skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Safari Print to PDF option is 10x better than that of Chrome based browsers! For example my site https://debdut.github.io renders so beautifully on the PDF from Safari while on Chrome even with the “Background Graphics” option on, the rendering doesn’t work correctly.

Can anyone point me to a great Safari like PDF renderer or how to automatize it? Discussions on creating a open port or requesting open sourcing this feature of Safari will also be great!
You might be talking about an experiment shown in "Behind the Curve".

The experiment, which consists of shining a laser at a target many meters away. The person holding laser lifts and lowers it. When it is lowered, the point of light on the target disappears, because it is obstructed by the land "in the way", due to the curve of the earth.

The experimenter says "hmmm, that's weird!" and then proceeds to conclude that his ingenious experiment was in fact flawed.
It's up 265% in the last five years... For a 35 year old industrial manufacturing company, that's more than decent in my view.
I can only give my, "anecdotal", experience with my daughter and her friends that she studies with, who are currently in high school (also here in LA). The emphasis is 100% on memorizing things for the test. There are definitely no labs or experiments, cause Covid. If I asked any of them something deeper, like what were the causes of WW1, no one would be able to explain anything beyond the assassination in Serbia.
I'm not a big Reddit fan, but there's no avoiding the fact it's a major resource for lots of Q/A information. It also ranks highly for many Google queries.

But it has been purposefully broken on mobile browsers to force users in to downloading an app, registering, and close many popups.

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This is a small extension for iOS I made to (a) force Reddit to always switch to the old layout on mobile, (b) apply a few visual styling changes to make the site fit a portrait device/make better use of available screen space, (c) make Reddit actually usable on iPhone again without an app/account/popups/other shite.
A modest proposal indeed.
On the other hand, I have a friend who adopted this approach and it turned out to be the source of their problems. I'm not saying it's a bad approach, just that at some point you have to go from dating -> feel something serious -> commitment at some level, and there's some tension there between "maximizing your dating pool" and "committing to one relationship."

I don't mean anything like "being monogamous is difficult" what I mean is mentally there's a shift involved as you progress, and the relationship is as much a function of what you put into it as what the other person is providing you. If you're in "evaluating your partner mode" perpetually, you'll never get to the next stage.

Or something like that.
If you run an exit node, definitely. If not, you should be fine.
That bug went deep . The catharsis is palpable
> one-time 6-digit sign in codes that are emailed to the user

> I'm wondering if they will feel secure to the users

I don't know about secure, but most users will feel extremely irritated for sure.
As with many projects, there was quite a range in acceptance/uptake! Language was certainly a factor (more rural schools - which were also poorer on average - tended to be more Guarani-centric), but I would say that based on my observations it was not the most significant factor for uptake at school or at home.

In the classroom, bigger factors that limited uptake were breakage, drained batteries (most classrooms had minimal charging capacity, and even that capacity had been installed by Paraguay Educa), uninstalled software, and lack of teacher time/resources to develop curricula and work around all of these issues. Paraguay Educa hired teacher trainers in early 2010 and had a rotating tech support team to help with these issues, and this extra staff made some headway, but that kind of ongoing cost wasn't something the small NGO could sustain, unfortunately. (I have a long discussion about funding for charismatic new projects vs. maintenance/sustainability of existing projects in the book - as with many tech projects, maintenance was certainly a big issue!)

Kids who used them at home did tend to be stronger in Spanish, but relatively few were using them much at all, Spanish-speaking or not. While I didn't see improvements in reading or math among those who were part of the project there between 2010 and 2013 testing (though the testing was really not my focus - the observations and interviews were - we still ran them), it's common in other 1:1 programs to have modest gains in literacy because enough kids are motivated to practice reading to make sense of what they encounter on the Internet.

I hope this helps! Happy to clarify or answer follow-ups!
Or you can go to a harbor and watch ships drop below the horizon.
Cheap and almost worthless by itself - a lot of work is required to make this approach bring results.
I vaguely recall Intel had some rugged convertible Classmate PC. It was sturdy and the price was reasonable but its performance was bad (like most netbooks).
I know a bunch, but I also grew up in the Bay Area…
Will they give you a magnitude attached to those liabilities? Anybody can falsely sue for defamation, so you need an average cost value beyond the mere possibility of lawsuit to get a true representation of the problem.
Of course. I can type a password from memory, or it can be auto-filled by the browser/password-mgr. No interruptions before signing in. Having to open email inbox means switching tabs/context.
I think it's a great idea to do a Ph.D. for fun after you are financially independent - not to mention having technical skills and real-world experience.
Kakoune does not yet have an interactive tutorial, like vim's `vimtutor` -- its developer community has mixed feelings about the need to develop an analogue. In lieu of it, there exists a document called TRAMPOLINE that is meant to help new users get up to speed quickly. It is available here: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/contrib/TRAMPOL...
> and prove that it has to be spherical

