skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "Best regards" is always acceptable. Inevitably though it comes from either a Brit or a non-native speaker. I really love the French and Spanish sign-offs... Cordialement or the very warm Un abrazo which I get from business associates in Spain. English "regards" seem very cold by comparison.
I'm always mystified by people who argue that something terrible will happen if the names of institutions are changed. Other countries avoid a lot of these problems by not naming everything after people. You'd have to be naive not to realize that a lot of bequests/endowments are just reputation laundering or a genteel form of self-promotion, an ethical minefield that institutional fiduciaries should steer clear of.
2W! Did you measure Gflops? I wish you could disable cores dynamically...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4349604/
Going via traditional publishing is a fools game. The author says you can get $10,000, but for most my books, publishers would only pay $2000. And even that amount is paid over 1-2 years.

And he's right about publishers trying sleazy things. Another thing they may ask for is "All future rights in any medium". So people who signed this clause in 90's/early 2000s lost right of their ebook/audiobooks, which are the most profitable.

I would not go with a traditional publisher unless you can afford to hire a lawyer who specialises in copyright law (and not an English lit graduate, which is what most agents are).

Self publishing-- from my experience:

* Typesetting has never been a problem, but then I write general programming books, and Leanpub handles the conversion really well.

* I never found copyediting/proofreading very useful for programming books (though I do use them for my fiction). Readers care more about technical accuracy-- ie, does the code work, does the text and code match. are instructions clear etc. A good set of 1st readers is very useful here.

The best way to make money is to sell digital copies via leanpub/gumroad, as these sellers pay 80-90% royalty. Amazon will only pay you 30% if you price your book over $9.99, which let's be honest, most technical books will be.

Nathan Barry popularised the formula of selling the book for $39+, and extras for higher pricing, and that works the best.
It's similar when online editors try to be clever and replace a straight " with a fancy one (like in Word), really annoying.
You're right, there's double.PositiveInfinity and double.NegativeInfinity in C#.

Never encountered it before (and I'm ashamed to say C# is my main language since 2009).
There's an "oso" in Microsoft. Is that a reference to Ballmer?

Of course, Linux mailing lists used to joke that "micro" and "soft" reference Bill, back when people had thick skin and cancel culture had yet to be invented.
Same. I was wanting to learn more about ActivityPub recently, and after reading the first two web search results, I remembered: this'll probably just be easier if I just read parts of the W3 spec (and it was)
How do you do?
Working hard does not mean you'll be paid well, or have money.

Then the other argument of money =/= wealth.
W3C User-Agent Client Hints ( SEC-CH-UA-* HTTP Headers)
In principle there is a designated "disunificiation" procedure when it's desirable. More accurately speaking, each CJK character is thought to represent not a single or a few glyphs listed in the code chart but rather a glyphic subset, and the disunification splits that set into partitions. But this is generally applied to a few selected characters and only when it's safe to do so. Massive disunification was to my knowledge never suggested or proposed, and that would surely prompt a large scale disruption throughout CJK users (say, how about existing texts?).
Yeah they sure have the resources available to pull such things off. But for the rest of us I dont think it is a way forward at the moment. You really start from scratch and how do you fix accessibility and such. Must have required huge effort on their part
It's not about fashion, it's about cultural identity. I take it you don't see a problem with master/slave either?

Just do a find and replace, refactoring is easy and trying to argue on the internet about it is tiring.
It’s obviously not feasible, or we would be doing it, but healing the damage that has happened would be the ideal solution.
On x86 there was an option, i think nr_cpus or something like that some time ago. There was also SMP_KERNEL kernel config option.
Amusing to look back on the TMobile G1 (the first Android phone) from 2008 and see the reviews bemoan the lack of headphone socket - https://www.cnet.com/reviews/t-mobile-g1-review/

How little we have learned.
Urgh. It's about marketing emails.

I stop reading as soon as I see the terms "SEO", "Dear" or "million", and drag it to the spam folder. I never see the sign-off.
Some sources claim that about one star per year in Milky Way dies. We have about 100 billion visible galaxies, so roughly 3000 stars per second die in our visible universe - however, most of those are small stars which aren't really visible to our instruments.
Censorship is real and very scary.
I've come to prefer code quantity over code complexity. I mean, what the fuck is

def traverseImpl[F[_], A, B](fa: Option[A])(f: A => F[B])(implicit F: Applicative[F]) =
fa map (a => F.map(f(a))(Some(_): Option[B])) getOrElse F.point(None)
I am not so sure. Laws are defined to be as limited in scope as possible.

When cars were getting faster in the 20th century, we made speed limits. This didn’t hinder building faster cars, just that you needed to start speeding on race tracks and rallies.

