skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bah. Sentence schmentence:

It was a dark and stormy lane, amidst a dark and stormy night, and down the
lane shuffled a small ragged pile of clothes hiding a small and ragged child
(fullstop) She approached the fork in the lane, wherein the choices led to
Town and to the hamlet of Ruin (fullstop) Town held Rita's past and future,
her torment and her only family (fullstop) Ruin was several miles off, and on
any other day she would only have glanced at that fork and dreamed (fullstop)
But today she had been given a wide brimmed hat by a pitying Lady, and instead
of misery beneath the rags lay a tiny kernel of hope, sheltered from the rain
(fullstop) As she neared the fork hope was fanned into anger, and into need,
and into determination (fullstop) For so many nights the rain had beat so
hard against her face that she could barely see to walk, let alone to choose
her path (fullstop) But tonight she had just a few inches of respite, the
luxury of seeing the fork for the choice it was (fullstop) Her fists clenched
and her mouth set hard, her shuffle turned to a stride, and she chose her
path, joining unknowingly every other shuffling wretch who before her had
reached their last drop of hope and spent it taking the path to Ruin, where no
one would dare to seek them (fullstop) (like, for real)

There. FTFY.
Oh, wait for webassembly, that's gonna be fun.
How does a video codec work?
Am I right when I say this is where a solution like https://keybase.io helps with its cryptographically verified identities and messages?
How to be a better conversation partner? Listen more
That's a really nice website. I'm a young developer interested in web developer and it gives me a good roadmap for how I would go along figuring stuff out till I become a full stack web development. I just hope that the full stack roadmap comes soon, the front-end and back-end seems really well planned out.

Another thing that I'll say that would be nice, if there were other roadmaps for become a mobile app developer like those including OSes like Android, iOS, Mac OS, etc.
> My point is once some future neural network starts to grasp continuity and context (something GPT-2 does not do) I think writing won't be safe from AI.

If this is so, writers will more likely become editors.
In the same way, visuals artists might become curators.

As an optimist, I am still pondering how this could be a good thing.
Canada's Bizarre – and Failed – Attempt to Send 'The Man with No Name' to Africa
Ask HN: Will games made in Unity3d be playable in 10/20 years?
A question for my fellow #gamedevs.
Thinking 10, 20, 30 years into the future. How big a danger is it that games made in #unity3d will go the same way as games made in Flash? (Meaning not impossible to play them now, but a pain todo so).
Thoughts?
And that's the heart of the issue. This is a "convenience" introduced to make markdown easier for people who didn't really use markdown, at the cost of adding a pain point for people who are heavy users of the markdown features.
Actually Slack _hasn't_ matched the formatting in WhatsApp, they've gone and done the exact opposite of it. WhatsApp's input box isn't WYSIWYG.
Off-by-one error. Or a joke about availability.
What?! What does IRC do that Zulip doesn't? I consider the latter far superior.
Even if people prefer paper books, that used book shop in the article is still doomed.

Their competition is not the internet. It's a better bookstore with lower prices in an air conditioned shopping mall.
Wiki means fast in Hawaiian.

It came to be synonymous with online community editable websites for information.

But it's original meaning is from the Hawaiian phrase "wiki wiki" which means quickly.

So it makes sense. Quickbuy.
“Wishful Thinking”
Amazon and Alibaba are the largest marketplace in the world and all these examples are just very small. Without including their model and growth the analysis will be always incomplete.

Perseverance is one of the biggest asset in building a marketplace, besides the qualities or technical innovations and I do not see it even discussed.

Amazon solved Chicken and Egg problem by buying inventory itself and countless innovative and non innovative work, I feel what stands out in it is perseverance.

Alibaba solved the problem by buying themselves from vendors listed on their marketplace to give them an illusion that the marketplace works. Also they did countless innovative and non innovative work. Here also it’s perseverance which made what they are.
Where to See the Real Living Dead
Ipstack Alternative and Competitor
I’m not sure about that. A lot of friends from poor families that couldn’t get out are turning to suicide or the drugs that will lead them to it eventually. This era is likely the worse one for the poor.
Most people I know don’t even know WhatsApp supports Markdown.

