skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my cursory and amateur reading of the law, a duopoly is only actionable if the two companies conspire together against consumers’ best interest.

Wage fixing aside, and that was years ago, the companies don’t appear to collaborate a lot anymore, much less conspire, other than the payments Google makes to retain its position as the default search engine.
decades of effort have gone into making this type of treatment safe, but mistakes or lack of understanding have resulted in patients’ death and set the field back before, see for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Gelsinger
Yeah, that's fair. I think FileZilla shows who signed the cert, but yeah it still gives that pop-up asking the user to decide and I haven't checked whether they verify that signer against the system CA list. Either way, that's as canon as FTP clients get and since they don't have it, indeed it's mostly opportunistic encryption. (Not that relying on the CA system rather than TOFU'ing or sharing a fingerprint is without problems of its own, but that's a discussion for another thread.)
Freenode IRC resign en masse after takeover by Korea’s crown prince
Sure. So could AGI or unlimited power or a star drive. Is there any indication that this is at all possible?
Well yes, but that's because of profit from the capital they represent. Bitcoin is not a means of production.
If the one who watched TV and played video games is the one who becomes rich, then yes.
Spam and DoS prevention were actually the original purpose of Proof of Work. Hashcash, the first (I think) anti-spam PoW algorithm, was what Bitcoin's PoW algorithm was inspired by.
True. One of my favorites was the Cobalt Qube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_Qube
I doubt it will, thankfully. Touch controls have been around for a long time on smartphones so lots of people have already had a chance to see how crappy they are.
A surprising number of things wrong with the world today started in the Reagan/Thatcher/etc era.

I agree with the general sentiment of your post (though I disagree that capital and labour should be taxed the same way). I'll also add the following: implement an LVT. It is the most economically “efficient” tax there is, and morally perfect at the same time. Then with the money you collect through LVT you can lower income tax.
The snobbery from the "anti-elites" is just as obnoxious. At the end of the day we're all out there to have fun, and I have more fun on a bike with modern geometry. I'm not going to judge if you want to ride an old bike, but if you're going around telling people their modern bikes are unecessary and silly, you're just as much of a bike snob as anybody else.
Speaking for myself, if was a little bigger than 20 members (around 100). The thing is that we wanted to keep the forum open to everyone, at least for the public parts. That's why I went with invisible tweaks (mostly just renaming fields) instead of a challenge.

But I could have came up with a challenge that anyone interested in our forum would have known. We were a rhythm games club, so a questions could have been "We organize a tournament for this game, in 3 letters". Anyone who heard of us would know it is DDR (it was our main event), and for those who didn't, all it took was a quick look at our website.

And even if it is just a hobby, you don't get the same thing from a forum compared to a WhatsApp or even a Facebook group. In fact, a few years after me and all the geeky admins left, they switched to Facebook, which completely killed the already dying online community.

Maybe nowadays we could use a Discord server, which does a bit more for a community than an WhatsApp group, and is more accessible than IRC, and saves history.

Another great thing about the forum is that I still have a backup from the time I still had admin rights, and I could bring it back to life on a private server with some friends, even though the club is now completely dead.

Memories are not lost, except for most of the external links (ImageShack...).
I must say that as someone who is a very occasional user of vector drawing tools (and mainly uses them for prepping SVG for web) I’m sufficiently impressed by the latest version of Affinity Designer as an Illustrator replacement. I was able to open an .ai file, modify it, and export an .svg which was a perfect drop-in replacement for an .svg previously exported by Illustrator.

It’s still too expensive for me at full price but I nabbed a Mac App Store license when it was on sale a few weeks ago.

I haven’t tried Inkscape recently, but last time I did it failed horribly at the most basic tasks of path editing and SVG prep.
> reasons why it is, in fact, about performance

That's the story that GC sold us. History has proven it wrong. Citation: the fire hose of articles on HN about how GC bit people in the ass, and they now have to go back into their code and write a bunch of duct tape code to work around Garbage Collector Quirk #4018 de jure that results in hitching, insane memory usage, and random OOMs.

> That sounds kind of crazy considering how much of the world runs on GC

And much of HN runs on comments complaining about the _absurd_ amounts of memory all those non-bottlenecked applications use to do otherwise simple tasks. Or the monthly front page articles about developers and companies working to fix their otherwise straightforward, non performance critical production services that are choking themselves because the GC is going wild.

I say GC is a failed experiment because it promised that programmers would be able to write code without worrying about memory. But ever since its popularization 26 years ago with the dawn of Java, coders writing in garbage collected languages have been doing nothing but worrying about memory. The experiment failed. It's time to move on.

