skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're reading a lot into what I've said (e.g. hearing that some versions of English that are in use can be invalid). One way to tell that I'm not invalidating any particular version is that I put "ungrammatical" in quotes.

Whether we like it or not, when non-natives from 5 different countries get together in a room in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, the subset of English they're speaking is largely the same as when non-natives from 5 other different countries get together in a room in Lima or in Gaborone.

The language they're speaking has grammar rules. It can be thought of as "standard Global English" because it's identifiable, distributed, and distinguishable from American English, British English, Singlish, etc.
Databases and other high-throughput data infrastructure software use CPU pinning, also HPC. The reasons are similar: higher cache locality, reduced latency, and more predictable scheduling. It is most useful when the process is taking over part or all of the resources of the machine anyway.
Twitter shares jump 10% following news that Jack Dorsey will step down as CEO
Yes but nobody on HN has ever - ever - come up with a better funding model for them. It's all complaints all the time and people don't even seem to bother researching what they have been doing lately.

It's also fun to watch people complain about the Google situation and then, 10 seconds later, complain about "side projects" which are actual independent sources of revenue.

I don't envy the market dynamics of their situation. Selling FOSS is hard to begin with, and it's even harder in a market that is utterly commoditized by players 1000x larger than yourself, and it's even harder if your niche (privacy) rules out nearly every funding option apart from the search deals with Google.
I'm currently working on getting Kali Linux installed and working on my Pi400 with an adafruit screen attached to the GPIO port. It's a convenient size for hand-carrying, and with the screen disconnected it could pass (to the casual observer) as a simple compact keyboard. Especially when paired with the pi400kb "driver" [1]

That it'll run off of a USB battery pack for quite some time is an added bonus. It's obviously not as powerful as a dedicated laptop but as a "cyberdeck" or an incognito penetration test device, I think it'll find a place of regular usage in my life.

[1] https://github.com/Gadgetoid/pi400kb
I have no idea, I don't have to do anything like that thankfully.
For those looking for a lightweight but powerful music player, Foobar2000 is a good choice!
Who is the author talking to? The people writing the tech would prefer to make a straight html page, it's the Powers That Be that pay them well to do more.

Nobody's being stopped from making "web 1" webpages. Making a call to action like this isn't going to make big companies suddenly change their mind.
Inevitable after that Space.
Well, fiberglass rebar is used more and more.

Its longevity has yet to be proven though.
Undefined Behavior deserves a better reputation – SIGPLAN Blog
The installer is called jetbrains Toolbox. Never had any issues on systems with i3, gnome, sway...
> the focus was on making information accessible and editable using automation. There. That's the magic. Let's bring that back instead of a mere aesthetic.

Maybe what I'm aiming to do with stealth aligns with your goals? [1] I'm trying to use the best parts of the web3 idea (decentralization, distribution, sharing of storage + bandwidth) and combine it with the ideas of the old web, where the focus was on distributing information and not on advertisement or social influence.

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth
This was re your "IPv6 is inevitable" comment -- we can get pretty far with IPv4. In particular, as long as you keep using third-party load balancers, you could probably keep using it for decades. And you may never have to migrate your internal infrastructure at all.
That’s the first year pricing, it goes down significantly by the third year. A larger company could potentially negotiate a discount on top of that. Each of their applications can also be subscribed to individualy as well, some for around 200 euros.
All archive.org items have a torrent file, so even if IA goes down you can still download the item from seeders.
>Policy making determines who makes money. As such, it will ALWAYS attract those looking to profit by influencing the process, aka regulatory capture. aka corruption.

I agree wit this part.

>This is inescapable so long there are regulators and so long it involves humans.

I don't agree with this part. Our nation has gone through periods of more corruption and less corruption. It's pretty simple to get back to a period of less corruption: keep voting out the incumbents. Will the people who replace them be corrupt? It's certainly possible, but we know the ones currently holding office are corrupt. Furthermore, when we have fresh politicians, because they are new to office, they won't have such intrenched interests. We will never get another TR, FDR or LBJ when someone corrupt is holding their seat of power.
I listened to my first MP3 ever (Creed's "Higher") in 1999 on Winamp. It really whipped the South American camelid's posterior. Dang. I'm old.
I think people are excited for _any_ change at Twitter right now.

They've been making progress in the last year or two but I suspect most people think they could be doing more...
> you're not going to be able to give the focus a solo CEO is

How the fuck does Elon do it then? The mf has like four concurrent organizations under his helm.

> I think the bigger issue is who gets to replace him: will it be someone with smart ideas or someone to serve as a puppet of activist investors?

