skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One (English), but with enough proficiency in French to reasonably understand and speak a basic level. I'm learning Portuguese and going to try to brush up on my French as well. Im 32.

Take what I say with a grain of salt as I'm not fluent in anything but English yet. But for me the "tips and tricks" are largely counterproductive. What you want to do is to understand how the language works on a fundamental level. This isn't as hard as it sounds. You just need to understand why the basic parts of a language work and interact the way they do. Everything gets easier after that, and largely comes down to memorization of vocabulary and exceptions (use your favourite tricks here to help you), and the #1 most important thing, practicing with another speaker of the language. The more you actually use a language as a tool to communicate, the better and quicker your brain gets at using that tool without "thinking" about what its doing.

Apps don't work, other than as a piece of a larger learning strategy, because they can't replicate speaking with another person. They are largely just time-sinks designed to keep your attention on the app to make money for the creators.
Oh, you’ll get a decent machine, but as the top comment conveys, developers that think this is a license to bloat need some firm correction, or simply weeding out.

Not merely because their undisciplined code will be substantially more expensive to run, especially at scale, but also in particular because it’s correlated to being a useless towel in a crisis.
Yes, I'm on the road but as soon as I can I'll push it to GitHub
I think this is the perfect tool for PDFs and research notes.

My Remarkable is filled with research papers and books.

As I read them I scrawl notes all over the margins just like I did with paper printouts during my undergrad.
Judging from the comments, it looks that many negations stem from the "old PHP". I've been developing with PHP since late 90s. Oh, boy, I've created a lot of bad code during all those years. However, when doing new year's retro, there has not been a single time I would be able to say that PHP has not evolved. As well as my code.

Modern PHP might not have all the shiny features other high profile languages have, but it's getting there. It's slower than many would like because of much debt and legacy. But it'll get there.

Also, you can write shitty code in any language. I would bet that, if back then python was as easy to deploy, as PHP, we'd now be fighting about that the same way as we are about PHP.
It has a 10” screen. The long side of an A4 piece of paper is 11+.
I did the reverse. American who moved to EU for work. I would say go for it! Unless you land a gig in Silicon Valley or working for FAANG tho, I would tamper your expectations of the salary in the States being that much better than (Western) Europe. I would never say not to do it though, I think it will be "worth" it 100% regardless of potential monetary compensation increases.
- Code is not prose. It's not read like a book so it's not clear that an "ideal measure for continuous text" is at all relevant.

- Most lines are short even if the limit is more than 80 characters, so you're unlikely to accidentally shift up or down after reading a long line.

- Even if there turns out to be some benefit for reading code based on Saccades, that means nothing unless you can make some quantitative comparison with the other advantages and disadvantages of a longer line length.
May I ask how you used physical notebooks before?

I’m really tempted by the ReMarkable — decent PDF reader with good annotations, and replacing pen and paper in meetings, would be enough.

But I’m a pretty hardcore pen and paper user. I find iPad and Pencil great for art but laughably deficient for writing and brainstorming.

Is the Re that far ahead of Apple?
I would only salvage Archive.org, Libgen and Scihub. Funny taht two out of three things worth something are by Russians dodging copyrights.
I went through a few weeks of debating with myself the benefits of getting an e-ink tablet for note taking, reading, etc.

I need color for the majority of stuff that I read/study/work on, which was certainly one point against remarkable.
Additionally, I couldn't really justify getting a tablet to replace paper. Paper is ubiquitous. It is thin. It goes everywhere. I can fold it.
And there's something fun about writing with a good pen (I mainly use fountain pens nowadays).

Eventually, my workplace just gave us all iPads, so I use that for annotating PDFs, otherwise I'm still just using trusty pen and paper for jotting things down. Can always scan them if needed.
> But it's a threat for single nodes not for the network as a whole.

Indeed, but the same is true for attacks on "weak subjectivity" proof-of-stake. They're only a threat for nodes that have been disconnected for a long time (months) before they try to reconnect.
Frank was simply a man with a dream and he achieved it. 9 constructors' championships, 7 drivers' championships: Jones, Rosberg, Piquet, Mansell, Prost, Hill and Villeneuve.

The last decade or so of Williams has been very hard for the team, but I'm glad he saw the beginning of a return to form with a decent amount of points this season - and that podium at Spa.

I never met him, but I know some who did and they always had nothing but praise for the man. He was loved by all, and was very, very smart.
His relationship with his drivers, even after leaving the position of Team Principal, was second-to-none. Williams was his family, and I'm very glad Capito/Dorilton kept the name after purchasing - it's more than just a name.

