skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Format conversion, re-encoding, resizing, ... all kinds of possibilities, if the prices of storage will not fall too.
I wish they were. They're actively pursuing it while discontinuing CMR. 5 years ago 1TB CMR laptop drives were abundant. Nowadays you'd be hard pressed to find a non-SMR one.
Something like: build an representation of the text that's language independent and integrated in other knowledge domains, and predict the receiver's reaction to a verbalization of a representation.

But it isn't necessary to formalize any of it. At the current level of sophistication, our informal common ground of words like "understanding" suffice for a discussion. It's obvious Google Translate doesn't resemble human language processing.
Skype for business, zoom, WebEx all don't require you to give an email to join a meeting.
When you are faced with tons of badly named products page without any good comparison tool, its sign of internal disorganization and specifically that CEO is memely a fiannce/account guy. In such companies, you will have marketting department which is clueless about products, PR department which is clueless about marketting, sales department which only functions because of personal relationships with few thousand ton gorillas. For reference, check out virtually any computer manufacturer's website except Apple.
Spießrutenlaufen was used by the military and was a severe, often fatal punishment. It was certainly not a great educational tool.
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Every single human being has preexisting conditions.
The virus is causing the pneumonia (which literally means lung inflammation). Although it is possible to get a superimposed bacterial infection over the top of this (to be mildly flippant, double pneumonia) because the lungs aren’t clearing debris and another infection can take hold. But the damage is specifically from the effects of the virus
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Simple, I like it!

I did similar with my project https://jogly.io

It across form and webhook submissions and pipes it to slack and your email.
Tower is quite literally the only application I'm willing to pay subscription pricing for. It's quality software, doesn't hold my data hostage, and has a steady stream of updates. I'm as adios amigos as you, but I don't think the usual reasons apply here.
> Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull.

Only if you listen to dull music. Perhaps pick higher quality stuff?

A good portion of my collection was originally written before 1750: Bach, Palestrina, Tallis, etc.† Some CDs I've had for >25 years and they are still as fresh as the first day I listened to them. And even a different take on the same composition can be illuminating: Glenn Gould vs Angela Hewitt, Tallis Scholars vs The Sixteen.

There's a reason why certain works regularly appear in those "Top 100" lists where they go out and ask experts: the order may sometimes be different, but the items in the top ten are often the same.

Edit: a quotation by Robert Bringhurst form The Elements of Typographic Style: With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.

† I have more modern stuff too: Led Zeppelin, Vampire Weekend, Arcade Fire, Pärt, Górecki, etc.
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Intellectualism and being a "nerd" is appreciated in black Democratic strongholds?
That is a good thing about streaming platforms - their libraries have depth.

It's fun to pick an artist and listen to their entire catalogue, start to finish, over a couple of days.
(mostly) Everyone likes this flexibility.

The question is some people find the cost too much.

Maybe it is better to have a law that is explicitly dumb, in exchange for fast, cheap and predictable (kinda like computers, if you think about it)
The difference is that programming is an essential craft. Algorithms are fundamental here, but it seems like teaching „structure and complexity“ equals to teaching paradigms that where en vogue a generation ago. This kind of knowledge is distracting, pretentious and even harmful.
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The US puts 2.79% of its GDP towards research. It's arguable this should be increased, but ~$550b is an impressive figure in any case. It would be interesting to see what exactly is included in this figure and how much of that is 'basic' etc.
https://www.simplypsychology.org/pavlov.html

The concept of (consumer-grade?) permanent data storage triggers some response from him.
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> Would a stock of common background knowledge (for want of a better word) be that much less effective if it included slightly less Hemingway and Twain and slightly more contributions from more diverse authors?

In practice it hasn’t worked out that way.

Instead it has:

1) Created a cultural barrier between the average Joe and the “liberal elite”.

It turns out that Twain etc are approachable to the average high school diploma American in a way the replacements texts are not.

2) Created a clear divide between minorities who study at elite US universities and the rest of us.

For example there is a level of alienation between Chinese tech workers who went to college in the US vs other Chinese tech workers here.

3) Created a group of “liberal elite” who think they can speak on behalf of, and even lead, other cultural groups when what they have learned isn’t representative of those cultures at all.
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The non-profit take on this is new, however, there are for profit cloud services that offer similar one-time payment "lifetime" plans.

Pcloud for example charges a one-time lifetime 0.35 cents per GB, and their marketing language states:

"We have defined a Lifetime account as 99 years or the lifetime of the account holder, whichever is shorter."

