skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer a TUI to play video on the computer hooked up to my tv. The video is graphical of course, but the UI is good ol' mplayer in a tmux over ssh. Unlike every other media remote, when I need to type something I can use my tablet/laptop's decent input capability instead of pushing arrow keys on a remote to select a key on the TV's on-screen keyboard (the worst UI for anything I've ever had to deal with; other than my smart speaker with 6 buttons, 3 of which when accidentally touched seem to activate special modes in which no sound is produced and the meaning of the other buttons is changed, with the only feedback being the volume stripe emitting led patterns that I believe are a reference to Close Encounters, but don't get me started on that).
Talk to any middle age surbanite who is scared of their own shadow. They'll give up anything to stop the boogeymen of drugs, terrorists, pedophiles, etc
Do you think things would have been different for you, if you knew about it since you were a child?

I'm a 35 years old male that can't have kids. Not possible, say the doctors. I love children and me and my wife are considering using a sperm donor.

Should all work as we hope, we are not sure how to approach exactly this situation of telling our child about it. At first I thought we should just keep it a secret, but the more I read on the subject, the more I think this is a mistake. The thing I fear the most is that my kid would grow to resent me no matter what I do, because ...you know, I'd not be the 'real' father.

EDIT: This is a throwaway account.
Author here.

Code doesn't become legacy if it didn't fulfill some purpose. If it didn't work, it wouldn't be legacy, it'd be source code in somebody's home directory that was never deployed.

All working software is not legacy software. All legacy software (still running) works, for some definitions of works.

That's not to say your points aren't also really correct. Software is built with current requirements and knowledge in mind. Best decisions with info we have..etc.
The deal is that Intel is still trying to sell expensive CPUs and there's no reason for a customer to be buying them - they could be putting that money into other components - or using it for something else.
Untrue in my experience.

Games still can render more FPS than mandated by vsync.

I tried playing sauerbraten (with SDL2) on sway other day, it was butter smooth (no tearing) with vsync off in game, and I felt no input lag unlike when I switch vsync flag on in game which limits FPS.

It probably does triple buffering, but somehow on sway it worked better than triple buffering of intel's xorg driver back when I tried that.
USA largest “house buying and selling” group
That's terrible, I thought that Microsoft had a somewhat better QA program. Though to be fair that is not what i would call wiping out the system drive, because you are still able to boot into Windows and similar things do happen on other operating systems.
Same. Notes isn’t quite the same product — can’t easily clip webpages, create annotations, tags, etc, but largely I don’t have as much a need for that anymore!

I’m just worried about exporting my data before they go out of business, but to put into what? Is there any good, ideally open source, alternative that can accept Evernote as is?
The irony is in your own self-confidence, and the idea that strongly-held beliefs are beyond criticism, but that the author's are somehow not.
Is there? I am on both, and i like them both
SSDs were held up in prices artificially for a while related to the memory price inflation that happened throughout 2018 and some of 2017. QLC was mentioned but prices are down across the board and everything in consumer land is down sharply YoY from that period (50%+ discount is fair). I’d expect some price increases coming up due to investor pressure for revenue.
What exactly is stopping Emacs from improving its rendering and bringing it on par with "GUI"-like ncurses apps? They already support multiple on-screen windows, a global menubar and all sorts of "widgets" for interactive use.
I am doing that. I can play most games very well, including Battlefield, even though it isn't optimized for more than 6 overall threads. Never had a real issue so far.
If you own your house and need a new roof then installing one that reflects sunlight will really drop the interior temperature during the summer.
There's certainly a lot of BS going on, especially if it helps sales or fundraising or whatnot... but there's also a lot actually happening in terms of ai/computerized-statistics, that regardless of what you call it, is permeating into life.
> Talk about primes in arithmetic progressions.

Tao would later go in to prove that there are arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of primes in his most famous work to date, The Green-Tao Theorem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%E2%80%93Tao_theorem
In September the stars should align when the 16 core part drops (4 more cores) for still less than half the price of the 9980XE.
You nailed it - Evernote is just trying to make their investors happy while doing there best to not piss off users TOO much. Having been in this situation myself I can tell you it's a not great for customers at all. But you do what you must to survive.
> 1070ti

LOL, cries in RX580 at 60hz on 1080p.
1) Sure, but while you can set conditions on my purchasing lemonade from you, you're not entitled to tell me what I can do with the lemonade after I buy it and walk away from the stand. Unfortunately, DRM does exactly that - it limits the ways I can consume products after I already paid all relevant parties for it.

3) I can be principled realist and accept DRM whenever it's convenient, and find ways to break it or alternate sources whenever I prefer it.
Author here.

