skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised to not see more comments like this. I think chat clients are a product which is used so frequently that after adapting, users become blind to defficiencies. I consider myself pretty technically literate and have used probably a dozen chat clients over years. Discord is the only one where I couldn't understand how to do the basics straight after installing it. I don't use it much, and when I come back to it there's always an element of guesswork. (fwiw I'm not a fan of Slack's UX either)
That has already been possible for a long time. Try copying text from a news or lyrics website and you’ll see extra junk in your clipboard.
I am just moving into a newly built house (November). I visited the construction site quite frequently in the last year. They built 33 semi-detached houses on a single site at once.

The amount of human work that goes into the process is insane. Trucks help, but most of the work during the building itself is done with hands just like 1000 years ago (laying bricks), only there is a lot more work involved than 1000 years ago or even 100 years ago (all the internal networks in the walls etc.).

Something like that cannot be principally cheap. You cannot really scale up some of those activities. The electrician still needs to spend X hours per house, and hours of a highly paid specialist will show up on the total price tag. Etc.

Imagine a tech world where searches of the Web were done by hand instead of with robots.
So fun to see this — I worked on 3-Lisp for Brian at PARC back in the early 1980s.

A simple way to state the proposition is: in any language there are things you cannot write in the language itself: they have to be supplied by your interpreter (or the compiler generated code which is “interpreted” by the CPU). For example you can’t write OR because if the first case is true the second case is not evaluated — you can’t write that as a function.

But you know: if you know what your interpreter is written in, what if you could pass some code to it to execute on your behalf? You could write new kinds of control structures (beyond the standard IF, OR, etc).

It has a mathematical elegance and really makes you think about the semantics of programming language execution.

As an analogy, consider o/s systems that let you dynamically load modules into kernel space to do things that aren’t possible in user space (analogy only; don’t try this at home)

That being said, languages pretty much have the same set of control structures: there may really be a finite set of them (interesting philosophical question). Also metasyntactic macros (such as hygienic macros or even Common Lisp macros, C++’s incorrectly-named but powerful constexpr) let you get a lot of the way there. Continuation-passing (call/cc) allows you to implement throw without leaving “user space).

So while I found this work intellectually stimulating, at the end it didn’t seem to add significant expressive power.
They can all better use Discord, whose model works on a per-user (not per-user-per-community) billing model. So less good at separating money from corporations but better aligned with non-commercial organisations as you don't need to pay $2k/month as none-profit just to keep chat history.
See https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2003-11/msg00908.html
Could it be that phone cameras just aren't even remotely optimized for videos being taken in the dark. I'd imagine that's when most sightings happen.
You’d be too if you had to see this same thing play out again and again over years.
MSN Messenger was the best messenging app I ever used, so this actually makes me think more highly of Teams.
Humanoid forms are less efficient than specialist ones. It is a nonsequitor that chasis shape will somehow make a slave economy. But even if improbably sapient robot slaves were a thing part of what made slave economies stink was not upgrading their tools and efficiency. When the tools are designed by a highly educated workforce that pitfall wouldn't apply.
The world of transport nerds and trainspotters is leaking again.
> The former President was caught red-handed hiding top secret documents at his freakin' vacation home

No, he did not "hide" the documents. As a letter quoted in a recent article in Politico [1] shows, the documents were removed from the White House when the administrations changed on Jan. 20, 2021. Which means whoever was responsible for checking documents that were removed from the White House by the outgoing President and his staff screwed up. And now they're in CYA mode.

> with probable intent to commit espionage

You have no evidence whatever to back up this claim.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/26/trump-mar-a-lago-af...
Thank you. I’ve been feeling really alone.

> Something about the design of Discourse does not actually encourage discourse.

The UI is just not dense enough for me. Most of the screen is either empty or garbage. The forums of yesteryear had a much higher content/ui ratio.

They’re also full of bullshit gamification and immediately start spamming you with reminders if you forgot to disable it. Discourse annoys me as soon as I need to interact with it.
I guess this is as good a time to ask as any.

