skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a heads up - I tried this random query:

select * from trips where pickup_latitude < -74 order by pickup_longitude desc limit 10;

Didn't get a result set. The little box in the upper right hand corner stated "Maximum number of pages (16) breached in MemoryPages"
For one, Bitwarden does all of that and more (I guess except the Face ID thing, but I don't really want that so I'd disable it anyway). It has web, mobile and desktop apps, and browser extensions. All available in the free plan. Oh, and it's open source and self-hostable.

https://bitwarden.com/

(Not affiliated with it, just a pretty happy (free) user!)
No, we haven't talked yet, but I would like to someday. :)
Nah, they'll wind up the entity and list under a new ticker. It's the same probability of owning a stake in a company as when gambling on crypto -_-
Why does it have to be low-spec? I bought my current laptop with 16GB of RAM in it (soldered to the mainboard, sadly) because that's the most the manufacturer offered at the time. If I had the option today, I'd open it up and swap out the modules for 32GB. (I think they now offer a 32GB model.)

Ditto for the storage; I have 512GB in there now (probably wasn't the max when I bought it, but seemed sufficient and was a good price trade off), but I wouldn't mind swapping it out for a 1TB part. Actually, this bit might be possible to do myself; I should look into it.
I'm hoping for that too. I really try to make Safari my daily driver (performance, privacy, battery life). But the dev experience is lacking.

Also the network tab is just... odd.
They could use some alignment. It's one of the basic rules in design, and it really seems a bit off when the files are centered but the hmenu with Issues, PRs... is left-aligned. Maybe they had some cramming issues when there are many extra buttons in that row, since some only show up in certain cases, like the Settings button.

Other things aren't so bad but I don't think they make up for breaking the general alignment in such an obvious way.
> All he had to do was visit one website. Any website.

The author directly contradicts the headline used here:

> The website must use “clear text” which means the URL starts with “http” not “https.”
This particular project is noteworthy mostly for its completeness and 'it just works' functionality. Tens of researchers before him have used arithmetic coding on the outputs of various neural network models to do lossless compression of text or images.

Bellards contributions are a packaged tool (as opposed to PoC code) and demo webpage, and the idea of using CJK characters rather than outputting binary data (in todays world of JSON, binary data has fallen out of fashion).
Do you use a service for bookkeeping?
I'm a BLM supporter. And think the police need massive reform. I'd love to see their unions busted up to boot.

But if we're going off statistics...

Black people are more likely to die or be injured from other black people more than they are by cops.

By, like, a lot.

this article showcases how impervious cops are to taking responsibility, especially against the poor and powerless.

But your comment of being more afraid of the cops over the crime in their own neighborhoods reeks of Americans being more scared of terrorism than heart disease.
It's probably even worse than being insular

I don't blame the people of US, but their cultural system, I do.

Those who criticize or just reports things that don't work in the States are immediately flagged as anti American, it's like an instinct.

Their homicide stats are worse than many developing countries in Africa, four time worse than Canada, six times worse than China, ten times worse than Europe and Asia

Singapore's homicide rate is 30 times lower than in US!

It's really a lot

It's a failure, no matter how one frames it

But it's still very hard to get the general population to confront the numbers

They say you shouldn't shoot the messenger, but even on HN, where people are generally more educated than the average, it's really hard to start a conversation about the causes of this debacle

I lost 20 points of karma in two days because I showed stats about police brutality in US

I hope they'll get it one day, I live in Europe, my country has a lot of problems and there are many things that US does better and we looked at them for decades in search of a solution to our shortcomings

But if there's one thing we do well in EU is how our police handles critical situation, it varies from country to country of course and there are exceptions, Poland is not Spain, but in general it's true

So why not try to listen for once?

I don't have an answer honestly.
Einstein's Space as an Update to the Aether of Old- in His Own Words
In some EU countries you can buy it. For a very high of investment.
Short answer: Quest.

Long answer:

Depends on what you're looking for exactly. Quest is what I'd recommend to most people since it's the only major headset that can operate completely on its own without a PC, and you can still connect it to one if you want to play titles that aren't available on Quest natively.

If you're confident you won't be using your headset without a PC though, there are other options. Rift S is more comfortable and offers better latency and image quality than Quest's PC connection feature does, for example. On the low end of the price scale there are also cheap WMR headsets which have worse controllers and controller tracking but can get you the basic experience of a 6DoF headset for ~$200 if you buy used. On the high end there's also the Valve Index, which offers significant improvements in image quality, FOV, and refresh rate, but you already explicitly ruled that out as too expensive.
I know obviously files are important in GitHub, but for the opening page of a random repo I think I would actually prefer to see the README first.

I just went to the Explore page and picked the first repo:

https://github.com/johannesboyne/gofakes3

You have to scroll so far down to find out what the project _actually is_. I know there's an about message on the right, but it's not great.

