skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes: the content was political. The president was directly rebuking celebrities for taking positions that he didn't like, and one of them was responding directly. But that sort of thing happened almost every day in the Trump administration. On average, it happened more than once per day. And it generally happened via the shallowest of forums: Twitter.

It shouldn't be front-page news if it happens so frequently and through such shallow exchanges. Really newsworthy events are happening every day, but instead of covering them, the Times chose to put a Twitter squabble on its front page. I don't think that we can justify its decision just by noting that the content was political and that the parties to the dispute were prominent.
Posing as Amazon seller, consumer group investigates fake-review industry
Two visionaries: Marie Curie forged a friendship with dancer Loïe Fuller
Percy?
Don’t fall for this Elite Dangerous scam
Please also see primitive.io which is a VR browser for GitHub.
Dear Email Industry, I hope you become obsolete real fast.

Does anyone really read those e-mails websites send them? I can't be the only one looking for the unsub link immediately because you accidentally left the check 'subscribe to our newsletter' on when ordering something.

You know, those checks that are turned back on when you post the form but are redirected to the form because of validation errors.
US may not have enough Covid-19 vaccines for everybody until June
Also, what does it convey if translated into (say) Egyptian hieroglyphs, if you're an ancient Egyptian who can read hieroglyphs...
It's not unique to Pixar. Many stories and so many films follow the Hero's journey: a common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey).

The character needn't be a hero either, if you consider Dan Harmons story circle technique (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Harmon#"Story_Circle"_tech...):

1. A character is in a zone of comfort or familiarity.

2. They desire something.

3. They enter an unfamiliar situation.

4. They adapt to that situation.

5. They get that which they wanted.

6. They pay a heavy price for it.

7. They return to their familiar situation.

8. They have changed as a result of the journey.
He's only spinning because dudes like you don't allow him to rest in peace by bringing his name as an appeal to authority on irrelevant topics. Please stop.
I’m amazed at how much of early memes were like “hey look I photoshopped these words into a sign somewhere”, whereas now it’s just “here’s a funny picture that I drew words on”. I think the current way is better? Less skill to execute, but more variety in content.
I used this two days ago just on HN
This is how the police operates in the UK too.
Amazing, I had never heard of this before but am digging its suggestions. Thanks for bringing this into my life!
SQLite has been around 20 years and designed to solve the kinds of problems being discussed. It’s older than git and nearly as old as SSH! So I don’t think it’s fair to brush this conversation with the same brush as those who advocate using Kubernetes for running a couple daemons.
Additionally, before emojis, we were saying things like :shrug: in IMs and we conveyed the same thing. It was a specific variation of text, which I still imagine emojis to be. I don't think the shrug emoji is more efficient at conveying sentiment than :shrug:
I think most people are aware that vaccines are currently in short supply and the most vulnerable and front-line workers should get them first.
I'm a little confused about your remark, "even in the excerpt posted here". Do you expect Taibbi to prove that Marcuse was a pseudo-intellectual, and also that his works were as "influential as [Taibbi] claims" -- all in the excerpt? Isn't that akin to demanding a movie trailer divulge the entire plot of a film?

In any case, I did read the entire article, and I submit that Taibbi provides good enough proof on the pseudo-intellectuality claim. Here's a passage he quotes from Marcuse, on the "tyranny of affluence"

> The systematic moronization of children and adults alike by publicity and propaganda, the release of destructiveness in aggressive driving, the recruitment for and training of special forces, the impotent and benevolent tolerance toward outright deception in merchandizing, waste, and planned obsolescence…

When aggressive driving is offered as the terrible outcome of the tyranny of affluence, requiring suspension of basic civil liberties and freedom of speech, then for me at least there's sufficient proof that Marcuse has both feet firmly planted in BS territory.

