jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I love the edit markers in the last screenshot. But too skeptical about the performance of a text editor running in webkit. All of my experiences writing text online have been bad. So the jump into using webkit for an entire dev environment fills me with dread.
In the outlandish scenario where copyright infringement would be theft, it can't be theft every time you copy something. If I give you something I stole, you are not also stealing it.
I can't tell if you're serious or being facetious?
Also, as a technical point, the amount of total internet utilization caused by the fetching of http web pages is so small that I doubt this practice could significantly harm any other traffic.
Designer here. There are several points to tackle and it's difficult without context, but let's go one by one.

> I'm guessing you like me, get very critical feedback on them since anyone can easily be a critic.

Handling critical feedback is one of those soft skills that are honed by time. You must learn how to separate useful from pointless feedback, and you must not associate it to your own person, as in feeling worth less over negative comments.

Most design feedback is irrelevant, if you implemented it your product wouldn't be any better or worse. A little bit is beneficial or harmful, and it is important that you are able to identify which is which.

You might think that people with more experience are able to give better feedback, it's partially true, but it all boils down to having solved similar problems before. Trust advice that starts with "I once did something like that and..." or such.

> One issue i've found is that only YOU really know your application and designers often want to "change everything".

In the end, what matters is that your users get it, not you or the designer. Programmers often design systems that closely represent the structure of their application, or take shortcuts because something that makes sense to the user is difficult to implement so they scrap it.

> Anyone have PROCESS tips, tricks, suggestions or other thoughts about effective UI improvement?

Hallway usability testing is your best bet. But don't ask people what they think, assign tasks and watch them complete them. Clarify that what is being tested is the interface, not the users. It's hard, but suppress urges to direct them.
I bought "Seven languages in seven weeks", "Behind closed doors" and "SQL Anti-patterns" this morning. (CET)

The e-books were available less than 5 minutes after ordering and everything went very smooth.
The post by Wolfram is a great discussion of logic and the philosophy of mathematics throughout the 20th century. Yet the top comment on HN is a snark, tribal bashing of the author.
Sharp reading... sorry!
Denying a resource would also include denying benefits from that resource, right?

In that case, if you distribute say, a movie, for free without permission from the publisher, you're effectively "taking" his "money" that he would've earned from the display of his material in a controlled environment. Wouldn't that be stealing?
It's an old one, but I still think of it every time someone is trying to come up with an acronym: http://dilbert.com/fast/1993-06-23/
Yeah, and the studios just gave up 60% of their profit. They'll never sign that deal.
That will be odd since it got renamed/rebranded just recently.
I live on the west coast in Canada. We have lots of bike lines. It's 30KM of them up and down multiple hills (most people would consider mountains) for me to get to work.

Realistically, you've got to convince me to leave my 3000+sqft house (with bedrooms for all my kids) and yard to move to a 1000sqft apartment in the city (and make my kids share a room) and take on a bigger mortgage so that I'm closer to work. Also how do I get groceries for a family of 5 home on my bike?

Life for the majority of people where I live has not been set up to be bicycle friendly and bike lanes don't change that barrier.
That is great ASCII viz ! Did you do it purely by hand ? I often need to but give up...
Depends on the city? Minneapolis-St. Paul has ok cycling infrastructure for North America that certainly could be improved, but I don't see a negative attitude
I think it needs some way for users to rate the recipes, otherwise I have no way of knowing which recipes are worth trying out. Trouble is you then are in the realm of having registered users, and life becomes no fun anymore.
Another cope posting.
I try to be civil on this website, because there are legit smart people here.
But cmon, stop posting this shitty whining posts on hackernews.
Everyone that has been in crypto for a while, knows how it isn't being used outside of the cryptospace.
But still, this is not a new market and has been going on for a while, it survived many many 85-95% dips and many bear markets.
If you aren't atleast trying to get some money out of this, you are litteraly retarded or you just think you are so smart that you end up being the most stupid of all.
Crypto created many many millionaires, it gave an opportunity to everyone, to have an actual chance of making life changing money. And still to this day, idiots still point fingers, mad that they didn't make money.
Yes, when you make a profit by selling higher than you bought, someone else is buying it from you. Someone else loses and you win.
But it's like that in every where. When you win, someone loses. When you get a job, someonelse won't get that job. When you take the last cookie from the jar, someonelse won't be able to get that same cookie, ever.
I love the work that Stripe is doing with Stripe Climate. We have been in touch with them about their new applications. Regardless of how our application ends up, I am so excited for more businesses working on carbon removal to have the chance to get funding for the work they're doing. The world needs more shots on goal!
Yes that is correct in theory, BTU requirements are linear based on delta temperature with everything else being static.

