skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the look, however in the case of the circular line ("Ringbahn") it would lead to higher transit times: The left half takes much longer to travel (ca +25 minutes) than the right half, as a friend found out last month by accident.
Every time aphantasia comes up, I'm totally blown away by what people describe as their minds eye being.

It's sounds...so freakin' interesting, and it's always shocking to me that I went nearly 30 years before I found out that most people have this...cool superpower I never knew about.
Reminds me of that classic quote from Mark Twain:

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."
I don’t think it’s a valid comparison. Comparing a company which had an army and used force to occupy and obtain its wealth is not how corporates work today. Today there is deceptive advertising and marketing which are not the same as army and force.
Don't let facts get in the way of populist anti-tech feelings.
FWIW Germany, the UK and Australia, at least, have a lot of large vehicles as well.
What university takes 90% of grant money for overhead? 30-50% for overhead is what I familiar with.
Too bad this font doesn't have a free license.
This is something the IRS does directly to encourage people to file even if they can't afford to pay right then. This helps with cases like self-employment income or capital gains where you can end up owing at the end of the year even with W4 withholding for your primary income stream.

The penalty for not paying is much lower than the penalty for not filling, if you owe.

It's possible your tax prep software does their own version as a middleman, but the IRS offers it directly through the same system that quarterly estimates are paid.
Thank you!

I have 3 daughters, 1 who excels in "Intelligence about Space" 2 who score... more typical :) Most certainly I will make this course available to them.
That's not a very good comparison.

The cheapest beer and the cheapest soda should be compared, since they both save significantly on marketing and brand costs.

In that case, soda is about 25¢ (ja! Apfelschorle) and beer 50¢ (5,0 original export). Both from rewe.de.
As a comparison: in Austria you can file your taxes online (for free).

If you forget to file them for two years the gov will do an automated filing for you and transfer the money you are due to your bank account.
Microsoft can criticize fork() all they want, but if they were to make something similar it would just be 50 lines of boilerplate in the unreadable windows API
Before we used A/B testing with paper and a writing tool no doubt.
Jailer. Database Subsetting and Relational Data Browsing Tool
The dog's head prevents longer travel times- when people assume it is a circle, they quickly find out the left half takes much longer to travel when you move from Tempelhof to Schönhauser Allee
No fear about using your private data or something!
Kindly go through the privacy url in the app, since the app is build with the builder they might need some permissions to show up ads, but the permission won't be allowed by default, users can able to deny the permission during the request!
Enjoy the game :)
Another difference is that slavery was not an issue for them.
What Forbes reports as mostly fakes are exchange trades, not on-chain transactions. These are two completely different things...
I don't quite understand what negative capacitance would mean. Some sort of inductance?
There are several companies working, especially in the middle East and Africa, who have private armies (sometimes naively called security companies). The comparison hold up here. And until the government took possession of the company in the early 19th century, it was controlled by it's board, not the government. So yes, it was a company. Sanctioned by, but not reporting to, the government.
>Dreaming actually activates the visual cortex, so it doesn't depend on imagination.
I thought imagination also depended on the visual cortex. Dreaming and imagining is not too different to me. One is a bit more conscious, that's it.
I don't think the amount of utility for guitar is the same as for video games.

I understand very few people get to be professional guitarists or gamers. However, after that there are rapidly decreasing returns for video games. Guitar can be a source of pleasure for people you meet. It's a far more interesting skill than playing video games decently well. Guitar challenges the brain more; its learning curve extends farther than any video game. Guitar opens up a world of creativity and improvisation, name me a video game that can provide something at that scale (I'm an avid gamer so I'm sure there are none). Plus, it can get you laid.

I just don't buy that playing video games can provide much benefit. It seems like a meager reason to justify a questionable habit.
> The dependencies do change depending on the user. Different version of libraries will be in different locations, may require different build flags, etc, etc. Likewise the build may support a range of compilers which require (sometimes completely) different compiler options for a successful build.

