skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the main problems with This Old House, the cost of the homes and projects are for the top 10% of income earners, so generally, they're not examples of rebuilds that can be had by the majority of home owners. I get that real copper gutters are cool and will last two lifetimes, but how many people can afford that? I could think of about a dozen examples like this that regular folk can not afford, slate roofs, stone fireplaces, old growth flooring etc.
The Negotiability of “Severity” Levels
Actually it was based on multiple datapoints: Netscape, Quattro Pro, Arago, and Microsoft Word.
No you are totally right, I'm sort of aware of their power. I'm just pointing out how obnoxious it is that we just stratified online websites into the elites and the commoners and invented terms for them to make people feel as special as when they fly first class. This is a new thing that happened all of a sudden in the past few years.

It's an ugly trend taking over everything. Stratify all humans, treat the elites differently. Forget about net neutrality, we can do this within websites, within APIs, and so now we do.
"Breaking user's computers" sounds like a bug of severity "critical", which would block the release. Can you point me to your bug report?
It seems like others are having similar results. Some image libraries seem to be reducing the color space and changing the values. It could be an issue of P3 aware vs P3 capable. But I’m not entirely sure why it’s so hit or miss.
Pardon my lack of knowledge, but what is wrong with APKs from APKPure?
Was that meant to counter my argument? If so, you’re arguing a straw man. :)
There is a point at which the radiation you're receiving from regular scans becomes harmful enough to outweigh the benefits of early detection.
What We Know About the Voynich Manuscript [pdf]
This is one of those things that you look back on as a pivotal fork in the road which leads to the death of either the Xbox or the PlayStation.
i actually did this a month ago. found no cancer but some surprises that i have had to react to... you have to be very careful because they can pick up irrelevant stuff, but i think this will be a huge field in the future.
>The linux kernel also makes judicious use of gotos for cleaning up error handling.

Isn't that standard c style? I can't imagine programming c without goto end.
Facebook don't need to keep your past posts, their algorithms have already run the data. The real question is whether you can reset the "personas" they assign to you....
Better example than given in the article, GM's new innovative pickup tailgate that folds down to let you step into the bed.

It was invented by a high school graduate, not an engineer ten years ago! It sat in a closet for ten years before it was introduced.

Read an interview where an exec says they couldn't have put it out in 2009 because they'd just gone bankrupt and were trying to save the company. More pickup sales wouldn't have helped with that?

Then in 2017 they put in more work and got a finished prototype that was tested. Why wait two more years to introduce it? Because they wanted to wait for the new redesign to be introduced. Is it any wonder that Elon Musk can run rings around them?
This is sad. Are these children or adults? Do they have careers and do this as a side gig?
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I'm interested in which points you disagree, because I, in the opposite, agree with almost everything the guy said.
>In order to get the data, we would have to intubate patients that did not need it. In this case, the people who approve these studies rightfully ruled that getting that data would be too painful for the patients to allow.

I wonder what the patients who died because they had especially fast-spreading infections whose pace was not detected quickly enough would think of these altruists' wise decision to weigh the median level of "emotional distress" more highly than their lives.
Movie plots are not reality and don't make for compelling arguments.

As someone who plans to adopt kids rather than adding another human to an overcrowded planet, people who act like life is meaningless without reproducing strike me incredibly narrow-minded.

A third point as well -- humans are not manifest destiny. There is no imperative for our continued existence in this universe, so we have no obligation to reproduce -- any reason to reproduce you can think of is imagined by a brain evolved from millennia of creatures that decided to reproduce: selection bias.
There might be some way in which I had run a system that caused those endless slowdowns.

But the point is, and that's why I think systemd is garbage, that there is nothing there that helps me debug what is going on. If the shutdown is hanging there is nothing to do except the reset button or waiting for an eventual reboot. In neither case will there be any forensics about what exactly systemd had tried to do and how it thought that it failed.

That is the part that is not acceptable.

P.S. I shouldn't have to manually adjust a timeout on disabling swapspace on shutdown to prevent a need for a reboot by reset button. The kind of thinking that got big timeouts into those things is precisely why I say that systemd people just think differently than I do.
This is a 5g huawei play or a Lenovo play not sure. But the phrase about totalitarian country taken over data (and should have said can remote control your devices ) is something.

Wonder what area china is in the lead - moon landing, human gene research on real human, ...
It may not even necessarily be to become marketers. There are certain positive implications about attractiveness and coolness associated with influencers, so some people may just want their "friends" (who are their actual followers) to think that they're influencers.
Ford cuts 7K white-collar jobs
I know Carmack was specifically talking about 3D visualization, but I was responding to the parent comment's point about the value of data simplification that 2D brings. I don't usually quote myself, but that's what I meant by:

I'm carefully wording this in terms of UI design in 3-D because I agree about the physical issues of eyes and focus.