Is it possible for a process to authenticate a user without root privileges, including setuid/setgid?
See my top level comment on working on this. Also there was a good paper at the 84 POPL by Smith and Desrivieres, though it did feel at the time like few attendees understood it. Perhaps they were put off by the amount of predicate calculus.
Huh? If anything it's a story only in the US.

Pretty sure the "lose of respect" mostly occured during Trump's presidency.
It is about time newer generations understand no one lives out of thin air, and other professionals pay for their worktools.

Or they can keep jumping from free tool to free tool, while complaining some good ones end up vanishing.
Isn’t his art style pretty ubiquitous. I see it all over and mid journey does a great job replicating it.
He could have been commissioned to draw the art but I doubt it.
It’s actually interesting how different it is in my circles! I know quite a few people that have been through the same path (different reasons and circumstances), but now they’re in happy relationships. Personally, that’s never been a moral dealbreaker for me, and it isn’t for most of my friends either.

Life is weird and if “immoral work” is a way out for them, then good for them! It’s not an easy work, much harder on your psyche than the usual engineering work that we do.
Different ones for different markets.

A working standard could simply define "seller endpoints", "buyers bank endpoint", "supported payment protocol" and a message passing system and let the parties figure it out.

Not global, but few things are in the world of finance.
Orgzly with Syncthing has been my setup for years.
Could be but I don't understand why UFOs would only show up at night? Is that what the existing evidence shows?

Or is it just that in the dark it is much harder to identify an object and therefore there are more un-identified objects at night?
They also have to understand, every single business outside computing, pays for they work tools, even if they got them at some flea market.
Are you asking if you should abuse prescription drugs on hackernews? You are basically asking if meth is a good substitute to coffee. How the fuck is this thread still up.
This is the extended Euclidean algorithm, to find Bézout's coefficients.

Column `d` contains the iterates of the classical Euclidean algorithm. Every row is the remainder of the two preceding rows. Eventually you get to the gcd.

Then, every number in `d` can be written as `ax+dy`. For the first two rows it's obvious: in the first row he sets `d=x`, so it easily comes that `a=1` and `b=0`. Similarly for the second row, where `d=y` then `a=0` and `b=1`.

Then from there it's basic algebra: if `a[i-2]x + b[i-2]y=d[i -2]` and `a[i-1]x + b[i-1]y=d[i -1]` you can easily prove that `a[i]x + b[i]y=d[i]`.
Did you not note the "only" in that sentence? When 1 in 5 of your males and 1 in 10 of your females believe that being a parasite is the only available career choice, something is very wrong.

This isn't on the influencers. This is on a whole lot of people in the US who have continuously trampled on those less fortunate than them to the point where there is nothing left at the bottom but despair.
That reminds me of the story

I Made My Shed the Top-Rated Restaurant on TripAdvisor - https://www.vice.com/en/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-to...
It’s the rock climbing. See my comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32616371
> Have you tried it?

Yes, it’s awful.

> Check it out e.g.

Oh lord. 40 comments? That’s a single page of traditional forums.

How does it work when you have 1e4? 1e5? 1e6? And yes I do mean threads of a million comments.
What’s particularly scary about it is because it’s censorship that’s less obvious. Banned books are obviously banned, which only lends credibility to what they contain. In the current age, you can still have your book on the shelf and Barnes and Nobel, but only a handful customers will be able to see it. No banning, no outcry, no one even trying to traffic bootleg copies.
hes wrong, correct string handling means processing the string serially one char at a time. carrying a size_t along with your strings like that is a waste of a perfectly good gpr.
The article here talks about demand.

In Britain the demand for coal was independent of social equality. In the sense that everybody needed it to stay alive, especially during the winter.
To be allowed for use on tests it’s probably setup in such a way and locked down that proctors will allow it’s use.
Just an FYI, 1Password can now manage ssh keys that you can authenticate with TouchID
Never seen a bus in central london go that fast. Often it is quicker to walk.
Really? Are you trolling or just naive?

