skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an attractive.view as it's easy to understand but ultimately simple view of the world which ignores a range of human experience. Similar to the case for not eating meat, or not going to war. Both of which are noble and good but are more complex deeper down.
Listening to new music is one of my favourite activities. Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull.

There's so much good stuff out there, and it's so exciting to find an artist, genre or new combinations of sounds I've not heard before.

Bandcamp is great for this – better than Spotify or Apple Music. You can explore by artist, genre tag, label, and by people who have bought/wishlisted an album. Plus there's lots of interesting smaller artists who are not on the bigger platforms.
Exactly right. It is not only about sharing a final product, but rather about creating it together. And then competing to see who shares and learns the most.
It's not really economics (yet), even if peopled needed flowers they can't get them because the store is closed.

The basic economics comes next.
Can we stop with name-calling, please?
I generally agree, but as Semiapies pointed out there's some low-contrast text in places.

Vaguely relevant: The FOX Toolkit implements the Windows 95 look for lightweight Linux/Windows GUI applications. [0] A pity we don't see more GUIs like that today.

[0] http://fox-toolkit.org/screenshots.html
> With both Python and C++ redefining themselves, each at a breakneck pace, I frequently hope that they'll converge to a common language

Sounds like Rust to me...
> What is sad is that the previous governments had done a truly impressive job of threading the economic needle when it came to designing a telecom market with competition.

I beg to differ. I do understand Jio was quite aggressive in expanding its services and TRAI should have been more vigilant. But that still doesn't prove that they were working together in order to establish a monopoly. The pre-Jio telecom market was good for the telecom companies but it was horrible for the end consumers. The data prices were simply too high.
The major problem in China is that Duo doesn't work at all, where as FaceTime works quite reliably.
This looks interesting and seems to have some known people on the board of directors such as Stephen Wolfram but I couldn't find pricing or much details as to how it functions. Permanent data storage is a big promise and a non-profit model could work if the people involved are commited.
The part of it that stuck out to me wasn't the "understandable" part in itself, but the fact that it said the US labs "share similar problems", since these "problems" appeared to be just cases of people mishandling these viruses (i.e. negligence?), rather than cases of the viruses being too difficult to handle even when protocols are properly followed. A problem arising due to negligence doesn't seem like something I'd characterize as "struggling" with safety.
Slowly, downturns happen quickly and recoveries slowly.
I don't like GUI git tools as they always have issues with edge cases. git is a complicated system and you can have multiple weird configurations in your repo/system.

Most of the GUI tools just focus on the MVP workflow and often they crash/bug out on the weird cases.

This is not really an argument against it, but just an observation I made through the years.

Sourcetree is one of the oldest GUI git clients and it has the most stuff handled correctly, and this basically looks like open-source source tree.
I was playing the purchased game, so it wasn't a demo.

It was on a level where you had to reach a computer in some crashed rocket, if I recall correctly. You had to build turrets and keep them filled with ammo, but you started in a corner of the map with no base or raw materials, so you really had to move quickly before the ammo the game gave you to start with ran out and you became overwhelmed. You also had to use grenades to take out a biter nest so you could get to the rocket, and had a limited number of those too. So it was basically an action game rather than a building game at that point and a very badly balanced one.

But like I said I felt there were a lot of other issues. I really wanted to like the game, but "solid" wasn't the impression it left me with.
Sublime Merge is this but... sublime: https://www.sublimemerge.com/ it's amazing and pretty similar
Do people realize what they are doing here? I'm happy not touching my Windows kernel, stuff generally just works. Stuff never just works on Linux. And now the last time I tried to load a kernel module I had built for my Ubuntu system, it refused because, duh, it wasn't signed by some UEFI key I had never even seen. So now of course, the Ubuntu is fucking gone. Because it makes it impossible to do things that on Linux are still a monthly requirement.

Not to mention the impact this stuff has on kernel and driver development. Even Windows you can just boot into a development mode and it might scream at you on the desktop, but it will allow you to modify your system as you wish. I wasted a few hours when that Ubuntu thing happened to figure out where that switch was and didn't find it.

Right now, this should be strictly the domain of Google and Amazon that can actually have a trusted chain from bootloader to userland. Not enabled on any vanilla Ubuntu because hey, we detected UEFI!
Oh, those days when designers actually thought of ergonomic vs modern insanity with no standard, no contrast, no ability to deduct function from the look etc. etc. Well there are exceptions but generic picture looks rather depressing.
What's wrong with a low bar to tertiary education? It lets disadvantaged kids get in and catch up. As long as the standards are high by the end everything is fine right?
I thought in the West the preferred term is “affirmative action.”
Git is so simple that you don't need a gui for the normal day-to-day stuff.

