skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I felt great no one could cowardly seize my account via some court order, but instead they'd have to kill me in the streets. If thieves are willing to kill you in the streets anyway, it doesn't much matter whether you have the money on you or not -- they'll just ransom you or kill you because you're broke.

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>Well, actually, they could get a court order to seize whatever is in your pockets while some burly men hold you down.

If people are going to come kill me in the street then come let it happen. Better than cowardly seizing it behind my back via locking a number in a database. And in the third world, it's typically a lot easier to find accounts than it is people.

I can't say I know what would happen, I've only been attempted robbed at gunpoint once. I wish I could say I kicked their ass, but all I managed to do was hurt them enough that we stalemated and they went off to find some other victim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE
Pretend that everyone that you interact with on the internet is expressing their opinion about the facts.
The problem always precedes the solution. If the problem is starting to be noticed now, the attempted solutions will show up... maybe later this year, in a half-baked way? Maybe in 2023 or 2024, in a decently well-thought-out way?
It's tautological. If more people go vegan, then there will be less meat consumed. I don't think we need charts to show that..
Can I invest?
>As an example, about 20% of the emissions in the US stem from residential energy usage (0).

Sounds like we need to focus on the much larger 80% of emissions first to me, as that's where the vast majority of the problem lies, by definition.

I don't buy the idea that unless we attempt to solve 100% of the problem on the first try, we can't start working on a solution.
This article about the topic is a classic (2008): https://blog.gatunka.com/2008/05/05/why-japan-didnt-create-t...

Tl;dr: It's the writing system.
You don't need communication skills to climb the ranks, you can be horrible at communicating information as long as you are great at playing politics and telling people what they want to hear you will be much better off than the people who are good at communicating. Sadly most people mix up the two and think that politicians are great at communicating, but what they are great at is manipulating people not communicating information to people. Trump is a good example of this, he has horrible communication skills but he is great at politics.

This is my experience at least, people are equally bad at communicating no matter what role they have, since communication skills doesn't get much appreciation anywhere in any role.
because of the way Meta share ownership is structured Zuckerberg has complete control and the board/shareholders cannot eject him

Tech companies are notoriously bad at succession planning.

Car crash. Plane crash. Heart attack. Stroke. Slippery floor on your super-yacht.

There are a million ways for a CEO's tenure to suddenly and unexpectedly end. Yet the heads of these companies still act like nothing will ever change, even when they're old enough to know better.
What are some specific “magical things” that are not mentioned in the rails guides?

There’s always room for improvement and the documentation is an important part of the framework.
The enthusiast car users are suffering the same thing for the same reasons. You can see the age of the modified cars - most are 20 years old or more.
Russia to China: Together we can rule the world
Start a blog and start explaining things you’ve learned to the world.

This isn’t enough on its own, but reframing the knowledge you’ve gained in your own words is something that is worthy of practice, and will help you translate things in a work environment.

But here’s the key: pick someone you know who doesn’t have the same knowledge you do. Preferably someone smart but not technical.

Write for that person. As you write, try to imagine the questions they’d be forced to ask about the sentence / paragraph you just wrote. Is there additional context needed, or a useful abstraction to help explain the concept?

I gradually earned a reputation as an explainer after spending a lot of time blogging for my employer. I wasn’t good at it when I started. This really boils down to: empathy for the intended audience, and a willingness to write not for your fellow developers, but for those hoping to understand you and your fellow developers.

I transitioned into a PM role once I could translate things well. It’s challenging but rewarding. I don’t blog very often these days, but credit much of my current success to the things I learned by explaining hard things to a non technical audience.
The generator can power local bitcoin mining farm: no need to store/transport, frees up electricity in other places by making miners there less profitable.
And then there was non enthusiast software and it won, so I guess that's what the people want.
I feel like the YouTube Music app is actually changing to a totally different SKU when you switch between video/audio, and not just giving you the audio stream from the video.
I don't think that Spiegelman's work is so critical that the a school board deciding to keep it in or out of the official curriculum is even noteworthy, let alone something to get worked up about.

As for setting fire to Harry Potter books, if it were transwomen burning them to protest Rowling's TERFery, would that be talked about differently?
You can’t package and redistribute tweets only tweet ids.
User agents are explicitly allowed to have their own preferences, that's the whole point of having multiple browsers in the first place. If you want every browser to be identical then why even have more than one? Browsers don't even have to have display favicons if they don't want to.
> housewives feeling guilty

Or maybe the cake mix with dried egg powder didn't taste as good.
Agreed! I had the joy of visiting the Aoraki dark sky reserve in New Zealand a few years back. The night sky was surreal: I have never seen the the galaxy so clear and bright before.