The borrow checker is an infantile incarnation of a bigger idea that is finally panning out. Rather than garbage collecting during run-time; garbage collect during compilation using static analysis. Being in its infancy it's not as easy and free to use as we'd like. But it's the path forward. And just like garbage collection before it, in the vast majority of cases, programmers don't care whether it's more or less performant. Garbage collection was vastly less performant than manual management. But it required _so_ much less developer time to build the same applications. My argument is that Rust's borrow checker, as painful as it is, results in more developer time up front, but less developer time overall when you consider the long tail of code upkeep that garbage collected applications demand.

Hence my comment: "A little bit of time spent now appeasing the borrow checker will pay off ten fold later when you don't have to deal with exploding memory usage and GC stalls in production."

It's not about performance; it's about saving yourself the time of having to come back to your code a month later because your TODO app is using a gig of RAM and randomly hitching.
The reason is that your hand position is supposed to be 1 finger on the brakes ready to stop with the other 4 fingers trying to hold on to dear life. There would be no reason to have the hands in that ergonomic position.

Having a extra flipping over liability on the bike just makes no sense for bikes that are "specialized" for this niche style of riding.

The stumpjumper is like the McLaren of the mtb world. It'd be like complaining about how uncomfortable the bucket seats and race harness is and saying the first thing to do is to replace them with a comfy heated seat with lumbar support. I mean, you can, but there's a reason the McLaren comes with those things
It is far away from the "Blender of vector graphics" status, and I think that only clunky UI is stopping it to become that.
I love Inkscape. I used it for all the drawings in my books and website.
Hi, I'm part of Gen Z. Grain of salt, etc.

You're being a little unfair here, implicitly describing an entire generation as overly materialistic, mentally ill, socially dependent children. Honestly, it sounds like the Gen Z people you know might just be heavy social media users, since people of any generation that use these tools poorly have the problems you mentioned. For those of us that don't use the standard social media channels, growing up around the internet was an absolute blessing, with some minor flaws compared to the benefits it provided.

For examples of people that have benefited from being in this generation, look at the growing climate movement, or maker culture, which is democratising engineering in a way I don't think has been done before. Mental health isn't as much of a concern in this generation either imo; most people of my generation are far more comfortable talking about depression, anxiety, or autism than anyone else I talk to.
Anime: Gundam in U.C. chronology. (The best is Z and Turn-A)
https://la.disneyresearch.com/publication/tactile-rendering-...

Disney has been working on this, although their method is different from your proposal.
It doesn't just let the two-legged critters know you're coming down the trail.

A bell that clangs as you walk is also common for back-country hikers to keep bears and others away too.
Small government I guess. Idiots.
Yes, I read both as: "Country asks a private company to delete content." How can you even argue that both are different?
So all I have to do is file paperwork as a candidate and can misbehave however I want.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2021/05/20/no-s...
Just different wording of the same kind of proces. How do you see them differently though?
Winning a vote does not exempt one from other responsibilities, such as obeying the law. There are places that do that, but it just means you're electing a king. Our system was/is explicitly designed to prevent this occurrence.
That would be great in theory, but in practice it's far more straightforward to run an iOS device for many, many years (supported by Apple, no less) than to run a device that ships with Android.
Technically, speaking the response does not go to the sender

of the request. Instead, the response goes to the customer

that was received along with the request. For example, tail

recursion makes of the ability to specific a customer along

with a request.

An Actor never knows where the request came from. Of

course, the request my be signed to designate accountability

for the request.
Exactly. Telling people to build their own social network is like telling Rosa Parks to build her own bus line.
Towing Range for the Ford F-150 Lightning Seems Like It's Going to Be Bad
What do you use for email hosting? Ive tried to do something similar but most places have a limit for email addresses even with paid plans.
What's the point? We have plenty of options like that, but no one wants them. People want to go where other people are.
> I’m not saying the south had the moral high-ground, just that this is proof that the north didn’t hold it either.

How is insisting that slave owners don’t also get bonus votes for holding slaves prove that? There are certainly arguments that the North was far from perfect on race issues (though I don’t think any of them come anywhere close to an argument that they didn’t have the moral high ground on racial issues compared to the South), but “didn’t give in to a demand that the South made specifically to secure the long-term future of slavery” is…not one of them.
Ask HN: Job Options for software engineer
Which one of the options would an engineer prefer:
1. $600K/yr FAANG (50% cash, 50% RSU)
2. $600K/yr FAANG (100% cash)
3. $700K/yr non-FAANG (100% cash)

NOTE: I work at a FAANG co now and I can tell you that the learning experience can be hit or miss in FAANG (so, 3. is not as bad as it sounds).

