skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My definition of home after spending 9 months in a van travelling in Europe and the US was something along the lines of: the place where I can keep things that I don't use very often but that feel important to my sense of self.

For me personally, one good example of that would be my table saw. I don't use it often (and I certainly did not need it while travelling). But owning a table saw is a part of what makes me feel like me (not to mention it's history in removing part of one of my thumbs). Having a place where the table saw can just be (i.e. not a storage facility) is for me part of what "having a home" is all about.

The same would be true of things like my cookbooks. In the age of the internet, I don't even use them much anymore, and I certainly would not take them with me on any bounded-term move. Having on a shelf at home is part of what makes home actually be "home" rather than just "where I'm living".
The difference is visibility. A few hours into a conversation, the top two comments are, more often than not, a well-reasoned argument for one side and a well-reasoned rebuttal. If you start in on a thread while it's early, you'll see a lot of garbage, but that tends to float to the bottom over time. In general, the HN system (tech+mods+community) rewards thoughtful content and penalizes shallow nonsense.

Twitter is the opposite. The most inflammatory comments trigger the most engagement, and so get the most visibility.
Blazor WebAssembly Crash Course
Hey, it’s dmoz? I like this user focused version, not good for search, but good for browsing. An adjunct to Wikipedia. Probably need a lot of guidelines as to what is acceptable.
Rosie Pattern Language: Rosie Purpose and Future
Amazon Mexico lists New Nintendo Switch Pro and quickly removes it
Doesn't feel like self-promotion with little substance/a very short article is a good fit here.
I dont have twitter, but I click in twitter links here and there when they are posted on forums. Every time I scroll down from whatever tweet was linked, I seem to immediately end up seeing what I would consider partisan stuff about covid or other current events. Maybe on a personal feed it is different but it does seem set up to lure people into debate or disagreement.
IOPS/GB of nand isn't really improving much, so you need more nand to hit these speeds.
These things are a trade off.
Developers should be targeting a platform rather than the hardware. Why would the user be concerned about the app pegging their ram and how to deal with it.
Well I don't really feel I have to explain anything? The diligent work put into CT by researchers shows high CT positives are very likely false positives.

But I can offer up some explanations regardless, just for the sake of conversation. Any respiratory infection that gets hospitalized with high CT covid tests is capable of being a misdiagnosed CV19 infection. I'm unsure about CA, but in the US there are huge financial incentives to misdiagnose a patient as cv19+

As for record number of patients (I'll take your word for it as in the US the actual ICU numbers are lower for 2020 than 2019 and hospitalizations countrywide 2020 at no point were higher than 2019) - I think that a much more logical conclusion is that people were scared to go to the hosptial - preventative visits/treatments were delayed and now you're dealing with the predictable rise in illness due to disruption to healthcare from government regulations and overall hysteria keeping people from the hospital that would've otherwise been there.

Disruptions as small as daylight savings changes is associated with large spikes in heart attacks - it's really not surprising that global disruption will have negative health repercussions.
That's the 80/20, for day to day it probably does not work. So indeed creating an independent browser is pretty much impossible.
I made no statement about whether anyone's actions were justified, only that they made sense given the state of affairs.
That graph with housing starts is wild. No wonder housing prices are out of reach, we haven't been building for the past decade!
I used both Wordpress 'versions' - free on .com, self-hosted on Amazon. It's GREAT! The dashboard that gives you all information you want/need, how easy it is to edit posts and pages switching from desktop to mobile, having a widget on mobile to see visits, etc...

The only reason I switched to Hugo is because I wanted custom domain + javascript (for adding some embeds that wordpress doesn't support by default), and I didn't want to pay 8 bucks (I think 10 CAD) for that on .com, and didn't want the hassle to host on Amazon anymore.

But I surely miss being able to have all my drafts available everywhere, and publish with the click of a button.

EDIT: I also miss that all other bloggers from my circle except another one, all use wordpress, and follow each other on the wordpress reader, and comment using wordpress comments. I'm likely missing a good chunk of views and comments because of that
Ah, i see i forgot to update the comment when i changed to one day so i could test it easier... thanks for pointing that out, will correct.
My issue is that I was a Comp. Engineering major.

Sure, I've got some mathematical training (Fourier transforms, matricies, etc. etc.) but my classes never covered Abstract Algebra. A lot of this stuff is coming out of left-field for me: just never really studied anything in this branch of mathematics.
I thought that in tax treaty situations you only pay the maximum tax rate? So the place you lived/ worked gets their tax cut or the US gets the difference (or something along those lines). Hard to imagine someone paying 70% of their income in taxes just for living somewhere else for a little while.
According to the NYTimes (although I believe the UN has been saying this for years as I've seen the charts for a long while now), we're do in for a sharp contraction on population growth with an eventual decline.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/22/world/global-population-s...
For CLI programs Rust is a really nice alternative to languages that require a runtime. I've significantly sped up the time for my bashrc to execute (my bashrc is heavy) by replacing certain tools with Rust tools.

