skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, you're making a fair point but I guess I just disagree. It's not like anyone used that phrase anymore by the time Trump pulled it out. It was always anachronistic. Meanwhile every modern usage is an explicit reference to Trump's usage. Maybe there will be a time in the future where they aren't, but it's not here yet.

You've probably pattern-matched me to a different kind of Trump-hater than I actually am. In fact my complaining about this was more of the form: I and many others would rather not think about Trump while reading unrelated tech news and using that phrase in your title is a tiresome association that is less pleasant than leaving it out.
> as well as test your apps on devices.

If only it was simple. I had a paid account and lots of test devices. I let it lapse.

Now I can’t test on my own device with my normal iCloud account as I have too many registered devices for a free account, and I can’t access the interface for deleting those old devices.

This edge case has existed since ‘free’ accounts came into existence.
Is cerebellum responsible for muscle memory?
Does the guy work in that bookstore? If he is in a different dapartment he is probably okay.
Here's a story from the trenches in the last days of RichEdit development (the Windows rich text control at the heart of WordPad): https://news.microsoft.com/2000/09/05/excerpts-from-inside-o...

This may have been after win95 shipped, but before Exchange 4.0 shipped
Ye. It is hard to give a number of significance of the effect, but it is interesting.

> I think there is some truth to this in that it's likely profitable to flood the market with mediocre products

I think a factor here could be that you don't want the customers to recognize bad products? Some appliance models rotate so fast there are hardly any (non fake) review consensus on them. It is not just no-name Alibaba, but "proper" brands to, that seem to do that.
We have made targeted and limited progress, dragged kicking and screaming by the people for whom that progress was a matter of life/death and dignity/destitution.
> I'd think this problem could be partly solved with money, i.e. hiring more writers.

That's classic Mythical Man-Month thinking.
> The idea that I "deserve" success, and to be happy, is something I've heard repeated many times but have always struggled comprehending. I think to myself, well, why do I deserve it? Just for being alive?

I get that. Some of it is because Success and Deserve are imprecisely defined - while I Deserve is declarative (and kind of precise). It makes the concept a weird fit.

Past that: I think the point of 'I Deserve Success' is to break the association between Deserve and Effort. I suspect you aren't sure those two things should be broken apart. *

As for what might work better for you: Considering whether or not you are welcoming of success when it arrives. If you aren't, Imposter Syndrome might be on the table. If you do welcome success, maybe you're already okay.

* I know I'm hesitant to break Deserve and Effort apart. It's tied to my negative feelings about telling kids they're smart - because kids can't earn intelligence. I think the unearned elevation (here, anyway) skews expectations and makes learning harder
That's just not the right question to be asking. Not everything needs to be digital. If you think handling physical cards is "faffing about", it's just not for you and that's ok.

Edit: How you're holding and dealing the cards is quite literally part of the game. You can read people by how they fling the cards when dealing or how they rearrange in their hands, etc. It's meant to be a tactile experience. It's part of the fun. Yes of course you can play whatever you want online. Call me old fashioned, but 5 dudes at a table playing cards on their phone just grosses me out.
You can't multiply by two? The fractional scale is based on reciprocal powers of two. Would it be easier for you if they were denoted in binary? It's the same idea, with the same benefits.

You are conflating two ideas. The fractional scale could be applied to metric units just as well as US customary units. Like how Americans use thousandths of inches in some cases.

Buying "American" tools is no different than buying metric tools. They come in sets with common sizes.

The metric system is in widespread use in the US and has been for decades.

You can choose to interpret the continued use of US Customary units as stubbornness or ignorance but that says more about you than Americans.

I choose to view it as Americans being comfortable using the right tool for the job instead of swinging the same old hammer at every new screw.
So this article goes on for paragraphs blaming republicans and evangelicals and the red scare and slavery. But why do democrats (apparently) hate their children as well? After all, education is 90% funded by states and municipalities. That’s not unique to the US—education is a local issue everywhere from Sweden to Canada to Germany. Why are schools falling apart in Baltimore and Chicago? Why aren’t social services for children materially better in Illinois and New York?

