skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a magazine, but the Thinking About Things newsletter is always interesting. https://www.thinking-about-things.com
Must drive you nuts to believe this and yet see bitcoin become so ubiquitous
>But I suspect that is rarer than you expect (look at how we went from mental illness in general, to schizophrenia, now to coma patients).

I think it's relatively common for people with mental illness to end up in a situation they themselves can't recover from, and my examples were hyperbolic as you seemed to deny the very existence of such people. They generally recover with help from those close to them, medical experts, and government support.

>Unless you’re intimately familiar with someone’s situation, how can you judge?

I don't need intimacy with anyone's situation, all I said was that some portion of the 30,000 incidents of mental illness could not control their disorders and would need help.

>I’ve found it more helpful to focus on how one can succeed, whether for myself or loved ones

I'm guessing my post was misunderstood, as here you seem to be trying to help others rather than forcing them to accomplish it by willpower alone.
> That creates a lot of drag that the fan needs to overcome to produce net thrust.

That's a great point, thank you for educating me.
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In my own experience almost every motherboard will happily accept unbuffered ECC ram and ignore the parity bit. Registered DIMMs, however, will only work with both MCH and BIOS support so I don't expect them to work unless explicitly stated in the specs.
can't wait for the "work from home tax".
The focus is on older devices - which Apple might still support somewhat - but most apps won't. I can't get any new apps on my iPad 2, which went upto iOS9. I'm having to run it on iOS8 though, because iOS9 basically makes it unusable by being super-slow.
I think that's right. They start out life as inline-block elements.
Created Next.js starter kit with everything you need to start building web apps
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/pbteja1998/nextjs-starter

Live Demo: https://next-starter.vercel.app/
> ... many third party NeXT developers added their own magic dust to create revolutionary products, like the world's first web browser...
Wow that is funny. I think that the world is still somewhat disconnected. How do you find prior research that happened on the other side of the world? There might not be good tools to do so, if we're stuck with simple keyword searching or something like that.

I think it's likely that ancient (or not-so-ancient but far from the roots of European civilization) scholars invented a lot of things before the so-called inventors. Many more than we'll ever know about.

I usually say something like "It's really dumb that we recognize the inventors of things, because if not for that person, someone else would have discovered it in a year, or a decade, or a hundred years, and those potential inventors get no credit" but in this case it might sound like a Westerner trying to downplay the accomplishments of non-Western scholars.
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Compared to Photoshop or Lightroom levels of quality editing, it's a bit weak and seems to modify contrast too much when loading images, but I love using it for quick edits of my own photos. Nice, light application and since it's free, hardly can expect some of the deeper quality I've gotten from paid platforms.
Finally time for a new name?
I don’t need one. The trump campaign is desperate for evidence. They are scraping the bottom of the barrel and claiming ballots with chocolate sauce on it to be thrown out. If that’s the best they can provide, they would have jumped at this one and it would lead to a thousand lawsuits.
they should invite the Blender people over to fix the UI for them :-)
GIMP has been one of my constantly used software for over 20 years. I recall messing with text effects and some Python-fu. Still use it to this day for all kinds of editing.

And it gave us GTK!

Congrats.
I'm not an expert in the matter, just am talking about your specific claim

> most concert pianists and serious competitors have absolutely gigantic hands

which I still doubt, unless you have data supporting that. Depends on what you mean "absolutely gigantic" and how you define "serious competitors" etc.

Also, almost every sentence in your reply uses exaggeration, so it does seem you allow that to yourself but insist others speak accurately. Maybe this is just a case of that, not to be taken literally. It seems so. And nobody apart from you mentioned limiting that matter to "great" pianists - a straw man.
The Democrats also have no interest in addressing it, they're largely funded by the same people as the Republicans.
There's already a fork for that, and it doesn't appear to have much mindshare.
Except that it's not. Plus, I'm not angry - I'm have a great fun observing greedy people repeating the same mistakes so many times. Stupid people never learn! Greedy people never stop! I will paraphrase, but in my country, we have the saying: "Greed breaks your neck."
I believe road wear is calculated as the 4th power of axle weight. Trucks have many axles to distribute the load, and are forced to stop at weigh stations to verify that they are within weight requirements.

As far as road tax, the current system works pretty fairly for ICE engines, in my opinion. The larger the vehicle, the more powerful the engine, and thus the lower the efficiency.

So semis are paying higher road tax than a little sub-compact car.

Also, the more you drive, the more fuel you use, which means the more road tax you end up paying.

With an electric car, the incentives are all out of whack. Roads don't wear less just because you have an electric motor turning your wheels.

There is a similar issue with home solar panel installs. Utilities factor maintenance costs in as a part of their kwh rates. If you have solar panels rewinding your meter back to basically zero, suddenly you are hurting the utility company in two ways: They are buying electricity from you at retail instead of wholesale, and you are no longer paying your line maintenance fees.