Some thoughts on this:

It probably works better at scale if you control the storage infrastructure (to control the costs). If you are reselling Amazon, and 10 years from now they either raise the price significantly, or discontinue the storage you are using, how would you maintain the service without new (renewal) cash flow.

To solve this later in life you would want to / need to migrate the data to newer better more cost efficient storage. There are large scale costs associated with doing this. Dropbox eventually moved away from Amazon for these reasons, which provided balance sheet savings but it gets fuzzy when factoring the real world costs of owning and maintaining large scale storage infrastructure.

Offering 1 GB free and file sharing between accounts is an invitation for nefarious activities, and it seems like the only way they could manage that would involve breaking one of Permanent.org's core tenets ... Someone will have to look at the files to police it. Or the free 1 GB becomes a liability, not a loss leader. How will they do this?

Once they have your money and a few years have passed there might be an incentive for the organization to gradually degrade the service. Make it more and more difficult to use, in an effort to keep costs down.

And 10 years later when they lose interest in the project, what would stop them from selling the whole thing (cashing out) to a for profit firm ..... Looking at you .ORG / ICANN?
What if you want to know the relative length of a page without scrolling first?

What if it's one of those webpages with a full height hero as the first element and no indicator you can actually scroll?

What if I want to click and drag the scroll to a specific location but have to take wild flailing guesses at where the scrollbar actually is because it keeps going invisible?
> When I draw, I can't scroll anymore.

This solves one major technical problem: how to make the annotations move with content

> The button to open the menu doesn't work and I see no button to exit.

Do you mean the button on the menu bar doesn't work? Definitely sounds like a bug; works well for me on the macOS 10.15.4. Also, the keyboard shortcuts work for me to toggle annotation.

> ... shortcuts are shortcuts for buttons, not a substitute.

Disagree. Shortcuts are for functions of the app, like menu items. There are many menu items in many apps that don't have buttons, but they have shortcuts. I would agree that there shouldn't be shortcuts for 'hidden' functionality.
This was so much fun. I mostly just flew planes through canyons and did cool loop-the-loops, but my brother created a whole mini film called Attack of the Killer Christmas Trees... just because he could.

It's worth noting that the slightly less slick and less fun, but possibly more powerful 3D Construction Kit predated Stunt Island:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Construction_Kit
It's a hard comparison since Harvard and the IITs have different admission processes. Admissions to the IITs happen via a single exam, which is held at the end of 12 years of school education and is conducted over a few hours consisting of upper level physics, chemistry and mathematics. Harvard meanwhile has a lot more in terms of admission criteria, with essays, SAT scores and other things taken into consideration.

The easiest way to justify OPs stance is to compare the admitted / applied ratio for both schools, owing to the sheer number of people taking the IITJEE and the relatively low number of seats available (around 10k), the success ratio is lower than Harvard.
While there is no direct equivalent, kujon seem to be pretty similar. (For non-Polish people, kujon is a derogative term for someone having good grades, coming with a stereotype that such person spends all their time learning, not doing any fun stuff)
I think the idea is to convey that just like a bell has no natural link to food anticipation of which causes salivation, the fact that x has always (at least as far as we remember) come with y which causes z means when we see x, we fear z will happen even though x and y need not necessarily have to come together?

I believe there are people who won’t forgive text drive / Joyent for their dishonesty and sincerely we must never trust the leadership at Joyent with anything as long as they roam the earth.

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If those people who do not waste time are so smart why they have to be hold by the hand and given curriculum? (tuition fees you can count as means for getting a diploma, but also if someone is soo smart, why does he need a diploma anyway?)

What I imagine really smart person would do is: go to people giving the course for additional work or talk with them to show where they are at. Skip classes, read something else while in a class. Take advantage of knowledge to not care about the course curriculum and do his own research.

But that is my idea and maybe people who think their time is wasted could be a bit more humble and learn to work with other people.
> I don't want to buy the most expensive and then keep exchanging down to the simplest one that works.

You can do that in O(log n) number of steps if you start with a mid-tier model and binary-search through their product line :).
I'm in Western Europe. University courses get funding based on how many students are in the class. It links directly so "bums on seats" = €€. This money comes from the state but it has the same effect.
On the topic of vaping to quit I would add something I learned my self.

I tried to quit smoking with vaping 3 times before it worked and it was due to a multitude of reasons.

