skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3.1 and 3.11 for Workgroups was the first Windows I ran hard, taking some advantage of the limited ability to run multiple apps at once. For me, prior versions were a curio. Didn't need them.

For me, 3.11 was very nice to have CAD, Office, and some basics, like uncompressing files in a DOS window while running CAD, all working together. (Some big archives would take 20 minutes!)

My home setup included dialup Internet, both shell and Winsock, just enough to get online and communicating. That was a huge advantage back then! Got DSL the day it was possible.

I scored a few gigs actually demonstrating the Internet and doing basic literacy and manufacturing/engineering specific workflows, useful apps, case studies. Would dial up live and show n tell to people wanting a quick look at what they could do, and they came away from it with a glossary, basic roadmap and apps needed to do business.

For a short while during that time, I did side work programming and CNC programming, and selling a manufacturing app I had written on a DOS 640k 8088 PC. It was the absolute minimum to build the application, which ran so slowly on that box as to be unusable except for debug and test. Every user I had at the time had a far better experience than I did! But that all funded the fun to come! Each system did.

I cobbled together a 386 with 5Mb of RAM running 3.11 Just enough to do most things and a small 40Mb hard disk, just enough to hold Win 3.11 CAD, browser, Office and a few games.

That was the machine I developed the literacy courses on and it got me consulting gigs and my first big jump out of manufacturing and into bigger systems capable of running high end CAD and Animation software on SGI machines.

Got an Indy for home use the moment I could and that was my primary online computer until the very late 90's. CAD, all the technical computing and most Internet tasks happened on that box, until Wjndows caught up some and I could get a fast Pentium.

Yeah, Win 3.1 was the launch point for a lot of good in my life. It is striking me to think about right now. Unexpected memories, PC speaker only sound!

That early era, through the 90's was a fun ride! Apple //e, 6502, Color Computer 3 6809, PC XT 8088,AT 386, 486, Pentium 90, 200, 600, Win 98, SGI IRIX 6.2, 6.5, Red Hat 5.2, Mandrake 8.1, 9.0, NT 3.51, Win 2K, Win XP!

Total blast!
Paralytic polio only happened in 0.1% to 0.5% of polio cases, as well.
Is the site code available for public to read? To see how it looks in reality.
https://cfx.lu

Very simple github page, I have future plans but not enough time to work on it right now.
> The skills that make you good at picking up your third+ natural language should be similar to the skills that make you good at picking up your third+ programming language.

The skills involved in picking up a natural language are going out and schmoozing with people who speak that language.

This is not actually a skill set that people who are good at picking up programming languages are known for.
I feel like bending into that with increased dishonesty only makes that worse though. There's only a 'gotcha' if you change your mind while pretending you were never wrong, if you explain what evidence changed your mind then there's not that much power in pointing out 'flip-flopping'.

But at a deeper level, it shows that they should have been more careful with the messaging from the start. The actual message should have been "There's currently not enough evidence to say COVID is airborne" which is a lot easier to correct to "Actually, it appears that it is airborne" than going from saying it definitely wasn't and being completely wrong...

The masks thing was also just crazy. Completely indefensible, claiming that "we had to lie because otherwise people would have panic-bought masks" just destroys trust even more into the future...
Suzuki Method
https://srirangan.net

Been around since 2003-09-20 =)
Yeah I was very interested about that point in particular. I think synthetic data is one of the ideas, but I got the sense that he also means helping to identify what makes a data set good, even if small. It looks like Andrew Ng is developing a platform for automatically detecting whether a dataset is suitable and, if not, what are the steps to improve it. A sort of automated ML consultant, allowing you to sell capabilities much cheaper than if you needed to consult an actual expert.
Feb 2020 is the timeframe mentioned by the above comment.

In mid January we heard there was a new version of a SARS-like virus, and around January 21 China finally acknowledged there was human-to-human transmission.

