skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I've been wondering about.

Godaddy claims that the domain expired, but the WHOIS record says otherwise. I suppose that someone could have made a payment that got the domain date extended, but then the payment failed. But wouldn't the record only be updated after the payment was confirmed?

And to that end, I've never heard of a registrar ignoring an extension and force-expiring a domain name. The whole thing is extremely confusing.
When in Emacs I use a custom command that converts lowercase underscore-separated words to uppercase after typing the word out in lowercase so I don't have to use shift or capslock.
And websites shouldn't be used for a couple paragraphs of a message.
You are right, but that could apply to any word or name regardless of its usual meaning or usage.

To me Gimp is a pretty meaningless word, though I guess that's mostly because I'm a non-native speaker and the word seems to be used so infrequently that I have a hard time judging how it's perceived in general. But usually people don't think twice about the name of brands or products if they're used to it, and are able (though not always willing) to see things in context. I doubt that Gimp's popularity would increase with a name change, critics mainly seem to have issues with the UI. Either way I use it because it does everything I need with a pretty reasonable learning curve.
> Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books, else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things.

Excerpted from Of Studies, by Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) [1]. The whole essay is only about a page, and well worth reading.

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/575/575-h/575-h.htm#link2H_4...
Fun bat fact, bats have good eyesight.
I worked as a harpsichord tuner during college, and this kind of tuning was generally only used when only string instruments were involved. Once a single instrument with holes, valves, or frets is involved, you have to use equal temperament. Almost nobody does specialty tuning.
Not Apple per se, but NeXT was pretty important in the development of the early web as I understand it. The first web browser / editor (WorldWideWeb) ran on their platform.
I would suggest browsing the mechanical keyboard subreddit to get an idea of what you like.

When you find a board you like track down the vendor and buy it or pre order it. Honestly it’s not that hard to put together yourself but if time is an issue I understand.

If you decide not to build it yourself find a good local builder. I did this at the beginning through a local Facebook group. They often have twitch/YouTube channels which showcase their work.

Most boards are USBC at the keyboard side and support removable cables.

I would stick with HHKB layout if you can or a 60% layout that supports a similar layout. You could go 40% layout but for me it’s too much mental gymnastics for symbol characters. Get an extra hotswap PCB so you can easily swap out the keyswitches or if the only option is a solder PCB turn it into a hot swap board with mill maxed sockets.

Try and get something with a similar typing angle to the HHKB. Get an extra backup PCB as well.
indeed there is no such heuristic. The question is deeper, it's about how to trust that scientists from a culture that is perceived to be alien are living up to familiar scientific standards. It's easier to identify fraud when it comes in a systematic way from a specific region of the world. However there is a lot of fraud and scientific-freeriding coming from western scientists too, it's just sporadic and not visible among the thousands of high-quality studies.

It's also wrong to call a paper 'questionable' without qualifier. Questionable can mean anything, and some of the most groundbreaking ideas were questionable when they were put in the wild. I suppose the author means technically flawed.
And I think there's nothing wrong with that. Different tools for different strengths.

GIMP is excellent at image manipulation and doing various effects, not so much at drawing. Krita is the other way around.
I challenge you to find me two concurring definitions of systems programming that also include enough detail to set clear bounds between what is and isn't systems programming. If you succeed at that, I further challenge you to: find me two concurring definitions of systems programming language that include enough detail to qualify and disqualify languages consistently.

By "enough detail" and "clear bounds" i mean: a group of people independently arriving at the same sets of classification based on your provided definitions.
Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who Can Renew Is in Prison
Probably just me, but the "members" and "powers" arrays in the example should be in the same box as their siblings. When presented in another box joined with arrow, to me it seems to introduce hierarchy that isn't there. Probably I'm unaware of some convention used here.
Did you vote for the UN to manage your what your local authority does?

Are you not at all concerned that there is an organisation that is deciding what to promote, and that there is little you can do, once you 'elected representative' waves through whatever is proposed to them? And did you realise when you voted for your elected representative, that they were going to accept(/refuse) the UN sustainable development goals and implement them locally?
Brass instruments (not just the trombone) can have micro-adjustments in pitch through the embouchure (lip position/tension) of the musician.
There's a parallel universe where Microsoft used their monopoly muscle, legal department, and influence over the W3C to crush the Web 2.0 we know. Maybe we still get AJAX and all that followed without XMLHttpRequest, but there's no guarantee it would have been as free and open as it was.
Notch is a strange case. He was on track for a possible second hit, but then the pressure of doing it as someone with a ton of attention already focused on his every move was too much for him and he bailed out. To my knowledge, he never tried again.

Dorsey has struck gold twice, of course. Block (formerly Square) has done quite well. Twitter has floundered in various ways, but it's still be a huge success in other ways.

