skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR: Harden the fuck up and learn to tell uptight moral crusaders of all stripes to fuck off.

I swear, if Peter Steele of Type O Negative were still alive he'd be laughing his ass off. He saw this shit coming in the 1990s when he wrote "We Hate Everyone":

---

The left, they say I'm a fascist

The right calling me communist

Hate, hate, hate, hatred for all, one and all

No matter what you believe

We don't believe in you—and that's true, yeah

---

https://genius.com/Type-o-negative-we-hate-everyone-lyrics
The hardware isn't the problem, though. The software is. All of these vendors have had ample time to update their software to work with the hardware.
iOS 13 is driving me crazy. Between constant “prompts” to approve (and reapprove app permissions) and it losing permissions for some apps entirely I’m getting furious.
In that they did not reverse aging. They affected one aspect of aging in a significant way, but did not completely stop or reverse it. And it was only in one type of tissue, and they don't know that there won't be dangerous side effects. There are still many other aspects of aging that they did not affect.
Related to the post, I highly recommend reading "The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch" [1] if you are interested in foundational technology that underpins our civilization. This type of information is often forgotten or taken for granted in our highly dependent late-capitalism society.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knowledge:_How_to_Rebuild_...
I don't know about all of CLT's failure modes, but Oregon State University is building a structure (for their College of Forestry) out of CLT and had some delamination issues: https://www.oregonlive.com/news/erry-2018/08/4965f0c7df3495/...

That's just like plywood. I have to imagine other similar problems affect CLT. Your example of moisture damage essentially has to affect wood, though there are ways to engineer the CLT that will mitigate moisture damage.
Gio: Portable, Immediate Mode GUI in Go
Apple's backward compatibility is poor, and particularly bad for games. The 32-bit apocalypse kills off a large subset of the Mac's already less-than-stellar game library; and on iOS it already broke many apps that I used, many of which will not be updated. To me it seems like Apple is going in the wrong direction - really I want them to add an x32 ABI to save pointer space for apps that don't need more than 4GB!

Stick with Windows/Steam/Consoles/etc. if you don't want a bunch of your games that you purchased to become unplayable every year (unless you add multi-boot to run the old, compatible OS, or run them in a VM, which usually works poorly.)

As I have mentioned before, it's a very annoying example of Apple shifting technical debt and maintenance work away from themselves and onto developers, and the overall maintenance burden is greatly increased.

I like how the platform moves forward, but I really wish that there were a way of getting desirable security patches and feature improvements in the OS without breaking all of my apps.
Many state taxes are progressive as well.
The greatest trick the Russian voting rings, Megaphone, and the 50-cent army pulled is convincing us to shadow-box all the time. We never know when they're in action and so we're always seeing a threat. Very clever.

This is actually quite interesting to me. We each build up a notion of what the HN community is and what we believe to be its core principles and when we see the 'regulars at our pub' (for want of a better metaphor) suddenly in violent opposition to our views, we immediately conclude it's because it's a bunch of shills. But what about the counterfactual? What if our friends actually violently oppose our views. What would it take to convince ourselves of this?

FWIW I think HN is too big to have any sort of unified core principles. It isn't even pro-startup anymore, which is sort of ironic.

Here's my hypothesis: Lots of people on HN fully believe the pro-public-transit narrative. You're not downvoted by Chinese voting rings, you're just being disagreed with. Just like when I'm pro-Internet-advertising I'm not downvoted by Big Patreon, I'm just in opposition to the rest of the community. I downvoted you because I hate downvote whining and shill accusation.
This is almostr true, but it depends where you live and where you are going.

If your travel stays inside the ring (the highway circling the city), yes, travel time is not that long. Although 15 minutes is optimistic. While I have destinations I usually reach in 10-15 minutes, there are other places that take me 25-30 minutes. Which I don't find worth complaining about anyway, but not everything is 15 minutes away.