Taiwan noticed news about isolated cases of an unknown virus on Dec. 31 2019, and had tipped off the WHO of possible human-to-human transmission. I don't think the wider public world knew about it until after January 12 or so, and it wasn't confirmed to transmit among humans until over a week later, despite suspected illness among doctors and nurses. AFAIK China still has not shared details about who was infected during that early period.
I think India might have a word here as well. Reminds me of the origin story disputes of pasta.
I'd absolutely agree, it's truly worrying.

I say that as someone who has worked in nuclear safeguards.
Is there a point to arguing whether a system is CCA secure if the 'formal definition' uses the system in an explicitly wrong way?

Especially if there is a trivial modification of the 'formal definition' that better matches the intention and allows for results that apply to reality?

Of course there is the question of whether the modification is trivial, and whether the modification changes CCA meaningfully for other systems. But argue about that, whether a definition modification changes past results using that definition. Just stating 'that is not the formal definition' if the formal definition gets criticism and an alternative is suggested, is not really good-faith engagement with criticism.
I thought it was just me! It reads like something Trump might write; lots of superlatives, little substance.
Can this also be used the other way around to create Alternative texts for screen-reader users?
Why do you think the previous poster is right? I personally think they are being sort of silly.

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely think you should consider your tools, but I recently had to get a screw out of a bookcase. It was stuck in free air and was just going round and round, so I ended up using a hammer to push it in the right direction. This is far from the only time I’ve used my hammer for something it wasn’t intended for, and it got some new scratches on the side, but at the end of the day, the screw got out.

Which is important to remember here on HN, because this isn’t really a “programming community”, it is (or was perhaps) a platform for investors to sneak peak on interesting opportunities masked as social media for hackers. And the ”monstrosity” was launched after all, which is the most important aspect of any product.

Aside from that, I think it’s reasonable to assume that a lot of smaller and personal websites are used as learning experiences. So naturally a lot of them are going to be build “suboptimal” because the reason the tool was chosen was the tool itself.
Grid-level energy storage and the challenge of storing energy efficiently
Work for banks. Seriously, they have a lot of legacy systems and they expect their staff to be 50+ because they know that nobody young is interested in learning ML4.
The "if I had a penny" family of expressions dates back to a time when the monetary value of pennies was greater than the burden of carrying them around.
Even people who don't care much for cellular automata must respect Mathematica. So seeing that they plan to develop a lot of "open tools" is interesting. Even if nothing comes of the research itself, the tools they develop could be valuable.
x86 and even UNIX are mostly irrelevant for managed language server workloads, specially those using application servers.

I have been developing on Windows and deploying on whatever since two decades now.

The problem are the devices on people's desk running software bought several years ago with no reason for them to upgrade.
I'm not sure I understand... This seems typical, and perhaps somewhat simplified, for chemistry courses. ?
The joke is that the discoveries attributed to “Stephen Wolfram” are actually the work of multiple people, none of whom are actually named that.
https://kaapporaivio.fi

Just my personal website. I'd like to use this opportunity to get HN to stress test it :D
Would you be so kind to also share the raw data? (Especially the links that you've collected?)

Also it would be nice to also assess the following:

* how many require JavaScript to actually display something; (i.e. opening them without JavaScript yields an empty page, or just an "enable JS to work" message;)

* how many have an RSS feed;

* how many are readable in a console browser such as `lynx`;
I used Wolfram Alpha a lot while I was in college and liked it a lot. So I am surprised to see the hatred toward this man in the comments. Can anyone enlighten me why he is delusional and why he has lost it?
Apple has proven multiple times that they don't get servers.
That would depend heavily on the encoding used for your turning machine.
It's similar in the US. I'd note that even the crystal clear (highly recyclable) plastic you see does not contain the phthalates you're looking for. There was a fad in the early 00s for using polycarbonate water bottles that probably contained BPA, but those were then (rightfully) banned. You can't even use BPA or ortho-phthalates in children's toys since they very likely put them in their tiny mouths.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1367856/
Yeah the UHT milk tastes sweeter apparently.

