skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your first impression is the same as mine. Elixir/Phoenix is absolutely fantastic and could likely be the future of web design - as soon as everyone realize that all that Node stuff was a huge mistake. That being said, Elixir is a pretty new language and the user base isn't all that huge. Both being arguments against using Elixir in a real production environment. My point being that if you are looking at acquiring skills for future employment, Elixir may not be the best bet. In that case, Golang or Ruby even, would make more sense.
I've been screenshotting despair.com posters for over 10 years. I can't believe they're still around. I really should buy something from them someday.
Occupy Wall Street Changed Everything
"It wasn't all magic" by "Colin B. Burke" is a very interesting read and details early efforts starting with MIT's Vannevar Bush in the 1930's and going to a bit past WWII. Developing a punch that wouldn't wear out was a major engineering challenge, just one of many interesting problems they had to overcome.
bug reports and communication in general: If you've got a good summary/abstract more detail is always better. I don't know if I've ever had to talk to someone on my team about how they "over communicated" (not the same as TMI!). Make the receiver responsible for saying "OK, that's enough, got it!"
> However, just because FSF thinks linking is enough to make derivative work doesn't mean it necessarily is

Exactly. In the EU "linking two programs does not produce a single derivative of both (each program stay covered by its primary licence)" because Directive 2009/24/EC allows this: "any portion of code that is strictly necessary for implementing interoperability can be reproduced without copyright infringement." https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/matrix-eupl-comp...

On the other hand if you view the license as a contract, I believe it can make arbitrary demands about the license of other (non derivative) software.

edit: actually even if you consider it a contract it probably can't prevent you from doing something that is allowed by the law, so it can't affect the license of other software. I'm not a lawyer.
Also useful to run the app from the terminal, replicate the bug, and see if any logs pop up.
Can You Refactor JavaScript Safely Without Test Coverage?
And just kikes being kikes.
Controlling the terminal with Common Lisp (2020)
> They drank of the poisoned chalice of ad money.

Lol, I’m going to steal this one.

That’s indeed what happened. If you’ve worked in any ad tech company, you will know that the people in charge are some of the most unethical sleaze bags you will ever know. It’s all about scooping up as much data as you can: most adtech tech companies operate out of the public eye and many of them barely comply with regulations designed to protect consumer data.

I was surprised that Google was so different. But then they drank from the poisoned chalice. So did Facebook, Snap, TikTok … and Reddit is trying hard tooo.
plus we should be eliminating well-done steak from the world, not providing more ways to cut it!
From the Hacker News guidelines: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well if any of the O(N^2) connections has unacceptable latency, you'd understand why a server is sensible. Reducing computation won't improve latency in the connections. One has no flexibility with clients but a server can be located wherever good connections are available.
The bar can be as low as it wants to if it effectively filters people out. It's like how fizzbuzz is a terrible stupid test until you realize the shocking number of people who claim to be developers but can't pass it.
The "why do ANYTHING online if it's not monetized?" attitude is such a pernicious trend. The internet will only become more censored and more homogenized if people only ever use services that will silence any thoughts/opinions that aren't 'Advertiser Friendly'.

Sure you could have ads pulled from your OWN website if you piss off an ad agency, but there are multiple ad agencies that exist. You can always switch providers.

When you go to a private company like Medium, anything you say will get you de-monetized, AND there's no other way to earn again. Some people face this situation and then create their own website to build back up their buzz, but why not start at that point initially?

I suspect this has something to do with the fact that the average 13-16 year old rarely opens their mobile web browser. To compete in 2021, you need an app. Something needs to change.
Historically, major cities haven't just existed to serve the needs of their residents, but have served as cultural and economic centers for outlying rural and suburban areas. Part of that responsibility included being actually accessible to these people.
Have worked in bars and can confirm no one is going to recognize the Angela thing without additional context. It's just a feel-good memey thing.
> Even the modern Ts (professional series) don't have a CDROM drive anymore.

Missing a DVD drive I * might* be able to understand, but CD-ROM? That ship has sailed, latest with universal support for USB boot or booting via network, IMHO.
Finland’s recent policies are a good example https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-edition-for-janua...
Scissors are absolutely heat treated, and the best will have razor sharp edges. Many brands also forge them.
No, last time I used it, it was object file and source for a shim. You had to build the shim for your specific kernel and link together with the supplied object file. The result is kernel module, that is unsigned because it is you who built it.
IE6 called from 2005 and wants its argument back
> How does that work for containers?

Apparently, it doesn't. I would have thought at least some shipping lines would have gotten together to allow for offsets and settlements and all that to ease logistics. Maybe the lines don't want to coordinate or enjoy the semi-lockin that returning a container to the line's yard means it's most convenient to pick up an outgoing container from that yard, or don't trust their inventory with each other.
Linux audio support is generally a pain. Have you considered officially supporting one audio library and just saying YMMV if you use something else? For example, only support ALSA.
I’m not saying don’t do it. I think you’re doing great. HN is clearly a hugely successful content marketing project regardless of how the origin story is ret-conned.

