skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Talk is cheap”
Talk is indeed cheap. The question they still haven’t answered is whether Cloudflare collude with other tech monopolies to do a coordinated deplatforming of dissenting voices.
Ordered, thanks. Regrettably I have read fewer than 1% of the books I’ve ever bought, but this one has a much better chance than most.

Congratulations on finally putting this project to rest.
this metaphor is absurd. the actual murderers here are the contributors to the banned sites, nor cloudflare, and there were a lot more than 1 murders.
Here’s a great article by Kenneth McAlpine:
https://www.gamejournal.it/the-sound-of-1-bit-technical-cons...
…An interview with Michael Land and Clint Bajakian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0EqG6RYn9Y
…an article about iMuse (used from M.I.2 I think):
https://mixnmojo.com/features/sitefeatures/LucasArts-Secret-...
Hope that helps! (this site is amazing btw… :)
I had to maintain an IA-64 Linux system at a previous job, and it was such an odd duck. The OS did a decent job of abstracting away most of the weirdness, but at the end of the day it was just a very slow server. The compiler breakthroughs that Intel was counting on to make it competitive never happened, and since its unusual architecture made it bad at running code not specifically tuned to it, the end result was that nothing ran great on it. I’m sure that HP had some highly optimized code that ran like greased lightning, but that never worked its way out to the general public.

I admit that I’m glad Itanium finally died. It killed a lot of other interesting architectures and gave nothing in return.
Affiliate links are the reason anybody even makes a website anymore. The era of personal websites made for intellectual curiosity and expression are long gone.

It's not just websites though, Youtube and IG are filled with them as well. Basically, if you have any audience at all, it's time to cash in on them by polluting your online presence with these dumb links.
> I have zero experience in PDF accessibility.

You and 99% of people who have ever produced a PDF file, I would guess. Which is why I wish InDesign would do the right thing by default. No big deal for this book since it's available in other formats, and I don't regret purchasing the PDF, but so many other books and documents are made available only as PDF.
I just saw you're the founder of 123done. Sorry to rain on your parade. I would delete my comment if I could.
I agree, something better has to be possible. Maybe it could begin with some simplifying assumptions to reduce the complexity of quoting.
Not sure, it’s not been proposed on our projects before. Most likely, that means it’s not cheaper than geofoam or fill.
> I also think it’s overvalued, but the company distanced itself from the criminal founder long ago.

September 2020 is not long ago in terms of distancing yourself from the foundations of an enormous fraud.
In breakthrough cases in the vaccinated population, their viral load has been found to be just as high as the unvaccinated population. According to Dr. Fauci, this is actually why the CDC changed their masking guidelines for vaccinated people.
Ah, thanks. To get some sense of scale: If you have any experience (or anyone else who has, please chime in!), how much more down-putting is he than, say, SciManDan; how bad is he "on a SciManDan scale"? :-) An appropriate comparison IMO, seeing how Dan is also famous for debunking dumb stuff.

N.B: I think Dan is pretty darn nice, even when he's being what for him is snarky. As I recall, I was much more of an arrogant a-hole myself when I was younger. (Yup, that's my exc^H^H^Hstory: I've mellowed out now, all that was only when I was young.)
Oh sure, but there's still some use in it. Eventually, it'll be all bots and no use.
No, they'd ask twice as many questions in that case.
This may have had something to do with the fact that the daily stormer was claiming prior to that that their lack of suspension was an implicit endorsement by CloudFlare of their site and content.

Misuse of trademarks is a thing.

I agree, however, that CF's policies are applied arbitrarily.
As engineer, I just continue working on other tasks in every single meeting. For me that multitasking works, and I don't have meeting fatigue at all. Then again, I'm not the main decision maker most of the time.
It's so fundamental to their business though, right?

They are fundamentally a data mining and advertising operation and that only works if people find them useful and therefore use them so that they can be data-mined and advertised to.

