skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New York is a special case, but one that makes me concerned about the long term viability of large cities. I would guess that NYC's corruption issues have to do with scale and wealth comparable to many states or even countries, but very little outside scrutiny compared to what most states receive.
Venice is actually a great place to live if you don't prioritize for comfort but appreciate other aspects of life.

I guess it really depends on each person but not having cars really makes up for many other disadvantages.

Which makes you think how bad cars in the city are in general.

You don't really appreciate this until they are gone.
It's precisely because "competence is always within a given context" that the two statements are not identical.

Incompetent can mean "as to the particular project context" (i.e. they could be great engineers that din't manage to deliver the fixes for this issue), or "as to their general professional capacity" (i.e. they are lesser engineers).
> if you watch a particular YouTube channel 30% of your browsing time, it will send 30% of 10 BAT each month to that content creator.

But does YouTube get anything? To support their business
> The whole "reward people for watching ads" model just seems... wrong.

And it's not new either. Tried many times in the past, and ends up not being enough for 'real' users to care, but people will try to exploit it.
In my experience (2017 MBP running Mojave), it is much, much faster than Firefox. I have lots of tabs open, and my fan almost never kicks on anymore. With FF, even using ublock and even a pihole, the fan was constantly at full throttle. Maybe I was doing other things wrong, but switching to Brave has made a huge difference for me. I say this as someone who stood by FF for a decade and a half.
Sorry, didn’t mean to be obtuse.

Logically speaking, the assertion that 50%+ of taxes are driven by the same motivation seems impossible. Taxation is such a generic mechanism at work in so many different places, your assertion seems like a non-starter to me.

Did you intend to make such a strong claim?
I think you could make it more clear that "Unlock for 9.99" unlocks all the tasks under that project.
wish I could have waited these 6 months.
FYI, For the past year and a half (since the 2000 series Ryzen CPUs) the upper-mid range motherboards have MUCH better designs in terms of power and thermal management than a few years ago. With Ryzen's relative popularity with the home/enthusiast builders, it's become worth it for mfgs to prioritize those efforts more.

You should have a better experience today. Though, I would wait 2-3 months after a product (mb/cpu) launch before getting one in general. Just so BIOS updates can shake out a bit and software support (Windows/Linux) can as well.
I'm curious of specific examples. Functional programming is possibly an example. It takes a good long time for many to become productive with it, and with some it will never click. It's hard to actually know if its a personal preference or something inherently better. After all, code is more for humans to read than it is for computers.
Yeah YouTube is really struggling to make ends meet, we need to remember the little guy here.
Both are a problem.
Give or take: it's x10 today.
I have to wonder how many bitter Pyrrhic victory jokes get made by victims of poor implementation based on the creator's last name - Pyrrh. I've seen too many companies destroyed by superficially attractive budgeting schemes, even with how much tech has started to acknowledge perverse incentives they seem to get overlooked. The worst I had direct experience with was a company where they moved to all income being credited to marketing & bizdev and all other parts of the company being treated as losses to be minimized. We were both advertising supported (and thus needed content to sell anything) and had professional products that required analysts, but they when the market started looking rougher they kept the sales & ad people and concentrated layoffs on people who produced things or ran the infrastructure.

Ultra-simplified bookkeeping interpreted through the lens of too much coke nearly destroyed them. The dotcom bubble was a very strange time.
Multiple Monitors and Productivity
I put Brave on the backburner a while ago because of some random display glitches, mostly on YouTube, and the built-in adblocker not really being up to par with something like uBO. but this sounds like a good an excuse as any to try it again.
Incorrect: https://catonmat.net/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys

The keyboard vim was designed for had ESC where tab is on modern keyboards.
I don't understand this at all. How is this for developers?. The first screenshot of the main page is half logos/ads for companies using go. If I'm a developer using this is meaningless to me.

The first link in the navigation "Solutions" brings you to another page that is completely filled with pointless logos of companies using go. And then if you click on one of the 4 "solutions" you get taken to ANOTHER page with company logos. I DON'T CARE!!! Get that noise out of there.

> Clicking on Explore brings you to pkg.go.dev

What?! I would have never guessed that. Why isn't the link just "Packages" then? "Explore" means nothing to me as a developer. Naming is one of the hardest problems in computer science and you already had a good name (it's in the URL!), why create another meaningless name?

As a developer I can say this web site isn't targeted at me. And to be honest, I don't know who the target is. Is it for developers who aren't go developers? Is it for go developers? As a non-go developer, this site doesn't encourage me to want to use go. And as a go developer I don't want to have to sift through meaningless marketing speak, testimonials, and company logos. I'm already using the damn language!

Can't all the company logos and testimonials be moved to a section called "Case studies" instead of being littered all over adding noise?

