skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This! Windows, Linux and macOS are OSes with very different aesthetics and concepts. Trying to emulate these (sometimes subtle) differences with a webpage won't work. And it will totally destroy the illusion if an OS update comes with a new theme.

And let's not forget that you're basically running a completely separate browser that can't re-use any memory from the other 5 separate browsers (=Electron apps) you need to run for work all day.
That make sense. That's why I'm using two regular service addresses redirected to my privacy focused email address, and assign different tasks to each one of them. It even help me filter out more unwanted messages and subscriptions.
Yes, hence my edit. Thanks for pointing out the numbers module. There are fractional types there, too. And decimal.
I'll take 91. I get to experience all the exciting personal computing technology again before it all becomes web appliances and dark patterns. Back when the internet, if you could get it, was a place of wonder instead of terror.
47% of orders are for drugs, 0.1% are for child rape, what of the other 53%?

selling some weed == selling photos of a baby being raped? Probably not right? So what is the scalar of impact on society & the victims of these crimes? 10x? 100x? 1,000x? 1,000,000x?

What about terrorism? Is death by terrorism == death by murder? Based on the way the two are treated for 'privacy' reasons it would apper that being shot and killed by a terrorist is about 1,000x more impactful than being shot and killed by a school shooter which in turn is about 100x being shot by the guy who lives down the street.
It's never too late! Any day can be day one.

I am in my early thirties and have struggled with the feeling of life slipping through my fingers and not being able to make the changes I want in my life.

If I have learned anything in the past year it's this: Consistency pays off. Spend 10 minutes reading, do 10 pushups, get a run in (maybe 5min) every single day and you will look back and be amazed at your own improvement.

That being said, I rely heavily on my morning routine to set the tone for the day.
- make my bed
- go for a run
- do a 3 min workout
- shower and get dressed
- coffee and breakfast
- some reflection on how I'm feeling and the day ahead of me.

If you are isolated find groups for hobbies you enjoy or hobbies you're curious about. It's a good way to meet people with similar interests in setting that don't involved drinking.

If you want to start today:
- get some movement going on. walk, run, cycle.
- prepare some food for yourself. don't eat out period
- cut out drinking

Mostly be deliberate about the things you include into your life. Challenge your habits and status quo.
Once you automate the small things you need to care for yourself you can tackle the big things.
It's a marathon, not a sprint. Put in some work everyday and it's pays off.
https://archive.ph/FJvJp
Page was made April 1st, 2018, so that's probably just bitrot.

That said, I like to think they did 1.x releases specifically because they were hoping to get off this Wall of Shame.
Dendrimers: The tiny tentacles shown to evade our immune response
That's one of the themes in the film Midnight in Paris. (Yes, it's a Woody Allen film.)
That sounds extremely frustrating. Maybe a good workaround is a custom domain?
2021 if only for the health improvements without trying:
- You grew up in an era of not inhaling cancerous smoke everywhere you go
- Even unhealthy foods are less unhealthy due to removing hydrogenated fats from foods (god were they tasty though)
- Cars are safer than ever
- The environment is cleaner than it has been in decades

The past always looks better. People still want to return to the 50's and most of them were not alive then.

However, I believe every generation has had it "better" generally speaking than the previous and that's how it should be. Certain era's had things that were probably better but this era has things that future generations will envy as well while also having it "better" generally speaking.

Today is this best time to be alive and I'm optimistic tomorrow will be even better.
Mostly actual use billing vs potential use billing.
A side effect of the abortion debate has been significant financial investments by the pro-life in premature birth research. The earlier it is possible to define viability, the earlier abortions can effectively be banned.
HDD Shipments Set All-Time Capacity Record
A strange thing to complain about, given browsers can override with user settings, if not user plugins.
Your comment changes the context dramatically! Very well done, sir!
Usually there are two buttons "Prev-Next" or something like "Page: 1,2,3,4..".

And I just checked, it's actually just "More". Maybe it's me but it's not immediately obvious that a link (not even a button) called "More" means that you can go to the next page. Add to that that HN is so lightweight I just assumed all messages were loaded at once.
This seems to come from the NCMEC, not from Apple. I remember another thread (can’t find the link) from someone explaining how difficult it was for them to get access to PhotoDNA and the relative hashes.
TeX is a programming language, and a quite peculiar one at that (it's not possible to parse it without executing it, for example); while MathML is merely descriptions of mathematical expressions.

The idea of having native support for describing mathematics that the browser can render is not so crazy. On the other hand, MathML is sadly based on XML, which is an abomination that can't "decide" whether it should be human- or computer-readable, so it ends up being none, as opposed to S-expression-like formats which are both. But, at the end, SVG and HTML are already in the same (SGML?) family, so it might not be so bad that MathML belongs there, too.
Of course there are benefits. It’s still true that it compromises the main goal of the glue—compromise is the point.
> Since no one is perfect, it is so easy to find such a person, that it is every person.