What you say is true, but it can be interpreted as either positive or negative features. I would say that code that depends on specific versions of a library or specific compiler options is bad code; and propagating bad code instead of fixing it is not a good idea. Cmake makes it very easy and convenient to ship bad code, as you explain. Thus, it is a force of evil! It allows, even encourages, the programmers to be sloppy without short-term visible consequences.
That's a super interesting question to me.

I would describe myself as having essentially no mind's eye. I don't "visualize" anything, ever. If I imagine a tree (or someone asks me to visualize one) I mostly have descriptive words, but no "images".

But I can dream, and that definitely is a distinctively visual experience. Does that mean, when someone asks you to "visualize" something, you have an visual experience akin to dreaming?
Being stylish is super important (to me) because not only is she a woman in tech - she's a stylish woman in tech. I hate the typical tech uniform of jeans, t-shirts, and hoodies, but felt I wouldn't get taken seriously if I looked 'pretty'. Marissa made that ok for me.

If she wore the typical tech uniform it wouldn't detract anything for me, but she wouldn't be iconic to me.
Shortly before I deactivated my Facebook account, I changed my birthday to 6 months from the reality. Lots of well-wishes on the wrong date. I knew it was time to leave.
There are no ifs and buts. Microsoft wasn't destroyed as a monopoly by the skin of its teeth. Much to the detriment of posterity.

Here's hoping the next president starts treating digital monopolies like regular ones.
#+BEGIN_SRC sh
#!/bin/sh

echo "foobar"
#+END_SRC

That also works in org-mode, and then you get syntax highlighting for the language etc. It can even open that block to edit in a separate buffer with the right major mode loaded for that language.
There aren't too many, but Saudi Aramco, Statoil (until 2007, when it became the multinational Equinor), China Petrochemical, and a few other giant corporations exist (or in the case of Statoil, recently existed). Corporations wholly owned by nations. I think that qualifies.

Although I believe the parent was perhaps making a cynical comment about how e.g. Lockheed is basically a branch of the US military.
> That's why any sane large service that needs to fork anything will early on start up a slave subprocess whose only job is to fork quickly when the master process needs it.

I don't think that's (entirely) true. This is more because a large service with some potent master process will have said process Do Stuff(tm) that will involve opening files, threads, signal handling, or whatever things that need to be taken care of one way or the other when forking to a worker (or whatever other child) process. It's therefore much simpler to fork a master subprocess into a child spawner earlier on, when it has yet to do anything. You significantly reduce your chances of screwing up if you have nothing to clean up for.
Disney is mostly responsible for copyright in the US being extended to ludicrous lengths. They changed the law so they could keep making money.

Also these copyright companies seem to get special treatment by the government. Notice how they are able to use police to "raid" data centres etc.? In the UK a young guy who ran a torrent site was raided by police in the early hours only to be released without charge months later. These companies have special powers in government, hence practically they are a part of the government.
The flowcharts are gorgeous.
Summer internships at the FSF! Apply by April 30
How did you learn that 10 months is the threshold?
That's mostly Microgramma, although its successor Eurostile has become a default for spaceship signage.

Microgramma really hits the spot for a certain kind of 60s/70s retro-futurism.
And Adam and Eve were together richer than the USA.
Sounds like yet another argument for why we might need Universal Basic Income sooner rather than later, or some other innovative solution. Isn't there a candidate for president whose campaign is based on that?
Came here just to say that. I had a static blog written in org-mode and converted it over to markdown a couple of weeks ago because there's no good way of converting org-mode to html except by running emacs. So for each article, getting a html representation requires firing up emacs. That's insane.

