skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a suspicion that making spending public would increase spending rather than decrease it. People already spend money on expensive items for social signaling of how well they're doing but there's always ways around that (bootleg items, sales, etc.). With this they'd have no choice but to actually spend the money for social signaling.
Kinda the same thing over and over again, but in different ways. But then, like every commercial coder, I mostly spend my time building CRUD apis and front ends. But how do I know that this is growth as opposed to random brain spasms?
> 1. Why did they choose the two axis powers to draw their comparison?

Post WWII Germany and Japan are not the axis powers, so this question seems quite irrelevant. More likely Germany and Japan are two industrialized nations the sum of whose carbon emissions roughly equals the amount of carbon that could be offset by this process.

> 2. What would be the cost, in additional carbon emissions, to procure, distribute, and deploy all that basalt?

For the procurement, they claim near zero:

"Basalt is the best rock for capturing CO2, and many mines already produce dust as a byproduct, so stockpiles already exist. "

"Basalt is one of the most common rocks on Earth, and waste dust from mining could be used for ERW, as could waste from cement and steel manufacturing. This would remove the need to grind the rocks into fine particles, which requires energy. But how big these waste stockpiles are is unknown."

"“We are calling on nations to make inventories,” said Beerling. He said mines in Northumberland, UK, that produce basalt aggregate for construction produced 20-30% waste dust. But he said some mining specifically to produce basalt rock dust would probably still be needed, using existing mine capacity rather than new mines."
> Things that straight people stereotypically do that gay men stereotypically do not understand:

- Bog down with mortgages and children instead of hopping around the world, partying.
Fair enough. It will be down for a little while. Good lesson for the future.
Google not too long ago released Jetpack Compose which has some overlap with flutter so it's anybody's guess.

https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose
What doesn't make sense? Reporting misappropriated funds and unreported conflict of interest? That's just plain transparency. If you dislike the fact that many of the cases involved China, that's not a reporting problem.
You do know that none of that is really do do with Flutter, right? Like you're just taking it out on the designers of Flock.
Pg_timetable: Startup Improvements
I met my now wife on OkCupid in 2005, and while not necessarily holding a stigma it would certainly raise comment. By 2010 it was no longer weird, and by 2015 not even worth mentioning.
Venmo surfaces something along these lines, there is a social “feed” of your friend’s transfers and messages to each other.
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What is a "cismale", and what makes you think they dominate this forum?
> The jetbrains stuff keeps several versions around by default, which eats disk space. I'm sure there's a way to change that, but I haven't cared enough to dig.

See "refresh.retain" from https://snapcraft.io/docs/keeping-snaps-up-to-date - the point is that you can revert an update instantly.
Dixie cups became the breakout startup of the 1918 pandemic
Is there a transcript or summary? It's 49 minutes of talking heads, no robots.
'round about 2004 I built a pentium based 'motion' recorder. It kept a circular buffer of images that were spooled to the output stream when motion was detected. Motion was determined by optical flow iirc - the OpenCV call returned an array of blob center points, size, and velocity vector. If the blob was large enough and the velocity vector made sense (eg, horizontal as in walking or driving at an appropriate magnitude) it was considered motion. Reduced leaf flutter, branch waving false positives to effectively zero. No ML required.
ML is too liberally applied without understanding how or why it has triggered.
I've lost track of the original quote but the spirit of it is: "It's artificial intelligence while we don't understand it. Once we understand it, it's computer science"
How does HRO have no TSA?

I flew out of Merced airport a few years ago, on one of four half-full 20-seater flights departing that day. There was one airport or airline employee, who checked me in, took my luggage and then went outside to refuel the plane. For that complement there were six TSA agents in perfectly pressed blue shirts - and I expect six more on the other shift.
Have any examples of any such devices on the prosumer (affordable-ish) side? To say my “adversary” here is very sophisticated would not be overstating things.
Heathrow also doesn't have US preclearance which it relies on to justify the longer flight time due to the stop. (And it would be an utter waste of a slot at Heathrow: why would you use up one of your slots at Heathrow for a refuelling stop when you could instead fly to an airport which isn't slot limited?)
They're definitely trying that as a loophole, but it won't hold up. "No action/response" can't count as consent, and so if you never granted it, then they don't yet have it to begin with and aren't allowed to collect.
You are making my point, the "trust" is not the issue , the issue is "control". Canonical has the control on the snap store and Mint can insert their customization on top.

