skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I'm hearing this more now about the letters. It obviously seems that the letters make it harder to comprehend which I understand. Do you think replacing letters with numbers would help? Then you'd see both local and global (UTC) times in numbers, that would probably make it easier to use.
This wasn't a terribly character-focused book, personally I find that to be a plus (since it's not usually the case in fiction). It remained interesting throughout. Having read plenty of sci-fi, you won't find anything that isn't tropey in some fashion. It's genre-fiction for a reason.

Rationalizations for liking/disliking a book are for the birds, you either like it or you don't.
“What if you could doodle directly onto a website?”
>It's much harder to fight the stigma around anything that's illegal because it instantly gets equated with crime.

And because a large subset of the population (which tend to be over-represented on the white collar parts of the internet who generally have the luxury of always being able to afford cost of compliance in their day to day lives) happily lets the state dictate their morals by mentally bucketing illegal things as immoral by default.
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Unfortunately zsh is not fully compatible nor a feature superset of BASH so it isn't always able to replace it. Very glad I switched though!
So am I reading correctly that they wanted to use sh for a while, and it just finally got needed features? This message says "what" but not "why", and while as a user I prefer sh over csh:), I'm curious why the project switched.
I enjoyed the first book, it was quite compelling. But the second and third really wandered off into a swamp. I wouldn't call it hard SF, but I don't really care about the designation, either.

I thought the characters in the first were well written. I lost track of who was who in the later ones.
Planned fossil fuel production remains dangerously out of sync with Paris Accord
One renaming I can recall is Philip Morris -> Altria, although apparently a new Philip Morris was spun off, so it exists again.
I thought the idea was to never produce NaN or -0 in the first place, but it seems that's not the case.
Sounds like hedge funds trying to market their smarts. They still haven't beaten the index funds though, so it's more likely BS.
Error codes are even worse. If I'm looking for 1234, I do NOT want results for 1235 or 1233.

In trying to be smart, it becomes worse than retarded. I guess it could be called the "uncanny valley" of AI.
Got to farm that karma somehow so you can sell thought leader hackernews accounts.
When I'm outside running on sidewalks along city streets, music via AirPods Pro with Noise Cancellation turned on sounds a bit better BUT I prefer to keep this feature turned off in favor of being able to hear ambient cars etc.
Things generally upsetting people in general is one thing, but details matter. The reporting describes something more like a question of priorities and ongoing lack of appropriate attention to community dynamics. Worse, it sounds like a situation that could have been avoided.

> Organizers did not specify their demands ahead of the rally, although Preston said the event would call for content that prioritizes "the safety and dignity of all marginalized communities."

> Transgender Netflix employee Terra Field has called on the streamer to add a content warning to "The Closer," and to promote more "queer and trans comedians and talent."

There is a lot of hurt and painful experience inside these messages to Netflix. The demands don't exactly seem extraordinary in that context either.
Cool concept! The thing that I like about using A-X is that it helps avoid accidentally confusing "10" between local and UTC. IE, the longer I would use this, the more I get used to knowing that 8:00 is N:00 in my local time.

IMO: Something in the html needs cleanup. Depending on my window size, elements are always overlapping. (I'm on Chrome on Windows, with uBlock.)
I feel like we're quibbling about semantics.

Is APL an interesting language that most people would benefit from picking up and building something with? Sure.

Is there a small and passionate community around it? Absolutely?

Is it still possible to get up and running with APL in 2021? Yes.

Given the variety of choices in the developer ecosystem is APL the best choice for the types of problems the vast majority of developers are solving today? No.

And I think maybe most interestingly this conversation (to me) highlights how important ecosystems, frameworks and communities are to modern development over the pure language semantic benefits.
You misspelled 'illegal' - people being unable to go to the police is traffickers' preferred situation.

Legalisation, thereby making the same worker protections available as to everybody else, is precisely how to screw them over.

The messaging saying otherwise is largely from conservative and/or radfem organisations who're trying to get people to conflate prostitution and trafficking because they want to wipe out all prostitution, not just the coerced stuff.

There's a strong parallel to the war on drugs here - criminalisation largely benefits the criminals.
This looks a bit low resolution for teledildonics. Some prefer a bumpier ride i guess.
The text on that page explains it a little better, it's not about equality of outcome but I understand how you could get that from the graphic.

> We can think of it in terms of food. When ordering pizza for a large group, you’ll probably assume some people will eat one slice, some people will eat two, and some will eat three or even four. You’ll account for those differences when ordering - maybe you have several hulking athletes or small children in your group. You won’t police who eats how many slices, you’ll just assume that everyone got what they needed, be it once slice or more. The pizza isn’t shared equally, it is shared equitably.

