skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use swipe-style input (don't know whether it's actually swype) for most things. It's somewhat annoying that it can't tell the difference between words with identical swipe patterns.

I find it more annoying that it can't even attempt to render words that it doesn't know. The reason is exactly the same as its inability to distinguish "isn't" from "orange" -- there just isn't enough information in a swipe to identify any intended letters. But a failure to recognize a novel word means you can't correct the IME - you have no other option but to switch input methods.
These results are incredibly frustrating. Google should de-rank these autogenerated tech troubleshooting sites.

Yes, I clicked the link because it exactly referenced my issue. But it's not helpful to just see the same 5 tips copy pasted from elsewhere by an algorithm.
This is really neat!

A few questions after trying the prototype:

(1) Is there enough variation in people's arm lengths that it would be beneficial to give another way to describe the distance to the monitor?

(2) Is there any impact from the monitor's dot pitch or contrast settings on which lines people will be able to read, even at a constant size and distance? Are some monitors effectively just better quality in a way that could lead to a different result?

(3) Is there any impact from the monitor's physical aspect ratio because some people are looking more straight ahead and some are looking more to one side (when using a wide-screen monitor in landscape mode)?

(4) How well can people who have double vision or retina problems correctly match the test images they see to one of the intentionally-distorted samples? Could their vision problems also distort the samples so that they end up picking the wrong one?

(5) Could having the intentionally-distorted samples visible at the same time as the test image bias people's perceptions, since they can guess which one is most normal (least distorted) and then optimistically claim to have seen that one?

(6) Will you be able to realistically simulate the effects of a proposed prescription change, even without having physical lenses for the user to look through? (I didn't upload my prescription to the prototype, so I don't know exactly what happens after that step.)
Very interesting. I'm just learning about VGA. On the oscilloscope, I assume the front and back porch is clearly visible on the left and right hand side. What's the fuzzy bit on the left, just before the picture starts?

Edit: and which bit is the horizontal retrace? The bit on the far left hand side, before the front porch?
It sounds like "amortized" is close to mathematically meaningless in that case.

Why not use actual statistics jargon at that point?

Sometimes we need to realize that the reactions of people inside of the software community are almost purely due to their own personal (usually social) insecurities and are not worth addressing.

We have an entire thread giving credibility to someone who absolutely idiotically dismissed another person for not knowing the meaning of a single word.

The person who was temporarily ignorant of the meaning of that word is not the one I am thinking needs to be ignored here.
I'd love to hold a full time job but everyone makes it so hard.

1. Interview processes. Job applications involve a 30 min technical test, and don't even give a thank you. I bet my résumé isn't even read. A lot of people complain about whiteboards, but I've only made it that far once. I've been rejected after interviewers comment on my beard or lack of personality, and yet the same people later commend me on my Facebook or HN posts.

2. Many Asian employers try to pay as little as possible, work you as hard as possible, and maximize office density. The message is you'd have to be stupid to stay.

3. A lot of companies are prestige oriented. This leads to some weird behavior like one office I saw where 1/4 of the office space is Avengers toys and the rest was office space for over a hundred staff.

4. Lack of growth or direction. Perhaps if a company had both of these, it would be a world class company within 5 years. But I'd say 98% of employers lack both. There are sane employers, but the corollary is that you have to be in the top 2% to work there.

Now I'm not saying the above applies to my current employer, in fact they're at the top 20% range. But switching jobs puts me at risk of falling into one of the above traps. I have a lot more control as a freelancer, but freelancing involves a lot of other skills that isn't coding.

Ultimately, I just want to write code for a living, and it's a shame that I probably have to start my own startup to do so.
Discussion from a couple years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18453133
This is a valid question. Though, I would argue in this case that they have found a loophole more than anything, if they are not in violation of the TOS.

As others have pointed out and the author acknowledges, he is technically injecting links when his users embed their scoreboard on their website through an auto-included link-back to his site.

