skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true.

I was doing PC tech support in 1988-1992 -- the era when the PC world went from MS-DOS to Windows 3.0 to Windows 3.1. (And a few weirdos, like me, ran OS/2 2, because Linux wasn't ready yet.)

I used to support, for instance...

• WordStar (3/4, Express and 2000)

• WordPerfect

• Ashton-Tate MultiMate

• IBM DisplayWrite

• MS Word for DOS

... on almost a daily basis, plus lots more occasionally: LocoScript, VolksWriter, PC Write, Samna Executive, and more.

Every one had a totally different user interface. Every keystroke, every menu -- if it had menus; lots didn't -- every status bar, with no similarities.

There was one key -- one -- that almost everyone respected: F1 for Help. Except WordPerfect, where it was F3.

Then IBM introduced a standard called Common User Access, soon after the Mac started kicking IBM's backside in user-friendliness.

CUA mandated that all apps should have a menu bar, at the top of the screen. (Lotus 1-2-3 and MS apps put it at the bottom, before.) It should have options called:

File -- for loading and saving. (Previously, MS called this "Transfer". Lotus called it "Workspace". WordPerfect didn't call it anything but it was on F7, or Shift-F7, or Ctrl-F7, or Alt-F7, or Shift-Ctrl-F7 (etc) depending on what you wanted to do.

Edit -- for editing: cut, copy, paste, search, replace, etc.. (Mostly not even a menu before, just hotkeys.)

View -- for controlling viewing options: text mode, graphics mode, colour, show formatting codes, whatever.

And a bunch of others, but all had to be 1 word only, with a unique letter to open the menu with the Alt key.

The last had to be Help.

And so on. It mandated a standard, borrowing heavily from the Mac HCI guide to do it. And amazingly, it mostly caught on. MS followed it for Windows, mostly, and after Windows 3.0 DOS app vendors found it beneficial to make their clunky old DOS apps at least look and work vaguely like their Windows apps.

Ironically, MS itself had to change more than most. MS Word 3, 4 and 5 were nothing even vaguely like CUA. To load a file in them, you pressed Esc to open the menu (2 lines at the bottom of the screen), T for Transfer then L for Load.

After CUA, in Word 5.5 (a free download now, if you want to try it out -- works well under DOSemu in Linux), this was replaced by Alt-F for File, then O for Open.

Old DOS Word users had a lot of relearning to do.

Long ago, I expanded this from a stub into an article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
Asafoetida has an extremely strong smell though: if you use the same amount (half teaspoon) as the other spices, it will completely overpower them. It's common in Indian cooking, but the quantity typically used is a literal pinch.
I've found it's best when played by a group of friends at a turn per day. Every day at 18:00, for example, moves are due and revealed. It lets people scheme and talk during the day.
From trying to read about this years ago, I always remember the "Ent" and the "Enfilade" being Ted Nelson's abstractions for supporting bi-directional linking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfilade_(Xanadu)
2x Stronger Resin Prints with Electroplating [video]
Brilliant. I wonder how many neglected shortlinks like this are floating around. I'm sure there are very many.

Anecdotally, I bought a personal shortlink domain which expired and was later sold for $500 (http://slm.li). Still wish I could get it back :(
odd they don't also have a QR code there, which, for this purpose, seems a more ubiquitous way of doing things. NFC doesn't seem to have much advantage over QR, other than maybe harder to graffiti over
I recently took some actions to reduce the damage if Google ever ban my account.

I'm now using a custom email domain (although it's just redirecting to my Gmail for now), and doing regular backups of my emails (through Thurderbird) and Google Drive.

With these news being more and more common, you never know when it'll happen to you.
The risk people aren't considering is public opinion. It takes about 10 years to build a nuclear power-plant. Historically when have had one major accident every 30 years. Each time an accident have happened, projects have been canceled or put on ice. This mean that if you start planing a power-plant today there is ~33% chance, public opinion will stop it before its completed.