It's great to give incentives for new technology, but as they say, you can't scale losing money on every transaction into a profitable business.
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In the US, there is the fiction that FICA pays for your Social Security pension, somewhat proportional to your contribution, though high contributors don’t get benefits in proportion to contribution. There is a legitimate fear by the government that if it becomes viewed as just another income tax that political support for the tax will evaporate. It is really important for it to be viewed as a pension contribution of sorts, which is obviously capped by how much it pays out.

If you did not limit the taxes and they explicitly became income taxes (in appearance), many upper-middle class Americans would find themselves paying upwards of 50-60% taxes on income for vanishingly few benefits. That has political ramifications that the government would rather avoid.

The challenge for the US is that the taxes on the middle class are very low relative to e.g. Europe. But they cannot squeeze enough taxes from the top 20% that pay most net taxes to make up the difference.
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I don’t think I really understood Ruby classes until I learned JavaScript (which didn’t really have classes at the time, and are still pretty different). The mental model that developed for me was that classes are basically fancy functions that create objects.
You’re full of shit. Anyone whose hands can reach an octave (read: everyone) can become the greatest pianist of all time. The assumption that large hands are needed for great piano play is one made by those who have never heard La Campanella or Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody. My piano teacher could scarcely reach an octave and one additional note and was still able to play any piece she wished to nearly perfectly.

Edit: y’all wanna see the real sexism of today? It’s comments like this that make women feel like they can’t reach the skill ceiling of a given activity.
No. It's a simple way of saying I'd love to live longer than a human lifetime, but would never want to be immortal.
That’s a fantastic point about science fiction. There are two things I find exciting about sci fi: the space opera and the morality stories.

Science fiction was initially attractive because of the former, but the way the morality stories made me think about the world around me is what’s made me want to delve deeper and deeper into the classics.

Concrete examples:

The Mote In God’s Eye on xenophobia and the seemingly intractable problem of diplomatic entente between nation states where one or both are threatened with survival.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress on revolutionary colonial politics.

Speaker for the Dead on the corruption of ecologies that we fundamentally don’t understand.

Real literature has never felt accessible to me. Sci-fi gave me a joy of reading that Candide never did.
Agreed. It's an unfortunate word. There are better choices that wouldn't exclude people.
Jingoism since Indian Pharmaceutical companies import 80% API from China https://archive.is/I2FGx
Exactly, it seems people take strong opinion only just to defend their stocks, it reminds me of the $TSLA fanboiz
I quit FB, Twitter, Reddit some time ago. Haven’t missed it. I cut my Instagram follows and followers to family and close friends. Almost never comment. No drama, no FOMO. Ask yourself what you’re getting out of social media. You’re probably not missing anything.
There have been "cloud" router products already. Cisco / Linksys had some, if memory serves. Have the router pull DHCP from the ISP, call home to the mother ship, then have the user configure it with an "app" on their phone. The vast majority of router buyers don't want to configure anything anyway.
Just curious what's wrong in using Microwave weapons ?
Why in the world would they build on S3 rather than EBS?
On this same subject I'm particularly fond of the photos by Lu Guang of China: https://artpil.com/lu-guang/, many depict the human suffering around such landscapes; Lu was detained by Chinese authorities in November 2018 and released a year later.
I pay $20/yr for unlimited accounts, 50GB of storage with mxroute. I've been quite happy with it. $30/yr for domain + email is worth it considering how important your address is for absolutely everything on the web
I learned how to solder, program Arduino, print on a 3D printer and use fusion 360... really why so many people feel like 40 is old?
That's an interesting idea. Does a chromatic keyboard layout exist?
Western-favoring narratives like the one in this article are so prevalent that they are even accepted in Eastern countries, in part because a small set of largely Western companies publish textbooks that are used globally.
I’m not the best person to answer this - others should chime in too.

I think sadly you won’t be able to read the preeminent examples of really old antifragile code that’s still powering the world. That stuff is mostly proprietary - banks and governments and so on. Hence this article.

BUT - there are still plenty of mature open source codebases to read, especially operating systems, databases, and Unix utilities. Sure, they’re living projects that now look quite different from the original, but they’re descended from code a few decades old and written in the same language — C. There’s Emacs (35 yrs old), GCC (33 yrs), the Linux kernel (29 yrs), MySQL (25 yrs), and Postgres (a youngster, only 24).

And then there’s the programming languages. C itself is now 48 years old! Since it’s the language of the Linux Kernel and Postgres and so much else, I’d be willing to bet it’ll be around for another 48 years. (Yes, I love Rust, and I’d use it over C for any new project, but this is the Linux Kernel folks!)