What doesn't follow is electricity consumption per BTU produced, ie. if your heating source efficiency is non-linear, such as a heat-pump + resistive fallback heating. You can easily consume 8x the amount of electricity with a delta T of 60 than you do at 15.

In reality, outdoor air temperature alone isn't indicative of the entire building heat loss/requirement - ground temperatures don't respond linearly to air temperatures. Likewise, there are some oddities that come into play with high temperature deltas such as phase-change of materials or outright failure in some cases. Precipitation and wind can also affect thermal efficiencies.

A bitter-sweet example for Texans: The snow can actually provide some insulation. It would be worse if you had no snow and similar air temperatures than getting that 12" of fluffy stuff later this week.
I'm confused how this project related to jet fuel or displaces the production of oil products in general.
I didn't know they can be recycled, and that is not the only graveyard.
I appreciate the fact that we have differing opinions on the size of giant!
An excellent book and one that I used together with Stylish F# and F# Deep Dives to get my current job. Been writing F# full time now for over a year and I must say that it's nothing short of a brilliant language.

Came here from 10 years of Scala with no .NET experience what so ever.

Just overall one of the nicest experiences so far. 9/10, would recommend!
They had two fuses, so they had a 2:1 safety margin! Just like the NASA managers who decided that 30% erosion in an O-ring designed for no erosion meant a 3:1 safety margin.
"... about 150 closed source binaries and libraries that make the modem work. Biktor is working on replacing all of them with 3 open source alternatives ..."

That means we can dream with proprietary blob-free phones in the not too distant future?
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/doing-date-math-command...
You can't schedule something unknown.
Extor… uh, I mean, Sales.
This kind of attitude is what frustrates me.

The clojure version is obviously more noisy. Your argument is that the #() syntax is more robust (i.e., allowing multiple references to a single argument, and repeats of an argument). While strictly true, you then go on to invalidate it by saying, "The shortcut syntax is intended for simple cases." I feel like this is a resistance to change that is more a product of the rivalry between Scala and Clojure than anything else (and please forgive me if I am projecting onto you, but that's how arguing on the internet goes).

Additional complexity or capability at the cost of a perlesque show should not be the mission of a convenience syntax. Scala has taken a lot of good ideas from Clojure, it seems only fair that Clojure pull back a little. What's more, it's not very hard to write a macro that does most of what the wildcard syntax does... but without access to the reader's symbol macros it's very difficult to make that kind of change grow into the community.
AFAIK operations research and supply chain management use techniques originating from AI.
Or Ubuntu to adopt GnuStep or even Cappuccino(and make the desktop run in V8-sandboxes or even over the net).
Didn't the U. of East Anglia hack and Lord Monckton's subsequent report show that Global Warming was a fraud perpetuated to secure increasing amounts of research funding, publicity, etc.?

(For those who are going to point out that Climate Change and Global Warming are not the same thing, the authors of the linked report use the terms as synonyms.)
Such declarations are possible (as would be accepting fully-qualified references to not-yet-existing things), but the devil's in the details again - e.g. what if the other ns doesn't yet exist?

And the complexity/utility tradeoffs must be considered.
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There is potentially also some premium companies should be willing to pay to employ people who live in locations that have reliable infrastructure, strong legal institutions, and stable government.
The obvious danger of injury or infection.

Plus, sex is just a dirty thing. You have to keep clean and shower a lot. Monitor your health more.

That kind of stuff.
It's amazing how this place is called "Hacker" News and downvotes opinions that are not mainstream enough or not corporate-friendly enough.

You are right that self-hosting means that your data sits on your devices, and this should be made possible to most users without having to pay 3rd party services, buy domains, pay for VPSes and learn to manage servers.

(edit: hah, the downvotes are coming already!)
It's inherently not private, and as an outdated format it can't quite support images (yes it can but big compression) and video (big compression) .
My suggestion would be to not connect any Facebook services. I have an old school FB.com account, an Instagram and a WhatsApp. All three of these accounts are not aware of one another. I'm sure FB probably still has ways of figuring this out but it gets you pretty far in mitigating the infomation flow between various FB products.
Reveal codes is still hella nice. Have the reason I hate Word is because I have no way of knowing why it made a change sometimes.

At least with TeX, I can see all of the commands. Word? Best I can hope is I saw it make the change and that undo actually works.
I made this Chrome extension that automatically summarizes your article you're sharing on social media like LinkedIn. You copy the link to your "create post" and you will see your post filled with text. You can then edit and share.

Inksprout utilizes the latest AI summarization technique from Google (called Pegasus). It will add more context to your friends/followers, increasing engagement.

Why this project?

I used to have a Twitter account for sharing long-read quality articles. I didn't want to just share the clickbait headline, so I always made sure to include a good quote.

