skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
6DoF -> looking around and moving around
I would love to be able to say "I use Nebuchadnezzar to navigate Matrix".
But do you warrant that they are actually random?

Truth in advertising and all that.
The first gene on Earth may have been a hybrid of RNA and DNA
> Maoldúin and her colleagues, led by Trinity geneticist Lara Cassidy, sequenced DNA from the disarticulated bones of a man interred in the chamber at the end of the Newgrange tomb’s passage. About a quarter of the man’s genome consisted of very long stretches of homozygous DNA: DNA where both copies of the genes were the same, instead of the mix-and-match pairs most people inherit from their parents. That strongly suggests that his parents were first-degree relatives—probably brother and sister.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-first-gene-on...
yea, i activated it in feature preview for about about a week or so. i love the new UI! i honestly don't mind the flat design and the spacing.

the UI is truly responsive now. that's what i care most about.

they finally made it possible for me to read code at my specified zoom level. it's something that i struggle with on a daily basis on many websites.
>They've changed their UI many times over the years and this is no different. Products usually change UI and that's just a fact of life.

Your justification for bad redesigns is that... other companies do it too? That's a very apathetic/defeatist attitude.
I've been running Linux on Macs since my 2005 12" PowerBook. There were a couple years in the middle here I switched to OS X with Linux running in a VM due to hardware support issues (the VM was a pain in the ass to use; there were no end to performance problems). I never liked OS X as an OS all that much. It was fine, but I found it got in my way more than it helped me.

In 2016, after getting tired of various hardware bits never working just right on Linux, I gave up and tried someone else's hardware. It was amazing that everything just worked with Linux. I didn't have to fight with bleeding-edge, just-reverse-engineered drivers. I didn't have to wonder if the laptop was going to wake up again after being put to sleep. But I chose somewhat poorly: the hardware I chose was decent, but rough. The battery expanded to the point where it warped the case, which caused the keyboard illumination to intermittently not work, and eventually made the touchpad impossible to use.

So I gave up in 2018 and got a MacBook Pro again, though it was a secondhand 2016 model. Once I installed Linux, I found that the keyboard and touchpad didn't work, and I had to build an out-of-tree driver for it, ditto for the WiFi. After that I found that audio and suspend-to-RAM didn't work. It turns out I was "lucky" that I had an older model; the keyboard and mouse setup in the 2017 and 2018 models hadn't been reverse engineered yet and didn't work at all.

In 2019 I got fed up with having to use the USB-C headphone adapter from my Pixel in order to hear sound, and to remember to shut my laptop down completely if I was going to be away from AC power for more than a few hours. I again left the Apple hardware world. It's not perfect, but again I marvel at how everything just works (with Linux) without tweaking. I hear so many colleagues complain about various inexplicable broken things on macOS all the time, and I think I've gotten the better deal.

Is Linux as polished as macOS? Of course not. I agree with you that the graphics aren't as smooth, font rendering isn't as good (though this is debatable; personally I find Linux rendering to be more crisp and readable than macOS), HiDPI support varies depending on what toolkit any given app was written with. But it works well enough. I think one of the biggest problems that has kept (and will continue to keep) Linux from going mainstream is that even though for the most part it works just fine, when it does break, it breaks spectacularly to the point that you need specialized knowledge to fix it. Fortunately I have that specialized knowledge, so I'm fine, but your average home user does not.

I don't have to deal with Apple's keyboard design issues, random WiFi failures (yes, it is incredibly funny to me to find that Linux WiFi can work better than macOS), Apple's overzealous "system integrity protection", or Apple in general deciding they know better than I do as to how I want to use my computer. It makes me happy, and I feel productive.
I don't really use the releases section (don't recall it existing, to be honest), but right now it's among the first things I saw when going to a repo. It's in the new sidebar.
> Not exactly the same thing, but this reminds me of a style of speaking/writing that avoids using "to be" verbs. I don't remember the name and can't seem to find it on Wikipedia right now, but it's similar to what this article describes

This is E Prime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
Another reason to prefer MozJPEG to webp is that Safari and Edge don't support webp yet. [1] Although it looks like that's changing very soon for Safari.

