jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Genuine question here.... why are GPU's still used for graphics in video games? Is this one use case where the CPU will never catch up or has yet to?
Things I don't like about Ruby: %w{} et al., symbols, more implicit "magicy" things.
Hah, yes, I’ve had lots of problems with keyboard layouts. I have a hobby requiring lots of unusual characters (e.g. ɛɔþʔəɬɑʒ), and I haven’t yet found a keyboard layout which allowed me to type all these characters with absolutely no problems. I started off using the Canadian Multilingual Standard [0], which worked well enough, but uses Ctrl rather than AltGr as a modifier, with all the conflicts that entails. Also, some frequent characters such as []/ were hard to get to, and I never did manage to retrain my muscle memory to get used to their positioning. I eventually switched to the Finnish Multilingual layout [1], which fixed the Ctrl problem but not my muscle memory. I think I used Keyman [2] for a while, but I don’t remember it working very well. At the moment, I’m using my own custom keyboard layout [3], which generally seems to work very well… except in Microsoft applications, which seem to inconsistently not recognise dead keys with AltGr. (Excel is a particular offender, which is particularly horrible since I often need to type characters like λση⁻¹ in it.) Not that they’re alone: out of the major GUI libraries I tested recently, only Qt and Electron worked correctly. Clearly, this is an area in need of improvement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSA_keyboard

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key#Finnish_multilingual

[2] https://keyman.com/

[3] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey
I think the problem may be best addressed by spinning up ASML alternatives and other critical singular fail points/capabilities. Some things like this do rise to a national/global security threat.
three of those links are about the same study suggesting pre-colonial movement west from the south american coast towards polynesia, and one is about analysis of ancient remains.

this study involves a large genetic survey of modern indigenous populations not only along the coast but also in the interior of the continent, that suggests ancient movement from polynesia to the south american continent.
Even if you move your hands (gasp) off the keyboard to the trackpad or the mouse that is presumably very close by, typing that command is probably not faster and more convenient than double-clicking.
Aren't they different products though? Netlify is front end only while Heroku is full stack.
the release cycle is the major point I suppose. Debian stable is very old for a workstation. Running testing or unstable is usually fine but not everyone might like it. With something like Ubuntu and two year/6 months update cycles you're probably closer to what most people want on a desktop.
One of my favorites is in POSIX date format strings:

%p locale's equivalent of either AM or PM
%P like %p, but lower case
I've always had a soft spot for the choose boring argument, but for some problems boring tech is a poor match. Rather, I try to look at each problem objectively - decide what I want out of a solution, and select accordingly.
Czesław Miłosz, "Campo di fiori":

In Rome on the Campo dei Fiori
baskets of olives and lemons,
cobbles spattered with wine
and the wreckage of flowers.
Vendors cover the trestles
with rose-pink fish;
armfuls of dark grapes
heaped on peach-down.

On this same square
they burned Giordano Bruno.
Henchmen kindled the pyre
close-pressed by the mob.
Before the flames had died
the taverns were full again,
baskets of olives and lemons
again on the vendors' shoulders.

I thought of the Campo dei Fiori
in Warsaw by the sky-carousel
one clear spring evening
to the strains of a carnival tune.
The bright melody drowned
the salvos from the ghetto wall,
and couples were flying
high in the cloudless sky.

At times wind from the burning
would drift dark kites along
and riders on the carousel
caught petals in midair.
That same hot wind
blew open the skirts of the girls
and the crowds were laughing
on that beautiful Warsaw Sunday.

Someone will read as moral
that the people of Rome or Warsaw
haggle, laugh, make love
as they pass by the martyrs' pyres.
Someone else will read
of the passing of things human,
of the oblivion
born before the flames have died.

But that day I thought only
of the loneliness of the dying,
of how, when Giordano
climbed to his burning
he could not find
in any human tongue
words for mankind,
mankind who live on.

