skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't feel bad about it, if you did.

I launched a combo macOS/iOS app last year and wrote (yet-another...) framework to bridge the gap between AppKit/UIKit. There's an insane number of minute differences, even with Apple trying to make it better behind the scenes (e.g, NSCollectionView _can_ have a similar API to UICollectionView, but it's really not the same beast - it's much easier to tank performance on it).

Apple has, IMO, hands down the best UI framework(s) outside the web platform, and they're outright crippling them by what they're doing here. The AppKit community also needs to do their part and not be so resistive to modernizing how it's all learned.

tl;dr it sucks.
Upstate NY town sells land to cryptocurrency miner promising up to 780 jobs
How would they know? Your local "guy" is just some guy. And even if he weren't, what are you going to do, ask? "Excuse me, are you part of a cartel that murders people?" "Uh...no?"
Bailing out the banks and instituting QE is not capitalism.
It has a much better name for one.
Yes, which is also where the odd coordinate system and so on descend from... the annoying thing is it still works fine, but it's too large of a surface to enjoy developing in without proper docs and so on.
Impressive demo! WebGL is an awesome piece of tech that only now starts to be largely adopted. I mean, it gives you access to 100s of cores to compute, run, display stuff :).

Too bad Apple doesn't move forward with WebGL2 and Google splits the community in 2 with webgpu.
Why is Facebook doing robotics research?
Thank you. Find is so complex and looking at fd is a revelation here.

Now I feel like all my hard earned cli-fu is a lie.
Tannenberg, the popular but somehow underrated FPS is available for Linux
Some people's ideologies are so rigid that they must identify wrongthinkers before otherwise commenting on them, lest they be thought to have ideologically-incorrect cooties by other rigid ideologues.
Direct Instagram publishing through the Graph API is reserved only for certain Facebook premium marketing partners. Facebook did this through a beta program over a year ago then stopped handing access to other organizations. They may offer it in the future bit it's closed for the moment.
Geoff Ralston on Education, Parenting, and the Future
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A New TV Show Is Like a Venture-Capital Startup
How do you know I even vote?

I could be an expat from another country for all you know.

(Note: This isn't the case, but it well could be. Don't make assumptions. That's why a higher level discussion is better than getting pissy at each other and trying to level attacks - which is what you're doing.)
I use a gnubee nas. Its an open source hardware nas that can run debian. Its not a shoestring budget device but its a lot cheaper than the commercial ones.
What are we supposed to draw from those graphs? The AMD part is already much slower than the intel part.
One of your friends were probably hacked and data mined your facebook anyway.
Geoff, I an hearing some great things already!

Are you reachable by email? If we have a private question.
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Maybe it's just anecdotal, but I know too many people these days that are like this, very pessimistic nihilists who don't see that life is worth any effort or risk. I unfortunately have had friends whose general negative worldviews turned into clinical depression and suicidiality. It seems to me that worldview and mental health are related more than people like to admit.
I guess my issue is that we didn't want or need support. We just wanted x-pack features such as Auth and the Alerting plugins.

We were already hosting it fine ourselves on AWS, as we had devops people very familiar with ES. However the price they quoted us per year was insane for our cluster size for ~20 nodes.
If it's based on that, it's essentially an implementation of Jos Stam's "stable fluids" which actually uses some tricks to get plausible results. http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/stam/reality/Research/pdf/...
They’re gonna need a better list of reasons to try it out than:

1. It’s written in the author’s preferred language
>- Facebook makes money from your data by showing you ads. If you stop using facebook, you stop generating any revenue and your data becomes a liability, not an asset.

This part at least is incorrect. Your data will always be an asset, and FB makes money not just by showing you ads but by selling your data.
I’m all for rooms - separation of space is effective for deliberately altering one’s state of mind, after all.

However, the author’s argument was weak. Someone else or some other perspective really deserves to have written this piece.
A DB shouldn't really care, should it? It just needs any logical order to be defined, not necessarily one related to anything humans make use of
Not quite standard. The trick is to use backward differencing in time, to make it unconditionally stable even for longer time steps. Also the Poisson equation to get the pressure is only solved approximately by doing Jacobi iterations until the solution is "good enough". And of course it is limited to 2d and the incompressible limit.
Scalable Ultra-Low Latency Streaming Solution in Cloud-Open Source Media Server
> He speaks about launchd as if it’s a good thing but it’s quite universally accepted as a bad thing

This is your personal opinion being presented as fact. Speaking from some experience in the Mac admin world, I’d really want to see the survey you did to support that claim.
Okay I just set the color mode from "vivid" to "normal" and now I can see the logo. Cool!
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"As long as everyone gets the same voucher, same amount for voucher, and has guaranteed public transportation to the same schools as others, with no regard for race, ethnicity, background, then sure go for vouchers.... if you can't guarantee those things then it's just another system that can be gamed."

