skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's indeed surprising that there are not more new ideas around.

There are lots of new ideas... if you know where to look ;-) The problem is that, being new, they are neither widely distributed nor as well refined as the old ones.

Keep an eye on 'modern note taking' productivity tools in the orbit of 'second brain' or 'networked thought'; they are upgrading many of the principles of the Canon Cat to the current networked environment, and follow through on the spirit of the classic "augmenting the human intelect" dream.

I believe they have the potential to replace the outdated desktop metaphor, and offer a digitally native metaphor for information processing and productiviy.
I don't know how vote counting is done in other places, but I've seen it in my country and it's not vulnerable to basic sleight of hand, at least not for more than one or two votes. Poll workers are all citizens randomly selected, the president of each table takes envelopes from a transparent box, opens them, shows them to the other three or four workers of the table (plus any observers that want to be there) and declares the content of the vote.

> But I do think that electronic voting could make voting easier and more accessible.

I don't think so. Think of all the people who have difficulty with basic computer/phone tasks, either because of knowledge or accessibility issues. Do you think all the steps to securely cast votes with an electronic system are going to be easier and more accessible for them?
What’s soft vs hard money ?
Someone has got WebKit compiled to wasm (no js support though):

https://github.com/trevorlinton/webkit.js

https://trevorlinton.github.io/

And another has JavaScriptCore compiled to wasm:

https://mbbill.github.io/JSC.js/

Combine the two and you have a full browser engine!
They don't know "how many cars these devices are installed in"

They did investigate "a single individual who was not targeted"

You can't write an article about something you haven't done.

They explain why they did it in the article.

FUD is fear uncertainty and doubt, they did the exact opposite. Dispelled the FUD with an investigation. And then published it.
> If this isn't mandatory where you live, you live in a country with bad hygiene laws.

Are drugs illegal in your country? Do people still do them?
It sounds like it shouldn't even be happening in USA. It's a trivial bit of code in the routing software to check if CLI matches SS7. If it doesn't: don't connect. You don't even need to correct it. There's no legitimate reason to connect a spoofed number.
Anchorage Residents allowed to return-home after Avalanche Danger Remain
That's mildly inconvenient when you want to make a phone call.
The more real-time it is, the more likely it is misinformation.
> https://writingcenter.uagc.edu/ellipses

You quote a US website for this, but we're talking about English.
If that is the case (90 days makes a difference in outcome) why even adjust for age and smoking?
Star lifting seems plausible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzuHxL5FD5U
That's a good one. Feigning ignorance while simultaneously putting salt in the cut.
For just 10 cents a day, you can send a lobster away on a cosmic trip.
JNI => "I write C code & after compilation java can access it as com.package.ClassName"

JNA => "I write java code & load libsomething at runtime, asking for FuncName(int, int) which java can then call into native code."

You want JNA for your use case.
Yes, this confuses me as well. It would be good to know what kind of fixes the grandparent has applied.
So, looking at stats for England and Wales about 80% of homicide incidents result in one or more suspects being charged and a small number of those end up being acquitted (though it often takes some time for people to be charged). I guess that counts as significantly fewer, but wasn’t the impression I got from my initial reading of your post.
You have a very different definition of totalitarian...
I think you can just serve text/markdown and things that don't know the markdown subtype will just display as plaintext because of the text main type while things that do e.g. extension registering the mime type will render it. Would need to test to verify though.
Exactly, the notion that the poor are poor because they're inherently feckless and therefore deserve their poverty is an idea that's long past its sell-by date. These are the systemic issues of our day, and they won't be solved by sneering at the people affected.
Doesn't it cause more headaches?

I've had experiences where devops minded people I've worked with have wanted to self-host services such as Bitwarden. Sure, it will be cheaper and you will have noone to blame but yourself, but once things go bad they go really bad. It's also another thing to keep eyes on.

I guess similar argument could also be extended to self-hosted clouds. Seems like it could take away a lot of focus and energy from working on the product itself.
If you remove option A, it would necessarily be a different outcome for someone who would have voted for A over B.
I was wondering why the name sounded familiar. For a second I thought this was referring to ReactOS, which is something else completely different.
> which has a cost of about ½ cent per kilowatt hour

Energy is not even the half of the answer. You have to extract an electricity from your carbs. Also you have to own some mining powers and to be sure that governments will not confiscate your property. And please not forget that "monetization" part of mining strategy becomes less and less effective if your goal is just to get bitcoins instead of to support community. Last but not least - among all the possible "change in coding"-s they are talking only about PoS, there are no more of intellectual load in the article.
I have a data-only SIM in my iPhone that does not have a phone number. It can not make or receive calls, it can not send SMS messages.

