skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes I have a problem that could be solved with money. I google/whatever favorite search engine is for a product that solves the problem that I want to solve. At no point adtech is required, in fact I would prefer if adtech wasn't involved.
I find that more often than not, addressing it the way I just did brings the comment back into discussion

It doesn't, it just starts a pointless offtopic meta discussion. The forum guidelines explicitly ask you not to do that because it's boring. The votes, on average, tend to sort themselves out without such 'interventions'.
This is because the speed of starting a company is one of the major metrics in the Doing Business IMF ranking. Not all is rose, though. A large part if the population in France can not start a business because of unsufficient qualifications.
No, I’m discussing from the point of view of the publisher.

It’s financial suicide to lose 50% or more of your revenue because you don’t want to use GAM to manage your ad inventory.
Before these tech monopolies came into power, radio and tv have always been free and have been a way for people especially the poor to get informed and entertained.

If we ban advertising altogether, we're gonna be in a worse situation with many people not getting access to news.

Ban awful advertising practices especially by big tech companies, not advertising itself
What is the substance of your argument: that the "pandemic" is not a medical matter, or that "ain't real" is not misinfo?
Why were they using an actual live firearm to begin with? Could there not be a special effects device that looks, sounds, and mimics a firearm, without actually having to load cartridges?
The culture for supporting small businesses is a very fair point. Americans talk about it but in practice the support is very weak.

Europe also retains strong local press operations so advertising in newspapers is actually viable. That’s dead in the US.
I don't claim that APL is necessarily useful to everyone. I think the fraction of people who could use array-based notation effectively is not small, but there's no hard evidence for this.

APL has not to my knowledge been used to prove novel mathematical results. Has any programming language? It's not very interesting to note that a language that's unknown to working mathematicians doesn't find much use in cutting-edge mathematics. However, APL is closer to the notation that is used for these discoveries than nearly any other programming language (Mathematica is the exception that comes to mind).

There are some historical APL successes to point to. It was used to design IBM's highly-regarded system/360[0]; as the first APL implementation ran on the 360 this was of course done entirely on paper. I believe some early time-sharing systems were written in APL as well, though I don't have a source. STSC's Mailbox[1] was one of the earliest email systems[2]. More recently Aaron Hsu has used APL to create what seems to be the first data-parallel compiler[3]. While data-parallel is rigorously defined (polylogarithmic time given infinite processors), the vagueness of "compiler" means this isn't a result of interest to mathematicians.

I myself have used APL to make what I consider to be a significant discovery about sequences of natural numbers[4]. It unifies methods that I've come up with ad-hoc in the past, and I've now used this framework dozens of times to more quickly solve a variety of problems. I don't expect you to understand the APL-heavy description, but isn't that what you asked for? I and many others think in APL. It just seems natural to us. Here's a quote along those lines[5]:

> And I looked at the code that I’d written, and it’s about 150 lines or so, and it was complicated, complicated stuff. I went to sleep, and I had a dream, and in the dream, it told me how to approach this in a whole different way that I had done before. So I woke up, I sat down at the computer at six o’clock in the morning, and by noon I’d rewritten the whole thing from scratch, pretty much. I kept 7 lines of code that were tangential to that, and it was all correct. It passed the QAs like that. So sure, you can write for loops in your sleep, but I can write entire correct programs in my sleep!

[0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1147/sj.32.0198

[1] https://forums.dyalog.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=1629&p=6415

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_email

[3] https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/247...

[4] https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Partition_representations#Unificati...

[5] https://www.arraycast.com/episode-0-transcript
I should have clarified in ages 30+ where COVID has more serious effects on a persons health.

Ref. 2nd-last and last columns of Table 2 on Page 13.
Plus a million.

As for MacOS, yeah, it's truly great but the hw is quite expensive and limited to what Apple sells to you. And then Apple deprecates older devices all the time and you're left with an OS where you cannot run any modern apps including the web browser which makes using them a major threat to your security.
I can see how reworking an existing system to be GDPR compliant can be a major headache. But for anything designed from the ground up the rules are really easy to follow and quite sensible.
In general I feel the EU bureaucracy doesn't understand the problems well enough, so the solutions typically tend to be annoying and expensive without mitigating the problem (and often the problem they attempt to solve sounds like it was formulated 10-15 years ago).
I'm not much of a modern rap music person, however, by the 90s rap standards this doesn't seem that inflammatory.
Given that their ai have spotted this that is actually quite good. But yes it is a joke.
> polluting your internet experience with injected, paid for, content

You're really understating the problem here. It's not injected content, or paid for content that's really a problem. It's that state of the art social engineering has been used to create platforms in which the ability to manipulate people and their attention, beliefs and behaviors is sold at scale.
There are also many similar tools mentioned in the comments on my Show HN for a similar tool: Show HN: RSS feeds for arbitrary websites using CSS selectors [1].