Already they were back at their wine
or peddled their white starfish,
baskets of olives and lemons
they had shouldered to the fair,
and he already distanced
as if centuries had passed
while they paused just a moment
for his flying in the fire.

Those dying here, the lonely
forgotten by the world,
our tongue becomes for them
the language of an ancient planet.
Until, when all is legend
and many years have passed,
on a new Campo dei Fiori
rage will kindle at a poet's word.

Warsaw, 1943
This package allows you to summarize text by reducing an article in size to several sentences retaining the idea of the text.
No fucking kidding, I just flagged this garbage article, post it tomorrow with the rest of the article.

I don't want to read half a fucking article.
> Its about perception

It's not just about perception. In their early days, they used to advertise themselves as a "Free SMS" service, at least in Portuguese.

> Actually there are carriers in Brazil that allow free connection to WhatsApp server even if you have a limited connection plan...

This is very recent, after they got massive.
Something forgotten: Visual Basic. Plus some smaller but still know players like Visual FoxPro, Delphi.

And the MS evangelism of OO and "flavor of the year arch that also is OO" that was central to their conferences.

So: The most popular language, and the others, and java, all OO.

Outside university, that was the landscape. And inside the university? All tech there give a bad taste, and the impression of be bad, ugly, slow, bad, ugly, slow. Instead, Delphi, Fox, Visual Basic: DELIVER. And them were OO, so OO is the thing.
Just an FYI here, but UltraVNC and RealVNC Enterprise do support VNC encryption.

http://adamwalling.com/SecureVNC/

https://www.realvnc.com/products/vnc/documentation/5.0/guide...
Thanks. Gave me an excuse to draw something fun. :)
How about demoting Marissa Mayer to a different role?
We tried the same basic move — one open-ended address field instead of a set of more specific parts — in an attempt to simplify our sign-up flow. We too have since reverted to a more conventional multi-part form.

First thing we discovered: We might have been happy with one big box, but none of the payment services we use worked the same way. This more than cancelled out any usability benefit, because we could no longer reliably pre-fill the address fields on any form for card or bank details. Our customers would still wind up entering the specific parts of their address anyway, but now they effectively had to type the same address twice during the sign-up process as well! (Edit: There’s also a related issue that some browsers will remember and pre-fill fields that look like common address parts automatically, which to my knowledge no browser does for an open-ended address.)

Second thing we discovered: Same as 'FooBarWidget, given a freeform text field, some customers will give you beautifully formatted multi-line addresses, some will stick everything on one line, some will stick just the first line on that one line, some will assume you meant e-mail address(!) and so on.

More recently, we also discovered a third issue because we’re in the EU: I can see no reasonable way to automatically parse any common address format that is sufficient to comply fully with the new VAT place-of-supply rules, but to have a chance of even getting close in the 99% case you at least need to have a separate country indicator.

I do sympathise with the frustration of having to break down addresses into different fields. If the big bureaucracies like payment schemes and governments had more practical rules for working with customers in different locations, one big box really is all we should need, though getting customers to enter something valid in it is still a tricky issue. But since those more practical rules seem unlikely to happen any time soon, there is little either we or our immediate service providers can do but follow the dubious but widely accepted conventions anyway.
That is precisely the kind of minutia that made me abandon Perl the week I discovered Python. I think I'm a reasonably intelligent person, and Perl's cleverness was a source of fun for the first year or two. I eventually got tired of feeling like I had to prove my subject mastery every time I opened an editor.
I think tcl/tk is still the best quick gui writing setup I have seen. Unfortunately at some point the language dev team took a wrong turn and tried to force non-backward-compatible changes which, in combination with other factors, killed the community. Too bad! No other language has stepped up with such an easy-to-use toolkit.
I'm afraid this will be lost on most.
I love that. Same thing happens in most European countries.
I could see that happening. There's a decent argument to be made that network effects would make a duopoly the efficient outcome for major social networks like FB and Myspace.