Visiting a Dark Sky park was one of the highlights of my life, and I'm jealous of New Zealand expanding the concept.
For sure if you can transport liquids and gas you can transport some electricity to the nearby villages/city you pollute with your gases. I think you can make profiit but not big profit from this so why bother. It is like tech giants, why bother with a good product with paying customers if it does not make obscene amount of money.
A design of EPIC type processor based on MIPS architecture
Well there are basically only two things that need to happen:

- The number of round trips needed to render a page needs to go from 3 to 2.

- The amount of JavaScript in the core framework needs to be slimmed down.

The second is already on the roadmap -- they are making Zone.js optional, and supposedly the next version of RxJS is going to be significantly smaller. In order for this to actually happen, Google needs to keep funding the project for at least another full year, which seems likely given how much they depend on it. In terms of the former -- well, it seems increasingly likely that they'll work on adding those kinds of options to the CLI once they get through with the other stuff. And if not, you can alway go back to straight Webpack and just do it yourself. (I personally like the benefits of the CLI and not having to deal with Webpack, but if Webpack keeps improving then who knows, maybe I'll switch back.)
That’s what happens when you cut off H1Bs. Cutting off the pipeline through which the best and brightest from all over the world willing come into your country is going to have consequences.
What is so complicated about

<input id="initMyWidget" type="button" value="Play" onclick="mywidget.initGame();"/>

If you are referring to "the page is the widget" then you need to make a very good case why wrapping all the HTML in JS is in your interest. Facebook has an interest in doing this because they want to wrap every element in a bit of JS so they can closely track user behavior. Briefly hovering over a link, button or ad? Facebook wants to know everything about that interaction, in order to provide value to their clients (i.e. advertisers).

A normal developer is happy with that element just being a `<a>` or `<input>`. The entire page does not need to be a JS widget (SPA).
Also southern europe (Italy) MacDonalds are just fast foods, nothing more than a cheap place to get something to eat quick (and very used by families with children that usually love the periodical gadgets).
The Morris worm already shown what the future would look like in the early 80's.
I feed on a wood floor and I have a Roomba. Great combo.
US is a very, very regulated economy. And if you go into securities space, you basically can't even slice a piece of bread without a lawyer.

There are countries with much lower amount of regulation, without everything rolling into one giant monopoly.

I would say it is exactly that legal minefield, and active dirigisme that greatly distorts natural conduct of business into non-stop search of how to game the policy.

One thing deserving a look is to what length US legal system is set to go to intervene into sale of public companies, which is taken as purely a contractual matter in between two companies, rather than dispute over "fairness" in pretty much every normal country.

An outright fraud should of course be prevented, but courts should not be allowed to order somebody to basically be compensated for a bad deal.
React is a core part of WordPress, which runs >40% of all sites on the internet, so that alone should be enough to keep it supported for the foreseeable future with or without Meta's engineers.
We often change headlines when users point out how they are misleading, but for that we need to see some concrete explanation. Also, the best way to complain about a title is to suggest a better one! 'Better' in HN's sense means 'more accurate and neutral, preferably using representative language from the article'.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
React has far too much investment from major companies to die. If something happened to Meta (metaverse doesn't work out and they are chopped up and sold off for parts), React would most likely be spun off into a Apache style foundation (ie. "The React Foundation")
Exactly, even if Meta vanished out of nowhere, react is open source. It's also not even that large of a codebase.
Theater is everything, everywhere, all the time.

Find out what they really want. To be loved, to be a good person, to be smart, to be successful, to have a bright future...

And then tell them a story about how that is exactly how it is.

They will buy it. Every time
He owns a different type of share from the common stock which gives him extra voting power. Each share he owns gives him 10 votes, and each share that you can buy gives you 1 vote.

He set it up that way to give him control of the company forever.

Source: https://www.morningstar.com/articles/1061237/how-facebook-si...

> The Facebook shares that you and I, along with big investors like mutual funds, can buy are Class A shares, of which there are roughly 2.4 billion in the market. We get one vote for each share. But Zuckerberg and a select group of others own Class B shares, which afford them 10 votes per share. There are roughly 440 million Class B shares.

>Zuckerberg personally owns nearly 360 million Class B shares, and through agreements with other Class B shareholders, controls the vote of another 32 million. That gives him control of some 392 million Class B Shares, some 90% of the total.
Lightning is worse than that. When you do try to convert from BTC to USD, you pay a transaction fee twice. Once to close the channel, and another to transfer to the party where you want to exchange your BTC.

And further, you can't predict the fee you'll pay. And I hope you aren't in a hurry to settle in those cases.
Not sure if there's a separate in-joke involved, but 7x8=54 was a joke in the article.
Usage refreshes its recommendations on a daily basis. When your instance count increases, Usage buys RIs. When it decreases or changes, Usage sells RIs.

Our RIs are actually more flexible than SP. There is no commitment and if you want to change region or instance type, Usage will buy the old type and sell you the new type.