Living inside the ring is very expensive though, and many workplaces are outside of it. In that case, biking can take 45 minutes to an hour, or become impractical. I have friends living in neighborhoods from which biking is impractical (Bijlmer, Geuzenfeld).

You can always take public transport, of course, and mix it with biking. But biking through a city with 800.000 inhabitants in 15 minutes is not possible.
Tesla Model S Performance is currently $99.990, not $133k.
Thanks an unfortunate reality that hits too close to home
It is a curious occurrence but that has happened more than once for me. It's also a good lesson in ettiquette and patience: editing your comment to challenge downvoters almost assures that it will not rise positively again.
Ben Edelman (Harvard, Microsoft) published a study [0] about how dark patterns in the online travel industry help them reach margins up to 25%. He also mentions the consolidation where most well-known booking sites are owned by just two large groups.

[0] http://www.benedelman.org/impact-of-ota-bias-and-consolidati...
They already do that. It's called civil asset forfeiture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
So do the same thing, but in a way that only people who understand business constraints will respond positively to? Sounds like a raw deal.
Found Elizabeth Campbell.
Most of the sales taxes I’ve seen exempt things like food and other necessities.
Yeah, that was my take away from the paper, which doesn't describe the blood as artificial, just some of the components. The HN title is a little misleading, which would better read: "Modified blood that can work for all types and has a shelf life up to a year"
Hunstable Electric Turbine claims greater output than electric motors
> ...it's rarely just raw performance. KeyDB has other advantages like multi-threading...

What are the advantages of "multi-threading" other than for performance?
If you fly at 35000 feet, a lot of that scenery is either not visible at all or miles below and in front of you. Either way, you are not going to be able to appreciate the level of detail much. So, VFR is indeed where this shines.

Same with super realistic flight characteristics. That's nice but maybe not that relevant with the auto pilot on. With VFR that's a different story and very much part of the experience.

I've done a bit of VFR flying with x-plane and it's kind of cool to be able to navigate parts of the world that you know by simply looking at it as opposed to wondering where in this bland brown/green monotonous plane is my airport. Ortho4XP has been a key enabler for this.

But this is just a level beyond that. I've seen reports from several youtube pilots I've followed for years that went in somewhat skeptical and came out completely convinced. The basic message is that this is awesome, works as advertised, and is way better than anything seen before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj8h6yibHHc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrJs0jK4a1g
One of the main reasons we don't want anything to do with most recent Microsoft software at my office is concern that unspecified data we're working with -- which might include information obtained under NDAs, clients' trade secrets, sometimes personal data, etc. -- might get sent up to the mothership when one of the telemetry systems phones home.

People look at me as if we're crazy for worrying about this possibility, even though Microsoft of 2019 is notoriously vague about how any of this works and we could be flagrantly violating multiple laws and contractual obligations if it happened.
What about that environment needs "extra" entropy? You either have entropy or you don't; the volume of signings you do doesn't have anything to do with it.
Is Guy Fieri in Your Node.js Packages? (2016)
I'm attempting to switch to many of these. Learning a new interface is a much bigger barrier to entry than the actual feature set.

I've been very impressed with the UI redo in Blender 2.8 I would love to see a similar rethink in a few of these other apps.
There's a reason tabletop gamers call it "rules lawyering".
We might be miscommunicating! Or if not, sorry if I didn't understand what you said in reply.

What I was trying to say is: how about extending your blog post with one line to show people how to make the boxplot appear in their terminal as soon as they run the command? (I think at the moment it's going to appear as a PDF file named Rplots.pdf in the current directory, right?)
Sounds like you are an communist against the American rent seeking capitalism ways.
They have both a developer beta and a public testing beta prior to release. To ignore pre-release access to a codebase that will inevitably become the public release is, in my opinion, stupid and a death sentence. You know it's coming. Sticking your fingers in your ears on the off-chance that something changes before release is really, really silly.
As always, techno-utopianism is ruined by capitalism.
Apple isn’t exactly known for backwards compatibility.