I specifically brought up the car's knobs and wheels and buttons because it's an example of a fairly complex but widely adopted and successful non-2D interface. My point was that I don't think there is an inherent limitation in the human brain's ability to comprehend or think in 3D, and that I think it's more of a training and acclimatization phenomenon.
Not to mention systemd being used in all current enterprise Linux distros with people being paid for maintaining it in missing critical usecases.
I have an 8 month old and a kitchen separate from our living room. When I am cooking, he is forced to sit in a highchair. I wish he could be playing on the other side of the counter while I cook instead.
Whoa this is jaw dropping on mobile. Try typing in a density diffusion of .996 and setting velocity diffusion to 1
>We're already seeing filming-in-public laws tightening

Is this true? Where and how so?
It is possible to get in touch with a real person regarding their free services too. I recently had an issue with the Google Pay app and a pass which would not appear in the app. I contacted support through the support chat feature in the app and was talking to a real person in a minute. They led me through clearing the storage for the app which resolved the issue.
To me, a car is more than a utility. It's a source of entertainment.
> People will be forced to accept a lower standard of life as they are switched to less environmentally impacting methods

This is precisely the kind of Carbon-Rules-All thinking that got us here. There is an implicit assumption that the only way we could have ever gotten to the "place we are today," however you choose to define that, is as a result of the burning fossil fuels.

I implore you to sit with some beer/wine/LSD and contemplate an alternative history in which we never drilled a single oil well but had the same desires for successful civilization. See where you get.

The "system level thinking" I'm talking about is the kind that works to explicitly maintain QOL while strongly curtailing emissions. It's possible, and is actually the only way.
I agree that RTB probably is healthier for the advertising ecosystem, but given how rampant privacy abuses are, blasting out a users private information to every bidder in the auction seems like a tough sell.
>You might be right that not everything in those fields is bad, but most is.

Citation needed.
Agree. If it is deep learning do not know any way to get from weights back to data.
Sending SIGINT to all processes isn't what is needed here. It needs to go to the "processes" that are currently going on. With systemd's parallel execution that can still be narrowed down in a useful way, especially is some tail of some hanging command is running alone by now.

Obviously what the BSDs are doing, sending SIGQUIT to just the currently blocking-the-shutdown processes, is far superior. Now the coredumps are floating around the filesystem and they'll be there after reboot, and you can see who did what and was hanging in what backtrace.
Perhaps not practical, but I could see this as one actually useful example of how a blockchain-style distributed ledger could be used. Have two accounts, one posts the binaries, another posts the checksums. That way one account breach doesn't compromise the whole thing, and the ledger could prove the history, etc.
Or “allowing others to get their start without the need to buy a truck and business first”. Tow trucks might be available for $5K down, but the full sticker is $50K+ for a stinger and $100K+ for a rollback.

Add a towing/impound license, insurance, land on top of that and it’s reasonable to conclude that some people would be better off driving for someone else than forcing everyone who wanted to be a tow truck driver to open a towing business.
This is where "Ask This Old House" comes in. It's aimed at more normal person level of material.
It's perhaps likely that Facebook doesn't still hold the data, but a 'partner' keeps it for marketing/research purposes...
I would have believed that if it were HP. Snark aside, it is unusual behavior coming from Microsoft.
Can you cite examples of this happening?
(disclaimer: I'm part of a climate&energy research group)

While climate change seems like a daunting and unsolvable problem at an individual level, to be honest it is fairly easy to solve with political solutions provided you could unblock the political machinery. I used to be fairly pessimistic about this, as a researcher, but now I think it's mostly a matter of getting political interest to align at the same time.

In our society, the simplest and most effective way to get something done is to just make it profitable. You can try to do things by fiat, but if you make something profitable it tends to encourage massive innovation and is usually faster.

For climate change, the easiest thing would be to just add a carbon tax that ramps up over time (or cap+trade, they have the same economic outcome, though cap+trade is a lot more complex to manage). You can even make it revenue neutral, though you do need tariffs on any goods not meeting the standard (which eventually encourages other countries to follow suit when the tax increases past a certain point).

Anyway, this gives you price discovery, as it eventually becomes cheaper to pay someone to take the carbon instead of emitting it. From a climate perspective, I do not really care if natural gas+sequestration wins over PV+batteries, but with a ramping price we can be confident that at least one of those will win over dumping Co2 into the atmosphere.

There was actually a bill this year (DOA, presumably due to republican distaste) that would have done exactly this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Innovation_and_Carbon_D...

