jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I posted this piece with the usual outrage (I feel strongly about compact mode), but today I installed it in Windows Sandbox and can see very little difference, to be honest, between compact mode and normal mode.

That said I agree with comments in this thread to the effect that the option will be removed from about:config in short order, and so don't know what my solution to the problem will be.
If you want to use Linux on laptops, the best option is Fedora. Of all the mainstream dependable Linux distros it has the most up to date Kernel and other bits (like Gnome). This means that its support for hardware is usually the best. On Lenovo laptops with Intel graphics everything works perfectly out of the box with no issues (all the way down to fingerprint readers etc.).

I also find it to be stable and generally good distro, but of course that's more subjective.
This cannot be said often enough: "non-profit" is a phrase relating to the tax situation of a corporation. It is not synonymous with "good", "charitable", or even "not greedy." On the flip side, "for-profit" is not necessarily synonymous with "evil" or "non-charitable".
Exactly! This is what the @method / @impl system is for - it's about equivalent to clojure's defprotocol. Future plans include named protocols consisting of multiple methods, and protocol-based matching.
IE9 is looking pretty dated at this point. 2D acceleration when the competition is doing this?

On the positive side, it shouldn't be too hard for them to add this functionality to IE10. They just have to choose between showing a blank page (FF4) or popping up an error message (Chrome).
NO. Hell, if you have that kind of cash saved up consider doing some minor angel investing. Spread your money out among a handful of promising startups and you could get a vastly greater turnaround on your investment. You'd not only be doing a greater deed by giving new companies a legup, you'll be doing a slightly more responsible thing too. Do research on new YC companies and see which ones are most promising, and focus on them.
It's important to remember that TOR is an anonymizer not an encryption scheme. It hides who you are not what you say. Think of it as using Hitlers wifi while you eat that sandwich.
Absolutely amazing! Bad that I can't use CloudApp and DropBox on Chrome 8!
This brings up a more interesting question: how would you provide encrypted free Internet access in a coffee shop?

Giving out passwords to customers is the most common approach, but there must be a way to provide encrypted access without a shared key.
Has anyone installed this? First impressions?
Could it be more acceptable because women on their own, as well as men on their own, are better able to survive these days?

I think frozen meals and washing machines helped the cause of feminism a great deal...
The $2b is what they spent IN EXCESS of the value they currently carry on the books for the business - they invested far more.

It's an abysmal performance by anyone's standard BUT they could probably sell that business for considerably more than the book value.

Even if the book value is fair and they lost $2b, they got the only viable (albeit still money-losing) alternative to Google, which was a strategic imperative if they want to link Office and Windows to the cloud.
The Daily Howler ( http://dailyhowler.com/ ) has been blogging about the "our schools aren't bad, everyone just likes saying they are" for months and months and months. He's talking about this study today as well, and notes the real cause of this isn't really immigration, but the legacy of slavery (blacks score 75 points lower than whites):

"Among those 34 OECD nations, only the United States spent centuries aggressively trying to stamp out literacy among a major part of its population. The legacy of that benighted history lives with us today, although our “reformers” work very hard to avoid such painful discussions."
I'm envisioning a piece of software that lets you IM folks, but with the messages steganographically embedded in emoticons and the cleartext messages autogenerated.
>I would think the solution is blindingly obvious.

It feels obvious, indeed, but please explain the steps we should take to achieve the solution, because some of us are a bit slow.
I had a standing desk for several months - and it was a mixture of good and bad. When I had a delayed flight though Dubai and ended up stuck in a queue for 4 hours waiting to rebook tickets, it meant I didn't feel too much more fatigue than a normal day at work. :-)

I think it was helping me not slouch so much - so probably good for my back.

But then, with our newborn (colic, etc.), I was just so exhausted in general, that I found I'd arrive at work and not have the energy to stand upright for more than an hour or so, and sometimes just walking upstairs to my desk would make me feel out of breath and floppy.

