skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it was certainly a consensus in educated Western Europe, or Columbus wouldn't have been heading west to get to the East Indies (his innovation was to be obstinately wrong about the diameter of the Earth, which would have doomed the voyage but for the fortunate collision with the Carribean)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df-uemc-e3w
Was it 1.21GW? Maybe the student wanted to go back in time to before the test to revise more.
i wish it made real candy pour out of the computer
Hadn't encountered kips before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_(unit)
One thing to tinker, another to claim that a steam-powered rocket would ever get to high altitude. Nevermind flat Earth, that's just setting your face against engineering.
For years I blocked google-analytics.com because it was on the critical path for far too many pages loading.
> Just yesterday I made a trivial error crunching some numbers for when a construction site could turn off their dewatering.

And how did you catch this error?
If only JUCE supported the open LV2 plugin format..

(And opening up projects in Projucer and saving out something wasn't an all to commonly required build step)

I would encourage interested folk to check out DPF and/or come hang out in #lad and #lv2 on Freenode.

https://github.com/DISTRHO/DPF
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See also a previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13674879 for Patoline, another LaTeX alternative (written in OCaml).
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Yes I do think I mistook seniority with tenure but mostly because that is the culture I work in.

Or perhaps I misunderstood my corporate culture. Either way, I'm only pointing out another side of the story. And thanks for phrasing it better for me. English is not my native tongue, even if it might seem so.
Facebook is not the social network but an advertising company. Their product is not the data but ads.

1) They will play ball because they can incorporate the pod data into their advertising platform. They may even start hosting pods for the people who trust them. Pods allow them to sell advertisement for all the people who refuse to create facebook accounts.

2) People will instantly care once you can sell your data and make money. Facebook and other advertising companies will pay for the data. Insurance companies will reduce fees for people who have pods.
You're conflating hiring discrimination with a broad and nebulous notion of inequality. Everyone agrees that equality is a good idea, but it doesn't map to your notion of how to address hiring discrimination, if such a thing exists. You're proposing deliberate and harmful inequality in the name of fixing some perceived other inequality. It doesn't work.

The way to create equality is to manipulate on levers that individuals can control, e.g. taxation brackets, education incentives, government investment into particular industries. Passing up the best candidate for a job because they didn't have some inherent unchangeable attributes that you're arbitrarily favouring is the opposite of creating equality.
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Why would a VM have an advantage over docker here? You think the Windows WeChat client is designed to escape from docker if it ever finds itself inside one while running on linux?
I think you put it well by writing "Pipewire is probably not going to make your ALSA configuration issues go away."

I never claimed there was a quick fix, but I kinda hoped that Pipewire/Redhat have the leverage to fix whatever needs to be fixed in the ALSA API to make userspace audio a seamless experience.

My naive impression is that the ALSA driver model is "broken"[1] -- most likely because many parts that need to seamlessly work together are atomized into different subsystems with no one organisation held responsible. As you seem to be suggesting, correct operation appears to depend on correct configuration by either the distro and/or the end user.

There should be nothing to configure. The driver architecture should be structured such that it is not possible to ship a "working driver" that then requires individual distro maintainers to intervene for the user to experience "working audio". For example, if the mixer hardware needs to be configured for correct operation, that configuration should be part of the driver or kernel, not some auxiliary file that may or may not be correct in a given distro.

[1] where by "broken" I mean that it incapable of providing the kind of zero configuration plug and play experience that is available on Windows with ASIO, or with CoreAudio.
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> Should I ask solid to update protocol for this

I imagined it more like a schemaless database. Apps could save and use whatever data in your pod without any protocol changes.

> i can move my email data to another provider, but about my filters? On other tiny stuff that gmail builds on email

The other provider would provide those integrations, or a superior competitor will.

> Now all other chat apps supporting solid, has to follow my lead?

I don't think there is any mandatory integration. I think apps can choose the level of integration they implement. Maybe a feature of your app is that it purposely removes/ignores stickers, so you don't integrate. Another app may be all about stickers and even lets you augment and modify them, so it integrates heavily.
That society doesn't need to be created because it already exists. What Solid would do is give all of us a bit more flexibility to set our own priorities than we have now.