That said, none of them are complaining because it’s a chat program. You don’t need heavy formatting in a chat program, it’s meant for short and fast messages, unlike email.

As such, I don’t believe people will spend a lot of time formatting their input in Slack, unless they really are thinking people will replace their email with Slack.
$2-3 was an end product price point 4 years ago for BLE powered HID device.
Why would this person know that? Speaking from personal experience, I myself did not know how critical it is for some as I do not use it day to day (I heard some anecdotes sometimes, but that's it), rarely ever used it, and only recently experienced it in a setting were it was Slacks all the down.
I bet unicode already has codepoints for 'on' and 'off'
Indeed. Postscript is great for printers. The fact that the PDF was created in addition was because a comparable system was needed for human eyeballs.
That’s one of the best movies of all time! Somehow I knew it would come up as soon as we started talking about real estate agents.
I’ve already put my money where my mouth is and sent an email saying I intend to cancel all future payments to Slack unless they give the option to disable it, I suggest everyone else does the same.
Oh boy, I've seen nothing to confirm this.

/user researcher (etc.)
https://www.burg-eltz.de/de/
Only eat oysters in months with an 'r'?
Yeah, way to expensive.
A "pay-what-you-want" model with a minium of 2$-4$ a month would be much more successfull, I feel.
This is just a general comment on the state of tech, not personal. It seems the priorities have shifted into other things away from tech.
That creates a very conservative mindset, unsuitable for innovation.
Might be a dumb question, but I am not a native speaker:
What is the difference between a written contract and a job offer?
This was when their staff where the ones accused, our internal security had a terrifying rep.

You did not want some one who may well be innocent doing something stupid.
Certification is maybe couple of $K in Chinese lab.
I wish I could like reading certain technical books in dead tree format, but I recently bought both the digital and dead tree versions of the Pragmatic Programmer, 20th anniversary edition; and I really couldn’t stand the lack of colour syntax highlighting and colour diagrams in the dead tree version. Mind you, I bought from InformIT, so it was definitely not counterfeit; it was just the printing quality that the authors/publisher chose.

Plus, with a digital version like epub, I could change font size and let it reflow, change the colour theme to sepia in Apple’s Books app or Calibre, and it would still be beautifully formatted.
If you mean with "you" the operator of the tool, then yes I agree partially. But in this context it's more like "you" the user and then using open source alternatives doesn't make a big difference. Updates (which you generally want for security/good features/fixes/x) will still break your workflow regularly.

It's about how the service handles change (e.g. options to use the old interface etc.) that make the difference and not open source or proprietary.

There are many examples in FOSS that made user interfaces arguably worse and you have a hard time dealing with it, if you still need/want to run the newer version for other reasons.
For some people "being it" [biŋɪt] and "be hit" [bihɪt] are minimal pairs. I can't think of any vowels that can both come at the ends of words and before [ŋ] in my own speech, though.
Oddly most of these systems will let you specify dependencies, but not show them. Even the good old GANTT chart would let you do that. JIRA has umpteen kinds of "ticket X relates to Y" one of which is "depends on".

I think it's some sort of weird cultural impedance mismatch where the teams have sort of moved over to Kanban or Scrum or whatever, but the managing structures haven't. I used to work somewhere where managers spent a regular big chunk of time manually reconstructing GANTT from Microsoft TFS Kanban boards...
Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance is a danger to human rights
> probably a decision made by a product team who have the data to back up their decisions

lol.. I don’t know how, but this wool has been pulled over everyones’ eyes. These “data driven” decisions are often anything but. The people making them usually don’t even have sufficient background in stats to be capable of making them. They just plug and chug in some NHST framework or A/B testing framework, making all kinds of test errors or even outright cheating since their job incentives, much like failed research incentives, requires a constant stream of new positive results that causally drive growth & engagement. Since they “have to” find these things, then anything which can be politically argued into the product will be made to “have the data to back it up” (even if it doesn’t really).

