skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kind of disagree. To me, there does seem to be an element of fear behind homophobia, and homophobes often act as if "the gay" is something they can catch like a disease, or be talked or tricked into. It's practically a stereotype for homophobes to present as hypermasculine in order to avoid doing or saying anything that might be perceived as "gay." Some men won't even wipe themselves out of fear that the sensation of toilet paper on their buttocks will turn them gay.

And that's not even getting into political and culture fears like male-to-female transgender people "trapping" men into having sex with them, or using the "wrong" bathrooms, or the extreme right-wing fears of a "gay agenda" to undermine traditional Christian-oriented culture, or "feminizing chemicals" being added to the water (the whole "gay frogs" thing) to increase the homosexual population and emasculate male aggression and military readiness. People even argue that homosexuality presents a threat to human evolution itself, despite being present in many known (and not extinct) animal species and likely humanity's own evolutionary ancestors as well as humanity itself.
> why is everyone so needy these days, to the point of a simple OS-built-in calculator app asking for a rating

Some oxygen waster's salary and career is tied to these metrics.
What makes 1 billion rows a large search space?

What makes 150 billion rows incomprehensibly large?

With a molecular weight of 500 we're talking something on the order of terabytes of data (for 1b molecules)?

It certainly sounds like a tractable amount of data.

What computer problems are stopping us from generating a compound, computationally testing it for stability, and adding it to the list and then searching?
From what I've read, the possibility is higher than some other random virus popping up at this moment in time. That's all I'm saying. That could be on par with the jet engine example, but if so, then all the people saying we need to learn from Covid and adjust our immunology strategies are worrying about low possibility items also.

Anyways, I'll defer to you on this, I'm definitely not an expert, and you were willing to post sources and I'm not gonna try to dredge up the information I'm basing these comments on. Plus I haven't had the time to digest the sources. So add one more chink in my wall of being back to "normalcy" :P
Depends.... Social networks, bank apps, chat apps, casual games, productivity apps, music/video players,... basically everything except new games still should work, even on shitty phones.
Just noticed HeyLaughingBoy's post too, from his description I'd say there's a pretty good chance his experience is more on point than mine (it is a bit hard to tell from the limited description here though).

Not to torpedo my chances, but you might want to forward his contact info on too.
> includes people from a range of ideological outlooks, who ordinarily would be opposed to one another, because they share some concerns and can forge a common cause in publishing

LOL normally when people say "includes people from a range of ideological outlooks", they usually mean so they present a range of ideological viewpoints. What you actually mean is so they can present a single ideological viewpoint, how counter-intuitive.

> None of the headlines that you cite are specific to “extremist Christian-right propaganda”

Anti-islmam, anti-feminist, anti-left, anti-immigrant, anti-trans...gosh what was I thinking! It's true the headlines are not overtly religious...but I never that was the case. Propaganda is often subtle so it can hide it's true nature and purpose and origin.

> You have still not brought forth any proof of your claim above that UnHerd was founded and funded expressly for “extremist Christian-right propaganda” purposes

Websites that take up the anti-trans cause are either secular radical feminist or Christian-right. Let's look up the founder of unherd shall we? (you probably guessed I already knew this).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Montgomerie

> Montgomerie was born into an army family in Barnstaple in 1970.[7][8] He said in a Guardian interview[9] that "his teenage Thatcherism was tempered by discovering evangelical Christianity at sixteen".

I guess it's not the radical feminist kind.
Ask HN: What's your experience working for a YC backed startup?
What was experience? How large was the team? Good things, bad things?
> A little bit of whiplash on this one. Despite the sentence or two claiming what the author is purportedly not doing, the rest of the article seems to indicate otherwise.

Trans people who actively post online about their trans status are a narrowly selected subset of trans people as a whole, and those who act obnoxious enough to be a foremost example of OP's point even more peculiarly so. One should never try to derive generalized descriptive statements from such narrow anecdata.
I got nearly the same time, 06:58. Spent the most time on the bow.

If you liked this, you will enjoy the Phone Number UI from hell[1]. Surprisingly, I did see stuff like that in the wild - and from Google, of all places![2]

[1]https://qz.com/679782/

[2]https://i.redd.it/gns5ci5hp2yz.png
Let's start some conspiracy theory fake news right here right now: Big Condo took down this building down so the value of every property around it would plummet for a few years, giving them the opportunity to buy everything around it and sell years later when the value moves back to normal.

