skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google delays its plans to shelve free G Suite accounts by a month
This is a completely valid issue and difficult to address. I've been testing on my phone, and my phone admittedly may have a screen larger than average. Some devices just aren't suitable for some types of content.
100% agree. Success = less configuration, not more.
That sounds great, too bad I can't give you money, but I gave you my email.

I don't really care about stim,
but pausing my book after I fall asleep is HUGE.
Right now i use a sleep timer which is okay, but if the book is good and stops before I fall asleep, I need to really wake up and set a new timer.
If I set a longer timer, there is a chance I will fall asleep early and have a hard time finding my spot later
> Are there any operating systems written from or computers built from a blind perspective

Yes, but they struggle to keep up with the mainstream, especially considering the runaway complexity of the web. The one notable open-source example is Emacspeak [1]. The rest, as far as I know, have been proprietary and often overpriced products.

[1]: http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/
Precisely. When you start offering x86 boxes with Windows, it's obvious your own architecture and OS are dead.

But I don't remember those. I remember Intergraph did (and they were quite good, but died quickly)
There's an important difference between:

> All progress depends upon the unreasonable man

and

> All actions by unreasonable men are progress

If all wibbles are wobbles it is not necessarily true that all wobbles are wibbles.
Playing the devil’s advocate your argument is even more strawman: purely because you can always make up an imaginary world where everybody is happy and unicorns are pooping candy.
I think open source developers are also limited by their tools. They often want to make something cross platform so they end up using Qt or Gnome or Electron and these already put you behind. Thinking about it now, I guess it's another example of prioritizing differently, or as you said, interest in other things.
I've always seen a CLA as "we dont really want to take your contributions".

Which is fair enough, but yea, dont be surprised if they take it closed source.
It is a bit more complicated than that.

Admninistration web sites are now forcing you to use google(blink/geeko) or apple(webkit) based browsers.
Asking nicely to restore interoperability with noscript/basic (x)html browsers does not seem to work, namely keeping the door open to alternatives requiring a reasonable effort of development, and not the army of devs of big tech.

This requires regulation I guess.
A lot of people are praising this article's design, but I personally did not appreciate it. I get it - it's a TikTok story that's made to look and work like TikTok, probably made to appeal to the TikTok class. As one who prefers clear prose over "consoom the content!" video snippets and soundbites, I felt distracted from the message by all the dynamic media.
I found this from a quick Google about suicide attempts in Canada:

> For every suicide death, there are an estimated 20-25 attempts.

So when you say "if they want to, they can do it", the fact is that most people who do, in fact, fail. Not judging whether they should be helped or not.
Internet fueled a jack-of-all trade effect in me. Not helped by Russian librarians.

Best wishes trying to find a useful outlet for your interests (but beware of spreading yourself too thin)
This is not a binary "the people who don't want" / "the people who do".

The old Google was able to do an exact search using Boolean expressions. Man, I miss that all the time....

It's not rocket science to provide a user interface for this. A combination of GUI configuration, keywords, and specific URLs for these cases would go a long way here without bothering the regular user in the slightest. Yes, it's probably slower than in earlier times, pure search volumina and its handling by AI weighting etc. considered. But there is also a "don't want" on the part of Google and the other players.
The design is bad because it uses full justification, which hurts readability by making all the lines the same length, which weakens the visual cues for vertical position, and makes the spacing between words inconsistent.

But I don't really care, because the site works correctly with Firefox's Reader View, which is better than any custom design because it always looks the same.
How does this minimise security?

I don't see how Window is relevant; it doesn't have /usr nor /usr/bin.
Which is both of their delusions, because it is likely they are both wrong, but some portion of their belief was correct.
> Nature might be advanced technology but wow it sure makes suboptimal choices and often.

When it comes to suboptimal choices based only on path dependence and institutional intertia, nature has nothing on humanity's computing infrastructure. :P
>what you do reap is a very interconnected, multidisciplinary way of understanding the world, which comes to you not so much in the form of explicit knowledge but in the form of a very special “intuition”.

What is the value of that, though? When it comes to social sciences, everyone believes they have a special intuition or a sense about how the world works. It's impossible to distinguish who actually does, and who is self-delusional. You cannot even be certain for yourself.

In tech, in contrast, you can build a product that can prove you are valuable, despite being an un-credentialed autodidact.

