skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there is this thing that some humans do called "humor" where one party will perform some action that serves as a benign violation, usually of another party's expectations. When this benign violation is revealed to be in jest, both parties receive a rush of endorphins; which many find pleasurable.
Welcome to the world of the Cult of Abstraction. I've never understood the fascination with not knowing what lurks beneath... I've just kind of grown used to it though, and have gotten used to solving the problems everyone else throws their hands in the air over for not knowing how to get deeper.

I mean, I get it in some cases; you don't need to know how things work to use them, but when things go wrong, and they always do, that's when knowing how it works (and not just how to use it) pays off.

Plus, you can articulate questions about things you don't know more effectively.
Correct — someone would use them for a large, bold font.

I’m not saying they are wrong just that a ton of HTML is abused.
No. That's what DOS prompts looked like for people who knew how to alter them from the default, or who used quite late versions of DOS. The default prompt in COMMAND was $n$g not $p$g .

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- The Master and His Emissary

- Personality (Nettle)

- Lonesome Dove

- A First-Rate Madness

- Slouching Towards Bethlehem

- Dune

- At the Existentialist Cafe

Currently working on "The Hot Zone."
“typesetting is handled in such a way that the kerning around things like hyphens is broken”

Can you give more details about this? I’ve never heard this complaint before, nor noticed this myself.

Also, I’m not sure I understand what you are saying about “LaTeX editors”; I use Vim, and it works quite well.
Death of a Client
Those "classic" UI toolkit as raster engines. Both GTK/2/3 and QtWidgets 4/5/6 have OpenGL backends, but they are slower than the raster.

This is because the state machine that drives the draw context is synchronous. Every line, pixels (or anything, really) takes some CPU cycles.

Newer toolkits (QtQuick2, GTK4, Skia-based-ones) are hardware accelerated. They are slower of standard DPI, but much faster on HiDPI.

So, yes, they cannot be as snappy on HiDPI, the number of pixel gets bottlenecked by the single thread performance of the CPU. Those barely grow year-over-year, while the number of pixel went up a cliff overnight.
I think what we need is more along the lines of this blog post: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/03/operation-rosehub.... Modern tools grant each individual the ability to fix the world's code at scale. All we have to do is get our hands dirty creating the change we want to see in the world. Doing that effectively it helps to not assign blame since we all make mistakes and ultimately the goal is to improve.
I don't see why even an endless series of connection interruptions would ever need to come to my attention.
I am suggesting that yeah we should not attempt FSD until we get traction in more constrained "AI" problems. FSD is probably one of the hardest AI problems out there. Even if it becomes technically possible it remains to be since if it will be economically and perfomance-wise competitive to a human. In the world of present day facts, as opposed to media hype, there is zero evidence that AI is a better open ended decision maker than a human. The hard part of driving is not rapid sensing but rather rapidly making sense of what is seen, i.e. making decisions based on incomplete or dynamic information based on an internal model of the world and past experience.
I actually recently just build an app that allows you to run website analytics from aws amplify apps https://loshadki.app/cloudanalytics/

Works great with my hugo generated static websites.
You probably (or at least most people) don't need higher throughput modes in wireless radios. You need good connectivity, which can usually be achieved with a larger number of simpler APs, instead of 8x8 MU-MIMO 3-band 2666Mbit, that only works with manufacturer's firmware.

You can get 3x3MIMO 802.11ac routers with good openwrt compatibility for 60-80$, that should give you gigabit speeds and there are cheaper versions (get at least 2x2 @5GHz). Check for openwrt support before buying. You do not need a rack full of equipment, though you would need to reasonably distribute APs with cables.

APs that are properly distributed, running on minimum TX power, yet close so they use highest rates, will beat every single overpriced AP. May need some adjustment for corner cases.

802.11ac wave2 and especially ax have very useful features, but they are no match for fundamental properties of radio wave propagation.

