skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WordPerfect was a great word processor at its prime, that is, in the ms-dos days in the 80s and early 90s. I’d love to be able to use the dos version, the article describes the Mac version which I never used so it doesn’t trigger the nostalgia and technical awe factors (“wow they did all this in assembly in a 4-MHz IBM PC while these days word or google docs bring a fast modern pc to its knees”).

If you’re into the whole retro nostalgia thing, “almost perfect” is a great read about the rise, success and fall of WordPerfect corporation. (http://www.wordplace.com/ap/).
You did but this is already a broken link ;)
If the only things on your site are resources for other sites, you could actually make this work using a technology called Subresource Integrity where the hashes live in the link origin (and the browser verifies the content matches the hash on load).

Unfortunately SRI is only deployed for CSS and Javascript (so your collection of JPEGs, or videos, or text snippets aren't eligible unless you somehow wrap them as a Javascript which is horrible) and most sites will themselves be HTTPS so they don't want to have active links (even with SRI) to non-HTTPS sites.
Daniel Ellsberg recently turned 90 and is risking prison releasing previously-undisclosed documents.

Edit: Recent interview https://www.democracynow.org/2021/6/14/daniel_ellsberg_on_wh...
I think of John Carmack as the software equivalent of Roger Bannister, he of the first 4 minute mile. Yes, he is absolutely incredible, but once that magic is revealed to the world, it shows what is achievable and people can follow in his footsteps.

Of course, I'm over here with my poky 6 minute mile...
In word "shift f1" then check "reveal formatting marks"
You must have missed the thread the other day about open source video games that used to be commercial. Psychology departments can run experiments on people where they see what the effect of using Word Perfect is, or otherwise use it as a learning task.

So, for example, you can try to design the fastest learning protocol for a given set of functionality being acquired by 90% of subjects. It's fairly safe to assume that most college students don't know Word Perfect, so you should be able to get good results doing A/B testing.

You could do experiments like: do people learn Word Perfect faster if they take a 30 minute nap beforehand? Do they learn worse if they do 30 minutes of intense exercise beforehand?
Your company probably has a better budget per computer than the school for the teachers and students.
Normally i hate that sort of thing, but i thought it worked perfectly well for that novel and it wouldn't of accomplished its goals if he didnt do that.
Sure, tech isn't new either. People have been doing startups and tech forever, it's nothing new. Better not have any discussions about tech since it's old news. Humans have always been innovating.
Finally! Now I can retire this typewriter
Though it lacks Reveal Codes, I can tolerate older versions of Word, but when they added the ribbon I was completely confused.

Give me a keyboard template and function keys any day over a hodgepodge of nonsensical icons with no obvious organization.
“ Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.” as per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Sometimes the voting is unfair. However it most common that there is a reason for the voting behaviour and it is just that you are not making any effort to understand the reasons why people acting fairly can appear wrong to you. Read, watch, pay attention, and listen when someone spends their time to answer you.
>cold outside air drafted in through leaks in the envelope

Oh, I have plenty of those too! Luckily, in my neck of the woods, winters are more of rare occurrence. We typically only have extra summer followed by late fall before spring arrives.
Yes it was stripe identity 100% not a custom solution. I think my experience was bad because it wanted to scan the back of my card which is just empty. Hopefully their tech will improve with time but my original point still stands. Don't do it Unless absolutely necessary. I was gonna pay with Paypal and chances of fraud with PP are very less anyway. They did lose a recurring customer that day since I couldn't pass this verification.
What, no DESQview? Get with the times ...
Starting in the early 90s, here in Ireland, instant heating electric showers, generally about 10kW, became very popular (they’re actually beginning to die out; many new homes have PV as part of meeting govt energy efficiency targets, so get tanked hot water ‘for free’). And 90s Ireland wasn’t winning any prizes for electrical infrastructure. I’m sure the US can manage some car chargers.
Indeed, went back to edit and noprocrast hit :| Matrix is fine.
Well, and the web version can't handle really basic layout stuff like existing indentation. It's worse at being word compatible than LibreOffice.
It's free slack basically
> Have you ever considered that given the left dominates the media

