skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.
I still think the killer feature that will actually stratify these perfectly similar services will be seamless entire device sync. I have my files clumsily positioned behind my onedrive folder and use shortcuts, but macos insists on the default folder locations for some things.

As clumsy as it is, its still great to be able to grab any devce in the world with an internet connection and access all my files in a few mins. Refining that would change the game for this type of service.
Thanks for your feedback, we will look for some affordable code-signing certificates. Any suggestions? By the way, here is the issue link: https://github.com/ananas-analytics/ananas-desktop/issues/61
So what’s the point of logging in with a Microsoft account?
This argument is akin to the argument that the LHC might create a black hole that will destroy the world.

"Scientists might do something that will destroy us all and I know this because I read a few sci-fi novels and read a few popsci articles but am otherwise ignorant about what the scientists are actually doing. But since the stakes are so high (which I can't show), on the chance that I'm right (which is likely 0) we should abandon everything."
Fact: Immigrants and their kids founded the U.S.
Because the day they don't, they won't be in SF at all.
> We don't need more heavy metals in our air/water.

Batteries in landfills are pretty inert. None of the heavy metal reactants in a NiMH or lithium cell[1] are ever in a liquid or dissolved state (the charge carriers are hydroxide and lithium ions respectively). One of the reasons they're so pervasive is precisely that these chemistries are safe and relatively non-toxic.

Really, if you're worried about discrete cell batteries and the environment, the solution is to minimize your use of them, not to worry about recyclable vs. not.

[1] Lead acid batteries are an exception, because the sulfuric acid does indeed dissolve some lead. But these really aren't the subject of the article, and in fact they're already being quite effectively recycled in practice.
> "When consumers have tried to sue online marketplaces like Amazon and eBay for selling dangerous goods in the past, courts have ruled they aren’t responsible for products offered by third-party vendors..."

If there's one thing that makes me back away, as a consumer, from Amazon, it's this sort of thing, this lack of real accountability. Sure, Amazon, says they do things to prevent counterfeits from being sold through, but there doesn't appear to be any powerful outside force that consumers can bring to bear on the company when they screw up.
Not sure who you work for, but I'm going to talk about Box since that is the competitor I'm familiar with. I'm in academia and to my annoyance have to interact with Box which has no linux support (and has also deprecated existing workarounds like WebDAV).

It's frustrating to me because academia is a major target for Box, and there are many of us linux users here. I wish the university admins that negotiate these deals would consider us.

It also feels like Box has a dismissive attitude towards us. Linux support has been a much requested feature for a long time, for example see this years-long thread: https://community.box.com/t5/Desktop-and-Mobile-Forum/Status.... IIRC mods encouraged people to vote for this feature request in BoxPulse, where it subsequently became one of the highest-voted features, but then labeled WONTFIX. Also annoying that Box supports linux-based Android, and also supported the less-used Windows phone. Yes there are a lot of linux distros out there, but Box could put out a snap, or just target one distro and let the other distros patch for themselves (like Steam does).
The difference is that insects can perform a wide variety of tasks needed for their survival, but all "AI" created by humans so far can only perform a single task each.
You should try to get flights on Airbus planes instead, as they usually have wider seats. Southwest only flies 737s, which have terrible seat space because it's an ancient narrowbody design.
Yes. Companies often issue press statements after settling a case.
In the old days at least we had compiling. Not so much anymore.
Well, I noticed a whole bunch last time I started it up. Granted, I haven't had much time to use blender recently, but:

- The orientation controls

- poke faces (Alt-p) doesn't exist

- the selection behaviour (A doesn't seem to deselect any more)
- shift-G doesn't work

- W doesn't open a menu any more.

- Shift-tab doesn't change vertex/face/line selection mode any more.

Enough changed that I ended up clicking around the UI a lot. The orientation controls, and stuff starting with W were things I used to use a lot. I think when I get back into it, I'll spend a bit of time figuring it all out and learning the new conventions. I generally like the pie menu thing, and I like the move towards consistency (even if I think mnemonic keybindings are generally better), and Eevee is amazing for composing scenes (I used to hate trying to do lighting and having to wait for a half hour just to see the effect of moving a light a tiny bit).
I noticed this just the other day when I reset a windows 10 PC I obtained from someone and tried to make a local account.

