skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue OP is asking about is the "everything crumbles" scenario, and (from their comment down the thread):

> Most importantly securing against account termination and being unable to recover that account (like it happens a lot with Google).

We are not solving for high availability or minimizing risk of brief downtime here. The DNS part I addressed, so you're really down to two. DNS round-robin and monitoring can get you close enough to one. Until a solution like Handshake/ENS are adopted, you won't get away from the registrar.
Slight skepticism should be applied to any productivity claim. There was research to determine if changing X in the office boosted productivity. But in the end it was found that X didn't matter, within reason. Changing any X boosted productivity and the benefits often diminished with time. I thought this was called the Hawthorne Effect but I am no longer sure.
absolutely not, LGPL is LGPL no matter who you are. Such a restriction would make it incompatible with the LGPL (or even any free software license).
Is there a reason a Okta needs to contract with a third party provider for support? I mean their entire business is security. Is this just penny-pinching or is there a legitimate reason that a publicly traded company can't provide their own support staff?

This whole thing is like an exercise in plausible deniability, corporate double-speak, blame shifting and arrogance.
The Soviets once tasked an AI with our mutually assured destruction
What they're talking about is the multiregional human origins hypothesis, of which certain Chinese academics are pretty much the last remaining advocates. Basically, the argument is that homo erectus evolved into modern humans in multiple areas outside Africa. Chinese variants of this idea (popularized by Wu Xinzhi) argue that this went so far as to create identifiably unique "kinds" of humans in greater China that have continuity with modern populations. However, it's hard to recognize modern Chinese populations as independently evolved because their unique morphology has been diluted through hybridization with other "kinds" of humans.

I wouldn't expect a 20 year old to be exposed to the theoretical leanings of paleoanthropologists though, so it's not very surprising you missed it.
DDG is absolutely emerging, usage year over year is rising rapidly. I’ve personally switched over to ddg after years of jumping back and forth. It’s finally good enough. For the Indernet as whole to switch over will take time. One thing that keeps customers coming back to google is the integration across their applications, i.e. email, collaboration (google docs) video (youtube) etc. That being said, I don’t really feel theres much of a benefit being logged in when searching, so I think search engine traffic could switch over to e.g. ddg while people still are heavily invested in other google services.
The biggest barriers to competing with Google, IMO:

* Google (and all of FAANG) have a stupid high percentage of the worker pool.
* Google's biggest asset is that they are Google. Kind of like competing with Coke. Intrinsic quality of what they do is kind of irrelevant.
* General lack of value in most things internet. Google is getting a lot of value out of what they do, but they are having to put stupid levels of manpower into squeezing out that value.
Surely the only viable path to challenging Google is to own the web browser. Most users will use the default search engine.
I expect a plain text file would win the utility per byte award.
Reedsolomon – Reed-Solomon Erasure Coding in Go
It's revealing how hard this stuff is when Google's Data Liberation Front needed 4 years to release Google Takeout – which I consider to be best-in-class for personal data access.
Performant: well-performing. There's nothing wrong with the word.
Thanks, I specifically looked to see if this sort of comment was here. Not finding one would mean that there's a fair chance that there's some well-founded with plausible details sci-fi writing.
Then if he’s not responsible then he doesn’t have to recuse himself. It doesn’t quite work that way. If that were the case, then maybe we need to start monitoring the text messages of the families of the other justices. Just so we’re sure when they need to recuse them selves we can tell them.
There are a lot of great things here but PHP just needs to embrace static typing (IMHO).

Take match expressions plus enums. Incredibly useful. You know what's even more useful? When it's a type error to leave out one of the values. This means when you add a new value you'll get a bunch of errors you need to fix. Technically you can get around this with a default case but I consider that an anti-pattern in most such cases.

The Hack type system, particularly the ability to express nullability, is just vastly superior.

Named parameters are an interesting one. The Hack equivalent is to use shapes [1]. This is slightly verbose but you can express what shape fields are required and optional. Javascript manages without named parameters using anonymous objects, which is basically the same thing.

I didn't know PHP lambda expressions can't be multi-line. That seems weird. Again, Hack is simply better here allowing both this syntax and anonymous functions, all of which can be multi-line.

I also find the Hack collection types (vec, keyset, dict) to be superior to PHP's array with more obvious semantics and less weird type coercion. PHP's default of maintaining insertion order is amazingly useful and I'm honestly surprised more languages don't copy this. Of course you have things like LInkedHashMap in Java but doing this out-of-the-box I tend to find more natural.

Anyway, I think the hate on PHP is a trope at this point, largely outdated and just boring. Modern PHP is actually quite pleasant to develop in (IMHO).