Talk to your doctors.
> Pagination also makes copy pasting links easier.

Not necessarily, pagination is often configurable, so either way you need a per-comment permalink for linking to be reliable.
The video makes it quite clear that he has a degree, soooo, clearly he's not doing stupid shit on YouTube.
Listen to Andrew Huberman. Caffeine just blocks your adenosine receptors. Take a month off.
Finnish Jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5-AhIDzqAs
Then how about you spent the week learning Go and then come interview?
Take a step back, and reread this with the knowledge that Delta would not have let the plane take off if they thought this was actually fixed.

A redirect and return like these costs them an absolute fortune in fuel, employee pay, and hotels/rebooks for all of the passengers. It doesn’t even make sense for a sociopathic exec to do what you’re saying, because it’s not a path to making more money.
No, I would legally obtain prescriptions by consulting with my doctor. Where are you getting the idea that I would abuse them for illicit use?
Yeah, it'd be great if there were test target SMTP servers with all useful configurations to test relay SMTP server behaviour in regards to DANE.

I am now definitely curious, though I can't promise I'll find the time to set up the servers either.

DANE on top of DNSSEC is merely a policy (retry rules and no fallback to unencrypted comms), so it is relatively simple to implement — though you are right that this doesn't mean it is!

I think adding gmail as the largest email provider to your list of mail services to check is also useful.
A government official can block you. The office of government official cannot block you. As a general rule, objects in the Constitution (such as a press, personal things and affects etc) are understood to be defined by their function not by their form. Eg, 4th Amendment protection extends to your private correspondences via phone call despite no paper correspondence being present. Yes your hypothetical Facebook blocking situation is explicitly in the Constitution so long as you accept Facebook is a printing-press-by-way-of-function. If you refuse this minimal fair rule of interpretation, the Constitution is hopelessly stuck in the late 1700s.
Bartitsu: The Gentleman's Umbrella
https://youtu.be/CEu5_v1iv-k?t=126
But that's not the correct comparison right? It's not that you have to initiate a transfer for the flipping-on of the light. You pay integrated, at the end of the month (or really, the utility trusts you to not change your behaviour dramatically and you pay an expected usage, which is then corrected at the end of the year).

That's my main gripe with all those transactions. If you need to initialise a complex utility that involves the trust of multiple parties and the need to verify identities on multiple people. That kind of thing costs macroscopic amounts of money (the going rate seems to be O(20ct)). Unless your average transaction size is much above that, you'll loose to friction.
I agree with you. I was listening to piketty’s on Econ talk. He said that executives get paid much more than labours which is increasing inequality(sort of like this). So that’s was I was thinking if you can’t beat them join them. So it’s better for me to go to management or executive track from IC.
Honestly... good. For company-private communication sure but for FLOSS projects it genuinely irks me that Slack (Discord too) is _ever_ used as a communication medium. Make a forum, use IRC/Matrix or even Gitter/RocketChat.

Almost all the time whenever I reluctantly decide to join a FLOSS project's Slack it works out like this:

(1) Hunt for the invitation link and hope I can actually join because a lot of them have that annoying error where if your email doesn't end in `@theirproduct.com` you cannot join. Unless I really, really, REALLY want to join I give up here 99% of the time.
(2) If the invite link hasn't expired, and if they allow any email to join then I am in but the channels are all basically ghost towns even for big projects like Kubernetes.

I suspect the friction in being able to easy join versus just visiting a website (forum) or opening a chat (IRC/Matrix, even Gitter) is why.
Because you are writing about it like you would. You are writing about taking amphetamines like it’s just another Red Bull. You got serious problems besides feeling „groggy“.
I think that something like this is basically inevitable for most free offerings that deal with data storage.

We saw something similar planned by DockerHub because there were a lot of abandoned container images, GitLab briefly wanted to do something similar to dormant projects and I'm sure that there are plenty other cases like that out there.