¹ Close mostly means distance at line-of-reflection for 5GHz channels and line-of-penetration for 2.4GHz.
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Write a biography of failure, watch those offended by the failure descend en masse to condemn the subject.

For illustration, see nearly any HN discussion of a bug.
In a similar note, see http://textfiles.com a lot of archived bbs content with all the political, crypto-anarchist, and skid stuff intact.
I have 10 years in cash/short term bonds, and 40 years of expenses in stocks. It’s basically roughly a 80/20 portfolio, nothing unheard of, especially for retirees (though I’m still working).
Ask HN: Is “GitHub, f*ck your name change” being suppressed?
"GitHub, f*ck your name change" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26487854 currently has 3113 points (highest voted I've seen in a long time) and is only 16 hours old, however it is on page 2, why is this? Maybe because of the title?
Agree with you. Also we are not asking anyone to form any behavior. People naturally give shoutouts to others(depends on their work) and we believe it should be used to our leverage instead of buried deep under these social platforms. That's where Shoutout comes in picture.
Thanks for that link. Looks like some great resources there.
That's really exciting
I love my M1, but does anyone else have horrific performance when resuming from wake? It’s like it swaps everything to disk and takes a full minute to come back to life.
Oh I understand that completely, which is why I state that I do have privilege as a white person. but the left has a messaging problem wherein too many of the bougie whites narcissisticaly believe all of their privileges are shared amongst whites.

Even apart from your examples, (you missed Japanese interment camps/stolen wealth, probably the worst thing the US did domestically in the 20th century) racial profiling is still extremely real in this country. Which is on everyone radar, but it's really put into focus the times I've traveled cross country and consistently see POC on the side of the interstate.

>These examples of explicit racial discrimination happened well within living memory.

I mean, the way I see it, explicit financial discrimination is still happening today. Its just called affirmative action.
Manim – an animation engine for explanatory math videos
goaccess has an option to ignore crawlers.
IS THIS NOT HACKER NEWS?
I'm curious, did you post UVic's board because you know we're based in Victoria and/or I'm a UVic alumni? Or are you coincidentally from here too?
So on point! Thanks Alex :)
Very happy with my Air 16gb on resume - much faster than my 2018 air
> I think that we desperately need some modern language for document preparation

See my comment below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26498409 :-)
The military does that. The USS Trayer is a ship disaster simulator. "Suddenly, we're on a pier, the Trayer rising above us. We're indoors, but a gentle breeze carries the distinctive tang of the sea. Gulls caw somewhere overhead, and waves lap between the pier and the hull." It looks and smells like a real ship, but it's indoors in North Chicago, at the Navy's training center.

The army version, a section of a Third World city: "From the control center AFSOC can observe and change everything from lighting to sounds and smells. “They can simulate the smell of a bakery right down to burning cars or rotting meat.” The US military has several facilities like that.
HN deranks posts when the comment/vote ratio gets higher, because a high number of comments usually indicates flamewarring. For better or worse, this is applied to everything; no, this particular post is not being suppressed, there have been more incendiary titles sitting for longer on the front page.
Those were fun times, for sure. I got on the Internet fairly early (1991-ish), mostly through not-quite-legit means. Later on I got some jobs at early ISPs and helped a couple others get started. In those days, if you could configure a T1 and set up a couple static routes, you were considered a god.
Thanks guys! Love what you are doing and glad you are our customer!
there was a project but it seems abandoned

https://github.com/patoline/patoline
There are multiple, separate issues in the question.

As a matter of actual geological fact, North America and South America are separate continents (they have their own cratonic cores). Geographically they are considered distinct in the USA also. Central America is a cultural or political region refering to the isthmus -- it is not a continent in any sense.

Nationals of the USA are called "Americans" by USA nationals, and by people from other parts of the world, including Japan, Russia, etc (in their own phonologies). Canadians refer to USA nationals as Americans, and do not call themselves Americans.

Europeans frequently object to USA nationals calling themselves Americans, claiming that the word should refer people's of both North America and South America. People from South American nations seem to feel the same. Mexicans seem to me much more likely to refer to a USA national as "Americano" than they are "Estadounidense."

