skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP here ,

> full time job working long hours its unrealistic to spend much time on any side project.

Something I don't mention in the post is you should focus to reduce time you are working for "others". I feel not great when my friends tells me they stay at work because it's written in their contracts and they have nothing to do. Also when I hear 50+ hours a week (that I do at rare occasions), it gives me chills. It's about company culture and if they're focus in work life/balance or not. Some companies try concepts like the 4 days work week that I think amazing!

> Its much healthier to try to spend time with friends and family, or hobbies. If you have young children there is little chance.

I agree! I don't have a wife or children, but I'm sure if I had, I'd also spend time with them :)
I’m not dismissing it. I think it’s a problem.

I just think it is nowhere near comparable to the issue of giving access to someone’s personal data.
How to create a successful travel app?
Trust me you don't want to live in a city where developers are allowed to build as much as they want. This is how you end up in 2nd word megapolis which is hardly pleasant to be in. Past certain size incentives should exist to spread people across other cities/metro.
A quick look [1] on 有道 reveals that this is not a homonym.

[1]: https://www.youdao.com/w/eng/bullshit/#keyfrom=dict2.index
Proton is a wine variant directly integrated with steam.
Yeah it's a national security concern because if someone is leading so heavily they will destroy your lead and then you will never catch up. Just look at what happened to so many European tech companies.
When land is expensive roads are expensive.
A modest proposal: what if companies advocated neither for left wing nor for right wing politics? They could, for example, produce a product instead.
Anyone know of projects with >1M commits? >10M? >100M?
Duolingo: Saving Endangered Languages
This isn't specifically about a basketball league. This is a choice between believing in personal freedom of expression, versus allowing a repressive foreign government to censor people who are not their citizens, all in the name of profit.
What about the hash strategy used in dicts? I'm holding on to hope.
The car can absorb energy when braking, so the minimum expenditure based on the laws of thermodynamics is minuscule and irrelevant.
What do motion pictures with a synchronized soundtrack offer that no other medium offers? The answer is not just “moving images”.
That seems to be a useful policy when you're on your way to being a world power.

It also seems to be the kind of policy that will be broken when convenient after becoming a world power.
Before you draw too many conclusions from the outcome of the professor's unfair dismissal trial, please bear in mind what the judge said in passing judgment:

“Media reports have considered that this trial was about silencing persons with controversial or unpopular views.

“Rather, this trial was purely and simply about the proper construction of a clause in an enterprise agreement.”

There are always going to be "alternative points of view" but when 99% of the world's scientists are in agreement on something it's probably worth taking their word for it.
Please don't feed the trolls. This is in the site guidelines, under more delicate wording.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't like using GitHub for politics.
Ali Rahimi's talk at NIPS(NIPS 2017 Test-of-time award presentation)
Unrelated, are you keyle from the old demoscene days? If so nice to see you here, we haven't talked in 15 years.

- ks
It’d be beautiful to see a plot of how that number of commits has accumulated over time
I appreciate the mildness of your response to that provocation, but it's a garden variety troll whom we've banned many times. Please just flag and move on.
So, they reinvent s-100 bus computers ?
It may have been a “softer” approach but it would Have been a far cheaper, and more effective approach.

It would also have had the benefit of building alliances that centered around the US, as opposed to weakening alliances.

The tariffs have served to strengthen China’s position in the world, more than anything else. As an example, consider the fact that Germany is now allowing the Chinese to enter their market.

The reality is that when the RoW sees the US trying to strangle China economically in this fashion, they recognize that they also could be next (or, as was the case in the Trump tariffs, the European and Japanese allies were first on being hit by tariffs).

The only long term effect this is gonna have is basically to blunt American economic leadership, and the centrality of the American economy to the world.

Which may be a good thing, frankly, for the world at large, but is almost certainly not gonna be a good thing for American leadership and quality of life.
Behavioral Economics and Clojure
I don't see it as more modularisation -if I understand that word correctly - there are less configurable elements than on a PC it seems. What can you substitute here that you can't on a pc ? Or maybe it's the fact that you can add several elements in it, I.e. it's a blade server ?
The Linux kernel is quickly approaching the 1M mark, currently sitting at 871k+[1]

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Unless you buy the most recently released hardware, yeah. (For example latest ryzen has issues) Hardware and sleep pretty much works for an average consumer. Even HDR support is almost there.

"Battery" is not one thing, so can't answer. Does idle draw count as an issue? Do services you can switch on/off count as a battery issue? In comparison, does MacOS indexer out iCloud sync going crazy count as a battery issue?
Are you implying that sending people from Mexico to Mexico is the same as sending them to a death camp? Mexico may not be 1st world but damn... that's a pretty harsh claim.
Yup, just the 29 Congressional seats and President. Oh, and all the state legislative seats. Not to mention mayoral seats and other state measures. Or any 2020 ballot measure. Not much at all, really.
> The Midwest doesn't care about intellectual property rights.

