skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doh! I forget to include the URL when I submitted the entry. Apologies!

The link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/800060.801172

The full paper can be downloaded as a PDF or viewed online from the link above.

A partial summary of the paper:

- How can documentation be "user-friendly" to many different types of users: from very sophisticated programmers to brand new computer users?

- How useful are things like: reference cards, illustrations, extensive examples, sample sessions?

These are some of the questions in this short paper about (printed) documentation from Microsoft.

A focus group of thirty-four participants with varying computer experience were recruited to provide feedback on documentation on word processing, spreadsheets, database management systems, and programming language products.

Tutorials

- Everyone (including the programmers) want tutorials that show how to use the product or programming language.

- End-users also want tutorials for completing specific or common tasks.

Illustrations

- The programmers are mostly indifferent to pictures. End-users, however, want illustrations, especially program screenshots.

Reference

- Everyone agrees they want a "phone book" i.e. a book that tells everything about the product, including "tricks" and shortcuts.

- The programmers emphasise that any examples, especially sections of sample code, must include annotations to be useful.

Cookbook

- The cookbook includes models for solving many types of problems and for performing many types of tasks. (Interesting to note: in 1984 the term "cookbook" was a new, unfamiliar term in the context of documentation.)

- The "cookbook" potentially bridges the gap between tutorial and reference manual.

In conclusion, ideal documention looks like:

1. Tutorial

2. Cookbook

3. Reference

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There is a lot more in the paper not included in the summary above. It's an excellent, readable paper. And it hasn't aged much despite being written in 1984.

Finally, the title of the paper "Those Silly Bastards" is a quote from a programmer who participated in the research. The full quote is included at the very end of the paper :-)
Go fix your own country first before pointing at others.
This is a flashback to some memories I had completely forgotten about. I remember getting into the 'super admin' backend of AOL back in the day. That was so much fun.
As even RBG realized, Roe is not built on the best doctrinal foundations. Read Reva Siegel on her preferred path.
Say what you will, but an IE webview loads instantly and uses 3MB of RAM.
I can't say it's a cure all, but for me, hydration was key to avoiding migraines in my 20s-30s. Not just "drink until satisfied", but 1L by noon or a headache by 3-4pm. Losing weight helped reduce this, but still, hydration is a factor in 90% of my headaches.
Just for the records. I have added mine, which is written mainly in Brazilian Portuguese and has low tech content that derives from my day to day observations of this crazy world.
Can the UK supply anti-ship missiles to Ukraine?
> 1. Download the DuckDuckGo mobile app (or update to the latest version)

> 2. Open Settings > DuckDuckGo for Desktop (in the Privacy section).

This doesn’t seem to exist? Just installed on iOS.
Mobile app is the big one. iMessage too. Texts iMessage solution is wanting. It requires leaving messages open on the computer you have it installed on. Might be Mac only.

Texts was too buggy for me to keep using. I still think it has potential though.
You could always put them in plastic bins with desiccant packs inside. Won't look too good on your bookshelf, though. But neither does a Kindle.
Don't want to speak for OP beyond that, but you can read the people critical of / in favor of the decision and try and understand their POV.
The good old days where I meant a bunch of aspiring developers in the PC Dev chat.
Agreed. It really takes me back to the old days of the Internet, with fun little easter eggs like this!
Yes, it told me it has been added already. Thanks.
In my opinion, the main issues with bad faith versus good faith communication is that the later is only used within what speakers consider their tribe.

Tribalism (and thus trust) is the deeper issue, and is unfortunately deeply rooted in human nature.

I think that the problems arising with tribalism can be seen as a drawback to diversity.
Completely disagree. Doing three finger swipe x times is just as fast if not faster than keyboard shortcuts that require you hunt down the window you're looking for.
Why? Do you feel humans should be born with a natural instinct for Mediterranean architecture, much as they are for the supremacy of iterative software development?
It's in version 7.66.2.1 (or later). We've pushed it live so it should get to you soon (if not already) if you go into the App Store.
You are contradicting yourself. A self-driving tractor that requires an operator is not fully self-driving.
I'm willing to call the Shanghai lock-down ridiculous, because it seems to be doing quite a lot of harm and doesn't serve any kind of realistic end goal.

But I am worried about the effectiveness of their vaccines and the rate at which the disease will eventually spread.
become a producer of tangible goods that people need to live.

get skills that most people dont have, but need.

buy productive assets
Show HN: A library to build Solid decentralized applications in PHP
No, it isn't. It's far more similar to Ubuntu LTS than to regular Ubuntu releases. All it is is an LTS distro without explicit .Y or .Y.Z releases

CentOS Stream is no more than "roughly what RHEL will look like when the next maintenance release comes out 0-to-6 months from now". That is not remotely true of the regular Ubuntu releases.

