skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humbert marries Dolores’s mother. After her mother’s death, Humbert travels to Dolores’s summer camp, takes her away, and rapes her in a hotel room. There is no seduction. There is no ambiguity about what happened. She is twelve years old, her mother has just died, and her stepfather has taken her far away from any friends or relatives and had sex with her.

This section of the book then concludes with one of the most chilling passages I have ever read in fiction:

“At the hotel we had separate rooms, but in the middle of the night she came sobbing into mine, and we made it up very gently. You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.”
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Even if it took 3 minutes to load it wouldn't matter because I plan to work on the project for days if not hours. OTOH, like you mentioned feature parity just puts VSCode in a different league altogether.

3 minutes(the imagined extreme scenario) pales in comparison the hours of time most people waste in meetings, or sipping coffee, or chatting with colleagues.

Just how much do you plan to achieve in 3 minutes?
I guess it would be fun then to drive around and issue duplicate votes for anyone who who has a sign in their yard that disagrees with me, thereby getting their vote thrown out.
I'm surprised you're unaware of this, it was pretty big news at the time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_United_States_Capitol_att...
The problem outlined in the article is that Google is paying to much... So buying it yourself is the entire point of the article. I don't know how it doesn't solve the problem.
I am guessing the math in the article is wrong and/or the insurance pays for is better than both of the barrel insurance the article suggests you get.
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There is no way to express an enum whose possible values are of different types.

In Go code will typically "offer" concrete types, and "accept" abstract interfaces. Abstractions over concrete types are expressed by consumers who want to operate on those types, rather than producers who provide implementations of them. So your Shape would probably end up an interface defined by whatever consuming code wanted to treat Circles and Rectangles equivalently.
Might have been down weighted...
https://www.patreon.com/bay12games
> As an aside, the whole "meta-verse" craze might pull these ideas through to the mainstream again.

I actually really agree with this hypothesis. People think the whole head mounted display thing is going to revolutionize interaction (and I do think eye contact will be a killer app)…

But I also think one of the biggest affects VR will have is to reset peoples’ expectations about 2D interfaces. I think once we get used to the idea that “data exists in space” it’ll trickle down into the 2D world and—50 years after it began was invented—we might see an alternative to WIMP.
> School was never meant to be "engaging".

If it aims to be effective at education, it should.

> It's not recreation, it's work.

That's very true of what a lot of schooling is, largely because it evolved from a model aimed at indoctrination of a compliant population rather than education. But, nominally at least, the goal of the modern system is not to be work as a means of indoctrinating people to work.

> The problem seems to be that we've lost the value of working hard and pushing through things we find dull and uninteresting

Or, maybe, the problem is that while it is easy to make material dull and uninteresting, that's far from optimal from an educational perspective.

> Real world success is not like that - it's work

Real world success is mostly been born on third base and constructing a narrative about the hard-work of hitting a triple.
> Let me introduce you to Kurt Saxon

> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tsxGX5F5SXg

Wow, he's going on an on about keeping mung beans in jars, then I skip ahead and he's making homemade fuses for bombs? Then I noticed he's missing half his fingers on his right hand. WTF.
As someone who’s done this before, it relies on tons of manual volunteer labor. You need around 0.75-1.25% of the population counting votes + the people running the polls.

The way French elections are run is insanely elegant though, it’s basically perfect from a security/transparency l POV.
Hold my beer.

Private Sub Workbook_SheetChange(ByVal Sh As Object, ByVal Target As Excel.Range)
Dim intRetval As Integer
' TODO maybe respect some of the properties on Assistant to let the user disable this
If InStr(Target.Formula, "VLOOKUP") = 0 Then
Exit Sub
End If
' TODO is one use really "excessive"?
Assistant.Visible = True
With Assistant.NewBalloon
' TODO I should probably do ".Mode = msoModeModeless" but I don't feel like writing a callback
.Text = "It looks like you're trying to implement a relational database in a spreadsheet."
.Labels(1).Text = "Get professional help"
.Labels(2).Text = "Just let me generate excessive technical debt without help"
.CheckBoxes(1).Text = "Don't show me this tip again"
.Button = msoButtonSetNone
.Animation = msoAnimationGetAttentionMinor
intRetval = .Show
' TODO make the user's choices actually do something
End With
End Sub

You'll need to load Office 97 or some other ancient version in a VM if you want to actually try this, since Microsoft finally killed off Clippit completely in Office 2007.
> (11) (a) Organizations and Conferences

> (1) Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.