All I want to know is who is the target audience for this?
I really like this idea, and the stock market example looks really interesting. Will definitely try this out!
What about taking the laptop outside of the office? Doesn’t seem like a crazy thing to do.
Hence the allusion to du Bois-Reymond's "Die sieben Welträthsel" in the title of my article....
Makes sense if you thing about it. Which user cohort needs the lowest possible latency for keyboard input? Gamers. And which keys are the most used in games? WASD. So it’s logical that these keys would be the closest to the CPU to minimize signaling latency!
How long until we have the napster equivalent of voices? Voicester?
Is it just me or it really resembles the rust-lang.org?
I love Brave, keep it going :)
Outside of Apple world of "aesthetics over usability", Function keys are grouped spacing so you can easily find the one you need by touch. Ironically, Apple's TouchBar is less touch-friendly than a traditional keyboard.

https://www.google.com/search?q=keyboard&tbm=isch
Reduces fingerprinting.
If only I could somehow coax info to render all subnodes into a single page and then pipe it through less it'd be useful to me.
Both Chrome and Firefox are much more demanding than many realize. It’s gotten to the point that they should consider a feature freeze and focus on nothing but efficiency and performance for the next few years.
>What is a gang database supposed to be based on? Gangs don't keep a signed and dated registry of their membership.

Investigative police work, undercover officers, corroborated witness testimony. Iow, hard evidence, with accountability and restitution when they get it wrong. if a cop goes off the books they, and everyone with knowledge of said acts, should automatically lose all protection from civil claims. Great power, etc.

When the nypd gets it wrong innocent people die, go to prison, become pariahs and have no recourse against a notoriously violent, racist, and corrupt organization. The nypds rap sheet basically proves they're a gang muscling out the competition instead of actually fighting crime. Their lack of accountability, and refusal to actually purge the bad actors, only fuels the hate for them.
Not OP but I don't own a single device that uses USB-C. Every USB device I have uses USB-A, including a mouse I bought last month.
...well, I'm quite confused, because this has never happened to me.
Indeed. Yet this port city with almost no land ruled over quite a significant empire for about 1000 years. I think it’s had a good run.
Miami in 10 I can see - but San Fran? Seems like it has enough elevation to weather sea level rise of a few meters.
don't worry, something something blockchain
There are a decent number of us that don't object to ads, we object to tracking and surveillance.

I'd probably use a browser that blocked all trackers and ad networks that do tracking/user profiling but did allow other kinds of ads. If enough people did that, the ad tech companies would have to evolve and target the producer and content rather than the consumer. That would be a big step forward IMO.
Wait?

Isn't "biased in a way we don't expect", itself, a bias?

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, you're saying the AI is biased, and people are biased. Unbiased is an AI that will not miss an outlier.

My field is medical imaging. The most difficult thing to get the AI vendors that come calling on us to understand is that being able to recognize well known patterns in data is of limited use to us. That's what the radiologists at remote sites do all day. It's being able to recognize pathologies that 99.999% of rads would definitely have missed that has value. And the AI's always fail this test.

I've come to believe that "bias" is the primary reason these AI's perform so poorly. They are basically "biased towards the known stuff" in layman's terms. At least in my field, we need AI's that are able to make connections that humans cannot. I've been going to RSNA for decades now, and I would say we haven't seen a single AI that could be said to pass this kind of a test yet.
They've also been faster at removing older tech, and getting newer stuff integrated when they were building/designing them. I remember getting one of the first Intel boards without a floppy controller (or parallel/serial headers). Of course bit me in the ass trying to get Windows Server on the thing since the extra device drivers for HDD controller was via floppy.

Power supply issues have bitten me in the past probably more than anything else in terms of issues.
They've insulted the perl5 maint team.
They've insulted the raku developers.
They've insulted every cpan author I've ever seen dare to disagree with them.
They've insulted Larry, to his face, mid conference talk.

("they" to mean "at least one, possibly both, of the two instigators of this rubbish")

Their behaviour has repeatedly and materially damaged participation in the community.

I understand that my comment may seem to be coming on a tad strong, but after several years of trying to get them to participate constructively my patience is more than a little frayed.

-- mst
I hate number pads on laptops. They never quite match the layout of the number pad on a proper 101 key desktop keyboard. I can't ever actually touch type on them, and they shift the center of the letters part of the keyboard and the touchpad.