I don't read most media, and I'm perfectly capable of researching and forming my own opinions.
Guess I’ll have to find a way to survive somehow without access to Medium. Until they forgive whatever my transgression was or my IP changes.
While I don't think anti-Unix is a totally accurate description, there are definitely aspects of ripgrep that aren't compositional. Some of it is performance, but some of it is just about output. Its default output format to a tty is fundamentally not compositional. So I end up building stuff into ripgrep that you might otherwise achieve via pipes. I do draw a line, because it otherwise gets ridiculous.

The plan9 comparison is kind of meh to be honest, because it never achieved widespread adoption. Popularity tends to beget complexity.

But otherwise this isn't so surprising to me. One of the hardest parts about making code fast is figuring out where to fall on the complexity vs perf trade off. It's pretty common that faster code is more complicated code. Directory traversal is a classic example. There are naive approaches that work in most cases, and then there are approaches that work well even when you throw a directory tree that contains hundreds of thousands of entries. And then of course, once you add gitignore filtering, you really want that coupled with tree traversal for perf reasons.

When you specialize, things get more complex. Then we build abstractions to simplify it and the cycle repeats. This to me seems more like a fundamental aspect of reality than even something specific to programming.
Damn, you beat me to it.

Reveal codes is the ultimate hammer against screwy formatting. No more wondering why your layout went screwy 10 pages away from where you made some minor change to your text, a graphic, or a table. With "reveal codes" available, you can see directly what's going on and fix it right, instead of fumbling about with the formatting tools in Word.
The case for the existence of free will can be analyzed from several bodies of evidence (it is a bias)

https://m-g-h.medium.com/free-will-a-rich-fairy-tale-4fecf80...
Why Is the Society for American Archaeology Promoting Indigenous Creationism?
I tried to get into it recently, and I couldn't even manage a "hello world" app. The built-in demo/skeleton app creates a text label in code, and that's it. I couldn't even figure out how to get what is now called the "design canvas" to appear; ie. to create a UI visually. I feel like the introduction to Xcode in 2021 is much worse than Visual Basic 6 was 20 years ago. :'(
AI can now emulate text style in images in 1 shot – using a single word example
Ahh memories. I used WordPerfect on Linux (and later staroffice) to write papers in college.
I came here wondering if anyone else had that problem, yep, thanks for the pastebin.
Right but when people post about a new tech, they don't say "Tech's dirty little secret is out". This post is pretending ball tampering is a secret. What's the secret if it's been a thing forever and has always been public?
Yeah "Dirty little secret" - at this point, is it really a secret?

Scuffed balls, spitballs, various sticky substances, etc has been used to alter baseball pitches for decades. A pitcher from my high school got caught (and banned from the league) for doing this in 1992. It's all fairly obvious how it works from a physics perspective. There's absolutely no secret at all.
Definitely a good thing to include in these databases. If you have a regular gym membership too, they usually offer a free personal training class. Using this to just ask how to use proper form on exercises is a great way to learn a bunch. My gym offers 2 free classes and I basically got full workouts with explanations on how to do everything from the trainer.
Carro hits unicorn status after SoftBank-led round
Spent my gap year making a financial data API inspired by Reddit
It was summer and I spent quite a lot of time on Reddit and Stocktwits looking for new ways to trade.

I noticed a pattern of posts on reddit. It seemed that more and more algotraders were individually trying to scrape and process the same data.

Instinctively the entrepreneur inside me jumped up. This was a huge inefficiency that needed fixing. I realised what was needed was mathematical framework to tie up the data aggregation and analysis processes so I made sentimentinvestor.com and posted on reddit.

People visited the website once. A few email requests for an API. Subconsciously I had generated mathematical data for algotraders into a product which I had given to retail investors.

