skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are they not allowed to shift priorities as they grow? I'm sure there are many things you genuinely care for these days which wouldn't have been true a few years ago. It would be dismissive for me to assert you don't truly care about those things, would it not?
No horse parasites, or malaria, or places where the ultraviolet sun don't shine...
I'm thinking about buying a Windows box just so I can run Flight Sim 2020. I was hesitating because of all the malware, telemetry, and advertising that is Windows today. This is helpful.

Sure wish I could run MSFS 2020 in Linux. (I have X-Plane for Linux but the whole-earth scenery of MSFS 2020 is pretty compelling.)
Greece does not have its own currency. Its situation was different.

At the time (2009), many economists expected Greece to bail out of the Euro, which is not an "optimal currency area", taking short term pain for long term gain. It didn't, instead opting for short term pain and long term pain.
> You can discover features that are never used and should be removed so attention can be focused elsewhere

That rests on some very specific assumptions; consider that, statistically, the "restore" feature of backup software is almost never used.
I'd argue they're a tech company as much as Uber, WeWork, or Airbnb. Rent the runway uses a website and programming to monitor their logistics, inventory, implement designer looks each season and AI to learn user's preferences and suggest new looks to recommend to them for certain events. Their "stylists" are really just machine learning suggestions.

Would you disqualify Uber as a tech co, saying they're just a taxi co? Kinda same umbrella, imo.
My friend who joined Zoom via the acquisition said it’s abandoned, all future work is on Zoom, no plans to do anything other than bare minimum maintenance on the keybase systems. No surprise here. Bit of a shame though.

Edit: following up on this since i think it was slightly misleading -- this has always been Zoom's public opinion since they announced the acquisition. Their goal was always to integrate the Keybase technology into Zoom. See their blogpost for more https://blog.zoom.us/zoom-acquires-keybase-and-announces-goa...
I can only speak to iOS here, but if you focus any field with auto-capitalization and immediately touch “shift” it just switches to lowercase, not caps lock. The only way to engage cruise control[1] is with (timing-configurable) double-tap.

1: https://pics.me.me/caps-lock-cruise-control-for-cool-image-5...
Except debt has grown faster than GDP.
The killer joke might qualify.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funniest_Joke_in_the_World
Define the word rich
yea definitely would love an invite there too ^^
I genuinely wonder if HN has been stagnant with the same people visiting it as 5 years ago. And thus your statement is accurate.
Specifically they serve to protect consumers. They might also protect incumbents, at least ones that don't have targetted advertising, but they're still in service of the consumer
Note the difference between this coverage and e.g. NYT’s where there is little mention of all the Facebook trackers attached to their privacy project articles or the fact that they are so reliant on Facebook for income, and also so threatened by the company in the longer term.
How to handle garbage code? You do your job, which is declutter and refactor. You know you're doing it right if the lines deleted exceeds the lines added. Unfortunately, the bigger the ball of mud, the greater the inertia both political and technical. Even software can't escape basic laws of physics.
This was during the cold war. They didn't wanted the soviets to know, but apparently they already knew the attack as well.
Hi all, I work on the VS Code team. This came up the other day in stand up and the initial plan was to deprecate and eventually remove the old setting. Several of us pushed back and said while we may deprecate the setting in favor of something else, the old setting should always be respected due to the sensitivity around telemetry.

If there's any confusion around this messaging it's because this discussion literally happened 2 days ago. I'll reopen https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/134660 to make sure we clear up confusion.
Not saying it doesn't at times but right now this was #23 on my front page and it was the first business referencing submission. Everything else was tech stuff / OSS and a 99% invisible post.
With one of the other top comments being someone that cousins to see them all the time, but getting chided for likely seeing other instincts, it seems just as likely that you are thinking of other similar bugs, too.

I would not be happy for them to completely be gone. Have thought of putting up nesting boxes in the past. My understanding is that will largely be other bee species, though. Which is a long way to ask, how's many species of bee are there around? And anything in particular to help this specific one?
But when it is used they'll have telemetry on errors that occur during the restore process. So hopefully the next person doesn't have to deal with the same issues that the first did.
Yeah, house prices are fun in the Netherlands.

In my desired area they’re roughly similar to central Tokyo, so it’s not terrible in terms of price. But that’s in farming village nowhere as opposed to the center of the largest metropolis on earth. I can’t quite reconcile those two things.

Unfortunately I’m a developer. The Netherlands has quite enough high quality ones I think.
I don't think the bad guys would respect the law's limit anyways.

The not-very-bad bad guy seems like a werid group to optimize for.
If you had access to all the necessary information, what would the formula look like that you would have to track at funding rounds to give any early indication that as an employee you're not going to make anything.

This is something that I have been thinking about lately and I am just not well versed enough to know what inputs I need to build this.