... that basically would have solved the problem.
I know right.
So then I tried multi touch on my iPhone. Five fingers smooth as can be..
Thankfully Google replaced mine for this issue a couple years ago.
10 fingers on ipad pro, no slow down.
2011 iMac display I can't see the logo, but if I drag the Chrome tab over to a connected ViewSonic VA2431wm monitor from years ago, the logo shows up. Interesting.
>[...]companies are so desperate for people that they can't find anyone and are just dumping cash into stock buybacks instead of raising wages.

Said companies are so spoiled by high profits that they dare dip into them to pay employees more.

Also, this isn't for your run of the mill small-business or start-up, these are companies that afford to pay employees much more and simply don't.
While I love living in an open concept house, I totally agree with the points that you disagree with.

We don't have a lot of guests all that often, so I agree if "a handful of times" is "between 10 and 15 per year."

There is no question that open concept doesn't allow to heat or cool this room but not the other. It's all or nothing for us. That was totally different when I grew up.

Whatever happens in the kitchen, we can hear it perfectly on the other side of the house in our bedroom if we leave our bedroom door open. That would not be the case if we had some kitchen door somewhere in between. Similarly, when our daughter has friends over in the dining area or living area, we typically move to the bedroom because the family/TV room is too noisy then.
The whole article linked to explains that the reason for high youth unemployment is not "capitalism" of "free markets", but the opposite, an unhealthily large public sector, and and unhealthily small private sector - what they need is more economic freedom, and *more" free markets, not less
Yeah, I thought I was having vision problems because I couldn't read anything above or below the midpoint of my monitor.
If no drivers were willing to accept the lower rates there would be no reason for them to collude.
> I think a lot of people have seen that SOLID principles sometimes actually have the opposite effect of their intention, i.e. they make the code hard to reason about and thus less maintainable and harder to extend.

For me, it's half that and half that the people most likely to promote it - like in this blog post - are doing it badly.

For example, their very first one, the Single Responsibility Principle, isn't. It's blind adherence to a code smell at the syntactic level, resulting in subclasses that are closer to god objects than single-responsibility.

IMO, extracting "Payments" into its own class/module is the "right" day to do it, whether or not the switch statement is kept or a method is created for each Employee type.
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MOND doesn't actually get rid of dark matter, it just means you only need ~20% as much of it. If it did fix dark matter it'd very possibly be the more popular theory. The issue is that galaxies-- according to the dark matter paradigm-- don't have a precisely predictable amount of dark matter. There are galaxies that seem to have vastly different quantities of dark matter than other galaxies that despite the fact that their ordinary mass distribution looks very similar. That is, different galaxies need different amounts of correction from Newtonian Dynamics in ways that are seemingly random, and therefore cannot be incorporated into MOND. So you still need some dark matter to fix this problem.
I'm still disappointed by Google's ongoing refusal to implement "allow only while in foreground" permissions to apps (for things like location).
SOLID is... well, "solid" advice. But it absolutely should not be applied dogmatically - the same principle holds true for design patterns, agile processes, and the like.

It seems like most devs have some kind of epiphany when they learn about concepts such as SOLID, and apply them with zeal. It's almost like a stepping stone to learning what SOLID is really about - simple, clean, maintainable code.

At some point this realisation dawns, and the dev reaches a zen-like state, where the tenants of SOLID are obvious, without the need to consciously think about them - it's at this point that the dev realises the error of their ways.
Facebook has no incentive to provide access to third parties. This data is their source of revenue; they sell services off of it.
I think that's the key. There was ADA now there's Rust. If you can have GC on your system there are plenty of other languages that make strong static typing and other compile time guarantees that beat any analyzed C++.
Benefit is avoiding hitting Google servers and services.
In the Company Hierarchy chart that is the cornerstone of the Gervais Principle, I take it these passionate employees make up the Clueless layer that is the essential middle of the pyramid:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

As a congenital member of the Loser class, I guess it's nice to realize it does have some perks.
Sure, this report does a good job summarizing the tradeoffs of occupational licensure. If I were to highlight a section to read it would be pages 13 and 14.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/doc...
Of course you wouldn’t, because they would ensure that they are the cheapest and most effective.
I'd be a little surprised if multittouch affected performance significantly. It's probably simulating and rendering every cell every frame regardless. I couldn't notice a slowdown on my phone with five fingers.
systemd is pervasive in the GNU/Linux world and I think it’s futile to stay on GNU/Linux and try to avoid systemd. Just look at the list of distros in the article: a bunch of obscure forks of prominent systemd distros like Debian and Arch, a distro (Gentoo) whose main claim to fame is compile it yourself, one where they say a leading Google search is whether the distro is dead, and one where they say “oh gee, we haven’t heard of it, let us know if it works.”

