skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a small adjustment to this formula could make a big difference: instead of group prompts, is there a way to prompt a single person at a time to respond to something deeper, and then to use that to start a conversation?

When I think about the most genuine connections I have with friends, the bonds are not formed from little things like talking about what we’re doing this weekend. They’re formed from moments when we are focused on each other as complex people with hopes, struggles, ideas, perspectives, messy families and careers, insecurities, successes, all wrapped up in a bundle. They come from being around for each other’s journeys as we individually sort out our lives, even if the venue might be something insubstantial like talking while playing the same video game.

I think short prompt responses would make me focus too much on myself, not enough on others.
Definitely install Koreader!

http://koreader.rocks/

I can't even begin enumerating the features. It really rocks!
Kobo has Pocket integration.
I used to have a phone number on my web site. Over time the majority of my customers migrated to email and the few that didn't seemed to mostly be time wasters.

I guess it didn't help that I'm in the UK and the majority of my customers are in the US so there were time differences to deal with.

I will still phone customers if they ask although I always push back on that until I have some details on their issue.

Conference calls are nearly always a complete waste of time when it comes to support but can be helpful when closing sales.
I remember when people were like "compiler monoculture bad", wonder what changed since then to make people like that ecosystem so much.
We are Hype1000 - A new corporate audio & voice startup
I use a Boox device (see my top-level comment in this same thread for a breakdown of my experience), it runs Android with some light customization on top. So you can just install FireFox right on the device. Or you can use EinkBro, an e-ink optimized fork (of FF, I think?) that has paging built right in to better work with e-ink.
Wow. Was that in school?

In early 2010s my school was still teaching turbo c++ in 'computer science' curriculum, which was an optional subject in 11th grade.
Allow me this quote:

I am tempted to go full Slav on Conor, to explain to him how we are all just grains of dust suspended in the howling void, searching for meaning in the fleeting moments before we are yanked back to the oblivion from whence we emerged, naked and screaming. But for all his faults he's just a kid stuck spending his summer microwaving Yorkshire puddings for difficult people. I take pity.

— https://idlewords.com/2018/12/
As someone who's reading a lot of technical material, I'm on the fence about e-readers.

On the one hand, many technical books are thick and heavy, and can benefit from having a search function. But on the other, e-reader screens tend to be small and require a lot of scrolling back and forth (like between a code sample and an accompanying explanation).

Does anyone have experience with reading technical books on an e-reader? Any suggestions?
Thank you for underpromising, and hopefully soon overdelivering!
Pocket or Instapaper work well for this.
Why women want sugar daddies
We are dependent on food and water, which requires ongoing support from a vendor.

The problem is in having a trustworthy vendor or a healthy marketplace of alternatives you can switch to.
Fully agreed. It is somewhat concerning that so few people realize this. It seems tech is the answer to everything these days ... Nothing beats catching up with friends by actually visiting them and sit down for a few hours of talk.
Ask HN: What are some interesting stuff happening in the back-end world
I'm a full-stack dev by DNA, but for the past half a decade I've been thinking / focussing on the front-end. Front-end saw some huge changes during these years like Angular/Ember slowly phasing out, Component based code architecture and functional paradigms in front-end stores, code bundling techniques, etc.

Curious how the scene is in the server-side world? What recent developments happened and how good/bad are they?
As an English-as-first-language speaker, it did not at all occur to me what “hmsklt” meant. I haven’t heard the term “homeskillet” used in 20+ years.
> because I've longed for an open source, liberally licensed, spreadsheet component for the web

I assume SlickGrid (https://github.com/6pac/SlickGrid/wiki/Examples) didn't satisfy your requirements?
I've dreamt of redundant/automatic failover connections since mid 90s.

Whatever solution I researched it boiled down to trading bandwith increase for latency increase.

Speedify seems intriguing yet seems extremely country dependant.

Say you are in Sweden and want to access Australian site when Speedify server is in UK your latency is surely to go up.

