skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is GNOME the only desktop environment going forward with wayland at this point? Wayland has been the only way I can enjoy tear-free, config-tweak-free video on Linux for the past few years, and that leaves me stuck with either GNOME or something like Sway. Mate would be a great middle ground but I don't want to have to mess with compositors again.
That was the point exactly, you do not need to analyze and put so many uninvited speculation into a simple fact that I see tings differently and doesn't like certain things. Yes, the point was not to buy the device, exactly!

I stand by the phrasing of 'utter madness and gross incompetence' when usability is degraded and things get unnecessarily complicated in an essential functionality. All of this for questionable changes (I wouldn't dare calling it improvement, I feel improper just to mention this word in this context, the whole thing is very far from improvement).

What I also need to add how strange is that certain groups of people get offended on strong and grounded opinion about some consumer product like if it was a central element of their life not a utility of an auxiliary topic.
Iowa was an apple growing region until the 1940's when a frost killed a crop, and cultivation moved elsewhere (Oregon?)

Mentioned here before, 30 years ago taking the youngsters on a walk, made a different turn and ended up in a small meadow with a pond and a single apple tree. Surrounded by town and left until last to develop because it was hilly I guess.

There were apples under the tree, fallen to the ground. Apples the size between softballs and soccer balls. Somebody had stacked like cannon balls. Very dark.

Anyway I never heard of something like that. I never saw them again since the meadow was developed soon after (i.e. bulldozed and turned into condos).
> - As a scripting language, I’m going to use Python or Go the moment anything becomes larger than a few lines,

The point is very much that with powershell this move is to C#, with a much nicer integration with the shell.
>Step 1: Get a well paying job at a big tech company. There is very little luck involved in this, just get really good at algorithms.

Let me stop you right there. Maybe that works in SV but in most of Europe(the world?) you aint getting in to any well paying job at a big tech company without a degree from a prestigious university or previous experience at equally big and famous companies.

Companies here don't have the FAANG resources to whiteboard everyone who bothers to apply and check their algorithm skills when all the future employee needs to do is work on some CRUD app so they initially select based on how impressive your resume is and run you through some coding test later to weed out the bullshitters.

Although I live and work in a city with one of the top 300 technical universities in the world where graduating means you have to study algorithms, advanced math, etc. almost no jobs here outside or research and academia require knowledge about algorithms. Companies just want an experienced node/python plumber ASAP.
There was something like this in the past, I think it even was nice enough to check URLs client-side to preserve privacy.
You’re leaving out major accessibility differences when using a button vs anchor tags
Interesting. If I could combine the flavor of a good Pink Lady with the crispness of a good Granny Smith I'd die a happy man.
That’s a great lesson to have early in your career, too.

My favorite example of that was a memory-bound app where a key function had been implemented in both C and x86 assembly. Someone tested and found that the assembler version had been slight performance loss since (IIRC) after the Pentium Pro, and since nobody had wanted to substantially change the assembly code going C-only meant they actually refactored the data access patterns and saw a substantial improvement.
This is pretty amazing - the fact that it can be immunity-boosting and slow age-related brain function. This is an area that needs to be explored further.
Yes, but I think there's a lot of variation in what people want out of work-friends.

My parents are super social to the point of inviting over colleagues for dinner regularly, but I think they're also so social (and worked for nonprofits that are more like family) that they simply have so many options that the ones they pick are much closer work-friends that often last decades.

Other people really do just want to go home and do their own thing. As long as no one is rude, there's room for both.

I find that after spending that many hours with work friends I rarely want to spend extra time with them when I could spend that time connecting with existing friends I haven't seen in a while who I'm already very close to. Balance.

I've rarely had a work friend turn into a real friend though, but I'm also totally happy with that. I need breaks from people and don't want to get sucked into the work as life mindset. I'd rather meet new people at... pick a hobby. Dancing, singing, karate, whatever. That's how I make new friends, through hobbies rather than work because work friends dominating my social life feels incredibly unbalanced.
General Dynamics unveils its newest MPF combat vehicle
Yeah, but with the success of contact tracing in South Korea I'm assuming IFR is within a factor of 2 of the CFR or so.
U.S. Army awards contract to ECS for artificial intelligence platform
There’s a terrible amount more information you’re missing here. What services were you using that went down? (not what services went down, how were you affected) What is your availability for your DC? it seems you’re being light in the details and perhaps there’s a reason why.
Thanks ! Indeed I'am using Tesseract.js [1] which wraps an WASM port of the Tesseract OCR Engine (v4). Stack is pretty simple : Vue.js, Vuetify[2] (absolutely fond of it) and Tesseract and hosted on Netlify (with Analytics [3] so no trackers).