That said, this always comes with quite the backlash, so quite possibly it's better to bake in data expiry and cleanup from day 1 if you can get away with it.

Personally, though, I think that more people should host their own Mattermost, Rocket.Chat, Nextcloud Talk or other chat solution instances.
Glibc isn't much of a standard of excellence for rational behavior considering they have malloc_info() dumping out XML rather than actually returning a useful data structure.
Attention span is not a well-defined term, and according to most researcher there is not even any reason to believe there is only a singular value — the “kid who can’t sit on his ass” can play a video game/learn something from youtube for hours just fine, it all depends on the activity at hand.

So the “decreasing attention span” is a myth.
Disclaimer: I am a Chrome developer, who formerly worked on the clipboard.

For a long time, Chrome did not allow pages on the open web to use document.execCommand('copy') or document.execCommand('cut'), and there was a fairly steady stream of requests from web developers to enable this. Eventually, Chrome did expose this gated behind a user gesture: https://chromestatus.com/feature/5223997243392000

> So instead of changing their new tab page to require a gesture like all other sites... they decided to allow any website to copy text into the clipboard. Nice.

Ownership of the clipboard features has moved around a bit, and sometimes historical context around things like the user gesture requirement are lost. Here, the NTP doesn't actually need this to work without a user gesture. The correct fix here is to fix the NTP tests to correctly simulate a user gesture, not to allow writing to the clipboard without a user gesture.

> I think copying into the clipboard needs an overhaul—even with a gesture. Don't you hate when news sites add a "- from XYZ" to your clipboard? That shouldn't be possible. I'm not sure how you'd fix this, but it should be fixed.

This is a difficult problem to fix. There are absolutely websites that abuse this. But there are also pages that do use the legacy clipboard API events in non-abusive ways (e.g. rich text editors), and blocking this outright would break legitimate uses as well.

Maybe something like a "copy as plain text" option would make sense...
But on the other hand trump is/was a danger to society and democracy. I'm happy the story was censored, given that it still seems like a non story (no real crime committed afaik)

And I fully understand the issues with my statement, the hypocrisy of it and the slippery slope nature of the act, but I do think some extreme cases do require bending the rules.
A rather simple utility that for some reason requires a login, I see no value in that when there are so many analogs that don't.
Kdenlive is pretty decent on windows if you need a bit more control.
I’m thinking of getting cards again because spelling my full name is awkward. It’s also part of my website and email address. Frankly I’d rather just put a piece of paper with my info on the reception desk and let them read it.
> The excessive metadata displayed around comments, such as the user's icon, initial sign-up, or last activity cluttered the interface. […] In any case, I'm extremely glad Discourse came along and democratized proper forum UX.

Yes, it’s so good that all this “excessive metadata” was replaced by… even worse metadata, and white space, and all the metadata is above and below comments because having giant margins is absolutely necessary, so information density absolutely tanked to non-existent.
Isn't this like replying to a thread and clicking "Also post to channel" in Slack?
Ask HN: Is it worth getting an MBA as a software engineer?
With the intention to start a startup?
I wouldn't trust any device like this to have robust security.

I think your only option is to find a model that can work without a connection to the internet, and then firewall it off from the outside world. Then nobody can access it to use those exploits and backdoors for evil.
If one of my friends share something that I have not muted, I want to see that in my feed. Thats the point of the feed.

Of course things like youtube searches and related videos is less well defined.
Will El Salvador Be the First Country Bankrupted by Crypto?
I have heard of Dr Huberman, but have not yet looked into his work (books?). Thanks for the tip. I’ll check him out.
TNT is rather insensitive for an explosive. You need primers or high energies to set it off, you can melt it and it won't explode. In fact it's so insensitive that for decades people didn't realized it's an explosive and used it as a dye. And even after they did - it was exempt from most safety rules.

