skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Imho, it is all quite conservative. I do not blame them.

Pretty heavy and visible responsibility.

I am happy to play along, safe as can be managed given current tech and our understanding. That gets better over time.

Once, I got caught with no seat belt in my car. Had kids, and one of then was a mess. I unclicked to reach and deal. Small town cop was on buckle up campaign and I took the seat belt school option. Was only a minute too. Bad timing, but it turned out to be good fortune.

Best class ever! No joke. I, like many, expected a dull, threatening lecture. That did not happen.

They brought a trauma nurse in who talked safety from their point of view. A laptop is a pretty dangerous thing when accellerated. And that guy was just great!

Most people do not properly constrain objects in cars. I had no idea why and how.

That nurse told us the facts, showed us the gore and blood. (Of course, this was diversion after all), but then went through the physics and some math. (Didn't have to, but I am glad they did)

They also went through trauma stats and trauma is the big killer. People are just fragile to a degree we often forget, or are just not aware of.

All in all, I learned a lot! And the FAA rules make perfect sense, given the rough scenario they must manage.

A flying laptop was one of the scenarios the trauma nurse did physics on in a 60 mph crash. It was not pretty. Meat and bone are gonna be impacted.

Oh, and I get it. I too am bothered. I just happend to have gotten that great education. It is an understandable bother, and we all do have options.

If it were me, I would have those trauma people do sessions in every high school. A lot of those kids would be moved. There were a ton in my session. I was one of the older adult minority...

I thanked the nurse afterwards. He said, "first, you should know better, and then thanks. Glad it helped." He went on to say doing those was one of his favorite things to do. Trauma people do not get to share much, and what they can share is powerful. Life saving.

I really did benefit and think about all this very differently.

Let me say being bothered is a very nice problem to have.
I am curious as well!
> I don't know what is meant by the OP, but FWIW, art has traditionally been about beauty and transcendence and elevating the minds of men. That can have the effect of inspiring virtue, I'd say, and can help influence certain sensibilities.

I would not be so sure. Plenty of art was not like that - purely practical portraits, paintings depicting wars, beheadings, fires and other historical events. Medieval nun with dick tree and running dog eating penis (google it), medieval texts that are about disgusting behavior.

Plenty of old tales are basically about violence with no influence on sensibilities nor much virtues. Even in Homer Odyssey is quite debatable about how much it is virtue inspiring and what kind of virtue.

> Art today is often nihilistic and destructive, obsessed with subverting a world it cannot stand.

Classical books are often depicting destructive and nihilistic characters and caused controversies in their own time for being too close to home.
That is the problem, bamboo stuff actually requires specific care in the US that it doesn't in Japan. I was going to buy some really nice bowls there, and my sister suggested I not do it because they would break in the US, but not in Japan. (with the equivalent care)
I haven't tried Meson, any good articles about it?
The flip side of this is: I only game on Linux. If your game doesn't run well on Linux, chances are, I'll never play it.

There's already a back-log of games on my wish list that I'll get to as soon as i find the time.
In hindsight, maybe making the header as transparent as I did was a bad idea. There are images over here [1] though for anyone passing through the comments

[1] https://blog.gboards.ca/2018/12/photodump.html
Right. So if you need physical access to my phone to be able to copy my keycard, I'm not too worried. I'll find out very quickly I don't have it, within minutes typically (hours at most). If someone is an incredibly smart adversary, steals my phone, gets the SIM card, copies it, and gives it back without me noticing, I'm f*ed anyway.

Or is there a way to copy SIM card remotely???

As for state-level adversary, I get it. I'm even less concerned here :)
If you click on the `threads` link in the header it shows all of your recent comments, including any replies. It's definitely not what you asked for but it's built in to the site.
this. Think of the absurd amount of wasted investment that's stupidly gone into internal combustion engine research over the last century.
They should be more careful about Tylenol. Paracetamol, aka acetaminophen is the number 1 cause of liver failure in the US. I was shocked to learn that considering how much damage drinking causes.

