skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with the blub argument is that it heavily relies on the existence of an undisputed power hierarchy among programming languages. Only s/he who is an expert in the most powerful language is in a position to pass judgement on all other languages.

I don't know how to resolve disputes over the relative power of programming languages on that basis. Are dynamic languages more or less powerful than static languages with advanced type systems? I don't know. What's the definition of power?

But I think what we can take from blub is that familiarity with one language or set of features is an insufficient basis for dismissing other, unfamiliar, languages or features.
I have two laptops, one with a high DPI display (Macbook), and one with a regular 1080p screen. Both running Linux. There is quite zero difference viewing text at a regular viewing distance.

If I move uncomfortably close to the screen, I can of course make out the changes. The examples on this page do not work because they do not take into account viewing distance.
Because taking a corporation private is a pain in the ass.

Elon Musk signed a contract giving himself essentially no ability to back out, to force Twitter to consider his offer.
Whether or not this is a good list, I find the topic very
interesting. For more exercise I've started to increase the range of
my usual hikes, from just mooching around a 10 mile radius of home to
some much more ambitious yomps out into wilderness. Being alone out
there obviously raises thoughts about safety.

Everyone knows I hate "smartphones" with a passion. For possible
emergencies I carry a powered-down (battery flipped) Nokia wax-sealed
in a dry-sack. Regardless, the cell coverage can't be relied upon and
I don't fully trust it.

Lately I started looking at alternatives, and considering the
fascinating array of features some devices have.

Stand alone GPS devices with loadable OSM maps seem really useful.
Emergency beacons seem to fill a need for the bad case where you
really need rescue. But there's also powerful handheld radios and sat
phones. The landscape of affordable civilian RF gear seems to be
changing fast.

What kit do people pack for hiking? Or what gadgets do you wish
existed?
The Rugged Manifesto
What is wonderful about this is that we all trust that courts will be objective in this. No amount of money will corrupt the courts here. I wish I could say the same for my country.
( I was talking about https://bit.ly/3AyXgCI )
Slept right through it. Funny thing about being in a completely different time zone.
I imagine the tunnel and cars will be serviceable so there might be people in there from time to time.
There are a couple of things missing from this tool to be useful to me.

* Filter only fonts that have bold/italic styles. Faux bold/italic looks awful.

* Filter by language support. If fonts don't support the Latin Extended range, then words in other languages switch to the fallback font in the middle of the word.

* Show fonts side by side

For filtering, Font Squirrel [1] can be used. This example filters fonts with bold/italic, open source license and latin extended language support.

For comparing side by side, Coding Font [2] can be used.

Cousine is my font of choice - it has very extensive language support (~2400 glyphs including Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic [3]), it supports bold/italic styles and it looks great.

1. https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/find_fonts?filter%5B...

2. https://www.codingfont.com/

3. https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/cousine?q%5Bterm%5D=Cousi... (Glyphs tab)
That was a prime example of the hostility.
There's also a third irrational option, with another gamestop style buying spree lifting the share price up.
Kevin Buzzard: The rise of formalism in mathematics
It’s not just a “old” people problem… unless I’m old, 40 does feel old.

The UI on most mobile devices are terrible in one way or another. There are zero discoverability, things will hide, lock, block or disappear with no clear way of getting back.

Often I feel it’s easier to go to the computer. As an example: I cannot use the banking app on the phone anymore. In an attempt to make it easier to use, they hid/removed the features I used, such as “how much is in my account right now?” or “pay a bill”. That stuff is now hidden in a complex menu system. I can manage the MasterCard I don’t have though.

Designing good UI is an incredible skill, one that few people gave, and one even fewer are willing to pay for.
We saw ory.sh a while ago and it looks great. From what I can see now, ory is mainly focusing on the server side, while Logto is not only an identity service, also trying to provide a smooth and customizable sign-in experience (UI) for end-users and let you to focus on your real business asap.

Plus, Logto comes with a web admin console to manage Logto and to know your users with no coding skill required. You can get user insights like DAU/MAU with graphic charts within the console.
To get their money, presumably. If Twitter stocks fall due to this situation then all the more interest in getting the previously set deal to go through.
A minimalist and multi-region network monitoring tool written in Rust
This is all true, but suspect that the issue is mostly self-correcting since anything other than an extremely vanilla email address is likely to run into an infuriatingly high number of rejections precisely because the software at the other end has taken an overly simplistic view of what is allowed, forcing the owner to change it out of sheer frustration.
What the hell do you mean not track students based on ability? How else could you track them?
It's not unfair really. If you let the smart fall to the level of the average, you end up with board and angry smart kids. They will not pull up the middle, they'll check out. The end results will be outsourcing. Based on the skilled worker shortage in Cali, I'd say bringing up the bottom isn't doing much for the top.
Well, this probably doesn't come up very often in general, but one reason for Twitter to want to proceed might be if someone had signed a legally binding agreement to pay 15 billion dollars more than the market rate.
Then you'd still need bearings in the middle of the axle somewhere.
Imagine the bandwidth of those pods transporting backup tapes!!