And if you are fighting with the complex stuff, you are probably doing it wrong. Then no GUI in the world can help you.
Practically everyone would believe this story in real life. Such is the image of Mukesh Ambani in India.

He is not Warren Buffett type of billionaire, that is for sure.
> About DRM: Mozilla fought against it, and caved when it became clear they could not win.

While I do believe there was genuine opposition to this move within the community, I think the real decision makers had already made up their minds and just made a show of "discussing" it. I feel they did it under pressure, and perhaps were even induced with promises of more revenue, from Google.

And where was the question of really caving? All they had to do was ask Google (or any other company) to develop a browser plugin for Firefox and let the user decide if they wanted it (when a user encountered it on a site, produce a pop-up alerting the user to the plug-in required). And maybe then we would have some real competition in this space too as a new plug-in war would have developed ...

> But Firefox users still have to opt-in to install the binary blob (eg. Widewine), it's not bundled in the browser.

That's not true - it's been opt-in by default for a long time. See here - https://imgur.com/a/iCTmnzN ...

I think since EME free versions were released, at some point a policy decision was taken to make it "opt out" in the usual general releases, as a technical person would rather opt for the EME Free version or go through the options and disable it if they so desired, where as a non-technical user might get confused about EME or DRM or plug-ins ...

I fear that the Google DRM binary blob has actually made it much easier for them to uniquely fingerprint every Firefox user with EME / Widevine despite all the ad-blockers and anti-fingerprint extensions or techniques being used. In other words, I fear that Firefox (knowingly or unwittingly) has aided Google in killing privacy on the web.
Now bring me a visual editor like the one in visual basic
You pay $10 per Gb but this is a one off payment rather than annual. The money is supposed to go into an endowment that will pay for the storage costs long term.
I wish this was at the top. It would make the discussion here more interesting.
Well its turning into the united states of pundits and podcasters.

All other work is outsourced.
I’m not smart enough to get this into a Wordpress theme, but if it were ported to WP, it’d be my personal blog theme
Thanks for supporting it. The auto-erase/disappear feature is already there. You can set it in the Preferences. However, I will add the fade animation to it soon.
I'm not sure how their PR dept spun it but borosilicate glass is incredibly resistant to sudden changes in temperature as well as having better chemical and acid resistance making it ideal for chemistry lab work, presumably some news stories broke about 'amateur chemists' using Pyrex cookware for a different type of cooking. It's not like borosilicate is a controlled material though, the reason for the switch is likely that soda lime glass is significantly cheaper to produce, they did suggest that their soda lime glass was more mechanically durable but then again borosilicate glass is also known for being mechanically durable.
You still have GTM, Hotjar and Fullstory included by default, without opt-in and no way to opt out. This significantly reduces your trustworthiness for me, as well as my willingness to try out or recommend to others what looks like a pretty useful tool.

Consider if you really need all that analytics, and whether it's worth the invasiveness (edit: and GDPR breach, you being located in Germany). Page hits, sign ups, created flash cards and other usage is something you have available without any of those tools.
I want to love PyTorch lightning but like many other wrapper frameworks it also has severe problem: You can't use your dataloaders and nn.Module model as-is. FastAI also invents its own data bunch, dynamically specified models etc. All these reduces lines of code but then you are forced to adapt whole world to your new language.
Health Benefits of an Anti-Bacterial Air Purifier with Hepa Filter
Guessing it doesn't have those fancy warning symbols that some Windows 98 dialogs had?
It's still painfully slow. I didn't experience this on github, only HN.

Stay safe!
> AU/US high school students can't possibly compete against RU or CN high school students.

Can anyone comment on how this translates into results in adulthood, in the current age?

Do we see more discoveries in fundamental science, more inventions, better medical care, or better-run businesses?

As I don't speak Russian or Chinese, I don't really have a fair view and it would be easy for me to mistakenly under-estimate what the graduates of these schools get up to.
As someone from the Netherlands and pro-EU, this kind of thinking is not helpful at all. My knee-jerk response to this statement is to say something like:

We have been saying that to Spain and Italy for years. Spain and Italy have been violating the stability pact for years, during the best economic times. And now, when the crisis hits, they want to use our money, the money we saved by increasing retirement age, increasing taxes, and cutting costs. Money that we really need to stimulate our own economy.

But that would just lead to more arguing which is not going to help anyone. What I will say is that the Dutch government immediately offered help, but offered it in donations and through the Emergency Stability Mechanism, which is precisely what was agreed upon previously. This help comes with conditions to make sure that Italy and Spain do not become dependent on Dutch support, but can actually take care of themselves in the future.

