skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Python one, Termgraph, but maybe not as feature full as this one
https://github.com/mkaz/termgraph
> It wasn't before the 3.5" floppy arrived that the term completely fell out of use about the 5 1/4" floppy.

I guess it depends on which audience or circles you ran in. I'll admit to have not gotten into computing until 1981, and then as a teen, but in that time, at that place (US, South), in my audience... literally no one used the term "minifloppy".

And by "3.5" floppy arrived..." I'm using the phrase to mean in use by something the consumer might see and be able to buy; not "invented". I had an original 1984 Mac hot off the shelf as soon as it was available, and that's the "arrived" point for me.
"This paper will challenge the distinction that is made in some quarters, but not in all, between use value and aesthetic value in literature and elsewhere, a view that restricts the realm of art and the aesthetic to a minor, often diversionary role in human activity. This view derives from the presumption that art is an autonomous activity set off from other activities and released from moral, utilitarian, religious, and other entanglements: it directs the mind to the idea of “art as such.” Such a divorce is, of course, an impossibility. No art and no theory of art ever conformed, or possibly could conform, to this standard. All art and art theory bleeds into the social realm, is contaminated with ideology, carries out moral agendas (however secretively), performs utilitarian functions of innumerable kinds, and hence can never be isolated from these enabling frameworks. Art and aesthetics can be aspectually isolated from morals and the rest at any point in time, and they have been so isolated from antiquity to the present. But there is no necessary reason to make this kind of separation. And there are further, possibly deeper reasons not to do so." - James I. Porter

https://classicalstudies.org/utility-aesthetic-and-aesthetic...
Hopes of sharp fall in household energy bills as HSBC cuts gas price forecast
Triple SEC – Simple Digital Security Scheme
A guide for a practical, easy to use security scheme. What do you think? What's your setup?
The EU's Digital Markets Act.
Let me just accept that they actually did something illegal, fine, they are not only morally wrong but also legally. And now? Do we make them pay a huge fine and climate change is averted? This seems pure distraction to me. Make some unpopular but impactful policy decisions that actually help to improve the situation instead of pointing fingers and changing nothing.
That’s an accomplishment that climate alarmists can’t claim.

Government scientists have told me we were 10 years from mass death and deprivation for those same 50 years.
In this example, you don't need to know how things (i.e. std::string) are implemented internally so much as you need to know whether or not they're expensive to copy. That's a pretty fundamental aspect of the language, if you care about performance.

If you do care and know about the particular implementation, I guess you might counter by saying that a COW string would be cheap(ish) to copy, or ditto if the string is short and the implementation uses the small string optimization. But at a higher level it's a very good general rule to just avoid copying anything unless you know for sure that it's small and doesn't use dynamic allocation.
I also didn't really love the Three Body Problem, even though many of my friends did, I had a similar review to you. (Didn't read the subsequent ones. I am a heavy SF reader, although of course i don't like everything I read, even if other heavy SF readers did!).

I wondered, like some in this thread, if it had something to do with Chinese writing styles and/or translation.

BUT. I actually really loved Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang -- translated into English by the same translator as the Three Body Problem, Ken Liu!

I think I could recognize some overlap in 'style' in writing between the two, like a certain literal descriptiveness and lack of a lot of psychological interiority. I don't know for sure if that comes from Chinese writing styles, or the translator, or just a coincidence/my imagination.

But I really liked Vagabonds a lot, despite not liking the Three Body Problem. I really recommend Vababonds! It's still a pretty philosophical book. About the experience of immigration to a culture other than you grew up in (and then return), among others. But I found the philosophical topics more engaging, and the story interesting, and the characters sympathetic and identifiable. I cared what the outcome of the plot would be, while also finding the philosophy engaging.

I'm still a bit surprised as to the Three Body Problem being so popular, don't totally understand it!
Why is there land at all at the south pole? Can't just be coincidence.
> nonsense

You really think he will buy you a horse?
Love the description, but what's the solution on an individual level?

I've missed social events in the past and then bumped into someone and they've said something like 'why weren't you at x? Didn't you see it on social media?', nobody asked me directly, so i wasn't aware / didn't go.

Some acquientices and a few friends have a group chat, they meet up about twice a year, but all year round they are posting memes and general nonsense, mostly from the people I barely know, so i put the chat on mute, but then I miss out on the meet ups i've attended for many years, since i didn't even know they where happening, it's just assumed everyone is reading the thousands of messages and huge intrusion of time from everyone all the time.