Let's see how long it takes until my aunt shares this with me over Facebook :).
If foreign monopolies take over then the US government should ban or regulate them in the same way that domestic companies are regulated. Foreign monopolies may (or may not) dominate global markets, but I think that concern should be lower priority than the health of our own markets and the well-being of our citizens.
Capital one privacy cards are amazing for that. They paid me 250 to open one 2% cash back and unlimited privacy cards
that's a very positive and progressive profile imho
Oh no, what will we do without the companies running on funding, without a viable business model, trying to get more monthly active users by any means. /s

I don't think this approach has been healthy for quite a while. It may be an actual good thing that companies think more about long-term independent survival.
Good point. What about the radars used by Air Force to guard the airspace? Do they cover the interior, or only the borders?
The latest release is just called .NET 5

.NET Core was the name for the cross-platform version, but that's the default now and will be the future. No need to differentiate from the older Full Framework anymore.
I didn't understand their comment to mean that at all. It's not arrogant to think there might be a better way. It probably is arrogant to think that the better way is actually really simple and easy to implement.

Arrogance definitely can play a big role in success of many startup entrepreneurs. Because they think the answer is simple and their arrogance shields them from not trying. So they go down the road and find out the solution is actually quite complicated, but a small percentage succeed in accomplishing the goal.

But it's still arrogance, nonetheless.
> I think that the difference between 1940-1980 is much greater than 1980-2020.

I vehemently disagree with this, but agree this is veering off topic, so I'll leave it at that.
Yeah, well... From where I sit it looks more like this: The lengths people will go to, to avoid facing the overwhelmingly probable truth that the old tax-evading murderers on the lam they still for some reason admire are sociopathic gangsters, is extreme.

Really, honestly, seriously. Have you even tried to consider it could be that way around? Occam's razor suggests -- no, it screams! -- that he killed himself:

* People get desperate and kill themselves in some situations. McAfee was in a typical such situation.

* Having killed himself -- or not, as some would have it -- at the moment McAfee is big news. People (such as yourself) are (literally) screeching bloody murder. If there is anything to find, investigative journalists now have lots of incentive to look for it. If he'd just been extradited, probably no one would have cared; there might have been a few short articles noting the fact, and that would be that. Wouldn't it be stupid, then, to kill him since that would only attract all this attention (that you and I are lavishing on it)? How plausible is it that any actor that has the resources to have someone "whacked" is that stupid?

* Lots of people (you possibly among them?) have suggested that he was killed because "they wanted him silenced". I have asked a few what, exactly he is supposed to have had on anyone that would warrant "silencing" him. So far nobody has had any suggestions. Do you?

So, yeah, it does indeed look like some are doing their best to avoid facing the truth: You all who see a conspiracy here.
I’m surprised nobody has suggested that these phenomenon could be an advanced electronic interference platform and that they may be able to interfere with the computing systems of multiple remote sensing systems at once.
I engage in petty boycotts like this.

Even if it’s PEANUTS to them. I feel better, because at least I’m not participating in perpetuating a shitty system.

I feel especially good about it when those companies are ubiquitous and hard to avoid, because I feel rather righteous against an all encompassing behemoth that likely would have got my money otherwise.
No, they said that in most cases crucial data was lacking.

Yes, they probably have a lot more data, but they won't release it to the general public for "security reasons".
I absolutely expected that. Having both birthdate and age was the Chekhov's gun on that form.

The only thing better would be to have them on different form pages.
Tech companies currently have more more influence over the mental and emotional education of our children than any school could.

You seem to be misunderstanding the issue as “these businesses are doing poorly” instead of “extreme concentration of power in the industries that control huge swaths of people’s lives is bad.”
They have only removed packages that was quite literally not used by anyone after being deprecated for years (deprecation doesn’t break compatibility).

The reason 8 is preferred for many is due to a) not understanding the new model b) depend on a dependency that does some shady things with JVM internals it should have never done in the first place, this did get “sealed” by the module system. Most of these deps actually have already migrated to 8+, and even if not, access to internals can still be allowed with a command line flag.
The first trillion is always the hardest.
I don't because I haven't found a good one for Parquet. I would really like something like SSMS for SQL Server.

I would poke at local Parquet files either through a local instance of Spark (or DataBricks when I was using that for remote data folders) or use Pandas' read_parquet from Jupyter.
You'll want to add hotjar.com to that list. They do the same thing.
Lovely to see a small company I worked with seeing end up here!!
If someone is looking for an agency, super fun and great people over there!!!!
big ol 9 pages of nothin
Stoller makes the excellent point that Congress will also need to rein in the judiciary and notably the Chicago School "interpretation" (neutering, really) of antitrust law perpetrated by Judge Robert Bork (he of Nixon's infamous Saturday Night Massacre) in a stunning act of judicial activism and caprice:

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/robert-bork...

(this is a conservative publication, by the way, hardly one you'd expect to be unfavorably biased against Bork).
Miami Beach is at sea level. It already floods during high tides. There aren't too many years of property value left.
I thought of adding the comment about enharmonics but it decided it would muddy the water further and edited it out. Should have left it in.
I don't think anyone is surprised to see rich people skipping taxes that the middle class is meant to pay. When you have a corruptible, centralised government, a political apparatus, mass media that let you convert money in manipulating large numbers of voters - the ones wielding more power will have more influence and will be able to shape society in a way that is convenient for them.

