skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> turn to the person next to you and whisper a question or look at their notes?

Person next to you has the same low quality notes you do. In my group we designated a single person to take notes and after the class you just snapped a photo, since no other materials were provided. Other people were listening and trying to understand the subject. Taking notes is distracting you from learning.

Making friends in a class of 100-200 people is hard. My friend went to a Berlin university. You are just a number there. I find it much easier to engage in a discussion using a forum.

> Meet older students

How do you approach them? You have no idea who they are. You are never in class with them. University is basically the same model as high school here. You are not picking subjects or classes, you have to follow a script. You only meet students of your year.

There are some sorts of after hours interest circles, but they start after your 6 hours of learning.

Peer learning can also be done online or after an online course.

The good parts of university are the ones that can be done outside of it, hence there's no need to visit the building at all.
How does this impact large orchestras? Some of these musicians have got to be (way) over 10 m apart. Even 10 m at the speed of sound is almost 30 ms.
The healthy stay healthy because they consciously make choices that maximizes the probability of staying healthy.
I ran the test case and then chkdsk 5 times each on 1903, 2004 and 20H2 and it came back clean every time. It’s definitely possible I missed something but until it’s consistently reproducible then I’m on the fence.

One complaint is I’d expect something at the level of MFT corruption to trigger a bugcheck (panic). Doesn’t seem safe behaviour to let the system carry on with a corrupt MFT.
I have a web page for this :) https://cincheo.com/renaud-pawlak/ You will find all my (side) projects, including the ones in standby and failed/stopped ones. Not sure these projects all fit the "cool" criteria though! ;) Never applied to HN so far since I am not sure my projects fit.
Thanks because I was about to run down the list of upvoters and just make sure they were updating me for "right" reasons. Not, hehe. I think that comment is totally right that you can upvote for, but understand if you and a handful of other people differ. No problem at all.
Different bug AFAICT. The Twitter thread is talking about corruption happening from trying to open some path. Your link talks about trying to show a specific icon leading to corruption.
I just wrote a bunch of code inside Chrome devtools to do some web scraping. It works pretty well, with a REPL, (overly aggressive) autocomplete, and good integration with the DOM, but it's also limited.

Saving and loading .js files uses a very non-standard flow. The editor is OK but I think basic operations like "find across files" are missing. It's very "canned" and not customizable.

In other words, it feels more like a debugging environment than a programming environment, which I think is basically what they were going for.
Standard ebooks have some lists like this with their public domain entries:

https://standardebooks.org/collections/modern-librarys-100-b...

Not sure how to access a master list of lists though
Moderators: Twitter is a terrible medium for long-format "articles". Can the main link be updated to this one, instead of the twitter-link?

Also: With twitter starting banning random accounts, like sci-hub, seemingly without any consistent justifications, shouldn't we reconsider twitter as valid source for HN news-stories?

Edit: seemingly different bug. Twitter is still all over terrible though.
I actually lost weight when I moved from Switzerland to the US. The food just all felt somehow gross, so I didn’t eat much (also the options on campus were incredibly limited, apart from these horrible undergraduate dining halls there were few normal choices and most only served food for around 2 hours - the food at the supermarket also felt strange)
A local group is building FairSharesApp, which is an app that tries to make you aware of the additional costs to a product. And allow you to buy that off.

AFAIK they only do CO2 emissions, yet. But when I spoke to them, they had more planned.

My problem with such products, is that they will reach the people who need it less: people who already care and try their best, will be able to do a little better; but people who don't care, won't install and use it, yet their impact is probably relatively much larger.
The next Tiktok but on a shoestring budget
Fight Ransomware, malicious encryption with immutability (OSS)
I've hacked together an anti procrastination browser plugin which blocks blacklisted pages and displays a dashboard with the alternative actions:

- a todo list - maybe I can do this small chore now?

- a break timer - maybe it's time to break?

- and some simple statistics to shame me into not going through.

If I want to go through for some reason I can solve simple adding task, which is ok when I really need to, but stops me when I am procrastinating.

It's a first version, and one of many such plugins, but it's specifically tailored to my needs. Maybe someone will find it helpful. It's here: https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/instead/ and here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instead/bokgngfmhc...
I'm impressed you did, I tried to learn the same way when I was younger, (albeit with pirated Borland C++) but never made any headway. Admittedly the library books I had access to were obsolete, and no-one in my rural area of a small country carried decent magazines on the subject.

