skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've got to have a pretty sticky and/or differentiated product before you won't see a lot of price/feature sensitivity in the skew-small groups who would be affected by this.

Slack as a product is pretty good, but it's not wildly better than the other zillion messaging things. If you've got 10-100K people in your Slack, that's a high switching cost, but you're not using the free tier at that point.

I have Slack along with Signal and Telegram and Discord and iMessage and Google Meet and IRC and and and and... some people I need to talk to are on it.

But is it scratching any itch that I have as a small fry that isn't easily scratched elsewhere? Not really.
The express purpose of strncpy is to handle fixed-length strings in classic unix (file) structures (e.g. tar), I'm not convinced it's correct to use in basically any other situation.
I don’t think the demise of classic forums/self-hosted communities is a technical problem. There is no shortage of modern communities - as you say, Discourse is one of the most popular. Otherwise there’s NodeBB, Flarum, etc - and vBulletin, IPB, phpbb, etc are still under active development.

The larger “problem” is the world has moved on. For its flaws, people seem to enjoy the familiarity/community of umbrella sites like Reddit.
So you see, it is also an expertly non-verbal communication tool.
In the UK, I've ordered from Deliveroo Editions, which is ghost kitchens with the branding and food of real restaurant chains. It's been OK, unsurprisingly a chain with 150 branches is just reheating something made in a factory, not tasting and adjusting. So by ordering from Deliveroo Editions you get the same thing.

The UK does have the predatory type of ghost kitchen as well and I have never ordered from them. The incentives are skewed towards getting new customers, not repeat ones, and just ripping off as many as you can find.
ah, gotcha, you're saying that the fees that publishers charge will eat into the funding for the science itself

that makes sense, they should charge less, or none, and we should fund more
That page’s really weird. Also, since when is the start menu called the “Windows launcher”‽
At least Finnish mostly has good grace to have new symbols for vowels. And not use same ones for half a dozen different sounds...
One reason for this change might be all the dead Slack workspaces out there. I’ve been in over a dozen Slack workspaces over the years, and many of them were just used temporarily for one project or another. Slack probably has millions of such zombie workspaces, that pay no money, but with the simple 10k message limit system, they had to keep their data around forever.
This is awesome. I would love to read more about this experiment if you ever though about writing a blog post or comment.

I’d love to hear; why you did it, The pros and cons, the effort vs reward.

I had thought about doing something similar for African food in my area as there is no African food on any of the apps
Ask HN: Does HN Support IPv6?
There seems to be no AAAA dns records, and fallback to IPV4 fails for login page. Is it only me?
Same for safari indeed.
Some aspects of patent administration are being assisted by machine learning, which might mean that statistically a few jobs have already been lost, maybe not examiners per se.

I gather IPCCAT https://ipcpub.wipo.int/?notion=search&version=20220101&symb..., uses ML - and other offices have similar tools.

UKIPO use AI for trademark searches and to streamline applications, eg https://ipo.blog.gov.uk/2020/10/29/introducing-the-trade-mar....

Patent examining seems pretty complex analytically, perhaps some aspects of patent drafting, making a common description from a bunch of 3D renders (like scene description) might be the next low-hanging fruit after classification?
I'm also a bit confused by that. Websites can already do just as many malicious things when you interact anywhere else with JS enabled, so I don't see the security argument. They can also quite trivially insert invisible text if they for some reason want you to copy something different than what's displayed.

The main reasons I use built-in copy buttons are:
A) I don't end up with bits of whitespace at the start and end of the text if it wasn't formatted well on the website.
B) Normal copy-paste in a browser will also copy a bunch of HTML formatting data, which I almost never want in a code snippet. I don't want to have to install an extension just to get plaintext.
> There is simply no evidence that nuclear power is dangerous

Wait, what? You even started your own reply with “Nuclear power is not without risk.”

> a lot of evidence to suggest it is the safest, most effective power source we have created.

A lot of evidence also suggest the opposite. Again, you took the time to explain how technically nuclear was simple, without engaging with the context it is used in.

PS: Fatalities per thousand terawatt hours is an interesting metric, except it completely ignores non lethal effects (cancers can be survived, and might also not be attributed to exposure officially, same way low dose exposure don’t have obvious consequences that feed the numbers), and environmental issues that don’t lead to standard air pollution, like soil and water contamination for instance. Basically that’s looks like a feel good number to discredit coal, but isn’t that relevant in any other context.
I work on a gamification product. We have schools as customers, they made a game that engaged the students and in an a/b testing showed much better results over time.

They pay 0.1% of what other, non-education customers pay.
Because that's all they could spare and allow.

Needless to say, the servers alone cost more than what they pay. Not to talk about the massive amount of support they consume.

