skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How can I market this?

I think you slightly late, at least for Laserdiscs - they are gone to history, now all new video already digital from beginning.

Few years ago in 3rd world, was popular to make business for digitally archiving old analog home archives. Scheme was simple - just rent cup of square meters in some crowded place and gather clients.

If it could fit other cases, business schemes could be very different, depend on case.
Starting FORTH (1981)
Pkark?
First: congratulations, you've done the hard part (accepting there's a challenge that you need to overcome). Seriously, you probably feel like you're at the bottom of a very deep hole, but that acceptance gives you the opportunity to start climbing. Also, 16 years is not "greybeard" territory. At all. You have plenty of time.

Second: you're looking at a journey of continuing self-discovery. There is no "one technique fits all". Don't judge yourself for not reacting well to any particular thing; use it as a way to better understand yourself - your current strengths, your biases, your blind spots, etc. Was the thing annoyingly obvious? Did you feel like the presenter was patronising you? Did it all go 'way over your head because you couldn't work out the basic premise?

Going wide, especially while you are trying to find yourself, may help you find a thread, or a style, or a philosophy that resonates with (or delightfully challenges) you.

With that said, I am a big, big fan of Plauger's 'Programming on Purpose' books. Nothing is perfect, but he does a remarkably good job of laying out basic principles - building blocks - that can help you go from programming intuitively ("cowboy style") to making software in a deliberate and intentional way. Because the books are collections of magazine columns, they're easily digestible in small pieces - good for reading on transit, over a cup of coffee, etc.
I can't see it. I've no idea what problem was solved by the current weird IEEE behavior.

It must have been a biggy because this solution means your domain now loses the property that, in general, x == x. This property is a fundamental axiomatic feature of any notion of equality. A non-reflexive equality isn't just weird - it's daft/stupid/surprising.
This is comparing a war over European territory to a war that accompanied an attempt at nation building far outside of Europe.
What data do you have/use to claim that HN criticizes one more than the other?
Love it! haha
I’d also note that expectations have increased, too. Consider for example how much people expect to just work when they type text into a search box, when the corpus is gigantic, in many languages, and constantly updating.
Mom test is really great book!
Good thing we have this completely legitimate apolitical institution doing the important work of enforcing checks and balances on the other branches of government!
so you kept the just in sequence supply chain of some Chrysler plant alive with a perl script that could import their sequence orders from floppy disks into your system, just as if they had arrived via wire? amazing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_in_sequence
go stockfish!
This is the kind of high quality technical content I come here for.
I was vegan from when I was about 11 to 25. My family decided to try out vegan eating as a healthy choice, in part due to my dad's high cholesterol. We all felt more healthy and enjoyed the food we were eating.

I gave it up when I started traveling to China. I decided that it was more important to me to be able to enjoy the rich culinary traditions and be a part of the communal culture than keep to my diet at the time.
Great argument to cut US defense budget in half. If we can defeat Russia for pennies the US is vastly overpaying to defend against paper tiger enemies.
Possibly related to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-are-wonderful_effect ?
This is a weird straw-man of the YIMBY argument. There's a huge (gaping) chasm between blocking heavy industry and grievous environmental damage and standing in the way of your neighbor being allowed to add an ADU to their house.
Very good points. The similarities seem mostly to begin and end with "short form blogging". Livejournal and Tumblr had (much) more in common than Mastodon and Twitter. Even AIM vs IRC had more similarities (In case it's not clear, I'm not a zoomer).

They're both fine for what they are...but one doesn't replace the other.
What is Twitter and its success(2007)
> Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy institution based in Washington DC

> CEPA’s mission is to ensure a strong and enduring transatlantic alliance rooted in democratic values and principles with strategic vision, foresight, and impact. Through cutting-edge research, analysis, and engagement, we provide innovative insight on trends affecting democracy, security, and defense to government officials and agencies

In other words, it is a US government sponsored, CIA think tank about manipulation of European countries, and CIA/NATO unofficial media publisher.
Russia has occupied parts of Ukraine since 2014, and now they wanted more. What strategy should Ukraine have taken that leads to all of:

1. No full-on invasion in feb’22

2. The full withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine and the restoration of the pre-2014 borders.

3. Ukraine being free to seek to join Nato and/or EU.
> The language "trouble surviving the winter" plainly suggests massive numbers of Germans freezing to death

You are arguing semantics of specific words people use in informal internet conversations, which is pointless. There is absolutely nothing implying literal meaning of the word "surviving".

I, for example, always assumed that it meant the collapse of German industry, German cozy way of life, and likely German government.

Obviously people won't be actually dying - that would be completely fucking stupid. Worst case scenario they'll just start burning everything they can get their hands on.
That was weird. Makes sense once you know about NaN's incomparability, but still surprising.