I guess maybe Google just feels it's an unsolvable problem, or has a backdoor agreement with Amazon, or feels they are so synonymous with search that only a fraction of users would ever user another search engine even if the quality of their results has become awful
I don't think I have many ID cards without chips anymore. Maybe EU health care insurance card doesn't have one. Everything else has wireless chips.
On top of that they admit they have no data spanning a significant amount of time to conclude any trend. "Nevertheless, many socio- and psychologists think it is getting more common". Click bait.
Quick, get these three Americans in jail \s
How much of the vaccinated people will get this same reaction? That's the important question. Would you like to get your "long covid" jab now or in 2 years? I decided to wait.
DailyBot was born out of our own need - we’ve been WFH for many years and needed to stay in-sync with each other. There was a behavior we were not happy about: managers or people coming to others asking about what they’re working on or requesting status updates, often. We wanted to change that behavior with our product, if you get some written updates on a periodic basis, the team will get more aligned, managers won’t need to bother (that frequent), and likely you’ll reduce the amount of unnecessary meetings.

Then we started extending the product around async work practices. Traditional work-from-office environments can indeed benefit from improving collaboration practices, getting more work done inside the chat, and (of course) decreasing the pointless meetings for things that could be written updates.

It could happen that teams use DailyBot improperly for micro-management purposes - that’s why we’re also creating a catalog of best practices and proper question templates; asking the right questions is key. We'll go further by adding more features to DailyBot so it becomes a highly useful personal assistant at work.
I got excited when I saw the email, and I'm glad this is at the top of HN now. Fantastic modern book on language development that I'd recommend to anyone interested in the subject.
By parent I’m referring to the comment you get to if you press the “parent” link on the comment I replied to.

To me it seems like

> If patents do exactly what they are intended to do, they damage periods of rapid, cheap progress.

is very much in line with the wording of the constitution. I guess in order to see that you have to also believe that monopolies hurt rapid, cheap progress. I think most reasonable people do.
One thing you’re ignoring is that investment doesn’t occur in the abstract. It’s literally an investment in the company, and it’s not just a bet on future results it actually can and does change the outcome.

For example GME and AMC were able to wipe out their debt snd get a bunch of cash in the door to run their business with via all this retail investment. It’s quite possible having that money will change their story from failure to success.

Betting on horses doesn’t make the horse go faster but betting on companies can.
It’s mentioned because Bing isn’t very good so you shouldn’t expect any different with DDG.

Also every time this comment is posted, someone tries to argue that it doesn’t come from Bing despite zero evidence so it’s a TIL for more than you think.
You’re not legally require to carry your ID around, only to have an ID. You can leave it at home without worry, although there may be situations where that is inconvenient.

As to how to use the smart features: not knowing how to use them is really what makes you German. Welcome onboard!
>> could not be understood by people and thus programmers are detached from the decisions making by machines.

This isn't really true. A programmer may not understand the exact mechanism of computation but they will have trained it in a particular way using particular training data to do a particular purpose. That purpose is known to the programmer so this fact actually doesn't change anything. It is possible the robot will occasionally act in an unexpected way, but the majority of the time it will follow it's programmed objective, even if following that objective unpredictably.
Ask HN: What was the fate of Google Reader’s source code?
Often we hear about projects being shut down by large corporations, but then never hearing that they have sold the intellectual property.. And I find weird and intriguing...
I use zfsnap.[1] It's been forever since I've worked on it (hence why it's now "archived" on GitHub), but it's stable for my use and I use it on all ZFS systems I manage.

[1] https://github.com/zfsnap/zfsnap
Wow. Exactly the kind of thing I imagined, and yet it _still_ surprises me.
We do provide 30 days free trial on the app to all users. We hope traders will find trading with AI valuable enough to add to their toolset.
Differences in Financial Risk Preferences Can Make or Break a Marriage
And that's not even an XY example ...