As people get better at, and better tools for, segmenting their lives on FB, I don't see why FB couldn't persist.
1. Yep, if not face recognition, then let me use the arrows to move the picture up and down.

2. They can fix this with better instructions. I finally un-tagged and re-tagged all my pics without from 5 to 1 without re-uploading them to get the correct order.

3 (new). I forgot to say thank you. I was having trouble with the app and I should have been more gentlemanly. Sorry.

Thank you! This was good for a beta and the results look OK with some fiddling.
I agree it probably isn't true. But I've seen this argument quite a few times about how there is not a chance something this important is covered by an NDA.

People make mistakes. I think this argument has nothing to do with the relevance of his claims. It could be covered by an NDA. Maybe he doesn't understand that it is covered by more. Either way. I just don't see this as an important point.
I've been using 1password on my mac, but I'm not using it's full capabilities yet. To use it with the iPhone do you sync your passwords using Dropbox or anything?
I strongly agree the mass adoption of self driving cars will be the most significant development of the foreseeable future.

It will create a social upheaval on par of the Industrial revolution by the mere fact of the number of people who happen to make their livelihood driving a vehicle across the globe.
I find it suspicious that he mentions the use of scanning tunneling microscopy for analysis of circuit topologies. STM, as far as I know, is useful at the atomic level and would be complete overkill for analyzing ICs today, let alone ten years ago.

I'm not sure what to think, simple slip of the tongue or a sign he's making it all up as he goes along?
I really think the use of the pictures in the new profile is an interesting "hack", but I wish this was used for more than just spreading your face over them in the same way. It was a good idea to use these smaller pictures for something, now the something needs to be expanded a bit.

That being said, good job on getting something up and running that fast! It's indeed the right time to do it.
they do. the import just changes the virtual disk format, the same way vmware converter can import xen images, MS hyper-V images, MS virtual desktop images, etc.
I think you are mistaken, this just an old iron hay cutter. I have exactly the same thing in my backyard.

https://somersetshop.co.uk/old-vintage-cast-iron-chaff-cutte...
TripAdvisor is a big (by startup standards), well established company, but we're a small, young team and built this feature in a startup timeframe (~ 3 months). Much of our effort was rapidly executing on some ideas of how to make travel planning more social, while coping with changes to Facebook's API's and their various announcements at f8. Now we get to leverage ~10 million unique monthly site visitors and scale for those ~5 million active Cities I've Visited users sanj mentioned. Sure beats fighting for 10,000 views while eating ramen.

We've heard many folks say they will "change the game" in travel planning, but only have some VC funding to show for it. Seems like you might want a product to go with those claims...

Consider the gauntlet thrown.

east ~ side
Then there's Aqua Teen Hungerforce. The plots are mostly random and nothing ever gets resolved at the end. The movie was full on surrealism[1]. It's almost hard to remember what the plot of any episode was because they seem to take completely random directions.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_Teen_Hunger_Force_Colon_Mo...
"It is important
to note that we favor abstractions, but they should
be implemented outside the operating system so that
applications can select among a myriad of implementations or , if necessary, roll their own ."
You're probably right about this, I haven't studied them deeply.
It is more akin to the US Sanctions. You don’t have to abide. If you do trade with sanctioned countries, you should not do any kind of business with the US, or pay a hefty penalty.

Here’s a case example, BNP Paribas dealings with sanctioned countries.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bnp-agrees-to-pay-over-8-8-bill...
The article notes that none its analysis absolves SolarWinds, and repeatedly goes out of its way to knife them.
You should check `powercfg lastwake` via PowerShell, and Event Viewer, to determine what wakes up your PC.

I had similar issues, and IIRC, I had to disable wakeups for network adapters in Device Manager.
Even YouTube isn't immune. Many times I search and the top result is text-to-speech trash with a stock image. Countless channels exist that just do text-to-speech and auto-upload of news articles found online, without even citing them.
From an economics perspective it seems like a more viable approach. Most of the techniques considered state of the art now are likely easily detectable by Google and other ad tech companies - they have a very good idea of which data can be safely discarded. Rather than blocking Google Analytics I wonder what would happen if browsers started responding with garbage.
What makes you think the 100 insights are actually insights, and not simply deriving from confirmation bias?