For example, the article prominently quotes a state Rep from Idaho to illustrate why the author’s political opponents have the wrong values. But 8th graders in Idaho do better in reading than those in California, Delaware, Oregon, and Maryland, and comparably to New York, Vermont, Connecticut, and Minnesota. https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/s.... And Idaho is a lot poorer than those states!

The author’s comparison to Greece is unintentionally revealing. Allegedly, Greece doesn’t hate its children. But Greece spends only 4% of GDP on education, in comparison to 6% for the US. Another telling data point: over 90% of Greek children live with both parents, compared to under 70% in the US.
Curious if you could share which component was the most surprisingly difficult to build.
Absolutely, just have to throw out OSHA, take land from people that own it without due process and ignore everything the EPA says.

... in all seriousness, it would be a lot more useful to compare what a developed country has been able to achieve.. even more useful is the country you're talking about.

oh look - here you go:

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/how-much-does-it-cost-t...

http://euanmearns.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-build-a-nucle...
This situation happened to me, and just in case it helps someone I thought I’d mention that the files are all saved on the disk - just go into settings and look up the location of the temporary save directory. Open that in explorer and you’ll have all the temporary files available.
Minimalistic Bash CLI Theme
Thought I would share my minimalistic bash CLI theme after getting some positive feedback from friends.
because they somehow have this idea that they own the rights to control others. Once you consider that you can force others to do anything, regardless of reason, you can begin to rationalize anything, and it will be "for the greater good" or "for their own good". They probably even sincerely mean it too.

some kind of bald man once quoted someone: "With the first link, a chain is forged..."
Rice: A Recipe for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the U. S. and China? (2023)
In dense cities? Yes. You don’t need a car to transport a load of groceries if there’s a grocery store on the 20 minute walk home from work. For larger trips, backpacks, rolling folding grocery carts, or even wagons do nearly everything a car can do. I used a car sharing service, as needed, for most of my adult life. Having moved to a city with shit for public transit, I miss the hell out of that.
The numbers there are bogus. In reality your client isn't setup to ping remote sites every 15 minutes. Instead it'll learn and only ping once per day or so (or if you force a refresh).

Whats more if you use a SaaS based service then it'll only refresh each site once for the dozens to thousands of customers who subscribe.
According to the author's Linkedin[0], Altway Insurance LLC and BlueNote AI LLC.

[0]https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mccord/
Your stomach and intestines, they aren't all necessary but they help. And you can see their structure varying significantly in different animals.

Or a tail, an entire extra limb just to keep balance a bit better.

Or ears, you can hear without them but they help capture sound a bit better.
> The native Windows development is just terrible with tens different ways and frameworks which were abandoned by Microsoft at one time or another.

As an observer... I'd recommend you find the oldest book on making Windows apps that still works on modern Windows and use that. If Microsoft hasn't killed it by now, it's probably going to keep working for the next two decades.
This just looks like the "Event Bus" [1] [2] [3] pattern, this is not the one from the React world if you were thinking about that. Hooks here are just the following, the "Hook" is just a collection of event handlers.

type Handler[T any] func(e T) error

type handlerPair[T any] struct {
id string
handler Handler[T]
}

type Hook[T any] struct {
mux sync.RWMutex
handlers []*handlerPair[T]
}

It's very useful when you want to make an easily extensible library/framework/application, as you can see in pocketbase/core/app.go you can register handlers for various things that can happen.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event-driven_programming

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish%E2%80%93subscribe_patt...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_pattern
"Last summer, my kids and I spent a month in Greece, where their grandfather lives."

Very first sentence of the article.

God do I hate this style. Do we always need to start with your own, personal, true-to-you, totally-happened experience this one time?

