skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This one is a guaranteed win: https://www.unixpapa.com/floodit/?sz=2&nc=8
Nobody is putting words in your mouth. I’m responding directly to your own comment above:

> Why "teach" the Holocaust? Why make young children carry the burden of a monstrous time in history? How does it make them better at English?

Since you’re unwilling to explain the rationale behind your objection, it’s reasonable to conclude you’re just trolling and are wasting everyone’s time.
Would Oracle relicensing it be able to change anything? OpenZFS and ZFS split over a decade ago, does the OpenZFS project have the right to relicense everything they've done in that time?
I remember Zend also heavily relied on Singletons, which brought all kind of limitations
There was a racing game for the PS2 back when I played video games that had a drift mechanic. A friend of mine figured out that if he drifted while turning the wheel the wrong direction, the game would drift the car around the turn -- albeit facing the wrong way.

But, it didn't ask for my social graph, nor did it ask for my credit card to get me more powerful cars.

I saw a golf game I thought that would be fun to play on android. The problem is that in order to get better, you had basically shell out cash to get better clubs and more powerful balls. It didn't rely on skill as much as it relied upon how much free cash you were able to devote to the game.

At that point, it wasn't fun anymore.
Assuming, of course, that neither of you lose your income for the next 30+ years ...
I really enjoy this site's design. At first I thought that LocalCDN was blocking some CSS/JS but to my surprise, no - it just looks that way. I like it.
How the World Went from Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics
> One of those angles comes with the accusation that you’ve been a willing victim of perpetuating untruth but here’s the REAL story.

Totally. Well identified. I'd always been dimly aware that this was a thing but your words really brought it into focus for me. Thank you. Sometimes discussions on hn can really be enlightening.

Thinking more about this I had the inspired thought that perhaps this is about a sort of civilizational decline in that instead of coming up with new stories, (inspirationally new tales of new things) we are just like a snake eating its own tail, like endlessly copying (a copy of a copy of a copy, in the fight club lingo), like the criticism that we hurl at the East (they are endlessly copying things) but in fact we're just endlessly copying things in our in our own culture. rather than delivering new, We're just constantly deconstructing.

and that might be a symptom or even a cause of the sort of decline that we're in...

Very interesting reflections and nice to be inspired by your comment to draw these two points together: the sort of civilizational decline of the West, and this trope about endlessly deconstructing histories that we're obviously engaging in.
Well, it’s overreach, but only slightly. Facebook is not stopping obvious scams he has reported, so yeah - causing Facebook pain seems like a very good way to make them out systems into place that stop scammers.

If a billionaire wants to make Facebook’s costs go up, he will. And this particular billionaire is quite willing to spend a lot of money to make it happen. Makes him look good in Australia. There isn’t any downside for him.
I don't think I've ever seen the tech press warn users that they need to be wary of installing apps from inside Apple's App Store the way they have with Google's Play Store.

>With malicious apps infiltrating Play on a regular, often weekly, basis, there’s currently little indication the malicious Android app scourge will be abated. That means it’s up to individual end users to steer clear of apps like Joker. The best advice is to be extremely conservative in the apps that get installed in the first place.

A good guiding principle is to choose apps that serve a true purpose and, when possible, choose developers who are known entities. Installed apps that haven’t been used in the past month should be removed unless there’s a good reason to keep them around.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/joker...
It should be noted that it is a project from 2015.

But just looking at the clusters, esp. on the east coast and look at the marked known locations one can visually see that the 22 clusters don't make sense. You can visually cluster a lot of stores towards the existing warehouses and remove the need for the estimated ones in between.

But still this is an interesting approach as it helps in identifying the clusters that seem to be served by these known warehouses.

Maybe not taking the distance as the crow flies, but trying a street route could be an optimization. And then trying to find the minimal amount of clusters that still show the known locations at roughly the center.

Not sure if this would be a valid approach.
Solar panels have a ~20 year life and are also getting cheaper as time goes on. Maybe building mounting capacity for them is smart, but it's not necessarily smart to more panels than you will properly use. You can buy more panels later if it actually becomes smart to use them and you have a use case.
thanks! The results displayed after entering a search term are currently coming from the Google books api. Agree that those results can be refined more. It was originally built for picture book previews but can be used for any book.

The genre menu picker towards the top of the page can be used to filter books by genre such as "picture books" or "mystery and crime."
Yes, I think they probably hijacked the scrolling because they thought they could do it better. It's pretty awful IMO.
I had to read that multiple times to prove to myself that the text didn't literall call out "Unix Wizards".

After 10+ years of doing qa on the ZFS appliance I completely ignored the warning and you could have slipped anything past me in the text.
> Spotify's insistence that it display Podcasts on the Home Screen is very frustrating.