One good illustration id the documentary "Inside Bills head". Bill gates spent untold millions to develop safer, cleaner, less expensive nuclear power. One day he woke up to the news of the accident in japan, and all of a sudden all partners pulled out, permits where revoked and no one was interested anymore.

(The costs, risks and time lag are more important arguments against nuclear, but I think this one is worth considering too)
We had an article on the front page yesterday about Swift’s ABI and how much Apple has invested in dynamic linking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26205969

> It's worth noting that the Swift devs disagree with the Rust and C++ codegen orthodoxy in one major way: they care much more about code sizes (as in the amount of executable code produced). More specifically, they care a lot more about making efficient usage of the cpu's instruction cache, because they believe it's better for system-wide power usage. Apple championing this concern makes a lot of sense, given their suite of battery-powered devices.
> nebulous black boxes

Probably a nitpick, I think you mean "opaque black boxes", you can see things through a nebula.
Can you elaborate? It’s obviously far from completely correct, but surely the bulk of them did, at least past the early years when the value was zero.

Do you have any other estimation?
"It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Don’t forget the drugs and money laundering.
These are the guys that connect Dark Star with Alien with Jodorowsky's Dune.
Listening to the examples, it looks to me that these new codecs now basically do speech to text, send the text with a little bit of extra info and then TTS on the other end.
How ‘Unlock with Apple Watch’ While Wearing a Face Mask Works in iOS 14.5
The block was for “harmful and dangerous” content. That’s incredibly vague. Even describing a game using aggressive language could fall foul of such a broad filter.

How many times do non-chess channels get caught in this filter? That’s the first question I’d be asking. I have to assume more than zero times. How many chess channels have not been banned by this filter? Again, presumably more than zero. And yet the article makes conclusions with a dataset of 1.
I like this. I would buy it.

I would also buy a related product that would fetch a particular web page every couple of minutes and display it on the screen. It's possible to hack up various devices to accomplish this, but the setup is a pain. Mega bonus points for no cloud crap, just connect to wifi and do everything locally.

One thing I'd love to see in both of these products is no refresh if the content hasn't changed. One annoying aspect of e-paper displays is that they have to flash white and black when refreshing. If there is no change to the content, this isn't necessary, and then doesn't present a distraction out of the corner of your eye.
This is a solved problem and not very complicated. For starters the last DNS label of a hostname cannot be all numbers: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1123#page-13
I've had the idea of glueing a QR code that would load up the Rick Roll video on top of some ad's code (it was a big billboard on the wall of a pedestrian tunnel promoting Munich/Bavaria's bid for the 2022 winter olympics), but never actually executed it...
Incidentally, if you like chess the channel is outstanding. (And back online now.)

https://www.youtube.com/user/AGADMATOR

I enjoy watching on my lunch breaks. Great breakdowns of games between top players past and present.
Make a github repo for the website, so that people can implement improvements:)
Answer: No jurisdictive boundary.

When you transfer to a bank account, it cannot move out of the country's jurisdiction without triggering multiple regulatory touchpoints. It's not easy to cash the money out overseas.

But when you transfer bitcoin, it's done once to a virtual ID. The person receiving doesn't need any online account. You can't trace anything here. It's just "sending from wallet id X to wallet id Y". wallet id Y is just a cryptographic key known to the sender and receiver. Yeah so this "virtual ID" is replicated across the network, but who cares. It doesn't point to anyone yet.

After this single step, there is no jurisdiction. The hacker can travel and cash it anywhere in the world outside jurisdiction of the host country's law enforcement.
“and one of them is guaranteed to be right.”

That’s where opinions will differ. That’s only true if you accept the law of the excluded middle.