So if you wonder why it's not widespread - that's why.
At least in Perl, the rationale for this (apart from copying C) is that it's very easy to reference a list (array) of month names if the month indices are zero-based.
Covid coalition over, Moderna sues Pfizer and BioNTech over vaccines
Used Debian and Ubuntu on Macbook Air 2015 before. In ubuntu everything works out of the box, but camera - you need to compile your own driver from github. You pay a bit in battery life and heat for having an FOSS operating system - ballpark being 5h vs 7h. Fan gets audible too compared to macos.

At some point, this macbook started to freeze with lots of % in sys in linux while doing not so much. Reinstalled macOS back, but had a problem with exactly 10s freeze the world on every wifi reconnect, totally reproducible. Took me 2-3 months to realize that there's something called SMC that could be re-set. This fixed it back, but I stayed on macos/Monterey for now.
How do you explain the visual confirmation by the pilots as well as the objects showing up on radar? It's fine to be skeptical but don't be so dismissive when you yourself are leaving out important details that negate your claim.
I suppose in many ways it was actually constructed and rather lately for a language. And then very effectively put through education system. With good promotion of one standard in written and publicly broadcasted word.
Davinci Resolve is available as a very complete free version. Or rather, Davinci Resolve is free, Davinci Resolve Studio costs money.
I believe there are loads of things that can make you highly uncomfortable, without having to quit your job, or use money to invest.

You need to go through a bunch of them to shake things up and exit this endless loop as you called it. I believe during such phases we discover the deeper levels of ourselves if we listened to our deep need to evolve, expand and explore.
Three minutes into this video, I realized that I might be watching a bot
Those simply providing entertainment to people do not refer to themselves as "influencers".
Get a $10 VPS and install Rocket Chat. Same functionality, supports hundreds of users.
I still can’t believe that the Silvertown Tunnel, the next Thames crossing will require a modern version of this rather than have a dedicated cycle space.

I appreciate cycling close to cars in a tunnel won’t be pleasant but we are slowly moving away from the internal combustion engine, the air will get better and better as electric gets more popular.
You're telling me that everyone who's used Slack has used Zulip and just found Slack better?
Yeah in my experience even when councils do put in proper cycle paths they are still second class citizens to roads so that it's often more convenient just to stay on the road.
No, sadly :(
Not the entire world, our child can get to school 3 km away on a bike without sharing the road with cars. There are bridges and tunnels, the bike road is physically sepparated from car roads with trees and grass at all times. Except for the last bit in to school that is in a small single family house area with almost no traffic. (North Sweden)
"the answer is simple: don't use computers"
Because initially, there were no such algorithms in place (or at the very least, they had a much lighter touch). The Twitter and Facebook timelines used to be chronological by default. The whole idea of an algorithmic feed as an intermediary of what you see was missing.
It does look like Zuck’s next attempt at usurping the role of Arbiter of Truth. Seems to be one of his obsessions.
The only effective way to delete messages individually is by using automation software, which can get your account banned or locked.
It's all about discovery.
You like XYZ pizza; how many places did you try before finding them? How did you find XYZ pizza?
Thats where these gatekeepers thrive.

Its the same as yahoo/altavista/google.
That's what the "Notes" text field in My Lists (make sure you switch to the table view) is for. Have you seen it?

Also, you can add tags to your items, as a means to organize them however you see fit.
The asterisk shows that Finnish is in category 4.5. That's harder than Russian!
Typical trash propaganda from The New Republic. Would be useful to label publishers with strong political biases (left/right) so people know to beware before they read.
Yes, I’m against killing the cow industry. I also prefer living cows from which I can get milk than cows that we’ve terminated for beef.
I was trying to express the idea that it was pop industry who made the decision that composers didn't matter rather than pop consumers and maybe that given the information pop listeners might well be happy to know where the pop comes from.
There was a thread about running older versions of OSX and macos:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31164521

In that thread, you get to learn how you can run latest chromium on Maverics. Firefox is a toast now. General rule of thumb being don't run old OS and old browser on internet-facing machine.

you could still get mac minis that would run 10.9 officially without the headaches. (2012 vintage ...)

EDIT: There are drivers missing for newer hardware in 10.6-10.9. Haven't tried if OCLP could help with this.
I don't think anyone predicted the current outcome, but I think the largest misjudgement was from the FSB/GRU/Russian intelligence theres signs to point to them legitimately thinking this would only take 3 days and that it would of been a walk in the park.
A wide menu is usually a red flag. It can be microwaved frozen food, but it's also difficult to master many recipes.
I think it should be viewed like this: in the eyes of many, Trump is a man who boasted about sexual harassment. Continuing to support such a man is borderline incompatible with holding basic values that one might hope every employee has.

This viewpoint is really difficult to argue with. You can say that such transgressions are perhaps outweighed by any advantages of his presidency that you perceived, but that will not convince many on the left. Indeed, just look at the Cuomos and Franken to see that harassers are simply no longer tolerated on the left - these days such men are simply disqualified without pardon.

