skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using chat clients since the '90s but for the life of me I can't figure out how to use Discord. At least for me, the interface is effectively unusable.

It was bad enough for me to attempt to use such a proprietary service, even if I couldn't figure it out. And then I learned about all the shady practices, such as going after third party clients, seemingly random deleting and/or locking of accounts, requiring phone number, and now I just refuse to touch it.

I am clearly not Discord's target audience.
If 1960s appliances lasted 80 years then I'd see many homes with 60s appliances still (as the 1960s was only 60 years ago). I don't see that, the appliances I see day-to-day in the wild are modern. I don't know a single person (including my grandparents when they were alive) that has appliances that old at their house that are still functional.

My parents owned six rentals for almost 20 years from 1980s-1990s. They had to replace at least one appliance in all six rentals during that time, and they only bought second hand appliances for their rentals for many, many years (they stopped doing that when an oven came complete with roaches once).
Always fun to see the default tailwind logo
Looks like C being Low-level or not needs a precise or formal definition of low-level language. Without that, it falls down to opinion.
> Of course changing an entire country from the (slightly more) dangerous 230 to the much safer 110 should be considered as well...

Eh. So, both are only dangerous where the electrical installation is defective.

At that point they're differently dangerous. If someone is able to make contact with live (via for instance an exposed wire or defective plug design) then 230V is a bit more dangerous. If the wiring is marginal, then 110V is more dangerous (in that, with reasonable household wiring, it will heat more and is more liable to cause a fire).

Given that I have a modern socket type (BS1363) I'm more comfortable with 230V, as, if there's botched wiring somewhere I can't see, it's somewhat less likely to be fire-hazard-y.
> I think it was built that way because electronics were more expensive?

Mercedes has been the king of Rube Goldberg vehicle systems for ages. Anyone I know with one has had numerous electrical and other reliability issues. Shame as they used to make decent vehicles that actually lasted but boat anchored them with technological clown circus.
1) Why do I want discord to have a perma-copy of everything I share? Where's the peer 2 peer file send?

2) Clients can auto integrate URLs, like IRCCloud. It works just as well as server side integration.
Little me kinda liked that sound — it meant I was going online!

Though I kept wondering how is it that when you pick up the phone while downloading something you just hear seemingly random constant static, yet somehow the computer decoded that into useful things. And how you were able to download multiple files from different places simultaneously over a single phone line. It felt a bit like magic. It was much later that I learned about the packet-switched nature of the internet.
TeXmacs doesn't use TeX?
>I think most people choose platforms because of their popularity. Everyone uses foo, let's just use foo.

The "popularity" reason does not explain the cause & effect timeline.

Discord was started 2015. But Matrix, XMPP/Jabber, IRC were older than that and thus by definition back in 2015, they were already more popular and well known.

Thus, the original first reason can't be popularity -- because there was a point when Discord was not popular and it was still chosen over Matrix & IRC. The reason is that it's easier for project maintainers to create new Discord servers + channels. E.g. : https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/204849977-How-...

Put a different way... What caused Discord to become more popular than Matrix? The obvious answer is that a few clicks on a web page is easier than installing and configuring a Matrix server. Is there really a better explanation than "ease of use"?

EDIT reply to: >Discord was first popular with gamers because it offered _good voice chat_; and this popularity drew in other communities.

I emphasized "good voice chat" because in that sentence, it's the more explanatory reason than just "popular". So the other and older alternatives like IRC did not have good voice chat. And this drives decisions of gamers that prioritize a desirable feature such as seamless VoIP over the need to use an open protocol (IRC) that's not owned by a corporation.

In other words, whenever the proposed reason for product dominance is "popularity" or "network effects", we always want to dissect that further and look for the reason that caused the rising popularity. If we don't, we just end up with infinite recursive reasoning such as "it's popular because of its popularity" -- which is not a satisfactory nor helpful analysis.
If you actually read the articles and then look at the underlying sources you will see that everything I stated is correct. I won't stop correcting your dangerous misinformation.
> In China mainland, Hong Kong, and Macao, certain iPhone models feature Dual SIM with two nano-SIM cards. [1]

So are you going to venture that Tim Cook is using an iPhone built for the American or Chinese market?

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209086
I did some research into pens and my preferences 10 years ago. I settled on the Zebra Sharbo X LT3 from jet pens. I've gone through about 5. The matte paint gets worn smooth and chips to the brass underneath, the coating on the stainless steel pocket clip starts to come off and irritates my skin, and occasionally the the plastic mechanism on the inside melts because it goes through a clothes drier. I love it. I flip and write with it every day. I got through undergrad and grad with it.