At some point we must define whats more harmful than beneficial. Ads driven models with algorithmic recommendation systems are not very beneficial, or so it seems.
I wonder how long before Github is forced to include youtube’s content idesque system. So that i can cease and desist even before I even push the code. And oracle, google and ms can charge my Github billing account for violations.
Apart from Craig White, everyone smart who was involved with the creation of Bitcoin and it's underlying technologies probably isn't oblivious to the danger of revealing themselves as Satoshi Nakamoto. Anyone and their family would be an instant juicy target for the US government, nation states, countless criminal actors or even desperate civilians down on their luck.

So the only person I would actually discard to be the real Satoshi is the one person that wants to be Satoshi the most - Craight Wright.
I was just curious what the difference is, but that might be hard to convey over text :-D I have a friend from Frydek-Mistek, I’ll ask her for a demonstration :)
ID Systems Analysed: Mosip (Modular Open Source Identity Platform)
Many antidepressants are (e.g. Mirtazapine), but not Sertraline (Zoloft).
Its very useful for certain types of tasks that are inherently repetitive. It will construct debug strings very easily, for example

e.g. type `pr` in a function with x & t

and it may predict...

The `print(f"The value of 'x' was {x} at time {t:0.00}s")`
I noticed a peculiar 'Sec-CH-UA-Platform' that Chrome was sending. Indeed, the W3C draft and other documentation about this on the internet point back to Google being the promoting of this header.

I have a cynical view that this benefits users rather than Google. Google is good at horizontal scaling, not just with machines, but using headcount to bruteforce web standards. Other browsers are forced to keep up on feature parity for inconsequential features, or risk being 'out of standard'. All of this makes for stifling innovation.
I also live in Europe. The term Engineer is used in many contexts outside of "what you build could kill people" contexts.

Get off your high horse.
Curious how long did that take and what iteration made it to production? What CAD was used for prior designs? Can you give an example of a "minority layout" that your tech deemed unfavorable?

I really want to believe KiCAD is there...but when billable labor rates are $150+/hr, and a single iteration of that complexity can easily burn US$10k+/ea in one-off prototype quantities + 4-6 month slip for manufacturing, assembly, reintegration, and verification testing, all of a sudden (free == cost-effective ?) becomes a very real risk consideration...never mind that I've yet to engage a customer that was willing to subsidize my development budget based on technical decision to assume a tool risk because it makes the cost of doing business marginally cheaper for me.
In other words "lying was justified".
Almost everyone does search like that, its not about doing something but about finding best and easiest way to do something.
finally, Mario Party explained? I wonder whether that went into the design of the game.
I think you will find many of the loudest voices on these matters in the media will have quietly gone in for their top up 3rd dose recently.
They already have it with panic and recover. They just don't recommend using it for error handling.
No, I do believe Go will be improved if it allows library maintainers to implement some things like new collection types and utilities using generics.

I for one won't be using more advanced functional coding though, it's a lot more difficult to read / parse and the language is not designed with functional programming in mind. I'm sure people are already working on a functional programming library so you can do map / reduce / filter and the like, but readability and performance will be dreadful.
What to do? You are from Europe so there is quite high chance you can get quick and easy visa to Canada - Working Holiday.

And from Canada it's much easier to get to the US.
We understand hearing well enough to attach devices directly to the relevant nerves and make the brain believe that the signals are coming from the ears. Unfortunately these devices are still really bad compared to natural hearing (or even hearing with hearing aids).
Note that Linux can do kernel updates with a reboot.
Perhaps delete and repost the link properly, though I'm not sure how interesting this is for HN.

You're posting a lot of non-technical stories lately, with the link and sub headline in the body of the article and identical formatting. Have you inadvertently or negligently connected your RSS reader to a HN submission bookmarklet?
Are you serious? The FDA banned NAC? This is absurd.
The backend is very dataflow like, yes. But, the dependencies are only tracked within a tight instruction windows, the retirement (esp. of stores) are ordered to implement the memory ordering constraints of the processor and last but not least: the ISA itself is not Dataflow.
NAC has many other health benefits. It helps your liver, for example. It is given for acetaminophen overdose, FWIW.
I desperately wish Linux distros used this trick too. I am tired of waiting for updates to download and having to clean out some cache folder that apt uses to free space.
What I don't get about the touch bar is: Why didn't they put it above the F-keys as an additional input? There's room there. Why remove the F-keys (and, even more insanely, the ESC key)? People were more upset about that than any limitation in the touch bar's usability. It obviously adds some possibilities. It's just that some programs actually use the F-keys and have for decades. They provided a no-look keypress feedback for many tasks. What ever was the genius idea of taking that away?
LOL, 400 comments and counting.

I guess this hits too close to home even for our tax-horny HN founders, both prospective and current.

If you like your wealth tax, you can keep your wealth tax, period.
Last time I wanted to build anything Xorg-related, I found the fragmented repos to be also a barrier.

