skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been building websites since some time last century. I was there during the first browser wars. I was there for the first versions of those browsers! And I agree almost entirely with the complaints throughout this discussion about how outdated IE became and how lacking Safari now is.

It's true that IE6 took more flak than it really deserved because people forget how good it was for the time when it first became available. But you can't seriously claim that IE didn't fall far behind as newer browsers developed and eventually took over. You just can't. And you can't seriously claim that Safari isn't falling far behind in the same way today.
Not every workplace has to be made ideal for every person seeking a job. Just because you might not want to work at a deep fryer doesn't mean we should ban fried food. If you're a vegan, don't work at a steakhouse. If you're opposed to sex, you don't have to work in the sex industry, but that's no reason why we should ban it or drive sex workers into the underground economy. The same is true for places where people want to smoke.

Also - it's only unethical if you don't know what you're signing up for. The whole point of disclosure and hazard pay is to let adults choose whether to do something dangerous. Humans can decide if they want to do something or not. This whole idea that no one has a choice and everyone is a victim of circumstances is ridiculous (not to mention lazy, whiny, and ultimately futile).
I am not a physicists.

I wonder if those properties would not be uniform across the quasicrystal because of it’s non-repeating pattern.
I doubt Hollywood would want this, but I'd love to be entertained by choosing some base story, then be able to pick the lead actors and perhaps setting and mood. Deep fakes get a ways toward this. This is basically what remakes are.
Yeah, according to the people that launch the bombs. Yet, according to the pictures, the people that take the pictures, the people that are humanitarians, and pretty much the world consensus — the only correlation is that the victims being bombed are almost always Arab Palestinians who won’t surrender their rights to Israel. But who is surprised that a colonial power oppresses the indigenous population?
> Most human babies take 9-18 months to walk, and this is commonly attributed to the fact that human babies have immature brains...

Isn't it just a matter of priorities? Many birds spend a similar proportion of their life unable to fly, but they're safe in a nest. If you're a foal on the savanna, you need to get up.
Tencent's WeChat suspends new user registrations as China cracks down on tech
"Mainframe" usually meaning you have legacy code that requires something that only runs in that environment. Like the TPF OS that Visa, Sabre, and many airlines use. Or z/OS things like CICS, Adabas, IDMS, IMS, VSAM, JCL, heavily mainframe flavored COBOL, 360 Assembler, etc.

That is, the only driving requirement left for IBM mainframes is your own software that depends on system software that only exists on IBM mainframes.

Same reason some people still use other old environments like HP MPE, IBM AS/400, and Tandem Nonstop, and so on. They have found, thus far, that the cost of doing that is less than the cost of rewriting it. Or they have been unable to do that for reasons other than cost.

Edit: Separately, there are still some technical advantages. z/OS mainframes have a level of "within the rack" redundancy that you won't find in commodity servers. Or, with TPF, it's difficult to engineer a solution that scales as well and remains reliable...it's a very battle tested distributed K/V store that deals with heavy write contention.
Persuading People Through a Voice Synthesized by AI
This is assuming that the deterioration rate is linear, I have no idea if that is true. But if these numbers are accurate the longevity is better than expected. Scrapping these batteries in volume is another challenge.

I imagine in 10 years today's battery tech will be obsolete. I am still on the fence about getting into an EV, it still appears to be an early adopter technology.
I'm on the "glad to see more space exploration" side myself but to be fair most people aren't happy with the yachts either and it is mentioned decently often. The level of fanfare probably has more to do with the press releases and media briefings and live streams of his first trip on it. You don't usually tell the media how great an achievement your first trip on your new yacht is, it's a quieter deal.
I'm sure Chinese Uighurs endorse that message.
Yep and this is where it gets wierd. Maybe I should be allowed to assign priorities to different notifications and then have my phone automatically proritize what makes a "ding" based on the time of day or my geographic location. Maybe notifications should be throttled in some way so that every 30 minutes I receive a digest of notifications if there are any. Maybe they should be aggrigated till I have 5 accoumulated. Or maybe these are all terrible ideas because they require configuration and users aren't going to spend the time configuring their notifications.

This whole thing really goes to the different mindsets of Apple/iOS and Google/Android fans. The Apple camp is fine waiting for functionality to get something that is decently thought out, the Google camp wants everything now and will deal with the consequences later. We've seen this repeated with copy/paste and with background processes on both platforms. Android got there first, but the earliest Android implementations had serious limitations and issues.
I just glanced it.

Yes. Bias here. Whoever wrote this has not been reading history closely enough.