I had to try it in Python (3.10.4, Windows on x86), it worked fine:

>>> import math
>>> a={math.nan: 1}
>>> a
{nan: 1}
>>> del(a[math.nan])
>>> a
{}
Very intuitive. I haven't even watched the video before using it.
Content moderation clearly found the line and blew past it. Those who have been taking advantage of this seem immensely upset they are losing this power. Really playing all their cards down and are talking about leaving the game and going out back.

What seems inevitable is the US government starts hosting public forums to talk; but being bound by free speech. Virtually anything goes unless it's an actual crime. What happens after this?
Russia just showed very clear to the whole world how weak it is. In this light, non-western players happily take their gas/oil/money and trade, but it's them who make the rules and the prices. Soon they will make economical inroads and make the country dependent - even faster if the government destabilizes. They will be as free and self-sufficient on the world stage as North Korea.
> not left v. right

The whole Twitter furore is so obviously at its base a political one that I have to take issue with your comment.

From my observations the 'sky is falling', butt-hurt, desperate for Twitter to now fail group are very firmly on one end of the cultural-political spectrum. They're angry and affronted that "their guys" have lost control of it, because it's a very important thing to be in control of.

We should stop dancing around it and acknowledge that there's a political aspect to this whole thing.
If you’re interested in genomics I’d recommend working for a commercial entity in clinical/translational genomics side rather than in academia. I have worked for a few of the big names in the space and although they had their problems the work was very rewarding as you’re closer to the patient impact.
It’s got to be a traumatic change for people that had real influence via Twitter and have now exiled themselves to a mastodon ghetto where they address a minuscule audience of diehards.

Fwiw I haven’t really noticed anything I follow on Twitter changing much other than various cracked out hysterics from time to time.
That's app-ist. The app doesn't care and has no morals; stereotyping based purely on the app implementation name is just as stupid, and frankly, the people that do that, I wouldn't want any part of, anyway, because they are idiots. This is no different than avoiding a race because it is the one believed to be predominantly associated with crime.

The technology can literally handle 10-100x the amount of traffic on the same hardware; to exclude it based on a few bad actors is absolutely moronic.

And frankly, shit NEEDS to be stirred up; everyone is fleeing to their comfy non-intellectually-challenging non-emotionally-challenging echo-chamber bullshit-echoing hidey-holes, and I don't want a world with people believing 2 completely different realities, because that's exactly where we're currently headed. In my experience, 90% of so-called "shit-stirring" is someone who can't tolerate a slightly different viewpoint that they could probably learn from, if they made the effort.

https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/10/01/how-to-understand-g...
For defeating biggest strategic enemy of last 100 years? Totally. Check how much USA spent to defeat Soviet Union during Cold War.
Thanks. Good to know!

I hope to see some vases created by someone with it :)
Unfortunately the reading experience is so so. But hey, I’m grateful.
I already responded but I wanted to say thanks. Your response sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole learning more about what my controllers are all about, what they’re best suited to, etc. and I’m realizing I should have done that a little sooner.

I wanted to jump in and get things done previously (and I’m glad I did that at least), but I suspect digging deeper into this will actually be a huge benefit to future projects. There’s a lot to know!
One upon a time, Crockford worked on ADSafe for a similar goal.

https://www.crockford.com/adsafe/
Physical and Logical Structure Recognition of PDF Documents
An interesting thesis from 2010 showing PDF document reconstruction via machine learning in order to rebuild a PDF with an object model.

Can anyone shed light on what the state of this art is currently?
Couple of things I know.

Bioinformaticians come in two flavors. Those that studied biology and then took up coding and then the even rarer computer scientists who learned biology. The latter are so rare that they are almost all professors or founders or work at Deep Mind etc... Then, there are the biomedical engineers, etc...

The computer scientists will go off a solve protein folding when the bioinformaticians and chemists worked on it for years.. I am exaggerating a little here, I imagine there were plenty of bioinformaticians on the Alpha Fold team, but the fundamental breakthrough was DNNs.
Similarly I had a bug where KDE's
zip unpacker would extract empty(?) folders but interpret uninitialized memory as the folder date, creating folders with a modification time after 2038 that Wine couldn't open.
Interestingly however, if they use infrared imaging they can’t do so without a warrant. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States
Studies that "show" that saturated fats don't have a negative impact on health are typically about tests where they replace saturated fats with sugar or refine carbs and show no impact or even a small positive impact. Replace saturated fat by unrefined carbs, poly and mono unsaturated fat or even protein and you get a huge jump in all positive health markers.

Check these videos https://www.youtube.com/@NutritionMadeSimple/search?query=sa...