I can think of only a few paths that can really realize the value of genuine brilliance of this type:

1) With your special intuition of how the world works, predict the course of society and make money off of that. That can be difficult, though, since nobody is going to bankroll you, and this would also require knowledge of finance.

1.1) Gamble on the nascent event markets instead. Not sure if they are going to exist in the long term, though.

2) Write compelling fiction. However, if your conclusions about society are true, but unintuitive to the general public, it's going to be tricky to convince them you're right, and they're wrong.

3) Become political analyst/pundit/substack writer. Same downsides as above.

4) Identify key trends in society and start a business in a field that is likely to dramatically explode. This strategy requires tech or business skills, and is high variability.
Yeah they should drop the now. Everyone knows we picked never.
I didn't get formal diagnosis either. At the time, I really didn't know what was wrong with me. It was later in life when I realized what had happened.

The thing with depression is that one is unable to properly think. Nothing really matters. So suggestions like go for a walk or eat healthy are really hard to put in practice.

I used to run 5K almost daily when depression hit me. It was induced by trauma. Initially, I kept going out to run, though my pace was slower and I didn't run as far. Like how they say about going broke; slowly first and then suddenly, that's how my depression progressed.

Also you reminded me about weekends. I did same thing, spend whole weekends in bed, avoided any social contact. Just drank, ate, prayed, listened to music, and cried out loud. I tried playing video games and watch movies but they could not hold my interest. Stopped running. If friends invited me, I made excuses. Luckily for me, it lasted only a few weeks.

I don't think it was any of healthy suggestions here that helped me. I already had some healthy habits like running and eating right. Maybe if I had gone to doctor, it would have helped me faster.

Just like how it started, that's how it ended. First, I started a to feel a little bit better and then suddenly I was not depressed at all. Then I had really bad case of anxiety, which I still suffer from a bit but CBT methods really helps me here. I am back to running, working out, taking vitamins etc. And feel great now.
There's always a few that posts like this. Yes Twitter has a legal right to do stuff like this but can YOU separate what Twitter is legally allowed to do from what is the right thing to do? What's wrong with criticizing a particular policy from a corporate behemoth?
Two books to check out: How to Change your Mind by Michael Pollan and The Mind Illuminated by Culadasa (John Yates, PhD)

Meditation and/or psychedelic drugs (microdosing or macrodosing) are tools that will help you on your journey immensely.

We’ve been using psychedelics for thousands of years. Nothing to write off about this powerful medicine.
Current state of the UNIX file hierarchy is a mess. Many incarnations of GNU/Linux systems didn't contribute to a more elegant yet simplified directory structure. Just pick the one you like the most and serves the purpose of your desires.

As for merged /usr, recently using Arch Linux for desktop use. Works decent enough to getting things done.
This is still "vulnerable", in a way (though not the same kind of vulnerability as embedding third-party scripts): if Twitter disappears—or just stops returning your tweets for some other reason (e.g. they shut down their API or your account)—then you lose access to your content. It can be mitigated by making sure your SSG output is also in version control—not just the input. (While you're at it, it's a good idea to make sure your SSG is version controlled, too. That doesn't have to be a whole copy of the SSG source and/or binary in your repo; it can be e.g. its version string.)

That of course still leaves open the matter of whether/how you're making sure to trigger a new build for every new tweet.
One could argue that IT startups are all that matter.
> But statically typed complied languages do not provide an inherently better programming paradigm than dynamic programming.

For any large long lived project with multiple contributors, statically type analysis definitely adds value by eliminating an entire class of errors at compile time.
> My Manjaro install has a /bin and it is full of files that look like I would not want to lose them. So, they fixed the /bin to /usr/bin thing for some packages but clearly not all packages in Arch.

I didn't read the rest of your long comment because this is incorrect.

/bin is a symlink to /usr/bin on arch. There are no files in a folder /bin. Any package that tries to install a file in /bin will throw an error that it conflicts with the filesystem package.

Arch goes one step further, there is no /sbin or /usr/sbin either. Both are also symlinks to /usr/bin

This was completed about a decade ago.

https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012-M...

https://archlinux.org/news/binaries-move-to-usrbin-requiring...
If capital is the problem you could also consider the Netherlands which requires EUR 0.01. You will need to pay a notary for the incorporation tho.

https://business.gov.nl/starting-your-business/choosing-a-bu...
Sick burn bro. Might want to spend a couple minutes on Wikipedia next time though.
Both things can be true

> progress depends on the unreasonable man

and

> unreasonable men start wars

But honestly it feels like such a useless nitpick. OP is talking about a useful mind-hack to increase your personal productivity and meaning, and you are applying it to how we should assess the morality of global leaders.
In some European countries you can in fact do exactly that. Useful if you need to ask someone to move their vehicle for example.