Regular Ubuntu releases (like 20.10, 21.04) have no compatibility guarantees with each other or with Ubuntu LTS. They have major version upgrades for kernel, systemd, glibc and other major packages, they change APIs, they change ABIs, etc.

CentOS Stream, like RHEL and Ubuntu LTS, does not do this, because it's the upstream for RHEL X.Y+1, and RHEL X.Y+1 is intended to be ABI-identical and functionally compatible with RHEL X.Y. Therefore nothing lands in CentOS Stream which would break the stability promises of RHEL maintenance updates, at least not intentionally.

The stability promises are the exact same. The part that caused so much frustration in the community was not this, it was that CentOS is no longer attempting to be "bug-for-bug compatible" with RHEL. And that is because instead of bugfixes going through QA and then landing on an internal nightly RHEL tree, instead they go through the exact same QA processes and then land in a public CentOS Stream tree.

So CentOS Stream gets bugfixes (except for embargo-d security patches) and the occasional feature prior to RHEL, but the QA is the same, and the stability promises are the same.

> See "Q: Why was CentOS Stream created?"

This does not say anything which backs up the statement you made.

Full disclosure: I work for Red Hat
I dislike electron apps a ton. But if an app is going to take over for a bunch of messaging apps, many that have bloated apps themselves, I don’t see it as a major problem.
The Lewis and Clark expedition is a topic that I find fascinating but because Lewis and Clark and everyone involved seem a bit enigmatic as people they don't seem to get the historical movies, mini series and etc you might expect.

The fact that they spent nearly 3 years traveling in the wilderness so far from the civilization they knew / into a fair amount of unknown is fascinating to me. Something you can't really do anymore.

Their reliance on laxatives is fairly amusing / interesting. Granted, would maybe not include that in a movie...
WEMOS D1 Mini Pro

I bought 50 from AliExpress a few years back for a couple bucks each.
Iain Softley, a Brit who had worked for the BBC, did music videos before directing feature films. One of his first films was a biopic of the early days of the Beatles. He filmed his movie largely in Buckinghamshire, but also all over New York and into New Jersey. That included a location of Stuyvesant High, which is the high school of certain members of MOD.

Rafael Moreau is the son of an architect and a painter, nephew to a CIA asset, rodeo rider, and film student under none other than David Mamet. He actually came under FBI surveillance after writing the script for Hackers.

There were production groups in the US and the UK. One of the location unit directors had worked on Hair, Desperately Seeking Susan, and Ragtime. There were multiple consultants including Goldstein, Mitnick, Dave Buchwald (who is also an art photographer), and the one credited as "hacking consultant" is Omar Wasow, PhD in African American Studies from Harvard.

The graphics portrayed in the film and the representation of the mainframe are meant to be unrealistic and represent the characters' thoughts and feelings about the data and events, not to be examples of real-life things. People often pick at that part of the movie after accepting the intro with the circuit board city, the spinning phone booths when the phone are clearly in a bank along one wall, and a lot of other inconsistencies with real life.

The whole vision for the movie from Moreau and Softley was a highly stylized, visually interesting version of the subculture. Softley added the rollerblading specifically so the movie would have more motion and a little less sitting at terminals. I don't think we can expect it to be anything other than an artistic representation of eclectic, bright styles.
A tiny Docker image to serve static websites
"First, it’s important to note that Enzymit’s use of cloud computing mainly entailed computationally intensive calculations for protein design"

So they got a very specific workload that is easy to run on any infra including on-prem.
Looking at the pictures I can’t tell what’s exactly wrong with those buildings.
Oh that's good to know, thanks!
>"Life is always right;it's the architect that is wrong" -Le Corbusier

Well, he was 100% the opposite of that in pracrice. Forcing the architect's will.
Can you talk more about the moon data munging?

I just started some Blender tutorials and the first thing I want to try once I get some tutorials under my belt import dats from the Moon/Mars.
This is a weird comment. "Expected" doesn't mean it's good. It was expected because March already happened and forecasters had a pretty good idea of what the retrospective measure would be based on their own measurements.
The fact that Obama/Biden worked with Republicans to lift the ban on crude oil exports in 2015 is a major factor in the rise of gasoline and diesel prices, along with the closure of several major domestic refineries since then.

Additionally, there's the push to expand LNG exports to Europe.

