skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks! I have no immediate plans but am open to the idea - if only for the fact that itd be freaking cool to give out my own book - any idea what the best way to do a small print run of books would be?

theres the added complication that i'm stuck here in Singapore due to coronavirus, whereas my target audience is all in the US. so i probably shouldnt do shipping myself.
In his talk "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk) Jonathan Blow is defending similar ideas.
In 1997 I was doing IT classes in secondary school. One of our preferred ways to bunk of class was to ask if we could "write up our reports in the library" on the RMNimbus 186s. 15 or so minutes for the computer to boot into some kind of menu system that gave you a "press 1 to start windows 3.1, press 2 to start BBC Basic" type menu, then another 20 minutes to boot windows and then another 5 minutes to start MSWord. Write three lines and then it's time for the next class!
You might want to talk to someone about your pancake making skills.

A pancake is flat. There is no room in a pancake for a viable human. The car is all but obliterated.
thanks so much for the support Alex!
And some people take the 'No' badly. It's frustrating having to explain that the code in a PR needs to be maintained forever, and it's the repo maintainer that will have to do it, not the contributor. A simple proposal upfront makes all the difference, and saves human effort and feelings.
Why would they want to move to the declining country that is the UK.
You still didn't specify which feature Linux lacks that Windows and macOS supports. I have shown you that there's no need for any workaround, that the OS feature works as intended, but it seems you're keen on believing FUD scraped from web pages of lazy user-space programmers instead of considering my arguments and evidence.

FYI: What OS interface do you think that `entr` uses on Linux? That's right, inotify.
>By any chance does the suggestion come after the exchange was down due to the high volume? Sure, they could have unlimited capacity. But since this is a tad unrealistic and actually crashing the system is worse than limiting to keep it just below crashing, perhaps the suggestion makes sense.

I don't see a problem with rate limiting in general, if it's applied fairly. Good design should already entail that (it shouldn't be possible for customers to "crash" an exchange any more than it's possible for them to crash google.com). And many exchanges in fact have something like you described (customers can pay to buy more transactions-per-second capacity). But I don't think referring to customers as abusers or applying punitive fines is the right approach; if the exchange API let the customers crash it, that's the exchange's problem, and the customers shouldn't be blamed for taking advantage of whatever rate limit the exchange gave them (even if it gave them too much for its system to handle).
Function keys are best about this article. As years passed by I see the usage of function keys have reduced in any software updates. Function keys are thing of past. MacBook doesnt have a dedicated function keys instead I have to go to settings and have the function keys as dedicated one. Why Volume control, brightness,emojis are being brought to the forefront which can be done easily using a better with function keys. I hear some say keyboard is barrier to many new people. But in my experience it is different. They quickly get used to key shortcut and use products like pro. we underestimate our customers.
Or make taxes on gains start at 100% and exponentially decay as you hold a certain instrument longer. If the final tax is 30%, that could be reached e.g. after a week.
it is also tied to the race. Stop pretending.
Tik Tok's loss could be as high as $6B after India ban
no but you can email me swyx@hey.com and I'll send you Paypal instructions and add you manually! sorry Podia doesnt provide paypal option :(
The Tindie store seems to be out of stock. But, if you need one of these, the GitHub repo for the project includes an Eagle brd file.

Note that most PCB houses want Gerber files. PCBWay has an online converter for brd files. It does require creating a userid on their site, but it will give you the Gerber file without buying anything...so you're free the buy the PCB from anywhere you want.
Aerospace is taking a massive hit, in the UK we've seen redundancies and are seeing more today.
And it kind of has to be when Broadcom won't answer their pleas for help, right? I've worked with Broadcom and they won't even pick up the phone unless you're moving 100K EAU. (and, protip: when you do get technical help or source it's complete crap)
Yeah, "Designers" destroyed latency in UX with animation, transitions, and other such noise.
Imagine selling a(n extremely expensive) product that does not do what it was promised to do and is a money sink even when not running
Wonder how many of the eligible people are TSMC employees or contractors? :)
This is completely wrong.

I still remember when my Windows 95/98 computer took 10~15 minutes to boot, when launching everything from Word to a game took minutes of waiting, when installing a game from a CD could take one hour or when loading an HTML page with no images took dozens of seconds.

God help you if you had to load an image, or even worse: a photo or animated gif.
88.1-91.9 MHz is reserved for noncommercial educational (NCE) stations, so only they can use those frequencies. However, there's nothing that disallows NCE stations from operating on unrestricted frequencies (so long as they are licensed, of course). It's not very common, though, because radio spectrum is expensive.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-commercial_educational_sta...
That's the thing, 95 was not in 83.