100%. In the top 7 Rows, the 1st,3rd, 5th rows are Spotify displaying me podcasts about things I don't care about. I use Spotify to just listen to music but its frustrating to see top rows just filled with podcasts. I thought of giving a random podcast a chance, big mistake. Now it just displays me shows related to it and I cannot even turn it off in settings. I don't understand this aggressive push by spotify on promoting Podcasts.
Israel is only about 60% fully vaccinated.
Black on white on the original Mac was a novelty at the time — most earlier computers had monochrome screens, usually green, amber or white on black.
True! I believe the unique paring here with the Apple tags is that the device is very small and piggybacks off of iPhones, and has a year+ battery. I don't believe GPS + cell devices can get there on the battery department, but I might be wrong.

Putting something in someone's car once is a lot easier than putting something in someone's car and then recharging it once every couple of days.
A 25 year old hidden message to testing team
> often at a surprisingly shallow level you're going to have to go find some real books.

Google scholar + sci-hub is astoundingly deep.

Plenty of rare old books can’t be found online, but there are also plenty which can if you learn where to look and spend some time hunting.
I don't exactly agree. Sure end users don't care about implementation directly. But simplicity of implementation does affect them indirectly. Go is already over 10 years old with maybe many more years ahead. All code bases rot. I think the simpler the implementation, the easier it is to cure rot and code smells which hopefully means Go has a long life as the implementation becomes easier to work on over time. While user's maybe don't care, it does impact them.
Android can do automatic malware scanning of unknown APKs. When you try to install one, it checks a hash against Google's database, and if a match isn't found, you'll have the option to upload it to their servers.
Slackware was one of the first distros and was Debian before there was a Debian[1] Also, there was a convenient offline CD archive version (Walnut Creek, IIRC) of it you could get for ~$20 which included several CDs worth of software (i.e. a couple/few gigs of files) before inexpensive ISPs were a thing and the world was still largely on dialup. (i.e. download times were on the order of minutes per megabyte) So getting those Slackware CDs was a bargain and orders of magnitude faster than attempting to download software for most.

[1] It was released a few months before Debian so there was no Debian, no Ubuntu, no RedHat etc... these were all distros that mostly started taking off in the to mid- to late-90's. (Ubuntu of course didn't start until early this century) For the very earliest releases of Linux you had to download boot and root floppy images and then piece together what you needed for a working system. Usually this also included recompiling or at least re-linking the kernel... it was that primitive. Then there was this new concept of a Linux 'distribution' with the likes of Slackware that took the pain out of the process and caught on very quickly.
> meaning matters for survival

That's the root source of meaning, the most fundamental reason we assign value to states and actions. It's certainly not something that happens just in a part of the brain, but an agent-in-environment thing.

We should give GPT a pair of legs and make its survival dependent on its behaviour to bootstrap the same.
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Awkvard also contains a c++ struct of arrays implementation with python numpy interface.

https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward-1.0
Back in the nineties a very popular East Lansing supermarket announced they were closing. A campaign was raised to get Trader Joes to locate in the space. A major campaign was raised and they gathered a pretty amazing 20-25,000 signatures online.

The organizers got a nice letter back from Trader Joes who said they really appreciated their enthusiasm but the East Lansing area was too small a municipal area for a Trader Joes but if that criteria changed they'd keep us in mind. A number of the group years later kept the campaign going and maintained an active Facebook page.

A couple of months ago Trader Joes announced an East Lansing store in that very strip mall they'd turned down decades earlier. Different store but the exact same development.
Other than the collision part addressed by sister comments, the shorter designs also help reduce blind spots. There ‘s a lot more than just the driver’s safety.
If they’re really serious about teaching the Holocaust, it seems pretty dumb to ban Maus because it’s one of the most effective books for teaching it to students at that age.
Care to share which company you bought it from? I am also based in Europe and have been thinking about a similar project.
Springer Nature launches SharedIt (2016)
You will never find what you are seeking.

People do as they do.

All the weeping in the world will not make it so.
Count it per capita.
What do you think the people who lived and worked in several US cities felt when those cities experienced actual violence in 2020?

Perhaps you suffer from a false dichotomy. "You are not immune to propaganda."
> almost all users (me/GoAWK included) want performance and don't care nearly as much about simplicity under the hood.

that works up until you're at scale and the complexity of the implementation causes hard to understand edge conditions and just bugs from the complexity being beyond what the developers are able to handle.
In Australia it is currently AUD$6.99 per month (about USD$4.99)
This includes 2 day Prime shipping (things regularly arrive next day for me), free international shipping for orders over AUD$50, Prime Video and Music.