But you don't see many article pointing out what sure looks like a big public health problem. I have the impression I see a lot more articles about crisis PR based on the Tylenol poisonings.
Amen, I know exactly how you feel. I historically have had zero patience for incompetence or bullshit. My temper generally flashes and goes away pretty quickly, as in I can get pissed at you and use some crappy tone/attitude and then work through it or be over it in the same 30 second span.

This can flash with my kids, but frankly I’m surprised at how much patience I naturally have with them. I work on it, as I mentioned before, but the level of empathy I have is many multiples of what I was capable of before my first child was born- and this might be one the best gifts (as of yet) that fatherhood has bestowed upon me. It’s made me a better person all around.

I too good around and wrestle with my kids, it’s pretty much my favorite thing to do with them, but there is nothing that can make me see red (literally and figuratively) like taking an adorable little foot to the nose, eye, and/or balls. My dad would get mad, as is my natural inclination, and I still remember how shitty I would feel. It takes everything I can muster not to get mad when it happens, but I usually just drop to the ground (only sometimes is it voluntary) and put on a show (only partially exaggerated) of daddy being hurt.

This has had unanticipated consequences, like them thinking it’s funny that if you hit dad in the groin, you can make mom laugh and jump on him while watching tears roll down his cheek. So we nipped that with the same “if it’s on purpose you’re in trouble” method.

Recent anecdote to add: I replaced our third TV in 18 months yesterday. Our middle previously killed it on accident with a super soaker he brought in the house to get his brother with. The second time he was using his plastic sword to fight the pirates on TV at grandmas, and this time he was swinging the wooden fishing pole he got as a Christmas present, it left his hands and took out the display panel.

The TV is mounted 6’ high and he wasn’t being malicious. Other than at grandmas he wasn’t even trying to interact with th TV. So how the hell can I punish him for (really expensive) accidents? I told him it takes two weeks for me to work to be able to afford to fix it. He’s got to do a couple extra basic chores in the morning and night, and I had him give me ideas for how we could prevent it in the future. Most of which involved force fields and elaborate structures and didn’t address not using the living room as a jungle gym, but still...

Now that I’m thinking of it, I need to call my parents and apologize for my entire childhood. Again.
I'm reminded of a time when my sister in law was upset with her daughter. The girl was supposed to have cleaned her bathroom but hadn't swept the floor. To make peace, I offered to help her finish the task. What I learned is that she actually didn't know how to sweep a floor (she was maybe 5 or 6 years old). I helped her and both of us felt like we'd learned something.

She learned to sweep a floor, and I learned that often, when kids aren't meeting your expectations it because they honestly don't understand how to do it. I didn't have a child for a long time after this, but I think of this vignette often.

Even at work with junior colleagues, often they have no earthly idea what the expectations are or how to fulfill them. They need to be taught and just expressing your disapproval isn't going to help.
Thanks for sharing. The cloning feature is really key. Looking to replace Notion with a more compliant solution (reg. storage of data) for quite a while and your combination of app/server nails it!

The only thing I would really love is a more open way to store notes, like text files in a directory. Love how DevonThink does their file indexing. Can imagine it being a headache though with the cloning etc. so good you have export to at least have openly accessible backups.
Working for Mozilla, I feel I should be able to make sense of these hints, but I can't. I have no clue what issues or missteps were deal-breakers for Steve, apart from the compensation issue. Any organization of the size will have /some/ problems, and I fail to see the usefulness of signaling that's so vague that anybody can interpret it in any way they want.
Comparing Rust and JavaScript Ergonomics with a Simple Linked List
> Free software changes more often, but when it does, it is not that big of a problem because you have both control over code and the code that your code interacts with, because all code is accessible.

