skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're joking right? How about Facebook and MacDonald's?
Why do people eat margarine? There is even halvarine, which is twice as bad.

I stopped eating margarine the day I left the house and eat exclusively real butter.
Is this data different than the data that a major retailer would get from sales of a product on its shelves?

I'm also not saying that this is certainly 100% fair. I just doubt the motives of the media on this point because they knew that major retailers were doing this, and they never said a word about it.
I am dubious. Something that fits on a single railway car can be stolen in its entirety, and then the question is “is it valuable enough someone might just do that?”

It’s the same reason that puts me off houseboats: “thieves stole my house”/“my nuclear reactor has gone missing” should be Onion headlines and Pratchett storylines respectively, not things that actually happen.
Aldi absolutely doesn't do this IMO - they have own-brands that they have developed with 'knock off' branding, however almost all of their products are own-brand from the start, rather than working with the 'brand' first to work out it's sales and supplier and then cutting them out.

Aldi's questionable ethics are on the branding-similarity side, rather than the Amazon approach of using marketplace data to cut-out middlemen distributors. I'm not saying if their approach is right and wrong, but it's a different and distinct issue.
War in spring will unite Americans
I'm being gaslit by the TikTok Lamborghini
Where does 95 / 98se fit into that?

(more seriously, iirc NT/2k were a substantially different codebase which got merged with the 95/98/me line to produce XP)
In my case, most of my outside socializing was through gaming meetings, and:

- the local Gaming Society closed for 2 years (meeting for the first time after 2 years in November),

- the local game stores stopped doing in-person events for 2 years (still no news on Magic: the Gathering in-person pre-releases, not authorized for Latin America despite my country being basically covid-free),

- I started playing D&D (with coworkers, so the OP has a point), had one in-person session and then we moved to Roll20 (slowly coming back to in-person).

I do think people were socializing outside more before the pandemic.
Argh, I hate to nerdsnipe like this:

Windows 3.0 Good (and made windows commercially successful)

Windows 3.1 Good

Windows 95 Good

Windows 98 Bad

Windows 98SE Good

Windows ME Very Bad (they removed DOS mode for god sake!)

Windows 2000 Good

Windows XP Good

Windows Vista Bad

Windows 7 Good

Windows 8 Bad

Windows 8.1 Mixed

Windows 10 Good

Windows 11 Bad

Seems very tick-tocky but there are exceptions.
Isn't this similar to Apple building an iOS feature and then displacing an app from their store?

Smells like monopolistic practices. These things should be operated as separate entities.
If you do a lot via right click they nuked it, but you can add it back in. The fact that I can't right click the taskbar to open Task Manager without getting that horrible full screen "LOG OUT/SHUTDOWN/OPEN TASK MANAGER" thing is my biggest frustration. I'm opening the taskbar because I'm getting poor performance, don't make me take multiple steps to do it.

Not to mention I had no idea what the right click icons meant when I first starting using it, is that copy? Is that paste?
OR alone is insufficient because you still need NOT (or AND and ⊥). You can also encode sum-like behavior using negation and products (a continuation consuming a pair of continuations).
It also seems that companies don't want to train people. Everyone wants people that are seniors and experts in all the technologies.
I'm pretty sure that this sort of semi-custom clothing concept has been around since at least the dot-com era but it's never taken off. I suspect that it's some combination of people not willing to pay the premium and, loosely, fashion--i.e. most people aren't interested in just having a small number of perfectly fitting articles of clothing.
Coalition of non-profit groups launches “How to Stop Facebook” effort
Enlarging Perspectives on Space (and Time)
With webview based applications becoming more and more common, maybe HTML is all we’ll ever need.
Excellent, thanks for the update :)
Except I don’t have this issue with Google Assistant. It guesses the correct word/phrasing nearly every time. Siri, OTOH, fails much more than it succeeds.
Think of it like the modern 4K TV who’s price factors in the manufacturer selling your viewing habits to marketers. Of course nobody wants that, but it’s already baked into the price.