I made the mistake of connecting to the wifi and even after restarting the computer in an attempt to restart the initial setup process it refused to take me to the internet connection screen so that I could tell it to not connect to wifi.

I could have possibly taken my internet offline entirely, but I ended up using a fake Microsoft account and then switching to a local account after the setup was complete.

This change really needs to be reversed. Forcing Microsoft accounts on people is unacceptable.
A lack of affordable housing is also causing problems in other areas that don't have a large tech economy, like Jackson Hole and other ski towns.
Corrections:

- the Odroid XU4 has an eMMC port [...] a compact *and faster* solution [...]
- the Odroid *H2* has both eMMC and SATA ports
Correction:

1. As many have pointed out. Not everyone can run.

2. I took me 1 hour 50 minutes to run 8 miles and NOT 1 hour . I was eventually clocking a steady 1 hour 40 minutes approximately from 8:30 PM to 10:00 PM PMThat was quite a miscalculation on my part. Sorry about that. I had to go recheck with my app.

3. Yes learn to run properly! From my own personal experience, I needed to really relax my body, especially my hands so that I am not hurting any muscles, especially in the back. When you go very slow, you can catch and fix any posture issues before they cause trouble. Also all the running was outside, along the road and not in the gym.

4. I did not mix strength and cardio. I round robin between running (mostly), gym, sports (high intensity group sports). Usually a few months at a time.

The whole point of me sharing this info was to share my perception/experience/thoughts that when I stuck to something without many expectations, my body "knew" what was right for me and started "adapting" itself. I just needed to let it take its time and also not get tempted to give it up.
Didn't Epic just made a similar announcement?

Anyway, I wish more FOSS projects could copy blenders way of working. They start a very big and ambitious project then update the code to support it. For example Elephants Dream gave them character animation. Big Buck Bunny gave them hair rendering & animation.

https://www.blender.org/about/projects/
Webvan
I believe git was originally designed to share commits via email.

Here is one of the top hits searching "git email patch"

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/send-a-patch-to-someone-using-gi...
And Reddit uses Chrome's icon to represent continuing to the desktop site instead of the app...both only slightly irritating.

For the State website, is there a better 'HTML' icon that's as widely recognized?
this might be relevant for you.
https://www.deeplearning.ai/ai-for-everyone/
How to Use Binder and Python for Reproducible Research
Ultra-Processed Diets Cause Excess Calorie Intakeand Weight Gain: Randomized [pdf]
Settlement offers this fun gap where they've paid people to not pursue them further, but don't have to actually admit they did anything wrong. And obviously, Google doesn't want people to believe they discriminate against people unfairly, so of course if they legally can, they're going to stand by their position that they don't. Even if they do and had to pay people to settle a case for it.
Having a bare repo is certainly one option. Some may find having two copies of a repo on one system to confusing.

Here's an alternate setup that doesn't use a bare repo. It does require some git hygiene/discipline though.

Setup:
Desktop:
git config --local receive.denyCurrentBranch updateInstead
This will let the laptop push the desktop, updating its files, as long as the desktop doesn't have uncommited things (aka working dir is clean).
On the laptop:
git remote add desktop...

Working with it:
Desktop:
commit everything
Laptop:
commit everything
git pull --rebase desktop
git push desktop (assuming there are no issues w/ the pull).

Not saying either workflow is better, merely providing
an alternative.

imo the reason git took over has some to do with being unopinionated about workflow - there's some tooling, but whatever workflow is managable with that tooling is "supported" - as long as the team can agree to use said workflow.
Apple iMac 21inch or 27 Inch?
This is especially true considering we're talking about software vs. hardware (airplane). A few, or even one, brilliant mind(s) could make a break thru in AGI in a matter of months.
not irrational. the performance problems can be measured and are noticeable in everyday use.
I will be that one, who will remind that git server does not have to be a gitea/gogs/gitlab/onedev/pagura/git-remote-{keybase,s3,codecommit,...} - you might provide a path to the WebDav server[0][1][2], if you need a very simple git server (i.e. served internally over 192.168/16 in office network, let's say RaspberryPi with an external USB drive or temporal repository share from own laptop to your colleagues).

[0]: https://cets.seas.upenn.edu/answers/git-repository.html

[1]: https://blog.osdev.org/git/2014/02/13/using-git-on-a-synolog...