[1]: https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/built-in-types/shape
Very true, and this is why right-libertarian ideas for increasing liberty are doomed to fail: all they ever do is change who's in charge, they never really question the system of putting people in power over each other.
Space is mostly empty.
They desire that those having bad opinions should be shamed and are therefore being given what they desired, in a classic demonstration that one should be careful what one wishes for.
According to Consumer Reports ECO mode does nothing on highway and traffic
A change in gravitational potential (because you moved a mass) flows through normal space. It would do the same through the wormhole.

So I'm agreeing with you, and adding how this gravitational slope is created: It's created at the start of the wormhole and changes as you move the mouths of the wormhole, rather than popping into existence at a later time with the two wormhole mouths separated.
Why conservatives won't save freedom of speech
Have you tried 2x 27” screens vertically, ideally models with minimal bezel?

I’ve found that it doesn’t increase head turning because it’s not much wider than a single screen, but I can fit twice as much stuff.

Also I can read a much longer file of code at once, which is more useful than you’d expect..
TechnologyConnections is the best ;) I did indeed borrow his numbers.

But also, I installed a whole house heat pump about a year ago so also have real life experience with them, and with my electricity plan, it's even better from a CO2 perspective since it is 100% wind/solar/hydro based.
Hostgator left me in a terrible situation once. Domain name came with hosting package and expired after 10 years. Hostgator had lost my records?! I went to Nominet and they were really helpful. I think I recollect that if you login to Nominet with your admin email address from your domain name you see your domains in the Nominet control panel. I guess Nominet are the big player in this scenario. Not sure if Nominet is UK.

All my clients lost access to my saas for the guts of a day until I could get Nominet to fix.
Clicking a bunch of links is pretty accessible, perhaps you’re translating accessible to convenient?
> the disconnect between what Google thinks the user wants to see, and what the user actually wants to see.

Results being what Google wants the user to see seems to be the real problem.

Youtube for example in the past would show suggestions from small channels that were interesting and fun, but now you can't even find them in search using an exact video title. I've seen Google News completely shut out a breaking news story for half a day and the only reason I can think of was the ranking AI saw some 'bad' words in every story - even from NYT/WaPo, whose articles were among the many dozens on Bing News. Presumably they've applied their anti-"I hated it" ideas to Search as well.

So now is a great time to compete with Google because they're handicapping themselves and even though they could just turn off the bias and return good results, they probably would rather lose than stop trying to influence users.
Original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.12787
>I get that it is scary that a big company keeps all the data you gave to them.

Situation in 2022: it is scary that someone has something I willingly gave them.
Author here, thanks for posting!

Happy to answer any questions about Mach (or my experience working with Zig.)
Is LSD still easy to source? I had heard that what you buy on the streets is never real LSD.
Conservatives increasingly emphasize freedom of speech, but are their arguments genuine?

'Though the attachment of some conservatives to freedom of speech is genuine, often reflecting Burkean elements of conservatism, I worry that conservative support for freedom of speech has weak foundations, many conservatives wielding the principle as a weapon against outgroups.'
What if I need the GPS coordinates to shoot a cruise missile at some target in Russia?
Back in the eighties, my father taught me that the “$” character in BASIC meant “string,” so when I later picked up PHP in ‘98 I mentally thought of $someVar as “string-someVar” (regardless of the actual type, which was of course no problem for PHP), kept that habit for well over a decade… I think it was partially my self-disgust over such silly and technically incorrect thinking that led me to bail for Node as soon that was a feasible alternative.

The dollar sign does kinda look like a loose piece of shoestring, though
You're giving the argument too much credit. It's more akin to a large restaurant arguing that small restaurants could be put out of business by health inspections, so maybe we should hold off on the idea. Rather, keeping a clean kitchen is something they all should be doing anyway from the get go.

Any pain for Amazon in Amazon's process is entirely Amazon's fault. If systems are built with the requirement of letting users export their data, then the additional effort to do so is trivial. This argument about the GDPR essentially boils down to technical debt from companies that played fast and loose with personal information, and we shouldn't entertain it.
My first reaction was "good, it's about time". I realse that there is no way I will ever understand the nuances of what's gone on or going on in that area, but it does seem clear that there is an opressor - opresee relationship.
That seems like a completely empty and likely incorrect phrase. What exactly does it mean to you?
In 2014, I was cursing the shitty search results of GDrive - and asked aloud why can't a company known for their search engine make all their search systems equally good.

It's 2022, and Google search is just as shitty as their GDrive search.
I don't think the fact that the web site owner hasn't implemented better search than Google for their site is evidence that they can't do it, simply that they haven't.
It is always good to see someone is developing a RSS reader. I have one too. I also run a public service that might be useful to you:

* load feed (RSS2/Atom/JSON) server side

* normalize the feeds that fix up many anomalies

* skip the items that the client-side already have

* build a full-text search index while all feeds passed though the service

* still keeping everyone anonymous
Software is too much. But OP is talking a lot hardware.
Oh yeah, it’s definitely going for oldschool appeal. There’s something oddly compelling about running demos in weird and ill-fitting places. Mac Classic[1], mIRC script[2], TI-83 graphing calculators[3]… it’s got to be a similar appeal to porting DOOM to MP3 players, or Bad Apple!! to Atari Lynx.