But - since this is Hacker News - I should note that C is beaten by a long long way by Lisp, which is 62 years old. That’s older than COBOL - and people still love it. John McCarthy really had programming figured out.
> I’ve never read anything about AMP that claims the intent is privacy.

Why else do you think it loads from Google's cache?

> it seems to me that Google could do the exact same thing with normal webpages.

Nope. The publisher needs to opt in to having their content served by Google; and the ad metrics, analytics, and login need to be delayed until the user clicks on the result. That can't happen without cooperation from the page. Hence AMP. I don't even do web development, and the design of AMP is mind-numbingly obvious even to me.
Yup.

The assembly language for this chip will be redstone :)
Not really...

They are one of the _first_ abstractions, and they are quite fundamental. That's why they all still exist in the way they are.

Just look at the name: "file". And "directory". Where do these terms come from? Right, from organizing things, mainly offices. And offices are organized like that because this is what is practical under the constraints of humans working with paper in a three dimensional space.

But looking at it semantically, almost no one really wants to only use files or directories. We mostly want to use semantical tags. And one kind of tag can be a hierarchical "directory/file" tag - fair enough. But that's only a small part of the picture, because we also want to tag our objects/entities by date, creator, department, security clearance level, how long they have to be archived and so on. Using just a filesystem does not provide this, so we have to build on top of that.

And you can see that this is changing. Look at phones nowadays. They don't use this anymore. Pictures are stored in collections/groups, can be tagged and sorted in various ways. They can be seen on a geographical map. And much more. No one has a directory/file structure in their head.

So the question is: does the OS still need to support that? Actually, maybe not. Maybe SSDs today can work much more efficient if we don't assume everything must be a file.

Just wait, we will get there.
It would have been a perfect opportunity to rename the project, but until then, in case anyone reading this isn't aware, there's prior work for a fork under a new name, as Glimpse -- https://glimpse-editor.github.io/

I can attest that Glimpse works as expected, and you don't have to wince when a client asks what tools you used.
Isn't this the opposite of what some professional athletes do - sleeping in rooms with reduced O2 to increase their VO2 Max (simulating altitude). If this is the opposite would it reduce the amount of red blood cells you have?
I feel there is a lot of fear mongering around deliverability of emails all over the Internet which is helping the big companies to centralise a thing like email.

I have had my own email server sending emails which were not marked as spam. also I have had cases where email from Gmail addresses/ips would be actually spam.

I urge everyone to start using their own mail servers so the ecosystem around self hosting emails becomes super smooth.

why do receivers still rely on ip addresses when we have dkim and spf?
If manufacturers would just make good datasheets available for their devices like they used to it wouldn't matter.
Look everyone, someone is offended! A first for 2020! Someone give this guy an award!
The question here is not of precedence but rather source. This article does not appear to be about mutually independent and unconnected discoveries. Rather it raises the point that Kerala Mathematics was communicated to Europe and probably might have informed the mathematics there. If yes, and a huge IF, it is quiet intriguing and rewrites the history of mathematics. Atleast that is my reading of this article.
And the roads in reverse. Australian roads are massive (and fast) compared to Europe.
This argument fails to include at least 3 factors:

1) A slower infection rate prevents or at least helps with “flattening the curve,” that is, avoiding overwhelming health care systems, which impacts both COVID and non-COVID patients

2) A lower initial viral dose seems to lead to better outcomes (lowers mortality rate)

3) We are seemingly within reach of effective vaccines
Isn't that a graph db?
Between it's derogatory and sexual definitions, I can't realistically use an app called "GIMP" at work even if I was personally comfortable with it. If you're in a similar position, try Glimpse.

https://glimpse-editor.github.io/
The article got a lot of counter comments from people living in Sweden at https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/jyg8fr/covid19_s...

This commenter puts "news" in quotes which makes be believe it's not the most reliable:

"i live in nz where this "news" business operates. A lack of research has unfortunately become the norm for their articles, along with many other news agencies here."

Another

"Uh..this is just not true. There has never been a strategy of herd immunity in Sweden.
Their source for this is "Dr Nick Talley [...] editor-in-chief of the Medical Journal of Australia". That is not a reliable source, especially to me as a swede who is following my governments statements and strategy.
I have never heard anyone in the government say there is any hopes of achieving herd immunity without a vaccine, let alone that this would be a strategy. Sounds like something thinks Boris Johnson is Swedish.

You can absolutely have issues with the Swedish way of tackling covid-19, and you can certainly say it's pretty much failed, but to claim that the "herd immunity strategy" has failed is just bad research."
The tactile difference between black and white keys is quite helpful for being able to feel where within the octave your hand is. There are surely other ways, some which may be better, but it is far from trivial to figure out what form of tactile feedback would be best.