We chose RIs because AWS allows us to buy and sell RIs. There is no marketplace for SPs at the moment.
What is not clear to me, from a scan of the docs is if it properly escapes strings for html, or if it is a general templating system for strings.
I know that story but safari iOS is not like safari on macOS.
Multiple classes of share with different voting rights, so while he doesn't own 50.1% of the company he does have overall voting control of the company.

https://www.morningstar.com/articles/1061237/how-facebook-si...
Here's a thought experiment. You're going to use a Star Trek teleporter-like device to make an exact copy of yourself. What are the odds that you end up being the copy? Or rather, what should you believe the odds are that you will be the copy?

Of course, I, the original, will not be the copy, but if I go in knowing I'm not the copy, the the copy will come out knowing he's not the copy. Thus, you should go in believing there's a 50% chance you are the copy, and then both the original and the copy will come out with a logically consistent belief.
As someone who is in the same position as author, Angular + Firebase is a very helpful alternative to moving to Rails while providing the benefits of an SPA.
Can confirm; AOL is (sadly) still used. They're our fourth-largest mailbox provider by subscriber numbers.
Rather than just Fennec, the FFUpdater app will pull a number of Mozilla applications and keep them current. The list appears to be: Focus, Klar, Lockwise, Beta & Nightly, plus Iceraven, Brave and Vivaldi, and an unGoogled Chromium. It also seems to want to maintain my Bromite.
What happens if a non-nazi goes to an event and flies a Nazi flag to cause people to think you are a nazi
React is a client side framework (no, it's not a library even if they say it is), not an "app".
Positive progress is not going to happen anytime soon.

When the more reactionary members of the legal profession moved beyond the various topics that interested then in the 50s and 60s, the new generation moved on to business matters, as big companies were getting tired of dealing with unions and tight regulatory controls.

Over time, the interpretation of the antitrust law was changed by “judicial legislation” to narrowly define monopolies to a standard involving price increases for consumers. That’s why the government allows, say oil distribution infrastructure to regionally consolidate to two players, while Staples and OfficeMax cannot merge despite their irrelevance.

The current system incentives cartels. So when Microsoft buys Walmart or Google buys Verizon, that will be fine. 20 years from now, 80% of consumer spending will probably be directed at a half dozen companies.

Eventually, something really bad will happen. The US will get spanked in a war, a regional natural disaster will trigger a famine, etc. At that point, maybe you’ll see some change. But change is slow - the US House passed anti-lynching legislation for like 40 years and it never got out of Senate committee until Lyndon Johnson championed it.
They seem to be slowly pivoting to Svelte though.

Rich Harris is now working at Vercel. On the last Svelte Summit, Steph Dietz (a Vercel dev rel) literally said "Svelte is the future of web dev".
Well, actually, they could get a court order to seize whatever is in your pockets while some burly men hold you down.
55% of all web traffic worldwide comes from mobile.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/277125/share-of-website-...

And considering that most people spend 8 hours a day at work, how much personal usage on the web comes from the desktop? How many younger people are using computers for personal use - especially if it a shared family computer.

Heck I am a software developer and my personal computer is just sitting in a corner as a Plex server. I haven’t used it for anything productive in a year and a half and that was for updating my resume.

Besides that, Facebook got more popular because of mobile when everyone had a camera in their pocket with GPS when they csn post the highlights of their life. Not to mention WhatsApp is all about communicating real time and Instagram is about sharing pictures.
U.S. Seeks 5-Year Prison Sentence for Nintendo 'Hacker' Gary Bowser
I wrote a summary here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30091667

The tl;dr is that pkexec writes to argv, and envp comes right after argv on the stack, so a missing check caused it to accidentally write to envp when argc == 0.
Reminds me of a white dwarf in a sense, long past its peak but it was once something so enormous it continues to radiate a little for many years due to the residual heat of its prime.
That's a pretty fatalistic way to look at things, but I suppose you're entitled to your own opinion on the matter.
> The most famous would probably be the IG Nobel winning study that detected brain activity in a store-bought salmon:

A store-bought dead salmon.

I am assuming that most salmons bought in stores are dead but that particular detail is rather relevant here.

Also that had me laughing, what a great move.
Same in Central America.
MDM is transparent through the profile you install.

Same won’t be true via a third party App Store.
Then they lacked the imagination. The Facebook app would have become a web browser where Facebook controls user auth, contacts and then payments. Big $$$
why do we need to steer everyone into STEM?

some people want to be entertainers, some want to do charitable work as humanitarians

not everyone is suited nor wants to be in STEM
people like to punctuate stories with topical humor sometimes. it's a joke, not a personal attack
Management would tell you it certainly wasn’t constructive dismissal as that’s illegal! ;)
> Maybe “actual true direct pure democracy” should do.