If I wanted my IDE to execute something like ShellCheck on every save, or even every few character presses, I feel like I'd much rather not have to spin up a big runtime.
> or if it's part of the fanaticism.

Thanks for the insult.

I'm not an "Apple fanatic," but I do develop for the platform.

I don't rail against other platforms (I spent 25 years, managing a cross-platform team), and I would suggest that you may be doing yourself a real disservice by writing off an extremely lucrative venue.

I do support you, however, in demonstrating a commitment to your principles, by ignoring and insulting a gigantic swath of monied customers.
>they should be able to send people a proposed refund or amount owed

It is my understanding that in most European counties, this is exactly how it works.
I had to open it incognito to see the story.
> one day cellular or satellite gut them

Mr Shannon says no.
> That's like saying, if you believe someone's defamatory statements, that's on you, but the speaker is innocent.

Not really. Being mistaken is not the same thing as being defamatory. If someone is honestly just incorrect, and you go parroting what they said without independently verifying (especially if the person is a pseudo-anonymous internet commenter and not a subject-matter expert) then frankly that is entirely your fault.

Being intentionally deceived is another matter.
Where in Brooklyn? I've had gigabit for around 70 dollars in two apartments here in Downtown Brooklyn, and in general NYC generally does have pretty good fiber availability at reasonable prices
> When I get home from work, what would motivate me to sift through countless posts about misinformation and flag them?

Turn it around. Make it like Reddit's /new: have moderators able to sift through countless posts about misinformation and approve the good ones. It's not a large difference in what moderators end up doing — they still have to at least skim over all the misinformation. But it's psychologically very different — you can just "walk away" from annoying things that stink of quackery up-front, while "engaging with" only the things that seem good, and eventually "upvoting" the things that still seem good even after you've read them carefully.

Yes, I'm actually suggesting that every post on such a site would go through a moderation queue. (Just one that any user can dip into to look at, if they like, but only moderators can actually vote on.) Or, if not every post, then a good sampling of them; or maybe every post from users with less than N approved posts.

The big effect of that would be that there wouldn't be "countless posts about misinformation." There'd be a couple, mostly by new users with clear signal of that user just being an attacker to the community who doesn't actually want to become part of it (and therefore, can just be banned wholesale.) Noise would drop over time, because crackpots wouldn't even get a short blip of engagement. They'd get none. Their account would die in the crib, never witnessed by anyone but moderators and curious /new viewers.

Combine it with a KYC mechanism (so users can't keep making new accounts) and the moderation load actually becomes reasonable.
The free version of Tweetbot on the iOS App Store is read-only.
Reasoned discussion has a fraught relationship with large groups.

I'd be a bit careful about the word "allowed" because that posits an "allower" when much of the process you're describing is stochastic. I'm not trying to evade responsibility for the part that we play (at least I hope I'm not), but it's so much more complicated than just "allow v. unallow".
Yes, it is reversed in that trivial sense. But when filing taxes in the US in 1990 for the 1989 tax year, I had already become a "US person" for tax purposes, which meant that the treaty applied to me as it would to any other "US person", citizen or otherwise. The fact that I had been a UK citizen working in the UK, and was now a UK citizen working in the US did not change that. As a US person, I owed US taxes under US laws.
Facebook’s New ‘Like’ Policy Changes Social Media Forever and That’s Good
In a sense we can print land--that just means building vertically. Building a 10 story building is essentially adding 9 layers of land.

But that land won't have farmable topsoil.
I'm not sure what you consider bold about the assertions so it's difficult to expand. I am certainly not the sharpest tool in the shed, and I'm religious, so that provides at least circumstantial evidence for my initial statement.

Do you think I should consider that atheists could be dumb too? Most of the ones I've spoken to seem fairly convinced that they're reasonably smart.
> The frustration with interruptions is that they introduce a sudden increase in required working memory

I've wondered the same - though never been able to put it into such concise words. I formerly worked as a Mechanical/Controls engineer and did not feel the same frustration with interruptions at the time despite being an equally challenging industry (as far as my experience went). My conclusion is that the hard constraints of a physical system keep the problem space (and thus the required working memory) relatively small in the physical world. When you're writing software that has no physical manifestation, the problem space is typically massive since the constraints are fewer.
It is to the point that in some country, like France, bank have to ask anybody (even if you are not foreigner) if you are a U.S citizen or have close family who are, before opening a bank account.
As far as I know it is to report the creation of the account back to the IRS.
Systems programmers got really excited :) I don't know much about Nim but I don't think it, or Go, etc. are aimed as low-level as Rust is. Rust is pretty unique in being as low-level as C, yet providing safety and higher level abstractions.
I just backed his Patreon just because of this!
Your experience on HN does not resemble mine at all. I'm frequently downvoted for controversial opinions. And I see a lot of outrage and disinformation here.