To be precise, the earth is not spherical. It's unfortunately not even an ellipsoid: I live well above the sea level yet my home is like 20 meters below the surface of the WGS84 reference ellipsoid.
Those were always there and I think read well due to following prose conventions. Was thinking about typing syntax and walrus.
Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya: ‘Nobody Cares’ about Uyghur Genocide in China
My first thought would be to find all the pages that begin a new sentence and/or finish with a completed one.
People trade health at low and high probabilities for money all the time. That's the model that produced the $10M number in the first place.
In Germany I’ve read recommendations range from meekly positive to very positive, and that encodes the actual recommendation.
Microsoft owns Xbox and a multitude of game studios…
movement before command sounds nice, eg 'wd' to delete a word instead of 'dw'
I’m with you. I just want an easy place to write and share an article, and I would prefer not to self host and install a million things.

No one has seemed to have suggested any alternatives, except for [HackerNoon](https://hackernoon.com). Surely there’s something else? Medium can’t have that large of a stranglehold to the point of a monopoly. (If I’m wrong, then this is a biz opportunity.)
Central Nervous System Regeneration
It means "kick", "hit". See one of the comments here: [0]. Also (if you speak French) this: [1]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/1tdiap/kakoune_a_longd...

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ais_de_Nouvelle-Cal%...
The title of the article is "Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says 'nobody cares' about Uyghur genocide in China" shortened to fit 80 character limit

Video clips of the podcast in particular that this article is referring to, can be viewed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/s6maje/billionaire_s...

For reference, link to the All-In podcast, to listen to the entire episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbeHyN15HQE
It was well over double the price of OLPC, and had different functionality.
Importing textbooks or syllabi from another country doesn’t work well, because there’s a lot of culture that goes into such things, far more than you probably realise, and Indian culture is very different from such as British, Australian, Canadian and American. For some subjects it will work better than others, but it’s a total non-starter as a general strategy even from a technical aspect, quite apart from the politics that would render it quite untenable (especially with India’s nationalism and comparatively recent independence from the British).

Even so, there are some places where foreign culture has unduly influenced the textbooks; for example, the Class III and IV Social Studies textbooks go over the seasons, and teach as fact the four season model with snow and all, which is only suitable for temperate or subarctic climates (and doesn’t always have snow); it’s wildly inappropriate in Hyderabad and India at large, which have a radically different, monsoony sequence, reckoned in 3, 4 or 6 seasons. And none of the kids have ever seen snow, Hyderabad’s record low being 6°C.

I would also note that getting incompetent teachers only capable of rote-based teaching to use syllabi or textbooks designed for understanding-based teaching will be a disaster.
Indonesia's new capital is named Nusantara
> Like individuals, businesses also have an inalienable right to free speech.

Nonsense. Humans have inalienable rights. Businesses exist on our sufferance, they don't have an inalienable right to anything.
A doctorate is a nice personal achievement, but the opportunity cost is more than money. A PhD is a ticket that opens opportunities for teaching and research. (Mostly teaching.) You can do research on your own, without the costs of a PhD. You can strike up intellectual relationships with other researchers today. You can invent things and file your own patents. You can create your own businesses, selling products or services. You can deep dive into any subject on your own, today, and build yourself into a world-class expert.

> I’ve heard horror stories about abusive advisors, mental health struggles, low stipends, burnout, and lack of support systems.

Yes, it's a marathon. Some people really want to win that race. It is an accomplishment. A PhD might make a nice trophy, but tread cautiously down that road unless you very much want to slide into academia.
Interestingly, in Paraguay the kids who did use their XOs much at all generally installed another windowing system. There was a nice easy package that even not-very-tech-savvy kids could install, I think put up by a hacker group in Uruguay (I'd have to check my notes on that one) with instructions in Spanish, that also came with some simple videogames and a video/audio player. Sugar was really not designed for media consumption, and that's what interested many of the kids!
Damn. In our office (well before Covid), we were explicitly given training on how to behave with janitorial workers - to be polite and clear the workspace if we are working late hours and not make a mess of things for them and increase their workload. Well, this was an EU company not an American one, so far more respect for blue-collar workers.
I've gone for several week long stretches of using it but never fully converted. What winds up happening is that I get to a point in a project where I really need to focus on the code and not the editor, switch back to vim, and don't get around to switching back for another few months. The editing model is better than Vim's and if I didn't have 20 years of vim muscle memory I probably would have switched over by now.
More like a geometric method used in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29975544