Again, if Canonical is evil and can't be trusted why I would run Mint? Do the developers run any scripts to alert me if Canonical slips some bad thing in a binary?

I think is fine if they remove snaps but IMO is stupid to accuse Canonical to be evil and not trustworthy while you blindly trust their repos.
How to Model Lead Scoring for More and Better MQLs
Lawsuit against Grubhub, Uber and Postmates of antitrust violations
Just wanted to +1 Pop's Pop!_Shop. I have machines running both Ubuntu and Pop!_OS, and for some reason (not sure if it's because of the underlying tech/architecture differences, System76 curation, or what), the Pop package management has always been a better experience than Ubuntu's.
it’s not VCs responsibilities to cultivate people worthy of VC-level funding. and from all the college outreach i’ve seen in the past several years, FAANGs are absolutely desperate for women and minority engineers. companies are doing plenty
I'm just so exhausted.
Britain launches $625m Eat Out scheme to boost spending at restaurants and pubs
Thanks. I've had the same bad first reaction to GoLand. I might give it another try and see if I can get over it. Especially since everyone seems to love it so much!
Got it yup, putting in a fix
France rules out 'total lockdown' in case of coronavirus surge
You're absolutely right, I wasn't reading. The minimal flags that seem to get GCC 10.1 to vectorize are -O3 with optionally -mavx to go wider. Clang doesn't want to vectorize until you give -ffast-math
> Even if you are an experienced Linux user, you fall into that negative sentiment and even if an issue is small, it is a deal-breaker for you.

I don't think that's fair. Apt/deb is solid, battle tested, and works. Introducing snap with this kind of instability is the source of the negativity.

> The "chromium" issue has been explained in 2019.

And the fact that it still crashes in 2020, on a flagship package on a modern laptop, is really really bad. In fact I had the same crash happen during a dist-upgrade on another laptop(!) which locked up the entire dist-upgrade.

If apt is going to call snap, it needs to be rock solid.
Ah if only I wasn't using vercel and serverless functions!
From the article:

>"My aim is to prepare France for a possible second wave while preserving our daily life, our economic and social life," new Prime Minister Jean Castex said in an interview on RTL television. "But we're not going to impose a lockdown like the one we did last March, because we've learned... that the economic and human consequences from a total lockdown are disastrous," he said.
It really is a car pile up. Growing in the cdr direction doesn't add to the pile up; it's the car-induced nesting.
I see it more as acqui-hire. SUSE was missing some savvy technologist in the VP Level.. Sheng_Liang[1] balances it back. Beside him all upper management are ex-SAP with boring strategy, no innovation..

Disclosure: I work for SUSE

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_Liang
Conda's SAT solver for dependency management is the bane of my existence. For pip-installable packages, I'll almost always turn to pip rather than conda even when in a conda environment.
Ready Player One sequel coming at a time when the OASIS basically already here
The complexity that Vulkan introduces is not just the extra code, it's a substantial rethink of the mental model of graphics that involves a lot more precision about things like synchronization, and baking of device state. Those who argue "Vulkan requires more boilerplate" are missing the point, imho.
You forgot one:

7) Lost rent to the landlord in the college town, and their ability to fill the apartment/room (doubtful).
When men swipe right on almost every single woman no matter their interest it results in the women having tons of matches to pick from. There is no incentive to not pick from the top of the list.

