skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus the past few days and your comment reminded me of the beginning (quoting from memory, not exact words) - "this book will perhaps be understand only by those who've already had the thoughts expressed in it or similar thoughts" :)

Emacs kind of gives me that same vibe. I used it for many years to organize my research but still have a hard time remembering key strokes and such .. though i dont have a similar issue with vim whose modal interface I find rather pleasantly compositional. So I get both the sense of power and flexibility, and the chaos of it.
Surely the number of people who know what it is is higher than those who use it?
Converting to tuple has mostly been enough. I want to say always, but I don't trust my memory that much, haha.
> Wildly unprecedented execution

It takes me back to when I was younger and every well polished presentation, jazzed me up like it does, this author.

I remember buying first gen. 27" iMac and marvelling at the resolution - I couldn't see the individual pixels!

Now I'm old and grumpy and not a single announcement from Apple or any other tech company for that matter, has made me giddy in years. Many announcements and ongoing blunders, have jaded my soul, bit by bit :)

I imagine some innovation, not iteration, is around the corner, because it just can't be that this is all we've managed to accomplish with all the opportunity that we've been given.
When 20m Americans have had it, you’re going to see some weird edge cases.
Perfect use-case, I have repurposed a RPi 3 for RISCOS with an old DVI monitor connected via an HDMI to DVI converter. Now it sits in my workshop as an "internet terminal". Ideal for looking up data sheets and pinouts for connectors etc.
Regarding multi-window, I notice that most electron apps don't support multi-window.

It's not impossible, but apparently very hard.
Actually I'd argue zoomers+ are
Hindsight is easy.

> Imagine Trump had taken clear and decisive action against COVID in January

Like the travel ban, which he announced on Jan 31?
I've used them for four main reasons:

1) You're paying for something already going through the mail (e.g. sending a form to the government).

You can usually send a check, but some banks don't issue checkbooks anymore.

2) You're sending a payment to an individual online (e.g. eBay, Craigslist), and who won't accept online payments. Some merchants do accept PayPal, but raise the price to account for the merchant fee; a money order may be significantly cheaper for large purchases.

If it's a scam, it also becomes mail fraud and you have the Postal Inspection Service on your side.

3) You need to make a deposit payment to someone like a landlord. They often won't accept checks, because they can bounce. Money orders and cashiers checks are sometimes the only accepted payment. Of the two, a money order is usually cheaper than a cashier's check.
18pt text, gray, thin.

Why?
Emacs is suffering from the same problem Perl is suffering offlate. Emacs was invented for a world where Text was everything. These days programming languages are designed around tooling. This is very much true for languages like Java, Python, Go. The programming tool needs to have a lot of sane builtin defaults and extensions.

The other problem is speed of typing is irrelevant if you are working with libraries all the time, which is basically what most of the programming world does. This is also true in part for vim. The whole idea of one having to press less buttons to move text around is really a solution for a problem that doesn't exist in the modern world.

Emacs is still very good in things like Keyboard macros, and M-x Occur etc. Basically text manipulation stuff. The thing is that kind of text manipulation work isn't common anymore.

Having said that, I'd be very happy if there was a good default keyboard macro system in vscode. Or in general some emacs features ported to vscode would be really neat. Some features in emacs would make great feature ideas in vscode.
I’m no Yann LeCun, but I’ve been wondering whether I should do the same.

Twitter seems hyperoptimized for smug, self righteous character assassinations and group pile-ons. It’s not a place for nuanced discussion (bizarrely, I actually find Reddit far better for that, though it’s not without its own problems too).

Opening the app feels like unleashing thousands of shrieking voices telling you why you’re horrible person. I’m not sure the benefits outweigh the emotional drain.
What are setups where it’s broken? Sincerely.

If you can’t accept inbound http traffic then you use DNS verification and if you never contact the internet then no public cert could work for you.
When stocks "disappear" like that, it's usually due to a split. CHK recently had a 1 for 200 split, so unless you had more than 200 shares of CHK then your broker (Robinhood for gp) would sell them for you.
I know two coworkers going on 100+ days since they got it and they still can't taste or smell. One of them has the covid toes/fingers as well. They said that the doctors really don't have any answer for them.
Glad to be of service. If you want to learn more about security hacking, check out hackthissite.org , and I would be happy to recommend some more things to check out if you're interested.

Indeed. Honestly, I only realized it because I saw that site when I looked up favicon. Otherwise, I would have been doing the same thing.
Software source code is expressive. Yes, it is functional, but so much more than mere functionality is contained within: ideas about representing, abstracting, encoding, and solving problems (i.e. math); design patterns; pedagogical content (not just the functional code itself, but the source comments, specifications, manuals, etc.); idiosyncratic and often humorous bits--often part of or intrinsically linked to the code itself--that are expressions of emotion intended for human readers. Separating the functional from the non-functional bits as a test of expressiveness is a nonstarter. The two are often inseparable in the whole of the authors' expression.