I am not trying to decide my next job, but I see a lot of co-workers obsess about RSUs in FAANG (when they can be brought in open market).
Small programs are by far the best approach. The only time that doesn't work is when the problem itself requires a very large program. That is when you need things like automated tests.
>who decides? when does it stop?

Us? The people? That's how you do decisions in a democracy.
The new "crazy-low gearing" isn't crazy at all - new hub designs allow the smallest gear on the cassette to be 10 tooth instead of 11, so a correspondingly smaller front chainring can be used to get the same gear ratios as before.
It's consistent if you don't have any content at all :).
Google (not counting Fiber, which is separate) doesn't have a cable on your property.
Ask HN: What is the weirdest Hardware you have used as a workstation
It's true that Google has made quite a bit of awful and customer-hostile decisions about the path of Android. But what is Samsung's alternative to Android? There is none. All alternative operating systems (PalmOS, Symbian, Blackberry, etc) have failed. A new, proprietary OS from Samsung would almost certainly fail. They can't chain their cart to Apple. Android is the only possibility.
Picking a domain name, and which country to host your website from
Doom as an Interface for Process Management
Website is still up from theme park that went under 20 years ago
I don't think I am talking about Swift. The compilation is slow because of LLVM and you still have to handle cyclic references because of ref counting. As you said too, library support isn't great.
I don't know how exactly is the dev experience too, at least outside of XCode. Last time I played a bit with it, adding the language server to VSCode was a bit of a pain. Still, I think Swift is a step in the right direction.

I've heard good things about Nim too for this niche but never tried it. I think it'll suffer from the same problem of not being able to leverage an existing ecosystem though.
I wouldn’t say Japanese is hard to pronounce once you get used to it. Obviously without kanji it’s perfectly deterministic, but even with kanji there are enough patterns you tend to just have a sense how to pronounce it.

Except for names. Maybe I’m just not at that level, but I’ve spoken it for years and still have no idea when I see most names unless I’m familiar with it.
There are also radiotrophic fungi found in Chernobyl like Cryptococcus neoformans. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus
I'd like to say "nah", but there is a weird case: "The bizarre beasts living in Romania's poison cave" http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150904-the-bizarre-beasts-l... (HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11682816 889 points | May 12, 2016 | 163 comments)

Anyway, in this cave there are snails, shrimps, insects and spiders, but not vertebrates.
The last commit on GitHub was six years ago. I'm impressed by the stability.
Tesla has removed RADAR from production of new vehicles
"...if there is an email that you are avoiding and you realize that you are avoiding it, you're not opening your inbox because it's there, or taking any precautions to not look at it, or you know that you're flinching every time you look at it, it is often a good idea to treat that as immediately your top priority in your whole life."

"It seems stupid if you have some other urgent thing that is more important, but doing whatever it takes to overcome that ugh field today is going to take so much less effort than it will a week later when you feel a week more bad about it. And I think that creating these things that you're avoiding is one of the best ways to be self-undermining and do things like really hurt yourself, including hurt yourself in the medium term, in ways that really matter."

Good advice for the mildly or maybe even moderately depressed, but for severely depressed people telling them to "just do it" is much like telling them to "just get over it", like telling a person with an eating disorder just eat better, or telling an alcoholic not to drink.

Most of us realize our own behavior is harming us, but not engaging in such behavior is a lot easier said than done.
> you or someone you're paying very well on your team holds an Associate-level certification at the very minimum". It's easy to get in over your head over there.

I will never forget the story about the expert Amazon engineer that lost 80K USD.
Inkscape slowness on mac was never an XQuartz problem. All GTK (or maybe it's Cairo) apps are just terribly slow on macOS (even scrolling in meld is janky as hell and meld doesn't exactly do very much), and the new Inkscape is no exception. In fact, by some accounts the XQuartz version was if anything better in this regard.

There's a long discussion about it here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/1614

@je42: It becomes usable though if you Get Info on the Inkscape application in Finder and then check the "Open in Low Resolution" checkbox.
Speaking purely as someone who was using Objective-C before on Mac and iOS apps, it's incredibly productive. I can convert ideas into code very efficiently as the language allows you to be concise. How it compares to other modern languages, I can't comment on too much.
> I think the issue is that it's unclear what was actually sold to Lee (possibly just a domain name and a website)

Looks like Lee legally owns something. I am not exactly sure what it is? Something much less than the entire IRC network. Some kind of account to something. First Wesley had revoked Lee's access, and then returned it. Anyway, when Lee asked for this access to whatever it is that he owns, it was seen as an attempt to a hostile takeover.