Are you sure about that? Have you asked John Deere, Spirit Aerospace, Cargill, ADM, Citadel Investments, ...?
"…Germany is now allowing the Chinese to enter their market."

Out of curiosity, when did the Federal Government have a ban on Chinese companies doing business in Germany?
Ah, yes, the tyranny of using the mechanism designed to ask a user to read and confirm something to read and confirm multiple somethings.

So what's the point then? To inflict more pain?
That makes sense. I think most people underappreciate how polyclonal cancer is. Every tumor isn't one cell, it's dozens or hundreds of different types of cell, which makes it extremely hard to cover all the possible escape paths for the cancer overall. As you mention, going with a shotgun approach of different drugs can help, but that's when toxicity becomes a real problem. It's not always possible to just give 2 drugs because one is so toxic on its own so you might kill the patient. One of the theories I've heard about why we've made relatively more progress on cancers in children is that they "heal" better, which means they can actually tolerate higher doses for some of these drugs.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21199916 and marked it off-topic.
An iPhone XR with a Better Camera
> One reason is that unlike with a healthy person, ending the fast may not be under the patient's control, depending on how they tolerate their chemotherapy. Chemotherapy ends up looking like intermittent fasting for a lot of patients anyway.

It sounds like you are saying that the right answer depends on an individual's circumstances. I would agree. Certainly fasting could be harmful for some people depending upon their overall medical situation.

> If someone is not habitually fasting, adding it on top of chemotherapy adds a significant confounding factor to a process that is already hard to predict.

For my situation, the clinical evidence I could find suggested that chemotherapy does not have a statistically significant impact on the probability of disease-free survival. Even the oncologists who are recommending chemotherapy have been reluctant to claim it would necessarily be beneficial. This increased my interest in adding the significant confounding factor of fasting. In fact, you could say that I've been actively seeking significant confounding factors as the default path is rather dark.

As you noted, cancer is an incredibly complex and fast-moving field of knowledge. Given the currently limited research into the impact of fasting, I decided to conclude that maybe it can be helpful (especially since the biological hypotheses made some sense to my primitively educated mind).

Returning to your earlier point, I'm not sure it's currently possible to make a blanket claim of fasting being good or bad with respect to its impact on cancer patients. It seems that it would depend upon the patient's individual situation and priorities.
Rust just crossed 100 k:

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/dcoirb/rust_now_has_m...
Monotonic functions are boring to look at. I'd rather see its derivative, probably smoothed out a bit.
madness, i love it!
> centralized certificate signing authority to install something, I Trust That Application

You mean like how Facebook trusted the Cambridge Analytica apps which then went on to steal huge amounts of data.

Or how about all of the legitimate apps which include metrics libraries which have then gone on to steal huge amounts of data.

You simply can't trust the original signing process these days.
Do you hate Trump so much that you'd choose the wrong side of an issue just to be on the other side from him?
I don't think this would work, for a number of reasons.

First, anecdotally, I've known a number of Chinese-national but US educated persons, who after receiving their higher education and 5-10 years of work, returned to China. The main reason being the "bamboo ceiling". Often, returning means accepting a lower salary but with higher career trajectory and a more peaceful life. I don't think throwing visas + cash at researchers (at least those I've worked with) would alleviate all the cultural problems that lead them to return home in the first place.

Secondly, a recent push for change in Visa distribution (S.386)[1]. Would make it extremely difficult to attract talent. As this bill stands it will significantly harm prospects of Chinese applications for EB2 visas. The kind of change being suggested here (recruiting researchers and engineers) falls into the EB1 - EB2 category. Given how difficult it's been to even get a bill changing pool statistics this far, I doubt you'd be able to do anything of the nature you're mentioning.

[1]: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/386
Yes actually. Based on some of the Quora answers I've read, they don't enjoy cooking after coming home. But since cooking is an unavoidable activity (unlike a side project, you can't procrastinate with hunger) they might have to.

https://www.quora.com/How-often-do-chefs-cook-at-home
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

Let alone the mother of all unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well satire about Xi (and winnie the pooh) is also quite a thing, obviously censored in the most prominent channels, but still quite visible. I mean, I only say that because I assume the context ("i wonder if China has copied SP and if so how they would portray the USA") was SP satirizing China, so I offered the Chinese parallel.

