skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I look on algolia for a thread which is actually equivalent to the one you posted, and I did find one.

Unfortunately it has only one comment, so it doesn't make the point I intended it to.

I can only submit my opinion, which is that "Why one woman stole 47M academic papers – and made them all free to read" would not focus on Alexandra Elbakyan's gender.

There's an actual difference between the headline you chose (and the headline of the article below) and the headline of the OP.

It's the phrase "as a".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11125166
1. Doing something which is highly desirable & not many people can do.

2. Having great credentials.

3. Being connected in VC industry.

With above three elements its not tough to raise initial capital. Difficulty will arise in next round as that will depend on your ability to demonstrate success given the funding. This path is for people who are highly connected and influential. Not for common blokes.
> it's unlikely to be supported by the Berkeley/POSIX sockets API, the one portable network interface specification for every operating system. One solution to all this would be to make QUIC a layer 4 protocol and update the sockets API. But nobody wants to do this because it's hard.

I can't see why a user-space library couldn't hook the Berkeley sockets API calls and redirect them to a user-space implementation for IPPROTO_QUIC sockets. You may need to use some trick to distinguish native kernel sockets from user-space-implemented ones. (e.g. if you know the kernel only allocates FDs in a given range, use numbers outside that range to identify your user-space-implemented sockets). Someone could add a framework for doing this to the C library.

Actually I believe Windows has a built-in facility for doing this. To implement a new transport protocol in Winsock, you need to provide a transport provider DLL. Normally you'll also have a kernel-mode device driver, which the transport provider DLL calls, and the meat of the protocol implementation will be in that kernel-mode device driver not in the transport provider DLL. But I don't think it has to be that way – I don't believe there is anything stopping a Winsock transport provider from being written entirely in user-space.
The DocuSign/Clause Deal – A New Era for Smart Contracts
Thanks for the heads up, sounds like fun.

In theory I have everything I need to do this, I just have to get it all assembled and working this weekend.
This.

After you understand how Lisp works, syntax and "features" in other languages feel pretty awkward, to put it mildly.
Go calculated the battery need for these 400k/year and try to understand that industry.

And Tesla is building a factory that is equally designed to build that many trucks and the vertically integrate it with a huge battery factory likely even cathode manufacturing and lithium hydroxide production.

The last Ford CEO (not that long ago) still believed Ford didn't even need a battery partnership. And the new CEO has been scrambling like crazy to get a partnership and they want to build a plant but that is still quite far away.

> Unlike Tesla, Ford designed the Lightning with the actual input of the people who would use it

And you know that how?

> People who go off-road absolutely want better clearance; it's one of the most popular aftermarket modifications made to off-road vehicles. On that front, the Cybertruck has relatively poor experience for a truck (but would for right in with a Subaru wagon).

And that modification costs fair amount of money I would bet. The fact is the experience you get for the money is better. And comparing it to a Subaru wagon just tells me you are not actually serious, you just a hater.
Crashes? in most cases simply does not compile because Scheme has static scope; it is thus not a program.

But, we can of course go even further than that:

(library (main constants (0 0 1))
(export pi)
(define pi 3.1415926535)
)

`(0 0 1)` is not a valid Scheme program, no matter what one define at any point; an integer can never be the operand of an expression.
How common is this sort of re-launch?
So many anecdotes in business writing are uncorroborated, that's hardly enough to make it "an unfortunate example in hindsight" is it? Unless you believe that it has now been proven beyond reasonable doubt that she faked the whole thing, but in that case, fortunately for me, I take the reporting of a single questionable source as evidence but not as unassailable truth. But to each his own epistemic preferences.
Could you please elaborate? I don’t fully understand what’s going on with the tweaking?

