jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Unless they just added the date all over the first couple of paragraphs, the content itself is very clear immediately as to exactly what time period it conforms to, and is not hard to see at all.
> By removing the aesthetic markers of online forums—author’s signatures, side banners, avatar pictures, and so on—Bittanti's book recontextualizes the discussion to reveal what players and the game are saying about homelessness.

Except the players were talking about beating the game, not the homeless/real-life homelessness. Not amused.
The winner of this post, HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital. Their NAS are well rated on Amazon & Newegg.

Personally, I'm more concerned about the lifetime of laptop HDD (500GB range). Wonder what's the time frame around which I should swap it out (& what brand)
> it foments divisiveness because all of a sudden everyone "knows" they can do a better job moderating/curating/whatever

That is a legitimate force, but it's canceled out by the fact that when you create your own sandcastle, no one comes to to visit it.

You can start your own subreddit, but it will be dead until you build an actual community there and that takes a ton of effort. In the meantime, it provides you no value—all the links on it are ones you yourself added, there's no discussion, etc.
Testing is done by extracting the review text, author's other reviews that includes natural language processing, and the reviewer profile variables. As mentioned, main focus was to determine paid reviews that some companies purchase and there are many believe, it or not.
The machine learning implementation stores validated "fake reviews" in the database to keep as a profile to test against. Users can also vote if they think the grade calculated is fair or not, according to their interpretation of the listed reviews. Those votes are also utilized in the machine learning algo.
so, vim finally catches up to emacs?
He mentions weatherunderground a couple of times ... great service. For me it has obviated the need to set up my own station, because the density and quality of weather data available in my area is excellent.
The post you are responding to is a bit hyperbolic, but "HiDPI" scaling on Windows is still pretty hit or miss with lots of major apps. (Chrome isn't one of them, despite its mention in these posts -- since Chrome 37 it has done proper DPI scaling on Windows, and that release has been out for quite a while now).

Photoshop (since it was also mentioned) has very limited support for real scaling (beyond the OS's default of render as if on a low-dpi screen and then bitmap scale the UI up, which looks horrible, especially when combined with an app you are using to do precise bitmap editing) -- the only meaningful option it gives you is to scale everything in the UI up 200%, which is better than nothing (and what I have to do on my 3840x2160 Toshiba laptop to get a usable UI), but not a really flexible solution and even this is considered an "expirmental feature" in the very latest version.

Adobe Lightroom, on the other hand, has effortless scaling and just works great on screens at any DPI.

The point being there is plenty of support in the OS for apps that effectively scale, it is just that there are a lot of Win32 legacy apps out there which would require a near rewrite of the UI layer to scale well, it is by no means something the OS handles for you automatically (beyond the clumsy bitmap scaling default) if your code targets the older UI APIs, and there are (still) plenty of gotchas you do actually run into when running Windows apps on high DPI screens, though things are certainly improving in this regard.
I'd bet you'd just get a whole new button in the mail when the battery is close to dying.
To be clear, this is not for 20-somethings. This is for parents that have screaming babies or have many competing events for their attention. For all you non-parents, there is a distinct possibility that things get forgotten between the time you realize something this out, and the time it takes to pull out your smartphone, navigate to Amazon or Google Express, and order whatever you need.
interesting, i never thought about such attack matrix.
One of the first things I did at that age whenever changing schools was to set up a couple proxies to get around SonicWall or whatever my school would be using. I added a link to my Facebook and usually a funny pic from around the web to the landing page... definitely one of the easiest ways for an introvert to get others to remember their name...

Edit: Oddly, nobody from the schools ever called me out on it despite PII on the page and the WHOIS data (I was using personal domains at that point, .com and .info). I can't remember if Tor ever worked, but back then it was slow as hell anyway because even the school's "high-speed" connection wasn't close by today's standards.

Further edit: I was trying to learn PHP at the time, and was using some existing scripts along with dinky little modifications. It wasn't malicious, but a couple times it was fun to manually post stats for which sites were the most visited. The type of sites people used it for was not surprising. Regrettably I never took it far enough to do anything clever, instead pretty much abandoning code for following couple years.

Fun memories since I'd mostly buried that whole period as "boring, non-technical, and embarrassingly childish" stuff.
there doesn't seem to be any explanation of how/why apple is doing this.

anyone know what's up?
> After all, aside from the whole "no evidence" thing, what does it matter if it's a lab accident or a bat bite or whatever?

Indeed because both of those leading theories point the blame at China. So if people want to blame china nothing is stopping them. Except perhaps those claiming it came from Europe or the US first. Perhaps that's the point of the stonewalling, to provide cover for being able to claim alternative theories? Since you're so into ulterior motives.