USA nationals will sometimes describe people from North and South American nations as be from "the Americas."
Haven’t seen this on my M1 Mac mini; my wake times are faster than my monitors can wake. No performance issues immediately after sleep.

Maybe desktop platforms sleep differently than laptops?
I'm Japanese. I read original argument and it looks like not well plausible. Some Japanese tend to classify people and things to main「主要な」 / other「その他」 but it not mean "main" is discriminative word. It's just "main" but sometimes usage is discriminative.
Unfortunately you’d have to look far and wide to find a government that restricts companies from collecting data they’d love to snoop around in themselves.
I loved the Nokia N900's design, that hardware keyboard that made it so easy to do remote system administration over SSH, or keep doing everything that I want to do in Emacs just like on my laptop or desktop computers. Also like all Nokia phones of the time, it was nearly indestructible and could easily survive drops that would destroy a modern smartphone’s screen or casing.

However, in retrospect not all was rosy. Advocates of Linux phones today would prefer to avoid binary blobs that make upgrades impossible (the N900 is forever stuck on kernel 2.6) and a cellular modem connected directly to main memory.
> We disagree on strategy here

Oh, absolutely - and that is fine.

Additionally, we're probably having slightly different conversations - you appear specifically focused on only Github's renaming of the default branch, and I on the more general "hearts and mind" argument - I used Github's action and the criticism thereof as a launchpad to a more general problem - perhaps I failed to communicate that clearly.

>> Oh, I think reasoning with our fellow citizens is a wonderful thing

> Your statement of "fuck hearts and minds" doesn't seem to reflect that belief, but I'm happy to take your word for it.

The phrase you quoted better captures my thinking when it's not truncated halfway; the second half of the sentence you elided is the more important half.
The first link doesn't seem to have any content and the second link should be https://github.com/frankMilde/interesting-reads/blob/master/...

> (1) Hue was not a good dimension for encoding magnitude information, i.e. rainbow color maps are bad.

Specifically the pdf claims that a naive rainbow color map is bad and references the work of S.S. Stevens for "hue was not a good dimension for encoding magnitude information"
Or just use SVG?

I’d highly doubt there were browsers supporting these CSS hacks but not supporting SVG.
I am not a fan of Forest Admin because they basically force you to use their hosted admin panel, and dump your whole database schema to their service.
Right, but the individual rows in that SQLite3 database could indeed be entire files, which is what I think the GP was getting at. Basically: using SQLite as if it were an archive format, with file data stored as BLOB-typed columns (and possibly other columns for various metadata).

Whether Audacity is actually doing this, I don't know.
In my experience, a lot of people from the United States tend to conflate "America" and the "United States of America". It's a pet peeve of mine, so I sometimes correct them. But usually people just get annoyed with me. ;-)
Perfect, exactly what I was thinking, also was reminded of some of the old erp systems that were fast as lightning and supported thousands of users without breaking, a little on the busy side but refreshing to have all the features accessible
Nice to see progress being made in this. I've been wondering what the next step would be after seeing the lamb in the artificial womb.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112
> Is Gimp inferior to a billion dollar corporation's top-seller? Sure. But I know tomorrow I'll still be able to open all my files on almost any device running a desktop OS

Not only that, skills you learn on an open platforms don't really expire. I spent a while getting pretty good at using both Photoshop and GIMP, but these days I'm not using Photoshop enough to warrant paying a subscription fee to use it when I do need it. Those skills and time invested in using it essentially go to waste without a license. GIMP, on the other hand? I've been benefiting from the time I've invested in it for over 15+ years now without a hitch.
No problem. I like the groups idea that was mentioned.

Your UI is really nice and I see that you’re hiring. Do you have a job posting up somewhere? I’m looking for new grad opportunities this year.
We use Paddle and it takes care of the currency when you enable the feature.