The rising stock price implies yes. Elliot MG has been desperate to make twitter the next mega app. Expect payment options, return of VIne as a tiktok clone, etc

Engagement is key, afterall. Good bye to text, I guess.
He is most likely talking about the Cliqz scandal which in my opinion was really unethical. but it pales in comparison to what Google does every day.
That's great feedback! I'll work on putting together a before/after - That should better communicate how it works.
EDIT: Just added a side by side comparison of the page - Its not the cleanest but hopefully shows you what it does!
This made me go pull my copy of The Last Whole Earth Catalog (1971) off the shelf, haven't looked at it in decades. The small boxes you refer to all had a small illustration of a dragon-like creature (kind of like a crocodile) at the top, an icon of sorts to guide you to that text box. Not sure, but it may have had something to do with the story itself, as the last page in the catalog (over 400 large pages!) seems to have a conclusion with a much more elaborate illustration.
FYI, it was named "Divine Right's Trip" by Gurney Norman.

Now I'll be spending some more hours re-visiting this treasure from my teenage years.
> Who would buy Twitter??

Zucc
The industry around the world is running out of aluminium. Aluminium mills are closing all around the globe, except for China.

Why? No magnesium. And China don't let out its magnesium.
You can often tell if a truck is from the South or North (other than the license plates of course). Sound Horn is more common in the South whereas Blow Horn makes it likely it is from the North.
At my previous company we used Tableau for a while and I was rather happy with it. I’m not sure what they are using now but I also build an excel exporter for common data and we also produced an excel file by hand for analysis so I would guess they are using excel now.

I honestly would suggest to use a BI tool rather than going with excel but you might be forced in one or the other direction based on what the people in your company are more comfortable with and how good or bad you data is. The quality of our data was bad enough that a manual step was required and more people where comfortable with excel.

I personally would go with BI tool. Like I said, I liked Tableau but from what I’ve seen MS PowerBI is also nice even though you will bind yourself to SQL Server. I would recommend Apache Superset as a no cost/low cost alternative. Tableau was expensive and because of that the people who where most interested in using it didn’t get the licenses and the people that got the licenses where not as interested. Also the licensing structure for Tableau is more suited towards larger companies and I personally think that BI tools are way to useful to limit them to management because of licensing cost.
Are you disagreeing with me?
Tedium.co is apparently primarily a newsletter and not a website. Doesn't address the GDPR bit, but explains the dominance of the "subscribe" stuff.
I suppose something like: “Hey pal, you pay me 400k a year. How about we spend 200 bucks a year to make me 10% more productive?”
[ ] shitty option A
[ ] shitty option B

Telemetry showed that users overwhelmingly approve of shitty option B!
Thanks, I'll try that and see what happens

There does seem to be a culture of "keeping your head down"
Glad you mentioned hyperthreading. That can be easy to overlook. You reserved CPU 1 for a given workload? Did you remember CPU 49 as well?
The big asset is spectrum allocation, right? Anyone can put buildings on the ground, just get some metal and a backhoe, but only one chosen winner gets the right to use a certain part of the RF spectrum.
archive.org regularly removes things when they are alerted :(
> the amount that the small oil wells produce is too low to justify the cost.

> but unfortunately "regulation" of any kind is seen as a bad thing in wide parts of the US.

So you would have them be regulated out of business? Most of us in the U.S. do indeed see that as a bad thing.
It's sad but it works: "Whether you personally love it or hate it, the truth is, sticking a big ole pop-up in their face can be one of the most effective ways to jolt their attention & grab their email for a return visit."

In Defense Of The Popup
https://cxl.com/blog/popup-defense/ (yes, page has a popup).
Yeah there's need to be changes around Mozilla, something like it happened to AMD I guess, otherwise the latest of us still using Firefox will get tired of it and change to any Chromium-based browser (or Safari...).
Web1, Web2 and Web3
Jack Dorsey reportedly stepping down from his role as Twitter CEO
How do you know that it is java that is making it slow? Do you work for jetbrains?
It is my experience as well. I only use CLion for Rust and C. All the rest (Python, TS, Kotlin, Ruby, Scala) I do in IntelliJ.
I think it was foolish for manufacturers to design systems that are supposed to last decades while relying entirely on the technical implementation of a service provider without signing a contract for the entire lifetime for the device.

I've seen it here with systems that rely on the voltage of phone lines to operate. They simply don't work with most digital telephony without additional hardware.

The consumer and business service industry doesn't stand still for industrial and IoT applications and time and time again do companies building these things assume this time things will be different. Whether it's 2G networking or Windows XP, failure to plan and make the necessary deals for the entire lifetime of the device is what's really causing these devices to fail.

