skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100%, apologies I don't mean to downplay those issues, more helping comms between two parties.

Those are legit operational issue to deal with but he was speaking more to product pain points, things that will motivate a customer.
> Like people haven't been eating processed foods for decades too?

And guess what, saturated fats are killing us. Saturated fats found in abundance in processed foods. Less processed foods don't have as many saturated fats, so this isn't really a problem you encounter with a traditional diet.

This is just an example of why're right that processed foods are bad for us.

It's not a boogeyman if it can be proven right with a 2-minute Google search.

And not this kind of Google search: https://youtu.be/Cxqca4RQd_M?t=286

Excuse me for not trusting blindy J. Random startup making food from stuff at the bottom of a glass tube. I'm sure their incentives are perfectly aligned with mine :-)
> "we only ever made six episodes back in the 1970s and they are etched across everyone's childhood"

Or alternatively sometimes scarred for life :)

And if taking a trip back through 1970's UK TV is something anyone's interested in then this is a fun book:

https://www.lulu.com/shop/stephen-brotherstone-dave-lawrence...
That's my secret, Captain
Yes, I'm angry. Stop staring at me asking if I'm okay. I'm commanding lightning to do my bidding.
I noticed that when Intel acquired a startup I had been working for: most of the people I met had spent many years there. The company culture seemed to be set up around taking good care of employees and retaining them for a long time. (They offer a paid sabbatical every seven years, for example, and it's not uncommon to meet people who have actually used it.)

I cannot imagine wanting to stay at any company forever, but Intel was a pleasant place to be. If they hadn't bombed the "fulfilling work" and "room for growth" parts of the equation I might still be there.
Such laws, if existed, would be of limited help. Would you enjoy to continue working when your boss badly wants to fire you, and your colleagues badly want to have you fired, but they can't by the law? How soon would you leave by yourself? Being fired usually at least involves some severance pay.

These laws could help though if it's just your boss who wants to fire you, but most of your colleagues would like to support you, even if silently.
I do not have experience with 86box. I've just used disks that I already had and loaded them into a QEMU disk image. Then I can do stuff like this:

qemu-system-i386 -hda win31.img -hdd progs.qcow2 -boot ca -cpu pentium -m 16 -vga vmware -soundhw sb16,adlib,pcspk

The OS then boots in a window with a C and a D drive. The D drive is where I put all the archived programs I want to play. The way I set it up initially formatting it with Windows 3.1 and MSDOS 6 and then attaching it to a different Windows 7 VM that allowed me to copy the backup files off my NAS onto the disk. Then back to Windows 3.1 for the fun.
What types of political content policing is Google engaged in on the search engine?
BUT HOW ELSE WILL YOU KNOW WHAT "PEOPLE ALSO WATCHED"?
The journalism in The Atlantic is quite frankly garbage and they are essentially importing outrage directly from Twitter to riddle their articles with ads so they can continue to grift their subscription plan.
Well done. Cool project.
This reminds me of when National Geographic had (on the cover?) an impossible picture of the pyramids - it wasn’t something you could actually take.

https://thecurrent.educatorinnovator.org/resource/when-image...
BuyVM offers a plan comparable to their 12 dollar one for 7 dollars, and you get at least 16 TB of monthly bandwidth. I say 'at least' because they do not cut you off, and throttling is manually done and a last resort.
I don't know, to me Ruby just feels like a slightly more user friendly PHP.

Vaguely similar in performance to Python and PHP (not an order of magnitude off), slower than Java and .NET (for typical web based workloads with mainstream frameworks, .e.g Rails vs Django vs Laravel vs Spring Boot vs ASP.NET), still good enough for most web projects out there.

Even Rails just seems like your average flagship framework, if not an entire platform - certainly on the heavy side, with its own quirks and opinions, but definitely a safe option for getting things done.

It's jarring to see Ruby's popularity be on the decline, though you could also say the same about PHP in many cases.
> In the early times, one could use "+" and "-" to define the search in detail. Nowadays, no +/- anymore accepted in the search, but...