Who is the "we" you are referring to? The western world? The US?
What's inhumane is making every small transgression into some stigma that should follow a person around their whole life. I don't think we fix that by erasing all traces of the transgression, which in many cases may be practically impossible.
Ah... Reminds me of the heady days of IE6 supremacy when so many websites were IE6 only. Sucks that we're headed back to those days again.
> Built to “outclass, outrun, and outlast” any car on the road, the Duesenberg Model A revolutionized the straight eight.

Still does. Frederick and August Duesenberg were automotive geniuses, with unparalleled engine designs, top speeds, and exteriors/interiors for the day. Jay Leno did an episode on an original, unrestored Duesenberg from 1931. It will help you get the feel for these incredible cars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdIKJ80ReiY
I don't really have a strong opinion, other than I do think the response to it is disproportionate. But to answer your question directly, I don't know a single person who has gotten sick, or even a friend of a friend. Although I follow a few people online who did get sick, and my sister is a nurse so knows of cases in the hospital. But she tells me that the facts on the ground, like reports that the ICU was overwhelmed with cases is misleading at best. That because of budgetary measures the ICU always runs at close to max capacity and it doesn't take much of a bump at all to fill it up. Also, we had other cities around us transfer their overflow to use up our extra capacity.

Anyway, the point wasn't really Covid in particular, just that it's a contemporary example where most of us believe something that might very well turn out to not be an accurate appraisal with 50 years time in the rear view mirror. Most of us just take what we're told on faith, and have no direct way to verify that it is the whole truth. That is the lesson from all the cases of scientific corruption listed above.
Plus, burying plastic will create jobs for archaeologists in a few hundred years.
All of my showers since last ~April have been coldish/lukewarm. Bedsheets, blankets and pillowcases get changed/washed almost daily. In addition to switching to gentle detergents.
But most people in the US are (very recent) descendants of Europeans, not descendants of Asians. Perhaps that's why the difference is interesting.
This is really a long way of saying "deliver a MVP (minimum visible product) ASAP" or "ship early, ship often". Nothing new there.
It remains to be seen if Quora would get traction on topics not related to Silicon Valley concerns.
The extra fees aren't mandatory, if you just buy one and activate it without them knowing, I bet.

And the touch is only $200 because it doesn't include all of that hardware. They're much thinner. I bet they'd be a bit more if you put that stuff in there...
I got the companion book as a Christmas present when I was ten or eleven, and only ever saw the television series much later. It's a really great combination of science and history, perfect for the young and nerdy, something that I'll probably give my son once he's old enough (assuming I can find a copy).
I think you're minimizing the value or attractiveness of a smartphone to justify your choice (or you're just unimaginative).

It's also a robust PDA, MP3 player, syncs with my Kindle, a [weak] game system, a decent enough camera for quick and dirty snapshots and a great source of information on the go. I also use it for dozens of other things you can't do with a dumbphone which may or may not apply to you (scientific calculator, lookup tables, brewing calculator, recipe management, backup USB stick, etc). It has supplanted my need to carry a laptop in many situations too, and when it hasn't, it has provided tethered internet access.

It may not outperform dedicated devices for each task, but to carry all of those devices you'd need a backpack of gadgetry with you at all times. The extra cost per month for me is easily outweighed by the convenience of having all those options in my pocket at all times, and cancelling my home phone basically negated the extra cost (although cost isn't really a factor, it's about the same as a decent meal in a restaurant).
"The Day the Universe Changed" is online too!

Awesome.
It is one way of saying: find way to get traction first and then have bigger vision later.
It has been reproduced and journallized by Sharif University in Iran.

It looks legit, but his spec sheet does indicate that there are problems with commercialisation. http://www.superconductors.org/276K.htm indicates how to reproduce and what results to expect. A regular freezer can sustain -5C to 5C. An ammonia freezer can go as low as -27C, so 3C is easy to hold.

And the fact that he has been known for good results in the past shows, at least to me that this is the real thing. But of course, always the skeptic in these kinds of claims. At least it's not cold fusion, yet ;)
I clock out for lunch, is this not normal at Google?
I'm fairly disinclined to trust web designers on browser rendering performance issues anyway. If it were that big a deal it would be in CSS optimization code somewhere, but it clearly isn't.
Celery describes itself as a "task queue" but I find it a bit confusing: it's a job manager, which needs a queue from which to pull/push jobs. Redis is this queue
"CEOs have to be compensated as much as they are because they shoulder such huge responsibilities." say the apologists for why American CEOs "need" to be paid 500x as much as a typical worker.

How about this: I'll shoulder that grave responsibility for a mere 50x the typical worker, and I'll settle for a golden parachute of just $6M. That's a bargain!
I have a 21:9 ultrawide, not 32:9 or whatever, and it's _also_ the highest screen I've ever had at 3840x1600. Going from 1440px on dual 27" screens to 1600px was really nice for log reading.
Keyboard click sounds? I'm gonna need to see some kind of something for that. Sorry, it just sounds like something out of Eagle Eye, like that cup of coffee in that secure room the computer reads the waves on.
Did you win the contest?
It seems such a weird thing to cut corners on.