I could never justify a long term hardware life knowing that I’m signing up with a short term software life cycle. Not only a short term software lifecycle, by a short term computer hardware/OS lifecycle. Want more memory or a faster processor? Not with that old OS! Btw, you have to rewrite all of your software if you want that extra memory.
The Toolbox Fallacy
> (we were broke kids and pirated everything back then)

Why brag or joke about that? And why does it matter if you were 'broke kids'?

> Take about crippling certain business in Venezuela. All this is going to do is encourage piracy (and potentially malware).

Do you understand what is going on here? Adobe is complying with a government order. And the government issued it in order to achieve an objective in a country where I believe (I only know what I see and read) there are significant problems.

> All this is going to do is encourage piracy (and potentially malware).

Apparently they have no supplies in hospitals and rampant inflation. They have much bigger issue than piracy and malware.
You don't have to write any JS at all to leverage Intercooler.js and JQuery?

At least Milady de Winter had the courtesy to be attractive when she tried to bullshit me and my buddies back in the day.
Improvements to Link notwithstanding, any of the available bus routes I take typically get me downtown faster.

Link will get better over time of course and I'm happy for that, but I haven't seen any traffic crisis on the hill that's severely affecting peoples lives day-to-day: 30 minute commute is not bad.
It's doing the right thing - pronouncing local names like a native English speaker just off the boat.

Otherwise the poor sod would be totally at sea.
Fascist. Classic.
If you want to treat R like awk, you should really check out the littler package, a super useful R package which provides an alternative to both Rscript and R CMD BATCH designed for writing one-liners https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler
You can do this with google translate also.

Set the language to translate from French to English then type English in the French box and it'll say the English words with a french accent if you click the speak button.

It's neat to hear all of the different accents and they sound reasonably accurate.
Situational depending from where on the hill.
Protesters, upset the demands still aren't met, are pointing laser pointers at the PLA military barracks: https://www.scmp.com/video/hong-kong/3031833/china-military-...

Carrie Lam and the HK Cabinet should propose meeting the 5 demands. To reiterate:

1 Full withdrawal of the extradition bill (format withdrawal almost completed)

2 A commission of inquiry into alleged police brutality

3 Retracting the classification of protesters as “rioters”

4 Amnesty for arrested protesters

5 Dual universal suffrage, meaning for both the Legislative Council and the Chief Executive

Apparently, some protesters feel they have no other outlet left than to surround the barracks in Kowloon. Nothing will come of it hopefully, the momentum toward universal suffrage feels so intense, I wonder if Macau will be swept in too before long.
Yeah, same here. That WWW had its heyday around 2000–2005, and then the closed siloes slowly started to eat it up.
> Adobe had a choice

Oh, how so? You think that it pays for them to fight and defy a government order?
I started using Davinci Resolve a few years ago and its fantastic! It seemed too good to be true, and I kept waiting to find some dark secret or "catch" but nope, it's just really good software priced reasonably.
So you're saying that RMS, is the sole owner of everything GNU?

No. This is equivalent to a threat to strike. RMS without the GNU project maintainers is just a dude with a blog. And this approximates a vote of no confidence.
Opening a 2GB PDF in 7 Seconds on a Standard 10 Mbps Connection
> My intuition is that this is dangerous and will likely result in security bugs in the future.

Dangerous in what way? If it's properly mixed into the pool, it shouldn't make the pool more predictable.
Cool (although not so cool for ETS). Note that MIT dispensed with the GRE
requirement long ago, but presumably not for politicized inclusivity reasons.
MIT's doctoral students have traditionally been so off-the-charts in IQ that a
relatively trivial test like the GRE was a poor classifier.
I recommend Thumbor if you want the advanced manipulation and smart cropping features common in the hosted services: https://github.com/thumbor/thumbor
So I work on real estate websites that typically consume 50-80GB for images so articles such as this are really interesting to me. I am using PHP7 BTW...

