skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's 2020. Does the Mac OS allow the user to change the menu bar's color? I was forced to use a MacBook Air for work a couple of years ago and was shocked to find that I was forced to use the drab, grey color that was obviously borrowed from the 1970s Unixes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX, for example) via NeXTSTEP.

I cannot imagine why you would find the joy of configurability an "asinine dick swinging contest". I find /r/unixporn unpretentious and wholesome. I find most posts there done out of sheer joy and pride. No one is selling anything or shilling anything.
I spend a small amount of time programming in Scheme as a hobby, and honestly I would find the presence of a single stack frame resulting from a "recursive" call like this no more confusing than having a single stack frame containing a for loop. In both cases the state of the program at the point of the exception is specified by the variable bindings in a single stack frame rather than the depth of the call stack.
"direct brain input" Please no ..
So what did they do? Note that with doing I don’t mean issuing advisories etcetera.
> Give me any CISC with a generous range of addressing modes, and I take any day over MIPS/RISC.

Or how about a macro assembler where you can do that with custom pseudo-instructions?
/usr is absolutely where user data was. That's what it stands for "users".

First when / ran out of space, new programs were put on the other disk /usr in /usr/bin so everyone could assume programs were in /bin except ones that were newly installed so they would be in /usr/bin

When /usr ran out of space, a new disk was added as /home and things that were easier to move (user directories) were moved first leaving things that everyone's script was depending on (#!/usr/bin...) where they were.

This was done out of necessity, not out of good taste.
Ask HN: Experiences with Firebase/Azure/AWS?
I'm planning to write an application that will have web and native mobile apps. I've been looking at storage options and from where I'm standing Firebase seems to be the easiest to use and has the best free tier - I have no experience with cloud-data development, so this is something I know nothing about. Does anyone have any use stories to share before I settle for this?
I'm with you here, I went through a period of moving to feature phones and ditching the smart watch to reduce the phone back to utility rather than a distraction. But feature phones, even those running kaiOS, just don't have the support for communication tools and things like 2fa authenticator apps.

I eventually went for an iPhone SE (2016) in the last year, after it was discontinued and managed to get a boxed, new unit for less than even the low-end android market phones go for. Thus far it's the most enjoyable phone to use having moved from an S8 which was certainly "better" on paper.

The size is incredibly portable and easy to handle, the battery, despite only being 1500mAh, does a very good job lasting me the day (though I certainly expect it won't continue to do so) and the screen is acceptable but annoying enough that I don't want to be using it for long stretches. It's got the lastest iOS and I fully expect the lack of iOS 14 support will be the reason I have to swap it for a new model once software support falls away.

It seems like this new SE model is still the smallest phone you can get despite the increase in dimensions and weight that you mention. It's nice to see a comment that shares my view and I hope a market for the smaller phone will come back around similar to that odd stage in the early 00s where handsets suddenly became impossibly small.
Oh don't get me started about how many times I have do a weird 90 degrees head turn to unlock my XS when it is in landscape mode. I don't get why it is so hard to compare a 90 degree rotated FaceID match.

Everyone that owns a iPhone with FaceID knows the trouble, for everyone else it looks like I am trying to read something without turning my phone.
Deepin Desktop environment is the DE developed for the distro named .... Deepin, by a Chinese company, it's actually a fork of GNOME 3 focused on "beauty"
Tim Bell, one of the creators of CS Unplugged, was one of the biggest influences on me discovering my love of computer science and learning how to program in high school. I wouldn't be where I am and doing what I do if it wasn't for him.

I wasn't originally planning on becoming a software developer as a career, I started studying Mechanical Engineering. However, I failed first year (due to undiagnosed ADHD and a lack of interest). Luckily Tim was a lecturer at my university (University of Canterbury), and let me jump straight into second year computer science.

He was definitely one of the best lecturers I had, alongside Richard Lobb. It's not often that you meet an academic who's more interested in teaching than research, but they were, and it showed.

Thanks Tim.
What will you do if your kid isn't a gifted child and falls below your expectations? Hopefully you'd still love them and treat them in a "proper manner" right? Just be prepared for that very possible outcome.
I find that very unlikely. Pedestrian navigation isn't exactly a major use case for most people and is pretty well covered by phones and smartwatches already.
Could have been useful for food delivery drivers (cyclists), but then we're right back into specialist markets.
It's speaking in public. Common or surprising isn't legally relevent. And since it's the internet; it can't be. It's one reason why sovergn groups of humans are so fantastic.
No, this is the central strawman.
Well, yes. But there's not enough time right now to do that goat study, and that's what we're advocating if we want to follow science to the exclusion of common sense.
I live in a big town in France and we still don't have optic fiber.

I'm hoping 5G will arrive soon for this reason.
Most reviews are very positive. Faster, better, Amazon removed, maybe the best Ubuntu release until now.