I feel like it's altered the very way we socialise and not just that, they way we learn about new stuff (most marketing is social media or internet based these days).
No he isnt.
I thought HN was better than upvoting the ramblings of random braindamaged redditors.
Micronaut Framework 3.8.0 Released
I'm disappointed by the slow progress in cryo-suspension. It seems like it should be possible, and would be very useful on earth too. You could just hop however many years into the future. It'd have fascinating social implications if people could do that.

The main problem is apparently that ice crystals grow and damage cell membranes. Surprising that that should be so unsolvable.
I don’t think that’s true. The worry is the NOx emissions (that is a combustion product from the foams, not from cooking), the amount being produced by gas stoves which was previously under-appreciated until recently.

Studies I’ve seen indicate that most domestic rangehoods (apart from the very high end ones) are not sufficient to effectively remove these gas combustion products.
It's not an ugly hack, it's about not reinventing the wheel. Pure js solutions also exist but they're a subset of the features, and using native vim gives you the benefits of plugins you already have on the system.

It's a feature, and it follows the unix philosophy. But I get that not everyone needs or wants it.
Or: Firefox has lost ~60 million users since January 2019.
There are tools that just delete your posts and comments and keep the rest in tact
This is less of a testament for AI and more of a testament of how far gone CNET is.
I just installed a new gas boiler (I wanted to go electric but it was massively economically disadvantageous). That thing is probably going to run for 20 years. If you have patience to wait a handful of decades, attacking gas stoves and waiting for trickle-up in consumer preferences to happen could be a good play. If you want faster change, tax and rebate is probably a better plan.

Utilities already have the means to bill and tax fuel. Most already have conservation rebate schemes in place. Many already have low-income billing plans and rate cards (probably all have multiple rate cards). I think you could reliably administer a tax, rebate, and capital credit scheme using mostly existing mechanisms.
I use Firefox as my primary browser, but find many sites still stumble with it.

And not just some obscure ones written 10 years ago. On a backup laptop with Linux and Firefox, BBC iplayer and CBBC games(which my son loves) doesnt work at at all.

Even on my Linux/Mac machines, I see weird behaviour sometimes.

So sad, but you do need another Chromium based browser. On Windows, I find Edge pretty good. On my Mac and Linux, I use Vivaldi.

As other people in the thread have complained: Firefox dont help by pushing their other products and changing the UI
Is it ready for GraphQL Federation?
Minister refuses to rule out changes to UK online safety bill
I ran into that issue when trying to read Yoshiki Tanaka's Legend of the Galactic Heroes. The translation for the first two books in the series was ok but not amazing, but for the third book they changed the translator and it became a complete and utter mess. I remember one part where a character says the complete opposite of what they said the previous sentence, and I'm 99% sure it was an issue with the translation and not with the original Japanese.

Still better than the copy of Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings that I once found that appeared to have been copy-pasted into Google Translate at least.
I'm in this boat.

Interacting with the UI on Firefox for iOS incurs several seconds of waiting:

Clicking the tab icon, opening a new tab, clicking back. ANYTHING, really.

Often it just dies.

If I close all tabs, it gets better. So I basically have to choose between tabs or any acceptable UI speed.

They literally went from "browser is slow with many tabs" to "now tabs are super lightweight" to "this is a shitshow".

I'm not sure how they can be so deliberate and so accidental at the same time.

I wish the board would fire those incompetent leaders and regain market value, but I'm afraid it's a collusion where everyone in power is just ripping Mozilla for what it's got before the ship sinks.

Sure feels that way.
The Da (Big) / Xiao (Small) prefixes are direct translations of family honorifics that in the simple case directly indicate the relative age of one family member to another. The more common use for family is with more layers of indirection -- so when referring to my mother's younger sister, I would say "Xiao Ai" (Little Aunt), and when referring to my mother's older sister, it would be "Da Ai" (Big Aunt).

In this case I imagine it was more in a professional context, so "Shi Qiang" -- family name "Shi", given name "Qiang" -- was likely elder or the superior of people around them, so would be called "Da Shi" (Big Shi / Boss Shi). If Shi Qiang were the younger, they'd likely be called "Xiao Shi" (Little Shi / Subordinate Shi).
I think there will be as much need for psychological and sociological shifts in aging if this initiative works out (and I think it eventually will). The way people think about aging and human potential will have to change pretty drastically.
> I think the Australians might have a few objections to that proposal... As one of them, I know I do at least!

