skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing is more painful than to watch others copy and paste complex linux commands from Teams into the terminal, and watch the shell get corrupted. Windows copy and paste has always been a mess for me. macOS seems to do it much better, but X11 middle click is the best.
Desert plants as we know them today
> not r/programming or other communities from which to derive some enlightenment

Some obscure subreddits remain a source of emerging thinking on esoteric areas of focus.

The trick is an app that lets you exclude everything else, fully under your editorial control, with no dark patterns.

On iOS, I use Apollo (RIP Alien Blue).

> quit any and all digital activity that's a bottomless well

I’d add “short form ‘content’” to that.

At least once a quarter try to not pick up or browse any short form content until you’ve read 1 - 5 books, however many it takes to get past any agitation pulling you out of the reading flow, till you can again read for hours at a go.

It may be easier to start with one or two fiction, then switch to two or three non-fiction. Something like:

- airport novel
- philosophical fiction / literature
- pop non-fiction
- topical non-fiction
- textbook or research book

You can pick back up short form once your brain is willing to absorb an entire research book.
There's a pretty meticulous review of the second video out there — the raw vídeo was available online for some time — that proves it's neither bug nor CGI.

I haven't found any analysis of the first one though, it could be CGI but it doesn't seem to be an actual bug.
I use the right hand pages only. When I get to the back I flip the book over and, starting from the back, continue using the right hand pages that were formerly on the left.
Tests aren't to make sure your code works when you write it, it is to make sure it doesn't break when you make changes down the line.
> Just don't understand how MS can mess up simple copy+paste so badly.

They have years of experience in this field.
I always keep a Notepad window open - to be able to copy paste properly.
If they are holders of USDT they have not sold their crypto. The risk is on the USDT/USD pair, and the game will continue while people (like you said) think they have exited to USD by holding USDT.
Telepresence is a large subfield within human-computer interaction research; several studies have shown benefits of having this embodiment for both ends [1-3].

Intuiting through it, how easy is it to tune out another flat planar video screen versus a tangible physical object moving around in your shared space?

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S107158191...

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2157689.2157699

[3] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2559636.2559654
If China wanted to get rid of coal power plants, they'd probably stop building them first.
I'd be happy to.

Debunking of UFO videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhAC2YiYHs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3viYcYPRdu4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWWGmiZs4JA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCH7BWGpl5s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th4VlqQyVr4

Bob Lazar debunk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghkFTRY4ZB0
If it is an Imgur link there are additional steps. It shows you a microscopic image that is compressed to hell and refuses to respect “show desktop site”. The only way to see the full size image is to manually edit the url to “i.imgur.com/<id>.<extension>” where <extension> is one of jpg, jpeg, or webp but you have to guess.
It’s astounding just how hostile the entire experience is.
What improvement does it have over email?

One is that everything gets sorted under the right project subheading. Discussions about Project FooBar end up in a different channel than discussions about Project Blork. The second is that I can just post on the Blork channel and know that everybody currently connected to project Blork will see it. Equally if I'm not actively working on FooBar I can easily ignore everything connected to FooBar, and just scan through what's happening every other day or so. I personally feel it's useful keep an eye on what is happening in projects tangentially related to what I'm working on without being CC:d on every project related email sent, and Slack makes that easy.

Of course all this can be replicated with mailing lists, email filtering, and decent threading support in your mail client, and perhaps that might even be better, but for whatever reason the tools for easily doing this aren't really being pushed. I'm sure you could build some sort of tools on top of email that gives you most of the benefits of Slack but with a slightly less synchronous feel.
I suspect, like many other things that didn’t make sense - the reason was that it wasn’t actually true.

The Bernoulli effect explains that lift is due to the design of the wing such that the path above the wing is longer than the path below the wing.

This coupled with the fact that due to the Bernoulli effect an air particle just above the wing would reach the back of the wing at the same time as an air particle just below, and that since the upper particle would therefore have to travel faster than the lower particle the pressure differential would cause lift.

The problem is the theory doesn’t hold up under testing because it isn’t true.
I assume it will be possible to work around this, whatever Microsoft decides? Shouldn't a driver be able to emulate a TPM, for example? Or you could even have the bootloader patch the kernel, as is common on Hackintosh.
The original Mac would pop up a dialog with a threatening icon of a bomb with a lit fuse, whenever it crashed!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_(icon)

>The Bomb icon is a symbol designed by Susan Kare that was displayed inside the System Error alert box when the "classic" Macintosh operating system (pre-Mac OS X) had a crash which the system decided was unrecoverable. It was similar to a dialog box in Windows 9x that said "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." Since the classic Mac OS offered little memory protection, an application crash would often take down the entire system.

Unfortunately, the Mac's bomb dialog could cause naive users to jump up out of their seat and run away from the computer in terror, because they though it was going to explode!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQGX3J6DAGw&ab_channel=Caitl...