Since Speedify is essentially a VPN with multiple incoming connections, isn't it extremely important on what country Speedify servers are?

PS Another up/downside your public IP is probably Speedify IP (just like a regular VPN)
My first contact (and love) with a computer was when I was attending a free computer introduction class, around 9-10 years old, and they showed us the familiar turtle of LOGO :-)
The speed of detonation also matters, a meteorite detonation is surely slower than a nuclear bomb which releases the energy in milliseconds.
I will not use an app for this, but all the contents of the app, I can Simply ask my friends about. In this way we can have engaging conversations.
> tumblr is fractally broken. it's not wrong in any specific way, it's wrong at every possible scale.
The way I interpret your claim is: that not only is it feasible in regard to the technology being available, but also that it is economically feasible _and_ the currently existing infrastructure does not need to be redone differently from scratch but can instead be augmented/upgraded to allow storage of months worth of hydrogen.

I don't think that all these are true.

Yes, the technology definitely exists.

But as far as I know there's no country (yet) that has existing infrastructure that merely needs some upgrades (with the effort for these upgrades being significantly smaller than the total effort that went into building the existing infrastructure or would be necessary for building completely new infrastructure) to enable storing of months worth of hydrogen.

So I wouldn't support the claim "You can store months worth of hydrogen ...".
I've tried gdb --tui once, and it managed to mangle my xterm's terminal geometry into something non-Euclidean, so thanks but no thanks.
Pull to refresh is not fixed; test at https://tasvideos.mistflux.net/.
The trick for me to like e-readers was threefold:

a) the new ~300 dpi eink screens

b) never, ever connecting it to any network for any reason ever

c) a microSD card slot that i can put a huge library of pirated books onto.

No distractions, no notifications, no web, no apps, no phone home, no update treadmill. Just books.
Low depth amplitude estimation on a trapped ion quantum computer
Low ingerest rate resulting in economical growth is a dogma recognized across economic schools, which fails to materialize empirically. Look up Richard Werner on this.

The only growth that is observed is businesses which are serving the bubble. Eg. construction industry having a boom as well as cryptocurrency startups.
Do you have $10K in DVDs you will never watch again, like many renters do?

You subscribe to your mother?
I think the domain and author need to be contextualised. Regardless of everything else, this isn't just a non political author writing an interesting story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Bruenig
I read technical books on the e-reader. It's annoying as the diagrams are not as good, but so much nicer for that sort of thing. I still buy a lot of general reading books from bookshops though. Partially because I like paper books, but also because I like bookshops and find they improve the areas where they are found.
> But basically anything outside of those two realms feels completely under-addressed by SAAS:
> - industry - public services - waste management - etc

I hear this a lot. Couldn't be that everyone (makers/founders) addresses these PH/PH spaces because they are packed with early adopters instead of the other industries where every new innovation will be taken with FUD?

And that's the cause that it's under-addressed. It's hard to convince "classic" industries to adopt new SW stuff and new paradigms.
>why does this person still spends their time on tumblr

Because it's not all bad? Because the problems they experience are relatively minor and fixable, and that by complaining about this bug it might get fixed?
There is no need to literally fork the nixpkgs repo. Most language derivations were written with the idea of supporting multiple versions at the same time. In this guide (https://www.breakds.org/post/nix-shell-for-nodejs), the key example is this one:

let pkgs = import <nixpkgs> {};

buildNodejs = pkgs.callPackage <nixpkgs/pkgs/development/web/nodejs/nodejs.nix> {};

nodejs-8 = buildNodejs {
enableNpm = true; # We need npm, do we?
version = "8.17.0";
sha256 = "1zzn7s9wpz1cr4vzrr8n6l1mvg6gdvcfm6f24h1ky9rb93drc3av";
};
in pkgs.mkShell rec {
name = "webdev";

buildInputs = with pkgs; [
nodejs-8
(yarn.override { nodejs = nodejs-8; })
];
}

where we import the normal nixpkgs, then we use `callPackage` to re-use the code that was written by the Nix mantainers, and we specify our own version and SHA.

