skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can an attitude of intellectual superiority amount to any good? I too was identified gifted (and while I've never had an IQ test I was probably never in the 180s) and while I share your frustrations with normies, dwelling on my perceived intellectual differences with the world has done me no good. It certainly didn't help win me any friends. Being intelligent isn't all chess and quantum physics; there are lots of people in your ballpark that wouldn't come anywhere near fitting your description of a like mind.

I've found life to be much more enjoyable by intentionally avoiding people like myself. For highminded intellectual stuff there is plenty conversation to be had here on the net. Befriending and hanging out with a diverse group of misfits from all manner of backgrounds has proven to be much more fulfilling and while, yes, sometimes they can be stupid, and sometimes it is hard to find things in common outside of the reasons the group stays together, I've learned to see it as opportunities for further interpersonal growth.

If someone dedicates their life to filling their head with obscure knowledge they're just a nerd, no matter how much more intelligent they are than those around them. People may, collectively, be morons, but most individuals are surprisingly perceptive in at least a few areas, and while the prodigies in my life are indeed smart, I've spent enough time around them to know they would still be fish out of water for 90% of what life could possibly throw at them. I hope that your lamentations are formed after you've sussed these qualities out of the folks you lament.
> The inability to "choose your on UI" on Windows and macOS guarantees that GUI programs will be consistent with the accessibility and look and feel features in the OS...

Except when it doesn't, which unfortunately is more and more often, to the extent that nowadays it feels it's most of the time. Which is the whole thesis of the web page that this discussion is about to begin with; just go back to it and contemplate that picture of the six window title bars again.

Personally, I blame Microsoft. After successfully having introduced and enforced the CUA guidelines, they themselves were the first to violate them on a large scale in a widely-used application (suite): MS Office’s “themed” interface from around the turn of the century. Sure, there were a bunch of MP3 players and stuff, probably inspired by that “kool” (=utterly unnecessarily weird) Kai thing — but AFAICS those were marginal, and Office was what “legitimised” applying non-standard frippery in stead of the simple unadorned standard UI elements.
I get really confused by the Musk ventilator thing.

He asked hospitals what they wanted, they gave him a list, he bought what was on the list and donated it.

People who aren't healthcare professionals look at those machines and say "aha, but they're not ventilators, they're bipap machines, Musk is an evil idiot".

But bipap is a type of ventilator. Here's John Hopkins: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-t...

> Some medical problems can make it hard for you to breathe. In these cases, you might benefit from bilevel positive airway pressure. It is commonly known as “BiPap” or “BPap.” It is a type of ventilator—a device that helps with breathing.
Cool concept! The leaderboards don’t seem to work though. Might have just been me.
A country that forgets that government was best at solving its biggest problems in the past is equally dangerous.
"Think about that for a second -- your garage is housing the equivalent of 120 horses. How much "labor" is that?"

Not it is not. A horse needs food, also if it is idle. A car does not.

And labour does not equal energy. The advancement of humanity did happen, because we found other energy sources and apply them, so machines can do the hard labour.

(now it is a struggle to adjust that system, but I believe globally the sun is excessively shining to provide all the energy we need)

"I'm a developer not a farmer, but the systems-level thinking I've seen in the permaculture community is extremely fascinating"

And to this I agree very much, but I would still rather bet on more traditional ways of feeding the world.
The point isn't really whether a theory is 'not falsified' or 'has evidence in its support' (they sound roughly equivalent, at least if you formulate it 'has _only_ evidence in its support'), the point is that nothing is ever _proven_, it is only ever not yet disproven. We're collecting an ever larger body of evidence that any theory's predictions need to match in order for the theory to not be proven wrong. Of course the more predictions a theory gets right, the less our need for another theory to make better predictions with instead.
Your table is ready for you, sir.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050924142700/http://reddit.com...