I would like to be able to have a some sort of data driven risk assessment.

I would love some input here and would like model this and track when it's time to say goodbye.
Known-bad is worse than unknown, surely?
I'm being misunderstood, I'm going try to to explain better.

I literally opened my original response to tyingq with "I'm not saying you're incorrect" as I did not want to invalidate anything they had written. I was not trying to argue a single point. I just found the grammar/set theory of "A similar thing happened in the US military" odd when that specific thing (the Long Lines microwave network) happened in the US military in a big way.

On your newly introduced point: "military had contracts with AT&T, but those were a tiny subset of microwave efforts". I do not describe the backbone of AUTOVON as a "tiny subset" of anything... The AT&T Long Lines was an engineering marvel. The achievement to reliably transmit coast to coast audio, video, and data through hundreds of redundant radio/switching sites was huge - that simply did not exist before. AT&T Long Lines is very significant to the history of microwave communications in the military specifically through AUTOVON.

I'm absolutely not arguing against the existence of military microwave tech independent of AT&T - I feel like this is obvious, but I also feel I have to state it outright after reading your comment.
At a selection of like 20 companies in total. 15 of which are likely inaccessible unless you are close to native Japanese.

I wouldn’t say it’s easy, but definitely possible.
I used to live in an area served by what was then GTE and they had antennas like this. I have not seen anything listing GTE’s equivalent infrastructure. Does anything exist for that?
Amanleek aims to simplify insurance services and make it more accessible
That's certainly the dominant narrative, but it flies in the face of superspreader events where it appears that one or a few people infected hundreds. Did they directly breathe on everybody they infected?

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/outbreak-at-quebec-city-gym-link...

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6919e6.htm

https://elpais.com/especiales/coronavirus-covid-19/a-room-a-...
From the SM64 decompilation (https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64) 's README:

> This repo does not include all assets necessary for compiling the ROMs. A prior copy of the game is required to extract the assets.

In other words, the repo only contains the reverse-engineered source code, not any reproductions of Nintendo's copyrighted or trademarked materials. You have to produce those infringing assets yourself—using tools they supply, yes; but also, crucially, by feeding in a copy of the game you already—presumably—have a private-use license for.
> There's little chance anything else could come out in court

Famous last words.

You can't have an unfair trial unless you have a trial. He needs to stand trial and if the US govt pulls some unfair BS then I'll be right there to condemn them and I'll be sure to let my representatives know.
Hmmm...Maybe I just tune out the business stuff, but I mostly see topics relating to programming, science, and technology, with a smattering of pure business stuff and product/startup announcements.

I think this may be a taxonomic problem. Consider this topic:

> Facebook's own data is not as conclusive about teens and mental health [1]

The article is about Facebook, so its definitely a business article. But it also an article on technology and society, and about the science that describes how social media consumption effects mental health.

HN would lose something if it focused purely on technology. While its essential to understand how technology works, and what changes are on the horizon, the beauty of HN is it also explores how science and technology interconnect with business, government, society, culture, etc.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28813041
I've noticed this too around here. Titles will be changed and their meaning altered, effectively putting words in the original author's mouth. Seems kinda unethical to me, but it happens all the time.
Hey linker, can you spare a meg?
What a bunch corporate-authoritarian fearmongering BS.

The community is NOT stupid. All it takes is one person to find out someone is trying to be malicious, and mass ostracisation will take place. For most of civilization we didn't need corporate overlords to tell us who to trust --- that's a very very recent development.

where hundreds of major corporations with world-class software engineers

LOL. The same "world-class software engineers" who brought us https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189139 and are constantly fighting against the user?
Per Wikipedia, the American bumblebee doesn't live in the west. Such that the Midwest states listed are as far west as it goes.

Or am I reading the page wrong?
I’m sorry, you’re going with the company whose CEO referred to a man who heroically rescued trapped children as a pedophile?
Ending the pandemic is in everyone's interests, as it would help repair the economy. Kids would be included in that as the economy changes how adults are able to care for kids.

Kids have been separated from their parents due to increased evictions, their parents may not be able to work which means less money for food/clothing/services/healthcare, their parents & extended family are dying, their education has been impacted, and everyone has been going crazy from being cooped up with their families & not being able to play with friends or do extracurriculars.
thank you!! i'm in the process of open-sourcing the site and code. here's the repo i have up so far: https://github.com/remnynt/vibes
"of never putting out Cryptography that could be broken by any other actor than the NSA itself. "

If the only obstacle for others is "unknown Math" - then surely you can rule the script kiddies out, but I believe there are quite some other clever people with strong Math background around, who do not work exclusively for the NSA.
Nope. The US has said that if convicted he can serve in Australia, where he is from.
> At some point won’t the amount we pay back on the deficit crowd out other government spending?

Why would it?