The new UI does look more modern, but there could definitely be some improvements.
No, you have still misunderstood. The NHS model collects more data than the google/apple one. The idea was that that additional data would allow limited testing capacity to be used more efficiently. For example, false positives for outbreaks would easier to detect, as well as wider trends.

Also, it's not just tests that are short, but contact tracing resources. Basically, when you shut down a business or location due to an outbreak, you want to be as precise and accurate as possible - to do otherwise will cost the affected too much, and they'll start to ignore the contact tracing system entirely.

We'll probably never know now if there was an actual benefit to the NHS's proposal, but it seemed at least plausible.
I agree, but there's levels to it though. A redesign almost never means learning new visual languages, whatever that means. Low-level elements like hyperlinks will always be presented as underlined text, buttons as boxes with centered text, and so on. Then there's low-level structures such as sidebars, tabs, collapsible menus, etc. which again rarely change and that's a good thing. I wouldn't call it unoriginal but conventional.

A "proper" redesign then becomes finding the right and intuitive structure for the right type of content. Changing the appearance of the same content in the same structure is more of a reskin, which is what we see most of the time. And yes, sadly in the last years the trend has been: low contrast body text against an obligatory bright color for elements/illustrations/icons, rounded corners, and padding everywhere.
For the lay user, what's wrong with AdGuard's free edition?
I remember this happened before several years ago in a previous redesign where the top menu would just stretch to fill the entire screen. It was later changed to one with a proper max width. I guess they forgot that lesson.
Great idea, I love 'thinking outside the box' solutions, but doesn't seem to work on Firefox mobile. (Perhaps it's just me.)
Do you think that Black people are ONLY fed up with getting murdered by the police? That is not an isolated statistic.

How about beaten (see threads of hundreds). Arrested (in 2012 7% of black people were arrested vs 2.9% of whites). Sent to prison (2500 per 100,000 vs 450 for whites). How about being late to an important meeting because a cop saw you driving. People want freaking respect and your argument is minimizing it into just murders (which are absolutely HORRIFYING and TERRORIZE communities, which could've used a mention).

Please try to pay more attention to the actual arguments.
Don't drop a cent on a Valve rig until there's a wireless option.

I got a Quest thinking I would just use it for some casual portable gaming here and there, and now I'm going to just sell off my vive rig because there's no way I can go back to tethered VR.

A more powerful Oculus Quest would probably be a day one purchase for me at this point.
How does the monetization work? Didn't catch it from a 30kft read of the page!

EDIT: Looks like it integrates https://microscriptions.com/ neat idea
If employment was a representative percentage of the US, then you’d expect 1.3% of the employees to be Indian. He’s identifying that Indians are over represented by almost 76x. Let’s say that the company is made up of 100 engineers. In order to get 100 Indian engineers randomly, the odds are much worse than 3720 to 1. It implies immense discrimination by the employers which is systemic.
Not just the fluidity of the gestures, but the overall resolution and responsiveness of the device. If I had to pick my top requirements for a trackpad, I'd pick:

1. Latency: If I drag my finger back and forth across the trackpad, I expect the mouse to match exactly where my finger is--not where it was 50+ms ago.

2. Resolution/Acceleration: I expect to be able to navigate my entire screen without lifting my finger and repositioning it. Further, I expect to be able to move the mouse one pixel by making a very small move on the trackpad (or by rolling my finger a little).

After those "table stakes" items are solved, then let's talk about adding gestures.
I don't find the examples listed notably precognizant.

CNN Jan 21 "First US case of Wuhan coronavirus confirmed by CDC"

The entrepreneur blog posts linked seem to have been posted in March. This was the month of shutdowns and widespread recognition.
I want boring interfaces that work, make information easy to find, and help me get my job done.

Designers have boring jobs under this regime, this their need to create unnecessary work and pain for users.
Ya, I didn't understand this design choice. For a while I've had some custom css which also extends the width of the main content on github as well because I've always found reading some github issues with logs in them challenging.

This is the css I'm running now to fix this, as well as extend the width of the main content. The 1600px is such that when using i3 and having my browser be half the screen it consumes most of the screen space on my 4k monitor.

:root {
--width: 1600px;
}

.container-xl {
max-width: var(--width);
}
.pagehead {
padding-left: calc(50% - (var(--width) / 2));
padding-right: calc(50% - (var(--width) / 2));
}
I haven't had too much time to play around with it yet today, but Github is core to our development workflow and productivity workflow. Everything for our small team is tracked in GH issues and tagged with labels, and of course all our code goes through GH PRs. IMHO the features I use most (issues, pull requests, code browsing) didn't take any discovery to continue using normally and the interface was much faster, so I am a fan.
Like I said, I could hack around it eventually.

