. I also got old consoles cartridges and emulate them using FPGA devices as the original consoles died and I have not analog TVs anymore, so I need to use converters.

What I get from using those machines is feeling rich. I can look at my phone or a raspberry pi and say: Wow!!, that has millions of times more memory!

You also get the essence. With such a limited power they made programs that were useful and games that were funny. Now you have Unity or Unreal Engines powering games that are not fun or electron apps consuming gigabytes of memory that are not useful because the basics are wrong.

I use old Autocad for DOS with Autolisp support and you realize after all this time, the thing is useful.

My job is creating software so reminding what the basics are is always important.
Agree that we should aim to fix problems that have possible real-world solutions today. I think we should also consider how to fix the underlying causes of those problems. These aren't really 'either/or' but 'both', though they are clearly at different stages of the solutioning process and need different kinds and quantities of resources.
I think it's immoral to assert that "they deserve it" as following from "they did it to themselves", in either the individual or collective case. In most contexts, that sentiment is an oversimplification driven by hatred.
The article says the private market cannot fix the city. I disagree. As citizens leave and property values collapse, voters will become engaged. One side effect of becoming one of the richest cities on earth is that there has been no pressure to reform government whatsoever - all of its bad habits just scaled up as taxes increased. Politicians and those to which they hand out jobs have enriched themselves beyond any municipal bureaucracy perhaps in history.

If things actually turn, I believe the residents will vote in people that actually solve things, as finally their own wealth will be impacted.
The main group that will suffer here will likely be property owners. From what I understand they tend to be the ones that worked against construction of dense housing and public transit which would have solved a lot of these problems.

Hopefully the rest of the country will take note and avoid these mistakes.
We do this with iSH, it’s mostly a question of putting in effort to get them right.
I really dislike the primary color ("new Blurple" or whatever). Too saturated for my taste.
But ad-sponsored medical procedures would be so much more affordable.
Anecdotical of course, but I remember "memes" existing in localized/regional form long before the Internet was publicly available. If we had to have a name for it, we said it was an "insider joke"[1].

This was usually small silly stuff like words or phrases that were repeated, sometimes situational and back-and-forth, or callbacks to earlier events that made a mark somehow.

As a small and silly example, I remember that around the part of the city where I grew up, for a while we had this thing where when someone asked why we were going to do something (like going to some other neighborhood), instead of the real reason (like going to get ice cream) we would all answer with fake exasperation "it's about the principle!!"[2].

It's just stupid, fun bonding stuff teenagers do, most of which is probably forgotten when you grew up and absurdist humor becomes a bit less interesting.

I remember that the word "meme" actually was invented to, so it seemed to me, describe exactly this phenomenon, and only years later the Internet meme superseded that more general meaning to something more specific.

[1] Although this was Germany in the 90s, we literally used the English words "insider joke". There's a lot of expressions synthesized using English words in common usage in Germany.
[2] This one actually in German.
As the old xkcd comic notes, no amount of mathematically-proven security protects your encrypted data if the private keys can be beaten out of you with a lead pipe (or, the cleaner version of that, "If you can be incentivized to hand them over given the alternative of jail time that lasts until you divulge your computer's password to the authorities").
I don't suppose the irony is lost upon you that you're using a stereotype of Asians to justify asserting that I'm racist. Consider a good faith interpretation in which I don't think anyone needs to good home because I didn't say anything like that.

Assuming you're a liberal American, how do you feel about conservative media saying the country needs to be protected from anti-american sentiment in europe for trump being an idiot some time ago? Is it possible you thought "Actually I dislike trump too, he's not my president, and I shouldn't be held accountable for him?" Do you accept generalizations about Americans using subsets that you find abhorrent? Have you never said "there's large differences between the red and blue states, it's not all like that"?

