skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you read my sentence backwards.
I think most people who say "it would be rational to pay people to dig holes and refill them" say it only as a prelude to saying "and therefore, paying people to build useful infrastructure is surely even more efficient"

In the 1700s UK and Ireland, many rich people thought charity in the form of hand-outs was a bad idea and reward without labour was bad for character [1]. So some rich people who wanted to help the poor would hire them for things like building 'follies', extravagant decorative buildings and roads to nowhere. Having famine victims earn food with hard labour went about as well as you would imagine.

[1] https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/10/irelands-famine-follie...
For the sake of clarity, if I have 2 domains, is it $4.99 per domain, or can both domains come under a single $4.99 charge?
Would be a great setup for a Monty Python skit
3+ years user of runalyze: Very happy with the integration of third party foot pods from runscribe.
> And you might be the next guy.

It already happened to me a couple of times that I had a problem, googled it, and found a helpful SO answer .. by myself some years ago. So this is definitely a helpful suggestion.
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Connecting Pulsar and Materialize is of interest to me too and something I might try when I find time to do so. Note that Pulsar does have a Kafka compatibility layer already[0], so it might just work out of the box. If you try this I'd be keen to hear how it goes.

[0] https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/adaptors-kafka/

EDIT: I don't think this adaptor will work after all, it works by replacing the Kafka Java client library with its own, so is only applicable to Java applications.
Nice. Based on Mullvad, and cheaper ($4.99 < €5). I wonder why is limited to USA when Mullvad works almost everywhere.
You definitely need to tell somebody that they should be encrypting their passwords using something like Format Preserving Encryption. FPE https://www.tokenex.com/blog/format-preserving-encryption-an...
I disagree, these unix sockets are user interfaces, albeit not graphical user interfaces. I am a user who's trying to interface with these players, what could these be other than user interfaces?

And unfortunately 'lack of documentation' is putting it lightly. VLC's barebones manpage directs users to https://www.videolan.org/doc/, which in turn says the documentation doesn't exist and gives the user another link to a wiki. If you dig around on the wiki you can eventually find this brief acknowledgement of the interface in question: https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Alternative_Interfac...

Documentation is part of the user experience (who is documentation for, if not for the users?), and in this regard VLC is very poor. I think this relates to VLC treating technically inclined users like second or third class users.
16GB of RAM costs about as much as employing a programmer for a day.
I hate all the fad around diet and exercise.

It does all depend on your goals. But, for most people trying to lose some fat mass, understanding calories in/out, macros and calorie counting is enough stay at low bf levels indefinitely. Everything else is a distraction.

I grew up a vegetarian in the era of "Atkins". I was significantly deficient in protein and, it wasn't until I made a conscious effort to fix it in my 20s than my body composition changed for the better. No fad diets, just a basic understanding of macros.

You could tell the average person everything they need to know to manage their body composition for their whole life in the time it takes to drink a coffee.
Well I guess if you live in the middle, then just having East and West aren't quite sufficient to describe locations -- where's the dividing line? -- so you need an idea of what's central; and people will tend to think of themselves as central.

I mean Czechia/Eastern Germany/Western Poland is pretty much the centre of the land-mass from Ireland/Portugal in the West to Ukraine/Estonia in the East. So, it's not wrong.
> If you share a development branch with someone, then you should prefer merging over rebasing

Your parent comment is suggesting rebase only for pulling latest changes in master into your pull request.

For merging someone's pull request to the team's master, sure use a merge commit.

But if you are working on a pull request and while you are working on it, the team's master gets updated and now you want to base your work on the recent master, by all means, use git rebase. That is what it is meant for, to rebase your work on another work. It's in the name itself.

Right tool for the right job.
... but they were tough guys, nothing could hurt them. They were also smart, bringing innovations to the battlefield such as concentration camps. That idea was picked up decades later in continental Europe. Coincidentally, the Brits interned some of the same people in those camps.
Just opening the context menu of a song (to add it to the queue for example) now requires connectivity and does at least one round-trip to their servers. Unless you actually cut the connection (e.g. air plane mode), then it suddenly works fine
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What I mean is how big does an organisation have to get to effectively challenge the sovereignty of the government. How big does it have to get (relative to the government size) that (threatening to or actually) revoking its charter won't mean anything because so many people are tied up in the corporation that it can just exert its own authority.

I.e. Is there a theoretical size in which the corporation (or effectively any other organisation) can just say "no" to the government?
This is the first time I’ve seen jQuery defined as “...plain, vanilla jQuery”!
> Also, I think a lot of the peace-love-dope crowd just grew up and got jobs.

