skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind, it used Opera Mini, so no actual JS was run on the device. It was rendered server side and an "image" (draw instructions, really) was essentially sent as a response.
It may work for platform like ipad that have limited number of configurations. Not sure though that Apple will be open to it.
* A distinct environment for blockquotes, distinct from preformatted code blocks.

* Fenced code blocks, rather than two-extra-spaces-before-each-line code blocks.

* Allow a to be entered with a link submission, but have it separated to form a summary comment. A summary comment would be like a regular comment (and submitters often submit them separately now), but now such a comment would be labelled explicitly as a submitter summary, and treated differently for placement: unless a summary comment (entered as such with the link) was net-downvoted (probably by more than a few points, or for an extended period of time), it would remained pinned to the top of the thread. If it did reach a sufficient net downvote status by points and/or time, it would either float normally or be demoted to the very bottom. This would preserve the advantage that no text with submissions has of preventing editorialized summaries getting a durably privileged placement, but would also recognize that having more of a summary than a headline does have a value.

ACTIVE DO NOT WANT:

Things that make HN more like "mainstream" social media: Followers, especially visible and promoted to others, Notifications, any kind of algorithmically personalized feed. (On platform DM's might be okay, though)
Gravitron is Amazon basics? It's a different segment entirely.
Amazon basics targets low-cost consumer devices and items. Im not targeting amazon here but the segment.
I think that they shouldn't remotely update ebooks, regardless of their content. (For this and other reasons, I don't really like ebooks, and I like to have a printed copy.) (It can make sense to publish errata if there are mistakes (e.g. a word is missing or misspelled, or a number is wrong), but even then you should not automatically remotely update them, and they should keep track of the changes. A public version control system would help in this case.)

I think that the original versions should be preserved, but that they can make modified versions too if they want to do; however, the modified versions should not be called Roald Dahl's original versions, and should not be claimed to be them; they should be something else. (Fortunately, this seems to be what they are doing, in this case, so that is good, but it does not justify remotely updating the ebooks.) (Copyright often makes both such things difficult though if you do not hold the copyright, but copyright is bad and should be abolished, and then you can both preserve original versions and make modified versions.)
A lot of responses from people that clearly do not have young children. Not that this means they are right or wrong, just interesting its own right.

You wouldn't try teaching calculus to your toddler.

You'd have a hard time teaching many 30 year olds why you're right on technical and/or ethical merit in this situation.

Regardless of what lessons you may help your child learn from this, what they will remember most prominently will be how you made them feel. Be supportive. Help them figure out a plan to earn an iPhone, if they want. Bullies will continue to bully, but don't make it your fault -- they will learn these lessons on their own.
My understanding is that weed-out courses largely only happen in the US, and not in Europe or Asia. In the latter, students are usually admitted into a major, sometimes after passing an entrance exam. In the US, admissions are much more "holistic" and students have much more freedom to choose their major. This inevitably results in some people who have very low aptitude for a major enrolled in it. So Departments have decided that, because they can't change the admission process, the next best thing is to weed out students with a difficult course. This usually results in a large number of qualified students also being forced out, which is very unfortunate.

I don't think there is any solution to this other than fixing the admission process. If you ever become a professor, you will quickly realize, how much even a handful of bad students can bring down the level of a senior elective. The 80:20 rule applies, where 80 percent of your time gets spent on 20 percent of the weakest students. Its a zero-sum game with the profs time. This does not discount the fact that the academy is filled with profs who have no interest in teaching.

> a 3 unit course should require no more than 9 hours of work / week

As a prof, I don't agree. Semester enrolled credits x 3 should be the total time the student has to work per week. Its ridiculous notion to normalize each course to the same amount of time/week - some subjects are simply more difficult. Its up to the department to thoughtfully structure the curriculum so students have a mix of difficult and easy courses in every semester. Even as a student, I was quite glad that I got to spend 20hrs/week on Quantum Mechanics 2, and 5hrs/week on Intro to Journalism in that same semester.
That's biology stopping growth. Do you think it'd be a good idea to let the government decide how tall people can grow, if we had the technology for that?
The one near me is in kind of a sketchy area
Ask HN: Are we moving towards WWIII?
This isn't a doom post or prediction. Just curious as to what possibilities are in this scenario.

There is a deadlock in geopolitics. China is making dams on River Ganges and Bhramputra. These dams will be completed by 2028. This means less water downstream for India. For a nation of 1.5 billion with mostly agriculture based population, this would be a death knell. China also needs this water to support its industrial activities.

So, why would India not go to war with China?

An India-China War would definitely result in WW3.