I think this fundamental incompatibility of basic values is an important reason why it is difficult to be a Trump supporter at many companies and universities nowadays.

(I conflated being "conservative / Republican" with being a Trump supporter. Feel free to ignore my comment if that is not what you intended.)
IDK it seems pretty decent. Nothing is magic, but textbooks don't provide links to their sources.
If a moderator deletes a post someone else can post it again. If you create an automatic rule to prevent that then it's algorithmic.
To some extent, this is also because our logistics is really centered around shipping containers, and anything significantly larger than that becomes a weird, specialized and expensive thing to transport, so it’s cheaper to do onsite.

(There was a bit of a movement to turn literal shipping containers into rooms or tiny homes, but it turns out it’s quite expensive to modify something that wasn’t supposed to be anything other than a box to have things like windows and doors and plumbing, to say nothing of whatever remediation would be required of the container’s previous life.)
The reality of "technology in the classroom" for me was just a bunch of classmates goofing around and getting distracted with computers, whilst they could be reading a book combined with interacting with each other.
Hah, perhaps not that literal :)

I was given a very precious CD-R(!) with about a million lines of C on it, that we had bought from the vendor of some crucial middleware we were using. Included with it were the build files for a proprietary build system that we hadn't bought alongside the source license. My task was to understand it and produce a new build system for it that would work on Solaris/Sparc, HP-UX/PA-RISC and HP-UX/Itanium, AIX/Power, Linux/x64 and z/Linux, and Windows Server 2003.

It's funny how only about half of those are a going concern now!
It's subtle, because some of the impossibility proofs are effectively saying that any real proof needs to be somehow sensitive to whether it's in an imaginary universe with oracles, so they can _fail_ in them!
uuu see vee finns älready soolved it.
My issue with you is that you post abusively at people in retro computing groups. You have told me to kill myself and I have seen you tell people to f** themselves with a chainsaw. You have the good sense to delete it afterwards, but the damage is done.

There is nothing to hash out - I simply seek to warn people to be wary before engaging with you.

At least you seem to have stopped spamming the various retro groups. So, that's improvement.
Censorship in Nature Journal Publication
Everyone on HN should be comfortable with using a command line.
Notice how quantity is the main thing that matters with explosives.

You can make the nastiest thing imaginable but there's pretty hard limits on how much chemical energy can blow up in your face per milligram of reactants. On the other hand, even if you think something is "better behaved" if there's enough of it it will still do horrible stuff if anything goes wrong.
Are Sanctions on Russia Working?
the way msft shafted author of winget is pretty nasty though...
Tagging users is also possible in slack. I don't know if permissions by tag is possible, but the basic concept of "@ these 7 people" has been there for a while.
Not Windows' though, honestly.
I stand with Ghana on this, the least the Brits could do is own up to their colonial past and not push former colonies aside as long as they’re not bringing in the money anymore (because I guess that’s the main reason behind that airport move).
Zulip is very “channels first” and once you get used to it it works pretty well. I constantly run into issues uploading files > 10Mb to Zulip though, it just sits there “Waiting” forever. I have to put things like screencasts somewhere else. Otherwise it’s pretty good though
>Just tested, can't reproduce.

I have seen this for weeks/months now. It happens when you are about to make a purchase. So for instance, if you click on pay with paypal on a different website, it shows up, presumably to reduce friction or improve clickthrough.
The page is great, even disregarding the fictional stuff.

I would have expected to find Cicada 3301 in there. That one still bugs one.
This strikes me as exactly the intent of the cloud kitchen model, not some big reveal.
I think at the end of the day, planet destruction, whether it be by asteroids or global warming or anything else…is assured no matter how small the chance is. So the game is multi planet/galaxy settlement before time runs out.

The hilarious part of it all is that we have a sample size of 1(and almost not even one since we haven’t hit the filter yet).
Haha, I literally got downvoted for stating this obvious fact… people find it really difficult to differentiate facts they don’t like from lies.
I’m not familiar with binary lambda calculus; it’s been over 35 years since I thought extensively about reflective languages. But note even in a language like Haskell the lazy semantics comes from the interpreter itself. The proposition that no language (mathematics) can represent all propositions goes back to Russel/Gödel.

Perhaps the better answer is at the end of my comment: for all intents and purposes you can get essentially all the value of a reflexive language through other means, even if those means are much less elegant.
3rd parties trying to id HN users.
It’s just so confusing when they put a “sub sandwich” in the taco section.
Honestly there really should be home scale concrete 3D printers. I know they exist but they should be better and more common by now. Create your model in software, concrete goes in one end and a house gets printed. It could even leave exposed channels for wiring and plumbing.
You can do that in Slack as well. They call it user groups: https://slack.com/help/articles/212906697-Create-a-user-grou...
> No, this is not money laundering (it would be a poor one as this will immediately arouse suspicion on such platforms - after all, if you place an order, the delivery person will appear to your kitchen to collect the order and if there is no food they will report you. For this to be successful both Swiggy and Zomato itself need to be involved in it. And as the author noted, food is available from these restaurants, even if it is lousy food.)

