skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's good to keep an open mind both ways, but "skepticism" without either interesting or convincing arguments is IMO just as useless.

We all know there is a good chance it turns out to be a dud. We all know cold fusion/emdrive/superluminal experiments turned out to be duds. We all know this.

I wonder what news do "skeptics" have to bring to the table. Nothing a skeptic has to say changes anything. We are all - except for the handful of actual experts here - amateurs at best, but probably ignorant peasants. Just about anything we have to say about it is just noise. I'd favor the positive noise, but that's just me.

Imagine being at a football game: "This game could easily be lost! Ah, see, another pass failed. Don't get your hopes up! Please don't cheer, please wait until the very last moment and then wait another hour to have administrative confirmation. Then wait two weeks. Then you may cheer, but only modestly."
Yeah, which implies for any finite N eventually the average will collapse, once the lucky guy's luck runs out. The expected value prediction is only true over a long enough timescale for actually infinite N (I do wonder how this scales: I would intuitively expect that the time window scales with log(N), which implies even very large N will not last drastically longer, but I don't know if that's the case)
Yes I do. I'm a bit of a collector in no serious sense.

For "real work" I still use computer calculator (Qaculate or SpreedCrunch).

But if I can I prefer one of my Casio fx-85gt.

I have a Casio 115ES (I think) which has a solder jumper bridged to enable more features I've had this for over a decade I think.

A sharp graphing programmable that has a few functions programmed in I occasionally use.

If I'm doing something for fun I'd probably use some of the log tables I've made, sometimes the slide rules.

Thanks for letting me talk about the topic I'm always trying to bring up...
The article is full of unjustified hatred for modern software practices. The author fails tô acknowledge the amount of failures of big projects and escalating costs, focusing only in the fact that today practices output less robust software.
I had always assumed it was due to Brendan Eich being the face of the project. Or the built-in adblocking. It's my preference for these reasons as a chromium default - I don't know anyone using Brave who touches the crypto stuff.
I have a TI-84 Plus. However, I mostly use eva [0] and python.

[0] https://github.com/nerdypepper/eva
You can set the recording format before the recording to better values. Sound takes little space compared to the video.
H265 and av1 should be the most optimal video formats available. Reducing the video resolution also helps reducing the filesize.
after the recording you can also reduce the filesize with ffmpeg, which can be better, since reducing the size after recording lets you get the best quality with the lowest filesize, since reducing the filesize is easier, but once it is reduced you can't revert it.
DRM is not about access or not (that can and is being done with simple authenticated content). DRM is about what you can do with SPECIFIC contents.
The MANAGE part in DRM.
Netflix requiring you to login to view a movie is not DRM.
Netflix offering a way to content owners to specify for example this movie can be seen but not download or this movie can be seen only once or this movie can not be fastforwarded, that is DRM.
DRM means Publishers decide how their content gets consumed (on a case by case and publisher by publisher case).

Nothing in this proposal gives publishers those means (beyond what is currently available). Verifying the authenticity of a device in this case is a generic "trusted/not trusted" not "OK for movie 123/KO for skipping on movie 456"
Exactly. This type of article is to make us believe school was ever useful. It was not much
Nope, he didn't. You're getting the wrong message here.

That publication is necessary to arouse his interest doesn't mean it's sufficient to make him believe anything. Those are different things.

Peer review for publication is just meant to cut out the obvious crap. It's not a guaranty, and nobody who knows this stuff thinks it is.
To be accurate, IE was not hated by "end-users". It was hated by web developers (understandably) reluctant to support non-standard apis and by informed people.
Billionaires haven’t tried at all. They only tried to create a new profit center.
They are 100% part of the problem.

The key issue is for-profit healthcare and capitalist methods isn’t going to solve it.
Having repaired a few CRTs, this whine typically only happens on aged parts. My son can hear it, but I cannot. From what I understand, as the coils move from vibration over time, this whine gets worse, calling for realignment.

The odd thing is I don't remember hearing it much as a kid in the 90's, which is why I associate it with the age/condition of the equipment. These days, every CRT I bring home is the bane of my son's existence if he is in the shop with me, but I can't hear a thing (due to the age of my equipment)
> You're paid to deliver productive work, not to ensure you're working on the greatest productivity possible at all times.

Extremes edges of the space of possibility aren't that interesting, but if you want greater compensation, you probably do want to find ways to deliver greater value for your company (and make sure they know about it).

It's very hard for a company to continue paying out greater compensation to employees than the value delivered by those employees.
The term theoretically was invented in the 1930. However it was not really used outside a very small circle and not for long.

The usage of the term, really only exploded after the Chile invasion, where neoliberalism was mentioned in a influential paper. So in that context its more about the US government doing interventions to help the US private sector.