This project gives me futuristic vibes, if they could make the numbers work, is a great idea, it could be even a closed tube that goes overground outside the cities and goes underground on the populated places.

I't more or less the idea of the hyperloop, but for cargo, and without the constraints of speed and safety that make the hyperloop so expensive. As a concept it seems so good, that I really hope that is going to be financially viable in a short amount of time.
The DLR is a low-speed network with tight turning radii. I haven't found any footage clearly showing hunting (in part because it's difficult to distinguish other lateral-movement-inducing elements such as turns and switches), but the basic operating parameters are fairly clear.

I suspect the wheels have high conicity. The rolling stock is also likely lighter than a heavy-rail system.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=i1pAfKsL1bk
>Also seen in the planning of curves in roads (where jerk corresponds to the rate at which a steering wheel must be turned) and railways.

Just for the record, the transition curve is usually (not always but very often ) a clothoid (or Euler's spiral or Cornu spiral)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_spiral
Oh yes. Delete everything and build a new city from scratch.Easily solved.

/s
As a web scraper, thank god for .*? or to be exact [\s\S]*?

Does 90% of what I need.
A moderate breeze came along and the Twitter board gave up on it after about an hour.
We’re still exploring. Basically we’ll focus on the community and product first, and only charge for enterprise features and services in the future.
Don't forget that photography flow also changed - with cheap and powerful postprocessing and whatnot. And it will only get better. So the gear changed into catching maximum information and deal with it later. And entropy goes one way. You can always blur or add creative touches on the clinical picture. The other way is harder.

I feel that focusing on one piece of the flow and not looking at the whole could lead to somewhat off conclusions.
I have always understood hysteresis as that the response is depended on the way the current situation is reached, e.g. a memory effect of a magnet (knowing whether it came from a high or a low field). This might be something useful in UI as well, but I would not categorise the delay mentioned in the article as such.
Haha, me too :D
I recently read that although the Spanish high speed lines don't have many passenger trains (the recent Perpignan-Figueres tunnel only has two per day, although that's partly because of corona), they also carry through freight traffic from France because there's no break-of-gauge. A bit unusual for a high speed line, but why not.
>not doing harm goes a long way.

Someone needs to tell this to US politicians and police officers
Don't be silly. I'd write an elaborate explanation why that's statistically likely for tech workers to be easily distracted by shiny things and how HN is triggers this, but I have to sneak out of bed now so I can setup uptime-kuma (which I just learned about). ;-)
This is not technically true. These radios can — and most commonly do — use the unlicensed UHF bands (PMR446 in the EU, FRS 462Mhz in the US.)
I also tried a setup with meet.jit.si for my parents. As you did, I set up a 'permanent' room where everyone in the extended family could connect at any time. Then I set up a Raspberry Pi connected to one HDMI port on their TV, and I used one of those Logitech cams with a built-in mic which I placed near the TV, and connected to another HDMI port on the Pi. I set up Chromium to start automatically, in kiosk mode, and to go directly to the Jitsi room.

Finally I used a little relay board connected to a couple of GPIO pins on the Pi and programmed that to turn off and on the Pi. The relay board was remote controlled (infrared, worked fine). I used a small, but not too small, remote control with one single big red button. When a scheduled or agreed (maybe by a phone call) meeting was due, my father pressed the button and the TV switched to the Pi HDMI (turning on the TV if it wasn't already on), showing the Jitsi room. With maybe grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and my parents could just sit in their chairs and watch and talk via the TV. When finished my father pressed the button again, and I had programmed the Pi, as part of its shutdown sequence, to switch the TV to the other, normal HDMI port. It's possible to command the TV to switch inputs, via commands to HDMI, unfortunately it's not possible to switch to antenna input but my parents were on cable and used an HDMI port for that. So with this setup they would go from the Jitsi room to whatever they were watching before. Though the TV would be left on even if it was off before they connected - I didn't find a way to control the TV that detailed.

This worked well, as far as it went, the issue I had was that it wasn't practically possible to set up a power supply for that little relay board so I used a couple of 9V batteries instead. But it turned out that the board would suck the batteries empty in no time. So, as a prototype, it worked, but I would have to make a proper power supply for that to be fully useful. After a few months my parents had to move to a care home so the project was put on a shelf.
> Thus, the courts will obligate Musk to buy the business as he agreed to in April.

That last statement does not follow everything else before. Courts have no power to do that.
"Something I can use to grep the word list on my Mac to cheat at Worldle. My remaining letters are ...., my green letters thus far are .... and my yellows are ..."
“How often” as used in colloquial English is not measurable because colloquial English is not a technical language and this isn’t a technical discussion.

