skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you expect society to blame itself?

Surely radical individualism results in the individual blaming society at their whim. You stop playing a game that's rigged against you as soon as you can afford a plane ticket.

Where are these countries that will just lift the road up to meet your feet as you walk forward?
Like I said last time you asked this: I certainly think it's wrong/rude, but I also don't think there's any news to remove such speech, as the negative impact is minimal.
I'm not quite sure the "we" encompasses a majority in all of these examples... especially the "browser wars" where firefox users are a definite minority (compared to IE users). But maybe you mean "we" as in "we the resistance" or something. After all the engineers Microsoft hired to build up IE were also part of the IT world.
Maybe they should hire someone to come up with normal slides, it can’t be good to be seen publicly losing money hand over first and making slides that look like they belong on Wait But Why.
Apple accuses U.S. of ‘false claims’ on Pensacola terror investigation
Do you have a link to this study? Seems like an experiment actually worth reading about.
IMO, that just speaks about the author as being prone to hype.
Yeah, I should have written just before the bubble popped.

I think we had clearly visible warnings back then, just as we had quite a lot of good warnings recently. In my opinion, the C19 event is only an accelerator.
Drag increases quadratically with speed.
Thanks for the insights, I'll certainly hit you up!
Can you please make your substantive points without being a jerk on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You haven't clearly replied to the scenario I presented and have rather used this cash analogy (and idea that if I don't address cash than the question is invalid) to continually deflect from from having to answer the original question and how it applies to cryptocurrency.

Cash is a bad analogy because it is the only widely used currency, it defines what we mean by currency, and it has always been a part of modern history in some form. Cryptocurrency has fundamental differences from a digital, public, immutable ledger.

So if you'd like to get back to the original questions, I'd be happy to continue this discussion.

However if your only defense for cryptocurrency is "cash does it too so we don't have to talk about it" then we can stop here.
While those variants solve some complaints, they're a lot more specific and may change the meaning of some statements. For example, many of those terms exclude work that isn't done by "engineers". Using a term like "employee-hours" might make contractors on your team feel less valued.
This sort of sounds like a vegan/vegetarian telling me that the veggie chicken tenders taste a lot like regular chicken tenders.
Well let me ask you this, can you answer like where are you located? Do you have any near term- long term goals!? What do you believe is specifically holding you back from achieving any one of the goals that you mentioned? Have you got any specific measurable plans laid out in an effort to achieve some of those goals? How do you manage your Time? I could go on for some time with similar questions to get to the bottom of whatever your concern or goals may be, this is coming from a performance coach perspective. Try answering some of these, genuinely and if possible report back because as an American living in a highly dense and competitive metro city, I’ve seen many rise and many fall. This is why we are the way we are.
Yes you are (well, it's ~1.5 pints for me). Just don't drink that 4th beer or it's all over.

Edit: Don't just take my word for it. https://www.wired.com/2015/05/big-question-booze-help-play-b...
Either investing is a game of skill, or it’s a game of chance.

If it’s like poker, taking away the ability to see one card from everyone’s hand doesn’t mean you automatically will lose the game. It just means you’ll be slightly less likely to win due to a lost advantage. Your break even may require an additional investment, in exchange for not making people feel ripped off.

If it’s a game of chance, adoption is completely irrelevant :)
This is turning out to be a bad decision because there's been 5 major version bumps in the past year, yet the functionality in Electron hasn't materially changed very much, mostly bug fixes and minor changes.
Crystal has pretty decent type inference which helps lower the learning curve.

Types are child’s play for the crowd using Matlab and worrying about low-level performance like this though.
And that is the problem. I understand Julia and Python there. I'd understand Haskell (as every biologist is a mathematician too). But to list JS and Lua, and not have C# and Java?

AFAIK a lot of chemistry equipment actually is built with Java and C#.
Though not language related: coworkers who don't understand that formats for addresses differ depending on the country. It can be quite hard to understand the way to read an address from a foreign country.

Also some confusion on when the week (calendar, not work week) ends (some countries end the week at Saturday rather than Sunday).
Agreed. Many a late sleepless night have I blown 200 points or more on frustrating blitz games. I would regularly play a game or two during lunch breaks, climb a good bit, then stay up too late one night and rage throw my points into the abyss.
You're right about the relevancy. Nothing to do with the 9.0 release. I had an itch that I asked and now its blowing up. I can't delete my comment now.
Yeah, I've been using github pages for my personal site. It even supports HTTPS these days. I only pay for the domain.
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Those were theories to describe specific phenomenas, not facts.