Currently, I'm converting all the jpegs to webp at 55 compression at the time of import and I love both the quality and the sizes of the files, and so far couldn't be happier with the results[0] I managed to shave some 20GB from the disk usage as well.

The 800lb gorilla is, however, Safari. We all know that Safari does not currently support webp and due to internal politics, may never do so.

So the first "solution" is to keep copies of both formats and use the <picture> tag. This just won't do I have zero interest in doubling my already prodigal disk usage.

There are some rather complicated OS libs that will take a jpg and convert on the fly to webp...I want to do it the other way around.

One thing I hate are "kitchen sink" libs that do SO much that you are often left confused on how to do the specific thing you want to do, so I am in the process of rolling my own solution by using GD and intelligently converting the 11% of all requests that are Safari and using nginx caching to keep these converted images ready to go.

I would like to hear of anyone with better solutions, if possable, since as you can see, I haven't yet implemented my ideas.

[0]https://lasvegasluxerealty.com
From the HN guidelines, https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email us and we'll look at the data."

Also,

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
Some zombie bloatware vendors back from the iphone dead kick some poor people who live in a wrongful place to teach them a lesson. Yay. way to go. we are all so much better off for sure.
Maybe this one. This app has visualize mood in year.

See 7th screenshot on App Store.

Daylio Journal

https://apps.apple.com/app/daylio-journal/id1194023242
the problem with global shuffle was that you could have a LOT of music on the device, thus for a global shuffle you would need to hold an index of ALL the music in memory, and I did not like that.

Also, I was never a SHUFFLE ALL type of person myself since that would mix way too different styles of music for my taste
- even today, I mostly listen to an album at a time
"Took 15 secs while my colleague was still stuck debugging his own weird for loops."

This is a fair response.
As a counter point to #1, Zappoas CEO Tony Hsieh's attempt to build out Vegas downtown as a tech hub didn't/hasn't quite worked out so far: https://qz.com/687192/how-tony-hsiehs-vision-to-create-the-i...
I have upvoted op because it is an interesting topic. I upvoted your comment because it is more interesting than the op. I would use occam’s razor to say that the pattern you see is normal.

It is a pity we do not see enough posts on problems of public transportation though. All those articles about beauty of public transportation and biking in high-density, nice weather areas are highly misleading.
> Everything you could do in iTunes yesterday you can still do with macOS Catalina today.

I seriously doubt this claim is true. It has taken me years to learn how to use iTunes effectively to create, manage, and edit my extensive music library. I installed the beta release of the new Music app and kicked the tires. In no way is it equivalent to iTunes for managing music. Apple did not simply remove the other components of iTunes and leave the music-related user interface and features intact. It appears to me that the Music app is totally diffferent, both in terms of functionality and appearance.

Now that iTunes is gone in Catalina, the least Apple could do is to release the iTunes source code and allow a team of outside developers to maintain and improve it.
It appears to support Windows, MacOS, Linux, IOS, and Android. See also this youtube video from GopherCon 2019 on this ui library:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D6eWP4peYM&t=636s
they're not screwed if they know how to use thepiratebay. this isn't a hard problem to solve for the technically competent.

am I being blithe about this? I don't think I am, but feel free to inform me if I'm missing something.
If by "they" you mean the electoral college, then yes. But if you mean "they" as in The People, then no - they voted for Hillary Clinton. I'm not a fan of either, for the record; but even with the voting irregularities which indicate fraud in favor of Trump, > 50% of the popular vote was for Clinton.
BAT = Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent?
Any kind of pointer math that assumes a pointer is 4 bytes is an easy example.
How about tax only on real terms, but on liquidation taxes are retroactively paid as though you bought and sold the asset each year.

This means you don't get an interest free loan from the government to continue to invest in an asset just because you haven't sold yet.
Let me make up a story to help explain.