I still get SMS spam on it.
That's quite a claim. Do you have some sources for that?
For finasteride I agree, as it decreases DHT, which is not exactly a useless hormone. It shouldn't be prescribed to anyone, as you have said. I don't necessarily agree for the Viagra/Cialis. Generally cialis is safer than viagra, with less side effects. But their mechanism of action is quite simple and doesn't cascade to a lot of other body functions, inhibition of PDE5. Viagra also inhibits PDE6 more, thats why you get a blue-ish tint to your vision, and PDE1, which is more dangerous and can cause tachycardia. Cialis inhibits PDE11 more, which affects skeletal muscles and the prostate. That's why Cialis is sometimes prescribed for BPH, and why bodybuilders take cialis as a supplement (drive more blood into the skeletal muscles, decrease blood pressure).

Getting to your point of "other psychological issues" that can result in ED. Cialis and Viagra are there for one specific case of ED, which isn't caused psychologically. If you can get an erection in the morning, while you're sleeping, PDE5 inhibitors won't help.

Of course, the less drugs you take, the better, easier on your kidneys and liver.
No drugs are without side effects, PDE5 inhibitors have them, but they are mild and can be diagnosed easily. Of course, dose is important, and health issue history needs to be taken into consideration.
A tool for converting BIP39 mnemonic phrases to addresses and private keys
It would result in less "engagement". (And a better "filter bubble". At this point, I don't know which is worse.)
> Incremental search was a great idea, but it's like Jef bet the farm on that one idea.

Incremental search was a headline feature, but it was far from the only novel idea. Among others, Raskin also removed the notion of files with separate lifecycles on disk and in memory. Rather than presenting files, the Canon Cat worked by offering workspaces that were persistently stored on a floppy disk. Take a workspace disk to a Cat and the entire workspace state is available to you without worrying about loading specific files, etc. He also took a minimalist approach to the application suite. Rather than switching between multiple fixed function apps, he extended the core word processor app with calculator, terminal, and programming capabilities. In an era where mass-market PC's only really ran a single fixed function app at a time, this was a huge step forward.

> I find it incredible that it used to take getting a machine manufactured en masse to push out a UI idea like this.

In one sense, it didn't. There was also the SwyftCard, which brought similar concepts to an Apple ][ expansion card. You view that in the context of a mid-80's ecosystem that also had the likes of TopView, Windows, GEOS and the like, and there was a great deal of contemporary prior art to the notion that it did not take a new machine to introduce a new UI concept.

Having said that, there is a sense in which it did take hardware to introduce a new UI concept. Maybe the best semi-current parallel is the original Apple iPhone. Running iOS on a contemporary Windows CE mobile phone would not have produced the same level of experience - there were aspects of the Apple hardware design that were very important to the overall experience. So it was with the Cat also. The notion of a machine that booted off a single disk into a complete workspace state is one example, but so is the keyboard. (Which included not only the specific Leap keys, but also front labels on the keys for specific functions and a "Use Front" key that selected those operations.

> Now we can emulate any idea you want to try in a web browser, emulator, etc....

As long as it fits into the hardware you have available. Just as a counterpoint, I can emulate Castelvania Symphony of the Night on my iPhone, but it's a comparatively terrible experience to play using a flat touch screen instead of a normal controller. The software is there, but the experience is not.
Voter intimidation can happen in volunteer communities too.
Note the whole system would collapse if they only let in academically gifted people. Because only a small fraction of those gifted people would have the connections and wealth that is the core networking value these institutions provide.

Thats why simple systems like a lottery for everyone that's qualified aren't adopted. And the people trying to get in dont want them to be adopted, they dont want the system to be fair or socially useful, they want access for their kids to the exclusive club, with just enough window dressing to make it seem like something else.
Then they can ask someone else. Or move to public thread. But quite often, they are not blocked and the person they are asking responds.

And quite often, you get better and faster response when you ask a person instead of forum.
I like stuff like that. A similar (but warmer) channel I subscribe to is “Primitive Technology” [0], and most of my subscriptions are about what is good in the world rather than what is bad.

Exceptions on my subscription list are Kurzgesagt (self-described as “Optimistic nihilism”) and the maker of the machinima “Freeman’s Mind” [1](voicing the silent protagonist as an antihero).

Thing is, I’m not normal. If my nature was the modal average of humanity, the horror genre and tabloids and spectator sports and celebrity gossip wouldn’t exist.

[0] https://youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6PNZBb6b9LvDWpI-5CPYUxG1...
I think the kitchen thing is mostly a myth. Although it's true that often the refrigerators used during meal service tend not to be as cold as they are supposed to be, because the door is constantly being opened.
don't populate browser history for each name generation
> virus checker

That industry is founded purely on fear and very little actual expertise. They should not fulfill an example role in your mind and nobody should actively listen to them when considering the future.
I have already addressed that point in this thread. The emissions from coal plants are being addressed with a 10x reduction already in the works. It is not being ignored, at all.

