skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as a tax attorney, when someone does something like this, it is motivated by liquidity concerns. Meaning, that the person has a lot of valuable assets but not in a form that can actually be spent, and they want cash they can actually spend on something.

While most similarly situated individuals normally would take out a loan against their assets, in some situations that may be impractical or not possible. For example, the banks may be unwilling to make further loans if the individual already has a large amount of such loans (as Elon does), or if the underlying asset (Tesla stock) is viewed as overvalued (which many analysts have argued).
Like the sibling commenter here, reactions to this (as I've observed) are indeed very bimodal. If I see any video on YouTube with a face with a strong expression, I will not click it, no matter how interesting the title, because I hate how contrived the thumbnail is.

I think it might be more honest of you to phrase it not as: I have to do this because otherwise I don't get 20% more views. That feels a little bit disingenuous to me. You don't have to do anything. You could probably get a lot more views by colluding with another YouTuber to create drama or apparent "fights", like so many seem to. Aka, go full Kardashian. But you don't. You choose very explicitly what you do. Which does include goofy face thumbnails, but does not include staging YouTube drama.

A more honest phrasing to me might be something like: "Goofy faces get more views, and without them, my YouTube channel has much less income. I'm trying to support myself with YouTube, and so I am doing goofy faces even though I hate it and think it's completely asinine." You get really close to something like this phrasing, & the underlying message can be gathered by your other comments, but you don't outright own it. If you are going to do something asinine for exposure, you might as well own it imo.

So, with that out of the way: This project is really cool and thanks for doing a write-up & video on it :)
Python to ASM would actually be really cool and would guarantee performance gains for small matrices, but it would require quite some implementation effort. Not sure about WASM.
I think the key here is that both things are true:

1. Microsoft has changed their hostile behavior in some segments

2. Microsoft has always been hostile in others, and that has not changed

In a company as large as Microsoft, any kind of transformational change is not going to be evenly distributed.

A charitable take on this is: Some parts of MS are as they have always been, but others have improved.

A slightly more pessimistic take: Microsoft realized they needed to change to say relevant with the developer community, and so they focused on that community only.

Moves like this certainly bolster arguments that MS never really changed, but I think it's more complex than that.
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> whereas XMPP just passes messages from point to point

So does Matrix. All the other qualities are build on top of that. XMPP also enables e2ee, message synchronisation and an "global open network of federated servers and services".
Anecdotally this rings very true. Actually I'd be even more cynical than it. I know two people that were facing serious chronic health issues that were not readily diagnosed. They were treated like a hot potato between specialists.

In one case it took nearly 2 year to arrive at a correct diagnosis and corrective action, which involved both medication and surgery.

In the other case the person was moving into liver failure, and placed on the transplant list. Luckily a family friend worked for the same healthcare organization as an IT professional, and knew exactly what to do. She marched the patient into the ER, had her sit down in a wheel chair, and made it crystal clear that she was going to be a gigantic PITA until they found out what was killing the patient. Within the day they had a plausible answer, and confirmed it with lab results within the week as I recall.

It shouldn't be this way, but unfortunately in US healthcare it is. Having an uncommon illness is an absolute nightmare, one that destroys entire families finances if not outright killing people.
Epilys/kit-kat: plan9 kit-kat clock framebuffer implementation from scratch
It's alright, I didn't end up finishing it. I really like On Intelligence, wasn't pulled in to finish. Might have been state of mind at the time etc
Also $80 inflation adjusted to 2015 is about $600. So not far of the $700 mark of the "dramatic price increase" in the article. See https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1965?endYear=2015...

I do believe resource scarcity will become a big problem if we don't manage our population growth. Will phosphorus be one of the first ? I don't know. Switching to sustainable agriculture will negate a big part of phosphorus use.
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a memorial site where family & friends commemorate their loved ones
Enlighten us on how it is "dangerous" medicine. Sources please.
Heck, for what it's worth, even Make has this issue, as people quite often write Makefiles assuming you have a bunch of tools installed that may or may not be part of the POSIX specification. I wish I could find it now, but somewhere in the GNU Make guide book is a list of more or less "approved" utilities you're supposed to be able to safely assume are installed on any GNU based system that you can use in a Makefile, and you're not supposed to go beyond that.
Nope, the bubble is still inflating. Just sit back, relax, and wait for it to pop. I make a point to shield the people I care about by letting them know myself and the majority of hackers consider it to be a big fad/scam.
That's quite cool. Maybe the whole thing can be rewritten in Julia too at some point. I just know too little about Julia to judge.
> If, by "texting", you mean either a handheld radio attached to a laptop with a serial cable, or one of two (three ?) models ever produced that allowed you to key in APRS with T9 typing...