The simplest way I could come up with while discussing the issue with my kids, was to call a grandma on the other side of the globe and ask here when did she have a sunset. It still could mean that the earth is a hemisphere, but at least it's not pancake-style flat.
Are Poor People Lazy?
Or what happens when a global diamond Monopoly strip-mines half a nation.
I came to think that first comes the unwillingness to accept world as presented by society. The community forms on the basis of this need. It does not matter what element of current consensus gets questioned. Unhappy people go into psychosis sometimes.
(I am the OP you're talking about)

Ah, yeah, very much agreed. I don't mind stuff not being packaged in official distro repos (although it would of course be very nice), but a build/install process being more complex than `configure && make && make install` borders on "bug" territory in my mind. In fairness, however, speech-to-text seems to mostly suffer from problems after the build/install step proper; it's common enough that getting to the point of running the program is okay, but it's useless without the language/speech models that make it actually understand speech, and those are... arcane, I think is the best word. Or huge files. A major differentiator for this one was that getting and using the model was "wget this single 40M file and place it here". And then at runtime, the program correctly grabbed the right microphone and automatically output text to stdout and was mostly accurate at doing so:) Others have done any one of those steps, but never all.
I'm not. You were able to read open source code and learn from it, taking advantage of a lot of effort its authors put into it (who knows, maybe you even stumbled on some of my work out there?). You had access to computers and to the Internet, and had time to use it, most likely thanks to your parents, which isn't a given. You admitted yourself that you turned into publicly funded military for it to invest into your education. You also had ability to do side projects while working a low paying job, instead of, say, taking care of an ill relative your whole spare time - not everyone is so lucky. And perhaps most importantly of it all, you turned your attention into software engineering during time when software engineering is extremely lucrative - it doesn't have to stay this way at all.

I don't even have a degree, by the way; I'm mostly self-taught too.
Thrre is quite a lot of people on tiktok who are very confident in what they say but have absolutely no clue
>In addition to that Kotick himself has been accused of sexual harassment in the past and lost a legal case over it [3]

I am not trying to defend Kotick, and am not saying his behavior then or now was alright. But the article you linked did not say he was accused of sexual harassment. And he did not lose a sexual harassment case either.

Instead the article says that a guy named Berg, with whom Kotick co-owned a private jet, was accused of sexual harassment by a former stewardess. Kotick was named in the suit because he co-owned the company that owned the jet and he was the one who eventually fired the stewardess, and that was alleged to have been wrongful termination out of retribution for reporting Berg's alleged misconduct. Kotick himself, unlike Berg, was not accused of sexual harassment in this case. (It seems the entire thing was settled out of court eventually).

The suit that was actually lost as per the article was a case brought by a former attorney for him and Berg, who sued them for non-payment of legal fees relating to the original sexual harassment case.
I liked that they set out to prove via science that they are correct. They were, of course, stunned to find out that they are wrong. But still, nothing wrong with being skeptical, as long as you are prepared to accept results to the contrary.
But here's the problem with this logic; I've never been presented with any credible arguments that suggest Earth is not round, and in fact have been able to use this knowledge of Earth's roundness to understand and accurately predict facts in my real life on a semi-regular basis.

* When I see my flight plan, I understand why it's curved.

* When I see clouds that a radar says should be a certain distance away, I understand what makes me able to see them.

* Where weather is moving, how it's moving, and why certain weather patterns even exist at all.

* When I see a landmass on water I can accurately guess how far away it is, and I can understand why moving even a small amount upwards lets me see so much more (and why it was such an advantage on ships to have a vantage point only 20 to 30 feet up in the air).

* How stars move in the night sky is predictable.

* Why the "north" star exists and is accurate as a directional indicator.

* Where constellations are, and how they're different depending on what latitude I'm currently observing the night sky from.

* The fact that tides exist, and how they work.

* I understand how and what satellites are, when I can see them, and I can predict when I'm going to lose signal from them given certain circumstances.

* Every other planet I've observed is round. The moon is round. The sun is round.

None of this works if Earth isn't round, and that's just off the top of my head. The point here is that so many things stop making sense if you don't accept the fact that the Earth is round, and so you're constantly failing to predict or understand a whole host of problems that, yes, do come up in my daily life.

This isn't about "happening to pick the right set of beliefs", it's about matching what you're told with what you're observing and noting a singular and profound consistency across disciplines, uniformly converging on one single, basic fact; the Earth is round.
No one cared what happened to the afgans either. Or the Fallujahns with all that US Depleted Uranium. Only difference was whose hypocrisy drove the conversation.
Sorry! I definitely didn't factor in a HN frontpage link into my quota expectations with my webhost. There's an only-somewhat-broken version here: https://web.archive.org/web/20211221041947/https://morganya....
Leadership starts and ends at the top. Sometimes it never starts.