It was annoying that I couldn't do the basic things I expect to be able to do on a machine as root
I feel like so much of the submission to the Quest store lead to a lot of devs adding stupid features / mechanics _just_ to show off the quest features (forced climbing or hand interactions and similar in games where it doesn't really seem necessary).

Trying to inject themselves into development at the concept phase (at least for Quest) sucked too. I understand not wanting trash in the store but there has to be a middle ground.
> The general population is capable of much more than you give them credit for

So yeah, you indeed never worked in IT then. Never mind, this discussion is already beyond ridiculous.
Sure, but it's also got a great deal to do with political identity and group signalling.

In the modern age (and forever, probably, but more quietly / less permanently), we are defined by what we're outraged by.

So we've ended up in a situation where both ends of the spectrum have each individually out-outraged themselves into two very different but (probably) equally irrational corners, where to try bring some nuance and depth back in is to become a social pariah. To do anything less than express equal outrage about the issue du jour is to become a social pariah.

Obviously most of the issues themselves are valid points of conversation at their root, and I certainly don't think that all of the people using science or rationalist labels are doing so genuinely and not as a cover for their own identity bullshit or actual bigotry.

But that's orthogonal to the observation that it seems true that we simply can't have a conversation anymore about certain trigger topics. Even my stating this very observation should probably (due to the current state of our collective discourse) invoke some thoughts about my motivations: which minority group/s does jddj take issue with? Is he transphobic? He mustn't realise how much of the repression of women has simply been normalised for him.

Whether it's a symptom or a standalone issue isn't really important. The point is that it's not useful as a tool for beneficial societal change, instead it's a tool for gesturing vaguely and it's a crutch that we lean on so as to not need to truly engage with or wade into the uncomfortably nuanced grey areas which naturally surround every issue.

But on the left we've absolutely embraced it, to a fault. Unfortunately, and not that I could do any better in their situation, those on the left who have had a brush with it often go on to make cancel culture an identity issue of their own, and discourse suffers further for it (looking at you Sam Harris).

Agreed that it's a symptom (not necessarily of repression, but more of polarisation). I don't agree that that characterisation is enough to get it a free pass.
> I am incredibly happy with every update from Apple.

I am incredibly disappointed with every update from Apple.

I bought my MacBook Pro in 2011.
The most basic 13.3" machine that was available for sale.
320GB 5400RPM HDD, i5, 4GB RAM, Intel graphics.

I like backups. The optical drive had to go, I put it in an external USB enclosure. It was replaced by the HDD and in its place I put a Samsung SSD. The HDD contains my data archives and a macOS installation image.

Whenever macOS would become cluttered, I would wipe the SSD and enjoy a fresh macOS installation. Whenever a new macOS version would be released, I would update the installation image.

This enabled me to work on the go with no fear of data loss and no network dependencies.

SSDs are basically long lasting consumables. I had to painlessly replace the drive twice, however each time I got a faster and more robust unit with enhanced capacity. Sure I can carry an external drive with me. I have no desire at all to do that.

I like the mini jack, so that I can plug my favorite headphones. The audio-out port also doubles as an optical-out. Sure I can carry a couple of dongles with me. I have no desire at all to do that.

Sure I could have bought the top of the line 8GB RAM model back in 2011. I had no desire at all to do that. I could just buy 16GB of RAM and perform an upgrade Apple claims is not supported.

The battery lasts long enough. While coding, I get drained before the battery does. I can let the battery age with no fear of it bulging because it's contained in a shell. Replacement is easy.

I totally get where you are coming from, and agree with you that "a tiny fraction of users" want access to the hardware.
However 100% would want access to the hardware when their 16" MacBook Pro SSD goes.

Don't professionals require machines that cater for their needs? If the current Apple offered choices like the ones I mentioned above, would you not pay a premium to have them?

I certainly would. And for that reason I still rely the same 2011 MacBook Pro and not the latest MacBook GoodEnough.
This tool is useful https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states

California has been increasing raw number of tests but the positive tests percentage has been holding relatively steady around 4.5%

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/califo...

Florida is a much different story, as their cases have increased the testing has not kept up, and the positive test rate has gone from 2.3% at the end of May to 12.2%

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/florid...

One thing that everyone should keep in mind, even if you could attribute all of the increase in confirmed cases to testing, tests don't give anyone the coronavirus. The only thing increased testing can do is give you a more accurate picture of how bad the situation is, it can't make the situation worse.
one explanation: the policy exists and symbolizes the ideal for a news organization that prides itself on integrity and transparency. when this journalistic ideal conflicts with the practical concern of creating a story, the organization allows for discretion and trusts the writer to make an ethical decision.

in the ISIS case, the article likely doesn't happen without the fighter's cooperation, so the writer must defer to the subject or risk losing the story.

in the scott alexander case, the article can happen with or without subject cooperation, so the writer can afford to obey the stated policy and increase "transparency" on this story.
> It's clear this project did not start with exhaustive unit tests.

