skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> an aside, "variable number" is exactly how things are still done in math and physics. This amuses me greatly.

Variable names are usually idiomatic within a field/carry some semantics. e.g. k is angular wavenumber, omega is angular frequency. r is displacement. etc. They just use short names to prevent the name from distracting from the shape of the equations it's used in, so that it's easier to say things like "this behaves like a transport equation but with a source term that's proportional to the strength of the Foo field squared" or whatever.

Lots of phenomena have very similar governing equations, so downplaying the names of variables in favor of the structure/context they're used in allows for efficient transfer of intuition.
racism? they seem to have fun mutually

it looks like abuse of power/wealth more than racism

it's quite the opposite of what we see in the USA with people publicly screaming the N word, police and job profiling

it's also exactly what the UK is been doing in Nigeria for years, they are a little bit more sneaky about it tough

and more openly what the west did in South Africa, a little bit more political :)

and let's not talk about indonesia
Also, the firmware is totally different, and open source. https://support.system76.com/articles/open-firmware-systems/

So, Clevo is the ODM, just like Compal and some others are for Dell: https://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/vn/corporate~corp-comm~en/d...
That use of LD_PRELOAD by Nix is NOT a downside.

But it is not a good workaround for Nix thus making Nix a poor candidate for a reasonably secured production servers.
This is the wrong way to go, if the UI is so bad it requires a course, then the problem is clearly the tool.
These kind of arguments can be brought down by asking: never?
From Celsius to Fahrenheit: “take the temp, minus a tenth, times two plus thirty-two!”
Minor point (well in this case at least) but you have an off by one error. Your G1 is G0.

Here is how it is defined in terms of basis vectors.
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jfc/cs184f98/lec19/lec19.h...
I agree with all the asspats for dang on the day-to-day moderation level. If anything I'd like to see more of a heavy hand from him. I've modded some moderately-sized Reddit subs and it was hell.

However, in strategic terms, I think HN has failed to maintain a good comment signal-to-noise ratio over the past several years. For instance it used to be that "funny" or entertaining type of low-effort comments would be strongly discouraged with downvotes; at some point in the past few years it has become very common and... REminiscent of another social site that I'm not supposed to draw comparisons to due to HN guidelines.* Now it's common to see jokes and puns do quite well.

Fundamentally, to maintain a board's culture you need to encourage people to "lurk more" to get acclimated to the board's culture before participating. In other words you need to throttle/retard new users' participation somewhat.

I do recall at one point a push to increase commenting by removing comment average karma in user profiles. (Some) people used to withhold commenting unless they felt they had a real banger because it would throw off their ratio. It also used to be new user signups were only open occasionally rather than always available.

My hypothesis on where it went wrong is cost-free upvotes. Downvotes have always been gated behind a karma threshold, but any new account can upvote whatever it wants. Floods of new accounts thoughtlessly upvoting the types of comments they upvote on other sites will easily outpace the old timers' downvotes on that same content. Over time, this small change in karma dynamics shifts the board culture.

* Like the guideline wording, dang frequently brushes away this critique out of hand, but as someone who goes long periods between visiting HN regularly, it's very obvious to me. I think you could quantify it if you took random samples of HN comments from various time slices and noted the quantity of low-effort comments.
Elon Musk is literally the Chief Engineer at SpaceX. His technical proficiency is validated by other senior engineers who work there, as well as senior engineers at NASA. There are also countless hours of unedited footage of him demonstrating his deep technical understanding of rocket engineering.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIPLmZK3C1Y
Why are we still talking about Black Mountain College?
> Hence, the article linked to is probably right.

Only if Penrose's argument is probably right, which you seem to have taken for granted here.
Interesting to me though a bit short. Extract

"Some common mushrooms likely have more than 17,000 sexes, researchers report March 31 in PLOS Genetics. [...]

While scientists have long suspected that certain species of fungi have thousands or even tens of thousands of biological sexes, the new research employed cutting edge genetic tools to confirm the extreme diversity of sexes in Trichaptum mushrooms"
It's a full time job to help a VC fund make more money.