In 83 you'd boot into the computer ROM or an OS floopy. The floppy completed in a few seconds, for the ROM it's meaningless to talk about wait time.

You wouldn't install software. You would load it from a tape, a floppy or a ROM cartige. For the cartige it would, again, be meaningless to talk about wait time. The floppy would load faster than a 95 program from the hard driver (thanks to bloat), and the tape would take minutes.

No program would trash your system, because the memory management algorithms that are subject to trashing was only available for mainframes, and people didn't have disposable disk space anyway.
Can't speak for everyone, but I use this[1] keyboard most of the time, and it doesn't have a Caps Lock key to remap, but instead has Control where Caps Lock normally is. So using ctrl-[ is much easier than reaching up to the escape key.

[1] https://hhkeyboard.us/pro-classic/
Pretty soon the law-abiding and obedient people will become aware that life outside of authoritarianism is better and safer, and they will either run away or revolt.
This is nonsense. As is demonstrated in this thread, even people with similar educational and professional backgrounds are discriminated against on the basis of caste. Since historically the managerial class is dominated by upper castes, the ones being discriminated against are naturally lower castes.

Yes, the reservation system is imperfect and is abused. That doesn’t mean that we replace it with a system that is caste-blind. Rather, incorporate income into it, so that the lower-caste poor ppl get help
Nice alt
Not quite. The issue is that, due to the engine placement and its effect on center of gravity, the aircraft will tend past a certain angle of attack to start nosing into a stall, rather than away from one. MCAS was added to counteract this highly counterintuitive and dangerous tendency by automatically driving the horizontal stabilizer to nose the aircraft back toward level flight.

As I understand it, the 737 MAX was the first commercial airframe ever approved by the FAA with this sudden inflection point in behavior when approaching a stall. (There's a term for it, something like "positive rate characteristic", but I forget. Perhaps someone who knows it will mention it here.) Seeing how well that worked out, one hopes it'll also be the last such airframe approved.
> The government controlling social media platforms is vastly different from a collection of companies controlling social media platforms that they built.

The difference is not particularly significant.
seriously? it's easy to tell that something is slow to respond, because you can compare the time it takes from the audible mouse click to the change you see on screen, and primates are very very good at perceptual discrimination
I am so glad I moved out of CA, it’s not even culturally part of the United States anymore. All Indians and others should leave CA for states that still have American culture. Get off the H1B slave plantation.
Freight carriers still fly MD-11 as they’re economical and its flaws are well understood, but passenger carriers don’t touch it or the TriStar with a 10ft pole, I think that’s the answer.
This has always bothered me as an embedded C developer. We always strive to squeeze the last drop of performance out of a 32MHz processor in order to reduce battery consumption.

Yet in the PC space, CPU manufacturers are pushing the limits of physics to produce faster, more efficient CPUs, and yet it's being wasted to dozens of layers of abstraction and interpretation.

Software should be absolutely blazing fast by now, and yet computers feel just as sluggish as they did years ago (ignoring the boost from SSDs)
As for introduction, how about this:

> ('b'+'a'+ +'a'+'a').toLowerCase()

>'banana'
Couldn't the contract also have some clause with respect to timelines for delivery. Then they'd have the right to sue and get their money back.
I don't know if you aren't aware of the history - Hong Kong was a British colony until on this day in 1997. Many people in Hong Kong have very strong connections to the former Empire - many people married, there were many social, cultural, military connections, and so on.
All I know is the solutions needed to improve things don't exist. Atleast the people I meet working in social media and advertising are very unsure these days about what is going to work. Its a big contrast to few years back where confidence was sky high about what they were doing.

Who knows whether solutions are 2 years or 10-20 years of psychological, sociological and regulatory trial and error away.

All I know is that trial and error period on 2 billion lab rats will keep compounding the problems. It's hard to see fun times ahead for any of these companies.
i think is more about a lot of data we received is almost useless, we uploading data while we receive.
Huh, in 1997 our (average) school had some decent Pentium machines. We'd boot into Window 3.1 + a Novell Netware prompt and be able to launch Encarta or Word (or Wordperfect in DOS) within a minute or two.
I had a c64 and it was what made me fall in love with computers.

I tried my friends recently and it really did feel like a joy- it’s basically a toy now, impossible to use for anything meaningful (even IRC).

It’s hard to convey in text the “feeling” of immediacy and low input lag. I suppose it’s similar to how some gamers talk about fps, it feels immersive, like the machine is in-tune with you. It genuinely feels like something mechanical that you’re interacting with rather than something that “will get to it”.