The bigger the company, the worse this effect gets.
> silently concluded that the physical world has evolved enough

the main culprit is regulation. There are other markets which build modern cities at breakneck pace

the same thing is going to happen to tech now that regulation is kicking in
Ask HN: What's a good detailed explanation of Caches
A small price toupee.

But if you're not careful, that may look like a cheap entry fee for a public toilet.
Disadvantages of Keeping Secerets
We need to distinguish "is" and "isn't". Maybe WYTAWYG (What You Type Ain't What You Get)?
Quantum Computing, for Programmers
Countdown Timer with React Hooks
"yes" and "no" are short in just about every language I know of
As long as there is something which can unambiguously be referred to as “the church”, the state will favor it. It’s not necessarily a question of insufficient separation, it’s more of a de-facto-monopoly situation.
Seems very unlikely that they will be unplayable. Built Unity games are just .exe files, where flash games are in a format that requires flash to run. In other words, unless the format of standard executable files changes, unity games will still be playable.
> so the only way to connect to is via the official interface.

Not true. There’s several alternative clients.
That's never stopped enterprise IT from rolling out tools to their users.

Teams is free as part of an Office 365 subscription (just like Sharepoint and all the other crap they bundle with it), which is what definitely makes it an existential threat to Slack, because now Slack is competing with Microsoft's very strong Office monopoly.
True sortition -- a random selection, preferably from a prequalified candidate pool -- can actually be a fairly useful tool.

A vote-based system in the absence of an effective media to investigate and inform the electorate is not actually random, but is subject to sway and influence from any modestly motivated party, with no effective check from an at least putatively disinterested or nonbiased journalistic enterprise. You're not leaving selection up to chance, you're leaving it up the the most effective, least principled, least visible election manipulator.
I know that SpaceX is trying to make space flight cheap so they have to figure out how to do things like use cheap pressure vessels but this mode of failure is exactly why aerospace pressure vessels have long been made from a hot rolled body (as opposed to cold worked and welded).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvADC43EHmE
My favorite part is the look on the engineer's faces when they're asked to turn a Robin Reliant into a Space Shuttle.

"Have you got a spare billion dollars?"

"No. That's why we came to you."
I'm so excited about Keybase.
Glad to see you there.

How do you manged it to get this confirmation with only one karma point?
Dating Market Thesis Summary [pdf]
Magdeburg Water Bridge
What he means is that the boat is moving up and down but keeps a stationary latitude/longitude.

The rocket has static landing coordinates, and if the boat were to move a few meters to either side it would miss it.
No - Chrome uses the OS certificate store on both Windows and MacOS and hence works with all internal apps of enterprises that generate client certificates for their users and manage the OS certificate using strict policies.

Firefox does not.
ProseMirror is not a "batteries included" solution, but rather a framework for creating them, so a lot of the UI stuff is missing and I wouldn't advise using it directly.

I worked on CKEditor 4 (very different from v5, which is a rewrite).
> Elephant Foot and natural background radiation are outside of your body

Have you heard of Carbon-14 dating? Of course you did. All things containing carbon that we interact with contain a bit of C14 ( * ) . Including the things we eat. Yes, we ingest every single day, and we inhale every single second radioactive things. If you eat one banana a day you get a yearly dose of 2.6 millirems [1]. That one comes from Potasium-40, but it's the same idea.

So the dose SA was talking about, 18 millirems/year, was equivalent to 7 bananas a day.

Here's a more scientific study than the SA articles [2].

"The radiation hazard from airborne emissions of coal-fired power plants was evaluated in a series of studies conducted from 1975–1985. These studies concluded that the maximum radiation dose to an individual living within 1 km of a modern power plant is equivalent to a minor, perhaps 1 to 5 percent, increase above the radiation from the natural environment. For the average citizen, the radiation dose from coal burning is considerably less."