This thread is bizarre and cult like.
> For content creation, Linux is lost

Linux obviously isn't lost, given that I and many others use Linux for content creation.

It would help the discussion if people stopped talking in hyperbolic all-or-nothing extremes.

Like I said, this is a meme that needs to die.
> you can replace it easily

I actually followed the link and went to the battery section..

"Tools required: Cross-head (Phillips) screwdriver"

"Time estimate: 30 minutes"

"Difficulty: High (red)"

High/Hard == easy
Yep. If you click on "[Design + Buy]" you can see the higher amounts are "8GB + 32GB"
Thanks for this. It makes me hopeful that we can find people and a process to keep things civil and somehow engaging in such a forum.

Sure HN has its pains (and I'm an unconditional of the late n-gate site) but they don't come from moderation shenanigans.

I also appreciate the pedagogy I often see. Some participants here have never been actively moderated and dang takes the time to explain as if the moderated person was one of the 10000 of the day.
If the AWS status wasn’t a static HTML page, I would agree.
I think a lot of the comments are missing the PDF in the name OCRmyPDF. Having a software package that combines several open source tools to disassemble a PDF, do cleanup on each page, run OCR on them, and then reassemble them into a new PDF with the text embedded is why OCRmyPDF is so great. I see lot of worthy software also being mentioned in the discussion but a lot of it requires rolling your own cleanup steps or our reassembling steps because the packages are designed for single-image scans or only deliver JSON output (which requires some fairy dust to get back properly into HOCR and then into a PDF). As I posted above, I got someone to add Google Cloud Vision as an alternate OCR engine for OCRmyPDF — I'd love to see more OCR engines (like ones suggested here) made possible.
I'd say the tendency is to absolutely trivialise the work that goes into moderating online forums. It should be easy, right, you just click buttons while sitting at home in your pajamas, no? Well no, not really.
It can also be a boon. One of the things some vim users like is always being able to discover something new, after using it for years.

I'm not really in this camp though, I would prefer vim commands to somehow be more
"discoverable".

Much easier said than done, though.
I love this answer so much.
I read it, and I remain unconvinced. Quantum processes may introduce noise, or may result in actual useful computation that’s unique to organic brains, but still it is a form of computation, as much as anything that behaves according to natural laws are bound to them. I’m not sure exactly what Penrose was on to in that book, honestly.
I acknowledge it has flaws.

Even macOS, the supposed gold standard of good usability and quality, frustrates me to no end at times.
And just as many examples of things people thought technology could never do, and then it never did.
Hey don’t forget Motorola flip phone, Nokia and windows phone with metro ui.

Technologically, social media could have come a decade before it was made popular. Similarly for AR (agreed) I don’t believe there is a technological hurdle here. There will be some magic app or use case that will get everyone to jump onboard, maybe like how everyone jumped on the iPod. It wasn’t about the device even though it was impeccable.

But maybe the world just needs (wants) light weight “They Live” sunglasses creepy that meta might be the company that actually makes it real.
Simulation and Gaming with APL
But they need to either get with Wayland or fork a modern gnome and change the UI.

Forking something and keeping it in a past state isnt really as useful as some think. See OpenOffice vs LibreOffice for example.
Is this not just competition working the way it's supposed to?

ie, another player shows up in the market, offers a more attractive price and forces the other players to reduce their prices or shed customers.

It's not like Bell, in this case, were offering 1Gbps for something absurdly below cost, like $1/mo or something just to drive the new comer out of business.

Matching and lowering prices is good for everyone. The new player running out of money and going out of business is really just a lack of foresight and planning on their part. It's pretty absurd to not expect the incumbents to reduce pricing when they are directly completed against.
Yes, thermal winds in the afternoons in summer and fall.
> why can't I hit right at the end of a line, and move to the next line?