This world is thrown around a lot, but I think it's fitting here: he was a legend of the motorsport world, and a legend of the engineering world.
His reputation and status in the paddock cannot be overstated. Rest in peace, Sir Frank.
I'd like to add to the list Korg's own FM implementation MOD-7
I am glad my not-so-helpful post was not downvoted by those that didn't get the inside joke :)

As a more earnest reply to OP I guess you could say I have been "jaded" about the internet/web since the late 2000s. The rise of social media I never particularly cared for. I enjoy[ed] a very small part of it but the negativity is quite draining and it is far too easy to get sucked into a negative echo chamber than a positive one.

With regards to blockchain and related technologies 'driving Web 3.0' I can't say I care all that much. I think some of it is great but a lot of the hyped parts, such as NFTs, are useless.

Yes, yes I know there are some sensible use cases for NFTs (such as concert tickets) but all this JPG NFT non-sense just makes it look like a bunch of adults getting excited over digital beanie babies.

I guess you could say I do miss the internet from the late 90s to the late 2000s. Perhaps it is just rose tinted memories of when I was a teenager but the rise of Napster then P2P then Bittorrent, then web video services, etc. along with high speed internet was truly amazing.

The early years of Facebook was also pretty nice to reconnect/keep in touch with some people but I would say I 'grew out' of Facebook within about a year, maybe two. I realised I had lost touch with those people for a reason and even with Facebook, Twitter, etc. I lost touch again.
Not jaded, but then, I was never that excited by it, either.

It's a tool. A substrate. An infrastructure.

All of these things go through a "The sky's the limit!" excitement, when they are first introduced. Electricity, TV, and even nuclear fission, were greeted in a similar manner.

I'm glad it's here. I use it all the time, but I don't feel disappointed that it turned to shit, because I never expected it to be anything more.

http://hmpg.net

https://www.internetisshit.org
Does anyone else get the feeling that HN readership is far too biased from sci-fi?

With that logic, no country would have ever let explorers leave their country to begin with.
Yeah let's not do original research in HN. This can have millions of reasons.
"Plus the whole modern hardware comment is not well founded, since I like..."
That is exactly the essence of Linus comment. If some people choose to do something that does not mean the rest needs to accommodate. 80 chars limit is just ridiculous in 2021.
It was exciting when I was a teenager but now I am a fifty year old lady who is just trying to use it to get paid for drawing stuff and I am really tired of fighting the social media corporations' constant decisions to de-emphasize posts with offsite links to places where I can get people to pay for my work. The thought of pivoting to making vertical videos because all the kids are on TikTok now feels incredibly exhausting, especially because I know it'll probably be replaced by yet another corporate-owned social site with its own bullshit in a year or two.

NFTs just seem to add an extra layer of bullshit where every transaction happens via a bunch of people wasting an absurd amount of energy to perform useless computation in hopes of being the one who wins the lottery for some cryptocurrency. Don't tell me your favorite crypto's moving off of PoW, it's wasting incredible amounts of energy right now and moving off of that relies on getting a consensus from people who are financially incentivized to stay on PoW.

(The most damning sentiment about NFTs I've seen is that there are two groups who are historically at the forefront of new ways to get paid on the internet: porn makers and furries. And neither of them is into NFTs.)
Why Is Murder Spiking? and Can Cities Address It Without Police?
> The only way around that is to gather more evidence...

That begs the question as to whether an evidence-based approach is the right approach in all circumstances.

Another way around it is to not fully rely on an evidence-based approach, and take precautions before the evidence comes in. In some circumstances (e.g. rapid spread of an poorly understood disease) waiting for an evidence-based decision before taking precautions might be too slow.
I'm sure they're aware of the equivalent compensation, and that it's often higher in the US. But there are a lot of other factors to QoL that are more interesting to compare.
Unless the decentralized thing is a unique computer that creates a new kind of substrate for a new category of things: restaurants, movies, ____ <- dapps? I don't know. I am definitely not in this camp, but maybe.
SFW was truly dedicated to motor sports. There is a nice documentary ‘Williams’ if you’re interested in f1.
The paper referenced in the article explains the positioning and reference mechanics. In short, it’s very similar to precise positioning using GNSS (with fixed base reference stations broadcasting corrections to field receivers), but using celestial signal sources along with GNSS averaged positioning data. It’s a really clever use of a natural phenomenon for precise positioning, and somewhat exciting between this for underwater use and pulsars for space positioning.

Riffing, I’d be curious if the surface reference detectors/stations could use pulsars alone for positioning, slowly removing the need for human infra in the positioning network. It seems we’re awash in signal sources, and the work is in intelligent use of them.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-75843-7

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-75843-7/figures/1
Japan proves all this wrong.
But remember that it's a huge difference between reading compact text in a newspaper or book compared to reading source code. I don't remember get lost reading long lines in source code ever but it happens regularly to me when reading books.
Omicron is a really good excuse for the media to stop talking about the black supremacist anti Semitic terrorist who killed a group of dancing grandmothers and young children. Let’s talk more about Omicron.
You can use parallels to run Windows applications, but that's not really a "native" Windows environment. I love my M1 MacBook Pro that I was given for work but I absolutely _despise_ macOS.
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”

You obviously don’t see the slippery slope here do you?