Finding examples of the rich getting away with crimes that regular people do not get away with is a simple google search away which is why you come off as sealioning.

On the off chance that you are legitimately asking, here are a few examples

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/06/09/s-c-joh...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affluenza

[3] musk agreeing to stop tweeting about tesla without board certification of the tweet and then doing so anyway
It is celebrated even in Japan

But the west won't talk about it, because they'd have to talk about how everyone is against the plan to put an American military base in Okinawa and Abe was the one lobbying for it

For some he was an enemy of the nation, not to mention how, just like in EU, was trying to weaken their economy for the sole purpose of making them even more dependent on the US
Only the first search brought up something very, very interesting for me [0] (bonus for looks, of course). I love and miss the old internets. Happy to know there is Wiby! (I use Millionshort and Marginalia.)

[0] https://sadgrl.online/blog/entries/selfinterview.html
Hey! I’m the creator of www.autoregex.xyz (@gd3kr on twitter) I originally built it as a small side project in a couple days, I was absolutely not expecting a response this massive. I realise concerns about email and password sign up, and I built it in an hour-ish with firebase auth as a temporary solution to capping the sudden surge in GPT3 requests to the server after the twitter post gained traction. Im working on a better approach to that involving not having to create an account. Otherwise, all suggestions are absolutely welcome. Please tell me how I can make this a better experience for everyone.
The contract does not give many avenues. It is either a 'materially adverse effect', 'breaking a covenant', or not being able to get the loans he wanted lined up.

-Materially adverse effects are not within play here. The threshold for that is really high.

-The loans are committed. Banks have signed for the loan, and they can't get out of it.

- That leaves the covenants. That is the main approach Musk is trying, but it is a stretch.

The only other avenues to get out are:

- Get Twitter to amend the contract
- Ignore the contract

Threatening to try the second (which would really suck for twitter, even if it almost certainly won't work) might be a way to get twitter to do the first. But I get the sense that the board feels they have a strong position. Moreover the board is likely getting a lot of pressure from shareholders to not give in to Musk.
I don't understand why, but it looks really cool! I might want to try it for a few days.
You were downvoted because your comment about the veiled threat from Biden is a pretty crazy conspiracy theory.
I'd say the opposite: having experienced this, they would make sure to significantly reduce the probability of it happening again.

In the past, I had a similar problem because of using hardware from the same batch. In retrospect, it's silly to be surprised they died at the same time.
All of the things you said apply equally well to function parameters.
Garmin’s InReach products are great for this. Emergency button, two-way texts, all satellite based, so basically full global coverage. They can also allow you to share your semi real-time location with friends and family, if that’s useful to you.
That really interesting. I wonder how much that impacts maintenance if at all. They definitely couldn't do that if timing on passenger rail was increased, but while there's sufficient gaps then as you said, why not.
Great site! I love that you can choose languages and different IDE styles. Font comparisons would push the site to the next level though.
Tiny Huts by MUJI (2017)
It’s the best illustration of my point.

As long as there is more food and toys than before, people stand by the regime that happened to be in power at the time and took the credit. People forgive lies, privacy and freedom violations, obvious policy failures and everything else.
I am wondering whether down-voters disagree or don't understand how
forensic video analysis can accurately pinpoint the positions of
objects from perspective when the camera and lens model are known?
It's not common in London, at least since the 2000s.

Homeless people are more likely to be on buses (it's cheaper) but even that isn't common.
Ask HN: What would it take for the Windows 98 codebase to be opensourced?
I've been aware of a few projects - open source and proprietary - that seek to extend the life of Windows 98 well beyond what was planned. These include:

R. Lowe's patches to support > 512MB RAM, larger hard disks, even what seems to be newer WDM drivers: https://www.rloewelectronics.com/

The KernelEx project to support applications targeting later versions of Windows: http://kernelex.sourceforge.net/

There are also fascinating articles penned by those involved in the Win9x development, like this one on the role of DOS in Windows 95, https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=24063 that dispel the notion that it simply 'ran on top of DOS', it instead seems that Windows 9x was rather a vast expansion of the DOS kernel.

Given that Win 9x served as the introduction to computing for many of us, and that it has long surpassed any commercial benefit for Microsoft who now profit largely from Azure, wouldn't it be cool to have a peek behind the works? To see what could be hacked and extended combining these projects with the actual 9x codebase?

We've seen some generosity from Microsoft with the releases of the 3DMM, Console, and File Manager codebases. Building on this, wouldn't it be fun to play around with the old 9x sources and see where curious folks could take it? Not to mention the benefit it would have to older hardware and the retro enthusiast community.

And, with clear sight of the truth, perhaps we can dispel the notion that 'it's just DOS' once and for all? ;)
I got a bit confused as I thought it had something to do with NAT like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation
This particular network certainly isn't last mile - they are talking about dropping the goods off at 10 hubs rather than last-mile.