Is it a new thing or it's always been like that and I didn't realize it?
I'm 24, but I used a Nokia 'dumbphone' for the whole 2010s
Dropbox Forms?

https://sign.dropbox.com/products/dropbox-forms
> because they somehow have this idea that they own the rights to control others

The flip side, of course, being the folks who believe they somehow have no responsibility for how they use their rights to impact others.

Society can only function with at least some balance between these two extremes. Some of us need a little bit of chain.
I would suggest that you identify a bug or missing feature in an Open Source project that you personally use, and fix/implement it.

This helps ensure you understand the issue, provides motivation to work on it, and ideally to continue to support your work into the future.

I find there's no shortage of such opportunities, and that the interaction with the project owners/maintainers has helped me to learn productive communication strategies, good approaches to proposing new ideas, etc.
> 1080p matt finish display

The OLED that Lenovo is currently shipping for this and related hardware is not matte, but it's close. It's anti-glare, so it doesn't have the mirror finish of Apple panels.
the last known good settings needs to be stored in a format with clip-art, headlines, bold letters and embedded images? :)
Well, yeah, now.

Would they have done this if they hadn't been sued?
If professional, or, for that matter supposedly amateur sports were not so subsidized and blown out of proportion, as well as having regulatory and antitrust exemptions, it is likely there would be a lot less money in it and therefore less incentive to trade one's health for fleeting money and fame.

There is another article on the front page today about how the right amount of fraud is not zero. Align the incentives and doping will decline, and enforcement becomes less critical.
"A model that possesses the entire collective knowledge of our civilization is useless if it can't directly quote its sources."

Perhaps, for liability reasons, it cannot quote from sources that its creators had no permission to include. Even were it technologically possible to quote such sources.
Very interested in listening, thanks for the recommendation!
It means your post, above, isn't automatically copyrighted, and the public domain expands massively.

I don't even want a copyright on this post, but I've got one.
Once upon a time this was a conversation. The idea of a national ID card in the UK was widely debated and seen as a complete disaster for the reasons you raise.

The culture we live in has shifted to one of permissive resignation; perhaps because we're so deeply embedded in technology it's no longer a question that has a practical use.

How can any of this be rolled back?

The genie was let out of the bottle quite a while ago, and I don't think it can be put back.
What happens to a civilization that resolves not to be?
"Virtually every other industrialized nation provides more government aid for their children than America does. "

Somehow I knew that would be the main point as soon as I saw the title and the publication. For many, the answer to all problems is government spending.
It's only makes sense when the cost of combating the fraud is greater than the money you are losing to fraud.
100%! There seems to be a proliferation of these long form word soups offering "deep insights" that are anything but.

All you can do is try to realize it early and hit the back button before you waste too much time on it.
> Yes, it's counterintuitive to many people that "the optimal amount of $BAD_THING is non-zero" for a rather large set of possible values for BAD_THING.

How much "earth is sterilized" risk is reasonable per year?
I very recently picked up Dante, and got on an online course to help with it. I had some bravado about lit and thought, "hey, Milton is next!"

Now, I'm all through Inferno and Purgatorio, and I gotta say, Paradiso is not turning out to be all that compelling for me. Milton? Not so sure anymore.
I paid $350 for my Xbox Series X. I then spent another $120 for 1.5 years of Game Pass Ultimate (there’s an arbitrage method to convert an existing Game Pass Core sub).

For a casual gamer, like myself, I don’t see a point in spending $1500+ on a PC for diminishing returns in performance and game compatibility. It’s also common for new AAA PC releases
to be much worse than their console counterparts.

I can cheaply buy used physical games and still have access the vast majority of the Xbox back catalog. 100% of the Xbox One library, 600+ Xbox 360 games, and 90+ Xbox games.

The official Xbox Live servers for these older games are still up and maintained. It’s seamless for my non-technical friends and I to get into a COD MW2 lobby. On PC there are only community servers, and the cheaters are way more common.