Thiel even admitted it:

> In an interview on the website Big Think, Thiel said the U.S. tax system has
> “fairness problems” in which “you have super rich people paying a lower rate than
> people in the middle or upper middle class.”

The only difference between the audience of this article and Thiel is in the way this problem should be addressed.

The article is obviously meant to push for the "tax the rich till there are no rich no more" narrative, Thiel instead thinks we need less government:

> The answer wasn’t taxing the rich more, he said, but “taxing the middle class and
> the upper middle class a lot less” and cutting their dependence on expensive
> programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
>number input for house number that required clicking on the arrows to change it one at a time

You might enjoy the Phone Number UI from Hell[1], and Google's implementation of it[2]

[1]https://qz.com/679782/

[2]https://i.redd.it/gns5ci5hp2yz.png
i did in 4:33 -- it was fun!

https://i.imgur.com/RiHmKZM.png
Certainly my machines time is very cheap for them.
I'd flip that around and say that server-side chat history, large group chats and multiple clients are hard to implement in the context of an E2EE chat service. What I mean by that is: E2EE is a necessity, not some nice-to-have feature.

Building a chat service with server-side chat history but without E2EE is like building a car with very nice headlights that doesn't actually move.
Flag icons in grayscale. My country's flag is three equally large horizontal bars, just like 12 other nations (and a lot more if you count variations like little insignia etc). [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triband_(flag)
For anyone looking for a sane analysis of the "leaked" UFO videos, look no further than Mick West.

https://www.youtube.com/user/mickword
One requirement on a requirement list is not orthogonal from another requirement... especially when we're talking something largely tied to CPU/Chipset generations

Just like there was a Soft/Hard for TPM there was one for CPU... but again now that's gone:

https://i.pcmag.com/imagery/articles/03M5zHCwxn6igCkcMUN78hz...

No CPU generation for the hard floor.

This is simple. MS wants the proliferation of features that require TPM 2.0.

So if you use a layperson's tool for identifying Windows 11 install targets, it requires 2.0.

If you use their own documents (which are now hidden) the OS will run on much more hardware.

If I was talking to my mom about if she can install Windows 11 it'd be one thing, but this is HN. If MS is saying "we want this on X, but it runs on Y"... it runs on Y.
That concern doesn't really apply to recursive CTEs though.

Or rather, recursive CTEs inherently require that you select only what you need.

A little difference that the non-recursive case of "I'll just use a CTE for same functionality but better readability" which can deceptively bite you prior to PostgreSQL 12.
> Not having it enabled by default means most people will never enable it at all. That's just plain reckless.

Yet, there we are. People value that other functionality more. You may not like it, but that's how they are.

> Privacy is a human right; it shouldn't be part of any "trade-off", just like you can't sell yourself into slavery, even if you really wanted to.

You are now off the rails. The problem with the trade-offs is not social.
You made me curious enough to look and I discovered that the default keyboard on my xiaomi phone "emoji keyboard" is 1.1GB.

So, thats worrying for a number of reasons.
Most likely the original report was like 20 pages long, and after those 5 months, the "publishable" parts is what we are seeing here.
Sure, but why Panasonic, and why now?
Try flying into not-even-that-rural Iowa.
I believe a Professional Engineer with correct certification has to sign off on if you go above two stories, before the authorities will allow it to be built.
Brain fart. Sorry.
> Removing stupidity from a conversation on a private website is not censorship.

Is this not censorship? It sounds like you're assuming that "censorship" is by definition illegitimate or morally wrong, but I don't think this is inherent to the word (except to the extent that we still live in a generally liberal, pro-speech society). HN removing opinions from its boards seems like it clearly qualifies as censorship, even if you agree with the removal.
Secondary radar == just an RX only antenna?
What's the point of reclaiming land in a country that has vast amounts of land to be used, like the US? I can understand why Singapore does it.
I think this is a pretty absurd take. These companies are highly profitable and highly visible to the average person, but in terms of revenue, they aren't outliers among the largest companies. They aren't disproportionately impacting "the US dollar".
It's a win-win. The small shop also can't afford to deal with this customer. Not to disparage either, but a first lesson for small businesses is that you can't chase every customer.
03:51

I laughed out loud when I got to the bottom of the last page and didn't see checkboxes and realized the checkboxes were above the pictures and not below and had to scroll to the top.
No, there is no negative long term consequence for the VP so it is likely the optimal decision from both a short and long term perspective.
Yeah I know all about In-Q-Tel and DARPA. I have a friend who was funded by In-Q-Tel a decade ago or so.