That said, they did carry BBS magazines which led me eventually into the nascent WWW over the 14.4K modem I saved all my pocket money to buy.

Then I finally managed to access the resources to learn. God bless mailing lists.
At the time there was the argument that larger blocks were bad because they would increase the size of the chain and prevent casual users from storing the whole chain and verifying it themselves.

I think the chain was already too big for casual users at that point!
like making the choice not to have an accident or being born a certain way?
Libertarians are only slightly more rational than liberals. Both are significantly more rational and less emotional than conservatives.

>>Rational does not guarantee correct, if you don't consider all the variables.

Of course, but a rational mindset is more likely to base its beliefs on evidence and logically sound suppositions, and thus be correct, than an emotional one.

>>What is unique to Libertarians I know is an arrogance about the objective correctness (because of their lack of emotion and rationality) of their philosophy.

I think the willingness of adherents of non-libertarian ideologies to use the force of the state to force peaceful people to bend to their will reveals a greater arrogance. I find "live and let live" to show the greatest humility, but I suppose this is all subjective.
It has been a tough decision, and I still have doubts to be honest. However, I personally would never pay for analytics more than what I pay for domain+hosting. Also, the niche of mid-priced analytics is already rather full - SimpleAnalytics, Fathom, Plausible etc. But there is nothing for casual bloggers/developers, who a) value their users privacy enough to pay for it b) do not have a budget to pay 200€ annually.

I think the similar problem exists in many areas and that's what stops people from moving away from Google and such - abscence of really cheap, simplified alternatives. For example, I wouldn't pay too much for the email, no matter how good it is. But I would pay 1€/month without a doubt. It's how we perceive the value of the product. No way the number of visitors of my humble blog is worth more than my cellphone data plan or my gym. But I realise that there are people who could say that analytics should cost more than a cup of coffee.
But these are mandated by governments. In many cases, governments are interested and sometimes whole nations' existence is dependent on climate change NOT being addressed...
While I loved the show, the science was particularly bad.

For example, in the pilot episode, they pass by a Reaver ship while enroute to another planet. The encounter occurs slowly enough for the crew to get a long look at the Reaver ship as it passes. The closing speed seemed to be about 100mph at best.

Whereas with the Apollo mission to the moon, the capsule was traveling 25,000 mph, or ten times the speed of a bullet. And even then it took three days to get to the moon.

And even 25k mph is slow if we're talking about crossing actual interplanetary distances.
Or more accurately, accidentally deleted. 'losing' these records would actually be a lot worse. I wouldn't underestimate the police's ability suffer a breach and lose the records either.

It's worth remembering many of these records are are kept on the basis of non conviction (though there is a time limit).
I requested my full listening history from Spotify in an attempt to make my own version of wrapped. The repo isn't public yet, but I have scripts for reformatting the json they give you, adding timezone data from IP lookups, as well as graphing and summarizing at any timeframe granularity. It's mainly written in R, and I'm debating about adding a Shiny front end or trying to port it to a clientside web app.

I've also been working on a generative art library in common lisp (also private repo'd though :/).

If there's any interest or similar work I'd be more than happy to chat about it (hey.hn@mws.is).
Why not? I can imagine a modified abstract css machine which applies the styles to an infinitely long html document. That's much more contrived than the python case, but if we are going to be making arbitrary changes from finite machines, im not sure under what basis we would draw the line.
Get ready for a mouthful of buzzwords:

repetitive conversation automation/human in the loop chatbot/personal response cache.

Basically, if you find yourself having the same conversation (or answering the same questions) I want to make it very fast and easy to respond with the same thing (without linking people to your personal FAQ that nobody's going to read).

Currently there's only slack extension. It lets you add pair {question:response} and retrieve responses by questions using semantic similarity. So you can still be nice and respond like a human, but do it under 5 seconds.
Politics is the Mind-Killer (2007)
Yes, it's a essentially a cone with the point at Earth. The circular cross sections only get bigger as you move towards the sun. Only reason it works with the moon is b/c it's 400x smaller and 400x closer. Cool fact is that won't happen forever, the moon's orbit is slowly increasing.
"When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine." — Picasso.

^Culture is good at romanticizing the "dreamer" as divorced from (& higher than) the "doer"/implementer. Picasso might protest. This post is helpful in inviting us examine this instinct/tradition.