Unfortunately, it does not come in orange anymore. I use 0.5 mm graphite, 0.7 mm blue ballpoint (most uses), and 1.0 mm black ballpoint. I've considered red ink instead of blue for a long time, but I'm not a teacher or accountant.
The article doesn't go into specifics as to the cost of removing carbon. I imagine those costs will drop as technology approves, but the model may assume that.

There's also a cost of reduction that's not factored into most model, the cost of coordination. A model can just say "suppose every country restricts their carbon emissions to X%" but that would require a lot of coordination and implications on state sovereignty that aren't factored in. There's also the enforcement and game theory aspects that would have to be addressed.

> “Betting on being able to bring temperatures down after a larger overshoot is very risky because of the uncertain technological feasibility and because of the possibility of setting off irreversible processes in the earth system with even a temporary temperature overshoot,” wrote second author Christoph Bertram, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, in an email to Ars Technica. “Furthermore, such an approach would be unfair to future generations, as it basically would shift more of the mitigation burden on them.”

Future generations are likely to be much wealthier than ours. Imagine your great grandparents saving their pennies to buy a nice set of doilys to pass down to you?
Perhaps the most unorthodox use of corrugated iron was the Bob Semple tank [1] of WWII. It was basically a corrugated iron shell on a Caterpillar D8 chassis, with 6 machine guns for armament. The eponymous designer and New Zealand's Minister for Works at the time, Bob Semple, based his design off a photo of an American tank he had on a postcard.

Needless to say, it wasn't exactly successful. Only 3 prototypes were built, none were used in combat, and they were eventually converted back into tractors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Semple_tank
how would the term 'fetishizing' apply to a discussion of paper culture?
It seems that light reflected off walls can achieve up to 70 Mbit/s in a controlled environment. But yeah, it's still hard to think about direct applications in our lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Fi

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/th...
> It’s just unpopular to say as much online these days because the people who do prefer WFH are sensitive about any suggestions that it isn’t universally superior.

Maybe it's because people WFH don't care at all if you want to spend 2 hours commuting, or that you don't mind getting covid by staying 8h a day in a closed office with tons of people. But people who doesn't want WFH, not only want to be in a office, they also want the other people in the company at the office too, because otherwise "I worry I'm going to go in to the office and be the only one there".
Is there a language that exposes the stuff below assembly? Like assembly language presents a nice sequential ordered view of processors as if they execute instructions 1 by 1, but we know the reality is quite different - each instruction is many micro instructions, they compute data dependencies and parallelize accordingly, pipeline & predict heavily etc. We do so much to fit async data dependent computation into sequential models, only for that to be translated back into async/parallel by the CPU. I wonder what that kind of PL would look like?
would you download a car?

theft is when you take something from someone, when you download a movie, Netflix users can still watch it, Netflix can still stream it and they don't lose anything.

In fact their profits have gone up, despite helping piracy by releasing more and more content easily sharable outside of their platforms.

Netflix alone made 7.5 billions in the third quarter of 2021, up from 6.4 billions in the third of 2020.

someone really believes that leaks are unfortunate? have you seen a single image leaked from the next Indiana Jones movie? Do you know the title?No? you know why? because they'll work next year on the post production and are keeping everything under rigorous control. leaks will be useful only when they are ready to launch.
When Luca..ehm Disney wants to take secrecy seriously, they absolutely can and will.

Anyway: I pay for prime video, because it's included with prime. I rarely watch other streaming services nor download their content.

Last exception was Foundation from Apple, thank god I did not pay for that!

Usually it works like this: I wanna watch an old movie, say Total Recall, some streaming service bought it for Christmas or whatever occasion together with all Schwarzenegger movie, to release a "member berry" bundle

I probably already have it, ripped from DVD, when it comes out I download it again because I'll probably find the x265 version which is smaller or the 2160p (or 1080p) restored version.
> - iOS and Android: Power-efficient mobile systems, wakelocks, etc.

- Docker, Borg and Kubernetes: Container isolation, cluster orchestrators.

- Modern browser environments, with high degrees of isolation.

- Fast JavaScript runtimes and specialized JITs.

- WASM.

Would be interesting to know what Rob Pike thinks of all these.
Or, those of us who grew up in socialist countries understand the folly of overarching government control of the economy. Nothing drives home the importance of price signals more than having to wait for years to buy a car despite having the money to pay for it.
Useful, but dangerous! I would have to check if there is already an environment variable in use before I did that ..
Yes we’re required to wear masks, be fully vaccinated and we still have lunch together. This varies by company though.
> Presumably Apple executives, by virtue of working for a global company, are more likely than average to use dual-SIM or swap between SIMs when travelling.