If you find a study that you think is worth investigating contact the author, he reviews medical studies for a living and as a passion.
Cell records seem like “papers” to me. Just because this case isn’t specifically outlined in the text doesn’t mean that power is automatically granted to the government without a warrant.
Then, while you aren engaging in free speech, you are also engaging in stalking/harassment. If you stopped following the person who, presumably, doesn’t want you following them, you are still free to say whatever you like at any volume.

Free speech isn’t just “I can say whatever I want.”

It’s also “nobody can make me say something I don’t want to.”

And then also “I don’t have to listen to anything I don’t want to.” (You are here.)

And finally, “I can’t stop other people from listening to what they want to hear.”

This is the point of “if a tree falls in a forest and nobody js around to hear…” Speech is communication which is bidirectional, it can’t be free unless both sides are free to engage or not.
Absolutely. Hard to tell one badge from another on the road these days.

With this, I love a lot of the design choices in isolation - but as a whole package, I’m not quite sure. I’d need to walk around one.

Interior side mirror screens are an interesting UX choice.
Isn't "if(x != x)" the canonical way to test whether x is NaN? That seems like quite a big thing to break.
> you are assuming my stance improperly, something you probably do often.

So you continue the personal attacks then? You say I'm assuming something and yet you indicated the goal of learning CSS was somehow the priority for OP.

> I merely suggested you be helpful and give constructive criticism rather than shoving half an opinion down another's throat.

I already gave quite an extensive series of steps with numerous possible sub-steps which is helpful. Not sure why that is shoving anything down anybodies throat. Certainly more advice than "go ask frontend engineers you already know" which I imagine OP may have already done but wanted to ask a wider audience.

You definitely seem annoyed, especially as it sounds like you're really quite fixated on guessing lots about me. I suggest you re-read HN rules.
Please don't post lists of links to Hacker News. HN is already a list of links, so that's too much indirection!

Rather, please pick the most interesting article(s) in the list and submit those instead. That way discussion will be focused on the actually-interesting topic(s), rather than generically about whatever the items have in common, which is what we get when the OP is a list. That's a sort of lowest-common-denominator which makes for shallower, less interesting threads.

Lots of past explanation on this point, in case it's useful: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

p.s. This is not by any means a criticism of your newsletter! Also, I'm glad to see from https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=klelatti that you're diversifying your submission feed to HN with links to unrelated, intellectually curious articles from various sources. That's exactly what we're hoping for, and it's of course fine to post your own stuff as part of that mix.
US and Europe economies are not doing well but it is high likely that Russia will do way worse:

> According to independent analysis by the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 2022 will be a bad year for the Russian economy. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is expected to drop by at least 5.5% in the best scenario to almost 9% in the worst scenario.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/infographics/impact-sanct...
I think ”persist the input in the URL query string” could also be doable with static assets alone. The last <script> block in foo.html would need to be replaced with something like:

<script>
// calculate output and update query string when any input changes
a.oninput = b.oninput = c.oninput = function () {
z.value = foo(
Number(a.value),
Number(b.value),
Number(c.value),
);

var params = new URLSearchParams();
if (a.value) params.set('a', a.value);
if (b.value) params.set('b', b.value);
if (c.value) params.set('c', c.value);
history.replaceState(null, '', '?' + params);
};

// fill in input from query string when page is loaded
var params = new URLSearchParams(location.search);
a.value = params.get('a');
b.value = params.get('b');
c.value = params.get('c');
a.oninput();
</script>
I shallowly dismissed Python, not their work. So this does not apply.
“Why not start talking about [peace talks] before you throw another 100,000 lives into the abyss?” the second U.S. official said.[0]

You can have of course have 100,000 KIA and be winning regardless, but, in that case, why would the US be pushing for negotiations now? You’d have to be very naive to think this is humanitarian concern. So maybe that picture painted for Western audiences is not accurate after all?

[0]: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/14/u-s-ukraine-milley-...
When I worked in a factory the saying went, "He's not an asshole because he's the boss, he's the boss because he's an asshole".

It's folk wisdom but I think it is directionally correct.
Could I contact you? Very similar history, just other country.
> He just wants people to do a good job. Is that too much to ask?

No, but that's not what he has asked for. What he asked for is this:

-----
From: Elon Musk

To: Team [at Twitter]

Subj. A Fork in the Road

Date: Nov. 16, 2022 [time stamp removed]

Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.

Twitter will also be much more engineering-driven. Design and product management will still be very important and report to me, but those writing great code will constitute the majority of our team and have the greatest sway.

At its heart, Twitter is a software and servers company, so l think this makes sense.