And I just have to say it. The satire I am talking about comes from the actual citizens. They are not propaganda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC https://blog.cloudflare.com/http3-the-past-present-and-futur...
Just because it’s a public discussion doesn’t mean there’s an obligation to explain things. I didn’t know what QUIC was either so I googled it.
I don't think the NBA needs to take a stance on HK. It literally has nothing to do with them. I think it would be pretty cool if they did come out publicly in support of the protesters, but I don't think they have any kind of moral or business imperative to do so.
McCarthy is my favourite author, but I find that I have to approach his work (and the dialogue) in one of two ways. It might be a personality thing, but I find myself choosing between reading casually, letting it flow over me, having understanding enough of what's happening to enjoy the book. Or I can read and re-read sentences to make sure I comprehend the detail, every word, etc.

With his conversations, I can read through at speed with a decent but imperfect feel of who has said what. But I find myself wanting to get it exactly right and re-read counting the odd and even lines of dialogue to make sure I know who has said exactly what.

It's rarely critical because the conversation in many cases is such a minute* part of the story (Spanish sequences in the Border Trilogy, for example). Maybe he's counting that as sufficiently well written, but maybe he's not the sort to want to read it exactly right. Like I said, could be a personality/spectrum thing.

*I'm talking about the quick incidental conversations more than the extensive speeches, such as from Judge Holden, where the speaker is almost easily discernible and the content is certainly a key part of the experience.
Shouldn’t the color scheme be orthogonal to input methods, platforms, and device sizes? I can’t think of any times I have changed colors specifically for any of those things.
The best way to be a 10x developer is focusing on the right work. If we take the 80/20 rule to be true (20% of the work delivers 80% of the value), that means the person who is working on the valuable 20% gets 16x more value from each hour they work than someone who is working on the less valuable 80%.
If there are all new permissions, then it should be technically possible to create a list of ALL those new permissions and present that list to the user with apps requiring those permissions. What is so "not technically possible" there ... ? Actually in iOS you have list of apps with permissions in settings. At least something like that would be better then endless popups, which should be prohibited completely in _any_ interface, if you ask me. I am making effort to avoid any jumping dialogs in my apps,but now OS itself does it for me ... sad
Maybe he hadn't updated in a while?

That shouldn’t make much of a difference, we only accept it as an excuse because it’s been the norm for so long.
It seems reasonable to filter your views and appear more pro-China while living in China.
Wait what? Why/when did they do this?
Microsoft does the same with their accounts.

Used a couple of throw-aways to get kids log into some gaming MS service. In two days arrives a message saying your account was compromised and used for spamming, we need a phone # to make it great again. The kicker - throw-aways were on my own domain and my own mail server.

Fucking morons, they don't even bother to lie convincingly.
Show HN: Protest by Code
I have a Hearthstone repository on Github which is installed through NPM a few times per day (also from China). Yesterday I removed everything from the repository and replaced it with the catch phrase of the Hong Kong protests „光復香港 時代革命“. Maybe this will break some builds and show up in some error logs.

https://github.com/pdyck/hearthstone-db
For instance, supposing they want to show you a welcome screen with all of your documents from your Documents folder (or anywhere else) - I don't want some asinine popup asking me for permission. Word is a well-known application. I installed it. I trust it and the corporation that wrote it. That's enough for me.

But this is not how it works. Word from the App Store is sandboxed. If you open a document in Word, this is done using the native file opening dialog. This is a separate, privileged process. The file is symlinked into Word's sandbox as a result. This means that Word has access to that file from that point onwards. So, it can show a welcome screen with documents that you have previously opened (which is what applications typically do, very few applications will show all documents).

This is how things have worked ever since Apple required sandboxing for App Store apps. The problem is non-App Store apps that are not sandboxed. They have unfettered access to every file. I guess these extra permissions are to provide a certain level of protection against such apps, which is good.

Word is a well-known application. I installed it. I trust it and the corporation that wrote it.

There are many well-known incidents of trusted applications being compromised and backdoored. E.g.:

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/mac-threat-ana...

To make things worse, the hash was updated in Homebrew cask. So even if you used a package manager, you would have installed a compromised application. Trusting applications may have been ok in the age of shrink-wrapped software. But now that applications are distributed over the web, allowing unfettered access is insanity.

More people will move to Linux.

The Linux ecosystem is also moving towards immutable base systems (Fedora Silverblue, NixOS) and restricted, sandboxed applications (Flatpak). Sure, it will always be possible to install a 70ies UNIX-style distribution. But the world is moving to sandboxing and putting up more restrictions, because the computing world became more hostile.

macOS is slowly but surely being turned into iOS.

This is getting tired and old. People said the same thing ten years ago and yet here we are, macOS is still an OS for 'general purpose computing'. I think Apple is finding a nice balance between securing the average user through sandboxing and SIP, while keeping giving the knobs to disable protections to advanced users. I say this as someone who currently uses Linux 95% of the time, but I wish Linux was as far as macOS with application sandboxing and system integrity protection.
Depends on the hardware manufacturer.

