skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is…disappointing.

As unpopular as it was, I like the Win8? start menu for letting me neatly lay out and categorize all my frequently used programs using my full screen real estate.

Now they’re turning it into a single app list that utilizes only 15% of my screen real estate, and is now fully redundant with my task bar in function and utility. A horizontal iPhone Home Screen sitting on my desktop.

I can’t fathom the reasoning behind this.
Lifting the Mask – Continuing Ed – With Edward Snowden
I don’t see how that is possible. Desktop PCs have almost unlimited space — cases can be measured in cubic feet. MacBooks are always space constrained because of their case size and weight minimizing, so there is an inherent disadvantage in the size of components like graphics boards. And a size disadvantage means fewer transistors and less cooling.
I recently rebuilt my gaming PC with a Ryzen 5000-series. Surprisingly, it has become my main work PC, and I haven't used it much for gaming. It's faster than my i9 Macbook pro, and another benefit is that I can only work when I'm sitting at my desk. With a laptop, I can do work pretty much anywhere. Which is a double-edged sword.
I remember Facebook's ipo. If I'm not wrong, the shares crashed for a few weeks/months right after the initial enthusiasm. It wasn't clear at all that Facebook was going to keep growing indefinitely.

By the way, did you buy Coinbase shares? In ten years it could be another example of some obvious buy ("big, dominant and in the news"). Or they might have turned to junk, too.
Forget mere investments, there are several Disney-property games on the App Store right now that include gambling mechanics. The sooner this stuff gets the same regulatory treatment as traditional gambling the better.
You're acting like people couldn't opt out of phone books, but it turns out that was actually a very common thing to do.
Did you have side effects after your first covid vaccine? Apparently that's more likely if you've already had covid.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25066791...
Random would mean 20% of ending in the same quintile, perfect predictor would mean 100%, so 40% is much closer to random.

>you can rephrase the statistic in another way, such as saying that 13% of the people at the lowest quintile should be in the highest income bracket, but they're not there because they started poor.

You say "should" but it seems like this is only true if you expect (and want) completely random results.
I've thought about writing a blog post trying to capture the magic of Emacs.

By "magic" I really just mean having a super low barrier to having your code running and working in Emacs. You just open your config files, put in a line of code, and then you're done.

Of course there are other barriers - Emacs has a huge learning curve and Elisp is harder to learn if you aren't familiar with Lisp like languages.

Still, there are no other programs out there like Emacs. You always have to either create your own extension, modify the source code, etc.

Realizing that you could kinda just make whatever you'd like in Emacs is an amazing feeling. I don't even use Emacs as my primary editor at work and I still think about cool things I could hack in my config files.
Please keep political flamewars off HN. This whole subthread is wretched and the sort of thing we're trying to avoid here. You guys have the rest of the internet if that's what you want.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it turns out that your account has been using HN primarily for political battle. That's not allowed, and I've banned the account. We do that regardless of what politics you're battling for, because it destroys this place for its intended purpose. Please don't create accounts to do that with.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll use HN as intended in the future.
I have also been using emacs for over 25 years. That is a sobering thought.

Admittedly the way I use it has changed, because things like LSP are a game changer for me, but it’s still been over 25 years.
Please keep political flamewars off HN. This whole subthread is wretched and the sort of thing we're trying to avoid here. You guys have the rest of the internet if that's what you want.

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Edit: your account has already built up a pattern of using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. That is not what HN is for and it is also not at all a nice way to take advantage of the fact that we allow people to be anonymous here.

I've banned this account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll use HN as intended. But please don't create any more accounts to break the rules with.
Please keep political flamewars off HN. This whole subthread is wretched and the sort of thing we're trying to avoid here. You guys have the rest of the internet if that's what you want.

Also, personal attacks are not ok and will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. You did that in multiple places in this thread. Please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: actually you've been posting so many personal attacks that I've almost banned your account. I decided not to, because you've been here for 10 years, but if you want to continue to comment here we need you to stop doing this, and stop adding to political flamewars generally.

You may not owe (or feel you owe) your political enemies better, but you owe this community much better if you're participating in it. No more of this please.
If you believe the opposite, please name the name of the natural person so accusing him, and quote them specifically.

No victims, nor officials, have accused him of any such thing. The arrest warrant that was issued was because he was wanted for questioning/investigation, and the direct statements of the women involved in the matter are very illuminating.
Many lost homes they either would have never had under a regime of tighter lending standards, or never should have had. It is not like anything was stolen from them. It's like buying a crypto coin for $1k, it goes to $4k, and then falls back to $1k. Was $3k really stolen from you or was it never really yours to begin with?
iMacs are usually laptops in all but name. To hit the same thinness with a giant heat-producing screen, most of the parts are their mobile equivalents.