I know this is probably something that sounds like someone too far down the rabbit-hole to see where they came from, but I'm not sure why you'd want to do that. The horizontal movement is probably adjacent to the vertical movement on your keyboard. Just use the appropriate movement to get where you want to go?

> Also, why do I have to have a special mode to insert things?

Because then you can use the regular keyboard, i.e. keys that would normally insert characters, as control inputs.

> But meanwhile I can use an ordinary visual text editor and I don't have to learn anything new.

You don't have to learn anything new because you don't want to do anything new.
OP didn’t say they don’t like the US, but that there are tons of things to improve.

Thinking US is the best country in the world and rejecting the issues is why it’s considered a shithole by a growing population of the world. As a French, the US seems like at third world country to me regarding social rights and benefits.
> Once you’ve been doing it a while, you learn to smell trouble brewing, and it can escalate rapidly.

I'm not actually proposing this, but that makes me curious how well that could be modeled via deep learning.
The Green Line still is very much a streetcar at heart, and at those kinds of tight radii no amount of rail inclination (that is no reasonable amount of inclination, after all the whole shebang still needs to work on tangent track, too) will be able to compensate for the difference between outer and inner wheels.

The best you can try is add some sort of lubrication, but even that won't fully quieten it down, since you can only lubricate the flanges, but not the running surface for hopefully obvious reasons.
> The answers computer programs give sometimes surprise me too — but they always result from their programming.

Friendly reminder that we, too, have a programming: The DNA.
I use O365 for email, and have Gsuite for Google Docs / Sheets / etc.

Here's why we use O365 for email:

1. Gmail tabs get lost in your sea of tabs, while Outlook being a desktop app means it's easy to alt / tab over at any time.

2. It's really easy to manage multiple mailboxes with O365 (via Outlook), while Google doesn't work super well for multiple profiles.

3. O365 has better support through their reseller partners (we use AppRiver) while dealing with things we don't know a lot about (SPF / DKIM / distribution lists / shared mailboxes / etc).

4. (I believe) O365 is much less likely to shutdown our account for unknown reasons than Google.

5. Lastly, I was exposed to O365 while working at a SaaS in the Microsoft ecosystem. For the first few weeks I hated it, and missed Gsuite, but overtime I came to love O365 and hate Gmail.
Sorry. I was being sarcastic.

OTOH, we can’t argue they do the job of a not particularly bright human quite well, so, at least, those humans have already been replaced.

There was at least one POTUS in recent history that could be replaced by a probabilistic prose generator and nobody would notice.
This is a wild take. I'm not quite sure how you would go about changing it into something "better" without funadmentally destroying its functionality. The "UI" of driving a car or a jet requires "a course" but it doesn't meant that they're bad.
This looks cool. I could see myself using this once it’s a bit further along. This looks most similar to Clerk. For me, the best service is the one with the best SDK and documentation. I was excited about Clerk because they have SDKs for Remix and Expo (React Native).
How so?

Start of line “^”, then an “n”, then any word characters zero or more times (\w*), then a “g”, then the end of the line “$”. The surrounding slashes are convention for certain regex languages, and the last “i” turns on the case insensitive flag.

Personally I’d write this as “(?i)\bn[a-z]*g\b” but there’s many approaches for many different situations.
I buy the idea that the more advanced features of vim are worth it, being able to quickly cut+paste bits of text around, skip to end of line/bracket/etc.

I don't believe I'd write usefully larger amounts of code by using hjkl instead of arrow keys, and personally I am always going to use the mouse when I want to move more than a couple of lines.
One minor correction. Tilt trains exist to allow higher speed service on older lines where tipping would be a safety problem. They can run just fine with the tilt mechanism disabled, provided they go at the lower speed of the older trains.
I've missed several jury duty summons with this same strategy.
>Wayland enables the flicker-free, nicely-animated experience

Of all the things I care about this might be at the very bottom of the list. If that's the best reason people can come up with to give up my DE and decent performance for all the X11 apps I use than I'm sorry but I won't ever be using Wayland.
Ethics are important in business, but insisting on ethical and decorous dealings with someone who is brazenly neither of those things (i.e. blatantly ignoring court rulings) is a fool's game.