Edit: If US concedes India, they stop being the world leader and instead China will take its place. This means US + Europe will side with India which means Russia will side with China. Hence, the world war.
Sutter Health offers this with no annual fee.
Cynical take: Seems like an excuse for Shopify to add eye tracking to product pages for ad analytics
research, rarely. running their department, designing courses and materials for other faculty to teach with, as well as a lot of organizational housekeeping chores (of the sort handled by non-faculty staff) at 4 year schools? constantly.
What sort of indoctrination are children going to go through by reading that a character is "enormous", instead of reading that the same character is "enormously fat"? Did you even see the list of changes?

You're proposing a conspiratorial idea to a scenario that has a way easier explanation.
These are pretty fascinating...

> Since Shradiko uses overlay filesystems, the packaged program should not expect changes to files in system directories to be permanent. For example, editing files in /etc with a packaged text editor will not actually change those files permanently. Changes to files in user home directories will still be permanent.

> The program will think it is running as root. Some programs refuse to run as root or require special options for that to work. For example Chromium requires the --no-sandbox flag to run as root. This does not, however, give actual root permissions.

One of the use cases that comes to mind is being a Manjaro user and deciding between something like this and AUR.

I'm new to the distro, and so far not loving that AUR feels kind of like "an option, it's there, use it" but also likely to be the source of so many problems.

Debs meanwhile are everywhere.

(It'd be funny to use this to get pal running on my Manjaro machine, assuming pal is still in Ubuntu repos.)

Just what comes to mind though.
I remember him from lots of movies, looks like he always was doing the same character, something like a stoic MTF trying to solve something in the film, any film.

That worked like a charm to form some part of me, like look this guy took like a man (yeah, I know we're not in that times anymore, but bear with me in this one), and it's making it work, you could too.

So I'll remember that from him.
Does your biology analogy stretch to macroevolution aswell?
I guess you have to keep it ultra brief in order to not contribute towards over bureaucratization of everything. If investors don’t ”help you” after half a year of sending these monthly, you might as well stop sending them? Perhaps a quarterly meeting face-to-face would be more productive then…
If you have ever sat down and written or typed for a hour straight, it will become clear that the thinking/processing wasn't all done beforehand. Thoughts can lead to new ones and flow from one to another.

Either way, in the absence of very compelling counter evidence, I'll defer to the expert opinion of the author on how their brain works
Well they're doing a bad job at that then, since everyone knows that this is happening.
Looking at human nature - the psychology of it - in these highly technical environments is very refreshing. It has to be faced sooner or later, I say.

Further recommended reading material (which I read and loved) - Will Stor's "The Status Game".

"Dollhouse mangers’ purpose is recognition from higher-ups."

Yup, that's "The Status Game" right there.

Several types of status game are played:

- "Virtue" Status Games (conforming to a framework, no matter how ill-fitting to the real world)

- "Prestige" status games - designing an elegant system, and being respected for the elegance and cleverness

- "Dominance" status games - for HR and management types, who control and unnecessarily oppress everything, striking fear into employees to conform.
Imagine leaving this unsupervised overnight
"incredibly brittle" sounds like a massive exaggeration. I've been using MacBook Pros of some form as my main machine for a decade now and they've followed me around the world, usually in a backpack without proper padding, used in very humid environments throughout Southeast Asia, dropped, used outdoors with volcano ash falling on the machine, rain coming in sideways that I've failed to shield it from, I've taken several spills on my bike where I fell on my back with the backpack with laptop in it taking the fall, they've held up to everything. The only failure was that g*ddamn butterfly keyboard.
“If this does provoke copycat lawsuits, a lot of copycat litigants are going to find out that precedent is only useful in its original court jurisdiction.”

I mean… duh? Kenyan jurisprudence doesn’t count for much.
It’s a nice mixture of text editor, wiki and low code app builder.

Plus, it communicates to investors, candidates and other outsiders that “we’re smart but too busy doing the important things to optimize our docs system.”

Five years ago Notion wouldn’t have communicated that, but it’s easier to reach for now so doesn’t signal too much thought about which tool. If that makes any sense.
My providers urgent care never has much of a wait time anyway.
Why would an India China war result in wwIII when they have already traded blows for many decades without it causing wwIII?

What treaty obligations bring other parties to bear arms?
Money? No press is bad press
The point is, those terms should not be legal.
I could be wrong of course—after all my comment is from the POV of an outsider looking in.

But, just going by what you said—if budget is supposed to be a constraint, well, FAANGs have the money to waste, don’t they? Also, hiring for hiring’s sake makes sense from a strategic standpoint especially during their respective growth eras—they needed to deplete the industry of the best programmers around, so that entrepreneurs can’t just startup and compete with them and take away their business.
is this specifically just SF? I haven’t had much trouble in the rest of the bay. I guess worst case you can drive a bit farther?
I find that really surprising, would you elaborate? I love julia but I haven't found a repl or pluto based workflow that I am anywhere near as productive in for prototyping algorithms as I am in Matlab. And it typically doesn't even run that much slower.
You can pose estimation of these parameters as an optimization problem. https://sites.google.com/ttic.edu/self-sup-self-calib
How do you do snapping on OSX? Can you talk more about good one monitor workflows? Do you have workspaces or all windows are in one workspace? Etc
I am sympathetic to companies caught on a technicality, not to most of the non-compliance cases

> How much money do you think the big tech firms spent on GDPR compliance?

