skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_and_stylus shows a business card sized version.

And I don’t know how large the market is, but https://www.maxiaids.com/braille-writing-slates has both small and large ones for sale.

I would guess they still are used a lot because, in large parts of the world, the blind, if not the population, can’t afford to own a small handheld tape recorder (think of Nepal and poor parts of India)

They also have the advantage over tape recorders that those around you cannot hear what you record.
Just curious but what is the use case for needing to have your source code on a remote server while you’re editing it?
When talking about checks on the order of twice a minute, curl is probably the right approach. You can/should still do a full check, but that can be done at a lower frequency.
Both are quite normal. What if the bookstore owner decided to only sell porn? The mall van decide to force the bookstore to stop that. That's just how it works. The bookstore is a client of the mall. So the mall decides.
Your understanding of strictly necessary is incorrect. You do not need to a/b test a website for it to function. It is optional. It doesn’t become legal just because your tech stack makes it difficult, or because you engineer the site not to work without a non-essential cookie.

You could a/b test based on even or odd numbered IP address and not require consent to store a cookie. You can pass the referrer around via query string and not require consent to store a cookie.

However, as you said, there is no enforcement of the regulation so the risk of non-compliance is basically zero :)
I wonder what the probability of finding a cave is if digging in a random spot. Pretty high, I would guess?
Whether it's for the best seems irrelevant, the point is that it is a possibility.
>They only help you trace political connections on academia.

Assuming that's actually true (and it's not, in my experience), that alone is a valuable thing. Do you prefer doing research in a place where political connections cannot be traced? I don't. It's bad enough as it is.

Here's the other -- really obvious -- thing it achieves: it helps you find more information about a given subject. It helps you understand precisely what a given publication is referring to.

Just because a system is abused doesn't make it a bad system. And if you want to dismantle a system, you must at least replace it with something that isn't worse.
Show HN: The easiest way to deploy TensorFlow – Inferrd v2.0
I am more into crypto than most and I do not get NFT collectibles...at least pet rocks you could hold lol
ffmpeg is really useful, but isn't doing some of these things on a CPU really inefficient? I know there are some offloads for Nvidia GPU’s for some video stuff, but I was under the impression that they used Nvidia’s proprietary libraries that have limited codec support.
Dolt might be good but never underestimate the power of Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension tables [1]. For example, if you had an SSIS package that took CSV and imported them into a database, and one day you noticed it accidently rounded the value incorrectly, you could fix the data and retain traceability of the data which was there originally.

E.g.,
SSIS package writes row of data: https://imgur.com/DClXAi5

Then a few months later (on 2020-08-15) we identify that trans_value was imported incorrectly so we update it: https://imgur.com/wdQJWm4

Then whenever we SELECT from the table we always ensure we are extracting "today's" version of the data:

select * from table where TODAY between effective_from and effective_to

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_changing_dimension
And on mobile you can connect using a QR code so it's a simple way to avoid that as well.
> Having multiple ways to do something (interpolating strings) isn't a bad thing.

It is when the motto of the language says "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." and that is applied whenever possible.
> that GRRM uses

Well...
Good chance that a decent chunk of that smooth scrolling was beam-raced rather than double-buffered. Which of course makes it more impressive to me
Indeed, such a boost in ergonomics and productivity with just a "simple" choice.
Btw, I was always amazed by people breaking this functionality by insisting using other keyboard layouts, more appropriate for text.
Is the media content (images, videos) downloadable?

When I follow the links I find 2012-2013 data but may be I missed something?

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_...
Now imagine your boss coming back a week later.... panic, I showed it to the client and they love it. Can you quickly change it to hold the floppy between the index finger and thumb - at an angle? It's probably easy to do.
It's true, and I feel the same, but to give it some credit: wouldn't that apply to anything you don't use regularly? Programming languages or even regular languages. You have to use it or lose it.
Yes. That happened. Also, IBM sold machines that were used to further the holocaust to germany during the war.
The beauty of NFTs is that the owner cannot "autograph [it] again and we'll to other people", or at least can't on this platform.

The tuple (contact id, token id, owner public key) will remain unique on the blockchain as enforced by the EVM.
I had an HP48SX in high school, back in 1991 or so. I upgraded to an HP48GX in 93, I think? I remember writing a couple of games in RPL during physics class. And cheating on chemistry tests.
In an earlier thread about this event [1] a common conclusion was that the only thing NFTs were good for was money laundering.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26365579
Thanks for this comment. This analysis of the internals is much more informative than vague divination that the post author pulls from their gut.
I wonder if mammals might be lurking deeper, especially ones descended from apes, would be very interesting to see how evolution would have shaped them.
Well, maybe this is the ONE. But I've heard "git for data" way too many times to jump on board of the latest tool. I'll wait till "dust settles" and there's a clear winner. Till then, it's parquet, or even pickle.
I'm not sure how e2e encrypted sync works in this context. Someone needs to own a key. If the app is open, then it can't be an app key (or else it doesn't protect against bad actors on the server). Is there meant to be a tertiary party that holds the key then? Probably it would be difficult for most normal people to use a product like this.
>saying that you "should" work on your open source project during office hours (i.e. from Monday through Friday from 9 AM till 5 PM).