Even after reading through the profiles and discarding many of the men with a big enough pile there is only so much time in the day to talk with the guys so why not start with the more attractive ones?
man I love Vim, and it's my go-to for devops. But I can't use it as a regular editor. The number of web forms I've got 2/3 of the way through and then hit "escape" from muscle memory :( web forms don't like it when people hit "escape" halfway through :(
I think they're mostly wrong. I think we put too much stock into the default UI toolkits on each platform since this really isn't much different than how GTK and QT work. They have their own rendering engines and have to draw all their widgets from scratch just like this. The only difference is that GTK and QT are blessed.

I think there's a case to be made for sticking to the defaults for consistency's sake but Flutter is just as native as any other UI toolkit on Linux.
My favorite anecdote about Snap is the development team's opinion when it comes to users wishing to relocate their ~/snap directory elsewhere.

It's a commonly requested feature and being able to move it would follow the Freedesktop.org spec, but the developers don't care.
1000 hours over the course of a year is the equivalent of a half-time job, which makes sense if you're a researcher publishing in journals, in that it is your actual job. There are way more than 10,000 dogs in Portland. You're shooting the data down because you're motivated to find its flaws, which I agree are apparent on close inspection, but that's not what motivates a paper reviewer. Why would a reviewer for a gender studies journal have any intuition for the usage of a dog park? It's not an epidemiology or even an animal studies venue.

(Here's a sharper way of asking the same question: tell me, as quickly as you can, how many dogs visit the largest Portland dog park; bear in mind that this is a waste of your time while you're tracking that stat down, because that's what the reviewer is thinking, too).

R&R means reject (it's a rejection cause). At Usenix, if I wanted you to "massage your presentation", I would accept conditional on those changes (actually: at Usenix WOOT, we would have assigned a reviewer to shepherd the paper --- we would have helped you massage your presentation).

Ultimately, to make a case that journals are accepting bad papers, you have to look at their accepts, not their rejects, no matter how those rejects are worded.
When transcoding the formulas from CAS (comptuer algebra), the Greeks are often already spelled out in English transliteration (phi, sigma).

Even more, sometimes for clarity or performance reasons it may make sense to introduce interim variables, I often name those just as what they'd look like in formula, say, pi/2, would be PI_2; A*B is kept in AB, or AxB depending on context. So many times the encoded formulas end up hiding accidental errors resulting from a desire to use programmer's names. With scientific code, it's safer to stick to formulas, as it's just easier to eyeball them or outright copy and paste to/from CAS for cross-check.

Of course, it's paramount to have proper test-cases to make sure the encoded formulas match to the expected results.
EPA approves first two cleaning sprays that kill the coronavirus in 2 minutes
I mean I get it. I don't think the defaults are right though. It could be smarter - automatic purge 7 days after user has used new version, or something along those lines. Keeping 3 versions just in case doesn't sound like anybody's ideal.
Well for one that viewpoint not only treats countries like people and people like property, disregarding the will of the actors there are many problems with the argument.

1. Benefits and harms are not zero sum, that goes for "elites" and "common people" as well as countries. I thought the Coronavirus already demonstrated this quite well. The "common people" dying didn't benefit the elites nor the elites dying.
2. Even if we accept false premises of value it isn't a Ponzi Scheme. Even if it is an unsustainable demand for talent it wouldn't be a Ponzi Scheme. A Ponzi Scheme lies about generating benefits and instead just redostributes from new to old while escalating recruitment. For it to be a Ponzi Scheme no learning would be taking place, just idea extraction from immigrants and plagerism to attribute it to the professors. To put it mildly that is very counterfactual, akin to suggesting that crowds of thousands of people watching a musician perform is what creates talent and any rando you put up on stage would gain talent faster than if they practiced in an empty concert hall.
3. Just because they are educated abroad and the US benefits doesn't mean their native country is harmed or "harmed". They can and have enriched their native country either when they return or through remittances above what they earn domestically.
4. Source country interests may also be selfish. They may be glad to be rid of those pesky intellectuals with their "western" values of things like equal rights.
5. The entire reason many go abroad to study is because their native country is unable to use their full potential for whatever reason. That is like saying recruiting a subsidence farmer's genius son and training him to be a doctor stole hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from the farmer because the doctor now earns that in the city. At most the farmer lost $400/year from a farmhand's labor.