I will continue to support Amnesty though. One of the better ones IMO, together with MSF.
I misread that as backward roller coaster. That'd be fun.
If this was the old IBM, back when they had an internal science journal just to keep track of their own accomplishments, I'd say they came up with something like z/TPF[0] - but for AI. But I would be extremely surprised if the new IBM actually started pushing the envelope of computer science again. Not until they reverse course on the whole "Lets get rid of all our hardware expertise and just focus on software" thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_Processing_Facilit...
Thank you! Its just payroll for myself for now, the other founder is in Europe and does payroll from the legal entity there. Gusto is $40 a month, which when u take 1 year its like 500$ almost, which I dislike. So is there any cheaper way to do it? I dont think I can afford an accountant at the moment, and we dont have any operations yet and likely wont have any revenues until late 2021 or early 2022, so I dont think an accountant would be a great idea.

I was thinking of doing that too with the rent, but a lot of comments online suggest the IRS doesnt rly like that.

Yes, I am only going to pay myself minimum wage so I can cover living costs. It should be about $2.5K here near NYC, might actually move somewhere cheaper say Florida or Austin or smth.
The Time Tax
Euthanasia Coaster 1 looks too intense for me!
The [citation needed] argument just says, "I'm going to ignore everything you present if it isn't proven, despite the fact that I've not proven my own position."
This will bolster my fantasy of living off the land like the savage I want to be.
Well at the rate we’re going there’s not going to be much skiing left for them to do.
Guilty Verdict in First Trial Under Hong Kong Security Law
Sounds like that was potentially a good way to weed out a terrible place to work.
ObsIdentify identifies both plants and animals. Works way better than I'd have ever imagined! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.observatio...
Yes, I think that valuing them through a named program is a great idea.

... and finding out what 'reward' they value the most, it might be different for different folk but free access to the product they supported is a great start.
She Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize for It
I don't feel like that at all because on all of my devices, notifications are opt-in. I get notifications for services I want to receive notifications from (mostly IM).

The exception to this are services which trick you into accepting their notifications because they are beneficial to the experience while using them (ride hailing and delivery apps), and then use the same channels to spam you with marketing (Uber, ...). For those I simply chose to disable notifications altogether and instead let the drivers call me if I'm ever late.

E-mail fits that description better, because you almost always have to give out your address to register (even with Google SSO & co), which is then used for spam and you have to opt-out after the fact.
How much you can charge for it.
Meetings in my calendar, maybe, but I don't need them in the browser because I use a native app because I care about resource usage.

The rest of them, definitely not. Interruptions are extraordinarily costly. I'll respond within a few hours and when I message you about something, I have the same expectations.
I go camping and hiking quite often. I also live in Canada, so everything is quite far away. As much as I want an EV as my next car, they are going to need at least comparable average ICE range as well at least reasonable charging network support for it to be a reasonable purchase, at least for someone like me.
I don't want to normalise endless notification spam, which is what having this feature in Google's advertiser-friendly conception of it available ultimately does. I'm already considered a bit strange my by friends for muting all group chats and disallowing notifications for things, we don't need to entrench this appalling social norm any further.

I find the idea that everyone should be instantly available at the click of the fingers to their friends, colleagues, managers, and crapware on their phones absolutely revolting. Push notifications are just interruptions as a service, out of band communications like that should only ever be used for important things but they just get endlessly abused as a form of spam in practice. The advertising industry already has enough tendrils to pry its way into our lives, I'd deprive it of yet another if it were up to me.
How is sleep/hibernate/resume and powersaving/battery use in general?
Key to the use case would be a robust folding keyboard/stand situation. I use the "magic" one from Apple, but there are less spendy competitors available now.
I'm very curious what's your marketing strategy going to be? I have a feeling word-of-mouth isn't gonna work very well
I don't think I have anything particularly outstanding to share — for the most part, I believe common sense gets you really, really far. In fact, many choices I make go against the "common wisdom" and advice from the gurus, but I'm very happy with the results I'm getting.

There is only one fundamental truth: you need a good product that people are willing to pay for. Everything else is optional — you can get by and run a successful business without marketing, without mailings and mailing lists, without A/B testing, without AWS, without Kubernetes, but you cannot run a successful business without a good product that people are willing to pay for.

Anyway, the advice in the article might actually be good for large venture-funded SaaS businesses. I didn't mean to mock it, I just found it amusing how different my viewpoint is.
In order to get the compiler to optimize your code, you have to say PRETTY PLEASE, though, and THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ;-)

PRETTY PLEASE
ADD SALES_TAX TO PRICE GIVING NET_PRICE
THANK YOU VERY MUCH
Exactly, so if I upload something and say "Look what I just recorded off the BBC!" you _shouldn't_ believe me if creating a deep-fake becomes as easy as recording the real thing.

In that scenario, you'd want people to say "but wait, there's no signature on this, it could be fake" and then only trust the video as much as you trust the source (not the claimed source).
> There are plenty of smart people and high tech companies in Europe though,

Its like comparing a top German tech university with MIT, Stanford, or Berkeley.