The main new feature in a plane solving a problem that they knew was potentially dangerous which is why they had to install the auto-nose-down system in the first place.

How expensive could a couple of extra sensors even be compared to a whole plane?
Except unlike C, it is a required feature.
Just noticed there is already existing another Synergy framework and "Synergy" package. Probably better to rename the library to avoid confusion.

By the way, in terms of bundle sizes React is smaller and Preact is almost the same. But I think the reason is that react-dom is not included into calculation
https://moiva.io/?compare=Synergy+preact+react+synergy+vue
Well, how about there was a time when I could propose there was such a time, and wouldn't have immediately been flooded with accusations that the old times were just full of racism and everyone proposing liberty were selfish people who didn't really want liberty.

I think there was a time when there was a constituency that really did want liberty. But now all HN can see if someone says they "want liberty" is that they want liberty to do wrong things that must be stopped, and there is no other conceivable reason that someone may be resisting your efforts to control them.
What about Le Coq Sportif? Will it also be renamed?
* https://github.com/kolplattformen/
So, I think a useful simple way to think of it is "git creates diffs when it needs to on demand."

When you're doing a cherry pick of say commit ce123, what you're asking git to do is:
1. Diff ce123 against its parent
2. Go apply that diff to some other branch

Likewise rebasing is the same, but with an extra step to apply the inverse of the diff to the original commit first, then rewrite the history.

One of the big advantages of this on demand diffing approach is it's much more robust vs conflicts. Back in the subversion days I wrote some shell scripts that did the equivalent of git cherry pick and rebase. I'd keep a couple extra copies of a checkout, would use the switch command to quickly put them into a specific state, then would just generate a diff manually to apply to my main working copy. It worked, and was often faster than manually copying text around between editor windows, but it was extremely conflict prone.

So this distinction, of whether you store snapshots and diff on demand, or store diffs and snapshot on demand, is somewhat subtle but has important consequences.
What I don’t get is that everyone is always acting like Tailwind invented this approach to CSS. It’s been a thing for at least 6 years or more, far before tailwind. Granted I suppose they have really brought it to the mainstream.

As someone who’s used this approach in production for years I can vouch for it. It greatly reduces complexity and is easier to maintain. Day to day no one is writing any css at all, nor are they bogged down with naming conventions, etc. You just “snap” together your utility classes ad-hoc as needed.

Responsive breakpoints are also much easier to work with because they’re just “built in” as modifiers on all the base utility classes.
No. If it chooses to compress the commits, which it if I remember correctly not does automatically for each commit, but rather occasionally as a larger step, it uses the difference to whatever it deems to be a good candidate, if it finds one. E.g. if you have a file in commit A, change it massively in later commit B, and then on a different branch create commit C that also changes the file to one very similar to the one in B, git might very well compress C by storing the difference from B to C, despite those having no direct relationship in the commit graph. It can also choose to not use a delta to a different version entirely, and this is 100% an internal implementation detail of the storage system in git (afaik one of those implementation details is that it prefers candidates that are in the same commit chain, but it doesn't have to - and it can easily jump multiple commits if that works better). If you ask git to show you a diff to the previous commit, it does not pull a diff from storage, but pulls two file versions from its storage backend (which if deltas have been used to store will resolve those) and diffs them.
But is the Moon memory safe?
The Earth's atmosphere is shaped like a flame, not a big sphere[1]. It's so huge that the Moon moves through it, dragging along a little faux-atmosphere with it.

It's surprising that heavier O2 molecules can get out there, but it's not a place with no atmosphere.

[1]: https://www.space.com/earth-atmosphere-extends-beyond-moon.h...
He's gonna regret that.
It's enormously motivating to read about all these startup stories, really gives me energy to start coding :-)

Also I find it a lot of fun to check out the different startup websites mentioned, because you know a bit of background info.

Thanks all for sharing!
While I see the use of changeable text in icons, like the calendar app employs, why would anyone want to have animated icons? Perhaps it would be an "eye candy" thing to show off with for 10 seconds, but I'm sure it would be annoying in the long run.
Any ideas for reasonable uses of animated icons?
First, if the utility function was "downward sloping" nobody would ever work.

Aggh, I miswrote. I meant concave down, which is actually what I used in my calculation. Thanks for the correction. In defense of my readers, they probably glossed over my incorrect definitions, and didn't notice any problem because my calculations didn't match my definition.

But I will defend my calculus: dU(AW)/dW = A dU(AW)/dW follows from the chain rule. Another way to do your calculation: d(ln(AW))/dW = A x 1/(AW) = 1/W.