To say that means that 'The Netherlands' (as if everyone in the Netherlands, especially the people in the flower business is represented by our government) didn't care about people dying is an insult to the people hit by this.
A shiny example of racism caused by wrong interpretation and ignorance.
Corona from China or America
What a mountain of USSR and eastern-europe people there are in this thread; so refreshing; this is great.
> someone will show up and say Music is not essential

Depends on your definition of essential, I'd argue 100% of the world population would survive just fine without music or flowers. Food is essential, water is essential, medicine is essential, shelter is essential. Some tulips imported for 2000km away aren't. I mean, do we really have to debate this ?

If we go there, sooner or later, someone will show up and say Ketchup is essential.
Has happened before — if the court finds that it has jurisdiction then it won't mind that one party is absent. If you sign a contract in country X, the courts in country X will hold you to it.

But that legislation sounds weird. I wonder whether those republicans have any idea what Westphalia is or what was agreed there.
As a computer science researcher working toward a PhD, I've been very interested in learning about the history of funding and also thinking about alternative funding models.

Speaking from the standpoint of computer science, I believe the golden age of scientific funding was between WWII through the early 1990s. Bell Labs and Xerox PARC invented a lot of the technologies that we rely on today, and there is still an untapped reservoir of research that has yet to be fully applied (I still believe that Smalltalk80 is quite futuristic in many ways despite its being 40 years old). DARPA and its predecessor ARPA was key for funding a lot of fundamental computer science work. Back in the 1960s ARPA had a funding model that emphasized "funding people, not projects." Alan Kay discusses this more at http://worrydream.com/2017-12-30-alan/.

Unfortunately, since the 1990s (and possibly before then), both industry and government have shifted to the model of "funding projects, not people," and there's a greater emphasis on delivering short-term results instead of funding medium- and long-term research efforts. There is also the PhD production problem, where more PhDs are being produced than there are research jobs available for them, whether they are in academia, government, or industry. This results in plenty of computer science PhDs working as software engineers in non-research environments. For a few years I've been considering becoming a professor at a teaching-oriented university; computer science professors have been in high demand at teaching universities for the past few years, and there are fewer "publish-or-perish" and funding pressures for teaching-oriented professors than for professors at research universities. But now with the COVID-19 pandemic and the sudden shift to online education, I am concerned that this shift to online education, as well as the economic fallout of COVID-19, may dry up opportunities at teaching universities.

Because I still want to pursue a career in research even if traditional opportunities dry up, I am interested in alternative funding models that will ensure that researchers could still make a living in a world that demands instant results.
The whole western world is copying all the mistakes from the US.
One of my pet peeves.

If you sign up with Patreon to get perks, you're not really a patron any more. You're a customer.
I like to use GUI’s occasionally to as a way to see a visualization of the branches.
> Our promise to you.

> We will never mine your data, claim your copyright or invade your privacy.

That sounds great and all, but I don't want your word, I want cryptographic guarantees. Are there any?

EDIT: https://www.permanent.org/digital-archives/services/privacy-... doesn't mention anything, so I guess not.
You too, man! I bet it'll pick up soon. It's only temporary.
Sadly no (portable) ZIP package for Windows :(
Jio is building most of its 5G tech without involvement of foreign players.
Thanks for letting us know. We are removing Hotjar. And we don't use GTM (we forgot we had it) so that is also gone. We use Fullstory just to track bugs and it helps us a lot – I hope that is ok.
From all the git GUI tools I like VS Code the most. I know it is IDE, but it is very fast, free, open source, multi-platform, and has amazing plugins for most use cases.

Other than that, most frequently I use CLI.
'The Dutch' didn't say that. Some Dutch people did.
I'd love better cross-platform distributed support. It's ok to be non-performant or not support fency backends on Windows but at least your interfaces should be available cross-platform.
A Sava person in the wild :) My significant other went to Lazar and I wasn't aware of the rivalry between the two high-schools until I met her, I personally grew up in a small-to-medium town where these school rivalries were pretty much absent.

It's also sociologically interesting because Sava/Lazar/Vianu people (or, generally speaking, people who went to good Bucharest high-schools, it's probably the same for other big-ish Romanian cities like Cluj or Timisoara) are more "aware" of the high-school they went to and they generally tend to keep friends with their high-school colleagues for way longer (my so's boss went to Sava and he's still active friends with his former Sava colleagues 25+ years after finishing high-school). Like I said, we don't have that thing in small-ish cities.

I say it's interesting because I kind of noticed the same thing in this thread with people who went to prestigious schools in Moscow (#57, #2), they tend to remember fondly said schools and some of them kept closely in touch with their former colleagues.
Under normal conditions I agree, but when dealing with a pandemic the gap is not really that big.
> they are not essential

If we only live for the essentials, what do we live for?
Methods of discovering and promoting new music change over time, especially compared to the peak days of a niche electronic music artist in the 90s.

Tik Tok is an absolutely massive recent source of new music growth [0], Taylor Swift and Beiber are absolutely massive artists with almost unparalleled influence across multiple genres, their riding of new vibes throws off tsunami wave effects.