The only 'con' is the pushing of Snap packages. It looks like deb files only can be installed via the terminal.

Ubuntu is also researching if they can get Adobe on board. I doubt this would ever happen, but that would be huge. Most people stick on Windows and MacOS because Adobe software is not available on Linux.

Personally I switched back from Xubuntu to Ubuntu. And I must say: Ubuntu is back on track!
I shared this link on social media: https://barbra.io/

Shows nothing on social media. Consider adding some meta data and og and twitter data so it'll show more data and an image when shared.
Remember though that performance doesnt scale linearly with power though - a 15W laptop CPU is only something like 30% slower in single threaded performance than a 95W desktop CPU (which is what the discussed benchmark is measuring).

ARM is pretty unlikely to oust x86 in Windows PCs any time soon. Even if Intel continues to struggle to catch up to TSMC's fab advantage, AMD is making pretty compelling CPUs using the same fabrication node as Apple. And really, Windows is stuck with x86 largely for compatibility reasons - emulation would be both a performance and power drag. If ARM is destined to defeat x86, its probably going to have to win in the datacenter first, depriving Intel (and possibly AMD, soon) of their highest margin sector.
Ask HN: Tool to see how HN submission rank changes over time?
I recently made a "Show HN".

It went on a front page in a few hours.

I wondered how it was changing in upvotes and the rank over time.

I could not find any tool to do so. I think about doing my own.

What do you think? Would you like to use it?
It's a common practice in the Ubuntu's world though: Kubuntu, Xubuntu, ... now UbuntuDDE.
> Where did "newmobility.global" get this story?

Most other sites presenting the same news included the paragraph at the end suggesting it was a press release on the manufacturer's website. Example [0]. I linked to the original source below [1].

[0] https://www.jcnnewswire.com/pressrelease/58590/2/2000-km-on-...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22950468
World Book Day: 8 books for humanity in an AI-driven Era
Nice. I might upgrade my 5-year-old iPhone 6 to the new SE. Hopefully the build quality didn’t have to suffer too much and this iPhone SE last another 5 years
I can only recommend one, but very good: How the Immune System Works by Lauren Sompayrac
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/940153.How_the_Immune_Sy...
This is really cool. I've been excitedly watching how wgpu is developing. I don't have much graphics experience outside of one ogl but it looks like it's turning into something seriously neat.
From the criticisms I saw at the time, it also needed the absence of a camera, and the presence of a fashion expert in the hardware design team.

I don’t understand fashion at all, so I wouldn’t have predicted it in advance, but it was unfashionable.
How to set up a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions
Zero Trust Is a Process, Not a Product
Maybe that says more about the books you read or were given to read than about the color orange
But his point is that they are just experiencing these deaths now rather than in 2 or 6 months time, and that does seem likely given a vaccine is at least a year away.
The Unix divide over who gets to chown things, and (disk space) quotas
Every corp has one of these "fully-managed all-in-one just plug in your Java contractors" solutions.
Aimed at executives, these stacks run trivial applications at an extreme price, leaving DevOps folks to roll their eyes and ask for a transfer.
50% of revenue might make sense for Unity, where Unity provides clear value. But it absolutely would not make sense for some small library that gets used for a few operations. It also would not make sense for high profit work. Personally I’m seeking an end where everyone shares basically everything they do and no one extracts anything out of the duplication and re use of information.
The hot loading of code we're talking about is mutating of running code in production, and it involves running multiple different versions of the same code at the same time in order to do a clean and incremental migration to the new version while continuing to serve traffic. It's a different set of constraints to hot loading JavaScript style and very difficult to get right. The nation problem is that you don't have any way of knowing what the the state of the running system is (it is mutable) so you cannot unify your new types with the existing system.

We could probably do hot loading in development using type assertions fairly happily.
I had this discussion with another friend yesterday, and for 99% I agree with you. He told me about one thing that stuck with me and why I do see some value in 5G networks.

He told me that 5G is able to handle more traffic (= more connections) per tower. So on some busy places like festivals or other places where there is a huge crowd 5G could help to let all those people access their internet. Of course you could make an argument of "why would all those people need access to the internet" but that isn't the point.

Other than the point above I don't see a value in consumer 5G either.