Is he next to the malfunctioning robot?
Yes, let’s dump YAML. Yes, let’s dump arbitrary DSLs for declarative data structures. Yes, let’s adopt a lisp’s syntax. Just... let’s adopt the one (EDN) with more than one kind of bracket, some kind of traction, a surprisingly good mapping to static types, and a surprisingly robust compatibility with existing tooling (Transit).
Appreciation of the stabilized BSD operating systems increased. NetApp and other big brand products are FreeBSD based for good reasons. The drama of everything changing 'Microsoft style' is infectious to Linux ecosystems.

Pulling the plug on CentOS and Freenode within just one year can be seen as an effort to destabilized some Open communities. But we will become stronger in few years time once everybody sees the centralized snap packages, git repositories and communication channels has been used against the essential freedoms Open software gave us all.
Yep.

I'm from the US grew up in the Valley but lived in the UK for a startup for a short while. It's both a byproduct of career hierarchal corporate obedience and social success façade (see also: modern campus culture of Ivy Leagues and Pac12s). It's absolutely awful for mental health or getting things done.

More practically, it's a problem when people try so hard to be liked that they throw away respect by being too "nice." As such, they're not your friends or anyones friend, they're toxically-positive, inherently dishonest, and cowardly "yes men." It's a dishonest, time-/energy-wasting, and an untrustworthy cultural- and communication-style. People like these are a liability because they won't go anywhere far except to the diplomatic corps parties, UN-sponsored social ventures, and sing Kum ba yah. (Wantreprenuers and dumb money dispensers.) You have to be radically honest with yourself and others before you can attain and grow anything substantial.

Besides, VC investment is only essential if it's a capital-intensive venture or velocity-constrained by lack of capital. Having more capital isn't useful in and of itself without a plan and a strategy to deploy it to something that's already established, like water on a seedling. This is why chasing VC is worthless: sales of viable product cures all, including bringing VC interest.
>we can continue to innovate and truly explore the cross section of social + music

Does anyone know what this website(?) does? It's invite-only and seems to be music related but the article doesn't really say much about what the company does.

Edit: After some more research it seems like sharing music with your friends in a common space, like Clubhouse but with everyone listening to a song.
Microsoft brings 'quake mode' to Windows Terminal
The feature description sounds to me as a subset of what git's own packfile format is. [1]

Git packs, however, don't crash on rebases or commit changes, and can be merged whereas a stack of patches would likely fail in the beginning and then is inefficient to work with if other patches rely on those changes.

Maybe someone can explain why a stack of patches might be better if you need to use git anyways?

[1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Packfiles
I am on the job hunt right now with about 5 years of experience. How do you find jobs that do not require technical interviews? Every single company I have applied to (about 10 so far) has required LeetCode style interviews
It might not be consider by some but its 800k sales a year and that includes far more non hardcore Ford fans. Just like tons of people who are not hardcore Tesla fans drive Teslas.

I'm not saying F-150 will not sell, I'm saying the people in this thread who use the unveil of the F-150 to shit on Tesla and the CB don't know what they are talking about.
Sometime people pretend that it doesn’t make sense.
Had a real-estate say offers have to be a signed contract I say it needs a expiry period so people don’t come back in a month and demand the contract is followed. He kept doubling down on “I don’t understand the problem”
I'm somewhat happy that my country is so much behind on all this digital stuff. You usually have to physically present your ID to do something serious, or at least provide a picture of it. We do also have an official "government services" website, and it implements a proper oauth flow that many other government sites use and uses SSN + password for login.
I sailed off the east coast of South Africa in a small racing yacht in the late 80s. I am very sceptical that a sail/oar powered boat could make it. There are long stretches of coast where it would be very dangerous to beach your craft. There are stretches where it is still quite dangerous with modern equipment. If the story is true, they must be the luckiest sailors in history.
While I don't like WordPress either, I begrudgingly use it. My only wordpress website is a hobbyist news website where 1) 5-6 people need to be able to publish article on it, none of them (except me) have technical experience, and 2) we can only spare $10-$15 per month for the overall cost (and no, there's no way to make money here). This put me in a situation where almost the only option is self-hosted WordPress.
Blowing smoke up your ass.

