skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I remember Minix in particular being so fast on my old 386sx. If I would run something that output a lot it would come through so fast there was hardly any scrolling. It was like it just output the last page only. But everything was in the output buffer so this wasn't the case. I've never seen another OS so fast even with a terminal emulator known for speed like kitty.

I didn't have time to read the article yet but I assume those DOS era display cards were just hella optimised for text output.
I agree with this thesis. Democracy is indeed, incompatible with freedom. Most of the human rights and freedoms we perceive to be essential today, only appeared because in the times when they were invented (late 18th century), technology and social structure ensured that only elites could use them (so "universal"-ness of these rights was a lie), or no one at all could use them for harm.

When technology changed, we could see these liberties as harmful.

Freedom to own and bear arms was OK in the times of muskets, they were too slow to reload to try a school shooting. Freedom of speech was OK when it was about freedom to print and distribute a pamphlet (which meant having cash, connection, and rare level of education = belonging to the elite).

Now we have to either scrap democracy (resort to the kind of Putinism where police state ensures that there are no school shootings, and opinions of people do not matter thus making freedom of speech harmless), or scrap freedom, like in the Western Europe where the acceptable corridor of opinions and behaviour for expressing themselves without becoming outcasts is so narrow that no sort of public activity not sanctioned by the government appears possible.

Or more likely, what's going on already will just get stronger: switch to a two-tiered world where will be large nations comprised mainly of brainwashed serfs, and smaller rich nations where elites will still enjoy all rights and freedoms - harmless because they are elites, and sustainable because they are fed by money plundered from the aforementioned large nations.
Ask HN: How to learn mathematical proofs from scratch?
Where can I find an exceedingly gentle introduction to writing proofs? My math education is limited to non-AP high school classes many years ago. I’m now trying to relearn what I’ve forgotten (and then go beyond that) so I would like to grasp the underlying principles rather than only doing rote exercises to memorize techniques for getting answers without deeply understanding what’s behind those techniques. But I need to start with really, really simple proofs that explain the very basic techniques. For example, I know things like (a^b)^c = a^bc, and that I can solve for x in x/a = b/c by cross multiplying so that xc = ab, but I can’t prove either of those things. How do I learn to develop their formal proofs? Any of the texts I’ve seen so far are much too advanced for me.
Fun fact: Ukrainian anarchist general Nestor Makhno is credited with the invention of the technical during the Russian Civil War, in the form of a machine gun mounted on a horse-drawn wagon.
The text resonates with me but there isn't much practical advice.
What should I do as a normal developer working on normal business products? I try not to do obviously slow and stupid stuff but it is not the main focus.

It does mention it but just to reiterate: The business value of getting things out is larger than getting things right most of the time.

The architecture are bloated micro-services, the infrastructure is overcomplicated, the response times are order of magnitude longer than they ought to be.

But there is no time to care. The next shiny feature or integration or whole business case is waiting to be implemented and shipped. We cannot afford to spend time on improving things people don't complain about over things that bring more money.

I guess that is where the disenchantment part comes in. Most companies are not in business of engineering stuff well if that is not what makes them money.
In both nursing and teaching I wonder where people will go, assuming they can't afford to take a big drop in income. I looked at that 90% and am very doubtful many will follow through.
Heh, Google adding ad blockers.... I think you might be on the wrong timeline.
"Hackernews member could do the same thing with only 5 people"
> Sending unsolicited pull requests to people that clearly told you to open an issue first is disrespectful.

You do you. I do not think it is, and so far nobody has made an issue out of it.

> It appears you just assume that because pull requests cannot be disabled on GitHub.

It’s more that people that make a public repo on Github and expect no pull requests on even mildly popular software are living in fairyland. Don’t make a repo on Github when you know PR’s can’t be disabled. Or I dunno, install a bot that automatically rejects everything.
> If you embed a font hosted somewhere else you expose some of your user data to them. Now with fonts there's a really simple solution: Just don't. As an added bonus, hosting fonts on your own server is faster as it goes through the same HTTP connection.

I never quite understood the debate around fonts. You could use the CSS/Link import that Google provides, but that's never the optimal solution. Like you I always download the fonts and use them directly via @font-face.

The only advantage I see to using Google Fonts / some privacy respecting font service like this one, is when you are first prototyping an app and want to either test fonts, or want to move quickly and not worry about setting up fonts properly. We also used in a places like Storybook where having correctly set fonts is not as important.

But even if you did use it in prototyping, it's best practice to pull down those fonts and store them locally before going to production (at least in my mind).

Am I missing something?
I tried improving my reading speed and I succeeded. But it’s a shallow metric because I found that my retention 1 and 6 months later was poor.

