skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This

>(at the moment, this Hacker News squib has resulted in a veritable tsunami of Klein bottle orders -- over a dozen -- and I'm getting kinda backlogged. Looks like I'll be working tonight & tomorrow. And it's my turn to wash the dishes tonight...)

This

I bought one of these the last time this was on HN.

And the joy of reading through this site just suddenly made me yearn for an xkcd style graph showing klein bottle sales over time since last post on hn complete with snappy punchline in hidden text.
Agreed. A great many things can be expressed as a graph of sub-tasks with preconditions and dependencies that create a partial ordering, and make is pretty darn good at grinding through such graphs. You can go far with just the basics plus a couple of extra tricks like "phony" targets.
I'll re-iterate what strikelaserclaw said and add: maybe looking at it on a 10 year basis is too short?

Humans have now about 20-30 year generations, so I think it's fair to judge our progress as a species in at least multiples of this.

I'm in my mid 30's and kids these days are way nicer to each other than they were when I was a kid. Bullying, making fun of kids of silly differences, etc is way down. I think the future long term, and in a two step forward one step back kind of way, is going to be better than it is now.
Haha, you can treat yourself on becoming a multi-tasking procrastinator for putting off a bunch of shit at the same time!
I’m surprised that the product hasn’t been renamed “Microsoft Code” but there is still time for MSFT to drop the VS reference.
Interesting, but it seems a bit behind compared to the market. I'd much use ClickUp as the UI is much more appealing. Notion/Airtable too. Feels a bit like Chat vs. Slack. I'd rather use Slack any day of the week because rather than just one Google team the entire company is working on improvements and will do better over time. Not trying to s* all over Google, but there are better options for that price point.
I'm a fanboy of both JetBrains and VSC. In the many years I've used JetBrains IDE variants (IntelliJ, Webstorm & Pycharm), I was never able to get rid of the frequent project re-indexing that slows everything down and makes the fans go crazy; you'd think they would cache that info and write it to disk.
I'm +1 about the use of Python, but I'd say ONLY when complexity gets higher than simply calling commands (e.g. cat/sed/etc). For basic commands, I'd say Makefile is the way to go, or scripts in a package.json. I find Python becomes a must when you want to reuse commands and pass data around, or support the same kind of commands locally and on remote hosts.

Fabric is the best for this: you put a `fabfile.py` (name inspired by Makefile) in the project root and add @task commands in there. Specifically the `fab-classic` fork of the Fabric project https://github.com/ploxiln/fab-classic#usage-introduction (the mainline Fabric changed it's API significantly, see `invoke` package).

Fabric can run local or remote commands (via ssh). Each task is self-documenting and the best part it that it's super easy to read... almost like literate programming (as opposed to more magical tools like ansible).
> The dream is a purely JavaScript solution that never leaves the local computer.

Mozilla's pdfjs[1] project is a pure HTML/JavaScript solution for PDF rendering. This is the same code that ships in Firefox browser as well. This is standalone, AFAIK, it doesn't talk to a mothership.

[1]https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/
Admittedly a lot of it is around things like built in documentation, viewing source code from inside modules (I’m a frontend software engineer so inside node_modules for instance) and the ability to simply let the IDE handle certain things with refactoring components or generating boilerplate.

I found I repeated myself less and improved my productivity this way
This week on "Hacker News after dark"...
Exactly. Every time I step into those malls and see those shops, I feel utterly disgusted. It feels so cheap and dirty. I don't think I can ever bring myself to hire a live-in helper.
This is a weirdly "human interest story", "both sides"-y take which almost entirely fails to wrestle with the absolute mountain of evidence against Postle.