It would if there was a fixed upper bound on spending, but if there was, therr would be a hard cap on deficits to start with.

Heck, debt isn't even strictly necessary to finance government spending beyond revenue, that's just done as part of play-acting that the government isn't using its own fiat.
I'm not sure if it's changed or not, but use this as an observation as a reminder that technology is more interesting when it does something for people, otherwise it's an academic exercise.
Where was it proven false?
I'm not sure that was the right link,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAekbJf4Gsw
Early on Bitcoin mining pools payed proportional to mining hashpower. Not PPLNS, not PPS, just proportional.

Bithopper would basically jump to, or jump away from deepbit( the largest proportional payout pool) on long rounds, long 10 minute blocks.

Deepbit and Bitcoin.lc were basically the only two proportional pools you could overwhelm with hashpower, take block rewards from the pool, and damn anyone’s shares or how long they mined there for how many blocks.

Others could and should be able to speak to pool hopping but this is why the pools pay the way they do - we exploited the payouts early
The most complicated orbit in history:The ISEE-3 mission (1980) in KSP (2019)
I'm undead. :)
Wow, reading the article, it mentions many times that it was actually the civilians bringing them willingly, before rationing had even begun. That's just an unimaginable level of responsibility to me, no doubt many of these people loved their pets as much as we did, but they chose the humane method over being forced to watch them starve (or take food away from other humans).
The other day I saw a post here asking people about how much they had saved and what their age was. A completely pointless dick-measuring thing, that I thought I wouldn’t find even in the likes of Reddit.

I follow HN on and off, usually just lurking, since 2017. But lately I’ve noticed a surprising amount of people humble bragging about their crypto wallets, their no-work-million-dollars startup, and how good their lives are since they left Facebook.
I think as reddit continued to decline, more people here became interested in debating politics, societal stuff since there was no other "serious" place for it. I wish some of that stuff wasn't here, since it takes away from discussions in other threads.

But (and I hope dang sees this) occasionally when HN "strays" away from tech it's absolutely brilliant. There's tons of discussion here on some health issues, diets, stuff like that, where I would never have found such good discussion (even the anecdotal evidence is interesting and useful) and where you can really walk away being better off from having read it. If that means tolerating the occasional thread about how appropriate politics is in the workplace, or how bad everything is for mental health, I'm more than happy to keep coming back here for that.

edit: by the way, I'd be quite interested in what a thread like this posted 8 years ago would look like. Wouldn't be surprised if people were saying this website was "going downhill" too back then. I think as long as the 12-18 only-cares-about-memes demographic stays on reddit, HN will stay just fine.
A good reminder to take the verification off my HN profile now.
I went forward one day from there and found a NYT "Echoes of dot-com boom in Google's acquisition of YouTube" story:

> A profitless Web site started by three 20-somethings after a late-night dinner party is sold for more than a billion dollars, instantly turning dozens of its employees into paper millionaires. It sounds like a tale from the late 1990’s dot-com bubble, but it happened yesterday.
and that's numberwang
It’s both a feature and a bug (well, a compromise with associated security risk). The feature is as you describe (and probably mitigates a lot of unnecessary account locks). The bug/compromise is that intentional or automated casing to achieve password complexity is a little bit less effective. I think the benefits of the feature outweigh the security risk, but it should also be widely disseminated, and anything dealing with passwords should take this into account.
Those are some outrageous claims that I'm fairly certain would be public if true.

>I have not judged, I have only stated the facts.

Could you source them then?
You can do an analysis of this, you don't have to rely on personal impressions. Download representative samples of the top hn posts over time. Use open source or free sample tools to classify the text of posts or titles and see how that has changed. You could even do a write up on the experience

If you think we don't talk about hacking enough, then give us something to talk about
> to avoid the gradual loss of users

But then they do things like Windows 11. Seriously has me considering Mac or Linux as a daily driver.
The r-curve parameters were apparently chosen by picking a random number, and hashing it, which somehow "proves" no nefarious play. Problem is that one could keep picking random numbers, hashing them, to get curve parameters vulnerable to an attack not commonly known. There is no attempt to explain how these numbers were chosen, or to use a nothing-up-my-sleeve number.

From "SEC 2: Recommended Elliptic Curve Domain Parameters":

"... one type being parameters associated with a Koblitz
curve and the other type being parameters chosen verifiably at random"

"Verifiably random parameters offer some additional conservative features. These parameters are chosen from a seed using SHA-1 as specified in ANSI X9.62 [X9.62]. This process ensures that the parameters cannot be predetermined."
When Microsoft sold Xenix, I recall there being a clause saying they could never compete in the Unix space again. I've searched for that but haven't been able to find anything definitive.

