skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's such a bizarrely condescending comment.

What on Earth are you trying to talking about?
Yes, definitely, but most forums aren't one of the most popular websites in the world.
How does Europe’s “right to be forgotten” handle it?
I was wondering about proposing that as a compromise. Or heredocs :D
The culture change around the importance of performance is frustrating, new developers all seem to love their massive JavaScript libraries. Giving a trivial function such as search box on a webpage or some animation results in a convoluted 10MB JavaScript monster from hell. If they run into anything remotely challenging they'll simply add a library to do it for them creating more bloat. It used to be the opposite. When asked 'why not just some jQuery and DOM'? they'll reply it's too hard. React, webpack, node etc are great tools but they need to used carefully.
It's irrelevant. Apple could stop this any second by making homebrew break. They havent, it works fine on M1 and it can run x86 through rosetta.

If apple wanted to shut down alternative app stores macports and homebrew would already be dead.
Since Amazon knows whether you’re submitting a return.. they could just filter to that scenario and then provide such recommendations.
I'd be down for that, but without the "k" :)
Stress/pressure has an effect on your performance for sure. In high school I didn't have many problems but at University I found I would often choke during exams despite knowing the material and being well prepared.

I would get extremely nervous in the lead up to my university exams, I'd have difficulty falling asleep the night before, I'd be tossing and turning all night going over everything in my head and I'd feel anxious and sick (my stomach would be incredibly queasy) to the point I'd have trouble eating anything in the morning. So I'd go into my exams tired and irritable (because I hadn't eaten much) and I'd make stupid mistakes.

Eventually I got over this but it took me a year or two and it definitely had an effect on my grades.
TBird – Name your own price on travel
Thank you! It's open source, and I'd love to hear if you have any suggestions for it. Would also love to see what you're building!
Why money is changing hands much less frequently
I'm extremely ignorant about OS design, but based on this it sounds like WSL1 could be fairly described as basically Linux for the Windows kernel, whereas WSL2 is more like a really fancy VM. Is that the gist of it?
> Linux is of course the best designed and implemented among the non-realtime, not provably correct and not secure kernels

Citation needed.
again, "what evidence would you expect to see?"

Also, I hardly think that the notion that people conspired to cheat an election is extraordinary. Rather it would be extraordinary if they did not. Also as regards the suspension of belief necessary to consider elections overseas to be corrupt but not in this bastion of freedom and democracy, the good ol' U.S.A.
Oh, Discourse, probably most annoying forum software available thanks to its stupid scroll hijacking.
Those are public companies; you can do basically whatever you want with their stock, as can anyone in the investing public, because they're subject to stringent audited disclosure rules. What's interesting are the private companies that allow employees to allocate capital to company equity.
Holy cow. Which market data provider in their sane mind would send decimals as floats? I don't think I've ever encountered binary market data using anything but fixed-point decimals (so essentially, integers) for representing prices.
> The political leaders of the CCP are all trained engineers

I've heard this a lot, and I know they value engineering as a cultural trait, but according to a quick search, it doesn't seem as prevalent now. Around 2010, apparently 8 of 9 Politburo members were scientists or engineers, but that appears to have dropped in recent years.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/21...
Quit Trying to Predict the Market
Overzealous admins do see big problems with that.
Yeah, YC is funding lots of open source projects. PostHog[0] was in our batch. GitLab, Docker, Mattermost, and CoreOS come to mind as other open source YC companies.

There are a number of businesses we could build around the project. A cloud service or enterprise products/support are the obvious ones. Right now, we're focused on community building, because a potential open source business can't be successful with a healthy open source project.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22376732
Oh, that's clever! I might try that. I really don't feel comfortable building my own kernel
What's the argument here vs. paypal?
Backwards compatibility has never been Apple's interest or strong suit. That stance allows them to make transitions like this, so you won't see them giving it up anytime soon, for better or worse.
I feel an enormous amount of sympathy for those suffering from this issue, but part of the problem is that these are closed source programs and document formats.

