skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was referring to the app, whatever was recent in 2011 or so. 2007 I think? I haven't used it in a long time.

I always wanted my documents (and particularly equations) to look as nice as the formatting in my textbooks, and it felt like no matter how much finagling I did (which was not an insignificant amount of time being spent), it never looked quite as good.

Also, I never fully knew what copy-paste was actually going to do. Was it going to copy the source formatting? Was it going to adopt the style of where I was pasting? Was it going to do neither and just break everything? I was never sure, so I always ended up pasting into Notepad and then re-copying it to guarantee all the formatting was stripped out.

And sometimes there would be just a vanilla "I pressed a random keystroke by accident, all the formatting broke, and undo doesn't appear to do anything" issues. This might just be gross incompetence on my end (it wouldn't be the first time) but nearly everyone I've described this issue to has experienced similar problems.

Also, I can't remember the details of it, and it's possibly fixed now, but I had issues with the equation editor simply not having all the symbols I needed.

In fairness, I have similar complaints about most of the other WYSIWYG word processors, so I don't mean to pick on MS Word specifically (most of these complaints apply to Pages and LibreOffice as well).
It has an insanely obscure origin, the rectangular symbol in the upper left corner of a window represented the space bar.
And is usually the only acceptable form of ID when traveling internationally (outside of Canada and Mexico), for example when trying to enter a bar.
> Consider the Federalist Papers. At the time, the writers were not known

Everyone knew who wrote the Federalist papers. It was an open secret. People may not have known the specific author of a particular passage or argument, but among the elite debating the constitution (who were the target audience) there was no disguise or mystery regarding the people who were 'Publius.' This gets trotted frequently out as one of the few examples of anonymous political speech having a potential benefit, but given the fact that it was pseudonymous at best I welcome additional examples of actual anonymous political speech that was of any consequence.
I like how Chromebooks deal with the button. AFAIR when you press it screen contents fade into black and when the animation finishes (after something like 3 seconds) it will show you shutdown/reboot dialog. I never had any problem with the button. On Linuxen it is not as clear cut though.
http://www.erlang-factory.com/sfbay2014/rick-reed is the original link for that presentation, FWIW.
My game theory professor got his phd under Arrow at Harvard. It was one of the funnest classes.
I wonder if Fauci will face any repercussions for lying to Congress. The fact that China is not (in fact benefitting from the pandemic relatively speaking) makes it seem no one will face any criminality for a pandemic that has likely killed 20 million people.
This comment is an illustration of what I am "triggered" about. I disagree with the article because of the tone it uses, the assumptions it makes, and what it ascribes to our 'culture'. So when I see yet another post that is so obviously biased and rhetorically underhanded (toxic individualism, implying a total lack of empathy) I can't help but point out this is a trend here on HN.

>"Does your little observation, here, have any bearing on the article?"

>"what might've triggered you"

My "little observation", is pretty condescending. So does the triggering comment. Again, illustrates my experience when having a dialogue with car-hostile people. You want to engage me on facts and numbers but you're using rhetorical swipes to try and discredit me.
I see the artist's experience of family including comedy, tragedy, pleasure, pain, all expressed in the beautiful language of modernist paint which is cryptic and multiple in meanings but simple and direct in material.
"Ethno-Nationalism" is not the word I'd use to describe it.

The question is broad and difficult to answer but I can out a few examples of what I mean. [0] Lots of ideas about Russia's unique place in the world and why they're better than others (e.g. Dostoyevsky on why Russian Orthodoxy was better than other forms of religion). Most of these writers had spent time in the west, did not hold high opinions of it, and were vaguely Slavophiles. [1] There was a reason Dostoyevsky returned to Russia after living in France for some time, even after going to Siberia.

Solzhenitsyn did write about other ethnic groups in the Gulags and these often get misinterpreted in their English translations as "kind and meek" whereas their Russian originals would imply something more like "Good-natured simpleton." [2] He, of course, wrote far more controversial books, to put it mildly, but I won't link to those here.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_soul

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavophilia

[2]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43210399
I have, often. People get nerves in an interview and don't always hear what the interview is saying, I think.
This isn't the first time it was $1K a share.