You’ve got a passionate community of rich/technically skilled people who claim to hate ads falling over themselves to explain why this site is somehow different.

Keep doing what you’re doing. It’s more the cognitive dissonance of the commenters here who proudly announce, “I never see any ads” and “ads have no effect on me” that I find funny.
I didn't know that one. TIL.
Not the car, take the bus. The reason cycling is unnecessary is that all use cases are already covered by public transport and/or driving. That's a fact. There's nothing that you specifically need to cycle for. That makes it unnecessary, that's just basic logic.

And most people do not cycle when the weather is bad, that's also just a fact, and I grew up in an extremely bike friendly city and rode my bike all winter in the snow, in bike lanes that were completely empty and I just saw a whole bunch of money down the drain, just to pretend to be environmentally friendly when in reality 95% of people hop on the bus as soon as the weather is even slightly bad.
That's all very nice and all, but there's "bias from worldview" and then there's CNN
IBM Palm Top PC 110
That website is such obvious bunk that I'm close to assuming anyone still linking it is literally a paid shill. They still have a copycat up in hcqmeta.com touting similar claims for hydroxychloroquine. And a dozen other drugs/vitamins.

Here's a nice read on the subject: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1422044335076306947.html
https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Issue_Reporting This one is pretty good
Considering that Walter appears to have not sold even the first printing of it (which is why copies of it are incredibly scarce - my guess is that most of it was pulped and only a few score copies ever sold, I still don't know how FH got one), I can assure you that you are not going to find anything better than my scan, and also that it's a lot better than nothing. (Someone needs to go through it & GEoD carefully, the influence is a lot greater than Dune critics previously realized.)
Url changed from https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/qcychj/p_a..., which points to this.
Encoding Innate Ability Through a Genomic Bottleneck
Not Just a Cadbury Ad
Showed up on the front page in the "Did you know ..." section as "that IBM originally designed the Palm Top PC 110 (pictured) to be closer in shape to a VHS cassette but narrowed it when testers kept using their thumbs to type?"
I think they referenced medium-rare steak, not well done, which is quite useful to cut before eating.
Why does chrome need to use DNS other than what I have set up through my IP stack? How does that work for inranet sites?
I had much better results with one-man projects, than with projects which have a small army of volunteers and/or of paid employees. In the later case, it feels exactly the same as when I try to get in touch with the various administrations in my area, meaning that I can achieve a similar result by printing my missive, setting it on fire and dancing around it naked.
The video has the lines "pandemic ain't real, they planned it". That's called disinformation, and it was removed as such.
Not sure if that is what you are looking for, but I developed nooshub.com for that reason. It has the functionality to group similar articles, and the stories you don‘t wanna miss usually produce large groups that are then presented as top news. There is also a „in a nutshell“ page for top news from all feeds and a „gems“ page for low frequency content that otherwise can get buried. Maybe it is what you are looking for and works for you, it takes a little bit to setup but once it‘s done it is like checking Twitter…
The most popular root solutions have a "hide" feature so apps you specify can't tell you are rooted. It is slightly more complicated with custom roms.

I have Google Pay and several banking apps on my rooted phone without issue.
The Lunar Calendar and Standard Time (LST)
Selling tools during a gold rush is always a sound strategy.

Though there are some streamers getting rich through performance and sponsorships. At least if the Twitch leaks are to be believed. Some YouTubers are also earning upper middle-class incomes producing niche content. So I don't think it's all get rich schemes. Sadly that does still appear to be the easiest road.
Encrypt it with what key? WhatsApp doesn't have passwords, it's fully based on phone number verification. Do you want WhatsApp to hold the key for you? Or prompt you to create a key which they won't be able to recover?
HP also does it and they even have videos on youtube from hp support explaining how to replace each of the parts.

Lenovo has lost a lot of the quality in comparison. Typos in documentation and invoices, all kinds of support service nightmares even for people with most expensive support policies, X1 Extreme G4 shitty heatsink, thermal throttling to 800MHz, just take a look at forums.lenovo.com
>a more useful term for this instead of remote

Flex or hybrid seems to be most common. So can work from home some days but will come into the office, possibly on a schedule, on a fairly regular basis. (With the implication you need to be within some semblance of commuting distance.)

Nothing wrong with that of course. Flexibility is good but it obviously has constraints that full remote doesn't.
Maybe Emetrol is placebo, but it has worked for me in the past on a couple of occasions. This included 8 hours of vomiting no mater how hard I willed it to stop or other remedies I tried, and it didn't work on the first dose. It didn't seem like placebo to me, but I am grateful it worked either way.