Actually my technical co-founder is better to answer this question.
> Criticizing a politician for not representing the values people believe he holds is not canceling.

My point was specifically that this wasn't the case here. Maybe you misread a negative in my comment.
That's because, as a MacOS user, you are probably using the Z shell, not the Bourne Again shell. Prompt syntax is specific to each individual shell program.

One cannot just blindly use a Stack Exchange Q&A that states that it is for "Linux" and "bash" on the Z shell on MacOS, or indeed on the Z shell on a Linux-based operating system for that matter. Or in the C shell. Or in the Korn shell. Or in the Watanabe shell.
Audacity is the only app that is this bad (I run KDE; my entire desktop is Qt5 so clearly that is not comparable).

I've noticed that the Audacity issue seems proportional to the number of tracks (not how much of the screen they take up) and improves when I zoom in a lot (to the sample level), which tells me this isn't a simple pixel pushing problem but rather something more profound in Audacity. There is obviously something horribly inefficient about how waveforms are being drawn at lower zoom levels.

For comparison, I can run full-screen Ardour with an order of magnitude more tracks and complexity than Audacity and it still performs much better, even if it isn't perfectly smooth.
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I attended a Zen retreat in my late twenties. I had very little experience with meditation practice back then. We meditated four times for 90 minutes each day for about 10 days.
It was a beautiful experience. The sangha was great. The food was simple but very tasty. When we didn't meditate, we worked in the garden and prepared food together.
On the 6th or 7th day of the retreat I took a walk alone through the countryside.
The meditation practice had made me very receptive to all sensual inputs. Sound, taste, smell and colour felt like someone dialed them to their maximum values.
I walked along a small trail and encountered a snail making it's slow journey across my path. I stopped, and just watched her as she worked her way towards the other side.

That very moment I was hit by a realisation that I still - years later - can't really put into the appropriate words.
It felt like a veil suddenly lifted. The world exposed itself in all its complexity and aesthetic beauty.
The integration and the interdependence of all things was suddenly visible to me without any mental filters.
The abstractions were gone.
The semiotics were gone.
The dualism was gone.

It felt like I suddenly and violently woke up from a deep slumber.

There was this strong realisation that I was deeply embedded in the universe.
The leaves blowing in the wind, the snail, the pebbles on the trail, the grass, the sky, the universe and myself in it were just one thing.
I felt like I was suspended in the very "beingness" of it all.

Back then, I had no means to integrate this existential experience into everyday life. The giant question marks it raised stuck with me over the years.
Intense meditation practise can create very powerful shifts in perception of reality.
In hindsight, I believe that I was way too inexperienced to wield the powerful tool that is meditation.
I stopped meditation practice for a few years after this experience.
I felt that I ventured too far offshore. I suddenly realised how deep and unexplored the ocean that is perception are, once we swim out of the shallow water.
Back then, I decided to quickly swim back to shore and stopped my meditation practice for a few years.

I've rekindled my meditation praxis with the same sangha a few years later. But I stayed vigilant to not venture too fast too far out into unexplored territories of perception.
I haven't noticed poor wake times, but my laptop does kernel panic and reboot a fair amount. Maybe 4 times in the past week. My hunch is that it's Spotify's fault but I haven't dug into the logs.
I own two editions of it and they are great! Just chok full of really, really wonderful stuff. Particularly the tomagatchi hacking articles!

I feel a little uneasy reading them in public, though. The cover has, in big, bold beautiful letters "PoC || GTFO" which might lead someone who isn't familiar with the binary OR operator and the use of PoC as "Proof of Concept" to believe I hold opinions that I VERY much don't.
I'm extremely interested in the neuro-atypical friend and him learning scripts and social macros. Could you expand on that?
Definitely no issue with waking my M1 8GB MacBook Air. Takes a fraction of a second, every time. In fact, this is specifically something that Apple were bragging about when they launched the M1 Macs!
How is that supposed to work? I would expect the tax to be factored into the rent?
What Should the Internet Communities of the Future Look Like?
They cost money rather than generate money.
I mean neither...that the 'refresh' part should matter (if it's suddenly something with a high cost and high frequency, I would be suspicious. If it actually resembles other vaccine regimes, then obviously less so).