Also, the NIT I described has been proposed (that's how it was described in my intro to econ class), and it does not always create an incentive to work. The relevant criteria is A dU(AW)/dW > dU(W)/dW. Since dU(AW)/dW decreases with A, there the marginal utility of work can be negative with respect to NIT.
Yes, I was wondering that very much myself. I remember talks about ramping up production preemptively, starting from spring, to have large stock of vaccine available when they are approved. Bill Gates talked about that specifically, taking like first 5 most promising vaccine candidates and starting production ramp up immediately, even risking the possibility they will not be approved and wasting some money. I thought "Finally, some good strategy". Money risked with such an approach would still be minuscule compared to losses due to pandemic and covid relief funding.
But looks like that didn't happen, which is just another sign how badly world handled the pandemic.
There's an article related to this:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SruhzksSgHWSuxm7b/covid-bill...
We have already done so, the first production was potentially at a loss if the Phase 3 results were not good. And we have done so for each vaccination effort out there. So there is already a lot of oversupply we may be throwing.

To be clear, I agree that the return on investment of a quick and successful vaccination campaign is so big that it makes sense to aggressively bet on it. But I also think the evidence shows we have bet quite aggressively on it, at least to unprecedented levels.

What I cannot comment on is how much better we could have done, the supply chain and logistics of producing 1 x (world population) for each candidate vaccine in the hopes at least one of them works and we can roll-it out quickly are so ridiculously complicated I don't know how it could have been made to work. I fear I would just be misdirecting my frustration with the current situation and an incomplete understanding of the problem from the comfort of my armchair.
In Poland there is elektroda.pl - forum about electronics, electrics and programming. Is was founded in 1999 and has over 2 500 000 registered accounts.

It is a bit like polish StackOverflow - every time you google a technical problem in polish you will find an elektroda.pl thread on very top. And just like on SO, it will usually be closed by moderator for some bizarre and arcane reason.

It certainly has 'old-usenet' vibe, both the good parts (huge amount of knowledge) and the bad (pretty toxic behaviour of many power users and moderators).
Why are you assuming that the poor are demanding t-shirt and shorts temperatures? Please stop making up strawmen.

And when did dishwashers come into this? Are you really expecting that poor people should be buying brand new 'smart' dishwashers that will pick the right time to run to save some cents? I'm sure they've got the cash for that purchase just sitting around in the bank.
1/ The article talks about the SolarWinds hack, as the campaign that then targeted Microsoft, the DoJ and others. Not the hack "into" SolarWinds.

2/ For SolarWinds itself, the password is one tiny step along the way. I can guarantee you that having that password won't allow you in any way, to deploy persistent malware on developers's machines (first you'd have to work around Windefender) and getting knowledge of the company's architecture, its internal Repos, etc. You'd have to bypass MFA too at some point, which the attackers did.

3/ If having malware than monitors developers VisualStudio console in realtime to inject a few lines into it so that it gets secretly compiled into their day-to-day work, without breaking the project, while also providing C2 capabilities; if that, is not "sophisticated", i'd be curious to see an example of "sophisticated" malware.
Problem is that the author starts with a false premise. There are as many games having complex geopolitical models underneath as the market can support. Turns out the author either does not know them, or they don't explicitly mention his prior work. Games aren't scientific papers though, so they don't need citations.

But maybe some of the developers of complex strategy games mentioned him during GDC or other conferences?

Maybe one of the calculations that should be added to the model is that owners of computers in the 80's were a very different bunch from the people having computers today.
The style of modeling that he describes as used in Balance of Power seems the equivalent of the field of system dynamics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_dynamics) which is applied in various fields, in some cases also in gaming.

My impression that far from being ignored, such ideas are actually applied - though they do not necessarily involve his ideas, as it's unclear whether they contribute much novel except from that particular application in the game Balance of Power, since the key concepts and methods (e.g. Jay Forrester's work) significantly predate the game and were widely published long before Chris Crawford's writings. Since Crawford seemingly does not "integrate" with that field of research, it also makes sense that people writing simulations like that (which are actually quite common in certain genres of gaming and also non-gaming use-cases) would not rely on his work but on the similar, but more developed practices of others.
https://www.fun-mooc.fr/

Online courses with a wide variety of topics. Took a number of them unrelated to CS, unfortunately many are archived. There is a very good introduction course to Chinese https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:Inalco+52004+sessi... with a session this spring.
Shouldn't the BLAHAJ and GODIS SKUM signs in Ikea be a hint? The cafe likes to sell its Swedishness too.
Yes and ads also stimulate over-consumption which hurts the planet.

The solution is to block all ads, or even better, ban them.
Great notes on usability testing. Also one my favorite research methods (second to just open interviews, I love broad open discussions).

We're always open to new resources if you have any to recommend (but we read through a lot and picked a few we thought were most useful). We'll take a look at some of the issues you mentioned.