skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting rant. I'm wondering if I'm weird because I didn't hit any of this.

In defense of the RemarkAble2

Page flipping by swiping my thumb left or right seemed both intuitive and pretty flawless.

Granted, my handwriting is okay, I print rather than use cursive, but perhaps that makes it easier to recognize what I write?

As for e-pub's, everything from O'Reilly and NoStarch (a couple of places where I get reference books) work fine, I also had a number of text books scanned and their PDFs work well as do the 1000+ page PDFs that count as reference manuals for microprocessors these days.

Things I hope improve;

I do wish the PDF navigation was a bit better. In the ideal world an upswipe would bring up the 'bookmarks' for the PDF and allow one to select one, but using the menu to go to page view then picking the page you want hasn't proven to be too much of an issue.

Drawing notes is the best for me. Feels very good and works well. The one thing I would improve would be a zoom in/zoom out feature for adding detail.

And I'd love a screen that is both larger and higher resolution.
my advice is to try and create a website that has useful resources, and attach the forum to that. It's going to be tough to grow a forum that isn't attached to anything else that draws people in these days

and try to keep the number of forums as small as possible, especially at first, so activity isn't spread out over 12 dead categories
Oops, you're already using a R* tree!
I'm jaded about people in general which is the root cause so most things made by people including the internet follows suite.
I'm just wondering out loud how privacy invasive the app the author mentions that sounds required for the full park experience.
RSS saved me the "right click on a bookmark folder -> open all" every hour or so. Does RSS increase my productivity or decrease it? On one hand, I'm not obsessively checking a bunch of websites. On the other hand, I have a firehose of content directed at my face with hundreds of feeds.
Some of the easiest things you can do regardless of OS are to use containers when developing (so you aren't installing npm packages on your host/main system), and don't store sensitive credentials on your disk in plain text (like in `~/.aws/credentials`). Use env vars and only export them when needed.
Anyone else remember digitalblasphemy.com? Good times
I think it's still used a bit in British English, along with other things that strike the American ear as archaic like 'stones' and 'fortnights'.
For people who feel like that, they've been introducing paid fast pass systems lately, as well as some free systems that attempt to schedule your rides for you so that you can hit them when they're less crowded.

When my wife and I went to Universal Studios in California years ago, we paid for the "front of line" addons thinking it would help a little bit with the wait and be worth it. So few people bought that pass that it literally sent us to the front of the line every time we got in line. We blew through the whole park in the 1 day that we had reserved for it, and had time to spare.
The effects of lead pellets in marshes as bird mass poisoner is a well known problem in ecology. They are worsening the problem.
appropriately, commodore’s first PC was named “PET” just because pet rocks were popular at the time, they offered a rock that talked back
"The whole 'buy mp3' idea always have been troubling for me because I can't figure out exactly what I actually buy there. What is it I purchase?"

You purchased convenience -- not having to deal with filesharing systems that are polluted with various misidentified files, not having to try to figure out if the thing you are downloading is actually malware (for non-technical users this is often a challenge), not having to correct / create tags for the MP3 (artist/album/etc.), not having to guess at the quality of the audio (sometimes "lossless" actually means "preserved loss from some other format"), etc. For most people the convenience justifies the price.
By this argument the only real consensus mechanism we need is FAITH. In PoS we trust.

As long as a sufficient number of people believe some currency has value - it has value. If they don't believe, it doesn't have value, and the stakes are worthless too.
For the same reason popular bands don't charge $500 for a concert ticket, even when they regularly sell for that much by scalpers. There is a certain amount of "available to everyone"-ness that is important to the brand in order not to alienate people by appearing elitist and out of touch.

Bands have gotten better at capturing the full amount people are willing to spend by selling expensive "golden circle" packages, backstage passes, ticket + merch packages, etc. Disney does the same with VIP "tours" (a personal escort to skip lines), hotels that include early/late admission, visits from characters, lunch with Mickey, etc.
There’s plenty of weight training resources already available so I’ll add a cardio resource: Daniels Running Formula.

Also, don’t forget flexibility/mobility work in addition to strength and cardio. Starretts Supple Leopard book is a good resource, as is general yoga classes.
Most non-fit people (including myself) won't get fit in a couple of months, so this is slightly too optimistic.
RSS Hub also attempts to be exactly that: https://docs.rsshub.app/en/
"crossing A border" is not the same thing as "crossing the US border".
Yes, they had touchscreens for a while but started disabling/removing them from new cars (pre-COVID) for safety reasons. I believe their 2021 cars have all switched to physical controls plus one of those puck things.
> For PoW, you'd have to know the hash of the start of the chain (the "genesis block") in advance to verify you downloaded the correct chain.

No. For Bitcoin you can accept a chain with an arbitrary starting point and you would still arrive at the same chain everyone else uses.