The thing that I'm trying to express, the thing that policy makers can't quite get their heads around, is that war AI is different. It's not a little startup-y thing you can cobble together until it sorta, kinda works for a specific use-case. We already have that. Missiles, aircraft, nuclear weapons simulations all have specialized AI. But that isn't the future. The future is something like Alpha Zero being applied to a whole domain or a whole battlefield. Something that coordinates and controls all the ships, planes, missiles, drones, and sensors in an arena for as total domination as can be achieved. We've had AI that augments human ability for decades. And it is effective, no question.

But that isn't what is going to define the next generation of warfare.
Page 5 at least settles one debate. BIRDS AREN'T REAL, they're just "Airbone Clutter"

> Airborne Clutter: These objects include birds, balloons, ..
That's one thing that always bothered me about 90s nostalgia from people born in the late 90s and early 2000s, all the fan-made stuff didn't have the scanlines.

I like how this is being addressed, people go out of their way to emulate VHS artifacting now with dynamic filters, and then pretend to pipe that through a CRT. This is much more appealing to me aesthetically

Square's Final Fantasy remakes do not do this, instead they try to show characters in the way the final result would have looked like if they had never had to use pixel sprites back in the 90s in the first place. Grave mistake. Nobody wanted that.
It's absolutely not appropriate to call these "flu". That is a contraction of "influenza", which is an entirely different family of viruses.

And yes, the family is named "coronavirus". The one we're dealing with now is a strain properly calls SARS-Cov-2, which causes a disease officially termed COVID-19.
I don't understand how you arrive at this seven dollar figure. Right now a median fee is 3-4 satoshi's per byte resulting in a typical transaction cost of about $0.64 usd. Here is a site that shows the live fee spread: https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC%20(default%20mempool),...
The 128 characters of user data is a really cool feature!
Tl;dr:

Pixel graphics on CRTs look smoother (almost like anti-aliasing) because CRT pixels don't behave like the clean pixel squares in modern displays.

Just displaying the same pixels on a modern display may not match the original artist's intent.
The vast amounts of land are in boring locations, like Kansas prairie, not near the beach in Miami.
In my experience, Matrix is largely a protocol for defining groups of users across federation and sharing structured data in near real time between these users, with or without encryption. The main use case is definitely a chat protocol, but there's nothing preventing you from using this as a tuple-space-style database (I kind of am at the moment), or as a transmission layer for pretty much anything.

I don't know about the current performance per server. I'm looking forward to seeing the Go and Rust implementations to compare performance :)
Yes, I think the reminder is helpful. In fact I saw a fella on HN argue that because some rocks on Mars looked a bit like faces, we should consider the alien possibility. (This was many months or years ago; HN becomes an orange blur after awhile, but it was surprising enough to stick in my memory.)

Edited to tone down the intro sentence a bit.
I imagine this tool could be really useful if you want to buy a domain if it expires. I’ve set calendar reminders to check if a domain has been renewed by its owner and have successfully acquired domains that way. Have you thought of adding a pricing tier to support that use case?
I'm sticking my head out a bit here given that this is HN...

But I largely attribute the high productivity of tech to the simple nature of software as opposed to the tech industry being comprised of the most productive workers and efficient management.

The flexibility and efficiency of software is insane compared to even just the hardware side of it, much less medicine or home building.
If there's one thing to be said for the incompetence of our government, it's that at least they will be unable to actually follow through with this plan. Truly ludicrous.
IPv6 is great... the only problem is, that IPv4 has be patched enough with workarounds, to make IPv6 unecessary for most "normal users", and there is nothing to sell there.

Yes, a simple voice call might use STUN, through two nats, fail to puncture a hole, and then be proxied over a server somewhere, but "it works". Noone is willing to may 1$/€ more per month to get IPv6, noone really needs it, half of IoT doesn't support it (ahem, esp8266/32), it's costly to implement and costly to educate users (especially those, relying on nat for "security").

Most of the IPv6 progress is because the governments mandate it for many stuff, big cloud providers are running out of addresses to buy, vendors want to sell new routers and switches... basically, everybody except the users.
Cool now we can all talk about how anything we personally find abrasive must be a mental illness.
Actually, I really prefer the term UAP (Unexplained Aerial Phenomenon) over the term UFO (Unidentified Flying Object). Using the name object makes everybody assume that it is physical object, which may or may not be true.
Location. It's no different from Singapore. The people accomodated by any reclaimed land of Singapore could always go somewhere else.
Microsoft naming strikes again. I suspect they're only dropping the "core" now because they can - below 4 there's a need to disambiguate versus .net Framework versions.
It disrupts the fungal life and dries it out, while also increasing erosion and weed pressure. It’s not that you can’t ever till, but it’s generally to be avoided.

In the case of clay, deep mulch will do wonders, and the earthworms will gently improve the soil over time.