This has been bothering me as it seems large sites are knee-capping advanced search. eBay used to let you search for an item using partial keywords with a wildcard but no more. Used to be simple to find a close matching part number by adding the first few digits and an asterisk.

Google search have been a mess for a long time, years. Their search results have lately been randomly cluttered by frames and boxes, their awful, idiotic snippits that attempt to provide an authoritative answer to question queries (e.g. what is the weight of water), ads that look like results, shopping categories if it thinks your looking for a product, etc.

Their results in the past were quality but now I mostly use duckduckgo because if I'm going to be flooded with SEO spam, I might as well do it anonymously. I fall back to google if DDG fails to provide me with anything useful.
How exactly "Let it crash" solves whole class of bugs in code, that cause the application return wrong result but complete without any errors? That is the stuff I will be writing unit/integration tests, no matter the language/platform.
Her approach actually doesn't focus on defecation at all, just urination, but yep, I agree with all the rest.
> worthy of being allowed to grow up into the person they would have become .... prematurely ending the life of a human being

This assumes that the zygote or fetus — if it were sentient and capable of choice — would want the particular future into which it would be born.

It also assumes that legislators and, ultimately, voters should peremptorily impose a Procrustean-bed rule [0] even before viability.

The "least bad" option (pre-viability) is for the pregnancy-continuation decision to be made by the mother and her doctor, with the father being consulted.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes
This is a very astute observation. It’s also only really possible with centralized social media, not decentralized/federated.
I just look clueless. I am not clueless.
Don't know if that is true.

https://www.bbc.com/academy-guides/music-copyright-in-tv-wha...
Soft power is enforced by hard power. Now the bidding for enforcement is outsourced to hall monitors on social media accusing even academics of being foreign agents or treasonous or some -ism.
But where can we play simcopter? I need the ability to dangle my passengers out of the helicopter in a threatening way. It’s been awhile.
>>I can't imagine who the "left wing" writers on it are supposed to be?

Rod Liddle - his brain is addled by the booze, but he still manages to phone in a few hundred words each fortnight.
If only there were a weekly version of the FT...
I keep finding top 5 results that are literal reproductions of SO questions and answers. It's genuinely useless to find rundowns of products--I either go to a few trusted sites or search with "site:www.reddit.com". God help you if you're doing any Windows troubleshooting.
There were a number of factors.

"at 44.95%, Trump had the lowest percentage of the popular primary vote for a major party nominee since the 1988 Democratic Party presidential primaries."

"A total of 17 major candidates entered the race. Prior to the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, this was the largest presidential primary field for any political party in American history."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Republican_Party_presiden...

Trump had a number of advantages:

1) He was already super famous.

2) He was an experienced TV actor and entertainer.

3) He was rich.

4) He was a non-politician, which voters like, because they hate politicians.

5) He dominated every news cycle by continually saying wildly controversial things. The news media showered him with coverage over every other candidate.
Yes! I hate this so much. The only search engine that respects what I type in seems startpage these days.

Other search engines give me results that are useless most of the time, because they do not contain all my carefully chosen search terms.
I am reading Rawls’ followup book, “Justice as Fairness”, which he describes as a kind of restatement or correction to Theory of Justice. I am not sure if it would have been better to read the original first.

The idea of the Veil of Ignorance for deriving fundamental principles of justice is now one of the most fundamental ideas in my own moral philosophy.
Sure, we can build them with "meta cells"; but that's just emulation (the same way a SNES emulator doesn't make my laptop a SNES).

We already have GoL turing machines (with "tape factories" that travel faster than the read/write head); we could likewise use those to emulate GoL with arbitrary input, just by setting up an appropriate "tape". The result is far less pretty though ;)

I touched on this in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33799084
No it does not. Just another generic "person with huge public reach complains about being criticized for their bigotry" article from the BBC. Somehow these people never see the irony about articles like this being in the biggest news outlet in the UK.
This is really nice information. Thank you!