A lot. They spent more in pretending they were compliant with it though

Here's a better idea, don't actually capture data you don't need and it will be very cheap

Meanwhile I have little sympathy for those who abuse user data collection
silent the views you disagree with by making them unreadable and it's rather trivial to set up for folks here

this stopped happening immediately after I created new account, if HN would be transparent and showing who flagged or downvoted your comment and everyone would need to provide publicly visible reason for doing it we wouldn't have this discussion
But consider that when you get a speeding ticket your car insurance goes up and you often end-up paying far more than just the initial infraction fine. And you can be automatically disqualified from driving entirely once you get enough points on your license.

So if the fine were even remotely as impactful as a speeding-ticket is to a normal person then GoodRX would have just earned 3 penalty points on their business-license, have substantially higher business indemnity insurance costs, and once they hit enough points and caught doing-business-while-impetuous (DWI) again then the state would seize their business and crush it under a tank[1] and those at the wheel would be behind bars.

Somehow I doubt anything remotely close to that will happen to GoodRX and its management when this inevitably happens again.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14380367
what is the knuth airgap?
You are probably correct in about ... six months when Starship officially hits orbit.

The only real thing that Orion has going for it is that it is brutally effective. If we need something to launch fast, it might not be that much on civilization level effort to get a big honker going.

Again, big IFs.
> can have third-party apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Zoom, Skype, WeChat, Viber, etc installed.

And all of those still aren’t Facetime & iMessage. The fact that’s they’re third party apps is friction enough. The fact that you don’t need an android to use them is enough. The fact that this takes place in America so I doesn’t matter what other countries use is enough.

It’s like this: Nearby Share will never be superior to Airdrop since not every android comes with it. It’s superiority doesn’t come in that it could be a superior service, it comes in that’s its available out of the box no configuration necessary. Every iPhone user is able to use because every iPhone user has it. There’s no installation required to get it and it’s easy to use in less than 5 seconds.

> iMessage absolutely pales in comparison to Telegram.

Telegram is great. I like telegram. I would never ask for someone’s telegram. Here’s a little known social media secret for telegram: it’s notoriously used for porn.
I absolutely recommend you read Neal Rackham’s SPIN selling, and Major Account Sales Strategy. Additionally, read the Mom Test by Fitzgerald if I remember correctly. These books literally walk you step by step of how to uncover problems and discuss them with your prospects, customers and people in general.
I read 27 books last year, mostly relatively short novels. At that speed, I’m not going to work through my backlog of public domain classics before I'm dead in a few decades. Particularly since copyrights have started expiring in the US again at a rate of one year’s worth per year.
> battery life

The iPhones battery life has been amazing since the 11
I didn't see this book edit as the main issue at play here at all. I'm not that furious with the edited book, even if I may disagree with it. It just shows the importance of having full control of your own devices. My ereaders are not connected to the internet, and all ebooks are sideloaded.
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Yeah the Diamond Age is profoundly brilliant for about 2/3rds, but the last act just gets too weird for its own good and doesn't really resolve. Still fantastic to be in that world though.
KP has a reputation for rationing care and more bureaucracy when seeking specialists compared to other insurance.

It is a good value, and works well for those who 1) aren't particularly involved in directing their own care or 2) are extremely aggressive in asserting themselves. People in the middle get frustrated.
I really don't buy that at all sorry. My son's only ever had an Android device and it's never been an issue (he seems to mostly use Discord for group chat). Giving in to bullying like that and literally helping make the Apple-monopolisation situation worse seems the worst possible response. Plenty of kids come from families that surely can't even afford to buy all their kids any sort of phone at all let alone the latest iPhone.
Kids getting teased/bullied at school is par for the course and part of growing up - if it's not having the latest iPhone it'll be something else anyway. Unless it's obviously getting dangerously physical the most important job you have as a parent is to ensure your kids are equipped with the mental and emotional wherewithal to deal with it.
Or if not framework, like the Pine 64. I believe Pine64's laptop is pretty much a laptop shell that houses one of their boards. Make a laptop shell that you can drop in any reasonably dimension-ed SBC and hook it up.
No, it does not, but people here really like bringing it up.
Because if your allies get attacked, you come for help. That's what being allies means. If US doesn't participate in history's biggest war, they'll cease to be a world power. And US will never side with China.
I'm not sure why it would necessarily be WW3? Why not just a war between India/China? Not every war is a world war...

