skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow I think this is a fantastic idea that feels pretty unexplored, still. I hope this might become so commonplace that one day we'll have css shortcuts for them, not unlike "ease-in" for transition timing and the likes. Combining the screen size and the user font size seems like a pretty great idea, especially!
CSS needs fewer font display options, not more. People have got drunk on text customization ("branding"), resulting in a web where no two sites read the same way. A few months ago I unticked "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above" in Firefox, and I've not looked back.
"Secret chat" is something only Telegram and pseudo-private messengers have. No application can ever provide assurance that messages aren't backed up. When it's sent, it's sent; you don't control it anymore. Re-sending the message is something you can only assume can be done. The experience given with expiring messages is just that: an experience.

Now, secret chats don't necessarily mean "this message can only be read by one device". To answer your second paragrah I disagree: a message shouldn't be sent to a given set of keys but to a given set of participants. Each participant may have one or more devices and should be able to read messages whatever way they want.

Also key distribution is "solved" by not counting on the user to do it but doing it for them: see what Matrix, Signal, Deltachat, XMPP (OMEMO) and probably others are doing.
I copied an example from the AWS blog post and adapted to our use-case.

I did never work with it, but there is Athena that allows to query S3 in something like SQL. I think there _might_ be some cases were S3 is a useful database, as one can use pre-signed URLs to let any client write to the database (S3). That‘s something I‘m not sure how to set up with a classic database and without any API in between.

IMHO, I think it‘s all about the same functionality with a simpler architecture.
Yeah! Most statements translate to a single instruction, and you have to pick registers, so even though performance hasn't been a priority I think it'll tend to be pretty good. It does have some simplifications for safety and clarity rather than optimization. For example, setting a register to zero generates a copy with a 32-bit immediate rather than the xor trick most Assembly programmers would use.
Emacs+org-mode
My father believed strongly in this. I first learned to program in my early teens (at the time there were precisely two computers in a 300 km range of where we lived, my father was an operator on one of them). The ‘computer’ I learned on was made of cardboard, and I was the CPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDboard_Illustrative_Aid_to_...
Well, humans are only considered to date back about 200,000 years, so "millions of years" is stretching it.

Hominids have been in Africa for millions of years, but the Bantu Expansion is just a few thousand years old. It is younger than recorded history -- we have Egyptian records of the peoples to their south, with whom they traded; those people are extinct today. The Bantus reached South Africa at about the same time Europeans did! They colonized it much more successfully, though, largely wiping out the Khoisan who were there before.
Learn Mathematics from Start to Finish [video]
Because languages won't allow themselves to be controlled.

A language auctor could produce his own standard, and watch as all the big vendors adopt the standard of the standard body instead. Why? because the standard body listens to what the big vendors want, who typically send their emissaries to the body, to reach a compromise they can all live with and seek to implement.

A language auctor may try to dictate what he thinks is best, but if the big compiler vendors disagree with regards to their own interests and that of the users they serve, they will not implement it.
The High School Advantage
My self-study plan for electrical engineering
Check out the average price of a new truck, and then their annual US sales volume (Ford’s F150 specifically). Average America is who soaks up pickup trucks, not “the rich.”

Tesla needs to compete with legacy automaker trucks if they’re to drive down the petroleum used by those fossil fuel vehicles (hence the need to keep per unit costs down). The fault for failure to prioritize pedestrian and bicyclist safety falls on federal policy makers, who could enforce these safety requirements by statute but don’t. Tangentially, it should also be wildly illegal to lift your pickup for on road use.

“Don’t hate the player, hate the game.”
Date an envious depressed person. This will make you empathetic very quickly.

Jokes aside, to feel empathy without ever having suffered greatly is hard/impossible. Instead you might be able to express sympathy, which is better anyways.
Really cool project. I'll put it on the list of things to integrate with my project Kubestack https://github.com/kbst/terraform-kubestack
It's also not normal

It's unfortunately common in many places. Maybe "normal" denotes the default state, and perhaps abuse of this sort isn't the default, but it seems to occur in lots of high-competition, high-stress workplace hierarchies. I experienced it working in a sales branch for enterprise business equipment (pre- and post-sales support) where there were junior sales, sales, team managers, branch manager, regional manager, regional VP, and this sort of verbal & even physical intimidation was an every day thing. I was "fortunate" that I reported to the branch manager and couldn't be pushed around too much by the rest: "Take it up with my boss" became a mantra, and no one ever wanted to do that because they'd get shat on in some form or another, but that just meant I had lots of shouting matches with people who wanted me to do things but couldn't actually force me to do it-- and most of the time their issue was that someone else had already reserved my time and I wasn't available for them. I still had to endure a verbal tirade from the branch manager, complete with common macho comparisons to a little girl, when I decided to take a better position with corporate headquarters.