( * ) Fun fact: fossil fuels contain essentially no C14 (the half-life of C14 of about 6000 years is many times smaller than the age of the fossil fuels). This is used in testing alcoholic beverages. Natural alcohol (obtained via fermentation) has the usual ratio of C14/C12 and emits a recognizable radiation spectrum. Alcohol industrially produced from petroleum is much cheaper. It does not have C14, so this is how you can detect if an unscrupulous producer uses synthetic ethyl alcohol (which is a dangerous because it has traces of methanol and benzene).

[1] https://newatlas.com/radiation-explained-food-sources-danger...

[2]https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs163-97/FS-163-97.html
I suspect in the sense that 'w' acts like a long vowel or a diphthong in many cases in English when it is used in the middle or at the of a word.

E.g., (spelling vs pronunciation) 'town' vs 'toun', 'own' vs 'oan', 'bow' vs 'bo' or 'bau', etc.

It definitely seems like the most vowel-like consonant after 'y'.
The interplanetary internet will not be smoking hot with latencies counted in minutes. I guess we will need another protocol too, at least for the CDNs.
I've just run a nice unsuccessful Adwords campaign, and I think my lack of knowledge on how to correctly use Adwords, alongside Analytics is where I'm going wrong. Any chance you know of some decent resources / quick-start guides to help understand Adwords and how to use it?
Part of the issue is that wealthier people are self segregating themselves into their own separate towns, do that their property tax dollars don’t have to go to maintain the roads that everyone else drives on.
Moving isn't always a good thing. Maybe in the past it simply represented high search costs. The only way an Okie could find out if California was the right home for them was to pack up and actually move there. You get to Sacramento and decide that's not right for you, so a year later you move to Fresno.

Nowadays you go online and can research local economies, local hiring, local real estate, local churches, etc. You're more likely to move fewer times.
They all use the same "interface". XMPP/IRC would be different interfaces. I can use whatever client I want, not some client that is specifically coded for Slack.

I don't need ANY changes in my XMPP/IRC client to connect to a server.

But the reason why Slack discontinued XMPP/IRC is clear. They want people to use their shitty app/website.
https://sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~ebelding/courses/595/s04_dtn/pape... and also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet
Planck-EZ is a cheaper version, but the regular Planck PCB supports split space bar! https://olkb.com/planck/pcb

Also has a basic built in synthersizer so you can play songs on it. Beautiful PCB!
No, I am not. I am a white man living in Western Europe. Yet another time, you are wrong.
Conversely, three lines is quite enough to misunderstand things on purpose and put people down for little reason. Good luck and maybe consider seeing a therapist and show them these posts.
Are realtor fees higher now than the were in the past? If not, that's not an explanation.

Do Californians move less than people from other states? If not, Prop 13 isn't an explanation.
User interface, information density. Zulip is very verbose and cluttered and after a while it becomes difficult to find information from past conversations, things scroll out of screen very quickly, etc.. And there doesn't seem to be much of a way to customize it, short of going for the source code. For IRC there's a ton of customizability around in the form of various clients, scripts, plugins, etc.
APL really is a wonderful core notation, even though the full language is rather crufty. I've long been saddened that its promises of parallelism never seemed to work out.
> If anyone constructed a PDF, which was itself blank but, via embedded JavaScript, loaded parts of itself from a remote server, people would rightly balk and wonder what on earth the creator of this PDF was thinking — yet this is precisely the design of many “websites”. To put it simply, websites and webapps are not the same thing, nor should they be. Yet the conflation of a platform for hypertext and a platform for applications has confused thinking, and led developers with prodigious aptitude for JavaScript to mistakenly see mere websites of text as a like nail to their applications hammer.

This quote was supposed to be an absurd hypothetical. But I guess we'll live to see it in reality.
Thanks for that info.

But when you try the Riot app on a Matrix server, can you create you own private workspace there or it's more like an IRC channel?