It’s very subtle but it’s there.
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You're absolutely right that you pay a price for using Emacs, and that not having some awesome IDE features is part of that price.

Another part is having to look for and install the third-party modules that make it actually work well (most of them are not included in Emacs because of Stallman and the FSF being ideologues).

As you say, keeping it updated and not broken is yet another part of the price.

That said, it's clear from your comment that you have not given Emacs a serious try, at least not recently.

There's no reason you have to, but you probably shouldn't complain about it so vociferously if you haven't.

Right-click menus that cover most use cases (jump to def, find references, format code, etc) are absolutely a thing with lsp-mode (which is not too hard to set up itself - install it via the built-in package installation UI, install language servers, and tell emacs to use lsp-mode in programming languages).

There are unit testing modes that kick off tests automatically on changes and let you know if everything passed (or give you a list of failures when some tests didn't). I've not used those myself so I can't speak to their quality, but they definitely exist.

Further, these tools work for a wide array of languages, with the exact same interface for all of them (and an incredibly discoverable, extensible one).

Some of us like that a lot, as well as the comfort of having all the code to reproduce our setup directly to hand. I probably have several more decades in this game, so losing my environment to an IDE company going broke or getting bought is not a pleasant thought.

Tradeoffs, for sure, but with valid arguments for both sides.
I'm actually amazed that there was a somewhat troll-free discussion about the protests and riots going on in the USA (and the West) right now. I think this is a giant kudos to HN. It's just a great feeling that we can disagree, but in a polite manner. Thank you for this HN! This is the basis of democracy!
None of those things you mentioned are state actors taking over platforms.
- Anything positive about China

- Relating ad blocking to piracy

- Benefits of open offices
Visual studio startup and debugging. Source: https://youtu.be/GC-0tCy4P1U
> Better, local production, which I understand is neither quick nor easy.

I know nothing about the patent law, but according to the article, drug is patented. Assuming the process is not open-source, I'd argue that other countries would be looking for alternative vaccinations.

From the article:

> The drug, which was trialed in the Ebola epidemic but failed to work as expected, is under patent to Gilead, which means no other company in wealthy countries can make it. The cost is around $3,200 per treatment of six doses, according to the US government statement.
My own understanding is that the whole problem is to avoid the costly pilot training on the MAX by making it behave like a regular 737. That's where the automatic pitch adjustment at high angles of attack comes from. Had Boeing decided that companies would have to train the pilots for a new type of aircraft (which the MAX actually is), none of this would have happened.
Why isn't it a fair comparison? If my mother's only criteria is how fast does something load then why should she care about anything else?

It's a fact that nowadays a lot of apps are very slow, on computers and phones alike -- and socially and culturally that's unacceptable for non-technical people.
I support Apple all the way on this one. Having all trials work the same way is a huge plus in my book as an iOS device user. It’s not about whether this one developer would do totally free trial or not, it’s about complete confidence for the user that all apps work the same wrt trials.
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There certainly seems a bias for Apple in here.

What I really don't understand is why Some Random Hacker feels the need to jump into a thread and defend Apple, one of the wealthiest companies in the world.
Sounds perfectly normal if the reason for breaking the contract is failure to deliver.
> Also worth noting it is really, really trivial to cancel an app subscription from within your Settings, and to see much of the trial period is remaining.

I think for most people it's pretty hard to find.

It's not actually in Settings. You have to open the App Store, click your face, and that screen has a "Subscriptions >" menu item. I don't subscribe/purchase that much stuff on iOS, so it always takes me a while to find it.

EDIT: thanks for the reply, TIL it's _also_ in Settings :)
This seems to be a common problem with web-based business applications. Little, if any, consideration seems to be give to user efficiency. I consider that a critical part of UX, but I seem to be in the minority.
A lot of departments aren't run like a big corporation. It's more like a startup in someone's garage. A lot of our physics labs were just a room with a laser in it. Or even better, a room with a lot of radioactive stuff in it and scary signs outside it. A lot of corners get cut and IT is the first. Usually the IT is run by a grad student on some laptop they bought at the bookstore or cobbled together Raspberry Pis.
Yeah man I remember when Mark Zuckerberg came into my house and took my wife and kids for saying something on Facebook.
This seems off-topic since the article is about perception of speed.
Yes... spot on - bullshit.

Also, if you some real fucking power, try this:

https://ls2pac.lapl.org/?section=search&term=grapes%20of%20w...

