skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe not at 7, but by 18 if you listened in class

Are you more than 30 (like me) by any chance? That's also the education i received growing up in france, but history schoolbooks have been criticized for rewriting history since at least Sarkozy. Also it appears the left-wing, critical history teachers from my youth are a threatened species, as these are slowly pushed to suicide by the administration and/or placed on administrative leave.

At least it is my understanding that education and critical thought have been heavily under attack in France in the past decade, especially in public schools. At least that's what i understand from younger persons i meet and teachers i know who are still teaching in middle and high schools.

For example, the Nakba has become a taboo in history classes, criticizing national symbols of the french colonial empire has become illegal, teachers have been instructed to denounce to the police their pupils who have questions about religious terrorism and racist caricatures, and mandatory national service has been almost reinstated already (only stopped by coronavirus).

We have been on a strong rise to fascism for at least the past two decades, so of course they are rewriting history and making sure there is room for interpretation in collaborating with nazis. This is not just in schools though, Eric Zemmour and other public figures have ardently defended the memory of french fascism for years on public television.
I will say at a minimum, this issue is also very prevalent in the social sciences and humanities in US programs.
How likely is that to happen?
>Google acts like they own
the internet

They kind of do
Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge
>> What are "non-unix operating systems that don't happen to be made by Microsoft".

It's a pretty big list. To name a few:

Beos (and derivatives), AmigaOS (and derrivatives), GEOS, Commodore DOS, Temple OS, TRON, plenty of Real Time Operating Systems...
Thanks for the feedback! I'll keep in mind that that is an important part.
I’m not saying they are easy to use, but they are the standard. I’m also not saying I like that they are the standards, but everyone with 3+ years experience at a large company out of college can use Word to edit text in a document. Or should be expected to.

A new trainee every six months for a sales or marketing department isn’t crazy - it could be growing or a team of 6 people rotating out every ~3 years. I’ve bounced between WYSIWG and plain text, but there is a hard and steep learning curve when you ask people to use plain text.

Word also has spell-check and other features we take for granted.
Not long ago I stumbled upon this modern WordStar clone called WordTsar http://wordtsar.ca/
That's intriguing.

Curious if you ever compared how PageRanks correlate to traffic? (They make their per-page traffic available too.)

It would be interesting to see the largest disparities -- super-popular pages in visits but which don't have nearly as many internal Wikipedia links to them, versus unpopular pages but that have tons of internal Wikipedia links to them.
Since I became stoic and don't need to buy anything. Good company, food, comfy flat and of course internet to learn new things.
RPN is just so much better. An interesting note, the HP 50g can be programmed in RPL, but you can also use the equation editor and mix and match code and equations.
Posture is gesture. Gesture is both necessary and sufficient for art.

Part the reason the article is rubbish is denigrating art for engineering. Preference of Fuller’s posture and celebration of its minimal impact as evidence of its importance.

To critique the argument by pointing to Kandinsky can’t sell. The article is premised on dismissing Kandinsky outright.

Anyway post Warhol posing is known to be an essential component of artists. It’s just explicit now.
Imagine getting special access to an artist because you have 100 of his NFT’s or you get a priority queue for an event if you have a certain type of NFT. The possibilities are endless and super exciting for both creators and consumers.
It's one of the many tools in the efficient tyrannical manager's toolbox, with a motto of "my goal is not to have you do effective work, my aim is to advance my goals and keep everyone below as a non-threat to those goals". Keep em busy and insecure.

Sure nice it doesn't work on competent developers, not with the current job market.
> Back when I was using it, the standard computer keyboard had the "control" key directly to the left of the "A" key (where the "Caps Lock" key is now).

One of the first things I do is rebind caps to control - I've never understood the need for a caps lock key
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Thanks. I think this is the key idea I was looking to understand:

>"What differs between the two is that the "scheduling" that occurred by the left side "control unit" was instead dispersed into the reservation stations and reorder buffer of the right side diagram."

Is it a correct mental model then to think about control unit being a logical or "distributed" unit(right side of diagram) instead of a monolithic unit(the left side of diagram)?

I'm guessing this "reservation station/reorder buffer variant" of control unit is the predominant one in use in CISC chips these days?
> What prevents their neighbour parking in their stall for a few hours and using their power?

Presumably the same thing that stops you from parking in your neighbor's driveway and charging using their outdoor outlets - it's illegal, and the savings of a few dollars isn't worth the potential penalties.
I remember using it as a child at the start of the 90's on a PC, when I was just learning to read.