That was my first impression too.

Had to think that M-F 9-5 would not be enough for some projects, in total hours alone not just to accommodate different time zones.

Doesn't seem so bad to me, my "office" is staffed 24/7 and I always look forward to solving a user's million-dollar problem with a single phone call at any hour.

Even if it's not one of my regular clients. That's how some of the best ones got that way.
It's MIT licensed

https://github.com/intellij-rust/intellij-rust
These are all good points.

I would also add that understanding the stylistic history of writing in terms of language, technique, structure, etc., improves your own writing, if you have an interest in learning to write well.
Well, there is at least a poster image of the cosmos.
> (Visual Studio -- not Code -- comes close).

What do you think Visual Studio is lacking the most compared to JetBrains?
To me there’s some irony in that all insta-criticism of Git in responses to my comment presumably applies to a project that describes itself as “Git for data” and promises exact reproduction of all Git command behaviour—therefore suffering from the same shortcomings.
Ishiguro's the unconsoled will survive.
The problem is that laymen don’t have the requisite physics understanding to be able to tell the difference between actual rigorous theory and crank theory that sounds fancy.

(In this particular case I don’t know the requisite theory myself but having experienced crank theories in areas of physics that I understand, it’s obvious this is the same.)
Thank you for this well-detailed and educational response. You've thrown a lot of good study prompts in my direction.

One last question – any book recommendations?
This. And also: if they don't exist. Open a new one! There is no law against it. And we would stand shoulders to shoulder if and when the government would ever propose such a law. But until that time, stop whining.
That assumes all the weight is at the end of the arm, which it isn't in this case.

I do have a weight on my shoulder: my arm. Holding your arm up for a long time is hard anyway. A human arm weights 8 pounds.

> When you carry a bottle, you keep passing it from one hand to another

That's a good point.

> inability to do so will make it very challenging in probably less than 20min

That seems a bit extreme.

Anyway grip is the part that fails, not the shoulder strength.
To be fair, my page load checks aren't just is the site up and responding 200 but also page performance anomaly detection and stuff. So I want/need to see the performance minutely to be able to detectly in a quickish amount of time if the performance has degraded for the entire pageload. You could have a minute where it's slow and that is ok but if you have 5 minutes of it being slower than normal one after another then you have an issue. I feel if you're doing checks every few minutes your data won't be as good as doing it every 30 seconds. It is way more resources but honestly, I think it's the future of monitoring. Also, having multiple types of ways of calling a site via http to monitor it is way more complex.

The main offer is for order monitoring but I am in the middle of creating a just page load monitoring offer for others since I think that service by itself is super useful.
I also keep my HP32S RPN from 25 years ago on my desk still.

The combination of HP quality build and RPN.

Not a chance that I would have allowed anything less waste my desk space
I just grep through my bash history ;)
Their code is open source (if tightly linked to their codebase, of course) https://github.com/intellij-rust/intellij-rust
Yeah, I basically use IDEA as Rubymine instead of using Rubymine. It's a fantastic polyglot IDE, and for my uses it supports all the latest Ruby + Javascript workflows.
I understand where you're coming from, but with my personal experience, I just can't completely agree. Like you, I earn my money with CS, but I do music as a hobby. Never earned anything serious from it. And yet, I feel completely comfortable paying for hardware, software - and yes, education, having completed both online and offline courses.

And yet, paying for it didn't remove the "play" part you're talking about. In fact, I would feel awful if I used the very valuable services provided to me by these business and persons for free, exactly because I enjoyed them so much.
"I love my Electric Pencil." [1] Michael Shrayer's word processor was released in 1976 for the Altair computer. [2] Other versions soon followed.

[1] See ad on page 10: http://www.atarimania.com/mags/pdf/SoftSide_Vol_2_No_08.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Pencil
Next generation fission does not need cooling towers. As soon as you go to a high temperature design, they can run perfectly fine in the desert.
> Let me put it this way: Wikipedia wouldn't even allow Wikipedia to be used as a source for one if it's articles, because it's too unreliable

Er.. I think you're missing the point of citing sources. If an otherwise unverified claim could cite as its source another unverified claim, it would make citing sources meaningless. If a wikipedia article wanted to cite a verified claim from another wikipedia article that did have a verified source, they may as well just use that original source as their source too.