So when I had to move offices, I simply couldn't be bothered to re-set up all the stuff I'd need for a standing desk, and resorted to a chair. I've only been back in the chair for a month or so, so I don't know if my posture will end up as awful as before. Maybe the thing to do is to use a standing desk half the year, and a sitting desk the other half... An adjustable desk would be best, but either expensive, or complicated.
This is also why games put random drops in your grindable content.

And why despite the satiric premise behind http://progressquest.com/ it is weirdly addicting.
Thanks for the link. Out of interest, have you play with Shen yourself? Did you build something with it?
I think Applicative was introduced within the last 10 years. The paper that introduced them was published in 2008 (Applicative Programming with Effects, Conor McBride and Ross Paterson)
Good post showing the content part of my argument.

http://blog.esl-languages.com/blog/esl/most-spoken-languages...
>> "I have found him to be contrarian and rude..."

There is a vital difference between "contrarian and rude" and "contrarian, rude, and right."

The latter doesn't erase the two former, but his code compiles and as far as I can tell his software works, which is at least worth mentioning.

Disclaimer: I don't have a horse in this race, know 0 of the principals involved, couldn't write FizzBuzz in Ruby, etc.
If the reason you're using github is its tools and (nice) interface, why not start your deploy by syncing github to your private repo, then have capistrano always pull from there?
Less code paths to test and no need to define env[FALLBACK]. Also, it's probably faster.
Something similar caused a stir in the Netherlands as well, a month ago certain electronics stores where caught using wifi and bluetooth tracking alongside IR cameras. The Dutch Data Protection Authority said customers should be informed and have a possibility to opt-out, while the State Secretary of Security and Justice commented that people should turn off their wifi or bluetooth if they do not want to be tracked.

Source: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=n&prev=...
I just signed up. Do you just upload random things that you think will sell? or is there somewhere I can see what people want?
"Wait, you have a problem with a city government trying to serve the people who actually live in a neighborhood rather than potential new residents?"

I am not sure if you are asking this as a rhetorical question, but if not ...

This aspect of the housing (and democracy) debate in the bay area is now framed in terms which reject local decision making ("local control") if those local decisions reinforce existing, exclusionary housing policies.

Which is to say, we like local control when it delivers results we agree with - like non-federal legalization of marijuana or so-called "sanctuary cities" but we don't like local control when it delivers results we disagree with.

Or, more succinctly:

"Democracy for me, but not for thee".
Ahh OK, makes sense! Thanks
Uh yes, i believe you, i just mentioned that it is confusing that the first part of the manual refers to the 1973 report as the standard Pascal and then the report in the second part is not the exact same text and that the last revision available from ETH is not the latest one (most likely because there wasn't a standalone version made) doesn't help.
160 000 vehicles is not huge scale for any automaker.

Anyway, I think the biggest issue is that USPS is not requiring for next gen platform to be fully electric.
Only on HN will someone look at housing & geographic distribution in urban America and somehow think "well I don't see how race had anything to do with this!"

Beyond that, so much evidence points to continued rampant housing discrimination today and we don't even try to enforce anti-discrimination law anymore like we did in the 70s and 80s. Compare [0] with [1].

[0]: https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/real-estate-agents-...
[1]: https://www.propublica.org/article/no-sting-feds-wont-go-und...
We sleep-trained our first starting at about 6 months old, and we're about to do the same with our second. The strategy we used was some kind of incremental back-off. Put them down, light out, leave. Wait 5 mins. Go on, give them a little hug or back pat, leave. Wait 10. Then 15. Then 20. Then 30. Then stay at 30 until they fall asleep.

Next night, 10, 15, 20, 30, 30, 30...

next night, 15, 20, 30, 30, 30....

At some point it went up to like 30 mins for first check, then an hour for subsequent checks. I think if we'd gotten to that point we'd consider trying something else cause that's a lot of crying.