(My whole experience at the branch level left a bad taste in my mouth though, so I didn't stay much longer... it didn't help that I became part of a team with an incredibly competent manager that had already automated away most work, leaving mostly boring tasks. Interesting work was on the horizon with a new system implementation coming up, which is why they kept a full team, but as I said-- bad taste. That second manager did however leave an impression, and I've tried to be strategically lazy in automating my own work ever since)
I don't know, safety for the pedestrian is less of my concern when buying car.
Staggering? Those figures are a less than two centimetres long in a set occupying 1500 square metres with a quarter of a million figures. Unless someone points them out how many people will ever notice?

And anyway what harm would it do if a child did notice?
At least it’s supposed to be red
Please consider elaborating with your thoughts on the content of this author's writing instead of dismissing it for who they are.
Something that has helped me to be more empathetic, even though it's not directly related to listening per se: service. Find a service project that you can do. It's fine if it's in line with your technical aptitude, but maybe just make it some manual labor. Go out and mow a widow's lawn or volunteer some hours at a food bank or something. I've found that as I've done service in my neighborhood, it's translated into me being a more aware of what people's needs and wants are. Plus, you'll come away feeling good having done a nice thing. :)
That’s incorrect. YouTube ads are served from the same domain as content.
I was an auto mechanic in the 80s. American cars in that period were no worse than they ever were. But they weren’t any better, either, which is why Toyota, Honda, et. al., ran rings around them on quality. As you point out, there was no drop in quality but rather stagnation that looked quite poor in light of a Honda Civic.

To be fair, that ‘81 VW camper in our driveway doesn’t fair much better. I’d rather rely on an ‘80s Chevy Citation to get me home than that piece of parts-bin shit. Part of the problem for a lot manufacturers were 70s-era emissions controls, which is a small part of why a 4000 lb. vehicle has an engine that put out 68bhp.
I doubt you'll be able to pay 45k for one of these for a while.
> This is 100% sure a molten aluminum die casting machine.

May well be semi-solid rather than just injection casting given them bragging about "alloy not needing heat treatment"
These people aren't genetic freaks, it's just a simple combination of:

1) being young & healthy

2) lots of coffee (and usually adderall too)

3) sleeping in heavily on the weekends

Almost everyone will quickly burn out if they're missing any of these criteria. It's not healthy, but it's doable.
Besides hoarding, they are all going to be gone sooner than they should be, and run out at the most inadverdent time, and when they do run out people will be delayed by mitigating tasks, doing things they would rather not do, and so have invested lots of effort into avoiding running out.

Plus it's all going to be going down the drain or up in smoke, but with various degrees of latency as we have seen.

For instance, far more integrated circuits have now been discontinued compared to vacuum tube types ever made.
Hmm, interesting. I can't say spirituality has ever really been my thing, but I suppose that's a good enough reason to read up on it. I'll look into it, thanks.

Regarding #3: That's actually something that has been consistently satisfying. Seeing how my work impacts my coworkers and improves their workflows usually gives me a pretty good hit. Besides, it's low hanging fruit. There's plenty to improve since some of the senior engineers have, uhh... checked out?
The vsync of the se/30 is 59hz so good luck with that
They typically get silently settled with a gag clause
Well, Enel has a strong presence in Italy, Spain and Latin America. It's actually the second largest power company in the world after China's state company. It was the first company to use smart meters in 2001.

But yeah, you don't see that from Italy.
Extensible Pattern Matching via a Lightweight LanguageExtension [pdf]
When I was a junior in the financial industry, I worked in small trading shops where stone-age behaviors was the norm. I had a boss who wanted me to join him at a strip club. Another one did drink on lunchtime before trading in the afternoon. I once had a manager who wanted to discuss the number of women he had sex with during happy hours. I've seen sport bets with big numbers simply to impress the colleagues. I could go on and on. They all had this toxic kind of ''work hard play hard'' mentality, where work hard = do everything I tell you and play hard = some toxic way to deal with the stress.

This kind of ''hockey team leadership'' works well when all players have the same hard skills and backgrounds, but quickly crumble if the team size gets higher and more diverse. Its easy to fake group cohesion if all members are the same douchebag.
Do Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex count as other sites?
> math was never really done long hand in ancient times, but calculators (the abacus or any other form) were used instead?

