skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use a brand new apple ID (each of which requires a burner number to create) for each and every device, and I don't attach payment info to the account (free apps only), and I don't put SIM cards in them (apple receives the device serial and sim card serial when you insert one), I don't use iCloud/FaceTime/iMessage, I keep location services off at all times, and I only allow them internet access via a VPN-only router that filters a lot of traffic.

It's a pain in the ass. I've had every one but this 12 pro is very likely my last iPhone.
Thanks! I didn't realize "discovery flights" are a thing!
Thanks, that works.
Cool. I've noticed that general program complexity seems to be a topic that everyone acknowledges, but nobody tries to frame objectively. Except for a few people at the fringes.

I'm not sure that I understand and/or agree with this link. However, I've written and talked about this topic in the past and the response that I've gotten is usually some variation of, "Cool, but I'm not sure that I get it."

It feels kind of like the blind men describing the elephant. People are grasping at something that's probably real, but it's so big that it's going to take a long time before we finally manage to pin down anything concrete. The effort has to start somewhere though.

Other interesting occurrences:

http://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf (out of the tar pit)
https://www.sonarsource.com/docs/CognitiveComplexity.pdf (semantic compression)
https://www.progsbase.com/blog/flow-charts-of-programming-la...

I'm not sure any attempt I've seen covers everything, but I think it's interesting that people keep trying to describe something that looks suspiciously similar.
> Isn't it relatively likely that there are more people learning Buddhism orally now than there ever have been before?

Well I suppose if you mean listening to an audio-book or even reading a book constitutes learning something orally, then you might have a point.

When I say orally I mean passed down from generation to generation via spoken word. Buddhism originally had no scriptures and was passed down by word of mouth until everything was transcribed to texts.
If you're a fan of the old school Heroes of Might and Magic:

Battle for Wesnoth will be right up your alley

https://www.wesnoth.org/
Yes, the high-level APIs can. As I mentioned, "For example, in C#, the System.IO.Directory static methods that return IEnumerables will let you iterate over millions of files without issue, at least on Windows."

In C#, at that point counting the number of files in a giant directory is trivial. (I was wrong about the method being static) Basically, "new DirectoryInfo(path).EnumerateFiles().Count()" is all you need. You're going to hit the most efficient APIs on Windows, so all you're limited by is hardware speed. (It's also worth checking on Linux.)
> plans for the hardware side of the Alchemist GPUs remains to be seen, though they are rumuroed to feature 512 execution units and come fabbed on a TSMC process node.

Just guessing, as its Intel; it'll be too little, too late, at too high a price, with availability problems that might make one wonder if "selling hardware" was ever in the plan in the first place.
I've had a suspicion for some years that productivity increases from the addition of computers and software to an operation is very uneven, and that apparent great progress overall is because it's a 1000x improvement in select areas while being a 0.5-1.05x change in most areas, with somewhat negative change perhaps even being the norm.
* error above, it's been 180 years ago

And since then, the country effectively had 180 years of slowly going civil war without much interruption sans for the few decades under king
Well, suppose they became aware. Then what?
Good technical documentation is great, but it's not as discoverable as blogs or videos. I'd argue that giving users high quality answers to their Google searches is the best way to connect with a technical audience (cause devs are unlikely to stumble across your docs).

I have a popular tech blog (https://mungingdata.com/) and have a ton of goodwill with my users, mainly cause I'm not trying to sell them anything. You can provide users with equally informative content if you can avoid making it overly biased.

Developers are understandably skeptical in the big data space because they're often given biased benchmarks. It's hard to replicate benchmarking results (e.g. person X says that XYZ runtime can run a certain query in 1 second, then they try out the tech and it's way slower).

Don't be surprised if you're building a big data technology and devs don't like your biased benchmarking.