Edit: ah OK, it's slightly different: SnipRSS allows you to curate arbitrary content from the web into a single RSS feed, whereas the tools I referred to periodically check a single source and generate an RSS feed from that. Sorry for the confusion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27739568
Point 2 is the stated aim. Will there be big difference between say 85% and 90%? Probably not, but it's a politically popular move so they'll keep pushing forwards with it.
Newspaper ads are a fair point. Europe still has a functional local press ecosystem. That’s dead in the US.
We have a functioning government, it just so happens to hate us and let companies accrue trillions of dollars without social recompense.
How many Google service actually run on GCP?
> How could anyone possibly argue against that?

The very basis of self government (citizens being in charge) is allowing people to run for office who are every day people. This idea would require anyone who is even a part owner af a tiny business to divest in order to run. Additionally, a lot of common small businesses have no real value if the owner doesn't come with the business (a solo law practice is an example)... oh, and trusts are corporations... so this idea sounds wonderful but is very exclusionary.
Looking at that, I get the impression that the story is:

- someone introduced the term "inverted file" for this sort of thing (which is sensible terminology)

- later people started considering these things to be a sort of database index

- so they started saying "inverted index" without paying attention to what that implies as an English phrase
Wireless, Off-Grid, No-License Communication for $27.99 (Lora Meshtastic)
I think google tried this and failed
I think you're exactly implying that this lone anecdote constitutes a good measure by which the EU is "doing more" than the UK or the USA and therefore would not be hypocritical by pointing the finger.
That‘s how I think of hooks. They don‘t let you express the lifecycle of things, only the data dependency graph. React moved the level of abstraction a second time, and I think they succeeded.
The access is already blocked, it says in the article that they had to decrypt the data in the data-storage system. It's not like Tesla can prevent a state actor from having access anyway, that's just a law away.
It starts with controlling the room. I worked in a startup accelerator near Union Square in NYC that had numerous little rooms that were sound isolated and had controlled light.

At the business school of my uni they have many "interview rooms" that fit two humans and a laptop comfortably.

With quality wi-fi and internet you had a good chance you could make it work with a computer or a phone with or without headphones, usb mic, etc.

Look at how they photograph people on a television newscast, "Good Morning America", "Sunday Night Football" to see best practices at work.

You can get an intimate effect in a large room by putting the "head office" into a small space such as a couch. Point the crowd at a big TV. Use a camera with a long lens (often zoom) from far away placed as close an angle to the TV as you can get away with so the crowd is almost looking at the camera.

For audio you'll probably pack more than one microphone and have to experiment (monitor the audio track) until you know you sound good.

When we did that I always felt included, engaged, and so forth whether I was.
If that's all it is, why isn't everyone doing it? And to the extent that they are doing the same sort of things, why are Apple taking on the order of 90% of the profits in multiple market segments? Clearly they are doing something different.
This is basically what I do with my hobby sites. I have HAProxy sprinkled around the internet here and there. I set the custom header with the client IP address to something that my web server doesn't recognize. This means everyone on the internet shows up as my VPN address. This also forces me to ignore IP addresses and design protection ACL's to be generalized. It has been a fun learning exercise.

That said, I am not suggesting that businesses should or could do this. Some businesses are required through regulations to capture IP addresses of their customers at a minimum.
Not an issue. The oxygen release is just oxygen that was already in the atmosphere before it was used to burn oil.

Even if that weren't the case, the atmosphere is 21% oxygen and 0.04% CO2.
The current enthusiasm around React seems somewhat reminiscent of jQuery about 15 years back. It was the first library to solve a problem that plagued the entire industry. It was widely adopted and considered almost a "standard", to the point where you will now find an entire graveyard of Stackoverflow questions about DOM manipulation where the answer is "just use jQuery".

My gut feeling is that the same will happen to React in the next 5 years, possibly as a result of more native support for web components and front-end state management. I was writing Visual C++ front-ends around the time jQuery first appeared. Front-end state management should not be this complicated.
One way is to build your software on top of distributed/content-addressed P2P software (not Blockchain, but pure P2P). The angle of attack disappears completely then.

Otherwise, with centralized infrastructure, you identify the bad traffic and send it elsewhere, an instance that keeps connections open but delivers nothing and have a small amount of resource usage. Problem is that you still need to be able to handle the traffic, but at least you avoid hitting your main infrastructure.
Presumably, laser beams to heat terrestrial mountains of salt. What could possibly go wrong?