I think your example actually shows wikipedia in a very good light.
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1986-09/page/n259/...
jluraschi at gmail.com!
Reminds me of the story of someone who took a Linux laptop through security; they wanted to see it boot, but didn't recognize the command line and were suspicious.

The owner set PS1 to resemble a DOS shell prompt and they were satisfied.
they have a theme preview now. :)
Can someone with more physics background check my understanding?

My understanding is that a GUT must have one of two forms:

- An extension of quantum theory to include gravity which has relativity as a “normal” case the way relativity has Newtonian mechanics as a “normal” case. This is “quantum gravity” and the popular approach.

- An extension of relativity which features QM as some kind of wave mechanics, in the style of geons. This is considered unpopular since the exploration of geons encountered serious problems in the math.

Is that right?

This quote seems to suggest only #1 is an option.
Ok but what the fork is Jack Dorsey laundering, he does not have enough money already?!
Can you use someone else property and put it for a bid as NFT for that same purpose?
Isn’t that individual responsibility? How can you even stop someone from spending on whatever they want?
Your argument is bereft of logic and is based on your personal feelings about 2 individuals, not really a convincing argument
Correct! This is just a quick hack I threw together after thinking about my parents one night.

It's also open source - feel free to make a pull request adding more nuanced controls.
Reminds me of this user testing story from the early Macintosh days: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Do_It.txt
This is absolutely fascinating, conceptually.

However, I'm struggling to figure out a real-world use case for this. I'd love if anyone here can enlighten me.

I don't see how it can be for production databases involving lots of users, because while it seems appealing as a way to upgrade and then roll back, you'd lose all the new data inserted in the meantime. When you roll back, you generally want to roll back changes to the schema (e.g. delete the added column) but not remove all the rows that were inserted/deleted/updated in the meantime.

So does it handle use cases that are more like SQLite? E.g. where application preferences, or even a saved file, winds up containing its entire history, so you can rewind? Although that's really more of a temporal database -- you don't need git operations like branching. And you really just need to track row-level changes, not table schema modifications etc. The git model seems like way overkill.

Git is built for the use case of lots of different people working on different parts of a codebase and then integrating their changes, and saving the history of it. But I'm not sure I've ever come across a use case for lots of different people working on the data and schema in different parts of a database and then integrating their data and schema changes. In any kind of shared-dataset scenario I've seen, the schema is tightly locked down, and there's strict business logic around who can update what and how -- otherwise it would be chaos.

So I feel like I'm missing something. What is this actually intended for?

I wish the site explained why they built it -- if it was just "because we can" or if projects or teams actually had the need for git for data?
I took an exam many years ago that required a non-programmable calculator; I told the instructor I literally had no idea how to use a non-RPN calculator any more and she was fine with me using my HP-15.

Sadly my collection of HP and other RPN calculators (there are a few) was stolen two years ago.
I think KEDIT was simply the DOS port of XEDIT, IBM's standard text editor on mainframes.
Jim Fox was a key programmer for WordStar. He never got much credit. I guess because he was just an employee.

Jim thought, and talked about WordStar up until his death a few years ago on the streets of San Rafael.

I’m posting this because he would want it. Jim was so proud of his contributions to WordStar, and told anyone who was within speaking distance. Jim was pretty happy guy, but couldn’t find work, and wasn’t near crazy enough to get SSI. He was just a bit different (only different after being on the streets. He once told me, a year on the street, and the mind goes. (I didn’t see anything wrong with his mind though), and getting a programming job after 45 is difficult?

He told me a a small company (called a Startup now) hired him, but they didn’t give him time catch up. He was homeless for years, and his skills were rusty, and his suit was from a Goodwill drop box. He told me, “I was almost up to speed, and feel like I will be contributing soon.” A week later he was back in his Penguin Suit doing dances for change in downtown San Rafael. He was also the Webmaster for the Coastal Post in Bolinas. They couldn’t pay him, and he was fine with that. He also had some good ideas, but people didn’t take him serious? He had a website called Cyberthings.

I’m writing this because I heard about WordStar so much, and I like Jim. People called him eccentric, but he just didn’t have a home. Jim knew a lot of people. A couple of wealthy guys let Jim sleep on their property, but the wives didn’t like him there. I get it. It’s still a responsibility to have a homeless guy camping on your property. Jim always graciously left if asked, and never held a grudge. He used to say to me, “I just don’t want to die of pneumonia on one of these cold side streets.” I never knew what to say.

I writing this because I read he died a few years ago, and miss the guy. The San Rafael police went out of their way to mess with him. Instead of helping, they just wanted to nail him for anything. He once got a Jaywalking ticket after asking a cop to retrieve his stolen laptop. The cop said no, so Jim walked across the street. The cop crossed the street, and gave him a ticket.