People on low incomes will always have fewer options and less flexibility. If we want to change that, we must change income inequality. No technology or business model will ever change that.
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for literacy you are right, should be around 10%, for Turkish literacy I think OP is closer, around 1%
How would you work around this issue if they give you a challenge? Ask for reimburse you for the time spent?
In Spain there are alternative sites to some of the bigger more social ones. A big one ~10 years back was Tuenti, which copied and then died because of Facebook. But there are sites that are still alive and thrilling:

Newspapers: all over the place, but specially big are https://www.marca.com/ and https://as.com/

There are of course a bunch of local startups, like Glovo, Lola Market, etc.

https://www.meneame.net/ - A Reddit alternative

https://www.forocoches.com/ - Somewhere between Reddit and 4chan

For almost everything else we use the US companies: Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, etc.

For Engineering, there's a bunch of Slack groups in different cities where you can talk (like a distributed Hacker News).
For me, the SCP Foundation (http://www.scp-wiki.net) gives that kind of feel, with different cases linking to one another. (SCP Foundation is a collective storytelling wiki about an organization that deals with the strange, mysterious, and horrifying.)
"It almost seems a myth kept alive by the sheer absurdity of it."

For some, possibly. As for the others, they would probably be a 99.9% / 0.1% ratio composed by actual believers and few smart con artists who saw the opportunity to cash on books, merchandise, donations, and perhaps even votes.
I'm sure I remember reading about some kind of solar setup that used part of the electricity generated to extract CO2 from the air and feed it into a greenhouse. Seems to be hard to google for, given that CO2 and greenhouse automagically translate to climate change, instead of actual greenhouses.
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Spain is so hypocritical with Gibraltar and it’s attitudes to Ceuta, Melilla and it’s other African colonies, as well as the canaries.
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Yes it's the actions that China are taking that seem so out of whack with the current 'it's flu+' narrative. I don't think China enjoys doing this to it's people, it likes minimising the risk of unrest and this does not do that. And I also think that, if the actions they are taking are necessary, there is no way for a western country to replicate them (right now 60 million people are banned from driving, that's like banning the whole of my country's population!)
It's not a joke, but it is relative (like most conceptual words). A vote decides on the definition of merit in the least relative way possible: by letting everyone contribute to the definition. A definition of merit decided by the heads of a bureaucracy is extremely relative - to whatever those few people think they want.
The only real use case for this is applications where the data is physically too large to keep on the device. Microsoft's upcoming flight simulator comes to mind.
You are missing the point of the entire article here. Quite aside from the fact that you can obviously have biased models because of their design or because of their training data, the key misunderstanding in your comment is this:

> You just look at the data and build the best decision mechanism that can be derived from it.

How do you define "best"? That's the issue. Not all errors are equal, not all distributions of errors are equivalent even if the total is the same.
Wow, I didn't think this article would succeed on HN.

What I still really weird, tbh, is that Plasma mobile seems to be some kind of extra project, instead of just Plasma, but with extra touch features.

I say this partly because that's exactly what I'm looking for for my convertible tablet that I use like a laptop most of the time, but in touch mode some of the time, which Plasma desktop absolutely sucks at.
> but about my filters? On other tiny stuff that gmail builds on email

All that is data, so those, too, could be stored in your Pod and brought along with you.

> Should I ask solid to update protocol for this

No, interoperability can be achieved through your data model, which is yours to decide - Solid doesn't dictate the shape of your data. But as you noted, only competing apps using the same data model will be interoperable - stickers won't suddenly appear without the developer implementating them.

(Disclosure: I also work for Inrupt, but views are my own.)
What kind of moral / logical principle do you base the conclusion “discrimination is not always bad”, on?

Genuinely asking. My morality follows from basically “discrimination based on immutable personal characteristics is always bad” (with the possible exception for family, bwcause that’s just cruel), from which I cannot conclude for example that discrimination is bad if it’s agains blacks but good if it’s against whites.

I fear that by dropping this principle, while allowing for “positive discrimination” (e.g. preferential hiring / admissions of blacks/women), you also allow e.g. White Nationalists to argue that it’s OK to discriminate for whites. How would you convince a White Nationalist that such discrimination is bad while leading by example that other kinds of discrimination are just fine?
The brilliant thing about wechat (or alipay) is that they don't have a close affiliation to the banks. And therefore far less transaction fees.
For some reason, we all know the right order of magnitude for a car in horsepower. But most don't know that 1hp is roughly 750w. It's odd because we all know roughly the power rating of a microwave or a lightbulb or a kettle. Amazing how use of one obsolete unit can totally mess up having a unified mental model for power.
We analyzed 770k TikTok videos and 27,700 profiles
As some of you may know from my previous posts (where I gave numbers based on 10K TikTok profiles) back in December.

Today, I am presenting you with a new TikTok analytics report based on 27K+ TikTok profiles and 770,000 TikTok videos.