That would certainly be clearer :)
Apple charging NL dating sites 27% commission for using other payment systems
Pretty much every license it there disclaims any responsibility.

CDDL has provisions that mean that Oracle can't sue you for (hypothetical) patent infringement in ZFS code because Sun gave automatic license to those patents when it released code under CDDL
MDM is transparent. Third party appstores wont be transparent.
He might just voluntarily step away for his mid-life crisis, the way Page, Brin, Bezos, Ellison, and Gates have.

I figured a similar dynamic existed when Google did their Class-A/Class-C split. Brin, Page, and Schmidt together hold voting control of the company, so I could envision a future where investors tried to buy up all the Class-A shares and enlist the cooperation of one of the founders to oust the remaining founder. For a long time I held onto my Class-A shares and sold the Class-C ones in case the voting rights premium spiked. But that didn't happen: they've all stepped away from operational roles at the company and in Schmidt's case even resigned from the board. Now the Class-A and Class-C shares largely trade in parallel, and in some cases Class-A even trades below C (which is slightly insane since they are strictly better, but market fluctuations).
> A skilless women can always be a prostitute.

Prostitute is highly frown upon socially and morally around the world... It is also often illegal in many parts.
> Go's templating packages should support compile time type checking.

Does anyone know of a decent type safe templating package out there (for any language)?
I have a feeling AWS lambda's hypervisor has a lot of overhead, and simply making your workload smaller/lighter has a very noticeable reduction in execution time (cold start is <10ms on most of our GO lambdas).

re: full serverless:

I mean, try for yourselves but unless you're running an echo statement, you'll probably be hard pressed to get lower than this. Some early experiments with Rust showed 5x that, and that is as close to GO as I would dare to compare.
Hi I'm one of the authors of the blog post, happy to answer any questions here !
You know, sometimes all you need is “do I have a baseball sized tumor or not”.
Your argument also hinges upon the lack of specificity in "thou shalt not kill" in extending it from humans to animals. Why is it wrong to murder conscious things but not unconscious ones?

> Therefore I opt to reduce the suffering as much as possible.

Isn't suffering an unavoidable part of life itself? If this is the aim, then we must immediately kill everything that is alive. That will end suffering the fastest.
I wouldn’t use cellular as a success story. Even with billions of dollars in investment directly from the Feds, AT&T seems to be wallowing.
Even if Meta died today, React is too big to fail at this point.

I'm sure the React team would quickly find funding.
Did you read those articles? Neither of them actually shows someone showing up in a location as a result of using AirTags to track someone. They show someone finding an AirTag that wasn't theirs.

I'm willing to grant that the number of people caught would be lower than the number of people who were actually successful -- we don't catch every murderer, for example. But isn't there one, just one, example of someone actually showing up? Nobody ever gets caught? Like I said, this is classic urban legend material.
Yeah Netflix had a big post-earnings drop, too, and Reed Hastings ain't going anywhere.
This is the kind of thing where everyone thinks the right behavior is really obvious, but those expectations conflict, being drawn from the assumption that one's own preferences and habits are normal, and techie narcissism inflates the importance of the whole thing to nutty size...
So YouTube removes down votes and Twitter adds them? Feels like Social Media Companies don't know what they are doing
"Reading docs top to bottom" is the answer to this frustration. It's strange that people don't think this is something they should do.
Facebook has survived long enough that people are likely to stay just because they're so accustomed to using it. The marketplace is great and some people have tons of family photos on the site.

AOL tried to be all things to internet users and wanted to be a walled garden at a time when cheaper alternatives were coming out that gave users more freedom. Facebook is resigned to the fact that it isn't a walled garden, but it does things to try to retain and gain new customers anyway.
Spend $800 and get a second hand Aeron. I haven’t had back pain issues in years. Also get a very large table and keep it clear. All the extra space really helps keeps me in the working mindset. Besides that, make sure your monitor is not placed too high above your eyeline.
I would suspect searches are overwhelmingly weighted to beginners to a particular environment.
When we say "low-cost", just how low cost are we talking here?

I skimmed through the article, but still didn't comprehend how much something like this might actually cost.
> but he decided to go get his MS in CS, without even doing any research project and just opting for the GTA instead of GRA route.

This is pettiness taken to the max.

Most research people do in grad school will not have applicable use to employers. And for an MS, people will simply learn more by going the coursework route. Going the research route is good only for PhD admissions.

And finally, many universities in the US do not even offer a research route for the CS MS. They tell you to apply straight for a PhD.

If you're going to ask tough questions, at least know your domain!
> evading blame for a disastrous project launch

Found the Timestream guy
Because those don't include patent indemnity which protects you from hypothetical patent litigation from Oracle (and other contributors).

Unfortunately, it's IIRC the part that, according to some, makes it incompatible with GPL