No. I provided an example of peasant multiplication in my response sidethread. (Well, "yes" if you mean using paper. Paper is hard to get. But you can multiply without needing a special tool; the algorithm is commonly executed by using piles of rocks and pits in the ground.) The abacus is a more advanced technology that took time to develop. (It does appear early in some form; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus#History )
Math without notation is 1000x less precise and harder to reproduce, unfortunately.
Coincidence. Today for once I noticed that sunrise and sunset was 6:15 and 18:30 respectively and was puzzled. Shouldn’t they be exactly 12 hours apart? After some thought I remembered the definitions of sunrise and sunset.
And now I remember a beautiful sunset that I got to enjoy for almost an hour. Above the clouds moving westwards at about the same speed the earth moved eastwards at that latitude.
I'm guessing you're using SwiftUI? When you do that, it bundles the entire Swift UI library, including all the parts you're not using, in your package - I think that's because they support runtime-defined UIs which means your app might use currently-unused Swift UI components in future...

I assume you've also seen this article? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/reducing_you...
The white paper on the F# active patterns feature.
Chomsky has demonstrated little understanding of "postmodernism" (whatever that vague term entails). I would take any criticism he has of French poststructuralist thinkers with a grain of salt.

For example I don't think any of the philosophers usually called "postmodernists" have actually argued for the type of moral relativism you're describing. Foucault didn't, Lacan didn't, Delueze didn't. I don't know if Derrida did, but I'm pretty sure Chomsky doesn't either.
Where can I get something like that that I can use as a library in my own program? I don't care if costs money or is open source, just that it works.

The closest I can find is Tesseract which was developed in the '80s, and for handwriting it gets maybe two thirds of the letters right. Doesn't work on cursive.

I want something that gets 99 point something right and works on cursive, that I can use as a library, offline. Plus flying cars, and a pony.
> Are mathematicians ever frustrated that they don't understand what the variables mean?

Yes, if the presenter does not define them, or if the variables don't have a "usual" definition within the field.

> But would you have been able to tell what "b" meant without someone telling you?

Probably not.

Mathematicians, being humans, are not perfect by any means. They will sometimes fail to define things properly. But they are not stupid - they do have a cultural norm of defining everything, that is obeyed most of the time. Conversely, readers of mathematics are not perfect either. They will sometimes skip over the definitional part of a paper/book and jump straight to the results, and wonder why they can't understand.
Just to note, the easiest heuristic I've been using to figure out when optimization might be useful is when you have an OR clause on more than one table. Column A or B is fine, but Table A column A or Table B column A is gonna cause interesting problems.

Also:

union = distinct values

union all = no distinct
I just watched the video and I wonder if you can actually get close enough to see for certain that it was one. After all the figures are quite small.
Sure, and so is Xeyes and ed, but that doesn't mean many people use it. I might use xterm on a remote system I vnc into that has no desktop manager but other than that I'm generally running everything in my local terminal emulator (and then often also in tmux).

I'm sure I have xterm installed but I have never run it locally since like probably most people I just use the terminal emulator for my desktop environment.
So, basically, someone said something in discussions but no documents were signed?
Democracy allows for people to be wrong. Its mechanism for fixing wrong votes is to convince people that they should vote a different way, rather than forcing a new direction on them.

Having disdain for populism is well aligned with democracy. Shooting or torturing populists is not
TBF, if key assumptions are left implicit, it’s not math.
Looks like a variation of lanterne:
https://www.alamy.com/lanterne-pasta-image2466309.html
"The Science" is the new state-sponsored oppressive religion.

The parallels write themselves - only a few are worthy to approach "The Science", and we must trust that their interpretation of the mysterious writings is correct. As well as that, we must obey, for the good of all, or face public ridicule and be shunned as dangerous.
Couple of months? You're in for a rude awakening (quite literally). There's some studies that parents don't get normal sleep cycles until the last child turns 6.

Mine are 4 and 6 now and while it got better, my sleep is still not back to normal. It seems also that the two have some silent agreement to prevent their parents sleep, for example when the younger one got old enough that she would regularly sleep through most of the night, the older one started waking up at around 2-4 with nightmares.
Still wouldn't change a thing though, it's all worth it!
So one element which kinda wraps all of these concepts together is what some have called the "Golden Age of Islam".[1] The [literal] Empire which emerged from Muhammad's legacy became a source of great intellectual thinking (while Europe had just entered its dark age). This makes sense, being the place of some of the oldest civilizations on Earth, and surrounded by several other great civilizations.

During this time (a few hundred years after the fall of Rome) the texts of the ancient Greek philosophers and scientists became quite popular among Muslim thinkers. One could argue that this Golden Age included a natural continuation of the works of Aristotle, Plato, etc. Furthermore, they adopted a new system of representing numbers from India which turned out to be a convenient language for formalizing the concepts of Algebra (done by Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi in the early 800's [2]).

Sadly I can't recommend any books -- this was conjured up from my memories of this subject from College some time ago (with the guiding help of Wikipedia to fill in some gaps).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi
Around 2003 I worked at Merrill Lynch, on the IT side supporting investment banking. Our users were creating Pitchbooks, which are these 100 page PowerPoint presentations that contain a lot of financial data taken from various financial statements. The junior employees toil for hours putting these things together for senior managers.