Except for video drivers. And, as the tweet notes, the bulk of their issues on Linux were related to graphics.
Ehh most people I’ve seen already had preexisting issues. Marijuana was their way to cope or suppress it, just like how some people do with alcohol or really any other drug.
The only time I'm concerned about money is when I think about the future. I make a lot of money when you consider that I live alone and don't really go out much, but if I ever want to raise a family in a house that I own, what I make right now won't cut it. I love my job, even though I'll have to leave it and get a PhD later.

The only other reason I want more money is to be able to eat out whenever I want, and not feel bad about spending the money instead of saving it.
I don't fully follow the prefix thing. So a scammer makes a call from a number that's a prefix of my number? That doesn't affect 2FA, that won't show up as "me" on my friends' phone screens when they call, etc... how is that an issue?
Minimal ANSI-C outgoing connections inspector
Some day someone will _surely_ find a real use for the block-chain.

Today is yet again not that day.
I think we should be doing a ton of research on the health implications of marijuana use. However, I don't think that should affect legality other than, perhaps, regulations on distribution. Legalization didn't happen on the back of "no long term health problems" it happened because throwing people in jail for a relatively non-addictive substance is unjust and eventually people had enough of it.

But the question does seem a bit silly. Like, yeah it's probably not totally salubrious to get blazed every day. No need to clutch pearls. It's also not healthy to get drunk every day or eat tubs of ice cream constantly but we feel as a society that the freedom to do those things is worth some of us overindulging and hurting ourselves.
You don't have to statically link, you can use LD_PRELOAD to point to local versions of all libraries. It isn't optimal, from space/security perspectives, but it works. You can use the local libs first or last in the path.
This one is a truly minimal tool I fire up to print out and log systemwide outgoing IP connections. Tick for extra paranoid people - the code is only 51 lines of C to revise.
> iPhone [photography] is still competitive with leading Android flagships

Nope, for the first time it is isn't even close to Huawei phones, let alone the Pixel 3 in both low-light performance and zoom performance.
Stimming = self-stimulating.

I didn't know that word (but knew the sorts of [repititive] behaviours -- like rocking, hand waving -- as an indicator for ASD.
Why not pick a "distribution" like org.freedesktop.Platform/18.08 (i.e. pick a flatpak runtime) and support that? It runs on all desktop distributions. Updating supported flatpak runtimes is then on your leisure, not on their release cadence.
IMO, all that matters is that we can safely put cannabis in the "use in moderation" category along with alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, ibuprofen, and loads of possible carcinogens the jury is still out on. Unless prescribed by a doctor, the only thing you should safely inhale is fresh air, and people generally know that.

I hate that the legalization discussion is twisting into "well how safe is it?" If you're really concerned, don't use it unless medically necessary, or take your chances on other drugs which have plenty of known side effects. Just because it can be abused, or may not be safe in heavy dosages, is no reason to jail someone. Pertaining to regulations, I see no reason to extend beyond the current recommendations for alcohol - use in moderation, don't use pregnant, don't drive while impaired, etc.
I have a family member who is addicted to cannabis. Maybe not in the same way that opiate or alcohol addicts are physically addicted, but this person smokes all day long from a small vape. First thing in the morning, all day, every night before bed. He sneaks it on to airplanes and smokes it in flight. He smokes it in public places and other peoples cars, like Uber’s. Without it, he’s irritable and short tempered. Without it he has no appetite and can’t eat. He does it at work and while he’s driving.

I used to smoke weed. I’m older now and it makes me antisocial, so I stopped. But I always was (and remain) pro-legalization, but I’ve reflected on its danger as an abusable substance and can now recognize that its addictive — even if just in lifestyle.
I think the future for urban dwellers is fast charging your EV while shopping. With large enough batteries it should only be necessary to charge the car once a week.
Nonsense. C++'s template system behaves unlike any other language (things like SFINAE and the techniques that use it do not transfer), C++-style RAII is relatively unusual, I don't think any other language requires the programmer to think about virtual versus non-virtual inheritance, the C-derived sequence point rules are obscure and much looser than most languages' evaluation rules, the exception-safety rules are unique to C++, most languages don't make you track the minutiae of a dozen different integer types with inconsistent promotion rules, textual macros are abominable, C++ has more obscure control flow constructs than most languages... meanwhile the language has no standard support for true sum types, garbage collection, unit testing, poor library tooling, a limited type system... which means you don't learn the general-purpose techniques that rely on these things.