1. Cheap vaping kits. They leak, are hard to change the coils and to fill up with liquid. On my current attempt, I got a proper set (40eu) and made sure it fills up by unscrewing the top and not the whole top bit. It stops leaking, its easier to fill up and its less of a chore.

I think that was the main reason as with cheap kits, they would leak, be hard to maintenance and it was such a hassle that picking up a cigarette and lighting it up was much easier.

2. Flavours, as you mentioned finding a flavour you like and sticking to it is key. I tried many and found just the right flavour level that suits me and it was a huge break through for me.

I started on 12mg nicotine level, lowered to 6mg after 4 weeks, and 6 months later I'm on 3mg and feel so much better. My next step is to go no nicotine vape then kick it entirely.
Ironic that Russia is pushing for excellence while the States is pushing for equality.
Pavlovian conditioning [0]:
"a learning procedure in which a biologically potent stimulus (e.g. food) is paired with a previously neutral stimulus (e.g. a bell)."

In my case:

food: losing all my data (or it becoming incredibly difficult to access / control / afford)

bell: uploading all of my data to a new internet product.

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Most companies have unsustainable business models (grow forever).

For startups, this is especially true (rapid growth forever).

This is a new internet company, but their whole shtick is that they have a sustainable business model. Given that data, maybe my bias is unfair.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning
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Sure, but there is a difference between Teams having a corporate focus and Teams requiring an Office 365 subscription.
FYI they've been heavily buying back stock
At $10/GB I’d rather get redundant 4-10TB hard drives every five years than trust permenant.org to be around in 50 years.
> Now teams have channels which make zero sense if everyone from the team can also see them and there is no way to fix that.

You can create private channels within teams. When you go to "Add Channels", there's a Privacy option that's set to Standard by default, but you can toggle it to Private and invite only specific team members to join.
Thanks. That worked. :)
I have a feeling that TV/media really did play a huge role in the decline of intellectualism in the western world. The USA loves its TV, hollywood and celebrities. It's been reinforced throughout the culture and it makes a lot of people very very wealthy. The more time you spend watching tv the more money they make. Though here's the crux for them, educated people think more and do more so they don't make good customers. So fill the TV with anti intellectualism. Then toss it the political usefulness of a mindless medium and you have a dangerous conduit so to speak.

A friend grew up in a household where his mother forbade TV and video games. During this covid-19 lockdown, instead of mindlessly watching TV like everyone else appears to be doing, he built a deck and is rebuilding his garage among other projects. Every other friend I talk to is sitting around drunk, high or watching TV. Few do some projects but it's mostly TV show chatter in the chat apps.

Personally I don't hate TV and I have netflix. Though I only really watch it in spates and when it is on, I am on my laptop or doodling in my notebooks. It's more for background noise than content. Though of course there are some times when I'm tired and just want to sit and watch an episode of a show.
That is a China problem, not a Duo problem. Sadly Google is not the company it once was, and has taken steps in the wrong direction, but it clearly has the moral high ground on this front.
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> Well, yes, if no country had a military then no country would need a military.

It's always seemed that way to me. Indeed, you could pretty much replace "military" with "national government" in that sentence.

But anyway, it'll likely never happen. Unless we get into a war with aliens, I guess.

I did love Vinge's "bobble" concept. Wherein individuals became as powerful as governments. Or at least, could escape from them across time. And send them across time, as well.
high-quality GUI

Back in the day when SourceTree had the original built-in multiple repsitory overview it had something no other tool had (I think) and for the rest it was workable, but slow. Then they basically rewrote it, replaced the whole UI with something which was slower and less clear and did not even have the repository overview. I still don't understand why. Plus it still had the annoying problems where you'd be rebasing on the CLI and that would fail because at the same time SourceTree had the repository open. tldr; I admit I don't know it's current state, but at least when I left it it was not exactly a high-quality UI.

Anyway I ditched it for SublimeMerge around that point and even though it lacks certain functionality I didn't go back. Main reason is probably that the UI looks clear, has good diff/staging and proper keyboard support and a command palette. But just like other tools, it's not for everyone.
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I don't think that this problem is even computable, since the functions could be arbitrarily complex.