I don't think it's wrong in most (nearly all) cases. The cost of running software, keeping it updated, changing the HW it runs on, keeping it compliant, etc over time costs much more than the dev time to build it.

Unless your service is completely replaced every couple years, I'd venture operations cost more than development. (even if dev handles the ops).

The point of the statement is designing for operability helps with ownership and combats the "leave it in the corner and hope for the best" mentality.
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes faces jail time for fraud charges; 2020 trial
Thank you so much - I like your view a lot. I'll need to chew on it a bit more. I'm considering just saying "let me work on something interesting please" and seeing how that goes. Can't hurt!
Not sure we have. The chief executive just ignore the 1 then 2m walk due to the support of chinese comunust regime.

China is strong and cohesive enough the world should be afraid. Raising economically but totalitarian politically justify a strong arm and nasty approach. And any people struggled would be jailed. (Last noble prize winner plus nearly all human rights lawyers.)

Be afraid.

If you don’t you are playing fire with your children’s life. Macau -> HK -> Taiwan once done it will expand to asia. Good luck to humanity.
Damn! That's a BIG drone. Should have read closer but now I see 450kg. MSL is like a small car.
What do you mean? Emacs way is strictly superior to ncurses here.
That's better, but doesn't separate men who have sex with manly men from those who only have sex with traps. It also excludes those who don't have sex at all for one reason or another.
That mistake would only cause minor inconvenience if you're using a snapshotting filesystem. If you aren't, there are lots of ways you can lose data, GUI or not.
Linux graphics support is quite good as long as your driver is open source and in-tree. I was just talking the other day with the graphics team about how we haven't really had any problems on Linux/Intel because everything just works.

Mac, on the other hand... oh boy. It's pretty much a disaster. There is no end of bugs in Apple's graphics stack, and no, Metal doesn't solve them all. The first time I ran the Metal port of my library, my MacBook Pro instantly kernel panicked. I have never had that happen on Linux.
It's not dumb. Some of the most impactful stories are fables. You may also like Java Koans.
Instagram Accounts for Design Inspiration
This is especially bad with anything based on Chromium/Electron and fractional scaling at the moment. The Ozone/Wayland back end is still a way off it seems.
... without the headphone connector.
Love Evernote. A key feature is still missing.. find a way to reach out. I have a side project I've been working on for years.. maybe they can start believing again
mercury-dark-1
And yet reading sites like China Law Blog, https://www.chinalawblog.com/, I don't get the impression that the rule of law is especially problematic, per se.

For example, AFAICT few people say that China doesn't take enforcement of trademark protections seriously. The procedures for redress and enforcement exist and applied fairly. But navigating the administrative state can be confusing and cause people to trip over the technicalities. Some of the stories I've read from the blog above detail situations where Chinese partners or workers used the legal system against foreigners in very surprising but arguably fair manners. Much like the U.S., if you want to protect your rights you really need to make sure to employ vigilant lawyers who can foresee potential problems.

The U.S. is large enough that there's been little pressure to address issues of regulatory and procedural uniformity relative to the rest of the world (e.g. civil law countries). China is similar in that regard. What's different is that China's systems are almost wholly unique and far more complex, whereas the legal systems for almost all Westernized nations, including Japan, have a pedigree that can be traced back to Western Europe, if not ancient Rome. China has been adopting American-style legal rules and norms for commercial law, including common law rules about case precedent. That helps further the rule of law and, more importantly, provides processes more familiar to foreigners, but it also adds yet another dimension of complexity.

To use communism as an example, again, consider that American tripartite system of government--legislative, administrative, judicial--can create substantial complexity relative to a small, autocratic state.[1] In China the Communist Party is another pillar of governance in addition to those other three, multiplying complexity. And China has a federal system much like that in America. So just because things are confusing and seemingly haphazard doesn't mean that they actually are. I mean, China has had a robust and effective administrative state for millennia. IMO much of the perception of China as chaotic and full of cheaters is self-serving. And to the extent it's correct, I think it says at least as much about the limitations the central government faces than about their lack of desire or will to do anything about it. If we don't appreciate that than we're simply going to frustrate ourselves with demands and expectations that are misinformed and unreasonable.

[1] For example, in the U.S. using a judicial judgment to induce a government agency to do or abstain from something can be challenging and expensive. We maintain especially rigid separation between the judiciary and executive for good reasons--reasons directly related to our conception and experience of rule of law--but that does not necessarily translate into efficiency or even consistency.
X forwarding is pretty awful over congested links and high-latency links in my experience.

And from what I've seen if a program has even a medium-low level of graphical intensity it's not going to interact well with X forwarding. So anything that previously worked, should still work without a GPU.
There will be at least an hour delay. Saturn is pretty far
If you have a point, please make it without whatever this is.