I'm sure there's some kind of hypothetical downside, but not one that me or anyone I know have encountered at least.
Yes!

Depression can be caused by hormonal imbalances. It's tricky to get things right-- see a doctor!
They grossly mis-compared: They built their C program with static-linking of glibc, which is absolutely not intended for static linking.

That's why when they built a "hello world" program, it took ~892 KB, while if they would compile it against, say, the musl C standard library, it would take 5.5 KB or so.

If that's not enough, they compared speed, but seem not to have compiled with `-O3` enabled (or at least - it's not clear what flags they used).
Some user have compared the front page order with the published algorithm, and they almost agree. For example

"How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties" (righto.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799854 (920 points | Nov 26, 2013 | 190 comments)

"How Hacker News ranking algorithm works" (amix.dk) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013 (311 points | Oct 11, 2010 | 76 comments)

"Reverse Engineering the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm" (sangaline.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13867739 (349 points | March 14, 2017 | 49 comments)

Some values may change, for example I think "gravity" changed from 1.6 to 1.8 or vice versa, or perhaps it changed more times, I'm not tracking it.

The secret part is more related to other things. For example how many post can you make in a day before the system mark you automatically as a spammer or how many before they manually mark you as a spammer. Perhaps the automatic threshold is 100 because if you make 100 submission you are obviously a spammer, insane or an idiot. If they publish that, someone will make a bot to post 99 daily, every single day and claim that it's fair. But they may decide to ban the account manually with a much lower threshold. Also, the total number is not the only criteria, it's probably important if you are submitting your stuff or other people stuff, how interesting they are, how on-topic they are, ... My guess is that twenty on-topic interesting posts are fine, but five v14gr4 post are more than enough to get banned.
are worker bees or ants happy?
Not sure what you mean by not common but it’s the only way we refer to the plural of stadium in the UK and other Commonwealth countries.

I hadn’t even considered the Google product.
That would be the absolute extreme of minimalism, yes. But it's a never-ending rabbit hole. I don't really need a website, either. So the absolute extreme minimalist website is one that doesn't exist.

To me, colors are important. I'm a visual artist. The minimal amount of colors to me is an additional two to your two. It's not arbitrary, I didn't just go crazy with colors, I settled on exactly four because I couldn't reduce it to three.
Well .. you're going to have to do that because the alternative is that the tweet can be pulled from your article.

>The better way would be to use twitter api and render tweets with your own styles.

How does that fix the issue of twitter obfuscating embedded tweets?
Current state of the UNIX file hierarchy is a mess. Many incarnations of GNU/Linux systems didn't contribute to a more elegant yet simplified directory structure. Just pick the one you like the most and serves the purpose of your desires.

As for merged /usr, recently using Arch Linux for desktop use. Which accomplishes this by symlinking, which is ugly. Arch certainly is not perfect. Not sure if this is the way.
I have paid though and it was money well spent. I've mostly praised Plex because managing my media was a source of constant stress.

I still think Jellyfin is interesting and I'm going to keep it running alongside Plex to trial it.
As much as I'd like to be a "Scanner" I think ADHD describes me more accurately. Procrastination is my entire identity but also being interested in ten things at once. But on the flip side I went back to school and for a project of minimum required 3,000 words I wrote 20,000 word. I do know a person with valid diagnosed ADHD and they seem far more erratic than me so I hope I only have a low to mild version.

It could be genetic too my Mom's sister's children are all doctors but one of them or some of them don't use their degrees and work manual labour jobs. Maybe I have that but to a lesser degree due to procrastination and my environment.
Have you look at the API https://github.com/HackerNews/API ?
Remote island here, please don't do this. My pigeon can only carry so much and he's talking about retirement soon.
> That's why I am saying they should have dropped Sparc already in the very early 2000s

They had two SPARC architectures - the big core, high-performance one and Niagara, the many wimpy core one and Sun never thought about combining both on the same machine, which is more or less what x86 is doing now because they are being forced to do it by Apple and its M1. Sun was there in the early 2000's.

