skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Memories are so strange.
Things I didn't think about for decades(?) came back from what you said.

I first learned to use a computer when I was almost in high school and I soon discovered the amazing world of project Gutenberg.
Even in 2001, I still only had access to dial up Internet (and that was a huge privilege in my eyes being in the middle of nowhere).
Therefore, I loved downloading plain text files of books. I didn't like reading them as such though.
I don't remember exactly why but I loved the "justify" feature in a word processor and would copy paste all the text file contents into word and delete all the line breaks to make it "nice".
I don't remember why I did it but I read quite a few books from project Gutenberg like this.

Coming back to the topic,
I'd say I am ok with leaving out the training space like others suggested
or even breaking down a single sentence to multiple lines where appropriate.
For example, I could turn the previous sentence into three lines.
First linee has just the words coming back to the topic.
Second line has everything before the oe and the third has the rest.
That is just one possibility.

One good thing about things like markdown is that
Only the writer and the editors have to fight with the uneven line lengths.
The presentation is (at least hopefully) abstracted for the reader.
Maybe we could even normalize the output text file from markdown as 80 columns.
In this scenario, markdown is our source file that we "compile" into text or html as necessary.

To further illustrate my idea,
here is the first paragraph from a tale of two cities [text file](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/98/98-0.txt)

It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us,
we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to Heaven,
we were all going direct the other way
--in short, the period was so far like the present period,
that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received,
for good or for evil,
in the superlative degree of comparison only.

As a reader, you don't even have to think about where the line breaks are (: as an editor you can see "it was the" line up nicely for all those lines. I wish I could remember why I loved justify so much though...
I would still 100% go with Gmail.

I avoid 15 years of headaches and cost and only have to spend a few days of work transferring emails to a new provider? Sign me up.
Looks nice but almost took down my browser on an M2 macbook pro with 16gb of ram. Ok, sure, I have a lot of stuff running and what feels like a thousand tabs open, but that's something else.
Use compiled binaries everywhere! End the hegemonic AntiGreen opression of dynamic languages! ;) . CORE - compile once, read everywhere is here to save us
Gave up on DDG and now selfhost my own instance of searxng.
dart_interactive: REPL for Dart, 3rd party packages, hot reload, full grammar
Still a great shot stopper, but there are much better goalkeepers than him around now. Goalkeeping isn’t all about stopping shots, the top teams want to build from the back and a goalkeeper who can actually play football with their feet is paramount to that. Keepers like Allison and Ederson are miles ahead of DDG in that regard.
When the argument is ignored and all focus is only on the person, this is ad hominem fallacy. In discussion and in debate what someone does is irrelevant. What is argued is all that matters.
Not quite the false charge but in defense against being falsely charged.

That's why you always boot into a forensic-type OS on CD before examining that USB stick that you found in a parking lot at work.

Also, I caught someone having had forbiddingly inserting a USB stick into a "white lab" PC. Which was a seldom used cybersecurity defensive practice to detect for (USB insertion) back in 2004.

It was a simple matter of a rsyslog plug-in using encrypted tunneling for its syslog messages to a remote log server. (He wryly did say, "I did not see that" and was eventually released on unrelated charges).

It's hard work to do all that because it's multiple layers ... of integrity, reporting integrity, that protects the innocent parties (as well as nabbing the guilt ones).
I’ve been tasked with maintaining our online stuff (some websites, some backend API for our app, a basic admin page for in-app feedback)

It was originally written in PHP over 10 years ago with bits and pieces added.

Over the years it's gone between hosts, Linux distributions, and many PHP/Apache versions.

I think it only broke due to a PHP depreciation once.

So if you want longevity, I'd say PHP is the best option, even if you just use PHP to generate a static site.
Yes - It is VERY hard to beat a well made 3270 gui.
On the contrary, the "religoius crap" is the guiding reason why we have modern hospice and palliative care at all. From the creator of modern hospice's biography posted at the hospice she founded:

https://www.stchristophers.org.uk/about/damecicelysaunders

"Cicely's strong Christian faith was a fundamental factor in her commitment to the dying"
> Most probably you deeply don’t care about the company’s mission in general.

