skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, it's not any worse than a more typical number and symbol stew. You'd be surprised how quickly you can type a 40 character sentence, especially one that you've developed a bit of muscle memory for. I think it's likely as fast, if not faster than the more "typical" 12-16 character special-symbol fest.
I hope, sincerely and without prejudice, that you are able to back that assertion with reliable - and dead-pan serious - data.
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provided you type them with a slash, in large part confusing the clarity again.
I’m pretty sure the main use is observing dangerous environments like mines, places with toxic waste, and oil rigs. The payload will usually be used for sensors or a door opening device, not to transport cargo.
It is now clear that Covid-19 is not as dangerous as was thought and hyped by media and governments worldwide, and that the prescribed shutdown cure has been and will be much worse than the disease itself. Please see (https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/) for a pretty clear summary or follow Aaron Ginn. Covid-19 vaccine development is nearly useless at this point. That said, we need countermeasures and resilience to such events in the future.

The expectation is we may be well be in 50% to 100% infection rate if serology yield is 1/5. Pretty scary. This means the disease was extremely rapid, and we would've been absolutely trashed if it had been significantly more lethal. We need to invest massively on R&D against such potential threats. Covid-19 shows that state control wouldn't have done much to prevent global devastation, and that state control can itself cause the devastation. We need technological countermeasures such as one week vaccine development and deployment or transition to more separate economic spheres with permanent and complete travel bans and highly controlled trade between countries or geographic regions.
It's probably much better to detach for a while (at most drinking, thinking, taking a walk/bathroom) rather than checking things (and to instead check mail etc. at pre-determined times).

Either moving for a while or resting (depending on how you feel), even taking a quick ("alarmed") nap if you're lucky enough to be allowed to do it, is actually a very good idea, in all likelihood; you might think that that would mean losing your focus but you'll get back to it much quicker (often instantaneously), and probably even a little refreshed, if you don't start another activity.

It's only tangentially related, but if you're worried about focus you should probably give a try to the Pomodoro technique, if you never heard of it before.

And if you can postpone some "intermitting" activity, and maybe group a batch of them half-an-hour from now and now instead carry on your coding or whatever you're focused on for a little longer, it's probably beneficial
Dr. K is great, his streams are so cool and he really is one of the most wholesome creators on twitch. The branding still confuses me a little, his advice and talks are useful for everyone, definitely not just gamers.
Problem is most people are past that. China and India do have a few more poor people to take cheap low skill jobs, but overall cost of labor is going up in both countries and manufacturers are starting to look elsewhere. Problem is that elsewhere is countries with much less population so they will run out.

It probably won't be in my lifetime, but my kids need to plan for the day when there isn't a cheap labor source waiting to tap. It will be a good problem to have (think about all the engineers making life better), but it will be a problem.
Do we know for sure? I mean I don’t think the graviton has been observed in action yet. Let me ask another question: is space quantized?
The key is "differentiating". Different students should fall into different score buckets -- a hard problem to solve, to which Chinese teachers dedicate large chunk of their time, for good or for worse.
I didn't make any strong arguments. Look back at see. All I argued was the following:

1) Harvard is not necessary for quality education (true)

2) Harvard is a great school and great a degree (true)

3) If you need to go into debt to pay for Harvard tuition, the Harvard degree isn't worth it, but if you can get it paid for (by whatever means) you should do it! (true)

Which part do you disagree with?
There are too many applications. If Apple opened the floodgates, your app would be worth even less, and have to dig through countless loads of shovelware to be visible.

There is no fair ranking system, and expecting it is just unrealistic.
Well, there's also collation, Unicode collation algorithm, default Unicode collation table, and tailoring it for every locale.
I can understand dhh's frustrations. Apple should really only deserve the 30% if they referred users to HEY via the App Store. Outside of that is just unfair and predatory.

This is similar to what Wix requires when you develop for their platform. Wix requires developers to profit share 20% of your revenue for any customers that just so happen to use the part of your app that communicates with Wix. Why do platforms continue to think they're entitled to such a thing? And why would any developer want to integrate with Wix with such a clause?
Looks really cool! I've been looking for something like this for a while. Ideally I'd like to make a large image to then print, I'll give this a try!
Indeed, Complex PTSD is an example condition that has symptoms that resemble ADHD.
And a standardized wall color and camera location, so that everyone that joins in from another telepresence room blends in as if they were really there.
The ZNS spec doesn't seem to have been published quite yet, but from what I can find it seems like the zone random write area is an optional extension that won't necessarily be implemented by all vendors.
The KH-22, with a range of 300 miles would be a more fair example, as it would have been a contemporary of the Arrow (1960-1980). The KH-55 was first produced in 1981.
What do you mean? Wouldn't you still need to simulate the world in pretty much the same way to be able to feed consistent inputs into the simulated brain?
I'm surprised to hear you recommending TP-Link. They've had several serious security issues that have been discussed on HN[1]-- do they worry you?