Although you do need to have an idea of the earliest acceptable starting point-in-time — e.g. verifying a low-difficulty chain starting the year 200,000 BC (with one block every 10 minutes) would take quite a while
Is it me being stupid or is Gnome Builder just horrible?
> Moreover, the commercial Web has a selection process and corresponding evolutionary path which has come to be seen as less than optimal for those seeking high-value, high-relevance content. It is in fact hostile to such content, on multiple bases.

That aspect has absolutely nothing to do with the technical format of a document.
A more enjoyable version (transcript from the book):

http://b.johnwurth.com/aspen-20/
Stick and Rudder is the best read out there if you want an intuitive pilots understanding of what happened here. It unpacks angle of attack from a pilots perspective rather than using engineer speak. At that speed the control surfaces of the Blackbird would have had very little effect which is incredibly scary as you’re approaching a stall low and slow. They’d need big deflections to keep her straight and it would have felt very mushy.

It’s also worth noting that airflow from the engines don’t flow over control surfaces like some light aircraft which means they’d actually have had to gain airspeed before they’d stop mushing around, further delaying recovery. Although I’m guessing that happened pretty damn fast.
At this point Disney holds children's minds hostage. As a thought experiment, what would happen if it ceased to exist today along with its characters? Imagine the trauma many kids would experience, as if they lost someone from their family.

I get that Disney delivers on the promise of family-safe entertainment but this is not healthy. Certainly the capture of copyright law (i.e. endless extension of the copyright expiration period) is not the price worth paying for it.
Brain-Computer Interfaces: Emerging Technologies
Most STL data structures take an allocator template argument. If you fight the compiler enough to make your own std::allocator with preallocation then the STL is actually pretty nice.
That's a Yogi-Berraism right there. In about 40 years it will be attributed to him. ;)

In these two cases, he said them, but was far from the first.

From https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/06/future-not-used/ on "The Future Is Not What It Used To Be":

> In conclusion, Paul Valéry, Laura Riding, and Robert Graves used the saying by 1937. Based on current evidence Laura Riding and Robert Graves deployed the phrase in English first. Yogi Berra and others used the expression in later years.

From https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/29/too-crowded/ on "Nobody Goes There Anymore, It’s Too Crowded":

> In conclusion, the earliest instances of this remark were anonymous. The comedians Rags Ragland and Ukie Sherin employed the quip, as did the writer John McNulty. In addition, there is some evidence that Yogi Berra employed the joke, but in all cases the jest was already in circulation.
I registered for the pre-order and was accepted into the developer batch. AFAIK we're all waiting on the devices. Kernel development is actively occurring on the Quartz64 board (same CPU), and some people with pre-release devices are working on the display driver.
I don’t think the vast majority of people care at all about “owning” a digital image or “verifying” it’s integrity.

Furries pay lots of money to have custom work done of their character. They don’t pay to “own” some random pre-existing art.

And basically everything that NFTs do, a database can do better.
OK, fair enough, Dang!
I find it hard to sympathize with the author on this experience.

Disney is trying their best to alleviate crowds and overall bad experiences by raising prices.

First, the author was prepared to be bitter from the start of the day. Complaining about the price of parking is our first red flag. Yes, that's right, parking your 4,000 pound car does cost $25, this is 2021 not 1965. If parking was $5 or $10 or free, would the author have a space to park at all?

The author wonders why Disney is delivering a sub-par experience. But, here's the thing, a global pandemic happened, and Disney was hurt financially as a result. They are much less of a pure media company than their peers at Comcast or AT&T, with close to half of their revenue coming from theme parks. Unsurprisingly, those theme parks bled cash in 2020.

Fast forward to 2021 and you've got theme parks attracting plenty of attendees, but we combine that high-labor business with a national labor shortage and/or rising labor costs that are concentrated almost entirely in the service industry.

Finally, this is the biggest reason I don't sympathize with the author: he doesn't seem to have done a lot of research before going to the park. Disney for decades now has not been a place that you just show up on a random day and waltz on in. You have to plan it or you will have a bad time.

That means planning your trip with sites like mousehacking.com, and that means reserving dining and experiences far in advance.

I almost don't want to get into it, but I also think that the discussion of race and inclusivity was unnaturally shoe-horned into this article. The author should already know why the attendees are mostly of a fair complexion: they're members of the higher income brackets of the USA, the people who can afford Disney in the first place.

Disney did not create that nationwide racial income disparity. Though, their own racist media of the past (and perhaps even the present) did nothing to end it, either.

But all of that potentially interesting discussion is just thrown into an article that ultimately isn't addressing those issues. It's ultimately just about a guy who went to theme park despite not really liking theme parks.
Sure but this name was used just as example and even in that example one can say it's unclear why he should combine Scheme with Chicken and not other two for wining combination of those unfamiliar words.