As for your second claim, that the excerpt doesn't prove Marcuse's influence, I think your case is stronger here. Thankfully, you provided a link from "someone with expertise in philosophy", and I will quote literally the second paragraph:

> The Frankfurt School has had an enormous impact on philosophy as well as social and political theory in the United States and around the world. In the 1960s Marcuse ascended to prominence and became one of the best known philosophers and social theorists in the world. He was often referred to as the Guru of the New Left (a title which he rejected). During the late 1970s through the 1990s, Marcuse’s popularity began to wane as he was eclipsed by second and third generation critical theorists, postmodernism, Rawlsian liberalism, and his former colleagues Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin. In recent years there has been a new surge of interest in Marcuse.

"enormous impact on philosophy as well as social and political theory"
"Guru of the New Left"
"new surge of interest"

As an aside, I note with amusement that an article, questioning the intellectual foundations of a social movement seeking to restrict free speech (and has already achieved much "success" in this area), has been flagged so as to reduce discussion. Bravo, very appropriate!
For reference, what does the iOS keyboard you're seeing look like?

Selecting the text field in Android just pops up my selected keyboard (Gboard), which includes an Enter key.
If you aren't accidentally switching your AMs and PMs, you should really consider leaning into your sleep schedule. If you're going to sleep in the morning (6am?), just stay up one night/morning until 4pm, and then naturally sleep until 3am. Congratulations, you are now an early bird.

That said, you might have done constraints enforcing this bizarre schedule. It doesn't really make sense to me without more details.
Also, Airpod Pros were also not made with cold weather in mind. The squeeze can become impossible with gloves on.
And FWIW Open Firmware runs on x86 too.
The question is whether these advantages are because text is a better communication medium, or because of the limitations of our technology?

Take using a computer to type a word versus draw a picture: Effectively everyone who uses a computer can type a word, but I'd bet less than 10% could draw a circle.

But put a piece of paper in front of someone and effectively everyone can draw a circle.

This points to there being a limitation in the technology for working with other forms of media, not the effectiveness of the communication medium itself.

This isn't to say that text isn't also a better communication medium, but it is to say, until the technology has improved for communicating with other media, it's difficult to compare without basing the decision on the limitations of the technology.

In other words, most of the perceived advantages of text are really advantages of text being easier to represent digitally (or generally reproduced, e.g., printing press), not advantages of text as a communication medium itself.
Smart statisticians or the next best thing - the kitchen sink black box method
New CT Study of the “Brave Pharaoh” Mummy who ruled 3,500 years ago
Thank you. I get better at the "paperwork" parts every time.

And I know my friends I've done it for before wouldn't be surprised that I keep volunteering to do it, and would, if they were around to do so, grin and say "yep, that's mst" at the fact I'm willing to use my experience on behalf of them to make it easier for others.

This really isn't a selfless offer. It makes -me- feel better, and I know they'd approve. So, yeah, seriously people, if you need a hand with this stuff, come poke me with a stick (and I mean that in general, freenode I know far too well, anywhere else I might not know that well but I'll try to help anyway because it'll be easier for me to think it through than it will for you if you just lost a friend).
Fittingly it's the 100th anniversary of Freud's publishing of seminal monograph Group Psychology

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35877

Which in turn gave us Bion's Group Dynamics

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://tpocambodi...

Which was the basis for Shirky's A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy

https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2005-shirky-agroupisit...

And of course we can trace many of these observations and questions of group dynamics such as membership and leadership qualifications, rules making and enforcement, moderation, identity, cohesion, conflict resolution, growth and decay, prestige and influence, etc back further, to Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, Avicenna, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Le Bon ...

So it has ever been. Group dynamics are hard, film at eleven :)
It seems sensible to have that logic apply globally, not just within first-world countries.
Maybe the treatments and risk data for Covid in youth back then weren't good enough to be sure of the ethics of this study?
Show HN: Mailoji – Emoji Email Addresses
I sometimes cannot tell if HN users are being sarcastic, or are genuinely out of touch with how people use technology.