If the derivation hadn't been written to be reusable what you can do is to copy this whole directory https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/nixos-21.05/pkgs/devel... to your local project and import the nix files locally. In this case, some of the artifact might be missing from the nix cache and you might need to compile some from source. We do this in some cases and upload the artifacts to our private store on https://www.cachix.org so that no engineer has to recompile them again on their own computer.
Did you solve it? Russia’s Prime Minister sets a geometry puzzle
> So you are typing "Don't" and the ResetCursorPosition() function gets called and you look at the textbox and now it says "on'tD"

I had this bug trying to implement a text editor using Draft.js but not sure it was for the same reason.

I guess tumblr devs tried to implement a text editor and at the same time have some vim like shortcuts(jkl).

This makes you appreciate how less can be more.
Or shell scripting, legacy or modern, doesn't matter.
Yep, it's super convenient for storing up long-form articles.
I would also add that there's nothing worse than being a landlord of a single unit/property. Pretty much all of the functions that you'll need to fulfill as a landlord take the same amount of time for 2-3+ units as they do for 1, except your potential returns are lower. Setting up a system to collect rent, managing repair requests and vendors, a tenant marketing/screening plan, extended vacancies, etc. are all much more painful to do for a single unit than for a collection of units. I see a lot of people throw the "just rent it out" line without considering any of this.
Tumblr is still the best place to be for many people - even despite all those flaws. For many, there is no better "somewhere else" people can "just" move to.
Not really, in my opinion. It's a platform.

I think a glue system is meant to connect disparate pieces that otherwise could not interact with each other.
Rust has multiple compilers, but only a couple of them get actually used. If you're wondering what changed, it's probably 40 years of being forced to draw a 3-way Venn diagram between Clang, LLVM and GCC every time you want to build your software. The added conventions of Rust in conjunction with it's package specification means that most compilers are just going to be boring.
What’s in a package–on the packaging practices of PyPI, CONDA, and Guix
What a twisted logic they had back then. City got destroyed because of an incompetent government? That's fine, we can keep trusting them. City got destroyed by a meteorite? No way we can ever trust them again, they've lost the Mandate of Heaven!

In practice I would assume though that people weren't much different than today, and the Mandate of Heaven trick would only work if the government doesn't appear to be too incompetent.
Instance-Conditioned GANs generate images of things it has never seen before
You don't need any boilerplate to write an operator - you can write an operator in any language. I've written several in python and they all clock in under 300 sLoC
The name is short for "homeskillet," which is a colloquial term of endearment for a good friend. I met my cofounder on an airplane 7 years ago and developed our friendship while each living in distant cities (SF, Taipei, Berlin, London). I called him homeskillet once but he didn't understand the meaning since he's French, so it randomly became our placeholder project name as we bounced around ideas for cool things to build.

Super helpful feedback on the name confusion!
Dev.fuzz (fuzzing) merged in Golang tip
"Daily Gratitudes", "Self Love"... This sort of curated communication reminds me a lot about how it feels to be around believers... It makes me shiver. Authentic communication cant be based on a framework of acceptable topics preselected by, well, whom? Besides, less screen time is the only way to go to strengthen friendships.
HN is a way to procrastinate. So it leads to conversations about procrastination.

It's like if a bar were full of people having a conversation about how they need to quit drinking.

Or to put it more sympathetically, in the language of the article, it's because there's some need that isn't being met. Given that HN provides something like socialization, I'd bet it's that.
Or resell it. Looks like I've finally stumbled on my idea for YCombinator: TroHorse.io, the online marketplace for compromised electronics.
I enjoyed a bit of Unix and C bashing here (): "Unix, C, and Pascal may be excellent teaching and development tools, but they may not be so good for commercial production work."