I will probably open sourced it :)

[1] https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js
[2] https://vuetifyjs.com/en/
[3] https://www.netlify.com/products/analytics/
My solution with ISPs or similar utilities is to put them in a position where they need you and not the other way around. Blocking their payment magically makes them call you, the call is from someone that at least speaks English properly and is not a monkey, and security questions or other nonsense usually go out the window.
But you don't get to decide someone's got bad eyesight if they tell you they see something perfectly clearly and you don't. If someone asserts that they see life as devoid of meaning or depth, you don't get to decide they are wrong simply because you disagree.
Does https://www.pomerium.io/ fit there?
do you even understand how ridiculous you sound? some tinfoil hat videos might get deleted and suddenly you’re reverse racism ghandi?
I can think of two things. You could divide the money and do both.

First you could save or invest the money and donate at a later time. This wouldn't really help people right now, but it would help someone in the future. Technically, investing it could help stimulate the economy, but it doesn't directly help someone.

Second, you could spend the money on something that you want or need that could be beneficial if you do become unemployed. An example could be training for another job or to keep your current one, buying home office equipment, etc. This could still be risky since you are spending the money, but it might not be as bad as spending the money on recreational stuff. The money is stimulus money, and to be effective in stimulating our consumer economy you would have to spend it (or put it to work, like investing).
I'd add the "Elegance is not Optional" essay from the preface to The Art of Prolog.
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> But yes, if you use a wine costing 2-3 euros, quality of taste in many aspects will be incomparable even to that average joe.

2-3 euro wine tastes disgusting to even an "average joe"
Agreed. Newsflash: put people in cotton wool boxes they'll experience fewer accidents, but might suffer some other issues. Imagine that, more variables outside than inside.
If something else had been supported to get that generous crop, we'd be dissing it now. Like VHS vs Betamax, Corn won early and it won big. Not surprising it went like that; so many things do.

Anyway it'd cost trillions to retool for some other staple crop now.
If the telephone system had the same moderation as HN then I would suspect that indeed it would seen as oppressive if they were listening on all telephone calls and banned users who they deemed inappropriate citizens.

We only have one telephone system so being banned has a rather large impact as it is an essential service. So maybe we should ask what platforms are like other essential services. Radio is an essential service. What about Youtube? The telephone system is an essential service. What about Skype? I think libraries are also seen as an essential service, so what about Wikipedia? And then we have HN. How essential is HN?
I run Debian on my 32-bit netbook.

Currently Debian offers installers for amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el and s390x.
If you have a person with $2 billion dollars, and then 1000 people with $100,000, they have an average wealth of $2.1 million, but the average really fails to capture the dynamic.

This should hold for males, and I can see it making the number of gametes relevant. Historically, 80% of women and 40% of men have reproduced. In terms of reproduction, a woman could have maybe 20 children if they usually had twins or something. If a male wins big, like Genghis Khan, they might literally manage thousands.

I mean, it really doesn't seem like a stretch to see different selection pressures on males and the Y chromosome.
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You overestimate the competency of short-sighted individuals anxiously striving for a seat closer to Bezos, ie thinking for themselves versus the organization. Ironically, I wonder if such news actually motivates some PMs to ask around...
In my experience even bad Q programmers can outperform. The language and underlying engine is pretty efficient...
> How are males more diverse?

Most of the pictures of human females I see on the internet look the same. Young, nubile, thin, light-skinned, teased hair, painted like a clown, and where visible, completely devoid of body hair.

Perhaps observation bias is at play?

If you go to actual scientific literature, it's surprising how much everybody knows to be true is complete and utter billshut.
This prompted me to do some digging, and I learned something fascinating:

Caller ID and Email are just about the same age.
The waterfall model is definitely used at scale in DOD projects. It is as horrifying as it sounds.
> Even detects external monitors on plug/unplug.

I can already hear all the Windows/MacOS folks' giggles on this one!
Thanks ! Yes I hope title doesn't feel clickbait too much, but I haven't find something else to describe it simply.
I am not addressing any of these points about either of our own value judgments about life, because they do not address the point I have made, which is that nothing else matters if some particular person interprets the meaning of their life in a particular way. No amount of your belief in some philosophy or religion will change their interpretation of the meaning (or lack thereof) in their own life. If this person posted for example that nothing Jesus said matters, because they think life is completely without depth, that's the end of it. They don't have to respond to any external reasoning or justify dismissing some philosopher's entire body of work, because they assign the depth of their own life. You and I can discuss what that means with respect to our own value judgments, but it has no bearing on what that person thinks of their own. If you want to proselytize to that person for finding meaning in life, that's great, have at it. But you can't say that person's dismissal of some system of reasoning is invalid because his dismissal is based on value judgments entirely up to that person alone, and no amount of external reasoning on your part will "override" their value judgment.