> I opened PageMaker 4 files in PageMaker 6, opened the PageMaker 6 files in InDesign CS6, and opened the InDesign CS6 files in InDesign 2020.

If these applications (or even just the file processing parts of them) were open source, it would be much easier for someone to port them to the new platform than for someone to write an emulator for intel macs.
> Each of these studies have their own issues such as small sample sizes and self reporting

Agreed. Which is why I choose to wear a mask in public. Wearing it may help, and doesn't hurt. At worst, it is mildly inconvenient.
I am extremely tired of being told that I won't be able to eat meat in the future. It's insulting, to think that I should have to sacrifice a reasonable standard of living just so we can arbitrarily scale the human population beyond reasonable resource constraints. What's the point? Doesn't it make more sense at some point to try to stabilize things at a good level and work on making it more sustainable instead of bending over backwards so that we can triple the population of North America by 2100?
Not sure. Maybe if someone doesn't like the Google search results, they make a complaint, and Google has to do what they want.

There are many other public records databases that have similar data, including the federdal judiciary and many state courts across the country.

Some are listed on the info page: https://www.judyrecords.com/info
Yep. When you make a private investment (and I have), you have to fully expect to never see that money again. The truth is you probably won't. One time I did get a return, and it was nothing to write home about. I would've been better off buying a tech ETF.
Reimagining the Git CLI: an interview with the creator of Bit
As I understand it, it's not really possible to "improve" Win32 I/O performance -- both the fundamental I/O APIs and the NTFS on-disk storage format make high performance infeasible.

Not without either abandoning all extant FS drivers, or abandoning NTFS compatibility, anyway.

Edit: Here are the WSL 1.x's team members original comments on this subject. It sounds like a deeply intractable problem.

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-424...

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...

The second link explains why a dentry cache just isn't feasible.

The short version is that the NT IO APIs seem to have been very, very ill-considered. It's just not possible to make it fast. Even win32 operations are extremely slow, so win32 applications go out of their way to avoid doing any file I/O. Linux applications were not written with those constraints in mind.
I am as disappointed as you are! PG Wodehouse is a treasure. A while back I tweeted @gwern suggesting he could include PGW in his GPT-3 creative fiction writing experiments. Sadly he never took me up on the offer.
It makes sense in this instance, as the rule is designed to minimize the number of people whose lives will be ruined (and thrown to the state to support) by bad investing decisions, and the asset requirement both minimizes the likelihood of any one investor losing their shirt, and minimizes the number of investors. And again: the real teeth in this rule are about who issuers can market securities to, not about what random people are allowed to do.
Without making a value judgement, that is pretty much spot on
Should be good now, an annoying configuration issue on a day that we got some unexpected interest! I also think we probably have the signups, even if it didn't display a nice confirmation.
Ah; rust-analyzer syntax highlights doc tests (though not perfectly), but the higher order bit of "IDE features don't work as well" makes tons of sense, thanks!
It would be nice to be able to mount a remote linux data share as a drive without using SMB due to all the EternalBlue Ransomware issues. Having that convenience in windows file explorer like nautilus would be helpful for people who aren't necessarily power users.
Not sure I understand - in your example, isn’t it the archiving that’s to blame, rather than the tree/threaded format?

In more traditional forums (e.g. VBB) one effectively replicates the tree format through quoting - just without the tree being so clearly displayed.
You people are why some sites have ugly blurry logos/images on my 4k screen
This is really interesting; I hadn't realized it was so capable/general. I'll look into this. Thanks for the references!
That was the New York Post, not the Times.
Hopefully some collaboration can be made between swfchan and the IA. swfchan claims to have 217753 flashes: http://swfchan.com/
(Edit: NSFW. Would recommend an adblocker before opening, at least.)

It archives flashes (and their threads!) from /f/ and others. A great historical resource.

