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itcrowdon Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling

There are a couple of HN plug-ins that enable infinite scrolling and disregard the accessibility to the footer. Super annoying.

itcrowdon Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores

I understand people here debating veggies and fruits or meat. But Christmas trees? How often does one buy one? Once a year? Might have been a fluke? Or do you have a compelling reason to relate this to Brexit?

itcrowdon InnovateFPGA: Wrong Strategy Drives One of the Best FPGA Dev Contests to Crisis

I don't want to be a prick here, and I understand the author's frustration of seeing his favourite competition going downhill.

But.. why not step up to the stage and organize, or volunteer to organize, this competition yourself? You seem to really enjoy the engineering space around it and clearly have opinions on where it should go.

Watching your most-liked competition going down the drain and just.. standing by? Maybe you don't have enough time/energy/bandwidth, but come to think of it.. the current organizers probably don't have it either.

All the best with winning. And organizing. We need people like you to keep fun projects like these going!

(PS: I am not involved in any way with iFPGA)

itcrowdon Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?

It's optional

itcrowdon ‘Electric’ chopsticks that make food seem more salty

They don't conflate the two. They say you can taste the umami without the downside of ingesting too much salt in the process (due to the high salinity of typical dishes with umami flavor)

itcrowdon MSFT demonstrates formerly elusive physics needed to build scalable qubits

Simultaneously, prof. Kouwenhoven of Delft's Microsoft lab has resigned / left Microsoft (source only in Dutch). He was leading the Dutch effort into Majora particles and his lab was involved in a scandal involving data manipulation, tunnel vision and wishful thinking that led to the now-false claim of the first Majoranas being observed.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/leo-kouwenhoven-nederla...

itcrowdon The case for induction cooking

Induction cooking is good. UI is terrible: touch screen that only allows control over one heat source at a time. Please, please please give me knobs like the ones in gas tops

itcrowdon Tech talks don’t have to be boring

Had to stop watching after two minutes due to a smugness overload. Sorry, not my preferred style.

itcrowdon Hermeus Raises $100M Series B

"It’s a future I want to live in" - Sam Altman

Not sure what future he is referring to, but if he means mach-5 private drones (i.e., one or two passenger) then it is not the future I want to live in. We need to advance public transport for the masses and the use of renewable energy for it. We don't need hyper polluting single-digit passenger private transport for the ultra rich.

If, as suggested below, it is all a cover for developing hypersonic autonomous killer drones, count me out too.

itcrowdon So you want to study mathematics

Susan, I greatly appreciate this list and will definitely come back to use it as a reference if I need a book recommendation. (I don't think I'm the target audience, although who knows what the future brings..)

That being said, I think you are missing out on an opportunity to reach a wider audience. It bugs me a bit that the requirements seem very American-centric. What I mean is the following bit:

> A high school education — which should include pre-algebra, algebra 1, geometry, algebra 2, and trigonometry — is sufficient.

And later the paragraph on "pre-calculus".

I know that many places don't have such names for courses in high school. In fact, often it's just called "Mathematics" and you either take it or you don't (obviously there is a spectrum here).

How is a prospective (non-American) student to know what is covered in Algebra 2 in an American high school?

I'm not asking you to change the article, I just hope I can nudge you into realizing that the text as it is now is more difficult than it needs to be for non-Americans.

itcrowdon Ask HN: How much money to realistically expect from a technical book?

Could you elaborate whether you had a book deal in place before you began writing the (majority of) the book? And, what are your current thoughts on book deals?

I feel this is relevant to OP's situation given that I am assuming he has no such deal in place currently.

itcrowdon Oldest .com Domains Registered on the Internet

The first domain I registered was my employer, att.com. Since “&” was not allowed in the syntax, I had to choose between att.com and at-t.com, and that choice was mirrored in future domains. The second domain registered was stargate.com, used by the UUCP Project, the UUCP Zone (the registrar) and the Stargate project (Usenet over satellite.)

More about this effort is in the Stargate Internet Museum web site.

https://maryannhorton.com/mary-ann-horton/a-career-in-comput...

and

https://www.stargatemuseum.org/

itcrowdon An expert on civil war issues a warning about America, but exaggerates

Actual title:

An expert on civil war issues a warning about America - But Barbara Walter exaggerates

itcrowdon Intel Braggadocio

As much as I like some of the articles on Daring Fireball, it annoys me to no end that this massively popular website is basically unreadable on a mobile device.

John, could you please add just a few lines of CSS or something?

itcrowdon Best Pens for 2022: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens

I like them too, but I will say that:

a) on very smooth paper, it will smear. Needs time to dry

b) on rougher paper, I found it to "spread out" like a small inkblot. As if the paper "sucks" the ink in a bit.

Perfectly fine for regular paper

itcrowdon Breaking Out of the Box

I think it is. Along with the "A list apart" header on the top that is partially obscured by the fixed navigation pane and the title being too wide for the page.

itcrowdon Taiwanese math professor with 1.3M views of his lectures on Pornhub

Reminds me of this comment on here a few years back:

This is interesting. I'm starting to make a computer security course right now and I've chosen to put it on pornhub. The monetization options are better for creators (I can sell videos!). Obviously, pornhub is going to restrict the audience a bit, so I've been toying with the idea of making a video hosting site with solid monetization options and categories of ads beyond porn.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20473159

itcrowdon There are no results for tank man

Good point. Same here

itcrowdon There are no results for tank man

Also for submissions

(Maybe the karma threshold is different, but i do see it)

itcrowdon A Field Guide to the Long History of Skyjackings

Excellent writing and a very nice overview of essential books on a topic I had never considered to be a genre. Fiction and nonfiction.

If you're here checking the comments only: highly recommended article. +/- 10 minutes

itcrowdon Epicurious Will No Longer Publish Beef Recipes

There's a good chart with a short text summary at Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

itcrowdon Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management

41.1% of websites

itcrowdon I won’t review or write for Elsevier and other commercial scientific journals

Some, if not all, IEEE journals (which are generally very reputable) have a publishing fee, separate from the open access fee. Surcharges apply for exceeding page limits and for color figures in the printed journal.

The basic fee can be waived if the authors are unable to afford it, under some conditions.

itcrowdon Claude Shannon: The Mathematical Theory of Cryptography

On your homepage, evervault.com, you have an example of calculating the BMI in one of the images which is:

> weight / Math.sqrt(height);

In fact the BMI is weight / (height)^2

itcrowdon Lord of the Ring(s): Side Channel Attacks on the CPU On-Chip Ring Interconnect

Why do authors use such silly titles as "Lord of the Rings"? There is no mention of it anywhere in the paper besides the title, it just looks childish(to me). Just use the second part of the title as the paper's title, dump the LoTR thing.

itcrowdon 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker

Probably A/B testing through social media clicks.

itcrowdon Did Schnorr destroy RSA? Show me the factors

The factors could be included in the manuscript as an example..

itcrowdon A 10-second video clip sold for $6.6M

Interestingly, it looks as if the video is meant to be played in a continuous loop. The first frame and the last frame seem identical.

Edit: right-click on the video and select 'loop'. couldn't find the option before.

itcrowdon ISO 8601: a better date format

I have recently been inviting my American colleagues to meetings using times-as-American-dates format. In other words, proposing meetings to be on 02/26/21 at 25:23 (This example meaning February 26th 2021 at 25 minutes past 23 hours).

itcrowdon Shadowbanning: The secret censoring by social media

[Oct 2020]