skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess you're new to Earth and this is the first time you've seen a metaphor in a headline, but it's not especially uncommon and you'll probably get used to it.
I don't know about you but having the word in inverted commas made me think it was talking about YouTube subscribers almost instantly.
> Would you expect different ratings for hardcover/paperback versions of books? Probably not, at least assuming people review the content of the book, not its appearance.

I would expect different ratings, because when you buy a book it is not just the content you are buying. The reason people look at reviews is to decide whether or not to buy, and the physical quality of the book is important for that.

If the hardback is fine but the paperback has pages out of order and that fall out when you turn them, then people who bought the paperback are going to (quite justifiably) be leaving reviews with the lowest rating possible. This doesn't help me at all when I'm considering buying the hardback.
Sometimes, when I talk to my 4 year old son, I imagine how we will have our last goodbye talk on my death bed. How we will both know that this is the last moment together, how we both will be mourning.

It makes me incredibly sad, and, at the same time it helps me to make better decisions in life. Choosing spending time with him instead of surfing the web for no reason for example.
Given the number of people who did these or similar drugs in the 60s and 70s and the absolute lack of evidence that these people's mental health is any better than their peers who did not do these drugs, it seems like any therapeutic role for these drugs is likely to be incremental, rather than revolutionary.

Anecdotally, the people I know who talk the most about how helpful psychedelics have been for them are less well adjusted than the average person I know.
“Big cities cannot change their mobility patterns over night”
GPT-3-powered business idea generator
This is so neat and easy to use, I could easily spend half an hour on it without noticing.
Is there a way to de-colour a cell?
Not to take away from the sheer amaze-balls power that lisp offers, you can get Ruby superpowers just from one book, Metaprogramming Ruby 2, which is sadly out of print.

Here's a 2005 article comparing Ruby favorably to Lisp: http://www.randomhacks.net/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-an-accepta...

I learned Lisp, went through the whole of HtDP, tried to get into it, but Ruby's friendliness is really special and unique.
The Business Lessons I Learned from Not Cutting My Hair for 18 Months
I'd like someone to explain to me why this is on the front page of HN. Personally, I didn't find any remarkable insight in the article and the author seems like quite an average person with average advice. My best guess is that people have upvoted this out of sympathy for a dying man, or perhaps they want to make space for discussing premature death. Which for me begs the question, exactly what is HN all about?
Video Subtitles and Transcripts Now Available on Real Python
It would be really difficult to move a trolley down a staircase arrangement.
Edgar Allen Poe and Cryptography
I live in a hot, humid, tropical city. If you leave bread out it will become a mold colony once you've opened the bag.

Fresh, room-temperature bread is a luxury only available for sandwiches made immediately after opening the bag. Bread lives in the fridge after that.

If you want to revivify your bread when it comes out of the fridge, sprinkle a little water on the underside and put it in the oven on a low temperature for 10-15 minutes. You will have nice warm slightly-toasted bread, and the water will have spread through it and helped it be more welcoming to the tooth.
A way to use your local dotfiles on remote SSH sessions
God forbid! A joke on the internet?
Compression is important to processes going on in the mind, but I don't think its a central concept to understand how the mind words. Compression is relevant inasmuch as our brains perform lossy compression to capture the relevant regularity in our sense data. But this is only the start of the analysis; it doesn't explain anything useful about our cognitive architecture. The problem is strong compression trades space requirements for computational requirements. But going all-in on compression is optimizing for the wrong thing in the context of a bag-of-neurons computational model.

von Neumann architectures are good at fast and precise state transitions. A bag-of-neurons is good at leveraging relationships to minimize computational requirements. Thus a plausible cognitive architecture for the mind should emphasize relationships rather than computation. A good cognitive architecture is one where relationships in the data are maximally revealed by the architecture, thus minimizing the computational burden to access and utilize the relationship. This explains why the visual system takes up so much volume of the brain. 3-dimensional sense data is packed with interrelationships and these relationships need support from the cognitive architecture to be utilized. The compression view is only useful to a point--after that the constraints on the bag-of-neurons model become dominant and must drive the architecture search.

When it comes to phenomenal consciousness, the question then becomes: is there anything it is like to be a process whose topological structure maximally captures external and internal state relationships? My intuition tells me the answer is yes. One functional requirement of a human brain is that it `believes` it is the author of its decisions. To manifest this `belief` requires a self-representation of itself distinct from the environment, i.e. a target of the attribution of authorship. Facts of this self-representation entail what it is like to be this topological structure.
What are you trying to accomplish, here? Do you think the quote you responded to was wrong? Do you think no one should ever quote Schopenhauer? Something else?

Being more straightforward about your criticism would be fair.
LinkedIn used to (maybe still does) push users to "see who's on LinkedIn" by connecting your contacts.