The average engagement rate overall on TikTok has declined compared to the last check, but the engagement rate for people with 500K followers has stayed approximatively the same and in some cases, went up.

All the statistics are based on the current numbers of the CloutMeter.com platform and can be found in more detail on the TikTok 2020 February Analytics Report ( https://cloutmeter.com/blog/tiktok-analytics-february-2020-report/ ).

Let me know what you think and if you want to see more.
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Ok, so at first China ignored and downplayed the situation. The numbers they report are too low. But they went all in with their lockdown and mask craze, temperature checks, you name it.

Despite all this, the rest of the world has their thumbs up their butts doing exactly what China did in the beginning. Downplay everything, pretend we might just be immune to this for some reason, or release statements that we're perfectly prepared when shit would hit the fan. My colleague returned from Beijing last week.

On the plane everyone was wearing masks, not so at the airport here. And everyone just took it off pretty much right after getting off the plane. I don't get it.
You know, I had some serious hopes that he'd actually find inspiration to pursue more mainstream rocket design through this hobby and use his experience operating on the fringes to make some interesting inroads in the mainstream.

I can say that I'm only comforted thinking that he died doing what he loved. If only we all could be so lucky.
In no version do you have a "keylogger".
The interesting thing is even the FAANG's have work that you might consider factory work, ie changing the tax rate when the customer is Danish and their head office is in Angola and the advert is displayed in Greenland.

Possibly this sort of thing is the majority of the work although not having worked for them I don't really know.

I'd also add that by saying modern factory work is quite different from Henry Ford's day, at least in developed economies. There aren't many factory jobs in the West you can get without a qualification.
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Please explain? I am not aware of such a law and have never encountered this response before.
Lol.

Gibraltar has been UK territory for longer than the US has existed. By all means grumble about it, but if you grumble about morocco claiming Melilla in the same breath and don’t see the hypocrisy you really need to try to take an objective look at your views.
Good! Yet another benefit of having control of your site.

And another potential cost of relying on someone elses servers.
Car's catalyst work at high temperatures, not at room temperature.

In fact, at room temperature they don't work at all, which is exactly the problem with catalysts, they don't work when you start your car.

They need to heat with the hot combustion gases to start working, and that takes a while.

This is one of the reasons that laboratory's measurements of particles and gases like nitrogen oxides do not apply to real emissions in cities, because most people in cities will use the cars, for example, diesels in Europe, for very short periods of time, then let the car cool down and use it again to go back less than 10 kilometers away.
I love how this guy thinks. "Why does this font flash on pageload?" and then procedes a 5-page write up on the intricacies of fonts, caches and everything in between. Great write-up!
> I'm curious as to how they would do this.

No documentation, testing or code reviews, selective knowledge sharing (only to some people at some times, the others might get yelled at), code that is not easy to understand on its own (not impossible of course, just hard enough that you won't bother understanding unless you really had to).

Big decisions were not really discussed with anybody except a select few. The regular developer would simply have things communicated to them e.g. from today we're using Git instead of Subversion, from next week we're doing weekly instead of monthly releases etc.

Of course, if you were persistent and really interested you would get to know more about the platform. It's just that things were made hard enough that most people wouldn't really want to do it.
Your users might... But who cares, right?
If you can program you might like Metamath, it feels quite a lot like writing code.

Here is the main site. http://us.metamath.org/index.html

Here is the book which can help with understanding. http://us.metamath.org/downloads/metamath.pdf

Here are some tutorials for MMJ2 which is the main proof assistant to use, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1jSu6GGefBm7RBP0Id2S...

it can be found here, http://us.metamath.org/#mmj2

Here are some beginners proof exercises which are a good place to start out

http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/mmtheorems289.html#mm28844b

I will warn you though it is a bit like the wild west, it is not easy to accomplish anything and it is exciting to be on the frontier.

The community is really cool, you can chat with them here.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/metamath
I'm kinda late to the party and I wonder. With streaming/playback, do you mean player control, playing sound or other missing features?

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-playback-sdk...
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Huawei HMS vs. GMS: The Endgame for the Rise of China's 'Android'
At a certain limit it’s not so different from being a con artist essentially: literally taking advantage of the ignorant believers and using that for lulz or even power.
"I imagined it more like a schemaless database."
schemaless database would destroy the system immediately. All providers putting their own meta-extensions will make my pod trash

"The other provider would provide those integrations"

Yeah but imagine I moved from gmail to let's day new competitor smail, let's say they implemented filters too. Now they have 2 options, import my gmail filters, make new data structure as their own, or all the time support gmail filter structure with its limitations.