And Window's "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" error message was just as bad: it could cause naive users to fear they might get arrested for accidentally doing something illegal!
`Functor` instances need to exist: they're obviously useful. You'll see a million `map` methods in every programming language.[0] What you won't see is a unification of them all under one interface. And the point, in my view, is that this unification doesn't really buy you much. I can't think of a single algorithm that starts with "let T be a mappable type".

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/?search=map
I am the same. I need to write things down by hand to remember them.

Once it is written down i don't need the paper any more.
Good luck DDOSing /dev/null.
Stress can turn hair gray – and it's reversible, researchers find
Ask HN: Unique ways you deal with spam emails?
Do you have any unique ways you deal with spam emails? Comedian James Veitch has a few videos on how he messes with spammers (highly recommend for a good laugh).

When I keep seeing the same email(s) make it past the spam filter and send me multiple emails daily with no end in sight...I sign them up for daily bible-verse emails. Not just one list, like 100 daily bible verse email lists. I call it divine intervention.

Is there any email lists you think I should also sign them up for? Leave a link to the sign up in the comments.
Polf – a new raycasting game for the Commodore PET
The author is overconfident and underestimates library writers to a fault. Packing a bunch of dot products into a matrix is only the fastest way to compute a batch of cosine similarities if you are relegated to a parallel matrix product function.

If you write the procedure in raw CUDA, for example, it is faster to simply broadcast the dot products across threads. That is exactly what the matrix multiply is doing except without the overhead of matrix creation and with potentially greater locality of memory accesses.

Edit: I do think it is worthwhile to write your own code so that you better understand what is happening under the hood, so good on the author for that.
Blockchain Is Puny
Have you looked at market-wide charts when I
Bitcoin is having a bad day? All the others are red too.

Bitcoin's price is currently artificially inflafed by all the tether printing. It'll go down with it, and so will the rest of cryptko.
Have you looked at market-wide charts when I
Bitcoin is having a bad day? All the others are red too.

Bitcoin's price is currently artificially inflafed by all the tether printing. It'll go down with it, and so will the rest of crypto.
It truly is incredible how a site that was perfectly usable over a decade ago has been massively updated to become unusable and with zero desirable features.

I guess now there’s video embedding, but it’s the worst embedded video I’ve come across on a major site by far.
The government shouldn’t be in the business of “motivating” anyone (that’s propaganda). Having a social safety net so we don’t have an army of homeless people has nothing to do with “reward”, it raises the quality of living for all of us.
I second using pens over pencils. What I love about paper is that it's hard to delete things you might find useful later.
Hardly any of the apps on my Moto G5+ run at a speed acceptable to this end user.
Exoplanets in 2,034 star-systems get cosmic front-row seat to see Earth
Microsoft confirms Windows 11 will only support 8th Gen and up CPUs
>They were all right. Or rather, they were all wrong: Everyone knows Ariane V exploded because the officer pushed a red button ;)

...and this is why learning the value of drawing the boundaries and selecting stop points in the analysis of complex topics, and the employment of humor is a powerful rhetorical tool. This is why you composition is the most important topic this semester!

Sorry... Couldn't resist. <Queue the follow up psychology is the most important topic you'll learn this semester, followed by Biology, Social Psychology, Anthropology, all getting stucktrying to get in the door.

Also, what school teaches QA These days?
Actual CDC report: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7024e1.htm?s_cid=mm...
Every time I get annoyed by something like this, I go to the front page if Reddit, see that 90% of the posts are political advertisements disguised as viral content, and realize it’s a minor problem in the grand scheme. I just wish communities would make their own message boards again instead of coalescing on subreddits that they have zero control of.
It isn't. But it's not crashing when crypto is, so a simple way to secure value in falling markets. As said I just use it as a tool as I guess many, if not most are.
Always look at the hammer first. The solution is not use mmunmap() of course.
But there are still security cases left
Active carbon removal and other geo-engineering actions are the inevitable path we'll have to go down. The only question from my viewpoint is how much we're going to suffer before we accept that.
Maybe I should have said 'interpretation instead of 'evaluation' (now wondering about the subtle difference between these two, if any)

Everything concerning interpretation is on the semantic side of any analysis of any logical system, such as FOL.

The point I'm trying to note is that predicates, and constant atomic terms are on the ground level; maybe we can say that they get interpreted into boolean. And functions, constants (0-arity functions) are on a different level; maybe I'll say they get evaluated into elements in the domain; i.e. they are not interpreted into boolean truth/false values.

All these because personally I find something dissatisfying about quantifiers...

So maybe I'm just trying to reinterpret quantifiers as some sort of a generalized function-like object which corresponds to parenthesis and their context-defining abilities?