The presentation of swfchan may not be for everyone, but it does hold an immense amount of data.
Now I really want to know what it's like working on the team that repaints the bridge for years or decades on end.
While mini retro consoles are still all the rage, a retro console that has a flash emulator, with a keyboard, mouse, and a vast database of classic SWFs, would be awesome.
> What is creative coding?

The project's readme links to a wikipedia page that defines the term and provides examples.

"Creative coding is a type of computer programming in which the goal is to create something expressive instead of something functional."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_coding
Congrats! Flash games and videos were a huge part of my childhood. It's heartwarming to see people dedicated to preserve such a treasure trove of the older internet.
Is this Apple's fault? Processors change architecture. Code becomes obsolete. I don't want to minimize the problem the author is decrying, but it doesn't seem like specifically Apple's fault.

That being said, why write an emulator to ARM? Apple Silicon will die someday as well. Write an emulator to JavaScript. If there's a day where JavaScript isn't a valid platform, we'll probably have transcended physical matter by then. There's definitely prior art in browser emulators too.
Reddit AMP flat out doesn’t scroll on my phone. The whole page is actually totally broken.
Perhaps archiving to PDF is the right solution to this specific dilemma?
I'm too sad today to engage with the discussion here, but I'll just mention, for those of you who think that Arecibo has either "outlived its usefulness" or been supplanted by FAST in China:

Here's Arecibo on the cover of Nature in 2018: [1]. Yes, we are doing similar work at FAST as well, but one is not a replacement for the other.

And here's a link to NANOGrav: [2]. I promise that you'll hear more about NANOGrav in a year or two, depending on how publication timelines work out. And it wouldn't be possible without Arecibo - now that it's gone, we have to seriously contemplate how to move on beyond our 15-year data set (already in the can).

[1] https://twitter.com/nature/status/951423495107481602
[2] http://nanograv.org/
Why can't they sell off naming rights to the Observatory and just rebuild it from scratch? I don't care if it is the "Elon Musk Radio Telescope" if it means it gets rebuilt with modern equipment and materials.

I'm guessing you could do the whole thing for less than $300M.
I find IO on windows is fine, the problem with WSL1 was that the standard windows model doesn't line up well with Linux (fairly fundamental things like in Linux you can delete open files, which you can't do in Windows).

You couldn't switch Windows to a more linux-like model, it would break all existing windows programs.
Yes news sites are the worst of the bunch but then we get people complaining about full web apps using JS when there is no real alternative.
Unpopular opinion: Microsoft was afraid that WSL 1.0 would "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" the Windows OS.
For most apps that I've use, jQuery and DOM would be able to do it, just no where near as well as react or vue. We're building web apps that are highly responsive with lots of UI effects. Even when it seems like there isn't much FE code going on, you'll normally find that majority of it is now done with preloading and XHR calls to give a smoother feeling. As long as a site fully loads within 2 seconds then I'm ok with that.
If _everyone_ wore masks and followed very basic guidelines, the virus would be dead in the water and we could go about living mostly normal lives. People could visit their loved ones, say goodbye to the terminally ill, work, have outdoor dining, see drive in movies. Scarce little impact on quality of life.

Instead vast swathes of the U.S. and other countries flout even the most basic precautions making it impossible for the rest of us to live normal lives.

The argument that being safe == poor quality of life presents a false dichotomy. The truth is that we can be safe _and_ have the same quality of life. Instead many have chosen the third option: they believe that their "right" to shop at Walmart without an extra piece of clothing is more important than people being able to say goodbye to loved ones; more important than their neighbor's wellbeing; more important than the economy.

I would further argue that not only would quality of life not suffer if everyone took basic precautions, in many ways QoL would be _better_. As the statistics are showing we've seen a massive dropoff in cold/flu related deaths, even with poorly implemented COVID protections. Less auto accidents and less pollution. A rise in work from home. The list goes on.