One thing to note that isn't in the article, is that concentration can matter, so comparing one can to a 30ml dose of medication might not be a great comparison (although this still supports for the author's position that phosphoric acid is not added to cola to prevent vomiting).

Is the placebo effect applicable in infants? I would think that infants would not be capable of the understanding that something will make them better, and thus placebo wouldn't apply to them. Unfortunately this paper is pay-walled so we dont have details about the methods used, but the summary seems relevant.

https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(51)80084-2/pdf
That's a good example of fairly localized creativity during COVID. People may criticize the "how are you supposed to know that" aspect but it sounds more like it was part of its own campaign to raise awareness, and in a specific part of the world. If it continues to spread from there, probably all the better.
If it was really many times safer than a human driver it presumably would be possible for them to get insurance to cover it. Maybe they could charge an annual fee to cover it.
I think the author's point is lost because she's trying to convey some points that requires a lot of nuance and subtlety, but English is not her first language.

Her point is that the hogging of public space by bicyclists is a problem, and that the cause is bicyclists ignoring rules and not thinking about others. That is a universal problem. Here in Seattle, bicyclists think they're beyond reproach. You can't run red lights and hit pedestrians without backlash.
They also prevent installing 3rd party web browsers, while keeping Safari way behind all others in order to ensure that you cannot escape their control.

Their behavior is inexcusable but not surprising; what baffles me is that it's allowed.
I just found that there is a standard way to access it in C/C++

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/popcount
No it's not. People don't like to be very uncomfortable and inconvenient. Cycling year around every day, is very uncomfortable and inconvenient for many many days, so why would you do that if you don't have to?

I can argue exactly the same way for why you should turn off the heat in your house the whole winter, it's great for the environment and you just have to "put on a coat".
New Brunswick’s Mystery Disease
There's a real need for security though, so while I would love to make it better (... by removing the theatre elements) that doesn't mean no security. We have lots of things that we know work but lack various wills to do so, ranging from the easy like "don't let anyone other than ticketed travellers anywhere near the terminal" to the crazy-sounding like "make flying 10x or 100x time more expensive".
NPR is really all about the click bait.

First, no causal scientific relationship between asbestos and ovarian cancer has been demonstrated. A jury felt the mere presence of trace asbestos was proof enough so here we are.

Second, “LTL Management has been fully funded to amounts determined by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Additionally, the company established a $2 billion trust to cover additional expenses. J&J also noted that the subsidiary had been allocated royalty streams from undisclosed assets to provide another $250 million to contribute to potential liability payments.”
Young Climate Activists Hunger Strike Outside the White House
I would think you can deal with platform-specific issues by saying "we support Ubuntu [or whatever you're willing to do]; anything else you're on your own" up front. But yeah, audio is a general weak spot.
Why wouldn’t you be able to?

Specific-word plus generic word(s) seems to be a good formula for trademarks.

$mycity lawn care would be just fine. But it would make it difficult to let’s others advertise for lawn care in $mycity.
> Hackernews always surprises me, who could believe there are so many synthwave lovers in this forum.

Funny, I always assumed the hn type crowd was the target audience for stuff like synthwave.
Its not necessary, its just a smokescreen apple can use to shut out third party repairs.
So when Steve Jobs died...?
zoomablemind says >"I'm trying to understand if this really means the hunters do eat squirrels on other occasions? How is it chicken-fried?"<

Most squirrel hunters eat squirrel. Most prepare it like fried chicken. But since most squirrels are smaller than an adult chicken you need more squirrels to make a meal.

Squirrel is tastier than chicken. Its more challenging to hunt squirrel than to either harvest or shop for a chicken.

Perhaps Popeye's will someday feature "chicken-fried squirrel", making me both fatter and lazier.
Absolutely, and they can either take commuter rail or park at a garage just outside the city or city center.
> Please show evidence that Google's global privacy invading data collection network justifies their 3-4X premium in advertising cost over simple non-invasive alternatives

It really isn't. You can (maybe) justify a 2X premium on th basis of higher ad effectiveness due to superior performance. The rest of that margin comes from having the largest (by far) marketplace, which forces more buyers to bid against each other (raising ad costs), and more sellers to undercut each other (lowering publishers' ad revenues), in order to participate.
Companies made a concession to workers through Force majeure and workers realized office work is miserable and unproductive. Micro-managers try to herd the cattle back into offices but with mixed success.
What's the simplest characterisation of the quaternions?