I do not have a source, so if this is wrong then my/his points becomes complete moot.
Except that the latter results in far less number of clicks and shares on social media. That's really the primary goal of most news outlets rather than an objective reporting of the story.
This is pretty awesome. But even though as a cyclist myself, I am a bit uncertain about bicycle lanes in Europe as a whole(maybe except Greece, Italy, Spain, Malta, Portugal and so on, where the weather allows it). Let's take my situation for instance, given that Greece is just 250-300 km south from me: During the period between October and April cycling is pretty much impossible unless you have a death wish - starting with heavy rain, followed by a meter of snow and ice. That's 6 months out of the year during which those lanes and paths are practically unusable. Sure, there are a few enthusiasts that will carry on even in those conditions(and I know one or two of those) but in any case, for 98% of cyclist, this is unthinkable(myself included). So in those 6 months, that whole are is simply unusable, while traffic jams expand beyond reason.
This is anecdotal, of course, but I hurt my body much more by using a phone as my primary computer. Using a desktop (with a proper keyboard) is much less taxing on my RSI than a phone is.
Ask HN: Have you built any in memory full text search engines?
Trying to figure out how to build something that would return results fast (sub 100 ms) and also support frequent writes.
A Gnome 3 based KDE then
How much does it cost to run your side project?
Will do today! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the screenshot. It helps (and by the way, yes the onus is on you to provide evidence as you're the one making the original claim).

Your initial comment said "Happy person", women of color.

But your screenshot showed several white people, several men, and a diversity of ages. Yes, more women, which is probably reflective of the frequency of photos with that search term/description in stock photo libraries and articles/blog posts featuring them. No big deal.

You also said "Criminal person", Hispanic men

But the screenshot contains more photos of India's prime minister than it does of Hispanic men. In fact I can't see any obviously-Hispanic men, and the biggest category in that set seems to be white men (though some are ambiguous).

The doctor and nurse searches suggest Google is making some effort to de-bias the results against the stereotype.

To me the biggest takeaway is that image search results still aren't very good at all, for generic searches like this.

Indeed it's likely that they can't be, as it's so hard to discern the user's true intent (for something as broad as "happy person"), compared to something more specific like "roger federer" or "eiffel tower".
There is also a blog called "Techless Teaching":

https://medium.com/young-coder/techlessteaching/home
The Short-Term Liquidity Line: A New IMF Tool to Help in the Crisis
Forgot to mention, I've been in the game quite a while. Yea assuming VC would definitely not interested in a services business with such a slow growth trajectory.

However also become acutely aware that everything in business right now has flipped topsy-turvy upside down and backwards. Nonsensical even by standards of the last recession.. wondering if VC is acting as weird as everyone else, since all the rules are being broken.

Business loans would keep us on the same business as it's been for 20 years bootstrap path. I want a big shake up of the company structure to spark a fire and accelerate growth ahead of the rebound, so we can rise with the market at the top of the pack.
And is currently working on an authentication "framework" (more like generators IIRC)
Where are you getting that 5% mortality rate? That is an order of magnitude higher than what the data currently indicates, and is exactly what I meant about widespread fear mongering.

BTW the rhetorical technique you are using seems to basically be concern trolling. It’s the debate equivalent of a thought terminating cliche. It will never lead to a useful discussion.
I’m not sure if I should feel bad about it, but I have no sympathy for any institution still using this dead language.

Our field evolves quickly. Cast aspersions on the issues of our field today all you want - fragmentation and trend-chasing are big problems, but the argument, “well it was built to last, and look, it’s still running,” doesn’t excuse the horrible waste that comes from trying to maintain this ancient stack instead of taking a level-headed approach and investing appropriately in modern, stable technologies.
Tell HN: How to run a startup for $6 a year - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22354060
Reminds me of something from Great Teacher Onizuka. There's a girl who is beyond intelligent and was incredibly thirsty for knowledge from a young age. She would always be asking questions and learning as much as she could from her teachers over the years. In no time, she began to surpass them in knowledge, asking questions that those teachers couldn't possibly handle. This caused them to end up resenting her, since she made them feel stupid. One day, while asking a question like she typically does, her favorite teacher became frustrated and ended up revealing a big secret of her to the whole class accidentally. Then some very spicy stuff happens after. You'd have to watch to find out though!
Coronvirus,online exams, online proctoring and inequality
EBPF is turning the Linux kernel into a microkernel
Surprising that this makes sense rather than just doing the processing locally or on the GPU. What kinds of filters are people using that are this intensive?
I guess for me no, I don't care that much about how a submission I make does in rank given that the process seems sort of arbitrary (given that things I've submitted to 0-2 upvotes have been resubmitted later and done well)
In (arguably) worse conditions, Finland, they just convert the bike/pedestrian lanes to snow scooter lanes elevated on two meters of snow.
Show HN: Angular template integrated with Node back end and PostgreSQL database
In Denmark, the cycle lanes are swept clear of snow before the driving lanes.

There's slightly higher car and public transport use in the winter, but most people don't stop cycling.

> as a cyclist myself,

Also, people here don't identify themselves like that. Just like people don't say "I'm a driver" unless it's their job to drive a bus, taxi or truck.

I cycle to work, but it's not part of my identity.
They bought enough carbon credits to offset their emissions but it still left a bitter taste because data centers run 24 hours a day.
Anthos was called GkE-on-prem about 1 year ago.