If there were good (and fast!) js, c, python, etc libraries to fully support parsing org-mode to AST and HTML, only then would it be a viable solution for markup.
I don't know. Facebook already has everybody's data. Unless this bill will retroactively force them to delete it unless users explicitly consent to letting them keep it, it will restring new growing companies more.
So in the US you cannot patent a typeface, but you can patent software... Doesn't seem very logical to me.
The output would be encrypted of course. You’d decrypt it on your end. Whoever hosts the model can’t know what it learned, without breaking your encryption.
> the political statement the typeface was trying to make

Hmm, I think that a typeface is possibly the least effective way to make a political statement. Approximately zero people looking at it will impute a political message.
That's less of a problem with Matrix. I set up a WhatsApp bridge because all my friends are on WhatsApp, and now I can use any matrix client, even a very lightweight CLI one, to talk with them.
Go Time 80: Go 2 and the Future of Go
Berliner here as well, living near the Ring. I prefer the dogs head shape, with the ring shape visitors often travel around the longer (western) route of the ringbahn, causing delays.

I guess public acceptance of the change will be mixed as well, a new map is unfamiliar at first and any change costs cognitive energy.
The Mississippi Company was never really worth $6.5T in any meaningful sense. Unlike Dutch East India, Mississippi was purely a speculative bubble. It only hit that value for a few weeks at the end before the whole thing imploded.
The article title is missing a footnote:

"Only if you use EMacs, as Org-Mode is impossible to implement outside of EMacs".

Source: tried once as someone who never used org-mode or emacs. Did not go well.
China Plans to Ban Cryptocurrency Mining in Renewed Clampdown
After considering two or three dozens of different "lightweight" markup languages (i.e. not flavors) and designing a few (plus at least three failed attempts to improve Markdown), I'm now almost convinced that Scribble [1] or Perl POD [2] have one of the best possible designs. Not that they are optimal, but they are definitely heading at the correct direction.

They are extremely generic: every Scribble syntax is prefixed `@`, every POD construct is either `letter<...>` or `=word`. And yet they are surprisingly unobstructive and readable enough. Compare with BBCode, which is also pretty generic but too annoying.

They are readily extensible and need no special one-off syntaxes for most things. Yes, using asterisks or underscores for emphasis is handy, but how about strike-throughs? Underlines? Non-emphasis italics (e.g. species name)? Language tags? Abbreviations? Do they nest? Do they work in any context? Why not adding some harmless options to the existing constructs? Syntax extensibility should be one of the foremost concerns of markup language design and they got it right.

Edit: I should stress that these concerns are only valid for writings. For casual comments, less is better (ideally no-follow links and verbatim texts should suffice).

[1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/

[2] https://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod.html
The bill is useless, unless it also requires to reacquire consent for all the data, that was already taken using these patterns. It should demand Facebook and the likes to get consent to keep the data, or remove it within some reasonable time.

Without that, the bill is more like a stick in the wheels for Facebook's future competitors.
Concerning Identity (2008)
Makes me think of a comment I posted not too long ago (and it's responses) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19474623

Reasonable for text...for most text that's skeuomorphic with regards to the printed word (in most senses). But... what is there for that which is beyond? A response to the linked comment mentions TEI (Text Encoding Initiative). Anything else? Is it too vast a problem in that we should make due with solutions that cover 90% of use-cases? Ah, but does that limit potential future development as people mold themselves to the constraints placed on them by the tools and what those tools allow?

Just thinking out loud, per usual.
Not disagreeing, but to be fair, Helvetica Neue (neue meaning new in German), did not age well either. I would assume the creators are aware of that, maybe even choosing that name to be in the tradition of Neue.
Do you think getting a PhD is worth it if you
already plan on going into industry?
So does that, somewhat, imply that New Amsterdam was something of a Dutch expat's whirlpool for former FAANG tech workers?

Like, working as an employee for The DEIC meant you gained safe access to the best naval pipeline operating relays that served to convey those "In The Know" to The New World?

...and then, once they got some skin in the game, maybe they could stick their finger in the pie, and operate side hustles, involving trade or travel?