Mainstream math does, but most constructive math does not.
I assume you're referring specifically to the coding style document rather than the host of things that a company should document. The advantage of having the coding style documented in a format that supports some kind of markup over a plain text file is to support syntax highlighting, searching/indexing, cross referencing other documents, including diagrams and a host of other features that plain text files lack support for.
That implies that AIs will always use excessive amounts of human made training data ("implies" in context of this thread).
cheeky.
Current page title is “Tap your phone at Gold Coast bus stops to access my website”.
> (of a concept or idea) unclear, vague, or ill-defined.

The other definition of nebulous.
I think there is a lot to learn from this. When you look at different US states and different countries it’s really not clear which measures worked better than others. Germany looked
really good for a while but now they have caught up with the rest. Within the US it’s also not clear if the states who had stricter lockdowns did better than others who don’t lock down that much.

It seems everybody gets hit eventually, just at different times.

Let’s hope that there will be an objective evaluation and not just political infighting.
You generally can’t offload a coal railcar from just any point in a yard, and switches can freeze over and lock in place.
The point still stands. Spotify is providing a platform to further enhance the grip of capital.
There are plenty of other chess channels using the words "black" and "white" to describe each side that have yet to be automatically and mysteriously banned. If it were as simple as usage of the word "black" in the various circumstances that might arise during a discussion about chess, surely some of those would have met the same fate, no?
Where do you get the idea that consistency is necessary? I certainly think it’s not.
It's interesting, the poster above was complaining that we have to put solar panels and windturbines into landfills and now you're proposing molten salt reactors with lifespans of 5-20 years (where the 20 years are still extensively researched)?
The title has been editorialised, I think Josh should have run with his blog title:

"Tap your phone at Gold Coast bus stops to access my website"

Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, I meant nebulous as in unclear, hazy, or undefined.

Nobody knows what the YouTube algorithm is going to decide is inappropriate next. Their site’s wording is very vague and unclear as well.

You have youtubers censoring swear words now, and people uploading footage from video games like TF2 have had issues before.
http://archive.is/3iECt
> outside the geographical areas most affected by radiation, even in locations within Fukushima prefecture, the predicted risks remain low and no observable increases in cancer above natural variation in baseline rates are anticipated.[13] In comparison, after the Chernobyl accident, only 0.1% of the 110,000 cleanup workers surveyed have so far developed leukemia, although not all cases resulted from the accident.[14][15][16] However, 167 Fukushima plant workers received radiation doses that slightly elevate their risk of developing cancer.

The hysteria of your statement doesn’t appear to be substantiated by a dispassionate look at the facts.
Well, they can, but it’s a lot harder than people realize. To replace 1GW of nuclear completely in Virginia without a bunch of transmission, you may need about 14GW nameplate solar and about 50GWh of storage. It’s not cheap. Source: here, with 0 as exponent, 2011 as the year, 2020 cost scenario, and only solar and battery storage. https://model.energy
Delegating prosecution of possible hate speech to commercial entities was always going to be bad.

Youtube is essentially a public forum with audience of entire countries, where the people who run it choose what gets amplified, what gets shunned and what get outright blocked.

Who would be happy with a private entity deciding the future mindsets at this scale?
I expect he'll be arrested for "hacking " soon, never underestimate the stupidity of governments. And doubly so for Australia.
Since everyone followed the IBM keyboard layout, the templates fitted virtually every keyboard. Right now I'm typing on an Apple Extended keyboard from about 1987 and it has little pegs at top right and top left corners of the casing for the keyboard templates to hang on.

Before the Extended layout, the F-keys were in a vertical double row to the left of the QWERTY block, as shown here:
https://deskthority.net/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_keyboard

There were some F-key cardboard templates to fit over those keys, but they were less common -- partly because the original PC was so limited, maxing out at 640 kB of RAM and a 4.77MHz CPU, and not coming with a hard disk as standard, just 360 kB floppy drives, so that apps tended to be small and simple and not have very rich functionality to learn and remember.

But 3rd parties made ones you could stick on, e.g.
https://imgur.com/gallery/pwNQZ9S
In 2017, I started working on an app that interacts with the real world using QR code. I became obsessed with QR code, I scan every single one I encounter.