(): https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-08/page/n19/m...
A grand would be amazing, find someone to accompany you on double bass like Rimski & Handkerchief! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foXwSW34Bmk
I prefer reading on my e-reader for a number of reasons you’ve probably come across elsewhere. But the most underrated thing for me is that I can read large books. I feel they’re too unwieldly to carry around and also heavy enough that I feel too much friction actually starting to read. I had The Gene on my shelf for 3 years before I realised this was why I hadn’t even read 10 pages of it. I bought the ebook and finished it within 4 days.

This opened up a side benefit. I find that my enjoyment of things is enhanced when I can share it with someone. Since I have the ebook, I can gift the physical book to a friend who I think will like the book. That’s what happens to most of the physical books I receive as gifts - I buy the ebook, read it, then gift the physical book so I can share the joy with someone else.
> I had a rather frustrating time setting up the damn device – it’s annoying to have to connect to wifi, make a Kobo account, make an Overdrive account, and search for books with a terrible response time to text input, and it’s especially annoying when you enter the wrong wifi password multiple times and end up restarting the device because you’re so convinced you have the right password before finally realizing your mistake.

The best advice I can give for the Kobo is to use all of the functions not directly related to reading as little as possible. By that I mean, don't try to search the Kobo store on the Kobo: search on the website or on the smartphone app, and just send the books to the Kobo automatically when you buy them. Don't try to search the library on the Kobo: search with the smartphone Libby app and let the Kobo sync them over when you check one out. Don't try to read Wikipedia articles directly in the Kobo's experimental browser: add the wiki articles you want to read to Pocket and sync them over.

The Kobo is an excellent reading device, but it is a very poor internet browsing device. I minimize the time I spend "browsing" on it via the methods described above, and I have a much more enjoyable experience.
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E-readers and books both have their strengths, but these days I read 95% on my Kindle. Things I like:
- instant look up of words and vocabulary builder
- highlights and notes - I would find it very onerous to keep a paper notebook to the same level of detail (I know some do - kudos)
- search across books. For history books this is brilliant: 'Hmm La Mettrie, rings a bell ... oh yeah him'. Like having your own mini, super high quality wikipedia (or indeed www)

As well as usual gubbins about convenience etc.
Not sure if you'll catch this message any time soon, but:

1. major source of incompatibility was the removal of the ability to cast ClassLoader to a URLClassLoader, fixes for that were relatively extensive but also simple enough to get running in a few days.

2. Not seen any crash reports in the first 24 hours which is a good sign, any that do come up I will forward as bug reports.

3. Perf wise, about equal, memory usage is much better.

4. Thanks for the impetus to give migrating another go.
I use Kobo with Pocket integration for exactly this! Just install the extension, click the button, refresh on your e-reader and get reading :) It doesn't work for every page but it has been really useful for me.
+1
Although I would like SFTP support to avoid moving the SD card.
The stories prompted by this app will be very personal. Shouldn’t they be protected from third parties? Encryption with a shared symmetric key sounds reasonable?
There was The Thing, a Soviet passive transmitter that was a replica of the Great Seal and gifted to the American embassy in Moscow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
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> Latest iteration of coercion is called Google AMP.

I changed my default search engine from GSearch to DDG a couple years ago because of AMP, but it's now thankfully dead in the water, e.g.

https://searchengineland.com/google-news-app-will-display-no...

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/366242/amp-de...

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-remove-amp-no-search-ran...
TZDB would be a great case study in open source.

It has lots of issues.

IMHO the main issue is that 99.99% of its users only become aware of it through setting timezones. It is not designed for setting timezones, and the user experience is frankly terrible, the identifiers are unsuitable, and there is no standard way to present them to non-technical end users.

The maintainers have their head in the sand about its use claiming that they don't provide the 'useful name of timezone' service or the 'useful subset of modern timezones people actually use' service. Instead, they only provide the 'festidious historic list of timezones as researched from sources verging on obscurity' service ("just making sure that the data is correct").