Both mean the project loses out on casual development -- ideally I would check out the "latest" code for the ecosystem, build it easily, verify my bug/problem still exists, make a change.

I'm not sure any friction at this stage is a good idea, so I hope the those with the experience of the codebase are making wise decision by changing the build process to one less widely available.
Yes, it's not the same, but they serve the same purpose. It's, honestly, not important if Datafusion or DuckDB are using the arrow memory layout or not. What matters is their ability to run SQL queries (or Map-Reduce workloads) on CSV/Parquet files _WITHOUT COPYING THEM_.

If you start comparing them to solutions that copy datasets, you haven't understood what problem they are solving. For that problem, use postgresql or bigquery.
Right because science just wants to ruin the fun and imaginations of young children - that's its only function, right?
&c was widely (exclusively?) used in the 18th century. I happen to have been looking at this newspaper ad most recently: https://i.imgur.com/ALe5XeT.jpg

The inference is that the second book (Airs &c &c) will also be of Airs, Minuets, Gavotts, and Reels (or something similar).

Also, 18th-century letters routinely end with some snowclone of "your most humble and obedient servant", with many writers eliding some or all of it with &c since it was understood.
I agree that the fact that I must not forget to configure typefaces per language whenever I install a new browser, while for Chrome you must also install the "Advanced Font Settings" extension before it even becomes possible to choose e.g. a Japanese font, is annoying.

To avoid such configuration work when you prefer better looking typefaces instead of some standard system defaults would require a standardization of how to notify the applications about the association between certain typefaces and languages, e.g. by some environment variables or by some standard locations for the font files, depending on language.
And some old antihistamines were SSRIs.
I've tried applying PageRank to pubmed with reasonable results, but betweenness does sound compelling. Thanks!
Seems like the scenario the patent system is supposed to prevent.
Prions are misfolded proteins that acts as catalysts for other proteins to fold in new, pathological state. They are built of normal L-amino acids.

"Mirror-image peptides" are built of amino-acids with reverse chirality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality

They have almost nothing common, except for being made of amino-acids.
Facebook dont do diversity at all, at least not in the true meaning of the word:-

https://quillette.com/2021/07/21/silicon-valleys-cynical-tre...
Ask HN: Should everyone get a university degree?
I was discussing my project idea[0] on an online political forum.

One of the respondents on the form said that not everyone should get higher education. It makes students think that they are entitled for high-level jobs and that gives rise to shortage of workers for low-level jobs. Most people don't understand that "dirt and money go hand-in-hand".

What do you think, is this view valid?

[0] https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org
Project Managers regularly seem to conflate 'Managing the Project' and 'Managing the Resource'.

One thing that will definitely irritate me is when a PM tries to directly Minion me without a pre-amble discussion about the work first.
Some of my friends sign emails/letters to me with YMHOS. But we all do research on the 18th century, which…ah…is an important factor.
I don't specifically want to include origin in this discussion, but I have never experienced this myself. And I think it might have to do with my (Dutch) culture, or that I am freelance and my clients trust me to do the right thing.

When one of my clients think of something which doesn't work for whatever reason they want me to say no to them. And it doesn't hurt our professional relationship, I will explain them why it is a dumb idea (not in those words of course :-)) and we figure something out that does work properly. They appreciate me being direct and selling them no and they request it themselves.

So while I can understand your comment and I think that it is fair in plenty of situations, it isn't always.
Abusing Public Infrastructure to Build Your Own VirusTotal for Email
Most virologists buy what you call the "official story", for what it's worth.
What's the theoretical basis of this though? I don't have a theoretical background in computability, but in physics and there the complexity of a system very much correlates with the number of degrees of freedom. When simulating something, you want a bijection of the state of the simulation to the state of the system you are simulating, so you need to match (or exceed) the number of degrees of freedom. So if you know how many parameters you need to simulate another system until the simulation works, you can estimate how many internal degrees of freedom it has (degrees of freedom that are relevant to whatever you are measuring of course).
Intel’s 12th Gen Alder Lake chips usher in a new generation of x86 processors
It does seem strange. This is a problem that has been long solved elsewhere. I don't get the fuss over it.
Not only that, but reimplementations tend to have bugs. I cannot remember a single time I used YouTube's comment text field without some bug in the last 5 years. It always breaks in some way, usually when line breaks get involved. Right now when I press Return twice the cursor will only move down one line. It's been like that for at least 6 months. Now and then they replace the bug with a different one, but it never really works correctly.
Instead of having a Smalltalk image which contains the typical GUI (Morphic or otherwise being BitBlt on a HTML Canvas) I run a Smalltalk image which has a number of Classes representing WebComponents. These classes have a small interface with Javascript (implemented as primitive calls in case you are familiar, similar to other SqueakJS plugins). When instantiating such a WebComponent, it will also instantiate a DOM element (the WebComponent). Events in the browser are wrapped in Smalltalk event classes and will be given to an event handler process (Smalltalk process) which will do the relevant work. So for example drag and drop is implemented fully in Smalltalk. The Smalltalk image I run to have this Web UI (and run only a Web UI, no business logic in the browser) is very small. It is only a little over 200Kb.
My code is free to use. See https://github.com/ErikOnBike/CodeParadise
I need to add some more documentation and more demos. I have been very busy with developing software and have been lacking a bit in giving some love to those.
Edit: An explanation and demo can be found here: https://vimeo.com/457353130
Every time there's an article about hearing aids I have to plug Live Listen from Apple. Paired with either Airpods or proper Bluetooth-enabled hearing aids they really help in noisy environments, such as a dinner party or a cafe.
When I noticed installing or upgrading software was slow, and checked resource monitor, in 60% of cases it was windows built-in antivirus consuming all CPU time.
I always thought that it was just VMS done poorly
I'm glad that all the blog posts written by the apologetes and zealots, claiming that Go doesn't need generics and how they will actually be a detriment to the language, are archived somewhere in the wayback machines, so that they can't gaslight us into believing that they weren't just being silly for all this time.
Not you. I was referring to the way the sites are structured nowadays. Here, this seems a nice place to demo the dog food?