The entire intellectual frameworks involved are wrong on several levels really.
Why would anyone offer an alternate store for snaps?

Ubuntu seems to have made clear that the snap client will not be able to connect to alternative stores. What is the point of building an alternative store.

Further snap is controlled by one company. Canonical has a history of developing groundbreaking new things for the Linux community before unceremoniously killing them off.

* Ubuntu One
* Unity Desktop
* Ubuntu Touch
* Upstart Init system

Do you see a trend here? There is a reason the community is skeptical of something completely controlled by Canonical.
Just to add a counterpoint.

I raised a $2M seed for Smartcar. I had no college degree as I had dropped out. I had no prior work experience. I had no team. The product was still an early prototype.

MANY of the founders I know who've also raised similar sized rounds from top VCs have stories quite like mine.
Of course they should. Investors have every right to choose where to invest however they want, it's their money and nobody is entitled to it.
if you like vim like keybindings courtesy of tridactyl

bind V hint -W ! mpv to show a letter or letters adjacent to all links and open the one chosen in mpv. Normally most pages have few enough links visible that hints are either 1 or 2 characters. This means instead of picking up the mouse you can hit 3 keys.
That's exactly right. They only work for about 100 of the top websites.
MAUI sucks, it is xamarin bis, uses 654654 different renderers, uses C# and compiles with a JIT, enjoy your 100mb MINIMUM apps, even for hello world
Google forges Open Usage Commons to manage open-source project trademarks
Man unintended side effect, wow, I wonder how many other ones there were with things like this? Finding out someones sexual orientation when they order a sex toy?
The Gay Marriages of a Nineteenth-Century Prison Ship
These rendering differences also impact vertical alignment with specific fonts, which will absolutely drive you mad if you're trying to troubleshoot.

Take a look at Github's redesign in Firefox. Button and icon alignment are generally off by 1-2px everywhere because of it. Guessing they're just living with it because Firefox is down in the single-digit percentages of browsershare these days.
Lol, Saturday Night Live did a skit on exactly this for a dating app called Settl:

https://youtu.be/zDn3zmumb8o?t=10
Thanks god.
compose is JAVA, and android only, since it's JVM, you'll need a big and slow runtime

flutter is dart, and compiles to native, AOT and statically linked tiny executable

flutter is the winner
Eric Barone's success with Stardew Valley won this debate. Hell, Eric won this debate by virtue. He didn't have to do everything himself, but the very fact he's limited anyone else working on the game has played a huge role in every port of it continuing to sit in the top 10 for sales nearly four years on from its release.

I love Eric. Like, love him. He did something unimportant, but it meant something to him. And over time, it began to mean something to other people. Harvest Moon is not a massive selling franchise, so Stardew Valley was more likely to flop on that basis alone. Then you add in that indie devs get little exposure, no advertising, none of the connections that AAA companies have access to. And then there's the fact the game wasn't broadly tested before release. Eric had weeks of major bugs to patch right after release, and the pressure of hundreds of thousands of people who'd just spent $15 on his game. But maybe, just maybe, the patience and gratitude he received for his unimportant game was all the product of what he did and how he did it.

Any of the people could've said, "Just sell this to Valve. They'll fix it. You're in over your head, dude." But instead, he got a lot of, "Saves still corrupt. But make sure you get some sleep!" and a whole lot of "Can't get X to work, so I'm going to do Y." People could've abandoned the game. They didn't.

I like this idea of unimportant things. I can't be the only person thinking it's both absurd to spend time inventing a new way to keep shoes on our feet, but also thinking it's absurd we're using a piece of string still but sending billion-dollar machines to collect soil from nearby planets.
More here: Scottish universities join Covid-19 long-term health impact study - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-scotland-tayside-central-5...
It helps that women seem to weight attractiveness pretty low when it comes to partners. The stereotype of the funny fat guy with the hot partner exists for a reason.
When the site is utterly unreadable (this one is) and fails to render in simplified views (this one does), the heads-up is useful.