If you can't make sure the necessary technology is available for the entire lifetime of your device (which can easily be 20 years or more for a car!) at least make your interface upgradable and well-documented.
The very first step of our engineering onboarding process is to turn on FileVault...
Trust the experts... No not those experts
Those reasons might have applied half a decade ago. I was one of the early adopters of chrome and I've since switched back to Firefox for a better experience
Perhaps cultivation of reclaimed land could capture some carbon? And it says something about re-greening the Sahara too..
Ask HN: Igniting cool conversations from incoming LinkedIn connection requests
I often receive Linkedin connection requests from interesting people I don't know.

I use to send a welcome message, but I've seen it doesn't work (almost no cool conversation starts).

My current message sounds like "glad to connect, how can I help you?"

Any idea on how to make it better?

I've searched online and found a bunch of "how to spam connection requests without sound spammy" but it's not what I'm looking for :)
One annoyed UX I dislike about Firefox is swipe back on iOS. Firefox team should fix their swipe back which go to previous page, it also lead to page refresh, and caused the scroll lose its position.

This deliver a poor experience when implementing History API compare to Safari and Google on iOS that work as expected.
Working out?
A squat rack + Starting Strength book does not cost much and you won't need a trainer and you will become strong, fast.

None of the things you described have to cost a lot of money.
Cheap bike, is still a bike. You can still watch a cheap tv.
"Nice" does not mean much, really.
I’ve been primarily a Python web dev, focused on Django.

But in picking up modern frontend, even in the past two years, the frameworks and toolchains have matured or simplified a great deal.

The training options are plentiful. To some extent, Node has Deno “competing” to add features and provide performant backend.

Esbuild, for example, is built on rust and unlocked massive performance improvements in bundling.

It seems like JS is in a better position than it has ever been.
There is absolutely nothing stopping you from creating those, with the added benefit that "web3" will allow you to host and distribute your content without ever worrying about Geocities going down.

Don't believe me? Make your silly site and put it on IPFS, or host it on the beaker browser. That is "web3" already.
If it's got IntelliJ's keybindings, I'm game. I've been a JetBrains user/customer for just under 20 years, and my brain is now hardwired for them. I've got a residual part of my brain that can do Emacs, but VSCode has never been pleasant for me, so I'm into this if they can do it right.
Deventials: One Stop Support for Developer
Ha ha, spent a day building a differential out of raw Technic parts — the thing was the size of a lemon. Then saw they introduced a specific differential part for Technic — the size of an acorn.

Edit: found the differential: https://www.walmart.com/ip/LEGO-Technic-differential-gears-G...
Interestingly in contrast to the others it loads up fine on both my laptop and my S9 with Firefox, even after disabling my adblocker and unblocking all scripts in NoScript.
Patents last 20 years. Mickey Mouse has been copyrighted for nearly a century - more than most human lifetimes - how long is “fair” for a government granted monopoly to one of the worlds richest corporations? Especially one busily buying up IP after IP that it did not originally create?

The natural conclusion of your principle here is eternal corporate copyright. When would you be comfortable with Mickey Mouse (or anything else) going public domain? 200 years? 300? Should it ever?
Hi! Michelle, an engineer from Warp here. Thanks for mentioning us. We've been building a Rust-based terminal.

Currently, we're currently building a feature called "Tasks Not Commands".that allows users to interact with the terminal via a task instead of an obtuse command or series of commands. See the mock here [1]. For example, be able to type "undo last git commit" instead of needing to memorize `git reset --hard SOFT`. We envision users being able to create and share their own custom tasks as well. What do you think? Join our discord to stay updated. [2]

[1] https://assets-global.website-files.com/60352b1db5736ada4741...
[2] https://www.warp.dev/discord
Ask HN: How do you know if a job candidate didn't outsource the assignment?
I'm pretty sure I learned that if a bus has the blinker on when leaving the bus stop you are supposed to let them into traffic. A quick check seems to confirm it (§20/5 StVO).
In Sicily in narrow crossings where you don't have the right of way but cannot see you can slowly inch forward, and if someone is around the corner they will honk at you to let you know to wait.
the method of announcement not the actual contents. There was an investor group keep on kicking Dorsey out so that's not strange. But to have it announced like this on a random Monday morning before start of markets, and not even a proper presser from the board("Twitter did not respond to a request for comment."), but a "leak" by a reporter...

TF is going on?
> you're not going to be able to give the focus a solo CEO is.

I agree. As much as he tried to justify the dual CEO roles, it never made any sense.

It was also maddening to watch him shift to a 3rd focus of promoting cryptocurrency and his own cryptocurrency investments. Hanging on to the CEO role of both Twitter and Square put him in a great position to push both companies toward more cryptocurrency integration, but it never felt like it was being done for the benefit of the users of each platform.
On the other hand, a lot of the stuff Google adds to Blink and tries to push as a standard is often outright bad (e.g. FLoC, WebUSB).
What are the reasons to switch from Winamp to something else?
The 2014 act that the paper is referencing didn't really do that much to tighten gun laws in MA. It cleaned up some convoluted language, reorganized some of the law enforcement, changed licensing requirements to be simpler, added some mental health support for public schools, required firearm transactions to be recorded online instead of with paper forms, and made FIDs (the non-carry type of license) "may issue" instead of "shall issue".