I’d imagine it’s the opposite. Presumably the company pays for their roaming charges so swapping SIMs is a foreign concept for them.
SIM swapping has nothing to do with a physical SIM. It's convincing the carrier to reissue a new SIM and associate it to the previous account. It can be done just as well with e-SIMs - in that case the carrier will give you an SM-DP code instead of a physical SIM.
> Documents can be saved in TeXmacs, Xml or Scheme format and printed as Pdf or Postscript files. Converters exist for TeX/LaTeX and Html/Mathml. Notice that TeXmacs is not based on TeX/LaTeX.

From http://texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html
This isn’t as effective as you’d think. There are a ton of positions listed as a physical location, like “Portland, OR.” But then the job title has “(remote)” added to it and there’s no mention of any on-site work.

I think companies are doing this to just show up in more searches.
That's something completely different. GDPR takeouts are only referring to YOUR data. The data entered from other people is not yours. It's not that hard to comprehend if you think about the legal aspect. This is a compliance issue more than anything else if they could they wouldn't give you anything.
Could I easily import 30k large and arbitrarily nested JSONs into Airtable?

I'd love to have something with an easy to use UI for filtering that can also be shared.
For starters, metal interior panels seems like a great way to get electrocuted.
> People choose platforms because of their functionality, not because of their code licensing status

I choose software based on the freedom behind their licenses and always will. I value my relationships with others over mere technical differences.

I hope you at least learn something of our existence, besides that without people who think and act this way, there'd be no Wikipedia, Linux, Wordpress, or alternative to Windows.
This is an endless debate which I won't get myself into.
You're using "efficient" to mean effectiveness against death given infection, but the vaccines aren't close to 90% effective against that. [1] says they're 54% effective against death given infection, which actually predicts 78% of deaths being in the vaccinated if you plug it in to the formula.

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
I try to be the Devil's advocate.

The scarse resource is not that song or that movie. It's the time of the people that created that song and that movie. That's is part of the cost of production.

This is similar to there are millions of houses but only a few in the most scenic places. Want one of them, pay more. It could be the same for the most popular songs and movies. The time of their creators is more valuable than mine. When writing software probably the other way around.

Of course they don't sell songs and movies like that and creators sometimes only get peanuts. I'm not a very good Devil's advocate.
Why would you? That's data you own.
I know this command doesn't depend on a lowercase `pin` variable so there is no danger. Note that this doesn't change the variable in the shell, just the executed command.
Vaccine effectiveness against Delta/Omicron infection following 2-doses/booster
I remember speeds usually being 40+ kbit in Russia. On the rare occasion when I got anything slower than 40 I just disconnected and tried again.

> hovering the mouse cursor over the dial-up icon in the system tray in Windows to see your line speed

Didn't it show a bubble thing from that icon when you connected saying "WebPlus is connected, your speed is XX kbit/s"?
Prisoners in jail, in my country, or every other country you can imagine, can't leave either. It's called conviction. China invented a lot of things, but surely not this.
Does anyone know how the game was implemented in JavaScript?
SIM Swapping attacks are not performed by physically stealing a SIM from someone’s phone. They usually involve having someone who works at the carrier making changes in the system to route calls/data to a different IMEI. Physical or eSIM would be irrelevant in that case.
You mean if someone uses a million dollar zero day to hack an iPhone? You can still set a SIM pin on an iPhone eSIM as well, btw.
Looking for feedback on this App idea
It's only available in public chat rooms private messages are not recoverable no matter the client.
Good call: that's (effectively) last year's though, so it's possible things were better this year (although doesn't look good - and doesn't seem to match numbers OP was stating).

Edit: actually, maybe not: the doc mentions March 2021 and Oct 2021 funding...
I think it's a reasonable assumption that if you own an iPhone, you have access to the internet.
Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29691647
> There's some scepticism going round about a model of technological innovation where academics invent an idea and engineers implement it. While I accept that affine types were known to academics, I recall a precursor to them existed in the form of C++ unique pointers.

There feels like an implicit value judgment here, that the work of "academics" isn't needed because "engineers" figured it out themselves.

> I'm wondering whether the Rust creators reinvented affine types independently, instead of learning of them from the academic literature.

Why would this ever be a good thing? Is it "cool" somehow to be proud of not taking advantage of the hard-won knowledge of other people who actively hoped their work would get used?
Discord was first popular with gamers because it offered good voice chat; and this popularity drew in other communities.
By cluster support I mean:

- ability to use ReplicatedMergeTree in the table schema

- round-robin writing to multiple nodes

It is mostly a matter of providing configuration options. Thought I could skip it in the first release.

>How are you handling persistent storage?

If you mean avoiding data loss by using ClickHouse cluster, then yes - we use CH cluster and replication :)

ClickHouse handles data corruption surprisingly good - even if there are broken parts CH continues to serve the rest of data.
You’re assuming the platform chosen can’t be changed.
Two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29691647
I am sorry, but what? You can just remove the association of the eSIM with the telephone and activate it in another. There is no lock in here.
Bummer, I can't even enable reader mode in firefox as the page instantly fails to load. I've disabled WebGL over security concerns.
People will Pirate before they do this.
This was my thoughts as well. It seems like we just drove around in a circle and ended up back where we have to contact the provider when we change phones.
Ow wow! I remember that the sounds were so real after I purchased a sound card!