On the contrary, every effort to minimise mercury emissions and highlight their danger is worthwhile and raises awareness. The only reason we are talking about coal emissions now is because of this effort. If anything, consciously choosing not to address this specific issue and applying mercury emissions controls inconsistently would weaken the case for cracking down on other sources of emissions. It would smack of exceptionalism and preferential treatment. If you can carve out an exception for this source, why not others? Why do high tech rich world projects like a satellite fleet get a pass, but not a specific coal plant in a third world country with the same emissions?
Lucene: The Good Parts (2015)
I've had no issues with tplink routers, their hardware is good.

Secret is to check the openwrt database for compatibility before purchase, power up the router, confirm its not dead on arrival, then flash the openwrt firmware.

Best bit is the router config is just flat files - you can transfer them from old to new router and have it up and running in no time even if they are different models/brands.
I would maybe start migrating repos away from GitHub, since they have proven to be quite unreliable. Nonetheless, I must say I do appreciate GitHub's UI and even their CLI is quite nice. Is there a service out there that basically provides the same good user experience, CI/CD and has no costs for public repos?
Apart from the unreliability I can't complain about GitHub.
How’d you get started / get in a position to both have all these opportunities, and be able to take them?
I think it's easy to pile-on and say "GitHub is down again! Should've self hosted lol!".

When, in reality, it's one service having issues and not the whole site. These incidents also seem to be resolved quickly.

Downtime is not the end of the world.
Go until 1.3 supported all the way back to Windows 2000. I was pretty sad when they yanked support, the idea of becoming a hermit running Win2k writing Go is an oddly satisfying fantasy.
There's a fantastic piece in legal aid cuts in the LRB here, for anyone who's interested: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n11/francis-fitzgibbon/s...

It's obviously specific to the UK, but lots of the broader points are applicable anywhere (especially in the US, where the provisions whose loss he's writing about are provisions people have simply never had).

Arguably the most painful, cringe-inducing part is this one:

> The restrictions on legal aid are already leading to an increase in the number of people representing themselves in courts and tribunals. This has caused the Bar Council to publish A Guide to Representing Yourself in Court. It opens unpromisingly:

>> The law can be very complicated. This guide explains things as clearly and as briefly as possible, but will only give you an overview of what you need to do if you have a civil law legal problem. This means we have had to miss bits out – bits that are likely to affect what the law would say about your own situation. So please do not rely on any of the examples used in this guide.

And also this very important observation:

> A civil case, let’s say something complex to do with a tenancy agreement, may well take twice as long in court with a self-represented litigant. The savings on lawyers’ already modest legal aid fees hardly count for much when the cost of running a single courtroom at the Old Bailey is estimated at £10,000 a day. [...] The conclusion must be that this legislation has nothing to do with saving money.
Yes. Every scheme I’ve seen to “improve” first past the post brings in all sorts of problems that the big brain political pundits are blind to (willfully or not).
Slack's threads design feels like they don't want you to use them. They take a small fraction of the screen, they're awkward to find, and they're awkward to keep open. Zulip has gotten the entire chat thing entirely right, yet Slack continues to treat the most important unit of conversation (the thread) as a fourth-class citizen.
> Doesn't it cause more headaches?

No. You update it on patch day (or when a big CVE comes out that you are actually impacted by) and know exactly what goes wrong and when. If you can't solve it, you roll back. When Github (or a part of it) goes down, you know nothing and with persistent issues there's no way to solve it either.

A company of the size where "but we have to scale" is an actual issue should self-host. A SaaS solution is a risk that you cannot mitigate.
I propose an experiment, find someone to look after your savings and belongings for a while and move to a new city with nothing more than US$500 or equivalent. You may not have friends or family within seventy miles of this location, nor a pre-arranged place to stay. You can come back for your money and possessions at any point, but if you don't last more than six months then you have to do a write-up on HN of your experiences and admit that poverty is more difficult to get out of than your naïve assumption.
Great, ZKProofs present the possibility for everyone to do better than that with much less work.
Disclaimer: I despise Jira with the energy of a thousand suns.

With that out of the way, yes, we use GitHub Issues for managing projects. We have about 40 repos, each with their own issues but each repo is pretty much a standalone project. Every repo gets a sprint planner "project board" which allows us to track progress and see who is working on what. The fact that we can automate some stuff with strings in commit messages is useful, and the paper trail left by doing so is incredibly helpful. Plus it's fast enough that you can actually get stuff done, rather than sitting watching Jira load some text at 56kbps modem speed over your 1gbps fibre.