Finally, I'll add that I've never learned prolog, and that a lot of these thoughts are not limited to classic FOL. I'm also thinking about modal logic, µ-calculus with it's quantifier-like fixed point operators, etc...

thanks btw.
Instagram Might Finally Let Users Post Photos and Videos from Desktop
I would think that Reddit would have an advantage here in some ways. As an advertiser, instead of trying to pick interests of a general population, you can just pick specific subreddits.

If a store sells geeky/sci-fi clothing and gifts then I found it is way better to just target anyone that visits /r/startrek and some other relevant subreddits. No need to build profiles on users.

I found Facebook to be a lot harder to accurately target users as you are relying on Facebook's profile of a user. I got a lot more reach, but much less conversion.
That may well be true but consider going to the German's and teaching them about Radar in the lead up to the war - that's the logic at least.
Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction
Hey, I just tweeted today about how reddit hates it's users:

https://twitter.com/thomashabets/status/1408454355380998145

tl;dc: they try every dark pattern trick to make you switch to their shitty new UI.
As others in the thread mentioned, the Unison language is exactly what you are getting at.
From the link:

> The different interpretations of affordances, although closely related, can be a source of confusion in writing and conversation if the intended meaning is not made explicit and if the word is not used consistently. Even authoritative textbooks can be inconsistent in their use of the term.
Elementary OS Developer Weekend
A lot has been written about the social and legal difficulties of running such a site (how much do you enjoy looking at child porn all day so you can ban the people posting it? How many mass-shooters would you like to have post their manifesto on your site?) But I think the real issue is just money. Even if you keep things pretty stripped down, as 4chan or the original reddit did, hosting still costs money. And if you ever catch on, it's going to cost a LOT of money. Where is that money going to come from? Your users? You don't have a commercial product people are willing to pay for. Advertisers? Not in a post ad-pocalypse era; they don't want to be anywhere near a free, anonymous platform. And keep in mind that eventually you'll have to pay for ddoss protection, a security and moderation team, and probably legal as well. So unless you're wealthy enough to just pay for the site out of pocket indefinitely, any reddit or image board clone is doomed to failure from the beginning. It has a ticking death clock that will expire when the owners finally realize they can no longer afford it.
Hmmm, wonder why this fact based comment is being down-voted.
A driver by itself probably won't be sufficient. I think the Windows bootloader also talks to the TPM using the TCG EFI protocol.
Viral video has everyone talking about SF's 'shoplifting surge.' But is it real?
It has been discussed but you're right it won't be any time soon:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/273
> In modern Western Europe, some immigrant groups assimilate fairly quickly (Russians, Indians, Vietnamese, Iranians), some other form parallel societies in a manner that Rome would not have tolerated well.

Like most sweeping generalisations, this is wrong. Whether groups live in parallel is determined community by community, not by nationality. I can think of examples of less integrated Vietnamese communities in the UK and more integrated Pakistani communities, and vice versa. What can't be ignored is the level of racism groups are subjected to: it seems obvious to say that people will integrate better if they have people willing to integrate with them. I suspect this is far more often the problem.
Welcome to the year of Linux on the (older) desktops?
It’s way higher. This person has no idea what they’re talking about. “Bums” love freedom? Apparently this person has never interacted with a homeless person.

Anyway, it’s $81k a year to imprison someone in CA.

https://lao.ca.gov/PolicyAreas/CJ/6_cj_inmatecost
The article rang true for me. I heard the same FP promises that the author did, and eventually ran into the same issues in my FP programs, and left disillusioned. The article captured the experience perfectly.
If you present me with a completely blue screen, there are no affordances.

If you present me with a blue rectangle on a black screen, it's still confusing and cognitively-loading what the hell it's for or if it does anything. There are no affordances, only questions.

If you present me with a blue rectangle with an outset, stippled border on a black screen, it's clearly a button. Without that border that meshes with familiar previous training, there's no way to know it was a button. That's an affordance.

If a highlight or animation were added to the blue rectangle that already had an affordance, that would be a signifier.

Affordances are major indicators of action potential while signifiers are minor, helpful reinforcers of affordances.

The messy, subjective discussion is: what happens when all signifiers are thrown away, and then affordances too? Baby/bathwater defenestration.

https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/94265/whats-the-diffe...
Thus robots are not meant as a replacement for virtual learning, but as a way for students to follow the normal education when they are temporarily away.