But yes, expect there to be wars in the future. There's a war going on somewhere pretty much at any given time.
> Apple obviously subsidizes the cost of iMessage currently from their iPhone sales.

Yes, and that kind of anticompetitive behavior is what the EU is trying to curb.
Remove "written in Foo language" ending from the titles.

They are upvoted by the hyped fans of the language regardless of the value of the link content.
For me, it's not so much the screen size as the ergonomics. Haviong the screen at the correct height to enable good posture. Separate mouse an keyboard for comfort.
I haven't tracked any of the peak oil stats and petroleum stuff since it became apparent that BEVs / Solar / Wind are the strategic winners.

And the EROEIs get even worse if any sane carbon taxation / sequestration costs are applied, if any widespread damage from fracking is charged (as in set-your-tapwater-on-fire stories), or the horrific environmental destruction of tar sands (which use ungodly amounts of freshwater to try to get the oil out of the mined sands).

I guess that claimed EROEI on fracking is 5-10x. No idea what it is like in practice, I assume there should be a distribution that could be analyzed.

Tar sands peak at 5x, and I bet that is only in the best case. Why tar sands is still a thing, does any Canadian know? Is this because oil/gas has penetrated the Canadian government lobby and made it too big to fail?
This is nothing. In a few years kids and their parents won't even think to ask if their book is legit, let alone know that it isn't. Most people don't even know it right now. By the numbers, essentially no one even knows this just happend. Go ask the next 100 people you see.
Yeah, I've had 3 monitors forever, and for a while I tried 4 [1].

I do webinars where obviously one monitor is displayed. I find it clumsy - switching between the code, the program, log, browser, docs and so on.

In general work I focus on one task, but I find that many programs are involved at one time. Docs on one, code on another, program on a third and so on.

I also have a need for email to be open, along with Skype etc. Those get hidden often though, hence my need for the 4th.

[1] my experiment with 4 failed because the horizontal spread was too far, and it was tiresome to swivel to the 4th.i considered putting the 4th above the 3, but felt that too might be "out of eyeline". So for now I'm maxed on 3.
> in which the authority can interpret things and can act arbitrarily without solid, inviolable, democratically-made laws governing its behavior.

A speeding ticket has a fixed fine, anything more complex than that has some level of arbitrariness.

This is how things work in pretty much every other country of the world.

And of course fines are appealable, etc
> It's not like this is some new thing, either. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was edited after publishing by Roald Dahl himself

Right, and who made these changes and published them under the Dahl's name? Not the dead author, that's for sure.
For those who aren’t aware what you’re referring to: in 2021, after the Dr. Seuss estate decided to stop publishing several books due to of‐their‐time stereotypes, eBay chose to also prohibit sales of those books on its platform.
Luddite nonsense. Continuous growth in organization headcount is a negative feedback loop. Eventually it will cause sluggish revenue growth. Cancers are positive feedback. And if I get a revenue cancer that just keeps growing unbounded, I think I'll take it.
If you like Star Wars, check out the "bit of fun" that the author linked in the article's comments: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20120415121413.111a7461@lwn.net...
Could be a fun sci-fi plot, a mythical advanced AI detects a signal that does not satisfy what we think of intelligence with our limited minds, but the machine would understand and engage with the signal. Mayhem in the human world!
"The Art Life" is still available freely for me on YouTube. Perhaps it's a regional thing?
Git was the future, though. Git is the present. It's dominated for the past decade, and it's only grown more dominant during that time.
It's a smear word for 'people that care about people'
or ... there are consequences for never investing in yourself. if you treat work as work, that's all you will ever get out of it. a career is one of the most important things in a person's life and should not be taken as unimportant.

I'm also perplexed about the people who say things like 'why should I make someone else rich'. can you imagine that in an interview? yeah hire me, but you better not be making a profit on me. you better break even or lose money or I'm out! you should WANT people to make money off your efforts.
If I understand correctly, you're the one setting unrealistic deadlines for yourself. Underestimating the timeline for work is something I'm guilty of myself, especially when I know the rough outline of what I need to do.

If you were able to articulate the reasons why, could you just give yourself more room to work? Take your initial timeline and multiply it by 1.5. Sounds like your original timelines are rarely realistic anyway, so it seems honest enough to just make it arbitrarily bigger and see how that goes instead. If your larger timeline is accepted and you deliver well under that limit, everyone's happy!

That's assuming that you are able to do so. If you've got managers breathing down your neck to get stuff done in unrealistic time.. that's a different situation.
ChatGPT-based tool to make books shorter.
Number 1 on the list is ByteDance. I don’t think GPT chat bots are going to replace TikTok.