1: https://caniuse.com/#feat=webp
Entrepreneurial Precognition
I've been using trackpads since Cirque launched the GlidePoint, using it first in OS/2 and later in Linux. I have never had problems with these things other than the touch surface wearing through, the things generally 'just work'. I tend to increase the acceleration factor so I can move from left to right in one fell sweep, use two-finger scroll, touch-to-click and sometimes double- and triple-touch to click for button 2 and 3. What are these problems I keep on hearing Apple aficionados talk about which make life on Linux unbearable? Is it fancy gestures? If so, there's tools for that. Is is the size of the pad? Well, just use a bigger one. For me it just works so I don't understand what the problems are, all I read is that 'the experience is bad' and similarly subjective claims. Can you give some objective examples where a Linux-based desktop fails to live up to expectations related to trackpad support?
I understood article subject to be social groups during Covid.
It looks OK, but I hate how the header is now justified to the edges instead of being centered.
Try swapping a few characters in the compressed string before decompressing and get a totally unrelated, but somewhat plausible, sentence. -->

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Swapping last two:

䔹䧹焫놉勏㦿顱㦽膑裚葊躈 -->

Try swapping a few characters in the compressed string before decompressing and get a totally unrelated, but somewhat applied tlh

Swapping first two:

䧹䔹焫놉勏㦿顱㦽膑裚躈葊 -->

Sexy Shania Twain acting as a sprite for sexy Hogan's Alley demo dude

my site

my favorite animal's name is camelid 2 my favorite artist is david maile my favorite movie's are

Pretty wild!
It's never been a good time to try something else. That something new is GitLab.

GitHub however, capsized one of its servers yesterday resulting in downtime for some including me and today I wake up to this horrific eyesore that Github has blasted onto my screen, which I can't revert or disable.

It now looks like a shameless rushed copy of the GitLab look. I'd rather use GitLab for real instead.
EU Plans Ban on US Travel to Europe
Solar is pretty early/mid game. Only red/green science is needed and for construction coper, iron and steel. Of course before you get to solar you need steam first. But with a bigger start area and enough trees, pollution can be managed until you can go solar.
I've found interleaving (https://www.learningscientists.org/interleaving) and spiral approach (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_approach) helps. First came across the spiral approach when reading the pickaxe book to learn ruby (https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby/index.html) and the idea stuck so now I try to approach new subjects using the same technique by gradually making the "spiral" smaller as I focus in on a given topic.
At what cost. Autoclaves use a lot of energy. I don't know how they compare, but I doubt you do either.
Whenever people mention licensing practitioners of some trade, the interesting question is always "licence to do what?". All too often, the answer tends to be a boring and poorly thought out "licence to call yourself an X". It fails to answer "what can an X legally do that a non-X cannot?"

In the case of doctors, pharmacists and lawyers,things like surgery, controlled drugs, rights of audience are easy to restrict. If you are not one and try to do the job anyway, you won't get very far.

As a client, I cannot use a partitioner who is not licensed in my jurisdiction. If I have a video consultation with a real foreign doctor, they still can't write me a prescription I can take to my local pharmacist. No matter how good the doctor is, they are made deficient by not being registered with the GMC.

A journalist writes and publishes articles about current affairs. You can't legally prevent people doing that without a catastrophic infringement of free speech.

Every day, I read articles from publications from many countries. Those articles are not made deficient by the fact that they are not written by NUJ members.

Plenty of people read and believe bunkum written by people who don't even pretend to be journalists. Sticking little "licenced by..." Logo on the real stuff won't make a difference there.
I'm getting mine in a few days and I'm very excited. Can you recommend some jaw dropping content to try on it?
Killing is the worst and least likely outcome. The more likely one is getting brutalized/falsely imprisoned on your way home from work, in your home, in your yard, etc. These situations are not rare, especially in the lives of black and brown people.

I've lived in neighborhoods in Denver where people didn't call the police. Not because they feared retribution from others, but because over and over the police have hurt them, their family, or their friends. And examples of them helping in those neighborhoods are much harder to come by( I can't think of a single time? ). The general feeling is that the police are not there to help you, they are there to watch you and keep you in line.
Completely agree. I was wholly unimpressed with "VR" until I got a Quest and now I think it's a shame that 3DoF ever pitched as such.
I guess you know better than the consultant psychiatrist that examined her and who stated that they though she had been unable to comply due to ptsd from a prior event, then. Where did you get your degree, and when did you interview her and review her case history?

Also, at no point did I claim the officers did anything sexist or racist. That entirely misses the point that the problem is his failure to understand that the way he is choosing to act is pointlessly escalating a situation because he failed to pause and reassess and rushed ahead with a course of action he had no reason to rush into*.

I've seen UK police be far more patient than this - they're fully capable of taking their time. There was no compelling need here to be in that kind of hurry.
“Luck is probability taken personally.” – Chip Denman

I’m amazed at how many comments piled up insisting that luck is a major or possibly the most significant factor. Even if true, what a self-defeating outlook. Every accusation is a confession.
We use WebP for a number of reasons:

- supports lossless

- supports alpha

- excellent decode speed

- open business friendly license

In essence, it eliminates PNG.
This is great, for a couple of reasons. One is that it works! I’m delighted for you.