Seems like if this were true, Old Amsterdam might be today's San Franciso. But, if San Francisco is Amsterdam, where's tomorrow's New York?

Maybe it's a moon base? Perhaps a Martian colony?
I agree with this. The transition will be tricky and potentially long. It needs to be managed. And you're right that GP was hinting at that stuff too, but I saw a little bit of the misguided mainstream talking-points creeping in that I felt I needed to address.
There are no concrete plans for that either.
As I recall it, goroutines are in fact cooperative with implicit yield points. The implicit behavior is what I believe go means by “for all intents and purposes”

Particularly, I believe all function calls are implicitly yield, which means you can usually pretend that its preemptive through normal coding practices; but you can still never yield through a while(1){} (i think there was a proposal to add implicit yield on loops? Not sure if it went through)

I would assume core.async does not have many, if any, implicit yields, leading to the different behavior. But technically, both are cooperative, go is just more convenient about it
One of the many things I enjoyed about MIT was that I could register for almost any class as long as I could convince the professor I wouldn't be a drag on the progress (this was in the 80s). Let me take all sorts of interesting classes on subjects not part of my degree program (Optics! Machining! Nuclear strategy!).

Sometimes I ended up spending as much time running to keep up (lots of b,bmb) as I did following the class itself (A). But the system tolerated it.
Well, so much for my Google-fu. Thanks for the explanation.
The thing with web-development is that you don’t actually have to follow the trends to be productive.

A few years ago I read an article on LinkedIn, about how a local development company he helped our neighbouring municipality switch from ASP Web-Forms to the first version of AngularJS and Web-API because it was a more modern tech that would make them future proof, especially in regards of hiring.

I laughed at it at the time, and sure enough, they’re in trouble now because AngularJS didn’t actually stick around for long enough for anyone to really learn it. Where as the newest versions of ASP .Net Core are actually being build in a format that is extremely similar to ASP web-forms.

I’d like to say that I don’t think you should actually use ASP web-forms if you can avoid it, because it is dated, but it still runs half the internet in my region of the world and it’ll probably continue to outlive a lot of trendy techs for the foreseeable future.

Our goal is that if something changes radically every few years, then it’s not really worth adopting to our generalist stack, because we can’t afford to waste resources re-learning React or Angular or X every two years.
Honestly I would criticise if it was 32-bit.

When can I finally get rid of this stupid "Program Files (x86)" folder which annoys me every time I click into the wrong one looking for my program, when even new programs are released as 32-bit?
I don't know that is bad.

Without Emacs, org-mode is just weird markdown.

The way it can quickly link between different types of unrelated content just doesn't make sense outside Emacs.
This kind of reminder can happen even if the person isn't on Facebook. Every few months, a "Hey, remember this from 5 years ago?" photo pops up with a now-deceased friend of mine. It's depressing, and my effort to get Facebook to stop showing me "Do you want to share this memory?" photos has failed. She wasn't even on Facebook. I suppose I could go through all my old photos and delete them, but I'd prefer not to be prompted at all.
saw you guys in pioneer. really cool project
Isn’t the purpose of the free food to make you spend more time at work? Seems logical that the alternative is more time at home.
I don't know why, but I find it amusing that people are so attached to their macbooks that they will even carry around full sized keyboards to replace the garbage keyboards on them instead of just buying a better laptop with a usable keyboard.
My favorite article on this:

http://hazlitt.net/feature/goes-all-way-queen-puzzle-book-dr...
I like Wikitext[1] which is Mediawiki's markup. Mediawiki is the software that runs Wikipedia. I have a personal Mediawiki that I use for taking notes and it works a lot better than org-mode in that it is easy to make tables, nicely formatted outlines , hypertext, etc. Chrome has a plugin that lets you edit textboxes in emacs too so you can use a real text editor instead of just chrome textboxes.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples
Tesla has been giving some of its most loyal customers the runaround
It looks a bit like a joint that Japanese carpenters will use to make a joint stable without any nails or fasteners.
Is this not hyperphantasia?
There are other reasons I do not use facebook much, but you can turn this off.
IIRC this is just a matter of not sharing your birthday with anyone.
Actually, looks very reasonable :)