But in practice we never had to really adhere to most of the structure because iirc it was like:

Night 1: 5, 10, 15, asleep.
Night 2: 10, 15, asleep.
Night 3: asleep.
Night 4: 15, asleep.

Then he was sleep trained and has slept like a rock with 0-30 seconds of fussing (usually 0) (and ~never crying) since.
Yeah, I think some people are clueless to this context.

Even in more direct ways.

I remember getting yelled at in middle school because I would show up late to early morning jazz band practices I had to be driven to. I was ready to go 40min before we had to be there. I can't make my mom get me there on time.

I think adults forget kids are not independent.
I’m using Type Studio https://typestudio.co
What is the difference?
Yes. I frequent bars a lot on the weekends, and it's almost every time. It's also a great conversation starter.
Algorithmic amplification of content is half baked. Outcomes will be random.

Algo amplification of content needs a timeout and a redesign.

Just look at HN. No one knows what will show up tomorrow morning. No one knows whether it will waste their time or be useful. Yet everyone shows up to consume the stream. And Like the SEC the mods have to react and counter react to what ever the hell happens.

If a simple HN algo amplification model has no roadmap to improvement cause no one really knows what to do about it, then to expect a roadmap to emerge in much more complex environments like Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, FB etc is delusional.

Therefore to prevent the constant periodic randomness injection into society that algo amplification of content produces, all algo amplification of all type of content should be put on hold.
anything that keeps the tinnitus away
I think their disclosure is very misleading. The disclosure sounds more like "we can't prevent other people from tracking you, but we're doing our best to stop it". What they should say is "Google will still track you. Other websites may still track you."
Before doing this, think of the consequences of nostalgia.

The past can be like a black hole if you get too close it pulls you again and again until you disappear.
I'm not sure everyone will ever agree on this.

I was amused to discover a few years ago when I had to order an E1 network connection at 2 Mbit/s that it was actually 2048000 bit/s, perhaps what you might call a 2 kikbit/s line now-a-days ;-)
30 minutes in and I still don't have a diff of the two CSVs... Has this program worked for anyone here?

Diffing: 0%| | 153/93195 [30:02<151:31:17, 5.86s/it]
Tightening Fringe Diagonal 82 of 792: 48%|...| 7453/15514 [00:30<00:35, 226.08it/s]
Is part of the strategy using private iOS APIs, tracking everyone outside of ToS, lying about it, getting caught, and then being too large for Apple to actually punish them?
Not malicious but sloppy.
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As a designer, I complain about touch screens from the perspective of their awful usability and ergonomics. When that fails, I take a different tack, and praise the tactility, precision, and overall fit-and-finish represented by high quality physical knobs and buttons. So far, automakers have not taken notice, and I am beginning to think they don't much care what I think.

I hope the author of this article gets more traction by being outraged about the accessibility concerns. That might work. Good idea!
Actually he's not.

You start with his Hall of Fame speech which was pretty shocking for everybody in attendance. Not before or since has a player admonished so many people he felt were beneath him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLzBMGXfK4c

Here's some excerpt's from an ESPN article:

"The greatest athlete of our time made sure to point out the high school coach who didn't put him on the varsity his sophomore year. (He was never cut, per se. That's an urban myth akin to Catfish Hunter's nickname origin.) He pointed out the guy who made the team "over" him, who was in the audience; his college roommate, Buzz Peterson; the NBA vets who froze him out in his first All-Star Game, two of whom were there, George Gervin (who presented David Robinson) and Isiah Thomas (who presented John Stockton); Jazz guard Bryon Russell, who was guarding him on his final shot in a Bulls uniform; and, of course, former Bulls general manager Jerry Krause, with whom he had real conflict during his career. Krause, forever the outsider looking in, made the mistake of claiming he was skipping Jordan's induction because former coach Tex Winter, the originator of the triangle offense, wasn't inducted."