/jk

Seriously, I'm curious about this too.

Edit: a quick search shows I was close:
https://earthsky.org/earth/space-based-solar-energy-power-ge...
Not saying we should make it illegal to give things away for others to build with. Open source code itself is not a product accessible by an end user, much less a service that connects many users and acts as a middleman in a two-sided market on which side of which are advertisers. I should clarify that I mean specifically the normalization of “free” in current context of big social.

I see we’re attacking it from different angles. I believe forcing big social to become paid by requiring it to open up is a better way, achievable with more narrowly focused, less far-reaching regulation.
Because it's the basis of doing literally anything. Why did I walk out and get in my car? Because I assumed it would start and be capable of driving me somewhere.
Hardly evidence of anything... It's one thing to spend money, another thing entirely to spend it properly.
They have to prioritize work because your kid gets sick, or gets out of school early, or you have to go to their event. Kids have much more time to disrupt your life, and parents need more accommodation than single people for flexible scheduling. It's single people who pick up the slack for you, the whole "negotiating" thing is BS because its rarely the disruptions are on a fixed schedule.
The Amazon Fire Cube now supports Zoom, including video when paired with a webcam. It's a low cost way to get a room system.
CSS for Javascript Developers. It's a paid course but it's fantastic

https://css-for-js.dev
Think "before blogs". Windows 3.1 rose to dominance when the Internet wasn't a factor for the vast majority of computer users (and even less for everybody else).

How could they possibly have acquired customers back then?!?
> Would we have wanted social platforms to give a voice to the "American First" movement of the 1930s?

Definitely. Just because you disagree with something doesn't mean it should be censored.
I'm still not sure why ostensibly little effort was put into figuring out mixins[0]

[0]http://raganwald.com/2016/07/20/prefer-composition-to-inheri...
Tax avoidance by Ireland and Lux is 100x the problem of British Virgin Islands.

If the EU just literally taxed big corps with normal terms, it would make a big difference.
I own my own company. That is a very specific stock and you are saying I can't own my business and run for office? Stocks aren't just for trading on the nyse.
> Hooks are nice for small components, but overall haven’t improved DX over classes much, and introduced a ton of new concerns.

Composition itself is a huge DX improvement.

> It also makes it harder to reason about component lifecycle.

I would argue that it is the same if not better than class based components. One of the amazing things about hooks is that you can ignore all of the hook updates and just treat the values returned by them static to see how the rendering will happen at a particular instance.
I don't see anything unfair with this. I tell my friends that they can either buy BTC for $60k now or for millions per BTC later, and they choose not to act, although I'm happily providing all the knowledge and resources to understand it. They prefer to own something that they can see and feel, and I respect it.
the wings make the craft much wider than a helicopter, plus someone could easily walk into them when it is on the ground, idling.

wonder why no insects evolved with a rotating wing. rotating propulsion exists in nature, though at a microscopic level. (flagella)
So then they'll just make signup mandatory and circumvent the legislation that way.

Device fingerprinting is still something you (or the browser vendor) can mitigate.
I wonder what demographic is reading physical newspapers in Europe to cause a difference compared to the US.
The arrogance In The comments is incredible. The gasping fetish for “targeting” and hoarding data and any attempt to put manners on said activities by the EU as making business not worthwhile is really laughable.
You've listed the reasons why governments try not to regulate things until there's a blatant disregard of even common decency.

We're way beyond blatant disregard.
Adding capacity, dropping suspect traffic.
Tech bros are now the gatekeepers of information for hundreds of millions of eyes (not just youtube, also google search manipulation, facebook algos, arguably outlets like netflix...maybe not Amazon yet) and here about half of the western world is cheering on the suppression.

How can someone place so much trust in this suppression without even seeing what's being censored? Is it just a deliberate blissful ignorance? Are these people really so naive from the comforts of modern western living?
Forgive me for challenging you, but if the rules for downvotes are not applied evenly, where is the bar for which other rules must be applied evenly? It is saturday, and presumably with the exception of Dang and a few others, none of us are 'on the clock' so to speak when we are here, despite what our procrastinations during the week may indicate. If a topic on the front page list is boring, you pass it up, and all is right with the world. Why is this different with comments? (this is a rhetorical question, but I'll receive the response if you'd like to add one)
Yeah they're about to feel the full Streisand Effect.
> It's not a personal decision anymore than the MMR or polio vaccines.

The world will be made by the people browsing HN. Programmers will be the new blue collar workers whose decisions will impact our infrastructure more than almost anybody.

Holding views like this is a scary proposition for the new world we're entering. I am deeply disturbed by how pronounced the desire for authoritarianism is among this group of individuals.