That reminds me of that call with Triplebyte where they said I "had about the highest score ever" on their screening test. I knew immediately they were full of it and totally dishonest.

"Actions speak louder..." Don't buy any of it except as an act and going through the motions so they can pat themselves on the back.

Real feedback means adversarial criticism, weaknesses, and examination of the business. However, they can leave their "passenger's seat driving" suggestions at the door too, unless they're really useful.

If anyone is ever going down the VC route, they're going to be married to them. Who wants to be married to a liar who can't speak truth or honestly?
Loads of changes have happened since 1998. And both of those elements render and do the exact same thing - or what am I (a non-SGML expert) missing?

Edit: I read this but it didn't add much clarity -- https://medium.com/hackernoon/to-close-or-not-to-close-4365d...
It has always been like this. Everyone always repeated talking points they heard in the mainstream media. Always.
Exactly, if you making money it suggests there is a market , that means there must be competitors....even though every unicorn start up ends up with many competitors...and if there are competitors it's not venture fundable..
The complaint has been explained:

Agile inevitably leads to shoddy, churn-oriented programming and only serves bullshit consultants and code slingers.
A Man on Death Row Has Waited Years for GitHub to Provide Key Evidence
> By nature of being above UDP, QUIC is layer 5 or higher.

That doesn't seem like a fair characterization. In some TLS-based VPNs, IP is sent over TLS – does that make it a layer 7 protocol?
Choose boring technology.

WordPress is 18 years old, there's a good chance that it will be around for quite some time longer.
This sounds like something more of a North American issue

In other countries it is pretty common to hire people to do your move. Even Japan does that. Or, don't bother with stuff and rent furnished places.

> all your worldly possessions to some unseen third party

You mean like those storage facilities where people lock (and abandon) their stuff frequently? Yes, I wouldn't ship valuable stuff with them, for the most part, your furniture and posessions are valuable (in practice) only to yourself.

And while help from friends is cool, they're not "free work" per se you know. And there's a limit. I'm not helping you take a 3-seater sofa down a flight of stairs, sorry.
I’ve read a story somewhere, that someone trying to fix something in the toilet had to be in a position close to the toilet, then the lid accidentally fallen shut and the guy had his hearing damaged because the toilet bowl somehow concentrated the noise in one point where his head was.

It’s weird how even ordinary things can be dangerously loud.
"Suppose the media had been more open to Cotton’s point"

I sincerely have trouble imagining such discourse taking place. Isn't that sad?

Seriously, which mainstream media personality would actually entertain an idea from Tom Cotton long enough to seriously consider whether it's true or not?
Cancel culture is mob justice.
It is easy.

Unless you have an ambiguous system which:

- has to produce valid output in the presence of invalid input

- apparently has to take external scripting such as `document.write` and `document.innerHtml` into account

- has decades of legacy and conflicting standards thrown in

And, undoubtedly, it's still the easiest part of a browser.
Cloud customers are also living in the land of millisecond latency for most things. Their customers are at the other end of a multi-ms round trip. Sharding reduces the need to push as many IOPS through a single database machine, leaving slack for higher storage latency.

For people who really need low latency in the cloud there is EC2 instance store or GCE local SSD.
It makes sense and I think that's the reason WP has survived. In fact I started out like that, later building my startup product website(s) using WP; But once the tech-debt became too high I had to take a call.
So anything anonymously sourced from US govt. Officials should be considered "too easy to collect... etc "...seemed correct and accurate initially, then proven to be false."
"Material evidence..."

Yeah if we did this the CIA would have a much harder time spreading bullshit. But yeah they'll still try with the "OMG you love Putin" To those in the media who actually exercise these recommendations. Maybe it's not even a totally baseless and disgusting slur every single time but it has happened so often now it's safe to assume anyone any good has been accused of being a Putin stooge at least once. Hilary accusing Bernie is my personal favourite. You may have others. Greenwald, Mate, Taibbi, Tulsi Gabbard, Assange, Snowden. Zero evidence for any of it, sure, but it's still possible one or more of them is. No reason at all not to treat that with total contempt given that each has presented evidence opposing in the interests of national security state propaganda and there's none at all for these Putin stooge smears.

