skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PiP is such a useful feature. Even though I use a window manager, I like the fact that I can just take whatever video is playing out from my current tab and move it over to my programming workspace and follow a tutorial or something. No need to create a new window. When I'm done, I can put it right back to the original tab on the original workspace with a single click. Especially useful with floating mode enabled.
I don't use Vulkan because I'm sick of paying for API upgrades.

I can run pretty much the same software on my desktop today as on my now-dead 2008 laptop.

On the CPU.

But the GPU is capped at OpenGL 2. What's the point of being a software enthusiast if the software is tied to the most expensive piece of hardware in the box?
What is wrong with the results of Peloton? Or any of the other video work out routines? There’s a large a market that understands the need to exercise, but hasn’t been able to mentally get into it. I’ve never had exercise equipment at home because I thought I couldn’t fit it into my apartment. I spent a fortune on a gym membership I never used and my gym was in the same building I worked in! I could never find the time to go to a gym.

Now, I’ve got a home gym, and I bought a subscription to Les Mills. It’s been great and I look forward to getting sweaty for an hour. It’s not perfect and I’m certainly not getting into perfect physique but I’m definitely getting great cardio, becoming more flexible, and gaining strength. Don’t think I am being taken advantage of or being denied “ownership of my fitness” when in fact it’s the absolute opposite.
UC poised to sue US federal govt over new visa policy for international students
https://pub.dev/packages/freezed is ADTs, pattern matching, Dataclasses. named parameters are already part of the language.

There’s about 4 different packages that provide immutable collections, built_collections might be the most popular.
Electric Monowheel
Mapping of AWS services, terms, and pricing models to Google Cloud equivalents
It's my understanding that serious anthropologists have little but laughter and disdain for Heyerdahl. Perhaps because his methodology was less than exactly scientific, but also due to a number of later spurious claims he made with no evidence.
Show me any repo of snaps other than Snapcraft.
Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly
That's why there are many products with a test client at inception. You localize the initial issues (which would cause those bad first impressions) to a single client who you can spend the extra time to build up good faith with. Once you've built up steam you can expand to more clientele with bolstered confidence.

Though, one problem is that you risk over prioritizing client-specific edge cases.

In any case, an idea without action is worthless.
The FAQ was more entertaining than the actual story!
Will this lead to more coal plants shutdown?
For CLI values of desktop, there's the (no longer maintained) rtv (https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv), though last I checked it works well, and three others:

https://gist.github.com/michael-lazar/8c31b9f637c3b9d7fbdcbb...
The terms I am using are defined pretty clearly on Wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbine

You may be confusing "assault rifle" and "assault weapon" which are different categories. The AR15 does usually qualify as an "assault weapon". The definition of assault weapon is looser, and includes a number of features (such as barrel shrouds and flash suppressors") the sole purpose of which is to make the gun safer to use, and have nothing to do with making them actually more dangerous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_weapon

If you have different sources, feel free so share.
What is the actual cost of software failures?
The amount of stuff that drifted and washed up on BC, WA, OR beaches after the 2011 tsunami was quite varied. It's not entirely impossible that some canoes went adrift and later ended up on Pacific Northwest beaches...
Fucking Discord for an open source project.
It's never about the protocol, it's about the SLA of the server and UX design of the client.
What about KOPS? That's distro independent. I use Ubuntu but others are supported
Come to think of it, is there any tech that we would erase from history if we could.

To qualify, it needs:

- To have a negative net effect. Explosives for example don't qualify. They are certainly used as weapons and for all sorts of nasty reasons, but they are invaluable in many areas, including safety systems.

- Not to be an essential stepping stone for other, positive discoveries. For example the V2 missile made space exploration possible.

We could put all sorts of weapons in the list, with nuclear bombs in a top position. But think about it. Hydrogen bombs didn't kill anyone. Although the idea is debatable, they may even have acted as deterrents, preventing conflict. As for Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it basically ended the war, who knows for how long it would have continued otherwise, with potentially more victims than what the nuclear bombing have caused. More generally, the most technologically advanced countries are now living in an unprecedented time of peace, despite having the most advanced killing machines ever.

In the end I don't see any tech that I would put in that list because of abuse. The ones I would put there would be of the "oops, didn't know it was bad, let's stop using it" kind. Leaded gasoline comes to mind.
Fauci disagrees and said it’s safe to be school.

Also, just like your wife is thinking for herself, ICE is thinking for itself and wants to do a good job protecting people. No evil intention, just reasonable humans trying to do their best in hard situation.

P.S : I am a former international student, and professors couldn’t care any less about international students. These ICE rules have been in place for years, and no one fought to change them until it’s actually start hit their funding.
> The question shouldn't be "is it profitable to create the first one?", its "once we've solved the hard problems, can the industry be profitable?".