Assume positive intent and work ethically and in good faith, but if they clearly demonstrate to you that they don't have positive intent, you don't need to be a punching bag.
Surprised to find an article like this in the Republican rag National Review. But it’s a way to soften its image I guess. While I am browsing this article I am listening to a Chicago news channel (WGN) recount the lives of the Highland shooting victims. “An Intellectual Starter Kit”? - Im just shaking my head at anti-gun control “intellectuals”.
A 50 year old barista struggling to be a writer.
Meta open-sources new models for audio-visual understanding of sounds in videos
We are so far away from understanding "thought" that I doubt we'll ever get there. We can't even explain how quantum physics gives rise to Newtonian physics, and those are both observable where "thought" is not!

It seems obvious that cognition/intelligence or whatever we want to call it is non-Turing because we simply cannot reproduce it with a Turing machine. Quantum computing here just makes things worse.
Rabid Application Development
I think Abbyy kills it, they really are Enterprise grade, unlike Adobe who like to claim they are but crash more often than Taki Inoue ever did.

For standard grade I find masterpdf kills Adobe almost all around, including OCR and search/index, and it lets you edit pdf elements more easily than editing a word document. Not FOSS, but I found it well worth my$50 or whatever it was, esp compared to Adobe and Foxit. Crashes way, way less than Adobe as well, can also get a linux version, which you can't with Adobe.

I have a full Adobe DC license supplied by work, but the only time I use Adobe by choice is if I want the outrageously useful and uniquely packaged functionality provided by the Autobookmark (Evermap) or Debenue plugins, but tbh they only really do things that Adobe should have baked in anyway if they weren't trying to gouge you on basic functionality they lock up (eg create bookmarks based on a font, page position and a regex, and then make TOC from bookmarks - lets you create a TOC for a pdf that has none and you don't have the native, for instance).

I've been doing a deep dive in to pdf format for some time now.
I bought this on sale years ago, and I really do adore it. The narrow-but-tall design means it optimizes for number of characters per line at the expense of fewer lines displayed at once, which IMO is a fine tradeoff since our tools tend to handle vertical overflow (via scrolling) better than horizontal overflow (via wrapping). That said, I'm sure you can find a free font with similar metrics.

I will also say that I've had a great experience with the developer of the font. I once noticed a bug in one of the glyphs, and within a week of reporting it he had acknowledged it, fixed it, and pushed a new release.
Well, if you absolutely must continue your burnout, then don't take vacation. You will spend it dreading the return and it will make you miserable.

Try and rationalize away all the concerns about the meaningfulness of what you do. Make sure you are not operating on power saver during the day and give it all you got!

Also give it all you got in after work hours and make sure you get some positive emotions out of it regularly.

Wake up well rested in mornings with proper sleep habits.

Adjust your position in a way that situations that cause strong negative emotions are not your concern.
There's also other company-specific gTLDs, like .google and .gle for Google, .ovh for OVHCloud, and .george for George, the clothing brand own by Walmart IIRC.
Probably some kind of criminal.
One thing that is not discussed here is that Oracle offers much cheaper bandwidth compared to all other big cloud providers. Bandwidth is one area of the cloud offerings where the prices hasn't changed much. Oracle was able to attract Zoom also for potion of their backed. Getting more competition here will enable smaller players to create apps which rely more on video.

Disclaimer: I haven't use Oracle cloud, just researched it.
> I really want to like vim

> Also, why do I have to have a special mode to insert things?

First and foremost Vim is a modal text editor. If you don't like that Vim is probably not for you. Your comment is kind of like saying I'm really trying to like chocolate, but I don't like the flavour.

There's a Vim way of doing things, if you really take the time to learn it then the questions you are asking will all be resolved.
Honestly, I've only ever run the pre-installed OS on one machine from them (my gaming Thelio). I buy them for the support both after- and before-purchase. I.e. because they do great support and provide machines that actually support Linux.