Feel free to keep loathing Putin, I do, I just don't see him under the bed and switch my brain off the instant he's invoked. If you haven't seen that the CIA, NSA have real issues of criminality that is in need of serious reform, and many inside will eagerly break the law to avoid it consider what would get you to change your mind on that?

The corruption inside is a far, far greater threat to the USA than Putin (or Osama bin L. or Saddam or.. the next objectively evil bogeyman) could be in their wildest fantasies. Failure to reform is incredibly dangerous and weakens defenses massively.
No.Extending your reasoning, it would just be 1 40GB I/O per second. Each io request has a fixed cost, which is better measured with small requests. Bandwidth is not really relevant here.
Supersonic air travel was absolutely not commonplace.
Have you looked at https://ghost.org/? Self hosted on DO costs around $5/mo. Though it's much less customizable than WP
What about UCL?

https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl
The GP quote was in SGML History section, not HTML section. So yes, he was talking about 1998.
> complaint against verbosity

Not an unjustified one, in fairness. Lisp tends to prefer long, descriptive names.
Yes, Federal environmemntal laws also don't serve California or other arid jurisdictions well. I often feel like much of our policies are written by people who think the rest of America is New England and don't understand the needs of arid climates. Just look at how little we care about preserving aquifers versus preserving forests to see the bias.

But in CA you risk being sued even if you have a timber harvest plan on Federal land, and then you need to deal with california district courts. Do you think the Ohlone, when they burned millions of acres each year, cared about whether there was a red-legged frog in one of the areas they were burning? But when you need to drag botanists everywhere to check on each tree and measure the girth of the tree and note all the species around it, it becomes hard to do what you need to do, which is get rid of hundreds of millions of trees every single year to keep these pests in check.

Then there is the issue of local government, which while it doesn't control a lot of land, certainly controls a lot of land around cities, which is relevant for safeguarding lives and property. Take a look at what it takes to cut down a tree in Marin county - god help you if the tree is near a stream or if it is on a lot someone owns

https://www.marincounty.org/-/media/files/departments/cd/pla...
Java is still an excellent option in many respects.

Notably it has:
- mature generics
- streams
- exceptions
- rock solid for server apps
- some FP style libraries
- good timing
- probably the widest universe of libraries

Only downsides are, 1) JVM startup times and 2) it's not the newest shiny thing.

I looked at the whole language comparison recently for a greenfields project. While initially optimistic, I was surprised how many capabilities some new alternatives are missing, and by the enthusiasm to write thousands of lines of low value C-style error checking.

An architectural assessment: Above a trivial level of software, the majority of code composes something that can fail. Exceptions are an ideal mechanism for this general truth.
There’s a big difference between moving 25 miles away and say 250 miles away (or more). Around town moves I prefer to do as you mentioned and just take my time making a few trips. But the few times I’ve had to move across the country has been a completely different affair.
Because North Europe was more inhospitable place overall (for agriculture et all) and during Middle Ages Europeans started accepting and adopting technologies like their lives depend on it (and it often did).

That has slowly over ages created culture that put premium on technological progress.
The generated avatars are very pleasing to the eye, excellent work!

I was hoping though to enter my name somewhere on that page to test it out, as I have negative infinity js skills :-/
The idea of a flat earth is not a recent idea; that's not what the "myth of the flat earth" is. The myth of the flat earth refers to the false idea that (educated) Europeans during the Middle Ages believed in a flat earth, or that the ancient Greeks did, etc.