About the reply above with the personal attack, here are a selection of phrases used to attack the author of the post, and not the author's argument: "internet edgelords", "pretty disgusting", "'insights turn out useless: life just isn't a very deep thing' is incredibly trite", "i don’t mean this to come across as a personal attack, but...", "a pithy reference", "an attempt to signal knowledge (or worse yet, understanding)", "just incredibly weak."

Give me a break, that's a personal attack.
Screenshots page still uses 16.04...

https://xubuntu.org/screenshots/

Why bother trying this distro, when developers even don't bother to update screenshots.
A squirrel did the same thing and brought down the computer systems of a 3-year-old, CA$1.3B super hospital complex in one of Canada's biggest cities: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/how-a-squirrel-broug...

Don't rely on systems being redundant just because you're somewhere they should be!
To be clear, this wasn't the retention offer, this was the new job! And it's still technically open, but nicely spaced with sound-absorbing partitions. The dysfunctional place had a pingpong table within earshot.
Shout out here for pydantic BaseSettings
https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/usage/settings/

That provides typed and validated auto-loading from env vars. I have been quite happy with that in conjunction with an optional .toml file, to do flexible config cleanly and simply like:

import toml

from myproj.conf.types import Settings # a pydantic BaseSettings model

try:
_config = toml.load('myproj.toml')
except FileNotFoundError:
_config = {}

settings = Settings(
**{key.upper(): val for key, val in _config.items()}
)
Someone gave that question a lot of thought: http://czyborra.com/unicode/emojidick.pdf
You're quoting me from two posts up, but I also specifically called out full-duplex HTTP in that post.

HTTP/1.1 does indeed support full duplex. However, most proxies don't. E.g. if you put nginx in front of your application server, you might lose the ability to do full duplex streaming right there. Or, if your client is behind a normal forward proxy, they might not be able to get full duplex. But, it can be pretty hard to figure out what's wrong. So, in practice I don't recommend relying on HTTP/1.1 full duplex. To be honest, I don't recommend HTTP/2 full duplex either, because HTTP/2 is just an optimization applying to individual network hops, and you still have the same proxy software in between screwing things up (and maybe even downgrading the request to HTTP/1.1 for the next hop).

Personally I recommend using WebSocket when you expect full duplex. That way, all intervening proxy servers either know that you are expecting full duplex (because they recognize WebSocket), or connection setup will fail fast.
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WhatsApp just dropped a bunch of hacking group NSO's IPs in their latest filing
Building a Rust Web Browser
Is it stupid to use a tool in the way that seems more expedient, or is it stupid to design and release a tool that can cause an outage when used in the more expedient fashion?
I'm going to have to give this a go. My lazy way of making mac and cheese is precisely due to the difficulty of making a good cheese sauce. lazy way: I layer in cooked butter coated macaroni and grated cheese then pour in milk to keep the macaroni moist. bake at 160C/325F for 30+ min. Comes out pretty good but lacks the silky texture of creamy mac and cheese.

Last time I tried making sauce the gooey cheese adhered to the spoon I was stirring with until it just gathered up all the cheese. I had a baseball of cheese on the spoon and a pot full of milk. So I had to really cook the hell out of it to get everything hot enough to melt which ruined the cheese. Then upon pouring into the cooler macaroni made it yet again clump up. It was a mess and tasted less cheesy and I attribute that to my desperate attempt to remelt the cheese into the milk. Still pretty edible though.
> When the freeways of Detroit flooded they found the pumping stations that were supposed to get rid of the excess water had been stripped.

What the... this should have been caught by some form of monitoring or other security alerts.
Graduated with my BA in 2009 and definitely dealt with bad luck. Now, I work at a good company and have a good job (for now), but they are clearly making moves to shift the jobs to Texas. I’m just finishing my MBA and finding it really hard to find a job. Everyone wants you to have 5-8 years of experience doing exactly what they’re hiring for and don’t seem willing to train if you have 60-80% of the qualifications. Really sucks because trying to shift from one finance discipline (treasury/tax/FP&A/Corp Finance) doesn’t seem like companies are willing to consider.
I agree that vendor lock-in is expensive. It's not as expensive as the investment companies make in keeping their tech cloud-agnostic, investments that never seem to pay off. Either the day never comes, or when it does, switching costs are still surprisingly high.
No, but you have to put in a lot of extra effort to be friends with them outside the context of work or else the context disappearing will give you no established excuse to hang out.

It's not impossible to do, I know plenty of people who make real friends at work. But it takes intent to make it work like any human relationship, invite them to dinner, go to movies, play video games, etc. Go overboard to get over the activation barrier but be selective because you can't do that with two dozen people at once.
"Dyson engineers have designed these challenges specifically for children."

I'm certain that's not true.

Balloon cars, was a school thing at least a decade ago. Spaghetti bridges has been used in Scouting as a challenge for 30+ years that I know of.