If you give honest results and try to inform users about your project objectively (the pros and cons), then they're more likely to respond well. Your goal should be to give relevant information, even if it's only tangentially related to your product. Your product should sell itself when users are provided facts that aren't tinted by rose colored glasses. Disclaimer: I work as a Tech Evangelist at Coiled.
Curiously, the [Large low-shear-velocity provinces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_low-shear-velocity_provi...) (what I think you're referring to) are actually on the African and Pacific rather than where the South Atlantic Anomaly falls.
What's crazy is how many I come across that don't even have a single screenshot of their products UI.
Great side note, never heard of this, thanks! And great slogan indeed.

I couldn’t think of a translation either and went to Google Translate, which has become quite good in the last years, but gave ”estranhar” the plainly wrong translation of ”wonder, marvel”.
I'm completely opposed to the normal conditions of legal detention in the US, especially when applied to journalists and political prisoners.

Just saying this because you think it's necessary.
No, it's a compliment in this context. Like, look what he managed to do even though he's a high-school dropout.

EDIT> I mean, before he got himself killed.
> and that we will never monetise our users' data.

This is already telling; you're admitting that you gather user's data. Is there a clear consent form for that in place? Does your application and your company's data handling conform to GDPR rules?
> That's why Perl is my go-to choice for glue scripts. It's almost always installed by default

My first thought was related to this as well: Perl is _always_ installed, and based on Python's popularity (compared to Perl, at least), I'd assume that Python also was installed by default?

That's an honest question, btw: I use Perl quite a lot, Python not so much (at all). :)
Why would current-day vegans want it? Most of the vegans I know gag at the idea of eating meat.

The real target market is current-day meat-eaters who wish, for ethical or environmental reasons, that they ate less meat.

Or my position: that the industrial-scale torture of factory farms is a stain on humanity, but most people's consciences are too stunted to even engage with moral questions if it means changing their own behavior. In the presence of indistinguishable lab-grown meat, this argument against more ethical practices evaporates.
Fortune favours the brave, occasionally!
It actually says renewable is over 11% of total energy. Total in this context often means "not just electricity generation" and the mention of biogas suggests they're talking about that but I don't read Dutch so hard to be sure. But jumping between those numbers is a common way to make a point seem stronger/weaker as required, the first link is very specifically talking about electrical energy consumed, so the two numbers are compatible depending on various definitions.

It lines up neatly with your initial 1% claim for example, except you specifically claim that it's 1% of electrical generation, not total energy.

Worth noting too that switching to renewables and electrifying actually reduce total energy, as more than half of it wasted as heat from combustion of fuels. Another popular statistical trick to make switching to renewables seem impossible.
would agree..It can also be hard finding selectors down the line that you had already set up because they can often be anything and largely depends on the service and how well they document their standards (and assume they dont change).

I have had to revisit these a few times for companies that change their setup standards and then dont tell their customers (same has happened to SPF but that is much easier to audit/fix).
Note that I didn't put a time frame between when marketing starts and when the sale happens.

You are very correct, marketing can often start years before a sale (and sometimes people never buy at all)
> No idea why anyone would have an issue with it besides the initial mental gymnastics of accepting where it comes from.

People are fine with the way things are. If it's not broken don't fix it.
That's for boomers, eww~
We can build our own tools. Why buy any software, ever? Certainly, why buy software which is being advertised or marketed? There are business reasons, but not ethical or technical reasons.
Seems like the first safety rule for woodworking should be: don’t use a table saw.

Although the only carpenter I’ve worked with that had a missing digit had ground his thumb off with a belt sander. He didn’t speak English, and mimed the accident to me with our belt sander. I felt a bit sick.
At the moment, older model Raspberry Pi's and other ARM-based devices - everything else has moved on to 64 bits already. I don't think 32 bits needs to be supported anymore for consumer applications.
> The problem with C is that it doesn't have proper tail recursion, so if you want to use C as a target language for something that does have proper tail recursion, you pretty much have no choice but to make goto soup.