For the last two years, I have been taking an MBA, and my school had thus robots. When students could not come to class, they could still attend by using a AV1. It is not so easy for the teachers to also have to do a virtual meeting simultaneously as teaching the regular class, so the alternative is often that the teachers just send out their slide deck to those that were not present, so the student can self-study. The robot also has batteries, so we took it with us to group work, lunches, and parties. Here is a picture of my group during the second covid surge, hammering away on our digital business model assignment: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCGS2lxhgcU/ .
Teddit supports multisub URLs. I am not sure if the effect is the exact same as the front page, but it looks similar enough. Just create a multisub and save it in your bookmarks. Like this:

https://teddit.net/r/programming+python+haskell/
Coinbase added Tether in May: https://blog.coinbase.com/tether-usdt-is-now-available-on-co...
And... will it work again in Ubuntu?
Yes this is so annoying. Looking for a thread within the last year doesn’t work and I always end up with 7-10 years ago
I actually think the value of the live conversation is lost and most of these would be better as pod casts. They aren’t very shareable, since they synchronous. Editing would help most of the ones I’ve listened to.
Same for us. Our channels went from vibrant to dead in a week because notifications are somehow broken there in ways I can't explain.

The solution for us was to create multi-user chats in the "Chat" section and let the "Teams" section die the horrible death it deserves.

The notifications are more consistent in "Chat". But god forbid someone talks too much, because then you get those horrible non-native notifications that are completely broken in itself too.

It's probably the worst app I've used in years, and that's saying a lot because app quality is incredibly bad these days.
Nothing ν, unfortunately
Same here, plus pencil smears on pages over time if the notebook id kept in a bag or in movement
> Not a single pre-columbian city in the americas had a million people.

Hardly any cities anywhere had ever had 1m people at that time. A quick google puts ancient Rome at 450,000, ancient Athens at 200,000, and London in 1500AD at 50,000 (200,000 by 1600AD)
The access is only provided to active affiliates with sales. Amount of access is counted by number of sales too. More sales = more API access.
Tether isn't backed by dollars? Dollars aren't backed by anything anymore, not even the US military.

The secret to this is to kick the can down the road far enough that you don't have to deal with the consequences. The US can print money long enough for the beneficiaries of cantillon effect to enjoy a rich lifestyle then let future generations deal with the consequences.

They'll tell you it's going to drive growth, and that inflation will be transitory but it won't be enough to stave of the decimation of the working class. To hell with them
> I'd like to see an independent check of this claim, like 50% memory reduction, but under what circumstances?

You have 32 GB RAM ? Teams will use only 16 GB.

> If that's at startup when the app doesn't consume a huge amount of memory that's not a particularly interesting claim.

Of course it's at startup. Then the app needs to draw its ugly black window and it needs more RAM. It uses HW acceleration, you know. And it's slow like hell.

> If that's after hours of app usage when the previous Electron app used to consume let's say 1GB that's really impressive, but if the app is consuming 1GB of memory it's because the app itself is allocating a huge amount of stuff in the heap, you can't just swap browser engine under the hood and cut that in half with no downsides, otherwise every browser maker would do just that.

Every respectable browser will use the whole available memory. From time to time they will have a patch to halve the memory usage but they will recover quickly.
Hm. Fair enough. So it hard requires 2.0 now
Unfortunately, on Linux there is no posix_spawn syscall. It's implemented in glibc as a wrapper around clone + exec.
I would at least make it equal to MacOS, another very popular target where things are tested a lot. That’s 512KiB. 128 is teeny.
All of these things used to annoy me as well. Then I downloaded the app and subscribed monthly to get rid of the ads. Now my reddit experience is awesome.

Reddit isn't a public service. It's a private company trying to increase their profits. The native app experience is way better than the website. Undoubtedly they see higher engagement from folks using the app, so want as many people as possible to use it.

Ads looking like posts? Sounds like they are trying to monetize their traffic. If you don't want to see the ads, pay for the service.
Everyone in the government already has all of the facts. They are not unaware of it, or of the gravity of the situation.

It's just that some of them don't believe it, and were voted in by supporters who don't believe it. They aren't going to turn around to their constituents and say "huh, turns out climate change is real and bad, so I'm going to do the opposite of what I promised when you voted for me." No amount of scholarship will ever change that.

As for what will... search me. It seems to be self-reinforcing at this point. Maybe the steady drumbeat of articles like this will help change the minds of ordinary people, though I can't see how.
I think they mean formatting as in slightly different font, color, background or goddamn underline and the like. I have never found it useful, and would be much much better with a non-default right click past as formatted option.

Your use case will not suffer since whitespace is text.
Yup,and this is excerbarated by the fact that c++ doesn't really offer any convenient equivalent of virtual methods with static dispatch.

std::variant is almost it, but it's interface is quite horrendous as of now.

Another interesting thing is that c++ also intermingles dynamic allocation with polymorphism, which can lead to a lot of unnecessary pointer chasing
Please turn this comment into a blog post or whitepaper or something, because it’s excellent and deserves way more visibility than it’s going to get 4-deep in a weekend comment thread on HN. I think we will all have to take on the task of educating a lot of kids — literally, kids — about the boring-seeming world of financial auditing. They’ll be wondering where their money went, and how to avoid such situations the next time around...