If all you know is C++ you will be able to produce a limited amount of working code in a handful of C++-like languages, sure - but even in Python or Java or Bash you'll produce very unidiomatic code if you write in C++ style. If you tried to work in e.g. Smalltalk or Erlang or even OCaml you'd really struggle. It is not a good way to learn general-purpose programming, because the language is hugely complicated and most of the complications are C++-specific.
For domestic power requirements just change building regulations to require a Powerwall style battery and solar panels in every new house. That plus integrating all the electric cars that sit idle all day and the problem gets noticeably smaller. Add in all the old EV batteries and it gets better still <https://easyelectriclife.groupe.renault.com/en/outlook/energ....

Are there really any occasions when there is no sun, no wind, no hydro over the whole of Europe? Better east-west interconnects and use of Norwegian hydro as pumped storage should help too.

Not perfect but very scalable and can be implemented a little at a time as the baseload fossil fuel stations slowly go out.
So You Want to Create Excel in the Browser? (2017)
Your logic is forcing me to draw parallels with marijuana that I don't want to, but this reasoning is not very persuasive.

Why shouldn't safety be a requirement for something to be legal? Should drunk driving be legal? Should firing a gun in a crowded place be legal? Should serving food that's contaminated with a poisonous substance be legal?

I know that marijuana isn't harmful in the way shooting a firearm or poisoning someone's food is. But this line of reasoning--"never consider safety when determining what's acceptable"--is ludicrous.
I dunno. Fujitsu's A64FX has incredible specifications.

Fujitsu's A64FX is 7nm-class, and has those SVE extensions for incredible throughput. It is expected to be in several supercomputers soon.

I expect that the A64FX is the fastest ARM in the world.
> it is strictly better to be working on a new game than to improve incredibly niche support for existing products

I'm not sure about this one. Compare Ferals and Ubers approach as two data points.
>In many ways O'Caml is a better SML than SML, but Haskell, and especially the GHC variant, has a type system that is light years ahead of both.

Not true. Haskell does not have neither subtyping nor row and structural polymorphism for example.
I can't follow this, it's too technical for me. Are you saying anyone here on HN who watches the talk (and is technical enough) could just read text messages of the people who are in the area around their BTS? How is that NOT done en masse then?
> Banks and other financial companies have shifted at least £800 million ($1 trillion) worth of assets

Hang on, that's not right. Do they mean "£800 billion ($1 trillion)", or "£800 million ($1 billion)"?
Can a installer prompt user to download missing libraries if needed? For example - Dota2 on Windows downloads bunch of C++ runtime libraries on first launch. Sharpkeys and bunch of other software do that (certain version of .net runtime).

libcurl may or may not be a good example but surely all software has dependencies that isn't shipped with OS. In Linux case the special pain is, library that is shipped with OS might be outdated but bundling compiled lib/o/so files should work.
I don't think the Linux situation is good per se, but I haven't heard anything this negative from the devs of other multi-platform Kickstarter games, like Obsidian and their Pillars of Eternity games.

(Not that they were terribly positive about it.)

To paraphrase the Obsidian take:

Supporting Linux for the first time was much much more work than they expected, but it was mostly coming to grips with everything, learning all the gotchas, and integrating that into their build system and software dev practices. Once they got over that hump it was much easier/not so bad and worthwhile enough to continue. But at the same time, if they'd known what they were getting into the first time they think they'd probably not have promised Linux support. So first game it had a huge marginal cost to support, but once the tooling and experience was there that marginal cost to support was much much lower.