All this is to say that Congress probably needs to meet strict scrutiny in order to prohibit the free communication of software source code. However, Congress does have a clear authority to regulate (nominally interstate) commerce. Prohibitions on the sale of software or devices with certain functionality might be kosher, but as I understand it, prohibitions on the distribution of software source code would face a much higher legal bar.

The compelled inclusion of backdoors in code you publish is unlikely to be Constitutional. Even if it did somehow become effective law, that would simply drive FLOSS developers underground. And like you say, code can be audited, projects can be forked, and the existing body of FLOSS software won't disappear overnight.

(IANAL)
Replace Dropbox with Nextcloud running on my rpi and that's my setup.
There is code in Microsoft Outlook that, although updated over the years, is essentially the same file format as it was in 1994 - and the code is unlikely to have been entirely rewritten in that time

In 2010, Microsoft published the PST file format, and the latest documentation was updated this year

That code was started in 1992, and first shipped in 1995 - 25 years in the wild!

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/office_file_forma...
This is really exciting! I know that these results generally don't transfer to humans, but it gives me hope that we might be able to address several neurodegenerative diseases at once.
I really didn't mean for my feelings to be germane in the point I raised. The point I was trying to make - which I feel is being deliberately ignored - is that seeing my fellow humans as 'negros' weakens the project of making a 'human' tribe which doesn't care about race.

I'm not surprised the alt-right raises the same point, but I'd guess it's only raised to point out the hypocrisy. The alt-right is perfectly fine with the 'human' tribe fracturing along racial lines. So, as far as I can tell, is the radical left, the only disagreement I see between the two is how the racial tribes should settle their differences.

So I don't see how it should matter that alt-right people, who are perfectly happy to see more racial division, would make the same criticism I would. Either you have a ready answer or you don't. Suppose 51% of people who make the same argument as me hide a desire for more racial division behind accusations that insisting on 'racial awareness' deepens racial divisions. What does it matter whether I'm one of the 49% who are making that argument in good faith? Do you want more racial division or do you want more human unity? And if you want more human unity, how could my keeping your race constantly in mind do anything but delay your getting what you want?
I think it's just bad editing, it should be "shown".
I work this way and use this method to help keep me on track: https://lifehacker.com/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret-2...
for those that care so much about privacy but figure it's still ok to download ungoogled-chromium

> NOTE: These binaries are provided by anyone who are willing to build and submit them. Because these binaries are not necessarily reproducible, authenticity cannot be guaranteed; In other words, there is always a non-zero probability that these binaries may have been tampered with. In the unlikely event that this has happened to you, please report it in a new issue.
Go to table 1 and look at best estimate overall. It’s .004

This is the CFR which is higher. If you consider their projection that 35% of all infected cases remain asymptomatic, the overall infection fatality rate (IFR) drops to just 0.26 %.
My post was mostly a response to "not many".
I don't disagree with what you're saying regarding cross purposes, however there's a viewpoint missing: that of the person who doesn't believe black lives matter, either on purpose or on accident.

Liberals eating eachother alive and liberal movements being terribly disorganized is certainly an issue, but what I'm arguing against on here is people denying that BLM has ground to stand on. blacklivesmatter.com not having been updated in like, 3 years, is separate from that issue.
Yes, you are. :)

I have never had a landlord that accepts online payments. On top of that, most online services charge a merchant fee for business transactions - paying via check is cheaper for everyone.
So many strange traits that have never been seen combined before in the same virus. I can see why some people say it was engineered.
Using CPU load to create visualizations in Task Manager
Can you go into a bit more detail about the blacklisting? I’ve never heard anything like that but it fits with something I read recently that the team that built Zelda Breath of the Wild had also been involved in making Majoras Mask.
Not sure what you mean by "documents with inline images", but yes, that's how it works. There's also a handy browser plugin to import web pages/pdfs into Zotero, with automatic metadata.

Yes, you can cite documents you have with zotero by having it generate a pre-formatted citation or a bibtex entry.
Yeah I was hoping there was a shape more interesting than a triangle (or a soccer ball)... Those rounded squares and rounded triangles were the best I could find.

I like that idea of building the regions bottom-up.
I'm not saying colorism was created by the British, I'm just noting that British rule reinforced it. Do you disagree?