"Onstage, Jordan adroitly, and unnecessarily, noted Krause wasn't invited before going on a diatribe about how organizations don't win championships, great players like him do"

"Jordan, not known for being cheap, even commented on the high prices the Hall of Fame charged for this evening because of his induction, noting that he had to pay for his tickets. It was a small sniping comment for a man who could be the first athlete to be worth $1 billion, but he hates people making money off him, unless he's getting a cut."
"I don't think a single figure of 65-70% is nuanced enough."

I agree with this part. My guess is that Israel is getting herd immunity at a lower overall immunization rate than expected because behavior is different too. There's still some amount of residual social distancing, social isolating, and so on. Plus whatever number of people didn't get a shot, but have some immunity from a previous (perhaps non-symptomatic) COVID infection.
This is sweet! Thanks for sharing.
That seems to be geared towards the UK market (the AC adaptor has a british plug and it is not available on the german Amazon store). Am I overlooking something?
I mention vuetify as its faster to type than 'bootstrap-vue', but BSV is what I've used more. Used vuetify on one small prototype at the suggestion of some colleagues - some differences and nice aspects compared to BSV, but I default back to BSV for familiarity/speed/completeness. vuetify seemed to have some nicer defaults for accessibility compared to BSV, but it wasn't enough to make me switch (also, because... I'm not a huge MD fan either).
> I'm just imagining the level of jaw dropping and brain exploding that would have gone on had that same headline been published in 1998.

I worked at IBM at the time and we had internal-use-only versions of a lot of major IBM AIX/Unix software running on Linux by 1998. Our experiments with running it directly on big iron started around then too. At least in my area most of the engineers were moving from X terminals to Linux desktops at that point so porting the software they were working on was inevitable.
The url made this potentially interesting however nothing to do with google, is a bit.ly forward to some service.
I'm not sure the first submission gives much room for useful and insightful discussion. Is the discussion there any different from other political correctness discussions we had here? If not, then it shouldn't be on the front page.
> So... which food additive's trade group is quietly paying scientists to point blame elsewhere right now? I'd prefer not to find out fifty years after the fact.

The soy scare made by the dairy and meat industries. A few years ago they caused a mass hysteria with the meme "google phythoestrogens". Sure, they bind to estrogen receptors, but their action actually inhibits mostly, so it kind of block estrogen.

Meanwhile, the same people would have no problem consuming products from the dairy industry abusing cows by pumping them with actual hormones. Dairy products full of actual estrogen and progesterone (not phyto-, the real deal).

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=es&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=dair...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoestrogen#Effects_on_human...
Why the paracetamol?
It's unfortunate to see people disadvantaged by pursuing a truly difficult major.

A 2.97 in bioengineering could represent someone who simply took more challenging courses, and got lower grades because the courses were truly difficult.

A straight bio major might have a 3.8, but never had to work through a year-long Pchem sequence, instead padding with softer, more grade-inflated courses.
Same here. Just falling asleep even for 1 minute wipes the windshield clean.
Ideally, we would think of this as getting a second use for your heating fuel. Between being mined and being burned, it's temporarily used to let you cary milk home from the store.
Each satellite has a bandwidth limit and can cover a certain area (more satellites per area close to the poles). It's not that they "can't" it's that they won't be able to be competitive in most suburbs, at least not at this time.
All this presupposes race is the dominant factor. Sure, it is almost certainly a present trait, but it's rather relevant to identify it as a causative factor.

If profiling blacks is an inappropriate means to discern likelihood of criminality, so too is profiling whites as a means to discern likelihood of over-forced policing.

But everyone is so stuck on the "our side vs your side" nobody seems to remember that skin color determines literally nothing about behavior.

The following traits are almost certainly far more meaningful than skin color:

- age

- gender

- upbringing

- culture

- economic status

- social status

Of course, people will argue that members of groups with particular skin colors generalize to certain tendencies in some of these traits. But that's about as useful as saying "fat is bad for you" or "germs are bad".