Apple scale is hundreds of millions of devices sold per year. Nobody said it was a “special” scale only for Apple.
I game with a 2600x / 2080ti @ 1440p/165hz, on average I see 150 FPS in Apex Legends. Not an optimal setup, but not too shabby either. Planning on upgrading to the 3900x once it's released.
Seems like that was the photographer’s goal
Awk by Example
Your choice of platforms is highly questionable.

Either you're talking about high-end gaming, in which case Apple isn't in the game at all - the only players are Microsoft and Sony, though Google is making a bid now as well with Stadia.

Or you're talking about low-end gaming, in which case Google probably matters most because of Android.
Also, why presume a terminal must have columns and rows? Maybe that started it.
>NSA's job is to eavesdrop on hostile foreign actors' communications

I'm pretty sure the NSA also eavesdrops on friendly foreign actors. I'm also sure that the friendly foreign actors aren't pleased with it. I don't know why this isn't taken into account in foreign US policy.
Ok, that is an interesting diversion on a Friday. I too was struck by the odd poses, some of them seem to me as if they are trying to evoke a sexual response although given their consistency I attribute it primarily to the style the photographer imputes on his work. Given all the internal dialog he includes I'm pretty sure the similarity of emotions is intentional.

That said, the most interesting thing for me in the article was the chain of events, same sex couples wishing to conceive, selecting a sperm donor with a 'good' track record, results in the same donor being preferentially selected. Given that the children share common activities (the article mentions camp for same sex families) and the kids socialization there, it would seem there is a higher than otherwise risk of developing a relationship with a half sibling. That has got to be emotionally challenging if you discover it later. Understanding ones own genetic history is a thing in isolated populations like Iceland but I can easily see it being overlooked in a larger more diverse population. I have never considered that burden that would be imposed on future children conceived in this way, but in hindsight it makes sense. Somewhere there is the most "popular" donor of the most used donation service who could have hundreds? thousands? of children out there.
Show HN: Azure DevOps Digital Ocean K8s Config Downloader
How is that story demonstrably false? Can you point to an article that demonstrates that?
Wayland developers, who are not GPU reverse-engineers.
But exporting as TIFFs seems a pretty reasonable option in that case. Your edits and catalog are all saved in a form you can import into another program.
It's funny how people can have opposite opinions on what constitutes an essential item. For me, the password manager is at the core of everything I do... And it's the first one I'm willing to pony up money for... Even more than the cost of maintaining my personal domains.
But at least there are some inside. That is human.

The fear of china ... look at those who live closest. What do you think 2m walk if it is not of fear.

Hk is one of the top economic entity in the world. We still fear that country.

Money and democracy and freedom can live side by side.
Here's a good place to start on that topic: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
In three years, Congress will ban the largest source of trust in internet computer systems. All financial insitutions are downgraded from end to end encryption, becoming fully exposed. Afterwards, criminals steal all bank assets with a perfect operational record. The Internet Security Bill is passed. The system goes online on August 4th, 2023. Cryptographers are removed from corporate defense. The ban catalyzes attacks on infastructure at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
RenderDoc works great on Linux. I prefer it to the Metal debugger for the simple reason that it actually works without regularly crashing and popping up a "please file a radar" box.
It has not. That is the consensus in academic circle by and large.
In the “classic” (non-iCloud, add an account via System Preferences → Internet Accounts) mode Notes.app does store notes on your e-mail server via IMAP.
> This kind of exploits don't even require memory to be executable.

If this exploit is a memory leak, and the memory isn't executable, how do the malicious contents that get put into the leaked memory get executed?
Also the Intel leak
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/c5nb01/amd_competitive...
Scraping Millions of Venmo Payments
Deleting Leading and Trailing Whitespace
Thank you Chris! Seemed like a super effective course on a glance. Will be looking through this!
Can you elaborate on why optics are so expensive and why it isn't likely that manufacturing methods will come down in cost any time soon?
I have an older Thinkpad T440p with Geforce GT 730M running Fedora 29. I use the MATE desktop rather than GNOME.

I just installed the akmod-nvidia packages from rpmfusion which also pulls in xorg-x11-drv-nvidia and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda. Search for "PRIME" discussions in the README.txt under /usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-drv-nvidia. I cannot be sure every bit of my config is still necessary, as I left it alone once I got it working.