[2]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v1/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protoco...
Allow me to repost Altman's wager:

- If OpenAI does not achieve AGI, and you invested in it, you lose some finite money (or not, depending on the value of their other R&D)

- If OpenAI does not achieve AGI, and you did not invest in it, you saved some finite money, which you could invest elsewhere for finite returns

- If OpenAI achieves AGI and you invested in it, you get infinite returns, because AGI will capture all economic value

- If OpenAI achieves AGI and you did not invest in it, you get negative infinite returns, because all other economic value is obliterated by AGI

Therefore, one must invest (or in this case, "work on the most important problem of our time").

(And yes, this tongue-in-cheek.)
Ask HN: Could increasing the Earth-Sun distance offset climate change?
Are there any organizations out there who are thinking about using some sort of propulsion technique to change the orbit of the Earth so that the distance between the Earth and the Sun is slightly larger? This seems like it could offset the heating effects from climate change by decreasing the amount of sunlight that the Earth is exposed to.
They can always tar up their repo and send it over. You then unpack it on your end, then set it as a remote, pushing/pulling from it as you see fit. Admittedly, not the greatest workflow, but it doesn't require any new tools if you are already familiar with remotes.

As another alternative, git-format-patch/git-apply or git-bundle may be a quicker way of shipping changes around.
This doesn't necessarily say much about the state of our AI expertise, but our understanding of honey bees is an insufficient basis for the construction of anything that would survive of be an effective member of a hive. Just a week or two ago on HN there was an article about how scientist finally have just now acquired a reasonably complete understanding of the waggling language that they use to communicate with one another. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7ijI-g4jHg)

Perhaps more relevantly, an automaton that could observe such a waggle dance using computer vision and then navigate to the food source described by the waggle seems to me to strain the bounds of our current capabilities, or maybe even to surpass them by an order of magnitude.
On the one hand, that might be true, but I doubt that it's true enough in practice. Presuming competent PM's and data analysts, they've likely accounted for individuals vs. teams to begin with.

Even if they haven't and it's literally 0.1% Linux users, I think that it's unlikely a team will pivot on a sale because of a few users who insist on not using ext4. Instead, those Linux users will probably just end up creating ext4 partitions somewhere so everyone can get on with their jobs.
Multiplatform code when tested tends to show more bugs than single platform code. Also, using different compilers (when it is possible) will help find obscure but real bugs.

In the end this makes the code more robust for all users, not only Linux users.
Ditto for Cordova/Ionic in the mobile space. And to a lesser degree, React Native.
I keep thinking about buying one, but for now I've convinced myself that the amount of SMD work I do is small enough that I can rely on either hand soldering under magnification, or using my hot air rework station.

Most of what I do prototype wise is still through-hole, or the larger SMT packages (SOIC, etc.)... the only reason I'd use one of the smaller packages would be if the component I need is only available in that package. Unfortunately, that's becoming more and more the case.

Anyway, if I need a component that's a real fine pitch QFP or something, I'd just hot air solder it to a breakout board, and then jumper it in... unless it's something where that little bit of extra capacitance would screw something up, or where EMI would be an issue. But I'm a hobbyist, so that stuff isn't usually an issue here.
Native. VS Code is a web page by this definition however.
Not in C++ unless a method is explicitly marked as virtual. IIRC C# behaves in the same way. In Java, D, all methods are virtual by default. Most dynamic languages also behave in the same way (due to pervasive late binding).
I will consider this benchmark vindication both for myself and the times I've had to argue as to why Electron isn't the issue, as well as the commentator from many moons ago who worked at Slack, dropped in here and explained why Electron wasn't the problem (rather, poor engineering on Slack's part was), and then was ripped to shreds over it.

In fact I'm sure this comment will bring out native fanatics in force.

At any rate, good for them. Seems like they reengineered themselves to a happy medium. I can definitely see myself installing it again at some point.
I really don’t understand Microsoft on this and related stuff like the forced telemetry.

Why are they doing it? Is the little bit of user data really that valuable? Is it worth it to piss off so many of their users? Are they aware how it makes privacy-focussed Apple and Linux alternatives seem more appealing?