I certainly said things like that a lot, and at the end of the day, I think the crimes against humanity being committed by the CCP are worse than those of trump.
It's easy to quit went your a bunch of cunts and find our that you have poked the big dog and now are scared, fuck them, and anyone like them. As I said earlier insurers should put a bounty on these pricks, lets put an open bounty on them and theirs.
I really liked my Osborne 1, which had its left control key there. But I'm not going to re-model my keyboard to fix it, because it would kill me every time I used a different keyboard.
To clarify I think the biggest driver is how driven and self-taught the individual developer is. I don't think going through the paces of a bootcamp or CS degree is a great indicator in and of itself and all else equal IMO the bootcamp wins there.

The best people I have worked with have been HS dropouts (fully self taught), MIT and a CMU grad who were very self taught before their program, and bootcamp grads who pivoted from other fields (oddly music, fine arts, and a standup comic. Maybe because in those fields being "good" is completely insufficient and they bring a "must be the best" mindset?)
Can someone post some screen shots? :D
Even if they are contractually committed not to sell your info, that still might not save you:

“Yesterday, the bankruptcy court approved the sale over the objections of several parties, including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and third party manufacturers Apple and AT&T who sold products to the bankrupt retailers.

...

The FTC’s objection was made to the court-appointed consumer privacy ombudsman in the RadioShack bankruptcy. Specifically, the FTC’s letter alleged the sale of personal information constitutes a deceptive practice because in its privacy policy, RadioShack promised never to share the customer’s personal information with third parties.”

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/radioshack-bankruptcy-cour...

In that case the judge allowed the sale of the information in contradiction to its commitments.
clyde looks good but that font is not what I would chosen
I guess that's just personal preference; I prefer to keep my systems up-to-date at least on a monthly basis. Most of the time the updates go without a hitch, and maybe once a year something very minor breaks. If I were to only update once a year (aside from security updates), I would expect many more things to break. And that's what I see from the complaints of my co-workers when they update macOS on their laptops once a year: a lot of pain in the ass issues that take a while to resolve. And this is after our IT dept has taken 3-6 months to test things on the new OS version and allow people to upgrade.

For reference, I run Debian testing until it becomes stable, and then 4 months or so later I switch to the new testing release name. I get an up-to-date system (Debian stable has a reputation for being old and outdated almost at release day), but also skip the part where Debian testing has a lot of churn and possible breakage. The newstable->newtesting upgrade, even though it's a larger one, rarely causes problems, and happens once every two years.
There is intent of you hit the "navigate me there" button.
> Right, so you have an ideological problem and that’s why you sound like that. Well, if I can recommend anything, it would be to keep using Thinkpads, they are good devices and Linux is great as well. That way you can completely ignore whatever happens on the Apple side and be happy.

Welcome back to square one. The only reason I even had any input on this in the first place is because I frequent Hacker News, and I just wanna pitch in my two cents where applicable.
Any bug hunters or web app security researcher based in New York city?
Recently moved from the bay to New York city. Trying to meet people who are into bug bounty and web application security research here in New York. Please let me know if you are down. Thanks.
An 8-bit retro video card for ISA bus emulates the MDA and CGA graphics cards
Hey, I'm building Amna (https://getamna.com) Tabs + Tasks. This research made my day.

I think my findings with users are consistent with the researchers. Improved focus, and feeling less overwhelmed, and the larger context management aspect of things goes away when you browse with tasks offloaded from your head.

Amna works by managing your Chrome Windows. Instead of organizing tabs after you've done your work, you start with the task first, and click on it. That way you can "scope" a browser to a specific goal, and toss it when you're done. It saves your tabs as your work.

It's still a WIP (the website and product are kinda out of sync), you can still try it out and pass along feedback :)
Ask HN: What is your opinion on Web Components?
What do you think of Web Components?

Have you ever used them in production?

Have you ever made something with Web Components rather than using a standard framework (React, Vue, etc)?

Do you think they will ever see wide adoption?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components
Hi,

do you have any metric regarding the memory usage of your ART implementation ?