Another way to think of it is equality is about the rules of the game, and equity is about the starting position.
Before spoiler tags were a thing that BBs and forums implemented ROT13 was actually a fairly common way to avoid spoiling things.
Yes, sorry I replied to a different interpretation of your question I guess.

I was trying to say that YC may be looking past the solution to the real underlying issue.

To me this would make sense. We often start out with a problem that bugs us, and then come up with a half baked solution.

Even if the proposed solution isn't valid the founder may have identified a valid problem. In our crowded marketplace, a unique and unmet need is much harder to find than a technical solution.
If everyone he mocked in his specials walked out of Netflix they would have no employees left. I feel it was exactly his point that only one group continually does that. I also feel that Netflix knows if they remove his stuff he will go elsewhere and people will follow. They might not cancel Netflix but that’s how competition starts and the less competition the better for their bottom line.
You obviously have never been blessed with a truly horrific codebase. There are C-projects out there, were people do almost the same thing - twice.

Like a endless papyrus scroll, and medieval scribes, modifying a copy and pasted atrocity for a month.Code this bad, usually never makes it to HN of course.
It's an useful resource. According to their features page, I think if you register you can export (download) the schema DDL.

It would be nice to get sample data too. It's quite hard to find good sample databases with data in them, and in tidily constrained schemas.

Supposedly you can get an Access Database (yuck) at http://www.databaseanswers.org/data_models/ by emailing the site owner (yuck2).
> please don't take your cues on language theoretic security (or anything security-related) from internet comments containing unverified claims

Your comment is nothing but vague, unverified claims. Why do should you be given the benefit of the doubt but not the person you're replying to? If you have a real concern, share it so that it can be evaluated and everyone, including the original poster, can learn from it.
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There's a gameplay video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO5euiOo4kk
...especially with the use of a smart phone app...

Based on my observations of my father's struggles with various hearing aids, hearing aid smartphone apps are just as terrible as any other apps developed by hardware manufacturers. Don't expect the "clinicians" to help with this aspect either, because they were trained on a previous version of a different app and how could they be expected to figure out the apps that are used now?
This looks really helpful! I have been working on FPGA stuff and have never really been able to figure out how to tie the knot with Verilator, even though I knew this was theoretically possible.
Yes. That’s why the pictures and article are worth checking out. Anything having to do with “water structure” rankles scientists. But see for yourself.
> It seems to me they're not evaluating the pair {problem, solution}, they're evaluating the pair {problem, founder}

I think that's a good insight. "Plans never survive contact with the enemy", and so solutions are constantly changing as a startup explores the problem space. Perhaps what VCs are actually looking for is:

1. The founder identified a problem that actually exists.

2. The problem actually has a solution that can be monetized, in theory.

3. They have confidence that the founder can hone in on a viable solution that can be monetized.

The pitch doesn't have to be the solution, it only has to show that a financially viable path to a solution plausibly exists, and that the founder seems competent enough to find the way towards a financially viable outcome. If even one of the above requirements isn't satisfied, investing money doesn't seem sensible.
Graphics are great for initial attraction to a game, but it's the gameplay that keeps one's interest.

It's similar to movies. Special effects are momentarily interesting, but it's the plot that overwhelmingly matters.
Yeah, I really like that Julia and LLVM allow applying it on a per-operation basis.

Because most of LLVM's backends don't allow for the same level of granularity, they do end up propagating some information more than I would like.
For example, marking an operation as fast lets LLVM assume that it does not result in NaNs, letting nan checks get compiled away even though they themselves are not marked fast:

julia> add_isnan(a,b) = isnan(@fastmath(a+b))
add_isnan (generic function with 1 method)

julia> @code_llvm debuginfo=:none add_isnan(1.2,2.3)
define i8 @julia_add_isnan_597(double %0, double %1) #0 {
top:
ret i8 0
}

meaning it remains more dangerous to use than it IMO should be.
For this reason, LoopVectorization.jl does not apply "nonans".
How is there any lost tax revenue if it's not taxed? Why should everything be taxed be default?
You are right about transmission of data. But the article is about transistors, i.e. processing of data.
They’re only carbon neutral if you replant what you’ve cut down.
I'm fairly sympathetic to the "I don't have anything to hide" argument simply because in most cases it's probably true.

The reality is that most people don't have much information worth keeping private (beyond authentication information). Nor do most people have a strong use case for free speech protections. I mean, let's be honest, most folks have boring lives and aren't really saying anything interesting.