Edit: also millions of people around the world have signed up or given their lives to defend their countries and ways of life.

How dare those that cower at home dictate what i do. Stay at home and watch your Disney Fauci documentary and order from seamless to your hearts content.

Some of us prefer reality.
Please suggest a cross platform framework that doesn't come with accessibility issues, that also allows you to create as rich ui's like what you can do in a browser, and without various licenses that restrict what you can do with your code? Something that supports Android, iOS, Linux, Windows and MacOS.
This book changed my software career

"Developer Hegemony"

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0722H41SG
No, that's just pragmatism. The origins happen to be US/American:

It's the most compact, non-ambiguous representation, and avoids symbols that print poorly or are not available everywhere.
An OLED screen is a dealbreaker for me on anything but a smartphone. I don’t want risk of burnin anywhere near any large expensive display. I have laptops that are over a decade old and have seen a ton of use and their screens are still in great shape, which almost certainly wouldn’t be the case had they been equipped with OLED panels.

The moment that microLED displays start hitting the market however I will be buying them. All of the advantages of OLED without the drawbacks. Until then it’s IPS/VA for me.
A4ish sized eInk is expensive. There is a few 13.3" eInk devices out there like the Boox Max Lumi and Fujitsu Quaderno A4 but they are pretty much all around $700-800. The 10.3" devices are IMO a good compromise in size and price. It's basically normal iPad size.
> Security model in PoS = trust the rich.

Same for PoW.

Crypto currency weather PoW or PoS boils down to "give the few rich all the power while giving the many less rich a illusion of security".

In PoW it just slightly tweaks "richness of money" into "richness of computation resources (which you get through money)".

This difference has complicated effects like:

- benefits anyone with cheap electricity (i.e. either places with no environmental protection, government support in some way, or the few places with cheap clean power)

- benefits anyone with good connections to chip factories

- the investment needed for gaining power being less bound to the currency itself but computation power instead
No idea why this is getting downvoted. AR/VR in 2021 absolutely feels like an Apple II in the early 80s or the internet in the early 90s. I would be shocked if it isn't the next big thing.
Just another simple, fast, and resilient open-source WebSockets server
That's entirely fair! And I don't mean to sound as if, using a pen, I never find the need to just scratch something out and try again. But these days it's maybe once a page, where looking back to the first volume of my diary from back in 2018, it was more like once a line.

And in general, I find a real benefit in facility of writing to facility of thought - not falsely is it said that we think a little differently when writing vs. typing, and each kind of thinking is both valuable and not precisely replicable in the other medium. Being able to write neatly, at a speed approximating that at which I think, has made it a lot easier to fix thoughts in a form that allows me to work with them.
Gold, silver and other metal coins were usually produced by a central (and government-controlled) mint, no? And counterfeit was harshly punished?
No, but maybe they went to city meetings to protest new prison construction in their area, so the government now needs to find ways to keep the number of people in jail low.
When I trained a few years ago, I would be sore all the time... Now I've been training again, lifting more times a week & heavier weights and am pretty much not sore at all...

I would try
1) increasing your protein to 1.5-2g per kg of body weight per day.
2) Cutting alcohol
3) Making sure you get enough sleep to recover properly
4) Drinking more Water (1 gallon / 4L a day)
> I miss the optimistic lose communities of the 90s

You're just a product of your time - like me and everyone else

The 2010s have been dark. It's easy to see in mass media, which is a reflection of people self perceptions and interest:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheNewTens

>> For the first time in over 70 or 80 years, the political and economic climate has impacted the socio-cultural in an inescapable fashionnote , becoming more watered-down and risk-averse compared to the "alternative" trends of the late 90s and 2000s,

>> On the one hand, the early years of the decade were marked by escapist fare, such as Glee, the Marvel Cinematic Universe films, young adult-geared romantic dramas and "shiny reboots". However, sordid settings and cynical attitudes thrived in media, reflecting the turbulent sign of the times. Dystopian fiction (The Hunger Games, The Last of Us, Divergent) and horror films (The Purge) served as allegories for the growing social and economic divisions in American society. Dark cable dramas (Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad) took away the spotlight from broadcast network shows, and several franchises got acclaimed grim-and-gritty interpretations in the vein of The Dark Knight Trilogy.
> How do you secure your workstation without living like a monk?