To be clear, at the time this story was blowing up, every serious person in the poker world expressed astonishment at what an obvious cheat he was. And yes, the overwhelming consensus was that it was probably an inside job, with Postle given access to a live version of the stream on his phone.
Is this paper for real? Can anyone give context? It seems so far out of left field that it is unbelievable it was published. Is this genius or malarkey?
I'd agree with this if the diploma had an indication which bucket the degree came from. When I need a brain surgeon, I'd like to know if he/she got the degree on merit or connections.
My point was that Java's hello world is comparable to most other language, and that hello world in Android is a poor example
This was discussedon HN as it unfolded, with very interesting insights: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21161043
I understand what you're trying to do with that mic-drop snark about Comcast, but obviously I don't think it's a good idea to direct your DoH queries to Comcast.

There's a working group that hopes to own everything on the Internet, but DoH happened outside that process, and was deployed (thankfully) over the objections of people involved in the group.
This is a wild ride. I cannot tell if a more accurate translation would make the ride wilder or less wild.
> This is roughly comparable to the weight divisions in boxing. The divisions exist because it is unfair to let a lightweight boxer fight a heavyweight fighter.

In your example if the son of a lightweight boxer happens to be a heavy weight boxer he will not be made to fight with a lightweight boxer right?

The idea of reservation in its current form sounds great when talking about a generation or two, but it starts to show its deficiencies in the long term. You have created a system which never fully solved the root problem and you have cemented the caste based division even further in the minds of your population.

> It is not sound to say a person from a caste who was oppressed for thousands of years should not be given reservation because they become rich in the last generation.

You are talking as if that person witnessed the caste oppression for thousands of years. If a lower caste family has become wealthy and rich due to reservation, how is their usage of caste based reservation for their grandkids really solving the root problem? That seat which their privileged grandkid will take could be better taken by someone else in need.
Leaving aside the usual quip about HN being an endless source of entertainment when it comes to attempting to comprehend basic concepts in biology that they weren't taught in high school, I'm wondering about something.

What's with the propensity for the typical HNer, and the tech demographic in general, to subscribe to the whole alpha/beta charade in the first place? Your average programmer isn't usually a bodybuilder or even what you may call a 'Chad'. Even on social media, blogs, and generally speaking the whole ecosystem of believing dumb evopsych crap, the most prominent speakers aren't exactly paragons of traditional masculinity themselves. And conversely, Joe Rogan himself (if you're willing to consider an MMA pro 'alpha') probably doesn't care at all about the Google memo.

So, like, if you're soft-spoken, introverted, maybe effete, maybe overweight, what's the point of doing all this? Why fantasize about an immutable, evolutionary-driven hierarchy of males if you're not even putting yourself at the top? Does that stem from self-loathing? Maybe a fetish of some kind? I'm curious to read different perspectives from HNers.
I really like to think this would allow for politicians who can straddle party loyalties and gather enough votes from multiple parties at once and be viable ... rather than go through the single party extrude process where one must be all one thing or all the other to be viable.

I don't think this is a panacea, but i really like this more the current system.
WTF? Is this an elaborate joke like the Sokal affair or are those dermatologists actually serious?
And yet every time I go to my parents' they've somehow installed Adobe Reader for Mac. I've deleted that app like 6 times.
Ok, but it's still out of 13, so maybe we're going for 8?
I'm not a fan of math and barely understand what some of these jokes mean, but this is a truly wonderful site to read through.
Thanks! Very much appreciate the kind words. :)

Yeah, to give you my perspective on this for a second: the reality is that the rules for how we work with and protect user data continues to evolve and become more nuanced with the different regulations from different countries. Not to mention, taking payments in different countries and currencies has a lot of implications! For every country we release to, there's a bunch of potentially new rules to follow, so it's a lot simpler and safer to do it with just one country first, get it right, and then expand after that. In my experience, there's no particular opinion that users from a particular country are "unsafe," but it's more about whether we have enough time and people to make sure we're doing things right by our users.

Hope that gives you a little insight into this and how we think about it!
Not a scientist.
The text is so farfetched that even being generated by GPT-3 seems out of the question.
Is the implication here that the college doesn’t not actually test knowledge? If so, I’m not sure I’d want a doctor from there whether or not he/she happened to be smart as a 17 year old.
GPT-3, is that you?
Why is reservation not a problem? If a SC/ST person whose parents are rich (maybe due to a govt. job by reservation itself?) and gets 1/2 of marks of a middle class person just by being lower caste, then there is an issue with reservation.