It seems that a large portion of the email list is fixated on that service ("people
who know about time and (perhaps) care about little else..." as summarized by one member) and apparently consider the partial shift of some data elsewhere to be sacrilege. Recently it seems the maintainer has had a different idea.

The whole project should probably be reconsidered from scratch by a well meaning body, however it's a thankless task and nobody is going to do a technically solid and apolitical job for free... hence status-quagmire-quo. Popular time is inherently a political beast and a human problem.
So, most highlighting stuff frankly comes across to me as more like https://kassandry.net/misc/english_syntax.jpg than anything else - highlighting trivially inferrable structure at the expense of overall comprehension (note this entire comment is written under the assumption whatever the highlighting is doing it does perfectly, "bugs exist sometimes" is of course both trivially true and not the point).

Gentler colour schemes and things like e.g. rust highlighters that use a colour per lifetime are interesting and certainly I'm less likely to go out of my way to disable those.

The big problem I have though is that they are, by nature, highlighting at a specific granularity, and I'm generally not reading that way. My conceptualisation of code as I'm reding it jumps between the symbol, expression, statement, block, function, class levels all the time and it's very easy for the discontinuity when my granularity just changed and the colourisation didn't to snap me completely out of flow. Which is clearly an oddity of my brain, and unfixable absent focus-follows-mind, so oh well.

An interesting thing I've noticed is that having the code visually be a single artifact rather than heavily distinguished individual syntax artifacts means that I can often skim a file of code, have a "wait, that looked odd" moment, and find a bug that was completely unrelated to anything I was currently doing but had been hiding in there for quite some time - so, I mean, yes I'm weird, but there advantages to having one of this sort of weird around for review and debugging.

I agree I'm very much in a minority though I've encountered rather more (albeit still relatively very few) people who've found that synhi is helpful when -learning- a language, then when they're familiar they prefer turning it off at least some of the time to take advantage of the gestalt effects I was talking about.

This leads me to suspect that there might be people who'd enjoy this approach some of the time, later on, but never find out because it does absolutely take a while to get used to so "always use synhi" is a local maximum they don't escape - though even if my suspicion is correct, I'm making no claim there'd be that many people in that category either, just 'some'.

Certainly I've suggested to a few people over the years to try going without for a few weeks if they're curious, and of the ones who've tried a non-zero percentage have ended up either 'sometimes synhi' and at least one joining me in 'basically never synhi' - but they were all already experienced devs and weird enough to be willing to try it in the first place, so there's obviously going to be selection effects there.

It would be absolutely fascinating to run studies on a bunch of this - especially the "which bugs are easier to spot in which situation" part - but for the moment all I can really say is "yes, I'm definitely an outlier, but anecdotally sometimes usefully so".

(excuse the wall of text but hopefully it's enough to give you some idea)
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The article mentioned profits not once. Everything you just said is the bullshit companies say to get investors to pretend profits don’t matter.
I think most people were nomadic hunter gatherers until agriculture was invented, binding them to their fields.
Impossible to tell because it’s paid for by my employer (as with most Americans), who has a bulk contract with the insurance provider, so there’s not an easy number that you can say “I paid”. Obviously it costs me something on expectation, and I would guess that it’s probably on the order of low single digit percent. I wouldn’t be surprised if I pay more in Medicare taxes (funding medical for old people, split between me and my employer) than I do for my own insurance.
> The software on the Kobo sucks

The best thing to do with a kobo (if you have a modicum of technical interest) is to install koreader and use it instead of the default.

koreader is pretty great specifically for reading epubs. It lets you specify almost anything about how they are rendered even letting you easily create your own css modifications, and lets you fairly easily get books on and off whether by opds or even ssh or whatnot.

If you are a bit anal and like your margins just so and paragraph indent just so and line spacing just so and you want it to left justify and do word breaks just so then koreader is pretty hard to beat.