FWIW we have recently acquired funding to demonstrate that GNS can handle large size zones by migrating TLD zones (available through AXFR for now, the number of zones supporting hat is, eh, marginal [1]) to GNS which delegate back into DNS (using [2]).

This allows GNS users to (partially) circumvent the root and manually manage their local root namespace as envisioned for GNS [3].

We think that shipping default configurations and allowing users to modify/enhance that locally is how governance should look like from the user's perspective.
If you want ICANN as default -> use the ICANN default configuration... if you need to override a censored/censoring registry, you can do that too... etc

[1] https://jpmens.net/2021/05/18/dns-open-zone-data/
[2] https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-schanzen-gns-21.html#n...
[3] https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-schanzen-gns-21.html#n...
_Proofs and Refutations_ tops the list.

Dialog and progressive discovery are crucial to solving problems, and these things happen even after (mostly after?) you arrive at a good solution. _P&R_ provides a working example of how this might go, and how a diligent and magnanimous mind might approach the process. I think it's a really fun and engaging book, too.

Works on pragmatism by CS Peirce were really impactful, though I can't recommend a specific book. In a very focused way, Peirce advocates for evaluating ideas in terms of their real-world effects, often by employing a measured skepticism.

On the psych/behavioral side, _Gut Feelings_ shows how to be an efficient thinker. Largely contrary to Kahneman's work, it vindicates intuition, but does so in a qualified way. It explains when and how to trust your instincts, and emphasizes the importance of cultivating them.
Ask HN: With youth shortening words, will time come when all speech is acronyms?
No. Refusing treatment for some cancers might be a sign of mental illness, though not definitive proof. Testicular cancer, for example, is highly amenable to treatment. Whereas pancreatic cancer is not. Refusing treatment for pancreatic cancer is entirely rational - the chances of a cure are almost nil unless it's caught incidentally during another procedure and can be surgically removed.
Right, I misread.
I definitely get the emptiness... In many ways it's totally rational to feel like this because there is no global meaning out there. Meaning only makes sense at the local level and within the confines of a project/goal. That elusive transcendent purpose can only be found within religion, which is functionally just a different kind of project.

For me, accepting this reality has been therapeutic but it doesn't help you work out what to do with your time. The search for meaning seems to be baked in to human nature so my advice would be to just choose some projects and embrace those localised meaning structures. I use the term "project" here very loosely - it could be building a game, being a better partner, travelling, improving your health, raising a child, watching all the films of Agnes Varda. Whatever!

You might ask, well what criteria should I use to choose which projects to focus on? Unfortunately there is no good answer here. If there are things you like doing or feel you want to achieve, start there. Don't take it too seriously and avoid over-analysis because humans aren't actually very good at working out what they desire anyway.

Life really is just choosing projects that resonate and focusing on them for a while. That might not feel like enough but in my experience, anyone offering more than this is probably trying to sell you something. Freedom and emptiness are just two sides of the same coin unfortunately.
I find Apple the most respectful to the customer in this regard.

I buy iPhones brand new the year they are released and I keep them until they can run the latest major ios version, typically 5-6 years (last cycle was 6s (2015) -> 13 (2021)). Changing the battery once.

It is a very good trade-off between cost and user experience.
"Almost all the top pages are the same article written in five different ways, and each only has the most basic, broad information. You can tell from a glance that the article wasn't written by a subject matter expert." Thank you! I agree 100%.
I wonder if the ‘linking schools to the internet’ was more about the rollout of the .sch.uk domain name than about actual physical internet connectivity. In 1995 ‘getting on the internet’ was still largely a case of dial up to an ISP, and while schools in general probably had a PBX system on an ISDN, turning those into ‘internet’ was not just a case of enabling a data plan.

And then on the school end, they might have had a lab of computers, but 1) probably Acorn Archimedes at best and 2) probably on an econet rather than Ethernet LAN if networked at all; so getting those computers ‘linked up’ to the internet was going to be tricky.