Did you know that Voyager 1 has just reached the edge of the solar system after 28 years in space, while Microsoft's nightmare inches closer to reality??!
What do actual users who would want to run Linux actually run? Probably games? Maybe office?
Fun idea, but I think you're underestimating the total systemic information density between DNA and final body.

But I'm sure you can start there and find some interesting tangent that can very well turn out to be worth pursuing further.
Cloud Storage, no latency requirements
Leta Hollingworth agreed with you that 1) is the optimal approach. Unfortunately for the exceptionally gifted, they are rare enough (by definition—4 standard deviations is less than 1 in 10k—although I've read that it's flatter than a normal distribution) that it is difficult to get enough of them into one place to make a whole class out of them, unless you run a boarding school or have a very dense population (Leta Hollingworth worked out of New York).

She also agreed, at least implicitly (I'm struggling to find the best quote), about the importance of starting early. "Such struggles as these [describing a 7-year-old who tried to show his favorite books to the other kids, who "resisted his efforts, made fun of him, threw the treasures on the floor, and finally pulled his hair"], if they continue without directing the child's insight, may lead to complete alienation from his contemporaries in childhood, and to misanthropy in adolescence and adulthood."
The key word is "attempt". It is observably a poor result, but nevertheless the intent is there (among other intents).
Bartitsu
The Bezzle, which I think has been on a HN post before:
https://klementoninvesting.substack.com/p/the-bezzle
What if there’s no class in the language?

The ‘original React’ as you mentioned for example, was modeled in standard ML. There’s no class in the language and it is okay to model the state in function.
> complicated math

Is it though? Isn't the final shape just a paraboloid, like a parabolic antenna with the hoop in the focal point?
Commom core seems just fine overall to me. I wouldn't be surprised if the generation that grows up with it has much better math comprehension and number sense.
The UK opposition party has been supportive, but I can't say the same thing about the press or their supporters in the general population - that's still really hyper-partisan and has imported a bunch of the US narratives as well.
I find it hard to criticise the UK government on that U-turn. The facts changed and they reacted. Prior to this starting a flu-like pandemic was at the top of the governments risk register and they had models and a plan which they started following.

There was some initial idiocy of course, like Boris shaking hands with everybody in a hospital he visited.

They should probably be criticised more for their general preparedness and tight health care spending in the face of an ageing population.
Ubuntu 19 is terrible. I was forced to use KDE (Plasma) instead because they broke so many basic UI concepts (to give you a tiny taste: changing tabs went from Ctrl+Tab to Meta+Tab, the keyboard layout switcher takes 2 seconds or more because it pops up a stupid little window to show the language selected, and many other things just like this I thankfully erased from my mind and now only the frustration remains).
I mean you’re downloading an exe and giving it admin access.

That’s already carte Blanche.

Whether any of that can be leveraged further by messing with the contents - DLL or otherwise - is academic.
On desktops, I wish we could just stop wondering “where is that icon?” or “what does this icon do?” entirely.

We should be able to search for any feature within an application in a standardised way instead. Maybe something like what Ctrl-P does in Sublime Text / Sublime Merge.

If this shortcut would work for any application within the same OS, we could get rid of most icons by default, while adding more consistency at the same time!
DroneSeed: Drone Reforestation
"Color theory" can describe pretty much anything working with color. I asked the developer of Dracula some technical questions last time this got traction on HN but didn't receive any responses.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22306449

My guess is that instead of spacing things out equally by RGB , (e.g. [0,0,0]...[128,128,128]...[255,255,255]) they may be using another "colorspace" like HCL or Lab, where there are still three values that signify each color, but the vectors are complex instead of just "Red", "Green", and "Blue". See http://hclwizard.org:64230/hclwizard/
Duty-of-care is usually interpreted as what would a reasonable person expect them to do in that situation. As long as they took all reasonable precautions and followed the safety protocols required for handling a pathogen of that type, then there shouldn't be any liability.