Certain facts are indisputable and not open to interpretation:

FACT: African-Americans are more likely to commit violent crimes than Asian Americans.
Really love building tiny projects like these. Had built a simple online code editor a long time ago for exactly these types of projects. http://codecast.me (not optimized for mobile yet)
The problem is that the Electron API changes rapidly, such that you'd really want to run each app against the Electron release it was developed against, and Electron releases so often that you're not going to actually save any disk space this way -- you'll just have N "system" Electron versions per N apps.
That's an interesting comparison to make, since ultimately Nintendo lost their court case regarding their control over who's allowed to create and publish NES games.
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>Quite possibly, if one shows one's work on how one arrived at that statement (statistics can be bloody slippery things, and while individual data points are facts, the analysis, interpretation, and summarization of them starts to wander away from "fact," especially when one begins to do curve fitting or assumptions about population distributions).

Any and every statistical study ever done on race and crime supports the FACT stated above. Per capita, it's an indisputable fact that they commit more violent crimes, raw numbers alone, no curve fitting or extrapolation.

>And if one runs with that fact alone and tries to build behaviors on it, one's likely to fall into a similar trap to the one the phrenologists fell into: assuming that a single fact is descriptive enough of the world to dictate theory or practice.

Which brings us back to my original statement. Are facts racist and sexist?
Yes, you can use WebRTC DataChannels for sending custom text/binary data on top of a ICE+DTLS connection. BTW mediasoup supports DataChannels.

Any question or comment about mediasoup?
No worries! Your work was very impressive and I hope more people see it.
this analogy works on a deeper level than you think because you can make some really great vegan meat replacements although the majority of people just stubbornly refuses to believe we're there yet
This is the design-centric co-working office space:

https://www.canopy.space/

Beautiful and expensive.
> And how would one pay for it?

This is like the old line about education ("if you think it's expensive, try ignorance").

There isn't any such thing as "ending lockdown" without certain cooperative measures. Either we'll take the necessary collective steps to control spread and coordinate recovery behavior... or we won't, and we'll have both the uncontrolled spread and the second order uncoordinated responses including large portions of people sitting out economic participation in order to manage personal risk.

Maybe it'll take some kind of civil enforcement to do this. Maybe most people will cooperate.

Maybe the federal government will lend local governments money to help. Or it won't, or it will, but will come with stipulations designed to weaken the ability of local institutions to act counter to partisan ends of those in control of the Senate and executive.

But anyone on team "end lockdown" should hope there is cooperation, and enough enforcement to encourage it at the margins. And if funding is a problem, then private and public entities alike at least in theory have some incentive to come up with a way to solve the problems that need to be solved to support higher levels of activity.
Not exactly, it's "Full Time Equivalent". If two employees are working half-time, together they make up 1 FTE, but not 1 full time employee (because there are two of them).
As a regular user of multiple browsers, I haven’t noticed this. Could you show a few examples? I’m not doubting your experience at all, I’m just curious to see if there may be a common thread.
People have tried, but the devs don't use it, because when you use an OS-provided WebView, you have to support way more browsers (and substantially older browsers) than you do if you just ship your own browser runtime.

On Windows, if you use an OS WebView, you'll have to support IE11 on Windows 7. On Windows 10, you'll get whatever random version of Edge was installed, or the new Chromium-based Edge.

On macOS, you'll have to support whatever version of Safari was installed on the user's Mac, which is better than IE11, but it could still be years out of date.

You might say, "Who cares? I have to support old browsers on my website, too" but this is way worse, forcing you to support browser versions you rarely see on the web. Windows 7 users typically just install the latest Chrome/Firefox and run that rather than surfing the web in IE11, but when you rely on the OS-bundled browser, all of your Win7 users will be on IE11. Your IE11 support can't be an "acceptable fallback"; it's the only/primary experience.

With Electron, you can ensure that your app will use Chromium; the exact version of Chromium you provided in your installer.

FWIW, Microsoft plans to ship a new "WebView 2" that will let you provide your own Chromium or depend on the latest Edge Chromium, with support all the way back to Windows 7. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/

That's cool for Windows, but macOS is still just gonna give you whatever version of Safari the user has installed, and if you want Linux support, you really have no better option than to ship a browser runtime like Electron.

But, at that point, if you've shipped an Electron app for macOS and Linux, maybe you just wanna ship an Electron app for Windows and call it a day?
Going too slow hurts mileage too right? I’m not sure how exactly.
assembly is 2nd generation. a higher level than machine code or manual switches.
Google is not the benevolent dictator of the internet. They are a profit drive soulless corporation. Not saying that’s good or bad, just saying you should expect zero favors from a sociopathic entity.
True Zotero is a neat tool, especially for files and web pages. I've been using it to read research papers mostly.
Also anything requiring lack of tremors. For instance, alcohol is considered a performance enhancing drug in sport shooting (http://www.faqs.org/sports-science/Sc-Sp/Shooting.html last paragraph).
You're not necessarily meant to compete with a being conceived as omnipotent, omni-powerful and creator of the universe.