I dont drink milk any more due to lactose intolerance, but only one time I noticed a real difference in milk taste, and that was when the milk very super-clearly to me tasted of almonds.
Oh man, another rant that boils down to "big evil corporations are KILLING open source software by not supporting it in the specific ways and in the specific amounts that I want."
https://hartenfeller.dev
Started as a test of how good I am at designing a whole website (I have no design background). Now it is mostly used as my blog.
So that’s why it’s called spanish rice!
Wow if you can “cheat” during an interview - meaning either that they’re asking trivial, google-able stuff or that they’re so bad at interviewing that they can’t tell if you actually know your stuff - then their hiring process is pretty bad.
Germany is richer (GDP) than France, 20% of its GDP comes from industry (10% in France), and its climate is colder.
> I guess if the money was enough to pay for reverse engineering and reimplementation of the fixes/features present...

Exactly.
I really like your wiki, well done!
That started like 500 years ago, in 1500s. At that time America was just about to be settled by Europeans. That makes tomatoes in Italy as authentic as Mexican cuisine. Whatever authentic means.
> As a native Scandinavian...

> As for Chinese, 1.5 years in, I can form sentences like a shy 1.5-year-old: Anything above 3 characters is probably grammatically incorrect, or "you could say that... but a native speaker wouldn't." Different paradigm altogether. But a Chinese can pick up decent Japanese in less time.

That's not a statement about how difficult it is to learn Japanese. It's a statement about your approach to learning Chinese.

Japanese is no more closely related to Chinese than Chinese is to Swedish.
Hey, I do really weird math for unspecified reasons.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/28da/6507acf40f892b95ee61a7...

Cellular Automata are, in essence, a type of mathematical function called a “Chaos Map”, aside from the cool name it’s also a WYSIWYG name, a chaos map is a mapping of how a fractal expands or changes across space time.

A great example very germane to this site is the Hacker Glider from Conway’s game of life.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(Conway%27s_Life)
The Glider is a pattern which we can observe within the game, and we can see that it represents a function related to the overall chaotic map of the game itself.
In English, Doc!
All the patterns the game can make are the chaos map. Studying the individual patterns shows both how they are created and interact with other patterns.
Here’s an overlapping example:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200318143635.h...

Within the Chaotic map of slime mold evolution, it’s the loner pattern which informs the other parts of the map.

Let’s bring it all together now.
By studying cellular automata, we can observe patterns which correspond to a chaotic map of those patterns. By looking at that, we are able to make deeper inferences about the overall total pattern by knowing that what we observe in a small scale will also exist at n+1 scale. Meaning, when we see the loner slime mold evolve the other parts, it’s reasonable to infer through scale that loner humans may also contribute evolutionary information. We can test that theory, and then either continue to investigate from a positive or negative delta.

The benefit of learning about and using CA isn’t that it’s abstract but rather it creates meaning from the raw chaos of life which we deal with every day.

Practically it can lead to better encryption like I linked above, superior understanding and prediction of weather, and for those who are able to view the patterns of the small as a whole: it can reveal truths which I would call mathematically spiritual.

Thanks for reading I hope I changed your mind!
https://l3m.in is my personal website (in french). Runs a """custom""" blog & projects list on an old Dell Optiplex fx160 next to my box, on my home.

Even if my home connection is still ADSL it should load fast since I optimized a lot of things (webp, no js, cache, fonts with only the chars I need for the titles...). It uses apache, php & mariadb.
I don't understand why people are still using FB / Google for important things.
https://igorstumberger.com

I'm a product designer who likes to dabble in code too :)
It was pretty clear early on from contact tracing, if not absolutely conclusive. I just assumed it was yet another "N95 masks don't do anything"... a lie of convenience because someone was feeling paternalistic and the truth would be disruptive.
I've seen HN do this once before. It took a post from a day ago and changed all the timestamps to be "current time minus a few minutes". It was this thread [1], specifically the first two comments in this subthread [2] had their timestamps faked. The third comment is from after it had been resurrected with the fake timestamps.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30510400

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30511216
thanks for sharing! Starting with values is so essential!