So your ‘linked to the internet’ school would more likely be one PC in an office on dialup to an ISP for email.

Or maybe a simple webpage hosted by a friendly local university?
I was inspired by a friend who saved hundreds of Webcam selfies of himself at half hour intervals. The face.com API classified the majority as “sad” or “angry”.

Mentioned in my Quantified Self talk here at 1m 15s:
https://vimeo.com/42239564#t=1m15s

This led to the development of LifeSlice, which lets anyone do the same, and I now have s as decade of 30-min periodic selfies. Not sure what I’ll do with them all but it’s interesting to see myself age. :)

I don’t look angry, but can confirm that I’m at best expressionless when concentrating at the computer.

http://wanderingstan.github.io/Lifeslice/
I took out an Economist subscription for the first time this year, and I've found it really mixed. Lots of interesting articles, but I'll agree the analysis isn't as good as many other sources I've seen (in my view).

What's the bigger blocker for me is the anti-LGBT+ lean. For example the most recent article on trans rights: November 19th - 25th 2022 issue, "Transgressions", page 29 in print. It's not even the insidious "see both sides" argument you see often, but just unbalanced rehash of old claims with no analysis, research, or further thought. In the same issue, The Economist jumped to the defence of Qatar (“In defence of Qatar”, page 18 in print) with the argument that while Qatar was terrible for LGBT+ rights, so have been pervious world cup holders. To me that’s not even an argument, that’s just a defeatist “oh well it was bad before so why bother complaining”.

I’m all for accepting viewpoints that are different from my own, but when it comes to “should LGBT+ people have rights” that’s not up for debate.
"Twitter’s revamped Blue subscription might not be available as an in-app purchase on iOS when it eventually relaunches so that it can dodge Apple’s 30 percent cut of App Store purchases"

$8 * 30% = $2.40 per verified account if made as an in-app purchase.

How many Twitter users would pay for a verified account (or whatever they will call it) as an in-app purchase on iOS / iPadOS ?
>[...] keep in mind that these computers did have malware on them: the spyware the researchers planted there! As a former repair tech, if I’d seen some thing writing screenshots and activity logs to disk (we would use, among other things, sysinternals tools like procmon to look for malware) I would definitely be deleting that.

I don't think that you as repair tech are entitled to manipulate any software installed by the owner. Even if your order covers malware removal and you see such activity and you suspect that it isn't installed by the customer you should contact them first, simply because such software isn't malware by definition (only in case it is installed against owner's/user's will).
Is this what “reticulating splines” means, then? Almost 30 years later and I still don’t understand but the phrase is eternally trapped in my mind.
In topology the rationals are not discrete[1]: every open interval around zero contains other rational numbers!

Also, what do you mean by "rationally-approximable"? I think the construction of the reals using Cauchy sequences is /exactly/ meant to formalise this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_space
It was indeed mainstream in Iran though. I mean, the fatwa was issued by the Supreme Leader - can hardly get more mainstream than that.
When I do quotes on google I often get hits that have the text in the description somewhere but when I open the page search for it, nada. I don't get why google can't figure out that quotes mean we actually do want the text on the page when we open it. They have a workforce the size of a small city and they can't get the most basic aspects of their job right.
You should also try the new free to play game Marvel Snap. It's actually fairly good about not requiring you to pay money yet still offer some good progression and unlocks, and there's a lot of good ideas in there for cards which only really work in a digital way or with a bunch of counters (do some things randomly, or add a bunch of temporary and situational buffs to the cards, etc), while providing super fast games (like 3-5 minutes) with a tight and small deck of cards (a player's deck is only 12 cards), and every single card is unique. And you play on locations that also all have unique abilities.

I'm friends with a bunch of people in the board game industry, as well as being a game designer (with a game signed witha publisher that still hasn't been published yet after like, four years), and everyone thinks Marvel Snap is super fun and well designed (and addictive). It's the only mobile game I've really gotten into (that wasn't just a port of a physical board game) in several years.