Nope, that is a vacuous statement. Some people contribute more, some people contribute less - again, trivial to demonstrate, let's say I contribute X to others' QoL, positive or negative. If I go out now and throw my trash away in the park, I now contribute less than X, whatever X was.

> You seem to think having a low quality of life and lowering the quality of life are the same, and additionally, that improving the quality of life in a given state is something that a state, almost by definition, cannot do.

Where did you derive that from? To be fair I don't even understand anymore what you mean by quality of life :)
Wikipedia: "Quality of life (QOL), according to Britannica, is the degree to which an individual is healthy, comfortable, and able to participate in or enjoy life events". QoL for the state is thus a metric (an average/median/...) of individual QoLs in that state. Within the state, individuals and groups (including the govt i.e. the state) can improve various aspects on QoL, usually via specific amenities (physical or "cultural" like safety/trust/...). They can also detract from it. Everything I said above follows from that.
That misdirection is convenient for the upper class, not so convenient for the rest of us.
Xbox runs Windows so MS could make everything work on a handheld device w/ Windows w/ an Xbox-style UI. Xbox ran Windows from the very beginning. Only the "chrome" is different.
SimpleLogin – free email alias generator
I'm going to be pedantic and say the idea of fixed requirements is out of fashion. The software I write has requirements, but they change about 1/3 of the way through each sprint.
SimpleLogin lets you generate free email aliases to use when signing up for services online. Protect your privacy for free :)

Also, it adds PGP encryption and let you reply TO with your alias to provide maximum ease of mind.
Simplicity. Clean HTML ("rendered" server side), straight forward CSS and little JavaScript.
Opt for the stored procedure whenever you can. Your database will be able to yield much better performance - even if you have average SQL skills. If you have a SQL query giving you performance fits then you can bring in someone with greater SQL expertise to optimize it for you and your code isn't impacted.
Calling Bitcoin a ponzi scheme means you use an extremely lax definition of the term "ponzi", which would make any appreciating asset in this world also a ponzi. Like real estate.

Bitcoin doesn't even meet the most basic definition of a ponzi. A ponzi promises (and initially delivers) a guaranteed return on your investment, funded by an ever larger group of newer investors.

Bitcoin doesn't do any of those things. It doesn't give or guarantee a return and may in fact cause a massive loss. It's a speculative, scarce asset subject to price discovery.

So no, you're not objective about things, you're clueless.

Bitcoin doesn't "burn oil", it's at 55-60% renewable energy and rapidly improving, which is a whopping 3 times better than the average of any other industry.

As for it having "no use", it stores (and grows) monetary value. An important function for people's savings. And not just that, in countries with failing currencies, it is a life raft against double digit inflation. It's also massively embraced by young people, as they came into a world with zero access to anything that preserves or grows wealth.

As for relevancy, it has an exponentially growing user base. The first institutional investors are in, ETFs are coming and the first country has embraced it. ATMs are being mass deployed and even the most conservative banks (like Goldman, JP Morgan) add it to client portfolios now. Google has unblocked crypto ads, Apple and Amazon are working on support, and Twitter's CEO is all-in. Tesla has indicated to reverse their statement.

A trillion dollar market cap that is exponentially growing is not "irrelevant". You're stuck in a narrative from 5-10 years ago and have no idea what is happening.
Zero-shot learning applied to text classification
Now I could understand this as a blue collar worker, but you’re saying you’d prefer to be a software engineer in 91 than 2021? Come on, of pretty much all the professions were the ones who have reaped the most benefits of the past 30 years
This is an unhelpful argument. It effectively says "meaning doesn't exist". I could also version my software "chicken.banana.guacamole" and be pissed that nobody understood that meant it was enterprise-and-production-ready. Point is, there's a convention and this satire website is pointing out obviously-wrong cases of mis-versioning.
This still excludes wide ranges of possible rogue admin attacks.

As a minimum, it takes shutting down and powering down the physical machine, then starting it up, which would not go unnoticed in highly controlled environment where SEV makes most sense.
Most HN users are wealthy devs or they want to be wealthy devs or startup founders. They have no need for crypto and it threatens where their money is stored- equities and the traditional banking system. The “hackers” traded their soul for money.