This is a peculiar comment to make under an article about a member of the 'peace-love-dope crowd' who had a job which he performed at an elite level.
Tech is probably more like the film industry than law though, isn't it?

Focused on global markets rather than focused on capturing as much as possible from the lucrative American market.
Yes it does. If, and only if, the Belgians themselves spoke both languages fluently. A large proportion doesn’t. Mostly the business language is English.
No such obligation is required in the Netherlands, Denmark etc. Mostly because knowing only one European language well is not a big impediment.
> they never spend a single day doing what they trained to do

They are trained to independently do research, i.e. manage their work, learn new skills, discipline to work on an enormous multiyear project etc. . There is a reason consulting companies value a PhD highly even if it is in reindeer studies (I think it was BCG who always points to this example and a pianist).

A tenure-track job is by far not the only and not even the main job this qualifies you for.
Well, I don't want to say anything about the utility, longevity or appeal of yaml/json, but I somehow think a user is going to upgrade their entire operating system before they upgrade my little app.

And if they're inclined to upgrade my app, I mean, nothing stops me from using a third party library to parse yaml. It sounds like we're talking about an app from three operating systems and 20 years ago so it's likely I'm doing that anyway - maybe not in the current Windows version, but in a recent enough version on some other operating system.
It turns out the premise of the brilliant game "Return of the Obra Dinn" was not unrealistic at all. Highly recommended! https://obradinn.com/
>If your work is so full of those people that you really don’t like turning up every day, then finding a different job is a better reaction than getting too wound up about it.

Honestly, I'm approaching this point myself. The problem isn't chemistry or letting go or whatever. The problem is when the other side is extremely inflexible and has a position of power over you. They get to comfortably sit in an ivory tower and tell you what's wrong, and there's nothing you can do about it. Its extremely soul-crushing and trying to fight it with their higher-ups is generally a waste of time for a myriad of reason (cargo cults, echo chambers or simply pride aka "surely this senior knows better than his subordinate!"). And 9 out of 10 times, these discussions are absolutely trivial in nature and only break the flow of the person waving at the ivory tower along with incurring the cost of switching contexts. Rarely, if ever, do I get a discussion which results into an actual new insight or actual transfer of knowledge. And at the end of the day, the company wonders why they can't keep any employees or why their workforce is burned out, yet somehow they still manage to survive despite making these poor choices.

Of course, this is just personal experience and is by no means a generalization.
US only for the time being :(
Don't feed the trolls. The "Nazis" s/he's referring to aren't actual (neo-)Nazis, that's just extreme left's slur for anyone right-of-center (e.g. being against unrestricted immigration, unrestricted abortion, etc.). Nothing to do with actual Nazi-style policies.
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Those projects you mention him being generous about, are purely commercial moves. I don’t understand why you think they should reflect well on anyone.
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Does anyone else subscribe to Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't or am I just a weirdo on the internet asking myself rhetorical questions?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3CBOpT2-NRvoc2ecFMDCsA
I don't know much about copyright law but presumably these were technically public domain already, even if they weren't generally available.
I wonder whether they are still of use to scientists.
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Yes, why train your mind when you can train your swing instead.
I think this company can help you out.
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Anarchy means no authority, it does not mean no rules. I would suggest that anarchy needs a full belly instead and it's probably closer to mankind that capitalism.
Some countries have GAAR a General Anti-Avoidance Rule. Exactly how these rules work varies but e.g. the English law version uses a trick called the Double Reasonableness test. This says avoidance is legal IF a reasonable person (such as a juror) thinks that any reasonable person (here a different hypothetical person that the juror may well not agree with) might think that there was some other reason to do what was done besides to avoid tax.

For example, tax free savings accounts are often mentioned as "avoidance" in this context, to suggest that it's somehow nonsense to criminalise avoidance. But saving money is a reasonable thing lots of people might want to do anyway even if there was no tax advantage.

On the other hand, a scheme in which rich people pay somebody else to pointlessly buy and sell cars at a loss makes no sense - except that they then claimed a large tax discount as second hand car dealers...

One of the cleverest parts of the English scheme is that tax advisers, who sell such schemes to the rich for lots of money, are insulated from any penalty for doing so... As long as they tell the tax authorities how their scheme is supposed to work.
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It depends on how much programming you already know.

If you don’t know any programming, it’s a bad idea to start by JavaScript. Its design has followed a path from a hackish webpage scripting language to being used server-side, so a lot has evolved and a lot of crap remains from the old days. If you don’t know programming, you’ll have a hard time discerning the newer, cleaner features from the older less polished ones.