And on twitter I see little outrage and disinformation. Our experiences are so far apart on social media that I'm not sure anecdotes will do much for the conversation here.
This is how I feel. I unfollow or block users I don't want to see. I know which kinds of tweets from which kinds of authors are likely to have interesting discussion in the replies, and I only look at the replies for those. And generally I'm not on Twitter for deep nuanced discussion anyway- it's a platform specifically designed against that.
Yeah that's my bad, I mistakenly forgot to multiply it monthly for a moment.
I just say "compile", too, because it's strictly correct and I like being correct. But "transpiling adds zero information" seems unfair: when you see that word, you at least know the speaker meant "compiling to something other than machine code". No one has ever called gcc a transpiler, so they definitely aren't talking about gcc.

I like the reasoning in the sibling comment:

> So if you want to understand what other people are saying about "compilers" you should keep in mind that the standard definition includes what you are calling "transpilers".

Really, the main disadvantage of saying "transpile" is that it implies you don't know what "compile" means. In a context where that wasn't an issue -- e.g., if I heard it from one of my coworkers, who certainly know what a compiler is -- I would just think they liked the neologism.
FWIW, the developer of QUCS Studio, is Michael Margraf, the original founder of the QUCS project
> Some flashcards uncovered during the course of this investigation had been publicly visible online as far back as 2013. Other sets detailed processes that were being learned by users until at least April 2021. It is not known whether secret phrases, protocols or other security practices have been altered since then.

Just gobsmacked by this, honestly.
Right, so the problem is making your KPIs exclusively about measurable 'growth', rather than optimizing for making the best communities possible.

It isn't inherently social media or democracy that's the problem, it's the incentives behind it.
Ask HN: Are new graph algorithms still being devised?
Just wondering if there are graph algorithms beyond the textbook ones that are still being designed/devised? This post [1] from a few days back prompted this question.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27294401
Look I just really disagree sorry. The flavor is different but the beneath it's the same stuff.

You can pretty much be as cruel as you want on HN as long as you don't swear or call people names too much.

You can find joy on here sure but it's despite the culture here not because of it.
No search engine spidering so discussions aren't monetized or ripped-off, discussions can be freer (half-way to being YC dinners), and potentially greater incentives to apply.

Somewhere like Iceland or Greenland.
> you cannot monetize engagement if your community is highly toxic

you're soooooooo close to getting it, but so far.

monetizing engagement -creates- toxic communities, because toxicity is engaging.
Not affiliated or anything (haven't even tried their service), but if you're looking into becoming a nomad and have a high enough net worth, this was interesting, lots of free articles https://nomadcapitalist.com/
It's probably best if lay people focused on their families and their work and their general well being, however, I don't know if the best idea is to suppress information, particularly information that is then revealed to be true. It creates a massive distrust in our governing institutions. For instance, I plainly don't trust any of our tech companies at all, nor the government, nor the media with the truth about basically anything. They have all shown they are incapable throughout this pandemic. Not sure having that level of societal disfunction allows people to focus on their families, their jobs, and their general well being.
hey dang, I'm the author. Thanks for cleaning everything up - I'm sometimes a bit nervous when my work gets posted on HN for what happened here. I really appreciate you & the HN team being so proactive in fixing it!
Upon what physics do you base this assertion? To me (just an EE with 20 years experience deploying and running Wisp services...) it sounds delusional.
This sadly means that people aren't betting on themselves anymore.

When assets skyrocket, usually business formation and funding goes down.

Banks have better data but anecdotally this is what is happening

Ideally if somebody in here works for the big boys such as JPMorgan , Wells Fargo or Barclays and wanted to decipher such phenomenon you'd look at something like:

(Turnover in business bank account opened in the past year - outgoing payments to insiders,beneficial owners and companies controlled by insiders and beneficial owners) / GDP

Yet another metric of risk taking:

No. of hires + no. of people who quit. This gives you an idea of how confident business are in their growth and how confident people are in their personal growth.

Of course stuff like the stimulus and paying people to stay home distort stuff so much that such data can't be compared to say 2005
Just out of curiosity: you are referring to Facebook Inc as a company, including Instagram, right? Not the Facebook platform itself.
This is the coming housing correction. It is likely that we will decide to just depopulate undesirable areas completely. Because if you get under a threshold of density a lot of city infrastructure doesn’t make sense.

I wonder what we can learn from what is happening in Japan?
No, more like only a Jupiter worth of negative mass instead of a few solar masses.
I don't know TT's interface but perhaps https://github.com/calzoneman/sync which can pull media from Youtube, Soundcloud, Twitch, Vimeo, etc.
In the span of about 2 years, the Serenity browser has gone from nothing to where it is now. It already supports JavaScript and the canvas API.