We are supposed to be better than this. Free software is all about freedom - not conformity. It is about having the freedom to maintain one's privacy and not having to explain yourself for wanting to maintain that position. The code is the code, but motivations for that code are wholly irrelevant.

Instead we appear to be drifting in the direction of "open source" - full of wining babies who demand things from the select few with the actual talent with complete disregard for other people's rights, motivations, talents, and interests.

It's a miracle that installing McAfee Antivirus software on our computers was never a government-mandated law.
By providing useful products or services?
Absolutely a fair point. How do they get your attention though?
I was also put off by the author not being able to make the distinction between a library and a framework. The two are almost the inverse of each other: a framework is an application scaffolding while libraries are the building blocks that fit into said scaffolding.
> The amount of actual errors or conceptual misunderstandings in it is so numerous and overwhelming it is difficult to respond with anything other than exhaustive blow-by-blow refutation.

Normally people who spew things like this don't really have anything factual to say from my experience.

The author has extensively edited the article over the past decade and addressed all the valid criticism.
Cause, if you write "twice as likely" you will have to measure against vaccincation rates. If 1000 people are vaccinated, and 10 get infected, versus 10 unvaccinated with 1 infection: who is more likely?
As a white male your position at FAANG is on very shaky grounds. To me those places sound hostile to the degree that I wouldn't want to work there. Do you empathize with that and try to understand? Probably not, because I am a white male...
For me (and I suspect a few other people working with react, but certainly not everyone), the main issue with hooks is exactly that class components were fine, and hooks are fine, and we did not need nor want more "fine".

Hooks feel more like something added to fill in space and another example of the ecosystem bloating itself just for show.
It's cartel behavior, they are trying to control every facet of the environments they live in.
Hence why there are no competitors and all the upcoming platforms get acquired and absorbed.
In much of red America folks are already living freely like before. Most of the major impacts like job walk-outs and shortages are directly resulting from more heavy-handed covid measures imposed in other states or by the federal government.
You are not forced to use the pages/apps that are ad-funded you know ;) Traditional advertising that intrudes on public spaces is much more "evil" by that standard.
The president of the AMA in Victoria (australia) 2 days ago came out saying that non vaccinated people should sign advanced care directives to opt out of resus care given their choices. It has been panned by the national AMA and the past president as well as a very strong majority of doctors here (we did, after all, take a vow and the idea that you withhold care from people is really quite unthinkable) but absolutely many in the medical profession are really tired of what’s going on when there is an easily available and unfortunately politicised option that will reduce your risk of needing hospital care by 70-90%
No, At serious BigCo's developers (and their managers) are undergoing training on how to evaluate OSS software and only accept dependencies according to the company policies.

You don't develop complex software by having to go through legal for each of your dependencies.
I'm not aware of any theoretical optimizations that lifetimes would enable. Aliasing information, absolutely, but the lifetimes themselves are purely used to reject a given program, and currently have no other impact. Maybe you could do something neat with reusing storage slots, though it seems like LLVM is already pretty good at that?
This project looks very young. It might evolve into a contender but even the document on Bash compatibility just says "TODO" and frankly Bash compatibility is going to be a multi-year project on its own.

For anyone after an upgrade path from Bash/Zsh then Oil shell is a lot more mature: https://www.oilshell.org/
> Most of the nations where these kinds of restrictions are in place aren't in danger of getting their hospitals swamped to that degree.

Literally all developed nations had their hospitals swamped. In western europe this is no longer an issue since many have gotten vaccinated.
We see this happening with TVs, etc. Soon cars will have it.
It seems like we have a lot of social problems like that; we have laws about them, but the enforcement became spotty somehow... Some people can start an online bank, or have a "taxi app"; and it's OK; but everyone else has the laws against it enforced.

Perhaps some of the conspiracy theorists talking about the undermining of the prosecutor and court systems since the 90's have been onto something.
Why refuse? If the money turns out to be ill-gotten you can just prosecute the owners and seize the money.
This article is written by a troll. Account with the same name has been active on lithuanian twitter recently and been spreading fake information about life in lithuania under covid pass.
> radio and tv have always been free and have been a way for people especially the poor to get informed

Informed? You mean manipulated, right? Watching open television makes me physically sick because of the constant agenda pushing. I can't watch 5 minutes of news without some person imposing their moral judgements on me and telling me what's right and wrong. It's made even worse by all the advertising, the open networks get the bulk of it.

If banning advertisers kills these networks, we'd be doing humanity a favor. Facebook's election manipulation and clickbait news articles have got nothing on these folks.
It's not, when all you get in the feed is a bunch of links to web pages full of ads and crap.

It was supposed to stream full texts.