Seems to me that if you hate systemd, it’s time to try a BSD. GNU/Linux has been going down this path of complexity for years. These same arguments spawned with udev years ago, and Slackware held out then just as it is with systemd. OpenBSD on the other hand embraces simplicity and the old UNIX way. Of course it also lacks niceties like Bluetooth, but that’s the price you pay. Maybe systemd is needed to manage complex systems that support ugly things like Bluetooth.
Those were launched in 2014, 2016, 2017, 2015, 2019, and 2014, respectively.
Single digit drop out for PhD programs does not sound right, I've believe the stat is closer to 50%:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/PhD-Attrition-How-Much-Is/...
How can you prove they are colluding?
I've seen this so many times. The introverts and smokers I can explain, but to this day I have no idea why people congregate in the kitchen even when there's nothing specific to draw them in there (food, etc.)
I work at a FAANG and have many friends/colleagues that do + have access to voluntarily shared internal compensation data at my company.

The numbers are fairly accurate, but are slightly (~5-10%) skewed higher. This could be because those the type of people that find the site represent those that are better at researching/negotiating, and/or those that are proud of their salary tend to report more.
I have a hunch that the internal management of the image by the application you've described is similar to the case of another comment where the logo could be seen in Windows after saving the file in MS Paint.
A screen is cheaper than a knob? I can see it easier to remove a screen vs. a knob, but how often does a knob go bad?
> [users] do not know that they are giving up their data, that it is sold on a market

I agree that this is a big one, and I believe that businesses indeed should explicitly and plainly let users know what kind of data is stored and how it is used.

However, isn't one of the main issues with GDPR the fact that it doesn't give users an option to enter in this kind of relationship with a company, even if both parties are aware and consenting?

I am not a legal expert, but I thought(according to my understanding of GDPR) that businesses are not allowed to store personal data about users, period, unless the data is needed to provide the service. I have no idea if "we need this data, so we can use it for ads to earn the revenue needed to finance our service" qualifies as "needed to provide the service", but I always thought it didn't. I will be happy if someone could clarify this point and, potentially, prove me wrong.
Firefox 66.0.5 on Ubuntu checking in.
Show HN: Quotable – scan, save and share book quotes on iOS
I would add Matt Jackson and his Next Level Carpentry channel on YouTube. He's a true craftsman, and as far from drama as you can imagine. Definitely worth viewing.

[edit to make the channel name obvious]
Try letters on paper?
Thanks, the only issue I see is that this is still blocked by adblockers, but nothing can be done about that.
Hey HN, a few months ago I realized that my phone’s photo library was filling up with pictures of book quotes that I wanted to share and look back on. It’s hard to organize these and writing down every quote is too time consuming. I decided to build a solution that allows you to scan/save/share quotes using OCR. It’s super simple - no bells and whistles - but (I’d like to think) it just works. Let me know what you think!
That person is big-timing. Their tone ("you should read more" and so on) is in violation of the HN guidelines, filled with needless snark and condescension. The offending comment has been flagged by multiple users who agree that the comment doesn't meet community standards.
"Millennials and Gen Z are growing up"
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I suppose, but most of the time the answer I receive from this department is "We don't know" (ie: why a server is turned off)
So, I know people that create lists like this think they're helping things, but the people that created this site are basically "think tank" people, and I don't really think they have the expertise to make such precise quantitative claims- Almost no one on their staff has strong economics training as far as I can tell. Yes, they have science expertise, but none of the science is really in dispute anymore among reasonable people- The problem is how to turn the science into appropriate policy actions, and I am not very convinced these sort of "policy experts" who spend their time reading and writing white papers really have any greater insight into the problem than the rest of us- Having people with supposed authority make such laughable statements like "Refrigerant management will reduce carbon emissions exactly 89.74 CO2-Eq" is dangerous, in my opinion, because it greatly oversimplifies the problem.
Canada tried that with a rebate to boot at the federal level. Look at what’s happening in Alberta and Ontario.
Animats may be saying thats what a capitalist system treats the downtrodden, but the actual actions are by that very capitalist system.

In order to face a problem, you have to be able to talk about it. And capitalism stratifies the "work" and "cannot work" brutally. And as a killing blow, then proceeds to separate food/shelter/communications and the means to try to make oneself better. In this way, capitalism forces the poverty-stricken to rely on charity of others, for 'market forces' nearly removes the ability to climb the ladder of success.

If you find using the term "dead weight" abhorrent (as I do), what are you doing about the root cause; capitalism?
It wouldn’t, but they could ensure the generic was effective and manufactured correctly. The problem is that a consumer can easily be ripped off, a nation state buyer will not.