skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this overstates the general case a bit, although it has some great examples.

Basic text editing is not inherently hard, as the people here citing “ed” point out. Even text editing left-to-right ASCII in mouse-driven WYSIWYG style is not too hard -- I’ve done it, for old Mac apps where there was no good reusable OS widget, and it was tough but tractable.

What is incredibly hard is supporting editing in many different scripts. I think it’s hard for two reasons. First, there’s inherently just a lot of ground to cover -- multiple scripts, multiple encodings, multiple text directions, contextual rendering, emoji. Second, you can’t cleanly separate it into layers, as text input, text selection and text rendering all impact each other (I love the example of Chinese text input messing with vim’s command mode).

If you could just find a way to keep those layers separate it would go back to tough-but-tractable. But from a user’s perspective, having the layers mixed up is (arguably) what makes it easy to use! You don’t need to switch back and forth between different modes to do stuff, it’s all just WYSIWYG. (Although what with emoji selector popups and the like it’s not actually perfectly modeless, like it can be in the left-to-right 8-bit encoding case.)
I don't tell lies about bad papers, only give some peremptory praise so that reviewers don't have ammunition to kill my submission. E.g. if a paper makes a false contribution X and a true contribution Y, I only mention Y. If I were to say "So-and-so claimed X but actually that's false" I would have to prove it, and unless it's a big enough issue to warrant its own paper, I don't want to prove it. Any ways, without having the raw data, source code etc for the experiments, there is no way for me to prove that X is false (I'm not a mathematician). Then the reviews will ask why I believe X is not true when peer-review accepted it. Suddenly all of my contributions are out the window, and all anybody cares about is X.

The situation is even worse when the paper claiming X underwent artifact review, where reviewers actually DID look at the raw data and source code but simply lacked the attention or expertise to recognize errors.

I'm not taking bribes, I'm paying a toll.
You must have missed the 8 million dollars in stolen merchandise they recently recovered from a retail theft ring here. You don't need a multi-year study to figure out that this shit is getting out of control.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/10/06/major-san-franc...
Tell him I said hi.
Sell it to dom LOL

Fucking miss my brotein shakes
I think this is a funny thing on several levels - one you see the part that doesn't fit so you remove it making you the genius - in this way it's a nice motivational poster level thought.

But you could be a some. But if you were a some it would mean that there was no possibility of actually removing the some from the statement because it actually did describe accurately that there were somes that could avoid it.

So it is sort of a Gödelian joke.
Adjusting for inflation, that's quite a bit cheaper than an Apple Lisa was.
Shouldn't this be called a "homicide cord"? It's the unsuspecting lineman that'll be harmed, not the homeowner, right?
> Ask a group of people who observed an event and invariably there will be a substantial portion who remembered basic facts about the event wrong. This phenomenon is well understood.

This phenomenon is not well understood at all, only observed. But if not one, but a half dozen unrelated people with no conflicts of interest testify that they saw a specific person shoot another person, despite slightly different details from each perspective and individual perception of time, that is as good as fact in a court of law (what type of criminal charge the shooting constituted becomes the rest of the case) [0]. It often takes only one if the person is "credible" (e.g. a police officer).

So why is it that a half dozen highly trained (much more so than a police officer) and credible people aboard the USS Nimitz or Princeton do not get the same treatment? Even the official press release going laterally and vertically through the chain of command corroborates key aspects of these incidents.

> Accepting hard evidence doesn't involve trust at all. You don't trust a medical lab not to fabricate evidence

You really walked into this one. Read this example completely contradicting your claim [1]. The world is built on trust amigo.

> Nonsense. It is up to the person claiming a radically new phenomena to show evidence and proactively demonstrate that there is no possible alternative explanation.

I'm not going to reiterate my whole comment above, but no. Determining the existence of some intelligence greater than our own that is keeping a low profile is less of a scientific method endeavor than an intelligence gathering one. Intelligence is gathered, and then it's up to people to evaluate. It is ridiculous to expect people to prove the infinite set of everything that it is not. People invested in not changing their worldview (of whom there are many) will attempt to assign explanations, and that enters the pool of material to consider. Not that anything changes if everybody all of a sudden agrees on the general nature of the phenomenon, if the phenomenon isn't trying to make contact. Maybe more interest in research into spacecraft that don't spew gas out the back, or more people majoring in physics to try to improve our current primitive models.