But adopting trumps perfection, hence, GFM is probably the most reasonable choice for new applications today.
I used to work on a cross-platform project, and spent several weeks trying to figure out why our application ran significantly faster on linux than windows. One major culprit was process creation (another was file creation). I never really uncovered the true reason, but I suspect it had to do with the large number of DLLs that Windows would automatically link if you weren't very careful. Linux, of course, can also load shared code objects, but in my experience, they are smaller and lighter weight.
There's a few companies that are allowed to efile that do very little besides convert the IRS paper forms to web forms and do the arithmetic for you. They tend to be a lot cheaper than TurboTax/H&R Block. I've been using one of them (OLT) the last two years has worked well enough for me and efile processes a lot faster than paper.

I also believe people should be filing their own taxes and understanding how the system works. I've owed money the last two years by underestimating self-employment taxes, so this year I've set up a spreadsheet that tells me how much I'll owe each quarter with all deductions built in and a tiny bit of overestimation.
At a tax free wholesaler in Europe (such as might supply a duty free shop at the airport), 1L of the cheapest vodka costs under €2.50.

That's similar to the cheapest wine, although such shops don't really sell the cheapest wine.
It may seem uglier if you use it first time:

#+BEGIN_SRC lisp
(format t "Hello world!~&")
#+END_SRC

but it has two things going for it.

One, it's consistent with other blocks, like BEGIN_QUOTE, BEGIN_EXAMPLE, BEGIN_VERSE, etc. (n.b. all four have a default shorthand that gets tab-expanded; <s. <q, <e and <v, respectively) , and with arbitrary user-defined blocks like BEGIN_whatever.

Two, while #+BEGIN_SRC may seem only an unnecessarily verbose way of writing ```, things change when the block starts to look like this:

#+NAME: advanced-block
#+BEGIN_SRC lisp :package my-package :var foo=123 :var bar=asdf :noweb yes :exports both :eval never-export
<<preamble>>
(format t "Hello ~A!~&" <<some-other-block(param=3.14)>> )
#+END_SRC

AKA. a named source block (so I can reference it elsewhere) of Lisp executing in selected Lisp package, with org mode variables injected into it, using noweb syntax (literate programming) for injecting other code blocks[0], which when exporting the document to a different format (say, PDF) will export both code and results of its evaluation, but will not automatically evaluate the code.

This feature makes Org Mode essentially a kind of better Jupyter, with automatic support for any and all possible language that you can plug into Emacs, simultaneously.

--

[0] -- here, it'll paste the literal contents of #+BEGIN_SRC block with #+NAME: preamble at the beginning, and then paste the results of executing a block with #+NAME: some-other-block, with value 3.14 for its :var param, at the end
Can't tell for Google, but Confluence is widely adopted (still I love to hate on it)
Me too. I keep trying different things (notion, bear, Evernote etc etc) and always find myself coming back to emacs.
I sometimes have the experience that there is one word in a sentence that I did not get (often prompting me to say 'huh'), and that after some pondering, I suddenly get it and 'hear' the word being replayed in my head, and it suddenly becomes perfectly clear what word the person said (often prompting me to say 'okay').
Check out https://mermaidjs.github.io which is less visual in plain text but much easier to write.
Don't feel bad for me, I'm twenty-something years old and having Marissa as my tech woman icon is just some fun. I'm sorry you don't like her, but the choices for role models as a woman in tech are limited. (And yeah I know about Hopper and Hamilton and Borg, the difference is that Mayer is a current kinda-household name and in Vogue, literally.)

Also don't lump Marissa in with Elizabeth Holmes, Holmes could never be iconic with that hair.