In my opinion it’s easier to learn java or C or Kotlin, which are a lot neater. And then learn about how JavaScript differs.
WinFS - it had some interesting ideas although I can see why it was abandoned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
Interesting, thanks for pointers.
Firefox + WebRender works great in Renderdoc, either capturing the D3D11 commands generated by ANGLE or forcing opengl. The D3D11 commands and shaders correlate pretty well with the GL commands emmitted by WebRender anyway. This tool is absolutely fantastic.

Bugs are usually quickly fixed once someone on the graphics team manages to reproduce them (in a renderdoc capture).
Unfortunately nobody has managed to reproduce it yet even though the issue has been in the team's radar for a while.
This isn't magic because he's a billionaire. It's called a holiday and we've known about it for some time.
Takes me back to the 10x programmer converstaion on HN a day or two back. People are really bad at identifying what actually makes people productive and so you have a million people who not only think that being productive excuses being an asshole but that somehow being an asshole is inextricably linked with their productiveness. Imagine is we had a group of people who insisted they wear red jumpers because that's what 10x-ers do. Oh wait, that's literally fashion and that's literally a mechanism people in creative industries signal they're the right type of creative.
Having gone through this, they cant transfer your history and recommendations take a few weeks to adjust.
Sigh all you want, just don't use gifs. It's an obsolete format with no remaining niche. Your first argument for the use of gifs focused on the experience of users seeing an animation "they wanted to show an animation and most people can load it." If the experience of the users is your concern (and it should be), you should feel obliged to never use a gif for something like this because the users will have an objectively superior experience with mp4's in every respect.

If instead you're screwing the users just to save the webmaster some minor hassle, you should sack the webmaster.
I know that taxes ultimately don’t result in lost schools and hospitals, as it’s never that 1:1, but do you ever think you could have cost your country a hospital, a new road, or a new warhead or whatever?
> The playing field will always be non-level, you gotta deal with it.

What a shitty boomer attitude.
Why does the adjusted function use pixels as a unit of measurement when the objective is to make the position of each 'click zone' show correctly? Is that not was percentages are for? ie. You have

var steps = [
['/img/flow/click-users.png', [1, 280]],
['/img/flow/click-header.png', [765, 155]],

Where the array is x,y coords in pixels? Why would you not use percentages instead for the top and left offsets? I see your adjusted function is getting the correct offset for the screen aspect ratio, but wouldn't you get the same result on percentages?
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What would be the alternative to the current taxation scheme of digital goods?

Could we imagine the tax rate being weighted by the revenue made in a specific fiscal area? Lets say that if FB makes 40% of its revenue in the US where the corporate tax rate is 27%, the IRS could tax FB profits at a 11% rate (27% x 40%).
Germany, France, the US etc. all disagree with you.
Environmental debt is not a new concept at all. And is a serious concept used by many people since decades and not coined to be taken as a joke
> I think the browser is the described OS here

I was actually describing something more close to the Smalltalk (http://pharo.org) / Self (http://blog.rfox.eu/en/Series_about_Self.html) image.
Such impressive work, in so many ways. The amount of knowledge and expertise you guys brought to the project is immense!
to be fair, the problem seems to be in the jquery side. It was not built to play well with others.

Also React fundamentally assumes it is the only one modifying the DOM through its virtual dom. If something else changes the DOM (like jquery), then React falls through.
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i think i haven't understand javascript till i have read "JavaScript: The Good Parts"

now that book is old and es6 changed a lot of things, so find a good book read it and if it has examples go thru them. only with examples was i able to understand scope inheritence and asynchronous calls in javascipt. like if you call settimeout in loop and all other gotchas.
Smalltalk can.
As an aside - monoisotopic mass is a strange one to use.

In the real world you are a mixture of isotopes, so it's better to use the average mass ( average of the different isotope masses, corrected for abundance ) if you want to compare to experimentally determined masses - say from mass spec.

It's not as if average mass is more complex - for the sake of these calculations it's still just a number looked up from a table...

ie why oh why use the wrong value when it's just as easy to use the right one ()?

() true it's biology so there isn't a right one in all circumstances - lots of interesting effects eg enzymes having slightly different rates of incorporation for different isotopes - however it's closer to the truth than mono-isotopic.
It is not clear, if you want to learn programming, or you alerady know it, and want to learn a new language.

It takes years to become good at programming. Once you know programming, it usually takes hours to learn a new (procedural) programming language.
Not to mention that it wasn't until the sixth paragraph before they even gave this more specific detail about the well's location.