You guys are so confused you don't even get yourselves.
> it’s best to keep coworkers and friends in separate circles

I've made some really great friends in the workplace. Considering how much time you spend working, there's nothing wrong with cultivating relationships there, and often those relationships can outlive the job.
LinkedIn to allow most employees to work remotely, reversing course
Most of the ID verification systems use "What you know"(PIN or password), "What you have"(ID Card or Phone),"Who you are"(biometrics, i.e. finger print hash), using 1 factor or combination of 2 factors. For verification, storing hash on server is good enough.

If we use safely stored finger print hash in ID cards/Passports/Phones (Iris is better but expensive), the stolen IDs from server have less value to hackers. ICAO standard already includes secure storage of the biometrics data long time ago but not many countries implement yet. Finger print sensor is widely adopted in mobile phones. Anyway the technology exists. Maybe some identity theft incidents will push the government and the industry to implement the solutions
ISO should make all standards Publicly Available
The bit about petroleum solvents, makes me wonder about sinkholes. "causes it to dissolve and break down into a non-load-bearing sludge", so if some joker tips a bottle of that in the park then a sludgy hole in the ground will start forming?
Did you even read the article before spouting the cult narrative?
Itanium was so insignificant that while I recall that it was being EOL'd, I hadn't marked my calendar for it.

A year ago, Derbauer did a teardown and got some sweet die shots of one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqz5ZtiCmYk

Nit: this blog's text is a bit small and thin.
really cool, but needs demos, or at least audio clips.
Why is it temporary? The paper the OP linked says "the overall results form the monitoring programme indicate that [geofoam] behaves as expected and that the selected design parameters provide stable and satisfactory structures for long time performance"[1]

It looks more like a national security issue. If we're ever at war then the enemy can always tip over a jug of petroleum ether to turn our deeply embedded geofoam foundations into glue, which I imagine would cause everything built on top to crumble too. It would appear they're mostly building highways using this stuff (rather than skyscrapers) so that shouldn't be too much of a vulnerability but it probably isn't what Dwight Eisenhower had in mind when he built the interstates.

[1] Aabøe R, Frydenlund TE (2011) 40 years of experience with the use of EPS geofoam blocks in road construction. Paper presented at the 4th international conference on geofoam blocks in construction applications, Lillestrøm, Norway, 6-8 June 2011
The Norwegian pinterest
There is a really interesting paper, Do Developers Read Compiler Error Messages?

https://static.barik.net/barik/publications/icse2017/PID4655...
The difficulties of backends usually come from one of these areas that I don't think you're giving proper credit:

- scale - a frontend shows one user's view at once, a backend may need to be updating state for millions of users without slowing anyone's experience down. But these sorts of things are somewhat different than just "backend code", it's often closely tied to infra and data designs, which doesn't necessarily look like "backend coding" but is critical to make the rest work.

- business logic complexity - often the backend teams are tasked with working with frontend to figure out a simple, user-friendly API surface for the app and also to figure out how to make that work with the various not-written-down, not-even-fully-enumerated business logic permutations and backend-data permutations that could be going on. If they do their job right, the frontend can show different screens with values from the API ready to plug in for a particular scenario without having to worry about the combinatorial rules behind the scenes that led us to want to show the user THIS screen instead of any other one. The difficulty there isn't a mathematical or "hard" one, it's that the product team probably has no idea just how gnarly the set of business rules they sketched out actually gets. A backend has to support everything the frontend client can do today, but often ALSO support a bunch of things the public frontend apps don't yet do (whether this is for admin tasks, or for future readiness, or what).

I'm not sure I see the significance of the number of symbols in UIKit - you usually don't need all of them, I assume, and I know that there are some common patterns that get re-used a lot. Is it so different from in backend when there are dozens of databases you could choose, and a bunch of frameworks for each of a bunch of different languages you could choose, but for most problems it's not going to make a huge difference?