But if you're a regular laptop user the bigger issue is trackpad feel, if you're used to Apple devices or the new Windows drivers for trackpads, it's not acceptable. You're better off switching the way you work to using a window manager and shortcuts, like most hardcore linux users do at some point.
Oh, Delphi+VCL was the peak. It went downhill from there.
Where Companies Go Wrong with Learning and Development
> they always seemed like devices that were invented so people could spend more money on needless crap

As a view on the other side; I develop business apps. They are distributed via a local enterprise store, and never appear in the public App Store. Often, my apps replace paper in old-fashioned businesses. It's very honest and satisfying work.
Who are the alarmist movement?

Are climate scientists alarmists?
Relation between engineering and sourcing also works the other way: engineering can teach recruiters to read CVs better.

A minimum would be to have the recruiter explain why they thought the CV was worth a review and the engineer can then correct them.

Also, in the companies I worked for, recruiters where checking GitHub or LinkedIn when they needed more signal.
1. https://www.pbs.org/video/harsh-detention-1561160200/

"The Associated Press details grave conditions inside a Texas migrant detention facility where 250 infants, children and teenagers were being held without adequate food, water or sanitation during a recent visit"

2. not many knew back then that it were to become death camps, at least not at the beginning. For typical citizen back then it was presented and looked like a detention/concentration camp, and the citizens were ok with the people being taken there just on the mere basis of being some "other" people. It became death camps in the process and the populace complacence was a major factor here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps#Pre-w...
Except for problems known as "embarassingly parallel", we often have trouble running even quite boring algorithms on 32 or 64 cores. In general setting 64 people in a job won't lead to a better or faster result than 2 or 3.

Given that, I don't see an immediate reason to believe throwing multiple AIs at a problem is going to exponentially scale either, given neither people nor bad AIs scale that way.
> the current monstrosity literally requires you to let it reboot itself on a 9-5 schedule.

* the previous monstrosity.

Windows will now let you carry on without updating until seriously important security updates are a month old. They really do have to force the hand of ignorant users eventually, else Microsoft gets blamed for an insecure OS.

I also don't understand where you get the idea that msft doesn't care about their desktop OS. They are basically overhauling it twice a year, for free. These larger updates do take 30 minutes, but, mind you, which is it: do they care too little or too much?
Thanks. I thought I'd at least look. Saw some indication that a few of the devices were pretty specifically not supported based on discussions.
for those who thought the Xperia 1 just wasnt taking things far enough!

not sure itll take off myself but i guess they get points for trying something different
About the bash thing:
Apple isn’t allowed to ship a newer version due to licensing problems. That’s also the reason why they switched to zsh [1].

[1]: https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/06/04/why-does-macos-catalina...
Don't worry, we are not going to go to Mars.
I didn't have any issue with Wifi and sleep on my home Dell XPS 13 9380 running Arch. As for the battery, well I followed the arch wiki recommendations (add a kernel startup parameter, and use tlp) and it is ok now but it does not just work out of the box.

It is still not on par with Windows (I kept it just in case). I get around 8-9 hours of battery life on Windows while on Linux it is more like 6-7 hours. But it is mostly due to the fact that Chrome/Chromium and Firefox don't support hardware acceleration on Linux and I watch quite a lot of youtube videos. There is a Chromium that uses the video acceleration API (VAAPI) but it comes from the user arch repository, there is now also a snap package (I haven't yet fully tried them).
Android’s Billion-Dollar Mistake(s)
Basically “much less than”.
Parent comment was suggesting solving multiple problems at once.
I hope the next partner was an upgrade :)
Road salting.

Also it's pretty humid there, apparently?
Forgot rr - reverse debugger: https://rr-project.org

Also MXE - cross-compile environment: https://mxe.cc/
It also has 622 releases. So on an average, 1400 commits make it to a single release. And releases are RC level not just version bumps. A single version bump has well over 10000 commits on an average.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21195478 and marked it off-topic.
I often find myself researching and looking at sewing supplies and equipment for my partners business.

A by product of these searches and this browsing is that I will often get ad's for products for women. Dresses is fairly common.

If I spend time digging around for sheer fabrics or lace I end up getting served ad's for women's undergarments. I have gotten quite a bit of side eye in office environments because of this!

The problem is that movies, travel, womenes fashion all have the most money to throw at marketing and they get the most play as they result in the biggest payout for the people running the ad's. It isn't any different than beer and cigarets being in EVERY publication that had a male leaning demographic.
Still you can direct user to one list of apps/permissions each time those needs to be tuned, where user can review all permissions associated with particular app and decide whether to turn them on or off. How can you do that with endless dialogs and how can you review what you've allowed later, after dialog disappeared ...
'Protecting rioters': China warns Apple over app that tracks Hong Kong police