Yeah, NOT only can you check out an ebook of Grapes or Wrath FROM HOME, you can find out the exact number on the shelf in multiple libraries if you want the actual book.

I bet they didn't have THAT in 1998.
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This one again?
And they'll be even more weakened because they are fewer in numbers.
but if we're being serious, "Learn X in Y minutes" is pretty efficient, and also Dan Abramov's email series (sign up on his site)
Why MasterClass Isn’t About Mastery
It's interesting to see how proactive a lot of developed countries are being with getting ready to welcome refugees from Hong Kong, especially compared to the Syrian crisis a few years ago.
> Before, we could at least try to get the EU to go to bat for our interests, and have a real impact.

the same EU that rewrote its coronavirus report several times in fear of CCP repercussions?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/world/europe/disinformati...

come on
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Look at what happened with Game Of Thrones! Total disaster at the end that ruined the whole thing for everybody.
It was a few years ago, but from rough memory the on device display itself asks for a password.

I could be mistaken though, and it might be more a web UI thing along the lines shown here:

https://www.dell.com/community/PowerVault/PowerVault-124T-Us...

In my case, I do remember being able to control the device using the physical controls on it, but being blocked when doing "other stuff".

Not really remembering what the "other stuff" was though. The default admin/password combo, and "how to reset the password" stuff found online definitely didn't help.
I don't believe that is the case. The MCAS system was added because the handling of the plane was different to previous models at higher angles of attack. The system was meant to compensate to give the same handling 'feel' as older 737s to pass certification without requiring significant re-training of pilots.
Very interesting, I did not anticipate how polytheism would affect such interactions. Thank you.
In my experience, cost is not related to materials and labor. For example, CROs know if they're likely the only company that can make a product and will charge accordingly. Often and to me sadly, a bidding processes is needed to determine market value of production. I've seen CROs instantly cut pricing in half if you present another option.

I would be cautious with chemical database (unsure which you are using) as there are companies that post chemicals as lead generation and cannot make them.

If you solve the selection of the best route, helping with sourcing the product may not be worth your resources. In other words, just that piece alone, if done well, is very valuable and hope the market sees it.
Larry Wall, granted he made Perl, says these are the three virtues of programming.

> Laziness: The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it.

> Impatience: The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to.

> Hubris: The quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say bad things about.

I think in the end the best way to describe a good programmer is "detail-oriented" and "results-based" that cuts out the bullshit and can ship. The better programmers that are product developers see programming as a tool to make products, not a tool to bike shed and yak shave all day.

[1] http://threevirtues.com/
Looks like Amsterdam internet exchange AMS-IX is having an outage
Tesla has gotten better. A friend had their Solar Roof deposit returned within a week after Tesla cancelled their order.

Will it be just as easy if Cybertruck doesn't live up to the hype? I'll report back.
To this day nothing can compare to the input snappiness of my Apple IIc and Dan Luu's article proves it [0].

[0] https://danluu.com/input-lag/
I haven't found anything that's been able to match the price point of the pi for the amount of things you can do with it. I'd love an x86 system of similar footprint and cost. Are there some I don't know about?
If the US recertifies the B738-MAX8 with the automatic attitude management, a much more relevant brand will get tarnished.
> facade institutions serving the interest of the political oligarchy

seems in line with the EU approach, no?
The UK in particular has a long historical relationship with Hong Kong. Plus, China is in clear breach of bilateral agreements with Britain.
Side note: One side effect of covid I've been thinking about is the fact that usage of these voice assistants will grow from people being at home, and alone, a lot more.

I never even thought about using one before the virus, primarily due to the fact I was usually around people, and it was either impractical or embarrassing to ask Alexa, Siri, or Google to do something for me. But now, like millions of others, I'm stuck at home all day and it's actually quite natural to take advantage of the voice features.
Thanks. It is available at https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1704809576/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_... . It wasn't actually published in his lifetime. In fact, I only discovered the manuscript last year, and decided to self-publish primarily for the benefit of surviving relatives. I have a post about the whole process on my personal site if you're interested in that as well.
>10x power draw

I can run xlookup functions on a 1000 row excel spreadsheet on my cell phone.
This is a terrible waste of money. Hydroxychloroquine is less expensive, seems to be more effective according to the research, and backed by more science. You just have to look beyond your mainstream media to find the truth.
FYI CL might have more libraries than you think: https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl just saying.
The former is about to reach an important fork next week. If the ruling party keep the presidential seat, they have three more years of basically unchecked power. If they lose the seat, the checks and balances are back on the menu.