> (2) Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences...

> (3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committees as large as possible—never less than five.

> (4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

> (5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.

> (6) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.

So what you're telling me is my coworkers are all saboteurs!
Then this is very obviously not the vehicle for you.
I hear this criticism a lot. Am I the only one who likes the LTSpice GUI?

Yeah, it's clunky at first, looks straight out of 1995, and you have to break out SPICE directives for features that really ought to have UI wrappers by now. But once you're used to using it and memorize the keyboard shortcuts it's a breeze. I can capture a schematic faster in LTSpice than in any other tool.

To put it another way, it's certainly less intuitive than most software, but it's an order of magnitude more intuitive than, say, Vim.
I’ve never once experienced the “face” of a game doing all the hiring, or even being involved in too many interviews (except for marketing purposes, of course, but I mean hiring interviews). It’s quite a full time and important job to do the PR.
"We trained a neural network to produce a finite state machine that will usually consume the string it's given"
Here’s hoping that app review enforces the Inclusion section. Once some religious app gets rejected for traditional depictions of families, that will be more fodder to get rid of Apple’s App Store monopoly.
> For anyone coming in a bit confused by this, the magic here is in the concept of "differentiable". I'm fairly frequently touting the benefits of thinking in terms of differentiable programming and the most common response is "what does that even mean?"

One way of looking at it is "differentiable is a specific mathematical claim from calculus, usually about equations or inequalities, that says that you can perform a specific operation to get a reduced variant." People in ML care about differentiability because many of our most important tools, such as gradient descent, require it as a characteristic.

Another way of looking at it is "this is not a useful product and with enough vocabulary people may not notice that"
That’s why marketing teams work hard to create that perception in the audience.
I love DF but its interface is not just different, it is definitely bad.

Worse than not following any conventions is that it is deeply inconsistent. It is inconsistent in how it presents the same information in different places, in how you navigate different seemingly similar menus, even in what key is used for the same action across menus.

For instance, searching in a list is done with q, S, or f depending on in which menu.
Looks identical?
You requested my thoughts here in a different comment :)

> The caveats were that 1 - you needed specialized research hardware that basically nobody had and 2 - people didn’t understand how revolutionary computers were.* Even in the late 80s the general consensus was that personal computers would be just used by specialists because “no executive can type, or would want to”

I agree with this completely. The teleconferencing, for example, required a big string of trucks with equipment to transmit the signal IIRC. An incredible tech demo but not even close to something that could be productized.

> Not because I’m jaded, but because nothing appears to have come back through a time machine any more. Perhaps because computing went mainstream and then the constraints appeared?

I think another way to frame this is that early computers offered a clear paradigm shift, the shift happened, and now everything on the near horizon is within that paradigm. This true even for some of the more exciting projects like Bret Victor's dynamicland (I'm not sure it will actually go anywhere, but I'm happy to see someone carrying the torch of the multimedia dreams that died in the 90s).

Personally, I think biotech has the best potential for the next "it's the future!" style revolution.
Its almost like living a particularly predatory version of capitalism wires people's brain differently.
The most popular FOSS spice simulator is NGSpice: http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/

None of these tools have changed much since the 90's - just like the EDA industry in general
It's extremely useful when used for its intended purpose - designing power supplies using Linear Technology components. Here's a design I did with it.[1] This is a little box for driving antique Teletype machines from a USB port. Those need a current loop running at 60mA constant current, up to 120VDC, driving an electromagnet with a 5H inductance. I wanted to generate that from the USB port's power, which required a moderately exotic switching power supply design.

The LTSpice simulation made it possible to get that right. Especially from a noise control perspective. Switching power supplies generate spikes, and so does turning off that electromagnet with its huge inductance. Those spikes have to be kept out of the USB port or its protection circuitry will shut it down. Spikes need to be suppressed in both the current and voltage dimensions. LTSpice lets you watch the switcher spikes, the electromagnet spikes, and the inrush current. When you add a few surface mount capacitors and ferrite beads in the right places, the spikes can be almost totally suppressed. It just took a few cheap parts. The simulator lets you find values that work.

The SPICE models for Linear Technology components match reality well. That's what LTSpice is really about - a good model library.

[1] https://github.com/John-Nagle/ttyloopdriver/tree/master/circ...
It's got great shortcut usage going for it -- which makes me think of vim/emacs and the learning curves therein.
Class of 2006 here :)
Until very recently, they couldn't even arrest you for rape on the reservation if you weren't a member of the tribe... only the FBI had jurisdiction and it often wasn't a big enough fish to fry for them to bother.

https://indianlaw.org/safewomen/law-was-meant-let-american-i...
> Because this is not a power granted to the federal government, it is reserved for the states.