With all respect my focus is not with that specific name but with proposition to add prefixes-to-Name when it may be unclear to possible reader.

The number of those names is growing and it seems inevitable to do something about it. It's hard to read page and search every word on it while it's enough to approximately understand what is it about and search for details later if there is a need.
> The levels of institutional racism and violence the US went through in the 20th century are extreme to whatever happened in Europe, barring notable examples (Nazi Germany).

Ask a typical European what they think of Roma ("gypsies"), then get back to me.
Ha. Now that you mention this, it's kind of surprising there aren't that many references to coffee in modern music (at least nothing this rhapsodic comes to mind anyway).

Maybe the stronger stuff is more inspiring in the pop era? https://open.spotify.com/track/6G3NoUqDpqD3Rgfel2pD6s
If go under the links I've submitted you will see that I started a project just for the heck of it and it ends up looking like this. No specific goal in mind, just to spend a few minutes a day doing something cool.
I agree with this. Just want to add, bitcoin mining can happen in remote locations with available power (hydro, geothermal) which are too far from cities to be transported by power wires. There is a limit to how far you can transmit electricity through wires. So, there are tons of untapped natural energy sources.
Sorry, I didn't mean to downplay the value of using concrete examples. I absolutely agree that everyone learns better from concrete settings, which is why my original comment fixed the parameters for people to play with. I was referring more to the discussions of how exponents are stored biased, the leading bit in the mantissa is implied = 1 (except for subnormals), and so on. All these are distracting features that can (and should) be covered once the reader has a strong intuition of the more fundamental aspects.
Yes, this is a huge positive. It serves as a kind of archiving enabler too.

I'm sure many years from now we'll be thankful that we can find 'obscure' movies and TV shows from the early 2000/10/20s etc
I just attempted to verify your claim but instead found that I could easily uninstall OneDrive from Windows Settings -> Apps. Now it is completely gone and does not show up in Explorer at all.
Exactly what component is missing here? The display is still there, as is the SOC running the OS that does UI. Is a shortage touch-enabled displays or display drivers?

Is a part of the issue that these companies can do redesigns quickly enough, so they cannot change to other components that does the same thing only in a slightly different manner?
Also Kelly Johnsons book “More than my share of it all”. Kelly designed the SR71 and U2 and brought them in on time and under budget.
That’s definitely true for me. I don’t exactly know why, probably in part because they remind me of my reckless youth, and then also just the unbridled pursuit of an extreme.
Perhaps they were originally loss-leaders, but today I wouldn't make that argument:

"In 2019, the segment, which includes cruises and hotels, accounted for 37% of the company's $69.6 billion in total revenue"

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/12/disney-earnings-theme-parks-...
Yeah, the touchscreen is great for the navigator. It needs to be placed where the driver cannot even see it: the driver shouldn't even be able to help the navigator as just looking at the screen takes the drivers off the road for too long..

If you are driving solo I'm fine with a while in park mode that you can see a touch screen, but I can't think of a good way to implement it.
Fun fact: Hungarian doesn't have special names for the numbers 11-19.
Front fog lights are utterly useless anyways. Many cars don't even come with them now.
She wasn't really answering whether it benefited film companies. Notice her answer immediately focuses on "paid for my work". The only way she can conceive of the question is "Did I personally profit from the campaign?", and that defines her moral horizons too.
Who said they simply get away with it?

BP is responsible for cleaning up the site, at an estimated cost of $150M. They're responsible because they bought ARCO, which had acquired the site from the original mining company.

They're the ones who built the water treatment plant that's shown in the Tom Scott video that someone linked to, and either they or Montana Resources (a mining company) are paying for everything shown in this video too.
The value of the money made is relative to how much money the person has. A person going from $0 -> $5 gets more value than a person going from $1,000,000 -> $1,000,005.
I think the arxiv / pre-print workaround could have so much more potential if more researchers were motivated/educated on it. I'd love to see an effort to simply email the top 10k authors to request preprint copies to be hosted. If all they have to do is send a pdf, I think most would be happy to do it.
Voters again endorse Swiss government’s pandemic policy
I don't think "cleaning up" a language talked by so many people in the world is reasonable because some people have trouble learning it.

> Either they suck it up, face often humiliation from native speakers from their mistakes (its quite something to see senior banking colleagues laughing like little kids and pointing finger at you on a project meeting because you mixed gender of a noun).

I'm not sure if it's a language problem or a people problem. I often encounter people that mix the gender of nouns, and I don't really care about it. It's a lot to learn and not very important. Just like some people don't have a great accent, that's how it is, it doesn't stop people from communicating. Same for the people that I know, unless we're asked we wouldn't bother correcting someone that "le table" is actually "la table" because tables are female.