You're not a typical user if you have Thunderbird, let alone Evolution. Gmail is the de-facto standard provider for personal email. People use web clients on their computers, and either the Gmail app or Apple's apps on mobile. Those load images by default, and render HTML. If you're using Thunderbird on your PC or K-9 on your Android, you're in a minority, and your habits don't reflect the vast masses targeted by marketers.
I don't think people are afraid of moving forward. Plenty of alternatives have been proposed, and text remains as effective as ever.

The problem with punch cards is that they weren't effective: they were what technology permitted back then. But technology permits many other things besides text nowadays, and text still remains an amazing and effective piece of "technology", in the broadest sense of the term.

Are we communicating, right now, via animation or fancy PowerPoint slides?
I don't think we are bad at it. I can look at multiple weather sites, get hourly predictions that typically are correct, and even accurately predict the differences between my location and towns 30 minutes away. I can look at predicated radar for the next 4 hours, and accurately dodge storms when exploring the mountains. In my experience, forecasts are accurate all but a few days a year. To be fair, those few days tend to be notable... but if the forecasts are correct 360 days a year, with 5 glaring days of error, that still feels pretty good to me.
> to document the hateful and bigoted beliefs of folks who frequent certain influential forums

This seems like the sort of thing the Chinese Robber Fallacy was invented to describe.
No surprises there. Babylon has special connections to the UK government as both part of the coronavirus technology task force and the health secretary being a regular cheerleader for them.

So yes, they are able to get away with any sort of disaster like this one.
Where there's soil undisturbed, there are insects. Where there are insects, there are larger creatures. Of course, undergrowth would help.
> Worst for me would be Cars 2

TBH I keep forgetting that movie exists. It was such a weird moment for them.
> All that stuff is not just relevant to tensorflow / pytorch stuff but also databases.

Yes! and that's the beauty of it. It is not an accelerator, these are fully generic cores.

Not equivalent to 'smart' Intel cores with all the branch prediction, prefetching and caching magic; but with massive computation capabilities nonetheless.

GPUs do have massive amounts of memory (both in RAM and registers), but you have to have preloaded your stuff into it beforehand. And what you can actually do efficiently are SIMD operations.

I'd liken PIM to a better GPU-CPU blend: you get to keep your CPU doing its things with massive parallel operations concurrently. Also, these seem to be mostly independent cores, so you would not be limited to SIMD.

Let's bet: in 10 years, AWS will have a new offering: the 'nano lambda'. You get a PIM core share, with 10 MB local 'persistent' RAM (keeping your data + a continuation of your code when it is not running), running your tiny Loom thread [1], at the edge, billed at 1us granularity, only when it is running, and for 0.0000000000000001 USD per us.

[1] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/Loom-Proposal.ht...
Text has the benefit of extensibility and loose datatyping - you can encode all sorts of stuff as text, and with a bit of care, extend the "protocol" (human or machine) in such a way that receivers (current or future) can decode it (with a high degree of precision), even if you hadn't previously agreed on the protocol.

You can of course do this with multimedia or any other encoding, but text is pretty great at on-the-fly extensibility.
Platform for creating and sharing random text generators
I've always had massive issues getting to sleep (still do), and consequently waking up again in the morning.

A couple of years ago I inherited my Grandparents clockwork pendulum clock which ticks quite loudly and also chimes the hours and a single chime on the half hour.

I still have an alarm set on my phone just in case, but after a couple of months I found myself consistently aware that I've woken up naturally before my alarm has had a chance to go off. And as I'm not shocked awake by the alarm I'm feeling a lot better on a morning because of it.

I can only assume that I'm subconsciously aware of the time passing and what time it is from the chiming, rather than a period of obliviousness and then a sudden shock. If I forget to wind it so it stops I tend to sleep in late and get woken by the alarm.