https://www.airtable.com/integrations
The terrible 90s movie "The Avengers" starring Sean Connery had a similar plot. Connery wants to ruin the world's climate, and some rather boring superheros (The Avengers, no not those ones) stop them.

Yeah, I remember the Avengers from before they were cool
And probably there are more roque planets than planets with a star. Those are even harder to detect.
Not sure if you can alter probability like that. I doubt that probabilities of getting side effects from each dose are independent.
I think "cheers" would be a variant of "Cheerio", which just means goodbye - nothing to do with booze.

I never had a sig - not for email, not for Usenet. At one time I just signed off with my name; nowadays I make do with a bare carriage-return. I figure people will be able to work out when they've got to the end.
Last time I looked (years ago), Fedora had delta updates - but updates were slow anyway.
Yeah, always the same. Also with archeological articles. Not a picture of the find :)

That said, great article and discovery.
Yes - when you're the star itself, I suppose. That's not what GP is suggesting at all...
How effective are the vaccines again? >90% right?
> I know about R, but nothing on my PC is written in it.

You could say the same thing about excel macros. They are both tools for wrangling data, tools that will typically not be distributed to end users.
Is undervolting an option?
Shameless plug: Luculent [0]

I was crazy enough to handwrite all of the TTF hinting instructions for it (albeit with a macro assembler-like tool). Every glyph in the regular and bold variants is superhinted to look pixel perfect without AA when viewed in the 9px to 19px range, and decent beyond that. With AA on, all four variants are hinted for the pixel grid at 9px and up. I also came up with some magic to try to force Cleartype to still grid-fit it horizontally.

[0] http://eastfarthing.com/luculent/
No, everyone should not get a degree.

A degree is a specific kind of learning that many people does not work for many people.

I did a Master's degree. It was hard, I barely passed. However, being an accountant you have to do a professional qualification (CPA, CIMA, ACCA, etc). I suited that style of learning more than the masters.
Half of all US healthcare is paid for my the Federal government (Medicare, Medicaid and VA). Since the US spends nearly twice as much as a proportion of GDP and more since US GDP is higher, the Federal share of US health care alone is more than the entire French spending as a proportion of GDP.
Contribute what? Mathematically incorrect statements don't seem very useful to me...

After cursory examination, I don't understand your point regarding the stackexchange link. As for hypothesis testing, I also fail to see how that is supposedly poorly defined.
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https://www.crewscale.com/blog/future-of-work/why-talent-com...

Crewscale is a B2B company that works with developers and businesses, and their website is quite aligned with the article.
Sarcasm and hyperbole incoming but… IF, big if, you are of the persuasion that the vaccine is a dna altering, 5g brain chip, population steralisation project; why would you want to see even more people being given SSRIs?

SSRIs are incredible, opiates are also incredible, both true wonders of modern medcine, especially for those that need them and truly wonderful tools for doing what they do. But they can also be terrible, really terrible, particularly when handed out in pez dispensers.
Concur on your first point. Hastings should take a breath and recognize this as a huge opportunity.

In this case, the naming happened 150 years ago and the living descendants are clearly still bringing the laundry in.
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Scrolling lists is the first thing that comes to mind when I see someone proclaiming that PWAs will run the world soon, and everything will be based on web tech.
iPhone SDK has this from the very beginning. With data sources, delegates, reused cells, etc. It's even easier with SwiftUI (with swipe actions and what not). Yet people are willing to break even simple scroll on the web. Why?