But that good contrariness doesn't excuse us from being more thoughtful about the chain of deduction underlying the titular claim. First, many big ideas—Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism; that software should be Free as in both Beer and Software; that unruly Democracy could possibly be sometimes a (messily, weirdly) good way of organizing people—might naturally require more doers/thinkers to implement than just the mind (few minds?) who happened to crystallize it. Non-unitary stoichiometries for progress are the rule, not the exception. Nudging a culture is already a many-body problem, & because details matter, and details scale exponentially with levels of abstraction, a project's success can improve with the number of engineering minds adding leverage to advance it.

If we take the above earnestly—that making ideas useful usually requires more people than who happened to express an idea—then noticing that more job postings exist for implementory/engineering roles than for "science" roles actually says nearly nothing about whether we as a technological culture are out of balance with science vs engineering, up to how poorly we know about the typical ratio of implementers versus dramers.

It could be that there are plenty of good "scientific" ideas in circulation; maybe what separates us from progress is earnest implementation, reflected by empirical over-demand for engineers (as this post seems to mainly argue). The aggressive scaling laws for improving AI (along existing paradigms but broader compute) are tempting support for this conclusion.

But personally, I think it comes down to your position on this underlying question. Do you believe that fundamentally _better_ data paradigms--eg those that actually compute differently & more (super)humanly--will come from ideas already articulated in the conceptual universe? Or do you think that the key to smarter data science, if it exists, has yet to be invented and may little resemble the ideas dominantly in circulation?

If the latter, then we may most desperately need data _scientists_, in addition to engineers! In the sense that society would totally benefit from generating 1 new idea from “science,” even if 1000+ had been funded but not panned out.
This is true on a global, pro-social sense, but also likely on an individual basis: if you are a thinker than surely partly what matters is what role could maximize your ∂impact/∂effort, and probabilistically, science of data is at least competitive with engineering if you think the future will look different than the present and needs to be invented.
A couple of things honestly.

The project I'm closest to 'finishing' is https://list.futbol, which aggregates silly titles found on /r/soccer. It originated from a post called something like 'It was the saddest backflip of my career...'. After that post users started keeping track of 'the list' with comparable posts. The list started living in comments, and eventually a subreddit was born (/r/saddestbackflip). What I'm doing is twofold:

- A static site built on hugo that has markdown posts per submission, it's on github here: https://github.com/midasvo/the-list so that if I get hit by bus a bus someone else can easily fork it or take it over (or if I add things that people don't like they can start their own). It also offers a really simple JSON endpoint so others can do what they want with the data. It's the communities data after all, not mine.

- A reddit bot (https://github.com/midasvo/the-list-bot) that checks top-level comments on /r/soccer for callouts (e.g. !addittothelist), creates a markdown post from the submission, commits and pushes it to a separate branch on https://github.com/midasvo/the-list, and creates a pull request. Once the pull request gets accepted, github actions go to work and the site will be updated. It already does this.

What I still want to do is to add a threshold to the parent comment, e.g. if the !addittothelist comment gets 100+ upvotes the pull request will be merged automatically.

----

Furthermore I'm working on self-hosted recipe application using Spring Boot and React. Honestly just want to use it for me and my wife, but the philosophy is that people should be able to self-host it using a container - the data is yours. If I have the time/motivation I want to add the ability to 'connect' to others instances so you can retrieve their recipes and add them to your own repository. But firstly I'll work on exports/imports.

I'm not doing this on github, but on my own gitea instance + build street using drone-ci and other stuffs.
Not only that. If you have DS & DE in different orgs, often DE is in an IT org that also has to support legacy systems that sometimes become very time intensive. So then the DS org says they can't get stuff done because DE does not deliver, and DE can't get things done because the "elder engineers" in their org are not allowing reformation. So they are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Building a niche network for Haworthia plant enthusiasts. The initial version is basically an inventory system that people can use to track inter-species breeding using QR codes on the plant. Probably the coolest bit about Haworthias is the different colours and shades you get by combining them. However, the interesting part to me is the family tree of a particular plant. How cool would it be if you can see the ancestors for each Haworthia plant and then whey you buy from a breeder you not only get a good looking plant but almost a bit of history as well?
Good luck with a lot of wasted work power because you are sad that "big Corp" can't exploit anymore "small software house". Please, this is ridiculous.