It’s really no different than a wealthy old man hating crypto. He has no need for it, he doesn’t want others to use it to get past him. He sees no problem with the current wealth inequality because he is at the top.
This reminds me of a golden age blog post, when lists turned out to be an understudied literary device. I'm a fan of "dumps." Some interestingly debatable ones here:

"Intellectual Property Maximalism rollback: copyright terms have not and probably will not be indefinitely extended again to eternity to protect Mickey Mouse, and in 2019, for the first time since 1998, works entered the public domain"

I think the easy indicator may be the wrong one here. Defined more broadly, the public domain is not being enriched. For example, the web was a lot smaller in 1999, but it was a much more public domain. Today's web and post web internet is more centralised, controlled and therefore private property. Google could crawl pages, links, forums, because they were public, and use that access to create a search engine. Content, connections and signal are, today, proprietary. You can't order the world's information if that information is facebook's, only facebook can.

Or patents, more stuff of the last generation is patented than the previous'. Does that mean we invented more or we patented more? What happens to stuff that doesn't get patented? It's public.

Old copyright expiry deadlines might be a symbolic lead indicator, but they're determining the location of a fence post in county scale land dispute. A tiny, legible, part of the whole. In real terms, Disney's copyright portfolio is worth more, not less.
> Why is it rarer, I wonder? I do recall having a detachable faceplate on my car radio. I sold that car in ~2010 or so but stopped bothering with the detaching long before then.

I imagine the value of a stolen car radio has plummeted since the combo of smartphone + CarPlay/android auto/3.5mm aux jack/Bluetooth is ubiquitous in any car made in the past 10 to 15 years.
Is it actually out yet? If I attempt downloading from Thunderbird.net, I get 78.13.0, the only way to get 91 is if I select Beta channel.
> for the iOS app
I hate that so many projects don't ever move to version 1. It makes it hard to choose to use them for anything serious because 0.x implies that the developers don't think the project is ready yet.

I think the reason projects get stuck at 0.x is because of interface stability expectations. When you're at version 0, you have the freedom to realize you made a bad choice and break interfaces to improve it in the long run. It's nice to know you have that freedom and that you're not committing to maintaining something in a state that is painful to work with.
Something that seems to be missed here, is that the bank has their physical servers owned by an institution, which you are exploiting. There is no physical server for Ethereum, the Smart Contracts don't exist anywhere.

You are likely also violating the terms of usage of the API and various other legally enforceable contracts by breaching the API.

If a smart contract included a terms of use however, it would be interesting to see whether this could be considered enforceable.
In this case "securing" means "obtaining" (as in "secure the rights to") not some sort of DRM.
A previous discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15839426
Now you know what it is like to be a black person walking down the street. Instead of a chosen email provider it is an inherited skin color.
his response here
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=6528005127224941...
Daria Khaltourina defends him here
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1022657680107226...
It's funny you say that. Senator Rand Paul was just suspended from YouTube for disputing the effectiveness of cloth masks: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/11/business/youtube-rand-pau...
> Maybe there will be transistor-based human-level AGI soon, but I guess it would require several kilowatts of power compared to the 20 or so watts a human brain requires

Given that entire datacenters don't come close to an AGI, let alone a human level one, I fear "several kilowatts of power" is lowballing it by a significant number of orders of magnitude.

More to the point, we don't even know how or what gives rise to a general intelligence, and even defining it is basically a philosophical question. To me, the optimism of some AI enthusiasts (and I don't mean specifically the parent) feels like cavemen contemplating an expedition to the stars shortly after they invented the sling.

I think the chances of us arriving to anything close to an AGI iteratively based on our current capabilities is a pipe dream.
> Client-side scanning merely opens the door for my device to censor me from sending any message of my choosing and impacts my ability to freely communicate.

Nonsense.

Only photos you attempt to upload to Apple's iCloud are scanned. If you don't like it, turn off iCloud photos.

>Q: So if iCloud Photos is disabled, the system does not work, which is the public language in the FAQ. I just wanted to ask specifically, when you disable iCloud Photos, does this system continue to create hashes of your photos on device, or is it completely inactive at that point?

A: If users are not using iCloud Photos, NeuralHash will not run

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/10/interview-apples-head-of-p...

All the files you upload to your Google/Microsoft account are already being scanned today.
Too bad there is no Japanese. If a traffic light is green, the Japanese say it is "青い" (aoi), which is usually translated as "blue". I would have loved to see the hue range of this color.
Can we all take a moment to discuss how Dropbox, the publicly-traded company with a 1b market cap, still doesn't have a native m1 client for MacOS?

Does anyone have insight on what's taking them so long? I assume they forked an older version of Electron that doesn't support m1.
This is just the argument SV people don't want to hear. Of course I want my 200k and live in a cheap place.