In both cases there is no happy ending, supporting N different data structures is not easy work. Cloning of the data is more disaster in the end.
Wow I love-hate those lopsided headlines. Although they do distract from the content...
Do people have to pay transaction fees for using their bank cards in the US? At least over here in .nl there are none of these fees (as a consumer) and we have free NFC payments with your regular bank cards or Apple Pay etc.
I also have Win 10 Pro and the maximum I had was, I think, "Install Minecraft" link or something. This is not like Win 10 Home where they tried to keep the ads coming. Which also makes sense, since you are getting a discounted OS.

Going along that route, there is a lot of stuff a default Linux installation bundles, that I don't personally need, so I usually have to do a custom install to have only the stuff I'm comfortable with. Throwing a fit that a product doesn't cater exactly to your particular interests is a bit entitled. You assume that most of Windows consumers don't want those things on their computer.
Nassim Haramein the FB group claims to have discovered a new physics theory and is followed by a bunch of newagers in London.
it never was
This is such a true statement.
Times and times again I always struggle to see the benefits of any "web framework" in Go. (Or any "framework" for that matter..)

Projects like these are traps for newcomers.

Still, I'm not denying that it probably was a big learning experience for the author. Kudos to him for diving in and giving it a go.

> This project is full of `interface{}`

Oh boy.
It's not just public/private school issue. For example here in Lithuania public schools may be specialised too. Science, arts, humanities... Quality does vary a bit too. Quality of classmates vary more than quality of education, but it's essentially part of the same package. E.g. some schools are notoriously bad for historical reasons. When gentrification just starts and better-off people move in, many of them try to send their kids to schools in other neighbourhoods.
> How will I move let's say my data from superwiki to wikipedia?

Your data is not on superwiki, but on your Pod. So you can connect Wikipedia to your Pod, see your data in their app, but it's still in your Pod, rather than having been moved.

> Does wikipedia then have to somehow implement some import functionality?

As follows from the previous answer: no, because the data never moves to Wikipedia. However:

> Or Solid has to have a protocol (standard) for wiki entries?

No, apps define their own data model, so Wikipedia will have to understand Superwiki's data model. Ideally, they agree on a common standard for this, using that standardisation either as a selling point or as a way to comply with future regulations. But of course, an app could also just unilaterally imitate the other's data model, just like e.g. browsers imitated each others' extension API or bookmarks data model.

(Disclosure: I also work for Inrupt, but views are my own.)
If we effectively are living in a simulation:

"A video game that lets you make video games that let's you make video games"
> All table columns should also have unit in names

Very similar to Hungarian notation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
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Important calculations like these ought be done in at least two independent ways. For example, a detailed version accounting for every nook and cranny and a reality check version that takes things in the large just to make sure both results pretty close. If they're not, then have someone else try again. Having said that, there's the famous (pretty simple) SAT question that all test takers got wrong, even the test setters. Oh, except there was that one guy who wrote "the right answer is not here." (It was a circle rolling around a bigger circle.)
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With the greatest of respect, maybe, going forward, it would be best for clarity to include a caveat along with your "JACK is probably overkill" statements that you are taking about users who don't require (or might be interested in it) inter-app audio/MIDI/CV routing?
EU caps the transaction fee of banks to like 1%. (which is paid by the seller).

NL is a bit of a special cookie here, companies in NL don't like paying 1% transaction fees, so most companies only accept MAESTRO. Because Maestro has lower tx fees.

Every time I visit I can't pay for anything with my VISA or Mastercard. It's rather frustrating.
The whataboutism defense is absolutely failing at this point. If there was material criticism on HN of say Ubuntu or other providers for the same stuff Microsoft gets criticized your words might've been credible. But there isn't and they are not.

Pretending to be fair and objective is not the same thing as being fair and objective.
No, it doesn't apply to C++ because the corners of the language required to write lists and trees are exercised enough and don't suffer from unexpected limitations.
I couldn't find the Linux version, perhaps something is wonky with the browser/os detection, it's assuming I'm on a mac and showing macOS screenshot previews, etc.
Japanese logic has its moments.
We humans have a tendency where: we invent something, exploit it only to realise at later point the mess that has happened and then correct our path.

I see lot of negative comments on this thread but solid/polypoly is the beginning of that path correction for web. They might not succeed but something with the same underlying idea is going to.
That's a lot of accusations and very few references. I mean: "pretend we might just be immune to this for some reason" - is there anyone significant who claims this? (not a random celebrity or other fanatic)