I'd much rather use a generic $10 USB number pad if I really had to do a bunch of data entry. Or sit down at a desk and use a full size monitor and keyboard for that task.
Not Streaming on Disney+: ‘Song of the South’ and Other Films Stay in the Past
Maybe after all these years of people disconnecting physically, using more phones and apps to communicate or meet we will go back to the fundamental real world human connection because that's the only one that can be trusted to be genuine.
And the digital world will be left out because not trustworthy. Is this where we are heading to?
Windows has full linux distros installed from the store. Unlike mac that comes with outdated shell and yout have to trust whoever it is that runs brew.
The thing I don't understand about Commonhold is that it seems to be exactly the same as a lot of existing leasehold properties: About half of the leasehole properties I looked at when buying (generally the ones which were 2-4 flats in a building as opposed to a larger block) involved also getting a part share of the freehold. Also, you have a lot of rights as a leaseholder, especially as a group, so you can claim the freehold if the freeholder is charging excessively, so I'm not sure how much the change actually benefits you (If the government wanted to reduce abuses by freeholders, they would focus on making this process less expensive and messy).
You were born in 0 CE?
Disease and famine are historically far more effective.

In the 20th century, the Spanish Influenza Pandemic killed more people than WWI. And WWII. Combined.
OP here, Fit on a Floppy is something I decided to build for visualizing website file size. Something for fun after one of those late night domain purchases.
It is a motte and bailey argument, most people agree with gays having access to legal marriage, the contentious part is religious marriage. Should we force preachers who don't believe that homosexuality is kosher to wed gay couples? A lot of people don't think so, and then they say they are against gay marriage even though they would be fine with legalizing them getting a legal marriage.

For example, do you think that we should force Muslim Imams to wed gay couples? I believe that it would be a fairly controversial topic even in left-wing circles.
Exactly. I was working on an Air Traffic Control mod for Kerbal Bpace Program, but the work has gone on hold due to having to find enough people to record all the lines (to have a decent number of airport voices). Being able to record everything once, and only having to find people willing to let me record five seconds of speech rather than a lengthy recording session, would make this much more feasible.
Please let's not shame anybody here.
Unless they are downsizing to 10-20 people, I don't see how that generates enough revenue to keep the lights on.

It's weird. Assuming Docker Enterprise was keeping the lights on, why would you sell your cash cow? Maybe the price was too good to turn down. But now Docker Inc finds itself in the same shoes as other companies trying to monetize open source without a platform.

If this means we'll get to pay for Docker on the desktop AND it'll get improvements, I'm all for it. But it's a tough situation nowadays (nobody expects to pay for most developer tools).
This is huge news.
They're probably working off of the 1970 Osmonds song, that completely flipped it: "One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch, dear."

You can't expect such a person to know anything about Bobby Peel's 9 Principles. [0] If anybody on this site knows a US cop that can name even a single one of them from memory, I would be very surprised, even though they form the ethical foundation for the entire profession of modern policing, along with some of Jeremy Bentham's work.

Peel organized the Metropolitan Police in 1829. Boston copied it in 1838. New York City followed suit in 1845, and Chicago in 1851. It spread fast to all northern cities (southern policing being largely based on the slave patrol instead). The "thin blue line" that seems to be endemic among professional cops in the US is a blatant violation of number 7, and severely undermines number 2.

That cultivation of an "us versus them" mentality, and the erosion of public trust and cooperation with the police, makes the force a decidedly non-modern police force--more like that military occupying force Peel wanted to avoid.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles
MacOS. These points have been made a million times, but I'll make them again.

Windows is fine for day to day casual use, but the moment you attempt to peek under the hood you encounter a hostile and alien landscape.

Linux is usually consistent, well organized, and highly configurable when you are under the hood, but is a pain in the ass for day to day use. Edit: Illustrator and Photoshop still aren't available for Linux as I just discovered.

MacOS is Unix under the hood, but it has software support near that of Windows, and it also adds a layer of convenience and thoughtfulness on top that isn't matched elsewhere. Ffs, It is still the only OS that recovers basically flawlessly from running out of batteries.
This is a rather ignorant comment. Venice was built many centuries ago before they ever thought about things like long-term climate changes, soil subsistence (i.e., the city sinking over time), etc. And it was a very successful city precisely because of its location: port cities are almost always prone to flooding due to being close to sea level, but humans built them because shipping was the primary method of trade from the time the boat was invented up to the invention of the railroad, so port cities frequently became very wealthy due to all the trade going through them. People 1500 years ago had no idea that cities might sink, and they sure as hell couldn't anticipate climate change caused by everyone driving carbon-spewing cars around the planet in the 20th century and beyond.
Since the author of the article was too busy trying to be funny, I will do his job for him and explain why this makes sense.

Docker needs to keep its brand, obviously, or they have nothing to build a new business from.

But Mirantis is buying a business line called “Docker Enterprise”. That name can’t disappear overnight, it would be immensely confusing to customers, and impossible to pull off operationally. What you do in these situations is make an exception to the trademark exclusivity. Usually with a time limit. So, for example, Mirantis would have 2 years until they have to stop using the name “Docker enterprise”.

