skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is going to sound like I want to eat the cake and still have it, but I wish there was some sort of balance between real estate, sharpness, and affordability. A 24in 4K monitor without scaling makes text too small, but at 200%, it's no different from a 1080p monitor real estate-wise (even though text is much crisper). My current monitor, a 1440p 24in screen at 100%, serves all of my real estate needs, but leaves something to be desired in terms of sharpness, so a 5K screen at 200% and similar physical size would be perfect; alas, there aren't any general-purpose 5K monitors at an affordable price. 8K screens at 300% would offer similar, albeit slightly lower, real estate at even better text sharpness, but there's just one such monitor from Dell and it's ridiculously expensive.

I hope 5K monitors become as cheap as 4K monitors over the next few years.
I use a Pro Display XDR for programming / design work, I think you forgot this one. It seems like it would fit your needs (with the obviously premium price) as it’s 32”.

It’s overkill for most, but still the best display I’ve ever used and I love it. I actually tried an Asus 4K 120hz for much less but the fan noise was a deal breaker even if the screen didn’t break on arrival (it did).

Disclosure: Apple employee
The Go authors acknowledged the usefulness of generics as far back as 2009, shortly after its public release: https://research.swtch.com/generic
WP - white power

lolcow - scheme or meme dreamed up by internet nerds that has the potential to cause humorous results (see: 4chan posting fake apple ads online saying your phone could be charged by putting it in the microwave, 4chan saying you could drill out the bottom corner of your iPhone to uncover the "secret" headphone jack, etc.)
Mostly structured products, like credit correlation in Europe.
Google could send the incognito flag to only their own websites to honor this setting while also preventing shady third parties from knowing you’re incognito. The point is that Google knows that you don’t want to be tracked, and has full control of both the server and browser, yet tracks you anyway.
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Why do you think we maintain the world’s largest military by orders of magnitude?
You can do that just fine at 60 Hz, if there is no tearing (all screen updates appear during vertical sync).

You can read scrolling movie credits just fine at 24 FPS.
If I could pay some money to not be subjected to that, I would do it instead of waiting for systemic racism to end.
Oil is so much bigger than just refineries and oil wells. There's the upstream industry, the downstream industry, services and exploration, research, financial sectors, etc. etc. etc. There's a whole fleet of office workers to support them, and a lot of data to manage.
Ask HN: Where can I find practical, no-fluff management advice?
Any books, blogs, podcasts,... would be helpful!
> https://www.tylervigen.com/chart-pngs/3.png

I too can cite context free meaningless charts
Not sure why it should be confusing it goes all the way back to Algol and the languages derived from it on the Pascal/Mesa/Modula/ML family branches.
Yes, it was supposed to be a joke about this.
You asked for instances of the media lying for the right, I provided instances of the media lying for the right.

Unless you want to place the largest news organization in terms of viewership outside of the media for some reason.
Another interesting project I've learned about recently is Snowflake [0] using WebRTC datachannels to use the browser as a proxy to help with additional entry nodes. Technical details are at [1].

I have no experience using it for any extended period of time so use at your own risk.

[0] https://snowflake.torproject.org/
[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Snowflake
After using a rMBP for 6 years, I realized that using a lower resolution and lower quality display makes absolutely no sense at all if both graphical power and budget is available (first 13' rMBP had some serious issue driving the display). Better quality image is better quality image. I think Apple's biggest selling point over any vendor right now, despite numerous issues with its hardware and software in the recent past, is absolutely top class input and output. It is such a simple concept. A great keyboard (seems to be fixed now) and absolutely incredible trackpad experience along with a display that basically is a huge step up from your past experience means that most users will prefer that setup even if they just use it for basic coding or web browsing. After looking at the first retina displays I realized that Apple didn't just change the displays but it changed how fonts behaved completely because the crisp and clear legibility was key to attract customers early on. I'd say even in 2020 most computers are struggling with good displays which can completely ruin the experience for someone using the product even if every other aspect of it was great.
The marketplace is a part of the platform. Apple controls the platform.
Its external motivation to do the cooking. But is itself internal motivation I think.
Could it be the hackernews hug of death?
> It's always a trade-off

I agree with that. I personally find the trade-off to be unacceptable.

However, I can totally understand people that think the trade-off is worthwhile. I disagree, but very much understand and think a debate is merited.

I strongly disagree with anyone who denies that the trade-off exists.
Nothing about this is convenient. Letting a baby cry and not providing comfort is emotionally shattering. Spending hours trying get a baby to sleep without abandoning them is exhausting. Caring for a sleep deprived baby is exhausting, physically and emotionally. Doing any of this without having enough sleep yourself makes it 10x worse.