Anyway, I'm sure many others like me are sympathetic to the cause and will support companies like elastic that take this kind of decision. I don't think elastic will miss you.
Sound travels at ~1ft per ms in air so 10ms equivalent to being 10ft away. Sure, you notice the lag at that distance but it’s still possible. 30ms (or 30ft) is the point at which I would give up on trying to play rhythmic music well. That said 30ms latency is a lot of wiggle room where the speed of light is involved
The article says the path to the icon is cleared after a reboot, but what if it tries to access the icon first and fails to actually write the path to the shortcut (given that the filesystem is already hosed at that time). I wonder what happens if one creates the shortcut offline, e.g. using older MS-Windows, wine, reactOS or whatever. Then just copy the crafted lnk file to \Users\Public\Desktop and see what happens.
> the clean appearance of the screen comes mostly from laziness, but the color scheme is (obviously) deliberate. the intent was to build on an observation by edward tufte that the human system likes nature and nature is full of pale colors, so something you’re going to look at all day might best serve if it were also in relaxing shades. renee french helped me with the specifics of the color scheme (she’s a professional illustrator and my color vision is suspect), once i’d figured out how i wanted it to look. there are still some features of the color system that i put in that i think no one has ever noticed. that’s a good thing, in my opinion; the colors should fade away, if you’ll pardon the expression. having used other systems with different approaches to color screens, most especially windows XP (extra pukey), i think tufte was right.

-rob

rob pike discussing the design of plan9 on the 9fans mailing list back in 2003.

https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=111558908224071
I remember stumbling on this page in 2003-2004. When I saw the title here I thought 'I hope it's the same' - and it is! It looks exactly like it was back then[1]. Love it!

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20030202031646/http://www.ritsum...
I like this "There are things you can do".

If the easy/simple first idea after giving it zero seconds of thought isn't good enough, the possibility actually exists to give it more than zero seconds of thought and try more than one thing.

It's also possible that the simple warning does work just fine, after it's ubiquitous for a while.

Everything about a computer was baffling originally, and now grandma scans documents to create pdfs and attaches them to emails. She's still grandma, she stil is baffled by many things, but there is a whole pretty big body of good understanding that she DOES have, just like she knows how to operate many other parts of her life.

The irreversable nature of protected data could perfectly well become one of these things that everyone knows.

All it probably requires is simply being a feature of ordinary life for some amount of time.

And maybe a little more standardization around terminology and ui so that people can tell when they are dealing with a secure thing vs an ordinary thing.
I used to work with someone who used to say “I’m all out of spoons today” when it was a bad day.

I understood, but I take it that it’s from this.

The article doesn’t say when it was published but it looks quite old.

Interesting that it’s surfaced here, now.
It'll be interesting to see how this will work with USB-C unless they're being very courageous.
Ah my consciousness must have really let me down when I got a crippling autoimmune disease at 35
> ...because it would place undue burden on those lacking power to fix society - an impossible task without power...

That in itself is an irresponsible view. Nobody has the power to change society. The power we have is to make arguments and present ideas and then sometimes society changes of its own accord. Nobody is powerless to make persuasive and compelling arguments.
if you don't like it, fork elastic v7 which is still open source and use it as you wish.
This great article on TempleOS has the same comparision to Oberon: http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp...

HN discussion of the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9681501
Which website are you looking at? The release notes I saw said Bullseye would use the 4.19 kernel. I expect them to use a LTS kernel, so I'd be a bit surprised if they choose 5.10.
I'm not so much fascinated as scared by how many investment banks are heavily reliant on Excel.

A former co-worker used to work in London for a bank, his job was to maintain the linked Excel spreadsheets that were business critical - and only took six hours to produce a result.

He found moving to the Java ecosystem rather relaxing and uncomplicated in comparison.
you can divide stock between 2 parties, maybe fair, maybe unfair, but that's it. A house will be up for sale when neither can afford it on their own, and a lot of money gets lost just in the process
Do you mean that Israel is justified to assassinate scientists which are or have been developing weapons that may or may have been used against Israel? Are you applying the same ethic to other nations?
Pretty sure professional US bakers also work by weight. It’s much simpler and more reliable, especially when you have to deal with aerable dry goods (flours, powdered sugar, cocoa powder) or solids (butter).
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I use jsfiddle a lot for small experiments. Another grate website is

https://codesandbox.io
I just bought a new MBP 16 3 months ago but I would buy again to get rid of my Touch Bar. I do like the Touch ID though!
yahoo.com

I was a child back in the 90s and growing up in a lower middle class family in a developing country, we didn’t have the luxury of a consistently good internet connection. But whenever I have the chance to connect, Yahoo was perfect for me because you can see everything in one page, specifically the top international headlines + the search bar.

In the early 2000s, I’d say my favorite is stumbleupon.com.