Second is that I haven’t heard of livewire because I work in a different area. This suggests that more folks will be able to do the same (admittedly livewire is in a popular space — which makes meeting this threshold harder, so congrats again)
the object of the article is an intentionally anonymous blog tho
I should have got MIG then. A nice weld is beautiful to look at, but my needs are more practical.

Still, I'll give it a go. My son wants to build a "mecha arm" with all sorts of spy features. This might be a good excuse to learn how to use it.
Mail.app is an appalling client. Having recently switched email providers, I tried copying several thousand emails from one mailbox to another. Mail would invariably crash after moving several hundred, and then could not be restarted without immediately crashing. I lost count of how many crashes I reported to Apple (aside: has anything ever come of these reports?).
Mail is so bad, it did what I didn’t think was possible - I switched to Outlook. And guess what? Outlook handled me email-moving task faster and without error.

Internal quality control for macOS and built-in Apple apps has fallen off a cliff in recent times. Catalina has been disastrous in that regard. Having used Macs since OS/X Leopard, I’m not jumping to Big Sur. I switched from Windows because it was a buggy, hot mess. I’m not hanging around and risking my work as macOS quality control keeps falling. Apple’s developers have lost my trust.
Is the issue in the surface modelling? I don't think I've ever seen a physical tire model for loose terrain
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/... Says 42 unarmed black people in 2019. But if we ignore race, 170 unarmed people got killed in 2019. By comparison, the FBI says there's an average of 64 law enforcement personnel killed.

An encounter with the police is actually 3 times more dangerous for citizens than it is for the police. And that's for an unarmed person.

If we concede that the police "have a dangerous job", then interacting with them, (which again, is three times more dangerous) should reasonably be pretty terrifying.
His idea has better incentives. He doesn't have to insert himself or make consulting necessary, he has an incentive to make the running costs as low as possible, and the manuals as good as possible. Among other things.
I call that the Procrustean Bed: Simplify the solution by cutting pieces off the problem.
Does it have all that? I thought iOS Chrome and iOS Firefox is just the Safari engine with a different app UI thanks to Apple's horribleness.

Apple could theoretically violate your privacy all they want through their rendering engine.
What would they have to do to get you really excited? Fusion drive?
A thousand times this. The better I get at debugging, the less inclined I am to guess and check. It’s almost always worthwhile to learn or write a tool that will show you what is actually happening. This can feel like getting sidetracked, but it isn’t. The answer almost always becomes clear.

I have seen a case where so many people wanted to go and see part of a company’s operation that it started putting on a traveling stage production of itself, setting up in an HQ conference room every few months. I joined early enough to see it in situ and found that the touring version was nothing like the real thing.
If a thing has size x it has smallness 1/x (so the bigger the thing, the less smallness it has). When you say one thing is 5x smaller than another, it means the smallness of the first is 5 times the smallness of the second. :P
So what if we allow more software engineers from other countries?

We do! The US takes about 1.2 million immigrants legally into the country every year, and they are welcome to become software engineers.

Now, if you ask "so what if we create a visa so that high tech employers can bestow, control, and revoke the US residency rights of people who work in a few narrow fields, including software engineering", I can take a crack at explaining how this can lead to harmful market distortions, to say nothing of labor and basic human rights abuses.
More so as treatments improve and if the virus weakens (which they usually do).
Both record highs AND record lows can be evidence of climate change. [0]

https://scijinks.gov/polar-vortex/#:~:text=A%20polar%20vorte....
So what’s the significance signaled by the numbering change?

I often like Thomson’s writing (and have him in my RSS feed) but this meanders a bit too much for me to follow. Can someone help me out?
> It's not the job of the police to hold the hands of every paranoid individual and shush them back to a state of tranquility.

Umm... It kinda should be. yeah. It certainly shouldn't be their job to shoot those people, or tackle those people, or manhandle those people.
So if he hadn't done something to fix it right now when 40 million are unemployed, everyone would blame him. But since he did something to fix it, you say "Trump did it for votes". You are unwilling to give him any win.
Political discussion relating to the culture wars was not banned, it was corraled in order to encourage non-culture-wars discussion. And by and large, nazi $#!+ and "white people are superior"-style bigotry was banned and got zero attention. (When people refer to racist views at SSC they don't mean that literally as a rule, they're just disparaging uncomfortable views about very well defined issues in social science and the like, that have zilch to do with superiority or supremacism of any sort, naziism etc. Shooting the messenger, basically.)
The Pop!_Shop isn't like the Linux app stores of yesteryear (namely Ubuntu's graveyard that is Software Center.) It has tons of software in it. Should you need software that isn't in the Shop (which almost never happens for me) you can install stuff the same way you would on Windows: download the DEB/flatpakref, double-click, and the Pop!_Shop will take over from there.