On the one hand that is confusing to analysts and journalists; on the other hand, developers don’t care about the enterprise product anyway, so to them it won’t be confusing. And this was probably the least messy option.
I'm right there with you. 5mg of dextroamphetamine and I'm golden for 5 hours. 10mg of the slow release and it'll last enough of a day that I don't really experience my symptoms throughout the day.

I wish I found this 20 years ago.

Simple things like keeping my house clean are no longer a planned, forced, prolonged effort. It just happens.

I'm happy for you the you made the discovery and found treatment. It's wild how subversive and destructive it can be.
Cricket chirps ...
You can turn a Canon/Nikon DSLR into a webcam. Using SparkoCam.

So theoretically you can get a cheap old T3i + 50mm/1.8 and have a crazy good webcam with near-cinematic quality.
One of the advantages of being a software engineer is that almost every industry needs software.

One of the scariest things about a potential software monopoly is that every industry needs software.
I legitimately think this could be huge for self-published authors. It takes a skilled professional about forty hours of work to produce an audiobook from a novel-length manuscript. Tacotron could do it in minutes.
The publisher chooses the order in the waterfall for header bidding. Due to its nature Header Bidding is serial in the page and only a limited number of partners can bid on the page (4-5) and are called sequentially. Header bidding was created to increase competition for premium inventory beyond Google, so naturally Google ends up being used as remnant inventory in these cases because it’s always able to fill inventory, but not necessarily at the highest price and it’s thus placed last often but it really depends.

Also recently Google has shifted the auctions to unified pricing which means 1st price basically and a single floor for them to make their prices more competitive in header bidding, so this might have had effects on Google’s position in the waterfall as well given what the publisher want to accomplish.

Generally speaking the article is overall fine, there are some historical inaccuracies of sorts and innovations aren’t explained well, for example Google didn’t just start to track people because they figured, but because behavioral targeting retained customers of all sized as opposed to just the bigger ones that do brand awareness campaigns, and that was due to measurable superior performance.
> I don't want to turn this into a personal attack or an overly snarky comment

That's a fine intention, but then you shouldn't lead with "Jesus this is some dumb shit" or end with "it's really something to try and [...] fail." Doing it that way breaks the site guidelines. Would you mind reviewing them? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Note that the leading guideline in the "comments" section is Be kind.
Convoy raises $400M at $2.7B valuation
This is China Social Credit System level of control. I would NEVER EVER use such a service. Its just too much of control in one place for a private company.
We can barely trust pictures anymore either.

It seems we'll be going back to judging the likelihood of one's actions based on one's reputation, for better or for worse.

There soon won't be such a thing as unreasonable doubt.
I don’t understand where you believe I am wrong; I said the gold, diamond and bitcoin all have the property that they cannot be manufactured on demand.
Re: [Gov't worker] needed to go find the the appropriate microfiche

At least hackers cannot delete it :-)
Right, that was a chief possible match, though a somewhat odd comparison in my opinion.
Docker is the single best thing to happen to software deployment in 20 years, not just because of what it did for eliminating "works on my machine" build problems, but because of what it enabled. A huge ecosystem has sprung up around containerization, with immense value created for other businesses. Their "Docker for Windows/Mac" apps are one of the first things I install on any new dev machine.

It's unfortunate they didn't figure out a way to make money off the best thing to happen to building and deploying software in 20 years.

A lot of other people did, from the startups now selling value-adds to Kubernetes like Kong and Tigera and TwistLock (since acquired) and others, to the public clouds which all offer Docker-based build services, image registries, and PaaS deployment tooling, to Kubernetes itself which for most users today still relies on Docker.
Superfast star found leaving Milky Way at 1,700km per second
Well to be honest there's very little fanfare around this MacBook by Apple but it just happens to let the internet explode a bit because so many people were waiting for it.
Corteza Service Cloud, the New Open-Source Salesforce Service Cloud Alternative
I don't recall a single big change to the brief before the planned opening that failed so spectacularly. The project suffers death from a thousand papercuts. The brief did change since 2012, though. They added a whole new wing to the building to meet updated capacity demands.
Brave Ads are opt-in, and user-configurable. You decide whether or not to participate, and to what degree (1 to 5 ads per hour). These ads are surfaced as OS notifications, which means they respect settings like Do Not Disturb, Focus Mode, etc. And, as always, you receive 70% of the ad revenue for your participation. Respectfully, that doesn't strike me as an "escalation of hostility" when you compare against the current option: forced participation, malicious ads, no revenue share, data leaked to a sea of third parties who use it for their purposes.
Oh I think the idea of Venice is brilliant. Historically it must have been incredible, when the palaces were actually in use and not simply museums. But at this point the entire economy of the city is based on tourism. Any trace of authentic life sunk a long time ago.