"I was locked out of the account"

"Finally, tomaw voluntarily handed back all of the accesses"

https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/blob/main/content/news/2...
Every single reason you listed is covered in the article.
I hope more refactoring tools come into existence in the future. Right now, writing transforms similar to this complexity using Clang would require a fairly large amount of boilerplate code, implementing at least some AST matching code and wrapping it into a frontend action. While having this for Go is good, I hope it grows and inspires others to do similar things in other languages, the same way gofmt once did.
Yes, and most people aren't actually trying to be on the rich list. When I was in Monaco people were saying leave the bragging to the Americans. There is no transparency in the markets, thats also a distinctly American half-goal.
For a while now Reddit on Firefox mobile has been breaking at random when attempting to read the comments section. And more recently I get the same issue on Chrome. I basically chalk it up to one big dark pattern from the company desperate to handicap their own mobile browsing experience to bolster their mobile app downloads.
To be fair that’s a fairly collectible bike.
I Used to Be a Human Being – How we are all becoming information addicts
> where all speech except that which is literally illegal is allowed... No ads .. allowed.

Another free speech utopia imploded within two sentences.
I apologize if it came across as a straw man. After all, what is the purpose of voting if it is not to affirm a gradient of action in the determination of society, presumably for promoting the well-being of each other?

And I would wager that an individual who requires transacting in foreign markets as an effect of their properties will have more information and therefore more determination than yourself, a dog who has no concept of civilized record. :P Thus I do not find it abysmal that such individuals have more representation in the determination of public policy. I in fact have stipulated that blind dogmatism of democracy is actually harmful - which the American Republic was cognizant of.

(As to the point of how such personas with the need to be political to preserve their wealth and how it effects your locality, I am an advocate of laissez-faire whereby oligarch penetration in human communities is not possible because federal legislation was never intended to regulate neighborhoods.)
China, Singapore line up for dumped Australian Gov CS research team (seL4)
Comparing politicians banned for violating social media ToS to Rosa Parks is... insensitive at best.
Sounds like an interesting read. Link please.
I recommend reading the description in the link that mentions that concern is acknowledged.
I disagree with the following claim:

“With the exception of the Intel Itanium family, all of the architectural features that contribute to the performance of today's microprocessors first appeared (and were pretty fully explored) in a series of "mainframe" computers designed between the late 1950's and 1975.”

Here are just a few innovations hugely important to performance that came later: general out of order execution with precise exceptions, shared memory multiprocessor, memory disambiguation prediction, memory renaming.

Some of the innovations introduced during the described era were by no means “fully explored” either. For example, branch prediction advanced rapidly through the 80s and 90s, and the best branch prediction algorithm known today (TAGE) was developed in 2000s.

And, of course, architectural innovation continues to this day.
Certainly around 2010 I had Google folks saying things at conferences like "who wants root on their phone!"; I do think they saw the idea of user control of their phone, hardware diversity and so on as key selling points at that time.

They have pulled back from that drastically, to the point where root doesn't really get you much control on an Android device any more. Whether that's driven by discovering that a very open approach to user control makes for a lot of security issues (which lines up with Apple's claims), or whether its about trying to improve revenue streams, well, who knows?
Yeah, I agree with you on that. I'm a Gen Z and I've noticed that social media has made the object for most people's desires material things.

> So far they seem even more materially oriented. Because that’s how we teach people to be.
I don't know if this is Gen Z specific, but I do that we (as a generation) focus too heavily on material items. It seems that every generation cares about consumer culture and social status when they're young, but then quickly grow out of it as they age.

> And of course social media continues to reduce social interaction down its most shallow possible level.

Social media really does have that effect whereby everyone is constantly "on stage" and must perform; the only problem is that the performance is about petty drama and material gain over others.

> All financial considerations aside, Gen Z will probably be the most isolated, mentally ill, and least self sufficient generations in a very long time. And that’s because of the world we made for them.

I wouldn't discount people's ability to adapt: once the consensus comes around on social media (the worst offender being Instagram) we'll jump ship, and mental health will slowly recover. Isolation will follow, and for self-sufficiency, when people are dropped into situations for which they aren't ready, they quickly learn and become ready.
My biggest gripe is related: filtering doesn't work. I was just looking for a small video projector today. I had specified a maximum price and some specs. The results were full of items that were up to 3x the maximum price, clearly didn't meet the specs, or weren't even video projectors (usually accessories). This seems so incredibly central to the shopping experience that they'd try to get it right, but apparently they feel it's much more important to get products from their favorite vendors in front of many eyeballs as possible. Somebody should really investigate how one becomes a favorite vendor, because it seems shady AF. My best guess for what happened to Aukey and Mpow is that they stopped paying the protection money.
Considering just last year "Trump cannot block his critics on Twitter, federal appeals court rules", the same thing should be reciprocal - social media companies should not be allowed to block/throttle politicians:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-vacate...