Using Qubes OS. It's really easier than you might think. The UX is amazing. Can't recommend it enough.
Kinda, Spotify bought uTorrent to get the head programmer then sold the company.
What's the 132 precedent?
Nope, very hopeful, lot of stuff to do, we are still at the beginning of the Internet
IIRC, the uTorrent guy (Ludde Strigeus) was employeed by Spotify and worked on, among other things, the P2P feature in Spotify.
My point was that I saw this mentioned explicitly in the news, and I don't think it's an unreasonable decision to make.
Wikipedia too please! I've spent oodles of time on it, more than any other website. Everyone knocks Wikipedia but if you look up technical concepts and check sources on contentious issues it's pretty amazing.
A lot of improvements to breathing come as secondary effects from other things. For example, wake posture, sleep posture, nose vs mouth, etc.

Any conscious breathing is short like you mention but I still think it builds a habit of breathing the practiced way. Like exercise or learning a skill.
I think the reason they removed dislike counts may be exactly because people (like you) tended to click away immediately on seeing a high ratio of dislikes. It's game theory.

If people do that, it means their recommendation algorithm's watch time and retention metrics get bad data; users aren't actually assessing how good the video is, but assessing previous viewers' assessment of it, so you get signal feedback.

If someone can get a good snowball effect going by brigading a bunch of dislikes on a video, they can reduce its reach even if the algorithm is showing it to people just as much. And it can snowball the other way too; people watching a long video a bit more hoping it will get good eventually because it has such a high ratio of likes.

Just speculating of course.
> I take the even more draconian approach of wrapping to 72 columns when writing comments, after the fashion of PEP 8.[3]

Which also happens to be how Linus wrapped the lines of this particular email.
Just tried Goodnotes and it’s pretty good but the iCloud sync just fails with a 503. I like the recommendation, though. It’s got exactly the flow I want so I am grateful.

It’s just a pity that the sync is rubbish. It’s unfortunate that this happens so frequently. Like between Miro, Procreate, and Goodnotes I have the functionality but no one does everything neatly.
hashcash was not obscure even before bitcoin came out
The author of the opinion piece (Alan Leveritt) is the subject (among others) of a good documentary BOYCOTT by Julia Bacha (not clear how to watch this). Panel discussion and Q&A for the doc is on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26HFbKoA7SU
This is amazing. However, how much is the probability for it to generate the same wallpaper twice?
Sign of a wider lack of trust between employer and employee. Yet the idea of unionization is still very unpopular.
Okay same situation right here. Seriously, if anyone has suggestions especially for the mobile syncing workflow with linux I would love to hear them. The seamless message-notiifcation experience with Apple is what holds me hostage.
It's possible that something like the "Internet" never happens again. By which I mean a somewhat distributed collaboration built on open protocols without a series of large entities (companies or countries) capturing the majority of the market value.

Whether future developments are "better" or "worse" is immaterial. Things will unfold as they are.

Humans fundamentally make choices that reflect their values and biases. They can choose to: build, consume, get scammed, be vigilant, etc.

I am certain that it will be interesting to witness and participate in the new world. What a time to be alive.
As Chamath pointed out on the All In Podcast, Pirate Bay and torrenting serve as competition for rights holders, keeping Hollywood pricing and quality in check, and thus a net good for consumers.

The 2013 TPB documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTOKXCEwo_8
I take it for being a patently and demonstrably absurd statement.
I’ve been in the Bay Area for 4 months and have enjoyed it, however I’ll go back to Europe in the next few years. You can get similar salaries if you find remote jobs out here or contract in London so the main reason should be for the lifestyle, not the work. If it helps I’m paying literally 7x more for my apartment than I did in England while my salary is fairly similar lol. It’s all fun though.
Proof-of-Stake Is Unsustainable
Yes, we say "yksitoista" (one of second), "kaksitoista (two of second) and so on until twenty, where we revert to "kaksikymmentäyksi" (two tens and one; ten in actual plural). But in some old books from the early 20th century, the reversal goes on beyond 20: "kaksikolmatta" (two of third) for 22 and so on. I do not know how that archaic usage deals with 100+.
I'm jaded about the entire industry, it feels like we've invented everything genuinely useful and now we're just doing make work.

I'm more bullish on technology in general and some of the software that can enable that (e.g. fusion research, CCS, self-driving cars).

But general purpose computing? The open source scene and people tinkering is cool. The commercial side is just pointless, I can't think of anything _useful_ (as opposed to merely being addictive) in the last ten years.

Whenever I speak to software developers in real life now I get the sense that they're just "not my people". No, I don't want to talk about social media VR, or advanced data mining, or facial recognition or whatever.

Even the more mundane stuff is like... okay, so you work at Amazon. Cool, I like to shop on my high street, err... let's talk about something else then.
It looks like the will use all of "Alphabet" eventually.