I am still amazed by the animations. They are still looking very good. Great game.
Bharati Research Station, Antarctica
Sounds like he's saying that a low level language without invisible abstractions no longer exists for modern CPUs. Thus the calls to rethink both the hardware and language.
Awesome, I did not know that this works :-) Thank you.
Hydrogen uptake causes molecular 'avalanches' in palladium
Indeed. All electrical devices are just space heaters that do something logical with the electricity while it's heating up the wires :-)
The original comment was talking about lacking data exports tools/options. The workaround is using GDPR but even that is lacking.
Posted because this study is making the rounds on twitter [0], as it shows a negative protection after 3 months of two doses.
The study briefly mentions it might be related to different behavior patterns between vaccinated and unvaccinated cohorts, twitter mob is obviously ignoring this possibility...

I had to edit the title of the study for being too long, original is: Vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 infection with the Omicron or Delta variants following a two-dose or booster BNT162b2 or mRNA-1273 vaccination series: A Danish cohort study

[0] - https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1474106318206255113
You should ask the millions of my compatriots who got out of poverty thanks to the economic reforms.
I don’t have a physical sim in my phone, but I have 8 esims.

As far as I can tell the physical sim slot is just a complete waste of space, I can’t use it anyway without toggling one of my esims off.
Another big issue is silently rejected emails.

A client of mine had corporate clients who relied on MS's hosted email solution. Often emails would be accepted from our MTA onto theirs, but never show up in inboxes or spamboxes. They were just silently discarded, even though the IP had pretty good reputation (and had been used to send email for years).

Eventually, the problem got so bad they just had to switch to a hosted email solution, since there was no way to work around it. I would have insisted the other company deal with it, but they wouldn't pay my client if the invoices weren't emailed, so we didn't really have a choice.
There is also an implicit assumption that we will have more abundant green energy - renewables, born again nuclear, fusion etc. The "cost" is largely driven by cost of non-fossil-fuel energy.
Nope, nothing you can do on your own. It still requires being a carrier and operating physical infrastructure. It's not VoIP.
I'd like to get your opinion of such the app that allows users to read and discuss books in real time.
OK, but here's my problem with that take:

1) CI/CD Systems exist, compilation does not have to be on my local machine. So do build farms. In Google compilation does not happen on your own machine.

2) Not all FOSS is compiled. (Python, Ruby, in some cases javascript; though that is increasingly not the case).

3) Not all FOSS contribution is compilation: Art, documentation, support.

So a compiler does not need to be run by "everyone". But discord/slack/teams/irc/zulip/matrix and outlook/thunderbird/gmail kinda need to be run by everyone.

In many cases the former (IM) need to be running all the time, where mail and others can run async.

So, with all due respect, don't try to pretend that instant messengers should not be held to a higher standard than our developer tools; where the output is more important than the tool itself.
Yeah that's what stood out for me as well. I wonder how long it takes to get a citizenship in the US. I immigrated to Germany and the experience has been surprisingly smooth and flexible:

1. Got a student visa to come study a masters in Germany

2. Did an internship and got a job offer before I completed my studies.

3. This is the part that blew my mind - my employer asked me if I can start working in May 2021 and I said I would like to (I was almost done with my masters thesis) but I don't have a masters degree yet and I can't work full time on my student visa. They simply applied for an EU Blue card based on my bachelors degree that I got from my home country (Computer Science) and I started working. The immigration office ("Ausländerbehörde") did not even care that I was currently enrolled as a student in Germany and that I haven't graduated yet. Germany gets a bad rep for its bureaucracy but this was one instance where it was surprisingly flexible.
It was an application support position with shifts and I was looking for a software dev position and I just didn’t feel any good vibes in the interview. It didn’t seem like the kind of place I wanted to work.
Thank you for the notification. I'll be taking the update for a spin.
Having a backup payment processor is fairly standard for legitimate businesses.
People have become much more insular since the pandemic. I live in the night life district. Nearly two years in, the neighborhood is still clearly far less lively than in 2019, despite the fact that at least the businesses that didn’t go bankrupt have all reopened at 100% capacity, and our neighborhood has a 95%+ vaccination rate (meaning vax mandates aren’t keeping people in, and vaxxed folks should feel safe going out).
I suspect most oil companies are investing in post-fossil... to the end of future-proofing themselves; they have no interest in fossil fuels being supplanted any time soon. That would be to cede position to their replacements.

So their investment will result in less public benefit than equivalent investment by players that aren't, uh, invested in fossil.