I feel like there's got to be a great deal going on at Twitter that never makes the public news. Some sort of giant behind the scenes power struggle. Maybe one day we'll get the full story.
Precisely. "It's fine" is the problem. It doesn't need to be fine, it needs to compete with Photoshop to be a serious tool in the space it serves. And what the vast, vast majority of artists have said is that it is insufficient for that.

Can you crop a photo in it? Sure, once you figure out the placement of things.

Can you perform serious photo manipulation? Somewhat, although Photoshop takes way less cognitive cost (so more people can be more productive).

Economics of attention are important.
Amazon let’s the same thing happen in their store: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=1+tb+flash+drive&crid=1XK7KPUOQ4X...

It’s horrible and they won’t do anything about it despite contacting them via help requests and Twitter.

3 of the top 5 listings are total scams.

And Amazon’s choice for 1TB flash drive is a scam: USB Flash Drive 1TB, Flash Memory Stick for PC/Laptop, Ultra Large Storage USB Drive, Portable Thumb Drives (Black) https://a.co/d/cTi7XqZ
When I started reading there were few comments telling about how lame the article is. But next line is a diamond of observing:

One thing stuck out: everybody in front of me only consumed content created within the last 24 hours.

I have no smartphone and basically do not know how people are using them. Now I know why I don't feel a needness to get one - I really prefer to consume something timeless from my laptop with thousands of good books.
In the old days you needed to adhere to standards such as ISO to be able to bid on government contracts. If you weren't standardized then that was a barrier to bidding for a government tender. I was never really aware of how deeply such standardization impacts software development. When the market maker is the US government or Dept. of Defense then you will do what they require or be on the outside.
When I first found out about this project, I was shocked. I hadn't realise that governments had gone/are going to such lengths to manage their populations.
I really hate the cancellation thing. There's no reason it has to be that way, it's just plain extortion (that might be a bit dramatic of a word for it, but it's the dynamic).

I bought a sub a year ago because there was a good deal ($5/mo for 6 months or something). Now I have a pile of credits and a recurring monthly charge. Yeah, I knew what I was getting into, but it's annoying all the same.
True. But the "once it was known...make fake data to comply" issue applies to ~every fake-detecting method which could be applied.

Big picture, the goal is not to catch every fake. It's to (1) catch enough so that smarter fakers learn to submit their stuff elsewhere (vs. to the journal, conference, or institution in question, which really cares about fake detection). And (2) dimmer fakers are mostly caught ~promptly.
Sounds like you’ve just found a new way to look down on other people’s PL preferences. Nothing’s really changed.
Surely a compoper makes a new pope.

Exit code of white smoke signals success.

Be sure to run decompope first though.
Without tremendously disagreeing with your admittedly exaggerated point, but to add flavor:

The learning of a skill or trade -- your skip to the exercises bit -- yes, teach a man to fish, etc. But to stare at, e.g., a polynomial for the first time ever in the exercises and be asked to "factor" it ... well, maybe your Gauss, but for others, it means going back in the chapter to read the axioms, lemma, the laws, examples -- that knowledge you apply to your own understanding, allowing you to learn.

Most people didn't fly to Juneau, on a strong hunch, buy a spray paint can, graffiti a local bridge with "This is the capital of Alaska" just so they confirmed or finally learned, by being arrested for vandalism that, in fact, Juneau is the capital of Alaska. We learn this fact from, e.g., reading about it.

Not all knowledge was derived through some form of the Scientific Method. To equally play provocative, I will posit, with no linked papers, most of what we know, to a person, is not from doing, but from some form of passive communication.
I'm happy to see Odin chose snake_case instead of camelCase. At one time Zig debated switching to snake case, but that ship has sailed [0], sadly.

It seems like a small bike-shed level comment, but when I consider the code I have left in me, I'd like it to look as nice as possible.

0 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1097
So you hate godaddy because a lot of entities decided to register their domain through them?

I'm not sure I follow. Is there some previous godaddy history that I'm missing here and would explain such a statement?
FYI, we have consumer systems with over a terabyte of RAM.
That would seem ill advised. Having the whole cake should make you worry a bit about a growing population of people with nothing to lose.
I hope Google will remove this feature. I don't like strange website writes something balabalabala to my clipboard without my permission!
Author here. I finally finished the next chapter. Moving houses with a baby slowed me down a bit, but hopefully I can get back to writing a bit faster now that we're all settled in.
That’s a decent commit message style, actually. It would be bad if it was just “Fix”. :)
On Twitter, crypto maxis seem genuinely confused why a bunch of people (?) on Twitter (?) can’t get together and ask (?) GoDaddy to just extend the legal contract with the guy who’s now in legal trouble for violating sanctions against North Korea.