However I'd opt for the self-made static site generator and even more so annual partitions (for styling etc.), so that things can safely be heterogenous over time.
> 2. CDC (I believe) was claiming that N95 masks won't help as much as other masks. Later it turned out they just didn't want to create scarcity for N95 masks because hospitals need them.

The messaging IIRC was a little more nuanced, but delivered poorly

The US and other countries faced a mask shortage at the beginning of the pandemic. Masks don't provide absolute protection, but they do reduce viral load exposure (apologies if I got the terminology wrong here), which influences how bad the infection can become.

So, what you want is for the available masks to go to the people most likely to be exposed to high viral loads, i.e. health care workers.

The message the CDC and others attempted to get out was more or less 1. masks don't provide complete protection (which they don't), 2. they do reduce load exposure, so 3. please stop panic buying/hoarding masks until supply chain issues are worked out.

What people actually heard was 1. masks don't work (at completely preventing an infection), which many of them simplified to "masks don't work". It also didn't help that the US Surgeon General at the time went on television before getting his talking points figured out.
looks good, I would just make the blog's titles clickable.
How do cigarettes help with schizophrenia?
> We heard about 'sars outbreak in china' around xmas of 2019

That's impossible, unless you're saying after the new year still means around xmas. Taiwan discovered it on Dec. 31 2019 via a Wuhan news report about several cases held in isolation. They forwarded that info to the WHO. [1]

> At 6:30 a.m. on Dec. 31, Dr. Lo at Taiwan’s CDC woke to an alert on his phone.

> His colleagues in the media monitoring unit had detected social media posts about a pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan. The original posts in China were quickly removed, but screenshots had been reposted on PTT, a popular online forum in Taiwan. Some commenters feared a resurgence of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which had killed 774 people in 2002 and 2003, mostly in Asia.

https://time.com/5826025/taiwan-who-trump-coronavirus-covid1...
Germany has lots of good locations for wind, the problem is that anyone can block them, because "they don't like how they look, are noisy, too close to their home,..." and plety of other reasons.

Thus Germany could be like we have it back home in the Iberian Penisula, but no, many people are keeping the courts busy instead.
https://shivamrana.me/

Haven't been able to spend time on this. I want to improve the following 2 things first:

- Travel page: have those hover on the map and see where all I have travelled.

- Landing page: I want to change the landing page to a portfolio page where I have a stackoverflow type developer timeline thing.

Sadly, I don't have much experience in web technologies, so not sure how to even start with these things.
I was a PC Specialist when Windows 3.1 and WFW 3.11 came out. We had to convert from Wordperect for DOS, Lotus 123 for DOS, DBase for DOS, etc to MS-Office 4.3 Pro. 1-800-SOFTWARE gave us a discount on bulk MS-Office licenses. Everything copied and pasted between Windows. We had IBM OS/2 2.X holdouts on IBM PS/2 machines. We upgraded them with Kingston RAM and HD expansions and to WFW 3.11 and MS-Office 4.3 Pro. Everyone got a MS-Mouse as well. It was the dawn of Windows and the start of Microsoft dominance against OS/2 and Macintosh.
This, right here, is a piece of pure crystalline corrosive evil.
The author is on to something. I would put a different emphasis. I think higher level expertise tends to not map well to words at all. There are some people who develop an incredible pedagogy, but it is a tiny minority of experts.

Frankly, the convo with Herbie isn’t super informative. What they are talking about is necessarily vague.
Some examples for this hyperbole would be helpful. We aren't doing anything in particular to work around whatever deficiencies you're talking about. It just works.