In Amazon’s case, all sellers know they’re hoovering up their sales data and have done so since day one. Now whether they should have a more expensive, “don’t mine my data” option is debatable. But if it’s anything like the TV industry there’s just no viable market for it. The price difference would allow someone who doesn’t care about the long term to undercut you.
It might seem like elitisms, but how is it that the greatest wealth inequality in a generation is happening at the time when the highest percentage of the population is playing the market? The more money we put into zero-sum games, the more gets captured by the financial elite and by middlemen, and I think that's really the goal that should be set by regulation here (and that's why it probably won't happen anytime soon).
Didnt Pop Copy’s training materials talk about this?
Not all.

But many, yes.

(A few of the not-so-great things as well.)
You can be sloppy and hardcode escape sequences in your shell script, or you do it right and use the tput program to look up the right sequences at runtime.
It is true that the US gov can print and spend whatever it wants, but that ability will only last as long as the dollar is the global reserve currency. Confidence can be broken very quickly.
I agree about the subscription part, but why is it useless and pseudo-AI? Would love to hear you elaborate on these matters.
Japan never had any plans to invade Australia--the idea was rejected early in 1942, even before the Battle of the Coral Sea [1]. Japan instead focused on extending its strategic perimeter and potentially cutting off Australian-US supply routes in the Pacific via Fiji.

> All in all, both the US and Japan had all the reasons to sign an armistice.

The US doesn't have any good reasons. The US isn't in an unwinnable position; if it just waits a year, it can go on the strategic offensive no matter what. Politically, it would be devastating: the US joins WW2 in part to enact revenge for Pearl Harbor; why should it accept the loss of all influence it had in the Pacific to bow out of the war? Politically, too, it would have been disastrous for US-British relations, especially since the US hadn't had any meaningful contribution to the war with Europe yet.

> The US would have been able to redirect its industrial might into its other megaprojects at the time, the Manhattan and the B-29 projects, and obviously into everything that was needed for the European campaign.

This ignores the historical fact that the US was already able to simultaneously pursue fighting two large wars, topping up the supplies of everybody else fighting those wars, and pursuing long-shot wonder weapons. The victory at the Battle of Midway happened in spite of focus already being placed on Europe at the time; it's unlikely that you could have meaningfully committed more resources to Europe simply for the lack of capacity to have more resources be committed.

[1] It's not implausible that Japan would have reconsidered this, but opposition to the invasion of Australia came largely from the army, not the navy, as the army didn't think it had the troops to take and hold Australia, which would have been a distraction from Japan's primary goal, conquering China. Which wasn't going great.
BC, woman nearly hit by meteorite after it crashed through her ceiling
Unfortunately modern Windows is a goodbad pile of everything that came before. You still have to hack the registry for certain problems.
On MacOS, I thought TextEdit default to RTF, so the round-trip dance would involve Cmd-Shift-T before the reverse copy paste. But if there's a default now, great!

> because you can hold down shift and option when pasting to make it a "Paste and Match Style" operation.

And the same option is starting to appear on Windows, but personally I don't want to depend on the whims of some software I don't control, while the reverse copy-paste through Notepad works 100% of the time!

(I guess I could set an AHK shortcut if I really cared)
As Lisp, Smalltalk, Dylan and Postscript have proven during the early days, it is possible.

The problem is that current generations cannot see beyond their vi/emacs CLI setups and are too invested into HTML/CS/JS stacks to see otherwise.

Some quickly picked examples,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

"Smalltalk usage for UI prototyping in Thales industrial context"

https://youtu.be/Oq1RSDn2P5Y?t=1030

"Interface Builder's Alternative Lisp Timeline"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21828622

Which by the way, makes the binding Objective-C / Smalltalk /Lisp in UI design.
Sure, because pretty much by definition, if they asked you to do a thing because they weren't competent to do it themselves, they also weren't competent to assess the reasonbleness of the request.

