skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Old guy here. I can remember fighting with and complaining about horizontal scroll bars on wide html pages. I didn't realize how good I had it. Now I fight with browser based UI's that rearrange themselves to fit in whatever width the browser is set to. Sounds good. Oh, that nav-bar on the left side doesn't fit? No problem. Now it appears as a set of sub-tabs arranged horizontally. The app knows where things are, but I don't. No thanks.

Don't get me started on links that aren't underlined blue font and only reveal themselves on mouse-over.
Oh also this is only semi-related, but the following is also really unintuitive to me: given a windowed function, it could have been constructed from any number of possible functions. But in the fourier domain, we're guaranteed that the spectrum of the windowed function is simply the spectrum of the original function convolved with sinc (which I just think of as "smoothing"). So the paradox is that the portions of the original function outside of the window can be "anything", even something completely wonky, and yet somehow when convolving its spectrum with sinc we always end up with the same thing.

Trying to puzzle this out: Let the "original" function be a superposition of the windowed portion like f1 and a non-windowed portion like f2:

orig = rect * f1 + (1 - rect) * f2

Then we have

F{orig} = F{rect * f1} + F{(1 - rect) * f2}

Now F{1 - rect} is (dirac - sinc) so we have

F{orig} = F{rect * f1} + F{(1 - rect) * f2} = F{f1} ⊛ sinc + (dirac - sinc) ⊛ F{f2}

Since convolution is distributive

F{orig} = F{f1} ⊛ sinc + (dirac - sinc) ⊛ F{f2} = (F{f1} ⊛ sinc) - (F{f2} ⊛ sinc) + F{f2}

The above I've plotted to verify, and it's intuitive so far.

rect * orig = f1

F{orig} ⊛ sinc = sinc ⊛ ((F{f1} ⊛ sinc) - (F{f2} ⊛ sinc) + F{f2})

= sinc ⊛ (F{f1} ⊛ sinc) - sinc ⊛ (F{f2} ⊛ sinc) + F{f2})
= sinc ⊛ sinc ⊛ F{f1} - sinc ⊛ F{f2} + sinc ⊛ sinc ⊛ F{f2}

But sinc ⊛ sinc = sinc (easiest to see in the fourier domain), so the second terms cancel out and we get = sinc ⊛ F{f1}

So I think the real magic here is that for any function f(x), f(x) - sinc ⊛ f(x) is a function that gives 0 when again convolved with sinc. The math works out so that sinc is precisely the function which captures that "uncertainty" as to what the portions outside the window are. Really mind-blowing.

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But back on topic to your question, note that even truncating your data doesn't get rid of the sinc ringing, it's always there as an artifact of the windowing, it's just not always revealed by the discrete sampling of the spectrum. The sinc ringing itself tells you the measure of uncertainty. In terms of how to practically use this information of a DFT though, probably just taking the spectrum values of magnitude above sinc main-lobe/side-lobe ratio would be good enough? Or interpolate the DFT values to reconstruct the DTFT spectrum and then resample it yourself? I can't be of much help here, I'm more comfortable with the theory than practical usage.
Discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33658404 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33720104 previously.
>How large was the team? I personally find teams reaching 6+ members too large.

That does not mean that all of those people had a single manager and were all responsible for the same chunks of code.

Most likely there were 3-4 sub-teams responsible for different parts of the system.
If the same rioting was happening at TV set or X-Box factories, I'd be very interested.

If "Apple" is the aspect that makes it newsworthy, I'm more unhappy that the bar is so selective than that unhappy that we were juiced into clicking.
I know what a RTG is.

I'm talking about this, a different topic entirely, as RTGs cannot practically meet these requirements: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26152/the-u-s-military...
Interesting. I don’t think I’d enjoy that. It seems like it would give an advantage to people who would are most willing to push the boundaries of what exactly is considered fair play. I prefer a vigorous competition with obvious in/out of game boundaries. But, of course, that’s just me. I’m certainly not here to tell you and your friends not to enjoy things!
Google docs works great but does require some discipline. There is always someone that starts working on a copy without telling anyone or switches to word/excel and local copies because they “need” feature x. Sometimes this is actually true, for example a legal document with esoteric numbering for headings. You’re going to buy a copy of word, not set out to explain the virtues of Google docs to your lawyer.