Bad guideline.
Why you’ll probably regret using Tailwind
Angular vs Vue is not an arbitrary decision either, the developer experience is massively different.
Cwrap: Testing Samba (or your full software stack) on a single machine
since last december, pal
Show HN: A privacy-first browser for Android with ZERO permissions
That's a really wierd take if you actually look at what AndroidX is - it's a set of utility libraries to complement Android so it being some kind of abstraction layer is rather nonsensical. It's like saying boost is an abstraction layer for Linux and it allows its replacement. It's an orthogonal thing that doesn't stand alone.
Right! Perhaps OP wants to tell you how you must spend your hard-earned money, too
I believe that therapists are better at convincing patients that therapy helped than they are at generating improved outcomes. Furthermore most therapists are not using treatments that there is much evidence for.

This is not to discount that there are treatments that really do work. CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) is an excellent example.

This is also not to deny that people who seek therapy on average do better than people who do not. That is clearly true, but it is unclear whether it is explained by "therapy worked" or the selection bias that "people who are demonstrate putting effort into their problems are likely to do better."

But it is a lot easier to make the claim that therapy helps than it is to demonstrate it. And given the combination of the replication crisis and widespread poor use of statistics, it is hard to trust most of the research into mental health treatments.

That said, most people who have been through therapy believe that it helped them. This is not actually evidence of effectiveness. Because that was true even for therapies such a Freudian psychology that are demonstrably ineffective. And even widespread belief in the effectiveness of treatments is not evidence either - as https://psmag.com/social-justice/75-years-alcoholics-anonymo... points out there is remarkably little evidence for 12 step programs for addiction. Despite testimonials and general belief to the contrary.
Until SNAP gives me full control (and not just: you can opt-out) over updates/upgrades they're a non-starter.
It's important to keep in mind that the bitmap output of various font rasterizers isn't universally the same. If you're designing websites expecting text nodes to have the exact same dimensions, you're making a critical mistake.
Snaps are super laggy. GNOME calculator on Ubuntu runs in a snap and it is baffling that whoever made the decision to package it in a snap by default was OK with the fact that it takes 2 seconds to launch a basic calculator on a 2017 laptop (edit: re-tested, it took 5 seconds).

To top it off, a couple months ago my calculator disappeared. For some reason I have been having problems with snap applications disappearing for a while now, even though I have made no configuration changes. How fun it is to discover that such a basic tool just no longer exists on your machine, way to fuck up a morning.

I get that snaps make application distribution easier, but please don't do it at the expense of the user. I've had more success with Flatpak and AppImages, but not enough experience with any of them to judge which is best.
I do recommend writing some DSA-like helpers for OpenGL, its global state is annoying to wrangle and not that meaningful to the actual GPU. The tricky part of OpenGL is understanding when something is a bad API accident and when something is actually meaningful.

Texture bindings are a good example of something that came about mostly by accident, as they didn't want to break legacy code. So we went from "the texture" to "the current texture", and then had to introduce "the active texture" once multi sampling entered the picture.
It's very funny that this article is two places above the article about how Canonical is bringing Flutter to Linux via the Snap Store. Some choice quotes from that article:

> Flutter’s native cross-platform story is growing rapidly and Canonical wanted to be at the vanguard.

> By making Linux a first class Flutter platform, Canonical is inviting application developers to publish their apps to millions of Linux users and broaden the availability of high quality applications available to them.

> Canonical will continue to collaborate with Google to further improve Linux support and maintain feature parity with the other supported platforms.
My wife gets nearly all of her clothes and our kids clothes from Salvation Army. There seems to always be a good selection for that. Men's clothing is much harder to find second hand in my experience.
Wild plot twist