The correct approach is, if the parents of a lower caste person have got advantage of reservation, the reservation should go to next person in queue. This way benefits can be evenly distributed instead of benefitting few wealthy people.
It was a few months ago, but it looks like they keep patching it. I played it a few days ago and it was much better. Could pull a No Man's Sky.
What I was trying to say is why should Apple port Swift to Windows?

They have to prioritize resources and Windows should be way down near the bottom of the list. It’s easy to say Apple has nearly infinite amounts of resources, but that never true in the software business. Someone has to manage the project, hire/manage teams, make decisions on goals, objectives, and they have to be managed by someone in engineering leadership, etc.

The simple answer is that focus is better spent on more important distractions.
Long ago, I worked at a newspaper. Occasionally we'd get letters typed on crumpled paper with faulty typewriters, or scrawled on the back of paper placemats in jagged all-caps handwriting. They'd breathlessly lay out elaborate theories about the horrifying secrets of our world. Invariably, elements of science fiction would be woven in. The return addresses, if they existed, were often of the local mental hospital, or prison.

One of the letters was written with such physical force that I could feel all the words from the other side of the paper, like raised print. In that moment I felt enormous pity for these people, and perhaps a bit afraid of them, too.
What the fuck is this. I thought it was some particularly imaginative science fiction until I did a double-take at the domain name.

Seriously, whats going on here?
The old Edge had the best PDF reader I've ever used which makes it a little disappointing that it's going away.
You should try writing Scala in IntelliJ. It's not Idris, but it's a lot closer than C# is (and already past OCaml, IMO).
The surest litmus test is the quality of the figures in a paper.

Like what is this graph?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6910781/figure/...
It is exactly that!
https://beta.rive.app/ (OSS runtime, xplatform, native rendering)
If it's an HTML5-based device that runs Windows[1] then it's "HTML5 Subsystem for Windows" going by Microsoft's phrase structure.

[1] https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98
Was interested to try this .. appears the Chrome extension is missing build.js when I run yarn.
What people tend to over look is how far a little makeup goes, when the audience is viewing the 12 to 19 inch, 360p display screen across the room.
So how do we kill this thing? Does Earth have any exhaust ports?
I know this may be against the guidelines, but does anyone know why the above comment was downvoted?

Do people really favor Marxism, or is something else wrong?
I’m pretty sure this was generated with GTP-0 because it’s garbage.
Thiel had a kind of entrepreneurial attack against Gawker. He bankrolled several lawsuits, hoping that one would stick. He basically had infinite money to try for a win. Eventually this one stuck.

I do think Hogan could have afforded his suit, but probably wouldn't have bothered. The lawsuit lead to the typical Streisand effect, no one would have heard about this until it went big, so many people like me wouldn't have heard about a famous person's sex tape with disreputable characters involved without an endless lawsuit.

Gawker was a fault for showing someone's sex tape, which had apparently leaked and was quite likely shown against the people in it's wishes. Separately from the terribleness of that event, extremely rich people can afford endless lawsuits until something hits, they can overwhelm regular people, which is also a bad thing.
The related papers include another paper by the same author that is similarly incomprehensible.

"Formation of Neural Circuits in an Expanded Version of Darwin's Theory: Effects of DNAs in Extra Dimensions and within the Earth's Core on Neural Networks"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31850135/
Ha, that was my first thought when I read the full title. Edit: in the abstract I've found this: "and only it's e_ects is observed."
This is the same author that brought us "5G Technology and induction of coronavirus in skin cells."
That’s a shame, because the article led me to listen to this talk:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vt8zqhHe_c

Which I thought was amazing and inspiring.
The "Indian left" doesn't acknowledge this, and jumps in every discussion to defend the current caste based reservation system that doesn't consider economic status of the candidate.