It was mostly a "clean up" bill, rather than a "tightening" bill. So I'm not sure anybody expected a clear inverse correlation with violent crime in the state.
It said 5% when I read the article. Now they've removed the % and just say "Twitter stock was up on the news before being halted due to news pending."
Interpol arrests 1k suspects, seizes $27m in crackdown on cybercrime
Man, that audio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaF-nRS_CWM) makes me so nostalgic.

Apparently it was a Wesley Willis reference, too, which just makes it 1000x better.
I've asked and they don't know for the most part either. It's become tradition at this point and it's not known by the drivers or the painters why. It's just cute
NB four and fore are sound the same in some accents
> How the fuck does Elon do it then? The mf has like four concurrent organizations under his helm.

Tesla = primary concern | SpaceX = Gwynne Shotwell (Prez & COO) | Boring Company/Neuralink ["Labs" projects] = funsies
> fake news like the NY times

...OK?

> What is their differentiating factor to Google now?

Mozilla doesn't gather your data to show you ads
Why some coronavirus strains are more infectious than others
There are plenty of soft sciences (and even some hard) where the sum-total of know facts still have different interpretations.
The thing with W3 is that it's mostly driven by either bored tech bros who cashed out during W1/2 or a generation of young hustlers who were born with phones in their hands and never experienced the bliss of a non-commercial Web. Pair that with little to no physical desires, no traditional economic/educational perspective and it's no longer a surprise that making money from nothing is so attractive among these peers. The good thing is that the entire ecosystem is still so clunky* that even old blokes like us can help steering the ship into more meaningful territory.
It's fine to get jealous when selling a rock is making more money than your startup in its lifespan but on the other hand, let's enjoy that the Web is now an instrument to reward individuals for their creativity and not just the most sophisticated tech stack or pay to play game.

Overall, I miss Web 1.0 as much as Retro games. And that means looking at screenshots brings me more joy than actually using/playing it. Because let's be honest, it mostly sucked in comparison.

* https://paulstamatiou.com/crypto-design-challenges/
Great. We acknowledge the importance of this developmental period. So what are the options, and which option contains a downside that is more palatable than the others?

I.e. we fear the effects of total isolation of a four year old more than the risk of their stunted facial recognition practice etc etc
I work on a user-facing product and our users don't hesitate to provide feedback on stuff like long click sequences or bad keyboard navigation.

In case of mozilla specifically telemetry didn't help them to not destroy firefox's UI.
The true reason why Modern man is unhappy
Inspired by the book 'Escape from Freedom' from 1941 by German psychologist Erich Fromm.
Honest question, as someone who actually used Winamp back in ~2004: why would you want to use it now?

I have some nostalgia for it, sure, but what exactly does it actually offer you that something like VLC doesn't? It seems like it plays my music and videos competently enough, and I don't know anyone who actually uses Shoutcast anymore.

This isn't a passive aggressive dig or anything, I would actually like to know.
1 is the worst possible rationale I've ever heard.

"Let's support a company that abuses its customers, developers and refuses to implement web standards just so a company that makes a far superior product doesn't gain more market share..."
Exactly. If anything, the opposite of what the parent says seems to be true: as each new shiny technology or development pops up (e.g., social media or the crypto space) there is an explosion of utopian idealism that is only later dampered when the reality of the downsides sink in. It would be a nice of change of pace if we actually seriously considered the potential downsides of the new cool thing (say, the privacy implications of the social media explosion before universal use).
Yes I loved Winamp 2.x - the transition from tapes to mp3 was great for me. My car had a tape player and not a CD player and it was more fun to make tapes that’s cds imo
Why does that matter? 5.14 drops IDE support and lots of other old hardware, nothing is forever. You thought they’d support basically useless hardware nobody uses forever?

How many years of “lifetime” do you realistically expect out of the slow Pinephone or Librem 5 hardware? Even sold new they’re ancient parts, how is using old weak hardware and selling it as a new smartphone of all electronics not obviously planned obsolescence? It’s possible someone will volunteer to keep updating the hardware drivers to phones that will be killed by the minimum requirements being raised and network changes but I see the hardware as obsolete already.
its interesting that Jack hovers between two worlds with such opposed politics - Twitter is woke AF while the crypto community is liberatian/pro-2A/pro-markets

is this an indication of Jack's political re-awakening? the rebel move in 2021 is to take the red pill...
It's become rather clear that any attempts to "fix" Twitter are sure to degrade it instead. The best thing to do would be to leave it alone in benign neglect, but that ain't gonna happen. C'est la vie.