My point is that they failed in their disclosure whether it came from the lab or not, and more likely where foreign governments would pursue them for any repatriations.

It's the same situation if there was a nuclear accident - once it has occurred the expectation is to be upfront with the facts so other nations can prepare and deal with any damage. The circumstances of why are only important as far as preventing it happening again.
For HN I prefer this one: https://github.com/andreicristianpetcu/HNMarkAllRead/release...

(chrome one is in the store)

It marks comments or posts as "read" (or "seen") for a whole page and than hides them. And you can tell it not to hide posts where you "subscribed" to the comments.

I can never go back, so tired of skimming over the same top posts all day again and again.

I think it also does tree comments.
So let's get this straight, "hiking to Turkmenistan" means you're a world-savvy individual but taking packaged tours means you're pedestrian drivel?

It's very hard to confirm if you're trolling or if you truly belong to /r/im14andthisisdeep, but let's assume the latter. Hiking to Machu pichu doesn't make you smart. Either you don't subscribe to personal responsibility towards global warming or you do but can't see the irony in smoking a few tons of carbon in the name of "enlightenment" which apparently you can only find half way across the world. Both ways, the lack of sophistication in your part shines bright. How exactly is hiking in a forest in a poor country different from going to Bangkok to get salvation from ping pong balls?

Several of your comments are in similar vein - everyone is not stupid, they just don't insticntually care about factual education; a good fraction of people are smarter than you in their own ways. Even if they're not, it behooves us to respect the average human with some basic respect (which would likely include not comparing them to lamps).

Perhaps you're a smart person and perhaps you're trying to cure cancer as several of my similarly smart colleagues kept insisting for years when I was doing my PhD. However, they just couldn't get their heads out of wherever to start seeing the bigger picture and I sincerely hope for your sake and the world's sake that you do. We will all benefit if smart people start becoming that much more humble. Assuming you really are 180 smart, whatever the triangle-inside-square-puzzle-hell that means.
> He asked hospitals what they wanted, they gave him a list, he bought what was on the list and donated it.

Can you comment on the "Musk says he sent ventilators to CA hospitals" part?
Common wisdom says that is best to use a .com domain if target an international audience.

But how to pay millions of dollars for a reasonable short name if you start a new business?
Worry not! He is already doing it - Scala 3 will be indentation based:

https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/other-new-features/inde...
Maybe the ability to display references should be a feature in your tool?

As for my experience from Blender, you either utilize its UI to display it where you want it or put the references directly into the scene. Its also common for 2D artists to just use layers on the canvas for keeping references.
Yes, the UK press has been terrible. Surprisingly (or maybe not) the best coverage seems to have come from the business press.
How I made a basketball hoop that always goes in
5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22848034
While that might be true, UK might renounce its rights if the pressure is very high.
Google will more reliably return what you're looking for than any hand-built documentation system.
I've done undergrad level mathematics and a lot of Wikipedia articles about mathematics is complete gibberish to me even if I put a lot of effort (hours) in understanding them. My estimate would be that more than 99% of population would not be able to gain anything from reading them.
X over anything but a local network (and even then) is hard to make it work right.

VNC and similar systems have the right idea about remote desktop access.
I've seen quite a few... can't remember specifics, since I just bounce at that point. But certainly common to Shiny New Startups!
It's remarkable how a non-randomized study of Hydroxychloroquine is anathema, yet a non-randomized study of Remdesivir that's paid for by its manufacturer and written up by that manufacturer's employee is not. Hmm, I wonder why that is. To top it off, it might actually have the same QT prolongation issues, because some other antivirals have them.

That said, politics aside, I hope it works far beyond our wildest expectations so fewer people die.
That glosses over RedHat's strong arm sales tactics of the community, and rules-lawyering the GPL. Redistributing "their" source, as allowed by the GPL, is liable for your support license to not get renewed. And where's the Red Hat kernel source in a digestible format? I haven't followed recently, but they were at one point distributing their diffs to the mainline kernel as a single giant patch file and arguing that it was okay. It may abide by the letter of the GPL, but it's against the spirit of interoperability.