It already was beyond that before the stock split in August last year. [0]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/11/tesla-announces-five-for-one...
I am waiting for the photography pros of YouTube to weigh in on that last bit but the Disney bit about 131GB of ram usage is intense. Surely a speedy disk can page but likely not enough to make the 64GB of ram a bottleneck. Maybe things like optane or ssds will get so much quicker that we'll see a further fusion of io down to disks and one day we'll really have a chip that thinks all it's storage is ram/storage and doesn't really distinguish between it. Sure it's unlikely SSDs will get to 400GB/s in speed but if they could get to 10GB/s or more sustained that latency could be handled by smart software probably.

I think for that cohort any future iMac Pro or Mac Pro with the future revisions of these chips will surely increase the ram to 128GB maybe even 256GB or more.

I am super curious how Apple will tackle those folks who want to put 1TB of ram or more into their systems if they'll do an SOC with some ram plus extra slotted ram as another layer?
Two garbage companies trying to out-garbage each other.
Pumpkin using a Raspberry Pi Pico: 8 x 8 LED Matrix Halloween Jack-o'-lantern
The thing is, the vast majority of written communications are just fine in Word. And Word is a lot easier to integrate into other workflows than is LaTeX (and this is from someone who's finishing a book on using LaTeX right now). There are plenty of times that I wish for the kind of control that I have in LaTeX when using other platforms, but for just plain writing, I have to confess that Word is far more ergonomic and I haven't opened a LaTeX document to write fiction in for more than twenty years.
I exported the playlist to a spreadsheet (easier to search and sort)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fswG7v8wKFoK06ilbF9V...
I like appsmith for internal apps. Tried budibase and retool, but feel appsmith is better. They are also ridiculously responsive on discord - fixing bugs, giving advice etc.

Not affiliated with any of them.
Yes, that's why governments want to do it.
> led by Gwynne Shotwell at SpaceX

I love Gwynne as much as the next guy and she it clearly, but the team is lead by Elon.
Gwynne helps keep the company running, makes the deals and has relations with DoD and NASA, makes sure nothing gets missed and so on. Flat out, Musk is the leader, he says what development happens, when and how. He decides how much money is spent and so on. Gwynne has said as much as well.

It seem like people love to use Gwynne to say 'SpaceX is successful despite Musk', you didn't quite go so far, bu
t still. This line of reasoning just doesn't work.

If Starship is successful, many people will be able to afford to go to space.
I love my 12" Macbook, I'm using it to write this reply, but goodness is the keyboard awful. I have a can of compressed air at hand at all times to blast the keys when they get stuck.

I'm about to (if the shipping notification is anything to go by) upgrade to a 14" MBP but I really hope Apple release something in this size again. It's such a pleasant laptop to use; I even work on my (2D) C++ video game on it.
Productivity in Plaintext (2016)
As many UK media organisations have pointed out, linking David Amess’ murder to online speech and incivility allows politicians to be seen to do something without having to address the politically awkward problem of Islamic extremism in the UK.

Naturally, Owen Jones chooses not to mention that too.
Correct. Methods that use “rating” instead of “ranking.”
The Final Battle at the End of the World
How would you do that in the Shortcuts app?
Reading through these charts, it looks like MetroPCS is the most secure provider.
Leaf Blowers Destroy the Environment
I made the switch from DDG to Startpage.com the day when Bing/DDG censored "tank man" results on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square, haven't looked back.

I do miss the !bangs, so I have a browser shortcut to access those when I need them.
As pointed out in the article it isn't the first time that the FBI has been involved in leading "terrorist" events.

Garland needs to resign now or be arrested. Pelosi needs to be put into the spotlight too since the only person that was murdered that day was a protestor by her bodyguard.
I've seen the same on various other forums and have been surprised/impressed how far their operations have improved over the years.
I know many people don't like twitter threads, so here it is on one of those unrolling services in "blog post format": https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1452053938195341314.html
> I think anonymity is appropriate for whistleblowers or transparency activists,

I guess the state should get to decide who qualifies?