From there the term exploded in usage, going from very little usage to being on . Like literally exploded, and 'neoliberalism' became 'the' term. The main reason it was so successful is because it literally identified 'anything that is not far left' as 'neoliberal' and therefore evil. It was 'invented' as a term to lump together the left of center and the right of center with all conservatives and libertarians. Basically it was just by the 'real' leftist to lump together the 'New Left' with 'Libertarians'. No need to have nuance because they are 'neoliberal' and therefore bad.

Of course nobody actually identified as neoliberal, the 'New Left' didn't and neither did conservatives or libertarians. Hayek or Friedman wouldn't call themselves neoliberal. It was just a term used by the left leaning intelligentsia to identify everything bad in the modern world.

The reason this was so important to have this word is because many of the reforms of social democracy in the 70-90s were actually driven by the traditionally left party. For example, in German politics its common to call the SPD traitors to the Left and call them neoliberal.

This is a pretty common and effective tactic. The libertarian version of this is 'statist'. Basically it doesn't matter if you are right-of-center social democrat or communists, its all just a bunch of 'statists'.

> Neoliberalism is a pragmatically free market with progressively minded government influence and a strong bias towards globalism.

Ironically while there basically was not actual 'neoliberal' philosophy, the last 30-40 years of writing about this philosophy essentially created its own counter-movement that is quite different then anything that actually existed in the 70s.
Thanks for tips stop50 and 7moritz7!!!
Yeah fair, and I appreciate the context.
IE didn't die until YouTube publicly dropped support for it.
They should've called it Vicuna v2.
SMS as a backup is very different to SMS as your only option. For one it can be made much more inconvenient to use SMS so as to reduce the surface area for scams. Plenty of places still have it as the primary and only 2FA mechanism. Of course SMS itself is awful which is the key problem here. What you mean is that having your phone tied to an identity is useful (what if you lose your phone? SMS is no longer at all useful) and we could do much better than SMS for that.
I have a goal to start blogging this year for personal branding. I don't even care if people follow it or find it interesting. I see it as a great way of improving writing skills and highlighting skills you have publicly.
What? Nineties were a bit wild but not "society was a mess".

> Ministers were mafia-style executed in broad day (still not solved).

I am not aware a of a single one and you are using plural. Can you name who do you mean?
Hey there, first of all: yes, there are examples of programmers that lost their mind, but none of them were coherently wondering about that so I think you're still in control of most of your marbles. That said: software development, even though it is isn't physically taxing can be mentally quite taxing, especially in dysfunctional organizations. Burning out from that is far less rare than ending up losing your mind so I'd check for that possibility first. One big common element with burn outs seems to be that there are a ton of things that you observe and think about that need fixing but that you are incapable of doing so. If that was a factor when you quit then maybe you are in fact burned out.

I spent three years of my life on an island doing nothing recovering from a mild case of burn-out and the next 15 years after that on making sure it would never happen again. It scared the crap out of me to go from being very active and focused to being unable to get myself out of bed for any reason at all. But after a while things slowly got better and as I got more tuned in to the root cause I managed to avoid the kind of circumstances that led to it better as well. Being financially more successful than before also helped a lot.

One thing that made a huge difference during those three years was that instead of doing mental work I did a ton of physical work, which served as some kind of distraction and helped me to sleep by being physically tired, rather than to lay awake all night thinking about problems.

I hope this helps, you can google my blog and the term burn out and there will be some more writing about this. Hang in there, you'll make it through, especially if you are open to reflection.

Finally: your total repulsion for the software industry is probably a commonality with everybody that has been in it long enough, we have these amazing tools and we build total crap with it, hard not to be frustrated.
IE was terrible at first. It wasn’t until Netscape started proposing dynamic HTML and making a play to take over the desktop experience that Microsoft threw itself behind making a better browser, bundling it with the operating system, and giving it away for free (Netscape was free for end users but required commercial licensing). The only point of IE was to kill Netscape, and it did. Netscape got the last laugh by open sourcing the browser, which is todays Mozilla Firefox. Mozilla was the Netscape mascot FWIW. Mission accomplished Microsoft pivoted to destroying other innovative companies and let IE languish until it was replaced by the malware browser Edge as a competitor to the malware adware browser Chrome. Fortunately Firefox, Safari, Brave, opera continue to exist.
The Bull Gamma 3 computer (1952)
See, that's why we need DRM aka Private Access Tokens [0]! /s

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-captchas-on-iphones-...
This. I think he was quite affected by it. You do a stupid thing when you are young and naive, it destroys other person's life and you have to live it with it forever.
PHYSICIST: I offer you the following gamble. I toss a fair coin, and if it comes up heads I’ll add 50% to your current wealth; if it c—

ROSENCRANTZ: (interrupting) Do it.
Sadly, no photographs of late 19th century American hotels are given. I found this post which has some nice photos:

https://www.vintag.es/2017/05/41-rare-photos-of-american-hot...
> Cloud [...] sold to [...] Hurricane Electric

I'm a customer of both GCP and HE and this would be a really, really weird merger. Not saying I don't want to see it. :)
Imagine if — on top of that - we let the undeserving rich invest their wealth in things such as:

- owning media
- lobbying the government
- owning the means of production

It could take that dire situation and make it drastically worse. I mean, in theory.
MIT Blackjack Team
It looks good. But it is a Google project, and with Google's DRM attack on the web I don't know if I'm willing to give these more traction by being among the user base.
A vacuum pen is $20 and works just as well. The relevant search is "Pick and Place Suction pen".
> This is the right method of handling such height limits, the only one that is guaranteed to be foolproof.