If one agrees that this is true, that's not an answer to the question of why not do it; it does affect the mechanics—either a Constitutional Amendment (to do it federally) or a fifty-state compact (do it as a coordinated state-ID system for all state purposes, which is arguably closer to what was described) would be available mechanisms.

“The Constitution doesn't currently allow the federal government to do it” is not an answer to “why not do this in a centrally coordinated way”.
You'll have to enable "showdead" (the dropdown on your user page here https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kfrzcode ) before you can see it.

I am able to see the comment they are referencing.
Here’s the actual short story. It’s a quick read: https://physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf

This is one of the short stories that that has stuck with me for life. Highly recommend reading it.

Edit: I actually learned of the story from a HN submission years ago. It has been discussed here many times: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=the+last+question
I love Vim and DF but there is a big difference.

Both do things very differently, both are complex and require time to learn. The difference is in consistency.

Vim is mostly consistent and that's where its power comes from. Learning the underlying rules is an investment which allows you to intuit most of its functionality. DF is wildly inconsistent and a lot of its difficulty is in learning the quirks of its interface which offer only tedium and no advantages in themselves.
The fels is probably my favorite place. The shows were never long enough.
I don't even know how you think they are connected and your comment is bewildering.
Their comment was just to disambiguate, when necessary, the various dollars, rials, yens, pesos, etc. Not for the browser to do currency conversions.
I’ve always wondered that for hash table we always check that the key matches the target because of hash collision. Should the same be done here? For image hash matches, either run though an image similarity check or, if original image is not available (it’s so bad it can’t be stored), a secondary hash used to double check?
I don't think its realistic to expect a Windows developer to solve a problem in Excel!
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It's actually more like Akka, but integrated into the language instead of a library, though the transport is still abstracted and replaceable. Interestingly enough, Konrad (ktoso) is an ex Akka developer.
There's some recordings on YouTube as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojEq-tTjcc0
Most people don't want to do homework before they play a game. Super Mario Bros. is a game that was alien to many of the first people playing it, but people still played it without reading the manual because the game is intuitive at teaching you what to do.

A good video game teaches you what to do, it doesn't demand you learn yourself. Then it tests what you've learned through gameplay.
> It's such a selfish mentality

What kind of man would want their money taken from them to provide a gift to others?

There is a big difference between selfishness and self-respect.
> "Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later."

First time I see this
I just called, why didn't you pick up?
AWS costs every programmer should know (2019)
There's an audio book version available on YouTube https://youtu.be/ojEq-tTjcc0
Your terminal doesn't have a way to exit it?
1. Lead acid batteries need to be between -20C to +50C for charging or discharging.

2. Especially in hot climates, inverters in the UPS need to be kept cool.

3. I assume that by keeping the UPS & batteries inside the building, you minimize transmission loss/voltage drops so you don't have to oversize your conductors.
Novavax might have underfunded their lobbying department. /s

Any vaccine was great for the most at risk population but, as you stated, it's not a solution to covid; only a tool to mitigate its threat to the individual. I know a lot of people who didn't want any of the vaccines but they wanted the Novavax. I think quick approval would have pumped vaccination rates. And now, I don't think people will bother.
The question isn't really would you buy this truck only because it has the power features. It's would you pay a little extra for a truck that also has the power features. Personally, I doubt I'll buy an electric truck anytime soon, but if I were replacing my truck anyway, and it could also replace my portable generator, that'd be nice; my generator is only for my well, but I've got to run it for 30 minutes a month to keep it in order, it'd be a lot nicer if that was just included in my use.

OTOH, my current truck is a 2003 s-10 single cab; nobody makes small trucks like that anymore, and I don't want a big truck, so I'll just keep the truck and the generator that I already have. Maybe a future car that appeals to me will be able to power my well.
> I hate this converging of touch interfaces and desktop interfaces.

In 2022 the first experience with a computer is, for most people, a smartphone. It feels natural removing checkboxex for toggle buttons.