The fact is, parents and babies both need to sleep to be healthy and happy. Most parents are trying to achieve that, and have to try a bunch of things before they figure out what works for their situation. Try not to judge.
I'll have to hunt down the article that talks about it, but McArthur was actually "Emperor of Japan" for a few years, in everything but title.

I had several people point out his office on the top floor of a building facing the Emperor's Palace (some of the priciest real estate on Earth), in hushed, reverential tones.
That's a lot of words to say that vector fonts suck for less than 24 px sizes. use bitmaps; there's lots of them to mitigate that problem. It was not that long ago that 640x480 was a screen and it sucked but things got done.

My last (almost) 2k CRT last just long enough that i could afford a 4k LCD when it died. I'm pleased with a pair of these but once MOAR PIXELS become affordable i'll buy them.
and why was there a "master" key?
>Um, elaborate? You literally cannot buy votes. If I'm a left wing progressive, no amount of money will convince me to vote for a right wing politician (and vice versa).

Watch The Great Hack. It's not about targeting people who are thoroughly entrenched in their views like you. It's about targeting swing voters

>If you can come up with a system that can convince someone to do something against their will, please show me what that system is, and I'll try and use it to sell you a bridge in Brooklyn.

Read up on Social Engineering. Victor Lustig "sold" the Eiffel Tower twice using social engineering tactics.
The ability by websites to detect incognito cause real usability pains for users. (For example, certain news outlets refuse to show content when it detects that you're in incognito.) The mechanisms to detect incognito were/are unintended holes. Both FireFox and Chrome have been plugging them.
This, 1000%. Bad sleep hygiene is behind almost every bad mood or behavior I have ever experienced.
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The author's picture at the bottom does not look like a good advertisement for benefits of mathematical learning.
I notice that the main topic for > 100Hz monitor owners is how smooth it is to drag windows about. When they show off the monitor, they grab a window and wiggle it really fast. Given no-one has yet come up with a more meaningful demo I'm starting to think it's the only benefit!

There is probably a term for this type of performance chasing. It's like car owners bragging about their top speeds despite only ever driving on roads with speed limits.
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dont use chrome. anyone even marginally concerned about privacy should be using firfox or brave or tor browser.
It’s a bit grim that no one is using her name; talk about depersonalisation.
Luxury. Once you have gone so high you can't go back. I have a 144 Hz monitor now. Even when not playing games, scrolling, moving the mouse, moving windows. It's smooth and I never want to go lower again. Using the computer is fun again.
That advice reads as "If your job sucks and you can't safely quit, defy your manager and work overtime until you are thanked for it or fired."
Here is a Coq mechanized proof of the Odd order theorem, a (huge) step towards the classification: https://github.com/math-comp/odd-order

The paper is here: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00816699/
Right. Building it is definitely not an Unsolved Problem, just like building a healthcare exchange website is not an Unsolved Problem. The problem is organizational and political, not technical.
Glad to see you guys doing this, let’s see how this changes the future of startups! My feeling is that YC was always AA baseball and now it’s a lot more like the big leagues.
Unless I'm behind the news, I think the incident people are referring to is: Triplebyte added a new feature to have a public profile highlighting your skills for your job-hunt. They didn't think it through and made the new profile public by default. Many people who were job-hunting discretely were understandably upset by this.
Source on linkedin? I can't seem to find the company listing.
What's funny about those is they are harder (in the sense that there's nothing to line up in the wings) than the 'Basic Dart'[1]. As a child I never saw anything but the 'Dart' version, I assume because it's so much better, in terms of flying characteristics.

1: https://www.foldnfly.com/1.html#Basic-Dart
High refresh rate has to do with reaction times in competitive multi-player gaming.

You absolutely don't need 120 Hz in any single player video game produced between 1978 and 2020.

Games at 15 FPS (even less) used to be perfectly playable and fun. At 30 FPS things are smooth well past giving a damn.
Are you inferring that exceptional students are exceptional because of financial aid? Is it your belief that college financial aid is why they are exceptional or the primary motivation for striving to be so?
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A policy like that may be fine in and of itself but I think a number of factors make the action suspect:

* does Google have a monopoly in the online advertising space? Is their content policy only feasible because of that monopoly power?

* does Google apply that policy fairly across all of it's customers, or is there selective enforcement with a political bias?

* does Google hold it's own content platforms (like YouTube) to the same standard?
Looks like they have deadline of 10/2020 before visa and mastercard start holding owners liable for fraud if they haven't upgraded to chip readers.