One thing that often hides the difficulty on backend is that the frontend team might be interacting with just one or two backend teams that then interact with a different set of teams behind them, etc. But the true "backend vs frontend" question has to include ALL of those teams, even the ones you don't directly interact with, since they're all in the critical path.

"Hard frontend problems are harder than easy backend problems" - ok, sure. But that's not a very interesting comparison.
> It sounds like Hetzner will cancel your contract as soon as you submit a support request

I don't know what gave you that impression, as that was not my claim.
I would have asked the same question for the same reason. A sibling comment introduced me to a feature that I wasn't familiar with. And that's why I'll continue asking curious questions until the day I die.
Among countries with big population numbers, US has among the highest rate of energy use and pollution per person, and by far.
How difficult was it to make this in a different language than the one used on the book?
I think Duolingo's valuation says more about the current stock market than it does about Duolingo.
Can I just say that 'cryptologic linguist for the army' sounds like an incredibly far out occupation, and also that 16 months of 7 hours a day of linguistics training sounds like a very daunting undertaking. Kudos to you!
There isn't a superfluous comma, the two commas are use to delineate the relative clause "founder of electric carmaker Nikola".
First class modules with self types
Then that's an update. For the longest time it was simply TTS, with all the downsides that contains.
"I don't see how regulating the supply of housing is conservative. If laissez faire treatment of markets is a conservative idea, then this cannot be."

Your confusion is understandable and to be expected.

"Conservative" in the United States has been co-opted by pro business narratives to mean the opposite of what it means by definition.

In your example, "laissez faire treatment of (anything)" is by definition, a liberal policy. Regulation, rules, guidelines - these are impulses in the conservative direction.

21st century politics in the United States has this nomenclature backwards.

Gun rights are another example of this. The United States has extremely liberal gun policies and the second amendment is almost off the charts in terms of liberalism. And yet we refer to it as "conservative" - and we refer to gun control and gun regulation, etc., as "liberal" policies.
This looks like the speaker that goes into your ear, but I meant the one at the bottom of your phone that activates when you switch to "speaker phone". They usually have the keyword "buzzer" in the title of sites that sell them to distinguish them from the earpiece.

This is what I mean: https://www.mmobiel.com/loud-speaker-for-iphone-8-plus-serie...

Some have just two contacts you can easily solder speaker cables to, just avoid the ones with complicated connectors. You don't need to enclose it to get good sound, it already has an enclosure. I often choose plush toys with a simple MP3 SD player (1€ on Aliexpress, eg https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32657798948.html) and some triggering mechanism.
In the dawn of the web, one of my favorite websites was despair.com.

I laughed at the sarcastic cynicism and sendups of corporate culture.

Then they rocked my world with a poster of a drop of water falling into a larger body of water with the text: "No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood" and the title "Irresponsibility".

Still available apparently, with the base idea being clearly more true than ever.

The problem is group actions require group solutions. I can go vegetarian and live a zero impact life, but the flood will still come unless we invest in mitigation and infrastructure.
If you are in a leadership position this is kind of a nightmare. If you are just an IC you're bolder than I. tbh my morning standup could be reduced to a sentence.
I am in absolute awe at the PDF diff tool. Wonderful, wonderful stuff.
This is more a question for google than HN in my opinion.

Whether it’s the most depends how you count and there are usually small countries that come in higher.

But US is always near the top in the lists.
US subsidies boost the expected profits of oil and gas fields
I would get crucified at my org if I put that on my feed/screen.

Wouldn't want to work at a place with a culture like that.
http://web.archive.org/web/20210729130901/https://www.nytime...

I always thought it was illegal to straight up retailiate against someone because they were pregnant (stripping of manager title for example). Did Google ever give her a “corporate” reason for the demotion?
I'm going to get torched for this, but surely Notepad.exe or your-distros-default-text-editor would be easier ?
How can one tell how much is being saved through your service compared to contracting directly with a SaaS (Box, Okta, for example.) keeping in mind, that rarely are list prices what small companies pay to begin with, though admittedly, larger companies can get bigger discounts.