There's no fundamental reason why x86 has to be faster than SPARC, in fact, SPARC machines trounced x86 ones.

Another thing that killed Sun was that it could never decide whether they were Apple or Microsoft - they never decided whether they wanted to make integrated hardware or a become plain software company.
Until 64 bit CPUs and OSes became mainstream, it was not easy to use more than 4GB on a 32bit system (or even 2 in Windows XP, later raised to 3.1-3.5-ish with the /3GB switch in boot.ini).

You had to use PAE (Physical Address Extensions - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension ), basically a 3-level page table structure, provided the CPU and the OS offered it.

It could cause a few compatibility woes with binaries not expecting it, esp. stuff running in kernel mode, and of course in the Microsoft world it was used as an excuse to charge you more - the "Standard" versions of Windows server x32 were limited to 4GB, forcing you to buy "Advanced/Enterprise/Datacenter/Whatever" SKUs.

So anyway 4GB was the maximum it would make sense to install on Windows for a long time, pretty much until 64 bit CPUs and Windows 7 became common (Deliberately omitting Vista, which so many opted to skip).
First of all, this is a reliability question, not a security one. If someone malicious already has write access to /usr/bin then you're already screwed, there's not much damage you can do with a compromised /bin that you can't already do with a compromised /usr/bin. Not to mention that they probably also have enough privileges already to do whatever damage they want to do, without having to trick some other process into running their payload.

From the reliability perspective (protecting against accidental damage), the /usr merge makes it easier to set up A/B booting and protect the entire system, rather than blessing a small subset of the system and preventing anyone from upgrading those components at all in the future.
That's documented right in the man page.

--arg name value
This option is accepted by nix-env, nix-instantiate and nix-build. When
evaluating Nix expressions, the expression evaluator will automatically try to
call functions that it encounters. [...]
In the old days this would be a pc "program" on a person's home computer and all this data sharing concern moot. Why this database madness? All that's needed is a simple encrypted cloud backup. Harrumph.
I know what you mean but exposure to a virus is different than being “infected”. We’re exposed every day to many different viruses and other pathogens which are destroyed by our immune system. Infection implies that the pathogen is successfully replicating (symptomatic or not).
In my hope, I've settled on hoping for the worst for a beautiful "told you so" moment.

If the worst happens, we deserve it. So why despair?
Geez, it's one message, there was more after it, when no mods were around. I can't speak on behalf of Nick of course.

I woke up, saw it, and banned those people. We don't allow people to do this for any project, ever. What else can even be done, there's thousands of people on the channel, and moderation is hard and time consuming.

People on the internet say things, you can't keep attributing it to us always.

Somebody joins our channel, your channel, posts on twitter, etc - how are we responsible for what they say anywhere else, we don't control their speech.

Learn how the internet works - this has been the crux of the problem all along, you attributing things to us, and then using that as justification of your behaviour doing exactly what you're accusing us of doing. All those threats :(

HN is not the place for this conversation either.
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> I lost my creativity and the sense of wonder I used to have in childhood. I am no longer curious because I am settled for the world as it is. I accept things the way they are instead of imagining how they could be.

This resonates.
i was responding re/ security and privacy. showing that the tweet is deleted would be expected behavior
> I'm not trying to say that this is right or wrong

Why are you not, though? I feel like we have been so co-opted by the system that we forgot we are allowed to criticize it. A giant company with billions of dollars should not be given get out of moral jail free cards. They should absolutely be held to higher standards because of all the power they wield.
I wonder how much of the 1.8% "Other" video cards is a 3dfx Voodoo Banshee. It came out at about the same time as the Voodoo 3 and was more of a budget friendly but still good card.
I use a washing machine that adjusts water level and behavior based on weight of loaded clothing, and I use cold water and do not separate as much as is tradition. I wash one small to medium mixed load per day, and this easily helps me keep up. Special loads like bedding and towels can’t be mixed easily with other clothing types, and I do those as needed on the weekends.
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What cell phones do to your body
Ha 1600SW! As a minor around that time I bought out the remainder of the 1600SW inventory that SGI was clearing out for ~$550 a piece ... and proceeded to make more money reselling them that I've made my entire life before that, internships included.

To this day I love the on-brand SGI industrial design aesthetic.
>with the original author of the tweet.

Not necessarily. The example VOX article[1] had Trump's tweets embedded in the article, which are now hidden. Trump didn't delete those tweets. He was banned.

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/13/17233422/d...