Maybe our definition of a "small" shell script are different, but to me the following very useful features sounds like a monstrously complex shell script:

- Load balance builds over scores of distributed build servers

- Present a UI where I can glance over recent CI results.

- Expose REST api that my ETL pipeline can query.

- Let devs manually run integration tests against their branch without providing them ssh access
For me, the killer feature of Gitbook is something like « branched content? » (https://docs.gitbook.com/editing-content/editing-pages/chang...).

Retype without this type of feature is like many other documentation website generators.
https://blog.kulman.sk

My programming blog in English, statically generated with Hugo, run on Netlify. Source code: https://github.com/igorkulman/coding-journal

I also run a personal non-programming blog in Slovak at https://www.kulman.sk
But coronavirus specifically does not spread like cigarette smoke. It was one of the models that turned out to be wrong.

It is easy to focus on what scientists got wrong about the virus, but it's equally important to point out what was right. In retrospect, the early data about the nature of the virus itself was pretty spot on.

Modelling pandemics is really hard, even before this virus, and we've only gotten better. Coordinating a specific global response is even harder.
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I see you have `RE` articles! I love this idea (and in fact I use this myself)!

I think if someone has something to say about what someone else has written, then the best way to do so is by writing another document, linking to the original one, and then laying the remarks.

Not only does it help the original article in SEO ranking, but it also helps build the "decentralized web" that I hear being talked about, but this way without any block-chain-BS...
I strongly suspect there is an preference-oscillation in coding languages that is similar to the one found in broader culture between serif and sans-serif fonts. Can't fix on what it would be though?
Show HN: Strong Password Generator (in-browser and batch multiple passwords)
Therapeutic ultrasound modulates autonomic nerve pathways in diabetes
It is going to be fun to watch how Kotlin will manage their vision of the world on top of virtual threads.
Let me add one more big thing: With Blueprint, the engine team can check-in binaries into Perforce and the rest of the team can use those custom binaries and their custom APIs in Blueprint without ever having to touch a compiler.

Also: Blueprints reload instantly and are easy to debug.
Something to fix: I click on an article but there's no way to go back to the homepage.
I can’t deal with phones that physically big :( if pixels were the size of the mini I would have bought it.
There used to be a site called Stumble Upon that was Social Bookmarks and had a toolbar for Internet Explorer and Netscape. You added friends and hit the randomize button to visit a random site or the submit button to submit a site for your friends to visit. It went out of business because they had a bad business plan that didn't earn enough money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StumbleUpon
I really like the principles
The following is a site where I want to write random technical things:

https://entangledlogs.com/archives/
One line lambdas comes to mind.
I'm really bad at languages and struggle to learn new languages. Picking up new programming languages is not problem for me though.
That is misleading and misses most of the story. A large reason we have cheap global air travel is due to government intervention, research, and military development since the first World War. The U.S. (and other) governments have massively subsidized the development of the aerospace industry for decades and built/funded key infrastructure such as airports. "Rich guys playing with airplanes" is not how the complex system of air travel was created. Hell, the guys who invented airplanes weren't even rich.
Good catch, I did too until I read your comment. Thanks!
My mums incomplete thesis in the 70s required access to some letters and she had manuscript hand written notes from John Ruskin amongst others (iron and gall ink destroys paper. The words etch out black rimmed ghosts).

We returned them to the library after she died in the 90s. This happens without any conscious effort if you file by the volcano method and she had at least two part-time jobs on the go to her dying days, filled with academic paperwork. She had two studies overflowing with books, slides, notes, pictures. You literally had to climb over the piles.

The miracle was finding the letters frankly. They could easily have been mistaken for ephemera and destroyed.
Freax
Unfortunately, also in the “don't acknowledge” category are people who continue to trust out of momentum or loyalty, or who knows what else. Not acknowledging has some upside for the actor, while it remains harmful to the group.
https://strzibny.name

I hope to redesign it soon together with the blog. I mostly blog about things Ruby, Elixir, Linux.
I haven't, so I'll look it up.