Nope. Of course I don't. It's just a job. I am paid to deliver value during a pre-agreed set of hours and nothing more. I will do my work to the best of my ability during that time, after which I dngaf. The company, in turn, will treat me as a non-entity when it suits (eg. will lay me off in hard times). It is for the owner of the company/stakeholders to care about the mission, since they are the ones who profit from that care (and from the naive care of others who have no stake and yet are tricked into one-sided "loyalty").
Life is too short to put that much care and effort into making someone else a ton of money.
A cost based on high yield mines that are almost empty and 8 year old PV tech that hasn't been used in any new project since 2017 is worthless.

As is comparing electricity that costs $100/MWh after publicly guaranteed loans and after the public takes on any accident liability in excess of the cost of a quarter of one reactor to unsubsidized electricity actually sold for $15/MWh

Oh look. The more up to date version of that report:

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...

Which doesn't include mining from ores that are 1/10th concentration that would be required to expand nuclear enough to solve the problem. But it does show you intentionally picking out of date information to lie about LCOE.

When proponents of the nuclear consistently lie about everything, it makes it very hard to believe the industry hasn't done things like forge the paperwork on essential safety parts.

Luckily people like you are most likely just lying to prolong the transition from fossil fuels, and aren't part of the industry.
You are sceptical because Ukraine has turned into such a quagmire for Russia. But, without Western support, Russia's attempted invasion of Ukraine would have been much more successful. If Russia had succeeded in Ukraine, that might have tempted them to try invading other neighbouring countries. Other countries have been providing assistance to Ukraine, not just out of the kindness of their hearts, but in order to prevent a Russian victory which might encourage Russia to engage in further offensives.
Google's stance seems to be "even if you don't upload contacts, you need to say you upload contacts because we can't prove you don't". They are equating your technical ability to do something with you doing it. How is that in any way reasonable? I own a knife, does that mean I stab people? Should I have to say "I stab people" when I enter a kitchen so people know they might be in danger because there's nothing technically preventing me from going on a murder rampage?
He referred to the company as "a Ruby shop" so maybe that's a bit overstated?
No links,just follow "40 days water fast is a miracle" route
I just have to ask. What were some of the crazy things you have seen? Please don’t leave us hanging.
Well done on getting such a good domain name. I like the idea too!
Opportunistic encryption only encrypts mail transport between mail servers. Both the sending and receiving servers can read the plaintext.
Again, the current situation has much more to do with Covid and decades of bad energy policy than with Brexit. People keep mentioning Brexit but are shy on specifics.

Actually, I think many people on the right/Conservative/Brexit side are unhappy for the opposite reason: things have gone on unchanged instead of implementing change that Brexit allows: Immigration, tax, etc.
I feel old when ipod is submitted as a nostalgic curiosity
Does anyone know of any good books that teach these concepts ground-up? I would think that this area of graphics would have dedicated books on the topic, but I have not found any. Color spaces, compositing, linear, srgb, all that good stuff.
> AWS has never gone down across all regions at once.

I still recall last year's AWS LSE when AWS went down globally, due to us-east-1

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-us-east-1-out...
Starting early. Like Zeiss, Bosch and others.
Wow, I didn't expect I will like this as much as I did. This is a really neat idea and could probably be turned into an actual product. If the author added some more content (like some landmarks sprinkled on the landscape every now and then, possibly some varied terrain eg. bridges over rivers, cities/villages, windmills, dams, maybe some simple wildlife, etc.) and released it on PS4/PS5 for few bucks I can imagine it could sell pretty well.

Edit: Seems there's actually a way to support the developer on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/slowroads

Edit 2: Also props for good optimisation, it runs flawlessly on my M1 Macbook even on the highest setting.
When they start sliding down that slippery slope I'll act, but until then the service vs. cost is balanced enough for me.
Here is a thought experiment: count the number of west, south, East Asian CEOs in top companies or political positions (local to national) and ask whether North America or Europe have more of them.

To be Asian and also the face of a very public company or be voted into government is a sign of the publics tolerance of Asians being integrated in their society.
Applying a blur filter to a premultiplied image is (very subtly) _correct_, at least if the goal is to emulate what happens if you used a physical lens to blur the same image. Not only does postmultiplied alpha mess up the correct pixel values (as the original post shows), but even without alpha, you get a “halo” that is weird and unphysical.
That's a reasonable position to hold, but if the goal is FLOSS I'm not sure quasi-proprietary GitLab (the minute you go beyond the basic features in the free version) is much better than GitHub. Some folks have concerns around Copilot but in most corporate settings, employees are going to be using private repositories which are specifically excluded from the training corpus.