I'd be wary of american churches too, given the role religion plays in american culture.
Users choose to use them anyway. So obviously being platform native matters less than other considerations.
This article was focused on business and used sports metaphors exclusively - these are fields in which the "American" approach works well because you're competing with other people with binary outcomes. Obviously this is not the best approach for science where the outcomes are less black and white.
The Most Power-Dense Hypercar Inverter [video]
It's not going away, it's just changing.
What I wonder is how it affects your average performance, sure it effects your peak performance, but how often do you really need peak?
I'm trying to migrate to BeWelcome, but I really miss the hangout feature. Any other alternatives?
Do you have nothing better to do but to cause a stir every thread you go?
It seems to be administration. The School of Medicine and Stanford Hospitals are miles away.
I'm a long time Strava user, I have a four digit user id. Except for the year I won a free subscription for a year, I've always paid for the service. I'm a data nerd and cyclist.

This change in Strava's policy makes me very sad because it's clear they are managing it poorly and Strava might die as a result.

Who could step in to fill the void? Garmin? No, they're just terrible at anything other than collecting raw GPS data and it's clear they don't have athletes in mind when creating features. Even when they have winning products they find ways to sabotage them. Garmin Connect is full of potential, yet fails to engage users or become a social platform.

I kinda hope Veloviewer.com steps up to fill the void. It's all about data.
I had used this for some time in the past (on and off), periodically. One caveat I found was it was taking a huge toll on my browser (often, I felt the lags). Not sure if that's the problem now or not.

Eventually, I ended up not using it and started using other tools (specific tools for specific tasks).
MSI seems to have committed to different support than AMD has. Gamers Nexus has covered the AMD chipset stuff recently to great detail.[0]

There are several issues that come together to make it difficult to support all AM4 CPUs across all the AM4 motherboards. MSI seems to have committed to their AM4 motherboards supporting all AM4 CPUs, and they are having to perform some gyrations (and potentially some reverse-engineering of AMD-supplied binary blobs) to meet their claims.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5X-8vZtml8&t=0s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JluNkjdpxFo
Their attractiveness - easy and clear payments.

I put in my card and boom! Done! I see the number on the screen - I pay that number, not that number plus customary tips.(99% of the time completely unearned, BTW)
Smartphones and online messaging apps like LINE and Twitter really started taking off after the 3/11 earthquake when all the phone lines went dead but the internet still worked.

So that was another one of those almost overnight changes, when the population migrated from emails to online messaging almost immediately.
LVD #2-0.8/2: Micro-Destructive Propulsory Soft-Weaponry
2008 Financial Crisis vs. the Covid-19 Pandemic – What’s Worse?
Interested in why you think this was a bad decision. For a multitude of reasons surrounding security, performance and wanting the Latest And Greatest JS features we want to stay as close to upstream Chromium as possible. Curious what you feel the negative impact of major-versioning is?

For more info on our release cadence: https://www.electronjs.org/blog/12-week-cadence
I wouldn't mind categorizing "assembly language" differently from "programming language".
Since people don't like the man part of human, what if we started saying hu-years? Hu is still only one syllable.
^ Thank you for your service
Am I a fan of Electron? Like most people here - I've never built on it.
But I am thankful that it has ushered in a ton of useful apps that do indeed work across 3 different operating systems.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/1999/09/zeros/amp
There were comments with facts, but whether they supported the point being made was arguable. If the facts are irrelevant, it's not a great pity to see a downvote.

And yeah, that disagreement is fine.

But you need to understand that I am not trying to twist your words at all. I see those two things as synonyms. No twisting is intended. And for you to say "far more sinister then they’re clearly intended" sounds like an accusation of deliberate malicious behavior, not even me making a mistake, and I don't appreciate that.
Peer Review – Rodney Brooks
> a permanent and trusted Delete button

Any time bits leave your computer it would be wise to assume that they're out in the world for good. Especially for anything with a distributed architecture, presumably all you have control over is whether your personal box continues distributing it. I suppose you could set a "don't distribute" flag and hope that other hosts choose to honor it ...
Or to add to that, there are often very good reasons to optimize well before facebook did. The sheer friction of making the transition to The Right Thing can often be too difficult to overcome.
If you think Slack is bad, try https://github.community/.
Preferably, everything that can be is loosely coupled and extensible.
You have quite an expansive definition of slur!

It's an insult to every anti-racist, anti-bigotry campaign in history to say that any political party should get to hide behind this kind of crybaby b.s. -- much less a party that operates concentration camps. Or are they, too, "people simply trying to keep the room clean" in your book?
That doesn't seem like a feature.
Even the wikipedia article you linked to in your comment mentions my critique of the book!
None of the innovation that Google brought to the internet on its' way to becoming an internet giant relied on Section 230. The business of search and adds do not rely on Section 230 protections in any way.