RedHat's the first billion dollar Linux company, but first and foremost it's a business. Their sales people are aggressive and their lawyer's hungry. Support contracts don't exactly fly off the shelves, especially when there's a huge community of experts.

How many people do you know that have given money to Canonical for Ubuntu?
CA and WA had the earliest cases of COVID,I believe in Jan or early Feb. If this ripped in Feb, why did we not see similar hospitalizations and death rates in CA and WA compared to NY,Italy, Spain, etc ?
Rewriting Minefield Mahjong in Rust
GP comment is talking about "Airbnb experiences" a specific offering of Airbnb that's not related to short term renting. It's to book a local guide to an activity.
I dont think anyone said that actually meant it doesn't scale. What they meant was it doesn't scale cheaply.

Rails is still great ( or possibly best ) for SaaS or Paid per usage model. Not so good for ad based or traffic driven per revenue model.
Gimp is probably the only software I use somewhat regularly in which I can absolutely never figure out how to do something new, and if I don't do something for more than a month, I have to google again for how to do it. The level of stupidity in its design surely deserves a reward for unusability.
GTC 2020: The Future of GPU Rendering Through OctaneRender
“How can you say that when you cannot imagine everything ‘they’ might be looking for? What if your faith, sexuality, technology, ideas or beliefs have become a target? Times change, so too do the things we have that we might need to hide”.
While that might be true for US, UK and Russia, I fail to see how China and France won WW2.
Worth pointing out that this is largely a US only problem. Rest of the world uses IFRS which clamped down on that non-GAAP adjustment stuff pretty hard because well it’s not exactly a subtle gambit
Islands can have bridges or tunnels if you're so inclined :)
Are there any studies that prove that asymptomatic people are less contagious ?
Oh no, the conservative thing to do would be to conserve your environment and resources. That thinking isn't very Conservative though.

As an aside I never believed Labour would really tackle climate change, they are too in-hoc to the unions whose members often work in industries with high emissions.

Even their proposed green new deal is dubious:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13563467.2019.15...
Sturgeon's law: 90% of everything is crap
> which the "systems language" Rust necessarily runs on

Strictly speaking, Rust does not need to run on a kernel. If anything, the Rust developers have explicitly steered the language to be suitable for bare-metal situations.

> So the Linux or BSD kernels... have not gotten it right

...Because they haven't? Just look at the CVE databases. A cursory search gives:

* https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2018-6916/ - FreeBSD: Improper validation and a use-after-free

* https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2019-5606/ - FreeBSD: Incorrect signal handling leading to write after free

* https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2019-15919/ - Linux: Use-after-free

* https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2019-15292/ - Linux: Use-after-free

* https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2019-15504/ - Linux: Double free

In addition, Microsoft has said that ~70% of their CVEs are memory safety issues [0], and have been for many years.

So no, easily accessible memory safety in C is not a solved issue yet. There are various techniques and tools that can be used to reduce or eliminate memory errors, but they have not seen widespread adoption for one reason or another.

[0]: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/16/a-proactive-appro...
Perhaps an alternative style, roughly painted watercolours as seen here in Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/special_report/what_were_reading.php
Stockholm to reach herd immunity in May?
In general.. if things are being priced then the price should be based on what it costs to make it.. for the price floor.

Otherwise you get a lot of perverse incentives.
When you say, "I have nothing to hide" it means "I don’t have this right". It means person under surveillance must justify the privacy, not those who are invading privacy.