As much as I hate to admit it, sharepoint works better here.

On the upside for Google docs, commenting and edit suggestions work so well it’s become easier convince people to use Google docs without downloading copies.
Static vs passive cooling, I think is what you're looking for here.
"Do we need to stop something called a 'mass extinction'" is certainly a take.
The guy remains well-connected to wealthy, powerful people. He may serve a bit of jail time, but ultimately he will fail upwards, as they all do.

I find it a little grating, but whatcha gonna do?
John Carreyrou’s bombshell article about Theranos came out in 2015, and Elizabeth Holmes wasn’t indicted until 2018. The gears of justice grind slowly, but they grind fine.
If they don't care enough to undo what you did, is it really hurting them?

Would you say the same if they were shooting heroin?
Cool topic, but completely unacceptable to rant 20 minutes on tangentially related topics before getting to the actual issue at hand. I understand that Youtube prefers longer videos for monetization, but this is absurd.
That was Karl Marx:

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/karl_marx_382655
I'm sure these boats were quite small yet I'm imagining an underground river with rafts crewed by technicians in mopp suits.
The guy telling you how to invest to hurt companies that "hate free speech" doesn't really seem like a reliable source of market tips.
In 2012, GitLab was just a HN beta. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4428278

In that year, Twitter had 100 million users and already functioning build system, that they opensourced soon later.
People should be keeping a week off water handy if they live somewhere this is possible. It's not hard to, it's relatively inexpensive, and it's pretty much fire and forget.

If you live in somewhere threatened by climate or earthquakes or volcanos, store some food, water, and basic medical supplies!
I guess it depends on if your definition of "intelligence" includes a basic self-preservation clause.
I see the news value of the changed blog post and I appreciate the canary, but this does read like an ad for NordVPN.
The number of times I decline my kids' requests for screen time and then immediately return to my own laptop or phone is quite remarkable. We excuse it under the guise of work, research or organisation, but those things easily bleed into general browsing and social media.
They certainly are not, but most people learn them when they're young. I've found that motivated healthy, competent young people rarely turn into bitter adults without a major tragedy.
They’re not even leaning. They’re doing literally nothing. They could easily provide proton wrappers for their games with no effort. But they don’t, it’s all up to the user. Then you spend more time configuring the game than playing it.
Each bullet point can be a massive undertaking, especially at scale. "Being able to post/view media (image/video/polls)" think about how much media that is. How much infrastructure you need to support that. How much it takes to make tools to manage that infrastructure.
Show HN: I made a MMO pixel art game (metaverse?)
Programming for Absolute Beginners: Using the JavaScript Programming Language
Most music is extremely repetitive; it's not like they usually play prog rock for grocery store BGM.

(Well, recently I was in a Whole Foods and they played Once in a Lifetime, which is at least a little different…)
Have you seen how slower is the new authenticator app?
Proton is a frontend to Wine.
Agree. Sounds like a very biased hiring manager. And they seem to have fantasies about laughing prospective employees out of the room. Doesn't sound like a great place to work - doubt anybody good would be interested to work there in the first place.
We're talking about referring to individuals the way they want to be referred to. That's it. It's basic respect.
JVM is one of the most brilliant pieces of engineering in history.

Also, there are more large companies running on way more "shoddy" technologies like Rails, which Twitter also used up to some point.
I get that it makes and moves heat... What process is it using to create the electricity?
Or, engineers.
It boggles my mind how much people think "active users" is like some kind of fungible unit for engineering work required.
Another option to blocking is throttling speed. Make time-wasting (or worse) laborious to access and make the woodworking videos on YouTube full speed.
Google limits YouTube quality to 720p on iOS Safari with adblock extensions
No, it's a good thought. Thanks for sharing. We've talked with her physician about the possibility of this being some early signs of dementia. We don't have actual family medical history, but what we know from word of mouth lines up with dementia-like symptoms. So it may run in the family.