Or you could, you know, use a normal loop...

Besides, since 2005 or thereabouts gcc with -O2 did proper tail-call optimisation so that the stack doesn't grow on a tail-call recursion.
Or the company is started in a country where those things don't require several full time positions. Where I live I can run a company as a software engineer (No formal education in finance, legal etc) without any problems. Things which aren't solved automatically by accounting software is usually available to read up on online.
Tesla's safety report lacks data and is extremely misleading.

1. Autopilot only works on (or intended to work on) highways. But they are comparing their highway record to all accident records including city driving, where accident rate is far higher than highway driving.

2. They're also comparing with every vehicle in the United States including millions of older vehicles. Modern vehicles are built for higher safety and have a ton of active safety features (emergency braking, collision prevention etc). Older vehicles are much more prone to accidents and that skews the numbers.

The reality is Teslas are no safer than any other vehicles in its class ($40k+). Their safety report is purely marketing spin.
> We're working on extensions and Adblock right now, so should be out soon!

Do you find that your decision to use WebKit is getting in your way here?

As it happens, my company is also working on a browser for a niche userbase (not competing with you!), and I decided to go with Electron rather than Microsoft's WebView2 because it seemed to me that that option would give us more flexibility to deeply customize both the chrome and the content. Our target user base is mostly on Windows, not Mac, so Apple WebKit wasn't on the table for us.
> (drivers were already losing money at this point, but Uber relied on their unfamiliarity with capital depreciation calculations to hide this).

If you do the math on the fully loaded cost to purchase, insure, maintain, fuel and park a late model sedan in a major city, relative to how quickly taxi-like usage wears out a car, the Uber drivers are often working for barely above minimum wage.

Their business model (and that of Lyft) relies upon there being a large pool of people who for whatever reason own a rapidly depreciating $25-30,000 asset such as a Toyota Camry, and will consume its lifespan/wear it out to make what looks like a decent hourly wage. But it's not.
>Let the human do all the driving and have the robot jump in whenever the human makes a mistake.

Nothing more annoying then a car that thinks i don't know how to drive (warning beeps etc.).
N900 was absolutely my favourite out of all phones I owned.
It felt like such a power-user device.
Cutetilitarianism -- the philosophy of maximizing the world's total cuteness. The most ardent follower might be my ex girlfriend.
I didn't want to type in a 1000 page engineering textbook. What I wrote is close enough to make the point, but you are correct as well.
What Is Good Now?
There was zero — functionally zero — accountability for anyone:

1. Bush Administration (and subsequent cowards)

2. Project for the New American Century and related organizations

3. cheerleaders and thoughtleaders in the media

4. executors of the orders and plans

5. and finally the American people for being so hungry for bloodlust (remember those "Liberate Iraq - Support our Troops" yard signs and bumper stickers?)

… and folks wonder why there is a crisis in trust and epistemology. Awfully enough, a lot of these people are being rehabilitated (politically) because the subsequent ones are so bad that the old are cast in a more positive light. But let's not forget the flagrant impunity and lies, and the stench of recrimination and smear campaign against those who called out against the jingoism rationally (e.g., Valerie Plame Affair with Iraq)!

I'll never forgive nor forget these folks' bad decisions. Bankrupted our country and my generation's future (and that of the subsequent ones). The opportunity cost of these bad decisions is incalculable.
Except vim's interface is confusing

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping...
Chromium also includes the V8 Javascript engine; what do you use for JS?
I reported this site to PayPal and they still accept payments to this day
Assuming the LaTeX resume would be shared with a recruiter as a pdf, is there really any difference? I could render the markdown with the Computer Modern font and many people would assume LaTeX.
I think the other person heard you saying "bottled water has a good purpose" and they replied "It's bad enough of a problem that we shouldn't suggest its continued use because you can't remember to care about your bottle".

This is just how I'm reading the conversation.