For non-Steam games, I use Lutris, which is probably the least polished part of getting software installed, but I still don't have to crack open a terminal. If that doesn't immediately work, I don't bother with it anymore. I can get 90%+ of my titles running this way.
If the law was the law trump would have been in prison long time ago. The law is not the law when it comes to people with money, or their own or the father/mother/s.

PS This self righteousness really doesn’t work anymore when you now have 2nd republican president seating in the WH having their election challenged in court or outright lost the popular vote by a considerable margin.
Didn't know that, I've never really done any serious iOS dev. Only knew about the kexts because it came up in a job interview.
Yes, this is part of the roadmap. Right now, we don't have any interesting query to showcase that would use these columns - they are here because they are part of the original dataset and we are keeping them for when we demo further releases.
Washing and returning glass bottles (even though the trips are made anyway) uses more energy than making virgin plastic so it isn't the win you might expect.
Of course, it's only murder if someone ends up going to jail, no? Consider John Crawford, who was murdered by police, yet charges were not brought against them.

Now consider we have multiple data points of police committing murder and getting away with it. How can we argue that it's rare, given that we have several instances of police getting away with it and not being considered part of said recorded statistics?
> And, of course it’s a great idea to follow Google’s advice since they include the Lighthouse score in their ranking algorithm.

AFAIK they don't? They use some of the metrics which are provided in Lighthouse (Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, Cumulative Layout Shift) all play a role in ranking, but the score itself is meaningless.
After some more tweaking it looks like the most-significant bits come first
There is an element of conflation going here perhaps? The title and article text subtly suggest that long-term firearm ownership is hazardous and provide numbers to back that up. However, note the last sentence of the results from the study itself (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1916744)

>"A total of 676,425 cohort members acquired one or more handguns, and 1,457,981 died; 17,894 died by suicide, of which 6691 were suicides by firearm. Rates of suicide by any method were higher among handgun owners, with an adjusted hazard ratio of 3.34 for all male owners as compared with male nonowners (95% confidence interval [CI], 3.13 to 3.56) and 7.16 for female owners as compared with female nonowners (95% CI, 6.22 to 8.24). These rates were driven by much higher rates of suicide by firearm among both male and female handgun owners, with a hazard ratio of 7.82 for men (95% CI, 7.26 to 8.43) and 35.15 for women (95% CI, 29.56 to 41.79). Handgun owners did not have higher rates of suicide by other methods or higher all-cause mortality. The risk of suicide by firearm among handgun owners peaked immediately after the first acquisition, but 52% of all suicides by firearm among handgun owners occurred more than 1 year after acquisition."

To invert that sentence, 48% of suicides by firearm occurred less than 1 year after acquisition. So while the title is correct in a strict sense, unless I'm grossly mistaken, it would seem that the long-term hazard numbers should be something like 52% of the published value.
What I can say is that they aren't pinning to only a single core, so the answer is elsewhere.
For more fun enter "I am going to work outside today"
compress, delete the second character and decompress, the result is...
"I know what you're thinking –"
I feel like Linux people have got so used to sorting out those thousand cuts, they don't really think about it as a problem anymore, just part of initial setup. But as soon as Joe Bloggs installs it and his wifi doesn't work or his graphics card has a minor glitch it's a complete dealbreaker.

And I agree with your assessment that I don't think I've ever installed even Ubuntu and had everything work perfectly out of the box. In contrast, Windows has plenty of things you'll want to change configuration on, but usually nothing that's outright broken.
You said because he meets people in real life and gives his real name, he should have no problem with any person with the ability to read the NYT being able to connect the dots through the article between his employment and his personal ideas on his blog.

His meatspace introductions necessarily have an upper limit, but the Internet will instantly and concurrently bring down the law of large numbers upon him, where every whack job sharing every dumb FB post about how he's evil will have an opportunity to ruin his life, his and his employer's work, the patients that depend on them, and/or the lives of his cohabitants in all the same ways.

As someone who knows people who work in mental health I can assure you there are many security vectors available once someone's real identity hits the internet and social media. I'm talking about patients who are in hiding from pimps, abusive family or significant others.

It's no different than using HTTPS or CORS to mitigate security threats. You're essentially saying that since my acquaintances in mental health go to a therapy conference or a trivia night at the bar, that their personal lives should be exposed to the entire world in perpetuity. You're essentially saying that any SaaS should leave their ports open to the world for every scanner and scammer to exploit.