Both of these are major factors in the price rise. I personally don't really care about this as I don't own a car, and this will push new buyers towards EVs, but the media silence on this is kind of instructive - corporate media is owned by the same investors profiting off the high energy prices, so there's no incentive for honest reporting, not if you want to keep your media job anyway.
The internet took decades to evolve and was heavily funded early on by government. It only became low hanging fruit once it achieved a high level of maturity -- largely until the WWW had a graphical browser.
pretty offtopic but i gave up on waiting for Pi to be open for anything more than business. their shady history of pushing microsoft repos (and crypto keys) without my consent in their Raspbian OS was the last straw.

for those who arent amicable with such a 'charitable' definition of open, pine64 has existed for quite some time. the rock platform easily handles my docker workloads.

https://www.pine64.org/rockpro64/
I agree with the author, to the point of stomp holler and cheer for having said it so well. Unfortunately I don't think even this brilliant articulation of the point will help when there's a bunch of people who seem to honestly disagree that "collective guilt is wrong."
"if you don't include food, energy, housing, or healthcare prices, inflation isn't that bad!"
> I guess we're using the word replication differently. You seem to be using it to mean a general re-review and re-analysis of everything - basically a funded more aggressive peer review followed by an actual re-running of the study sometimes, if it makes sense, whereas I'm using it to just mean re-running the study exactly as originally described to check the results are the same.

Yes, I think that this is the crux of the matter here, and I agree that merely funding direct, vanilla replication is not the optimal solution here and would not solve many of the problems we're facing. I'm really talking about the idea from the thread I linked in my original comment--the idea of "red teams" for science. There's probably a number of ways to accomplish this, and direct replication could play a role, but I imagine that a funding agency tasked with funding red teams for other government-funded research would lean towards a more diverse and holistic toolkit. You'd certainly need to have some mechanisms for "watching the watchers," but again, very few researchers I've met are stupid, many of them actually care pretty deeply about ethics and scientific integrity, and would probably jump at the chance for a steady paycheck while helping to advance that.

> Science has no formal mechanisms to detect made up or fraudulent data sets, which is a real problem [...]

This isn't strictly true (I'd like encourage people not to use "Science" as a proper noun; I think it's actually a bit unhelpful). I think a common approach to performing research using the scientific method often (almost always?) involves using observation across multiple instances, then using statistics to draw a generalized conclusions based on the group of observations. And statistics does have formal methods for identifying potentially fraudulent datasets, some of which a Dr. Hilgard does a great job of explaining in an actual case of research fraud he found in this article[1].

[1] https://crystalprisonzone.blogspot.com/2021/01/i-tried-to-re...
I'm joining a protein folding AI startup next month. I think it's awesome. Being on the cutting edge of our civilisation.
I don't agree with certain important points of this article. It is rooted in what seems to be the following unwritten tenets:

1. There is no truth; everything is relative. Therefore anyone who becomes convinced of anything (even if rationally so!) and remains in a debate is a bad actor.

2. People who disagree can continue to debate forever, forever doubting their own positions and maintaining a willingness to change to the other side. The debate is just a game; there are no consequences as to who is right or wrong, therefore anyone who believes they have "skin in the game" is like a child who gets carried away with a game.

3. Because the truth is relative, and debates are just a game with no consequences, whenever some claim of truth is used to establish guidelines regarding behavior claimed to be harmful to the world, that is just an unproven suggestion: those who are not convinced of the debate should be free to carry on as they wish. The slightest coercion in this constitutes totalitarianism more befitting of North Korea than a constitutional democracy.

Note how many of the examples of the "Common Strategies of Bad Faith Communication", those that are not about general poor debating tactics anyone uses, are drawn from the behavior of some of those whose belief is based on rational information, e.g. from science. The list is not balanced by mentioning the specific strategies of other side: such as

- the willingness to reject a mountain of evidence (e.g. as "fake") against one's view in order to cling to a teaspoon supporting one's view.

- making up statements and believing in them

- referring to irrelevant authorities.

- general disdain for learning and intellect.

This article is a manifesto for those who want to be forever doubting facts, and forever to be treated with silk gloves, forever to be implored to think, forever to require extraordinary effort on the part of others to find ways to convince. And most importantly: forever to be excused from following any inconvenient rules for avoiding harm, out of the utmost respect for one's non-acceptance of an argument.

"Rules are based in truth. Truth is relative, therefore, the rules have no validity; I will conform to them if you find a way to convince me you're right (which is unlikely to ever happen) but please always behave toward me without a hint of contempt while you choose to engage me. An acceptable 'end game' of a debate is that we 'agree to disagree' with the utmost debating respect, and go our separate ways without changing any behavior that is contingent on the content of the debate."

Also, I would add the following as a genuine bad-faith strategy in online debating:

Posting key arguments not as plain text, but images of text from which excerpts cannot be easily quoted without retyping or OCR tools.*
You do realize that most charities sell some things, right?
Assumes GDP is a good measure without this hypothetical
I see this opinion everywhere: “Tech and tech culture is awful now.”

It’s not, it has the same problems that it did before, possibly fewer because effort has been put into acknowledging and correcting them.

Things today are objectively better than what came before. The difference is PR. It’s no longer “cool” to report on technology. It’s cool for people with little to no background in technology to trash technology for the amusement of other, similarly uninitiated, people.