Yes, and gets imitated all the way down the org chart.
Unless WebServer is the only class that needs dependencies you're either going to have to pass those dependecies repeatedly from class to class or you're going to have a global factory that provides the dependencies to everybody.
> But I can live without buying the next loot box, and I can still be a productive member of society without the new Call of Duty game.

You could live on slurried nutrient paste instead of regular food. Yet we choose to pursue good food because it gives us happiness and satisfaction. To a lot of gamers, video games offer happiness and fulfillment.

What Blizzard folks did was terrible, and I reduced willingly spending on them. But when they released Diablo 2 remastered, I bought it immediately and relived my childhood experience. I don’t regret it.
I thought this had something to do with the lazy vs strict evaluation of haskell vs lisp.

https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/fall16/lectures/07-lazine...
Not sure the micro managing founder ever found out people were using it to alert when he arrived. His asshole tendencies extended beyond micromanaging staff, and he ended up in a fight with the other two founders that resulted in him leaving the country with a warrant for his arrest of fraud charges within about a year.

People in his firing line would mostly use it to make sure that they were at their desk and had Jira open while waiting for something to compile, instead of HN or Reddit…

The managers-in-the-building website dashboard stayed running for at least several years after that, when I left, and it was still in regular use. People liked being able to do things like go “Hey, we’ve got the PM, Account Manager, and the CEO all in the office right now, let’s grab the tech lead security guys, and set up a 3 minute corridor meeting to make this decision.”
An interesting amount of that knowledge is inside various folks' heads.
Tilly Smith
AFAIR he ran windows share on public IP with no firewall (default on win95), someone got his IP from IRC? hmm <furious googling> there it is https://patpend.net/articles/zd/article2.html

"Sardu was running Windows 95 at the time. He made the mistake of leaving drive sharing on (which should not have been on by default, but for some reason, it was on). MindRape was then able to mount Sardu's hard drive (since drive sharing was enabled) with Samba. Pretty clever, right? Regardless, he did this and not only was he able to retrieve the NESticle source code, he was able to look through all of his drives. His Zip drive. His hard drive. His CD-ROM drive. Whatever he wanted. Such an invasion of privacy is ridiculous, but this is what transpired."
It lets you meet more people than you would otherwise (this is helpful especially in the pandemic). The rest is up to you.
> Blizzard games don’t hold a candle to the money CoD, Madden, or Skylanders bring in

You might be right that Blizzard game don't make as much pure profit. However, COD and Madden are prime examples of the bastardization of the video games industry, where companies are putting profits far ahead of making actual enjoyable games. Kotick is a pioneer in this respect, being the best in the biz at making games unfun reskinned garbage and making a mint while doing it.

IMO keeping someone like Kotick around for his money making prowess is extremely short sighted. One of these days people are going to pick up on the ruse. You can already see it with Blizzard's waning fanbase for games like Overwatch and WoW.
To be fair most broism does originate in SV though doesn’t it?
> You can deep dive into any subject on your own, today, and build yourself into a world-class expert

The down sides are significant and should be considered very carefully.

However, universities can sometimes be attractive and motivating work environments, especially if you are tired of tech companies and startups and don't need or care about the money you'd get from working there. As noted, you can try an MS (ideally completing a master's thesis which is something like a mini-dissertation) and see if it's something you like.

And I don't know how it is in your company, but sometimes interesting research jobs in industry are easier to get if you have a graduate degree.
> I've seen dozens of flat earth videos.

Using Occam's razor, I posit that these videos exist because there are too many people watching them; not because there are too many flat earthers out there. I am yet to meet one in person.
I don't think so "The auto focus system works from 4 inches to infinity" https://www.steves-digicams.com/camera-reviews/sony/dsc-u20/...
I started using Kakoune a few of years ago, after a decade+ of Vim, and while the improved command language is nice, the parts of Kakoune I love are:

- dedication to quick feedback

- scriptability and plugins

By "quick feedback" I mean things like multiple selection support, so you can tweak and polish a complex search-and-replace and inspect each step of the process as it happens, instead of writing a complex regex, undoing, and starting again from scratch.

I also mean things like pervasive completion and tool-tips. When I type `:set` I don't just get tab-completion of option names, I get a browsable list of option names and a tooltip describing the syntax of the `:set` command. And once I pick an option, that option's docstring is added to the tooltip so I can see what values the option expects.

By "scriptability and plugins" I mean there's no special directory structure to make a plugin - just take the commands you'd type in the editor, stick them in a `.kak` file in `~/.config/kak/autoload` and you've got a plugin you can share with your friends. If you have a complex editing operation you want to script, you don't need to learn a whole different "long-form" syntax for each command, you can just say `execute-keys` and write out the keys you would press to do the thing. There's more ceremony and polish you can add if you want (like all the fancy completion built-in commands have) but the effort required to automate my tasks is damn near zero.