The problem was that it took lots of time. This idea is trying to automate that process. I think adding more context when sharing links are helpful to people too.
I bought an X201t, got a 3 year warranty. I've gotten everything replaced multiple times. Mostly because it just gets so damn hot. Apparently heat is something most people simply don't notice. Or isn't penalized enough in reviews. But I just call up or use the online tool, and next day a wonderful person from IBM is replacing my fan or motherboard. Even for damage like me dropping it on the floor and cracking part of the case, no questions, free replacement, no problems.

Dell only beats it as I called them up while traveling and they actually sent a guy up a mountain in Guatemala to replace a failed HDD.

Perhaps you didn't get the next-day warranty?
My (very unreliable) understanding is that part of starting up a new project at Valve is rallying people to your call. Imagine how hard it could be to get enough people to roll with a specific, concrete idea for HL3. The expectations are high enough that I imagine pretty much any vision for it will be contentious and divisive.
You joke now, but e.g. https://pracops.com/wiki/index.php/Jon_Postel#DNS_Root_Autho...
From what I've read gangs where I live (Chicago), they don't get as involved in drug sales as one might think. It's less about drug territories and more about representing the block one grew up on. This American Life did a pretty good story about it in two episodes about a high school a couple of years ago.
That's a better way. In France it was the closest thing to a state sponsored game of 'chicken' that I've ever seen.
At my first job after college, I was invited out for drinks with a group of co-workers. Being as shy as I was, I told them I had a big day ahead of me the next day and that I couldn't stay out late. Well, my manager caught wind of this and called me into her office to explain myself at which point she gave me the next two days off to ensure that I would have no excuse for not going. I went and had a great time.

I had a healthy fear of her but she was also a friend to me and gave me relationship and career advice at every possible opportunity.
Unfortunately Verizon has shown itself to be unwilling to work with Internet Archive and others that want to preserve this history. When Yahoo Groups shut down couple years ago, Verizon made no effort to help the archival and actually banned accounts that were attempting to scrape data.

https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/yahoo-groups-is-ending-...
I am not a lawyer. Is it finished ? Has Oracle completely lost ? I really do not like very much Oracle.
Check out the mifold chair for kids it’s great for when you have to use taxis or a rental car https://www.mifold.com/ it just simplified travel so much for us.
I had this unfortunate realization the other day as well.

It seems like if you haven't used it in 12 months they just delete all your old emails. No warning whatsoever.
I really wonder how good-looking the trailer would be if reencoded in HEVC at the same bitrate. 7.7Mb is decent.
I recently bought a copy of Pianoteq for Linux -- was very simple, I paid and received a license and a download link. Someone has already built a package for archlinux so I just had to point that at the downloaded file from modartt and away we go. Very simple.
this look super nice! Great colors and much more informative than my website!
For additional fun, consider how this would work with the added constraint of needing the date be a business day, so you need to take into account how weekends (which vary across the world, by the way; in a bunch of countries sunday is a business day but friday is off) and banking holidays in every locale in which you do business.
Went in a peanuts store to get... well... peanuts. They have all sorts of *nuts.

Before me a customer was talking to the seller about stuff. The seller offers him to try an almond coated with chocolate and cinnamon, which according to him is the best thing in the store. The customer asks if the chocolate has milk in it. Because, God forbid, he can't have anything animal related, cuz he's vegan. He wouldn't even touch it, not a single one.

These people are fanatics and unless you're a good samaritan-psychologist, don't even bother. Give them weapons and we'll be living a Game of Thrones Faith Militant episode.
Once I was getting fed up with Comcast, so I called Verizon to see if they could give me DSL, how fast it would be, etc. Their response was basically that they had no idea, but they could put in an order and see what happened. They literally could not tell me whether or not they could provide the service at all.
"Every piece of interactive web during the last century used AS3." I'm pretty sure this is not true.
I've always viewed Google drive as a checklist item to compete with others. Cloud storage? Check!
Gets the job done but not a main focus.

The OS X client is passable, and the fact that you can't do things like LAN sync or rate limit the upload speed make it no good for many clients of mine.
There is research that confirms your intuition, but mostly because it taxes cognitive energy reserves. Even if you can do it quickly or time-box it, it leaves you less able to do hard things. Look for papers by Roy Baumeister, or the book he co-wrote, "Willpower".

You want to start by building cognitive reserves and then use them on something that requires it.

For me, that means working out at 6-7am. But, I think you need to figure it out for yourself.
Thanks for the insight! :) I'm just starting to get my feet wet with JS frameworks so the input is appreciated.
My guess is that the article is written by idiots who have no business attempting to popularize science they don't understand even the barest outlines of.
The problem with the list is the attitude. I would rather not work with people who have lists like this.