[0] https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/127/508/1193/4555414
[1] https://reason.com/2019/02/09/the-chemists-and-the-cover-up/
I think most people would prefer to use proper units of measurement, like grams and liters.
Outstanding. I have a question, and it's not a complaint or a request for anything except a bit of data: What kinds of text does it support, as in, would it work for handwritten English, or German rotated 45 degrees, or Japanese...?
London and city of London are different. Agree, London is great. City of London was pretty sparse when I visited. Perhaps things have changed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London
Are GP mentioned, the safety procedure to protect you from a line you're working on becoming inadvertently energized is temporary protective grounding. A grounding jumper is connected to each phase of the power line near the work location so that the worker touching the line works in a zone of equipotential. Because everything the worker is touching bonded together, if the line becomes energized the worker's hands and feet are elevated to the same voltage simultaneously, so there is no potential difference across the body and no current flows through the worker.

But since lives are at stake here, we prefer to have layers of protection rather than just one thing. Grounding jumpers can fail if not properly connected (a large mechanical force will be applied to the jumper when the phase-to-ground fault current flows through it).

Bottom line, respect the electrical code and connect generators through a transfer switch. These rules are in place for a reason.
> The wearer controls it with pressure sensors attached to their feet, on the underside of the big toes.

Pretty fascinating! The photo of the person holding a notepad and writing a note with one hand didn't look terribly comfortable, but wow would that be convenient in some cases.
This dicussion is missing the main advantage of an app store in iOS vs customer platform locking

If you buy an app on iOS in a store present in both platform you can just switch OS with all your app.
I purchased this with my own money in the mid '90 to use in my work computer (Windows 3.11) because it saved me do much time inspecting the data dumps from our old data warehouse in preparation for a migration for the new data warehouse. No other application was able to load files of comparable size at the time.
political affiliation is a protected class in DC though.
> How often do people leak things via S3 because they couldn't set the permissions properly? Same thing as you mention, except it's yet another layer that has to be maintained.

I think the fact that it's another layer and not essential for anything is a pretty good reason why it's not necessarily the same.

What I'm talking about is the default or minimal install complexity and how that affected what was to come. I'm not sure anyone considers S3 a default or minimal config for a website or code execution on the web.

I do agree it's much easier to add complexity these days though, and there are plenty of resources that probably encourage it.

> mod_perl was available, but I was pretty well switched to PHP by the time I really looked into that.

You didn't miss much. While mod_perl was first released within a year or two of the first version of PHP, it works in a fundamentally different way, as wasn't really suitable for shared hosting, so it was never going to have the same popularity. mod_perl keeps a perl interpreter persistent per Apache thread, but it doesn't (can't) really completely separate one request from the next, and given's the prevalence of globals that Perl lets you tweak that affect how many built-ins function (and the ability to redefine portions of the symbol table), it wasn't really suitable for shared environments, just for applications which were mostly the sole purpose of the webserver.

In fact, the way it works is sort of to just take any file set to be handled by it, and eval the content of it in a sub (to deal with some scoping issues), and display the output. As you might imagine, this required special care to not accidentally create closures and pollute subsequent request handling with data in variables from prior requests.
In some countries, it's actual (theological) angels that are more likely to occur than the other too, as there are neither VCs not angel investors.
I would go beyond that.

On top of taxing plastic, we should also create a 'new' plastic quota.

Petro-chemical industry makes profit only on new plastic not recycled plastic. They will forever fight this transition away from plastic.

If you introduze a plastic 'from oil' quota, the Nestlé's and Unilever's of the world would have to bid for a share of new plastic in a "new plastic market", making plastic from oil more expensive.

This would incentivize manufacturers to either create plastic return deposit schemes, or to recycle more plastic, or just straight move to glass/aluminium/paper.

Edit: the point of this is that it would desincentivize manufacturers away from plastic while increasing the "per tonne" profit of petro-chemicals (who would be manufacturing a lot less).
I saw a report that child suicide attempts rose 200% in Canada during lockdown. Might be bullshit.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/pandemic-safety-meas...
Turns out those feelings are true more often than not and there are statistics to back it up. Not that ones feelings is enough to ruin someone’s livelihood, but sorry if you’re responsible for people’s career development in 2021 there shouldn’t be any reasonable questions about your being actually biased against groups. It’s against the law even.
His adoptive parents were part of a circle of people who, in the 1970s, suggested that up to 70 million Americans might have to be interned and executed in order to bring about Communism. And to be specific, they felt that this would be an acceptable price to pay.
Research is non-linear and criteria based evaluation is lacking in perspective. You might throw away the baby with the bathwater. Advancement of science follows a deceptive path. Remember how the inventor of the mRNA method was shunned at her university just a few years ago? Because of things like that millions might die, but we can't tell beforehand which scientist is a visionary and who's a crackpot. If you close funding to seemingly useless research you might cut the next breakthrough.
The same is true in literature. Who today compares with Elliot, Yeats, Huxley, Orwell or the war poets? Maybe that seriousness of purpose is only possible when civilisation is in the balance.
But the cicadas have no genitalia at that point.
For a small non-public company getting acquired by a huge public company:

Days before the acquisition, the acquiring company gave us all interest-free loans to purchase the stock that we had options for. (we just signed the paperwork, and did not need to directly deal with the stock or money) At the moment of acquisition, that stock was all purchased by the acquiring company. We then got the money for that pretty quickly.
That's good for you. But you aren't a market.