Well, Australia claims about half of Antarctica so as long as we can enforce that claim maybe it's not the end of the country. Just have to declare part of it "New Southern New South Wales" and take it from there.

> I wonder if that would mean fewer interior deserts than a large continent like Australia has.

There Arabian pensinsula are the Sahara are surrounded on three sides by sea, but they're still very dry. The Sahara and Arabian deserts go right up to the coast. As mentioned in my reply to your other reply, as far as I know it's not a lack of water but what happens to the water once it's evaporated that causes the dryness in those areas - it goes up into the high atmosphere and comes down in rain over the tropics. Wish I remembered the name though.
The personal carbon footprint was also a public relations invention of fossil companies. The whole point is to blame individuals for the systems they were dependent on that created by extractive industry in order to make some people fabulously rich, and to forestall changes in law and culture that would upend those business models.
Neal Stephenson's later work. My wording definitely could have been better.
Right, but if I walk out my front door and shoot the first person I see, I'm not going to dodge prison time because I didn't know the person. Someone is still dead.
The monorepo decision has little to do with VCS from my perspective - I can't think of a single case where git was the make-or-break decision point. It's primarily about operations, testing, dependency management, and release processes.

For me it comes down to this: do you want to put in the effort up front to integrate all your dependencies in a systemic way at development time? or do you want small pieces that can evolve independently, effectively deferring system integration concerns to release time?

Monorepo or Manyrepo - either way, someone has to roll up their sleeves and figure out how all the libraries and services fit together. It's just a matter of when and where you do that.
I've been wondering about what the term social media means. It came into circulation fairly late, around 2010 or so; although we used to have all sorts of phpbb forums prior to that, and nobody bothered calling them social media. Some people say social media are centered on people and their social graphs whereas the older forums were centered around topics. If so, HN would not qualify as social media, nor would reddit.
Is HN really a social media though?

You can't dm users, you can't subscribe to/follow users and the content on the page isn't catered to you: it's the same for everyone.

I don't really believe message boards are social media.
I found it amazing how much 'free time' I had after ditching TV. I became much more productive.
What is more powerful?

> JUST IN: CEO of biggest company in the world donates 90% of their wealth. Articles for years about how they did it.

> CEO of biggest company in the world joins many others in promising giving away most of their money but not doing it.

Mind you, I have nothing against rich people and crazy spending. Just don't pretend like you're so magnanimous if you're not actually doing it.
>”He has all these weird extremist overthought concepts about social interactions.”

This seems like a good description for most of Reddit. I have a feeling that the platform’s karma system is geared towards incentivizing these kinds of posts and thought patterns.
> all started under Sculley

Fair criticism. I was fuzzy on the timeline for that. So remove MacBook from the list.

What I'd say about Lisa is that Jobs saw the GUI as the future of consumer computing — in a way that Xerox never did — and spent years doing everything he could to make it happen. And it did take years to make it happen, because revolutionary change is never easy.

Ask yourself why Xerox never became Apple. Xerox executives didn't even know what they had.
Not just social media, i'm bad for watching 'self help' youtube content that actually doesn't add as much to my life is I would expect. I am not really sure about it all, because I am interested, want to learn and grow but then so much content is just filler and so much social media or reddit is mildly intreasting but not that great.

What is a good healthy way to use the internet and how do you establish that?
Any componentized UI system can do that though, in theory. JSX isn't special in that regard.
So you agree that there is some degree of punishment that is acceptable for violent criminals? And I don’t think any serious person thinks jailing forever is the only right response to violent crime; the much more defensible position is “jailing until they are rehabilitated”, but this isn’t about punishment, it’s about protecting society. As it happens, rehabilitating prisoners is extremely hard and expensive, so sometimes we have long sentences and other times we let violent offenders out to further victimize their communities.
yesterday there was a rant about parsing yml and its different versions/datatypes support
Liu seems to put stress on the world view instead of giving detail about characters. Many Chinese authors are pretty good at shaping characters, such as Lu Yao. He doesn't write sci-fi, though.
Your method is just as risky - say after you've just spent 5K on your camera an unavoidable bill of $4K shows up? Now you have no extra money and have to dip into Credit (potentially with high interest). Your best strategy would have been to have $5K on hand and still use financing if the terms are favorable - it keeps your funds at steady level, allows for future planning and gives you opportunities to invest or otherwise grow your capital. And yes, people without savings pay for that, it sucks to be such people but they are paying regardless if you take advantage of the financing scheme.
yes, as further exemplified by how difficult it is to raise social-media-free children. their entire social circles are on those platforms.
Probably meant "of late"
I prefer to use a pair of portrait-mode browser windows, side by side, and it's amazing how many sites just assume that I must be on a phone and serve me a crippled version of the page.