Actually, you can do a good amount of digital modes radio stuff using nothing more than a radio and a smartphone. For example, I myself have made a lot of contacts with people using PSK31 without a cable, using my iPhone speaker and mic near the radio handset.

Digging into how these digital modes work is interesting intellectually. It's doable to implement the signal processing to implement these modes in code. And once you have one mode well-understood, it's also doable to come up with ideas on how to improve upon them and make new modes. Lots of HN readers would be able to do both of those things, and probably enjoy it.

("Modes" here means a way to communicate information over the radio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amateur_radio_modes
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I don't agree with the author. For me each of the sins have their goal that isn't in what they state. I wonder what the author thinks of this almost 25 years later.

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* The grandmothering: Too often have I read an abstract, not understood it (since an abstract is allowed to be dense), and quit on these first lines orienting the paper in the field . If it's your field these lines don't cost, if you're a newcomer, or from another field, you get the keywords you need to know before starting. And often you know this paper isn't what you were looking for.
As for the near-meaninglessness of this sentence: look up the first sentence of any book. You can't put 100 pages in one sentence.

* The table of contents: writers can't actually insert a table of contents, yet a paper needs it. True, nobody cares what's in Section 5, yet without this sentence you don't know when it will end, you don't know what you get. You care about how the content escalates. Also note that each of the sentences is more than just the title of the section. The actual title of Section 6 is just 'Time complexity'.

* Conclusions that don't: His solution is literally the opposite of what is taught. Yes to a perspective, no to new information. Also his example is incomplete, three more sentences follow that are not summarizing.
Windows is trash, if you are running PC hardware and not gaming, seems that KDE or GNOME is now more than good enough.

It wasn't always this way, but it is now.
Can you install and play video games on LTSC? Is there any multimedia limitation in that regard?
> As the blog post indicates, there is data proving a positive effect.

No, there is data that might point to a positive effect, that's something completely different than data that proves a positive effect.

Note that this is exactly how these things happen, someone writes something with a particular audience in mind and then others will come along, cherry pick it, distort it and then pass it on as fact. You are step #1 of the Chinese Whispers game and it has already meaningfully changed.
I got this spiel from someone, don't remember who now. When they told me I needed to call to cancel, I responded "If you can process my subscription online, you can process my cancellation too. If you continue charging my credit card, I will charge back the transaction." Then it was suddenly possible to cancel online just fine.
> Nuances will likely hurt and confuse the common man. That's why the news and celebs and politicians etc try to keep things simple.

You can pretend there is "nuance" to saying that the common man would be hurt and confused by facts. I see this plainly as calling people morons in a polite manner. Sorry if it hurts your sensibilities that someone would lay bare the underlying meaning of a comment.

Also, please by all means ignore the actual point of my comment, which is, why do people go around correcting a specific comment when that applies to at least one more comment up the chain. Any replies re: "morons" will be ignored.
The grandmothering complaint misses what I think is the main purpose of the introduction section of a paper: to orient the reader. I’m hoping it tells me something I already know, because how else am I going to build a bridge to the new knowledge the paper promises?

Moreover, it’s really not telling me what I know — it’s telling me what the author knows. If the author has a strange perspective on things I think I know, then it’s going to make understanding the rest of the paper much harder; how can I trust this author about unknown subjects when we can’t agree on topics of which we ostensibly share a common understanding? Such context is especially important when we are talking about the far edges of knowledge.
Yes, but it does not sell them well. Look at Beeper (beeper.com) or Element One (element.io), they actively market the fact, that you can use whatsapp or signal or telegram with them. Using matrix is nearly an afterthought, it's more like using pidgin or trillian back in the day. And I think it's clever because it lets me switch away from whatsapp etc, but I don't have to bring all my friends over at once.

And, once I am on board, I can start to look into the features provided by matrix. People don't switch to a protocol, I think, they want to leave a service or provider. And yes, you are still part of whatever walled garden you choose to use, but whatsapp can run on an old phone and never touch my new phone, never getting the data on that device.
Can you please elaborate what you mean?
> How can I practice detachment (buddhism inspired letting go) while simultaneously accomplishing goals?

I'd say that:

1) There's a reason for all the insistence on monasticism in Buddhism and many other traditions. Practicing otherwise is doing it on ultra-hard mode. You're unlikely to become A Buddha while having a family and 9-5 job, and that's just how things are. You can't have everything.