I tried to implement one for the database I'm currently working on, however I feel that I am using way too much memory.

Basically, with my current implementation a dictionary containing about distinct 2857086 words would require 341MB.
You sure?

$ dig +noall +answer ai.
ai. 80534 IN A 209.59.119.34
You've put to words what I've been thinking about for many years. I'm one of those people who find languages difficult and often find it difficult to convert my thoughts into words and sentences. From my perspective, 75 percent of mental effort goes into sentence formation and this process often derails my thought process.

When I discovered NLP models like Word2Vec and Thought-Vectors, which assign vectors to words or even whole sentences/concepts, intuitively, it felt like that was exactly what was happening in my mind. It might be an illusion but I do not think in sentences or words, I only think in concepts and images that appear in my mind's eye in an instant. To form a larger idea, I build a chain of concepts. I am sure that eventually probes can pick up a clear distinct vector that uniquely summarizes the entire concept of what I was thinking or visualizing.

And as you suggested we could start off with a smaller subset of semaphores or concepts or visualizations that at first are the easiest signals to pick up via probes. After practice, these signals only get crisper.
Steve Jobs was wrong about one thing
I don't particularly like it, but I've not seen it crash or glitch out with the frequency that Linux file managers have ever since I've used them (a couple decades across a dozen or so desktop and laptop systems; mostly Nautilus, Dolphin [wasn't Konqueror also the file manager for a while, or am I mis-remembering?] and IIRC Thunar)
> How do you mitigate ddos attacks and other bad actors hitting a page?

Not sure what "bad actors hitting a page" even means. I host public info so people can see it, be it good or "bad" people. Let them see it.

DDoS is different and can be devastating of course. Also, very rare. In decades hosting content (started my first hosting business in 1994) I've never experienced anything remotely like a DDos. I know it happens, but definitely very rare for most people. Driving tons of legitimate users away with relentless captcha annoyances for the once in a liftime possibility of a DDoS is not a good tradeoff.

If you're in a business that attracts DDoS like flies then deal with that, otherwise lay off the captchas.
This seems way less faffy than most "here's our new logo/color scheme" posts. +1
Starting a Startup
If he would have sat in his sink instead, he would have smashed the record.
MagicBus (YC W16) Is Hiring Front End/Back End/DevOps
Hello,
MagicBus is helping more commuters traveling longer distance get into shared vans, in particular for those without good access to public transit or daily access to a car.

We have a few roles available:

Frontend developer (https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/magicbus/jobs/Z5q4bEv-...)

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It’s a long read, but I enjoyed it. For anyone whose willing to give this article a chance but don’t have too much time, I encourage you to start from the the paragraph that starts with “Let’s walk for a moment in another man’s Allbirds.”. This paragraph isn’t a strict summary, but it definitely summarizes the theme of everything that comes before. The middle of the next paragraph starts to explore the mindset of the ordinary people in technology and journalism. From that point, I found both lot more nuanced views and conciliatory quotes that build consensus:

> “I hear from the folks who get angry when something is covered and is not technically accurate,” one Valley beat reporter notes. “I sympathize with that. Just like good and bad technologists, there are good and bad journalists.”

> In some ways, the whole fight is performative. “This is all great content marketing on all sides,” Garrett says. “This is a spectacle.”

> “It’s kind of an influencer culture where these people are picking fights with each other and making themselves more important,” says Stamos. “The construction of these social networks gives you a lot of value by having an enemy.”

> It may also be a way to head off a broader critique of the digital economy. Platformer’s Casey Newton has argued, persuasively, that all of this is really just an objection by tech’s management class to the newly empowered workers to whom media give voice.

> On the other hand, we’re long past the point of disintermediation. “I follow these guys probably more than I follow journalists,” says an entrepreneur who made his name in the New York media world of the tweeting tech elite. “They’re more interesting. If you want an early warning about the pandemic, it’s going to come from these guys. Whatever role the media plays, these guys are better sources on the pandemic. They’re better sources on the consumer internet in China. I’m on the Andreessen Horowitz website all the time. They are becoming the media. Which begs the question: How can they be so bitter when they’ve won? How can they be such bitter winners? I suppose the victims never recognize when they’ve become the oppressors.”