So the question is what share of the market this is true for? When it comes to laptops, I'd say not that larger (relatively, in absolute numbers it might have doubled, e.g. from 1% to 2%) than what it was in 2019 or 2020.
Then you should have no trouble finding real evidence in a given specific instance instead of relying on hunches and generalizations.
I think that argument, which I hear a lot, is a rather poor excuse. Currently it may seem like we're so far in our development, but in the future people will probably look back at our time and make the same argument. I think one big problem is 'hindsight is always 20/20', that is to say, great solutions may seem very simple and almost obvious in hindsight, while we ignore the fact that making the leap to get there was very hard at the time.
I’m sorry, but I really don’t believe you and it seems like you’re just trying to agitate.
This isn’t true: NYC has largely eliminated SROs, but the most touristy neighborhoods are also frequently the ones with the most shelters and/or DHS accommodations. Off the top of my head: Chinatown, Midtown/TS, and the UWS all have a large number of shelters and accommodations. I grew up next to one on the UWS, volunteered at another, and currently live next to a third.
You do know that the bastion of computerhood, the US, is mostly non metric?
No, it's not. This is a bug.

macOS has two rendering modes: Normal (1x) and HiDPI / Retina (2x). For this reason, most apps have two different sets of assets like icons and other images shown in the UI.

After rendering the content either at 1x or 2x, the picture is scaled to the "real" resolution of the display. This allows Apple to support a large number of "scaled" resolutions, but the apps only have to support two modes (1x or 2x).

You can see that this happens if you have two displays attached to your Mac, one with Retina and one without. When you drag a window from the Non-Retina-Display to the Retina-Display it will be pixelated at first (it was drawin in 1x mode), until it's completely on the new display, then it will redraw in 2x mode and become sharp.

Normally 1x mode is faster. Try opening an app that shows a lot of data (eg. a large spreadsheet) and scroll quickly on a 1080p display vs. on a 4K display. You'll should see that the scrolling is much smoother on 1x than on 2x, since the 2x display needs to draw four times as many pixels.

So this is clearly a bug, and not because of some additional scaling from 2x->1x. As this blog post shows, it's faster when downscaling from 2x.
> “It’s like Tiffany jewelry," said Nathan Proctor, a U.S. PIRG director. “They want control.”

Is this something most people are familiar with? I know Tiffany sells luxury jewelry, but that's about it.
Variable or Constant – Which one are you?
To get even more data to analyze, sell, and leak.
Salary is the single most important thing to know about a position. If a job doesn't pay enough to cover my mortgage, I couldn't care less about the commute, the inclusive culture or how great their lunchroom is or even whether I'm qualified. It's a non-starter before I even read the description.

Having to write a cover letter, customize a resume and sit through multiple interviews just to find out if I can literally afford to work for you is not acceptable and the only reason companies get away with it is because all the other companies do it. This trend needs to die and it needs to die a decade ago.
> never mention their religion at work, that does not create a hostile work environment

"Never mention" is a bit vague/weak.
If you wouldn't be able to pick the one colleague proselytising from amongst the others, likely(1) they're not creating a hostile work environment.

E.g., a colleague that never mentions the KKK, but has their memorabilia all over his desk, is dropped off by hooded, white-dress wearing buddies etc., is poisoning the work atmosphere.

(1) excepting weird cases like a colleague intentionally gaslighting others.
If you keep posting unsubstantive/flamebait comments, we're going to have to ban you. It looks like you've been doing a lot of that, which is not cool.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
https://archive.is/Wnqq8
Columbia Engineers develop the smallest injectable single-chip system
Agreed

Whenever we read about people antagonizing masks or vaccines and their usual political alignments let's remember this, because it's fundamentally the same thing

It's a "feel good" position, it's a "I'm in your tribe" position even if it makes no actual sense in reality (and both sides are not lacking in crap arguments to support those)
I work in a multinational company in a non English speaking country, and we use English officially. I'm not trying to be snobby when I say the English we speak is different from what I would speak in UK, and I've found myself adapting to the special grammar that we use. I've come to the conclusion that there are many equally valid "Englishes", e.g. American, Aussie, Indian, south African etc and being snooty because their particular grammatical styles or pronunciations don't match the ones you grew up with just makes you a prick. Lots of my compatriots still do though.
Yes they are.