And I'm still unclear on what, exactly, about that article was "weaselly".
Many branchless banks have partnered with AusPost to allow banking at any AusPost branch (of which there are many). And all for free! You can deposit, withdraw (within limits) send money, exchange currency, pay bills, etc. The US banking system seems so far behind, and for one of the world's largest economies it's laughable.
i can only speak for myself ...

as directors go, herzog is wildly uneven. a lot of his stuff strikes me as right on the money, exposing truths i wouldn't have known otherwise. a bunch more of it seems self-indulgent and unnecessary.

having said all that, i'm inclined to watch anything from him i haven't already seen. he's always trying something new.

i would say i value novelty over almost any other quality i might find in movies and teevee. herzog delivers that in spades.
iDRAC has a CLI tool that can be instrumented to install new certs regularly. I’m sure other vendors do as well.
Yes. Rent is usually paid via check, and they're still useful when interacting with some government agencies via the mail.
It sounds like working on something full time is what motivates you.

To get people to pay for anything is usually a different side project. If you can't see the path to profit no one probably will pay. Find people who will pay and use that as motivation and product guidance.
While I think you have an interesting underlying point ("there's an enormous amount of USD used to transact oil") I don't think everyone getting out of oil would cause a revolution in the US. The US and the dollar abroad are involved in quite a bit more than oil.

I do wonder what percentage, very roughly, of the money supply that is, and what the actual consequences of selling that would be. Anyone have some rough estimates or places to look?
The virus is capable of cause strokes, dementia-like symptoms, and inducing encephalitic psychosis. Half of the cases where this was found to have occurred were in people under 60:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...
i think i tried nasal pillows. not auto-titrating. Probably didn't give it enough time to get adjusted... but my sleep is better now anyway.
Should politicians campaigning on the basis "oil extraction is wrong" be allowed to do so, especially when using that line to enflame energy groups, with the sole purpose of securing votes?

And if in power, should they then be allowed to reintroduce high corporate tax rates, on the initial grounds of free speech?
Can you explain, for the uninitiated, what Pareto front searching is?
This is fantastic. Textures are an excellent alternative for quantifying things in cartographic maps and to reduce the often distracting use of color. I wonder how these patterns would perform if imported into Inkscape, which in my experience becomes painfully slow when too many patterns are used.
Wow, you are lucky!

So many products I use only get me 80% of the way there and I find myself wanting to make my own version.
You're completely right. Helvetica was just a suggestion as most newspapers use it and is widely supported, but he could and should add fallbacks (preferally sans-serif based). As for the kerning it appears something was messing up the spacing for his website and the combination of disabling kerning and letter spacing (even if counter-intuitive) seems to 'make it prettier' at least in firefox.
Zero-sum thinking on immigration will make America poorer
The TSE/QEDIT and FTE TUI's look like they were made with Borland's Turbo Vision framework [0].

Oh man, so much retro-computing these days on HN, I love it!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision
4coder exists (https://4coder.handmade.network/). Quite popular with the "handmade" crowd of folks (Casey Muratori & friends).
Wow, I love this. A couple of interesting applications I could think of here:

- structure preserving hash that automatically distributes categorical data across buckets -- this would be great for dashboards; on the job, we have dashboards with color coded dashboards but some of the colors are way too close for comfort and make visual communication difficult

- Halftoning for animation -- some of these seem like they'd be really neat if applied towards either CG animation or stationary animation as an alternative (or combined with) cel shading. I wonder if there's existing state of the art here for doing this with shader computation?
can you elaborate what exactly your community is unhappy about? hard to tell from your comment so hard to empathize
I'm no cheese expert but I've toured parts of Europe sampling their cheeses and I completely agree: Vermont--Jasper Hill especially--has a lot of great cheeses.

American cheeses are different, though, sometimes because of pasteurization laws. If one wants a great Brie then don't get an American cheese. But if someone wants a great bloomy-rind cheese that can rival the best European cheeses try Jasper Hill's Harbison (or any of the others mentioned above).
PDF Text Extraction in Python
I'll cast a second vote for Bayley Hazen. It's from Jasper Hill Farm in VT, and it's unreal.

The Harbison is similarly divine. It's unusual in that it's a soft cheese wrapped in the cambium of spruce trees. If this sounds weird, it is, but the result is incredible.
I think they only detected some inorganic reactive material, produced by sunlight. But until we carry more detailed experiments it's difficult to be sure.

Anyway, since you have a few old videos, I recommend to post once per week so people don't complain that you post too much. And then post the new videos when they are published.

Also, people here is sometimes interested in how things are made. What program are you using to create the animations? What program are you using to create the videos?
I worked at company in SBIR phase 2 and one quirk I found strange was that the money could be used for R&D not things deemed “production”. Endless 3D prints were ok, random software features were ok, tooling for injection molding was not. It wasn’t a particularly onerous requirement, but I think reinforced the tendencies of our former academic founders to spend a lot of time on research and none on development.
Not just web browsers, we should also use alternative online platforms (e.g. social network), services (e.g. email), and system (e.g. operating system, especially for mobile devices)

Using "not-best" or non-mainstream alternatives often means you enjoy less network effects and the produce/service often has more rough edges. But diversity brings competition and freedom of choice.