I’m not trying to discourage people from PC gaming (I use my Steamdeck quite a bit too).

I think the trade offs only make sense if you spend a significant amount of time gaming, or can get more value out of the PC by using it for productivity.
I am unsure if this applied to all the flights, but most flights I booked showed the airplane model before I paid. I guess this is a good thing for customers, i.e., one can make an informed decision without too much hassle by manually checking the flight history.
WSM = World’s Strongest Man?

(Google first suggested Weston Super Mare, a UK semi-pro football club but I don’t think that’s right).
I was expecting a Micro Phone Test! Damn, haha.
There are people without cerebellum. It affects thought and emotion.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/16/3927897...
What would stop someone from gaining entry using very realistic facial prosphetics?
$800,000 is a lot of money, even after taxes you'd only have to work a few years at that salary before you could live reasonably comfortably for the rest of your life without working at all.

Seems perfectly reasonably to switch to a lower stress career at some point.
Facebook didn't kill Friendster. Friendster getting popular killed Friendster's weak stack, and then everyone moved to Facebook.
It's getting to the point that we need this again.

Ebooks are basically all epub and that's completely useless for type setting. I've had to contact authors of textbooks to try and get the latex source so I can read what the damned thing says on a screen.
Off topic: Documentation seems good on Next Step 3.3 and OpenStep 4.2 Developer CD.
Calculator on my Mac says you're close.
Honestly, I'm not a big fan of this. A 16-year copyright would cost me $65k, which would be:

- Trivial for Microsoft

- Painful for a typical HN contributor

- Impossible for anyone earning minimum wage

I think a better standard might be "actively trying to commercialize."
Well, the optimal quantity for many things is actually zero.

It's the edge cases-- the things where it's really hard to get rid of and we get some useful benefit from the related activity-- where it's nonzero.

Of course, those edge cases are our biggest world problems-- for example, pollution, because pollution abatement is hard and the industry and commerce that produces pollution is beneficial... or fraud, because fraud protection is hard and the industry and commerce that provides opportunity for fraud is beneficial.
> The idea that I "deserve" success, and to be happy, is something I've heard repeated many times but have always struggled comprehending. I think to myself, well, why do I deserve it? Just for being alive?

It’s some kind of self suggestion or fake it till you make it towards oneself. I myself think more in line with your reasoning and have trouble claiming that success unless there’s a lot of hard work involved or just a big dose of luck.
I wish there was a cool flip phone with proper WhatsApp access.
Actually it's OK if someone else would like to play cards in person without physical cards.
It used the Rich text edit control, introduced in win95.

They've upgraded the multi-tabbed notepad to use the Rich text edit control these days (win11)
your point does stand. ignore the trolls.
IFRC: Emergencies
https://youtu.be/Ad_WS6h6NJw I'm not sure, you can try here. It sounds like it might be location based.
ICTV Virus Taxonomy
Fair point. I know little to nothing about design, and don’t really care about it. It’s not that I think it’s unimportant, it’s just not something I want to expend any time learning. To be fair, I’m also not trying to create any user-facing products.

To me, rsync.net is peak design. It has just enough modernity to appeal to people who might expect that, but it quickly gets out of the way and tells you what it is, why it matters, and how much it costs.

At the other end of the spectrum, there’s tarsnap.com, which is probably a turnoff for anyone who doesn’t like text. I love it (as, apparently, do enough other people to keep its author comfortably employed), but I get that it’s an extremely narrow niche.
I know someone who did a translation for a game, a "doujin" Japanese visual novel. He got in touch with the author in order to license the game, and that went well. He then considered doing another game by the same author.

Problem for the next game was the music. The original author commissioned about a dozen of artists, problem is, he didn't own the rights, only a licence for having the music in the original game. So the translator had to find a way to get in touch with all of the rights-holders and negotiate a license for the translation with each one. Because he is just one man, it was simply too much work and he abandoned the project.