I got a couple of friends to help me.

We built more.

We still retained no one. After 23 emails, we managed to get someone to pay $30 for historical data but refunded him as we realised it was not backwards compatible.

(We also applied to Y Combinator)

There was no historical data and no proof that the data was useful. We built some more. We made most of our project opensource. A few regular users came.

We received an interview to Y Combinator, but were rejected.

Then, we backtested, and after weeks of work, we found strong trends, and then some more.

June 1st - we decided to monetise and market. This time we sought to show people how useful the product was through backtests and models. It was more successful than we anticipated. We had a decent number of paying subscriptions. Our reddit community (r/sentimentinvesting) grew to over 300 users. We reached 1000 registrations from 500 (which had taken months) in a few days. People began sharing our data in their own algos. Even a few projects and platforms reached out to us for integrations.

We are a long way from any sort of guarantee that what we are doing can be successful.

We can only persevere.

PS we are looking to grow the dev team and raise to cover costs-amu@sentimentinvestor.com
It's a relief to see something other than ‘Doom running on a cinematograph projector’ where the device only acts as the video output.
It depends which zero scale. For zero F I'd want a double-layer boot whether Sorrel-type, plastics, or high-end single layer boot.

For zero C (32 F), there are a lot of boots that are fine for day hikes. The main limitation of something like microspikes vs. full crampons is that they only work well up to a certain angle at which point they don't really work for hard ice.
I think 8-12 is optimum if you’re reaching failure by that point. If you can lift something more than 12 times you’re building endurance not muscle mass. Of course, it has to be said, all of this is not scientifically backed and is hotly debated between fitness experts (if you wanna start a fight between a room full of fitness experts ask how many reps is optimal.)

But in my experience lifting heavy for 8-12 reps one day and then lifting ~80% for reps (I go for 30) after a rest day has had good results.
My pops won't give it up. You laugh, as you open up vim.
Thank you, I forgot Word had that feature. If I remember correctly, it's not nearly as powerful as Reveal Codes -- it's like setting :li in vim to see whitespace marks. Reveal Codes shows you _all_ the codes (imagine HTML or SGML but with square brackets).
This is one of those suggestions where I can immediately see some downsides, and am struggling to think of upsides, though I'm sure they exist.

1. I don't trust my government to have better security than anybody else.

2. I'm worried that I would lose the ability to opt out of a government-provided IaaS. Unlike Stripe, and I can't avoid using the government even if I try really hard. They already have my identity, so my privacy is dependent upon whatever their current policy happens to be. I do not trust unknown future administrations not to sell my data to the highest bidder.

3. The U.S. government has an... uneven track record delivering services and software, especially when there is no competition.

Those are my anxieties: what are the advantages to this approach that I'm not seeing?
The writing of Carol Volkart is itlelf so profound and seducive. As if she had managed with success to walk into lucy Maud pathway.

A Spiritual tribute
True. And these days, "wider is faster" is the cycling myth in need of getting corrected. Because is mostly a tie, with a very soft optimum between clearly worse extremes (neither 10 mm nor 10 inch would be fast). And people who feel in the mood for "overthrowing the old" will often do comparisons were they lower pressure on the wider tires, but don't really lower then adequately, they compare a narrow tire at the lowest and of its useable pressure range to a wider tire at the high end of its range and, surprise, with these conditions the wide one rolls easier. The assumed optimum has shifted, but it hasn't run away.
She received some negative tests for typhoid, but plenty of positive ones as well.
Also depends on what you’re doing. I have a hell of a time doing more than 3 reps on an overhead press unless I’m lifting light.
> Right but when people post about a new tech, they don't say "Tech's dirty little secret is out".

Sure they do, in droves:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Tech%27s+dirty+little+sec...

> What's the secret if it's been a thing forever and has always been public?