Anything can be gamed if you are adequately cunning. That's the problem of the "public parasite". And your conditions are arbitrary and ride roughshod over private liberty and the choices of the parents.

A voucher system would induce the creation of local schools, so the transportation thing is irrelevent (and in anycase the responsiblity of parents not the State).

"Pegging CEO pay to average of ALL employees including outsourced, freelance, and contractors (even janitorial staff), would go a long way towards making capitalism more fair."

That would result in socialism. A healthy system looks for liberty based solutions, not coercions. More liberty intelligently applied (as with vouchers) requires politicans with backbone and brains. Able to withstand emotional blackmail and do the right thing for the long term instead of pretending to solve problems by banning stuff and throwing money around.
It's similar to https://nixos.org/ but instead of using the Nix language, it uses GNU Guile to configure everything (Scheme). I think they actually were inspired to create it by NixOS. So to answer your question, it's an operating system.
True. I don't disagree - they shouldn't have been in the business in the first place. Consumers themselves have the (unexercised?) ability to shun fake or filler-laden foods.

Given how people seem to be fine about eating fake blueberry muffins for a "healthy" breakfast substitute, we can expect pretty much the same for cherry pies. They could shun it. They don't.

It really isn't the federal govt's job to insist on real food products when people are perfectly happy eating junk.
no mention of nix... surprising
Long before admissions scandal, universities saw signs of fraud on campus
It has been determined that behavior is genetic. Therefore, animals with common genetic makeup will behave similar to each other.
I am also a layman, but I'll take a stab at it.

Here's a galaxy with a certain amount of mass, distributed a certain way. It has a certain rotational velocity (as a function of radius from the center).

Here's a different galaxy that has just about the same mass and mass distribution, but it has a different rotational velocity. That leaves a very few options:

- Our measurements are wrong.

- Rotational velocity is not a function of mass.

- Or, there's more mass than we can see.

People have carefully checked the first, but it's still possible. The second seems really weird: Rotational velocity depends on mass plus the roll of 2d6?!? That leaves dark matter as the explanation that seems the most reasonable.
Once in a while I will try to convince co-workers about the idea in this video, and every time I am viewed as an ignoramus. I mean, OBVIOUSLY moving all code to web platforms is a good idea, right? How dare I view things differently?

I think efforts to convey this idea outside of a lecture are probably forfeit. People are just far too self serving and contrarian to believe in the legitimacy of an overall trend if any tiny, limited, counter examples exist, and they will stop listening if they have an opportunity to respond.
10k MRR grouped with 100k and 1M ARR seems odd. Is that just because they are more rare and you don’t want groups with 1 User in them?
"We" are not doing a very good job of it. I agree with you there. Both my parents (and their parents) are or were educators in public schools, from teachers to instructors to principals and coaches. By all accounts it is getting worse, not better.

Anecdotes are not data, but it would be foolish to throw them away blindly. Anecdotes become data when they can be used to answer questions that can inform future decision making processes. For example, we could ask, "is more politics and political process positively impacting education?" If the answer is that no, one hundred years of American politics hasn't improved the situation [0] despite it costing far more than it used to per-student [1], then we should probably conclude that said process is a dead end and look elsewhere.

I never claimed that the anecdote I provided was data; I would rather like to know the answers to the questions I asked. Handwaving them away seems closer to arguing in bad faith than what you accused me of doing elsewhere. Further, I would suggest that the increased presence of School Resource Officers in schools, the increased usage of courts for school-related punishment, and the continued emotional and physical violence experienced by students from their peers show that, indeed, forced participation in government schools does indeed involve violence. That your experts have been unable to solve this problem (and that you hand wave it away) does not generate confidence in your position.

[0] https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ltt_2012/summary.aspx
[1] https://www.cato.org/blog/public-school-spending-theres-char...
There was a post a long time ago on HN on how to taint your FB data over time so that it's difficult to tell where your real data stopped and your fake data began. I can't find it now, but part of the advice was don't replace your real data with gibberish, but rather with non-gibberish - public domain texts for example, or better yet AI generated text). And don't do it all at once but spread it out over a year or so.
No, it's not, it's the default in Chrome.
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Phillips and GE both have new models that use a lot less (10-20L vs. 1000L) of helium. I think they're only 1.5T though.

The Phillips model is called "BlueSeal"; I can't remember GE's, but it's something goofy.
If so, it was off topic. John Carmack's post was about VR interfaces, and I interpreted the parent comment in that context. In any case, I would contest that bypassing the limitations of vision, specifically, represents a significant part of the reason for Dynamicland.
This paper had trouble getting this to work with lager models I believe.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.09574
Gonna have a hard time with bones....
I originally typed out a reply saying that if I bought a sure-to-be-expensive self-driving car, I would be disappointed if it made my trip slower.