2) However—actions are inextricable from successful practice, I think, even in lay-practice. You can't think your way to enlightenment, you have to live it, and not just when you're meditating. And that's the hard part! Not all the reading, the listening, the meditating, the thinking. The doing. As Marcus Aurelius put it (quoting from memory, but quite close): "One can live one's life in a calm flow of happiness, if one learns to think the right way and act the right way" (emphasis mine). The thinking is the easy part. Acting in support of and in harmony with this blissful state, in the world, despite the necessary state of detachment is and always has been the hard part. That's why you can't just Do Buddhism (or anything remotely similar) from books and some part-time meditating.

I think the tension & contradictions between detachment and action is why it's so difficult—impossible, even—to record on paper what a state of complete enlightenment is in any way that fully covers it all on its own. You can't write the differential equation describing it. At best, you can just vaguely gesture in the correct direction.

(note: I am quite bad at the "and act the right way" part myself, so could be entirely wrong about all of this)
Idea: market interoperability as a metaverse thing.
Not typed support but I find jsonnet [0] pretty useful when you have tons of configuration files.

[0] - https://jsonnet.org/
sure I use valgrind and gdb too - still hard to argue that a segfault is pleasant to debug though?
"For the first time in thirty-three years, one of thirteen surviving copies of the Official Edition from the Constitutional Convention will be publicly auctioned by Sotheby's. It is one of the two copies that are still owned by private collectors. The proceeds from the auction will be given to a charity that has been established by the current owner.

ConstitutionDAO is a DAO that is pooling together money to win this auction. We intend to put The Constitution in the hands of The People. "

It's a copy of the original.
Eh, back burner plans, or frameworks for years maybe. You undersell the pace of change at companies like Apple when driven by appropriate forces.
I'm not a fan of the style, but I don't see how its defining visual characteristics are significantly more geared toward the political correctness safe route that you seem to be portraying it as. At least not when compared with illustration styles that employ a similar degree of abstraction.

In the the 8 years that Adobe employed a similar style, starting in the mid 90s, it clearly managed to do so without even an inkling of diversity: http://splashscreens.sourceforge.net/acrobat.php
Depending on the year you look at, the 90s version is less abstract than the current examples we're discussing here, but some years are actually more abstract. The lack of diversity is fairly clear to me regardless of that variation.

Of course, whenever we analyze abstract visuals, biases come into play. So maybe this read above is rooted in my own bias (either in favor of being able to make a point here, or in regards to how I believe a 90s corporation would portray "the business user"), but I think that's a stretch in most of these examples.
I did this journey at a company a long time ago. It was awkward because half of the original small team were relatively close friends of mine. They stayed in IC roles, while I ended up being more and more (tech) managerial, eventually two levels up from them.

It both worked and didn't work. I ended up not spending much time with them, because they were never really the people needing attention/help/scaling. In retrospect I should have spent more time with them, "even though" they were the best functioning ICs. It's incredibly hard when you're being pulled in what feels like hundreds of different directions, though.
Really works for me. I make more money and have a lot more influence on my world. I am a total control freak though, and really can't get satisfaction if I'm not able to make real changes to my organization.

- Nobody will tell you, or even know, if you're doing a good job. Meaningful metrics are trailing and your reports will lie to you instead of giving you constructive feedback. A lot of the time they simply don't think about what kind of feedback will help you.

- You will ruin peoples' dinners. You will make decisions that will cause people to complain about you at home and be nasty to their family members. Sometimes it's because you made a mistake and sometimes it's business. Get right back on that horse.

- You are actually in charge, accountable, and responsible for some or all of your department. That can cause a lot of anxiety, and may result in some uncomfortable time commitments. You might coordinate a disaster response and have absolutely nothing to contribute except imparting a sense of urgency. It is very hard for me to take time off, whereas when I was a dev I could easily slack on Thursday that I'm blowing off the rest of the week since I met my commitments.

- Time management, oh my goodness. You will start some days with an empty calendar and not get off of the phone until 6. Or you may actually get a free day and decide it's really important to build some workflow automation for your dev team tools. This is where having tech chops makes the job super fun.

- Seeing people grow and internalize your advice. Hearing your own words or seeing your own behavior in up and comers is easily the most rewarding experience I've had professionally.

- You really don't get new information and there are really no secrets. I kinda expected to be privy to all kinds of performance and comp data but we're all just winging it.
Please provide sources that "many people" are using horse doses. I only hear of well known people such as Joe Rogan and Aaron Rodgers using human-prescribed pill form ivermectin.
I would not be ok with such a dystopia.

However I don't think there's a clear line to be drawn. Why do most people object to eating dog or cat while they have no problem with pork? Pigs are about as intelligent as dogs (and can also learn to recognize individual humans).

Extrapolating that line of thought there is also no fundamental difference between eating plants and animals, but most people argue that it's morally wrong to kill animals for meat but ok to eat plants.
You would not need to have a true paper form. If anything really needs to be printed, it is a QR code with some basic information pointing to the online information on the gov site.