That said, some people do have secrets that could be used against them. And some people do have speech/ideas that are dangerous to entrenched authority. Those things are worth protecting and that's why we must be vigilant. You can't protect the good stuff without also protecting all the banal drivel that the rest of us traffic in.
I'm not sure I get the point of this. If you already have to write the code using the equivalent old syntax, and keep maintaining it, why write the code a second time with the new syntax?
Yeah this is kind of the issue. For some going for a walk and exploring IS the activity. For some, like op, that doesnt seem like its bonding or actually connecting.

It's probably generational and based on how one interacts with others (are most of their friendships online or not).
I suppose that depends on if we are in a "hands off" simulation or one that is being actively modified. It would also depend on the purpose of the simulation, the duration, the ethical views of the being(s) running the simulation. It seems to me that there is a lot more that can go wrong, so to speak, with a simulation than there is with base level reality. There are more things that can go right as well though, technically a simulation could implement an after life or reincarnation or have some means of exiting the simulation.
You're right. Firstly, I don't really understand why those countries decided to go with a 30-minute offset. It's adding even more confusion to the whole time zone and daylight saving thing. hTime utilizes UTC, hence the 30 minutes difference. However, that's something to think more about and see how to fix it properly. Thanks for the feedback.

Would you give hTime a go and test it for some days? I'd love to hear more feedback.
The Technopolar Moment How Digital Powers Will Reshape the Global Order
Paywalled: https://archive.md/RIYYm

Firefox Reader Mode should also work.
Agreed, entrepreneurs these days severely undervalue the benefits of releasing brain juice
Your comment was going pretty well until you wrote

> Even crazier, most of them approvingly point to the execrable "Ready Player One" as an example of a vision to deliver on. No, I'm sorry, a horny 15 year old shaving his body hair so he can be more aerodynamic in VR while engaging in extended self-congratulatory monologues about what a Nice Guy he is for not being repulsed by his "Rubenesque" girlfriend while he recites lines from Ghostbusters in a series of completely incoherent "memba this???" vignettes, is not a vision for the future.

Is pretty much as far from what actually happens in the book as you can get and completely misses the point on why it's used as a reference point to this metaverse stuff.
Often, a cigar is not a cigar.
I've never understood the Alexas and Google homes. People complain about the "1984"cation of our society and houses, and then they literally PAY to have an always on microphone in their homes.

You either dont care about it and buy that stuff, or you care and dont put those devices in your private spaces.
There's also an inherent contradiction to it all. If you create a world where users can create their own content and have a lot of freedom - they will create lots of digital penises (see the aforementioned Second Life). But if you want an environment where "brands" are comfortable to "engage" with users you need to keep the space as penis-free as possible.

Given Facebook's history of prudishness I suspect their metaverse will be closer to "Fortnite -shooting +ads" rather than Ready Player One.
I expect they want to be FreeBSD. In particular, they are not Linux, and have no need to be Linux, if that's what you're getting at. Certainly I do get a certain amount of Solaris feel from them; they ripped a decent amount of tech out of OpenSolaris (yay dtrace and ZFS) and BSDs were always structured more like Solaris than most Linux distros (base system separate from packages, base system created by installing multiple sets/consolidations), but they're their own thing.

EDIT: Oh, and I would expect BSDs to feel a lot more like traditional unix because they're direct descendants of UNIX™, unlike the later clones like GNU/Linux.
Bill Burr said it best: everyone always laughs at the jokes about other groups, but when the jokes are about their group, they can never handle them.
Just go for a hike together?

I thought the pandemic showed us all that we don't need to pay anyone money to connect. We could just go for a walk together and talk. If that unnecessary massive part of the economy was to disappear, we would have more free time to connect, too.
I shared https://mmm.page a few months back (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27128424), and am planning on sharing a more comprehensive update in a few weeks, but wanted to share this small snippet bc of how neat it feels (to me, at least).

It's like being able to sketch something and see it "pop" off the page, become something more than just a sketch.
Minor nit, but you can compute integer percentages from integer inputs with bash, without shelling out to an external program.
>just like adding branded content and sticking it in the skeletal husk of a bad shooter game for 12 year olds wasn't an improvement when Epic did it.

I'm pretty sure it was though. Fortnite is one of the most popular games in history and is single handedly responsible for Epic's financial success over the last 5 years.
Weird, the first example appears nowhere in my first three pages of my Google results, but the Ten Elements one is result #1.
Ready Player One movie was terrible. The book was fun. Felt more genuine and didn’t have silly stuff like the movie

AR/VR does run the high risk of creating a super dystopian and fragmented real world. It’s definitely something to watch out for
Fossil fuel giant Total has known about climate threat since 1971 say scientists
They don't do that to ~25%(!!!!) of customers. You can't continuously run an above the table business involving card processors if even 1/10th of those people do a charge-back.
pg has in the past been quite blunt that he sees the quality of the founders as the most important thing, regardless of the solution.