Slay the Spire is another one to consider as well. It's a rogue-like game where you fight with cards and build up your deck based on the choices you make in the run. The cards are fairly static (they even made a board game adaptation on Kickstarter very recently), although they can all be upgraded, which makes the cards better. I play that on PC but I know it's out on mobile and Switch as well.
My PR Day of Yes
The invisible majority of players uses Bedrock.

The majority of players that stream/post videos or use/write mods use Java.

If you want to play with friends (Macos, Linux etc.) you need Java, because Bedrock is Windows and consoles only.
DoorDash  is laying off 1,250 corporate workers
Cactus leather is a new trend. I don't own any cactus leather products so I can't say how good it is, but surely it's possible to replace cowhide with something.

Even vegan (plastic) leather is significantly better from an environmental and emissions perspective than cowhide leather. The tanning process is not exactly eco-friendly, and neither is raising cows.
The artist has since admitted on the artist's own website that they are completely manipulated and that the error was on the part of the consumer in believing that they were anything except completely manipulated.
Thank you so much for sharing something so personal. I have a family myself, and as much as I love playing at being the hero at work, I always have to look around me and assess how my decisions affect those around me.

My wife "doesn't work" but does more work than I do. What I do professionally isn't possible without her.

Your comment just reaffirmed my priorities. Thank you.
I have total resting bitch face, folks sometimes ask what in the meeting made me so mad. Really annoying.
Where did all the (song) key changes go?
A noble quest
Well yeah... you can be an asshole towards minorities or anyone else as long as you're not running afoul of libel and hate speech laws, that's called "freedom of speech".

"Freedom of speech" however, and this is what many of the "cancel culture" whiners forget, also runs the other way around: when you behave like an asshole, drop N-bombs or otherwise become commercially untenable,

- platforms like social media can decide they do not wish to be a platform for your speech - if not out of respect for their own brand, they have to take care to not threaten their relationships with advertisers as Twitter is finding out the hard way. The calculation is simple: the income from advertisers willing to show up next to Alex Jones-style crap is way, way lower than the income from advertisers that Twitter loses because the brands act proactively.

- same applies for direct contracts from sponsors. While this is less common with book authors, media stars are, with "Ye" being the perfect example.

- publishers and especially reviewers can decide they don't want to publish or review your books/media

- fans can decide that they don't want to buy and read your books/media

To sum up: You can be an asshole and claim you're just "asking questions" or "exercising your right to free speech", but you can't at the same time complain when actions have consequences and you're being held accountable.

And a side note regarding the popular "just asking questions" excuse: for literally every single question that LGBT people or PoC get "asked", there are tons of answers on Google, in interviews, in media, in scientific literature. You don't need to answer a random Black person if it hurts them personally if you're writing out the N-word or a Jew if it hurts them if you deny the Holocaust - even if the specific person says it does not, the overwhelming majority of evidence and opinions will be very clear.
In South Korea, the domestic search engine giant Naver also operates a blog platform and the search engine is partially optimized to surface blog content, partially because this simplifies the indexing problem to the few sources that are dominant in Korean-language content.

That has an interesting effect on how Koreans access information. Sometimes it works out badly, because top search result is not subject to any wisdom of crowds but often just one person's anecdotal view. On the other hand, you often find high-effort content by informed individuals or direct experience reports instead of SEO spam much easier than on Google.

My wife is Korean and much more fluent in the lang than I am. Her Naver search often outperforms my Google search lately in speed and quality.
DoorDash lays off 1,250 employees
"Sorry, having morals is partisan and since they were there first I am against acting morally."
Ok I guess I have to spell this out explicitly: the self-censorship thing obviously applies doubly to the trolls and doxxers and "virtual vigilantes." Nobody deserves that kind of treatment.
Tech layoffs: The Great Correction? [audio]