Well, yeah, in some instances. But if you treat everything with the nuance of a brick hitting a fly, you're gonna miss the actually important distinctions that could lead to meaningful change.

Sorry, but all this "black vs white" garbage is a load of unscientific, unhelpful, tribalistic hogwash. How about if anyone actually cares, we stop enabling the baloney racial characterizations?

Because the genetics and generalizations are utterly idiotic and useless.
This is super interesting to me. Can you help out?

- what infrastructure is needed for sorting?
- what countries are successfully doing that? Taiwan?
- can "expensive" be quantified?
It's incredible how defensive the comments on Hacker News seem to be about this article given how moderate and dry its tone is. Seeing people on here so bent out of shape over such a relatively pithy article is a bit telling frankly. I have to think the article wouldn't have made such a splash if it didn't touch on something deeper in the SV/Rationalist crowd.
...or you could buy a million of these fixer-uppers in Detroit:

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1665-S-Ethe...
It's not about the number of hours per day that you spend typing. It's about the number of seconds you have to hold an idea in your head.
Case in point, the governor of New Jersey asked for volunteers.
Is this not sorta like https://www.dronebl.org ?
I think you're moving the goalposts. Of course Unity can work "just fine" for things like Cuphead. However, DragonRuby is an mRuby wrapper around SDL by the guy who wrote SDL vs. a 3D engine that was reworked into a 2D engine?

Surely Unity has more overhead and DragonRuby can make more optimizations.
They contact me constantly as well. I have zero interest in working for them.
My brother is one of them -- hard core blue collar worker, eschews a lot of modern technology, still carries a flip phone, and doesn't even use SMS. If I want to talk to him, I need to make a voice call, like a caveman. He doesn't have his cell phone turned on most of the time so his landline is the best way to reach him -- he even has a home answering machine. Not voicemail from his carrier, but an actual answering machine (though it's digital, not cassette tape).

His wife's view of the internet is pretty much only Facebook.

His kids are typical young adults, they have iPhones and are regulars on Instagram, Tiktok and other places that oldtimers like me don't usually visit -- they've moved on from Facebook... once their mom started using Facebook, they stopped using it.
That's not true, urban and suburban are about half combined vs. rural. That's way less skewed rural than I would have expected.
A significant portion of the US is illiterate [1]. One might assume that being illiterate affects internet usage. Not quite as romantic as neo-Luddism, or even making a conscious choice not to expose oneself to potentially problematic patterns of communication.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/datapoints/2019179.asp
This was a huge pain for me in the past to the point that I started maintaining a boilerplate to avoid it [0]. But I've heard so many good things about dokku that I think I'll give them a try soon.

0 - https://github.com/dopeboy/django-react-docker-heroku
It should be useful for anything doctors can fix if they have the time.

Here's an article from 2014 in which they discuss a trial testing hypothermia for trauma patients who've bled out:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/23/tech/innovation/suspended-anim...
It’s not really an IOU. It is collateralised, so the risk to Alice in theory is much smaller. The collateral is typically adjusted daily, so technically there is still a residual risk if there was a large intra day movement. But I wouldn’t think of it as a bank loan.
an article whos title translates to, in the mind if most readers, you can be successful with 1000 fans, and then suggests with the definition of the specific type of fan that you may need 100000 to have a thousand of the kind described, is disingenuous, literally, on its face. Therefore, bait and switch seems to me to be an accurate description. Also, the article makes that jump, but doesn’t actually state it straight out, because that would be admitting the title is just clickbait. Enjoy it, benefit from it, be inspired by it if you are so moved, you do you; but in my opinion, it’s trash garbage writing. it reminds me of the way people talk when they are trying to talk you into their cult or pyramid scheme.
On some older Thinkpads, even CPU replacement was on the menu.
If you want the ability to globally transfer funds the answer is no. Within a single relatively homogeneous economic zone, sure it is easy. Once you move beyond that it becomes a huge PITA.