It is currently worth it for me, because I buy quite a bit from the US Amazon site and international shipping is usually a killer.
I am sure that once Amazon has a hold in Australia like it has in the US the price will start to creep up and then I will need to reassess whether it is still worth it but at the moment it is great value here.
Maybe it’s becoming a major media source?

You know, like your on-demand TV channel that knows what you want, already.
SharedIt allows users to view the PDF of an article in the browser but prevents them from downloading the underlying PDF.

Here is one example of a recent Nature article viewed using SharedIt:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04390-6.epdf

I discovered the link when I was redirected from the HTML page for the article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04390-6
That's a ridiculous idea. 99.9% of people want a default experience that works well without configuring anything.
Big dog helps.
If this site is legit then this awesome.

Mobile apps and games today are pretty much dead as far as iOS App store is concerned. 99% of new and featured apps and games are "free" and try to force you to either buy tokens or pay monthly fee or something as insane.

Even the most trivial sports tracker (how many reps/minutes etc.) apps try to make you pay ridiculous monthly fee or sell "lifetime" license for several hundreds of USDs.
The ironic thing is that's exactly why the protesters are protesting!
> It seems more correct to me to say the Statue of Liberty is many thousands times bigger

If by many thousand times bigger, you mean 15 000 times bigger.

I have to admit that it is hard to say if that fits my intuition. But it is also kind of the point: it's much easier to compare heights than volumes.

edit: remove flawed reasoning while I still can :)
Lying undiscovered for 25 years, this message appears after entering a player name of 100 characters.

“Fixed That You Twisted Bastards”!

We can only speculate on who the twisted bastard was that discovered this potential buffer overflow during development of the game.

—-

dethrace is a project to reverse engineer the game Carmageddon for educational purposes http://github.com/dethrace-labs/dethrace
Thank you @magn1fico, for sharing the idea.

@tata71, I believe it can be done in a privacy preserving way. Think simple counting to answer questions like 'how many users clicked on this button?' without logging PII.
At least a couple of claps for Microsoft for requiring two separate prompts, at least one of which includes the text "virus", before letting the code load. Honestly, it's negligence by the time this code is loaded into your system.
I made a game for touchscreens, and a single pixel of "error" in input could be the difference between winning and losing. The game will cheat behind the scenes to try a few variations on your inputs to see if any of them can win - and it chooses the winner if it finds one.

I don't really consider this to be cheating though - it isn't like a person is capable of doing pixel perfect inputs to a touchscreen, nor is a touchscreen going to give pixel perfect finger positioning.
This would explain a difference in average or median pay across all jobs. But it doesn't explain the difference in industries and jobs unrelated to physical labor.
It’s simple if you’re using mostly stock design and colours, it’s a bit more of a pain with a custom design system etc.
You said the same thing that the author did..
Fedora CoreOS can rollback the operating system to a previous state on errors. This could be done as soon as you can‘t mount the kernel module anymore after an update.
What Was the Ted Talk?
Oh, and you do represent it? How can a hacker, per se, be interested in something that was most probably released by NSA by all indications and which offers just quasi-anonymity?! How can a hacker be interested in something so wasteful, slow, and expensive to transact?! Bitcoin is anything but a hacker's dream!
Because there are still needs to test secretive aircraft and technology? Just because everyone knows about its general location doesn't mean everything that happens within its borders is known. There's most likely useful work being done there today.
Population falls now in Russia because of generational repeat of demographic catastrophe of 1990's - early 2000's (there is not enough people to give birth to children right now).

On another note, it's fun to say that Russia is dependent on oil and gas. I thought EU is!
Since 2014, living standards have improved quite a bit.
maybe related to escalating Russia and China tensions? Letting them know something specific?
That's not the whole GPU, just the timing part.
Meanwhile, even this platform here continues to see plenty of accounts justifying or trying to explain away this deplorable behavior.
Where can I follow you on the plug-in? I’d like it too. And also a bit of a down side of current browser finger printing is that ability to infer the different kinds of plugins, in which this is quite a political signal
The sun.* package hierarchy for example:

https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/faq-sun-packages.ht...
It’s a tribute to Leonard Cohen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Want_It_Darker
This reminds me of Virtual Desktop on Value.
I dreamed about moving to the States and making bank, as a kid.

Growing up I realised the cost of living in an American society would be higher than its benefits.
I don't think you took this part into account.

> There might be a rich marketplace of both free and paid experiences that I could download and install into my browser.

If 0.1% of people can build and customize things, the other 99.9% benefit without having to work for it.
> Well, this is probably not the best example because human bodies are much taller than wider, so their volume wouldn't grow as fast as with a cube if you wanted to scale them.