Well, it probably causes a lot more risk to life than the water curtain one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35960125

Regulatory capture attempts to prevent others from releasing actually-open models.
What absurdity! By that logic you might as well ask Mongolia for reparations for the sins of Genghis Khan. Babur was simply his descendent. Yes India was conquered various times in history starting with the Aryans then the Arabs, then the Central Asian Mongol descendants. I hope you get over it eventually.
Mmmm is there any source or a deep analysis from you for such a statement?
The ideal breakup would be between search engine and index.

The index should be treated as a utility like water or electric that search engines purchase access to for a regulated fee.

You can then have a thousand competing search engines started in garages with their own ranking algorithms and ads but realistically there are only ever going to be a few indexes. Thats the part that requires enormous data centers and dedicated power stations to run.
Being the better browser helped gain initial momentum in the 2000s with desktop users, but they took the lead once they made Chrome the default browser in Android. The majority of software users don't change their default settings
This is a strawman argument. You're misrepresenting the pushback and then argue against that misrepresentation.

A large part of the pushback can be summerized as such: "Google created a technology that is incompatible with the open web. Now they want browsers to change their behavior to solve some of the ways this breaks the web."

Google is the only company that can get away with this, due to their incredible market share in browser, mobile and web. Browser vendors serve as the gatekeepers deciding what the operating space is for web developers. As a result, web developers can't fundamentally change how the web works, for better or for worse. Google can, and did, and is now cleaning up the mess this left behind.

The entire argument comes down to whether you think AMP is a good or a bad thing. Either you believe it's good, and you believe browsers should change to make it work, or you believe it's bad, and it's a problem that google has so much leverage to push this tech onto us.
Another vote for my Casio FX82. Ease and speed of use are why I prefer it to any calc apps.

Though I'll admit that I have a bias towards physical, single purpose devices. I use a physical (digital) timer in the kitchen, and a physical mechanical metronome when playing music.
Many of my work tools require a browser extension that's only compatible with Chrome. The publishers don't plan to support Firefox or any other browser.

I can do without these tools (not an easy task) but not my coworkers.
This happens in the first big chase scene in the beginning of Terminator 2.
>IE was absolutely hated for not evolving. I'm curious what "its own vision" was, other than "do as little as possible, while Mozilla and Opera keeps pushing forward."

IE6 was the best for a long time, also it had

VML which it kept in place and didn't move on SVG for a looooonnnnnngggg time, because of course VML was integrated in office products as the vector markup format and probably because it was made in MS.

So they had a vision for a vector image markup, and that was what they did.

SMIL-like extensions to HTML, and the use of behaviors in css were also part of their "vision"
https://www.jb51.net/shouce/dhtml/time2/time.html

visions, like ideas, are a dime a dozen - in a browser market it matters if your visions are standards because if not they break the web.

IE's visions were not standardized and not supported by other browsers, they tried to instead do an end run around standardization. Chrome is the new IE. Chrome removing JPEG XL seems a pretty good indicator of that.

Also Safari had advanced color profiles before the other browsers, Safari does better work on accessibility than the other browsers, if most web developers thinks Safari is the new IE and Chrome is great then I think they aren't paying more than superficial attention to things.
I'd rather take my chances with the coin flips than with the politburo.
I'm a lifelong FF user, and I had problems with google docs in the beginning. I vaguely remember it was using JS features that FF hadn't implemented yet.

Currently, Chrome has a number of CSS features that Firefox and/or Safari don't support. You can find them at [1]. Some make life a bit easier, and devs use them because they like easy or even because they think everyone should force their browser maker to adapt all those features ASAP.

In an old thread, I explained that my code ignores these features because we want to be compatible with as many users as possible. I got some miffed replies saying we should make our users upgrade. Really.

Then there are also APIs in Chrome that have not been standardized, and some of which should not be in a browser (IMO), like USB access (see [2]). Some of that is an attempt by Google to replace "native" applications by web pages, which would give them even more leverage.

[1] https://caniuse.com/?compare=chrome+115,firefox+116&compareC...
[2] https://caniuse.com/?compare=chrome+115,firefox+116&compareC...
> The only solution: eat the rich.