So many things are made worse by people half-succeeding at cleverness.
I've been Firefox user for about 10 years. The UI update from last year almost pushed me to another browser, maybe Brave or just giving up and embracing Edge.
BUT this UI fix exists [1] and is wonderful. You just paste it into your User profile folder and the custom CSS and user.js fixes the ugly UI.

1. https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix
Better to have no explanation than a bogus one, which is what it would have to be for things that haven't been invented yet.

Sci-fi should focus on the social implications of hypothetical technologies.
Because establishing a direct link to childhood athsma takes many data points, especially with a dirty sample group, such as parents who may or may not have had athsma also caused by gas stoves.
Haiku Activity and Contract Report, December 2022
I don't think that's right. That's not how I understood the article.
This phenomenon is also present in early dating.

Don’t attach your self worth to a successful or failed couple of dates, and your results will improve.
> Do we make them pay a huge fine and climate change is averted?

We should make them pay a huge fine even if the damage they did can't be reversed. Perhaps especially if.
The alternative is you could give it away early, get some recognition for a bit, and then after a year or two people have forgotten or don’t give a shit and you have nothing.
I think the title is pretty click-baity, and a much better one would be:

"Many JSON parsers fail to reject certain malformed JSON documents"

and while this can still be bad, it explains why this topic gets so little attention -- after all, generating well-formed JSON is pretty easy, and we don't often deal with slightly malformed JSON in our lives.
Ok but then they wouldn't have been lost by deleting the Facebook, the person could just get back in touch. But they seem to believe it would be weird (psychotic even?) if they did, which to me points to them not being actual friendships.
On my personal experience, relying on Intellij syncs and not knowing how git works is how we got several emergency production reverses applied in a matter of days because someone accidentally kept deploying broken changes to production, while thinking they were working only locally.
I never deleted my social accounts, but I never use them. The small groupchat with my close friends that was started pretty much on day one of the pandemic, though, is still going strong.
I didn't delete my Facebook account, I just don't ever look at it. I find a certain subversive delight in knowing that people might be sending things to me that I just ignore. Deleting your social media presence is a strident, overt act.. signaling a type of desperation, IMO. If you really want exert an level of control (or perhaps a more humble 'f you'), stop looking their dumb, time-wasting pictures and posts. Like having booze in your house that you don't drink. I never spoke to most of 'my friends' anyway.. it's clearly more fraudulent to keep up the facade of interest. Social media has some utility (and I also realize I'm probably the minority here_, but it's gone way beyond that now is mostly mindless chatter, reduced to either bragging or complaining (two things I abhor). I'm not 17 anymore, and I really don't care what 'my friends are up to'. I already know.. nothing really.
I've read that in olden times, people would teach kids (or have them watch) a memorable event, and immediately throw them into water. Just for this reason.

Only read it once, (or heard it; maybe from Huberman?), so no idea if it's true or not.
If they went all in on generated voices, would they want to work with voice actors?
The vast majority of the electricity in our state comes from coal plants. I am all for slowly switching to electric in hopes of greener sources in the future, but if we all do it right now it would arguably be worse for the environment.
That is not the argument. People can keep their money all they want. The annoyance is with trying to get accolades for something they haven't done. It's like me going around saying how in 5 years I'll quit my job and become a pauper that dedicates their life to volunteering.
I haven't heard this term, either. I've always heard 5.25" floppies referred to as "diskettes", because they were a smaller diminutive version of 8" disks.
IMO HBO Max is a good alternative to consider. They've got a lot of good content from the past and present, including solid original movies and shows.
> That's the problem with english language.

Yet in the UI in these languages isn't using the nuanced word, is it? I don't think it's an issue of the language, they sugarcoated it deliberately (or everyone misunderstood the meaning anyway).
Swift and Obj-C are both compiled languages, and also dynamic in the sense that they allow a lot of runtime introspection and dynamic dispatch.

They're already binary compatible, in the sense that you can call compiled Obj-C classes from Swift apps (of course), and also - with some restrictions - call compiled Swift code from Obj-C.

In fact, you can "swizzle" methods in Swift just like in ObjC, on classes derived from NSObject:

https://medium.com/@valsamiselmaliotis/method-swizzling-in-s...