Like any other regulation, it harms small businesses disproportionately to the costs it imposes on large ones. There are plenty of examples of regulations that are appropriate to apply to large businesses, but much less appropriate to apply to small ones. Luckily, this incredibly old problem has been solved many times over through the idea of having regulations apply to companies after they reach a certain size. There is little harm to society in allowing small content distributors full editorial control over their distribution channels. There is significant harm to society in allowing that same level of control to entities which control an enormous majority of modern content distribution.

This trope that "the internet wouldn't exist without Section 230" is just an overused excuse that people peddle out to distract from the fact that regardless of how important it was in 1996, as the internet has changed, this law is now responsible for an entirely new category of very serious problems, that really weren't envisioned at the time it was written. It also ignores the fact that these problems can be easily fixed without removing the elements of it which have been beneficial to the growth of online services.
I have used IntelliJ for years. I have found nothing I prefer to it. It is absolutely, beyond a shadow of a doubt, heavier than depleted uranium.
Congrats! I used Grafana for two projects and I really liked it. I am thinking of providing an easy way to use Grafana as a "custom UI" for by analytics platform, so you could either view the normal charts in the analytics app itself or create your own dashboards in Grafana using the data already collected. I assume this could be easily done my connecting the MySQL database as a datasource and providing the users with some example queries to get started, right?
Here are some other analysts you may like if you’re not already familiar with them.

http://www.asymco.com/

https://stratechery.com/

https://www.aboveavalon.com/

I haven’t been actively following any of them for a few years now, but collectively they plus Ben Evans really impress me.
> If it's not related to helping you move around from place to place, or helping you connect to a friend quickly, it's not going to thrive on the phone even if you put it there, ...

Then why is the games category the #1 promoted category on the Apple App Store?
Latexify
I use it too sometimes, but hopefully that’s quite rare. This book is amazing on many levels.
Hyundai Introduces UV Light to Sterilize Car Interiors
To be fair, the narrow question would have been far more compelling 10-15 years ago, when these companies were both less-huge and had largely unvarnished reputations as being the best large companies for software developers to work. 10 years ago, sour grapes would have been a lot more obvious and valid answers would have been quite interesting. Today, not wanting to work for Google or Facebook is rather mundane.
Yeah, that whole Firebase thing was not necessary. After creating the public folder, dragging and dropping it onto Netlify would've instantly given you a public website. No commands necessary. I use Netlify for everything, even hosting a static blog generated in Hugo. All free, only thing I pay for is my domain.
Your reply sounds crazy, like a conspiracy. I don't want to believe it, but I have to admit this helps to explain something, you gave me a fresh and interesting view to think about the narrative.
A log is a log. Maybe read "I <3 Logs" by Jay Kreps, one of the founders of Confluent and creators of kafka.
Even at Google, how many people work in advertising?
This is really a great coincidence. I was talking to a friend of mine two days ago about code that we have read for pleasure. I said that the Doom source code was so surprising because the logic was so clean and elegant. One felt that the code did the most obvious thing to do, rather than using unnecessary cleverness.

Even in this mail, John Carmack favors elegance.
And even earlier:

Surface - interactive table (now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PixelSense)
Does anyone know of some modern blender tutorials aimed specifically at video editing?

if possible, including capturing footage form the screen (screen casts).
That is really great work. Technical folks shouldn't find any of it surprising, but you rarely see it spelled out so concisely from beginning to end. And it really gives you a solid understanding of how many layers of ingenuity is involved just to hit that landing page.
Atari Falcon 030
Ask HN: Why is there no open-source solution to migrate WA Android to iPhone?
I have recently bought an iPhone and to my surprise I found that there is no free solution available on the internet to migrate your WhatsApp history from Android to iPhone. I noticed there are few paid solutions like dr.fone which claim to do that for a fee. Then I guess technically it is possible, right?

So did anyone not try it write an open-source solution? I plan to explore it and willing to write up script/solution/playbook if it is possible to be done in max 2 days of effort. Any ideas/suggestions?
Douglas Murray said it well [1]:

TLDR; the problem is that the tech companies have been flooded with people of a particular political kind after their political factions lost. They went to Facebook and google bringing strong convictions with them.

They try to deal with things like hate without having thought deeply about it. What’s the next human emotion you’ll try to eradicate? Lustfulness? Gluttony? Envy? A war on pride?

Once you’ve decided you’ll take on the self appointed task of eradicating hate you’ll also take out some things that are true. Who is worthy of this kind of power? Who can do it well?

Western civilization has struggled with how to deal with human emotional excesses over hundreds of years, spilling lots of blood and tears, and we’ve learned that we have to reconcile within ourselves that there is something ineradicable about them.

We can expose human excesses, but as long as there is no incitement we just have to live with the fact that at some level people will say things we may not like or find wrong.

[1] https://youtu.be/YmNfm88pIe8