Of course Pillars was a Unity game and probably not as demanding performance-wise as PA.
My point is that it is up to the individual to take that risk, not up to society to regulate what risks an individual can take or not, especially when it comes to their own bodies.
An article riddle with questions and no answers. Yet, it feels as though the author wants us to be cautious about this mysterious substance we know nothing about.

We might not know everything, but we do know a couple of things. For example, we know that nobody has died from cannabis overdose in the history of humanity. That, at least is something worthy of mention.
Americans are becoming too rational and this is a major problem. When you over-value rationality, you expect to be able to have a rational answer to every question.

The hand-licking story that made the front page today illustrates this point perfectly. Approached rationally, the mom could not solve the problem, no amount of mental effort would yield a resolution or insight into the issue. When the mind expects an answer to a problem that it can't solve, it applies more and more 'force' until it breaks through. In this case, the force was destroying her family relationships. But this is what frustrated rationalism does. People don't or can't catch themselves before they create awful situations.

It is only when she applied an irrational approach to the problem, surrendering the need to control the situation, that she could finally understand what was going on.

I rail against excessive rationality on HN all the time, promoting a more cautious, traditional outlook on certain things like office politics. I expect coders to be exceptionally rational, I don't have any issue with it.

But Americans in general are succumbing to the trend of expecting to be able to answer every question they ever have in their lives and throwing away their emotional health on meaningless symbols and missing the true core nature of what it means to be happy and healthy and whole.

Perhaps the starkest example of this phenomenon is when atheists lament that there aren't any atheist churches. 50 years ago, if you were an atheist, you still went to church. They were still the pillars that communities revolved around, the very loom of the fabric of society.

Nowadays, we've thrown away every last bit of symbolism that brings people together and wonder why we're so lonely. If things aren't perfectly rational, people's minds rebel immediately and harshly, like it's my fault you don't understand a concept requiring depth of study to really grasp.

I don't know what the answer is, but I do know that the mind will create a myth if it doesn't already believe in one. Money, job, marriage is the American Dream myth. It stems ultimately from positivism and expecting to be able to understand everything.

It doesn't have to be this way. You might not be able to fix everybody else but you can fix yourself.
>The culture sounds toxic, and the management sounds incompetent, and there's no force of change that has done anything to change that in the past ~5 years.

The case regarding Daniel Micay and the Mozilla/Rust community is also worth looking into. But not sure how much is easy to come by as things have been deleted.
Self-important idea police?
1. It just wasn't super relevant! I left the pizza job for an internship at a company doing PHP, then left that internship to do a startup in Rails.

2. The pizza job was through high school and college, I transitioned to tech after I had the degree.

3. I have never contributed to Firefox, but I have been a passionate user for years (I'm writing this comment in Firefox, for example)

5. I'm not particularly interested in blockhain stuff. There is a lot of Rust in that area though!

Thank you.
I use a Windows audio software binary last compiled in 1997,
for Windows 95. It still works just fine on Windows 10 64 bit.

That's 20 years of backward compatibility.
Considering my graphics driver is buggy enough to cause the KDE panel to crash, I'm not at all surprised games on linux have issues.
Oh no no, absolutely not. I only keep a handful of cassette tapes around for nostalgic reasons, and I don't have a tape deck anymore, because it seems rather pointless, as you say.

I just like to hang on to obsolete media that once meant the world to me, so I have a couple of tapes, some 3.5" floppy disks and a couple of MiniDiscs (still shrinkwrapped), purely for nostalgia and maybe one day as something to show the eventual grandkids.
Anybody competent enough to use linux is competent enough to dual-boot into Windows. I would love first-class support for Linux gaming, but dual-booting is such an easy fix for me that I frankly don't care that much about linux support.

I totally get there are other potential issues revolving around having to use windows, but for me at least, I don't really have any issue with using windows for games.