Contrary to the doom and gloom of this year, COVID was really a chance to build a better world. We might just yet do it in small ways. But much of the potential good is being squandered, as it always is, by selfish, ignorant, hateful people.
While I agree the issue is most certainly real, I feel that Apple Silicon is the scapegoat. Computing platforms need to evolve in order to progress, and sometimes the burden lies on developers to keep up. I think this is more of a story about legacy software compatibility and lack of open source solutions.
This is just a problem with technology generally and digital archives. It's part of the reason why the Internet Archive exists and its mission keeps expanding (thankfully). This is hardly unique to the Apple Silicon moment, especially as the author's concerns largely date back to M64 and PPC days.

I'm certain an open source x86 emulator on ARM will get done (QEMU already?), as these requirements aren't specific to Apple Silicon (although will likely accelerate it).

But if the author is concerned about PageMaker and old zines, why not run the original in something like SheepSaver that emulates PPC? Surely that port will exist (ARM -> PPC) with no need to run old Intel Mac apps.
I too was really sad to see WSL 1 be replaced by what seems to be just a built-in VM. One of the great things about WSL 1 is that I can run Linux tools on my laptop without the memory overhead of a VM. My laptop only has 8GB of ram which is not enough for Windows and a Linux VM to comfortably share, but plenty to run the Linux tooling I want under WSL 1.

On my desktop with 16GB of ram I can just run Virtualbox. WSL 2 solves nothing for me. Like the author I am very skeptical that WSL 1 will be maintained going forward but I hope it is.
Yep, yours definitely wins. :)
watch out I clicked on the first link on swfchan and got a lady furiously masturbating on my screen, at work.

> A great historical resource.

I wouldn't say great. It's a virus nest.
There is a native ssh client in windows 10.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...
Ok, we'll change the URL above, from https://github.com/eeeeaaii/vodka to the intro page.
> An exploit demo?

Been done, pentesters have been crying about this for years.

> An incriminating email?

After the compromise of the Clinton email server I think they learned their lesson there.

> Hell, I'd take a suspicious correlation between firmware version and vote count, even. I'm not picky.

Theres been some technical arguments but they require some expertise to evaluate and probably aren't suited for a presser.

> But that's the problem, isn't it? You want the standard of evidence for reporting an allegation (e.g. "the election was stolen") to place the burden of proof on the listener ("Well, you can't prove the election was NOT stolen, can you?").

its a bit ironic that you can ignore existing evidence in favor of a contrary belief but claim the other side isn't presenting evidence.

> And that's pretty much the definition of "fake news". It's a lie. And they tell the lie because they know you'll believe it. And that's the problem. Not "information overload".

Oh I don't believe shit. its just odd that people are so insistent that this election was all on the up and up with no evidence whereas they aren't even willing to consider that someone might cheat in an election because "that would leave evidence and I haven't seen any"
>or that they hope the original participants are going to be notified of their reply so it'll get more attention than a new thread. Unfortunately, on some forums that's actually true and encourages this mess-making behavior.

Just last week someone posted a question on a thread from over a decade ago asking what the end result of building something was.

I and several other people party to the original discussion explained the result, the performance of the system over the past decade and that options were different now

Let's see Reddit do that.

Bumping threads from a long time ago is a feature. Not a bug.
Rational Creativity: Brief Manifesto
> It's choosing a suitable net architecture, loss function, and training methodology all of which require in-depth knowledge and lots of experimentation.

Yes, things have progressed since my time in undergrad studying NNs and such. Presumably the work done on MtG transfers.

> Even after that you're only half way there, because now the fun and exploration is over and the pain begins: finding (and worse even - annotating!) and validating training data.

Well, for A:NR there's already multiple databases and a thousand cards. That's your training set. Throw in the online league cards if you require more.

> It's much, much more involved "learning some tensorflow".