As others have said, maybe if you spent $15 on a purpose-built, non-BPA, reliable water bottle, you would use it less because your mind wouldn't perceive it to be disposable.
Issue is that your pharmacy is pretty much standardized. Walk into 100 pharmacies and ask for the same thing and you’ll walk out with the same thing from each one. Same inputs = same outputs.

Credentialed doctors are all over the place. Go see 100 psychiatrists with the same issue and you’ll get as many treatments.
Ahh, thanks for the clarification!
Before we can have a meaningful discussion about this we really need to understand what this Total Factor Productivity graph even means. "In the U.S." implies that it's using GDP or some other nationwide measurement. So we're talking about software's impact on productivity in a system (a large nation) with many other forces at play. That makes the entire discussion a bit narcissistic don't you think?
I'm probably not in the target market, but the slowest thing in a browser these days, for me, is the obnoxious closing of cookie banners and newsletter popups.

Hence, uBlock Origin + cosmetic filter list. The productivity boost is more than any keyboard assignment can ever do I guess.
No, I am a big advocate of offloading the security/verification to the government. I.e. National ID Cards, which are definitely hard to fake and I agree with you fully.

The person I was responding to mentioned "multiple forms of identification". At the moment (and I could be wrong) some of these valid forms of identification are things that can be bootstrapped, faked or social-engineered into getting relatively easily. E.g. municipal bills, driver's licenses, birth certificates issued from hospitals, etc. (e.g. look at here for UK https://www.hsbc.co.uk/help/banking-made-easy/help-us-identi... ). Once you get one of those, you can with effort start acquiring more and more of those other ones. And they would all be 100% legitimate and not fake, which is the crux of the "identity theft" problem, as you can't prove who you are even with real documents as the other person has real ones too! I guess I used the term "fake" in my original response a bit loosely.

Point is, we're skirting around the real issue. We have no "chain of proof" or "evidence" from the time you were born to the point in time that you have to start using your identity for formal things. It's all based on layers and layers of multiple people, possibly incorrectly, "vouching" for you by saying you are who you say you are.

Even with secure identification cards, there is still a huge potential for fraud which happens a lot even in countries that have national ID cards. E.g. https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2020-08-28-hom...
One of the most powerful countries in the world has “black sites” around the world and uses them to hold otherwise inconvenient prisoners… my goodness! How shocking! Oh wait… no shocking isn’t the word, I meant obvious. /sarcasm
Nobody is going to buy a car that will randomly make its own decisions, that will pull the wheel from your hands ever time it thinks you are making an illegal lane change.

That's almost exactly what my Honda does. Illegal (no signal) lane change results in a steering wheel shaker (and optional audio alert). And the car, when sensing an abrupt swerve which is interpreted as the vehicle leaving the roadway, attempts to correct that via steering and brake inputs.

But, I agree with your more general point - the human still needs to be primary. My Honda doesn't allow me to remove my hands from the steering wheel for more than a second or two. Tesla should be doing the same, as no current "autopilot" system is truly automatic.
Not only is it a "default option" that is making the web less decentralized, it is also way overkill for something as simple as this. Make sure nginx serves cached content (right headers) instead of reading the content from disk and maybe, just maybe, throw in a static cache like varnish in front.

For the times my websites hit the frontpage of HN, a simple nginx instance (without any cache in front like Varnish) on a $5/month Digital Ocean server was enough to handle things.
Yes, but I was doing that on a 9110, I think. Had a decent terminal if I wanted to use telnet :)
YouTube is currently broken for some
From Wikipedia:

> Such T9 formats for text entry therefore remain available in all latest [as of August 2020] iterations of LG keyboards, certain Samsung keyboards, and third party T9 keyboards such as Go keyboard for Androids and Type Nine for iPhones, as shown on this LG V60.