After all isn’t the web UI all about converging touch and non-touch (aka “desktop”)?
Women and the History of Samuel Pepys's Diary
I don't think low level system APIs when called from an App should be messing with UI components. Can you explain what is better about it?
I’m not terribly familiar with the game but I imagine half the frustration would be in the UI slowing down rather than the game speed. I’d imagine it would be much better if the UI and map still worked full speed but the game state slowed down and become almost turn based.
I disagree. In very simplified terms think of it from the perspective of a true believer in climate catastrophe. Either;

People you don't believe tell you there is nothing wrong - you would be more motivated to prove them wrong. OR

People you do believe tell you there's nothing you can do - you would be demoralized.
California has lots of close elections, even if it's aggregate of state level and federal elections don't tend to be close between the two major national parties.
Yes, although to the grand-parent it's not clear how guns would have "helped" had you wanted to leave.

I mean, who exactly would you shoot? And after shooting them how would the outcome improve?

If you go to the airport how do you find a plane big enough to take you somewhere? Or enough people to prepare it to fly? And when you get to where you are going, how do you avoid getting arrested?

Ditto a boat. And a boat to where exactly?

Having a gun would literally have made zero difference on anything. Oh, wait, you meant that enough gun owners would get together, and perform some coup-like action to replace the government? Sure. That seems likely to turn out really well.
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(Just a feedback for the project's tech writer) I always include a "What problem does this solve?" and screenshots in my docs. I think they help people understand a project better.

Here too, I understood Hop's purpose only after seeing the screenshots on secondary pages like https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/getting-started/hop-gui.... Abstract statements like "aims to facilitate all aspects of data and metadata orchestration" in the front page, or even in the "What is Hop?" doc, didn't help.
The issue happened a number of times to my partner. We have only ever used AirBnB in Australia, registered in Australia, and booked Australian properties. Why they would, in those cases, think defaulting to USD is acceptable is beyond me. It's not like it's a predominantly-US company; it has localized presence.
A common towing use case is a camper... with water tanks you can easily hit 5000-8000 lbs on a dual axle. It'd be super nice to be able to tow a camper 400miles then have energy left over to power it's lights / AC. We just don't have these power densities with battery-electric... and fuel cells still haven't landed.
In loud stage whisper: He's a 'libertarian'
Risk limiting audits as described in your link would only catch ballot miscountings. In this case fraudulent ballots were added to the system, so the RLA result would not show anything suspicious.
This joke keeps getting extended so much it will be "there are only 2 hard problems: [list of 15 things]" in a couple years
I don’t think that is smart
One of my neighbors said they have the nicest golf course he's ever played on.
>The fact computers have been so isolated from one another (even with internet apps) is a complete tragedy. Even sending large files is a pain in the butt to this day.

We don't have to really send anything anymore, I can just place a file in a shared location. I can even share an incredibly high resolution video on google by just making a link.

>Best we have now is web-browsers syncing data silos, or a one way "let this person control my mouse + keyboard".

I am now able to edit Excel documents and see people in the same file making updates live. I am not saying this is peak collaboration but I find it pretty impressive.

The meta-verse may have a chance (I'm pulling for it in some shape), but let's not act like we aren't making progress :)
> OSX is designed for a keyboard and mouse. iOS is designed for a finger.

That line has been becoming blurrier for years now. iPadOS supports keyboard and mouse inputs, and the UI is moving closer to replicating a desktop experience on every release. macOS has supported touch gestures for a long time, and the UI is moving closer to resembling a mobile experience.

It's not hard to imagine full convergence of both OSs and the devices that run them. As usual, Apple can claim to be the innovator in this change, even though competitors have been doing it, admittedly worse, much earlier.
they're similar but distinct

and that means there's probably a bunch more like them
Move to Germany.
First consider that almost all of Germany is close by. Germany is smaller than the state of California.
The support you get from her parents will far out weigh any career benefits.
Very few new projects use Zookeeper now. For older projects, most of them have no issue using Zookeeper, so it's simply not worth the time to rewrite them for etcd.
wow, that's a big selection. after all, it's just text, right? or am i selling it short? I understand when Adobe notifies that the clipboard is large since it's rasterized (typically) image data. what in the world is in the buffer for Excel that size is pushing limts?
To expand on these themes, you may be interested in reading up on these & related topics:

Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%E2%80%93Jacobi%E2%80%...

Pontryagin maximum principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontryagin%27s_maximum_princip...
Yes this is what people miss. When you know the keys it’s a very efficient UI. You have to learn it and it’s not immediately accessible
I’m a big Arthur C Clarke fan, and because his future imagined maybe 80s computers flying in (hopefully) 2100s rockets.

SpaceX is the company I look at as clawing the future back to us piece by piece.