If you restrict the nature of the functions e.g. "polynomials of degree at most d", then the answer depends on the restriction. For the polynomial of degree <= d case the solution is d+1 inputs, every polynomial of degree at most d is uniquely determined by d+1 points.
Mmmn, it's just a promise... Doesn't mean it cannot be broken. Not sure it will survive a change of management, too. Here's a primer for you ;) [0]

It's in your power to do your own mangling before uploading. The same with redundancy: don't put all your eggs in one basket (fancy promises or not). Good luck!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl8IVv4Y4bQ
There is a trend here on HN to react very cautiously and critically to studies showing “positive” results, I.e. lower apparent death rate, preliminary evidence for drug efficacy etc. This is a good thing but it should be applied in equal measure to everything. This doesn’t happen as this post shows. Where does your believe that healthy people die come from? Why is it okay to make this statement in such vigor as you do? Show me a well designed study that proves this point. I am not aware of any large scale pathology efforts pointing in this direction. Until this is unequivocally shown, statements like yours should be treated with the same reaction your parent received. It’s your opinion. Don’t state your opinion as facts.
I agree - that could be the closest to a sound argument, but it's a very superficial one. Someone who claims to be highly intelligent by virtue of their alma mater should know better than to advance such an argument to an educated audience.
India (and a few other places) face this issue to a larger extent, I feel. When the judgement of your education comes via one single competitive exam, you tend to maximize that reward. In the Indian education system (and to similar extent afaik in china, south Korea and Japan), having nationwide tests that are the only factor for university admissions in math and science forces everyone competing to solve for performance in the exam. And it is far easier to do this by learning how to solve problems than by learning the material then using that knowledge to solve problems.
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Forcing packing of a struct isn't possible in standard C, only through compiler extensions. Presumably that's the reason: you have the strange situation where it's legal (and well-defined) to read the member, or to write it, but to take its address and perform a read through that pointer, causes undefined behaviour.

I believe that situation is impossible in standard C.
I taught at a programming camp one summer, and my favourite example of this that I drove several kids crazy with was "above the line, below the line".

Given any input word, I would tell them whether it was above the line, or below the line (which corresponded to acceptable and unacceptable behaviour in camp-speak). I think only two kids figured it out on their own, and each time I challenged them to write a program to categorize words automatically.

I wonder if hacker news can figure it out :)

"Hacker" -> Above the line

"News" -> Above the line

"chrisweekly" -> Below the line

"functional" -> Above the line

"programming" -> Below the line
I agree, but I also think we demand conflicting things from Google.

On one hand, we expect them to innovate and disrupt with new experimental products - then we get annoyed when they discontinue the ones that don't take off. ...and now we are criticizing them for not consolidating overlapping apps.

Do we ask startups not to launch products they think will compete with existing messaging apps? In reality Google operates (somewhat) like a collection of startups.

It's a messy marketplace for apps. Is it really sooo bad that giant Google has a couple different apps for messaging? We should also acknowledge that they are consolidating them (at least Hangouts and Meet).

Maybe they could do a better job, but our negative reactions to them are out-sized.
Both of the GUI's I've used: Kraken and now Sublime Merge work very well in parallel with the CLI. I just have a terminal open next to the GUI and switch between them depending on what I'm doing.

Much rather not have a terminal in these apps. It'd probably not match 100% my normal terminal and would slow me down.
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There’s always obscure use cases like this. You could go on forever listing individual people’s wants and you’d end up with a Homer car.

We design interfaces for the many first, and keep them as simple as possible but not simpler.
It would have been more accurate to said "You don't pay unless you get a job" but you seem to be bitter about it, why so?
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This submission points to a pretty landing page instead of directly to the article, but of course the discussion stays relevant.
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> But how many fall into the second category?

Everyone who has to fix bugs and maintain software?
'Viral load' is said to be a factor here.
My family is from Serbia (my parents were both mathematics teachers in Serbia) and I was raised here in Australia. It's definitely true that the curriculum is many years behind even relatively poor and corrupt countries (like Serbia). As a toy example, my parents taught me how to solve simultaneous equations in year 4 (when they'd have taught it in Serbia) while everyone else had to wait until year 9 to learn it in school.

I had friends who came to Australia after starting their education in Singapore, and they were continually shocked how far behind we were. It's honestly gob-smacking how little is being done about this, we're doing a massive disservice to our young people which they will have to overcome for the rest of their lives.
> You think Apple should be punished for creating a vertically integrated stack?

No, only for not giving everyone a fair and equal level of access. I'm not against Apple deeply integrating Safari into the OS, but they should allow competition to enjoy the same level of performance that their own stuff does.
That sounds like an eternal server up to 30 months. I don’t think that pricing works out there.
The International Physics Olympiad and the IITJEE have a high correlation in terms of material required as well as people who do well, it is probably the Olympiad with the highest correlation between Olympiad performance and performance in the JEE.