The one I'm most drawn to is Frobenius's theorem. It states that the quaternion algebra is the largest finite-dimensional associative division algebra over R. The computation needed to prove this is quite non-trivial (but ultimately fairly standard linear algebra) and it derives the relations i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = ijk = -1.
While that's what's visible, I know people who have started real, non-scammy businesses in the 'creator economy'. Some of the highest profile e-shops are also real companies. Scams come and go, some people get middle-class rich, but the companies actually getting big are real, legit businesses. And there are lots of small-scale success stories in plenty of 'maker' industries.
When I need a faster grep, I love ugrep (https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep - especially when I am searching compressed logs for debugging).
The above comment referenced medium-well, which is close to well-done and far from medium-rare.
There are a lot of allegations here and I'd like to know which ones turn out to be true.

That said, I'd also like to understand the motivation behind the fact that only red states AGs are in the plaintiffs. I rarely associate red state AGs with any form of integrity and in fact red state governments generally represent the frontiers of kleptocracy. So color me skeptical
> back in the day you could self-host Firefox Sync

Yep -- and this is why I personally think there's something rotten in Mozilla.

At the beginning there were 3rd party extensions to sync bookmarks that just allowed you to point to any webdav server (which is trivial to self-host). At some point Mozilla decided to implement this functionality as a 1st party extension, thereby displacing all the other 3rd party extensions that were doing the same (and later on outright killing these extensions, by changing the APIs and making the new ones buggy).

And once the other extensions were killed, they started to make it harder and harder to self-host. Up to the point I gave up self-hosting Firefox Sync; it's just not worth the effort, and I really see absolutely no need for such a huge infrastructure for what could be done with plain clothes WebDAV.

That is the day Mozilla earned my distrust. I basically use Firefox (or its forks) just because there is no other choice.
I've had the opposite experience. We had a team of 25 devs in Rhode Island, only 3 wanted to stay in the office in any capacity and all were open to the idea of permanent WFH. Several were excited about being able to move as a result.
Even if it were to take more energy it might still be a win since it would effectively lock up the carbon in a (basically) non-decomposing form. You’d have to look at the net emissions taking into account the amount of carbon dioxide that would have been released as that piece of wood decomposed (or you can look at it from the perspective of the CO2 removed from the atmosphere by that wood).
Not sure I follow. If the homeless aren't coming from elsewhere, then the "ease" would have to be that people on the margins would be choosing to be homeless instead. However, if that's the case, then why would NYC be immune to this effect? After all, they have way more shelters than SF, rents are just as sky high, and SF residents typically have a higher income than their NYC counterparts meaning there should be fewer people at the margins.
The evidence would be the obvious blatant disinfo clickbait and political slant nature of the article and its source itself as opposed to any sort of subjective but at least moderatively informative news about technology or the social impact of technology but of course that's an insinuation too, I get it. But why would a typical "hacker" want "news" about CNN ratings? Maybe the raw numbers as a source of data (not that this article supplies them of course), but a mostly evidence free conjectural rant about its imminent demise? I'll wait.

But while I'm waiting, can I get you to delete my account and my entire history here? 5 enthusiastic stars if you'll do that for me. An obvious rulebreaker like myself has never made a useful contribution here ever and everyone will be better off with my entire comment history safely deleted. Or is it something something hypothetical imaginary ycombinator possible future liability something something else so that would be a no? Or TLDR: Hacker News actually does aspire to become the new Reddit?

This is a sincere request. I really want to disconnect entirely from most of the internet. And this would be a great place to disconnect from as well. I await your potential response or the demise of this account with enthusiastic ennui.
That makes sense but I remember the drought of 2016 ended pretty quickly during one of these storms. Reservoirs went from 20% capacity to 100% in a few days and excess water had to be released downstream.
I was kind of looking forward to Librem as well, but they have a lot of issues right now.
This is a terribly dishonest take.

There was no “unrelated iOS business dispute”, Epic was simply using their keys to sign software that they had agreed not to sign. Epic made it clear that they can not be trusted with signing keys, you can’t claim that this is unrelated.

Epic could have sued Apple and proceeded with their business dispute without abusing their signing keys, but instead they made a calculated decision to abuse their trusted position for a PR stunt.

Even if you fully agree with the position Epic is pushing in their lawsuit, these facts remain the same.
I wonder if our popular culture has basically conditioned us to distrust community in general, and so we automatically have a visceral reaction whenever it’s portrayed in a highly positive light. Or really, portraying almost anything in a highly positive light is viewed with distrust. We’re a culture of jaded cynics now. An attitude probably incompatible with community.
I am using https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=200&comments=200, not sure exactly what it does but it works for me to not miss out on anything (I think)
>completely avoid Macs

As someone who normally attends quite a few tech conference events, that doesn't square remotely with what I see. Macs are out of all proportion to their percentage in the world at large. While it's harder to have an inventory of the rest, I assume they're mostly Linux given that one hardly ever sees a speaker presenting from a Windows laptop. [ADDED: This is in the context of events that are not Microsoft-centric.]