[1]: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53636

[2]: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=59129

[3]: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=30240
Technically they could be liable. If they're paying debts with any estate money (if he left anything), they have to follow a priority. If they're paying lower priority debts before higher priority ones (as set by probate law), then they could be personally liable for the ones that should have been paid.
Those smaller businesses will just use a standard webshop package that will incorporate this feature because most of their customers will want it.. The same way these companies use stuff like Magento or PrestaShop instead of rolling their own.
I came here to say this and you beat me to it. Absolutely a formative experience for me. I may have to replay it soon.
74 zip files could themselves be added unmodified as 74 individual entries within a parent zip file, optionally, for ease of download convenience. The hashes of those 74 zip files within the parent zip file would be just as auditable as with the current process.
Flutter Giphy Clone – Speed Code
I think you misunderstood the parent.
As a fellow multi-monitor geek, I’d love to see a photo of this setup!
Nope! Much like Node allows you to run JavaScript without a browser, there are plenty of standalone WebAssembly runtimes which don't need a host JavaScript runtime.
PHP is probably the best language for server side webdev today. Still insanely easy to deploy, lots of features at the language level, and the frameworks that are available are very sophisticated. Whether you like Laravel or not, it’s influence is spreading to other frameworks within PHP and other languages. Also, Laravel has some of the best docs in OSS, period.

I think WordPress is pushing other projects forward as well. The tech stack over there doesn’t move nearly as fast, but the UX is still pretty good out of the box and with the enterprise clients I work with on a daily basis, they all still love WP.

Back to PHP proper for a minute, the language is fast. There are efforts being made to run PHP on Serverless infrastructure or with continuous process environments. New features are added to the language on a regular basis as evidenced by this post and others. The defacto package manager, Composer, is also world class.

It’s a good time to be a PHP dev!

As a final point, I’ll throw out some of my worries. I’ve been writing PHP since 2010~ as a high schooler fooling around.

The “Java-fication” of PHP is real. There is a push for more types and type related features. These aren’t bad in isolation, but as they move deeper into the core of the language, there is a risk of breaking legacy apps. Historically, backwards compatibility has been excellent and allows older apps to upgrade PHP versions and take advantage of performance improvements without a rewrite. I’m not advocating keeping 100% compatibility forever, but recent versions have played more fast and loose with breaking changes. We’ve done a decent job of carrying the entire community onto new versions and that will be important for continued adoption.

Take a look at the open RFCs for more details. I think there is value for pulling good ideas from other languages, but we don’t need every idea from every language.

Here’s to another 20 years of PHP!
But as a matter of fact, that's not what happens. What actually happens in the actual real world is:

1. The owner of the company doesn't keep all the profit -- they share out the vast majority of it. (Look at the retained profits vs gross margins of any company you can think of. Look at the wages that you, yes I bet you yourself, are paid).

2. When we don't do it this way, we don't actually get the innovation. The thing that incents people to solve the problems of bringing new products to the public (the very large problems, the problems they can spend the majority of their lives attacking) is the possibility of reward.
That you (consciously or not) like young dancing girls

This might not be a problem, of course, but in other situations might be something you don’t want to make public?
I agree with your core statement of a series of patches to fix things that get deployed, but I'm not so pessimistic we won't have better/faster/more accurate tools to deploy those patches. I generally never want to bet against human ingenuity, despite problems _seem_ unsolvable to our current understanding.
https://archive.is/gF1g3
Correct, but it wasn't always like that. I suspect many of us were raised in a time when K-12 was also structured in liberal arts, and was relatively decent, compared to today's standards. Am I alone in this, or are my suspicions correct?

That was my experience, at least. My own interests are spread broadly across almost every topic, though philosophy and computer science are my main loves.
I remember when I saw the access operator "->" for the firsr time written as just a single connected right pointing arrow on a whiteboard as part of my first intro to programming class and being so confused about what button I was missing on my keyboard!
The tao of node?

It reminds me of this story about a secretive master kung fu artist who perfected his technique but taught his style to no one. Yet the master still wanted to document his style in a kung fu manual. So he did, but as a security measure, he wrote everything backwards so that anyone reading it would get the wrong set of instructions. If a move involved a user blocking a hit with his arm he would write down that the hit should be blocked with his foot. Every move was a complete reversal of what should be done.