I do find it slightly surprising as I used to be one of those people where a ticking wristwatch wrapped in a sock in the bottom of a draw on the other side of the house would keep me awake when I was younger. Having the wall clock audibly ticking across the house has actually become quite calming and soporific.
Author of this article here. If you have any questions feel free to ask them!
Gmail at least still shows them by default, and that gets you most personal email users in one go. I know Apple Mail does as well.
Please don’t run a kerosene heater indoors without an amazing ventilation system.
Hi HN

I'm 25 year old developer from England trying to get better at building & launching all the product ideas I have written down in my phone. Mailoji is the sixth project I've built as part of my Tiny Projects mission.

Over Christmas I started tinkering around with emoji domains, which got me wondering - wouldn't it be cool if you could have an emoji email address like elon@[rocket-emoji]?

After a month of experimentation, and obtaining 250+ emoji domain names, I'm proud to launch Mailoji!

A Mailoji is just a normal email address like the one you have now. However, instead of your email address ending with @gmail or @yahoo, a mailoji email address ends with an emoji.

You can send emails to an emoji email address from most major email clients and they simply get forwarded to your regular email.

Mailojis are fun, and a bit silly, but they can really add a futuristic flair to anything. They're great for marketing and really stand out.

This was a really fun build, If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them!

Ben
FWIW: It's quite a nice game.

If you like retro games fire up an emulator and give it a try.
They have a valid point, however. What is now widely considered to be a "water gun" emoji started out as an actual gun, but Apple decided at one point that they were going to be "progressive" and changed it to a water gun. To me, this upends the entire idea of emoji having a stable definition.
He alludes to the fact that the text you wrote as a comment is transmitted as "information" in the form of bytes.

But to formulate a counterpoint to this argument and support your original comment: The bytes we send via cables to transmit text are at a basic level just that: bytes. Ones and zeros. What makes these bytes understandable information is the fact that we have all agreed that a certain sequence of bits is assigned to a certain picture: A text symbol. This agreement has been a major source of pains and problems throughout the history of computing, think all these different text encodings and the problems that arise when you try to open a file with a different encoding than the one which it was saved with: You see a gibberish of symbols that do not make sense.

Which is why you have a point here: The pc does not care what information it transmits, it is only text because we have "taught" the pc to display a specific symbol (picture) when a certain sequence of bits is encountered.
VPNs Bought with Crypto – Thoughts?
> Does anyone really read those e-mails websites send them? I can't be the only one looking for the unsub link immediately because you accidentally left the check 'subscribe to our newsletter' on when ordering something.

Yes, a few people read and engage with them. They're so inexpensive to send that many companies can justify the cost with a conversion rate of < 1%.
Apples and oranges. The post states that the used Twitter logo PNG is 4000 bytes, while it's only 723. Try to express that logo in text, English language and in all its details with 723 characters, so you are able to reproduce a pixel perfect representation. Not even possible with 4000 characters anyway. Don't bother. Text will be ambiguous, unless you describe every single detail. If the target is to communicate "Twitter logo" then sure, just write that. But if you compare 723 bytes of "data" with just a few specific information pieces contained within that data ... sure, text might be better.

> text is the most powerful, useful, effective communication technology ever, period.

Nothing of this is actually true, period.

> I do not post to this blog with the intention of entertaining Hacker News Debate Club and I frequently disable comments or friend-lock posts in order to avoid this sort of nonsense. I'm not interested in further discussion.

Ah yes, the true seal of quality. (sarcasm)
Some of the most valuable books have more to do with the inner world than the outer.

Other than binding, which can be re-done pretty easily, paperbacks are readable after 50-100 years.

The paper may yellow, but crumbling takes a bit longer.
> XML still survives, though. The tooling is good. If you type XAML or HTML in the right editors, it's serves the purpose competently and without drama.

HTML isn't XML, though XML was inspired by HTML and HTML has an XML serialization.