Given that the original project ran into delays and overages throughout, it strains credibility to propose that, starting with the 'B', all the hard problems would be in the past, and that performance would henceforward live up to the promises.
Yes and nuclear. Gas is better than coal for air pollution and slightly better (but still very bad) for climate. Nuclear is low carbon and doesnt have air pollution so it is terribly counterproductive to build gas in its place.
Twitter is a modern-day gladiator arena, where all the spectators are also actually inside the arena.
That's the type of mentality that holds people back. Butchering a hog is just like processing a deer or elk. I've done all three and there is something about the experience that brings a greater feeling of respect and authenticity of where meat comes from and how certain cuts can be cooked.
https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/29hzl... is another classic. (I remember seeing it back in the 90s.)
There was a sharp dive in coal stock prices around the turn of the year, and unlike oil they have not had a turnaround.

Are the coal companies going to zero?
Is there a book written about these campfire programming stories?

This one and the microsoft bedlam one are some of my favorites.
Ah ok. I just followed the repository link from https://libraries.io/cargo/tauri-web-view which I saw in the Cargo file. How did you find that?
There is a scene in Shrek where he compares himself to an onion because he was emotional layers.
They are geo located with other institutions where the unions are prominent, and Trump is hitting them where it hurts the most, the local economy.

In all this process, International students, who can’t vote are treated badly but this has always been the case, with Obama as well. Immigrants who can’t vote are the easiest barter trade.
I find that Pocket frequently works to get around paywalls. I use it primarily for this purpose.
Email seems like such an anachronism. All the big providers manage to get along with each other.

At least we have some solace [1] in that, unlike chat and Git, it's fucking impossible to self-host e-mail.

[1] This part is the joke.
I joined HN right around the time I thought reddit had become a dump. Apparently that was 10 years ago.

Early reddit was a really fun place. Not sure how to explain it, but it kind of felt like one of those movie/cartoon mad science labs, but as a community. Basically everyone was an engineer, programmer, or scientist of some sort, or so it seemed. Most of the front page was science, tech, and programming news, and the remaining bit was people posting about tech gadgets and other stuff they made. It seemed pretty similar to HN, but more active and with a less market-oriented crowd just making stuff for the hell of it (which HN still gets a decent amount of).

Then people started posting pictures of cakes, political/religious discussions were everywhere, and it just felt weird. Digg was starting to decline and small waves of people started coming in, and once v4 launched and killed Digg, reddit's comment section completely changed, and the submitted content soon followed.

Now I go and see avatars and people buying gifts and gold (someone actually took an old 4chan joke and turned it into a business idea) and endless fake videos and random images. It looks like an absolute circus now.

People having been mentioning that finding niche subreddits is the answer, but in my experience, it's just a game of musical chairs. Virtually all of them get bad eventually.
Thanks a lot! Yes, Open Live Writer sounds very similar to what I'd be making. To be honest I hadn't heard of it.
https://futuremirror.info
I spent a few years on a (semi) clone of a game only to have one of the original creators essentially show up and announce an official remaster. I did eventually ship, but man if only I'd shipped earlier...
Oh they did a fair amount of statistics on the surveys. But their data isn't based on facts.
Nintendo+Switch+Games+under+$10-+Reliable+Sprout
No, he's gatekeeping. He's saying you have to do fitness his way or not at all:

> what it takes to be strong and fit cannot be derived from apps. You have to know how to prioritize, fitness has to be in the top of that priority list, you have to have the skills to create and stick to a routine. You have to know how to manage your time, how to get enough sleep, how to eat, how to move your body - like how to hip hinge for example - what activity you enjoy, how to achieve goals. A fitness app isn't going to do any of these things for you.
This might be true for lifting but it's much less true for running and not at all true for cycling: there are approximately zero serious cyclists who don't track rides using technology.
Tubes, alright?! The Internet is a series of tubes!

https://youtu.be/f99PcP0aFNE?t=127
We do have a lot of tar washing up on the beach around here, which is a needed to make a Chumash canoe. Available resources determines what you can make, too.
I'm looking forward to the first stable version of Blazor, and a way to combine it with proper native mobile bindings to device APIs. Currently working on a version combined with CapacitorJS and I am in love with the possibilities.

.Net 6 is going to be beautiful.
Yeah, it shocked me the first time I memorized a deck of cards with a memory palace.
Plus, imagine how well trained muscle memories became since methods would have hardly changed from generations before.
I read about project vesta on HN a while back, and it seemed promising. Why do these approaches not get more attention?