Now, I don't frown upon this. It is not deceptive and its placement is more than relevant.

The same cannot be said for the scheme the author uncovered. But whether it is violating Google's TOS is another question. I'm not sure of the answer.
6m users¹? Smooth and sharable UX? Effective abstractions over many parts of the DevOps stack?

This comment has quite the Dropbox 'build such a system yourself quite trivially' comment energy

¹ https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1394002500508807168
Does anyone have any idea on how to map jj to escape? I tried karabiner elements but it disabled the j (down) movement. Thanks
I still think that the "Yahoo!" style web directory is a good model. A catalogue of hand-curated links has increasing value as the quality of Google results goes down.

I was briefly going to write "I'm surprised that DMOZ[1] still exists" but it says "Copyright 2017 AOL" at the bottom so maybe it doesn't.

Edit: ...and using the search box results in a 404 so I guess it's really dead huh.

Edit 2: Apparently this is the successor! https://curlie.org/en

[1]: https://dmoz-odp.org
Step 1: ask yourself: "Do I hope to make money with this?"
If yes, proceed to step 2: stop right there
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23038-7
It's not art meant for viewing pleasure, as far as I understand the intended use is rather as a reference work. I.e., the artist who uses the book should base their art on the photographs in the book (but of course without copying, unless they get a license to do so).
> Today that's already a problem (CPUs today have ~7 or 8 layers).

No, I think x86 passed 14+ layers at least half a decade ago.
Agreed, there is something that is not being told here.

Maybe the US struck a deal with whoever did this to safe face or something.
Then explain to me why I just paid $175 for a car battery, and after looking around, it looks like I got a deal. (same battery going for over 200)

The believability of published statistics has declined by 97% in the last three decades.
I will second the notion that indeed AA batteries, whether Alkaline, Lithium, or Zinc Carbon, for purchase by consumer at a super-market checkout, have not gone cheaper recently.

I will even venture that consumer lithium-ion batteries, such as for camera or laptop replacements, do not appear to have gone cheaper over last, say, decade. I can only assume healthy profit margin by brands (Nikon/Sony/Canon/etc, Lenovo/Sony/Dell/etc). Third party cheaper batteries are available, of dubious quality, so I suppose that may be a sign of cheaper manufacturing...
SomInjust tried one of these sites - and I cannot reproduce the scam - my output from htmltidy.net seems to work fine and I cannot find any weird back links.

Any notes on how to reproduce?
I searched for my local USPS store today. Every result was some SEO crap. No usps.gov result on the first page.
I understand where you are coming from.

Personally I think blockchain, in its the current state actually does worse to the status quo, and its inevitable. I mean, the ones that control wealth, now have a technology that guarantees their wealth propagates into the future (law cannot confiscate your crypto). Anyway, that is what is already happening in society.

From the point of view of the technology I think the BTC paper is brilliant. Specially the hashcash mechanism invented by Adam Back and what it tries to capture.

I think jude-'s comments are awesome btw https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jude-
I guess that's nifty, but it makes it much less universal. It's also not clear to me why reading everything as a string would be slower. If anything, it seems to me like it would be faster, since you wouldn't need to do type guessing.

Full disclosure, I'm the author of 'xsv' and the thing I was most interested in here was performance.
> The Special Prosecutions Section and Asset Forfeiture Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California is handling the seizure

Hah, of course the DoJ office doing bitcoin investigations is in San Francisco.