But she is still functional and able to do the business of life. For now.
Isn't this guy a billionaire himself?
No, I did not accuse anyone of any fallacy.

You should learn to read and understand English before making yourself look like a complete idiot by autistically screeching about fallacies.

I’ll hold your hand: Not all slippery slopes are fallacious, I never suggested that the one presented earlier was. I suggested that without supporting evidence it’s a weak argument, that’s strictly different than calling it an outright fallacy.
> At the end of the day you are using a DRM front end (steam)

I take it you don't use Steam.

Yes, Steam is DRM, but it's the most non-intrusive DRM to have ever existed. You can play your games offline. There are no "false positive" errors when it comes to copy protection. No activation limits. I've done at least 5 system overhauls since Steam came out, and I've never had it tell me "Sorry, you can't reinstall that game!"

I mean, yeah, if you're the type to go "ALL DRM IS BAD!", then none of this will convince you. But it should be worth noting that I have NEVER heard of anybody getting blocked from downloading or playing a game they bought from Steam.

> that fragments the mod ecosystem

More like, it replaces it with an excellent platform. Have you even HEARD of Steam Workshop?

> and obfuscates the process of installing and running the software you paid for on your own computer.

This is a feature, not a bug.

Also, once you've installed a game, you don't even HAVE to run it through Steam. You can just as easily find the executable and run it directly.
https://archive.ph/dQroD
Google has thousands of engineers just on point 1 of your list - search results.
1. This moral panic is either overblown or wildly inconsistent.

As the issue at heart is young people's screen time, the article did nothing to demonstrate that it is not overblown. Old people watch TV is not a comeback that negates the young people's issue.

Is the moral panic inconsistent? Hell yes, and for very obvious reasons. The negatives matter a 100 times more for people at the beginning of their lives, as well as for our future as a whole.

2. If it's impossible to imagine the same kind of government restriction being proposed for aging adults, why accept it for other groups?

Because they're old. Old means you're close to death. Pretty much nothing matters anymore.
The parent poster, a 99.99%ile brilliant engineer (seriously) and entrepreneur has a long history of posting libertarians talking points on any vaguely related topic.
Sometimes it is, until you start comparing between wildly different companies and business models.
> BTW, retired folks don’t have a greater capacity to vote, as compared to all voting age qualified voters. Mobility issues in fact make it harder.

I think a lot of it is simply that many younger people are too busy to vote, or have too many appealing alternatives, or just don't get around to it; retired people have much more time on their hands, so they are more likely to do it.

A good way of levelling that playing field is what we have here in Australia – compulsory voting. If you are eligible to vote and don't, the government will send you a letter asking for an excuse, and if they don't think that excuse is good enough (you can appeal their rejection of your excuse to court), they'll fine you (for federal elections it is only AU$20, although if you don't pay that on time, they add another zero on the end). Added to that, voting is always on Saturday, a day which the majority of people have off work – and those who have to work that day (or are observant Jewish/etc), can go to an early voting centre before then, or cast a postal vote. Young people are much more likely to vote when you force them to.
It would be interesting to try this with Apple Stores as well, though it would obviously require different monitoring and logging spyware.

(What may also be worrisome is thinking about how such spyware might be commonly used in other situations.)
Unless something important has changed, I don't think NMR is very useful for protein structure above about 30-40kDa and even then typically requires heroic technique to obtain more than a few details about torsions and interatomic distances.
Thanks. We know and are very concerned about dementia in particular. Unfortunately, she's not interested. Fortunately, she is still fully capable of carrying out the normal business of life, at least for now. Not much we can do until things progress further, but we're making financial and logistical plans for if/when that day comes.