First, I have /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia-prime.conf with a small amount of config:

Section "Module"
Load "modesetting"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
EndSection

Then, I created a custom script in /etc/lightdm/display_setup.sh:

#!/bin/sh

if rpm -q xorg-x11-drv-nvidia \
&& lsmod | grep '^nvidia' '
then
xrandr --setprovideroutputsource modesetting NVIDIA-0
xrandr --auto
xrandr --output eDP-1-1 --set "PRIME Synchronization" 1
fi

And in my /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf I added one line to call that script:

...
[Seat:*]
...
display-setup-script=/etc/lightdm/display_setup.sh

To be honest, my old GPU is too slow and with too small RAM to be worthwhile for OpenCL. I find it more practical to just use the Intel OpenCL runtime for multi-core CPUs on this old quad-core laptop or on newer workstations. I do get some use out of xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda on a Titan X desktop GPU though.
'Falsehoods programmers believe about time:
- Every day has a sunrise and a sunset'
Did you see the part about competition? It can end up like airlines - never ending price war. Surely good for consumers, but a measly, possibly negative, total return on investment for the whole sector.
Thanks for the suggestion! Looks like NAVITIME makes a whole bunch of different apps of varying purpose and quality. For driving navigation, their "Drive Supporter" app seems to be the best option that I found. (I gave a quick test of their "Car Navi" app and for whatever reason it was off on my current GPS location by 500m - where their other apps didn't have this problem).

It is definitely far less aggressive about routing me down narrow back streets than google maps - which is a major gripe I have with both google and apple maps. I tend to prioritize a safe, stress-free drive over saving a minute or two. It also has support for bike paths, which google does not support in my area (although you need to be vigilant as one test tried to route me down an unpaved road which is definitely not accessible by bike).

I wouldn't say it's a perfect solution, but I can see the potential benefits over google. I'll give it a try for a bit!
This is such FUD, nowhere in your link does it say users were banned, it had to do with them not supporting Mastodon instances that are sex-work/pornography oriented as a source of trust in Keybase.
What's the ambiguity here? For self-identity matters we already have the expression "gender fluidity".
Repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20302010
DNA is not a 3D molecule. DNA is a molecule which can be represented as 3D. It can just as easily be represented with one or even two fewer dimensions without losing any information.

By the holographic principle, there may be no such thing as "3D" except as a concept for conscious minds to make sense of reality.
I think the argument is that a product that is hard to repair is less likely to be repaired, and, thus, more likely to become waste and be more quickly replaced with an altogether new product when confronted with a minor, and otherwise repairable, fault.

For an individual user who may be disinclined to repair a machine, it may make no material difference. For society as a whole, it has an impact.

Of course, if the overwhelming behavior is disposal, repairability may have negative environmental impacts (extra material use for modularity, etc). A similar example would be people discarding reusable plastic bags after one or two uses, resulting in more plastic waste than with bags intended for single use.

It takes time for markets and users to adjust, and we may find that Apple was well-positioned to take advantage of market trends in processor and efficiency improvements at the right time for portable device markets like phones and laptops. Maybe we'll swing back to longer lifetimes and more modularity at some point...
I've gone through a few of the modules, and I can say it's been really effective so far.
> the keyboard going from good-enough to fairly-crappy.

And don't forget the ginormous trackpad where your typing ends up in weird places because your palm or your wrist touched it unexpectedly. And forget it if you had the shift key pressed - very easy to have a large chunk of the document you're working on disappear making you wonder wtf just happened.
My old Garmin eTrek something-or-the-other had a feature which would compute local sunrise and -set.

It threw a fit and rebooted when I asked it for sunset while at 78 degrees north in June.
Tee-Ball
And, honestly, who needs less than 250ms? Gamers? How many websites open in under a second anyhow?
Please don't take HN threads even further into political or ideological flamewar. It doesn't help; it just makes this place even worse.

If a comment is egregious, flag it (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). In particularly bad cases you can email hn@ycombinator.com so we'll see it sooner. But remember that the guidelines ask: ""Don't feed egregious comments by replying.".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Elizabeth Holmes to Face Trial Next Year on Fraud Charges
As my post makes clear, I was travelling at the time.

I'll also "let you in on a secret": Apple don't make a USB-C SD card reader.
Comparison of current platforms for machine learning on mobile
Or a discworld, sitting on the back of four elephants who are standing on the back of a turtle.
The number I most like to keep an eye on is "days over 100 degrees". It's both important for agriculture and a good measure of how miserable a place is.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/100%C2...
San Francisco Bans Sales of E-Cigarettes
I don't think this is true. There are ads for becoming a sperm donor on the Seattle light rail.
Fighting Theranos Charges, Holmes Blames Advocacy Journalism
Jimmy Carter: 'illegitimate' Trump only president because of Russian meddling
Yeah, a lot of AS/400 programming is actually pretty high-level (comparatively speaking). COBOL in general was meant to be accessible to end users (or at most power users) such that they could readily define business logic without having to resort to something like assembly or PL/I or what have you.
Please don't cross into personal attack. If someone is wrong and you know more, sharing some of what you know might help us all learn something. Just putting down their lack of knowledge only makes this place worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html