Also interesting that they were able to recover only $2.3M out of the $4.4M paid. I wonder if Colonial Pipeline will ever see this money.
Why do you think Apple is immune to patent lawsuits? They have frequently had to settle them.
Anecdote: I'm typing this on a 2013 Xeon (Haswell E3v3), and it's acceptable for web/productivity, but the x265 encode performance is absolutely abysmal compared to newer CPUs, especially AMD's. GPU encoding is good for ephemeral streams, but good archival encoding is all CPU-bound: https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1908148#post1908148

"""Luckily""" for me I do mostly standard-definition encodes and can get a sustained ~11FPS with my own ICC-built x265 binaries and my own custom "SD" encoder tuning. Every time I encode an HD video I wonder why I haven't replaced this system yet. Then I look at component prices and remember why.
>Sorry, we could not find your contact details

So much for opting out
Probably the coolest library I've seen in a while.
That's not helpful. CSV data is what it is. If you're advertising an alternative for processing CSV data but it chokes on valid CSV, then that's kind of a show-stopper IMO.

And I have no idea which string to fix or how to even fix it. The failure mode here is not great.
Reminds me of a post [0] where someone shared potential novel opening lines that had been generated by GPT-2.

So many of them are interesting and/or hilarious. A few of my favorites:

I am forced to write to my neighbors about the beast.

I was playing with my dog, Mark the brown labrador, and I had forgotten that I was also playing with a dead man.

I wish someone would make a novel out of these!

[0]: https://aiweirdness.com/post/189170306297/how-to-begin-a-nov...
I had the same thought, it probably wouldn't even interfere with their stated goal of running at 144fps (and of course there would be more Go code analysis libraries available in the Go ecosystem).

I could imagine plenty of other reasons to go with C++ though - there's still going to be a higher performance ceiling, maybe they plan to support languages other than Go, maybe they want a minimal file size compiling to WASM or to use specific C++ libraries etc. It would be interesting to see the original author's thinking behind it, on the website it's mainly comparing C++ to web technologies.
I would have never thought of this, but I'm pretty sure gait, posture, and voice analyses can reliably be classified as "probably ill" or "probably well".
Was there no control arm? It says “ To evaluate vaccine benefits, the study investigators accounted for the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 viruses in the area and how consistently participants used personal protective equipment (PPE) at work and in the community.” so it looks like they tried to estimate risk of exposure?

I thought the latest data from Singapore’s Ministry of Health was insightful.[1] Latest outbreak numbers for the past month - 126 fully vaccinated, 61 partially vaccinated and 476 unvaccinated cases. Singapore was ~30% vaccinated at the start of May and it was mostly front line workers and the elderly at that point.

[1] https://twitter.com/sporeMOH/status/1401910044648562690?s=20
IQ is just a measure of processing speed. You can still calculate anything you want on an old slower CPU with the same memory. It'll just take longer.

It's not that IQ is bunk, it's that effort and discipline counts more than anything when it comes to getting something done.
Marx, is that you?

Did you even read my comment?

And if you did read my comment then did you actually understand it?

And if you actually understood it then can you actually address the points made in it instead of asking an entirely already answered question?
No, it means exactly one week from friday. It just depends if you count friday as being the first minute of friday or the last minute.
SvelteKit uses Vite under the hood. Also, as it uses Vite, it's generally faster than React/Vue. Not sure that's really contested.
i dont think coinbase addresses have bc1 prefix
> the best in consumer satisfaction

I can see many non-satisfied customers in this comment section, are their opinions invalid? It amazes me that there's a whole crowd on HN ready to make excuses in every thread for a 2 trillion company, as if they haven't got the resources.

I don't see so many people running to apologise and do PR for free for Microsoft or Google.
The color burst, if I'm not mistaken:

https://www.eetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/media-1050360-c01...
$5 a month, $60 a year. It's not horrible pricing, but it's competing with GoLand at that price point, and GoLand is fully featured in a way I don't see this ever being.

You're also competing with the LiteIDE. It's free, light as hell, and as far as I can tell does everything this does probably as lightly as this does.

Beyond that, I'm sure for the thousandth time you've heard it "why does everything need to be a service these days?" Har har, but seriously why not give this a reasonable 1995 pricing model if you're playing up the 95 angle for Christ's sake.
“I'm supposed to believe some elite Russian hacking group keeps …”

Why not. Remember Elite Russian GRU hackers identified because they all registered their cars with the DMV at the same address? https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/10/22/rus...