These people are beyond parody.
Several orchestras use different A's around 440, and nobody is getting prosecuted. 441 and 442 are popular right now, although some go as low as 438.

In baroque music, ~430 and 415 are also very common since they are thought to be the historical pitches of "A"
How would something like this work with litestream? I imagine that the WAL file gets written the same way, but would recovering the database allow for mojo to continue working?
Before you have family: what's fun and will improve the state of the world (not necessarily the whole world, just bits you can reach).

After having family, what benefits them may reasonably be the higher priority.
Peer review is OK but peer review is not curation. Everyone wants to get published , makes up a hypothesis that barely passes statistical significance, and gets published. Make up a hypothesis in your mind about anything , there is very high chance you will find a paper that supports it (and very low chance to find a paper that refutes it). This is like postmodernism: every possible idea is deemed to have equal weight, which leads to 1=2 . Sometimes it seems it 's more productive for a scientist to become a monk, stop communicataing and start working alone in her lab undistracted by the spam notifications of published science.
I directly worked on the planning of a replacement deposits system for a major financial institution. The existing system was written in COBOL and the vendor did not want to continue any business, including maintenance support, on this old software. We were already able to extend the software ourselves without their help to add integrations or features.

Consultants came in and offered the following suggestions:

1) Write new software to replace. Estimate $3-400 million dollars.

2) Use a product that would transpile the COBOL to Java.

We chose option 3: offer a lump sump to license the software in perpetuity and maintain ourselves. Built a layer around it to better enable the systems of engagement use cases.

The problem with #1 and #2 is documenting all the use cases and validating them after changes are made. Can you even imagine the resulting Java code for #2? There are many edge case behaviors that were either purposeful or accidental, but now relied upon by downstream software.

To summarize, there's a huge price tag to replace these systems, it's an extremely high risk exercise, and the benefits to the business are at best incremental. It's easy to see why the financial sector won't bother until either regulators force them or they acquire another institution with a better system.
This is a cool insight! Can choruses be shown to dynamically adopt "optimal" tunings for a particular song? I.e. the singers settle onto frequencies that make the song's intervals sound best?

To be clear, I'm trying to explore the idea that individual songs have optimal tunings because they only use certain intervals. So, something more fine grained even then singing for a particular key.
why do you want to go back to the old Gmail design? is the new design junk. like so many other redesigns?

and why are redesigns of successful apps so often worse? they should be better, considering the greater resources available...
> If something sounds too good to be true, then it isn't.

That doesn’t sound right.
True but hindsight is 20/20 and i imagine its tough to see how things would play out in the “fog of war”.

Pointing the finger at others is definitely not the way to go though.
I find it hard to view his statement as being delivered in good faith. Twitter pioneered some of the viral social mechanisms that are now mainstream and they continue to make decisions that clearly prioritize virality over health such as allowing quote retweets even when a user has disabled their replies to prevent harassment. Dorsey deserves just as much responsibility as Zuck for the rise of populism in the US. He gets more respect only because Facebook is used by boomers, and the cultural elite are on Twitter.
Thanks for your enlightening comment. Now myself and others not to never use Aerospike.

A 12 year old product that still has poor documentation? Plus you say TPS = TCO. That’s a good one!
On tea and the art of doing nothing
So does this mean inflation isn’t coming down once the Russia-Ukraine war ends?
This is just bizarre and makes no sense in the 21st century. We're long over the monarchy (although we haven't changed the flag, few people know what it stands for).

It's just some made-up symbolism from this brain dead reactionary government.
Western music involves a lot of instruments with fixed tunings, like oboes and trumpets, which are made in equal temperament.
https://www.readingthechinadream.com/yao-yang-my-view-of-rev...

Author, a Chinese, argues (as an aside in that article) that a conservative response and embrace of rigid confucianism in late Song dynasty to invaders from north, in contrast to the earlier Northern Song's dynamic and progressive mode, stopped China from kicking off the industrial revolution.
Noyce and the Microprocessor
that barely counts. by that logic, the electricity provider of TBL also gets some credit. In reality, only CERN does deserve some credit
Of course you shouldn't, briefs only is enough good in my opinion. Save your nice sweatpants for workouts in some public places.
Aha, so that’s why our Japanese partners often start their emails with introducing themselves. Haven’t seen the seasonal boilerplate though.
That's good stuff! Reminds me very, very vaguely of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vapZZdog0NI

Here's a small sampler. I include one that's maybe a bit similar, the one called 'crsh'

https://soundcloud.com/w37hlwyq0a/sets
Though it is true that a lot of older string instruments weren't designed to take the tension of modern strings at modern pitch, and some of them really open up at a slightly lower pitch. I'm building lyres, and many lyre people are from that "A432 resonates with the universe" crowd, so I've been using it — and I can't deny that there seems to be a sweet spot in sound for a lot of instruments at that pitch. I honestly have wondered if there's some physiological reason so many people prefer it.
I think open source is a kind of compensation for the fact that our political economy doesn't create meritocracies, analogous to how when one part of your body is injured some other part compensates. The compensation isn't "good" in the sense that it's bad to be injured and therefore to need it, but without the compensation things would be even worse.
I believe Doctorow is doing this for the reasons he outlined, but let’s be clear: his brand is all about being anti this kind of shit.