If someone writes JEE, it is likely they have spent a lot for coaching / study materials, and it is likely they don't deserve reservation.
It's not a joke. The VSCode bins are proprietary and contain things that are not open source.
Let me be honest: I genuinely cannot tell from the title and abstract if this paper is meant to be a shitpost or an expression of severe mental illness.

But it reminds me of TimeCube.
It's real in the sense that someone put those words into an open access Macedonian medical science journal.

But this is not physically real:

> This means that molecules of water could have gender like DNAs. On the other hand, the earth could emit some special waves to molecules of water and extract DNA black brane from extra dimensions. This could be the origin of life on earth. Thus, earth, water and DNA form the best system of telecommunication which controls all evolutions of life.
I don’t buy this. It’s not like humans had a species-wide conference and decided to adopt agriculture. It must have taken lots of tiny steps, each one somehow beneficial to the individuals taking them. The end result is not a guarantee either — we only think it was beneficial to the species because it survived. There could have been other “good ideas” in the area of food production that lasted for a hundred or a thousand years and then got wiped out in a single unfortunate event.
Hey there! I'll point you to a similar comment and response I gave for a fellow non-American who asked the same question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24556244.

tl;dr is we'd love to and we're working on it! I'm glad to hear you're interested in Tables, we'll try to get it to you as soon as we can.
It doesn't have to be the best, merely better than what is used now. And what is used now is some obfuscated proxies of socioeconomic status.
From another quality publication by the lead author:

"In this research, we show that 5G millimeter waves could be absorbed by dermatologic cells acting like antennas, transferred to other cells and play the main role in producing Coronaviruses in biological cells."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343019053_5G_Techno...
If they want to transition back, they can’t do it fully since they won’t be able to have children anymore. So technically it is irrevocable harm to their bodies.
GPT-3 would almost certainly have better grammar.
I mean, everyone understands what it means when a paper labels the x-axis of a graph as 'size of DNA-like structure compacted in core in terms of size of earth'.
Yeah - no error bars? That's just crazy.
> Since when is beta software charged for?

Since forever. I will concede that the cool kids call it "early access" these days, however.
SQLite is not accepting patches
What? I'm going with a crackpot version of Poe's Law. Any sufficiently advanced parody of pseudoscience is indistinguishable from the real thing.
The US Air Force has built and flown a prototype of its future fighter jet
Years ago, I worked on a project that required generating PDF invoices. Used the FPDF library and I was shocked how small the files are (including a properly sized logo) when generated compared to most other PDFs 'rendered' from word or print processors.
Yea SwiftUI being tied to the iOS runtime was an incredibly bad decision IMO. WWDC the last couple years has been mostly useless because it's all about SwiftUI, and basically none of Apple's major app partners can use it yet since we are stuck supporting iOS11/12.

edit: and most of the useful additions are tied with iOS14 (lazy lists), so even if we were able to bump our min support to iOS13 it would be _years_ before we could do 14.
actually, if you find the citation, let me know, you might be in for an award
Best figure from a black hole paper is surely Scholtz and Unwin, page 5: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.11090.pdf
Hadn't heard the term before. Looks like its two diodes in parallel, pointing opposite directions, in a very-expensive box. Blocks low-voltage DC flow while allowing higher-voltage AC currents to pass. Looks like maritime usage is common.

http://www.yandina.com/galvanicIsolator.htm
Excuse me, that's "Microsoft GPT-3" to you, buddy.
Who's paying you to downplay what was actually announced?

1)56% reduction in cost (which blows way past the $100/kwh holy grail for EV to sub $40). This by itself is insane and most people in the industry thought it wont happen for at least another decade. This puts the last nail in the coffin for the future of ICE cars.

2) 54% increase in range. The new Model S will have minimum 520mi of range and much more actually when they start production. Range anxiety gone out the window.

3) New manufacturing tech along with vertical integration will allow Tesla to scale 55x their current rate of production and become the world's largest auto manufacturer by many multiples. Tesla will not only produce their own battery cells but they're even getting into mining!!