One day a thief stole the kung fu manual with the goal of reading it and becoming a great kung fu master. The thief read the manual day and knight and practiced just as much. And guess what? the thief became an incredible master surpassing the original author himself. Nobody could figure out his hilarious style, when you tried to punch him in his face his foot would immediately come up to deflect the punch. Everyone was WTF? How does this shit work? The thief ended up founding a kung fu school and taught everyone this style... proliferating the backwards art all across China, much like the same way Node has proliferated across the world.

I made the last part up because I thought it would be a more apt analogy. What actually happened is the thief went crazy because the the backward moves caused his chi to spin in the opposite direction... driving him insane. Anyway, this is what the Tao of Node reminds me of. I should also say so does the Tao of CSS and HTML and maybe the Tao of the entire web reminds me of this story.

Do these things really need to be associated with Tao as if it's some great art or philosophy? Feels a bit pretentious, but that's just me.
Exactly. They ignored the Microsoft JVM, J++, J#, and the lawsuit around it that forced them to make C# and compete - rather than extinguish
I'm sure it does as many third party clients offer features where you can read back your own posts etc.
I mean, by that logic we really can't call anything a world record until we know the results of everyone who has ever done the thing. That not feasible, so instead we just call the best performance that is known to the public and verifiable the world record.
>We recognize the natural justice of allowing the person to have perpetual exclusive rights

I completely disagree. Land ownership should never be perpetual. It should be time limited. Old people own all the land, while young people must buy it from them. That is naturally unjust and forces people to use violence to obtain land. The only sliver natural justice remaining here is the justice of killing "oppressors". If people do not step down from their positions of power voluntarily, then people will force them to step down.

I obviously do not want this to happen so I will argue against anyone who wants earth to be littered with wars over land.

Wars do not break out because people are evil, wars break out because our laws and rules during peace time aren't good enough for everyone. If land is properly allocated to everyone, then borders become irrelevant goals for war. The difference between whether you trade to get indirect access to land or whether you own it should be so slim, that no one ever considers obtaining land forcibly be ever worth it because the peaceful methods work just fine.
That's true, but then people will complain that they had to unzip 75 files instead of 74. The real issue here is that there are 74 files. Which is an issue without a good solution.
The match statement is nice, but in JS it's easy enough to just index a map.

{'abc': 2, 'def': 3}[x] ?? 'default';
Does the natural cold at the South Pole make it much easier to cool the instruments down that low? I know it's around 200K at its lowest, how does that make it easier and cheaper?
Biden to propose minimum tax on billionaires as part of 2023 budget
OK, try this one:

Lt Cdr Worf is testing the USS Defiant's impulse engines after a refit. He is currently coasting along in a straight line at a constant 0.6c, and passes Deep Space Nine. We'll call time on board the defiant t and time on board DS9 t', and say that the Defiant flies by DS9 at t = t' = 0.

At t = 10 minutes, Worf decides to reward his efforts with a cup of bahgol, only to discover the replicator is on the blink. After about another 10 minutes of pressing various buttons, he gives up and logs a ticket with the DS9 help desk over the subspace network.

Because the Defiant is travelling in a straight line at a constant speed of reference, it is in an inertial frame reference, and it is just as valid to see DS9 as moving away from the Defiant at 0.6c as the other way round, and this in fact is what we must do to work out what time on DS9 corresponds to "now" on the Defiant. At 0.6c, the Lorentz factor is 1.25: so for every 1.25 minutes that passes on the Defiant, a single minute passes on DS9 -- or put another way, for every minute that passes on the Defiant, only 0.8 minutes pass on DS9. So when Worf submits his ticket at t = 20 minutes, on DS9 it's t' = 16 minutes.

Subspace comms are instantaneous, or so close to it as makes no difference, so O'Brien picks up the ticket very soon after t' = 16 minutes. He replies straight away -- "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" -- and sends the response back over the subspace network.

This is where relativity of simultaneity comes in. DS9 is also in an inertial frame of reference, and in that frame it is the Defiant that is moving away at 0.6c, that has a Lorentz factor of 1.25, and where only 0.8 minutes pass for every minute on DS9. So for O'Brien, t' = 16 minutes is simultaneous with t = 12.8 minutes (not t = 20 minutes): allowing for time for O'Brien to read the ticket and write his response, Worf will receive it somewhere around t = 15 minutes -- while he's still tinkering with the replicator. Somewhat surprised, he tries the solution, it works, and he goes off to enjoy his cuppa, never sending the ticket he's just received a response to.

This is why FTL risks messing with causality.
A constant focal point is not good for eye health either. I had considered converting my two monitor setup to one traditional monitor and one project that is > 10ft away. But projectors have too many disadvantages atm (e.g., high power consumption, brightness, etc.).
There's no way anyone is doing any serious typing with such setup. I can imagine it if keyboard use is minimal. Not sure what job that would be but I'm sure there are some.
For 32", wouldn't you need an 6-8k display to get Retina-quality text? I believe that's why 32" 4k displays aren't usable for coding, unless you're ok with low resolution text.