Not only that, but the platform fees will eat like half of your money so this would be an outrageously stupid way to launder money. And then, you’d also need to have large amounts of money split over a large quantity of different credit cards for this idea to make sense.
Is it censorship to only permit e. g. knitting content to be discussed on a knitting Discord server and to ban most other topics? There are only a handful of places where one can discuss narrow-appeal topics like knitting, and many more places to discuss anything else. If you didn’t ban other topics (i. e. curate content), the server would collapse thanks to narrow-interest content getting lost in the noise.
>although I'm unsure how a simple spelling mistake discredits the basis for the complaint

Welome to HN, the bikeshedding capital of the world.
>do regulators know that for a fact before they decide no to enforce penalties for what you are claiming is trademark infringement?

The regulator doesn't pursue trademark infringement cases. It is upon the trademark holder to defend their mark via proceedings. So WingstopCo would bring an action against ThighstopCo. In this case, since both marks are held by the same entity, there's no enforcement possible unless the holding entity an exclusive license to one of the marks to another party.
But: It does not randomly change payment tiers or features or require a client update. In fact, IRC works stable for like, 40 years now?
From the comments in the linked thread:

> They doctored their hashes. See, the hashes of the story's example strings do match the hashes given in the story in their first many non-zero characters, and they do match the last ten or so characters. Someone like me who bothers to check that they're legit -- and who like me is used to not checking every character of a hash -- will be fooled. But the real hashes have extra characters in between those start and end chunks, and crucially the real hashes also start with many fewer zeros. The real hashes are the same as the story hashes but with extra characters added, balanced out with fewer zeros to start. The hashes in the story start with 22 zeros. The actual hashes that the example strings produce start with 11 zeros. That means that, effectively, the real hashes have a massively easier difficulty level. An achievable-in-reality difficulty level
it's not that simple either:

tools used for reasons outside of work may be perceived as good tools for work;

and tools used professionally are sometimes considered to be good for use for personal reasons.

tl;dr it doesn't need to be true always, only sometimes, which it is
This concept of market saturation is a well known concept, however, you forgot one important part, the next generation. It is well known under marketeers that is it is hard to change habits. An 80 year old is not suddenly going to change toothpaste brand because they saw an amazing ad on television. However, a rebellious teenager/young adult will want to pick their own toothpaste brand, and are susceptible to marketing campaigns. Personally I have been using a different toothpaste brand because my teenage children want it, and they offered bulk discount, so not worth buying my usual brand in addition.

This is the same with Slack/Discord. If I can attract bright individual to work for me if I offer them Discord, I don't really mind switching to Discord.
> Art is Fundamentally Social ... I suspect that this view could be
useful for understanding other new phenomena as well.

And old ones.

There's a reason Donald Knuth titled his lifelong works "The Art of
Computer Programming".

Having worked in the digital arts and seen the horizons - the
staggering enormity of sheer possibility still only in its infancy -
what troubles me about the industrialisation of code, not just
centralised big-tech and disposable software "engineering" but the
lockstep conformity of its cultural product, is what we have lost by
forgetting that what we do as hackers is also Art.
> 100 million years

That's a lot of evolution, considering mammals is barely that old.
Who is M. Torvalds? I am not aware of anyone with first initial M. named Torvalds that is relevant to this discussion and would require such bizarre pronouns to be applied to them.
I think pharmacy is just thinking different. If something is found at pharmacy and you are buying them you are anyway taking them out from there. "I bought the drugs from the pharmacy" Ostin lääkkeet apteekista. "Drugs are at pharmacy" lääkeet ovat apteekissa.
> In thinking about the nature of art, I have come to believe that the art is a fundamentally social phenomenon; art exists primarily for social purposes.

It's funny because I think this idea is new or even shocking to some, but would be the most obvious thing in the world in other times and places.

In the Renaissance, for instance, I'm sure the artists achieved some amount of personal expression but the art was created to inspire religious feelings in a church or glorify a prince or accomplish some other social goal.
I am compelled to mention delphi - it has compile times of a few seconds on any old hardware.
>Wingstop and Thighstop for instance are incredibly close and not enough to trigger regulatory enforcement. There is the side note that they are owned by the same entity, but do regulators know that for a fact before they decide no to enforce penalties for what you are claiming is trademark infringement?

Well, yes? Regulators would determine both are owned by the same entity, at which point there would be no enforcement penalty to apply.