What irks me is the ego, people thinking they're really worth a fortune....companies where (and are) fighting for talent, true...but now that remote is unifying the market salaries will raise where they were too low and high salaries will go down where they were too high. We're just hearing the denial phase of the high salaries people.
Rona McDaniel, RNC Chair, disagrees with you as of a couple days ago

https://www.businessinsider.com/rnc-chair-ronna-mcdaniel-tru...

As do the parade of GOP officials and wannabes that have made the trek to Mar-a-lago to kiss the ring. As do the many state GOP parties that are expelling anyone not sufficiently loyal and conducting crazy "audits" to show fealty to Trump's election lies.
> As far as I know this is not correct.

I'm just going by the CDC's webpage on masks showing a big red X next to using masks that are wet or dirty.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si...
Is it reasonable for a public company to have terms of service which allow for the abridgement of political speech absent the commission of a crime? Twitter is affecting the internal politics of a nation by deciding who can and cannot use their platform for political purposes.

And no: I would *not* defend the use of Twitter by the Nazi party if this were the 1930s. In this scenario I would expect Twitter to make an explanation that goes beyond the "violates our terms of service" or some amorphous "community guidelines" nonsense. Twitter is affecting political activity in a foreign nation; I would support India in either banning Twitter from their country or taking civil or criminal actions for silencing political discourse (whatever the local laws permit).
> particular email services are automatically flagged. You can guess which ones.

I can’t - is there a reason you can’t name the service?
Be aware that custom domains come with their own problems. Not being blacklisted is one of them.
Heh, my hobby project has been at version 0.1 since 2012 I think. But it's ok, because I've made no releases (it only runs on linux, and you have to compile it yourself. I find this keeps the quality of users, bug reports, complaints, etc. higher and the numbers lower). And also, it's a silly space game, so nobody cares anyway. And the really important thing to version is the network protocol it uses, currently at 53. The "versions" of the software are really the git commits. I try really hard to ensure every commit is viable (so that git bisect works, and so the top of the tree always works).
Nah not snobby enough really, at least here and now under the jackboot of "let people enjoy things" culture.

I think the industry tends to be far too optimistic about technology ("if PHP was good enough for Facebook, then it's good enough for us") and far too pessimistic about people ("we can't switch to a better language because there's not enough talent out there. What do you mean, train them?")

The rare quadrant of tech-selective/people-generous is where the magic happens imo.
You sound like one of those politicians clamoring on about how oppressed Christians are while being part of the 88% of congress that identifies as Christian.
I remember reading a couple years ago, that there's no database. It just reads stuff off disk, and then caches it in memory.

It probably also helps that the html/css/js is minimal
> He's right in a way, being vaccinated keeps you out of hospital, but it won't prevent you that much from catching the disease and developing post-covid syndrome

This is misinformation.

From the data we have available, vaccination prevents at least 80% of symptomatic infections with the Delta variant.

To characterize an 80% reduction in risk as “not that much” is simply trying to get people to give up on vaccines.
I think it's pretty good. I only need one feature that is a piece of message that shows me which one of my comments has been replied when it happens. But then again I'm fine without it so I guess it's not necessary.
Oh my! Poor white people.

White people live on average 77 years white black people live 72 years on average. The HORROR! The white man's burden to have more money and live longer! Truly the catastrophe of the 21st century.
Uh, no.

Technical docs often live long term with typos. This is a perfectly timed leak to take pressure off regulation pushes by waving one of the biggest honking carrots in front of Western political establishments.

This has political quid pro quo written all over it, and anyone who thinks this type of backhanded signalling isn't common isn't paying enough attention.
There won't be any breaking API change until the next major version. Nothing in semvet prevents you from having releases 1, 2, 3, 4 instead of 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4. At some point you can just drop the zero and carry on, it's false to say that you can't make breaking changes after 1.0.
Snobbery is widespread among humans.

It's an intrinsic part of our pack-animal heritage to divide the world into an in-group and an out-group and then to fabricate arbitrary moral rules to justify that division.
I would strongly recommend running your own email. I've done it since I was 17 and it's a lot easier than you would think.
In this case though, the people who need to typeset a lot of mathematics are more likely in the LaTeX camp.
Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
Ah yes, I drunkenly made https://nicetik.tk one evening. The .tk TLD is actually free, and hosting it on github is free as well!
Get better pans, then heating up isn't an issue.

I think it's nice to have an induction burner but I prefer gas for many reasons. One is the visual feedback from the flame. Another is that a flame is a 3D surface to cook on so I can tilt the pan to get certain sides hot when needed.

Induction is good at boiling water though.
Ok, but why? What's the advantage of having unwritable and unreadable syntax? Why shouldn't I be able to edit it directly?

This difference in opinion (on a subjective topic) is causing a rift between MathMl's goal of a universal math-language for browsers are more, with a large chunk of the potential users who hate the syntax.