To be clear, I support qual + quant user research (+ split testing). They are all tools that help influence product direction. I have, however, seen a lot of cases where qualitative research uncovers an insight that doesn't actually match real world behavior when we bake it into the product.

Compare that to a split test, where I don't know why something is happening, but I am able to optimize against goals. It gives less insight but is more foolproof-actionable. With insight, you have to go insight -> improved_action. With testing, you just have the improved action.

To me, qualitative research is crucial to build a model of the environment. These can be used to generate hypotheses, which you then split test. Any time I see someone take direct insight and build a product feature from it, I have a lot of questions about what alternate ideas they tested. And how to know the one that was developed is as close to optimal as you can get, given the fixed resources available.
> You can't take seeing their name, but you keep them in your contacts?

If I start getting abusive calls or texts from a usual suspect, I want to know who it is. My carrier-level number blocking resets every couple of years, and I cannot remember everyone's phone numbers.
You can also forget vacation trips in EU.
That’s great feedback, thank you!

We believe we’re differentiated in being both social and prosumer. E.g. we give advanced risk and performance metrics on every index, and are building a lot in-app for folks to collaborate.
That's not what conflict of interest means
Towards the bottom of the article is a picture titled "The road to a better, better parking sign" that shows various iterations of the design. It isn't very clear, but if you look closely at the two iterations on the right there are stripes added to the red specifically for color blind.

It's more clear on the designers blog: http://toparkornottopark.com/tagged/evolution
Constant loli covers that I presume?
Reddit's always there if it's not too low brow for you: http://www.reddit.com/r/economics
>Is a $20 bill something of value? No, it's merely somewhat hard to forge, and accepted as currency by lots of people.

I think perhaps you and I are using different definitions of "value". If someone is willing to accept something in exchange for something else, that act reveals that they value it, either for its use value or for its exchange value (i.e., as money).

>The only reasons the $20 bill or the entry in the computer retain value are because there's a central entity that limits the creation of too many of them

Why do you think that? It's certainly true that artificial scarcity raises prices (for money, in terms of all other goods), but that scarcity is not what is being subjectively valued.

A $20 bill today is valued (as money) based on what it could buy yesterday. And yesterday's valuation (as money) was based on the day before that. Go back far enough and the money valuation will have spawned from the commodity valuation.

Bitcoin is flawed in largely the same ways that fiat currencies are flawed, namely that the commodity has no use value demand, and the supply is not subject to market forces.

The difference with fiat currencies is that they have quite a few things going for them that keep them around: taxes are demanded in them, a raft of laws eliminate competition, and a central bureaucracy actively manipulates the market.
These are amazing, Slocum is pretty great. But, I submitted this before. Can anyone explain how double-submits are moderated?
If you experiment with a project and you mess it up, you abandon the project and move on. I don't think it works that way with kids.

If you are working on a project, it is subject to your will, and though you may not have complete control all the time, your project has no free will or mind of its own like a human being does.

There is, however, a similarity in the effectual nature of having to make smart improvisations in both ha.cking on projects and raising kids
At this point, I kinda wish there was a "no multitasking" switch in iOS. It would make it a lot easier for some people to use the device.
They're not. While the data spaces may not overlap, the file table very likely will (as much of it will fit in a single encryption block), so any parallel changes collide there in even the best circumstance.

I program out of my TrueCrypt volume while in Windows, unmount it, and let it sync. It's a super-easy backup, and DropBox is the only one I've used that handles a 1GB file correctly, and it does it without a hitch.

Worst-case-scenario is you do cause a collision, and you just mount both volumes at once and copy stuff to the one you want to keep.
"Please make it possible to develop iOS apps on something other than a Mac."