If individuals have privacy rights, then invoking "nothing to hide" is irrelevant.
I think the state monad in F# makes a lot of sense - I'm now on the functional side after (finally) understanding it.
Ok, so the interview is in Swedish (and Norwegian), but it is with Sweden's state epidemiologist at the Public Health Agency. He indicates that they have been taking antibody tests the last week as the basis for his prediction of flock immunity some time in May in the Stockholm region.
Eat well, sleep well, exercise keep your stress levels down. The most important things people can do if they’re worried about getting this virus.
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There was fight in February about closing fights specifically with China (but not from Europe which was already affected and not testing travellers), calling virus Chinese virus.

Republicans back then however also claimed it is under control and not much if threat and definitely did not advocated for any measures (testing, masks, making people stay at home, closing public events) except closing direct flies from China.

There was no observable flop between the two parties positions.

Democrats can simultaneously believe that 1.) calling virus China virus and closing exactly direct flights is mostly about racism and pushing blame from own inaction 2.) virus is threat, crisis and country needs to act in other ways.

Republicans can simultaneously believe it is nothingburger no worst then flu exaggerated by Democrats for political reasons and then call it China virus.
I know you know this, but I’ll write it for other readers: there is even more languages on CLR if we count the one not supported by MS. Also, C native libraries and thus any language that can target it, can by used as well on Windows, Mac OS and Linux with PInvoke.
Open source contact tracing app using Apple’s upcoming framework
tab spacing isn't just "used to it". It's the "hidden white space has meaning" problem. Copy and paste some code indented with spaces into some that's indented with tabs and if you're unlikely they'll look like the indentation matches but the won't actually match. If you're even more unlucky the code won't just crash it will appear to run but the result will not be what you expected.

You try to get around it by using an editor that shows tabs or an editor that re-indents the code but plenty of editors (notepad, nano, vi, emacs) don't show tabs as different from spaces by default.

https://wiki.c2.com/?SyntacticallySignificantWhitespaceConsi...
Actually no we wouldn’t, because real clinical trials with thousands of subjects take a long time to wrap up, even when researchers are working at breakneck speed.

FWIW The anecdotal evidence from doctors and patients who have managed to get a hold of some of it has been very good so far.
I had something like that in NCY a few years ago. The upper parts of the new world trade centre building were always so far away they lacked parallax, so it was like looking at a skybox in a sprite-based FPS.

I don’t get the effect with pictures of big things, but in addition to not finding the lack of parallax confusing in that situation, I also know that is part of my mind getting the scale wrong.
I was on the same boat and decided to install KDE Plasma. Very very happy with the result, the UI dark theme is very beautiful and all shortcuts and UI elements work the way "old" UIs did (unlike freaking Ubuntu 18 and 19 which changed everything for 0 reason).

https://kde.org/plasma-desktop

It was quite easy to install and everything worked out-of-the-box. I just customized some widgets, the dark theme, icon colors and now it looks amazing. Best Linux desktop I've used so far.
Bcz - Money
> ...rules-lawyering the GPL. Redistributing "their" source, as allowed by the GPL, is liable for your support license to not get renewed.

There isn't anything wrong with that at all. If someone is undermining RedHat's business model it is reasonable for RedHat not to support them.

The spirit of the GPL is the source code should be available and the user can do what they like with it. RedHat makes the source code available and the user can do whatever they like with it. No principle says RedHat has to like what people do with their GPL-ed code. Quite the reverse is expected, in fact.
Humans of flat[1] have been documenting this for some time

https://twitter.com/humansofflat
My current bluetooth headset and mobile phone seem to have a directional antenna issue.
I can get drop outs on my headset if the phone is laying flat and I'm 2 meters elevated above it and less than 4 meters away.

to me thats seems directional signal type issues.

I've also notice that my headset sitting around my neck will disconnect if my phone is in my pocket when my wife gives me a hug. meaning its range is less than 1 meter if having to go through a human body...
See Akka Typed (based on the Actor model) for an example of typed message passing in a distributed system.

Not sure what compromises were made, but it was a sore point for users of the library for years to throw around untyped messages when the host language (Scala) provided such a powerful type system.