I realised retention is what I actually care about and slowed down instead. I read slower now, take notes, review the notes when I’m done reading. I end up reading less but I retain more.
That's a really great idea! If we train our kids from a young enough age to not notice the incoherence in content generated by systems like DALL-E they will probably never learn to notice it. Then, when they're adults, they won't mind it! And we can all pretend it's not even there!

(e.g. why does the little girl keep changing hair, face, clothes, age, ....)
Good one. Unionize everywhere against these no-soul, filthy rich and corrupt mega corps.
People on HN are not idiots. Users, in a broad sense, are. There are people searching for wordle in the app store for Christ's sake.
That is because there is actually audience willing to pay for the quality content. We really should solve how to pay for content problem. Subscription is not cutting it, but per article seems to be abandoned. Add driven drives everything to crap.

Couple of years ago I was joking that Jezebel and EverydayFeminism dies because NYTimes became them with better spellcheck. Unfortunately not a joke anymore.
> Patreon is a CRUD app and something you could build in a few months and consider it done if you wanted to.

Yeah. EVERYBODY says that for EVERY single app or service that is posted on Hackernews. They could do it with even less people and funding. Yet, there doesn't seem to be anyone who actually did any such thing in a few months with 4-5 people.

Apparently, real world works differently.
Pretty much all Seattle centered except maybe Geekwire that’s a bit broader. If you live in Capitol Hill, then CHS blog is by far the one I’d recommend the most
You're the one who moved the goalposts to "forcing". The GP comment said "States are passing laws to arm teachers". Nobody needs to be "forced" to take up arms for "arming teachers" to be an accurate characterization of what lots of states are doing. And besides, my point was just how easy it is to find lots of examples, here's Texas [1], here's [2] an article from 2019 where lawmakers in 6 states (Florida, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Texas) were also trying to allow it. And I literally haven't even left the first page of google results for "arm the teachers". Lots of people would rather have teachers stepping right into the line of fire rather than address the root cause.

> Boy you must be fun at parties.

Not really, but "you're no fun" is hardly a rebuttal.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/05/25/harden-s...

[2] https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/lawma...
If your on HN you're already in a very filtered group that is less likely to be passive on abusive technology.
> It seems to be written for an audience which doesn’t know the first thing about science.

I don't think it's limited to being a for issue. The by and source (i.e., publisher / editor) as have an impact on quality.
Sadly this sort of thing happens a lot in the US. You can even see shades of it in HN threads about cycling - there seems to be an unreasonable level of anger and resentment toward people who choose to bike. Another thing you see in certain parts of the country is "coal rolling", which I had never even heard of (much less experienced) until I cycled through the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal It's really astounding how far out of their way some people will go to try to annoy or harass those who made a different lifestyle choice. Best thing I figured to do was ignore it. Fortunately the majority of drivers aren't this petty or antagonistic.
Well, it's slower. Who cares all that much?

But now it's higher-resolution, while being usable across a very wide variety of hardware, as long as the hardware supports some very simple frame buffer protocol. This is quite useful, because hardware became much more varied.
agree with your article entirely. the dragonfly benchmark seems far too artificial to be true and used in practice (given the expensive hardware). my tests were on a relatively cheaper box, and Skytable topped all the other systems.
Disneyland is the same square footage of all the parking at Apple Park
I think this is nature's risk management mechanism at play. I believe nature has put a mechanism in our heads, which prevents the easy spread of global threats to humanity by dividing us (the society) to different subgroups. This division acts as a barrier for the contagion effects of different threats or at least slows them down significantly.

Let's take for example the current Crypto sale. People who invested in crypto are losing money, but fortunately nature created other individuals, who think crypto is a scam and they've never put their money on the table. They are safe compared the their peers.
An example, where this mechanism has been compromised by humanity is the civil aviation and the COVID spread. If we didn't have a sophisticated and integrated civil aviation industry COVID would have had a hard time spreading around the globe so fast. 100 years earlier and the virus would have needed many more months to spread.

So, I think nature deliberately (or evolutionary) put a mechanism in our heads, where we try to protect our own group and harm the outsiders. This reinforces nature's risk management.
I would de-emphasize the formatted preview, locate it further from the input field and use smaller font for instance.

Computer input was never intended to have commas.

Recent Microsoft Calculator versions that display (and copy/paste!) the commas are a ridiculous failure compared to the original approach.

The best fonts are those where there can no confusion between 1, I, & l or O, o, & 0.

If you make it big enough for someone with poor vision to be able to see without their glasses, there will be fewer mistakes too.

Also for consistency make all big numbers throughout your site text comma-free to serve as something of an example.
Except they don't collect, process and pay international tax like EU VAT. Or California sales tax etc. You have to correctly collect it and file it one by one.