Shock sensitivity Insensitive
Friction sensitivity Insensitive to 353 N

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT#Explosive_character

Anegdoticaly - my grandpa told stories that after WW2 he and other kids found a lot of munitions in the forest and played with them. And TNT was so safe they used it as a fuel in stoves and it would just burn without exploding (and for quite a long time). Not sure how true it is, maybe it was a different material they just called TNT.
I believe the most problematic part isn't that his father knew, but that his father delivered on the son selling access to his father when he was VP, and the son suggesting he is the front man for the family, collecting the money and covering the costs.

And with a lot of this money coming from Ukraine, and then the father writing $40 billion checks to ukraine, independently of what you think of the war (I am in favour of this aid myself), this is the mother of all conflicts of interest.
Families mostly like to share photos. Facebook works far better than any messaging app for that use case.
I think this is my favourite unlikely HN comment of all time
> during the building itself is done with hands just like 1000 years ago (laying bricks)

I see you are from the Czech republic (congrats! a nice country!). Are these local or migrant workers?

Also - whats the typical price for a Prague apartment compared to such a house?
Billions of people celebrate religious observances every 7th day.
I think the MDI was too complicated for most people. Simplicity wins. And wasn't it like an application had to implement it to use it, not part of the OS-GUI by itself?

But Smalltalk "project windows" was and is truly simple. I think you can still check them out in Pharo and/or Squeak.

They are not of much use to casual computer user I think. Their benefit comes when the computer is used to perform complex multi-level tasks like producing software.
Do you have a link to the paper and or ML algorithms used in the channel you posted? Some of them have an impressive quality level.
Do you believe, honestly, that Hunter Biden did anything even remotely equivalent to Trump, his children, and Jared Kushner?
2 billions to Jared Kushner evidence /sarcasm.

Btw, I don't recall any other US president having classified and top secrets docs at home after leaving WH.

It's now a NATO security issue, allies should be informed.
I have the city umbrella and it’s a great umbrella. It basically a baton with a heavy wooden knob on it. You hit someone with it and they are down. Less auspicious than walking around with a metal bar or a baseball bat.
Meth.

You don't understand 'most perps'

Just run
it has to be told about all the registered alarms by all apps again after restarting

Is that true? Or does it just read from the rtc state? (Or leave it alone?) Also for efficiency reasons, don't you want a single wakeup being scheduled rather than potentially spaced out wakeups?

stored settings

Aka a database, right? Albeit a per-user database. What you are talking about sounds more like a service (daemon) than an app, though, from my perspective. A sort of per-user waked. That operates by holding timerfds it negotiated away from a privileged service. You can't revoke FDs anymore/yet, right? Although you can mark them cloexec and go on a killing spree.
You're still stuck with the zero pad performance hit when the destination is significantly larger than the source.
I wish people would acknowledge this fact more often (and it is unquestionably a fact).
When working with this stuff how much do they make? Can they make so little of it that an explosion is
no issue but still get good data?
Why do people watch them? Because they're acting, singing, performing stunts, telling jokes, modeling, etc.

The guy who will play Macbeth in 2042 is doing TikTok dances now (or he was a couple years ago I'm behind on the trends).
> Which list of people 30 years ago were 'famous for being famous' and which cohort of society aspired to be them? Name names.

This was the life blood of MTV 30 years ago. To this list I'd add all those pickup artist cretons, half the food network and Donald Trump.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2016/05/10/...

You don't remember them because their contributions are inconsequential or you consider them consequential because they leveraged their fame into something that resembles accomplishment.

> But my grandparents were born in homes without electricity or plumbing. They did not turn to prostitution or aspire to the 'least' they could be.

What?

> Because being a great athlete or artists (or scientist etc.) is not 'a propos of nothing'.

Really? Has knowing who Pete Townsend or Kurt Cobain or Andy Warhol or Dolly Parton is enriched your or anyone else's life? Knowing their produce may have. Why is heaping accolades upon them and deriving influence from them warranted?