Because Slack let you have your own workspace/"server" in the free plan https://slack.com/intl/en-ie/pricing/free?geocode=en-ie&from... (you'll have some limits, but you get your own private space)
Not really. You can use their API and implement a client like the ones already mentioned: wee-slack, ripcord, ...
Electron PC App to Access the Challenger Bank Revolut
And games, medical, research, etc.

In my previous job i was working on game tools with wxWidgets, in my current job i am working on game tools with Qt. In between i got an offer (which i rejected since i am interested in games) for a Qt tool to be used for (IIRC) DNA research (or something like that, i'd just be doing the UI not the actual logic).
50847534, and a provably correct program that can't produce the desired result
The three backticks is what got me, I tend to paste blocks in and then put backticks around them, which is just broken now as it just inlines the first line and does nothing to the last line, I'll just disable it for now and set a reminder for sometime soon to see if they've fixed it
PDF is great because of its ability to present a print oriented view of any type of information, packed in a document container in an efficient manner. This is the design goal of the format. It is the source application's responsibility to manage the semantics of the document scope, where edits to the represented information can potentially cascade across the document in non-trivial ways (think Excel for example). PDFs CAN be edited today, but those edits are made by tools that just change the visual layout vs. the information structures represented by the document. It's a rather difficult problem to overcome if the PDF format now must contain rules about the underlying information structure itself in order to maintain a consistent representation in the document.
naming isn't only based on how clever the name is; it's also based on primacy, because it creates confusion for the end user.
Tech companies are still doing tech. It's more that the "tech" label is being applied to other companies incorrectly.
I didn't know the creator of Markdown had trump derangement syndrome. We really learn something new everyday.
The Misophonia Podcast
Haskell has monadic loops (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/monad-loops-0.4.3/docs/C...):

let limit = secondsToDiffTime 60
start <- getCurrentTime

iterateUntil id $ andM
[ someApplicationLogicReturningBoolean
, do
now <- getCurrentTime
return $ (diffUtcTime start now) >= limit
]

This is a really rough sketch from someone who just looked all this up, of course :-)

Recursion is probably still much more natural here.
“A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence” is part of the "Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture" which are 50-100 page booklets on topics related to HW components. All the booklet PDF's are available online [1].

edit: only those PDF's with a checkmark are available as PDF to download, the rest can be bought. Quite a few actually available for download.

[1] https://www.morganclaypool.com/toc/cac/1/1
They previously looked at Slack and never found it appealing, they are replying pretty deep into a massively popular HN thread and their question was a pretty snarky "How so?". Maybe my snark was unjustified but I'm comfortable with it.
I guess, for non-tech people this is better, for tech people the markdown input was better. That is why I don't understand why Slack doesn't give you the option to switch between the two …
even with that he failed
English has juncture, so "the grey tape" and "the great ape" are also distinct. We'd write your two as [biŋ+ɪt] and [bi+hɪt].
That's like requesting that executables should include their source code.
Common Mistakes and Missed Optimization Opportunities in SQL
Someone made a bookmarklet to disable it: https://github.com/kfahy/slack-disable-wysiwyg-bookmarklet
The exact same thing (WYSIWYG editor) happened with JIRA over ten years ago. And here we are...
why atlassian is so successful with management but not with people who actually use their product is a great unsolved mystery.
Airbus is making planes lighter with technology we barely understand
Ask HN: What software do you use to generate PDFs?
I need to automatically generate invoices and similar documents as PDFs for clients. Currently I am using headless Chromium + print to pdf calling the front end.

I thought Latex to be too heavyweight for my use case, but I am not completely happy with the styling of my current setup.

Are there good alternatives to generate PDFs server-side?
While I understand why this change can be annoying to the tech savvy folks of hackernews, it can be quite helpful for those who aren't that tech savvy and want easy ways to bold, italicize texts (that make up majority of the slack user base). Heck I am sure most of the slack users wouldn't even know it was possible to bold, italicize on slack using markdown.
I'm not sure how Oracle really squares with that theory. From what I've seen, courting executives can work pretty well for companies widely hated by users.