It’s sad because from a technology and UI perspective, I really like Win 10. But they just have to ruin it somehow...
Is there an easy way to get rid of rechargeables once they're dead? I have a bunch of them sitting in a drawer, because it's a pain to go to the city recycle facility. I highly doubt most people go to the effort. This is the big drawback to alkaline batteries for me, since those can be thrown away in the trash.
I use a Microsoft account and OneDrive, but when I set up a new machine, I always create a local account first and then later connect it to my Microsoft account.

The reason I do it this way is so I can choose my own home directory name. I want it to be C:\Users\Mike, not something based on my email address.
I would be happy if there was a subset of HTML for email. Look at the HTML Gmail produces, which is essentially just <div> or <p> in the default mode and uses <span> for changes of formating and <blockquote> for replies. This would work for propably 90 to 99% of all hand written emails in Outlook or any other email client.
>Airlines will never adopt these seats en masse until people show a willingness to pay more for them.

Why would people need to pay more for them? I see nothing here indicating these seats would actually cost the airline more. They don't actually take up any more space (they would take up a few extra inches, total, for the whole length of the plane, because of the offset, but that's not significant). These aren't some kind of fancy seats that cost a lot more to manufacture.
And obviously, Google doesn't want people to believe they discriminate against people unfairly, so of course if they legally can, they're going to stand by their position that they don't

This is about on par with where my thinking was on this. I'm aware that these settlements are often contingent upon agreements from both parties regarding disclosing details of the settlement, and I suppose I assumed there was something in place here that prevented parties from speaking out about the settlement other than to release a statement saying 'a settlement was reached'.

Evidently not the case here. Thanks.
As a huge proponent of org-mode I completely agree. Collaboration today via online tools is largely required in most jobs now.

For personal TODOs, I still use SCHEDULED/DEADLINE in org-mode, but for anything via a calendar, Google Calendar is my read-write interface. I used a separate tool [0] to quickly read my calendars and populate a read-only org-mode file for my org agenda.

This puts my schedule in it's entirety in my org-mode agenda, but also has all the benefits of using google calendar.

[0]: https://github.com/codemac/gcalorg
None of them wore masks.
Under the hood Microsoft Comic Chat was a relatively generic IRC client. There's an interesting community of folks still randomly using it and you can find questionably legal, definitely unsupported downloads in places.
I'm glad I had the chance to live and work in HK from summer 2016 -> Fall 2017. It wasn't the best place ever, but I'd hate to see it lost.

Seeing this is crazy.

As for diversity, it's a unique mix. Notable quantities of French, British, Americans, Indonesians, Filipinos, Thais, Indians, and locals. Indonesians and Filipinos are obviously insanely marginalized, as domestic helpers, but they were cool to hang with on their 1 day off per week.
Just turn off the Internet while you're installing Windows. No Internet, no clouds.
Making an Accessible Web Modal
I wonder if Startcourt Mall is in their list. And how many seasons we might get if they include today's abandoned real world buildings as escenarios for new ones.
You piqued my interest, what makes you think there's any intelligence, artificial or otherwise, anywhere else but here in the Milky Way?
The lunar mission had one clear objective: don't let the soviets embarrass us again.

If the Chinese managed to put a human on Mars the US would get its shit together quickly.
First few days 1 - 2 miles every day for about a week.
Then slowly went to 3 - 3.5 miles. Was stuck there for a few weeks.

Breaking the 4 mile barrier happened accidentally, when I "forgot" to stop and kept going. My body did not realize.

After the 4 mile barrier, it somehow seemed that my body can go on for much longer, as it had reached a steady state in terms of breathing, burning energy, being very efficient in my stride etc.
>Why is Google still making denials and statements after settling the action?

You know that thing we totally denied? Now that we've settled, we can admit it.

Cue four thousand new lawsuits

That's why.
A Tale of Space and Time (Crux Bitemporal Graph Database)
I am interested in working at Gitlab as a software engineer and will be applying approximately 6 months from now. Do you have specific suggestions on how I can improve my chances of landing a position? I had the following in mind :

- Start contributing non-trivial patches to the community edition

- showcase my skills through side projects which will be rails webapps

- brush up on my CS fundamentals for the interview

From the outside, the bar seems quite high, I remember coming across a tweet mentioning 20,000 applications over the past few months. Any other suggestions on how I can improve my chances? And how long does the hiring process take from my application to accepted/rejected? Thanks.
Or set up a large enough endowment fund that can only be used for that particular mission.