Also last-mile with tunnels isn't really practical - bearing in mind that last-mile means getting goods all the way to a customer house (i.e. it's not really last-mile if someone else has to pick it up and move it to the final destination).
>"And distrust in traditional institutions could force them to reckon with institutional problems, like a lack of diversity."

>I don't even know what to say, I'm shocked by the complete lack of self introspection.

My "favorite" example of this, from CNN before COVID19 became a worldwide problem: "Coronavirus task force another example of Trump administration's lack of diversity" <https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/30/politics/donald-trump-coronav...>
> Wouldn't that qualify as material adverse effect?

Probably not. There has been one MAC finding in the history of MACs. It was a trifecta of fraud, management throwing in the towel the moment the merger was agreed and a massive revenue drop.

Musk’s only hope is to get his banks to pull financing. That’s going to be tough.
So, what, he spent several billion dollars on ten percent of Twitter as part of his plan to tank the company?
Going naked to the forest: Hemingway vs. Hard Sci-fi
"Everything is political, if you aren't helping us then you are a part of the problem!"

Hostile advertisement messages such as this makes it really hard to stay sane. Politicians and companies seems so eager pushing people to the brink of insanity, and technology made them much more efficient at that than ever before.
This is a fascinating premise, both for it's core finding and - even if that is debunked or unoriginal - another demonstration of the potential revelations of large scale analysis of digitized versions of both historical records and human activity generally.
Show HN: Evryca – fractal thinking tool to brainstorm and organize thoughts
Made a tool to organize thoughts.
Actually it is a mind tree, but in a more web-friendly form.

It has pivoted from what I originally started building at evryca.com.

Some years ago I got the idea of fractal conversation, instead of old-school tree/ladder-like comments.
I wanted to see only comments related to the current level.

I started making "something" with fractal comments. This "something" was a project discussion platform. But it turned out that even I myself don't use it, and the idea of fractal comments stuck there unused.

And recently it dawned on me that it may be a conversation with yourself — thinking, brainstorming, taking notes, writing.
So made this kind of cork/whiteboard, where one can dive into the subject and, being in the flow, write and see only related notes and rearrange them later.

I'm trying to make it flawless and add keyboard shortcuts where it's possible (Ctr+Enter to submit idea, drag-and-drop to rearrange, Esc to jump level up).

So finally I've made a tool that I use myself and will update it gradually (sorting, touch devices, ex/import (json, text), boards, more navigation with keyboard and other stuff, and login).
This seems to be soft-selling this, they conspired to achieve this aim:

https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/rupert-murdoch-thatcher-me...
>(the recent Perpignan-Figueres tunnel only has two per day, although that's partly because of corona)

It was four per day in each direction pre-Covid.
>There are certainly people who think they're intelligent. They like to congratulate each other.

>Taleb would call them IYI (intellectual yet idiot).

Lenin's "useful idiots" term is always apt.
My own bias as a person interested and well read in history as a science wants me to agree but there is a selection bias at work that the authors of this study do not address to my satisfaction: We are talking about PUBLISHED language.
On the one hand, published and distributed works are only a fraction of the written literary works of an era and therefore only represents a commercially viable subset. On the other hand, the commercial viability is determined by the demand in the market of readers which would suggest that their language analysis could be more sound than not.

I THINK I’m reading more and more abstracts that show similarities between our current societal climate and that of the late 20s/early 30s of the last century. It will be academically interesting to see what the continuation of the current inflation and energy crisis which disproportionally hits the lower two thirds of the western populace causes in the next 2 years. The road to a substantial outburst - be it revolutions as a form of inward-directed change or god beware war - is paved at least.
if a setup that is a:

- terminal

- browser

- window manager

sounds awful, avoid desktop linux. you will find it to suck, even on a fancy distro like pop.

otherwise, dual boot windows and linux. work on linux, play on windows. this works great on most laptops and desktops.

keep a smart phone around if you don’t want to mess with bluetooth or audio on linux. it works fine, but smart phone is better in a lot of ways.
that still means you need to unload the pallets from a container and reload them on each side of the tunnel. You must have a really good compelling reason to do so vs moving the container wholesale.
I don't see what's so hard. Give people a choice and leave it at that.
I would not discard that funding started running out after seen how they were spending the money on turning the dolphins into party animals.
or just if clause it - why spend 1 hour chasing down regex to save yourself from writing 3 lines of code.
Can vs will. Usually idiots turn up on 2m with them.
Likely soon the Germans will ask the Dutch to reopen the Groningen gas fields, which were being shutdown due to the earthquakes and widespread damage to buildings they caused.
A lot of freight needs to be cooled, plus batteries. So I assume you will have things in there that have the potential to catch fire.