Also, there was another method of touch input that used swipe gestures to write words, I can't remember the name, but I remember that it was far from intuitive to use.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text)#Successor...
One of the wilder interpretations is that the mile thick Laurentian ice sheet was melted quickly by this or similar events, and cause sea level to rise by about 200 feet!

It's my personal belief that this happened, and the story of Noah in the bible is oral history that got written down.
Sure there are decent smart phones that only costs 100 euros, but I was referring to the fact that in 1996 communicator was deemed too expensive for consumer market, but now top of the line iphones sell huge volumes.
Fully automated Self driving cars is either a pipe dream or decades away in which many more people will be killed on the road in the name of technological progress.
"Politics makes strange bedfellows" i guess. I guess you can make an alliance of single issue voters much more easily than an ideological one.
Vim is awesome because it makes me fast at what I do. I use Vim for everything when I code, except for Swift (Xcode).

I feel fast when I'm using SigmaOS. And we hope our users do too.

We'll be adding features that our users need as we go forward. VPN would definitely be great.

While you're here, anything else you think would be cool?
What’s the point of a smart phone if you only have WiFi and no gps?
No disagreement really.

I view it from my perspective as a hobbyist. I enjoy being in the shop working -- and I enjoy making stuff like my work bench, my saw tables and dust shields, my French cleat shelves, etc. I don't really expect to save money (if I do the numbers) so much as I expect to get more out of the process (skills, tools, etc.) than what I get buying something off the shelf.

And yes - a professional most likely values their productive time over time spent making jigs, etc. so they will often allocate capital wisely to save time!
I found out Spectacle was deprecated when I got the new machine, but Rectangle seems to be its successor. Awesome tools! :D
Here in Sweden Nokia was a lot more dominant than Blackberry.

My older brother had a Communicator until the lid broke.

Later he had another early smartphone from Spectronics, it was controlled with buttons on the sides that you had to learn but once you learned them they were very intuitive.
I'm amazed at how many people still see the Iraq and Afghanistan interventions as correct moves. Just last week I was having a friendly mostly non-political conversation with two of my coworkers and then the topic verged to the military and then to the Iraq wars. (For context, I'm Canadian and they're both US ex-pats in Canada.) Both had the opinion, still, that the Iraq war was the correct move at the time. But couldn't really coherently describe why. I changed the topic rather than get into a controversial argument.

I guess I find this shocking, because it feels to me like the "just cause" reasons for scenario the US got itself into Iraq have been repudiated entirely at this point and the fallout has been pretty much entirely negative and led to some long term rather terrifying dysfunctions. I feel like the arguments made by those of us who protested the onset of the war made have been proven historically correct. I struggle to understand the opposing opinion?

Afghanistan we can make somewhat separate arguments about, for sure. But Iraq... Someone on the conservative side of the spectrum, please enlighten me what the reasonable argument for justifying the past military action there is at this point...
Yeah, kind of the same thing as when you check your email and complete a bunch of other trivial tasks because you're struggling with what you actually need to get done.
Counter-opinion: your resume will likely be viewed as a PDF or printed on a piece of paper and taken into an interview session, so all that really matters it how it looks on a standard size page for the region in which you're applying.
It's nothing (well certainly not everything) to do with people's assumptions. There's a ton of research around how people simply stop paying attention when there's no reason for them to pay attention 99% of the time. It doesn't even need to be about them pulling out a book or watching a movie. It can simply be zoning out.

Maybe, as you say, it's feasible today or soon to better handle brief distractions but once you allow that it's probably dangerous to assume that people won't stretch out those distractions.
If a person is trying to self-host their own MX and doesn't want to get into the details of configuring SPF, DKIM and DMARC, I would highly recomment they go with something like gsuite or office365 instead. Or some other managed email hosting provider that will do the DKIM setup for them.
Basically try things and select the ones that work. Make a note of what worked or didn't work. Then automate the working solutions to avoid human error when implementing them in th future. Use this process recursively to refine your hypothesis/results for further enhancements.