They then maintained this connection indefinitely without telling the user and also used it to spam people under your name.

They used this system to send my ex-girlfriend an invite to join me on LinkedIn. Absolutely repulsive and infuriating.
One would wonder on the rules of the forum where 500ers can downvote a comment that sparked such a nice discussion. Internet never ceases to dissapoint.
Or, maybe, the quotes are just there to tell you something, like the fact they're not literal grandkids and internet readers need extra help.
I recently heard a podcast in which a disabled lady, 76 years old, talked about how she played The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. In real life, she could hardly move, so it was her way of going for a walk. She would wandered arround in the woods, or climbed mountains, just to enjoy the sceneries. It helped her cope through her disablily. I thought it was a wonderful way of using a game. :)
Overview Meta-analysis of Vitamin D
An opposing anecdote:

While using the Office web apps, I have rarely seen the "you need to open this file in the Windows desktop version of XYZ to edit the file" message in the last year and a half at Microsoft, a company that intensely uses Microsoft 365. In every case that I can recall, this message showed up in one of 2 cases:

1. Macro-enabled files - there is no VBA or .NET programmability for the web version.

2. Files protected with M365/Azure information protection (DRM/IRM).

I don't think either of these scenarios are likely to occur in a charity/nonprofit, which was the original post's concern.

As for me personally, I hardly ever wanted to edit files in either category intentionally - the macro-enabled files are old archival docs and the DRMed docs are announcements from executives.

> And I don't think it supports the older Office files at all.

True. M365 can convert .abc Office files to the .abcx format, save the converted copy, then open it for viewing and editing. That all happens in 1 step but is not the same as supporting the old formats to begin with.

> I mentioned that to the secretary and she just laughed and said you can't do collaborative work with the online version when everyone else uses the desktop version.

Ironically, I find that to the extent this is true, that's because the desktop version has fewer features. Make a comment on a Word doc? If you did it in the web version, your collaborator gets an email with the comment text, and if they're using the Outlook web or Windows desktop versions, they can even reply to the comment from within the email preview without having to click Reply or open a link to the doc. But if you did it in the desktop version, all your collaborator gets is "Comment previews are coming soon to the version of Word [you] used!" where "soon" has been soon for at least a year and a half.
Why do you have to purchase through some random other charity, instead of just buying direct from microsoft.com?
I'm curious about the point you're making here. Clearly the quote you selected is pretty objectionable by modern standards.

Is this intended to invalidate the quote in the parent comment? Does "cancel culture" apply to long-dead philosophers now?

Perhaps I'm reading too much into it!
It was a deep article. I get that this place is full of nerds with mild autism but try some empathy once in a while.
Akhilesh Gupta on the Architecture of LinkedIn’s Real-Time Messaging Platform
Such a cool idea but, isn't a bit too obvious that the people reserving a day on the calendar showed but the website are not real? The calendar has only 3 days booked, what about the other people that every second are reserving a day?

Also, you need to think about what you are going to do with the money if no-one picks the right date, otherwise there might be legal issues...
Can you imagine doing this in the US? Some rich NIMBY homeowners would file endless lawsuits and it would take 5 years.
While the points about Assad's treatment are essentially true I'm not sure the author does himself a favour by engaging in relativism concerning the dubious practises of Wikileaks, Assange, and the probable connections or at least sympathy with the Russian government.

For example, concerning leaked internal Democratic emails "An even more important point, however, is that a transparency organisation like Wikileaks had no choice, after it was handed those documents, but to expose abuses by the Democratic party – whoever was the source."

I'm pretty sure Wikileaks is the sole authority when it comes to what they publish so they have that choice, and I'll never consider it ethical to leak internal documents of a political organisation, likely by a foreign party, to influence domestic politics.

I lost virtually all respect for Assange after reading
Daniel Domscheit-Berg's book on Wikileaks and Assange's conduct. Domscheit-Berg was second-in-command at Wikileaks, so it's hard to pretend that all of this is conjured up by the US government.
I even saw somewhere an article on topic "how to make money duplicating books for Kindle". Was presented like it's something legitimate.

My 5 cents - reading a books on CS topics requires a lot of notes making and working with this notes on kidnle is the worst.
Journalists aren’t the enemy of the people. But we’re not your friends either
haha, well they are both probably about equally old i believe.. i think the two topics can be inter-related, but they are indeed separate areas of study with different emphasis, and I don't believe that many algebraic geometers know about the geometric algebra historically, since GA was quite obscure and hard to utilize until computer algebra made it easier
computer technology (and related) news?
I don't see how this helps or even relates to your point that "Web was perfectly fine with HTML 4.01/XHTML"

Obviously it wasn't. Folks keep using Electron, ChromeOS, Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari and the HTML5 APIs that are common to all of them. If you took away everything that didn't exist in HTML 4.01/XHTML the entire world would grind to a screeching halt.