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-01-07...
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I'm starting to see chip enabled pumps. Unfortunately they aren't obviously labeled so you assume it needs a swipe and have to wait to restart when it complains about not reading the chip.
And not the first government run entity in SA to have funds stolen from it.

Transnet/PRASA (railways)

Eskom (electricity)

SAA (airline)

All have had just totally monumental theft often at the top levels. It all seems to be pretty consequence free. Meanwhile, the hawks open immediate investigations and charge people almost immediately who are trying to expose things - which is kind of funny - 10 years to investigate totally obvious theft, 7 days to charge folks who are exposing it :)!
It's not clear to me whether you're being sarcastic here. People often complain that Chrome gives Google special treatment. Here on HN, people (incl me) will definitely be outraged if Google does what you're proposing.
Interesting that bottom up techniques come to the same low-dimensional conclusions as top down techniques.

https://i.redd.it/1zk6cin78ng31.jpg
PHP has improved tremendously since the 5.4 days. Now, it's quite respectable.
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I was quite taken with their pitch after seeing their article about the battle with apple yesterday. It seems like they did tackle a lot of my pain points. Does anyone actually have first-hand experience? Did they "fix" email?
> Not a surprise. When animal hunting is legal, people breed animals for hunting. Some escaped extinction this way.

I could see this being true when the hunting is at least properly managed but in the past when it was allowed to go overboard animals did go extinct as a result. Especially when people were hunting for economic reasons.
> Should Richard Spencer be punched in the face for being a bigoted piece of human garbage?

No? I'm not sure why you're advocating violence. If we start allowing violence against bad people, where do we stop?
Unlike a lot of countries, the UK has free and near-instant bank transfers which seem to be a de facto standard for things like splitting bills with friends.

Incidentally I tried to use Venmo while in the US, but the app was geo-blocked so I couldn’t install it with a Google Play account set to the UK.
In spirit I agree. But Rusk fans would claim 1) expression of opinion in non-abusive way. 2) Enlightening programers who are unaware of "better" way of doing things. And both activities are fine at least technically.
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Americans systematically avoid hard discussions, to preserve that "everyone is happy" feeling.
I was in the first version of the MOOC and it was better for me meeting the same people over the duration of the time (currently I believe you interact with different groups each time?).

I found it both interesting seeing how people had evolved during the programme as well as not wanting to let people down by being late or not attending.

I would suggest using some kind of Karma to improve the experience while still keeping the people you meet freeform.

1) Meet the same people over 4 weeks (say) for accountability

2) Attendance, Reports, Progress, Peer feedback etc. can be factored in

3) After the 4 weeks you are matched against people who are at your level of attendance/motivation/productivity/peer review etc. and a new set of group office hours is started.

Anyway, this would help me better to be more accountable, while job, family, hobbies friends etc. get in the way.
I recently bought a Mac Mini and a display not made by Apple. This is the first time I've used a display not made by Apple in a long time, and boy is it not good. And I didn't cheap out, I thought I was getting a decent one, I read reviews and bought the one that was supposed to be good. Plainly, it looks like fucking shit.

Of course Apple is not the only one capable of making decent displays, but the baseline is surprisingly awful. People just use these things all day, it's amazing. For me, it isn't a big deal because this is not my main computer, I don't use it for hours at a time.

There's a line out there nowadays that hardware is amazing and software quality is in the gutter. I think they're still more closely matched than that, unfortunately.
Today I've seen win95 emulated on browser on x86 - is it the same library? I don't have link handy but if win95 runs fine then flash should as well.
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I struggle to hit 60Hz at 4k with 2080TI even with graphics settings knocked down a few notches. Maybe next generation.
I'm starting to see local businesses in my major cities close shop permanently, and I am seeing even some large businesses host going-out-of-business sales. This is merely the pre-stage. Its about to get much, much worse. The corporate news is currently reporting on the corruption surrounding the US relief funds, but I posit that the while corruption is there, the real reason that they aren't releasing the data is because it will show that a critical mass of the US economy is completely underwater and is being floated with zombie loans while the government shits itself, telling their good buddies when to sell and when the public will know, postulating how they're going to spin the complete and utter failure of conservative economic policy. Combine this with ~1/3 of the country unemployed with little sign of relief, state's budgets buckling, and states panicking to throw people off unemployment, so they're about to be literally starving and homeless.