We had an idea that we could build an application to produce much of the pitchbooks using current tools to pull data from financial statements and generate complete decks. What previously took dozens of hours could be done for them in 15 minutes, saving the junior employees an enormous amount of time.

The Managing Directors rejected the project because they wanted their junior employees to suffer the same way that they did. That was the actual explanation they gave us. It's just work for the sake of work.
I bet European regulators will never accept the current design. They'll probably have to design a safer version later, or skip the entire market.
>which was not possible before the internet

The same game was practiced since French Revolution, it's nothing new and I'm sure as hell it wasn't invented on the net. Following OP's analogies with Russosphere, it's much more like RSDLP (i.e. the pre-revolutionary loosely organized umbrella socialist party with a bunch of very different movements) than the late USSR they are talking about. Many people from RSDLP like Alexandra Kollontai would feel right at home today, for example.
I'm rather surprised by the number of critical theory related articles on HN recently. Maybe it is because hackers are literally people who like to disassemble things to better understand them? Although I'm more cynical and I think it's more likely a bunch of people in political forums coordinating to implant those articles (this is what happened to Reddit after all).

On YouTube there was this video about how Music Theory is White Supremacy. Yes you read that right, Critical Music Theory. Of course the points made do not really stand to simple scrutiny and doesn't even direct proof of what they claim outside of "it's not the best system and those who are propagating it tend to be White". There's even reference to math not being universal, and I got into a debate where I had to make the point that 2+2 is not equal to 5, which kinda tells you the intellectual honesty of those espousing this kind of thinking.

CR is great at deconstruction, but the problem as you pointed out they entirely fail at making anything that makes sense or is useful. They openly state that it is better to make points that "have the right political impact" rather than being correct (actually a quote from Vaush) under the pretext that since there are no objective truth and that only "those in power" make the point, it's just better to pick models that destroys structures of power.
I assume this is marketing; I have difficulty believing that it could be made road-legal in its current form, at least in Europe. Maybe it's a US-only model, but even in the US I would've thought it was a bit too... pointy.
Show HN: Catalst – Find out who has a crush on you
I feel like if you paid close attention you heard / understood that this was a new virus and nobody was sure of much.
Perhaps they should form a union and collectively bargain for better working conditions.
This is a site I built to help people who are interested in each other find out. When you feed it e-mail addresses of people that you like, it anonymously invites those people to submit their own lists. If the site finds a match, it lets you both know and provides a way to chat. It started as an amusing project to help some friends, but I also wanted to build something with a little complexity with a few tools I hadn't used previously.

So far the site only uses e-mail addresses to look for matches, but it should be straightforward to add other types of identifiers (e.g. Twitter handles) down the line.

I'd appreciate feedback on any aspect of the site. It was a lot of fun to build, and I'd like to make sure it's as useful as possible for people. If you play with it, please try matching with someone else or with one of your other e-mail addresses. That will let you see the whole flow, including the chat page for talking with matches. Thanks for checking it out!
The most vocal are also the most inconsistent. Inconsistency breeds distrust. Acknowledgement and explanation of the inconsistency reduces distrust. Guess what isn't happening, anywhere?
What are some features xterm has that I'm missing out by using gnome-terminal? Not doubting, just ignorant.
Computers are general purpose in that they are capable of doing anything possible by a Turing machine with limited memory.

Software built on top of that can be whatever we want within those limits. Even most proprietary operating systems are relatively general purpose. On windows and Mac os, you can generally acquire a wide range of software capable of doing many things and can create your own with relative ease.

Smartphones get a little less general purpose, again above the level of the actual computer though. In the case of smartphones and consoles and such, the extra software thwarting the general purpose nature of the computer is buried a little deeper as firmware flashed onto rom chips.

Then with computer powered appliance type devices, the only software is whatever is flashed onto the rom chip buried inside there that you can't really touch without some hardware modding.

In the end, computers have never stopped being general purpose, and likely never will. It's just the software separating the user from the computer is getting deeper and deeper into hardware.

I realize there's good security and user friendliness arguments to be made for this kind of thing, but it's a worrying trend. It'll create almost a pseudo class system with the people who have real computers and can use them to make money and do things and the people who have toys that suck money from them and feed them consumer garbage.
Based on their prior pricing history, if they're talking a 45k price point, they will _not_ be able to accomplish that.
State the basics about the person. It can often help to give context about who they are in the time they're in.
I can see that easily becoming my number two favorite pasta shape. I'm afraid, however, that tortellini must remain on top for me.
It's like financialised toxic masculinity.