Also, why do you dislike Eero? Someone else on this thread recommended them, and they do have many glowing reviews.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=tp-link
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>or thats how it's been explained to me

FreeBSD supports KDE, Gnome, i3 and and and.... OpenBSD or FreeBSD don't have a preferred DE, next time check for your self and don't believe in 'explanation's' from some douche-bag.
What were those other posts? I only found one from 7 years ago: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
People can choose to take their advertising business to Facebook who is choosing not to censor content.
Depends:

Were you previously relying on being able to leverage organizational and institutional force in order to cram through the will of a mob through a hole designed by the Framer's to be filled with quiet contemplation and good sense decision making by sensible people accountable to no one?

If so. Yes.

We're you hoping that the country would embrace a fundamental check built into the system to negate the ills of voting blocs and rationalism that has been the downfall of other republics/democracies?

Then no. Not really.

Psychopaths being called out by reasonable people and faithless electing is a feature; not a bug.

Though I"m willing to bet that the process of selecting electors is going to get very interesting.
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We use Mural at work. It doesn’t have all features you’re outlining, but it’s widely used because it’s very simple to get started. We brought it in for UX work but the business side has embraced it. Unfortunately I don’t find it very performant.
I don't think I am reading too much, I've provided the explanation and my thoughts around erosion of quality on HN.

> HN may be serious, but we're not entirely humorless.

I can agree with that, a little sprinkle of tasteful humor doesn't hurt even thought it doesn't add anything meaningful to the discussion. Totally ok.
Unless they've recently changed the rules, it's not a violation.

I've had a couple of apps in the iOS and macOS stores that couldn't be accessed unless you paid for a service outside the app.

In fact, when submitting an app for review you can provide a user and password so that Apple can log in and test the private app.
This was mentioned in the original article.
it's interesting to see the good old critical show:

- cant be
- wont work
- will die
- about to die
- not as good as expected
- door handle has a flaw <= when you reached petty daily criticism, it means you're part of the world maker now
Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation. I had a narrow view of what "trial" meant. So it sounds like as soon as approved treatments are involved then insurance gets involved.
There is a predictable pattern to these types of posts and these types of life experiences.

You have a problem, you discover a potential solution and it seems to be working. You get excited and you try to make sense of it and you want to tell everyone because it is such a game changer! Then some time passes by, the emotions fade and you arrive at a new perspective - that your life hasn't changed that much or if it has, now you have a new set of challenges and a new potential solution will come your way sooner or later.

It never ends, unless you at one point recognize that it never ends and cease wanting to be better and wanting to understand it all so much. It's not that you purposely cease trying or wanting, it's that you relax the wanting, because you know the problems will be there tomorrow and the day after, no matter how much you try.

That's when 'it's the journey, not the destination' finally sinks in and life takes on a new quality :)

For some people, it happens when they are reminded of death and the inevitability of it all, for some when they've burned through their health enough that they can't do it anymore, for others it just occurs to them one day - I can't keep up with this bigger, better, faster, stronger culture and frankly, I don't want to, either.
>Why exactly were you arguing so vociferously when all this information was available just one click away, at the link the other user provided?

I wasn't arguing. The entire thread I repeated the exact same thing. Namely, that Harvard is a great school and a great degree but if you have to go into debt for it, it's not worth it as there are other quality institutions. I've never wavered from that argument.
i think perception of novelty and 'quaintness' depends on where you grew up. As someone from the UK, Oxford and Cambridge are, yes, absolutely beautiful: but they were built for the education of, and sponsored by kings and society's elite. They're pretty good places to live, but they're not amazing at least by modern standards. They're also not the source of the UK's industries, which have historically been based in perhaps still quaint by new world standards, but much less idyllic cities like Manchester and of course London, where labor and markets are strong.

The most beautiful cities in the UK are beautiful externally, but very hard to live in unless you want to live a very specific kind of life out in the countryside or are very rich. They're either very expensive, or very quiet and usually both.

From my perspective having worked between the UK and the US for 6 years: California has amazing amenities, and housing tends to be cheaper than London, especially outside of San Francisco. The cities are much dirtier and scarier, but the weather is incredible and natural beauty when you leave the cities is amazing.

I think it's easy to have a positively skewed picture of Europe as a non-european because of how drastically different 'bad' or 'common' places look. It's similar for me when I visit the US. We have endless Victorian housing estates that were built for the very poor that look like fairytale cottages to those from across the ocean.