Anyway, I don't see any problem with the Chrome taking on all the features of ChromeOS. Give me more features and higher quality for free, I'm not going to complain :)

Also, Microsoft Edge has more users than Safari on platforms that I care about and they're the ones I'm jumping ship to if Google tries to take away uBlock Origin.
It is ok to show a little humanity once in while...even on HN
Banning a kids' programming language because it mentions Taiwan? The PRC are truly pathetic.
> One important point is that Uber wrote this running on Postgres 9.2. The latest Postgres release is now 12.4

Just a minor nitpick: Postgres changed the version numbering scheme with version 10. So 9.4 was a major release, but 12.4 marks a minor (bugfix) release.

If you want to name minor releases it would be e.g. 9.4.26 vs. 12.4. If you want to compare major versions it would be 9.4 vs. 12
That's precisely why strict logic is required. You are putting more restrains into a very simple condition. Dead or infinitely small non zero chance of not dead. As said previously, anything else is noise
HAMT is excellent for a persistent dictionary. Not persistent as in write-to-disk, but as in immutable-yet-small.
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Java: The Programmer Environment That Has It All
This. I have to be so careful about making sure who it is that is the actual vendor. Amazon used to clearly state that a product was "sold and fulfilled by amazon" but I don't see that anymore.
Note that since 2018, Google does allow you keep your data in Europe, though not specifically in the UK:

https://support.google.com/a/answer/9223653?en

(Though this may involve upgrading to a paid business license for G Suite, if your partner is currently using the free charity tier.)

Just because of the headache involved in transferring, I'd ask her to check with legal again. It would be very unusual to require UK-based storage specifically.

If that truly is a requirement, then cloud storage is basically not an option. Just keep everything as Office documents on a local network hard drive and set up recurring backups to an off-site location (probably your partner's home).
Chinese Rainstorms May Be Responsible for Bitcoin's Recent Dip
The Solar Gravitational Lens Will Map Exoplanets. Seriously
Sustainable Marketing for Companies
Handling Terminal Outputs with Redirection
I'm not sure if this meets all your needs around data sovereignty, but Quip is an alternative that does collaboratively-edited documents.
This is cute, but I would much rather see this history written out as a serious non-tweety article. There is a ton of fascinating and useful information hiding underneath the humor.
>Is it even sure your close friend had MDMA, instead of something similar, but different, like it is common on the black market?

That isn't the case recently if you look at the data. The discovery of new precursors a few years ago drove down the price of MDMA in Europe to the point where it is cheaper and easier to obtain than the possible replacements. Even in the US the flood of methylone and it's cousins is over. Meth is still sold as MDMA when pressed into pills, but those are pretty easy to distinguish.
I didn't, nor did many of my friends. I think that's just a stereotype.
It's suprisingly easy to use gopher and HTTP without a proper client
There are mods to address some of the shortcomings of the game.
That, and also an "often or always" tied to the full list of qualifiers.
whereas AG is just as obscure and hard to utilize, even with a computer...
If T:V->V is a linear transformation and "^" is the exterior product then T(u^v)=T(u)^T(v).

For example, let T be a reflection about the plane spanned by e1 and e2. Then T(e1^e2)=e1^e2, but T(e1 x e2) = -e1 x e2, where "x" denotes the cross product.
> being trained on almost twice as fewer text data

Clearly they didn't run that through the English BERT because no language model would assign high probability to that phrase!
More interesting was that before the current chemical strip-based test, apparently the best way to test for pregnancy was to inject the urine into the leg of an African clawed frog, then see if it laid eggs in the next 24 hours.

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1301844281540239360
Unit Testing the Windows Registry
It’s an attack that can’t be mitigated; having controlled for all of the variables in my control, the only thing to do about those that are not is make jokes.

It also presumes they lied and didn’t delete my data on request.
EU Law Enforcment and EU national security and it has to be comliant with basic human rights.

In paragraph 183 of C-311/18, the CJEU also found that US surveillance “in transit” (like “Upstream” or taps of the underwater cables) violate EU fundamental rights.
For me there's one big deal breaker: Oracle.

I just don't want to deal with a company like that.
Urgh I'm currently battling migrating a large SASS app from GCP to Azure for these same non reasons.
"Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This question comes up fairly often on HN and I'll paraphrase what I've said before. I could see some other group becoming an adequate steward of the term when the larger open source community agrees with their changes, and they do a re-review of all the existing OSI licenses to ensure they meet the new definition and are compatible with whatever the new incoming licenses are. This will probably involve lots of community outreach and paying lawyers to do it over some years. I'm not sure what else you would expect to happen -- forking the entire community over a legal nit pick is going to be just as expensive as forking a software project.