I don't think the assumptions in your question are true. I'd wager that a _lot_ more people are talking about ball tampering now than ever before.
- Know that someone has crypto in the first place.
Unrelated, but that website ruins the back history for me. So annoying.
We are moving past legacy Freenode to a new fork
Nobody really does that in practice although. Something that catches %99.9 is pretty good!
That’s unreal. Wow. I may need to figure out how to convince my wife this is reasonable and necessary.
Once upon a time I used privoxy. It was a local HTTP non-caching proxy that let you process HTML requests and came with adblocking scripts you could enable. There were certain advantages to that model compared to current browser plugins. But I'm happy to pay no privoxy as a cost of HTTPS. There's reasons for that though: e.g. today, web browsers generally act as platforms that allow us to write ad blockers inside them. Will I be able to plug into my own DNSoTLS clients?
People of SHA
Curious to hear more!
Briar[0] is suppose to be a bit more secure than matrix which uses google captcha.

[0]:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.briarproje...
> Sure they do, in droves:

And a post about "Tech's Dirty Little Secret" would be appropriately downvoted off the front page of this website.

> I don't think the assumptions in your question are true. I'd wager that a _lot_ more people are talking about ball tampering now than ever before.

How can it be a secret if "more people are talking about ball tampering than ever before"? Where's the secret?
What are you building? I am about to start on a similar project.
>China achieving an equivalent standard of living would probably not work out so well for the authoritarian government there

That myth has been disproven long ago. Achieving a high standard of living and level of education does not magically cause people to pour into the streets and protest against their authoritarian governments.

>A world where China elevates itself to the US's level is one we should celebrate in the west as it means we need to suffer less ourselves.

A world where Xi Jinping is in charge of the global economy is a world where fundamental dignity is stripped from anyone who isn't Han, white-collar, hyper-nationalistic and living on the East Coast of Mainland China.

Many nations in Asia are gearing up economically and militarily to make sure this cannot happen.
> 3) Ductless mini splits are the preferred way to heat and cool most USA (tight) homes.

In Australia, but we just installed these in our house with in-ceiling cassettes and they're incredibly good. Also initially didn't care too much that they had WiFi control, but we ended up never using the remotes and just using the app. (Since you're typically sitting on the couch when you want to change the setting.)

Every ducted system I've seen is incapable of regulating separate rooms properly. Presumably one would need temp sensors in each room to do that, and that isn't done on cheap installs.

> 5) Induction is superior in many ways and air quality points to gas cooking being much worse than previously thought.

If anyone knows some good arguments to use when your partner is an excellent cook and loves gas for the high heat (searing and wok frying), I'm all ears. With the kitchen upgrade I installed a monster extraction rangehood (external fan, 3x the typical extraction) to hopefully deal with the air quality issue.
IIRC If you have Chrome in some cases it will auto-detect an upgrade. So e.g. you've told Chrome you want 8.8.8.8 DNS, that can do DoH, so Chrome will use DoH from 8.8.8.8

From Google's point of view even if they auto-upgrade you from your ISP's DNS server to an ISP-controlled DoH server this is a win because the DoH server paperwork (to get that upgrade to happen) requires the ISP to have sane rules for the new shiny DoH server whereas their old DNS server was whatever Corporate said it should be.

e.g. DoH has an explicit censorship mechanism. The server can say "Nah, I can't tell you that" rather than pretending the answer for your query is either NXDOMAIN when it isn't, or worse some custom ISP chosen IP that isn't even a sane answer to the question you asked.

This means (if DoH servers implement it, which Google requires to get that auto-upgrade behaviour) software using DoH can do much less crazy acrobatics to cope with censorship than with DNS. For example that bogus IP trick obviously can't work with HTTPS. So users get a weird HTTPS error, and it's unclear why they can't look at Clown Porn. Whereas with DoH the browser can say "You are not allowed to look at Clown Porn". Much better.