The only one I've not seen before is cardboard boats, and I'd be amazed if that's novel.

I suspect it's more like: "a junior content producer for our social media found these in 20 mins".
I highly recommend adding 1 slice of american, 1 slice of gouda and some shredded manchego. I generally prefer a fancy Mac, but when it comes to the blue box (or Annie's), this is my go-to combo.

My grandmother used to add some tomato paste when she made it for me as a child, which I absolutely loved.
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Minecraft mods have not worked by manual replacement of classes for a long, long time now. Doing so is highly discouraged, and you use a mod loader like Forge.

Minecraft modding is neglected in all official capacities, it's a usability trainwreck, and the self-installed dictator of the preeminent mod loader is very easy to not like.

I've played a lot of modded Minecraft, and I can tell you for sure that you suffer through the myriad technical problems because there's just nothing out there like it, and not because it's a good experience.
I hope someone with context on this issue sees your comment and can confirm if this contains an actual, working, on-demand GPU scheduler. If it does I'll be switching immediately.
There's many different kinds of players with an equally rich spectrum of player motivations. Animal Crossing is a phenomenon for some players because games like it are released pretty rarely. For others, it's "not even a game".

Reviews of Animal Crossing are more a reflection of the author than Animal Crossing itself. The game, like any topic viral enough to drive the engagement economy, is just some bobbet to anchor an opinion around.

For example, in the article I can tell that Bogost uses games to live out his fantasy as a humanities professor. And Lantz enjoys playing the contrarian.

Nothing wrong with that, they are playing the game in their own way, perhaps without even needing to _play_ it.
Yeah once you push 30 your next cohort of friends going to be that bingo gang in your retirement home.
If you like those kinds of things, check out the tinkering studio page from the San Francisco Exploratorium. My wife works at a similar space in our local science museum (shut down now) and a lot of them are trying to see what they can do to get "virtual".
https://www.exploratorium.edu/tinkering/projects
by all means inject yourself with bleach as your “expert” suggests but don’t pretend that people deciding to spread covid19 around because they believe it’s caused from miasmas are only hurting themselves.
The point made in here about how your company is not your family cannot be emphasized enough. Corporate culture, and especially tech startup culture, likes to make you believe that we're all family and best friends and love each other.

That attitude stays up right until the day they lay you off without warning.

It's great to work with great people that you enjoy being around, and we should treat each other all with human dignity and respect, and with a bit of fun. But your boss is not, and never will be, your friend.
Well no. Because this was a bureaucracy under the textbook definition of a "psychopath warlord king with little fiefdoms raiding their neighbors".

So, yes a "psychopath warlord king" will need a supporting bureaucracy. But that is not bureaucracy __on its own__ as bad as the "psychopath warlord king", but rather under it.

Basically my assumption is that under a "psychopath warlord king" bureaucracy will be crazy, but it won't be as bad under Democracy (which is kind of the opposite to "psychopath warlord king").
The bizarre here is squeezing in matters into things just because we can. Using techniques just for the sake of using those techniques or approaches elsewhere is not a good enough argument.

It is bad putting software into anything and everything, just because we do it frequently to other things. It should have much better reason for that. Complicating unnecessarily and many times introducing risks and troubles is a no good.

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

Sadly, we forget this simple fact.
it is going to make it harder to cheat at monopoly.
I'm not sure fresh spaghetti is going to work that well, but I'd be interested in seeing the video of you trying!
They're using websockets I believe.

Look in the network tab for .ws (hosted on Firebase). You can inspect the messages using Chrome. It sends updates for every change to a block you make.
Facebook Pulls Down 'Interested in Pseudoscience' Ad Category W over 78M Users
Currently on mobile so won't be able to post much.

To focus on one particular subset of this, recent research seems to indicate pretty conclusively that there is greater variability of (certain aspects of) intelligence among men than among women.

The reasons for this are poorly understood.

Is it genetic differences? Are boys and girls encouraged to investigate different things? Is it a limitation of our testing methods?

We aren't entirely sure yet so it's hard for people on either side to claim any complete understanding or provide a definitive answer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis

While it's difficult, I feel all sides should be willing to research and discuss these differences without resulting to pearl clutching.
I don't think rationality per se is overvalued but our capacity to achieve it consciously may be overestimated while the capacity of our brains to unconsciously generate reasonably accurate approximations to rational decisions may be underestimated.

It's clear that there is far more information processing occurring in our brains than we are ever consciously aware of. We end up being conscious only of the final result and we tend to call this "intuition". It would be a mistake to dismiss using intuition as irrational just because we aren't conscious of the mental activities that generated it. Of course intuition isn't necessarily right, it needs to be consciously evaluated and we should also use our conscious minds to train our intuition to increase its accuracy.
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In theory copying contiguous data is faster than dealing with pointer indirection.