Race and sex and sexual attraction are innate qualities.

People can and do change their beliefs - I’m not sure why anyone would say otherwise as they can easily confirm this for themselves.
I see it as an indicator that although many tech firms have mythologized their missions as agents of positive change they remain largely ineffectual. If people felt that through their employment they were providing a net benefit to society on the issues they care about then they wouldn't really care much about internal company politics/culture.
I will never forget the day a postdoc in my lab told me not to continue wasting time trying (and failing) to reproduce [Top Institution]’s “Best Paper Award” results from the year prior. He had been there when the work was done and said they manipulated the dataset until they got the numbers they wanted. The primary author is now a hot shot professor.

My whole perception of academia and peer review changed that day.

Edit to elaborate: like many of our institutions, peer review is an effective system in many ways but was designed assuming good faith. Reviewers accept the author’s results on faith and largely just check to make sure you didn’t forget any obvious angles to cover and that the import of the work is worth flagging for the whole community to read. Since there’s no actual verification of results, it’s vulnerable to attack by dishonesty.
>As a matter of fact, most times you don't even need to fill swap before MacOS runs out of memory: you just need to fool the OS into thinking the memory pressure is high enough to warrant GC.

I do DAWs (with tons of VSTs and sample libraries), VMs (vagrant, docker) and NLEs (up to 4K), but usually not at the same time, and I've never run out of memory in macOS ever in ~20 years. 16GB is the largest amount of RAM I ever had in them.

How often does this mythical "macOS runs out of memory" thing happen?

>MacOS is notorious for having one of the most asinine memory management schemes in the history of software

Citation needed.
D Scripting Toolbox Cheat Sheet
> Understand that the public announcement is often different than the actual close.

Any sense on which normally comes first?
HR would push unqualified female candidates into our hiring pool bypassing our screening processes (despite the fact that we already had vetted qualified female candidates in our pool)...we're talking people three levels too junior, or in one case someone who didn't speak English at all.

Then there would be some really nasty pressure from HR to hire those candidates.

Then late last year our engineering leadership said that they were creating a director level position exclusively for a female person of color that would be an outside hire, which I'm pretty certain is illegal. Though they still haven't done that yet.
Maybe their reputations weren’t all that impressive to begin with. In any case, “allowing” is doing some heavy lifting there. No one is allowing anything. This is just how a society with mostly free expression works. Are people not supposed to express their dissatisfaction with other people? If I don’t like something, and enough other people don’t like it, such that an organization responds in a way to appease us, should there be a law to prevent that? What are you suggesting exactly, that no one should complain about another person? That organizations shouldn’t appease people? Or should they just appease you when you disagree with a “mob”?
This is also a good series of articles to understand how a GPU works: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-...

I think at this point a GPU card is more like a second computer inside your computer. I wonder if we could get rid of the regular computer and use a GPU only... are there any OS for a GPUs?
So did BRIEF in 1985, which is why I still use a BRIEF clone and look askance at most other 'professional' code editors.
Whatever your supposed answer is, it’s not obvious. People spending time on HN very clearly have a different purpose from people demanding their employer take a stand on some political position.
> I don't see how that is hard to understand.

For a growing percentage of the workplace, knowing that a coworker has a socially unacceptable opinion is creating a hostile work environment.

I completely understand where you're coming from, but you're literally wrong. If you don't want to be shunned from society, don't be identified as someone who does socially unacceptable things.

I'm not super keen on how this is all shaking out either, but it's pretty obvious how to avoid problems at this point.
Honest question: how do we fix this? The obvious solution, prosecuting academics, has an awful precedence attached to it.
And that period up to at least the 70s was highly productive in fields such as cybernetics and organisational psychology.
Some of that way ahead of its time culturally, and some genius-level deep thinking behind it. The best of that work (Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model stands out for me) seems to represent some kind of golden age, work that would be hard to do today I suspect.
If you host a static blog I don't think you don't need cloudflare.
Bypass Paywalls Clean[0] works for me. I haven't audited it or anything though. Or just use https://outline.com/d2R5Dn

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywal...
May be talking past each other here, but I’m thinking of a scenario where a person puts out writing that shows mysogynistic or racist/homophobic views and then is responsible for giving performance reviews, or hiring/firing people.

Bias is hard to prove in the moment as there can always be other factors to point to, but easy to see in statistics of who gets hired and promoted.
not just idioms but also pronounciation and grammar, e.g. Indian English has it's own grammatical rules distinct from others, and it certainly also applies to British/US English and others.
Other languages need special hardware to beat C#, so I guess the language wasn't the issue.

https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages

https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/11/m1-memory-and-performanc...