But plenty of other people believed in a flat earth, both back then and in more recent times. Ancient Mesopotamian astronomy, for instance, used a flat earth model. More astonishingly, Chinese astronomers used a flat earth model until the 16th century.
Done, but now there is some empty space instead. Probably fixable with some custom CSS...
Consider a static WordPress site via the WP2Static plugin: https://wp2static.com Going static solves most of the performance and security problems with WordPress. There's a prebuilt Docker setup at https://lokl.dev/ and an AWS template at https://staticweb.io/open-source/wordpress/ There are also commercial hosts (with their own plugins) at https://www.strattic.com/ and https://www.hardypress.com/

I've worked a bit with Contentful, and it seemed like a pretty good CMS, but pricey. The client was moving off of it because they wanted the more familiar WordPress UI.
I couldn't agree more. Came here to say the same.
This stereotypical gamers you talk about are also very conservatives, and upgrades only if there is an actual benefit in doing so, for the sole reason of keeping the FPS as high as possible, which is at incredible odds with the ever changing Linux graphical ecosystem, where nothing is stable but in constant flux.

Yesterday X11, today Wayland, tomorrow what?

Yesterday ALSA, today Pulseaudio, tomorrow what?

Yesterday GTK2, today QT, tomorrow what?
I think the malfunctioning was the guy shutting down safety meassures intentionally with screwdrivers?

In other words, some person did something very stupid, while thinking he is clever.
Please don't give new ideas to miners, RAM is already expensive as it is now :)
Thanks. In that case, why doesn't the virus itself cause thrombatic side effects?
And where exactly does the FBI find these compromised passwords?
I used WP for various sites and blogs, and now I am left with one last instance, which I refuse to babysit, and will just turn it off. I had enough.
It's a big mystery for me how the things went down since seventies.

I think the first signs of not decline, but I'd say "wind down" were quite apparent in eighties already.
No, they are removing needlessly fluffy language.

What even is "a kind of slipper worn by fops"? It's far easier to understand it's just a common slipper.

Similarly, I think gay women in this context means "overly" promiscuous. Which is probably what victorians would have though of any woman not wearing a corset.
5 years later: "Parsers are easy, but I had to invent a meta language parser first to be able to describe the parsing process of the actual parser"
Yep, site-wide corporate pricing is a good idea.
I didn't imply that you said anything about the look, I mentioned it as any example of something that is objectively different.

So you mentioned actual argument, repair parts availability. So you mention one thing and the declare the CB to be DOA. You must release how incredibly dumb that is right? How would you react if a Tesla fan said 'Cybertruck is faster to 60mph therefore the F-150 is DOA'. Its just disingenuous analysis purely driven by, I don't know, I assume you have some sort of dislike for Tesla.

Tesla service is a actually a great experience for many people. The mobile service is amazing for anything that isn't a full crash. The Cybertruck design makes many typical repairs unnecessary. There are just fewer things that can break overall.

In terms of battery and EV motor Tesla has 1000x more experience and have known high reliability and Ford just had to recall their last EV and had to delay another EV for 8 months.

The truck market is 2.5 million in the US alone. EV trucks have significant advantages (including life cycle cost) and they will be production limited for years. To believe that in that environment the Cybertruck is DOA is just incredibly dumb.
I was really excited seeing the images, and the book (japanese architecture old and new is something I geek out on), until I realized it's sold out.
While WP's ecosystem is nothing less than impressive, but I'm still in shock to this day, how cumbersome is site migration.

For me and I guess for many other engineers it's quite normal to develop a site locally (or at least on a staging non-public domain name) and then move it into production under the final name.

In Wordpress, the site name is baked in all over the place — in config, in database, in generated stylesheets and so on. In theory, this should not be like this (if you use barebones install w/o plugins), but then you buy a theme or some less-than-perfect plugin and boom, you need a separate plugin just to handle migration (which may or may not work 100% of the time).
It's quite interesting that he has asserted copyright over his restorations of the original content. Could I claim copyright over a public domain audio recording from the same time period, if I reproduced it from a wax disk to an mp3? What about early software recovered from a stack of punch cards, could I decode the format, put it up as a binary, and copyright it?