In a far off land of yesteryear, you live happily and healthfully in a small settlement. Despite not being a farmer yourself you own a rooster who wakes you up in time for work every morning.

After years of being awoken by the same rooster, a salesman comes to you telling you of a fancy device which will wake you up at ANY time you wish, not just when the sun rises. You think, this is great! I'll buy one, and wake up later on the weekends (ironically forgetting you still own a rooster...) Of course you knew how to feed the rooster, but this magic device needs power and breaks sometimes... and the only person around to help is, of course, the same salesman. He goes way out his way for you at first, offering free power, and quick repairs. But as time goes on, and as the masses make use of these alarms, he's unable to keep up the same level of service to you. Well that and he's too busy spending all the coin you've given him.

Finally you find yourself with a dead rooster (oops) and a broken alarm clock, with the only repairman out on vacation, while you're missing work in the mornings. Sadly rooster alarm clocks have fallen out of style, and the thought of owning one sounds as crazy then as it does to us now.
You hit the nail on the head. There is a large amount of astroturfing that takes place in HN. And the mods carry water for them. I am shocked that you don’t have them looking down their nose at you with their typical aplomb.
That doesn’t mean multiple long running processes will share memory though unless they actually create a shared mapping, which I think the gp is referring to.
In addition to tremendous memory waste this also kills cache performance.
I was interested in this Beacon software, but then I found you had to contact them for pricing and I gave up on the idea.

Lesson: clear pricing keeps people like me in the game
This is made possible by PDF linearization (https://www.pdftron.com/blog/pdf-format/what-is-pdf-lineariz...)
It is live on unstable which should become stable by the end of year: https://github.com/antirez/redis/commits/unstable?after=c653...
I guess Autodesk and then PTC Creo and then maybe Solidworks.
Unfortunately I don't think there's any "neutral" source for news regarding China right now. Both Chinese media and Western media have biased views.
There are 2.8m[0] government employees out of a work force of 13m[1].. that's over 20% of the entire work force.

And that's just current active employees. From what you quoted, it includes past employees too.

They also own at least 500 companies that operate in a diverse number of industries[2]. And that wasn't found by disclosure from the government.. it required someone to research each of those companies. The actual count is almost certainly much higher. This is important because Adobe needs to know which of these companies are government owned, and the government does not make it easy to determine that. (I'm also not sure if employees of those are in the count above or not... I think not, except maybe the prominent ones like PDVSA.)

I think the fault here is Venezuela's... the government is so intermingled with the economy it's impossible for any reasonable person to determine where the government's reach ends.

0. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-worker...

1. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-economy/we-all-...

2. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas...
Please don't drive, it makes everything worse for everyone, including yourself.

This assumes that people are simply so oblivious that they aren't aware of driving being worse for them. This can happen occasionally, but let me assure you that whenever you see people stuck in traffic, for overwhelming majority of them, being stuck in traffic is preferrable to alternatives. It might not be so to you, but they aren't you.

Don't assume stupidity, but rather try to understand why people would rather be stuck in traffic driving a single occupant vehicle than take a public bus. This way, you might learn things that could lead to improving public transit and making them more attractive to all.
For me the biggest cost (with buses/tram) is usually the one-time boarding fee, not the p/km charge. So it's €0.96 + €0.162/km, and I usually pay like €1.5 (so ~60% of the cost is the boarding fee).
They are, loosely, the champions of their customers at least, unlike most of the tech world. They have to do a good enough job to get you to spend $1k on the next year's device. Google just has to not-suck enough that you won't stop using it for free.

But yes, any true moral posturing they make is baloney.
Being unable to get a refund for Photoshop is clearly not the biggest problem in Venezuela right now, but it's still a problem, and it's relevant to OP's link. We are allowed to talk about problems even if they're relatively small.
That's right :) You can compress even more without losing much in quality. 3.5Mb is an example of where to start :)