Does anybody else remember that?
What politics would those be? The last thing I want is to discuss politics at work with my CEO. I have enough meaning in my life that I do not need to look for validation of my ideology during working hours.
The Juniper hack (where their firewall product had a backdoor injected) was enabled by someone breaking into the company and modifying the parameters for Dual_EC_DRBG. It was sufficient for the algorithm to allow for a backdoor for there to be problems. Presumably it would have been caught sooner had the hack required a backdoor to be hidden in the source code and not some bytes that looked like a magic constant.
Yeah. It is less of a “roots” definition of hacker and more of a “how can I hack the system to get rich with technology”.
Look at the url 'ycombinator'. It's some kind of silicon valley tech-bro MLM I think.
Yes there is ultimately a maximum limit to debt service as a percentage of GDP. It can keep increasing for a long time but eventually we'll hit a crisis point when T-bond yields suddenly accelerate. At that point we'll be forced into an austerity program, and there will probably be some type of technical default.

If we were spending the borrowed money on investments that actually boosted GDP then it wouldn't be a problem. But increasingly that money is being used for current government operations. We're not gaining anything for the future.
Ha, I considered mentioning it. Here are the Apple Silicon builds: https://github.com/tibeer/vscodium/releases

They’re still working on making them official.
I believe the GP's point was that if you follow the "remove anything that users rarely use in telemetry data" philosophy then you end up removing the restore feature of the backup software, defeating the entire purpose of backup software in the first place.

In other words, just because a feature is used rarely doesn't mean it isn't important to keep around. So much of what's wrong with software these days can be attributed to this "A/B test everything, the data never lies" approach to design.
There is the chance this can backfire. Cancelling the card doesn't void the contract you made with the company. If they care to they can come after you for the continued subscription cost since you never cancelled and are therefore technically still on the hook.
We were talking about use stats, not crash reporting (which, yes, is more defensible).
How Do Nuclear Submarines Make Oxygen? [video]
I normally just lurk, but this could effect someone's plans and is slightly incorrect.

This change was enacted December, 2020 with a July 1 deadline to confirm it would be enacted.

It doesn't go into effect until January 1, 2022 and does not apply to charges incurred before then.

It also only applies to federal plans (including "Obamacare" plans, but not necessarily private plans.

The language of the subsection addressing this is poorly constructed, so be careful.

The HHS link provided above by secabeen has those details and links to further information
>(In 1997, directly controlling a character with one stick was not an obviously correct choice - some games had "tank" controls where one stick rotated the character/camera and the other went forwards and backwards! Imagine how much that used to suck)

isn't that how camera/vehicles control work today?
I added a flag for technical and then sort it by hot [1]. I just needed to train a classifier so there's less manual classification needed.

Maybe something like a naive bayes [0] will work? I'm not sure if it's the best dataset. I could make my own dataset by just looking at how many removed comments there are :P

I haven't implemented a classifier before so it may take me a few days. If you'd like to be notified when it's actually working send me an email at info@{the site name}

[0] - https://www.kaggle.com/kinguistics/classifying-news-headline...

[1] - https://efficientdemocracy.com/technical-and-hot
Sorry for the double reply, it just came to my attention a story from Lithuania. First EU country with a strict implementation of the CovidPass. Extreme ostracization of a population segment is rather new, if we are not to count some notorious pre WW2 instances.

https://twitter.com/gluboco/status/1441691330825031680
First of all, there's plenty of whores if you think sex is a human right. Prostitution is the oldest profession. If we normalize sex work, people can meet demand without getting shamed. Who's trying to do that? Mostly feminists if you ask me.
V-USB – A Firmware-Only USB Driver for Atmel AVR Microcontrollers
Well, I'm not actually answering the question. :) (and former Bitcoin developer would be more accurate!)

Really people can mostly just speculate on the subject, or offer why they might have chosen it: Satoshi never said much about his choice-- he certainly never said in public that he was concerned with NSA tampered parameters.

I think it was a good choice at the time, esp. now after the expiration of the GLV patent. And the fact that there is no opportunity for NSA tampering scaremongering is a nice feature, but that's my opinion and I have no reason to believe it was Satoshi's.
You can download the extension as a file from the vscode marketplace and install it in Codium. The remote containers extension requires the latest Codium but it work now.
Luckily for them, Linux Is Not UniX.
Found this, so i believe it's still a valid problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16155835
lol they got leaked lmfao
Yes, this video is the undeniable truth. Anything this tuber doesn't know isn't real.
Are you using VAIL or just RAIL?

The difference is not whether GPU applications do or do not work. They work with both. The difference is, do they work with zero copying via shared memory between the Windows host and the WSL virtual machine?

RAIL enabled graphical applications - including those that use the GPU - to be presented as windows on the Windows desktop. But it involves extra latency on the order of several to tens of frames, depending on how expensive the framebuffer copying and synchronization steps are.

VAIL enables performance (and input lag) that is on par with running Linux natively.