Edit: on slightly closer inspection, this isn't true for the 27" models!
I think we more specifically know something emerged that was much more deadly and contagious around January/February. That does not completely eliminate the possibility that an earlier variant was present, which might be cross-reactive and might provide antibodies for some. We’ve seen that happen multiple times since then. Knowing if a lab leak was likely could help clarify this perhaps, since those may be opposing origin stories.
>And the stack trace was about three frames and discarded all the context - all I could see was that ActiveRecord was throwing a fit over somehow mysteriously receiving a large number somehow.

This is Python rather than Ruby, but my average debugging time and frequency of "impossible to figure out" bugs drastically decreased once I started using a traceback library that provides a lot of context to each stack frame.

It makes logs containing any raised exceptions much larger and more tedious to scroll through, but the benefits are more than worth it; especially for production services.

I use better-exceptions (https://github.com/Qix-/better-exceptions), but there are a bunch of other good libraries as well.
The real timeline is most certainly earlier than the official one.

https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1228435515776667649
What’s old is new again! This is how mainframe terminals worked.
So Jessie is looking for people building KittyCAD. I'd rather improve SolveSpace, because this is open source and already operational. Solvespace branded as VsCode with collaboration tools? Ok, why not.

I think OpenMP is back in again, but the database format is important, agreed.

In her vision I miss the importance of CSG, where the brep surfaces are created dynamically. Looks like she thinks the history and construction of the solid can be thrown away, but with thin shells (3d printing!) Lost precision will haunt you. You need CSG. This is not modern, this is antique.
There's nothing ineffable in anything you are referring to. Anyone can generate tons of bullshit by combining letters and words. You are clearly much worse at Seado than I am at non-dualism. Your thought process needs to grow much before you can realize significance of Seado. Then you will learn some truth (and still it will not be universal).
Researchers build a metadata-based image database using DNA storage
> Coca Cola responded to the initial comments by saying "everyone is entitled to their drink preferences" and that everyone has different "tastes and needs".

There's nothing in coca cola anyone "needs" unless you're Edgar from MiB.
That's an awesome question. At the root, we are trying to provide fact-checking and fact-correction, and this goes down to remembering the "values" of individual words and phrases that make up the document, then tracking those changes over time. Instead of a list of unrelated edits, we make it easy to do things like find all of the changes to a certain term and update all of them without changing anything else in a document. That's just one kind of transform that's possible. The blockchain aspect serves as an outside, second source of edit history that can be used to just keep hash values, not documents themselves. The hash values can be checked against the hash of any version that anyone has to see which version they have.

These are just a few of the aspects of the language and the tools we've built to implement it. If anyone is interested in this stuff, there's a ton at our website! http://nebula.mimix.io And I'm always open for questions and feedback.
My sister has an au pair in the bay area, and she pays less for child care than I do at a in-home daycare.

The au-pair industry is a bit of a scam, bringing labor from low cost countries. They are not paid the same as a nanny or day care worker, often it is half of full time daycare. The idea is that you're providing room and board, and thats part of their comp.

Also the quality of care you get from an au pair is mixed, often its a bit like having a teenager care for you child. One acquaintance had a indoor play place call the au pair provider since they were concerned with how the au pair treated the children.
Ask HN: Why do so many large Tech companies buyback their stock?
If you look at the top companies who buyback stocks it is dominated by tech companies: #1 Apple, #2 Google, #3 MS, #5 FB, etc.[1] And if you look at a breakdown of what sectors do buybacks, you see that it is tech (32% of total S&P 500 buybacks) followed by finance (20% of total S&P 500 buybacks) and then drops off quickly to other sectors.[1]

What is it specifically about tech companies that causes them to do frequent, large stock buybacks? It seems like tech companies would have more R&D opportunities to invest cash than non-tech companies. Is it just because the profit margins are higher and they have more cash lying around then in other sectors?

Is it because of the employee compensation structure where the majority of employees receive stock and so stock buybacks ensure they can attract/retain talent (by ensuring stock prices go up)? If so why does (for example) Amazon not engage in stock buybacks?

If it was just being done to inflate executive compensation then why is the practice so concentrated in just the tech sector? Why don't other sectors do it more?

[1] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/q1-2021-sp-500-buybacks-double-their-post-covid-low-companies-repurchased-36-5-more-shares-than-in-q4-2020--301312766.html
IBM's first quantum computer outside of the US has just gone live
Might I recommend an Apple Newton? ;)

Small(ish), syncable (bit of a learning curve to do so, but it is possible), and even comes with a physical keyboard if you want to really type things out rather than just use a stylus.

In my experience its OCR software is on-par with the Remarkable, if not better.