That'll work out swimmingly.
They were at the right place at the right time. But people want to believe it is tech not luck...

There is a webshop in my country that copied Amazon in the early 2000s and today they are beating Amazon.
Adam Lenda: Always Choose Consistently Bad over Inconsistently Good
A decent article but a lousy title. Honestly, HN should have a policy of allowing editorilizing an article title when the actual editors do such an awful job of it and readers like me would otherwise skip it.
This is a perfect catchphrase for a problem I've warned other startup entrepreneurs about. Over-crediting a resume that has a very impressive name brand company on it. It may or may not actually signify much depending on what they actually did, know and how they think.

I learned it during the interview process with a candidate for CFO referred by a board member who was impressed by where they used to work. Fortunately, the candidate and I both realized he'd probably be fairly bad at working on the financial challenges ahead of our 35-person-going-to-100-people startup.
>AT&T (who I imagine most iPhone users here have, by default)

AT&T lost iPhone exclusivity a decade ago.
Dijkstra's Most Powerful Lessons
Food Forest Coliving Agrotopia(YouTube)
Elon Musk’s Wealth Is Soaring Past a Quarter Trillion Dollars
Is 50% really bad? How much did they pay?

Compare to graduation rate of traditional colleges: https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=40

"The overall 6-year graduation rate for first-time, full-time undergraduate students who began seeking a bachelor’s degree at 4-year degree-granting institutions in fall 2012 was 62 percent. That is, by 2018 some 62 percent of students had completed a bachelor’s degree at the same institution where they started in 2012. The 6-year graduation rate was 61 percent at public institutions, 67 percent at private nonprofit institutions, and 25 percent at private for-profit institutions. The overall 6-year graduation rate was 65 percent for females and 59 percent for males; it was higher for females than for males at both public (64 vs. 58 percent) and private nonprofit (70 vs. 64 percent) institutions. However, at private for-profit institutions, males had a higher 6-year graduation rate than females (26 vs. 25 percent)."
TFA also compares games at 4k, where it is very much GPU bound, and it is about half the speed of a laptop 6800. Which is not great. (And I am speaking as someone whose M1 Max arrives tomorrow).

The M1 GPU is vastly different than an AMD or nVidia GPU, and I suspect it will have not-great scores until someone writes a game and optimizes it specifically for the M1. Which is most likely never.
Why are stingrays missing from the guide? Aren't they the most useful tool in the toolbox?
Hard to believe it has been 20 years. When talking about the impact of the original iPod on the last two decades of Apple's extraordinary success, I like to jump back to this forum thread from October 23rd 2001 (it is always easy to find because it is thread number 500!) and see the reactions from the time: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apples-new-thing-ipod.5...
> For short, quick-turnaround documents that get exchanged and redlined by multiple non-technical types (e.g., contracts): Microsoft Word, because it's the global standard and the network effect is in full force.

I agree for most people, though I feel like I'm pretty quick with Markdown + Pandoc -> LaTeX.

Definitely agree with the citations stuff though; Pandoc's BibTeX support is generally good, and I've had substantially fewer headaches with it than trying to get the reference stuff in MSWord to work.
No, it is entirely correct. Auto makers in Asia and Europe had engine-control computers such as some of the Bosch Jetronic family, and each manufacturer had a bespoke diagnostic interface -- many of which persisted long after OBD-II arrived. These automakers were relatively quick to tie their existing diagnostics tools into the OBD-II port (often speaking a different protocol along the same mechanical connection).

US auto makers were still running throttle-body fuel injection (no ECU required) or were licensing German ECUs (and not tying them into the OBD-II system). Almost all the US automakers were desigining OBD-II compliance with minimal integration into the rest of the engine as a misguided cost-saving measure. So for about a decade in the US if you plugged in an OBD-II reader, it would let you know if there was an emissions-control problem (bad O2 sensor, bad MAF sensor, etc) but be completely silent about other (often critical) engine problems. This situation was obviously stupid, but it took automakers a long time to change course.