Smart people do dumb things.
As always seem to need a lawyer to be absolutely sure about any complex matter of law but it looks to me like creating even an identical product which this is not would fall within the scope of "any lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind" for clarity I read that as you can't stop a person from doing any of the above from a b and c rather than you can't stop someone from doing all of a b c.

I don't think Repl.it has a leg to stand on they just have a pile of money and the presumption of being willing and able to hire a shark in a suit to ruin someone's life with a baseless suit filed for the sake of harassment.
If the legal department cleared it, they've made a poor decision, but I can see this slipping through the cracks - for instance, a legal layperson making an assumption based on the "can be used" text, or the images getting used internally (as the licence seems to allow) without properly keeping track of the sources and the usage restrictions.

I don't disagree that Capcom may have needed a commercial use licence, and that they should have done their due diligence, but I still think the book could have been clearer on this matter.
There are plenty of places in US where electricity is not entirely reliable, and that includes some fairly wealthy suburbs. FWIW I'd get such a thing for myself even though we see outages maybe once a year - it's less hassle than a generator to keep the fridge running.
I agree that the product description should be clear about acceptable use, but at the same time, the onus is on the person purchasing the product to ensure it's appropriate for the intended use.

If I'm buying something like this with the intention of redistributing the artifacts, I'm going to be scrutinizing the hell out of this and possibly choosing not to buy based on the ambiguity in the product description.
Because so far noöne has figured out the set of extensibility points needed for a language-agnostic one that doesn’t result in horrible bloat and sprawling API surfaces. The original language-agnostic IDE—Emacs—is probably the simplest, and it’s still quite complex. Acme[2] is interesting, but Spartan when it comes to actual IDE-ish features, and its UI always rubbed me the wrong way.

I feel this is somewhat related to the fact that noöne has figured out how to do extensible widget toolkits or scene graphs either. (Yes, Electron does in fact solve an actual problem, if in a profoundly unsatisfying way.) Actually, just a text input box that could handle the complexities of the world’s writing systems (RTL, complex font shaping, arbitrary input methods, autocorrect, all that with at least one cursor or selection) and was capable of supporting the facts vs rumors approach from FRP[1] would be a significant advancement re toolkits. As for scene graphs, I don’t actually know of any viable general approaches to assembling an interface out of independent parts (that doesn’t work by presupposing a large substrate of features in the host “shell” and providing a separate extension point for each of shortcut, menu item, toolbar button, sidebar, dialog, ...).

Actually, now that I’ve written all of that out, it seems that another way to put my second point is that the language-agnostic IDE problem is a proper superset of the composable GUIs problem, and nobody knows how to solve that one. Composable CLIs are easy—they’re called “[textual] programming”; but then composable GUIs (or TUIs, the graphics/text distinction is immaterial here) would seem to correspond to visual programming, and last I checked the latter still sucked.

[1]: https://apfelmus.nfshost.com/blog/2012/03/29-frp-three-princ...
[2]: http://acme.cat-v.org/
Easily compared to what?
U.S. Report Found It Plausible Covid-19 Leaked from Wuhan Lab
Feels similar to "Reflections on Trusting Trust".

Could someone inject links into content in such a way that you cannot find the link in your own source or even your hosting stack?
I find it telling that Radon wrote out an extensive explanation of why he believes his project is not based on replit, and Amjad basically responds with "you're wrong, you copied it" without addressing anything Radon said.
When I'm reverse image searching something it's often to find the original artist of an illustration, photo, or whatever. I want to know who made it, see their other work, and find it in its original quality without 15 generations of jpg recompression artifacts.

But no, Pinterest has better SEO than the artist does, so it's just endless reposts upon reposts and never the original work.

Occasionally you get lucky and it's not the sort of image that Pinterest users share. Then you might actually find where it came from.
You can actually get a tri-fuel generator that can run off gasoline, propane, or NG (with some minor fiddling required to convert between the three).