The Hacker News crowd doesn't see it coming. Give them a few months; they'll start to be personally affected by it, which will trigger an inescapable realization. I see it coming: the next great depression. There are many creative ways to stop it, and they all involve re-distributions of wealth because that is essentially the root of the problem: the finance, make-believe funny-money & assets have no value, and we've starved the buyer, so no one has incentives to trade anymore. Great job! Hope your ideologies were worth it. And, when people are dying, instead of blaming some "natural" phenomenon that totally "naturally" occurs, blame yourselves!
Bit of speculation here... The US has a cultural emphasis on delivering results, more so than other cultures. I think there tends to not be a lot of focus on how things are done, or on the process behind things, but instead more on how people perceive the end result.

The US still has a very individualistic culture and I don't think people put as much emphasis on reputation as more collectivist folks, but I think Americans glamorize success (or the appearance thereof) in and of itself more than other cultures.

Essentially, as long as you LOOK successful, you ARE successful, because that's all that people care about!

Again, not 100% on this analysis, but that's the overall impression I get as an American
I might be in a bit of a bubble here (Porto Alegre), but all my friends except for one who's a tinfoil-on-head privacy nut use PicPay. Even more hipster-y restaurants/bars are starting to accept payment over it.

Anecdotal evidence, I know, but lacking proper studies...
Yes. I often find the Gustavson/Svidler combo too high-level to follow (especially when Grischuk shows up), but Magnus solo is often better, especially when it's already recorded so I can pause.
wow these are literally good!
The term "incognito" doesn't always mean "I can't be identified", but it looks like those are the grounds.

I wouldn't be surprised if they get an inconsequential slap on the wrist.
That's a great, comprehensive article!

But I'm old, and most of the effort is wasted on me.

What I need, is real estate.

I have that. I use an ultrawide (5120 X 1440) monitor, broken into two screens (3440 X 1440, 1680 X 1440).

Works great.
Quite the opposite: the free market will deal with this just fine, giving a big penalty to companies that don't care enough. The government, on the other hand, imposes bad businesses, enables regulatory capture and has proven many times that it has no idea how to handle infosec. These white hat consultants aren't perfect but through competition they're still better than lobbied lawmakers.
IMO I don't think the problem in C is pointers, it's that pointers are arrays, in the sense that they are syntactic sugar. This is incredibly confusing, and probably part of the reason why most modern systems languages wisely make arrays more e.g. {pointer, length}, sometimes introduce slices, where length is runtime, and make you do some syntactic work to pull out the pointer from the array.
The alternative I prefer for funding open source is Supso.org, seems like the best method IMO
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South Africa has insane levels of graft and corruption that have been going on for decades. They also have a lot of politically motivated assassinations. Total basket case of a country.
I’m not willing to give up my 3840x1600 ultrawide. That real estate is now non-negotiable to me. So to improve the dpi I’ll need 7680x3200, and at 120hz I don’t think that’s happening any time soon.
> At no point did I buy into ideology that we currently associate with the alt-reich.

With phrasing like that you've certainly bought into some ideology.
> 8K screens at 300% would offer similar, albeit slightly lower, real estate at even better text sharpness

5K @ 200% = 5120 / 2 = 2560

8K @ 300% = 7680 / 3 = 2560
Well your information is outdated, because there's been a long game of cat and mouse between chrome and sites likes NYT about detecting incognito, with every alternating version a new method coming up, and it being patched in the following version.

[0] https://boingboing.net/2019/07/20/cookie-managers-r-us.html
I use 232" 4K monitors side by side; Before that I had 230" 1920x1200 (not 1080p!) side by side too; to me it's sufficiently "a wall" that I put them about 80cm from me, each angled a bit inward.

Quite frankly anything bigger and you get a kink in your neck by having to move your head so much!
Is Facebook allowing developers to build apps on top of this payment system? API open to developers? Perhaps integrating Libra with some form of ROSCA(money pool) app and decrease the risk of cash on hand Not sure if I've seen anything that addresses this.
The indivisibility of the 52% as method in Brexit, even now
The platform can't prevent apps from accepting money outside IAP. It has to be people.
Russian troll farms drove nice wedges across the US on all kinds of issues (by boosting the extreme viewpoints) and it worked wonderfully despite there being no central/standardized process.

Caucuses are impacted by that just as much as any other process.
"Western" in this context is referring to the western tip of the Eurasian landmass. The western hemisphere is part of the cultural "West" because of the European diaspora, not because of its geographic location.
The article is very light on details, but am I understanding correctly that the problem is google analytics not honoring settings in chrome? If so, I can't think of a solution that doesn't involve a tighter integration between websites and chrome, and if anything I think we should be moving away from that.
30" Cinema Display has better than 5k iMac resolution, but at 1x. 160 extra vertical pixels.

Still the best monitor around. $3000 MSRP now available used for $200-300.
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