I think I'd have more respect for a company using SourceHut or Gitea if their priority was avoiding non-free services. I wouldn't personally filter a company on this basis (though I do have strong views on the operating system I'd have to use), but the demand for software engineers means it's quite possible and I respect folks for being principled.
Looks nice but I am not sure how "does not require signing up to a third party service" is compatible with the get started page which starts with "requires a github account and a vercel account"
Drops in the bucket while data-centers burn most of their consumed power in cooling, ups bleed, and idle unused capacity before a single line of code is run.
Do you have any recommended resources for self-learning a ground-up education in these concepts? Book, etc? I've struggled to find any good ones.
Ask HN: How do you prioritize Job offers by money and interest?
I recently got into the 'problem' of having to decide between two job offers.

* One pays significantly more (double~trippel leftover money after Tax/CoL), but the job is less interesting (java, spring-boot, transaction systems).
* The other pays good/acceptable, but works with more interesting technologies (ML and embedded software)

Note: Less interesting != boring, I don't apply for jobs I know I won't like for sure. Although I wonder if the java ecosystem and development approach is something I like long term.

I usually follow my interests, but there was never this steep a difference in payment.

Pondering this decision made me wonder, what various groups think about this - my friends don't have a clear opinion, I can guess what the FIRE crowd considers, so I wondered how HN prioritizes their offers.

So, how do you prioritize?
Great article, great machine. Probably the single most important computer of the late 1980s.

I wonder if it would be possible to write an implementation of the Cat UI on top of Emacs?
I wish the autodrive had a defensive driving option. As it is, it goes at 120 kmph on these windy roads and takes over the entire available space including the opposing lane. Wish you could limit the speed for a more relaxed cruise

This is very lovely and really relaxing (aside from the crazy speeds the autodrive goes at haha). Kudos to the creator! Btw if you haven't tried the numerous options to change weather, time of day, vehicle and even planet, go for it! There's a surprising amount of options

OH! I'm just finding out that there's a lock that's next to the speedometer that limits how fast the car goes! Damn this is so neat!
Let it rip. DHT has been around for so long now that whatever bad actors/evil use cases you're imagining have already happened. It sounds like a cool project, and I'd be interested to see it.
NimConf 2022 Videos Playlist
He mentioned in the podcast that they rent a space at the data center so I assume colocate
Insane footage showing Russian pilot's cam ejecting from shot down Su-25SM3
This is a complete fallacy. Just because output and input accuracy are low, that does not imply that intermediate accuracy can be low too.

You gave the example of a milling machine, of course in most cases you wouldn't expect it to be accurate to more then a 10th of milliliter. So you could believe that e.g. 100th of a millimeter should be more then enough as your scaled integer (meaning an integer with a value of "100" represents one millimeter). The maximum value of a 32bit integer would represent around 43km. Who would ever want to use more?

But what if now you are trying to calculate the 3D distance between two points which are about a meter (= 1000mm = (int)100000) apart in one direction. To calculate this you need a third power. 100000^3 is pretty large, much larger than a 32 bit int can hold...oops

With scaled integers you have to constantly think about whether each intermediate result is still within your range. It is a terrible, headache inducing format for many applications. The magic of floats is that you do not need to worry about so many things.
Yes, they have their pitfalls, but they are used for a very good reason and "you don't need the precision" simply is false in many cases.
Well, yeah. People poked and prodded CWC until they raped their mother, and they take dramatic readings of Francis E. Dec's insane rants and set them to drum and bass tracks. At this point it seems like the connected digital world is one big decentralized colosseum and I don't really see anyone making a real fuss. We can't call each other the N-word anymore, but socially accepted forms of abuse are still celebrated.
The interesting metric for me would be usability with mainline kernel.
It actually does generate bridges over bodies of water. If the road goes over a lake/river, it creates a simple bridge over it. I'm not sure if there are other bridge types

I'm not sure I want cities but I agree with adding a few villages and landmarks
Because that's how you know the news is on/starting.
Yeah, it's little to do with Brexit. This current crisis is mostly about Ukraine. America wants a war in Ukraine and the UK are, as always, its ride or die puppets. The whole of Europe is now reeling from energy insecurity as a result of this proxy war.

A different energy policy over the last decade could have made the crisis slightly better or worse but it was in essence as unavoidable in the UK as it is in France or Germany. France, with its aging fleet of expensive nuclear reactors may even suffer more.