Selling out on his principles to make half a million in the audible store might still be a net financial negative if it causes him to lose credibility with the many people who buy his other books and pay his speaker fees.
If only he could have done anything at all about it. It’s just so sad that even now he has no capability of having any impact at all on this situation. So tragic.
It sounds dystopian until one recognizes that things seems pretty much so already.
H1. If it's written in word, not good.

H2. If there's no git repo with the complete code to reproduce all experiments, then you can assume it's bullshit.
When I want to discard the opinions of HN commenters I always go for tired, worn-out references that I don’t even understand myself.

A commit message has a function which is directly applicable to the craft of programming and not something auxiliary like the aesthetic properties of a shed used by the bicycle commuters. Though in this case I would disagree with the GP since “Fix <thing>” might be a good enough commit message template.
Normal DP cables in particular are entirely passive, there is no chip or coding in them that would tell source/sink what kind of cable it is. IME the most likely result of a marginal cable will be that the screen sometimes goes black for 1-2 seconds or shows an artifact here or there. With DVI, which just directly blasted red/green/blue bits on separate wires at the pixel clock (bad for EMI) it was pretty easy to end up with a cable that had issues just on the twisted pair for a particular color.
Stringing together several free tiers to host an application with zero cost
Americans don't realize that a lot of other airports around the world let you connect to other international flights without having to pass through immigration and customs. The USA is really backwards in that respect.
This pun originates from Limbo, I think. Go inherits the colon-equals for the inferred-type definition, but not the colon for type ascription, yet another way in which it could have been beautiful but isn’t.
> He has released two games in his career so far and an as-yet-to-be-released compiler that he’s been toying with for years: and he calls modern software developers unproductive!

In fairness he's been juggling multiple projects at the same time over the "for years" period that you mention: the new programming language, one major engine and game in said language, new releases for Witness and Braid, a secret game project, plus managing a game studio on top.

Also the two games he released "so far" are pretty popular and pretty well received by the critics _and_ they're programmed from scratch.

I think you're being a little uncharitable to someone that probably spends 75% of their waking life doing work (or ranting).
The way he calculated this duration is wrong. He associated FossCord as a Discord alternative, but Matrix was the true discord alternative.
I've travelled down the rabbit hole such that I have an Ergodox EZ and am in the process of building a Dactyl Manuform clone. I really can't comment on more typical non-ergo boards (but if you're interested in ergo, I highly recommend the Ergodox EZ). As your reply's parent implies, it's safe to stay with your current switches and focus on trying a board that has QMK (they're a very popular switch that balances weight/travel/actuation/tactility/sound). IMHO, firmware is the real magic with mechanical keyboards.

With all of your specifications, you might enjoy building a keyboard yourself. I'm biased towards this route as I'm taking it myself, but it really lets you get everything you want (except the multiple USB thing, I'm not sure how you would do this). I am a programmer, though, and I wouldn't recommend this if you aren't.
Twice the effort wasn't implied as twice the speed. He just meant that going from 50% to 100% effort wasn't translating into double the speed.
You sure about that - pretty sure that wealth and asset control is all encompassing.

But yeah they aren't contributing on an IC level at a company if you mean “work” as in sitting at a desk physically writing stuff.
You wouldn’t work at or invest in Etsy, Veeva, Coursera, Kickstarter, Patagonia, or Warby Parker?
Not a good heuristic, Word processors are analogous to GIMP in the photo editing world. It's what some people just know, even if Photoshop or Markdown/Pandoc/LaTeX math are just around the corner.
Many use it in spite of Slack's attitude towards the free tier.
Hope you are post burnout and recovering ok.
> Take the time and write all E-mail messages like real letters: write what you want to express; keep an eye on style, language and grammar; do not forget punctuation or salutation.

For me a salutation is kind of extra because my emails is like a comment for a commit in VCS. Nobody writes "Hello Teamlead, I have fixed a bug, here is a code, best wishes from Developer. Maybe email is not sms but it is not a physical letter being delivered days along as well.