Today, most so-called OBD-II dongles are actually microcontrollers which speak multiple marque-specific protocols, auto-negotiate which one to use on startup, and give you scads of information. But at its heart, OBD-II is an emissions-focused standard, which is why it's mandated by EPA regulation in the US and is one of the "measures to be taken against air pollution" specified by the EEC/EU.
Best Mobile Note-Taking Apps for Markdown
Yeah, you've summed up the pains of SAS. The query language itself is quite lovely.
> No gamer is going to pay $3000+ for a laptop with emulation

They pay $3000 for a laptop whose fans hit 55 decibels at load and that has to throttle way down slower than the MacBook if you use it like a laptop and go somewhere without a power outlet.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16928/the-msi-ge76-raider-rev...
I honestly think these things are somewhat overrated. If you want to work at Google right out of school, maybe they matter more (particularly credentialism.) But I got my first three tech jobs simply by applying on the website, including one at a well-regarded startup. I don't have a CS degree, didn't have connections, and have never networked in my life.

I think what actually mattered was laddering up from a sorta-crappy place to a less-crappy place to an actually-good place, and consciously filling in gaps in my skills, especially those relevant for interviewing. When I interviewed at the well-regarded startup, for some reason someone asked me to implement merge sort (lol!) Well, fortunately I had skimmed the algorithm on the plane over, on the off chance someone asked me.

I could definitely get an interview at a FAANG at this point, because their recruiters reach out to me. As to whether I could get the job, I think it would mostly depend on my luck, skills, and preparation.
One difference between meeting people in MMORPGs and IRC vs meeting people while working remotely is that you rarely had to pressure someone to do something in the first context. At work, you need to do a lot of -sometimes unpleasant- things to make people go in the same direction. You can think of it like preventing all deaths in your team of a 40vs40 battleground.
Revisiting “The 4-Hour Workweek”
Secret project in Michigan may hold the key to averting future battery fires
I thought the same, until I twigged that the screen is an actual size iPod screen.
OK, in my native language the translation of "herb" is less used in common language. The definition was from English Wikipedia though
but is a new high
That’s because going from premises to conclusions is the rarest and trivially followable argument and the complexity of discussion arises from concluding on facts.

For instance, is it true that you couldn’t get a COVID test in SF around Jul 4?

With provenance of information, people start trusting trusted sources for facts. With fixed identity, people can evaluate what the preponderant view is.

If you’re in a room with ten of your friends and you could get toilet paper in Jan and all of them couldn’t, you would judge yourself lucky and that there was an availability problem.

If I go online and I see one thousand posts saying the opposite of what I’m seeing, I’m going to ignore them. Primarily because of the identity problem.
https://archive.ph/JWiSU
How do you feel about Markdown? It sometimes has issues, but generally speaking I feel like Markdown converted to LaTeX looks pretty good, and I think that Markdown is usually fairly pleasant to work with.
I would love for this to be viable. But I can't help but think there are all sorts of ways for our intelligence agencies to ruin a person's life for not complying. I'm not even suggesting some kind of spy-novel intrigue, you can just tell them to comply or they'll drag you and your company through the mud until they get what they want. Imagine taking a principled stand and then suddenly having your life examined under a microscope by the FBI or the IRS. It would be a totally unrelated audit, just how some people tend to be subject to random additional screening at airports.
> Not really. Apple's A15 and A14 phone chips are on the same process node.

Yeah, you're talking about 20% performance changes on the same node.

Meanwhile, advancing a process from 7nm to 5nm TSMC is something like 45% better density (aka: 45% more transistors per mm^2) and 50% to 100% better power-efficiency at the same performance levels, and closer to the 100%-side of power-efficiency if you're focusing on idle / near-zero-GHz side of performance. (Pushing to 3GHz is less power of a power difference, but lower idles do have a sizable contribution in practice)

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Oh right: and TSMC N5P is 10% less power and 5% speed improvement over TSMC N5 (aka: what TSMC figured out in a year). There's the bulk of your 17% difference from A15 and A14.