Project vesta has the additional benefit that it works directly on the oceans, which may be the more pressing problem.
Peloton has a software only offering that you can use with your bike on a bike trainer. It's less feature rich than competitors like zwift,trainerroad, and sufferfest (no power meter support) but my wife likes it because of the spin class style format that those products lack
Does Brave implement this? LOL
Could anyone explain a use case for this? (Distributed KV store)

Genuine question, thanks
> The problems with Linux Mint came to a head when Ubuntu moved Chromium to Snap distribution in Ubuntu 19.10. On the surface, that isn't a problem in and of itself — the Linux Mint project can always start providing its own Chromium APT packages. The problem was the decision to change the Ubuntu chromium-browser APT package itself upstream in Ubuntu. Previously, that package would simply install Chromium directly. With the change, it would instead install the Snap package-management tools first and then install the Snap equivalent of the Chromium package — without making it clear to the user what was happening.

I don't have any issues with this behavior. I find it really annoying when I find a package I am looking for on apt and install it, only to realize that it's way out of date, and I'm supposed to install it via snap or some other means to get a reasonably up to date version. Pointing apt at the snap store is a nice convenience in my opinion.
I joined Reddit back during "The Great Digg V4 Exodus" of 2010 (honestly it shocked me to realize that was a decade ago).

I remember the thing that really struck me about the Reddit community back then, even on some of the larger subreddits, was that people generally thought of themselves as a community of people helping each other. Lots of "I live in town Foo, I can donate Bar to you" type of stuff. I distinctly remember how that felt like a novel thing for a (relatively at the time) large community. Sure, there was some trolling, but absolutely nowhere near the level of toxicity that is just much more common now.

In some ways that mirrors online discourse at large, but in other ways you're right, just feels like whenever I community reaches a certain size it just starts to suck by definition.
That's an assumption with zero backing.
The Linux Foundation (with MS on its board) and Google are now suddenly interested in "helping" with trademark issues.

I smell a rat. This makes no sense.

15 U.S.C. § 1125(a) creates a civil cause of action for claims of false designation of origin and false advertising. This provides federal protection for unregistered marks.

Do you expect that MS and Google are going to fight a civil suit to protect your trademark? Or do you have to sign over the rights to your trademark first, which means you no longer control the trademark. You no longer control your project.

Who benefits? Well if MS and Google get people to "sign over" their trademarks then they can freely define what the trademark means. This would feed into the MS embrace-extend-extinguish technique. The end result is that they effectively "own" open source projects. Imagine if MS or Google owned the Linux trademark and were able to define what was "officially Linux".

This sounds like a "collect the trademarks" competition.

Corporate pokemon.
Things like "Operation Choke Point", I assume. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

Beyond that, if a major payment provider doesn't like you, you're basically sunk. Horror stories about businesses withering while their PayPal accounts are frozen are almost as old as the WWW itself.
Flutter Video Chat App – Premium Template
I am rooting for this, but I have a hard time understanding how it can gain mass acceptance.

Coil [0] is also an interesting app built on top of the Web Monetization API.

[0] https://coil.com/
Honestly I’d say it’s closer to 2013 or so. The rise of rage comics/f7u12, /r/DAE, etc. was a major red flag. Subs that basically demanded “this sounds like niche but literally everyone thinks it” posts that often meandered into bigotry overnight. Plus the handful of users that moderated every major sub.
It’s crazy that there aren’t better tools for paid podcasts.

Chapo and C*town provide 2 RSS feeds. The free/paid feeds don’t show up next to each other in your podcast app because they’re named differently (dumb). No way to merge feeds in the popular podcast apps.

Smart producers like Stratechery/Dithering provide individual personal RSS feeds that combine the free and paid. And deliver only the free if your subscription lapses. But those are one-off CMSs that most Patreon podcasts don’t have the means to deploy.
Immigrants who come to the US do so with a substantial advantage in social capital, if not economic capital. Someone whose parents are professionals in Nigeria has a huge leg up from someone whose parents were excluded from professional jobs due to segregation in the US, even if the immigrant comes to the US initially with limited financial resources.
Interesting paper, but it seems to suggest that all the Native American Y-DNA on Rapa Nui is explainable by the 19th century Peruvian slave trade, not contact between Polynesians and South Americans centuries earlier.
Guide: how much caffeine in a cup of coffee
Yeah, there is a real "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" vibe to the whole woke thing. Creeps me out.

Hope I'm not speaking too soon, but it seems like actual liberals on the left are finally waking up to this Kafkaesque ideology they've been making excuses for [1]

[1] https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/
> Google is an extremely bureaucratic place

And that would be accurate, to a large extent. But it's also one of the few remaining _technically competent_ places that does not hire people who can't code.

That is why I qualified my statement by saying that the prospective founder would be _technically_ capable, not capable in general. If anything, they could be less organizationally capable, but that can be resolved with the right co-founder.

To put it into more concrete terms: say you had a million dollars and would want to allocate it towards a bet in order to potentially turn it into a lot more. Who would _you_ pick, someone with tech aptitude credentials (which a substantial stint at Google as an engineer all but guarantees), or someone with no discernible credentials?