You would be surprised at how many state/government service started printing QR codes (for more info) everywhere only to neglect the domain name. One that stood out to me was at Los Angeles International Airport. The sign said to scan get more info (flight info? I can't remember). I scanned and ended up on a parked domain name.

The OP is a perfect gentleman for not using the domain to exploit people instead. I want to say "how the hell do they let the domain name expire?" but I've worked in large companies where this was the running joke every few weeks. There must be a better way to notify people about an expiring domain name.
> One thing I'd love to see in both of these products is no refresh if the content hasn't changed.

That's already implemented actually :)
Intel don’t have production runs of CPUs with different clock speeds. They make a batch, test them then work out the clock speed that batch is good for. Then sell them at a variety of prices. You can overclock and 90% of the time it’ll be fine. Maybe it dies after 5 years instead of 10. Or maybe after a week. In the case of Tesla maybe that move took brought forward the EOL of the battery by 2 years or maybe 2 weeks. Even our bodies don’t work that way - our brains prevent us from using our full strength except in extremis because if we did our muscles and tendons would be seriously damaged. Soft limits are everywhere.
Many of these NFC tags may also be rewritable if the original authors neglected to lock them
It’s so high because it fits general HN narrative of evil big tech.
What are existing workarounds for the NYT? They have blocked all of them on mobile.
No, but they do turn up on eBay occasionally.
Even when you switch tasks you still use most of your brain. You never really turn off any part of your brain, they're pretty much all always active, just at different levels.

This seems consistent with high-availability.
I find the complexity arguments convincing despite the fact that they have various weaknesses (that while a solution to some NP-hard problem would suffice, it isn’t necessary and a merely good solution or a solution to an easier subset of problems would be ok.) There’s two things to talk about:

1. The article seems to switch a bit between superhuman intelligence or performance at something (I find this reasonably plausible) and a runaway singularity where intelligence/performance grows exponentially and the computer then moves to destroy us all. A few reasons I find the latter proposition implausible are that only one problem of many needs to be too hard for complexity to be an issue; it’s not clear how good exponentially better performance is (for something like image recognition, how much does it matter to be able to recognise lots more things, or to have a 1% error rate that halves every year? I say not that much,) indeed it seems that evolution isn’t particularly optimising for intelligence in humans despite how much some of us may think it matters, although that could just be due to it not mattering so much until recently; and that it often relies on imagining an intelligence which is somehow clever in the way that humans and computers are clever (eg also fast at big mathematical calculations), but also stupid in the ways computers can be stupid, being precisely logical and optimising for a single goal (I find it unbelievable that the all-consuming paperclip-making intelligence would perfectly follow its paperclip-making instruction while destroying its masters and never thinking to disobey.)

2. I feel like most people who are serious believers in a singularity (eg Yudkowsky et al) are massive cranks who’ve reasoned themselves into a weird sci-fi corner. I struggle to believe that an argument from them is grounded in reality rather than begging their prophecy of a singularity future.
(I am the OP.) That's an excellent counterexample. Just out of curiosity, how many hours did you invest to get to the 1000 points?
"Nebulous" can also mean "indistinct" or "vague." The OP used it correctly, though you could argue "nebulous black box" is redundant.
I am not sure about the down votes (no reason for them in my opinion) but the casual jab at capitalism looks gratuitous and does not help making the argument seem stronger.
They are idiots, they should be asking for monero how can they be so clueless?
What's frustrating is the author makes no mention of other polar projections[1]. How is this projection novel in comparison to those? I don't get what is new here. Maybe I missed the point.

[1] https://nsidc.org/data/polar-stereo
> I feel like if I am worried about those issues, when would I ever use sqlite instead of Postgres?