I used to not have the option of buying Linux hardware, and it was terrible. I don't understand why anybody does that to themselves these days, and I sincerely hope we never go back to having to buy Windows hardware, slapping Linux on top of it, and hoping that enough devs had the _exact_ same hardware to minimize the glitches.
For some reason, I'm reminded of the quotidian title of Dennet's Consciousness Explained.
No healthcare because every single doctor leaves for the US.
They do now, if you search for it there is a presentation on the transition to conic wheels somewhere out there.
The security model on Linux is "don't fling binaries from strangers around." That's why you can get away with the lazes fair security model X uses and still have less malware than Windows. Heck half the garbage Microsoft themselves ship with the OS could be called malware.
This is a good example I forgot.
> t's pretty absurd to not expect the incumbents to reduce pricing when they are directly completed against.

But they should be forced to reduce it everywhere where they're offering similar service, not just a limited local area.
> I've been at it for months now but still hate the scaling and window management. I believe there's some third party tools that handle this and it's time to look into them.

Don't know about the scaling, but for window management I find the Rectangle app quite helpful.
Why not? Almost everybody here knows Discord, some even had an account on it.
Roll your own if the font/s are known for your particular need, I did this for way, way better results, using only opencv.
I'm a vim user. Over the time I dwindle down my plugins and stick to the basic ones because I often do SSH and don't want my environment to change rapidly.

One thing that I still need though, is proper syntax highlighting. I wish there is an easy way for vim to do it rather than just too many plugins here and there.
Steam Deck Review: A Game Console for the Quintessential Gamer
>THE TOUCH PAD IS SO SMALL. Why do non-Mac Laptop users put up with such small touchpads? It is maddening.

Some of these points are subjective. I used to be an Apple touchpad evangelist, but at some point they switched to having enormous touchpads without any buttons. (the touchpad is the button) I had a touchbar Macbook Pro, and I'd get accidental input from the touchpad with good regularity. I wanted the touchpad from a 2007 Macbook Pro.
Something like “Optimized for software development in the real world”. Wide adoption is a consequence/indicator of this optimization, not the definition itself.
Yup. I had tried to use vim and quit because I thought it was needlessly cumbersome.

What changed my opinion was watching videos of people using vim on youtube that made me interested in learning it for real. It made me realize how much more efficient it could be.
This is one step below (i.e. at a lower level of abstraction) than openscad. For example you don't have to explicitly declare your inputs and outputs in openscad.

Just skimmed through the article, did not find any novel ideas but cool implementation nonetheless.
But does everything about us result from DNA? That's the nature vs. nuture debate. Surely more is DNA than we ever thought, but it cannot be everything or experience would count for nothing.

We also know now (which Watson & Crick did not) that life experiences can change DNA and cause heritable changes down the line. So one's life experience is a kind of dynamic "program," too.
> Imagine Musk buying Twitter and starting open up exec emails knowing about the bot numbers being inaccurate.

There's different levels of knowing about inaccuracies.

There's knowing that your methods of determining bots are probably not optimal and the number is most likely undercounted, but it was a good faith albeit imperfect effort.

Then there's knowing that bots are actually some other specific number and suppressing that information.

I think the former is much, much more likely than the latter and wouldn't really be a huge controversy if it leaked.
> autonomous driving

No they aren’t. Their sensor stack is handicapped and has literally murdered people. Sure they have “autonomous” cars in customer’s hands now, but that’s only because Musk is reckless, that doesn’t mean they are ahead. GM bought Cruise which I would say is definitely ahead of Tesla in their technology and ethics.
I think the applications could be protectable, not the pure academic research. If there is no clear practical benefit in 10 years, do not prevent others from working on those findings to try for something more practical.

To me, 5-7 years seems reasonable for technology inventions (patents), 7-10 years for books and other art.
https://archive.ph/Mtg1c
Algorithm Uses Time, Location to Predict Crime with 90% Accuracy
some form of engineering... maybe electrical
base paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01372-0