Good times.
Right, I think Axolo makes it possible for your reviewer to respond quickly to something he sees and also makes it easy to be the next priority for your reviewer.
This is a nice rule of thumb. Works great for 90% of use cases. For the other 10%, it's "acceptable". I like it. It also discourages "what" comments, and encourages longer "why" comments. The biggest benefit is: standardization, and no need to think about comments again.
In many areas, the local hospital system is the major, if not the only, source of high quality employment. Insurance companies are usually cast as the villain, but they’re the entities actually fighting to contain costs, and their profit margins are far thinner.

Consequently the local hospital is often protected by regional politicians and judges. Trying to take on a hospital network is about as likely to succeed as going after the favorite hometown sports team.
Yeah, I'm sure DraftKing's organized crime partners will totally respect the NAP. Or GAAP.
Isn't this achievable with an API/RPC?
IRC Networks – Top in the annual comparison
Honestly, I personally love the aesthetic of big whirring fans and blinking lights. If you offered me an M1 MacBook Pro but it would be buried in a 7 foot tall cupboard plastered in lights and fans that occasionally, randomly, sounded like a jet engine taking off... I would be in heaven.
Show HN: Influence, a Go-inspired 1-minute board game
> use is a lot of shared services such as tradespeople, lawn care if they have a house, meal delivery, grocery delivery, car services, housekeepers, etc. You mostly don't need people full-time but many do consume people doing stuff for them that they could do themselves on a regular basis.

How often are these people brought on holiday?
so if i'm understanding the threat model correctly here, it's based on the uniqueness of your home SSID. a privacy-preserving thing to do would be to choose an SSID that is shared by many other people, but not so many other people that your neighbours share it...

is there any services that coordinate this?
Corridor advice: add jitter to everything. A mobile device coming online might seem random enough by itself, so why add jitter to it?

Well, those things go on and off at random but then the mobile operator fixes a huge network outage and boom, several million devices go online at once.
The what-ifs that never were
If I pass by in front of your house, I can see through your windows. If I walk behind you, I can see what you do. Both are somewhat socially acceptable.

If I livestream you the whole time and archive the video of everything you do and everything visible in your windows, I bet you'd not feel as comfortable.

This is exactly the problem here: Your neighbours or passerbys seeing your SSID is not much of a problem, but a total stranger anywhere in the world finding your address only by (B)SSID is a problem.

Especially since these are usually not considered sensitive; you can find quite a few posts showing fun WiFi names or tech support posts were the ID is visible. Hell, maybe some streamers inadvertently show them because they don't know the implication! Combine that with rough information of where the user is from (country should suffice) and you can come knocking on their door.

The real problem here is that we usually are very protective of our actual address. These databases make SSIDs equally sensitive data, without people being aware of this.
Very good information.
What is Abbott's false negative rate again? Im remembering initially it was sort of high, but I don't recall offhand.
Exactly correct. Hidden network at home means your phone screams out for it all the time when not at home, because that's the only way it can find it.
Those companies offer a means of account recovery through them, and also, everywhere I've SSO'd also offers a separate un-linked account recovery mechanism.
welcome to the world of activist investing
Isn't that why Las Vegas exists?
BRL-CAD was created by the US Army Research Laboratory (then the Ballistic Research Laboratory, hence 'BRL') and was released in 1984, and became free software in 2004.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRL-CAD
> some inexplicable way I feel it has made be better

The only thing I really "learned" from studying calculus that I actually apply to the real-world is the ability to slow down and take each part individually. When I first took calculus, I tried to rush through the problems and inevitably dropped something important. It wasn't until I started forcing myself to write down each step (even if I thought I could do it in my head) that I started actually getting the right answers, and knowing that I actually had.
My 15-year old daughter just recently got her first desktop. Why? Well, because instead of just consuming (which she does on her phone) or doing homework (chromebook), she wanted to do video editing, and also drawing using a Wacom tablet. She found that the non-desktop options were just not that great.

Had it been a passing fancy, no doubt she would have done without the desktop, but it wasn't, so she got a tricked out desktop (intended for gamers, I think) and now has the most powerful computer in the house. She still uses her phone and (when in school) her Chromebook, but when she's in creator (not consumer) mode, she uses her desktop.
Is $90,000 for a lumbar fusion reasonable?
> at least somewhat common exception of au pairs if both halves of a couple work

Wow this blows my mind TIL
Uber and taxicabs I see. Hotels apps and websites have probably gotten better but I'm not sure how much of that is AirBnB vs. a general trend in the industry.
Indeed! Our use of blockchain doesn't involve tokens or mining. Just a literal chain of hashes. Each hash is the hash of one edit or change made with the MSL language. If the chain is incorrect, your version of the document has elements in it which were not in the original and the exact point where they deviate can be determined. You can perform this work without having any access to the documents or the text itself.
The price of a Big Mac is an aggregate of the costs of its ingredients, labor, production, storage, distribution, marketing, etc...