In the mean time, subtracting even a few hours of the angry conspiracy TV would help a lot. We do see her come out of the stupor a little bit when we take her "off grid" for a long weekend. But, yes, we fear worse things are to come.
He didn't just delete a post about it, he outright banned discussion of it as an information hazard, so you'll forgive me if I don't believe him.
As a child I drove a lawnmower where the acceleration caused you to lean back, moving the levers back causing you to go in reverse, shoving you forward, causing you to drive forward, ...

It was actually the acceleration causing the back and forth (threw me off the seat before I let go causing it to stop).
It's absolutely an OKR which implies higher workloads, are you kidding me‽ I'm sure you can build some architectural rat's nest where you need 100 engineers to maintain systems that barely serve a dozen requests a second (kind of like the blockchain) but that doesn't mean you couldn't do a much better job.
Sure, but the point is that he's not CEO and associated with company anymore.

>but originally, they made a chapter 15 filing

No, it was made _later_ by Bahamas.
Twitter stock returned ~30% vs 190% for nasdaq in the same period... let's not pretend this company is even remotely close to being performant. I'd be far more inclined to believe "we rolled our own" engineering excellence stories from a massively profitable organization, rather than this confused-about-being-a-nonprofit company.

Also more broadly, people quitting en-masse with new leadership attempting to make the place profitable should tell you all you need to know about the culture.
Reading books too.

One week I was particularly aghast at my screen time measure until I realised it was counting maps and music via CarPlay when I was driving for hours a day on a remote job.
Thanks, I tried
I imagine it would have been even more expensive and unobtainable in Japan -- they historically had no source of quality iron and most was laboriously refined from iron sands and was of poor quality. This is also what necessitated the development of advanced metallurgical techniques such as repeated folding and blending of different steels to compensate.
I want a clean planet so future generations can enjoy it.
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-health/m...
To understand why you’re wrong ask yourself: would USB-C even exist if some global government would’ve succeed in mandating micro USB chargers as the EU tried in the past?! We’d all be stuck with the wold's worst connector.

Luckily usb c sucks less, but: What company will now have any reason to research a better connector to replace usb c when it’s not allowed to put it on the market?! Any innovation in this area was made illegal in the EU. Luckily we still have USA not yet succumbing to the madness.

These kinds of shortsighted decisions are why the EU stopped growing and innovating and started falling behind while becoming dependent on cheap Russian energy.

Even if well meaning and well written (two big ifs), the actual price of regulation is extremely high, it’s stagnation. But nobody realizes it because that lost opportunity cost forever disappears into the fabric of society…
Us 3 friends built connecting cities in SimCity 2013 ("one of the most disastrous launches in history" [0]). Unintentional but maybe by unconscious belief in how things should be, each of our 3 cities reflected our understanding of what work and production should be like:

- (mine, software engineer) city life, large middle class, high taxes, some luxury districts

- (environmental city planner) Almost entirely renewable energy, vast public transit, living and jobs spread evenly on the map

- ([company redacted] clerk) giant coal mine in the center of the city, mass low-end housing, unchecked health issues, ruled by iron fist

[0] https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/why-simcity-died-and-how...

Edit: redacted company name due to people really liking their samples.
or how I learned that everybody is extraordinary
There’s stiff competition out there (ex. Lit, Solid) — why should someone use this over other alternatives?
Interesting point about VR. I guess the sets and controllers are married even more so to the Windows APIs and will incur stark penalty on immersion for even slightest lag (due to API translation)?

A bummer for sure.

I also honestly was leaning more towards buying a used RTX 3080 or RTX 3090 from one of the (ex) Ethereum miners. I actually played through Cyberpunk 2077 on Geforce Now "RTX 3080" and am definitely spoiled by real time RT and DLSS now..
The compression artifacts and occasional lags and packet loss did become grating after a while though (to me). Biggest issue with GFN though is lack of games (I still don't understand why they can't just support any game on any of their integrated marketplaces. I mean it's me buying them on those platforms then playing them through GFN instances).

But I also gather here from multiple answers that AMD apparently should still be the choice on Linux. Maybe I need to wait a bit longer for them to catch up on the realtime RT and ML image reconstruction..
This seems like a reasonable argument until you go deeper.