Do you think you could build this in 2 years? The answer is yes, you could.
Which probably means that technically you're probably supposed to be filing a bunch of state tax forms.

I was just posting elsewhere: https://www.concur.com/newsroom/article/what-are-state-tax-i...

Basically, companies are apparently starting to more closely track employee travel and state filing requirements. Not sure the exact impetus other than a lot more remote work happening--although this pre-dates COVID.
This dystopian initiative is more aptly described as a one-time expenditure that buys management some plausible deniability to the god-awful working conditions they subject workers.
The Robot Smiled Back
I'm neither paid not misinformed. There is no runtime exception for the Adacore Community version, it is under GPL including the runtime, hence every executable produced with it is also under GPLv3.

If you want mGPL (with the runtime exception) you need to wait for the FSF version.

This is well-known in the Ada community, but I thought I'd mention it because occasionally people don't know the license conditions of various GNAT versions very well. Such as you.
IMO, it's more that the standards are overcomplicated as a result of (unhealthy) competition. This is maybe less true now, but my impression has been that until recently, Firefox and Chrome were both always racing to implement some new proprietary feature before the other browsers could design an equivalent. There were no standards. In fact, even before that, the way JavaScript was created is that Brendan Eich, at NetScape, implemented it in two weeks. The same was true of many other browser features, they were rushed into production in order to outdo other browsers and have this new feature first, and then everyone was kind of stuck having to support every half-baked feature because some websites made use of them.
And if it doesn't work out after a few months they can go back to Comcast and qualify for new customer promos. There's no contract requirement on the T-Mobile service.
in the top right of the timeline there's a button whose icon looks like a few sparkles. Hit that and switch your feed from "Home" to "Latest Tweets" and you'll only ever see tweets form people you follow, listed chronologically.
Yes we have been. What is different is that large Housing REITS and other speculators (Domestic and foreign) are purchasing them straight up fro the build reducing the supply more and more, and creating this artificial pricing frenzy for their investment.

You m ay not know about this, but NYC Had a similar issue about 5 years back, but when they blocked Russian money, the prices dropped nearly 30%.
I know a couple genuine digital nomads. I try to meet up with them if I'm traveling internationally through their part of the world.

It's always interesting to meet at their favorite digital nomad coworking places, because they're always full of digital nomads who are doing anything but working.

To be fair, some of the people I've met do legitimate part-time contract work doing things such as managing social media accounts for companies or taking design jobs here and there. However, many of the people I've been introduced to at these places are trying to do some mix of life coaching, affiliate marketing, or creating content and services for other aspiring digital nomads.

My experience hiring digital nomads has not been great. Some of them have been quite talented, but when their lifestyle revolves around minimizing their workload every day it becomes very difficult to manage them. I'm sure there digital nomads out there who are also diligent teammates and employees, but on average I'd take a mediocre in-office hire who can put in predictable effort over a digital nomad who is constantly working to minimize their workload so they can travel more.
> The fundamental gap here is in people continuing to think that any app can access all of a user's preferences directory.

Yes, but I'm talking about how the world works today — and today, viruses still find ways to run on OSes where they aren't forced into any kind of sandboxing.

Usually because they get spread in the form of some kind of system-automation script (which inherently run with the kind of non-sandboxing that "gluing disparate apps together" requires) where "run embedded script with elevation" is an API call, so all they need to do is to convince the user to accept the elevation prompt.

Today, in the here and now, we shouldn't be playing with knives. But maybe we can play with knives again when we learn to wear gloves.

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I feel like I should say: Mozilla aren't an OS manufacturer. They can't fix the OS security model of all OSes, everywhere. They can only modify the thing they have control over (the browser) to be secure in the face of generally-broken OS security models.

But that's not even really the point, because this is as much about Evil Maid attacks as it is about viruses. Sandboxing doesn't prevent someone impersonating the user, with the user's full authority from installing extensions on the system. They might have the right keys to authenticate as an admin, but as long as they can authenticate as the user, they can act as the user to do the same things the user themselves would do, to install user-specific malware browser extensions.

(And, maybe of more concern to home users, there are plenty of ways for a virus to impersonate the user, e.g. through accessibility APIs. Unlike superuser elevation prompts (which run on a different Desktop / as high-integrity / etc., and thus ignore other programs sending input-events to them), there's no elevation prompt for one program goes to interact with another program's files (ala macOS's recent Gatekeeper changes), that accessibility APIs can't be made to interact with. Imagine how a user operating the OS with switch-control would react to not being able to use switch-control to accept an inter-app-elevation-prompt. Untenable, right?)
Maybe for that subculture, but I meant generally.

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2205-there-is-an-inverse-rela...