But do I trust pharma practices as a rule? Categorically, no.
Even more interesting to me, at least, would be a writeup on how the project came to be in the first place. Long-running open-source projects have a (perhaps unfair) reputation for being somewhere between ambivalent and hostile toward proposals for sweeping UX improvements, and it could be instructive to learn how this initiative got off the ground.
The Songs of Distant Earth had this as a backstory.
This site ironically illustrates a principle of group communication dynamics that Grice himself never considered. No matter the quality or relevance of any single information source, the human brain simply can't process or filter hundreds or thousands of simultaneous channels. Hence, no matter how great your publication is, I am never going to give you my email because I don't want to increase the hour a day I already spend deleting emails from every vendor I have ever made a purchase of anything from so I can get to the three or so from my neighbors or coworkers I actually need to read. I was about to bookmark this site until I scrolled a quarter inch and that popup blocked my screen asking me to sign up for a newsletter.

Somebody needs to formalize the principles of communication at scale in order to capture the reality that whatever works when it's one on one no longer works when it's one on forty thousand. We seem to understand this with non-human request processors. If you run one instance of a single-threaded server, you're going to get DOSd and be unable to handle any requests at all if you get too many at a time. But everybody who publishes a web page with textual information doesn't seem to understand that this same thing happens to human readers as well, except human reading is necessarily single-threaded. No matter how important your request is, I can't process it if I'm getting DOSd, and I can't clone myself or fork my ability to read.

At some point, content creators and sellers are going to have to realize their relationship with consumers has fundamentally changed. You can't proactively push information. There is simply too much of it. You need to switch to a pull only model, which is scary because now consumers have to intentionally seek you out and you need to rely on discoverability, but sticking with push marketing is a collective social disaster. The attention economy is overwhelming and destroying our ability to figure out for ourselves what is actually worth spending our time on.
The prompt should end with a newline, so each command is on its own complete line, and you can select it by triple-clicking, without having to bother with character-by-character selection to skip the prompt. This works really well in Emacs shell mode.
This is a commendable initiative. From the article:

> With the help of GitHub’s GUI, any individual can make such changes to anyone’s codebase in under a minute.

Sigh, so yet again the load falls on the normal working programmers' free time. And yet again the effort is vastly underestimated. Sure it took 5-10 minutes (I doubt it took one, as article claims) this time but what about the next 50 times? The article even supports this:

> As more work was completed, it was apparent that the problem was bigger than we had initially realized.

I am glad several Googlers decided to help. I wish it happened more often with them and other corporations. The normal working programmers are overworked enough already.
This was my exact problem with the last implementation of this posted on HN. The “bartender” track asked “want another one?” Roughly once a minute. Thunder cracked on a short cycle in the rain loop. Just too many identifying marks. And after I spotted those pattern sounds I couldn’t not hear them.
It’s inappropriate of you to post an offtopic end user technical support question on this post about CPU microarchitecture performance.
Kind of have to agree w/you. I run KDE on Wayland, it's pretty good, but I'd like to have a really slimmed down desktop like XFCE run on Wayland, possibly on BSD too as well as Linux. That would indeed be killer. CDE? Man..I didn't even know CDE is around anymore.
> The functionality isn't super deep, broad, nuanced, or customizable

Having used Audacity quite a bit, my impression is the exact opposite. Indeed, those traits are exactly why Audacity's UI is currently as "clunky" as it is: because there's a veritable smörgåsbord of features that need encapsulated.

"Audacity is the GIMP of audio" is perfectly accurate in this regard. But GIMP ain't Inkscape, and Audacity ain't Ardour.
No, it's perfect, instant wake for me. I have never seen anything like this.

I have buggy apps (like Facebook Messenger) locking up, but I guess that's normal, I just uninstall them.