Ultimately, though I think industry in north california is a product of the money and workers that live there, rather than its attractiveness as a place to live as with other industrial booms.
Speed is great have a specific well defined destination, but that's not always the case. Consider using a spot vs a drone to walk your dog.
> I find the tree view plugin substantially lacking and buggy

Could you report issues to Geany devs?
SV during its initial rise was mostly orchards.
You didn't say which OS, but I wrote a set of cross-platform instructions for my PhotoStructure users: https://photostructure.com/getting-started/video-support/

tldr: if you're on Windows, use Chocolatey or Scoop. For macOS, use homebrew.
Talking about the Oarsman-regatta thing? That was 2 decades ago...
My bad, it was NomadBSD.
I would argue that the opposite is the case for most people. Commercial software is adapted to the needs of the greatest number of people who will pay for it. If you are an average user, this is you.

Open source, on the other hand, is generally adapted to the needs of whoever wants to do some unpaid work on it. This is why open source text editors are great. The users are the developers. This is also why open source applications (graphics, office, etc) are so horrible. Most developers don't use that stuff, or don't use it enough to put in some free work fixing GIMP. Desktop OS's are somewhere in the middle. Developers use them, but the things that would make an open source OS easy for the common user aren't fixed. As a result, they are generally only used by those who get enjoyment out of fixing their desktop, sort of like a classic car enthusiast who loves to spend a Sunday afternoon in the garage with a wrench.
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So you like your Netatmo? Been looking at it but have read mixed reviews.
I actually threw out my G2 yesterday (battery was missing, and it had been sitting in my drawer for... 10 years?), and it made me sad. Every day I pine for a sweet slider keyboard.

So, this Fxtec Pro1 is super intriguing! I'm sorta stuck on iOS right now because my entire family uses it I would screw up their Messages game if I was on a different platform.

Also, people have PostmarketOS running on the N900. Sure, it's an ancient device, but that still cool.
It's inherent to the field. A successful blue team is a distributed win - every line of code did what it was supposed to do. A successful red team is a concentrated win, for the people who found the few lines of code that did something else. The job of a red team is to make things interesting. The job of a blue team is to keep things boring.
> how reflective do you think that is of the admissions process today?

The college students I know today didn't prep for it, either, and one was accepted by Stanford and Caltech.

I've seen some claims that the SATs have been "dumbed down" or "re-normed" since the 70s. Certainly, the number of students who apply to elite colleges has increased substantially, which means there will be more with perfect scores.
A very minor nit: Your placeholder text begins "What every message", where I'm pretty sure you meant "Whatever message". Initially confusing until I figured out what you meant.
Are you implying that nothing should be "banned" at all? There are examples of tons of things that have to be banned to keep the society sane at some level. For examples, things that are considered illegal by the publically elected governments and hence are banned to be shown on the internet or elsewhere or promoted in anyway. What matters more is how are the decisions made whether to ban or allow some content.

In the non-virtual world, there is a publically elected state that makes those decisions. In the virtual world, those decisions are made by private companies that own that part of the virtual world. Ever since the creating of the virtual world, there has been an ongoing tug-of-war between the state and the corporations for this exact control of authority. Now that our virtual and non-virtual worlds are so intertwined with each other, the state is still trying to catch up to understand, contain and secure the virtual world but they are still at loss.
My DAW is bash+sox+ecasound because I don't want to be distracted by visuals when working with audio. However, I just started working on a project involving about 15 hours of digital audio recorded under less than ideal circumstances a couple of decades ago and need a reliable way to analyze the data. SoX produces spectrograms that are insufficient for my needs and I've had reliability issues with Audacity. So far, DFasma looks very promising:

https://gillesdegottex.gitlab.io/dfasma-website/
In my mind, this generics flip-flop will do no good for the long term survival of Golang. One way to view it is as "listening to the community and changing" but I think a change this big signals a fracture more than an evolution.

Think about how much planning and foresight goes into making a programming language, especially one that comes out of a massive top-tier tech company like Google. They deliberately chose not to include generics and (from what I remember when I wrote Go code) spent time + effort explaining away the need for them. Now the decision is being reversed, and it signals to me that they don't know what they're doing with the language, long term. As a developer, why do I want to hitch my carts to a language whose core visions are very clearly not correct or what people want?
I heartily disagree.