Last few weeks, people talk about how the apple app store becomes monopoly. I believe one service can dominate the market only if we are willing to allows it.

I wish others can consider not just the UX and cost when choice a service / product.
The best product isn't necessarily being the best choice for you.
> Protected Designation of Origin

PDO and A(d')OC are such a scam. Cheddar refers to a style of cheese, Champagne refers to a style of wine. Bah humbug.
Anyone remember Sidekick? It was the first 'terminate and stay resident' program I saw back in the day. Used it as source code editor in DOS.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland_Sidekick
I wanted to comment on this since I've been through many disruptions.

During the dot-bomb implosion in 2000, most people threw their hands-up. Even VCs threw in the towel and moved from Calif. to southern states with no state income tax. (The metaphor was, "they're rolling up the sidewalks in Palo Alto.)

To this day, business people look at the start date of some of my projects and say things like, "Wow, you started a project in 2000?" Then they go mum since they realize what a silly thing that was to say.

Business and life are cyclical. Since it takes 7-10 years for a startup to mature, the passing of crises has very little effect in the early stages of a startup.

Now is the perfect time to do a startup or project.
Rant about new Windows console
I've found the #1 trick to finishing a side project is to build it out in the open by writing a blog (or podcast) about it and building up an audience who are interested in seeing you finish it as you go along.

It also gives you an in built audience to launch with who will use it - rather than launching to a loud thud of silence - which sucks and feels like the long dark night of the soul.
dig a small one up from the forest and plant it at your house, or just wait for it to show up. Dig up a 1-2 foot specimen. Take a few so you have a couple chances.

I have 5 shrubs at my house and I'd identified at least 10 different stands of this plant in my locale. Birds spread the seed which love to take over space after humans destory the ecosystem.

They grow about 9-15 feet high, the berries are delicious but a bit astringent, meaning they make your mouth feel dry.
There's interesting variations, too. Most of Georgia seems to be a good place to grow Slash Pine but near Savannah it also grows a pretty moss on the bark.
>> You're underappreciating how much more we are doing with neural networks now.

From your comment above, that "a handful of neuron-like components have probably been assembled here or there" I understand that you do not have any background in AI or machine learning etc. I am curious then, where all this enthusiasm in the form of "we are doing X" statements comes from. In particular I'm interested in your use of "we". Clearly, you're not doing any of that stuff, so where does the "we" come in? Is it really prudent to express such strong views, without good understanding or personal experience of the subject matter? Are you adding anything to the conversation, by asserting all those things with such impetuousness, other than noise?

I imagine that your source for all this information are articles you've read in the lay press. Unfortunately, such articles can't very well represent the real state of research in deep learning. The truth is that there has been an enormous increase in the numbers of work on deep learning being published every month- there's probably thousands of articles written in that period and uploaded on arxiv or even submitted to reputable venues- and even researches in the field have trouble keeping up. What is abundantly clear however is that the vast majority of this work is very poor quality and even the published work is not much better. It's clear also that the vast majority of this work has no lasting impact and is superseded within weeks anyway. The truth is that deep learning research is in a deep crisis and despite appearances and breathless announcements by large companies, progress has stalled and no new things are really being done. Many of the luminaries of the field, including Geoff Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, have said this in various ways.
A group of people telling you that they don’t like what you say isn’t censorship, it’s being in the out-group, and it’s been a thing since animals evolved social behavior

If you want to see real examples of censorship, a forum for liberal tech nerds overlapping with venture capitalists probably ain’t it
Makes me realize that photo-realism is not the most important thing. Illumination(and by consequence shadows) is. Bad looking 3D games look bad because of two reasons: Aliasing (which is the worst thing in 3D imo, but easily solved) and most importantly, because of bad illumination code. If the lightning code is realistic, you don't even need textures.
really cool.

yes, glsl. the animation on my trees are done in the shader, I'm also doing post processing
The part missing from that analogy is the iterative process. Your client may have asked you to build a chair, but until they sit down on what you've built they don't realize that what they really wanted was a couch.
How to move your role-playing game nights online
I thought the article illustrated very well why "money" should not be the prime consideration for supporting something (in the short to medium term). They're playing the long game.
If we didn't have the debased term of REST, we'd still need to create a new name for the thing that is a connectionless language-agnostic schema-free method call with data orientation that encourages statelessness and some default behaviours which reduce the cost of interop without needing IDL, a thing which isn't CORBA or COM or Java's RMI or SOAP.

Because that thing is what REST means now. I use HATEOAS when I mean the other thing.