This seems obvious when I say it this way, but internally my mind is exploding right now...
Unfortunately, it was(is?) true. Not just OVH though, even Scaleway also had these silly /128 shenanigans.
Why is it an important problem? We have hormonal and non-hormonal UIDs, many different types of pills, rings, and not to mention _condoms_ which actually prevents STDs. I don't have a problem with other guys heating their balls up, but where is the important problem?
Dismissing Linnaeus work is insulting all biologists in this planet in a single move. The guys in the Gustavus Adolphus College are sending a clear message, and the message says that they are complete morons that replaced science with ideology.

Everything that is alive currently is either named by Linnaeus itself or named after the work of Linnaeus. We call ourselves Homo sapiens because Linnaeus created that name.

Is a private place and they can replace every bust with pig heads for fun, or name it anyway they please, but I would never, ever, go to a place that did this to one of the most relevant scientists in the history. Is simply repugnant.
That's ridiculous. Anybody with an internet connection and phone could figure out where a product was manufactured. This type of security by obscurity to hide a manufacturing location was never something with any market relevance.
No, I'm not suggesting misleading anyone. I'm suggesting that a simpler system is easier to understand and leaves fewer ambiguities for compliance and enforcement... especially at national and international scale, where you are dealing with a significant number of very dumb people.

You can tell people that if they had covid they're at less risk because they've built up a resistance, but you can also tell them everyone is required to get the vaccine anyway.
I'd be open to that viewpoint. Assuming something to be bad based on an animal trial is generally how we approve medicines, so there's precedent for it.

I will say that we should be wary of banning products based on potential long-term effects with unknown magnitude. Knowing where to draw that line is tough.
I know it's a little petty, however not being able to move the taskbar has zeroed out any interest I had in using Windows 11. I'm a huge fan of moving the taskbar/dock to the left vertical side of the screen, especially so on a 16:9 screen.
Seems like a cherry pick. Was the difference between 98 and 98SE larger than between XP and XP SP and SP2 which are not included?
Microsoft introduced code in Internet Explorer that tracked Google result clicks and fed that data to Bing, copying the most relevant results. Then you could see the top results in Bing.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copi...

This is very similar... Amazon tracks the purchase behavior of users and then copies the highest selling items.
I mean look at history and forecast graphs. E.g.,

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-primary-energy?cou...

Coal might be around peak just now, but it's largely been squeezed by oil and gas, not renewables. Which are at least better than increasing coal usage, but not solving the problem. Coal prices have also been strong in part due to rising oil prices making coal more viable. This does not look like an energy source that has been destroyed by renewables as we had been promised 5-10 years ago. Just continuing to claim renewables will solve everything without actually asking what went wrong with the earlier claims, and continuing to ignore nuclear which has been a proven solution to the problem for 50 years, is a huge, arrogant gamble when we are facing as massive a problem as climate change.

There is also a very real possibility of just no viable shift away from fossil fuels and coal, or at least a very long tail of decades more of greenhouse gas emissions that exceed even today's record numbers. 2050 net zero is widely claimed by many big polluters, but there is a real question of whether they are willing or able to actually meet it, and apparently already signs its just kicking the can down the road.

The problem with all the "stick" approaches is that nobody really wants to do them. Yes renewables are great and improving, and maybe they continue to make breakthroughs soon enough to the point most countries are willing and able to replace all fossil fuel electricity in the near future. It's crazy to make such a risky gamble though, in my opinion.

I don't think there is no prospect of coal consumption going down. I think the safest and least risky path to shrinking the carbon footprint of electricity generation as fast as possible while supporting growth and additional electrical demand from decarbonizing other industry includes nuclear.
Is it also "rigged" if a 3rd party can buy the top spot?

Is the grocery store rigged if they put their house brand on the endcap? Is it different if a 3rd party buys endcap placement?