It was the prefered editor of William F. Buckley and famously GRRM still uses it. I tried it recently on a retro computer after decades and it is nothing to write home about.

Does anyone know of a proper file converter to Word, that supports non-ANSI characters?
thanks for sharing, that was a great find.
Microsoft IOC Detection Tool for Exchange Server Vulnerabilities
I read this article more because I'm interested in Zen than QM. But it prompted a question for me. What (if any) is the relationship between QM (which I understand to manifest mainly at the level of particles and very small scales) and the science of complex non-linear dynamic systems (colloquially "chaos theory"). Both centre around the philosophical concept of unknowability, unpredictability, uncertainty. Both prompt questions around why the world is the way it is, rather than any of the other states it could have ended up in, which leads to wondering about whether alternate states could, or should, also exist. I personally find complexity more approachable, as it concerns phenomena that are at a more relatable scale - the weather, the economy, species evolution etc. Is there any intersection between QM and complex systems science in the conventional/institutional sense, e.g. in study or research? Or are they separate rabbit holes?
How would Griffith do in Marvel? (Update)
Monero seems to be the best coin right now. Privacy built in, low fees and relatively stable value. Pretty amazing.
> Unfortunately, as of 2019, the quality of voice transmission via Bluetooth is still poor, and it is not clear why Bluetooth SIG is not doing anything about it.

I would speculate there is no party with a strong interest in voice only communications participating in the Bluetooth SIG.

That's because the biggest industry group for voice only communications has its own wireless standard, DECT.

I've been trying to find a way to pair bluetooth hearing aids with a DECT landline phone but as far as I can see, no landline phone manufacturer has implemented Bluetooth Hands Free Protocol to work with hearing aids. This surprised me.

My 89 year old mother's hearing aids can pair with iPhone and Android, but she doesn't use a mobile device so I need it to pair with an ordinary DECT landline phone. I understand both landlines and old people are declining markets.

Anyway, to confirm this blank I had to peruse a lot of DECT and Bluetooth standards. Bluetooth Profile Specifications and compliance therewith are a rabbit hole, difficult to navigate because DECT phone device manufacturers don't publish capabilities.
Please help me here to see if I’m getting this. A particle or particles can be described by a wave function. Perturbations in a wave can be described by the original (clean?) wave plus various other waves interfering with it. These other waves, which don’t actually exist independently of the perturbed particle wave, describe the virtual particles. Does that sound right?

I’m wondering what this looks like if you observe these fields from a distance. Are ‘echoes’ of these perturbations and interactions detectable at a distance? In the diagrams in the article representations of these perturbations are shown between the particles, but do these perturbations propagate outside the scope of these interactions? If so, I’d have thought these would count as e.g. photons.

I suppose not necessarily, not all energy levels in a quantum field are achievable, hence discrete discontinuities like absorption lines and electron shells, and in fact particles like electrons themselves. You can’t have a half strength perturbation in the electron field that adds up to half an electron. Do these perturbations fail to propagate outside the local interaction then?
You may have a valid point but on a technical note TikTok does not operate in China either because they don't conform with China's content censorship policy.
Quantum physics needs complex numbers (2021)
Well, what solution do you propose then?
In the time of covid, how did you find good company?
I pay subscription for everything but 99% of time use VS Code. Why? Remote execution for huge typescript project - i moved it to separate mac mini and performance (i can open 5 VS Code without slowing anything at all)
https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/52/hodes.php another interesting article in the same vein, about the importance of pallets
There are several projects attempting to develop a native smart editor. For Mac users there is Nova (https://nova.app/) and for the Vim crowd there is Onivim (https://onivim.io/).

I have used neither of them but I find them intriguing, especially when I wait for my VSCode cursor to catch up with my typing.
Ask HN: What heuristics do you use for sound decision-making?
This question was prompted by James Clear: https://twitter.com/JamesClear/status/1367989110078640130

1. How do you distinguish which decisions should be made quickly and which ones should be made slowly? Impact, or cost-benefit, is my primary heuristic. As part of this, reversibility is often a simple proxy for cost and is valuable to consider.

2. How do you guard against emotional bias? I catalog my known biases (e.g., tech optimist) and engage reasonable people who disagree.