Don't look at history when people did this, though. Just do it based on this simulation.
It can be a bad flyback transformer some leads loosen and you get a whine. Power is 60Hz in US and Canada but the whine is much higher than 60Hz.

Even a properly working CRT TV had the very high pitch whine. Any kid from the 80s or I guess 90s and back knows of the CRT whine. I recall it so high it's almost like it's in your head as imaginary or you could "taste" it in your 1970s/80s mercury amalgam fillings (maybe that was just me).

You lose that ability of your hearing pretty early in life or early teens (loud music damage?) but it couldn't be more than 20KHz the highest pitch of sounds that humans can hear.
These lesser nations are not worthy to make their own decisions, eh?

And anyway: What Chinese boots? If China has invaded, destroyed and decimated another sovereign nation and left its people in tatters in the last 40 years, please inform me. Show me China's Syria? Show me its Afghanistan, its Libya, its Yemen? Show me China's West Bank?

It doesn't exist - and that is precisely why your 'lesser' nations are choosing the "Chinese Belt and Road initiatives" over "Western-made Syrian Open Slave Markets" and "American-made Depleted Uranium Deposit States", etc ..

People across the globe don't believe the American lie any more. They've seen the products of American war hegemony, even if American citizens haven't, and they're not impressed. Better to do a deal with China that results in roads and hospitals being built, than to do it with the USA, resulting in roads and hospitals being bombed.
What do you guys think of

https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2014/01/the-fourier-tra...
Vat is irredeemably regressive. I suspect you know that.

Income tax fails in its progressive goals not because it is inherently bad (like VAT) but because the tax laws are written by the richest players. (Ask a poor person how much influence they’ve had on tax law, and then ask a top 5 accountancy firm. This isn’t a controversial statement.)
One day the FOSS community will implode over ethics and licenses when the coolest thing ever gets released
The title is really bad. "How do I do that" is the most normal response any new hire has about many things in his job and the rest of the article is not really about people having questions when entering the workforce.

The claim of the article is that around two years of social isolation and removal from normal methods of learning has significantly hurt the social and educational development of young adults and that employers now should focus more on training for new hires.
That's imho a solution for the collapse and nuclear winter.

For the civilization as we have now the plants are enough and plentiful.
I sometimes have to use Microsoft Teams at work. Microsoft Teams requires Microsoft Edge to run. I was forced to install Microsoft Edge on my Ubuntu machine. Microsoft is pushing its Microsoft Edge product even on GNU/Linux.

There are indeed the end times. I just saw cats lie down with dogs.
> The obvious conclusion: increasing wealth concentration is an unavoidable consequence of capitalism that probably has very little to do with merit.

Not really. P implies Q is not the same as Q implies P.

The fact that you can get a large gap between rich an poor with pure coin toss does not mean that when you have such a gap the gap resulted from pure randomness. It could have resulted from any combination of merit, hard work, inheritance, cheating, and luck. Your conclusion simply does not follow.
I'm pretty sure they just moved them to new teams, since it was understood they had put their best on making IE win it would be insane to lay them off afterwards.
> In the case of GCP this is untrue.

You're probably right, but anything that isn't core to their ad business seems highly risky to rely on long-term.

I certainly wouldn't risk recommending them.
I Typed Scro and the first result is Scroll Speed (Mouse) Accesibility

From that list I see (Trackpad) and goes on to other options

I typed posi and the Second option is Desktop & Dock

I typed Hig and the second option is under Appearance.

The search works for me.
When I started at my first job out of university in 1988 I was told it would be at least 6 months before my contribution to the business would be a net positive - which was probably an underestimate!
Why not? It comments on the presentation of the content. Can't we judge here on HN the font, CSS layout, animations, javascript, popups? Can we only rate raw content, text, presented on a page? Where do you draw the line? It it okay by you to comment on images?
Patents start from the day they are applied from, right? They just kept it secret until they applied for it. So the patent starts from 2020.

Anyway, I wonder how important that patent https://patents.google.com/patent/KR20210062550A/en is in the end, as it seems their way of manufacturing it is not very effective anyway and it might even be possible to find nearby compounds with similar properties.
I still use y trusty TI-89 from college nearly every day. I use excel sometimes too
This is what i'm wondering as well. In Germany, robo calls are pretty much nonexistant. Same with Spam SMS.

So either the FCC is failing the american people or the laws are insufficient, or both. This problem is solvable, many countries have done it.
For popups I blame the website developer, I read these as "let me give you a small annoyance to push a personal opinion" => ctrl+w
Yes, great idea. And to be safe you could turn on Enhanced Google Safe Browsing so Google can scan the URLs in real-time to protect you against malicious Google AMP URLs.
Threatened by their users knowing what they are doing. Never had a FB account.
HP 35s on desk, CalcTastic app[1] on mobile.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shaytastic...