I expect Amazon to order their search results in a way to maximize their bottom line, i.e. the likelihood of making a sale AND the profit from that sale.

If I change the sort order from "featured" to "avg customer review", Amazon batteries drop down to #26.
this is a great idea! i'm all for making math typesetting more accessible and useful!

i am wondering why they use a headless to render from KaTeX though. Is there an advantage to doing that compared to, say, shelling out to xetex? You'd get better compatibility with potentially useful libraries like tikz that way (and potentially higher throughput/lower costs), at the cost of investing some thought in sandboxing. Curious about the considerations behind that decision.
Eurozone is at 3.4. But as inflation is the result of pandemic related production halts, the BCE is asking too wait for the shock to pass before taking measures that may weak the economy.
> Isn’t that pretty clear?

Nop :) That would be my guess too, but I definitely would not be certain about it, and the dozens of people that are going to read the code won't be either, some of them might make the wrong assumption, and bad things happen. I much prefer to be explicit with `>= <=` too
Network time is pretty important for things like HMACs.
A copy-paste from "Use Cases" in Janet's README.md:

Janet makes a good system scripting language, or a language to embed in other programs. It's like Lua and Guile in that regard. It has more built-in functionality and a richer core language than Lua, but smaller than GNU Guile or Python.
Does Ctrl+Shift+Esc still open task manager directly?
Plus, when such an object that is moving so (relatively) slowly approaches the planet, it will fall into the gravity well and pick up a lot of speed - the escape velocity of the planet, which for Earth is about 11.2km/s. So effectively there is a minimum speed at which an object can touch the planet's surface, if you disregard air resistance and assume that the object came from a long way away without doing anything funky like slingshots on its way in.
Meanwhile, in the real world, bitcoin miners are buying coal plants to "mine" an imaginary mineral.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-miners-are-giving-new-l...
Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 1, good

Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 2, bad

Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3, good

Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4, bad

Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 5, good

Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6, bad

Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a, less bad
Visuals with GTK+
https://mobile.twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/144804038164...
Show HN: Get Focused with Interstitial Journaling
I discovered interstitial journaling via ness labs, it's a simply journaling method that really helps me both focus and be strategic with my time.

I realised I hadn't written about it. So this is a short intro and explanation on how to use it.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences using the method.
Textual explication of a few (possibly fake) margarine reviews, which the author pretends to take at face value.

It's what they call postmodernism, I think.
Not really. Most of the countries run a budget with a huge deficit or debt.

USA is not even in the top 10 when you look at the debt by GDP ratio.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/countries-by-nat...

EDIT: Just so clarify, first list on the linked page is irrelevant, scroll down to the list of countries ordered by debt to GDP ratio.
We’ve endured a decade of speculation on how it would change everything and the most apparent use case today is digital baseball cards. Forgive me if I’m cynical about it.
This listing makes no sense. Some of these operating systems were targeted at completely different markets and shouldn't be lumped together. Also you have lumped all the versions of Windows NT together as one operating system when there were 4 different versions of Windows NT. Windows 95 came after 3 of those versions had been released but doesn't appear on this list at all. Also Windows 98 is not generally considered a bad operating system for the time.
I honestly don't understand Microsoft's plan with Windows 11.

6 years ago, with the release of Windows 10, it was all about "this is the last version of Windows!" and they went with the rolling release model. A little strange but they stuck with it for 6 years until suddenly this summer they announce Windows 11 and they went hard talking up how it was a huge change to Windows but in reality it isn't. At all.

It has a new visual layer sure but the applications are still the old Windows 10 (and so really the old Windows XP?) ones with that new look. They introduced a new store and support for additional stores such as the Amazon Android app store.

I guess what I am saying is I don't get why now they are calling it Windows 11? They could have just carried on calling it Windows 10. They have introduced big UI and feature changes in previous Windows 10 updates (perhaps not quite as big as the new taskbar and Explorer changes).

It is a free upgrade for Windows 10 license holders (consumer anyway, not sure how it works for Enterprise?).