[This is independent of the question of whether censoring Clown Porn is a good idea, sometimes, or always, which is not a technical problem and so out of scope for DoH. People are doing it, and we want to make that cause less technical problems]
The inability to read code (literacy) is a training problem.
Ask questions.
write everything down.

try to figure out the codebase, find the docs and the person who maintains them.

try to figure out who wrote/maintains what part so you know who to ask for help.

Figure out if you should try to get into the middle/meat of the codebase or if you should start working on the edges. (Architecture/culture dependent).

Schedule 20-30min intro/coffee call with anyone who will accept.
Oh, duh, Fahrenheit (my bad). Yeah, I’ve got a pair of Sorel’s now. (My goodness, the number of styles have exploded since I was a lad!) Angle isn’t really much of an issue, the terrain is pretty flat where I’m at. Thanks for the advice! Appreciated.
Indeed! In the same series: Myth: disc brakes work better than rim brakes[0]. The rim is the rotor of a bit disc brake rotor that cools better and doesn't add any weight. But the wider tires make disc brakes a necessary choice.

[0] https://www.renehersecycles.com/myth-12-disc-brakes-work-bet...
Tiny Math Games
I think we'd be a perfect customer for this product, as we're in the consumer HaaS space, and one of the issues I've been made aware of by other HaaS companies is that they were getting subscriptions which would get the hardware, and then just disappear, resulting in a loss due to theft.

I had been warned that stripe just wasn't set-up for this type of environment, but I think identity could really help.

At the same time I'm VERY concerned that stripe has allowed the API to download the proof of identity. Just like I don't want to be managing customer credit cards, I don't want to manage customer identity documents either, and I don't want to upload my identity to a company that allows the documents to be downloaded.

When I'm buying something on the internet, maybe I trust the company I'm buying from, maybe not but I know if they are using stripe, they never get my credit card number, so at most, they are able to only get away with the value of my purchase.

My identity is another matter! If I trust stripe to manage my identity, that's probably ok. I don't think stripe should blanket allow their customers to download my identity. I get that perhaps some companies have this requirement, and I'd suggest that they need to be able to work with Stripe directly to enable this for them, but for every company that signs up with stripe to be able to download the identity file...it seems like a huge risk not worth taking.
Webvan, 20 years ago, had the right idea - don't pick from retail stores, use a proper fulfillment center. But they had 3% market share in 30 cities, instead of 30% market share in 3 cities, because their VCs thought the "first mover advantage" was crucial. So they had too much infrastructure for their volume.

At Amazon scale, though, that approach works.
I am reminded of the old adage "what can be measured can be optimized".

Pitchers have always added substances to baseballs, but they were mostly doing it by feel. It was only roughly a decade ago that technology was first introduced that could accurately measure a pitch's movement. It was even more recently that technology was introduced that could accurately measure the spin of a pitch. Now that pitchers are armed with this tech, they can optimize for spin and movement. They can experiment with all sorts of different substances, do the exact experiments described in this article, literally hire chemists to come up with better formulas, and share the most effective substances with their teammates.

In the end, this measurement technology has led to a drastic improvement in the effectiveness of the use of these foreign substances. That has altered the balance between pitchers and hitters that is important to keep the game actually entertaining to watch.
There are definitely calipers that can't take a 28. And the mounting bolt position isn't a precise norm, there are frames that put the brake considerably closer to the rim than others. And not without reason, the effective length of the caliper arms has an obvious influence in brake leverage.
>Looking back, it's very easy for me to blame the US education system, which seems to make it very easy for slightly intelligent people to avoid a lot of work.

To be fair, if you're self-employed, this is an accurate model of reality.
The team I'm on have our calls with the Czech Republic at 9am or 10am. And we have calls with the UK in earlyish business hours to noon as well. They may end up working a bit later with action items from meetings but generally seems to work pretty well.
The secret is out. That's the point. Not many people were talking about it before. The "secret". Now a lot of people are talking about it. The secret is now "out".

There have been lots of highly-upvoted and heavily-commented "dirty secret is out" posts on HN's front page. I don't want to argue so I'll just leave it at that.