3. How do you guard against cognitive bias? The list of cognitive biases is painfully long. Analyzing contentious debates is one way to expose logical fallacies made and logical arguments missed, but hopefully people can suggest more efficient methods of minimizing cognitive bias.
Bad? What about iconically good? Instantly recognisable definitive Amiga ... that's good isn't it?
> 3 jobs with no healthcare in an economy

> $500 for shoes

Why are they mutually exclusive? Should people give up luxuries?
These are the people who used to sell mobile phones in your local shopping center before, by some luck, ended up in recruitment.They have no idea that JS and Java aren't the same. They tend to call random people hoping something will stick. Sometimes, such recruiters get hired by equally delusional companies and hence the results you described.
I'll just keep using Eclipse over here in the corner :-)

I guess its a case of sunk investment, but having got to the point of understanding top to bottom how Eclipse works I find that it still beats everything else in terms of presenting me with a completely comprehensive framework for developing at a high level of complexity across multiple languages and environments. Every time I move to another tool I find them better on the surface but missing these deeper features that enable dealing with super complex infrastructure across many projects in many languages.
By answering honestly, you also run the risk of having anyone that knows basic facts about your life being able to really make your life difficult.

It isn't just people you cross paths with that could get into those accounts, it's scammers that want to social engineer you or have access to the numerous database leaks that are accessible to anyone with the Tor Browser installed.

The answers to security questions are essentially passwords themselves, and they should be treated as such.
https://proxylogon.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26362178
NFT koolaid: "NFTs are scarce therefore valuable"

Me: Ctrl+C Ctrl+V

NFT koolaid (real comment): "Using your argument, original Warhol screenprints are also worthless."

There's that sunk cost Godin is hinting at.
Just FYI 30ms from hardware sources is terrible, I can achieve under 2.5ms round trip with Dante at 128 buffer settings and the older MADI protocol achieves similar levels.
Java is not slow, even JS is not slow. 10% performance improvement doesn't make sense for rewrite.
You can also get it in a user-friendly format with the application Kiwix (https://www.kiwix.org/) if that's your use case. PC, phone, or server. You get subsets of the data, and images are smaller to save space.
MetaFilter did a lot of damage to itself by overmoderating. It was my online home for years but eventually there was so much meta-meta handwringing that the sense of community was lost, for me at least.
You mean https://www.amazon.com/Lines-Cells-Braille-Writing-Stylus/dp... or https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille#/media/File%3ALucy_S....

They are used with regular Braille paper. Apart from being thicker and sturdier than ‘normal’ writing paper, there’s nothing special about that paper.

The Braille writing tool basically forces you to punch Braille dots in the paper at the correct positions/distances (interestingly, as you punch the dots from the backside of the paper, you have to write a mirror image of the text)

The photo in https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_Port-A-Punch.j... doesn’t show anything like that in the tool.

Also, zooming in, I think I see that this doesn’t use standard punch cards, but ones prepared to make it easier to punch out the holes. You can’t see it in the photo, but I would guess that the bottom of the device has holes through which the chaff falls out, possibly with a collection box, just as that of a hole punch. So, you push a punch, probably slightly smaller than the hole to make, on the center of the hole to make, onto the paper, shearing of the paper along pre-weakened lines.
It’s true this leads to better incentives I just find it funny we frame this as “levels of autonomy” which sounds more like verified capabilities not implied capabilities via the confidence slash cajones of companies.
> I reached Apple support but they're unwilling to help, they even refuse to nuke the account as a last resort.

I wonder, aren't they required to nuke the account under GDPR? It's probably tied to your real identity.
Bangla also is a subject-object-verb language and I hadn’t thought of it like RPN before!
When I was starting my degree (around 96) I went to the US for a week and bought a HP48Gx since they were cheaper there. This happened a few weeks after a Swiss jet crashed departing NY and the reasons were not known at the time so the airport staff was very suspicious. When they saw the calculator and tried to do a simple test calculation and failed, I struggled to explain how use it, since it was also so new to me. Luckily I got 2 out of 1 1 + and I was let go... still have and love it.
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Look at Apple's forums, it's a complete morass with some moderation removing comments hostile to Apple, but without any solution or interaction from any Apple personnel. It's notoriously bad.
I was in a similar situation 3-4 years ago. The app store kept asking for answers to my security questions which I did not remember to have set up, ever. I went various rounds with their phone support trying answers on the phone (there are only so many reasonable answers for "Who was your first manager?") to no avail. Then I just enabled 2FA and the security questions requirement went away immediately. Back then, the whole thing smelled like a bug on their side to be honest.
This is similar to https://classicreload.com/
In some countries, the rule is that if you make a public offer (e.g. advertise a price for a product or service), then you must accept all customers. I have no idea how common each system is, though.
>Really a disgusting company

that's quite a strong word. For the average Joe, google has immesurably improved their internet experience. The vast majority of people are perfectly happy with google and love it for gmail, youtube etc. Just because they are good at destroying some peoples lives, most users don't really care at all. You might find it hard to recruit supporters just because google are horrible sometimes.
Most TV output and home computer monitors in the 1980's did not have square pixels.