All it takes is the one time, for whatever reason, that you have to type in a string of a few dozen random characters by hand on a phone keyboard or something because you're on a new device, or cut and paste is disabled, or whatever, and you'll understand why long random passwords should be reserved for web servers and so on and never used with consumer web applications like a hotel reservation program, or rental car app, or similar.
I fight with this in the industrial automation space where a machine might last for decades but the control software is Windows based and lucky if its supported for 5 years. Maddening. I've had to retrofit machines with new controllers, write new GUI software to talk to lasers via serial protocols, and run various things in VM's on Xp. Then the Dos controlled machine with ISA cards -_-

Though there is no easy answer when it comes to this. How does a manufacturer support software reliably for 10+ years? Meanwhile we have three old machines here with all electromechanical controls. I will still be able to buy relays for them in 50 years. I'll be dead by then.
Does that sound likely? Can you make a stronger case for or against that proposition?
Only worth it if there's a stock 2000Mhz FCLK imo, all other improvements are marginal.
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> What is facebook trying to achieve?

Good PR for stopping predators.

Flexing their power in front the FBI and other tech firms.

Trying to demonstrate how obliterating privacy can sometimes have upsides.

Plus, it's clear that Brian Kil was a particularly bad actor and worthy of taking down.
Cute! Is it possible to use on Android in companion with Termux app?
> Also I want to call out this example for being especially ridiculous, because it titles itself as "Using React Hooks with Typescript" and then doesn't actually use any Typescript!

That is all 100% valid, fully typed TypeScript

TypeScript's inference is smart enough to know that ...

const [count, setCount] = useState(0)

... is the same as ...

const [count, setCount] = useState<number>(0)
Don't underestimate us. I wouldn't be any money against human ingenuity in this regard.
The SAT scores open the colleges to lawsuits that they are discriminating.
I'm usually a bit of a skeptic when it comes to Go, but this proposal surprised me; for the most part, or seems like this is exactly what I would want if I were a Go programmer. Being able to define both unbounded generic parameters and parameters bounded by interfaces is key, and while from skimming I'm not sure if it allows giving multiple interfaces as a bound, in practice this shouldn't be a huge issue due to how Go's interfaces are implicitly implemented (which would allow you to define a new interface that's the union of all the other interfaces you want to require, and all the types that implement all of them will automatically implement the new one). Interestingly, the proposal also defines what is essentially a union type interface, which I think is something that Go definitely could use. Although there are a couple of minor warts (e.g. not being able to have generic methods) and the syntax is not what I'd personally pick, overall I'm pretty impressed.
You've (probably unintentionally, judging by your tone) shined a light on the corrupt culture of that engineering org. It's written down that Tier 2 languages require special permission to begin new projects. It doesn't sound like we disagree on that. The corrupt cultural aspect is there exists an in-group clique of engineers who can and will start projects in any language they want, and an out-group against whom the written policy will be used to stop new efforts.

It is definitely not the case that any randomly selected backend engineer at that company can just pick up Rust and solve any problem with it, because the Tier 2 status is used as a cudgel to stop most such efforts.
More details at: https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/uc-publisher-relation...

In short:

- Runs 2020-2023

- 2020: OA publishing for no author fee

- 2021: Libraries pay $1000 as part of cost-sharing for article processing charge; if author can't pay the rest, library will cover

- 2022: Nature & NPG journals start to become part of the agreement
Or perhaps you would do well to identify those doing the banning first. Based on your response, I think you'll find that you have misread parent.
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The answer is to "just get started". Figure out what the immediate next step is and just do that. Don't worry about the rest of it. One step at a time. Joel on Software alludes to this by saying he just needed to open the code editor. I think PG has a similar strategy.
What the author doesn't realise is that Dropbox is not aimed at programmers or people who know how to work a computer. For example, when he says "And Dropbox? Well… I still have nightmares about this Dropbox UI <picture>", he doesn't realise that to a "normal" person, the UI looks absolutely fine and easy to use, much easier than "that horrible looking terminal! it must contain viruses and be dangerous!"
She is also one of the inventors of associated types.
> find the idea that people doesn't think about something exactly all the time to be a very strange thought

I'm not sure I understand; how could one not be thinking about things constantly? If I try to just sit there and think about nothing, it doesn't work. The only time when the thinking has stopped for me is while under anesthesia.
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wow ! well said ! You always doing what you REALLY want for that moment. period.
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This is a much more developed project indeed.

I think the SQLite kernel for Jupyter has a nice foreseeable future with graph visualizations for the query results and the whole integration with conda, mamba and pip environments, though.
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Grassmann algebra and exterior algebra are the same thing, regardless of whether a mathematician or physicist uses them.
I have to admit, beside the autopilot thing, musk impresses with the breadth of his ventures. From EVs to Batteries (if Battery Day delivers).. they never stop pushing.
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