They’re doing their job, and doing it well, the effects of giving their first 10 in a decade to Fiona Apple’s new album for example, you’re just not the target.

0 - https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/tiktok-vid...
Not sure if it qualifies as a GUI, but I’ve found magit increases my productivity with git.
It's funny, back in the day it was "It will never be the year of Linux on the desktop until all applications look consistent". People hated the fact that this app was Gtk, that one was Qt and this one here was Motif. But on Windows, it was winapi button windows and common controls all the way (except a few MS apps like Encarta - leading the way in modern flat guis already back in the Windows 3.1 days). The world has turned so far around!
Where did OP say anything about Congress vs Ambani?

At best he hinted that Ambani is closer to Modi which is not that unexpected. Of course, no government has ever been 'unfriendly' to Ambani. They are all benefiting from one another.
I--for one--love a GUI. Especially for git. I also love a good pun, so I'm definitely going to try this! It's gonna be tough to beat VS-Code and Kraken though.
https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/SJRR.MS.ID.000540.pdf
A full upper body air-filtration protective shield: BioVYZR crowdfunding
>A problem arising due to negligence doesn't seem like something I'd characterize as "struggling" with safety.

Why not?

If safety relies on negligence not occuring then negligence compromises safety. If safety is regularly comprised that would be considered "struggling with safety".
I agree with this. We're in a golden age of access to small and/or unsigned artists who don't need to be in the top 20s to get their name out there any more.

I really enjoy exploring different genres of music and finding new albums I've not heard before and devoted subreddits have been my main source of that. For me, r/progmetal is a group of devoted fans who enjoy recommending prog metal artists and albums. Nowadays a band doesn't have to be super famous and have to have a CD in a store in order for me to be able to listen to them. I read a recommendation, fire up spotify and start listening asap.
You could easily same the same for movies, TV shows, games, cuisine, parks, or anything.

If you like something, there's nothing wrong with enjoying it again. It doesn't mean you should limit yourself to the things you know. Once in a while you find something that's better than anything you've encountered before.
Well one way to put it is: We already know these viruses can gain function. If we can simulate that in the lab and then study the results we can plan how to deal with the situation if it arises in the wild. It's worth noting that this article isn't being completely transparent about the moratorium, it wasn't just a decision by the US to no longer do that sort of reseach, they were just pausing whilst they reconsidered how they evaluate whether to allow & fund that research. There was no real question of completely banning GOF research. They released that report in 2016[1].

Secondly, they cite a weird website called nationalfile.com for the claim Fauci funded the Chinese lab (in an article written now, not at the time the funding was claimed to be made) - I don't believe that. If you actually look at the NIH website what they're passing off as Fauci fundign the Chinese lab, is a 2018 article about collaboration with the lab in studying an outbreak of a disease in pig farms in Guangdong. Which is not exactly the shooting up bats with SARS is it, and it's certainly not the type of research that was effected by the GOF moratorium.

>The Wuhan lab is now at the center of scrutiny for possibly releasing the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and causing the global Covid-19 pandemic.

This is entirely speculation. There's no evidence of this being the case.

Basically what I'm saying is that this website is a fake news site. It's citing other fake news sites, spreading misinformation and mis-representing government reports.

The controversial claims are baseless - and often uncited, and the citations that are there are either to other misinformation sites- literally, waht is the nationalfile.com?

[1]:https://osp.od.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/NSABB_Fina...
Clean code by Uncle Bob – interview
Aren't one-off payments to cover running costs provably unsustainable? It relies on continuous growth to support old users. I personally would want to rely on a service that might close at any minute because it stopped growing.
The first time this article was posted, it was flagged (I might dispute its content and sourcing, but not the free-speech aspect to discussing it.) My earlier comment:

So what is the source of this info? Turns out it is the Daily Mail, a right-wing UK rag of highly questionable quality and history of economy with the truth. In the referenced DM article, the only attribution we hear about are "documents obtained by the Mail"... Fake FB news are also documents obtainable by the Mail. Post originals or it didn't happen.
TRIM isn't the cause. The problem with SMR is that disk failure in a RAID array causes read/write patterns during a rebuild that SMR simply was not designed for. I'm sure SMR friendly RAID software will be available in the future for but this requires the software to know that the drive uses SMR. SMR also tends to have really awful performance for regular desktop usage.
> Git is so simple that you don't need a gui for the normal day-to-day stuff.

It really depends on what you mean by day-to-day operations.

If all you do is checkout code, create ephemeral branches that either get deleted or are merged into another low-traffic branch or are simply pushed to a remote git workflow system, sure you don't need a GUI for that.

But if you need to traverse branch history and compare changes and do three-way merges and audit changes and track logs to a specific file within a repo... You are far better off with a GUI.