I can't speak to "exhaustive", but Redis-Raft did have an extant unit and integration test suite prior to our collaboration. Here's what they looked like: https://github.com/RedisLabs/redisraft/tree/ff9fb28c74db880c...

I'm hesitant to draw too strong a conclusion here, and I can't speak for the Redis Labs team, but I do suspect that this is somewhere where... having an outside tester, like Jepsen (or a suitably adversarial QA team) can help detect missing-stairs sorts of problems. Coming from the perspective of a prospective operator (and having some experience with testing distributed systems), I immediately said "of course I want proxy mode by default", when this wasn't how the Redis-Raft designers necessarily intended things to be used--they intended smart clients to make it so that users wouldn't actually need proxy mode, so they hadn't focused on testing it that way.
Yes, it's sad. Microsoft saw that quite a while ago and added WSL to Windows 10, hoping to lure non Windows developers and it seems to work. Windows 10 is bloated and has its own issues, but it's still a desktop first OS that I seem to prefer more and more than macOS. Well, personally I feel at home on Linux the most, but it's hard to get a solid Linux laptop sanctioned by the company.
Oh man, they've made it way harder to quickly evaluate the state of a repo, which has always (for me) been about 90% of the appeal of Github. Moving releases out of the tab list hurts, too.

Does it also feel "heavier"/slower to anyone else? Like there's more JS running or something? That'd already gotten a little worse but I hope it's not trending even farther into feeling "webappy". Ew.
And around 110,000 from other causes.
why is there so much dead space when you scroll down past the footer?
As a side note, I'm surprised how big Links is!
18 months is the rough expectation of the timeline for applying a vaccine to everybody.

Can people really go 18 months with no employment? Can students miss 18 months of schooling? Can people go 18 months without other medical care? Can housing go 18 months without upkeep because the landlords have no money since they can't evict rent nonpayers?

A lockdown that extended is not feasible, even before you get to any discretionary economic activity.
I agree that he does not fit the common stereotypes of reactionaries. But that's really beside my point, I'm referring to his ideas and writing, not his ethnic or religious groups etc.
What does that mean? Windows ships with an entire subsystem for Linux, you can literally install any linux distro you want and it will run native inside windows with access to each others file systems, ports, etc - with basically no performance penalty (that I see in WSL2).

It is more Linux than OS X is by orders of magnitude.

And at their last conference they previewed native X Windows support in Windows. So you can literally start gimp in Windows from a zsh shell inside Arch. Couple that with their new faux tiling window manager in Powertoys (FancyZones), VSCode, native docker and kubernetes support, NFS support, their new terminal, etc - developing in Windows from a unix perspective is way way way way better than OS X in modern times.

What proprietary tools are you talking about?
> NYT as representative of a NYC intellectual culture that was sorely lacking around me.

Pseudo-intellectualism at best.
So either they had a fraudulent cert or he was using insecure sites :-/
African immigrants generally strive, similar to Asian immigrants. The Nigerian stereotype is being a doctor. Issues like fatherless children, teenage pregnancy, juvenile delinquency and gang culture will likely be less prevalent, and the Africans will likely be less involved with the police.
Using the pretext of traffic stops as an excuse to search vehicles for small amounts of drugs and then shooting people reaching for their wallets doesn't do much to prevent murders.

Police murders aren't meaningfully correlated with crime prevention.
> Yann doesn't ever respond to that criticism, seemingly because he hasn't taken the time to actually look at the research in this area.

No, that's still a problem with data in a broader sense. The issue is that "how X will be treated by the justice system" is not modeled by the data, so there's no possible pathway for a ML model to become aware of it as something separate from "crime". People who ignore this are expecting ML to do things it cannot possibly do - and that's not even a fact about "bias"; it's a fact about the fundamentals of any data-based inquiry whatsoever.
I really wish the top half of the screen were centered (where the code, Issues, Pull Requests, etc buttons are).
I was single and unemployed during quarantine, it was awesome. But then I got a job which is much better than my previous job and now things are even more awesome. But I've never had issues with handling stress, for me life is great even during great challenges. Big part of thriving right now is to resist going with the constant stream of panic-porn on social and mainstream media.
I don't understand the appeal in this for the designers either. Back in the old days (~2010s) every UI had some personality and very intricate details that the designer would be proud of and that will differentiate them from the competition. Nowadays it's the same flat, white and empty UIs everywhere - there is no significant difference. Would a designer really be doing their personal brand a favour by putting one of these new "designs" on it?
> As an owner, I want to be sure that when I lock a device, it's actually unusable to anyone else. So this is good (for me).

You want your data to be inaccessible. Not providing a way to factory-reset a perfectly functioning device (say, by replacing a modular storage) is just irresponsible.