Along with many other things announced in 3+ hour technical video. But yea 16% density improvement is the only takeaway from this...

Edit: I like how you're editing your original comment after I've already replied without any mention of it. Please practice honest forum etiquette.
I agree that reviews being seen as a competition is a problem, but it is nonetheless the same problem if you don't see it that way while people around you do. Promotions, compensation etc they are not exactly zero-sum games but they do approximate zero-sum dynamics, so they are a competition whether we like it or not.

I think the asshole persona is a useful device to think through this problem, but I think you are overemphasizing it and ignoring other personas. You can express criticisms with perfect tact and you still will encounter people that has a problem with being challenged (it is rather common with newly promoted technical leads or managers), or like I said a healthy code review will require saying "no" at times, with no fault of the reviewer, will still generate adversarial dynamics.

And let's be realistic, performance reviews are highly biased towards positive feedback because criticisms look harsher on that format than they are so people hold back therefore I don't see "asshole" dynamics as frequent as you are focusing, if anything "niceness" dynamics is incentivizing dishonesty in peer feedback.
A tweet thread and an article on this author

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24562496

https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2019/06/01/an-astrophysic...
As I’ve said before, I’m terribly sad that Mister Rogers is no longer with us, but I’m so happy he didn’t live to see what television and the internet have become.
Maybe tack on a "because they can't" if you want to be thorough.
Is the court itself the limiting cost for litigation, or is it the lawyers representing the parties?
A little background on Massimo Fioranelli and Alireza Sepehri:

https://twitter.com/microbiomdigest/status/12886848640702504...

https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2019/06/01/an-astrophysic...
At first I thought it was yet another experiment that generates nonsense papers to show which journals will accept just about anything, but after running a quick search on some of the authors (https://pubpeer.com/search?q=Massimo+Fioranelli) seems like some sort of academic SEO/backlink/reference/paper mill operation going on?

Would be fascinating to map the cross referencing and co-author graph here.

Some of the comments on pubpeer are hilarious.
This comment may read as inflammatory, but is referring to the inclusion of Linux Journal in an alleged configuration file.
Current keyboard conventions go back to 1984 and the Mac, and no sign of them changing anytime soon.

The article mentions Excel, for example, coming a few years after that and going strong today.

So I really do think Emacs predating those conventions is not going to be overcome.
I never really thought this was an issue here in the U.S. I was born here in the U.S. But based on my very common Gujarati lastnamre, my lower caste status is obvious. But I'v never faced any caste related issues in the U.S. Not even with indian co-workers that grew up India and could be more caste aware.
Ah, right. I forgot that trolling scientific publications was a thing now-a-days. Shame on me.
I'm taking the mostly immersion approach to language learning. I just watch hours of Japanese gaming youtubers and whenever a word starts to stand out, I look it up if it wasn't obvious from the context. I estimate that I learn a new word every 2 hours of content

I looked into traditional methods, I also know about Antimoon, AJATT, MIA, RTK, WaniKani, Anki/SRS, etc. But I'm too low in conscientiousness to stick to a plan, and I burn out on SRS and mnemonics after about 500 cards, even with reasonably low card rates. The mnemonics become a frustrating scramble of meaning in my head.

Just last night I learned the words for mirror and crime with almost no effort and I still remember them today. That's two words learned, both only encountered once, in context. I even have the image in my head of one of the in game mirrors. That kind of "fast mapping" just doesn't occur any other way (that I can find). I've also picked up plenty of written Japanese, including kanji, from menu screens, subtitles, etc.
I don't know if you've visited @pinboard on twitter recently, but it seems like Maciej's priorities may lie elsewhere at the moment, and I for one am OK with that.

https://twitter.com/Pinboard
Ideation Hack: Straw Man Proposal
I was sort of into the term 'black brane' then I saw figure 1 and closed the tab.
Second-hand TV wipes out broadband for entire village
Not IPv6