But then I thought that maybe if I wasn't the one fighting to get into lanes I wouldn't care that my trip ended up a couple of minutes longer, I would just relax and read a book and not even pay attention while all that was happening.

Not sure if that would work in reality though. In my city if a car that was that passive was recognized, people would just take total advantage of it and never let it in, cut it off, etc. I think that I would still get annoyed watching this as a passenger.

The car would have to make sudden stops to avoid accidents every time someone cut it off as well, which would be unpleasant for a passenger.
Does the simpler option provide limited liability?
Does this mean that they will start allowing add-ons in the Android app? If I can get a web browser for my Android that uses Chrome's engine and allows extensions I'll switch to it in a heartbeat.

(And before someone replies with Kiwi, I personally am not comfortable using a (practically) closed source fork of mobile Chrome mantained by a single, unknown individual)
The Private Backbone: A More Direct and Secure Path to Edge Delivery
All of /usr/ is protected by SIP except for /usr/local/. Even if you have SIP off (I do too), it's worth glancing at what directories are protected, as it gives pretty clear insight into where Apple expects users to put stuff.
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Wish it would disable ANSI stuff (--classic) if it's not a vt100/xterm/etc TERMinal.
"Oh no, I understand your argument full well. I just think it's extremely shallow."

Maybe you should poke around the rest of the comments for the article, because I've gone into a lot of detail about it.

"Parents and students have plenty of time to research important aspects of their lives"

I've addressed this elsewhere in the thread, but this assumption penalizes the children of parents who are poor, working multiple jobs, or dealing with health issues. It penalizes single parents as well. Basically, if you put the onus on parents to do the research, parents with more disposable time will make better decisions for their children, thus exacerbating the existing inequalities in the system. The whole point of the public education system is to level the playing field; what you're suggesting will increase the gap between the haves and the have-nots.

"...starting with the experiential reality of the school they're subjected to for several years. One of your argument's shortcomings is the implication that only an a priori decision making process is possible for the over-a-decade process of going to school."

What you're suggesting is that it's okay to have a system where parents and students make the decision about whether or not schools are good or bad by spending time at them. That is a ludicrously impractical suggestion. What happens if your kid hates their first day of school? Their first week? Their first month? How do you decide when they can make decent decision about it? What if they just hate going to school? Are you going to go sit in the classroom and watch the teacher for hours or days at a time?

Experiential data is not particularly useful on an individual basis; There are so many kids who just have a bad time at school no matter what, often for reasons that don't implicate the school directly as good or bad. And there are plenty of kids who have a great time at school precisely because they're not getting a very good education. (IE they're ignored, the work is too easy, etc.) Their experience is going to be fantastic, and they will enter college completely unprepared.

I'm not arguing that the EXISTING methods for measuring school performance are perfect; I am arguing that theoretically, the best possible version is mass-collection and analysis of data. Relying on individual decisions based purely on experience is a recipe for chaos; Kids would be begging their parents to change teachers and schools all the time, and how would parents have any idea if the kids were right?

I didn't complain that your response was the bare minimum, I complained that it was LESS than the bare minimum. And my 4chan comment was about the downvoting, not about your comment. Please read more carefully.
> On the other side you have a even driven OS configuration and management engine

You are repeating the there-is-only-sysvinit-and-systemd fallacy, pointed out years ago by the Uselessd Guy and decried by many others since but (alas!) still going strong today in this very discussion, and ironically you are doing it whilst erroneously ascribing things to systemd that it was intentionally designed not to be. systemd was explicitly designed not to be an event-driven system. The wholly event-driven system was Upstart, and in practice it turned out to be a problem. Lennart Poettering xyrself discussed the problem, as did some of the Debian Technical Committee members during the Debian Hoo-Hah.

* https://web.archive.org/web/20190306213420/https://uselessd....
Thanks for that! It’s inspiring. Will make more ;)
I watched the video and in one shot it clearly says Ultimaker 3. Looks like standard FDM. Maybe they can splurge and better filaments.
Ahh, the qualities of competitive markets. If theres antitrust laws, there should be similar policies from the workers' side as well.
Hm, perhaps I'm thinking of a different company.
Lol the GnuBee is adorable!

But "recommended RAID levels are 0 and 1 under LVM and MD, and Linux MD RAID 10"[0]?

What you likely want is a 1, and if so it seems easier to keep two drives in your PC and rsync from one to the other[1]. (Also, such is the awesomeness of rsync that the syncs from one 10 TB drive to another literally takes seconds...)