It doesn't matter what the ratio in dimensions are, if you scale up while preserving them, volume goes up as the cube of linear measure.
> "It seems to me that there’s only really one way to fix the problems at Facebook. Ultimately, the company has a reputation issue, not a product issue."

It has a reputation issue AND a product issue. The the product issue extends to its other properties like WhatsApp and Instagram.

There is no way to configure these apps to bother (i.e. notify) you only when you truly need to be notified.

- Facebook, once it notices you are interacting less, starts sending notifications that you had never received before, just to keep you engaged. For me, these are useless notifications.

- WhatsApp, has no way of configuring/identifying "get-the-other-persons-attention-now" type messages (e.g. "open the door" or "ok, done, lets go now") and messages that can be seen at anytime during the day since they are not urgent (e.g. shared links, articles, questions to which I do not need immediate answers, etc.)

- Instagram, lets not even go there...
And Shimura does?
I think online ordering would just be too far outside their wheelhouse. I don't know what improvements they have made over the years, but when I used to work there years and years ago they were very much a human-driven company. By that I mean that ordering was done entirely manually by people that specialized in their sections, inventory tracking was rather loosely done, and the customer question of 'do you have any of X in the back' would need to be answered by actually checking in the back.

From my experience on the customer side since, things haven't changed much at all. In light of that, I think that even now, online ordering for them would be a mess that the company just can't afford in customer goodwill.
In addition Go is garbage collected. So you have a latency there as well. However, in most Go apps, you don't use that much memory for the garbage collector to become an issue.

Rust does not have a GC, but it's a much more complex language, which causes its own problems. IMHO, Go has the upper hand in simplicity. However, go also limits you a little, because you can't write memory unsafe code by default. You can't do pointer magic like you do in C. But things also get complicated in Go when you start to use concurrency. Again IMHO, event driven concurrency with callback functions (as in nodejs) is easier to wrap your head around then channels.
Ask HN: What software do you pay for that's not a browser-based SaaS?
Aside from IDEs and media production tools, are there applications that you still have installed on your machine?

Are there applications that cannot be moved into the browser?
This has been a reality since Sputnik, it's not really a recent concern. The obvious solutions are:

- Test at night

- Test with clouds overhead

- Test indoors

Once the aircraft takes off or lands hiding it is easy. It's just for the few minutes that it's out on a tarmac that you have to worry about it being spotted.

One possibility is that this is a deliberate misdirection, there is no plane in that hangar or if there is it looks completely different from the one in the picture. The fact that so many people in this thread are going down the NGAD rabbit hole (a program which is barely fleshed out and nearly all of it is open for interpretation) may indicate that this is the path the US wants Chinese and Russian researchers to go towards in order to cover up the "true" path. I'm more willing to believe that than the possibility that they left a billion dollar aircraft out in the open with a publicly tracked satellite directly overhead. It's not like they don't know when Planet or other satellites are going to be photographing the base.
Which is sad, because in real life many users really want this feature.

"--Can you please implement dark mode for your site/webapp?"

"--Dude, just use whatever css you want."
The employees who think money isn't everything... and decide to join a company that is about money and money only?
Luckily, the web is still open enough that you can do that yourself: https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist
But the moment the default stops working well, there had better be a configuration somewhere to change it so it works well again.
Looking forward to it!

On 1 vs many,I think its totally reasonable to start with 1 given you are a small team. If you force yourself with high standard (which takes lots of extra person-hours), then you lose the key agility compared with other bigger players.
I classify people into three categories.

Poor: They want enough money to survive until the next paycheck, whether it's tomorrow or next month.

Middle class: They want enough money to survive their whole lives (retirement).

Rich: They want enough to do their projects, which presumably give them more money, and lets them do bigger projects.

The mindset of all these groups seem drastically different. Some people look at the poor person and wonder why they risk their lives and health all the time, but many of them don't even expect to live that long. Some look at the rich guy and wonder why he builds space companies when people on Earth are starving.

There's also lower/higher variations. Like many people who are mentally in the rich group don't buy houses or save up for retirement. They often have less savings/assets than an equivalent middle class person, but the difference in ambition means they end up rich or broke. Likewise many poor people will spend excessively on food but be wasteful in things like health or maintenance which may cost them a lot later.

I think suicides also most commonly occur when someone drops a class. Someone rich finding out that they need to work, or someone middle class who has to dip deep into their retirement funds.
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It’s easy to come to that conclusion from what you wrote.

> But it'd really not be that big a deal compared to stuff like saying "healthy 20 year olds in their prime at near zero risk from this virus are now legally forbidden from dating".

It sounded like you weren’t thinking how your behavior could result in spreading the virus to people who are more vulnerable.