Sorry for rambling. Not in a great mood.
>"My understand is the Burroughs series of mainframes were designed to support user definable instruction sets so that a computing site would be optimized for specific workloads and languages."

This is fascinating although I'm having trouble wrapping my head around it. Would "user" here be an engineer or field tech from Burroughs or mainframe admin at the company the was leasing the Burroughs system. You would have to have very intimate knowledge of CPU architecture to sort of roll you own instruction set no? Or am I misunderstanding this and it would be more about removing some inefficient instructions for a specific type of workload?
As I understand it he got a PhD from Harvard then did a couple of stints at other institutions (without writing any further research) and then moved into industry a long time ago. The only researcher I have seen supporting his work is Frenkel, conversely there are many pieces by academics which are critical of his claims.
Do they manage alignment? Say a source string starting at offset 3 inside a dword, to a destination at offset 1? That's the issue. Not just block copy of align register-sized memory.

Page fault is irrelevant. It already can happen in block copy instructions.
That's true - there are many nuanced factors around life expectancy. This is just a quick hack that I threw together, but it's also open source and I'm happy to take pull requests adding this kind of functionality.
Weinstein is a grifter, he doesn’t want to or can’t actually do hard work so he does podcasts and tweets and whines about how badly he has been treated. People find this compelling I guess.
Still in the middle. Almost half the class is worse than this guy.
They might these days, but here are some articles about what happened.

https://searchengineland.com/metafilter-penalized-google-192...

https://www.fastcompany.com/3030848/what-google-search-algor...
Or, less cynically, it's time we moved beyond designing languages for the lowest common denominator in editors. Sure I should be able to make tweaks in notepad, but I'm totally fine with that being the less happy path.

This is a direction jetbrains has been going in for a while. Have a look at the failed https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/
The first half of the article refers without exception to this "Chinese operation." Only in this sentence in the middle of the article do they point out that there's only circumstantial evidence to attribute it to China:

> But as with the Russian SolarWinds hackers, investigators have yet to identify who exactly the Hafnium hackers are—beyond Microsoft's assertion that they're state-sponsored and operate out of China—or to pin down the full extent of their motivations.

Obviously, countries do this kind of thing all the time. And an operation of this scale is likely to come from someone with government resources. But it continues to bother me that the requirements for attribution of these attacks never rise above the level of hearsay.

Is nobody even slightly skeptical of Microsoft? The company that eagerly collaborates with the alphabet soup agencies gets to write off an exploit in its own software, courtesy of Chinese state hackers, when we all know _for a fact_ that the NSA pays these companies to keep such exploits around for their own use.

It's one thing to acknowledge that one explanation is likely; it's another thing to give up on skepticism entirely.
Put your money where your mouth is. Get a 3 pound weight, strap it to your arm. See how comfy you are with it. Or don't, but don't assume you know better without an experiment.
Merge is built in, same as with git. Same syntax too:

dolt checkout -b <branch>

dolt merge <branch>

What do you mean git-style syncing? It has `push`, `pull`, and `fetch`.
Not so for me. I was baffled. Wood screws are commonly hammered in. My Dad used to say "The threads are for removing them"
Ah, thanks for reminding me about WordTsar. I downloaded the alpha version (0.1.74.67) in 2018, briefly tried it out and forgot about it. I see from the your link that the version I have isn't even on the website it's so old, the current being 0.3-136. I'll try it out in a moment.

The alternative WordStar that I had (and is still) running on my PC under Windows before I saw WordTsar in 2018 runs under vDos, info here (it seems that now this is only useful if you have an old version of Windows (I'm still using Win 7). Still, it may be useful if you have an old machine hanging around:

http://www.wwwriters.com/ws6-win7-vdos.pdf

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vdos/

There is also this link which may be useful:

http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1

Here's a commercial site that I've not seen until now. It looks like you have to pay for this version here but the site seems to have some good info and a few links that may be useful:

http://www.wordstar.org/
Genuine question: why is bittorrent not being used for this?
I don’t think it’s more intuitive. It’s just that you’re used to it.
You can use <pre>...</pre> for monospace font.
Much of cryptocurrency is better understood as nouveau billionaire “artwork” than meaningful technology.
Is FFMPEG globally unique in being extremely powerful, ubiquitous and totally incomprehensible? It's a real treasure and gift to humanity.
It's pretty uncommon (read: I've literally never heard of this outside of one obvious famous exception) for math researchers to put something important on arxiv and never submit it to a journal.
This is excellent, thanks for sharing it.

One neat feature it took me a moment to notice: you can step through the animations manually, if you hit the pause button and then either drag the slider or click the arrow buttons.
When my father was a grad student his department was so cheap they didn't even have hand punches so he used an xacto knife for (at least parts of?) his first programs.
Off-topic: What exactly does the "Supported by JetBrains" banner mean?