It just all feels so rushed and messy and the end product is just not very good as we can clearly see here.

I don't want to hate on Windows, after all they have introduced some really interesting new things since Windows 10 initial release such as WSL. It is just there didn't appear to be a want or need for a Windows 11 and this rushed mess makes it look like Microsoft didn't (doesn't?) know what it is doing with Windows either. Shrug.
"Grachtengordel" (canals) is great to practice pronunciation.
"Death / infection" is a meaningless number unless you accurately measure the number of infections. Which is what the Infection Fatality Rate attempts to estimate. Which is why the CDC posts that estimate that I linked to, which is 90,000 deaths / 1M infections, or 9%. Straight from the horse's mouth, as they say.

If you're going to be this arrogant then you need to get your facts straight. Yes, 9% is nothing to sneeze at, the difference between 9% and 20% is quite material.

You're displaying signs of Dunning-Kruger - by saying things like "1 death per 5 infections" I'm not wholly convinced that you understand what an IFR is. Tone it down.
"By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s."

He's shown himself to be a hack for decades.
I’m talking to my friends. A male friend of mine started cocaine really hard when the BTC price crashed, another quarreling with his wife so much that their marriage failed. They are getting really depressed generally, as their self worth as the provider of their family is linked to their wealth.

About the HODL philosophy: I don’t understand any other. I bought for long term (10+ years) as an investment with high risk and high possible reward at $150/BTC. The 10 years haven’t passed yet (only 8), so we can come back to this thread to see if HODL works out or not.
Exactly, I find it strange as I have a Facebook account but almost never use it, except for speaking to family. The last time I made a post was when I was visiting the US and was able to randomly meet 2 friends there just by chance, since they happened to be working nearby too.

Like you can say people spend too much time on TikTok, but if it wasn't TikTok, it'd be Twitch, or YouTube, or Netflix, or Instagram, or Reddit, etc.
I can't remember why butter was considered bad back in the 80's, but margarine was proudly proclaimed. I've been eating butter for so long that I was surprised recently to see they are very niche now and don't put the margarine name up there front and center anymore.

I remember butter being one of those foods to be avoided and margarine somehow being a substitute, but I can't remember why. Anyone?

It's interesting to see over the decades fat and salt becoming less demonized and sugar being viewed as more problematic. One of my arguments against those who wish for a command economy and trust in the government is the food triangle which has...changed a bit faster than humans have.
Taking Vaccination from Needle to Chip
You are leaving out Windows NT 3.1, 3.5 and 3.51.
Weirdly enough I live the next town from this one. The construction they're talking about is twinning up the highway which requires blasting out the mountain to make room for the road, so it's not to surprising they thought it could have come from there.
Then it would be helpful to have a link to your company at the top of the post.

The article starts immediately talking about Cronofy (using "we"), without any indication to the reader what Cronofy is and how you are related to it. Just an introductory sentence along the lines of "As the CEO of Cronofy [link to company site] (we do XYZ) I wanted to share thoughts on..." would have kept me reading. Instead, I followed the link to https://adambird.com/ at the top and didn't find anything to help provide the missing context, so I just moved on.

To be clear, if this article was only intended to be addressed to a narrow audience that was already aware of all the context then it was probably fine, but for an outside observer like HN it's very unclear.
The lack of actual statistics to evaluate the significance of these findings means that it's hard to discern whether this is within the limits of year-to-year variation. Also note that the 2020 numbers are already consistently lower than the average from 2015-2019. They also only address one possible cause, myocarditis caused by the Covid-19 vaccine. If there is a significant increase in deaths in young males, you still need a lot more than 2 graphs with similar spikes to prove that the vaccine is the cause. See also: ice cream trucks and shark attacks.

Break's over, so no time to tidy this up. I'll be back, probably.
Said it before and will say it again: I used TACC systems a good deal in graduate school and the folks running their systems are fantastic.