The only way to absolutely avoid the energy crisis would have been to avoid getting embroiled in the proxy war.
> Good rule for email is, treat writing email as if you're speaking publicly.

...and if you treat it that way, then it's not a "horrible medium" (for "publicly", I would prefer to substitute "on the record").

If you don't like email, that's cool; there are plenty of other messaging services you can use instead. But:

- Your bank doesn't use them

- Your friends don't use them

- They are usually proprietary and opaque

- You might lose your account, with no recourse

Email is the universal baseline, the single communications channel that nearly everyone has access to.
Yeah cities might be overkill, but small villages you can just pass through would add in to the chill atmosphere of driving the countryside.
Well, Spotify does some of that as far as I know. But I'd never switch to playing my podcasts there just out of principle (even though I pay the subscription too) because I don't like how they are trying to build a walled garden for podcasts and kill RSS as a thing.
For me it hasn't degraded (or, possibly, I haven't noticed it). I think it really depends on type of searches you usually do.
Past a very baby level you kinda need to know the JVM world a bit. Lots of keywords like "classpath", Maven, reflection etc..

You def don't need to know Java as a whole, but it was actually a little challenging and confusing to catch up on the relevant JVM bits.

Educational material either doesn't use it at all or assumes you know it
It's unfortunate, but we are all going to die much sooner than we want to.
Supreme Court to examine Section 230
(original title "The US supreme court case that could bring the tech giants to their knees" seemed unhelpful and click baity but mods please change back if that's better:)

Also, an always useful primer on section 230 which is always misunderstood :

https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre...
Isn't the point of the article that as a non-user of gmail you can't opt out of giving google all your email? It's nice that you get a service for providing your emails to google, but what do I get?
Adding a distance-dependent blue tint would increase realism a lot.
Just want to add. Becoming Steve Jobs is an excellent read!
The Wire retracts its Meta stories
AntennaPod also has those stats :) I was a pretty hardcore fan of pocketcasts but eventually switched to AntennaPod and I couldn't be happier.
Dates and Times and Types in Python
With all the bloat-tastic web sites there are these days... What if a browser or plug-in displayed a little animated "Electric Meter" icon, which showed how power-sucking the site you were currently viewing was? With a few customization options (title, colors) users could re-label it as "battery sentry", "bill miser", "earth saver", or whatever floated their boat.

Seems like something that could really appeal to Joe Average User.
A bit off-topic, but out of interest, I noticed your GitHub readme states the below, accompanied with a large GIF of showing someone how to press the star button:

> The project is constantly improving with new changes being implemented on a daily basis. You can keep up by hitting the Star button!

I'm seeing this as a trend, but how does this actually work? Are you scraping user details from their profile pages, and are you sure that's allowed? Are you using some mechanism in GitHub to update users that have starred? Without understanding the actual mechanism used to keep users up-to-date, as hinted, it feels like misleading users to gain stars.
If I had to rank an oil worker, a nuclear sub designer, a tobacco salesman, and a Vice journalist in terms of their benefit to society, I don't think the journalist would like the outcome. They would have a slight edge over the tobacco salesman, but oil and gas and military engineering are both essential for society to function, regardless of their poor optics.
Netflix now supports transferring profiles to new account in US
Subsea Cables Cut in French Waters
This is an important point. The failure rate measures, "If 100 people otherwise capable of becoming pregnant have an average amount of otherwise potentially procreative sex for a year, how many of them will get pregnant?"

Nine out of every hundred is a LOT to start out with. And if the "average amount of otherwise potentially procreative sex" part increases by, say, 11%, you get one new pregnancy out of every hundred.
There is an episode of 'In our time' more or less discussing this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vrx8g
You are so right with regression and slow sofware. Tryd to install rhel8.6 on a t61p from 2009. Gnome alone used half the vram around 130mb. And was slow as hell. Git is fast? Ever tryd to use it with 3gb of ram and a laptop hardisk? Switching branch on a linux repo took 4 minutes. I then converted the repo to a bitkeeper one (took about a week), changed to freebsd and the laptop was usable again...with i3 the nvidia drivers and bitkeeper. I really think dev's should test resonable sofware on a 2g raspberry or something like that regularly.
Yeah, it is everyone's moral responsibility to consider effects of our actions as far as we're able to.
The Papa Sangre [1] video games had basically no UI and relied only on spatial audio, sadly I never got to try them (Apple pulled them from the appstore when they broke backwards compatibility).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Sangre