If you are sure that you want to be part of the new Twitter, please click yes on the link below:

[Link removed]

Anyone who has not done so by 5pm ET tomorrow (Thursday) will receive three months of severance.
-----

Doing a good job is a very different request from "extremely hardcore", "long hours at high intensity", and "only exceptional performance counts". It's especially onerous to ask people to commit to this without specific details (weekends too? I assume yes), no mention of pay raises for working more hours, no mention of equity rewards (in fact, they were getting equity and now aren't, which is effectively a pay cut), no severance agreement to review before deciding, and 1 day to decide. Brutal fits IMO.
> But is there still algorithmic low hanging fruit?

Algorithmic bioinformatics has become a separate research field, because there are so many low-hanging fruit. Biotech companies create new instruments producing new kinds of data, researchers find new uses for the data, and new algorithmic problems emerge all the time. There is also a steady migration of people from theoretical computer science to bioinformatics, because it's often easier to get research funding for something bioinformatics-related than for pure CS.
I wouldn't consider losing territory equivalent to losing lives. Also, isn't the opinion of those living in Crimea important?

Ukraine wants to defend themselves _and_ to retake Crimea, something they cannot do on their own, so they need weapons. Who is winning is not at all clear. When this started, it was assumed that Russia would collapse very quickly, so far this has not happened.. at what point is this strategy reconsidered?

Is the possibility of reconsideration already at hand, and are articles such as these meant to serve as a bulwark against breaks for peace? It makes me suspicious.
I absolutely find at least the verified crowd on Twitter without knowing their usernames. Usernames, display names, and real names (if provided) should all be a viable way to find someone -- not sure this isn't the case already, but if it isn't, it's something to consider as a much needed feature if Twitter's functionality is being emulated. Relying on knowing a username already means you basically need a separate identity layer to fall back to with reference to the Mastodon account.
spidr.today [0] identifies matching stories from multiple news sources and shows the headlines side-by-side. Pretty good for getting different views at a glance.

0: https://spidr.today/
> If the costs were too damaging then ChessBase might have to shut down which ultimately isn’t good for StockFish.

Why not? It's not like ChessBase ever contributed anything to StockFish.

> It’s possible ChessBase will sadly lose many customers because of the GPL (though it shouldn’t be so) because some people in our industry and especially companies are allergic to it.

ChessBase sells B2C chess engines, not libraries. Their customer base is either pro-GPL or don't care about it.
How network effects explain the future of Twitter (2015)
The court being apolitical is a straw man argument. It spent 40 years making progressive rulings and only now that it’s ruling against those it’s become “political.”

The courts political, always has been, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Checks and balances also tend to work, it’s just the positions you hold aren’t a long held majority so the system is designed to prevent the passing of them.

Things like abortion that are majority opinions, as you see, result in actual debates that become compromised legislation. If you want change stop focusing on the president to create laws and the court to uphold them when it’s congress who is the one doing nothing and pushing blame here.
So 100% cash (if possible)?
I can easily see the fbi agents convincing him that his life was threatened by the 5 guys, offering to kill them, providing a contact for the hitman which is also an undercover fbi agent, then share the $750000
Just use iOS notes.
And this video of his is also quite funny

https://youtu.be/8Gi3MLBLMUE
Not everyone evil is as incompetent as the Russian government/military.
a.oninput = b.oninput = c.oninput = function () {

That is one slick anonymous event handler... would never have thought of that having first learned listeners in the days of Java AWT/Swing addActionListener(new ActionListener()
It depends if List<double> is an alias for List<@PleaseSpecialize @NotNull Double> or not.
A friend and I built a site and app (latest version of the app with a third friend) for finding public pinball machines to play - https://pinballmap.com/

14 years later and it’s still going strong!
The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
In theory, everyone needs a platform, to be heard. It seems to me that one question in that context is this:

How can you give people a platform, but at the same time, tame the conversation?
Your view on individual rights is far from universal. Never forget that.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcrip...

Or, alternatively:

"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." (from Article 1)

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...
„One of the most fundamental lessons I learned from my training at the Monastic Academy was that wise and loving people should have power. Power is morally neutral—used by people who lack wisdom and love, it causes tremendous harm. Used by those who are wise and loving, it can be of tremendous benefit.“
This is one of these assertions that seem to make complete sense, until you realize that there is no agreed upon definition of “wise” and “loving“, and thus we cannot even start to assess if it is wrong or right. Any assessment not starting with sorting this out will likely end up in circular reasoning („that guy is wise and loving, because he implements policies I like“, „He implements policies I like, because he is wise and loving“).
I do not intend to hate, and I do not know the author (seems respected judging by the comments), still if someone says a thing like this is the most fundamental lesson he learned, I fail to understand what he could mean. How could you learn this? It also seems a very simplistic model.