I apologize for not making this comment earlier since I foresaw the length and narrative style of the article be off putting to many here. I did however glean one important overarching that I never really put together: the celebrities/talking heads in both journalism and tech have more in common with each other than they do with others in their own groups than I first realized. It is one set of elites feuding with another set of elites but then using their status within their spheres of influence to recruit from the groups in which they hold sway (the part I quoted above containing “Platformer’s Casey Newton”).
I like the logo icon but there's something about that custom font that makes the letters look like they don't align. They look likey they're wiggling.
I agree, the font looks fairly childish. I assumed they'd be moving in the opposite direction if anything, given that their userbase is expanding beyond the original gaming audience
Again, it depends where. There's plenty of people in the world facing war, slavery, and so on.

But if I was to assume that you are talking about the US, both gender and racial discrimination around bathroom policies has been a hot discussion topic on-and-off for more than a hundred years.
Yes, this is why I’m curious whether the MRNA interacts badly with pregnancy, since pregnancy involves a poorly understood modulation of the immune system (so it doesn’t attack the fetus)
I'm working on this for https://histre.com/features/save-restore-tabs/
Sorry I didn't see that, it appears to be a (quite good) commentary article on the paper I linked.
> I don't have to fight my OS. It works with my brain.

It's great that works for you, but that only works for people whose brains are (or have become) attuned to Apple's (often... interesting) ways of doing things.
Yeah, it's weirdly elongated, as if they screwed up the aspect ratio.
Of course you're allowed to care about multiple things. The point is that you wont be very convincing to anyone that there is an emergency if you're also attending to less important things. If you're house is on fire, you're allowed to also sew a skirt. But it's not very wise.

If you are worried about pronouns and bathrooms.. you clearly aren't very worried about the so called climate EMERGENCY.
‘From a standing fart’: readers on their favourite Grauniad mistakes
We'll soon find out from Canada what the effects of a 4 month gap does to response for all age groups.
>Mueller declared in his public hearing that he would have indicted Trump, if he wasn't president.

Is that true though? He didn't present any evidence of a crime. Congress could have impeached Trump successfully with some hard evidence, so was Muller protecting Trump by only insinuating there was evidence but not presenting any? I don't think vague connections "says enough". If the president really was conspiring with Russia I would want the FBI to present its findings instead of giving more vague insinuation.
> As a developer, why do you want to fight your operating system to get basic things done?

This kind of thing easily goes both ways, and shows you're considering things only from a narrow angle. Which is understandable by the way - but please do consider other views :)

There are lots of "basic things" that Linux doesn't get done, depending on your definition of basic thing. It's entirely reasonable for developers to consider things like "accurate and versatile trackpad movement" [1], "renders things consistently on HiDPI screens", "natively runs mainstream image editing or word processing apps", "can stream Disney+ above 720p", "has font rendering at least on par with Windows Vista", "has a Little Snitch type application that's both usable and actively maintained" or "there's stronger accountability in the development of apps I use because it's not largely developed by volunteers or people who assume I should solve my own problems".

All of these "basic" things are a fight on Linux, most are a fight you can't even win, and this isn't even a comprehensive list. A lot of these have a good explanation as to why they're a fight, but you can't blame people for wanting to avoid that fight.

I too run desktop Linux on machines because it offers a lot of flexibility while tinkering with things and a greater sense of control. But failing to see why Linux is not the objective pinnacle of desktop computing - even objective pinnacle of desktop computing for developers - is just really for a lack of trying. Desktop Linux is really awesome but damn it does it still have long ways to go.

[1]: Up until recently, and maybe up until this day, the best trackpad experience on Linux is running desktop Linux in a VM on a macOS host.
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