On my side, I find the pronunciation of English to be very hard to learn and to master, and am scared of sounding stupid whenever I talk English, so I avoid it, and end up not being good at it, so I can understand the sentiment.
> If there are a lot of birds dying in your pool, maybe you should admit that the water is not only acidic but also poisonous...

It's an abandoned copper mine. I suspect they're aware. It's a Superfund site.
This reminds me of the "Turn on, tune in, drop out" Hippy movement.
Yes, it's what first got me into programming.

Back in the early 2000s I saw videos like this, got myself flash, and made animations myself. I used to hang out in forums where people would make stick figure animations. We all had dreams of being animators.

I was ok at it, but I still had Flash, and Flash had ecma script, and people made games. So I started making games and learning to program. There was also game maker or rpg maker or something like that, and that also had scripting to do incredible things which inspired me.

Of course I had already messed around with making websites, html, css, early js, and geocities for a few years by then, but I credit Flash for really getting me into programming.
> Either they suck it up, face often humiliation from native speakers from their mistakes (its quite something to see senior banking colleagues laughing like little kids and pointing finger at you on a project meeting because you mixed gender of a noun) or often just give up.

I’m French and, at least in my circle, I’ve never seen a native French « humiliating » a non-native trying to speak French.

And to me there is two reasons :
- we know our language is difficult to learn
- we are really bad when it comes to speak any foreign language

As*oles are totally a thing (especially in the banking/financial sector) but most French people are admirative of anyone who speaks more than one language. Because most of us can’t.
Europeans were committing atrocities against Jews for centuries before the United States even existed.
While commonly attributed to Woody Allen (and he does say it in Annie Hall), the joke can be attributed to Harry Hershfield[1]. In Allen’s defence, he opens the joke by saying it’s an old one.

[1]: https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/the...
The logic of the host country is that they can quash any rebellion through the extreme application of violence against the rebels. It works out sometime for them, and other times it doesn’t.

Either way a lot of people end up dead on both sides. They are the poor, children, colonists, and indigenous peoples. Importantly, they are not members of the aristocracy, so no lessons are ever learned by elites as to why empire building is a bad idea.
One of the worst ones is "[famous person's] net worth". People take the Google-provided snippet (sourced from some garbage website) at face value.
SS is good for beginners, but I would push back a bit that it works every muscle sufficiently. Rip says himself his method is really about basic movement patterns. While those exercises probably meet the points of diminishing returns, it doesn’t do much for specific muscles like, say, biceps, which is why he advocates ancillary exercises as somebody progresses.
I would also second the idea of putting the seed in the URL, even with just an anchor link so that all processing is done in the browser. So if someone visits https://tanck.nl/wallpaper/#12345, use this number as the seed. You could also add a link under the image.

edit: here's a hacky way to do it, since you can't seed Math.random() in JavaScript; add this at the start of the "draw()" function.

const url = new URL(location.href);
const match = /#([0-9]+)$/.exec(url.hash);
if (match) {
var seed = parseInt(match[1]);
Math.random = function() {
var x = Math.sin(seed++) * 10000;
return x - Math.floor(x);
};
}

Based on a StackOverflow answer to the commonly-asked question of how to seed the PRNG in JavaScript, by all means not a perfect solution but appropriately concise for this short script: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19303725
Ideally, yes. Wood is surprisingly flexible. Generally the worst that happens is that the paint cracks at the seams between the frame and the trim, or the jamb.

In cases where the deadbolt extends significantly into the frame, then yes, it tends to be destructive. But doors with locks that substantial tend to be sturdy enough that brute forcing the door in any fashion (even if you're just attacking the door itself) is likely to damage the frame.

There are options for "through the lock" forcible entry, where you attack the lock directly, using something like a Rex tool[1]. That will definitely destroy the lock, but usually preserves the door (but isn't suitable for every type of lock).

[1] https://www.allhandsfire.com/Rex-Tool-Forcible-Entry-Tool
> They had valet service for their $200,000 cars

> the lawyers honestly think they are doing the right thing

Reminds me of:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
Nonsense. The wild west led to gunslingers and bounty hunters and true progress was achieved after it was reined in.

Just because you are able to insulate yourself from all the shit that goes on ‘out there’ does not mean everyone else has to be okay with it. Some of that online trolling and hating has affected a lot of people more personally than others. Think about them too.
> It's hard to see why how and who on earth is entitled to prohibit to anyone in having right to make a copy

The how and who are easy: the Constitution[0], and the American government.

The why is trickier, but the idea at least is that restricting copies means more people buy the "real" thing, which means more money goes to the owner, and creators are therefore more incentivized to make and copyright things in America.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause
they are trying so hard to actually try to make it as an ad space. They added link your facebook and apple accounts. Seriously who tf is doing that. They want to push their ads product.

Not that they can't hire product managers, they don't hire product managers that understand the audience and what reddit the actual product is. IMO theres better ways to monetize their audience than ads.