Source: lived through those times...
I tried to send the blog post link to another person on Twitter and got a notice that the tweet couldn’t be sent because the site was potentially harmful: https://twitter.com/gortok/status/1368309384619626506?s=21
Some past threads on that paper:

The design and implementation of modern column-oriented database systems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18076547 - Sept 2018 (42 comments)

Design and Implementation of Modern Column-Oriented Databases (2012) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11803299 - May 2016 (9 comments)
What's wrong being able to sign a document?
I feel like we are kind of ignoring how Visual Studio plays into this, do we really expect Microsoft to replace it with VS Code? I feel like Visual Studio Pro/Ent is more of a competition with other paid IDEs and VS Code won’t be, perhaps somewhat so it isn’t positioned to eat Visual Studio?
Is it for versions of the database design or versions of the data?
I bought an HP41C in 1979, and I have been a fan of RPN ever since. I tossed the 41C back when I got my first Palm HPC and installed the "RealCalc" app. I'm glad that some of the modern calculator apps still support this mode.
YAML is clearly made for humans.

It's just that it's badly made for humans, in that it tries to be too helpful, leading to the various footguns scattered around the format.

TOML can be a bit verbose, especially if you have a case where your keys are more like sentences than they are like symbols. But there are no surprises, and it's quite pleasant to write by hand. I agree that it should be the first choice.
It might be this thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22398381
Not useful for your current case, but I recommend using a password manager to fill random phrases for security questions. That way they’re easy to read out over the phone to CS reps, but are more secure than literal answers, which can often be derived from publicly available info.
It might also help to know that the scattering matrix has classical counterparts in engineering. For example the “transfer function” in circuits and signal processing, etc, and the “response amplitude operator” (RAO) in ship design.
I can speak from experience only about the RAO, but once you’ve got one built and for your system, you know quite a lot about the response of the system to input (in this case typically water waves).
A higher order transfer function in ship design might be constructed to give you say, drift response (or force) as a function of wave frequency, and give you wave drift response spectra when “hit with” a wave spectrum.

(First order response might regular 6DOF motions (motion spectra) in response to wave spectra)

Here the analogies are pretty fun, because you are scattering and radiating waves in the water. Very physical!
Currently the best you can do is to build a somewhat unwieldy relocatable “bundle” with PackageCompiler.jl [1], but there are apparently plans for actual static compilation using an approach more similar to that used in GPUCompiler.jl [2], and the latter approach should as far as I understand allow for the creation of proper .so/.dlls.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl

[2] https://github.com/JuliaGPU/GPUCompiler.jl
The scarcity===value justification of NFTs is ridiculous.

The only way to make digital artefacts "scarce" would be to never render them to pixels. You can't make a perfect copy of the Mona Lisa, but you can make a perfect copy of any digital NFT every single time.

And thus the only way nyan cat can be worth $600k is a hyper-DRM dystopia where everyone gets sued for sharing it.
Internet of Nanothings
Khub bhalo laglo dekhe. Consider simplifying primitives? _সংখ্যা -> ন etc.
One frame is that Teslas will always hit walls another is that these mean Teslas will never hit such walls again. Absence of collisions isn’t evidence the systems work, it may be, but could also be that other systems aren’t deployed enough to hit the tail of the distribution to see these scenarios. However, known incidents like this one do grant evidence to the claim the said system won’t continue make the same kinds of mistakes from the feature space of inputs most like it (which is hard to know as a human observer)
This is the hardest part about discussing this issue, for sure. The rapid technological and economic expansion achieved by CCP is the most impressive in all of human history in terms of numbers. It’s brutal, for sure, but that achievement means a lot of Chinese people are willing to look past the bad things, and look forward towards goals of further technological development.

The important difference between the “West” and China is that everyone knows CCP is going to look out for China. It’s not immediately clear that governments in the west do the same for their own.
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It's none of anyone's business! I generate one password for the password and a second password to break into 4 char random chunks for the security questions which I record in "notes" of the password manager.
Can you elaborate on this? I thought Metafilter was alive and doing just fine - in fact I still visit it regularly
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> Thank you for visiting this site. Unfortunately we have detected that you might be running custom adblocking scripts or installations that might interfere with the running of the site.

This is a sure way to make me not visit a site ever again.