The journal article about this discovery [1] gets to the point right in the first sentence:

> In 2018, during the construction of a motorway in the East Bohemian Region near the town of Ostrov (Czech Republic), archaeologists excavated a structure of a wooden water well lining with a square base area of 80 × 80 cm and 140 cm in height.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544032...

When, what, where and how all addressed right from the start.
Unskilled developers won't find it trivial. See the new question review queues for the kinds of questions submitted by people who can be bothered to sign up and try to participate for evidence towards this claim. e.g. right now there's one which isn't about programming it's about system administration, doesn't explain what they tried, and concludes with "it is not working" with no further details. This first-question is not likely to get upvoted. By being a minimum-competence filter it's not selecting in only the most skilled developers, it's selecting out huge swathes of people who don't want to do what stackoverflow wants its users to do.

People who submit terrible contributions will fall below 50 rep and lose the ability to do so.
> The problem is that patients aren't told they're guinea pigs

Here's the thing. Every patient is a guinea pig in one way or another. Every medication has side-effects both known and unknown.

But yeah, maybe stents need to be replaced before 3 years or some better materials need to be found, and maybe they are used in situation where they're not really needed.

Still better than bypass surgery which is a very invasive surgery.
This somehow resembles both Fukushima and Korean Sewol disaster 'recovery efforts', https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_A8dq2fA5o. Social norms (face, status) above common sense.
Wait, Isn't the appeal of a stream of bytes that the OS is agnostic to whatever the application layers above are doing with it? That way, you can separate concerns and evolve each layer independently. It's probably the reason the OS has had such a long staying power of decades. It seems to be the same strategy of IP (internet protocol)--that it's a narrow waist architecture--so the layers above and below it can evolve independently.

How would versioning of the data structures work? Would it be append only? I'm pretty sure part of the reason abstractions are hard is because we don't know exactly how to model the domain the first couple of times around. So if these data structures in the OS aren't right the first time, we end up lugging it around and it'd be more expensive than the parsing that we currently do. When I look at the EDI spec, it just has a lot of cruft I don't need.

And lastly, I'm afraid when we invoke meaning in a stream of bytes, different groups with different interests will have different ontologies they want to enforce. We see these in format wars and internet working groups. I'm not sure we can easily agree what these data structures are, and how to evolve them. Maybe there's a good way and I just haven't seen it.
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It looks like they all are compressed with a quality of only 75. Are they available somewhere with better quality? Also is there some metadata available?
I don't disagree with your position on the strengths of written media - I'm after all a major user of the media - but I do think that there is great value in recognising that 37,000 years ago, someone told a story - and here we are, still discussing it. That's not something that we in the West can predict will happen, or not, too soon - especially given the immense amount of material that has been lost, even in our lifetimes, because it was written and forgotten.
> Nearly all ribbon buttons have labels.

A lot of the stuff does but not all of the stuff, as the first image in the document we're discussing illustrates:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/uxguide/image...

...and the stuff that does have labels isn't ordered as systematically as a list. This might not matter to you but for some people, eg those with a particular type of dyslexia, having a UI that feels a little "jumbled up" genuinely does make it significantly harder to quickly glance through a list of items than reading through a menu where everything is stacked.

(before you object to me calling the ribbon bar "jumbled up", I do understand the logic of how frequent tasks are bigger icons etc. I agree there is a hell of a lot of thought and research gone into the ordering and positioning on the ribbon bar. But for quick glancing when searching for irregular tasks it can superficially appear less ordered than a menu does and that made it much harder for me to find things)

> The only buttons that don't have labels are well-known ones, all of which I think are on the Home tab.

...and what if you don't happen to know those items well? As I said before, the "one size fits all" approach of the ribbon bar hurts those in the edge cases.

> The ribbon (at least in Office) is far more customisable than traditional menubar+toolbars

That's not even remotely true. Every aspect of the toolbar and menus was customizable. The same isn't true for the ribbon bar.

> Every part of the ribbon can be customised

Either this is a later development or you're overstating things significantly because I assure you I could not customize much of Word's (nor Excel IIRC) ribbon bar when it was introduced (2007). Believe me, I had tried. At the time I used to write pluggins for Word, Outlook (which didn't yet have the ribbon, that came with a later release of MS Office) and Excel so I definitely wasn't not some 'n00b' who couldn't work his way around the advanced features of an office suite.

Sure you could create new tabs and customize those but you were severely limited in just how much you could alter existing tabs.

> I don't know why you dis-like the ribbon, because none of your arguments make sense.

That's needlessly antagonistic and completely unhelpful.
Hah, yeah.
Yeah that's a wordpress blog quickly put together outside of mozilla's official blogging infrastructure. There was no really good reason to do that, it was just laziness on our end.
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