However, it's still a lot more hassle to set this up compared to a battery pack that "just works".
Two of my favorite languages are Swift and Kotlin. I basically always choose Kotlin, but I would actually like Swift more if it was supported more outside of Apple.

Swift has the benefit of actual value types, no GC, and IME it's much faster. But it only runs on Apple's OS (technically there's support for Linux but people say it isn't good). Kotlin has access to all Java packages and runs on the JVM, and with Kotlin multiplatform JetBrains is trying to make it run on almost anything.
The comment you are answering to refers to option 3 in the link that they post. It refers to the first answer to the question in that link, the relevant text is:

> 3. Offensive to a Reasonable Person: Publication of the private facts in question must be offensive to a reasonable person of ordinary sensibilities.

The question is about whether it is illegal to publish a private email.
Google’s mission was “organize the world’s information and make it useful” and they are doing a poorer job now than historically.

Of course there are scammers, that’s part of what makes organizing so hard.

Cynically, I think that Google is worse as filtering scammers is because they care less now. Half the page is ads so they make money either way.
Having worked with both CP/M and DOS back in the day, I'm pretty sure you are correct.

This does bring back fond memories. In the early days of Windows 1.x, the way to get debug/log output was with the OutputDebugString() function. This wrote the output to the AUX device, which would be a serial terminal or printer. I didn't have one of those, but did have the IBM Monochrome display sitting idle while Windows ran on the CGA or EGA display.

So I wrote a little DOS driver called AUX.SYS (with source code in AUX.ASM) to redirect AUX output to the Monochrome display.

That did not work very well! I couldn't even edit my source file.

After a while I figured out the problem and renamed the driver to OX.SYS and OX.ASM for the source. Homophones to the rescue!
Replying here to your other comment:

"however there’s not really an expectation of privacy in professional correspondence"

Uhm, yes there is. Internal company email as well as email between companies is expected to stay between the sender and receivers. Almost every corporate email footer mentions this explicitly.

I'm quite convinced that neither employers or employees would be cool with their emails being dumped on the internet for all to see. Every time that happens, it creates headlines.

Professional correspondence is very much expected to stay confined to its intended scope.
I'm guessing the rest was fees/etc coming out of the crypto tumblers they used?
If the attacker is flashing custom ME firmware to flash, you are already well and truly fucked.

They already have persistent and unlimited access to the ultimate back door and modifying the microcode isn't going to get them any extra access to your data or programs.
You can always start using Sublime Text.
I have no way of proving it, but I suspect that cold infections circle the globe on a yearly cycle, the main wave of it moving from northern hemisphere to southern hemisphere and back as the months roll by. So that main wave never truly dies off, it's just "out of town at the moment".
*sight
This is a view held by actual Eastern European Jews who first survived the Holocaust, and then after the USSR's arival saw their compatriots either imprisoned locally or deported to Siberia, or living in constant fear of such for the long years until Stalin died. For just one of many, many examples of this "out of the frying pan, into the fire" feeling, I can recommend the work of Imre Kertész.
Why would they need to? They could just change their opinion.
If that is what they did, that's a fantastic diplomatic success story
At least in EU Farmer subsidies only help old EU countries. Farmers get paid <50 EUR/mt for Potatoes in Poland, 70-90 in Germany. Price in supermarket Poland 0.5 EUR/kg, Berlin 1.3 EUR/kg. Despite this disparity up to 2019 you couldnt buy Polish potatoes, every supermarket was filled with German/Spanish/French ones. After much media attention producers started marking country of origin, resulting in a 2020 wave of German/Spanish/French produce sold under fraudulent "grown in Poland" labels. This is what happens when retail sector is controlled by German(Lidl, Metro AG, Aldi, Kaufland), French (Leclerc, Auchan, Carrefour) and Portuguese (Jerónimo Martins) corporations.