Sure the German tech universities are really good, but from the set of people I know with offers from MIT or Stanford, none of them rejected them, because they were a huge boon for their careers.

The impact is pretty much the same with tech in SV.

> so there's no reason to take the job insecurity and parental leave hit for that alone.

Parental leave is usually _orders of magnitude better_ in SV than Germany.

All SV employers I know offer you 4-6 months of fully-paid parental leave, and allow you to take more months, but unpaid. If your salary is 600k$, your paid parental leave is ~300k$.

In Germany you get max 1800 EUR netto / month of Elterngeld.
If you take it for 14 months, that's 25000 EUR. Somebody making 5000 EUR netto/month (e.g. 120k$ brutto), and deciding to stay at home, looses 3200 EUR netto per month. Most of the people I know making slightly over 100k$ in Germany with kids went back to work as soon as possible (women in less than 3 months... which is nuts), because they have bills to foot (mortage, etc.).
Because in the U.S. we don't really have a standardized way to transfer money to another bank account, at least not without knowing their bank routing number and account number, which isn't really information you want to share :)

Silly, I know.
Are they garden plants?
Seems like few people rebuild gas engines in their cars when they become "a few decades old", apart from a _very_ small minority that like retro car stuff.
If the battery pack was the only thing needing replacement in EVs and they are possible or even easy to remove/replace, it sounds like it could be done quite easily and still give you a useful vehicle.
It's a project started by Linus, and written (AIUI, at least in part) in C++.
You probably would need to get to some sort of aggregator with either a fixed or max monthly fee. The problem at that point is that no one who can attract a significant number of subscribers on their own will participate. Imagine a newspaper/magazine subscription that the NYT, WSJ, Post, New Yorker, Bloomberg, Atlantic, etc. don't participate in.

And then you have the streaming video issue. Aggregator A has this writer but not that writer, etc.
NB: I'm the author of the post :)

That's a nifty way of doing things that I didn't know as much about (definitely left out the historians bit as I didn't want to get too into the weeds) and have sometimes encountered the linear interpolation fit coming from them as well as the LOCF type fit, but didn't realize that's how they were sampling under the hood. That's pretty cool. I was mostly giving that example so people would understand why the LOCF option was available for the function as well, and one of the most common places where I've seen it is in (usually slowly changing) sensors in industrial settings that only record when they change.

On the single continuous process, yes, this is one of the most common mistakes people can make when they do this. We find it's best to model that as a change to the relational part of the data and potentially generate a new "id" for the sensor when that sort of discontinuity happens.
Not sure how anyone can truly believe that from their actions over the past few years.
What type of workloads are actually ran on mainframes? What do they do better than regular machines?
Is this YC's version of getting in on the NoFap (and the porn "addiction") woo-ism? Such an odd thing to see on here.

Anyway, on a technical level, how do you deal with apps like Reddit/Twitter which have tons of porn content without the user leaving for external links that you can block? How do you monitor that?
New study shows artificial intelligence accurately predicts protein folding
Somebody who didn’t need the car for regular errands and commuting probably wouldn’t buy it just for the occasional trip, though, wouldn’t you agree?
There was a longtime member of of the Diet of Japan who was born in Finland and is of pure Finnish ancestry. He became a naturalized Japanese citizen in 1979.

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

Seriously, where do you people even come up with this bullshit? Where do you summon the confidence to state these easily disproven falsehoods about a country that you don't have the slightest clue about?
That sounds totally sustainable for the future /s
I agree with this article’s criticism of managed languages (Java, C#) for systems programming, but the author does not convince me that Swift and Rust would not be much, much better to build safe(r) systems and infrastructure software.
Glad you liked that... but they knew which features you're using via telemetry?

I would have probably given them an earful, including a demand for a refund.
You're supposed to have a space between the value and the unit.
> Outsource any early interaction with customers, its best you do yourself and get a feel for what people want

Would you mind clarifying that statement, or giving some more details?

Huh? That seems like a contradiction. "Outsource" implies that you aren't going to do it yourself.
What important features? FluffyChat had cross-signing for more than a year now. A lot of other features are unlikely to be added, since FluffyChat aims to be easy to use. FluffChat even supports E2EE fallback keys!
Well, to be honest I still don’t understand the difference: they seem to me like two different styles of structuring the same kind of logic. In fact, the linked list example in the referenced article from Mike Innes I don’t find very convincing, stated as it is: I would like to see that example concretely, to understand how the current Julia protocol would fall short there (“leak”).

Same for the `zip` example in the OP here: I’m not sure the Python `itr = iterate(xs)` kind of protocol makes it any simpler. But I’m on holiday and cannot try it out right now—I owe you one here :-)
It's funny, but I can not agree more.