A few months ago I wrote a quick HTML5 app and when it came time to port it over to a proper iOS app, I found out Xcode only worked on Macs. And I'm a PC guy.

What did I end up doing? I made it into an Android app.

I'm sure I'm not the only casual app developer that didn't end up submitting to the App Store just because it was too much of a hassle. There's certainly no shortage of apps in the Store, but I think mine could have been better than at least 40% of them.
Founder yesterday said "when you get paid..we get paid".
So this is a beta test. Fees will come.
Absolutely do this. The initial blank prompt felt intimidating without any suggestions; and would help with the esoteric aspect of it for certain user sets. :)
Thanks, it has been added.
This feels like a lazy feature ... why? Who does it serve? How does it make clubhouse better?
On another hand, it provides a strong incentive for Clubhouse to ban such bad actors asap without even a second thought, because Cluhbhouse doesn't make a single dime off them due to not taking a cut from payments.

No conflict of interest and no perverse incentives. Which is in stark contrast to some perverse incentives other popular platforms have, e.g., Twitter and FB being lenient on botting and fake profiles because it drives their usage metrics up (which is the main bread and butter of those two social networks).
Of course it does, it's just that people on HN need to pretend to never be surprised about anything, ever, and to always be "in the know" about everything discussed here.
This is cool. This is what I imagined it would be like to program computers when I was a kid.
The US not only needs more people in unions but it also needs better unions. I can't believe how bad they mostly are. It's more about power and money than empowerment of the workers/members. I have never seen a union as bad as the better ones in the US. Here's hoping it will be better soon..
It is impressive.

To add information, Jørgen's Cantor Paradise is a paid subscription (a very good one) with occasional free articles. So what you identify as a prolific submission history can also identified by others, as self-marketing.
How much experience with rare book theft do you have?
Varnish also supports plugins for extreme flexibility. For example, I wrote a plugin for our Varnish install which performs HMAC validation of a specific signed cookie and then sets a header which is used downstream in the caching rules.

Varnish is mature, powerful, and fast as hell. It would take a lot of work to reach a point where I'd swap it out for something else.
yes, traffic lights could be a lot more intelligent. If Microsoft Kinect can reliably detect what people are doing, traffic systems should be able to figure out how many cars and people are approaching intersections.

Its unfortunate that the costs and benefits of traffic solutions are not connected like they are for most things. It would be a no-brainer to fix this if one balanced hundreds of dollars per day of lost time versus the cost of upgrading. But separating who pays costs and who gets benefits is what government seems to do best.
That sounds like a miss-use of fonts to me. Why isn't the ideal solution a GIF?
Maybe, depends on the size of the CSS. You could just use real images encoded into a data: uri for the same effect.
Loading all of jQuery seems a little bit excessive when the only thing they're using is the $.ajax function. http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/#request
The irony of course being that I thought to myself as I was reading it "that's some mighty easy-to-understand French". A long time ago I used to visit francophone Africans in a UK asylum centre who were always notably easier to understand than the French.
A pity they can't use dates before epoch.
I think you give too much credit to native speakers of any language.
For developing Chrome Extension, why would anyone want to use Go over Javascript?
Quite scary because I see people buying this for fun. There are a lot of startups struggling to find paying customers, with real products, and then you have this kind of joke that will sell more than those startups.

It's really sad.
You perfectly expressed my feelings. Greetings from Germany!
What does that mean? Are you looking to serve news up in an unconventional way?
Learn a scripting language. Java, C++, and C# are great tools, but a command of scripting languages will serve you well. Perl, Python, and Ruby are the perennial favorites - I prefer Ruby, personally - but there are tons of others, like Lua or Javascript.
Yes. I want to use a news source that is built mainly around bullet points, short sweet facts. A news source that provides resources for it's users to do it's own research, but not overwhelm them.

I can't find this. So I am considering building it.
I'm slightly saddened that Github doesn't recognize Brainfuck files.