A Big Mac can also be considered to deliver roughly the same perceived value to the customer over decades which is useful for an inflation metric. This is in contrast to items prone to technological efficiency gains which are getting cheaper and are favoured by CPI weighting adjustments.

And still, even considering the efficiency gains and cost reduction for energy and transportation the cost of a Big Mac still does not fluctuate around the CPIs 2% average. Its average annual inflation over the last 20 years is ~4% and roughly twice as high as CPI claims.
Show HN: Free market scanner for cryptocurrencys (tradeplan.io)
If this catches on I will make sure to buy and abuse a few of these tokens every month just to get them banned.

Doing a little trolling, 100k+ banned tokens at a time.
Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronization
Might have been true at some point, but nowdays even smaller payments are easy to send between EU banks. VAT payment is done in your home country, and you can deduct the VAT. The social aspect is harder; the amount of work to get a consistent revenue stream from another EU country can be enormous compared to doing buisness in another city in your own country.

There are people who specialize in sales between EU states, but for a small team without capital it was hard. That said most of the 100+ tech companies I know of have offices around EU to get talent from other countries.
Often "telemetry" is collected just because it's possible, the more the merrier, rarely is it used to actually improve the product.
Stardust Cookie Cutter
You might enjoy my digital catalog of the Library of Congress: www.locserendipity.com
Remarkably, facebook was still worth around $100 billion on its IPO even tbough it seems so long ago. It had huge growth leading up to the IPO. It fell due to concerns about Facebook not being able to monetize mobile, which proved to be unfounded.

NO, I would not buy coinbase stock
Blurriest graphs ever.
How are you going to handle E.E.U. citizens? It seems that the GDPR applies here. The only real solution I see is to have a separate E.E.U.-based company.
No, not at all - I am in MA. Note I did not get tested immediately, I merely wondered about those winter colds so many of us experienced until the testing became more available. Then around June I got an antibody test at an urgent care clinic to put the question to rest.

Mind you the test could have still been faulty, but the mortality data ultimately does not show any anomalies in that time frame and that's a lot harder to explain under the hypothesis that it was C19.
I kind of wish that VisualAge for Java was still a thing but in reality it is unlikely that I would do anything more with it than I ever did with v1.0 and v2.0 which still sit on a shelf.
Some day I hope all of my home compute will be housed in something that looks like WOPR.
It's kinda too late now though, since most of those people are vaccinated now so they'll have antibodies already, right?
Engineers who do mechanical CAD work using a specialized input device like a SpaceMouse [1] or similar.

[1] https://3dconnexion.com/uk/spacemouse/
At the end of every turn, each tile influences its neighbors and imparts some of its color. Tiles with a dark border can no longer be selected.

The rules are simple but it takes awhile to master. What is your best score against the Hard AI? I got 27 (me on green) – 23 (AI).

Would you want to see some sort of match-making to play against others online?

See demo gameplay or view the source code at https://github.com/jawslouis/Influence-Game
... or Dancing Ants.
There is a more timeless valuation metric that looks at asset valuations in reference to treasury yields.

And it is helpful to look at treasury yields as a reference to how much money is in the system that needs to be placed. The entire incentive is to find an investment that earns money faster than the value of your money drops due to treasury & central bank activity.

(The actions of issuing governments and central banks are the primary way more money gets into the economy than before, and this pushes down interest rates.)

TINA - "There is no alternative" has been used over the last decade to suggest a problem: that there is no where else for investors to park money so they stretch valuations poorly.

But "TINA" has always been the case, to a degree which has only been limited by geopolitics and fragmented economies in the past.

Valuations have always been tied to how much money is in the system.

So - yes - the capital formation and placement process is messy and there is wild short lived inefficiencies in some parts of the market such as a single collectibles market attracting too much capital or a single stock becoming a crowded trade. But across the entire asset classes bubbles might not necessarily be bubbles.
>Imagine resolving code conflicts by resolving things at the AST level.

This sounds extremely nice actually. The more semantically aware the version control system is, the more likely it can gracefully handle merge conflicts. A textual diff is a very low level transformation primitive; composing them doesn't guarantee very much at the higher level.
they found a better alternative called: 'you do the work, I get the pay in your place. win win'.

and it's structured in the form of useless middlemen `consulting` companies going by the names of (Atos, Alten, Accenture, ...)

finding a job in tech related industries means most probably going through them, and in practice they value business school people and management types way more than the lowly engineer.
Southwest Airlines grounds its entire fleet amid giant computer outage