I thought NASs' niche was more complex RAID levels which mitigate the data corruption our last-gen filesystems are still prone to. :D

0: https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-2

1: Cron "rsync -aPq --delete {$source} {$destination} >/dev/null 2>&1". (The scary delete flag deletes files on the destination that are no longer on source, handling renames and unwanted data as RAID would.)
What does it mean in the context of computing though?
My two biggest problems are all the example code that doesn’t even compile and the lack of ability to have a pdf so I can print it or use an e-ink device. My eyes are not up to reading off a screen and I am sick of getting headaches because of Apple.
Yay, another site with a ridiculous "loading" widget I have to adblock.

Ublock #.preloader to make the page actually display.
No you are not. the "bug" is that the download page has a link to an http mirror.

If there was a bug where the ubuntu website could force your browser to display https:// and serve content over http without a warning you would have most definitely heard about it before now.

As to why most mirrors serve over http, it's for the same reasons presented here: https://whydoesaptnotusehttps.com/
Party baloons is a waste of a scarce resource. All users need to limit wasted helium. How do you do this, a high tax on what you use to force careful conservation, so if you return what you bought, you get the tax back.
Why I've decided that we deserve better movies and TV shows
A couple weeks back I was going through Safari’s release notes. They put them all on one page [1] and none of the sections have IDs so I can’t link to them directly. WTF.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/releas...
Americans are starting to legalize more and more.

When prohibition 2.0 ends in failure maybe some will learn that it doesn’t work.
MIT and U.S. Air Force Sign Agreement to Launch AI Accelerator
I think the situation is bad enough now that you should boycott your local "guy" even though it's possible that all his drugs come from humane, sustainable sources.
systemd is not written in C++.
The United States Once Fried Its Own Satellites – Angry Planet – Medium
The default isn't touch(which is momentum scrolling), so it's by default NOT like it's most places in iOS.

Technical previews is for Safari on Mac OS, and that browser works quite well. It's safari on iOS that is a huge shitshow.

Its more unstable than ever before and far behind everyone else on features, and it's freakishly unconsistent. Heck, Apple can't make up their mind if they are having a click delay or not, so now they have it only for standalone.
Can someone please explain what replaces systemd in Guix?
Oh, I dunno. There’s another angle of this business of relating to some and not to others, bonding with birds of a feather, and fighting like cats and dogs, separating like oil and water.

The premise requires discussing centralized media in the form of (sometimes radio but mostly) television, a period which this article skips and ignores.

It goes like this: On TV, there were people you could watch and love and adore and idolize. They seemed wonderful and perfect because the persona you were exposed to was staged, rehearsed, pre-recorded. Call it the fish bowl effect.

The fish seem perfect as long as they stay on the other side of the glass. They can’t eat you if you don’t swim with them. Sharks and piranhas can be safely admired as long as you stay in your world, and they stay in theirs.

With the internet, this boundary is crossed, as soon as you adopt the perspective of the internet as telephone calls. If the internet is always a telephone call, the network is neutral, agnostic to the content of the call, and thus dialed with the expectation of confidential conversations and implicit privacy, then the fish bowl effect disappears.

But even the telephone call is an abstraction, because it ignored the one-to-many or many-to-many relationships. Telephone calls are mostly one on ones.

So compartmentalized concepts no longer serve us. All options are on the table now. None of this is democratizing. It’s not enough to just shrug and say “It’s the Internet” anymore. It’s not going to bring us together. Not by default. It’s hasn’t made things worse than the worst it’s ever been. It does make some things easier, even if sometimes things shouldn’t be easy at all.

Now that we have packet switched networks, there’s no One True Way for how to use them. Try to think of it as a system of moving sidewalks and escalators, but some of them drop into unmarked fish bowls.
> two people not speaking to each other because they're each absorbed in their own thing is a bit gross

First, none of what follows is applicable for people who are absorbed in their own thing even though they're near each other because they can't afford separate rooms. In that case, you do what you have to do.

But if we choose to be in the same room together, shouldn't we interact with each other rather than being absorbed in our own things? Otherwise, why not go to our own rooms?

Mind you, I'm an introvert. And most of the time, I merely tolerate family gatherings, even though I choose to fly back home to spend time with my family. (I'm single and currently living in a tech hub, across the country from my family.) But I try to participate, at least a little. And I generally don't put my earbuds on until I've spent my time with the family and go back to being alone.
Largest hackathon in the world is in Guadalajara Mexico.
:O THE MULTITOUCH! Man am I ever a sucker for a good multi touch demo.
I wonder if this is a cultural thing.

Because cooking has turned into something social somehow, people don’t want to be isolated in the kitchen any more.

But in the past, someone walking into the kitchen while you were cooking would probably have been akin to them walking in on you in the toilet (“What!? No, I don’t want them to see the dinner until it’s actually done!”).