Note that I'm not even mentioning race here. Race/gender/sexual orientation is 100% irrelevant in this calculation unless it actually confers an increased chance of turning $1M into $10M. E.g. as an investor I'd probably prefer a gay person to lead a gay dating service, just for the domain expertise. I'd still require that they have technical and/or business chops, however.
Why is it that the door close button never works?

The Door Close button is not for you. It's for when the elevator is in an override mode, like when there's a fire, or when someone is moving something large in the elevator.

If you have the right key, you can turn the switch to a mode like "Fire" or "Independent," during which the doors do not automatically open and close. This is so the elevator can be moved to a particular floor, ignoring all of the other elevator requests, and the door only opened and closed when the keyholder wants it.

There are some building owners who configure the Door Close button to respond to pushes. But they're not common.

/I briefly worked for a large apartment complex, and had to assist people moving in and out of the buildings.
Learn golf. On the surface, it just seems like a game but it has plenty to teach about competing against yourself. Just as in life, the goal is to get a tiny bit better as compared against yourself yesterday. Most of it is a mental game. Patience and frustration will be the first things you will experience, but unlike learning skiing you won't have to worry about hurting yourself. It's an incredibly complex game simply because of the variety of skill involved. Full swing shots, pitching and chipping, sand shots, uneven lies and putting. Course management is also a strategic aspect that requires experience and skill.

Most of the time you will be paired up to form a group of four, so you will probably experience the feeling of being out of place and uncertain of how to act (rules, etiquette). This will help with practicing dealing with uncomfortable situations if you are more introverted. The reason why golf is addicting for many of us is that once you get ok at the game, you start to enjoy the improvement or just the addiction of hitting a great shot where you had planned to hit it. The outdoor aspect is also a big bonus, especially if you start walking 18 holes.
Bot detection seems like one of the more defensible uses of fingerprinting, and it might become a casualty in this war. If automated bot detection becomes impractical, the consequences are pretty negative for users: frequent captchas, login walls, aggressive throttling, mandatory email/SMS validations, and reduced accessibility.

Some may suggest that web services should just give up on bot detection, open up all of their private APIs, and accept bots and third-party clients as facts of life. But this idealism is out of touch with the reality of running an expensive, large-scale web service and a customer-facing business.
XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
Here is the repo as well: https://github.com/chowderman/xp-paint.

Note: this is in no way affiliated with Microsoft, its merely a fan project based on my love of Windows XP
It’s because the idea isn’t the part that matters, ideas are near worthless.
Yeah, I can see the internet being segregated in future. It's just better that way and more moderate able according to local laws/culture. Give it 10 years.
The MUD I used to frequent around 2000 boasted something like 4 marriages out of 50-100 players.
Can someone please explain to me the POP reference? I do not understand what this author means by that.

I also would like help understanding what $ units gives? The command looks to be "units", but where do the numbers he entered in come from? I would appreciate this extra context.
Once I discovered buster-backports nonfree has up-to-date cuda it’s been smooth sailing.
I worked on an XMPP client for a while, many years ago, for a proprietary chat system that used ejabberd as a back end. The protocol is/was awful.

On a related note, AOL should've open sourced and federated AIM. Everyone in the late 90's, early 2000's was on it.
New wireframes don't need to be made, because this paradigm already exists in a roundabout way. For many websites that I have signed up for, any attempt to register an already-taken username will present the user with multiple suggested alternative usernames. It's been decades since I signed up for Gmail, but I'm pretty sure that on the sign-up screen you would enter your name, "John Smith", and then your desired email, "johnsmith@gmail", and then when that failed you would be given a list like "john_smith@gmail", "smithj@gmail", "johnsmith2@gmail", etc.

This is the same UI flow as the above, except that it's not based on anything that the user has already entered and it doesn't provide any way for the user to override the suggestions, which actually makes it simpler than the existing flow.
Absurd. When someone makes a scientific claim it's perfectly reasonable to ask them for the evidence. That's how science works.
Having been a VC-backed wannabe for a period of time (and pitched some well known investors), I learned that most investors would rather not offer that kind of feedback because it inevitably raises counterpoints which extends the conversation they didn't want to have in the first place. A simple "no, thank you" let's them get on with their day.

It sucks for the founders but that's really just the nature of being a "salesperson" in any field - constant rejection and little insight.
> I suppose Reddit's new userbase may
> not even know what that means.

Is digg.com some new-fangled take on blogdex.net?
There's an experiment from a flutter core dev -- running flutter on a raspberry pi without any desktop environment.

https://medium.com/flutter/flutter-on-raspberry-pi-mostly-fr...

A DE written in flutter sounds like a great accelerator/toy project for making flutter desktop polished and ready for the masses.
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