When you say it's not a workable concept, without context it's very hard for me to interpret this in any way besides the usual "open source doesn't let us make profits off of keeping the source code restricted and/or secret" or "open source doesn't let me deny access to my competitors or personal enemies" which are kind of the entire point. Please fill me in if I'm not doing a charitable interpretation.
> Remember for Google and Zoho, cloud based document editors was their target, right from idea to finished product. For Microsoft, it was an afterthought. And it shows.

WAS an afterthought, 5-7 years ago. Now we at Microsoft often find that the desktop version is the afterthought; see my other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24400026 ) for an example.
The article's facts are right, but its conclusion is kinda wrong.

Don't put your bread in the fridge -- slice it and put it in the freezer!

Because in either case you need to heat it up in the oven/toaster anyways, so you might as well put it somewhere where it will keep for months, rather than weeks.
I don't know what specific issues you're having, but for me I can simply do a select-all in Google Drive, right click and hit Download.

After some time of processing it'll eventually give me a .zip which contains all the documents and files. Google Docs documents are exported as MS Word .docx files. I don't have any spreadsheets to hand, but I believe they're exported as .xlsx format files too.

e: I see Google Takeout also allows you to export these, too in choice of formats: https://takeout.google.com/
After watching last week's convolutions lecture it seems like 30 minutes is too short. 45 minutes would probably be better. I could probably even listen to Sanderson for an hour.
OP here. Title I posted:

>84-year-old gamer Shirley Curry has 900k YouTube followers

I suspect if moderator hadn’t changed title to New York Times headline, it wouldn’t have been flagged.
Samsung's Galaxy Watch 3 gets its first big discount on Amazon
Astronomers find galaxy like the Milky Way when the Universe was extremely young
Watch Tesla CEO Elon Musk Test Drive VW ID.3
No doubt you are making a fair point about not putting people on pedestals, though perhaps not in the right context. When you spend your whole life thinking about things and writing those things down, some of those things will be objectionable. Thankfully it is up to the reader to take away what they want to learn from and leave behind what they do not.
It is not clear how much cherry picking has occured on the way from all the generated quotes to those mentioned in the post.
The ‘hacker’ ethos commonly involves sacrifice. In a zero sum life, striving to change the world, or achieve financial independence, or to learn new skills and abilities often means deferring relationships and emotions in favor of ‘work’, in the broadest definition of that word.

I think a lot of people here have an anxiety about the regrets they may have if their life were to suddenly become very finite. The article is the testament of a man coming to these realizations, and we are here to discuss the themes involved.
> Now, any semi-literate buffoon with access to twitter or 4chan can reach millions.

Conversly, anyone literate person can spread their knowledge as well. I personally think that the benefit outweighs the drawback.
A concrete example:

For starters, consider this xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/882/

If you're doing A/B testing where you continuously watch the results, and conclude your test as soon as you see the numbers significantly deviate, what you're doing is more-or-less equivalent to what's happening in the comic, only it's the number of jelly beans that you vary instead of their color. Not exactly the same, since in the numbers case your draws from the random variable aren't independent, but still.
Flatpak–The Future of Application Distribution
Well, Thunderbird got it done with its new home (and more recently, a new organization). A donation to Thunderbird goes to Thunderbird.
Maximizing Java Application Performance with GraalVM
To elaborate: It's a requirement that amateur radio stations periodically identify themselves by the operator callsign during transmission. For unmanned stations like repeaters this is usually accomplished with an automatic morse-code transmission of its callsign.

The transmission occurs if the repeater has been activated, usually every 10 mins or so after a moment of silence, or after a longer period of silence, whichever comes first.

(The repeater users still have to identify themselves with their own callsign during use of a repeater.)
Do you mean you are not allowed to install the latest versions or that you are not allowed to download anything? If you can still download things you could give the LibreOffice AppImage[1] a try.

[1] https://www.libreoffice.org/download/appimage/
Why do that when you can sell the results to advertising networks so the expectant mother can be dogged by ads for maternal wear?
I didn't get it immediately. It wasted my time while I read the comments to figure out the joke.
> If FB goes down, people waste less time online, if a guidance system fails people may die.

Goes down yes, but what about a data breach? What if, for example, the location of a woman is mistakenly exposed to a abusive partner?

In my view the distinction between a senior software engineer and not is the ability to see how both human and software systems interact and find failure modes that others may miss.
Humoral Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2 in Iceland
> I haven't thrown any hand grenades over the wall. Overly sensitive Elixir programmers always throw a fit whenever someone says "you know, other tools are available to you too."

I don't think anyone would take issue with your comments if that's how you approached it.

Instead you're being an asshole, and for no reason I can understand. It's not like we're talking politics here...
You have clicked yes on every permission dialog you have been presented. I wouldn't be surprised if you gave your Gmail password to Uber