> most people keep at least 1 hand on the reins in a critical way: they vote

> it's reasonable to be concerned about [old people's] mental well being.

So you're saying old people shouldn't be allowed to vote... because they're mentally incapable?

I remember one time in American history when certain folks decided certain other folks were mentally incapable of voting... (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test)
Makes sense, yeah. I still chuckled.
Twexit
Nothing in my post was complaining about not getting better. You must have misinterpreted what I said.

It seems like as you increase in rating, chess would become more about who can memorize the most lines or how well you have studied the opening theory. That personally sounds miserable to me.

I actually enjoy the fact that lower rated matches allow many fun lines that are "objectively bad" to be completely viable. Of course, I hope my game will continue to improve, but I'm careful not to take it too seriously.

There's a saying in skiing that I like to apply to all my hobbies:

The best skier on the mountain is the one who's having the most fun :)
>> you need to lack alternatives

People don't talk about this much. Some brilliant people I know won't start (or stay with) a company because they have too many high paying, interesting alternatives.
Sometimes though a game wont work on a specific system or hardware configuration, even though ProtonDB states it works well. Had such a case recently and tried all the fixes people suggested. Might have been some new patch or so introducing more issues or might have been my hardware setup. No idea.
Really cool to see this close to completion
Building interactive agents in video game worlds
Yeah I tried "dvmnasrtjkhqofjsenvign" and got false positives on Dribbble, Enjin, HackerNews, Instagram, Quizlet, Smule, and livelib.

Also got the same false positives with a couple aliases of mine that seem to be actually unique so far. I was a bit annoyed someone had already stole them on HN for a second.
Iceland did this? And it worked beautifully.
I’ll go further and say that criticism is _none_ of those things and that conflating is tantamount to scaremongering with a straw man.

An academic must be prepared to defend his research. An academic must be willing to change their mind when information warrants it. A researcher must expect and even welcome queries, challenges, and deep questions. A member of the academic community must politely but rigorously criticise presented research or theories because science is based on cordial mutual doubt, that’s why we insist on independent replication and verification.

Play fair but don’t be deferential. And don’t tarry every critic with the epithets of heckling. It’s called academic debate, without it you have progress, just polite mutually-reinforcing deference that advances human knowledge and technology one iota.
See how long it took them to develop their own shorted links and image uploads.
One more vote for Grapejuice. There's even a Flatpak now, so it couldn't be easier to install. This is what allowed me to move my whole house to Linux. My kids wouldn't tolerate giving up the game the play more than any other, but Grapejuice makes Roblox seem Linux native.

Only issue I've had (and this may only be with Flatpak, not sure), is that bouncing quickly from one game to another several times can leave Roblox instances running in the background, eventually eating up too many resources and causing havoc. I got around this by creating a little executable script with `flatpak kill net.brinkervii.grapejuice` in it that the kids double click before starting a new game.
I've been using Dropbox too :)
Ask HN: Why did phpBB forums go out of fashion?
I remember some such forums that were really popular and that provided a lot of value for some sub-communities. Nowadays, those needs seem to be mostly filled by Discord servers, Facebook groups and other walled-garden products. HN being a notable exception, but that seems to be running on its own stack.

My question is: is this just a matter of something going out of fashion (perhaps driven by monetization interests), or are there technical/UX/safety reasons why you'd recommend a different solution for a new community project in 2022?
I don't think there's a inviolable ratio between active users and engineers, but you do absolutely need more engineers as your user base increases: you need more people on call, more people maintaining the servers you're running (especially if, like Twitter, you run your own DCs), more people doing QA and reliability engineering because of increased load, etc.
There are plenty of folks who support “states rights” (to slavery) but don’t support fascism. They just don’t realise that they are fascist themselves (government by corporations, profit before people, find some minority group to blame for all your problems, etc)

There are also folks caught up in pro-fascist organisations simply because they want to express their general anger at the world for not living up to their expectations.