I already work in SRE for a huge AI you've heard of, but thanks for the lecture.
This is really sad news :(

I remember seeing this thing in the 1997 movie Contact:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9DuMK0uo1c
Researchers prove water has multiple liquidstates
I saw your title, and my team is currently doing a focus on testing this week and was ready to tell you about the testing for Sqlite. Now I'm sad that I don't have other examples at the ready.
its a government official speaking about the dangers of unfettered free speech. I'm genuinely at a loss as to what you want me to offer.

perhaps if you explained it to me as though I was a small child.
re: Tree-style comments are not the best format for every type of discussion.

But it sure fixed some of the more infuriating aspects of classic / linear forums:

- long (winded) conversations between posters in threads

- off-topic discussions / people de-railing the threads

- finding things from specific dates in very large threads.

Some of those things are easily fixed with very active moderation - but self-moderation (via voting) sure works fine in most cases.
We use them in production at Splitgraph [0] to power our DDN (like a CDN, but for data). We make a PostgreSQL-compatible endpoint available to the public to query any of the tens of thousands of open datasets by referencing them as virtual tables: they're not hosted by us but we proxy to them using Postgres FDWs. When a query comes in, we intercept it and redirect it to a FDW instance that handles query translation and planning from the PG dialect to that of the backend data source.

We wrote an FDW for Socrata-powered [1] government open data portals to query the public datasets that we index in the Splitgraph catalog as a proof-of-concept. However, there are plenty of other FDWs that we're working on integrating to let people add their own backend data sources (RDS, Snowflake etc).

FDW plugin quality varies (some of them can't push down all predicates or JOINs) but it's definitely an interesting way to think about accessing data. We also added a lot of scaffolding around foreign data wrappers in our open-source tool [2] that makes it easy to add a FDW-managed data source to a PostgreSQL instance.

[0] https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/data-delivery-network-launch

[1] https://www.tylertech.com/products/socrata

[2] https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/foreign-data-wrappers
I never said Haskell was a good language. Q_0 is a minimally acceptable math notation.
Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever reverse-engineered the PageMaker file formats?
That’s parochial, the Apple Store is global not just a US thing.

Folks, Apple has many faults and they’re certainly leaning on their position but don’t undermine your arguments with outrage comments
Is that still going? I used to lurk but didn't bother posting because of the sign up fee, and then I sort of assumed it went to poo poo with all the other big forums from the Silver Age of the internet. How has the culture fared in this post-GamerGate world?
Roblox S-1
React/vue/etc are not massive libraries. The problem usually comes from websites loading 5 versions of jquery and then 30 ad network scripts.

And yes, doing anything mildly responsive with jquery is too hard. And not in the "I don't know how to do this" way. Its just a huge waste of time. What takes 100 lines of jquery code can be done for free with jsx. Usually jquery sites settle for sub optimal UX because its too hard to do the things react sites do.
I dunno, I think the correct answer for the specific code is a one-line ternary:

class SanitizingFilter < HTMLFilter
def render_element(name, attrs, content)
safe?(name, attrs) ? super : nil
end
end
WSL1 hasn't gone away for those who prefer it. But we're talking about an extra gigabyte. It's still cheaper than a full VM.
This is really good to know. I had assumed it could block when allocating memory for the formatted string buffer, but the rationale explained in that article makes a lot of sense. Being able to use printk simplifes things a lot.
In general, never count solely on East Coast media to provide an accurate pulse on the entirety of the US. For anything. Europe trips up on this a lot.

Especially in the case of COVID, where NY, NJ, MA and CT have per capita death rates two to three times worse than the National average. In early May, over half of all US deaths were in the Boston to DC corridors.

The sort of folks who don’t care much about COVID aren’t posting on HN. Typically. So you will get a sampling bias towards the (over?) aware, or those who have an agenda for or against a particular position on COVID response.
Scribus 1.5.6 and Beyond
> It's not so hard that it couldn't be taught to average humans.

What makes you believe this? I can't think of a time in history when the average person could critically evaluate information successfully.