Things that it lacks - any kind of sane permissions stuff. For a user to be able to add a ticket to the sprint planner, or even move one I think, requires giving that user write access to the repo. This just seems batshit crazy to me. We have clients who, if they so wished, could hose the entire repository just because we wanted them to be able to use the sprint planner.
> all carbon in the ground can be sold as crypto

Isn't it can be sold as dollars? Just keep selling it to US Navy.
This is "Hacker" news.
The weird, wonderful history of fairground photography
Not many people will have experience with too many different texts but they might be familiar with a books reputation. Of course they can compare their experience with the text to a great textbook from another subject e.g. a Spivak in math or Knuth in CS.

Also I've self studied and am confused about the whole pure/applied distinction, do some books fall somewhere in between depending on the chapter?

I have Forest Mims's which is a cult classic, but is the size of a magazine. Also I have Foundations of analog & digital electronic circuits by Anant Agarwal which is quite good. I'm not aware of a Spivak/Knuth level text but I imagine there will be something like that out there but perhaps not as well known as those texts.

I can't vouch for its quality but if you want a free secondary resource, All About Circuits has some html books at https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/

The others comments about M&H have me curious.
> Debian uses the Schulze method

For those that are wondering (like I was);

Google & Wikipedia:

"The Schulze method selects a single winner using votes that express preferences. The method can also be used to create a sorted list of winners. Therefore, if several positions are available, the method can be used for this purpose without modification, by letting the k top-ranked candidates win the k available seats."
Oh it's just the daily GitHub incident.
That chance also increases with them being in politics.

That chance also increases when they are part of a committee.

That chance also increases when the ‘adversaries’ are tech-moguls trying to push for their version of utopia.

Ultimately, I’m not sure we can realistically accuse most political dinosaurs of just passing time for a couple of decades.
There are over 1.412 nodes in the nftables syntax tree (as of 2019).

I know. I wrote a Vim syntax hilighter for nftables.

And it is still failing.

Just imagine how much untested surface area is that for the `nft` CLI.

My work: https://egbert.net/blog/tags/vim.html
It's a bit of a weird thing as the whole word tries (or tried) to move away from on-prem stuff. Like Jira stopping support for non-cloud versions etc.
it boots to the same state it was in just before you shut it off. modern macs kind of do this, but most of the time the apps aren't quite the same.
At first I didn't see the big deal, because it looks just like a nebula, just in RF spectrum. Then I processed the fact that it's over a million light years across.
I'm 26 and have been on Metformin for almost a decade at this point and will probably be on it until I die. Thankfully though, children are not in my future.
Sorbet: Stripe’s type checker for Ruby
> fund inventing a backwards-compatible GitHub replacement

There are so, so many and there have been for years. Folks use Github because it's what they know, not because an alternative is hard to find.
The problem with data protection acts is that they try to protect data and it won't work cause the data they try to protect is outside people houses. Everything that is outside house is public and we just need to assume you need to provide data about it so we can verify your identity like with public key. Just to give example, when you live the house anyone can ask you anything ex. ask your neighbour about your name, anyone can read your house number, can see you or take photo of you legally or illegally that's different topic but we should protect peoples privacy inside their houses instead of trying to protect something we can't cause everyone see us how we are when we leave the house.
It's basic public / private key problem.
Everything outside house is public key and everything inside is private key.

So with phone we shouldn't protect people identity, address and/or company name but protect people from disruption with calls they don't want to answer and give them ability to verify who was calling, by even seeing their photo cause yes if I'm your neighbour I can see you and if I move next to you next year I can see you too. Wow.

There should be 2 call indexes one for contacts that should behave same as it's behaving now and second index for anything else that you shouldn't receive notifications but you can check this spam missed calls index and verify anyone that called you and add them to contacts - just how the old good paper phone book worked.

This empowers people to be able to make decision if I want those people to call me or not, cause you can always call back and it should be widespread when you call someone first time expect they might won't answer your call same as if you email someone they might not answer cause your mail is in spam.
Sorry, that wasn’t addressed to you specifically, just aiming upwards in the thread.
Difftastic: A diff that understands syntax
GPT-3 could automate this to some extent. Anything that gets complicated and uses state requires AGI. My own effort in this direction: https://lxagi.com.
> But then my 5s is not much better than a Nokia. It can’t support iOS 14, which means that most apps are beyond it. And for some mysterious reason it will only send and receive messages, even via SMS, when it’s connected to wifi. And when I turn on mobile data, it promptly switches off.

So the actual problem is the lack of updates and lack of user freedom which can be provided with free software.

> But such is built-in obsolescence, pretty soon I’ll have to get a new phone.

Same as above. These problems are solved with GNU/Linux phones (Librem 5 and Pinephone) which run mainline Linux kernel and will receive lifetime updates.
Can you elaborate? I’m afraid my Greek is just about at the level of “Ενα τσαι, παρακαλώ” followed by the Athenian responding in English to correct my pronunciation.