It allows you to manage a Kubernetes cluster from GCP that can have resurces mixed from both on-prem and google services (now you can also have pods on AWS).

For on-prem you'll need a WMWare hypervisor on your servers.

Why this is useful?

- Regulation: some workloads can be run only on-prem due to regulation (for instance, in Spain you can only process gambling data in the same region/comunidad autonoma you have the business).

- Cloud offloading of K8s workloads - you can workloads onprem off-peak and mixed loads cloud+onprem on peak times.

- Google Cloud Marketplace : you can deploy solutions from GCP Marketlplace on Anthos (that is, on your hardware, now also on other clouds).

- (now) Onprem + Multicloud workloads: Multicloud is hard. Not just having to know well how stuff works on each cloud, but also having to deal with rough interactions between clouds (even with k8s).

Disclaimer: I work for a Google cloud partner.
Imagine climate modeling super computers that are carbon neutral.
All great but I believe this should be illegal unless there is some notice that it is fake.

We all love the tech behind it but this is very scary stuff. Not only for the people who are thinking they talk to the real Elon Musk, but also for Musk himself.
If that's the case then they really screwed up with the term "single payer", and a lot of Bernie's own supporters were wrong. Lot of crap all over reddit about ending private insurance for the last year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive#Multi-Platform
It could be described as a "asinine dick swinging contest" because in their battle for DE domination they are all hurting the overarching "linux desktop" community by making sure that every developer would have to support many DE, window managers, distro's and what not to get a reliable app.

Having one DE emerge as victorious would greatly benefit linux desktops as a whole, even if it would kill customizability.
It’s one thing to want a customizable dock... but you throw the baby out with the bath water when you abandon MacOS entirely because of it. I understand the dock is just one example, I’m sure you have many.

(You’ve always been able to change the settings of the Dock, it’s just not in Apple’s UI. In older times you could replace PNG assets yourself. Modern stuff is vector based but can still be tweaked. Remember iconfactory?!)

If it brings you joy to tinker with your DE to that extent by all means go for it and have fun. Personally, I like to tinker with my toys and like to get shit done with my professional tools. My Mac is a professional tool.
I disagree. The home button is a superior interface, as compared to the swipe up.

By removing the home button, Apple took away another physical control interface. You can still swipe up, with the presence of the home button.

Instead of removing the home button, Apple could have used the bottom area to install some other context sensitive touch controls. Like the MacBook Touch Bar.

How the heck are you supposed to go for a jog, and carry a large screen phone on you?
TLDRead – Sparknotes for Research Papers
Ah yes, the worker rush. I've seen this cheese in StarCraft as well.
> Under her plans, Paris was to remove 72% of its on-street car parking spaces.

Totally a political promise made by the kind of people who think subway tickets cost 5€ and only use official cars that comes with driver and parking.

I hate cars in Paris as much as anyone, but they are required in a number of cases and this measure will hugely impact negatively the mid-class and poors that needs to commute to Paris for work, while not impacting the (very) richs that can live in the center.
That's a weird take. You don't think Carmack 2020 is wiser than Carmack 1993?

He is currently working on artificial general intelligence.
On the contrary. I feel that having a formal CS education (VS and MsC) in CS, made me a much better software engineer and a better coder.

Most of the stuff I use (languages, tools, frameworks) I've learned myself. But CS courses have taught me a lot, I have a deeper understanding of how things work and I can solve hard problems, I know instinctively where to look to solve an issue, and what I need to research to make things work as they should.

Based on my experience, employers tend to prefer people with CS education over people without, if that is the only difference.

Also, talking with my peers, I have the sense that people with formal CS education managed to negotiate better salaries.

Also, I my country, programmers with degrees in CS have lower income taxes.

For me it payed big time to spend that time learning, even if in the first two years when the courses seemed boring I did have the opinion that I was wasting time.

Some of my colleagues dropped out to work in the industry, some were working and studying in parallel. Those who dropped out have a harder time now. They have a harder time finding a good workplace and they have lower wages.

Would you agree to undergo surgery by a self taught physician or you would trust more one with formal education?
I'm not sure where you are that gets a meter of snow and ice. Bike lanes are perfectly usable up here around the UK, Belgium, Holland and France all of the year, just a few puddles to dodge in winter.

The majority of risky cycling here comes riding during rush hour in heavy traffic. Cycle lanes are a great investment IMHO.
Stanford has a $27 billion endowment, having doubled in the last decade alone.
I cannot agree more. I am so annoyed that there is good number of new cycle lanes are created along the busiest street in the area. Not that there are no parallel roads that are much nicer but no, you have to build them were all the noise, bad air and danger is. Same for cross country bike paths that tag along a cross country roads and sometimes even the motorway. No wonder almost nobody uses those.