But mostly I'm skeptical such a keyboard would succeed in the market because it would be useless for for experienced pianists and would run the risk of becoming associated with novices and signal incompetence.
Looks like about 10x car miles per truck mile. So it's a rounding error in terms of road damage, it's trucks by a landslide.

https://www.bts.gov/content/us-vehicle-miles
AFAIK it has nothing to do with physical disability. The word has a lot of meanings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimp
GIMP is such a strange tool. I actually have used it, semi-frequently - since the 90s! The overall experience of using it has only changed a little in that time. And it gets the job done. I guess that makes it successful! What else has been so stable?

But of all the software I have ever used, GIMP is the most difficult to learn. I memorized a few tutorials, this must have been around Y2K, to do the a couple things. And basically I have never figured out how to do anything else in it. After twenty years. Sometime, more than a decade ago, they made the tool icons both harder to recognize visually more unpredictable in their toolbox layout, and that still slows me down, too.

I just can't think of anything else I've had this kind of relationship with - other tools, I either master, or I move on from. GIMP is an odd one.
I've used Gimp for 15 years and never once has being handicap or disabled reference crossed my mind while using this software until you just brought it up. You should reconsider reaching so hard.
I thought he was going to be mutated like a lobster...
Just finished the piece on pallets. What a fantastic story, a slice of the world i’d never considered.
Why does @dang and Hacker News think it's OK to mock the physically disabled?
You can still run GIMP on Mac. I do and love it.
Clearly yes - if you have an interesting take on the world or some corner of it, then please share it. We will all be the richer for it.

I don’t know if a traditional blog is the thing to do anymore, but there are so many ways to self publish online, and we are living in a flourishing era of self publishing. Podcasts, Substack, Patreon, etc.
A "Debian Iceweasel" style rebranding seems like the easier option.
Single Page Website, literally - love it!
I had to find time to think about this.

> The technical step is where this fails: is there a bijection f that maps integers to their representation (as you have constructed) that also maps the sequence not in the list back to an integer?

> We don't have that because f(f\inv(x)) must be on the list, but x is not on the list.

Or: the diagonal complement is not an integer, so doesn't enter into any mapping of integers to integers.

In contrast, for the presentation I saw for reals, the diagonal complement with infinite digits is of course a real, so doesn't have this problem.

BTW: the presentations I've seen used a randomly-ordered list, which avoids the all-1 diagonal. Not sure why they this - but it led to my question. Anyway, all-1 is a real, but not an integer, so that answers my question.

Thanks for taking the trouble and time to help unravel my question!

Your last para, I think, is a simpler way around the article's problem that a real can have mor one representation in. infinite digits. e.g I think .999... = 1.000...
> I can't realistically use an app called "GIMP" at work even if I was personally comfortable with it.

What kind of work do you do?
It would be much better, if it was playable at all.

I think there's a difference between musical instruments and notation, and for instance programming languages and code bases. Reading and playing are expected to happen in real time, and the physical / mental skill to do those things is typically developed when people are fairly young. It's not impossible, but learning a new kind of instrument or a new notation system gets exponentially more difficult with age.

With either instruments or notation, introducing something "better" requires people to make a serious commitment to starting practically from scratch and sucking for a long, long time, before being able to do anything productive. It's not fear, it's reality of knowing the limits of our brains and our bodies.

If you're a composer or arranger, you have to write in a standard notation in order for anybody to play your stuff. Developing a new notation system to the point of finding out if it's actually workable for reading sophisticated music in a performance setting would be a staggering undertaking. Likewise for an experimental keyboard layout. One reason why pianists like the crooked layout is that it provides visual and tactile guidance as to where things are. You can find your way around the keyboard, drunk and blindfolded. The fact that each key has its own personality becomes a feature, not a bug, in the hands of a good player.

But despite these challenges, there is extensive exploration of novel instrument layouts and designs, often conducted in an academic setting. Music is not as static as one might think. A pianist at the University of Wisconsin has developed a piano with a smaller keyboard.

https://madison.com/wsj/entertainment/music/a-smaller-piano-...
> Classes are constants

No, classes are objects.

The class declaration syntax assigns the class it creates to the constant given as the name, but it's quite possible to create a class without assigning it to a constant (e.g., via Class.new).
As usual, a revolutionary trend like this would first be carried by people who do not give a fuck, not the experienced pianists. Everyone else would eventually follow.
You linked to a disambiguation page. Here's the definition: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gimp
Twenty-seven years later, nothing has changed.
This server seems really promising as it integrates all required functionality into one application, where as compared with most other MTA's (postfix, sendmail, etc) its about a 20 step process to get it all setup correctly (dkim, spf, etc)
How is it any different than getting into credit card debt or taking out a loan for a Ferrari?

Banks are _supposed_ to evaluate the risk of a loan, not just give it out without consideration.