This is how covid vaccine status is handled today and it works great.
At first glance this looks like software that’s a bit dated and nothing special, but try to use it just once and tell me if you don’t agree it’s freaking awesome when do you want to create an expression or get a feel for exactly how it’s working.

I have no affiliation with these guys, I’ve just been impressed over the years

https://regexbuddy.com
I can only speak as a SysAdmin at the time. There where sites/applets that did only run in IE with MSs version of Java and sites/applets that only run with Suns Java. I remember having to create different desktop shortcuts for differently configured browsers.
That (plus the long startup time of the odd Java based sysadmin-tool) lead to a general feeling of "Java == Bad". Which shined through to invitation to tender. No mater whether the subject had anything to do with something user facing.
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This program is not for repair shops. Apple not producing repair procedures for component-level repairs does make it impossible for them to share those procedures... because they don't have them to share.
For vercel you can't just throw the images in your `public/` folder or equivalent? I'm almost positive I've done that. Doesn't work for user generated images ofc, though cloudflare has some sort of solution there
Excellent work; I started the demo with usual jaded attitude, but then - WOW - nice - I'll have good uses for that!

Can you drive actions from a spreadsheet or table? The workflow I'm thinking of is first do a run to gather data, next offline filter or select desired items from that data set, then finally use the processed data set to drive a series of actions on the selected items.

Also, any chance there'll be a Firefox version?
Microsoft is improper. I will block it.
if we are arguing that implementing a numerical algorithm in C is as easy as implementing it in Python - I would disagree. But maybe I am just wrong :)
The thing I struggled with was how the XMPP chat based app I was trying to use was very much tied to the domain. If you weren't the domain admin you were SOL trying to set it up. Setting up two on the same domain--we were attempting to make it robust against disruption, think multiple servers on the same network where the interconnects may go down unexpectedly, but all local users need to remain connected and messages need to be relayed once the connections are re-established. They had previously used IRC which worked ok, but was "insecure" and had a mandate to switch to XMPP for security. Also had to be a COTS solution.

In the end I left the project before they got it working. I have no idea if it ever got deployed.
Have you actually checked your grocery store? Mine sells both iodized and uniodized table salt, in addition to the kosher salt idea that folks have mentioned. I know the OP said that they worried about anti-caking agents in kosher salt and I'm no expert, but I thought they didn't usually have them.
No no... You can't expect a journalist to carefully make a very detailed and informed article like this carefully evaluating 30 scientific articles of meta-anilisys sites wich favored a specific view. They are not spcialists in most things and this was published long after the peak of of the pandemic.

What they should do is to query specialists to obtain better information, instead of opinions. Consult different views, argue why on view is right or wrong and then inform the public.
I understand what they're doing. The Constitution already belongs to the people, no copies need to be bought or sold for this to be the case. That's what I mean by futility of their effort. Their project betrays a profound misunderstanding of the US Constitution.
Wait, did they just "invent" the user-replaceable battery?!
Nice to see a another Grinnell alum in the wild! I want to try plans, but lost access to my @grinnell.edu email after I graduated. What do you think about it? Should I check it out?
I disagree with each of your examples.

First, just because people do it doesn't mean it 'should' be done. See the naturalistic fallacy.

Second, just because smaller investors lack resources, doesn't imply they should be prevented from acting with less information. This doesn't follow from your final claim that there is a common interest in preventing them from participating and this is unsubstantiated.

Let people make their own mistakes, you don't get to decide for them.
Snapchat's Camera Can Suggest Recipes Based on the Food It Sees
I don't find it powerful at all. Very hard to map through structures in templates.

Much easier to write templates in a real language.

Most of the time I need to map data to something else suitable for rendering. That mapping goes from markdown frontmatter to some nice form.

I ended up not using templates at all due to how cumbersome it is to write any kind of data transformations inside the template language.

Might as well just generate html myself.

A nice example is generating menu contents from a list of menu items with their sort weight and links. Ends up being very cumbersome.
> Yes, there is some nuance there now, (...)

That does not seem to be true. Wikipedia's article on Jaap van Dissel[1] links to a Reuters news article from September 2020[2] where van Dissel is referred to have made the following claim:

> The head of infectious diseases at the Netherlands’ National Institute for Public Health (RIVM), Jaap van Dissel, has argued there is no scientific proof of cloth masks’ effectiveness, and that they might do more harm than good by giving users a false sense of security.

Please note that the criticism refers to cloth mask (not surgical), whose effectiveness has been since then reported to be lower than 40%. Also, the thesis is that relying on an ineffective protection measure does more harm than good as this potentiates the spread of the disease.

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

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-nether...
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