Yeah, process matters. A LOT.
Yes -- but it's not a start unless we're making zero-emissions steel possible. Otherwise, it's just more of the same. (Akin to stabbing someone with a 30% smaller knife.)
Nearly 42% of all accidents involve alcohol or drugs. [1]

Motorcycles are 15% of all fatal accidents, and half of those are "single vehicle accidents." [2]

Drivers under 18 are twice as likely to have a fatal accident. [3]

Finally, everyone should know: Nearly every single fatal crash in the United States is investigated and the report is put into a federal database. This database is open and easy to access, or download and draw your own reports against. If you care about accidents and want to know more, this is the definitive source and the place to start. [4]

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/impaired_driving/im...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_fatality_rate_in_U....

[3]: https://aaafoundation.org/rates-motor-vehicle-crashes-injuri...

[4]: https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data/fatality-analysis-report...
Crime and Punishment had a big influence on my when I read it in 12th grade. Prior to it, I had been reading Ayn Rand and thinking a lot about objectivism/libertarian ideas. Crime and Punishment was like an antidote. I don't think C&P actually addresses libertarian ideas, but it is a rejection of some kind of cold, rationalist philosophy. Anyway I remember it fondly and should probably reread it at some point.
Hamster-system: Ultra-simple framework to organize your life
States that cut off of jobless aid see no surge of job seekers
You've seen enough pictures of people holding them to get a good reference for the size.
Tesla Stock Soars To $1T Valuation with $1000/share with Rental Car deal
EazyLoader – Downloading Made Easy
There was a brief period where a police officer was reported as having been murdered by rioters at the Capitol [0], and iirc many people on social media conflated his death with footage of a riot officer being struck on the head by a fire hydrant, though I don't believe they were the same man.

An investigation revealed that he'd died of a stroke the day after the riot, and that his death could not be directly connected to the Capitol riot.

[0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/brian-sicknick-police-o...

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/19/politics/brian-sicknick-death...
That said, two of our best junior devs (at Arist YC S20) are Lambda School and Ironclad grads respectively, and neither of them had any background in programming and went right from bootcamp into their current positions. So it definitely works for some people.

Isn't that just a case of some students having natural ability where a large percentage do not? If being a good developer was only about knowing syntax and writing efficient algorithms boot camps would work fine.
Powell believes inflation will be high until 2022 and sees rates hike premature
It's motion ied not LED
It's JVM weirdness on Windows. This isn't a problem on Linux or MacOS where file paths won't be in some arbitrary encoding. This ends up biting a lot of other cross-platform software as well and is why Rust has OSString, but for code in, say, C/C++ it ends up being a major pain point (the TeX development team often end up dealing with this sort of issue).
I don’t think I’d call it ethno-nationalism. It’s more of the equivalent of American Exceptionalism.

And since we are talking about Conrad, Poland has/had a similar phenomenon at the same time, called “The Christ of Nations.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_of_Europe

Many of these ideas had roots in 19th century romanticism.
I thought this would be click bait, but it's actually a very good video.
why do you feel you need a bootcamp? open a text editor and start programing
The Covid Story Is Coming Out
There are better solutions other than the Raspberries, often even cheaper, less power hungry and more open, but they struggle to gain visibility because they don't spend in advertising as much as the Raspberry Pi Foundation (Broadcom?) does.

Here's a list of over 400 boards. There's also a .csv file to downlaod for offline quick comparison.
https://hackerboards.com/
We need to replace faster than light with faster than gravity
Ameren is mining Bitcoin–and controversy–near one of its coal-fired power plants
I agree. For me thinness is portability and that is very important. I'm willing to trade quite a bit of performance for that.
Counterpoint: He is trying to compete in sexy, very competitive industries. I launched a landscaping business with a partner four months ago and we already have over $100,000 in revenue.