I'm not a special snowflake. I like solving problems and doing meaningful work that contributes to the well being of others in some way. Those are my only requirements. Everything else is flexible.

And the list reads like a tour rider (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider_%28theater%29), not some attempt at advancing worker's rights.
I like the thought but this strikes me as over-vanitized. I'd like to see something that goes directly after McDonalds but with reasonably healthy fare. Putting "fast food" in the Tenderloin doesn't even make any sense. There are a zillion inexpensive, fast options serving mostly whole foods in the Loin and few or no chains.
I don't mean a screancast how to install it. I just want to avoid installation and see how it looks.
> Get your head out of your ass.

That violates the HN guidelines badly. Please don't do this here. We ban accounts that do it repeatedly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Except they don't?
> One solution is languages that don't allow much abstraction.

I think we need to be careful here with what you mean by "abstraction." One kind, which we can call "syntactic abstraction" means the following: given a specific language, what portion of its syntactic patterns can be factored into a new construct that "abstracts" all of its instantiations. Languages with macros score very highly here. Another kind, which has been more studied mathematically, is what we can call "algorithmic abstraction" or "behavioral abstraction", which means that given a certain specification of a desirable observable behavior, what portion of the implementations of that behavior can be exposed with the same syntactic construct (the same API). On this front, Haskell has worse abstraction than Java (e.g. if you want to change the implementation of a map to support big data with disk writes, you have to change the syntactic construct), and a language like Rust has terrible algorithmic abstraction, as even different implementation details like memory lifetimes require different constructs. Every additional piece of implementation detail that is exposed in the syntax level (e.g. in the type) hurts abstraction. I don't think that proponents of exposing as much as possible in the type think that's a bad thing, though.

Both of these kinds of abstraction allow you to "leverage existing knowledge in new domains", and both have a certain "mental" cost. I don't think it is possible to relate "abstraction" in general to any bottom-line result, especially as no language choice seems to show any big impact one way or another, but mostly cater to different personal aesthetic preferences.
I don't claim that not cleaning spreads the virus, nor do I have any evidence that cleaning helps. For me its just an indicator that the cities / government do not work carefully. In South Korea pretty much all subways (at least from what I hear in Seoul and Daegu) and public buildings are cleaned very frequently during the pandemic. Look at their numbers / curve to see how well they handled this.

The assumption regarding the health system is based on the official number, which is way too low. The official number right now is ~25k cases in Germany. The real number may be closer to 250k cases. Most people get mild or no symptoms at all. Also of these 25k cases - most people do not require intensive medical care. Yes, the deaths are tragic, but influenza death count is above 2k this year alone. In comparison each year we have 33k kills caused by superbugs in Europe. Do we act here (in some countries there are active measurements - not so in Germany)? So while flatten the curve is definitely important its all about the balance here. And I think the balance is way off ...

Yes, I am aware that Germany has only 25k breathing machines (80% already taken) and would not be equipped for a full outburst - but that would not happen with general sanity, too (e.g., basic hygienic measures). For instance, in South Korea (sorry to use this example again) every citizen gets 2 facial masks per week. I know that these masks are not for your protection, but for protecting others - but that's exactly it. If everyone wears them (by order of the government) then the infection risk is drastically reduced.

Again I don't want to claim all would be good, but claiming that now everything is good is certainly wrong, too. Without basic testing and other essential measures the spread will continue. If you need some evidence here then look at Italy. First country to act with such strong restrictions, still right now the one that has the most problems.
Yes

But... hospital and testing capabilities are building day by day, the quarantine is buying time

It comes back, but the second time around we can isolate the right people due to ubiquitous testing, have more hospital beds and more knowledge on how to treat the sick, and are that much closer to a vaccine
From what I can tell (even here on HN by a few bad actors), they seem to have pivoted to a “we simply can’t do this to the economy; it’s not an option for a disease that only kills old and sick people”, without the faintest hint of a plan for what they’d actually do given what we know and the resources that we have.

We can all wish for the culture, test availability, and competent government that South Korea and Singapore and Taiwan apparently have, but we don’t have those. So their “plan” is effectively a plan to just let millions of people 60+ or with pre-existing conditions die without much effort to save them. It’s not only unconscionable, it’s incredibly stupid. Do they think we’re just going to go back to work and restaurants and on vacation while millions of our loved ones take their last gasps in a converted convention center somewhere? The economy grinds to a halt either way, and there’s no moral or political path forward for what they want to do. Which is why they don’t have the courage to even spell it out, it’s just some magic handwaving about how we must do something different.

And all this against the backdrop of them and people like them downplaying this from the start and putting us in this position.