I never think a concrete issue will affect me. But over the last weeks I've been affected exactly by 2). Today I finally figured out that it had to do with the sender having turned on the setting "Never send encrypted messages to unverified sessions from this session". It's terribly implemented, because it gives the sender no feedback that they break any unverified receivers, and the unverified receivers only see an obscure error message. For more details, see my issue report: https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/18255

Also +1 on Element's terrible UI and UX. It was designed by programmers instead of UI designers, and you can feel that. I always find it weird when people talk about Element being a good client. It's literally the best of the worst. From the thousands of open issues (5000+ Web, 1000+ iOS and Android each!) you can clearly see they have an organization problem. Even most volunteer open source projects are more organized. I hope at least 30 million will be enough for them to hire some talented people and build a better management.

I have the feeling most of them are hackers. Hacking and experimenting with new things like Matrix P2P is great, but it's not enough to have consistent output. You need to manage an organization, and I have the feeling they aren't capable of doing that. On that note, I'm surprised they managed (pun!) to get 30 million of investment.
that's true - our space is inherently non viral. we have so far gotten users organically through play store and google search. we are experimenting with paid marketing channels for growth.
> Really there were only two viable candidates: CMake and Meson.

Would be great to hear why those were the only two candidates that they considered (and not e.g. Bazel or Nix).
This is true of most core loan servicing and deposit management platforms. It is very difficult to get mortgage servicing (in particular) right; the mainframe platforms have decades of honing.
But humans can be bribed or blackmailed.
Why is this here? It is a sales link to an e-Book.
Thanks for posting the information. Very interesting.

I am not a Tesla owner so sorry if this is a stupid question: Are the values you posted the ones listed from the car dashboard ? How do those compare with the effective/real range ?
Paint.NET is great, too. It's not open source, unfortunately (for valid if regrettable reasons), but it's free as in free beer. The memory of its GUI makes me sigh a little whenever I open GIMP.
Unfortunately renting a car is kind of an awful experience. These days they’re even sold out sometimes. Prices fluctuate 3x or more, you often have to wait in long lines, stress about turning down insurance, not sure about vehicle quality.
Well the person currently working at Lucasarts got paid to create a deepfake, now someone made a better version so why not pay them for doing a better job?
>> How often are you going on road trips?

1600km (one way) a few times every year to visit parents. Flying actually takes longer (flights+ferries don't line up and the cost is far higher). Nearest costco is 465km. So a monthly 1000km shopping trip is normal. Not everyone lives in the bay area with every store imaginable within a few miles. Many people live in places like Alberta or Iowa, the places your food comes from.
And I just got spoiled on the mandolarian :(
There's a post on Hacker News for this, by a company called Sonantic.
I agree with the linked quote - it captures an important reason why it is valuable to _enforce_ sanitisation at component boundaries, rather than merely documenting "please don't rely on isolated surrogates being preserved across component boundaries" (which would be a problem if we didn't enforce it, since an external component you don't control may be forced to internally sanitise the string if it relies on (e.g.) an API, language runtime, or storage mechanism that admits only well-formed strings).

EDIT: since a whole other paragraph was edited in as I replied, I will respond by saying that within a component, your string can have whatever invalid representation you want. Most written code will naturally be a single component (which could even be made up of both JS and Wasm composed together through the JS API). The code may interface with other components, and this discussion is purely about what enforcement is appropriate at that boundary.

EDIT2: please consider a further reply to my post, rather than repeatedly editing your parent post in response. It is disorientating for observers. In any case, my paragraph above did not claim that there will be one component per language, but that the code _one writes oneself_ within a single language (or a collection of languages/libraries which can be tightly coupled through an API/build system) will naturally form one component.
Gusto is too expensive though, there must be something cheaper.
I simply solve that problem by having most notifications be silent. Only urgent ones (calls, text messages from a select group of people) are effectively "push" notifications. The rest buffers until I get to looking at my phone.
The proprietary+forked code would become a mix of closed and open source license, but just never get released so you’d never be able to get ahold of it.
Threema OnPrem: Maximum Security Thanks to Self-Hosting
Don't worry people, Apple cares about your privacy!

/s
You are already paying the EV much more than an ICE (meaning you are basically buying all the "fuel" upfront)

You have longer times of recharge (20-240 minutes) vs a 35 seconds gasoline splash and go

Unless the US goes full Norway and decides to ban Gas cars in city centres , then you'd be getting an inferior product at a higher price point

That's the hard truth
Learn how you decide which tests make sense for your project
Other readers likely have this feature, but one I love is that you can re-generate the PDF out from under it and it reloads the new content. As someone writing in LaTeX on emacs and constantly re-generating the PDF, this is very helpful.
Citizen app is paying New Yorkers $25 an hour to livestream crime scenes
Not long ago the Apple Watch was very limited in what it could render on-device. So a bunch of apps had to do it this way.
It's all software and not hardware?