It is actually a rather common situation. It may result in cancelled projects, changing the music with a varying level of success or just removing it altogether.
There’s always Somalia. I heard it’s got great schools, if “child soldier” is what you aspire your children to be.

But hey at least no one will be there to “steal” your hard earned currency that was minted by a central government or build you those pesky roads or whatever.
WHO: Disease Outbreak News (Dons)
Amazing article, and for a layperson who’s been reading a lot of neuroscience, the perfect level of complexity. I love an article that makes you (internally) shout “why haven’t I wondered about that before?” over and over, so thanks for that. A compliment as to clarity of purpose, I suppose.

Materially;

That’s bad news for anyone hoping to simulate a brain digitally. It means there’s a lot more relevant stuff to simulate (like the learning that goes on within cells) than the connectionist paradigm of treating each biological neuron like a neural-net “neuron” would imply, and thus the computational requirements of simulating a brain are higher — maybe vastly higher — than connectionists hope.

I get where she’s coming from, and she’s not wrong, but it seems like unnecessary detour to dunk on another AI “camp” in the field for drama points and satisfaction - the Marcus Maneuver, if you will.
Connectionism isn’t a cult or an institution, it’s a paradigm that emphasis the utility of big nets of interconnected smaller pieces. Any self-avowed connectionist (are there any left? Honest question) could just retreat to “ok well it’s networks of brain cells plus smaller intracellular networks” and keep their paradigm. And all we can say to that is “ugh, I guess”, as far as I can tell!
I’m going to say it’s all about the glutamate.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38475-9
Atomization is one of the unfortunate side effects of the web. What's worse than Apple docs? NVIDIA/Mellanox docs. Use-cases are tucked away in 75 million different URLs, web pages, power-points, .txt docs, stack overflow posts and what not.

I long for time and place where I can download a standalone user-guide, a technical guide, and an API reference as PDFs and rendered as searchable docs.
Prevent Epidemics: Global Outbreaks
In Australia, drivers licenses and passports are defacto national IDs. And we felt the sting of that when Optus (2nd largest telecom provider) leaked half of the population's IDs.

Not to mention before this there was almost no way to get a new drivers license number, so if it got stolen good luck, a new license is issued under the same number.
Yes, in the automation world living on level 2/2.5 wordpad is great for doing things like taking screenshots too. In a GMP facility it could take some significant effort to get a screenshot tool or a rich text editor installed. Also, taking pictures with a phone is usually a huge no no.

Occasionally, you have to document something with…screenshots. Now, some versions of Windows Server come with snipping tool, which lets you save a screen shot. Others you still have to use the print screen key. Then what… well, you open wordpad and paste.

Luckily most of the systems we interact with now we get to install Office when the system is being qualified. Could be a huge PIA though otherwise.

edit: level 2/2.5 means no internet connection and therefore no browser based editors.
Maybe Meta should build that instead of the useless Metaverse.
About that, yeah…

> Linguistically creative students at the University of Oxford in the 1880s distinguished between the sports of “rugger” (rugby football) and “assoccer” (association football). The latter term was further shortened to “soccer” (sometimes spelled “socker”), and the name quickly spread beyond the campus. However, “soccer” never became much more than a nickname in Great Britain. By the 20th century, rugby football was more commonly called rugby, while association football had earned the right to be known as just plain football.

> Meanwhile, in the United States, a sport emerged in the late 19th century that borrowed elements of both rugby and association football. Before long, it had proved more popular than either of them. In full, it was known as gridiron football, but most people never bothered with the first word. As a result, American association-football players increasingly adopted soccer to refer to their sport.

https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-some-people-call-foo...
https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/the-original-eliz...
The book "The Secret Race" by Lance Armstrong's teammate Tyler Hamilton gives a good perspective on what was happening at the time. At one point Hamilton was standing on an Italian street trying to hide the blood dripping down his arm from a botched transfusion, which was simultaneously horrifying and hilarious.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/212873/the-secret-r...