Sometimes you do not want to run an additional process/daemon like postgres. Your state is in essence now a file on some file system that you can atomically (full ACID) update using multi processing without the need for more complex machinery - you can get very far with this architecture.
Have you watched adagmator? He doesn’t really use aggressive language
>As of March 2019, China has 46 nuclear reactors in operation with a capacity of 42.8 GW and 11 under construction with a capacity of 10.8 GW.Additional reactors are planned for an additional 36 GW. [1]

China is planning to double their nuclear generation capacity. It is staggering to think they have 11 1000 MW plants under construction and plans to build another 36. The USA has lost the ability to build even 1 plant economically. I think China is “just doing it” when it comes to nuclear, as much as they can, which is a lot.

In comparison usa has 95 plants for 98,000 MW and has shut down 34 plants.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China
I always struggle with these answers because while the upstream taxing does seem like the “perfect” answer in a model, it has a spotty track record and future. When prices are artificially inflated, and politicians get elected by decreasing drag on your quality of life, a variety of reasonings get used to evade responsible costing as much as possible and to repurpose the proceeds for the initiative of the month. Hence why this nation is 27 trillion dollars in debt. It’s all to sustain an unsustainable way of life. Living off the principle, or indeed future debt, is so imperative to our lifestyle today (and our glide path to retirement and death) that it’s hard to make such burden sharing plans with a straight face. No American generation wants to be the first one to take it on the nose, especially when one of this country’s raisons d'être is to ensure our kids live better than their parents. This country (at least) needs a serious come-to-Jesus moment about consumerism and realistic expectations for sustainability. And yeah, I’m the guy telling you to cut down your drinking while holding a bottle of JD in hand.
inb4 someone will suggest that FIDE should change the color names to be more inclusive + why does white have the first move advantage, why can't black be the first. Perfect breeding soil for just another day of pointless race drama on Twitter
> Nobody knows what the YouTube algorithm is going to decide is inappropriate next.

Then that is the very definition of "opaque", which is what YouTube want and aim for.
They provide a platform that lets users share playlists.
I'm not sure what the slashpackage hierarchy is, but Nix & NixOS started in 2003.
I don't see the "steep increase" in cases you're referring to on any of the public trackers. So far the additional contagion of the new variants, whatever it actually is (I'm doubtful of "75% more"), is not enough to overtake increasingly favorable seasonality.
> If you process data one row at a time, that is clearly a streaming pipeline, but most systems that call themselves streaming actually process data in small batches. From a user perspective, it’s an implementational detail, the only thing you care about is the latency target.

Author here. 100% agreed.

As an aside, I just came across your post about how Databricks is an RDBMS [0]. I recently wrote a similar article from a slightly more abstract perspective [1].

Having worked heavily with RDBMSs in the first part of my career, I feel like so many of the concepts and patterns I learned about there are being re-expressed today with modern, distributed data tooling. And that was part of my inspiration for this post about data pipelines.

[0] https://fivetran.com/blog/databricks-is-an-rdbms

[1] https://nchammas.com/writing/modern-data-lake-database
> I doubt software will ever be able to read a script then infer and depict a character's emotions and motivations as well as a skilled actor can.

Read? It'll be writing too.

Long bet 10 years?

I'm working on building this.
Yea, I'll try to find something with less texture for sure.
The more I read about Friedman the more I'm convinced he's one of the most harmful thinkers/politicians of the past 75 years.
A minute after this comment somebody provided a URL with a work-around.
I asked Oscar Bonilla on Twitter a while ago and he said that it should be the same process as Tcl, but beware I haven't tried.
I have never played with one, only studied the videos (e.g. https://youtu.be/o_TlE_U_X3c ) and documentation. It was a very radical UI. If you added programs, they just added new functionality to the existing editor. So, for instance, a spreadsheet module might mean that suddenly, when loaded, you can do operations like SUM{...} or MEAN{...} on a table of numbers in the editor.

I've long wished that someone would implement the Canon Cat UI as an Emacs module. It would seem to me that Emacs has all or most of the necessary functionality already.
This article shows up fine in private mode (iOS)
If this was the cause, schools could form women-only stem classes.