When technical issues come up, does one get support directly from the vendor; if not, how does that work?
> This is so short-sighted and ignorant, it's hard to even read about. Brazilians should cherish their rainforest, legacy of millions of years of evolution, with wondrous biodiversity and an amazing carbon sink the planet desperately needs.

This sounds to me like a bit like telling Americans that they should cherish their planet and stop driving and flying all the time. We all know that that would help a lot, but (1) it dramatically reduces comfort and QoL in the short to medium term with no tangible benefits for the individual and (2) it only works if almost everyone else does it as well.
> The attitude of the backend people of looking down upon frontend people is really stupid and unsubstantiated.

Agreed, personally when I've heard this, it's frequently due to the "backend" devs really struggling with the complexity of user interface needs, especially UI state. This is the root of a lot the "JavaScript is such a trainwreck" type comments too.
Congrats! Will be getting a copy just because I enjoyed reading the online version. I love your writing style!
by your first comment, it seems you already believe the real truth is the one you bought, only. the rest is post-true. Funny thing is that your reasoning is exactly what post truth means.
If your are interested in how words change over time, consider how "harm" has changed in the last few years.
Even if it’s a Hamilton reference, it’s not a great one.
> Do we need institutions to give us actionable information?

We're at a point where scientific work is the sum of an enormous number of specialists, most of whom are only marginally able to judge the work of those outside their field.

That implies that, to engage with a scientific fact (say, global warming) you are always engaging with a gigantic aggregate of facts from an enormous variety of disciplines.

It's just not realistic for a layperson to absorb all the literature that leads to a consensus and come to an informed conclusion. Sometimes, people who are experts in their fields can do something on that level, but ultimately, they're making those summary judgements at the mercy of implicit or explicit consensus, hierarchy, reputation - all the elements of group-think that make up institutions.

I think what you're describing in regards to consensus is just what a consensus is. Take evolution for example: you can't imagine a more starker difference in views between like, Dawkins or Lyn Marguiles over what that word means. So there's a 'consensus', in that both of them are evolutionary biologists, but a dissensus insofar as what they mean by that. People, in a vacuum, have an infinite variety of opinions, many of which are superficially similar, but are different on a ton of subtle points.

There are a lot of problems in this kind of setup, but I feel if you're going to call institutions in western society 'smoking hulks' when it comes to trust or credibility, mainstream science is one of the last ones you should come to.
In America, plenty learn for fun and status. You can travel thousands of miles in the US and still speak to someone in English making language learning extremely rare.
Their problem with the German ID was that cheap readers did not have a keypad, so you'd have to enter your PIN on the PC, which could be infected with a trojan.

It's sad that this myth that "eID is insecure" has stuck around, because it's just not true. Their problems have all been with auxiliary devices or software, not the eID itself.
Haha ) It's okay. Any feedback is important to me ;)
I got a kick out of that one too.

This is an instance of the "broken window fallacy". To understand the nature of this fallacy, I highly recommend Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt [0]. It's short and easy to read.

However, Hazlitt's lesson is not the complete story. The question that Hazlitt does not answer is, what is "the long run", and how exactly do the gains from productivity get distributed to "everyone"? This is likely where a lot of leftists would object to Hazlitt, arguing that it's better to protect current jobs than to let capitalists (or whoever) suck up all the gains for themselves and never redistribute them. You can argue about the semantics of whether it's possible to "hoard" wealth, but ultimately there is some merit to that argument. But the fallacy remains the fallacy, even if wealth redistribution is an unsolved problem.

[0]: http://leeconomics.com/Literature/Henry%20Hazlitt%20Economic...
The Last Ninja (C64 version) holds that title in my heart. If you like it, do check out the rock remixes by a band called the Fastloaders (a live performance also features Ben Daglish, the original composer of some of the tracks. RIP, sadly).