So Ghost is not a creator platform. Its a payment platform.
I created a tool that helps people read faster on screen. [1] Although it started out as just a fun idea, it’s now been licensed by companies like Blackboard and has won awards from MIT Solve and the United Nations Foundation. It is especially helpful for people who read slowly, but it was originally created to help all types of readers (and was actually one of the most popular Show HNs back when I launched). [2]

There are browser plugins and mobile apps, and we’ll soon be integrated by a digital ebook platform.

1: http://www.beelinereader.com

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6335784
In otherwords, water is wet. It's very easy to see that tribal behavior is hardwired into the brain. One just has to look at history and current events to see that.

I own a sports motorcycle. One of the first things you learn at the track is that your initial instincts in certain situations are wrong because physics says so. During the course you learn to remold or even completely change your instincts.

I've often wondered what we could accomplish as a species if we could just overcome some of these hardwired / knee-jerk instincts.

We have amazing technology and could do so much more, but we're still stuck with the parts of our brain that are millions of years old.
> I don't understand the problem with filing an Issue to correspond to the PR

I positively detest pointless bureaucracy?

I can live with it when someone is paying me 200k/year for it. Not when I’m trying to give my work away for free.

I’m honestly a bit surprised about how strongly I feel about this.
I have a question about system fonts. Whenever I declare system fonts I always use: `serif`, `sans-serif`, or `monospaced` rather than the actual fonts like:

```

font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, avenir next, avenir, segoe ui, helvetica neue, helvetica, Cantarell, Ubuntu, roboto, noto, arial, sans-serif;

```

Am I doing it wrong by declaring it just like `font-family: sans-serif`?
How do you ensure a continuity of the main characters with a DALL-E generated comic? The example here doesn't seem to do this well. There characters are different in each frame
Do people still seriously download fonts? I turn that crap off.
So in effect they found the biological basis for hate?

> But why do people show such a ready tendency to harm people in opposing groups?

A new study led by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University has used functional brain imaging technology to reveal a potential answer: It increases activity in the brain’s reward network.

I think the underlying assumption here is already worth thinking about: That interpersonal and societal behaviour might be a lot more driven by instincts than we'd like to believe - and that in particular the tendency of people to structure the social landscape into "us" and "them" groups might be biologically hardwired.

The other thing I believe would be useful to study at some time would be if there is some innate biological mechanism for sadistic behaviour, which in effect "flips the sign on the reward function" when we consider an action in particular contexts - so doing harm suddenly feels good and doing good feels bad. At least, that would explain to me, why in so many situations where a person has the power to make rules that others have to follow, the rules seem to skew towards being unpleasant, even if they wouldn't have to be rationally.
I second this -- fantastic book, and cheap too

I received it as a gift from a coworker and it was a delightful read. It was so inspiring that it made me consider seeking more meaningful work though
This is an arrogant and toxic saying. Let's not repeat it let alone add to it please.
Solid growth, unit economics, and cashflow doesn't always imply low risk, so debt financing is not necessarily optimal.

For example, the company has been growing 2x per year for the last few years and there's a good chance this will continue for the next several years. But only if the company invests a massive sum of money with a substantial risk.
Oh boy, your second-hand experience with teachers 20 years ago is very different than what teachers experience today. My wife just resigned after 8 years of teaching. The first thing people always say when you talk about teaching being difficult with little pay is oh they get two months a year off to lounge around and do whatever they want. You want to know what single sentence will trigger a teacher immediately? That one. Teachers are still required to plan and get ready for the next school year over the summer and then they go back a couple weeks earlier than students so it ends up not being as good as it sounds.

Most teachers have extremely high anxiety and are stressed to the max. Neverending paperwork, admin that won't help, and parents that don't care and/or are extremely overbearing. It's a grind and it really takes a special kind of person to do that job yet we pay them so little.
Not that it particularly matters but both "house" and "work" appear to be isolated villa's in the country somewhere (definitely not in Sweden) probably in central Italy (from the trees and general landscape I would venture to say Tuscany/Umbria/Lazio).

I mean, the flight video is nice, but this "commute" seems to me very unlike what most people experience daily.
The pictures, taken one by one, are impressive.

Is it possible to tell DALL-E to use the same girl in each panel? That is the only detail preventing me from being convinced this isn't a real children's book.
https://google.com
Every time a car passes you with a massive speed differential, you are gambling with your life. As long as you (and your family) are willing to accept that risk, then all the power to you.

Also, rural roads aren't exactly known for their alert drivers. Drunk driving is far more common due to lack of taxis/ubers.
It's not that cut & dry, as bash is doing evaluations; 0 and 1 can both be "true" if simply used without an evaluation, but add logic and it starts to matter (grep returns 0 if hit, 1 if not).