The current anti-tech media trend started with the show Silicon Valley [0]. It exposed some tech non-sense to non-tech people and gave them effective tools to make fun of the nerds they didn’t like anyway. Instead of generating empathy or sympathy for the good people stuck in or trying to change those systems, it made it ok to paint every person working in tech with the same brush you’d reserve for its worst actors.

It’s like Blockchain and NFTs. All the sudden people started getting up riled up about them. But, when you ask them how they feel about the dark implications of HTTP they don’t have much of an opinion. An opinion hasn’t been given to them. You can usually swap out Blockchain for HTTP and their arguments would still make perfects sense.. But then, who’d listen?

It’s hard to become a competent workaday programmer. The people who know how to program are able to generate and accumulate wealth at a rate unattainable by most non-programmers. With the fabric of our society wearing thinner and thinner the gulf between an engineer at DoorDash and a delivery person contracted by DoorDash is widening. There’s something inherently unfair about what’s happening today. We can all feel it. But, the answer isn’t to burn everything down and start over with a NEW ANTI-CAPITALIST UTOPIA. It’s to correct course.

I’ve worked with anti-capitalist people in media. The way they treat each other is shocking, only slightly better than the way they treat everyone else. Instead of seeing laws, corporations, and technology, as how people interact and engage with one another, they see evils that they refuse to master. Instead of empowering themselves by understanding the systems of the world and making them accessible to others, they’ve decided that it’s easier, and more profitable in the short-term, to rail against these inherent evils and their practitioners. They’ve concluded that the system is corrupt, the board needs to be flipped, and anything short of that is heresy.

Hating on tech and tech people is something that the cool kids do now. I’d wager that you feel the way you do in part because you’re being bombarded with messaging about the evils of technology as stand-ins for almost every problem the world is facing. Sometimes the criticism is nuanced and thoughtful. It’s usually not.

[0]: Which is fantastic.
I realized some time ago when I learned of Aphantasia that it is a spectrum. From 0 to 10, 10 being perfect photographic memory and zero being total Aphantasia, I feel like I'm somewhere in the middle. I can recall images, sounds, memes, faces, but in terrible quality, with very little color or focus, more similar to fast paced dreams than photographs.
Lots of people want it to be true. I feel for those who can't admit how far they've fallen behind due to social disconnection or not being able to trade ideas with colleagues. I wish there were more solid studies done. Many use self-estimated productivity. Some seem to simply be pro-remote work, i.e have that as an agenda. That's fine as an interest of course but doesn't answer the question in terms of forcing everyone, for those it's not a good fit.

My workplace is post-remote now. We're back to fulltime in the office. I'm super happy for all the random interaction, problem solving together and coffee breaks. The social interaction enables us to work better in the team.

The best policy was not the topic of the comment but it's probably to let those who want and like remote work to do it.
> Go fix your own country first before pointing at others.

I'm sure the Uyghurs would appreciate that.

Should the US have followed your advice during WWII? After all, slavery was quite a sin that hasn't yet been fully atoned for, and even less so in the 40s.
Thanks for hijacking my scrolling. I really don't like having a consistent experience across pages.
congratulations?
Aka, the largely ignored 10th Ammendment.
Wasn't Volker nominated by Carter? And based on the premise that Volker would be doing what Volker did? Does Reagan deserve the praise there? Only mentioning because the Volker nomination was such a good move that I want to make sure the right person gets credit.
It looks like, per https://github.com/librerpi/lk-overlay#what-features-work , yes you can boot to Linux on a Pi 2 with composite video and ... it doesn't use the word headless anywhere, but I'd be very surprised if you can't just omit video outputs completely.

EDIT: Actually, reading more carefully it looks like there might be more than one blob and it's not 100% clear to me which this replaces, so now I'm less sure that you can boot without any proprietary blobs. I'm not sure that you can't, but I can't tell.
I mean, I'm probably less productive. But I'd still take it. I think my effective work hours have halved, but my effective productivity has dropped maybe 10-20%, as I've basically become far more aggressive about doing what matters and not the other bullshit that is maybe 'productive', but has no real value (i.e., write only documentation, synchronous communication sessions over things that don't really matter such as the exact wording of some bit of high level guidance, etc).

So my -efficiency- is higher. Total work productivity, sure, taken a hit.
TL;DR: Mercury Chloride was sold as a powerful laxative referred to as "thunder clappers" which enabled the Lewis and Clark expedition could manage on a meat-heavy diet and the occasional syphilis. Last paragraph sums it up nicely:

So as Lewis and Clark’s men made their way across the continent and across Oregon, they were unknowingly depositing a trail of heavy metals along the way – a trail that historians and scientists have been able to detect and use to document almost their every movement, so to speak.