As has repeated time and time again to the point of almost becoming mythology in my opinion, pg has posted about how he originally hated the AirBnB idea but loved the founders.
Facebook probably only settled it instead of choosing to fight because it is barred from filling green cards while the case is still in progress, hurting its employees and its ability to hire.

Any company that has successfully filed an employment green card (especially at that scale) is favoring immigrants over citizens by definition. The EB green card rules are highly outdated and a reform is long overdue.
I think what it all really comes down to is the simple fact that Asimov is not a very good writer. I think he would have been among the first to admit it. He had big ideas and wrote well enough to keep the reader engaged so that he could show them off, but that's about it.

Except for The God's Themselves, which feels like he was channeling a better writer.
Leaded fuel reduced IQ of children born before 1990
I'm glad you like ZSH, for those wondering if you can do similar things in Bash (lots of non technical folks on the site these days).

* I have to admit I tend to run mlocate on my systems and grep for full file paths instead of using tab completion if I don't know what the directory path is. However if you want auto complete with a list to pick from like ZSH
bind 'set show-all-if-ambiguous on'
bind 'TAB:menu-complete'
in your inputrc will do the trick.

* echo set completion-ignore-case on | sudo tee -a /etc/inputrc
(use .bashrc instead of input if you only want to set this for your own user)

* ctrl + r type part of your command history search in bash

* alias gcam='git commit -a -m'

ZSH definitely has a lot of cool things (globbing is really nice for instance), but Bash is ubiquitous and it's good to know how to make your life easier if you are working on a server that doesn't have your fave shell installed.

Happy hacking!

When I started typing this there were no replies, I got distracted by a work slack, and came back to hit submit, and there are two basically duplicates. An excellent reminder that none of us are actually the main character so to speak.
Core-dump handing issues with suid binaries
Kazakhstan to restrict crypto miners amid power shortages
Microsoft Throws a Crazy Parade to Celebrate Windows Phone, the Death of iPhone
The obsession ya'll Americans have with personal identity is solving 0 of your societal issues.
From the Baxter wiki segment on Xeelee Sequence:

"The central narrative is that of humanity rising and evolving to become the second most powerful race in the universe, next to the god-like Xeelee. Character development tends to be secondary to the depiction of advanced theories and ideas, such as the true nature of the Great Attractor, naked singularities and the great battle between baryonic and dark matter lifeforms."

Is this what you think is harder sci-fi than TBP, with better character development?
Your firm should use hTime then for scheduling :D They could use the "Meeting Time" https://thehtime.com/intersect feature to make sure it's a good time for everyone.
Microsoft Edge has a similar feature built-in to the browser:

https://compass-ssl.microsoft.com/assets/ba/61/ba61c2e1-b5ef...
Should they take all jokes that hurt Christian feelings offline? Or how about anything that is critical of the CCP? Where does it end?
yes*

* anecdotal data from me and a dozen or so friends. I assume results will depend a lot on the human's manufacturing date. Mine's in the 1980's :)
It's great to see that more people are still working on this and that people have an interest.

If you are interested in this kind of thing, then you'll also want to check out LibreBoot[1] and Bootstrappable Builds[2]. The latter is working with stage0 [3] and mes [4] to bootstrap Guix (among other projects.) All of that is further down the chain, but we'll need it if we want to build trustworthy systems.

1. https://libreboot.org/

2. https://www.bootstrappable.org

3. https://github.com/oriansj/stage0/

4. https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/
Introduction to JDBI
pg is lying or a moron
Thanks for coming here to comment!

> 92 were stolen from.

Wow, that's a 22% chance of being robbed.

If you're paying $1200 for "company", in cash, I reckon it would be unusual to also carry much more than a tip. My guess is the people who got robbed were at the low-cost end of the trade. Or maybe the men that got robbed were rapey anyway, and not a good bet for future business.
Imagine if instead of or in addition to changing the name of the corporation, its head changed his whole ethos.

Imagine if he learned the value and intrinsic satisfaction of facilitating happiness, respect, and connection to humanity, and made these the central tenets of the platform.

Imagine if profitability fell a little, but not enough to stop the new ethos.
Given the variety of choices in the developer ecosystem is APL the best choice for ANY types of problems one can realistically have to solve today?

I.e. is it still the best tool for the job it was designed for but on modern hardware/OSes? Provided you don't mind the special charset and low availability of APL programmers to maintain your code.