[[ 0 ]] && echo "hit 0"
[[ 1 ]] && echo "hit 1"
grep -q 127 /etc/hosts && echo "hit grep"
grep -q 128 /etc/hosts || echo "miss grep"
> But there's something to be said for a set of values that emphasizes love, empathy, and reciprocity, regardless of the religion.

Such as how often the religious one fails to do that?

My impression is that there is a recurring theme that it is violent towards outgroups and even more violent towards ingroups that don’t conform exactly. Leaving only compassion towards an ever splintering sect for the brief time everyone believes the exact same thing.

Also not exclusive to Christianity, but I mostly only hear from the escapees.

In any case, what do you see?
I always had the suspicion that the (seemingly higher) interest in privacy/FOSS in Europeans is fueled partly by anti-Americanism. In America, even if you don't trust the government, at least it's your government, so I don't feel like that plays as big a role, and any interest in privacy/FOSS (like mine) is untempered by the anxiety of an alien government's interference. :p Regardless, I love how much more Europeans seem to value privacy.
Hate mail is fairly typical in these circumstances. So is people asking for evidence. The possible next stages are also predictable:

1. They don't post it, and get accused of lying.

2. They post one of the tamer examples, and get accused of overreacting to nothing.

3. They post a median example, and get told that people reacting with vigour is normal and it's not about them.

4. They post a very strong example, hurting some readers and get responses claiming that you clearly can't take threats at face value.

5. They get accused of making it up, anyway.

6. They don't include personal details, so you can't do anything, anyway.

7. They include personal details and get accused of doxxing or making it personal.

There's just no good outcome from your request.
>But why do people show such a ready tendency to harm people in opposing groups?

Outsiders can be conceived as threats or competition for resources. So ve evolved that way.
Making the Master System a master of speech
Australia is roughly the size of the continental US with a tenth the population and we still have lots of small roads in the populated coastal green bits, so I'm not sure what your point is.

It can be harder to find a safe route somewhere in the country, I'll give you that.
That wasn’t true in the 19th century. There weren’t that many self sufficient farmers left back then and the economy was heavily interlinked, especially after the rise of railroads.

The economy was in a permanent boom and bust cycle e.g. the Long Depression (or the first Great Depression) lasted close to a quarter of a century.
Just close the offending site and never, ever return. Works wonderfully!
Veterinarian?

I mean, yes, a lot of "low status" jobs are dominated by women, and this is an unfortunate pattern, but I don't think the gender is driving the status, or the attrition problems?
How to avoid all of these:
Have and use bike lanes that are isolated from car lanes, e.g. on sidewalks.

Avoid crossing street at intersections that are not ultimately regulated by traffic lights. Instead try to find a crossing, preferable with traffic lights, on a street with enough distance to intersections where cars could suddenly appear from.

Instead one is often instructed to ride right next between/to cars in the middle of the lane. In the name of safety! Shaking my head... Would you let your child rather ride its bike between those metal monsters or in actual safety? Some countries have exceptions for children, that allow them to ride on sidewalk, even when adults are required to ride on car line. Why is that? Maybe because it is safer for the children. Well then it should apply in general regardless of age. Cars are dangerous.
As I know, Rui was in the US (when he was at Google), so it is a fair statement.
It's close to 100% efficient in converting electricity to heat.
I agree! What I love about a bicycle trip is how little preparation it actually requires during the fair weather season. You don't need fancy equipment and a phone gives you all the information you need. The OsmAnd app is quite good.
IMO if you’re a Holocaust denier who idolizes Hitler then yeah, you’re a neo-Nazi.

The Holocaust happened. My grandfather was an Auschwitz survivor, the only survivor of his family - the Nazis murdered his parents, brothers and sisters. He saw unspeakable cruelty in Auschwitz, watched the Nazis casually and systematically starve, abuse and mass murder countless Jews. When the Red Army liberated them, he and the other survivors were so emaciated that the Soviet soldiers broke down crying just seeing them. You saying essentially “there was no Holocaust, the dirty Jews were dying of typhus and the SS tried to save them” is an absolutely insane, racist conspiracy theory flying in the face of all evidence. Things aren’t true just because your twisted, anti-Semitic mind believes them to be.
You can actually disable the open in app prompt; it's kind of hidden, but if you open the menu > settings > uncheck "Request to open in app". This makes it usable for me.
Interesting how you are trying to create issue from something you have acknowledged [1] is not issue.

[1] > it _does_ say that the effect goes away
Not only that, but now it’s possible to support a much richer console than a PC’s text mode ever could. If we wanted, we could do proper bold and italics, smooth scrolling, double width and height, and even sixel/Tektronix/ReGIS graphics.
Seems useful to create quick sketches for an artist to re-draw the scenes so they keep a given style. I can create 3D models from sketches, but don't have much creativity to compose the scenes, a tool like DALL-E would give me a big kick-start.