IIRC, some or all of the versions of XAML aren't, strictly, XML either, merely XML-derivedl0
At the very least, it could warn you when you pull a repo with submodules without —recurse-submodules. But it doesn’t, it just silently does nothing.
What I do with the email is invisible to the sender and it's ok. It's actually the way it should be.

I clearly expressed interest in your newsletter by confirming the double opt-in.

It's also ok if I open your newsletter only once in a while, I may be busy, or I only want to read your content when its title click something in me.

The most successful newsletters respect this and did so for so many years. They never messed up with my subscription. I will never mark them as spam because I trust them. And there is a clear unsubscribe link in every one of them that I can click if I change my mind.

This is nothing new, Permission Marketing from Seth Godin is what, more than 20 years old now?

Instead, automation looks always fun and clever, until your growth-hack goes wrong.
Speech is not a communication "technology"; unlike writing, it didn't have to be "discovered".
I wonder if it simply has to do with production capacity. They probably simply don't have the capacity to supply all markets and decided to drop the US market since they see that as the hardest market to break into.
I wouldn’t have thought of this without your comment but i don’t know if it’s related. Media, including text, is sort of a cognitive baseband.
Why did that happen?
> media is more efficient at transmitting sentiment

I don't agree with that. A photo doesn't contain much information about the emotional state of the photographer, unlike a few lines in a diary. My travel diaries are much richer in sentiment than my travel photos.

To me, emojis are a form of data compression. Common concepts are compressed into symbols: happy, sad, car, eggplant with 3 drops. Emojis are macros. That works as long as you exchange common concepts ("I feel sick"), but it falls flat if you need to venture beyond that ("My back is itchy"). You couldn't write a country's constitution with emojis. At least you shouldn't.

Likewise, a picture only shows what's visible. Travel photos don't capture the smell, the temperature, or how you feel after staying up all night with a sick stomach. A few words in a diary will.
Wait you can control C it? I'm used to the boot process not accepting input.
Ah come on, this is not accurate at all.

We have tons of tech now: audio, video, charting, etc.

Circles are pretty easy in powerpoint or any such software.

The tech is obviously here already.

But still, why do people prefer sending chat texts instead of calling or video calling? Surely not because of tech.
AFAIK the internet was growing fast already in the 1980´s in academia. E.g. RFC793 which defines TCP is dated september 1981.

Also, there was a network community before the internet. Cliff Stoll’s The cuckoo’s nest, describing events from 1986, mostly happens on tymnet. There’s a paragraph in there comparing tymnet with internet.

You might be right about the www. I remember receiving my first chernobyl cows by email. The link above has only ASCII cows, the chernobyl aspect came from embedding ANSI escape sequences in there to colorize or blink the cow. The first mail programs were not escape resistant, so the cows could leak into the gui and even mess with your keyboard.
Show HN: Open Lowcode v1.15 – now with variable depth multi-dimension arrays
'UK first' moonflower to bloom in Cambridge – for 12 hours only
There are plenty of manufacturers making glass fireplace inserts that are designed to be combined with a heat accumulating flue systems. Romotop or Hoxter are examples of fancier ones. The finished stoves typically are specced to retain 50% peak heat output after 12h, 25% after 24h. Combined with automated dampers you just load the firewood, light it and can then basically forget about it as the automation takes care of regulating primary and secondary air and shutting air supply off once the fire is done burning.
dude literally last week i was researching this. what domain registrar do you use to register the domains?
What can a Boutique consultancy do for your business?
There aren't any use cases afaik. Ethereum is a casino and DeFi is just a new exciting game in the casino.
I will have to take a look at that! OpenBSD has been on my list for a while but I've never gotten around to using it successfully before.
I think The Incredibles has singular vision. I get what you are talking about though.
Wouldn't this be resolved by a good README.md?
The scanned versions are online: https://ikeamuseum.com/en/our-catalogues/

(the certificate has expired today; I’m trying to find who to alert about that)